Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving!! How’s classes going?? I’m taking 20 hours this quarter so it’s been a little hectic so say the least. Taking English 260 (Intro to Poetry) this quarter with Professor Comet. Enjoyable class I would recommend to anyone.
Shayne
Shayne–how’s it going? Our weblog is…a little quieter than it used to be.
Been along time since anyone has posted in here. Was curious if anyone still came here. I check in every so often to see if anyone has posted anything or made comments.
Is everyone excited for the last couple weeks or are you all just ready to be DONE!!! I am starting to hit the wall myself, which I didn’t figure would happen so quickly. Grades are looking pretty good, but really going to have to put the nose to the grindstone these last couple weeks to keep the GPA up. Good luck and have a great summer!!
Shayne
Been able to get outside the last several days for softball practice. The girls have really been working hard, especially with all the other things they have going on in their lives. Half of my varsity squad is in the play this year, which has made it extremely hard to build the necessary chemistry needed for a winning season. The play will be over in two weeks and then I will have to start dealing with the Prom and Senioritis. I sometimes wonder why I ever decided to coach at the high school level. Anyways…Summers not far away!!
Did random teachers ever post or comment on this?
I must also say, I have been really enjoying the wonderful weather we have been having. It seems winter is slowly fading away and spring is just around the corner.
Yesterday I spent the whole day doing a little spring cleaning round my apartment which was really essential. After that, I spent the rest of my day enjoying the weather outside by playing some basketball with my friends. I am very excited to start golfing again and swinging the clubs. Recently, I found my baseball glove and will start throwing as soon as I find someone to throw with. Spring is one of my favorite seasons as it marks the end of snow and extreme cold. Although there is a lot of rain, I will take it any day over snow.
The grass is starting to turn that rich green that appears only during the first few weeks of spring! I’m hoping it warms up within the next two weeks enough to break out the jet skis. I’ve been hiking alot lately, it is so beautiful outside despite being chilly. I’m having to do some last minute shopping for summer clothing, most of it is already gone. I wish everyone the best of luck on finals and a safe spring break.
Hey you really got to love the weather we have been having the last several days. Being a HS softball coach in Ohio during the spring is rough. Was able to get out on the field today for a couple hours, and it was totally uplifting!!! Even the girls had added energy, and smiles on their faces after a hard practice. Gonna give them the weekend off and hit it hard on Monday. Season opener is a little over two weeks away. Will be here before we know it. Good Luck to everyone on their finals!!!
I have lived in Mansfield, Ohio my whole 19 years i have been alive, and im ready to move somewhere else. I get sick of the cold cold weather here. I’d like to live somewhere that is, mostly, always warm, like florida. When I get old enough to where I have a job and make all this money, like i plan on doing, I would probably end up moving to florida. I know it would probably cost alot to live there, but I’m hoping that one day i could end up being a Producer in the music industry, making a lot of money. I know it’s hard to become that, but i really think i could do it. I already make music at home, and have alot of positive feedback from it. Others also think that i would make it in the music business, so i will keep working at it.
I ended up switching my column/article to an article called Evolving with Technology. This article is about how technology is a big part of life today, and how people have to keep up with it. It tells how most people trust all their information, like their social security, credit card numbers, and passwords, being on the internet, but all these things can be stolen from hackers, and how many people are victim to this. It also shows how crime on the internet has evolved, and how there has been 9.9 million cases of identity left in the United States, last year. It gives you ways that you can protect your personal information from being stolen.
For my column/article write up, I chose an article titled Like No Other (http://www.nba.com/jordan/hoop_oneforages.html). This article was written by Art Thiel more than ten years ago in April 1998. The article is about the great star Michael Jordan and all the great success he has had in his career and how he could possibly be called the greatest NBA player of all time. This article is very thorough and uses immense amount of adjectives to describe his legendary career. He explains that Michael Jordan is a cultural icon, and with his retirement, he questions if there is anyone who can replace him. Art Thiel uses a very serious tone to voice his opinion and presents facts to back those opinions. The article tries to compare other greats to Michael Jordan and states all of the great feats he has accomplished and titles he has won. I fell that this article may need to be updated as a new player might have taken Michael Jordan’s place. Lebron James is undoubtedly one of the greatest athletes in the NBA ever. Although he has not played as long as Michael Jordan, in the future, he could be just as great as or even better than Michael Jordan. Instead of talking about who will replace Michael Jordan in society and culture when he retires, I wrote about who will replace Lebron James when he leaves Cleveland.
