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School's Out? Orgy Time!

[ rakaur on Sun Mar 30 at 12:21 AM // category: health, life, school ]

Why didn’t I go to this school?

The Telegraph reports that 70 students from the Queen Elizabeth School in Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, were joined by over 100 other youths to celebrate an end of term party by “having unprotected sex in a village square.”

-- rakaur // 2008.03.30 @ 12:21 AM

Wait, Which Way Does Time Go?

[ rakaur on Tue Oct 17 at 11:58 AM // category: school, siue, technology, web ]

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

“I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.”
— Voltaire

This is about Facebook, SIUE, and a kid named Mike Turk. If you don’t want to hear about it, then by all means stop reading.

Now, before I start, I’d just like to make it clear that this isn’t about Mike Turk. This is about idiots. I don’t know Mike Turk, but I’m willing to bet that he’s probably an idiot. The “anonymous” girl is even more of an idiot. Also, and more importantly, the SIUE administration are all big blubbering idiots.

The parts of the story that I’ve heard (and I haven’t taken the time to learn it thoroughly, mostly because I don’t care) go something like this. An “anonymous” girl (hereby referred to as “DrunkenSlutBag”) had sex (or some sort of sexual contact) with Mike Turk, probably as the result of alcohol. Mike Turk decided to post it on Facebook, and make a big deal about what a slut she was. DrunkenSlutBag decided she took offense at this. Apparently when I wasn’t looking, Congress passed a law that made it illegal to offend someone. DrunkenSlutBag made a big deal over it, and long story short, Mike Turk is now up for expulsion from SIUE.

Now, let me be clear here: this is a big steaming pile of bullshit. I don’t care about Mike Turk, I don’t care about DrunkenSlutBag, I don’t care. What I do care about is Mike Turk’s right to say what he wants, when he wants, where he wants, how he wants about anyone he pleases, without fear. SIUE and a bunch of English majors have taken this away from him. I’ve heard people throw around words like “libel” and “slander,” but apparently no one actually knows what these words mean, despite the fact that they’re all English majors. Let me help you out. Now, “slander” doesn’t apply at all, because it was written about, and that makes it libel. Let’s have a closer look:

libel noun
1 Law: a published false statement that is damaging to a person’s reputation; a written defamation. Compare with slander.
2 the action or crime of publishing such a statement
3 a false and malicious statement about a person.
4 a thing or circumstance that brings undeserved discredit on a person by misrepresentation.

Take a close look at those. Notice the words “false,” “undeserved,” and “misrepresentation.” Mike Turk told no lies. DrunkenSlutBag may not have exactly deserved what he did, but it was by no mean misrepresentative or false. Mike Turk has committed no crime. When it comes down to it, she banged that dude, and she doesn’t want to own up to the fact that she’s a whore.

So, then, why is he up for expulsion? Because he offended someone. Next thing you know, people will get the crazy idea that they have the right to express their opinions as they see fit. Who knows? Maybe this idea will catch on and they’ll add it to the Constitution of the United States, giving it a catchy title like “freedom of speech.” I’ve heard people say “freedom of speech ends when it violates someone else’s rights.” Whose rights have been violated? We’ve already established there’s been no crime here. So my question is:

What on earth gives the University the right to think that they can tell Mike Turk, or anyone for that matter, what they can or cannot say, or where they can or cannot say it? What gives the University the right, when something that happened outside of their control was talked about on a medium also outside of their control? The only way the University ties into any of this is the fact that they’re both students. I remember paying the University money to teach me things, not to tell me what I can and cannot say or do, thank you very much. Perhaps they have forgotten a basic fact: we are your bosses. We pay your salary. If we’re not here, then neither are you. Your sole purpose in life is to serve us. So please, stop being idiots, and get your acts together.

This is absolutely ludicrous, and it should under no means be tolerated. The University has absolutely no reason to do what they’re doing. He didn’t “misrepresent” the school anymore than any other student that gets drunk at some party. What about DrunkenSlutBag? She’s the one sleeping around; doesn’t that make the University look bad? Shouldn’t we kick her out, too?

