classes

All my classes are going well except one class which would be geometry; I do not know why it is so flipping hard. Maybe it is because it is an honors class and I am not used to taking honors for math another thing is that geometry is very different compare to other math classes, those two things mix together are not helping me, another thing that gets me is that these chairs are so uncomfortable that it just adds on and on top of that lunch is in the middle so afterwards you get sleepy. I need to start putting more effort into geometry because I do not like it and I struggle with it and I must definitely need to pass that class and pass it with high grades due to the necessity of a high GPA for my future. Other than that I am doing pretty good in my other classes there is room for improvement; in civics I am doing good I just made a one hundred on a test so hopefully that will help my grade boost up to where I wanted to be; although we get a test just about everyday, I guess since we have a substituted things are functioning different around here. In my college  class I am doing good but not as good as I wanted to on my last two chapter test (four and five) I did not get the grades I wanted on chapter four test I made an ninety, and on my chapter five I made an eighty-five, there was a major distraction with that test so it was pretty disturbing to know that eighty-five was cause due to distractions.

How far have we come?

“First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.”  Douglas Adams. Now day we turn something to something new. This is the impact technology has on society.  Lives are being changed every day because of technology. People this day do not need a computer anymore because they have a phone. A smart phone; a phone that can call, text, check the Internet, instant chat, pay bills, located people. With such great power at a touch of a button, but wait is not a button any more is a screen. Lives have changed now. If all this new technology that we have now would have been there in the Vietnam War, then how many American soldiers would have came home to their wife and kids? How many people could survive getting a heart transplant seventy years ago if we have the tools we have today? Those questions could not be answer because we will never find out but also because technology is a working progress from the beginning where a caveman took a rock to smash a stick as to trying to find life in Mars. Nothing came by magic; we had to start somewhere to get to where we are. By the time my generation is gone doctors might have figured out what shot you need to cure cancer or what pills you should take to cure AIDS. By that time my grand kids are grandpas their kids will be using jet packs or flying cars to get to school/work. This is the world we live in. New things will always come will the old goes out the back. So why make fun of your parents when they can not work an IPhone if in sixty years you will not be able to turn on a 4dTV

news

This week has been a different week because we remember the terrible incident that happen on a tuesday morning the horrific attack on the world trade center. Which is terrible considering that someone planned all this; the worst part of this is that some idiot decided to make a video about making fun of muhammad. Which is stupid why would you cause more conflict than it already exist that is just dumb and should punish. The worst thing is that the ambassador of the US in Libya was murdered. Because of someone being so stupid someone else had to pay the price, someone who is totally and completely innocent. Now what about the guys family his wife and kids the rest of the family what about them? How do you think they feel knowing that a love one is dead because someone decided to be funny and make an awful and disrespectful joke. What do they have be going through right now.
In my opinion I think that that person who created that video or movie should be hardly punish; I think they should take him to the people that are extremely mad and let them take care of him that way he will be punish  in the correct order. Not only is the ambassador is terribly bad but also other people that were with him in the same building were hurt and I think even killed. If I am not mistaking there were like three people. All this because someone decided to be cool and funny, what a shamed.

What happens in class

Well in geometry I have been learning some really weird things. They are so weird that I can not even remember the name of it. I just that when you solve a problem you actually have to stated what you are doing which is stupid because you have to waste time writing down every little thing and how you are doing it. In public speaking we have another project due tomorrow which shouldn’t be because we just had one last tuesday so only a week of break? not even a break because you have to be planning everything that you will say and do. What you have to  do is describe yourself doing or demonstrating something that you are good at. He said that you can do a video of it; but in the video you can not demonstrate because you have to go up and present in front of the class. So I do not understand why make a video if you can’t demonstrate in it. In here it just got a little better because we finally got another option in what to write our blogs about. Now its a little better because it is easier on you knowing that you can not write about one thing then you can write about another. I just hope things get better in that class because it is awful in there. The last class would be civics which is going great that is the easy class out of all of them. The bad thing about it is that my teacher is not doing good at all and that is really bad; apparently she has a tumor and that is terrible that is all I know about her and I hope she gets better fast. Right now we have a substitute so talking class wise it is going great. So this all that happens in my classes.