Thanks for all of your hard work this quarter, and a special thanks to all of you who kept this weblog alive over the last few weeks.
See the handout for directions on writing the extra credit essay. Here is a link for Jesse Epstein’s op-video you will need to watch before writing the essay.
The article that i finally picked out is titled “Intelligence Lapses: The Risks of Relying on ‘Chatter.’” This article located on http://www.time.com is an article which discusses the intellegence agencies put alot of emphasis on “chatter,” which is more or less what anyone is saying to another individual at any point in time. Wow, i dont know about you, but that seems like quite a broad definition to me. The Intellegence agencies in general have the right and the technology to allow them to listen to so much “chatter,” in many forms but one most recognized and talked about is cell phone conversations.
Since the days of technology has come upon us it has become more and more evident that it is the only true way to get any useful information. The problem is that much “chatter” makes absolutely no sense without putting it into context. This makes the information almost dangerous because the people monitoring it often do not know what they are looking for and frequently miss important chunks of information; or they simply do not have enough information to make and sense out of the chatter, causing the information to become misleading and too vauge to actually dictate any definite action to be taken.
The problem is that we cannot simply not pay any attention to chatter. It is belived and pretty much proven that the only time you can truly trust someone is when they think they are having a private conversation; chatter puts this theory into action. Often spies have their own agenda and often are not truthful when presenting information or present it with a bias. Chatter, despite its flaws, eliminates this bias information gathering. Furthermore, reports and testimonies show that there was a whole lot of chatter leading up to the events of September 11. Chatter that indicated that something was going to happen, something big, something terrible. Without specific details, however, what action were officials supposed to take?
But what happens when the government is listening in on your conversations, or mine? Does that make you feel safer or is it almost a creepy Big Brother situation?
My column will imitate the idea in this article and go into further discussion of the idea of Big Brother.
My entire life i have lived in the town of Bucyrus. Most of you probably have never even heard of this town, let alone been to it. It is very small and there is absolutely nothing here. The only things we have an excess of are banks, pizza places, and bars. So as you can imagine there is not much to do when you are 18 years old.
I have always dreamed of something bigger than this place. Next year, this dream will come true. When I transfer to the Columbus campus i hope that it fufills my dreams. I think that i will be so happy having my own apartment and living in a big city.
I deeply regret not taking action soon enough in my college planning in order to go to Columbus this year. I had planned on attending Bowling Green, but at the last minute my plans changed so i set up an appointment with OSU in Manfield. By this time it was early August and there was no way to get me into Columbus until Spring quarter. In an effort to avoid the mess of transfering in the middle of the year i opted to wait until my second year to transfer (like everyone else has to do) to where i really wanted to be.
I expect the change to a big city to go pretty smoothly for me. I spent alot of my time in columbus with my sister as a teenager and i have almost mastered the big city driving. I’m sure i will miss my small town, but ultimately i think that experiencing living in a new place will be sensational to my growth as a person.
So in the spirit of travel I thought I’d give a glimpse into a culture that is actually quite larger than imagined and, at least to Americans, essential to travel: shoes. It may be hard to imagine but some hold shoes in such high regard that they’ll spend well over a grand on a single pair of sneakers. I’m not talking about regular shoes but more shoes in the athletic realm such as nikes, adidas, jordans, new balance, puma, and so forth. Thanks to that fellow named Michael and his own line of basketball shoes a whole culture has developed that obsesses over shoes, or kicks, as most sneakerheads refer to them. The most popular kicks being from nike and the jordan brand, there are websites, blogs, and specialty stores devoted just to stylish shoes and these shoes are a multi-billion dollar a year industry. Just pop on over to ebay and type in “air jordan” and thousands of items will come up with prices ranging over three thousand for a single pair of shoes. But why do people spend so much on basically some leather and rubber that goes on their feet? Their are numerous answers ranging from just liking the style, to being a collector, to looking to make money, to just trying to find a good performing shoe to play in.
