Studying

Studying takes to long. They should invent something that allows things to be uploaded to the human brain in a similar way that software is uploaded to computers. That would be so amazing and wouldn't have to up to two in the morning tonight studying math. We as humans have been able to use lasers to correct vision but we can't invent a way to study. What is wrong with the world's priorities? Instead scientists are focused on perfecting the male enhancement drug and solving the problem of baldness. If you have not scene the movie Idiocracy, you should. One day something like that might actually happen and everyone on this Earth will revert back to cavemen in a sense.

Time of Swords and not Guns

I wish I had lived during the days of knights and crossbows and swords instead of today. Sure I love technology, but back then to win a battle was a true accomplishment based off of strength and wit. Today wars are fought using guns and machines. There is no challenge to this kind of warfare. A child can pull a trigger, but can a child fight with a sword or a dagger. Child soldiers in Africa are able to be soldiers because it is so incredibly easy to kill another individual in this day and age. Soldiers were glorified for their strength. Today as long as you can run a mile in a certain time length or do a certain number of push-ups you're in. Look at the Spartans. They were a true warrior race. They were a true test to strength and wit. The Olympics used to display this pride. But today the athletes in the Olympics are just athletes and nothing else. Everyone stood a chance to defend themselves back then, but today unless you pull the trigger first, you are going to lose the battle.

Actors

The actors of our generation are getting pretty old. Actors such as Jim Carry, Robin Williams, John Travolta, and Bruce Willis. There are so many more. These actors are the people I grew up watching and they will be extremely hard to replace. There can never be another Bruce Willis. I mean he's an amazing actor and it's incredible that he is still making action movies at his age. I just can't imagine there being another Die Hard without Bruce Willis. These things bother me. I have grown attached to these actors. They are the one's who entertained me first. I see why Grandpas and other old folks watch reruns of things like the Loan Ranger. It's because no one could ever be like that. Sure there will be the John Travolta of the next generation but it just won't be the same.

First Semester

First semester of college is almost over. It's been an interesting past couple of months. College is surprisingly easy. I met a lot of people. The Greek life around campus is pretty fun. There was always events going on. Did anyone else notice how it always seemed like they were cutting the grass at AUM? No matter what someone was doing landscaping at the school like everyday. I hated my math class. It was extremely easy. I mean boring easy. I think I left that class early nearly everyday and I still made A's on all of my tests. Psychology, I got to admit, I did not think I would actually like it. Surprisingly, it was pretty interesting. Learning how the mind works and what can go wrong is fascinating to me. Art appreciation was great too. I love art. My brother is an art major so I am always around it. The class was fairly easy for me too. I liked being able to learn about all the different major artworks that have been created over the past centuries.

Old Dogs

I recently saw Old Dogs with my girlfriend. It was a pretty good movie. Of course anything with Robin Williams or John Travolta in it is going to be amazing. However, when John Travolta did Wild Hogs, that was kind of sad. It was truly a low point in his career. Both of these actors have had outstanding careers. I remember watching Robin Williams when I was younger in Flubber for the first time and I thought it was hilarious. Robin Williams brings comedy to the table with him yet he can still do serious; this is what made him such a good pick for this role. Looking a John Travolta, he is also a great choice for this movie. He plays the sort of playboy that never grew up. Travolta has always played roles in which he is a playboy but this movies allows him to come to terms with the fact that he is getting old. The two made a good team. It was odd though. Travolta was actually the one providing the comic relief in this film. Robin Williams has always provided the comic relief in his films because well he's Robin Williams. He was a part of SNL. Of course he is suppose to be funny. The film is kind of a lash out a men saying they can't raise kids without a woman there to supervise them. I take offense to that. Men can raise kids just as good as women. Just because we aren't born with the natural instincts of a nurturing mother doesn't mean we can't still raise children. But in the end the guys figure it out and like all Disney movies there is a happily ever after ending.

