Things About Being A Gamer

Like:
1. Good Shooters
2. Fun Times
3. Time passes faster
4. You can do it for days and don't get bored
5. Playstation
6. Flash Games
7. Platstation Network
8. Console Gaming\
9. Free Demos
10. Beating people older than youself online
11. Random Teams
12. Renting Games
13. God of War
14. Getting all Rambo with an M60 on a shooter
15. Good Way to exercise.
16. No need for anything else.
17. The Resident Evil Saga
18. You get trophies!
19. You can get back at someone in a non violent(physically speaking) way.
20. You get an addiction that at least entertains you...no need to take drugs...
21. If you have a ps3 or xbox360, it is like having a computer...on your TV!!!
22. You can brag about trophies.
23. You can be proud of youself.
24.Videogames are forever.
25. You can actually get a huge rep on the videogame world...depending on your skill.

Hate:
1. Lagging
2. Little Kids playing Mature Games
3. Very old people who play videogames
4. Noobs
5. Players who start to think they are soldiers for real
6. Soccer Games
7. Basketball Games
8. PGA Games.
9. Low bugget games.
10. Players who wont stop swearing.
11. Downloadable content for games.
12. Download speed of your console.
13. People who stalk you and send you menacing messages.
14. People who claim to know you
15. People who add you as your friend...and don't know who you are.
16. Educational Games.
17. Hackers
18. TACTICAL NUKES(On Modern Warfare 2)
19. Impossible to achieve trophies
20. Games whose story is too short.
21. Matching System:level 1 (you) against guys of level 40+
22. Microphone users.
23. You get judged by people.
24. Gamer haters.
25. Bad voice acting or lip-synching, bad animation

Earth Day Rubric Stuff

Today, on the class the class along with myself graded some earth day projects, one from seventh grade and the other from the twelfth grade. I graded two projects, one was good an the other one was so-so. The seventh grade video was weird, the audio was kind of death metal/alternative, a music piece clearly not apt for an Earth Day video. The voices weren't clear and it had some images that weren't related to the subject. I would have changed the audio.The twelfth grade video was almost perfect, the images were clear, also the music didn't shadow the video. There is nothing that need a change. In conclusion, it was a good activity to do, I would probably do it again.

What is the most serious environmental problem facing Earth today?

I believe the most serious problem Earth is facing today is definitely air pollution. This may not seem right because not anywhere people can actually see air pollution. The main source of air pollution is caused by the humans. Wether it is by combustion of fuels or the use of radiactive material, humans are to blame for this serious problem. The other factor that cause this issue is deforestation, which is why the main pollutant, carbon dioxide, spreads through the world. The whole excess of carbon dioxide thing is actually caused by the overpopulated human race. This problem can be solved, but the acceptance of the fact that the people have to stop reproducing that much is going to take some time. The habit of reproducing is in our very nature, but the excess of a habit becomes an addiction, a deadly one.

The main reason for overpopulation has been our extremely sedentary lifestyle. To this also adds the fact that medicine and sciene is able to raise our lifespan expectancy. So, in a way our own technology is killing us. However, we can't stop using medicine because it is immoral and it will only cause harm. Basically we have got to the point in which reducing the population is almost impossible. We as humans don't think its normal yet to use birth control methods, sure some people do but not most of the people do. From the beginning of time, humans have grown the habit of hunting and living together, this habit has been changed in the way in which we take much more than needed. There is also the big fact that we simply waste resources, straight forward throwing away near-new products.

As simple biology states, we humans breathe oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide. The normal person would think that the amount produced its nothing. But only if you could multiply that quantity for 6 billion in a constant rate, the amount is immense. Also, one person would think that trees would simply use it, even considering it a favor towards the trees, wrong. Trees are disappearing and it is destroying affecting us directly, and so thats why we can see the effects of air pollution in most big cities, there are no trees in those places. Trees and plants in general are what makes other life possible on the planet, they keep the environment in balance. We need to perform sustainable activities.

So, this far reducing pollution seems straight forward morally wrong. If we are willing to keep the human race alive for more time, we have to learn to coexist with the many other organisms on the planet. Over time, we have settled on the planet as if we are the only organisms that inhabit the planet. You can easily see the effects of overpopulation, wars, starvation, massacres. It is all due for the constant need of resources and if we don't want violence we have to learn to take advantage of every last part of resources. Humans are now starting to understand the value of their resources, because they're running out. We are now starting to recycle and make a smarter use of what we have.

In conclusion, we can still keep evolving in the science and with medicine but we also need to make big changes in our way of life. We need to start to stop depending solely on technology, we have survived before and we shall do it again if we really try hard. We can take much advantage of technology but up until the moment technology doesn't damage so harshly the planet. We should use the great advances in technology we have and start making changes, like birth control and just with this we will be able to see big changes in the world. If you're not selfish and you want the other generations of humans to deal with our troubles you shall help and you shall care more about the organism that gives the most, the Earth.

Earth Day Project

This project was indeed problematic and straight up bad. The idea was to create a video, with a narration of a song or a poem, with instrumental music and only photos that we took ourselves could be used, it was a project involving earth day. This project doesn't really remind me of a computer's class, since I wasn't really learning how to use a program, I already know my way around WMM. My team was composed of Eduardo and myself. The first few days, we dedicated our time in searching for a poem. Then, we took the photos, then we had some trouble in downloading a Youtube video. This Tuesday, as we were willing to finish the project on recess, when we borrowed the USB to some guys and boom!, the info was gone. Now, both Eduardo and myself will have to stay tomorrow on yet another recess to finally finish it.

2010 Spring Break

A springbreak in Puerto Vallarta is for a start, really boring, this 2010 nothing changed. Some people might not think it is true, but for two whole weeks I did not leave my house. I really did not feel like going out to enjoy the beaches, I am tired of all that. The only thing I wanted from this vacation was some rest, and I got it. I actually challenged myself to do so for the two weeks, challenge which I easily completed. It was so boring I actually ran out of ideas of what to do inside my house.



Even though I actually didn't go out of my house, I did a number of things to try to entertain myself. I watched TV, I used my computer to search for random stuff and played some videogames. I passed all over again two games, one was Bioshock 2: http://www.bioshock2game.com/ Actually, the game was quite fun and overall entertaining to play, it also received a good score. I also this other game called Ratchet and Clank a Crack in Time all over again, it was fun: http://www.ratchetandclank.com/en_US/

The TV portion of the break was indeed boring. Most of the good shows will not give a new episode until after the break, which is bad. So, it basically worked out like this: I would watch old shows and classic simpsons one and a half hour episode segment on Fox, but the good thing was that I got back to watching Lost. By that time I had not seen about two whole seasons, I had simply had given up on the series, I mean... 4 seasons in a island isn't that fun. But with the help of streaming sites dedicated to Lost, I got myself up to date. I also used this site called: http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page to clear out some stuff.

The computer portion of the break actually made me embrace the boring person I am. A normal day with regards to computer use usually consisted of searching random facts on Wikipedia and watching some online episodes of some series (e.g. Lost, American Dad). I would also see some Google News...news to get up to date. In conclusion, it was a very contrasting break, I had a lot of time and I wasted it all...how cool!