Another Bitchfest

The COLL presentation went better than I thought it would. Our presentation was still shitty cause the others were complete morons, but the other groups set the par so low our badness was actually a couple of notches above all the other groups today. The first group was a bunch of kids doing lowering the drinking age. These guys weren't bad and aside from a technical issue with their videos I'd say they were pretty solid. Next was a group about sex ed. I don't really know what their stance on the issue was b/c one girl was saying that teaching abstinence was the best way, the next girl said... something, I don't really know, the con side of their argument was a bunch of stories and then the guy literally saying "That's crazy." The last guy was also con and I really don't know what he was saying either, he just kinda rambled off some statistics and then said he was done. The funniest part was that their thing was just the four of them reading off of cards, they couldn't even manage to make a power point between themselves, which lead to theirs being the dullest thing I've seen in a long, long time. Next we were up, and even though it was short we had some good points and it sparked some decent discussion. The last group was about legalizing marijuana, and even though they had some valid points on the legalization, they didn't have any kind of debate at all. Most of it was just statistics about what happens to you and then at the very end they said some negative things but I don't even know what they were b/c they didn't have a slide or anything. The thing that bothered me the most was the prof was saying how medical marijuana wasn't a good idea b/c it should be up to the FDA not voters on what constitutes medicine. The problem with that reasoning is that the FDA hasn't said that marijuana doesn't have medical purposes, in fact they haven't said anything b/c they don't test it, they just stick their thumbs in their ears and wag their tongues at the idea of marijuana. The federal government had 15 medical marijuana test subjects in the 70s and then never asked them how the treatment was working for them. I don't know about you, but that doesn't seem to be a valid way to decide on a drug that could potentially help millions of people. This has kinda turned into me talking about drug legalization, which is a whole nother blog topic. I think I'm gonna end it here.

You Can't Do That, It's Wrong

Bleh, I've actually been doing homework for the last couple nights, what a fucking drag! Now, I know what you're thinking, and really, it wasn't all bad. I had some quality day dreaming and forum posting in between and some delicious beer that made the time go a little bit quicker, but other than that being at home has been dull city the last few days. The biggest project I've worked on was our WaterWorld game for GSP240. It was fun but painful at the same time. It's a group project, but my partner wasn't exactly involved with the whole thing. It wasn't his fault as I kinda took it upon myself to do it, and the parts I asked him to do he did perfectly, I just wanted more creative control over it, I guess. In class today I managed to completely finish the project I've got due Tuesday for GSP220, which turned out fucking excellent. We've been learning how to apply matrices to transform points and I really didn't understand the point to it all, but the prof gave us a sort of test bed with some objects and we had to manipulate them in various ways and the result turned out way cool. After the short stint I had as a construction worker I had a real fondness for working with my hands, being able to look at the result at the end was a great feeling. I can confidently say that typing in code and watching a world come to life is exactly the same feeling. Programming is awesome. On the neg side, I just finished a rather craptastic PowerPoint for my oh-so-dull COLL148 class. I predict we'll be the second or third worst group, cause there's some total fucking morons in that class. The entire project was done by me b/c the two other people in my group can't handle the most basic of instructions. Now this would usually lead to a pretty satisfactory presentation, however, I just didn't give half a shit about it. I mean, it's a totally bullshit class that's designed for them to squeeze just a little more money out of you. The prof is clueless and I'm pretty sure that we'll get a pretty good grade regardless of the shitpile that is our project. The only upside to it was getting to really work with office '07, which rocks. I think that's about all for now, gotta get up early and present tomorrow >.<

EDIT: Wow, that was long as hell and I didn't even get to the point of the title and Faith-in-Buffy pic that I chose. The topic for our presentation is abortion and all of the "pro-life" reasons have to deal with how abortion is murder and blah blah blah. The whole time I was typing that out I just kept thinking about Faith mockingly saying, "You can't do that, because it's wrong!"

The Long Way Home

I finally got the trade paperback for the first Buffy Season 8 arc titled, The Long Way Home, and reading it all over again was even better than reading it the first time. Yeah, I've got all the single issues, but I didn't wanna take them out of their shrine to reread them. There were a couple things that I didn't realize at the time or just plain forgot, b/c they did start coming out a year ago. One thing was that Buffy thought Twilight's symbol was "a beautiful sunset" and issue #11 where she actually fought Twilight was called A Beautiful Sunset. Also in issue #11 they reveal that Satsu was the one that gave Buffy the kiss of true love; however, when Buffy wakes up she says she has a funny feeling on her mouth and then yells "Cinnamon buns" when she wakes up. In the next issue she points out that Satsu's lip gloss is cinnamon flavored, reveal much? Anyway, I just thought I'd blog about that b/c Season 8 is the greatest thing ever and I loved rereading all of it, instead of doing my homework, of course.

Crastination Skill Level: Pro

Why is it that whenever I've got a lot to do I always get distracted and can't focus on it?

Scientology

Scientology is way awesome. Friends and I have always said that we should start a religion, but now I'm really serious. Look at Scientology, Mormons, the many, many cults out there, and of course good old Christianity, if those schleps can pull it off then I'm sure that I can get famous people to give me their money. Apparently L. Ron Hubbard had a really in depth documentation for all of it, so maybe that's the key. I just need to make a super detailed story and then tell people that it's real and that they need to pay to find out more about themselves and their god. This is gonna be sweet!