No more D2L. Joy.

So in class the other day we were given new rules for our postings. We're supposed to post 2 times a week on our group blog on one of 3 given topics:
*Post anything that has been happening on the 4 blogs we were looking at earlier in the month

* Using news media, other blogs in or out of the class, blog and see where it goes.

* blog about paper topics for interesting things to write about

Courtney and I decided we should kill 2 birds with one stone and blog about #3.

Here's my initial thought on a topic.

Myspace and Facebook have become so popular within the last few years. Recently, Facebook has come up with a "Notes" sidelink. This is similar to Blogger.com and other blog sites, in that you can write about...anything and post pictures. You can tag people within the note. Also many people write captions under their photos in their albums. Myspace even has a "blog" section for each user's profile.

What is the difference between blog sites and myspace or facebook sites that have similar concepts of blogging?

I'm not sure exactly where I'm going with this topic, but something like that. Because I think I would enjoy talking about myspace and facebook since I'm on them so much anyways.

tools..

okay.. so we have to discuss what tool(s) we want to use in our blog and demonstrate to the class. anyone have any ideas? lea and i talked about it in class and we were thinking maybe doing videos from our digital cameras or cell phones. Also broadcasting podcasts from our blog.

What do you guys think? Ideas? Suggestions?

Don't worry ladies

I will respond to your letters tomorrow, right now I am working on my website for my web design class that my crazy anal b*tch of a teacher expects by the next time 8am rolls around. The assignment was to make a site based on some text she found in spam email, here is the text:

Excuse me, I cant talk any more, the cat said from the mirror. Since Margarita had no pockets in her cloak, she put the horseshoe in a skirt and sneakers came into the office. From a small pouch at her belt the evening will have the honour of kissing your knee, lop my head off on this. prepared ahead of time, on the tablecloth, under the lamp, a syringe.

you can watch my progress on the site over here:

Kaplow!

my head is about to do this

this is silly

okay.. i'm on my brother's computer right now so i don't wanna upload pics of male models on it. but i'm really determined to do it. i really really am.

just dont rush me.

Crazy Pics

I found these on yahoo's website. They always have crazy pictures. I like the panda/dog one the most. It reminds me of a "raccoon" dog that my boyfriend wants to get. (dog that looks EXACTLY like a racoon. gross. I don't approve)



Liu Shuping, a farmer specializing in raising pigs, presents a newly-born piglet with one head, two mouths, two noses and three eyes, for photographers in Xi'an, northwest China's Shannxi Province

True fan : Indian cricket fan, Bhola Sarder, poses after the daily shaving of his 'Cricket World Cup' haircut at a hair salon in Howrah, near Kolkata

A Chow Chow dog painted in the likeness of panda is displayed for sale at a pet market in Shenyang, China's Liaoning province.

pics

i cant get back to my other post. so i'm gonna try to post them here:

OKAY WHAT THE HELL! can someone else try. i swear blogger is being stupid. its not me. its blogger.

ooooooookay..

this group is weird. you guys are all huge weirdos. especially you, nick. for posting that picture of those girls. so heres some stuff for us girls.


damn! my pictures aren't working. and i spent a lot of time finding pictures! but time well spent. i'll be back in a few to try again. dont worry, girls.

Ripley's Believe It or Not

I thought this picture was crazy. It's from that Ripley's Believe It or Not website. I was looking for more pictures, but this is the only one I could find that find that i liked. It's your choice to believe it or not.

Pizza Pizza

I wonder if anybody has ever done any of that top 20 things to do while ordering a pizza. I think it would be very interesting to work the phones at a place like Pizza Hut or anything that has to deal with customer service. You'd get a lot of whackos.

I can give an example. I work at the UPS store in Shorewood. Sometimes the stupidest people call and ask the stupidest questions. this one pisses me off the most. When people don't listen....

Me: "Hello, the UPS store."
Dumb person: Hi...umm....is this the ups store?"
Me: "......yeah....."

(didn't I JUST say that? listen to me next time and maybe I wont have to repeat myself.)

or this question:

ring ring.
Me: "hello, the ups store."
dumb person: hi...ummm. do you guys have boxes there?"

