Last Blog

Ah, the last blog, how it's been so long since I've had a dream of this day. Blog's have never been too hard to write, it has just been a tedious task to remember everyday. I'm glad it's over, but this was definitely a simple and easy way to boost students grades, especially if you keep up instead of doing everything last minute lie I always do. Anyways, I definitely gained a little from blogging so it was not entirely purposeless. Writing about things that happen in my life and in the world is a lot more fun than writing about Shakespeare. Well, goodbye blog. I won't miss you at all.

Online

Online homework just may be the death of me. I miss homework assignments that were handed out to us during class. With a hard copy of the homework, everyone knows exactly what is due, instead of just guessing how to work the online program. Granted, blogger is pretty simple, but this like Aplia, which i need to use for macro economics, is quite confusing. And I feel like the stuff we do on Aplia relates to nothing we do in class. I don't know, it's just very different than a piece of paper and harder to do.

QT

Quentin Tarentino, known as one of the more crazy directors, has put out some of the greatest movies I have ever seen. Recently, Inglorious Basterd's has jumped into my top list, but it has joined greats like Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction. All these movies are very violent and confusing, and my favorite part is how they never talk about anything in any of his movies; its all just action. This keeps the viewer interested in what is about to happen next. I'm obviously a big fan, but there are some that hate his stuff, I just don't see why you can hate the uniqueness of it.

Counting down

Only four more Blogs to go. The thing on my homepage of blogger said I had 63 posts, so I got really excited and thought I was done after this, but then I looked on my page and it said a different number. Not sure exactly how many I have, but I guess I'll do more just in case. Originally, in this process, I took blogging very seriously and put links in and tried to copy my favorite blogger, Mark Titus, as well as I could. This failed and I gave up on doing it every day because I realized I was getting 0 views, compared to Mark's 1,889,069. Makes me feel like a baby.

Olympic Logo

The 2012 Olympic symbol might be the worst thing I have ever seen. Symbols in this century are usually so crazy and unique and cool that something as big as the Olympics should have hired a company to make it better than what it is now. It really looks like a few scraps of paper left over after a kinder gardener used scissors for the first time. And, there are news reports that it is triggering epilepsy. Not only is it a danger to everyone making fun of it, but also a health risk to people with a disease. This needs to be changed.

Blog Suggestions

To talk about this whole blogging process, I feel like they should be graded differently. If you really wanted people to blog everyday, you should make it graded on a weekly basis. Also, I think students should be forced to read other blogs; even leave comments on their peer's work. This would force people to put more thought and effort into them every night and would work better for everyone. Writing 30 blogs on the last night isn't helping anyone but me catch back up because I know no one will really read this.

Teeth

Retainers are the most frustrating things to wear. They definitely don't work as well as they should. I'm pretty convinced that my teeth would stay right where they are now without them, but I continue to put them in every night to make sure. They hurt my teeth and definitely affect my sleep even more than it should be. When I'm having trouble sleeping, I'll pop them right out and fall fast asleep. I think there should be a new, more comfortable way to keep teeth straight. Maybe I'll invent it someday.

Night Time Studying

Sleep deprivation could be the one most common thing in my life. I talked earlier about how I believe humans kinda survive with much less sleep, and I completely stick to that point. I have gotten very little sleep over the past weekish and I'm doing just fine. I have had a lot of work to do lately, so staying up way past when I should be going to sleep is definitely nothing new to me. But this is the best time for me to do work; when I'm the only one awake and in the dark. I don't know why, but this is the only time I can really find to sit down and do a lot of work. The library just doesn't help me.

Barstool

Barstoolsports.com, although it's another not very appropriate website to put on my English blog, is quite another funny website. Worse than Phil DeFranco, but not as bad as the bro site, "the Stool" goes over anything that is Boston or Boston-area sports. Half the articles are about how the Yankee's suck, and the other half is pictures of half-naked women. I guess this would attract any guy in Boston, or New England for that matter, so the marketing scheme definitely paid off. All the prez has to do now is find more pictures of girls and he'll always be making money.

00:01

Clocks that aren't set back to the timing being displayed might be my biggest pet peeve. I don't know why, but if there is a microwave that still has seconds displayed on it and not the time, I freak out. Yeah, I'm a little weird, but it's not a big deal. Other things I can't handle is when cable boxes always have the channel on display instead of the time. No one needs to know the channel that much. The time is just so much more useful than anything else and I usually have to fix it at other peoples houses it bothers me so much.

