ok so i know were supposed to post on a current topic and all that but something really set me off today for some reason and i just had to post about it. i even found a comic to show you what i mean. ok so heres the situation, i have a mock trial this saturday at the albany court house on New Holland, and on of my friends is driving us there. so i wanted to get directions just in case we would need them. so i went on map quest to see what i could find. so i typed in all the info. they asked for and clicked the search button….let me first before i tell you the rest say that whoever invented mapquest is a dumbass and a genious in the same body…so i clicked search and ofcourse what comes up doesnt match what i want to see…actually it doesnt even come close. mapquest is the greatest idea ever, but the technology sucks something terrible…honestly i kid you not the map that they sent me want even for this state…it was for ontario canada….so heres a comic on what mapquest would be like if it was a person.

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

oh ya that website is pretty funny if your into very inappropriate jokes and comics and such, check it out. thanks again

ok so i know were supposed to post on a current topic and all that but something really set me off today for some reason and i just had to post about it. i even found a comic to show you what i mean. ok so heres the situation, i have a mock trial this saturday at the albany court house on New Holland, and on of my friends is driving us there. so i wanted to get directions just in case we would need them. so i went on map quest to see what i could find. so i typed in all the info. they asked for and clicked the search button….let me first before i tell you the rest say that whoever invented mapquest is a dumbass and a genious in the same body…so i clicked search and ofcourse what comes up doesnt match what i want to see…actually it doesnt even come close. mapquest is the greatest idea ever, but the technology sucks something terrible…honestly i kid you not the map that they sent me want even for this state…it was for ontario canada….so heres a comic on what mapquest would be like if it was a person.

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

oh ya that website is pretty funny if your into very inappropriate jokes and comics and such, check it out. thanks again

ok so i know were supposed to post on a current topic and all that but something really set me off today for some reason and i just had to post about it. i even found a comic to show you what i mean. ok so heres the situation, i have a mock trial this saturday at the albany court house on New Holland, and on of my friends is driving us there. so i wanted to get directions just in case we would need them. so i went on map quest to see what i could find. so i typed in all the info. they asked for and clicked the search button….let me first before i tell you the rest say that whoever invented mapquest is a dumbass and a genious in the same body…so i clicked search and ofcourse what comes up doesnt match what i want to see…actually it doesnt even come close. mapquest is the greatest idea ever, but the technology sucks something terrible…honestly i kid you not the map that they sent me want even for this state…it was for ontario canada….so heres a comic on what mapquest would be like if it was a person.

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

oh ya that website is pretty funny if your into very inappropriate jokes and comics and such, check it out. thanks again

A link to the past found…

SPRINGFIELD, Missouri (AP) — The bear that left a 3-foot-long claw mark in an Ice Age clay bank was the largest bear species ever to walk the earth, about 6 feet tall at the shoulder and capable of moving its 1,800 pounds up to 45 miles per hour in a snarling dash for prey.

The claw mark by the extinct giant short-faced bear still looks fresh today in a southwest Missouri cave that some scientists are calling a national treasure — an Ice Age time capsule sealed for thousands of years.

Discovered accidentally five years ago on the outskirts of Springfield, Riverbluff Cave is slowly yielding its fossil treasures as a small team of scientists and volunteers gingerly explores it while trying to preserve a rich bed of remains, from bones to tracks and dung.

“We found 5,000 microfossils in just one 1-foot by 2-foot block of clay,” said lead paleontologist Matt Forir, the naturalist for Springfield-Greene County Parks.

Remains in the cave date back at least 830,000 years and possibly over 1 million years. At some point at least 55,000 years ago, it was sealed by rocks and mud until a construction crew blasted a hole in one end while building a road in September 2001.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/10/30/ice.age.cave.ap/index.html

This acticle about a cave that was found in 2001 intrest me because im really into this kind of thing.  knowing the past in my eyes will lead to many things we may need to know in the future. what the scientist have found in the cave is quite uncommon. finding such rare and valuable sources of history is very exciting.  When i think of all the time that those things found in the cave have been laying there it really boggles my mind.

DETROIT — Here at The North Face photo shoot, otherwise known as the 102nd World Series, you didn’t know whether they were going to play Game 2 or a Grey Cup championship here.

But they played Game 2, Detroit beat St. Louis, 3-1, and, oh, by the way, Tigers starter Kenny Rogers may or may not have cheated for an inning.