Christmas Break

For Christmas Break I will be taking advantage of the increase in number of hours I can work. This means I will probably be working around seventy hours over the course of the break. This is good because I like money. For Christmas Eve I think I will probably be working too if the store is open. Thankfully we are closed for Christmas Day. On Christmas Day I will probably wake up around twelve, hopefully early because I get present that day. Maybe my brother will wake up before me for a change and he'll get me up and we can open present early this year. We use to have to wait for my Nana to get there until we could, but she moved up to Birmingham with my uncle. My mom will probably have the tv turned on WSFA when they do their whole playing of Christmas music. But I'm getting tired of listening to Christmas music already because they play it at the store I work at and its getting annoying. But after we open up our gifts, we will have lunch with my grandfather and eat turkey and ham and all that good stuff.

Side Effects

Whenever I watch tv, there's always some type of infomercial with some type of medication. This medication seems to be the solution to a huge problem that may be affecting your life. However, there is a twist. The medication causes sides effects worse than the medication is suppose to treat. Like the medication could prevent heartburn, and you say to yourself, "Okay I'm listening." Commercial finishes and you say, "Alright sounds good." Then it hits you.
In little fine print and a speedy announcer says this product may cause upset stomach, cotton mouth, itchy eyes, coughing, irritable bowel syndrome, and in severe cause stroke, heart attack, and possibly death. "Like wow I may die but at least I won't have heart burn when it happens. Oh boy!"

Transylmania

This was a sad attempt to combine all the horror film classics into one. The famous books and films of Dracula and Frankenstein are horribly represented in this movie. Don't misinterpret what I am saying however. The movie was somewhat funny. I did have a problem with the character who is suppose to represent Dracula. The lead vampire in this movie sucked. The lead vampire is suppose to represent like sexual desire. He is suppose to be smooth and a ladies' man. This vampire was more like a nerd. Moving on to the vampire's beauties (I guess that is what you call them or minions). They are suppose to represent sex and therefore they are suppose to be beyond beautiful. The women they choose for the minions were not attractive at all. The women were incredibly thin to the point where their rib bones were poking out more than their stomachs. They were also flat chested. They did not represent sexual desire at all. The Frankenstein aspect of the movie was a little better. Instead of creating a man, however, the perfect woman was created. Too bad once the Frankenwoman was created, she didn't look very beautiful. Maybe that is just my opinion but I wouldn't want to date her. Lastly, how does a head stay alive without a body? I know it's just a movie but that made me mad. Why wouldn't the bodiless head want to get her body back? Overall the movie had a lot of flaws in the plot.

The Swiss Army Knife

The Swiss Army Knife has been around for what seems like is forever. Fathers have passed the knife down to their sons and then them to their sons. The Swiss Army Knife is one thing left in this world that is still made to last and not made to work for a few years and then break so you'll buy another one. I, however, just lost all respect for the Swiss Army Knife. The Swiss Army Knife now comes complete with a USB flashdrive. Why would you ever need a flashdrive on a knife.

"Hey man do you have a flashdrive on you."
"Yeah let me just pull out my knife."
"Hold on there man, I know I borrow a lot of things from you, but I promise I'm gonna give it right back."
"No man it's on my knife."

What is the world coming to. I bet the knife isn't even made that good any more. Nothing is made as good as it use to be. Things from the eighties and nineties were made to last. These dina ays things are made out of plastic instead of metal because it's cheaper. It also does not last as long. Everything is also made in China instead of the United States which is not how it should be.

"The Price is Wrong Bob"

That is a quote from the famous movie Happy Gilmore. Adam Sandler playing Happy Gilmore says that to Bob Barker as he is "trying" to beat the crap out of Barker. Its a pretty funny scene because Happy ends up the one lying on the ground in the fetal position. I brought up that because of this: Drew Carry is not anywhere close to Bob Barker. I use to watch The Price is Right every day of each summer when it came on a ten o'clock. My brother and I would watch that show every morning. I loved that show because Bob Barker was the host and because I liked watching people make complete idiots out of themselves. But back when Bob Barker was the host people use to make shirts saying how much they loved him because he had been doing it for so long. People use to watch that show with their grandmothers. I doubt people do that for Drew Carry. I think the show should have been retired with Bob Barker. Don't get me wrong I still watch the show when I get a chance but it's just not the same. Nope I'm watching the show now and I do not see any I love Drew t-shirts on. And don't you just love when the person after someone bids like a dollar more than them? I do cause they act so happy about it but really they are thinking about how much they would like to kill them.

