A new feature
As most of my loyal readers know -and newcomers shortly learn; I love good quotes. In order to keep up with more postings and combine more of my photo life with my blog life I’ll start posting my own photographs with quotes I enjoy alongside them.
Short and small posts…but hopefully something worth adding to the content that is “moi’s blog”. After taking about 600 pictures within the past 8 weeks…I thought there might be some validity to adding more photos. Besides, everyone loves pictures!
Cheers.
Success with G8
African Aid Is Doubled By G-8: “African Aid Is Doubled By G-8
Anti-Terror Solidarity Helps Blair Win Deal”
Per ONE.org
Thank YOU!
10 million people alive by 2010, saved from malaria, from death by a mosquito bite. That’s just one part of this. $25 billion for Africa. To the 1.4 million people who joined ONE. To the million people who turned up at the museum in Philly: You did that!
Changes are coming
For all news related to Live 8 and its progress please visit: MTV – Live 8 Coverage, Reuters – Live 8 coverage, the Live 8 site and ONE.org.
Don’t know what the G8 Summit is? See the official G8 websiteand learn about what’s going on in the world. :)
International White Band Day
July 1 – International White Band Day. Please support the effort!! Are your wearing your white band? I am.
“Hope doesn’t come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It’s simply a choice to take action.”
– Anna Lappe
Today is the day we find out where the U.S. stands on global poverty. What will be the outcome? Nelson Mandela thinks we can be “The Great Generation”. Will George Bush agree with over 280,000 Americans that signed the letter?
Will he hear the voices of nearly one million Americans that have joined the One Campaign?
“It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.”
– Robert H. Goddard
It’s not too late to join the One Campaign. It’s not too late to tell your friends. It’s not too late to tell your family. It’s not too late to tell the world we need to help end poverty.
“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”
– Thomas Paine
Some people are slow
Now what I am about to say is a total and complete rant like no other. I vented about this last night and it’s really not that big of a deal; so I’ll add some humor and I’ll indulge the story a little to make it more fun. :)
The first semester of school came to a close last week and I had a few days off before hell starts in my life. Hell being: class Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights. Work is from 8am – 5pm and class from 6:30pm-9:30pm … it takes me about 35-45 minutes to get home from work and 10 minutes to get to school from home. Day one of hell was last night … little did I know how “interesting” this class was about to be.
So let’s just get to the meat of the story. The teacher is reviewing the course syllabus and guidelines, typical first day. The assignments can be done in the lab, the lab is located down the hall…he’ll stay as long as the lab is open to help the students. He also says that most of the people that go to the lab will get their assignment done that night in the lab…you are not required to do your work in the lab, but it has to be submitted to him online when you turn it in. He [teacher] says that homework assigned Monday is due by midnight Tuesday and homework assigned Wednesday is due by midnight Thursday.
–PAUSE–
Right here my wheels start to spin and I really want to ask a question, but I do NOT want to be “that guy” within the first 5 minutes of the first class. I wait, but no one asks a question. I don’t want to ask what’s on my mind because I know I will regret it, but I have to know; the answer isn’t worrying me, it’s just asking the question … continuing on …
So no one asks a question and the teacher continues to the next topic, test or grades … I don’t honestly know because I can’t figure out why out 45-50 college kids that are supposed to be in their 3rd or 4rth year of school it just so happens that I am the only one with a question. I hate these moments. I know what it’s going to come down to: I have to ask. I KNOW there is at least one other person in class that has to be thinking what I am thinking …
The moment of truth arrives and I am not happy to go for the sacrifice.
teacher: Are there any questions?
me: [hand up, called on] Yes, um I don’t want to be a stickler or over technical here, but …
t: [smiles] no no! Please ask!
me: Well you said the assignments for Monday are due by midnight Tuesday …
t: yes
me: well when you say midnight do you mean a few hours after class or // cut off
t: no I mean midnight.
–PAUSE–
This is a common mistake that everyone makes, I even make this mistake. However, it is FACT that midnight is the first moment of the day. 11:59 pm is the previous day and midnight is the next day. At this moment I know the teacher is a smart guy so I want to give him the opportunity to clarify and make it look like I am just a typical confused student and not a smartass … while he can look like he just made a little mistake. That’s all it is, a little mistake.
me: right, but midnight is in the morning
teacher AND 20 students in class: no midnight is at night
[dirty looks from students and snickering]
–PAUSE–
Now I’m pissed. Apparently even with the benefit of the doubt, my fellow students are all on the same “I’m a f**king moron” bandwagon. At this point I should shut up, but now I’m torqued and I am going to prove my point that half of my class is a bunch of morons and I can’t believe that more idiotic people are going into the business world.
me: [embarrassed and turning red] midnight is at night; midnight Tuesday is between 3 and 4 hours after class on Monday. Do we have 3 hours to do the assignment or 26 hours?
CLASS: NO! Noooooooo …
teacher: No, midnight Tuesday… //cut off…yup I cut him off
me: You mean, assigned homework on Monday’s class is due Tuesday by 11:59 pm. There is a difference between midnight and 11:59 pm
t: [smile] well yea, midnight Tuesday so you have a full day … well a day and a 1/4 of a day.
me: Right. 11:59pm Tuesday and 11:59pm Thursday — not midnight. okay, I just wanted to make sure.
t: fine.
So at this point half of the class still thinks I am the moron when really I’ve just asked a question and crucified myself over a mistake the teacher made. His comment about the lab and getting the work done in the lab vs. going home to finish it gave his comment about it being due at midnight validity – and I didn’t care if I only had 3 hours. I just wanted to make sure I didn’t head home and do other homework when I really needed to do that class’ homework. Is that so bad? Next time I’ll just wait until after class and be the only one with the right answer …
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Scorpio – InfoSpace
Interesting…with all the pictures I have been taking one might think that they got this one right for a change. I have been having a blast with the camera lately…I spent part of the day at a local nursery taking pictures and trying to get used to the color settings. I got a few awesome shots too! I mean I don’t think I am spotting a new career opportunity; but I am enjoying the hobby.
“Creativity shouldn’t be confined. Creativity can — and should — come into play in every single aspect of your life. What can you do to make sure that you give your imagination space to live and grow? Be playful, be open and be free. If necessary, get yourself to a playground and play on the swings for a few minutes. That feeling as you’re soaring through the air? That’s the kind of thing that will stimulate your imagination post-haste.”
Daily Horoscope: Scorpio – InfoSpace
.: the babbling dweeb :. 