Superlatives

UNH is ranked in the top 25 in three categories on thepricetonreview.com. These three categories are Little Race/Class Interaction (#3), Most Beer (#2), and Town-Gown Relation are Strained (#6). For the first one, I guess I can understand that. I know we are in the top 5 for least amount of diversity, but I guess they don't give out categories for that, unless this is it. Most beer. Really? I would never have guessed that... Haven't seen alcohol on campus at all... And Town-Gown Relationships? Does Durham really not like us? I don't know much about Durham besides around campus, but it seems like a friendly place.

Good Parties

My mom sent me a care package over the weekend. It was filled with a random selection of food that I don't think my mom has ever got in her life. I asked why she changed what shes bought as soon as i leave the house, and she said that only half the stuff was hers. The other half came from a "care package party" a friends mother had. Really? A care package party? I understand that mothers want to look out for their children at college, but do you need a party for that? At least just don't give it the label of a party, because i think this could be the only thing worse than a tea party.

Internet

The invention of the internet has not only been one of the biggest advancements in technology of my time, but also the biggest advancement in procrastination. I have learned throughout my years of late night homeworks that you can find anything you want to find, and more of what you don't want to find, on the internet. I truly believe I work better when it's late at night or close to deadlines because before then, work doesn't mean as much to me. This causes more problems than it solves though because I'm also easily distracted by that FaceBook tab on the top of my screen.

Family Guy

Family Guy is one of my favorite shows. The witty comments and hilarious scenes never get old. My favorite kind of humor in the show is when they overplay something way past the point of it being funny, so it gets even funnier. For instance, all the chicken fights. They are so funny. And when Peter falls and scrapes his knee and then lays on the ground in pain for at least 5 minutes. Also, when they talk about something that could be said two different ways. There is one episode where a doctor says something about Peter being sick, but it always turns out to be about something else.

Badvent Calenders

Why do advent calenders count to December 25th? My roommate pointed out that they should actually countdown. I feel like this would be more purposeful to see how many days there are until the big man in red comes than to see the date of today. I want to see how many days there are left until all the presents come. Also, I usually get a cardboard advent calender with just little chocolates in them. This year, my mother bought me a big wooden one and put different things in every day. This is much more exciting because I get real chocolate and other cool things like little pictures rather than bad chocolate.

Ice T vs. Soulja Boi

I'm switching off from blogging and YouTubing, so I found a video of Ice T (the legend) making fun of Soulja Boi (the worst). Ice T is one of the greatest rappers to ever live, and Soulja Boi kills the game song after song. Ice T is completely right in saying that Soulja Boi is ruining the game. Soulja Boi came back with YouTube video calling Ice T old and saying that he doesn't meant anything anymore because he was born in the 1950's. Yeah, that is pretty old, but respect your elders you little boy. Don't talk trash to one of the greatest ever. This is just going to his head and I really don't like Soulja Boi

Nellyville

Where has Nelly gone? I just through on his Country Grammar CD which has been in the closet for a while. Not the best rapper ever, but I like a few of his songs. Country Grammar and Ride Wit Me were classics back in the day, but I got sick of his whole band aid under the eye and grills real fast. He did have some pretty sweet music videos though. Dye his hair silver, and he'd look just like the great Sisqo himself. Everyone remembers Sisqo from the thong song. Great one hit wonder. Speaking of OHW, Daniel Powter won "One Hit Wonder" of the year. Not sure how great of an award that is...

the Philip DeFranco Show

I have recently been following Philip DeFranco on YouTube. DeFranco does a show every Monday through Thursday about things that happen everyday. He takes the common news, and adds a funny twist to it. He also has a Question of the Day which are usually pretty funny. The shows are only about 3-4 minutes (which he says in the intro) and can't take longer than an hour to make, so I looked up how much he makes a year. $250,000 a year. That's pretty crazy if you ask me for a guy to make a year on just YouTube videos.

Bro's Like This Blog

Continuing on with the bro theme, my friend found me this great site; www.broslikethissite.com. Granted, I don't follow this and I don't consider myself a bro, I think it's hilarious to read the stupid things this guy writes about. Anything from Drunk Driving to Halloween to having a Designated Obnoxious Fat Friend (DOFF). This site is just filled with complete nonsense. If it's not talking about something illegal, then its taking about something socially unacceptable. I haven't fully explored this site yet, but everything I've read has only made me stupider and made me hate "bro's" even more than I used to.

Big Joe

Joe Rogan is one of the most legendary bro's of our time. He has been in many films and television shows and has absolutely no talent what so ever. He was born as the comedic host of MadTv in 1996, and then continued to be the host of UFC. Joe's popularity grew with the sport, so he went to other TV shows, including: The Weakest Link, Howard Stern, and The Tonight Show. This was nothing compared to the job he scored as the host of three of the greatest shows on late night TV: Fear Factor, The Man Show, and Girls Gone Wild. Anything Mr. Rogan has ever been in has just gone gold, besides "Joe Rogan and Talking Monkeys in Space." Never heard of that one.