With or without some sort of mysterious brown sludge on the inner palm of his pitching hand, Rogers was nearly unhittable. He certainly was un-scoreable. But did he get caught red- (or brown-) handed?

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=wojciechowski_gene&id=2635618

Usually i dont post about baseball and sports and stuff, eventhough its my comfort zone, because i like to expand my horizons and try different things, but this is one think i must comments on.  Kenny Rodgers has pitched 20+ innings of scorless baseball in the post season…this is rediculas for anyone let alone someone older than fourty years of age.  There are only a handfull of people that have ever reached this level of greatness.  To have this amazing feat mared by the fact that he had something on is hand is really just a terrable thing in my eyes.  For those of you who dont know baseball, there is a substance that is used on bat handles called pinetar, pine tar is basically pine sap in a condesed formula.  If you have ever touched pine sap you know that it is really really sticky.  so you see if kenny rodgers was using pine tar while pitching it would be to get a better grip on the baseball, maybe to cause his curveball to break more or maybe just to get a better grip on the heater.  In baseball a pitcher many not have on his body any foreign substances, if found in possesion of any substances they shall be immediately ejected from the game and served a 10 game suspension…This is the world series folks…this is a a big deal…read the article its interesting.

If I had a theme song what would it be? And why.  I don’t think you grasp how many times I have wanted my own theme music while I was doing something that seems to be an everyday boring thing.  Honestly I don’t know which on to pick, but if I had to it would have to be the song Gospel John by Maynard Ferguson. I chose this song because it has so many different aspects of music that really describe who I am.  In the beginning it’s very quiet and soft, there are no drums just the Saxes playing. Then a little later the drums come in, like I am getting a little bit exited about something, like a kid before Christmas. As the song goes on the trumpets start playing their hearts out, this is where the song becomes really up-tempo and loud. Sometimes I just like to go crazy and be loud like that.  Then there comes the tenor saxophone solo section. The tenor is what I played all through high school, it’s an amazing instrument and I loved every minute I spent playing it.  The tenor solo really describes who I am. It can be quiet one second and loud the next, it stands out because its sound is totally different, and it plays some of the sweetest tones to ever come out of an instrument.  Toward the end of the song is where it all comes together.  All the instruments intertwine to play one of the most amazing sequences of jazz ever to grace the ears of music lovers everywhere. Then the song ends with a bang and it’s all over, back to the silence that was there before.

Goggle is taking over the world…

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Has the online video shakeout only begun or is the bubble about to burst?

Google’s $1.65 billion agreement to acquire YouTube Monday is the latest, splashiest and most expensive of deals involving companies in the nascent online video business.

industry experts say that Google’s rivals, both traditional media companies and Internet firms like Yahoo!, need to reevaluate their online video strategies now that the search engine kingpin and online video leader have joined forces.”I think certainly there is going to be a lot of activity. I don’t think anybody wants to cede the market to Google and there are a lot of media companies that are poised to do something,” said Greg Kostello, founder and CEO of vMix, a privately held video site.

But some caution that media companies also have to be careful of overpaying.

“You do need to react to this deal if you are a competitor but it’s just a matter of how. Google is inflating the value of the market overall because they can afford to do so,” said Bill Wise, chief executive officer of Did-it Search Marketing, a paid search advertising firm based in New York.

The $1.65 billion price tag for YouTube may in fact mark the beginning of the end for this latest dot-com craze. Instead of forcing other media firms to make acquisitions, it could scare them off.

“YouTube is a 67-person company in an unproven market that hasn’t made any money. So it’s seemingly ridiculous amount of money to spend,” Wise said.

this is an artice about the buy out of perenial powerhouse of the online video world YouTube.com by Google, the most widely known search engine on the net. YouTube, known for its ability for people to post videos of all kind has a history of unregulated copyright infringement and legal violation, and yet google still wants to buy it…this puzzles me because as it states in the article, there is one large problem other than the legality…youtube hasnt made any money yet, yes it shows the capeability to do so but it has yet to make one cent of profit….so why would google want it? this is the question i find myself asking right now…..