Ice On My Windshield

Alabama is too far south for the weather that we experience at night. It is not meant to get this cold in Montgomery. When I walk out to my car at midnight and it is cold enough that the water from dew has frozen to every part of my car I know that it is too cold in Alabama. The other night I walked outside to my car after I got off work and there was ice across my entire windshield. I didn't realize it when I had gotten in my car and I didn't want to get back out and try to wipe it off with something so I drove with the ice on it. And just for future reference a defroster doesn't do a thing when there is ice frozen on your windshield. I had to drive leaning over the steering wheel like an old grandma trying to peer out a tiny little spot where there was not any ice at all until I got down the road to the Chevron. Then I had to scrap off the ice using a squeegee. The ice was coming off in chunks. I was amazed and baffled because I didn't think that could happen in Alabama, but I suppose I was mistaken. Luckily I was able to get the ice off and be on my way again.

The Sea

Have you ever been surrounded by water on all sides of you? Have you ever looked out and saw nothing expect where the sky touches the water. Have you ever felt truly alone in the world like no body else was around? If you ever want to get the feeling of total solitude, rent a boat and sail out to the middle of the sea. You'll know when you've reached where I'm talking about because the land will disappear from your eyes. It's like no one else is anywhere near you. Like your the only one left in the world. It's actually a scary feeling. I didn't like it the first I ever went deep sea fishing. You get the feeling that you are lost in the world. I mean water takes up most of the space on the planet and to be caught in the middle of it would truly devastate someone. I can see why Tom Hanks went insane in Cast Away. I understand why he created Wilson. Human beings need to interact with one another. I just wish Tom Hanks had opened that last package in that movie. What if it had been like a new satellite phone with built in GPS? He would of been out of there in no time and Wilson would of been okay.

Let go my eggo

Eggo lovers in the south won't be able to enjoy the eggo to much longer. Do to a recent flood of the factory, which I believe is located in Atlanta, the plant has shut down production until March of 2010. I found this out by a customer who came into the grocery store i work at. That's kind of sad isn't it. I didn't find out before the customer, the customer found out before I did. I wonder what people are going to eat for breakfast now. I imagine that the eggo label is going to take a pretty big hit from being out of production for so long
The other things people are probably going to eat for breakfast:
1) Cereal
2) Pillsberry Toaster Struddles (this ought to be a good time of business for them)
3) Muffins
4) Grits
5) Pancakes (the old fashioned way or a different brand)
6) Eggs and bacon
7)McDonalds
8) Biscuits
9) Yogurt
10) A rise in Poptarts again
11) Cookies ( that's what I eat for breakfast sometimes)

A glass on the edge of the table

Oh my gah. Why do they have to set me so close. I can't see my life flashing before my eyes. That time I got held by Angelina Jolie. She has some nice lips. Or that time Jack Nicholson threatened to throw me at Adam Sandler. Those were the good ole days. Guess I won't have to worry about that anymore. Hey kid not so fast. You stop running. That kid is gonna get himself killed one of these days and he's probably gonna take me with him. I mean he has scared me permanently. He always burns things in me and he doesn't ever rinse me out. He's so cruel. Oh my gah it's a cat. Get out of here kitty. You get away from me. No don't you sniff me. Ah stop that. Stop it. Ahahaha I'm going to shatter all over the floor. I hope one of you cruel people step on a piece of me. Well this is it. Here I go. I knew it'd always end up like this. I just never imagine the grandma would do me in. Ahhhhhhh........ahhhhhh....ahh crash.