Ok now this one....just annoys me. think before you call. No, we don't have boxes. We just throw people's things into the back of the trunk unpacked and scattered around.....


I could go on and on about how much I dislike the ups store and its dumb customers....but it would just get me thinking about it more and put me in a bad mood. and why be in a bad mood when it's so nice outside!?!

yum

oh and as long as we are playing the objectification game, a little eye candy for Dr. Sands and myself:

feel free to click on it for amazing full-size quality ladies.

Prisons

I am familiar with these "fun facts" email forwards and what not. Just thought I would dig into the prison issue seriously for a moment since there seems to be some interest.

The American prison system is one of the most disgusting aspects of our great nation today.

From this article

According to the report, “Prisoners in 2005,” there were 2,193,798 people incarcerated in the United States as of December 2005. An additional 4.1 million were on probation and around 800,000 more on parole. This amounts to more than 7 million people—or 1 in 32 American adults—who were under some sort of supervision by the US prison system as of 12 months ago.

This is largely due to the fact that caging people is a $60 Billion a year business and the people that are making that money buy senators who write laws that send more people to prison. Just consider that the United States has 5 percent of the world's population and 25 percent of the world's incarcerated population. A little lop-sided, no?

This phenomenon that the prison has turned into is referred to as the Prison-Industrial Complex, a reference to the Military-Industrial Complex coined by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The people representing the entire industry would suffer huge losses in profits if things like the War on Drugs would finally be abandoned. Hmmm, and I wonder why people get so bent out of shape about marijuana users....

I thought these were funny. Go to: Top 20 Things to Do While Ordering a Pizza . There are other funny lists, but if I were the person on the other line I'd either be totally freaked or uncontrollably laugh.

I think those things are pretty cool. 2 comments though...

1) I wish I were that snail because I could totally use that sleep

2) Maybe there's .7% American in jail because the donkeys are gettin the rest... hmmm?

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i would say that the interesting thing is that there are only .7% of americans in jail. not enough jail space i'd assume.

Interesting facts

I found these facts on this website. Kinda crazy stuff. I'm not sure if it's all quite true...


Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals.

Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

0.7% of Americans are currently in prison.

Hottness!!

This is for Courtney, Lea, and me... I am in love with this man. He is one of the stars from Step Up: Channing Tatum... sorry that this will make you puke Nick. :)

oh man

first - lea.. sorry. i can't say i know much about harry potter. he's never really been interesting to me. even with his nude scenes on stage.

and nick -
ya i heard about that. she's wacky. i really don't know what else to say about it other than thanks a lot for making the rest of the group look bad by posting a video.

Harry potter predictions

Okay. I'm asking a favor of all those Harry Potter fans out there.

For another class I'm compiling a list of predictions I think will happen in the final book coming out this July. I'm answering questions such as:

* Will Harry die?
* Is Snape good or bad?
* Will Harry go back to Hogwarts to become an auror or will he go and destroy the horcruxs'( or both..??)* it's said that 2 will die...who?
*its said that aunt petunia will have an important role in the final book...what is it?
*it's said that dumbledore will come back and have a role...what?

.......Things like that.

So, if any of you have any input on Harry Potter, please feel free to leave some comments. I will take them into consideration. I dont remember all the facts in the book, so the more comments the better. Maybe I think differently on your comment, but I might use that as an example of another side to use.

Ann Coulter's Self-Proclaimed Keen Sense of Gaydar

Holy Crap, did you gals see what Coulter did?

Seriously, w.t.f.

Through some more reading I found out she even ran for congress just to take votes away from a republican who didn't vote to impeach Clinton.

Oh, and she's a fucking man, man!

weirdos

I'm really starting to notice how much we love weird stuff. (Britney, circus man, tiger with pig babies..) I tried to think of something weird to post here but uhmm, I can't think of anything right now.

I do think it's weird that there's a 'winter weather advisory' right now. I'm sorry. I wasn't aware that it wasn't winter time anymore. Isn't any weather 'winter weather' considering the season?


weird. thats why I know you guys will enjoy.