I don’t know either of these people, and I probably wouldn’t like either of these people if I did meet them. This isn’t about them. This is about what is basically right, and what is basically wrong; and, what the University is doing is very basically very wrong.

-- rakaur // 2006.10.17 @ 11:58 AM

Duck With an F

[ rakaur on Thu Sep 21 at 11:29 PM // category: school, siue, technology ]

So, school pretty much sucks, huh?

No, not really. The only class I find myself having problems with is English 102. I’m fine at sitting down and writing out great crap about stuff that I know about. I am not fine at sitting down and finding a research text that says what I already know just so I can say that I got it from there. Why? Mostly, because I’m lazy, and I would rather sit down and spew out a paper in 30 minutes than spend a month finding source that say what I already know. I know it’s how it’s done, and that’s the way it is, but I think it’s mostly crap for anyone that isn’t involved in a research intensive field. There’s also the fact that my JumpDrive full of my research got lost at school somewhere; and, I’m sure some asshole will erase everything on it and keep it even though the damn things are like $15 and I’d pay $50 to have it back with all of the stuff I have on it.

So, to anyone in PH 3310 at computer #1, give me my damn JumpDrive back.

-- rakaur // 2006.09.21 @ 11:29 PM

On School, Mac & Love

[ rakaur on Tue Feb 28 at 03:18 PM // category: apple, hardware, life, nikki, relationships, school, siue, software, technology ]

So, I fucking hate my new college, and I’m not even there yet.

I applied on January 9th (no Shostakovich jokes, please) and as of yesterday I hadn’t heard anything back. So I called, and some woman answers “SIU Edwardsville.” I say “I have a question about admissions” and she says “ok” and suddenly the phone starts ringing again. Gosh, thanks for letting me know you were going to transfer me. It rang for a solid two minutes, then someone else answers “SIU Edwardsville.” So, once again “I have a question about admissions” and at least this time I get an “ok let me transfer you to admissions.” Phone rings there for about 30 seconds until I finally get to someone that can help me.

“Yes, I see that your check has cleared. However, we never got a copy of your transcript from Lewis and Clark. We assumed you were currently enrolled.” No one fucking told me I had to go do that, I figured for $30 they could request it themselves, but no. So my application has just been sitting there for two months. So, now I have to go to Godfrey and pay them to send a transcript. Fucking assholes. I told the lady “for $30 you should be able to do that yourselves” and she says “sorry, send it” and hung up on me.

Good times.

Also, I’m going to have to take out like a $2,650, four year loan or something, just to buy shit for school. Since I have to spend a shitload of money anyway, I figured best thing to do is get a laptop (excuse me, notebook). So I looked for the thinnest, lightest, longest battery life notebooks I could find, and came up with Sony VIAOs, which are like $2k. I poked around for a few hours trying to find other solutions, but they’re all around $2k, give or take a few hundred dollars. So, I think to myself “fuck it, I’m getting a Mac.” So I go look up the new MacBook Pros. They’re pretty sexy. A MacBook Pro, plus extra battery and a backpack that will carry it is going to run like $2.2k. Same as any other notebook coming close to the specifications I need. So, why not? Why get a Sony VIAO and live with the giant piece of crap known as the Windows Desktop Experience? If I do that, I’ll use Windows XP and Office 2003, which suck. They both suck. The constant crashing and stupid buggy crap will drive me just about batshit crazy. So, if I wipe it and throw some Linux distro on there I’ll have to suffer through the Linux Desktop Configuration File Experience, and I am just about sick, sick, sick to death of that shit. Trying for hours just to get X Windows working, and good fucking luck with sound. Why should I even have to think about shit like that? Isn’t this a “modern” operating system? And if I do that I’ll be using OpenOffice, which leaves a whole lot to be desired. I’d probably end up writing most of my shit in vi and pasting it into OO. So why not just get a slick MacBook with Mac OS X? Apple’s software is way more minimalist and simple than Microsoft’s piles of shit. I’ve been wanting one anyway, so, there.

Good times.