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At its core, the economic surge in India and China comes down to brains. The industries driving the region’s challenge to American leadership — communications, information technology, biotech and the like — can’t thrive without a steady supply of highly educated, intellectually flexible workers.This is where the United States is falling behind. “Most U.S. high school students don’t take advanced science; they opt out, with only one-quarter enrolling in physics, one-half in chemistry,” the National Science Foundation found. The National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century concluded that U.S. students were “devastatingly far” from leading the world in science and math.President Bush’s No Child Left Behind initiative put almost every imaginable part of the U.S. education system under a microscope, establishing national standards for teacher training, student testing and basic funding. But glaring in its omission from the program is any significant examination of that most basic of classroom tools, the textbook.

A textbook case of failure – Can America Compete? – MSNBC.com

After reading this article it comes to my realization that my senior class is the perfect example of what this article is talking about.  to be honest, if at all possible my classes numbers were worse than the ones in the article. Out of about 105 kids in my senior class only around 40 took physics.  yes i know this sounds totally rediculas but its true.  The sad part about this is all of the kids that didnt take physics were more than capable and had the opportunity.  This is where america seperates itself from other countrys….were lazy.  if you dont believe me just look around we are a nation that revolves around finding excuses not to be active.  we play videogames, watch movies, and do other nonintellectual things just to keep from having to apply ourselves to something that may take a little effort. this is why i think everyone should read this article and earch their soul to find out if they are really descibed in this article.

Brothers and keepers

upon reading the exerpt from brothers and keepers i have made the decition that i really dont like this piece. out of all of the pieces we have read i believe that this was the hardest for me to get through. i dont know if it was the fact that the writing was odd, or the fact that it was so long, but i just didnt enjoy this work as much as i liked the others.

in brothers and keepers there is a section that reads,”writing can be a means of knowing and being in the world. that kind writing requires self-examination, self-awareness, consciousness of the process of writing and reading.” this was the most interesting part of the story for me because i took this quote to mean that through writing people can find out who they really are and discover parts of themselves that they didnt know about. i have found that in my writings i sometimes find hidden feelings that i didnt know that i had, or maybe a hidden trait in my personality. i think this quote also means that writing can be used to find closer or be used as a way to cope with the stresses or problems that we face in everyday life. the later is what i believe the author is using. he used his writing to express his feelings when his brother was taken to jail. I have used this same means of expression many times so i can really relate to the feelings and means of expression of the author.

PS3 Fights for a Cure

he PS3′s chip is the same one IBM is using in a supercomputer it’s building for the Department of Energy. That computer is expected to reach speeds of one petaflop, or 1,000 trillion calculations per second. (Full story)”It has so much horsepower and, of course, when you’re playing a game all that horsepower will be used for the game. But there are a lot of times during the day when somebody’s not playing the game,” said Sony’s Richard Marks. “It seemed like a good idea to be able to use that horsepower for something else that is, in this case, good for mankind.”Sony worked with Stanford University’s Folding@home project to harness the PS3′s technology to help study how proteins are formed in the human body and how they sometimes form incorrectly.Improperly formed proteins are linked to a number of diseases, including Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, cystic fibrosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gherig’s disease, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, better known as mad-cow disease.”What you can imagine is that if a machine was assembled incorrectly, it can do damaging things,” said Vijay Pande, who runs the Stanford project. “You can imagine a car that’s screwed up and someone tries to drive it, then maybe it crashes into things and causing problems.”Proteins start out in the body as long strings of amino acids and have to assemble themselves into complex shapes — a process scientists call folding — before they can do anything. The challenge for scientists is that folding is difficult to observe because proteins are so small and the process is so fast — about 10 one-millionths of a second.

CNN.com – PlayStation’s serious side: Fighting disease – Sep 18, 2006

first of all i would like to say that this is infact one of the greatest and most interesting articles i have ever read.  Its amazing to me that a system that most people use for entertainment purposes could have such an impact in the world for a total different reason.  The ps3 is the newest thing in gaming.  it is set to hit stores during the holidays and should  pull in substancial profits even though it has to content with the Xbox 360 and the new nintendo system. being a playstation fan my whole life and owning both the models that have come out before this one i am expecting one under my tree.  it never ceases to amaze me that the same technology that could save so many lives, could be sitting in my living room being used to battle boredom…Playstation games have become so realistic that some games are borderline virtual reality.  Using the playstations technology to fight diseases and such things is an idea that hopefully will save many lives, as apposed to the many lives that are taken everyday in the games that are usually played upon this s