I might as well continue the trend of being the only person to respond to my posts with this: Apparently, in my haste, I did not contemplate all the bad karma that achieving this "first post" would generate. I'm begining to feel quite inferior, and I was wondering how I could counteract this... Hopefully this won't just knock me down another notch like all my other posts did...
I realize it was completely irrelevant, but the temptation was too strong, I couldn't resist... while I'm here, I'll go ahead and say that available open source products are diversifying so, one day, if I ever put my computer to some productive use, I'll hopefully be bale to run an entire company/website open sourcified:-)
Before you go out screaming bloody murder about Mozilla adding all these features and and wasting their time with "side projects" instead of focusing on making a good browser, allow me to interject. Now, unless my eyes decieve me, I seem to recall seeing these things noted as third-party developments. Would that not mean that someone other than the Mozilla team is wasting their time on these bloat-infesting side projects? Also, as afore mentioned, if ya don't like it, take some scissors to the source code.
Me too man, welcome to the club!:-) I wonder how many more of us there are...:-) I used to be on ridalin (spellcheck) and am quite loony my self (as if my gratutious use of smileys didn't make it painfully evident).:-)
I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. So far two years into high school and no real horror stories. I'm one of the few who straddle the fence between outcast and popular. Not really one with any of the groups, but not shunned either. My saving grace: humor. If you can look at something and laugh (assuming that something isn't an oncoming bullet) you can probably survive it. Being the "wonderkid" of my peers makes isolation inevitable, but at least it's not physical isolation. I'm a loner, yes, but not alone. We don't have (as far as I have spotted) a "geek" group at our school, so I hang out mostly with the "metalheads" (God forbid I hang with those Magic: The Gathering dorks:-) ). As far as "the other guys" go, well it turns out that humor is a pretty much universal language. If you can make them laugh (and supply them with answers:-), they probably won't punch you in the face. Sure they poke at my differences (I follow a somewhat stricter moral standard than the majority of my peers, aside from being vastly superior to them [did I say that outloud?]:-) ), but I turn it around, and everyone laughs. So, my equation for a happy high school is just supply people with the three H's (Humor, Humility, and Homework).:-) Oh, and it doesn't to hurt to be taller than about 95% of your school and in good physical shape.:-)
As far as the Littleton aftermath goes, I must say I'm rather disappointed (can we expect anything less?:-) ) with the way my school's handling the situation. I understand concern and increased awareness and all that stough, but you gotta draw the line somewhere. They're starting to dust-off the old evacation procedures. The day after, my school essentially banned trenchcoats ("unless it's raining") and took them away from people who have worn them just about every day for years. It's bad enough we have to wear uniforms everyday, jackets were the one loop-hole most people were able to easily expliot. I think for a school to succumb to that level of paranioa is ridiculous.
I totally agree that the media is pointing their fingers in the wrong places. If I spent everyday watching Natural Born Killers, does that mean I'm a whack-o. Maybe (there's only so much of one movie a person can take:-) ). Does that mean I'm gonna kill everybody I know? Of course not. Then again, if I'm stockpiling a weapon arsenal that'd prepare me for Armegeddon, and watch the scene in Basket Ball Diaries where Leonardo DiCaprio (who, BTW, probably should be shot;-) ) goes in a trenchcoat and shoots people with a shotgun over & over again, pointing at the screen going "Gee, that looks like fun." Then I'd say that's good cause for alarm, not listen to Metallica's "Seek and Destroy".
The only thing that keeps me from spending my time blowing people up in Quake is my lack of income, not my sanity.
I think Heat.Net put it best when they said: Cyberbullets cause no pain.
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I might as well continue the trend of being the only person to respond to my posts with this:
Apparently, in my haste, I did not contemplate all the bad karma that achieving this "first post" would generate. I'm begining to feel quite inferior, and I was wondering how I could counteract this... Hopefully this won't just knock me down another notch like all my other posts did...
I realize it was completely irrelevant, but the temptation was too strong, I couldn't resist... while I'm here, I'll go ahead and say that available open source products are diversifying so, one day, if I ever put my computer to some productive use, I'll hopefully be bale to run an entire company/website open sourcified :-)
Is that geek-guy to geek girl ratio a researched fact, cuz I saw it referenced more than once.... :-)
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes... that way you're a mile away and you've got his shoes. -- Jack Handy (Handley?)
Before you go out screaming bloody murder about Mozilla adding all these features and and wasting their time with "side projects" instead of focusing on making a good browser, allow me to interject. Now, unless my eyes decieve me, I seem to recall seeing these things noted as third-party developments. Would that not mean that someone other than the Mozilla team is wasting their time on these bloat-infesting side projects? Also, as afore mentioned, if ya don't like it, take some scissors to the source code.
That's my two pesos.
--Ricky
Me too man, welcome to the club! :-) I wonder how many more of us there are... :-) I used to be on ridalin (spellcheck) and am quite loony my self (as if my gratutious use of smileys didn't make it painfully evident). :-)
I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. So far two years into high school and no real horror stories. I'm one of the few who straddle the fence between outcast and popular. Not really one with any of the groups, but not shunned either. My saving grace: humor. If you can look at something and laugh (assuming that something isn't an oncoming bullet) you can probably survive it. Being the "wonderkid" of my peers makes isolation inevitable, but at least it's not physical isolation. I'm a loner, yes, but not alone. We don't have (as far as I have spotted) a "geek" group at our school, so I hang out mostly with the "metalheads" (God forbid I hang with those Magic: The Gathering dorks :-) ). As far as "the other guys" go, well it turns out that humor is a pretty much universal language. If you can make them laugh (and supply them with answers :-), they probably won't punch you in the face. Sure they poke at my differences (I follow a somewhat stricter moral standard than the majority of my peers, aside from being vastly superior to them [did I say that outloud?] :-) ), but I turn it around, and everyone laughs. :-) Oh, and it doesn't to hurt to be taller than about 95% of your school and in good physical shape. :-)
:-) ) with the way my school's handling the situation. I understand concern and increased awareness and all that stough, but you gotta draw the line somewhere. They're starting to dust-off the old evacation procedures. The day after, my school essentially banned trenchcoats ("unless it's raining") and took them away from people who have worn them just about every day for years. It's bad enough we have to wear uniforms everyday, jackets were the one loop-hole most people were able to easily expliot. I think for a school to succumb to that level of paranioa is ridiculous.
:-) ). Does that mean I'm gonna kill everybody I know? Of course not. Then again, if I'm stockpiling a weapon arsenal that'd prepare me for Armegeddon, and watch the scene in Basket Ball Diaries where Leonardo DiCaprio (who, BTW, probably should be shot ;-) ) goes in a trenchcoat and shoots people with a shotgun over & over again, pointing at the screen going "Gee, that looks like fun." Then I'd say that's good cause for alarm, not listen to Metallica's "Seek and Destroy".
:-)
So, my equation for a happy high school is just supply people with the three H's (Humor, Humility, and Homework).
As far as the Littleton aftermath goes, I must say I'm rather disappointed (can we expect anything less?
I totally agree that the media is pointing their fingers in the wrong places. If I spent everyday watching Natural Born Killers, does that mean I'm a whack-o. Maybe (there's only so much of one movie a person can take
The only thing that keeps me from spending my time blowing people up in Quake is my lack of income, not my sanity.
I think Heat.Net put it best when they said:
Cyberbullets cause no pain.
That's my 2 pesos