I sometimes find it too difficult to write if I have to wait until I get to my laptop. I wish that the iPhone had an app for this blog. The irony is, if there is an app for anything on the internet, anyone would use websites more often. I would get on each site I own every day… well every minute. Well, that’s just the power of mobile technology…and that does not include laptops anymore.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
Time School Takes
Ever notice how tired you become when you have school work to do? When you are in college, everything seems so overwhelming. Does the brain take more energy to think on a student level? Then what about work, when you have to think?
The irony here is, you do have to think at work. Except, it is more localized in time. At school you continuously have future projects—home work. At work you seldom have future projects, which means that any thinking is done while you are at work. That said, I would agree that thinking at work is less exhausting than thinking at school. Also, thinking at work gets you paid. At school, all you have to look forward to is a crummy grade, which is no good for the moment.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Sexism or Feminism
Are we taking feminism to far? Or are we using the accusations of sexism to favor our wants? A recent report was made on the Inside Edition about a beautiful woman working as a prison guard.
The irony is that society disapprove of beautiful women who wanting to work in a more manly field, but on the flip side, they also disapprove of them using for using to find a husband to take care of them. So do beautify women have it hard in society. Seem like they do. It seem the norm for women is to fit typical stereotypes rather than follow individual dreams.
Consider Hollywood movies where only beautiful women exist and do everything. However, it is not the real world. Sure women can do anything they want and have the ability to do, but think of prison guard that became news on Inside Edition. The possibility of beautiful women being affected by their job poses a very high risk for their wellbeing. Society expects women to do something that is more suited to the norm rather than what they want to do with their lives.
Mainstream norms would be for her to live in the lime light and later marry a wealthy man. Why does it seem that beautify women are expected to marry? If getting married means being in love, then are we assuming that one of the definite genes of beautiful women is the ability to love? If society is telling these women that they are too beautiful for anything else, but being a media icon and getting married to the best providers in society, then hasn’t feminism failed to exist?
Based on my experience of equal opportunity in a world that is considered a man’s turf, sexism is alive and well. To me, feminism means that I have the opportunity to chose from a limited resource pool in society. It means that I would be accepted in an occupational field in support of feminism not because my expertise if need or even wanted.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Things to Google when you are bored…
There are so many things to Google when you are bored and don’t want to do your school work. He is my Google boredom plan.
1. Google things I have been thinking of doing and would like to know more about.
2. Google the things I got side traced on when I started my original Google search
3. Google the original search I had in mind before I got side tracked by other topics.
4. Google any program I want while adding: “how to get it free”
5. Google the latest versions of my favorite PC games…JoJo’s fashion show.
6. Download free valuable programs that would help me speak Spanish faster, but I would never use
7. Add a bunch of web pages that sound good to my favorites, like a website hoarder.
8. Watch a few You Tube How to videos on how to do things I am interested in.
9. Spend time watching videos I have found to be interesting while searching my original video
10. Update passwords to different past sites to which I have forgotten the password
11. Write on every blog I have ever created.
12. Search sites I remember going to in past boredom searches, using keywords I remember.
13. Look at my photo albums on fb
14. Search old friends on fb
15. Get of the computer and switch to my iPhone
16. Search new people to follow on twitter.
17. Delete people who were not funny of my followee list
18. Get back on my computer and google some new stuff I just thought up.
19. Get of google and pretend I was busy all day.
20. Watch porn if time is left before my husband gets home
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Ironic Pix
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Dateline Story
I was watching a dateline story about a college student who committed suicide at a University in Canada. Turns out while she already had her mind made up, she stumbled on an issue I cant believe exists. She got online to talk about here issue and then--present motive, uncovering a series of people who were depressed and wanted to commit suicide as well. She stumbled upon one person online who claimed to feel her pain and wanted to create a pack for both of them to die together. This person began to influence the troubled young woman to hang herself while recording it on the live web cam for others to see. She claimed she would do it too. Either way the young woman took her own life, but not the way she was persuaded to by the online accomplice.
