Est-ce Que 你 Sabes Multiple Languages? November 4, 2009
Posted by Jacky in Everything Else.Tags: abroad, benefits, bilingual, chinese, communicate, education, employees, english, exchange, foreign, french, job, lingual, multilingual, program, seekers, spanish, study
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In the modern world it is difficult to find a person who does not have at least a basic understanding of English. Yet, one would be hard-pressed to find an American citizen who is fluent in a language other than English. Actually, skill in a single language is a pretty hard demand to meet nowadays. Sure, it doesn’t seem like a problem, but we’re starving our students of unique work and education opportunities and falling behind the rest of the world that does have a foreign-exchange program. It’s a pity considering all that we’d have to do is teach more languages earlier in school.
Pen or Pencil? September 5, 2009
Posted by Jacky in Cream of the Crop.Tags: ballpoint, choice, choose, cost, cross, cursive, Debate, decision, erase, ergonomic, fountain, mechanical, mightier, notes, or, pen, pencil, print, process, school, scribble, student, style, sword, thought, versatility, whiteout, write, writing
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“The pen is mightier than the sword.”
Where does this leave the choice writing instrument for various students, the pencil? For that matter, who has ever praised the pencil at all? Is this empirical proof that the pen is greater than the pencil, or is the greatness of the pencil so universally accepted that praise is redundant?
The question of pen or pencil has bugged me, and likely a few other students, for quite some time. There are multiple angles to examine this predicament by and ultimately it probably just comes down to personal preference, but I am determined to throw in my 2 cents.
“The pencil is mightier than the sword…” that just sounds silly doesn’t it?
Running at 10,000 Feet August 18, 2009
Posted by Jacky in Running.Tags: 10000, 2, air, feet, haleakala, hawaii, maui, miles, national, park, run, sands, sliding, thin, trail, uphill
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Haleakala National Park is a 2-mile tall volcano right in the middle of Maui, Hawaii. Like pretty much all other national parks, it has a variety of hiking trails that go in and around the caldera of the volcano and numerous other craters. At 10,000 feet the air is extremely thin and even simple tasks are suddenly a great deal harder to do. Even hiking downhill at an easy pace is enough to leave you gasping for breath after a few miles at that altitude.
So when I got the chance to visit the summit of Haleakala, the only logical thing for me to do was to run. Uphill.
Destroying the Human Race… July 18, 2009
Posted by Jacky in Everything Else.Tags: abduction, alien, destroy, global, human, no, nothing, nuclear, proof, race, slavery, timeframe, wait, war, warming, wmd
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…and leaving nothing behind as proof.
If an alien commander was tasked with wiping out the human race to clear room on Earth, how would he/she/it do it? What would be the mechanism used for accomplishing this grotesque task, and how effective would it be? Would it point to whoever did it, or would it not leave a single thing behind? Incriminating evidence would not be a good thing to leave behind (some of those silly citizens might get mad), so choices would obviously be limited.
DTW and Skewed Spending Priorities July 10, 2009
Posted by Jacky in Everything Else.Tags: airlines, airport, big, detroit, dtw, features, gigantic, hub, huge, international, large, metro, money, other, productive, psychedelic, services, small, social, spend, terminal, tram, transportation, trippy, tunnel, useless
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DTW is just about the most excessive airport that I’ve ever been to.
Everything about the damn place just screams, “a waste of money!” From a trippy, psychedelic tunnel to trams that carry people from terminal to terminal right above people walking inside the airport, there’s excess everywhere. How can so much money be spent on all the useless features in one airport but not on social services? It’s about time that we reorganized our priorities when it comes to spending.
Internet Advertising: Is It a Good Deal? July 5, 2009
Posted by Jacky in Everything Else.Tags: advertising, big, click, enormous, fail, gigantic, implementation, industry, internet, nobody, rate, read, reads, relevancy, retention, strategy, voluntary
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Internet advertising has grown into a big industry. A $45 billion big industry.
The industry may be enormous now, but it should leave doubts behind. Is the standard approach to advertising on the internet sustainable, and is it even a good deal? A large problem is that on the internet, standard banner ads simply don’t work. They don’t attract customers, they’re nothing more than blemishes on a computer screen, and the majority of the time, nobody cares about them. It just may be time for the industry to rethink its strategy.
Is Summer Break Too Long? June 29, 2009
Posted by Jacky in School Stuff.Tags: beginning, break, distribute, it, learn, learning, long, loss, next, review, school, shorten, spring, summer, too, winter, year
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For every school year, there’s a summer break. A really, really long summer break.
Every school year, students get back to school, review everything they learned the previous year for the first week or three, and then start learning new material. And then of course, is the usual panic in the first month or so that you’ve forgotten everything that you’ve ever learned. Without all that wasted time and effort, wouldn’t school be a lot more productive?
The Hiatus Ends Today June 27, 2009
Posted by Jacky in Blogging.Tags: band, camp, college, end, hiatus, mcdaniel, temporary
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Regular followers of this blog (if you exist at all…) may have noticed that I haven’t posted anything or replied to comments in the past week, and may be wondering why I haven’t been doing anything lately.
Well, the answer is, quite a lot. This past week I’ve been away at a band camp at McDaniel College without internet access, so it wasn’t really possible to post anything up here. I can’t access the internet from my phone so I was kind of cut off from the outside world. Hell, it wasn’t until half the world knew about Michael Jackson’s death that I heard about it.
I think the scariest part of checking Facebook when I came back was seeing this:
I wasn’t really that behind on anything else… a few extra followers on Twitter (even though I hadn’t updated in a week!) and a handful of comments here and that’s all, but I had a hella lotta stuff on Facebook to get to when I came back.
And about comments, I’ll get to them as soon as I have time, but it seems so far that there has been some clash and discussion in the comments without my help, which is always nice.
Anyways, that will wrap this up for today… I’ll see if I can come up with a post tomorrow or possibly later this week.
Cheers,
Jacky
There’s Nothing Wrong With You! June 20, 2009
Posted by Jacky in In My Opinion....Tags: adhd, attention, children, control, deficit, disorder, fake, fine, hyperactivity, impulse, kid's, management, naughty, nonsense, not, self, teenagers
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People that “have ADHD” get on my nerves.
I’m not talking about the people who legitimately have a problem with the disorder, just about the people who use it as an excuse to act like assholes or just to piss people off in general. The disorder exists and I’m aware that it can be very serious in some cases, but the bar has been lowered so far for ADHD that people now just use them as an excuse to not deal with their problems and rely on medication or sympathy. Unless someone has a very legitimate problem with ADHD, there’s no reason they should be taking medication or acting abnormally because all they need to do is exercise some degree of self-control.
Internet Comments and the Demise of Manners September 2, 2009
Posted by Jacky in Everything Else.Tags: annoying, comments, flame, forums, impolite, insult, internet, lawless, pit, rude, shield, the, UG, wars, web, youtube
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Believe it or not, those are actual comments that I have copied from YouTube videos. To those unfamiliar with the ways of the internet, those words may seem rather harsh. To those who consistently browse internet forums and sites like YouTube, they may seem rather tame. Those who have become familiar with those sites may actually have become immune to such comments and if you’re anything like me, you’ll subconsciously ignore them completely.
Sometimes it just seems that nobody on the internet is capable of writing something nice. It’s the Wild West up here: it’s lawless, popular, and strangely attractive. There’s a whole new set of rules here, but why exactly should there be?
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