A thing that should not have been invented

The Snuggie ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
The Snuggie should have never been invented. All the Snuggie is, is a glorified bath robe. The Snuggie makes people look as though they were in a cult. The Snuggie is not a fashion statement in the least bit. Instead of wasting money on an oversize bathrobe, I recommend just buying a throw blanket. No one will think twice about you wearing a throw blanket, but a Snuggie labels you as the person who stays up at night watching the infomercials ordering anything they see. Also the Snuggie does not even come in any good colors. If I'm not mistaking the Snuggie doesn't even come in hot pink which is the color most girls would want. In the end I think the Snuggie should have never been invented.

The Perfect World

The perfect world? How does one define the perfect world? What would the perfect world be like? Would it be boring?

The perfect world has always been thought of as a world that is pollution free. A world that is violence free. A world that is hunger free. A world without a class system. To be honest the perfect world could never exist. In order for our world to be free of pollution all technology would have to cease to exist. No more electricity has to be required in order for pollution to go away completely. I think that would make for a perfect world. If electricity was gone then people would have to rely on the old ways of doing things. Maybe people could go far enough back to have to grow and kill their own food. Next, if a world was violence free, there goes all competitive sports. The reason sports are so competitive is mostly because of revenge. If a football player gets hit by someone, it becomes his own personal grudge to seek revenge. It motivates players. If there is not any aggression in sports, then it is not entertaining. A world without hunger. Well that would be nice. If everyone had food, there would not be anything wrong with that. A world without a class system. A world without a class system is entirely implausible, but if it did happen it would be amazing.

People who put pets in clothes

When you think of clothes, what do you associate them with? Humans, am I right? Clothes are meant for humans. Lately, there has been a fad emerging of placing pets in clothes. However, they aren't just clothes, they're outfits. OUTFITS. Cats and dogs are being dressed up as the Village People. There are firefighter outfits, cheerleading outfits, and even outfits to support that favorite team. People, especially rich and famous women, carry their pets around as if they were humans. Dog and cat strollers and purses. Since when have animals become to lazy to walk. I can't stand seeing a cat or a dog in a sweater. It drives me crazy. Cats and dogs have natural clothes, it's their fur. They don't need any more fur. If someone tells you that they don't want their cat or dog to be cold, simply tell them that the animal has done alright for themselves for the past thousands of years so I think they will be alright. No wonder some animals are so mean and bark at everyone. They're forced to wear the same type of sweaters that kids fear their grandmas giving them. Bottom line is that animals have their own natural clothes and human do not. This is why humans wear clothes. Animals do not need them.

SEC CHAMPS

Roses are red,
The Tide is too.
Superman couldn't pull it off,
So we're no longer number two.
ROLL TIDE

My midlife crisis

I don't know about the rest of the male gender, but I am looking forward to my midlife crisis. Lets look at the midlife crisis situation. Individuals are realizing that they do not have much time left on Earth. In doing so they come to terms with their age. However they also realize that this doesn't mean they are dead yet and that they still have enough time to do things in life that had not taken the time to do. Men who go through their midlife crisis do things like go buy that fifty thousand dollar sports car that they didn't want to buy before because they had to worry about sending little Jimmy to college. Well little Jimmy is all grown up now and they can buy that sports car. And who cares about getting a ticket at this point in their life because they only have what about twenty or less more years to drive before they can't hardly see or grip the steering wheel. However at age forty and fifty, they still have the energy and the heart that allows them to get that new Mustang or Ferrari up to 120 on the interstate. Go for it.
Have you ever seen The Bucket List starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman? Great movie. I would like to live out the last couple years of their lives. However, I would start at the age of forty-five, give or take a few years. I would go sky diving, rock climbing, fly a plane, kayak down some class ten, or how ever high it goes, rapids. I don't wanna get to Heaven and be asked if I ever got to do all the things I wanted and have to reply NO. That would just be horrible.

