When I was in the 11th grade, I went from a “it’s better to turn in nothing than not to turn in your best” mentality to a “C- is better than nothing” mentality. This, without a doubt, shows in the vlog. P.S. Excuse the poor quality.
♥4 February 17, 2010
Have you ever been in class, and suddenly what the teacher is talking about clicks? Not like you were sitting there clueless, but suddenly, what s/he’s saying is relevant to you. So, you raise your hand and try to answer the question s/he just asked.
“Um, yeah, it’s like, yeah. You know? Like… yeah! But not really, because no. You know?”
And the teacher says something like, “So, what you’re saying is that the corporations that report the news are manipulating the truth so that they can cater to their audience’s taste, consequently creating a polarized society? That’s very good.”
Then s/he rushes to write it on the board, and you feel content. That is what you were trying to say, and you’re glad someone can say it in a way that sounds intelligent, and now you know how to say it again but better in case you ever need to!
That’s a cool feeling.
On a surprisingly related note, I’ve gotten my first English assignment! Let me tell you, I am excited. We’ve read one essay on democracy, one on media bias, and one on workers, and the assignment is to ~synthesize~ the sources to say something about American democracy.
Why is it related? Surprisingly related? Because my thesis has to do with people picking and choosing their information based on what makes them feel good.
So, my essay’s going to be on the Um yeah, but noers who feel fantastic when Fox News or CNN reinforces what they believe. I’ve already written a preliminary outline. Yay.
P.S. I imported all my old posts from Omg cake.
♥2 February 4, 2010
Did you know your browser and the websites you visit exchange these things called HTTP headers? Two of those headers are called User-Agent and Referer [sic].
User-Agent shows stuff like this:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091201 Firefox/3.5.6
While Referer [sic, man] shows the referrer of the website you are on.
It’s pretty easy stuff. Anyone with a website could get this information from your browser. Look at showip.net.
I would like to say that, despite several accusations, I am not a creep for sometimes watching my site statistics while you are on this site.
It’s just so fun to see your screen resolution~
♥1 December 23, 2009