Trivia Question

Give the type of art done by Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Hamilton, and Larry Rivers.
Hint: It sounds like a popular breakfast food.

Who was the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
Hint: .....The last name sounds like a bird.

What is the average velocity of an unladen European swallow?
Hint: It's not African

I will probably forget to give the answers the next time I post, so here are the answers:

1. Pop Art
2. John Jay
3. 11 metres per second or 24 miles per hour.

Knees

It was mentioned by a friend of mine just how weird knees are. And I know it's been months since I last breathed on this page, and I am indeed ashamed. So, I thought I'd do a special on how weird knees are.
It was first brought to my attention during a debate tourney where we discovered a few girls who were trying way to hard to look good, wearing short skirts and too much makeup. Typical debate attire dictates that skirts must be longer than the knees. I think I have discovered why.
The reason is simple: because knees are weird and NOBODY wants to see them. They are rather like your elbows, both of which have to have excess skin because it would be just enough when the respective body part is bent. So, when it is straight, there is this odd little wrinkle or bulge.
However, this is far more prominent in knee. Since the skin is a lot thicker, it is weirder looking, so instead of being just slightly wrinkly as the elbow, it just looks unnatural and rather creepy looking. And it is for this reason that I hate looking at knees.
And with that, I sign off. Have a nice day!

School

A few points that I noticed from my first day of school:

1. I was under the apparently incorrect impression that it was against federal law to assign any homework beyond signing contracts (which I will address in 2). However, in both my math and chemistry class, I actually had homework. Albeit, I don't need to turn it in until 3 days later, but my point is, can I sue them?

2. a. I understand the point behind contracts. But what if we don't want to sign it? For example, I got about five from Newspaper. One of them was an agreement to sell a ridiculous number of ads. That, I don't want to sign at all. Do I have a choice? I wonder what will happen if I don't.

b. Some contracts that are given are rather pointless. I understand the necessity of such a thing for classes such as Graphic Design and Newspaper where one may be utilizing expensive equipment, and the contract provides a solid force for replacement money if it breaks. However, why do we need a contract for a class like Spanish? We don't use anything expensive besides the textbooks, which are school property and the school will make you replace them anyway if lost. The contract is mostly saying that we agree to behave, which, if we don't, the teachers have every right to punish us anyway. It will not cause a legal dispute if there wasn't a contract. Are teachers like that trying to make their class seem important?

3. People have been saying that freshmen are everywhere, but frankly, I haven't noticed that many. I don't make it a habit to memorise the face of every upperclassmen in the school, but I can't be that unobservant. Also, I could have sworn I was not that small last year.

4. This is not new to this school year. In fact, I noticed this a long time ago in my school. There are a lot of short blond kids here. It's not like they all look the same, their faces are actually very different, but that does not make up for the fact that they are all short, blonde, and male. It's actually rather creepy when I put it that way, but I assure you it's the truth.

Oh dear.....

I'll admit it, I used to play Farmville. I tried Mafia Wars for a few days. I even sit down for a nice game of hold 'em every once in a while. But this, and I think you will agree, is rather ridiculous.Perhaps you hope, as I do, that this faked or photo shopped or something, and it probably is. But if, however astronomical the odds, this is authentic, then I've just discovered I live in world much more messed up than I thought it was.

However, none can deny that these Facebook games are extremely popular, (apparently) very addictive, and an excellent way for companies to earn money. Which is why Google has quietly invested $100-200 million in Zynga games in preparation for Google games.
So hurrah! For Google! And an excellent investment! Actually, TechCrunch (the source that reported this) believes it's a move to break Facebook media dominance by grabbing the behemoth behind it. Google Me is the supposed upcoming assassin of Facebook, and this act of foul play pretty much shows how serious they are, namely, by hitting the farms.

A Timeline of Computers Past

A history of all the computers I/my family has owned. Quite a melancholy post, this is.
Compaq Presario

My very first computer. I threw him away a long time ago. But I loved him very much, even though my parents hogged him all the time and all I ever did was play games anyway.

Gateway SoloMy first laptop. I still have it, though of course it's a lot crappier than the picture, since it's wrapped in tape and whatnot. It runs XP, though veeerrrryyyy slowly, seeing as it was made for 2000. It is well in its years and serves as decoration to lighten the gloomy mood in my basement.

Dell LatitudeThis is still a very good laptop, but I don't have him anymore. He would be very fast at T5800, but my father works with large statistical files that take up way to much disk space, consequently slowing performance. Plus, he never bothered to get antivirus on it. Lazy bum.

Dell Inspiron
I am typing on him this very moment! How it refreshes me so. Of course, it's already slowing after a year of use and it carries the classic power cord issue and has gone through only Vista but I shan't complain, imagine if I were still using the Gateway (which, miraculously, still runs Internet, though very slowly)!

+ 1

Adding to my list of things to do before I die: visit the children's hospital in Australia. Gotta love those Aussies.

Nothing to Say

Unfortunately, I literally have nothing to say. Anyone want to say something for me?

Hello?



Is anyone out there?



Please?



Tell me someone's listening!



Even when I don't have something to say, tell me someone's LISTENING!!!!!!!!