“All of the biggest technological inventions created by man the airplane, the automobile, the computer says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.” Mark Kennedy
this is a famous story among my friends, so guys it's me. my freshman year of high school, i got bored one day. and i kissed a guy. (this isn't the technology part, but stick with me). and that was really it, i was bored and he was interested. after a few days, i "broke up" with him because i was 14, crushing on someone else, and he was a bad kisser. (here comes the tech part). so since he wouldn't listen to reason in person, i found that i had no other option. that night, i went online with AIM and opened up a chat box with him. in it, i typed something along the lines of "i can't go out with you anymore, please leave me alone", hit "send" and then blocked him immediately. most people take the high road in a break up and do it in person, but thanks to the world wide web, i got to do it while in my PJs and not even looking at him. it was way easier and is now one of my favorite stories from high school. woo hoo.
"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.” J.K. Rowling
Homework and free time are spent here. Its all good. Still, I don't give up the hours some of my friends do. I don't play warcraft, or any online game. Don't have the time, really, nor the money. For me its fps, and only once I am finished with my hw. It seems that my friends spend too much time doing stuff on the comp too. I guess tis an MV thing. We all have computers, AIM, email, games, facebook… I don't have facebook, myspace, or anything related. I don't have the time. Nor would I even want to do it if I did. I don't consider myself a techie. I know a little, but nothing compared to a ton of people around campus. Just because I can write a few lines of code means nothing, but it is a lot more than what most people can do. When people think of tech and teenagers, they think of cell phones in the locker room, facebook, porn, endless hours of computer games, same for aim, and kids listening to ipods in class. The real problems are there, but not in that order. Its the small things that infiltrate society, like ipods. Who knew what an impact they would have! All of my friends have an mp3 player of some kind. Do we all listen to them in class? Not all of us. I don't. But some of us for sure. I prefer calculator games, but there are kids more classy who whip out their psp's. I think it is disrespectful, but those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. I fool around sometimes too :D
Whenever anyone asks me what language I am taking, I say Java. Java is a modern language, no? It should be. Lots more modern than something like Chinese anyway.
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” Isaac Asimov
Its true that I spend too much time in front of the computer screen.
i wish we never had so much technology