Bridge Designer

Today in class I played with this program called west point bridge designer. The name tells it all, you build bridges. I was not very skilled in my bridge making but I saw the potential for good things. While this just further strengthened the notion that engineering would be the completely wrong path for me to take in college, it was a great way to spend 50 minutes. The all knowing TEKs includes the statement "use a variety of computer resources to complete a project"and I could not think of anything better to describe my day.

Costume Crisis

I hate Halloween. I was so excited for this year, I had a super tight costume of the burger king. The only thing better than watching that creepy guy on commercials, would be actually being that creepy guy in real life. However, the costume was swooped up by someone else leaving me with no costume. My other choices would be the Pillsbury dough boy, or the marshmallow man from Ghostbusters, but these costumes do not exist. I have no intent on making my own costume for it would not look nearly as good so I am now at a complete lose. And, dear reader, I have some bad news, I was told that i need to start including portions from the TEKs in my blog. Now the TEKs are the curriculum for classes in the state of classes and include all the fell good statements, like teaches children how to solve problems, and teaches children to work together and not discriminate. So to moralize this rant of a blog, a will close by saying that i will use the problem solving skills I gained from computer applications class to think of some way to get a sweet costume for Halloween.

The Messiah Goes to College

Sorry for my absence, dear reader, for I have been confronted with conformity. While the blog is my passion, my life, college is a looming barrier. Society seems to believe one must go to college to better their lives, while I believe one must just blog. Anyway, i gave in to peer pressure, and was on college visits for the last couple of days. I visited the University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie-Mellon, Boston University, and Lehigh. After the visit, i realized college is not a waste, for it is a new civilization to enlighten with the will of the blog. I will enter the heart of darkness and bring the blog to the savages who have lived their life without meaning. Wish me luck, dear reader, for my task is not easy. But nothing is to difficult for the blogging messiah.

Power to the Power point

Today i spent all day doing a power point presentation. I have not done one in a while, and all i remembered was the cool animations you could add in to spice up the presentation. Well, now i am older and these animations no longer hold my interest, but I did realize how helpful a power point could be for conveying information. Now the world is ready to know about electronics recycling because i made the greatest power point ever. Get ready for knowledge world.

Waste and Be Wasted

What do these pictures represent?
They represent all the waste generated by Americans.
What do these images convey to us?
They convey that we need to not be so wasteful and need to recycle.
How are these images supposed to make us feel?
They make us feel wasteful and lazy for letting so much waste build up without doing anything about it.
Why do you think that the artist chose to create these photographs?
He created them to create awareness about all the waste in America.
How hard do you think that it was to create the photos?
Not that hard because everything photographed was right there for him.

One picture in particular that bothers me, is one involving cellphones. The photo is a shot of thousands of cellphones. Judging by the size of the cellphones in the pictures, this picture was taken from reasonably far away but you can not see anything but cellphones. This represents a problem of being wasteful and unresourceful.

To solve the problem of being wasteful we could melt down all the cellphones and make new stuff out of the materials gained from them.

Guidlines To Life (or a power point presentation)

1. It must have both diagrams and text.
2. All slides must be brief, but informative.
3. There should be no unnecessary animations or unprofessional aspects of the presentation.
4. Do not write in all caps ever.
5. Use contrasting colors with the background and text so that it is clearly visible.
6. Have a simple background that is not distracting.
7. Use a font that is as big as possible so it is easy to read.
8. Use simple fonts rather than fancy ones.
9. Use different words than those on the slides when you are discussing them.
10. Do not just be looking at the slides, be looking at the people you are presenting to.

MLA. Hooray.

Both me and my partner Joel met nearly all MLA guidlines. We had one inch margins, the right font, a well done heading, and the page number and last name on each page. We both had a work citied page on another page, but his was titled bibliography instead of work citied which is the only thing i could find on either of our papers that wasn't perfect.