dyl_pickle's blog (an original title)

2003-12-01T17:46:00.000-08:00

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2003-11-10T17:01:00.000-08:00

Caitlin, right click here.

2003-09-27T15:34:00.000-07:00

ner

2003-08-23T20:43:00.000-07:00

hello? *ahem* ......... hello? any one out there?

guess not.

2003-03-11T19:17:00.000-08:00

Go Braves!

2003-03-08T11:16:00.000-08:00

That was cool.

2002-10-10T06:05:00.000-07:00

baleeted

2002-10-09T14:24:00.000-07:00

How 'bout those Twins? Holy cow. If they take care of the Angels and go to the World Series, I would be so happy. Whats up with Krispy Kreme? I haven't had one yet. Must be good.

2002-09-16T19:09:00.000-07:00

You know what sucks? Being on hold when you are trying to get help over an 800 number. I am on hold right now with a cell phone company. Right at this very moment, someone somewhere has no idea what she is doing and she is hiding behind crappy muzak while someone else solves my problem. I bet she gets back on like she's my hero, "OK sir, this is what we're going to do..." Oh, wait, here she is..... She says my phone must be defective (I guess that's why I've never had a problem with it... it all makes sense now) and that I should send it in to a warehouse in Miami. Maybe I should send my not-broken TV into the shop while I am at it. Customer service is a bigger pain than than a service. Man, what a waste of 35 minutes...

2002-09-16T15:11:00.000-07:00

Man, I don't do a whole lot of web surfing outside of the limited sites I already go to. I think you should all check out a comic strip called Get Fuzzy. My favorite strip of all time is Calvin and Hobbes, and since thats over and done with, Get Fuzzy is my favorite current comic strip. Not many comic strips are funny enough to make you laugh uncontrollably out loud. This one is.

2002-09-13T19:46:00.000-07:00

Here ya go. This is one of my good ol' pals from high school. (He's seriously not at weird as his description, he just likes to exaggerate). This guy is one of the funniest people I have ever known. He used to make an hour-long choir period seem like 15 minutes tops. He's over at the University of Montana in Missoula right now, but I e-mail him all the time. He got me listening to AFI. Thank god! They frickin rock. Thanks Norskie!

2002-09-11T18:53:00.000-07:00

Where were you when JFK was shot? the Challenger exploded? 9/11? I know that I can answer the last one. I was in Mr. Jette's 7:00 am American Government class at Skyview High School in Billings, Montana. But, c'mon, is that really important, here. I won't ever be able to express the deep feelings of sympathy I have towards the vicitims and their families, but I can express how I feel about the way the situation was handled. (God, I hope no one takes this the wrong way. The events of 9/11 were the pinnicle of "cowardly," and in no way do I condone warfare of anykind. I write this with thoughts of peace). With that said, I also think that the United States government has handled this situation all wrong. "Yeah, the terrorists are all bloodthirsty evil murderers, ya know? So, since they got us, we're goin in there an' gettin um back twice as hard!" So basically, these people (and many innocent middle eastern civilians) are evil for assaulting the US of A, but we are heroic for going over there and doing the same thing? Its just all wrong, if you ask me. A punk rock band from Pittsburgh, called Anti-Flag, is criticized for being "anti-establishment" and "anti-America." And if you seriously believe this, you are sadly mistaken. Anti-Flag is "anti-violence." They are pro-peace, and if that is wrong, than I don't think that I want to be right. In response to 9/11, they penned a song titled "911 for Peace." Some of the lyrics:

This is a plea for peace (World Peace!) / To the oppressors of the world (and to...) / To the leaders of nations / Corporate profit takers / To the everyday citizen / Greed, Envy, Fear, Hate - the competition has to stop / When you see someone down - now's the time to pick 'em up / Set our differences aside and never look back! / [. . .] / We are all human / It's time to prove it

The song then leads in to a clip from Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Hey, didn't Dr. King say something about "all of God's children" joining hands and singing? Doesn't sound like "you got us, now we get you back" does it?

2002-09-05T09:02:00.000-07:00

This kind of crap really upsets me. So many people who talk or write or think about Kurt Cobain only focus on his death, and people like this who go out and make a profit off of it have some kind of problem. I don't see why we can't look at his life (especially the music that he gave to the world). We should treat Kurt the way we (generally) treat John Lennon. I know I'd much rather listen to a Beatles record or a John Lennon one than worrying about what happened in December 1980.

2002-09-05T08:53:00.000-07:00

Holy cow, I should have watched the rest of that Oakland game. Crap.

2002-09-05T06:20:00.000-07:00

"It's as easy as falling off a weblog," by Chris Alden

Another standard blogging article. I liked Alden's approach though. What's one thing that a computer illiterate could totally get into? Why, a weblog, of course!

2002-09-05T06:18:00.000-07:00

"Blah, Blah, Blah, and Blog," by Farhad Manjoo

Maybe I hadn't been paying attention, but this article was the first to hint at the fact that blogs have been around for a really long time. I think it is funny to see how people can twist quoted material into something that an author totally did not mean. Makes you wonder.

2002-09-05T06:14:00.000-07:00

"The Blog Phenomenon," by John Dvorak

The best thing about this article is the fact that Dvorak (instead of sitting back and writing about the anatomy of the weblog like every other online author) went on to try and discuss the psychology of a blogger. Thats just my opinion (even though apparently the blog community didn't like it).

