stupid items

I found an item called the sarcastic ball, it is a spoof from the magic eight ball. The magic eight ball gives answers to the questions you ask it, this ball not only doesn't answer your question, but it gives you attitude along with it. It has responses like "ask if I care" and "yeah right." There is no point to this ball; I'm sure they made it to make people laugh, but it's not even funny. Their selling point is "some of us need a little abuse now and then. If no one is there to dish it out, the sarcastic ball will do nicely." I always enjoy someone verbally abusing me.

Movie

I missed the beginning of the movie, so all I saw (remember) from the movie is that they put a band together, try out at a studio, they liked it, and the lead singer fell for the keyboard player. The movie was alright, I liked the songs that they played, they sounded good. Nothing really stood out about the movie though.

I think the movies are better than doing assignments in class, but I don't find the movies informative. It is nice to relax and watch a movie, but I feel like we watch them to just fill the time. They do not give insight to the next paper we are writing.

Toys

When I was a kid I loved to play with anything that you could pretend like they are fighting each other. The toys that I most liked to fight was with power rangers. I loved to get all the power ranger toys, the good and the bad, and have them fight. That's all I ever wanted for birthdays or Christmas. Anytime I blew out my candles on my cake or throw a coin into the wishing well, i would always wish that I had every power ranger toy. I don't know why I liked them over any other toy, but I didn't really play with other action figures. I don't believe my parents ever told me to stop playing with them, I just eventually became to old for them and went on to the next thing. My guess would be around the time that sports came into my life is when I stopped playing with them.

tv shows

I used to watch a lot of tv shows, any new reality show that looked interesting, and many sitcoms. But there is not much on anymore. I watch one show on a regular basis. I don't know if it's because the age I am at or what, but nothing seems to interest me anymore. One show I used to always watch, and still do when they have re-runs is "Friends". That is my favorite tv show. Anybody can like that show, doesn't matter if you are a guy or girl, old or young (not too young though). I just really liked the humor they used. It seems like in shows today, you can tell that they are trying to be funny, and in "Friends", the jokes just seemed to go smoother. It is hard to explain what I am trying to say, it just seemed more real in "Friends". I don't need to sell the show "Friends" to anybody, it was, and still is a very popular show, one of the best of all time.

emotion

There are not many things I get excited about, I have real high standards, for something to be great. But when I go to a Twins playoff game, I can not sit still. I am a huge twins fan and I go to a lot of games, but the playoffs are so different. Every seat in the stadium is fill, all of which are screaming and waving their homer hankies. Every pitch, every hit means something. If you get a run, if you give up a run, it is a very big deal. So I'm at this game and the twins are having a hard time scoring, they are down 2-0 in the 6th inning. Then Cuddyer comes up and hits a homerun, and I stand up and clap, but it is only one, we still need to get another. As we are still standing, the next pitch comes and Morneau crushes into the upper deck for another homerun. I have never had a better feeling than that. Now I am not someone who shows a lot of emotion, but I was jumping up and down, I was screaming, I felt great. The twins ended up losing the game and the series, but it was still a lot of fun.

Advertisements

I try not to watch ads, on tv, whenever I can, I flip through stations when it leaves for commercial. But when I do, I would say the ads don't effect me much. I never see an ad and say "I have to have that", maybe if a restaurant was having a good deal or something, but rarely. I don't like how advertising is taking over, they are everywhere now. Anywhere that you can fit an ad, it will be there. I heard that eventually all sports uniforms will have a company's ad or several company's somewhere that people will see it, and that just doesn't seem right. Someday schools will be named after a company. Will there ever come a time when enough is enough?

Obama/King

Some similar things between the two speeches is that they were both hard to read and very long. But they both focused on the struggle it has been for African-Americans previous to their speeches, and how they would like to change that for the future. Obama's focused more on his life, not just as a black man but a mixed man and how that was growing up. Being raised as a Muslim and then moving to Christianity later in life. How his pastor, at his local church, was very controversial in the fact that his sermons were very negative to the United States. But Obama still stands behind his pastor. He talked about not only helping the African-American group, but all different groups all over the world, because his family is so mixed.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech was more like a history lesson, comparing historical figures like Socrates, Hitler, or different reverends. Just comparing them to situations that African-Americans go through. Or historical events like the Boston Tea Party. He also mentioned that we need to improve the churches or America by capturing the sacrificial spirit of the early churches. And if we don't, people might turn to a different leader.
Both speeches are saying that they want to improve the life of the American-American people, we have come a long ways since Martin Luther King, Jr. made his speech, but there is still speeches for equal rights for blacks. Maybe not so much for equal rights, but just for respect, because their is still a lot of racist people in this world. And we have a long ways to go before we can eliminate that hatred, if we ever can.

Spring Break '08

Scott and three of his friends drove down to Panama City Beach, Florida. It was a 22-23 hours drive there, and the gang saw some interesting things on the way there. Whether it was going through Inna and Dickes, Illinois or the entire state of Alabama. Once they got to Florida the weather was very good, it was at least 60s and sunny everyday except for one. On days it was sunny, the gang hung out at the beach for about three hours, then came back to the room, got ready to go out to dinner, and then what ever the night had in stored. A couple nights we went to a club, one was a smaller club, but it had a cool foam party. Then the other was the biggest club in the United States (Club La Vela). Scott didn't really like that club much because it was too crowded. Then he jumped in the pool with his clothes on, but he forgot his cell phone was still in his pocket, and he broke it. All in all the gang had a good time and might do the same thing next year.