World's Strictest Parents

The World's Strictest Parents. Have any of ya'll ever seen this show. These parents aren't strict. The parents of the kids who go on the show are just idiots who don't know how to raise children. If you let your kids get away with everything then they aren't going to respect you. If you discipline your kids, it doesn't mean you don't love them. In fact it is the exact opposite. By disciplining your children, you are preparing them for there future. As a parent it is your job to ensure that they succeed in life and that they live their life to their fullest potential. If a parent didn't care, they wouldn't bother punishing a child and they would let them make their own path and walk down it. With that said, there are extremes and yes some of the parents on the show are a little bit strict but then again different people have different ways of doing things. But I think they should rename the show the way you should raise your kids if you don't do so already. But no one would watch that now would they. Kids should have chores and they should be punished when they don't do what they are suppose to. And if they don't do them, then punish them. In psychology, I learn about positive and negative reinforcement. I don't exactly remember which one is which but it basically says that in order for something to learn there must be good and bad consequences.

Street Art in Taipei

This is truly an amazing work of art. I am taken away by how realistic it looks. Its an artwork that was drawn on the sidewalk and it appears as though the ground has broken away and revealed this mysterious and wonderful land. There is a bottle of alcohol on the right side of the painting that appears to be a little out of place. But the way the bottle is depicted makes it seem as though the bottle is sticking out of the hole. This gives off the appearance that the bottle is larger than life. This leads me to believe that the artwork might of been done as some sort of advertisement. I love this image. It is like a portal into a parallel universe. Maybe that is the message the artist is trying to portray. Maybe the artist wants people to see that this particular brand of alcohol is out of this world.
The artist has taken advantage of several design principles. He has implemented diminishing size, which is when objects are scaled smaller the further away they get. He has also made things further away appear hazier and hazier the further the distant. The focal point of this artwork would have to be the bottle of alcohol because it is sticking out of the ground and even though it is not int the foreground of the painting, it is still the closest thing to the viewer. Other focal points would be the whirlpools. The artwork has to be asymmetrical because there is a larger than life bottle of brown alcohol on the right. This makes the right side of the painting much heavier.
Check it out here: http://www.european-street-painting.com/street%20art%20johnnie%20walker%20taipei.htm

Insane in the membrane

So we watched the movie on the criminally insane in psychology and I've got to say it was not what I expected. It was completely different then the things displayed in movies. You would expect to see everyone in straight-jackets or talking to themselves or something, but this was not the case. Most people appeared seemingly normal. They might talk a little funny and be socially awkward but for the most part, people were normal appearing. Mostly everyone shown on the documentary suffered from some type of schizophrenia. It was relatively creepy. So the people in the film basically lived in their own little community. They had like parties and gatherings and some of them even dated each other. I thought it was suppose to be punishment still. These individuals committed murder, arson, and robbery. However, according to the film up to eighty-eight percent of them will eventually be released. How is someone suppose to know whether or not they will commit the same crime again. When a sane person is released it's hard enough to determine if they will. How do you determine whether or not a criminally insane person will. However, I do think that those who are found criminally insane do deserve a second chance because they aren't not to blame for their actions.

Psych Tomorrow

We are suppose to view a film on the criminally insane tomorrow in psychology. I'm kind of excited. After watching the most recent Batman movies and seeing characters such as the Joker and Scarecrow it makes an individual wonder whether people like that actually do exist or if the characters are a little over the top. Obviously having no compassion towards another member of the human race is inhuman. Anyone who is able to do so in my opinion lacks certain mental capabilities. At what point does someone become insane? I hope to learn this tomorrow and elaborate on it later on.

Photography

At what point in a photographers life do they become professional? How does one gain the label of a professional photographer? Anyone can buy a camera and start taking pictures. Anyone can change the settings on the camera to change the effect. Anyone can zoom and crop a photo. But how do you know when you are looking at a professional photo. I recently witnessed photos taken by students in a college art appreciation class, not an art class but an appreciation course. Their pictures looked professional. Like something someone could purchase at Hobby Lobby or somewhere. Does that make them professional photographers? When the camera was first commercialized there was a movement in the art world whose name escapes me but it was basically a period in which professional photographers revolted to the idea of amateur photography. Artists work hard to capture something a certain way. And they take into account the principles of design and the elements of art. So does that mean once an amateur photographer starts to do this as well they become a professional. Or maybe the term professional actually has become to mean famous. An artist must be well known in order to become famous. I have seen artworks in which the artist has actually drawn the artwork in an elementary way. The it was drawn could be considered amateur yet they are still pros. Its an odd problem.