Poem 9/11

A few months after the attack on the World Trade Center, Rudolph Giuliani, then the outgoing mayor of New York City, called for a "soaring" memorial to the people who died on 9/11.Two massive square voids sited within the footprints of the towers. On all four sides of each void, waterfalls descend into a broad reflecting pool, irresistibly. Libeskind had proposed that the exposed foundation pit of the towers, a 70-ft.-deep concrete "bathtub" scorched by the fires of the attack, might be kept open. Arad's victory in the memorial competition meant that Libeskind's idea of preserving that wounded pit was swept away. But scale has a power all its own, and by its very size — each of the voids is about an acre in size. Its right-angled geometry notwithstanding, it appears before you as a vast abstract of nature, of cliffs, waterfalls and chasms. The water pours into the tanks through narrow channels spaced an inch and a half apart, it drops first in separate rivulets. The names are engraved — cut all the way through, actually, and back lit at night — on bronze panels along the parapets that form the perimeter of both voids; In all there are 2,983. The voids with a six-acre park plaza of granite pavers and closely planted white oaks that will eventually grow to a height of 60 feet, forming a leafy canopy in the warm weather months. Including the park, the memorial covers just under half the 16-acre World Trade Center site.

The whole point of this is to keep in memory the terrible thing that happen on that Tuesday, that beautiful blue sky all the sudden turn into a cloud of smoke. This monument was to kept those lives  who were lost in memory. The monument is two huge pools with waterfalls and a lot of trees. They decided to make it like this so there would be a memory of those that left on that Tuesday. They decided to make like this because it can be a memory of the incident but also not make it sad and depressing for the people who go and visited their family members and friends. It is also going to be a park where you can get your morning jog in.

Wifi lightbulb

Have you ever thought of saving money? What about saving energy? Do you ever use the Internet?  How about light, do you own a light bulb? Well if you answer yes then you will want to hear what I am about to tell you.

You should start fallowing Harald Haas on twitter because this man just came up with a Wi-Fi light bulb. Yes you read it right; a light bulb with Internet on it. With this new technology you would no longer have the need to put your phone up when you fly. The same lights on the plane will give you an Internet signal.

Harald Hass who works at Edinburgh University as a engineer created a light bulb using OFDM technology. This data rates of up to 10 MBit/s per second. They estimate it will be at one GB in the future. With such technology the possibilities are endless.

With this invention many people are not going to be happy; those will be the Internet companies. They are going to have to pull some strings together if they want in the race. There will not be a need to pay for Internet when you can it from a light bulb.

In my personal opinion I think this invention will be complicated because of internet companies. I think they are going to pay Harald Haas off, just like oil companies done with Toyota. With good planning hopefully Haas will be able to compete against such companies.

On the other hand many people would be delighted with this smart idea. Just as Haass said "Everywhere in a day there is light. Look around. Everywhere. Look at your smart phone. It has a flashlight, an LED flashlight. These are potential sources for high-speed data transmission.” (Harald Haas) this is going to be easy for everybody to have since everybody has light. This will be a new revolution to save the environment. For all those people going green, well here you go I don’t think you can do better than this. This technology will save power. Also you will prevent from spending money on monthly bills.


Harald demonstration his invention http://visiblelightcomm.com/vlc-is-a-hit-at-ted/

