Excelsior!

So. This is supposed to be my very last blog post! Hurray!

This year I think I did better than I did in grade 11 English 2 years ago. I think I can write a better essay than I used to, and can criticize writings more effectively.

However, I have to say, I really, really despise poetry. It doesn’t matter what kind it is, I just hate it. I also hate how it is always a big important unit in English. I thought poetry was kind of out dated, as you don’t really hear about currently famous poets anymore. I prefer novels and stories to poems, I just don’t enjoy them, and I keep having to learn about them. I guess this is just a big bitchfest, but I could also go on about Shakespeare, as well.

Also, yet again, I DESPISE this blog site. I hate formatting posts, I hate writing posts and I just hate blogging in general. I hate blogging because…I am just not very interesting. Generally, I should be writing a blog about stuff that happens, but nothing ever does! Also, I never remember to blog, so I always end up behind.Also, today the damn site was plagued with “TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE” whenever I tried to A: Edit B: Post or C: Delete posts. WTF! Then, it turns out that it did indeed do those actions when I went back in my browser… thanks for faking me out you )@#*@*#)@#. I have very strong feelings about this site, as you have probably already heard about.

About the class: pretty much I learned about literary criticizing techniques, Hamlet, and uh…. poetry. Oh! And rhetorical devices/logical fallacies, which are useful, but hard to remember. (I find myself trying to look for some, thinking I’ve found one, but having no idea what the hell it is called). To be completely honest, the only thing that I would find useful is the literary criticism and rhetorical devices/logical fallacies. Both Shakespeare and poetry I find are just useless, unless you are actually into that type of thing for your own interest. I mean, I suppose it is good to know about them just for general knowledge, like saying those one liners from Shakespeare at opportune moments to appear super witty (My kingdom! My kingdom for a blog post!) Even though I didn’t learn much, the class didn’t suck, with lots of time spent in groups doing projects and time in the lab doing nothing. Really, the class could be better structured, as a lot of the time I found I didn’t acutally do anything, which is mostly good, but sometimes I do need to actually do something.

To conclude this huge wall of text: I learned some things, I hated other things, I mostly enjoy doing nothing but sometimes don’t, and the class was pretty good.

So… GOOD NIGHT SWEET EDUBLOG, I HOPE TO NEVER SEE YOU AGAIN.

So another week of poetry projects. To be honest, I don’t enjoy poetry at all, even though the presentations aren’t boring, I just can’t get into the poetry. Probably some of that is just my stubbornness against liking poetry, but meh. But, only one more week of this semester! Exams nooooo. Anyway, moving on to the title of my post this week, you may think that they have nothing in common. However, they do indeed share one similarity: they are all on the most edited wiki pages of this month list on wikirage! This is a neat little app that shows the most edited wikipedia articles by day, week, month, and even hour. However, many of them are unsurprising, as they have to do with recent events (except the end of time… 2012? Oh man, what a stupid theory that is… don’t get me started.) However, some of them do indeed come as a surprise, such as “List of Wizards of Waverly Place Episodes.” Did they just all of a sudden come out with tons of new episodes or something? Is the show THAT popular?! Who knows. Anyway, this app isn’t very useful, but is interesting to see trends/the popularity of current events (most edited =/=popularity?). Anyway, only 2 days left of class! Can’t wait for my 5 day weekend.

Well…. turns out that it’s not really a good idea. Haha, this week I used stilltasty.com, which reveals the shelf life of pretty much anything that I would be likely to eat. Again, not very useful on a weekly basis, but if I ever wonder how long that chocolate pudding will really last… this is the site to go to. There’s really not much to say about this website… pretty self explanatory, in my opinion. Also, nothing really new in class, more poetry…  Anyway I’ve been more boring than usual, so that’s it for this post.

So I just tried to upload my anthology from my laptop to both THIS crappy blog site and to the wikispace and I get an io error. What the hell is that?! I look it up, apparently I have a registry error. WTF! I just got this laptop for Christmas and haven’t had time to mess up that! That’s never happened to me before, I blame this stupid 1 year student Word version. ONE YEAR!? I refuse to pay for that crap. Open office, anyone?