Family

My family contains myself, my parents and my brother. My parents are in their early 50s and they are both middle/high school teachers. My dad is in business and my mom is in FACS. My older brother, Brett 22, is going to school in Springfield, Missouri to earn his doctorite in Psychology. He is married to my sister-in-law Erica, whom we will go see on Thursday for Easter. We are a family that loves to travel, when Brett and I were at home, we would go on at least two vacations a year. One down to Texas, at Christmas where my grandma has a place, and then another the summertime. The summer trip can range anywhere around the country or Mexico. Now it is a little more difficult, but we still try to travel somewhere together.

paper

I know I am two and a half hours late, but I was driving home by three and I thought the dealine was at seven. Anyway, I want to write about how steroids is not bad for baseball. I started to reasearch it on Wednesday. I went into my floor's lounge, found a good article, and was in there for three hours. Problem is, I didn't get any work done. But I will get some information eventually, I just won't go to my lounge when I need to do work. My concerns with this paper is that I won't find enough information on how steroids is not bad. I could easily write on six page paper on my opinion, but finding others may be difficult. Considering everything out there on steroids is bad.

A modest proposal

The proposal will greatly lessen the number of papists, who are the most dangerous enemy. The poor tentants will receive something of value to help pay off their rent, food or cattle. The nations stock will increase 50,000 pounds per annum. Bring great customs to taverns, which they can then fix up anything that needs to be dealt with. And then protecting women, because they are the carriers of our children. Then they want their children to get big so they can sell them? I am not really sure, it was hard to understand the reading.

movie

I thought it was a real courageous for Woody Harrleson to go out and help the world by teaching people what they should do. He was doing all of this voluntarily, he wasn't making millions of dollars to do this, he took time out of his life to help the world. As for the things they were talking about, I wouldn't say I disagree with them, I just would never do that. They rode their bikes, presumably to help the environment by not polluting the gas. But they still took a big tour bus and a trailer behind it, that would waste a lot of gas. Then they said we should drink milk, because it is full of blood and puss, it is good for you though. And it's not like we are hurting the cows by taking some of their milk. I would never stop drinking milk, life ain't worth living without milk. And, of course, they don't want you to eat meat, to save the animals. Which is good, but you don't need to eliminate them from your diet, just limit it. That is another thing I would never give up, it's just too good.

Movie

My Name

I don't know why my parents picked the name Scott. It is a bad name, and I do not like it. It's not ketchy, it doesn't have any cool sounds, it just kind of ends. My Uncle's middle name is Scott, so there is a place where they thought of the name Scott. The name Scott means happy-go-lucky. I don't know if I have been lucky in life. I still have my health and the people around me have theirs as well. So I haven't had anything bad happen to me, so that is pretty lucky I guess. Maybe later in my life I will get lucky and win a lot of money.

Library paper

At the library visit, I learned where, on the internet I can find about my topic. There is hundreds of articles in time magazine that she showed me. There was also another website we can go to that I haven't taken a look yet, but probably will. She also showed me where I can find information from books, in the library. She showed me where to find them then we looked through some of the books to find where it talks about my topic.

I am glad I finally have the topic out of the way, that is usually the toughest part. Now I have to get all the information, from a lot of different sources. Then once I have everything, that's when it starts to get tough. I never know how to start a paper. I have all of this information, but I don't know what should go when and how. But once I get that first paragraph over with, it is smooth sailing the rest of the way.

Cold

When the weather gets real cold, it doesn't seem to change the way I act. It doesn't matter if it's -10 or 60, I am still going to wear a t-shirt and jeans. Now if it's -10 I will wear the heaviest coat I own, and if it's 60 I might wear a sweatshirt or light jacket. I would also wear something that covers my head in -10 weather. In the fall, I walked over to Mcelroy dorms every day, and now since I have comeback form break, I have driven over. The coldness doesn't affect my decision to do something, just the way I do it. All-in-all, I hate the cold. I don't even like the snow anymore. I wish it was warm and sunny.

"Mr. Roboto" by Styx

It was warm summers night and my family and I were just driving back home from the cities. My brother was driving, so we had to listen to all of his songs on his mp3 player. Most of the songs were just this hard rap music. Song after song, all we would hear is this fast past, high base, mumbling of songs. And then it came on. The coolest sounding song I had ever heard. This song is not like any other song you here on the radio, partially because the song is from the 80s and you don't here that kind of music anymore. But mainly because it is from the band Styx, the best band I have ever heard, and I have heard a lot of music. I can't even describe the sound, frankly because I don't know how they get that sound. But it sounded futuristic, like it was robots talking some of the time, hence the name "Mr. Roboto. After I was done listening to this masterpiece, I stopped and thought, what just happen? What was that, I need to listen to it again. Now I usually have to listen to a song about five times before I start to like, but this one was different.

The first, I would say 10 times I listened to this song I got goosebumps all up and down my arm. It was at the same part too, the climax of the song. But I had a tough time finding the song because I was young and didn't know how to surf the internet. Then one day while in my dad's car I found a CD. "Styx Greatest Hits", I will never forget the day, June 30, 2004. I was sitting in the parking lot waiting to see Spiderman 2. I turned right to "Mr. Roboto" and couldn't help but smile. Then I stole that CD from my dad and he hasn't seen it sense.

Favorite Place

I am sitting in a hard chair, my shoes are sticking to the ground, it smells like hot dogs and beer, and there is 56,000 people around me screaming. It sounds like heaven to me. This place is sitting in the Metrodome in at a Twins playoff game. Nothing in the world is more exciting, your up your down, you don't know what to do with yourself. When the game is going well, there is nothing better in the world, it gets so loud in the dome my ears are ringing and I love every second of it. I get goosebumps all over my body because you can't believe how great this is. But when the game is not going well, there is not much worse in the world. I feel helpless, I would rather go to English class (just kidding). But the downs are good because that makes the ups feel so much better.