Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Satire

The 3 funniest headlines include:
1-Nations porn stars demand to be fu***d harder
2-L.A Grants Clippers $12 for new nets
3-Bears inspire a City Still Reeling From Great Chicago Fire of 1871

Satire- The use of ridicule or scorn, usually in a humorous or witty way, to expose vices or follies.

Example of Satire-Austin Powers, The Spy Who Shagged Me

"A 17 year old Senior at Killian High School is on the loose since yesterday afternoon after running from school security when he was charged with his third strike for wearing a hood to school. Says principal Rodriquez, "This troubled student is deemed highly dangerous and is to be approached with high caution. For whatever brave soul catches this student, wanted dead or alive, you get a free pass to go to school without your I.D for a day. Catch him or not, the choice is yours. Have that cougar day!

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Craigslist.com questions

Personally, I can't see myself using Craigslist unless I see something I really need to buy already there. But the search engine and the layout is way behind Ebay's quality. The best thing about it is that it is free and it is universally known, which means more buyers and more sellers. If I were to make improvements, I would have a picture right next to every item, and have a middle man handle every sale so that nobody gets scammed.

Monday, January 29, 2007

Four BIG questions summaries

Why do we sleep?- All mammals have to sleep, or else they die. Deprivation of sleep will kill you quicker than if you don't eat. N0body really knows why. While we are awake, a substance builds up in the brain and sleep removes it. For part of the night, the brain idles in an energy conserving state called slow-wave sleep. It can clean up while you are unconcious.

Why do we die when we do?- It is the second law of thermodynamics. Everything in the world, no matter what part of time, eventually will break down. Humans last longer than almost any species in the world. Some would reason that it is the humans intelligence that makes us hard to kill. For the number of heart beats that we have in our life, we live much longer than we should, and they can't figure out why.

What causes gravity?- Issac Newton figured out gravity in the late 1600s. It is generated by a massless particle and dubbed it into graviton. As of right now, mathematics is the best way to get gravity to square with subtomic forces. Another problem is even if we find out answers to these questions within the next 30 years, we will only have more questions.

Why don't we understand turbulence?- Turbulence is the airplane's sudden loss of lift, and it can be very deadly. Change in certain conditions, such as speed, viscosity, surrounding space can result in chaos. When a stream of water or air goes turbulent, groups of molecules form vortices of widely varying sizes that interact in seemingly random ways.

Friday, January 26, 2007

I have to say I did not see the most recent State of the Union Address, and I didn't want to either. The hardest part of the job for the writers was being edited by Mr. Bush, 12 hour days, and writting speaches that will satisfy a democratically dominate Congress. Bush announced his idea of sending humans to Mars in 2004.

Idocracy Article Response

I am very interested in the movie considering it opens our eyes to how stupid Americans really are in today’s society. Even though we are one of the most powerful and richest countries in the world, we aren’t even remotely close to the smartest. I agree with the premise of the movie because I do believe that the advancement of technology has made us lazy, and as a result of a negative feedback, we have become dumber. Americans are getting dumber and dumber. Just look at our leader for the last seven years, Bush has an IQ three points higher than dirt, and yet he is running our country.