So, finished my poetry project today… thankfully. Did it in only 4 days! Very glad that it’s over with, I don’t really enjoy presenting. Now I can sit back and relax for the next two weeks, haha. This week’s site is epicurious.com, a site with many recipes on it. This is pretty useful for me, as I just recently started wanting to learn how to cook things (sadly, I can’t survive off soups/sandwiches/microwavables forever). So far I’ve made muffins from this site that actually turned out! Woo. I will definitely be using this site in the future to cook more good stuff!

Now playing: Blue Oyster Cult – I’m Burning For You
via FoxyTunes

Happy (Slightly Late) New Years!

So my title this week comes from the epic Bugs Bunny short that involved Elmer Fudd as a viking running after Bugs Bunny who is “Brunhilda”. It also involves the lines “Spear and magic helmet!’ Anyway, that bit aside, it actually has to do with my site this week: Toonjet. Toonjet lets you see old cartoons, like Looney Tunes, for free on their site. I used to love Looney Tunes, so this is a good site for me. Is it useful? No way! However, when I’m feeling bored I would go and watch some classic Bugs on there.

This post is pretty short this week, but I only have so much to say about a site involving cartoons, haha.

Now playing: Bachman Turner Overdrive – Hey You
via FoxyTunes

I will post my news article /judging thing/annotated bibliography tonight (this morning). Just keeping you in the loop. Also, thank the gods that it is the holidays. I am getting some much needed sleep and relaxation after those hellish last weeks before holidays. January will also be a pain in the ass though, but until then…

Well, here’s my app of the week: Teuxdeux. Seeing as I always procrastinate, a to-do list is actually quite useful for me. However, the chances that I’ll remember to go back to this website are pretty damn slim. However, it looks pretty easy to use and is simple; two major things that would keep me interested in using it. I’m the type that always makes lists but never ends up doing all the things on them in the order/when I was supposed to actually do them. Ah well.

Now playing: Nazareth – Hair Of The Dog
via FoxyTunes

So. I handed in my ISU today, annotated bibliography… not so much. I’ll get that done by the weekend though, but seeing how I’ve never done one, it will probably suck. I’m also glad that Hamlet is over and done with, and that the test was postponed until January! Thanks for that, sir Anyway, website: Fact Monster. Mostly K-8 but with some interesting stuff for high schoolers (like me!) I looked up some stuff, and it does indeed have a lot of facts! I found out that people who collect teddy bears are called archtophilists. They also have facts about a range of topics, including the US, world events, math, games and many more. I could easily spend a lot of time reading about different things that catch my interest on this website, and the layout is very easy to navigate. It may not be necessarily useful per say, but adds to the knowledge I could use at a cocktail party in the distant future. Therefore, I can see myself looking at this website a few times a week to find some random facts, but I would probably forget about it after a few weeks, heh. Anyway, have a Merry Christmas!

1. Stand up when talking

2. Wear co-ordinating outfits (Max 2 points)

3. Quoting a relevant quote will get 1 point for each one

4. Talking in a British accent will earn you a maximum of 2 points

5. Calling out opponents fallacies gets you 1 point per fallacy,  Generalization: the snorkle Slippery Slope: downward arm motion Appeals: pray Strawman: stick arms out Ad hominem: middle finger

6. During rebuttal / free for all, any debater can challenge their opponent to a thumb war, maximum of 2 allowed, get 0.5 points for the winner

7. Using creative insults can net you a max of 2 for each one used… however, saying things like “you’re stupid!” or “you’re gay!” will not gain any points

8. using rhetorical devices will earn you 1 point for each one used

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Doing my post early this week! I’m getting very tired of Hamlet already, I finished the book… boring. I am not a fan of Shakespeare at all. Has NOTHING better come out in the past 400 years? Surely, something must have! Anyway, on to this week’s app! Exemplar. This website searches out how terms/phrases are used in scientific context. Because I’m a very mature individual, I typed in the word ‘sex.’ This word came up with 70,647 articles! Wow. I’m certainly impressed. I can see this being useful when I go into University next year as I will be taking many science courses. However, I can’t see this being particularly useful at the moment. Would I use it every week? No. Next year? Maybe.