Acts

Acts was made to give  history of the early church. The purpose of the book is the importance of the day of Pentecost and being use really good to be witnesses for Jesus Christ. Acts tells you that the apostles were Christ's witnesses in Jerusalem, and to the rest of the surrounding world. The book gives light on the gift of the Holy Spirit, who gives power, guides, teaches, and is our Counsel. Reading the book of Acts, we are teach and encouraged by a lot of miracles that that happened during this time by the disciples Peter, John, and Paul. The book of Acts tells you the importance of obedience to God’s Word and the transformation that occurs as a result of knowing Christ.Also the book talks about what happen to those who that rejected the truth that the disciples preached about the Lord Jesus Christ.Acts gives the history of the Christian church and the spread of the gospel of Jesus Christ, as well as the mounting opposition to it. Although many faithful servants were used to preach and teach the gospel of Jesus Christ, Saul, whose name was changed to Paul, was the most influential. Before he became a christian, Paul took great pleasure in persecuting and killing Christians. Paul’s dramatic conversion on the Damascus road is a highlight of the book of Acts. After his conversion he went to the opposite extreme of loving God and preaching His Word with power, fervency and the Spirit of the true and living God. The disciples were powered by the Holy Spirit to be His witnesses in Jerusalem, and many other cities , and to the ends of the earth. Included in the last part are Paul’s three missionary journeys, his difficult times in Jerusalem and Caesarea and his final journey to Rome.

procrastinate

It is good to procrastinate. Yea I have never heard that one before ever since I was little I have always heard the opposite “do your work do not wait till sunday night to do it”  And really I have always agreed with that because its not rocket science it make sense why you do not want to wait till last minute to do it if that happens then you will be stress out the whole time and we all know its not fun to be stress especially when all your friends have finish and they are having fun without you. But new studies show maybe it is good to procrastinate, yea I know I felt the same way when I read it I thought it was pretty stupid for someone to say that. The thing is they done the research while I sat at home and procrastinated my public speaking speech the whole weekend, so I am going to have to go with them instead of me. Studies show that it is good to wait sometimes because then you have time to do other things that you need to do and see that is an active procrastinator but when you are acting like me and your watching TV instead of doing your work then that is bad that is called a passive procrastinator. The study said that you need to wait the longest before you actually do something. A really good example of that is boxing; when a boxer is on the ground and the ref is counting to ten, most boxers tend to wait till the eighth or ninth second before they get up.

JFK

On this post I will be talking about John F. Kennedy I have been doing research and reading his inaugural address. The purpose for the famous speech that JFK address was very important. Kennedy had won the campaign that was a very hard one.  The inaugural speech of JFK was addressed with a purpose, in this purpose he told us the US what he was going to do which was focused on the liberty of this country JFK was determined to protect the US especially in those times in which our enemy was the USSR. All this JFK promised to us in the heart of our country, Washington DC on January twenty 1961. JFK promised all this to us because he wanted us to feel protected and wanted us to know that the same beliefs the founding fathers had were still his beliefs. JFK wanted everyone to know that they were equal and we all deserve the same, JFK also wanted to stop poverty/hunger. JFK did promised a lot but one thing he got right is that he promise us liberty and safety and JFK accomplish this because of how he ended the Cuban missile crises. Kennedy tries  to help inspire Americans to continue to support and contribute to their country in order to help make America the best. He also tries inspiring and encouraging the world that uniting together can help them to achieve world freedom of men, unification of all countries, and world peace. JFK also paused a lot and spoke at a slow tempo to let his words sink in to his audience.

Technology

Technology is great and I love using it. I am a musician so I love the technology we have for music I think its fantastic how far technology has come; it has come so far that it makes music much simpler. The recording industry has improved a lot ever since the Beatles recorded there first album. on a  BTR two track machine. Which originated came from World War Two. This seems like total garbage if you but it next to a studio that we now use. Not counting that now we can record from the comfort of our home with such great programs like Logic and Pro Tools.

So whats in a studio? Well a lot of things if we was to go into detail, but we are not. A music studio is a place were you record your music. A studio has things like a mixer, midi, microphones, good monitors, keyboard, and good software such as Pro Tools.

For guitars players technology has been great for them. As a guitar player you will use guitar pedals which will change the sound of your guitar. Now days we have such technology that Line 6 has come up with a online community were you can create your own guitar sounds and post them online for other people to use, you can also use sounds from other people. This is fantastic because thanks to technology it brings musicians around the world together. It also makes it easier for us, especially if you are looking for that specificity sound for a certain song, riff, chorus.

Now Line 6  has a app where you can plug your guitar straight into your IPhone/IPod/IPad and play from there and get your customized sounds. This the great benefits technology has on us musicians, not only us but also audio engineers and sound producers/ songwriters.