I myself have just begun to become immurced in this world. Being a high school athlete and a big guy i was always trying to find something comfortable to play and workout in, but as i grew older i began to look for something more stylish as well. Along with that another factor began to play in my search for kicks to accomodate me, my generations MJ, LeBron James. Growing up in north east Ohio as a junior high kid his rookie year, you really didnt have a choice, you loved Lebron. With his first season in the NBA came his huge contract with Nike and a signature sneaker line that is second today only to Jordan. Now being an impressionable youngster it wasnt hard to convince me that those shoes were the answer to my problem of finding the right shoe for me. As i went through high school id buy my one pair of lebrons signature shoe and wear them until they couldnt go anymore, until my senior year, when i started to think maybe i should try and keep these in better shape. With my new found respect for my shoes came my first job at a sporting goods store (convenient, huh?) and soon i began to build a small collection of shoes i felt looked pretty good. So through the past few months up until now i have been stockpiling shoes.Mostly nike and lebron shoes, and now i have a collection of about twenty pairs worth about two grand if i were to sell them on ebay.
I cant explain how or why i fell into this culture but ive began to realize that its not going to go away.
So thats my little story about how something become a big passion of mine and a world that, even if you’re not a big fan of shoes, is worth taking a look into. Theres some interesting ideas out there, maybe one will catch your eye.
One final note if you actually read all this, thanks, i know im not much of a writer, but its something i wanted to share and if your a fan feel free to comment, im always willing to discuss kicks.
This year, I have heavily debated on where I want to go for spring break or if I want to travel at all. A lot of my friends will be in school while I am on spring break and have told me that I could come visit them in college. One of my good friends currently goes to Michigan and really wanted me to go see him. However, now that I go to Ohio State, I don’t think I could humiliate myself and be seen at Michigan. I suppose that I could come up with an alter ego, change my name and say I go to a community college to avoid the embarrassment. One nice thing about going to Michigan, is that Canada is not very far and hopefully with my birth certificate, could get in and spend a few nights there and have a good time. Also on my spring break, I would like to visit Ohio University where I know a lot of people. I have only been to OU once but it was only a brief moment for maybe a few hours. I would like to go down a little longer and see more of the campus and figure out why OU is one of the top party schools in the United States. To wrap things up, on my way back from OU, I will probably stop in Columbus to sign a lease on an apartment for next year. I will just have to wait and see how things will plan out and decide on what I am going to do, who knows, I could spend all my money at a casino in Canada and not even make it back.
The article that i chose to imitate was one of the sample articles we read, called “Doha and Dalian.” It was written by New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman. Doha is the capital of Qatar, and Dalian is a city located in northeast China. In his article, Friedman first discusses his recent visit with these two cities and how they have exploded into giant metropolises since he was last there, three years before. However, his article quickly turns into an energy column. He is concerned with how these new metropolitan areas will consume tons of energy and emit a great deal of carbon. Friedman says he is a climate skeptic, not about climate change, just about our ability to alleviate the harm that major energy consumers are doing to it. However, he does not blame these giant energy consuming cities. He feels they are only modeling America and their energy growth trends. If everyone starts turning into another “America”, our planet would not be able to tolerate it. We as the “American” model need to change our energy use trends so that other countries will start to adopt those trends, and hopefully start to reverse the damage we have already done.
Spring break has the meaning of fun for teens. A chance to get away from home and go and party. It also gives the chance to travel anywhere you want to go. From recent experience I have traveled around the United States for spring break. I went to Florida, California; I even went Colorado to go white water rafting. Being on the beach is just an experience itself. There is nothing like standing in the sand while the breeze sprays ocean mist on your face. At night is also thrilling on the beaches. Big fires and great food meet all the standards for a good time. Even being in the face of danger in the rapids always leaves you with a good story to tell. Every chance I get to go away, I take advantage of it.
to be crazy would mean to resist the first law of nature: self preservation. An insane person can dis obey this law causing harm to himself also meaning that he could bite threw his own skin. If a person cannot bite through their own skin then that person is selfish but if someone is in love then that person is willing to sacrifice them self causing intentional harm to them self then that person is crazy psychologically speaking.
I hate punctuation rules. It is my sentence, I will decorate it how I please!