Dorm Sports

Growing up with friends with older brothers, I heard so many stories of "dorm sports." These games are any type of sport a collegiate student can think of that can be played in a hall way. I have yet to see any done in my hallway, and its quite disappointing to me. I might start a game next semester, once quiet hours and finals are over. There are cautions when playing. One of my friends brothers were participating in a friendly game of hallway football when the ball struck the fire extinguisher knob and set off all the sprinklers in the hall way and on his floor. This caused massive amounts of damages, but he was not fined. I'm not sure how he got away with that one.

Wayne

Wayne Gretzky Hockey is now officially the greatest game I have ever played. Completely goes along with the simplicity of the other games. There's only 3 offenders per team, with a goalie. The goalie pretty much does nothing but get out of the way of the puck, so the game usually ends at around 9-8. It is also impossible to pull away and take a commanding lead. Once the human goes up by more than 1, the computer immediately scores a crazy goal. I kind of like this, because it makes it a closer game. It's also really hard to win, so me and my roommate have been playing on the same team for the past few games.

THPS

The first game I decided to play on N64 is Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1. The first game in a legacy of Tony Hawk video games that have grossed millions of dollars. It is up there with legends such as Halo and Super Mario for best game series. The game play is unmatched, especially for it's time. It was the first ever skateboard video game and brought an entirely new look at what developers can do with technology. It changed gaming for life and is still one of my favorite games.

N64

My roommate just brought up his old Nintendo 64 and we've been playing all night. Gotta say, these games are still better than some of the ones that are coming out now. The simple game play is exactly what i love the most. Newer games have obviously better graphics and online play, but this system is pretty good for coming out in 1996. With so many classic games, I don't know why I ever stopped playing. I'm just glad it's back in action, and won't be unplugged unless it's to play Assassin's Creed II.

Puck

I've never been much of a hockey fan until this year. My high school team wasn't good at all (1-18-1), so it was hard to be a fan of the sport. Watching UNH play has really changed my opinion of the game though. And my roommate is from Canada so, naturally, all he watches is hockey. Being from the Boston area, I guess I'll cheer for the Bruin's. My roommate is a Toronto Maple Leaf's fan and knows everything about the game, so I'm learning a little more every game.

Thoughtless

Thinking of things to blog about is getting kind of hard. I mean, I've talked about everything sitting around my desk and all the things that just pop into my mind. I've run out of options so I decided to talk about not knowing of what to talk about. And I still can't even write enough to make this blog even count. Being a business major, I've never been the best at writing papers. So thinking of one hundred words to fill out this box isn't so easy.

Goodmorning Class

In a recent post of mine I discussed the use of sleep and how it is highly overused in the world. This point has been proven correct. This entire week, I have yet to sleep more than 3 hours in one night and I'm honestly still fine. Yes, it is 6:42 am and no, I didn't wake up early. I actually never went to sleep tonight (unexplainable reasons). Even though I occasionally feel like I'm in a dream and I did fall asleep while walking the other morning, I believe humans can and should use their time doing more productive things than sleep. Example: I'm about to work on my paper instead of taking a "night time nap."

J. Matthew Osten

People spend a lot of time perfecting their signatures. But for me, I'm pretty sure it changes every time. I don't know why I have such a lack of care towards this, especially since it's a very serious and personal thing. A signature is just as important as someone's word. People make life or death decisions that are finalized by their names. A simple ink mark on a treasured ball can mean more than anything to a lucky fan. Your signature is something you are known by. Maybe I'll work on mine.

Soda Cooler Talk

The great debate of soft drinks has finally been solved: Coca-Cola is by far better than Pepsi. I mean, the crisp taste is just superior to the Pepsi brand. I understand all of you that say you think Pepsi is better, but you're just wrong. Dive into a bottle or can or cub, or 2-liter if you're really that thirsty, and you'll know what I mean. The only thing holding back the "double C's" from making Pepsi obsolete is it's diet side. Diet Pepsi may just be a tiny bit better than the real Coke's version, but who drinks diet soda anyways?

Paper Jesus

Last class got me thinking about the new age of reading. With almost everything in life available online, we still have so many books. So how do we get books on the internet? The way to do it now is just scan it on and the image will be there, but there are problems with this. First of all, the print is very difficult to read. All the online stories and articles for this class have been small letters and strained my eyes to read. This is not the one who scans the papers fault, but rather the internet's. Maybe this is like as if we are going against the God's of paperbacks, and will just never put a book successfully online.