Friday, March 25, 2011
A lot of things are mass produced. And when i say a lot, i mean like millions of millions of different produced things. There are computers, paper, pencils, glasses, tables, chairs, shoes, pants, shirts, shoes, socks, jackets, doors, houses, microscopes, hats, posters, fire extinguishers, beds, sheets, pillows, drawers, sidewalks, backpacks, binders, folders, tape, scissors, baseballs, baseball bats, ANNNNDDD packaging for everything I just mentioned and more. Okay, lets say everybody on the planet has one shirt. That means there are over 6 billion shirts on the planet. I cant even imagine what a pile of 6 billion shirts would look like. Now, imaginne that for apnts, socks, shoes and more. The amount of things just on the planet is so crazy insane. and this is what i think about in my spare time.
So my friend Jake is running a marathon. Also, my biology teacher runs marathons on a very regular basis. i cannot understand how someone can run 26.2 miles. Twenty six point two miles. I thought a 5k race was intensely long. I was pushing my body pretty far to run that far for cross country. I cannot understand how ones body can be capable of running that far. Also, the mental capabilities of a person that can run that far. How can they not think theirselves our of running that far? I'm totally going to run a marathon when I'm older. Mr. Wilcox, you might have to remind me senior year. But I totally will.
Have you ever really thought about light waves? Well, apparently, light waves are both waves, particles of photons, not to mention alternating electric and magnetic fields. Which can also act as waves. Which enter our eyes at different speeds and lengths, and are therefor interpreted into colors and shapes. this is done by the focusing lens in our eye and is focused into rods and cones which see different kinds of light. Nothing by itself truly has color, we simply see it as the color it does not absorb but rather reflects. There is not such thing as color. Color is simply the wavelengths of light. Thsts just the variance of the lengths from the troughs to the crests in the wave form of light. Which means light decides everything of how we see everything. If there was no light, nothing would have color, or appearance, or anything. And light is just alternating fields of electricity and magnetism. This. Totally. Blows. My. Mind.
And on that note, Ill just make a blog discussing my weaknesses, to show that I'm not a total hypocrite. Well, for starters, I am an extremely cynical. For all the times I've been told not to judge people, I still do. Whether or not your outfit is school appropriate, how you do on a test, not to mention how you hair looks today. Of course, normally what I judge reflects my own insecurities, so, take that as you will. Another thing about me is that I'm extraordinarily lazy. and I never really do anything unless I absolutely have to. Thus, I procrastinate. A lot. Hence doing these blogs really late. Still, I get pretty good grades for doing everything last second. I don't really know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Furthermore, I'm pretty extremely over dramatic. I'll overreact to most any situation. Mostly I do it for humor's sake, but still, I'm a regular ol' drama queen. And finally, I have a gigantic ego. I think I am pretty awesome. I'm constantly proved wrong.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Another common thing of human behaviour is the inability to admit weaknesses. Funny thing is, it's one of the most common questions asked in an interview for just about any position. Funny thing is is that most people use this question as an excuse to remask one of their strengths as a weakness, and just make themselves look better instead of actually admitting a weakness that they do have. Another thing is, people don't want to admit what they're bad at. Only problem is, is that once you admit what you are bad at you can work to improve yourself. It's the first step of just about every rehab program, and probably the biggest too, is admitting you have a problem. Of course, no one wants to accept, let alone admit that they aren't as good as they make themselves out to be. I mean, being proud of yourself is an essential part of your self esteem.
So, in my life, all electronic screens seem to malfuction and break. So far, i have lost about 5 phones, a gameboy, a psp, and now my school issued laaptop is on the fritz. It got me thinking though, that even though that electronic screens unnaturally break in my presence, this has nothing to do with "fate" or how according to my mother, "broken screens just seem to love me". Im just really clumsy and drop all of my things. Therefore they break. I feel like Sherlock Holmes. Anyways, I always felt that the whole, "oh, ______ just seems to love you" is a really lame and unintelligent way of describing what happens to people. Shouldn't we strive for the the truth and try to figure out why things break when we own them, why we always seem to drive up to a red light, or why we get bad test grades, instead of just saying, oh, well thats the way it is. This esspecially bothers me with people that just say that they are bad at a certain type of test and that's why they failed, not because they didn't know the material. Just because you may be filling in bubbles or writing out a response, doesn't mean that you can say that you failed due to the difference between the types. People just don't know the material of what they are being tested over and refuse to admit it.
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