Seven worst things to say to someone who just got dumped

1) She's way out of your league anyway.
2) She's been seeing him longer than you actually.
3) At least he/she was good in bed, too bad she ain't feel the same way bout you
4) I checked he/she out and you're most certainly better looking.
5) At least you didn't turn 'um gay.
6) Too bad he/she was you're last hope.
7) You're getting pretty old, think you still got it in you?

Skeet Shooting

People always have said boys like to blow things up and it's true, we do. Whether it's with a shotgun or fireworks or just fire in general. Boys like things that are loud and destructive. Skeet shooting is a great, fun, and most importantly LEGAL way to destroy stuff. Skeet shooting is when you take clay disks and throw them into the air and then shoot them with a 20 or 12 gauge shotgun. I shot skeet for the first time yesterday and it was a blast, literally. I didn't get to do it for long because I had class but I still had fun. There is one major downside to shooting skeet for a long time, shotguns kick back. If you aren't use to shooting a shotgun, expect your shoulder to be hurting the next day. Its really not that bad, just annoying. But if you aren't that good of a shot, be sure to buy a lot more shells than you buy skeet. Like we had two hundred and seventy skeet and we thought we had enough shells but when you have three people in a line all shooting at the same time, sometimes even twice, it's possible to waste like six shots on one skeet. Wasting six shots on one skeet is unreal. We just kind of got off to a slow start. Whats funny is to do a rabbit roll which is when you roll a skeet across the ground then try to shoot it. It was funny when it would roll literally two feet in front of someone and they still missed.

The Way of the Past

I know everyone has heard of the ancient methods for treating the ill back in the day. Different cultures had different religious beliefs. It was these religious cultures that determined how they viewed disease. For the longest time it was believed by virtually all civilizations that disease was caused by the possession of evil spirits. Today we know that this is a completely ludicrous idea. However, our ancestors did not. Because people use to believe that disease was caused by evil spirits, naturally people wanted to remove them. Here's where the crudeness comes in. In order to release the evil spirits ancient civilizations and even our forefathers practiced blood letting, which is simply bleeding out the body. Another popular technique was drilling holes in the head. This technique was commonly used to treat headaches as well which seems somewhat retarded to me seeing how I'm sure there head hurt worse after having it drilled in. Other disorders such as psychological disorders were also first treated in fairly crude ways. In one instance lobotomies were performed to either remove or separate certain parts of the brain in an attempt to disrupt the flow of electricity in the brain and consequently preventing the problem from occurring. Another widely used method of treatment was electroshock therapy which is exactly what it sounds like. The motive behind it was similar to that of lobotomies. Thankfully, however, modern science has allowed for great advances and today drugs are most commonly used to treat disorders and diseases.

Eating Disorders

A while back in psychology, we studied eating disorders and watched a film on it. The film was about young individuals who suffered from anorexia. The individuals shown had lost so much weight that they had to be hospitalized and placed on feeding tubes in order for them to survive. One woman shown in the film is Jean Claude Pierre who had a daughter who suffered form anorexia. It was through her struggles with her daughter that Jean Claude learned the most effective way of fighting off the disorder. Instead of force feeding the person, which Jean Claude said was the worst possible thing, she recommends offering love and affection. The disease eats away at individuals brains in a sense. The patients hear voices telling them that they are not worthy to eat or to even live. Anorexia is considered to be an unconscious slow form of suicide. The conscious mind is not strong enough to commit suicide therefore the unconscious takes over. Jean Claude said that those who suffer from anorexia eat less and less until they slowly waste away and eventually disappear. By showing patients that they are worthy enough to eat through affection, it is possible to ease the mind of the burden. One common technique of helping individuals to eat involves having someone else feed the patients to rid the mind of the blame in a sense. Jean Claude Pierre has devoted her life to helping those who cannot help themselves. She opened a refugee called the Mansion and is on the verge of bankruptcy because of her caring nature.