Wednesday, April 30, 2008

weird things on Ebay

I found a few diffferent people selling coupons for cat food and dog food. the coupons were for $1 off the selected item and were sold in packs of 20. that had to be the weirdest items i could find. the next weird thing i found was the glass insulators from the top of the electric poles that the wires are attached to. those were the only weird things i could find in the time we had.

Links:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Insulator-CD-145-H-G-CO-Petticoat-Weird-Base-Molding_W0QQitemZ300218972799QQihZ020QQcategoryZ795QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Monday, April 28, 2008

The film "Once"

It was a very interesting movie. It had very good music and it told the story without someone telling the story. It tells a very good story. It used images and scenes to try and put us in his place. There is not much else i can say about the movie or the use of visual media.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Favorite Toy

I never really had a favorite toy or game. I had a few toys that I liked to play with, but I never chose one as a favorite. I don't like designating something as a favorite. Most of the time I never even thought of taking favorites with anything. Favorites to me are a way of saying one thing is better than everything else. Everything has some good qualities and some bad qualities. So I like to accept things for what they are and not try to say one thing is better than others.

Monday, April 14, 2008

Tv Shows

There really is nothing good on television. If you want a good entertainment option, go pick up a good book. Television in this current age has been reduced to shows that feature specific characters that get into a lot of random situations. The situations hold no significance to any other episode in the series. Even if there is a coherent story line, the acting is terrible. Over all you'd be better off with a good book. A good book will actually make you work a little to get the info. Television on the other had is only good if your looking for a mindless activity to fall asleep to.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Extreme Emotions

I can't think of any real moments in my life when i had experienced any kind of extreme emotion.i usually keep my emotions under control, which sometimes doesn't turn out to be a good thing sometimes.

Monday, April 7, 2008

Perspective on Ads

I don't really pay attention to any kinds of advertising. One of the reasons I don't watch ads is because i don't watch TV. I like to ignore ads in newspapers and online, unless I'm looking for something. the only newspaper ads i like to read are the help wanted ads and the for sale ads in the clasifieds. Other than those few, ads are really annoying.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Obama Vs. MLK

The speech by Barack Obama started out very well. It stated what it was going to argue about, and then it continued to tell why. Then about halfway through the speech he breaks into a story that seems to have nothing to do with what he was talking about. The story continues for about 8 paragraphs that would lose anyone who wasn’t a political speaker. It lost me after 2 paragraphs and I had to go back and reread the three paragraphs before the story to find out the basics of what he was talking about. After the story he tries to go back to what he was originally talking about and link it to the story, but didn’t succeed. Overall, I couldn’t tell what Barack Obama was even arguing for or against. Half the time I didn’t know what he was talking about.
The speech by MLK was a very good speech. It started out with him explaining where he was and a brief explanation as to why he is there, he brings in a story but limits it to about one paragraph. By limiting it to one paragraph he made sure people wouldn’t get bored with it and that people still got the basics of what was going on. After that he begins to argue his case. To argue his case he put in facts, and other short stories that support that part of the argument. At no point in the speech did I lose interest or not understand what he was trying to get across.
Over all the story in Obamas speech and the lack of apparent links between the story and the argument, were the major downfalls of that speech. There was also no well defined argument. The short stories and well explained links made the MLK speech very interesting and strong.