2002-09-05T06:07:00.000-07:00

"journal vs. weblog" by Ryan Kawailani Ozawa

I think this was the first time that I hear the term "pre-surfer." I think the constant "this is a weblog......No! Its a journal! No, WEBLOG!" chatter is kind of annoying (especially for something that doesn't really have one unified definition).

2002-09-04T19:42:00.000-07:00

Well, the Twins pulled through (oh my god, Everyday Eddy gave me a scare...) and the A's scored 6 freakin' runs in the first inning, but the game's on ESPN2 right now, so there's no need for me to sum up. I guess that makes 20 wins in a row. Jeez! They just hit a home run. 7-0 in the second inning. The Royals suck. Anyways, I am going to go and look into getting some sleep. That's something I haven't really done for a few days....Later.

2002-09-04T19:07:00.000-07:00

Hey, if any guitar players could tell me what is so great about drop-d tuning, I'd sure like to know...

2002-09-04T17:55:00.000-07:00

I was going to ask someone to call up the Minnesota Twins and tell them that it is OK to win a game, but it looks like they are about to. Hey Oakland, it OK to lose, too!

2002-09-04T17:42:00.000-07:00

Chillmaster

Wow, maybe its just because I've met "Tommy" (well, enough to realize what type of personality he has) but he writes some funny damn stuff. Thats cool.

Shauna Adler

First of all, congratulations on picking the right template for your blog! Anyways, I totally agree that homework is completely misused in school systems. I think that a lot of teachers need to look into alternative forms of teaching. But, what are you gonna do, right?

Amber McNeal

Yeah, memorizing something just so you can spit it back onto a test paper is a really crappy way to learn. My highschool Calculus teacher "got" this, though. I learned more math in my senior year than I did in the other three combined. You rock, Mr. Shelin!

Randy Miller

I'm sorry, but I have to express an opinion here (seriously, its nothing personal). But I think an English paper (and I am talking about an analytical paper, here) needs to have good ideas and corect sentence structure. "Thinking outside the box" (or the bun, I suppose) is great, and, yes, thats how we come to new revolutions, but I think a high school student should be able to write a paper with some sort of structure.

The Blog by Evan

That is so right about what makes a good teacher. The best teachers I had in highschool were just like that. I think a lot of teachers are so bent on "preparing" us for college that they make their classrooms into a lecture hall (because "all of college is one big lecture hall," or so said many of my other teachers).

2002-09-04T17:03:00.000-07:00

Leslie Walker

Well, I guess I've been wallowing in the "dot-com gloom." Anyways, these blogging articles are gettin repetitive (or maybe its just me). It creeps me out to read about people who fell in love over the internet. I don't think I could handle something like that. I dunno, call me crazy I guess.

2002-09-04T17:00:00.000-07:00

Megnut

Since I have not been exposed to the blog until recently, this article kindly defined some blogging terms (time stamp, permalink, etc). So, thank you Meg. Also, I was not at all surprised to read that many people started blogs (warblogs) after 9/11. It sure is a big topic, and people have their opinions on it (whatever those opinions be).

2002-09-04T16:56:00.000-07:00

Camworld

As soon as Cameron Barrett got over complaining out his lack of time, he touched on some good points. Too much of the internet is wasted by people who fill a page with "cool" decorations. His goals for the weblog seem pretty lofty, but they would sure be helpful.

2002-09-03T06:21:00.000-07:00

I am here because I chose to further my education after high school, and I chose this because not doing so would seem like a waste of twelve years. I think the public school system is missing out on the chance to teach computer literacy that is actually practical. In my high school, the only computer class was BASIC, which comes in handy if you don't want to use the calculator that already comes with your computer. A high school teacher can't just show up, throw the kids a textbook, and then sit behind a desk until the test. In my Junior year Honors English class, Mr. Bonawitz realized this. We had no tests, no daily grammer exercises, and no vocabulary lists. What we did have, however, were hour-long class discussions on the literature we were reading at the time and the paper that was due next week. That was the best English class that I have had, and, personally, I learned more by doing a whole lot less (less busy work, I mean.) Also, (and I know that I have already criticized my high school Spanish program, but...) Profe Zepeda, who was "mi profesor de espanol dos," is one of the most gifted educators I have ever met. He placed a heavy emphasis on participation (yeah, who would have thought that becoming involved with what you are doing would help you do it) and I am certain that everyone I know who have had Profe learned more from him (in Spainish and otherwise) than many other teachers.

2002-08-29T08:56:00.000-07:00

Hey, if you're not down with Chewbacca, then I'm not down with you! Or, something like that...

2002-08-29T06:51:00.000-07:00

Levinson's essay comes across as "heavy," but he hits on great points. His example of an infant fluently learning his or her mother tounge was interesting. We learn to speak in our native environment seemingly easily. But in three years of high school Spanish class, I can hardly remember more than "hola, como estas."

2002-08-29T06:28:00.000-07:00

Well, this blog (which is my first) begins as an English project, but where it goes from there, I don't know. Honestly, I had never heard of blogs until last Tuesday. Reading Rebecca Blood's article on the history of weblogs was ccertainly helpful. Maybe she has a bias towards weblogs--being a blogger herself--but she has a lot of helpful information for someone like me who has no blogging experience whatsoever.