Meanwhile, across the ocean this old lady who lost her parents, got online to find a relief for the pain she felt. During her quest to find others like her to talk about her problems, she learned of a large number of suicidal chat rooms where people gathered to talk about their common goal—topics on suicide. Eventually she stumbled upon the same person who tried to convince the student of the Canadian university to hang herself. This old lady single handedly investigated and found this predator, who was persuading thousands of people online to hang themselves. She took her finding to the police, who did nothing about it for several years. This man (predator) was taken to court, but because the law to persecute anyone who help others commit suicide has never been put in effect, they are still struggling to persecute in this case.
The irony here is: how many people would have to die before issue is taken seriously, with affirmative action. I do understand that as in the case with the student in Canada, she was already convinced and didn’t quite need compelling, but what about the others who need someone to talk them out of the nightmare they are living with. A suicide predator should be stopped, and we don’t need a law that tells this is wrong because we can see it clearly.
To the old lady who spent several years finding this predator, Bravo!!! I think this issue gave her a reason to carry on in her initial time of pain. It gave her something meaningful to do with her time, which benefited the some solution to the issue. I applaud her work and help in this issue.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Middle East on Ground Zero
Many Americans are shaken by the latest speculation about a mosque being built on ground zero. I witnessed the president’s live conference where he agreed with the alleged project…for what? To prove that we accept the Arabic race? We already do. They already live among us just fine. I am hoping that this is not going to happen since it can create a civil issue. Maybe on his next press conference, he would say, “America, you’ve been punked!” Think of the war we could have in our own country. We would need the troops here not over seas if this event takes place. I feel that Americans, especially the ones who were directly affected by the 911 incident would feel like they have been slapped in the face if a mosque is place on ground zero. Just the president’s acceptance of the proposal is alarming and painful to the American people. I think if our American leaders would allow such a spectacle to take place, then they should just go ahead and sign over Hawaii, Guam and Saipan to the Japanese government. I believe they still want the islands. If the people’s interest is not important, then what makes the government so special. They could show good grace by giving up the islands, they don’t need it. How about we demand this, then the government can let who ever they want build on ground zero. After all, its our free country too.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Don’t I Know U?!!!
I walked into the gas station down the road from my house to pay for some gas. As I walked in the door, a fat old man with a greasy creepy look stops what he is doing and starts to stair at me. He had this surprised yet shocked look on his face. I immediately walked over to the drinks cooler to get a drink so I could over come the discomfort I felt by the gross looking old man’s stair. I hung out at the cooler for a while (you know how the trillions of choices can make you so overwhelmed that we have to start an elimination process to make a choice.) When I bucked up the courage to deal with the only weird old man cashier I picked up the first drink in front of me and walked to the register. I put my drink on the checkout counter with a stern face--like i was going to do something if he harassed me... He continued to glare at me with the same creepy happy yet shocked look as he rang up my drink and gas. Then while setting my drink down on the counter he said, “don’t I know you?” Ewww…Ewwww, is all I could think in my head. Right them I was wishing he had just asked for my number. That would have been way better than expressing the assumption that he knew me personally to bystanders. With a weirded out look I said, “no” in a low voice, too embarrassed to even think to myself that the worst person in the world would ask such a question. The old man continued to stair at me, only now he was in shock, like he couldn’t believe I didn’t remember him. I quickly took my drink and left, disgusted and ashamed that my husband who was with me at the time, now thinks this weird old man knows me, but I might be to ashamed to admit it. All I was thinking in my head was: where does this woman he is mistaken me for works? Maybe at some strip club.I could see him falling for some Candy. The more I think about it the more furious I become. The desperate look on his face made me ask myself: Could she be a hooker who preformed services for him, but he developed feelings for her so she stopped servicing him? I later visited the store and he had the last look I saw when I told him my name was not Candy.
The irony here is not everyone is good with face recognition. And your spouse may not find it funny that some weird guy thinks he knows you even if he is wrong. How do I convince my husband that this man’s plea to recognize me is a mistake. I mean, do I look like a Candy or what even these street walkers are calling themselves these days. I still buoy cut that store because that many still haven’t lost that desperate look that makes me wonder if I should consider plastic surgery to change my appearance.
The iPC
Irony
Especially if you are in a crowd of people you are trying to impress. If you angle is to accquire something of signficant value, then the angle should be to suck up! right?