I had a nice long talk with Nikki last night, about her past. I only knew half of it, and half of it was a big lie. Every now and then it’d get to me, and get me kind of depressed. Some of the shit is hard to accept. After talking to her, though, from start to finish, with the whole truth, it’s not so bad. I feel a lot better about everything, and so does she, and we’re even closer than we were before. More and more, I can see myself spending the rest of my life with her. It’s only been eight months, but people have gotten married in less. I swore up and down I’d never do it, but I can’t see myself without her. I really do love her.

Good times.

-- rakaur // 2006.02.28 @ 03:18 PM

Psychology != Math

[ rakaur on Wed Oct 19 at 12:58 PM // category: lccc, school ]

Apparently. they’ve been lying to us all this time. Pregnancy isn’t really nine months, it’s ten. Or, at least, according to my Psychology instructor, it’s ten. Her entire lecture today was based around “nine months is a lie!” Well, get some paper and do the math, you dumb bitch.

She claims that pregnancy is 10 months because “it’s 40 weeks, and 40 weeks has to be 10 months because there’s 4 weeks in a month.”

Any idiot can figure out that, since there are 7 days in a week, and “four weeks in a month,” seven times four is 28. There’s only one month of the year with 28 days. So, gee, let me think, I’m guessing a month is slightly longer than four weeks. Just slightly enough to make her “40 weeks = 10 months” statement absolute bullshit. I thought anyone with half a neuron floating around could figure out this fairly basic caldendar fact.

Since there are different days in different months, the duration of pregnancy can only be estimated or averaged. For the purposes of this conversation, we’re going to take the mean (that means “average”). There are 12 months in a year. Seven of those months have 31 days, four of those months have 30 days, and one of those months has 28 days. Add in a quarter of a day to account for leap years, and we get our 365.25 days to a year.

31(7) + 30(4) + 28 + 0.25 = 365.25

If we take the average of that, we end up with a mean of 30.4375 days in every month.

365.25 / 12 = 30.4375

Now, she claims that pregnancy is 40 weeks, but she’ll be damned if she’ll cite a source. Forty weeks is 280 days.

40(7) = 280

According to the National Library of Medicine, the mean pregnancy length ranges from 280.6 days to 283.6 days. So, we’ll take the mean of those two to get an average pregnancy length of 282.1.

280.6 + 283.6 = 564.2
564.2 / 2 = 282.1

Using our average days in a month of 30.4375, we can easily figure that pregnancy is in fact, on average, 9.26817248459959 months, or 40.3 weeks.

282.1 / 30.4375 = 9.26817248459959
282.1 / 7 = 40.3

QED, bitch.

She was wrong. Way wrong. Even if you round up, it’s still only 9.3 months. She had her duration of 40 weeks pretty close to right, so she had the right information, she just sucks at even the most basic of math.

I mean, this wouldn’t piss me off normally, I’d just write her off as a fucktard. However, she’s teaching this shit to kids as if it’s the truth, when really, she’s just a moron.

I guess my only hope is that a vast majority of people are blessed with the ability to do basic arithmetic. That hope is fairly shallow.

-- rakaur // 2005.10.19 @ 12:58 PM

No Blog for Time

[ rakaur on Tue Oct 18 at 11:02 PM // category: eastgate, games, lccc, life, nikki, relationships, school, technology, work ]

Let me apologize to my ~0 readers about the lack of updates. No, wait, never mind.

I’ve been busy. School full time plus work part time plus pregnant girlfriend amounts to about a 130% demand on my time. My schedule goes something like this:

Yeah, kind of sucks. When I actually have free time it’s mostly spent playing games. Which brings me to my next point.

So, Doom 3 sucks. It’s interesting for about two minutes, scary the first three times Monster X jumps out from Dark Place Y in Dark Hallway Z, and then pretty much boring. Dark hallways, stupid monsters, stupid plot, stupid levels. I can tell Carmack picked up on Halo’s policy of “instead of making interesting mission objectives, we’ll just make one that’s like ‘find the flashlight’ and make a maze of a level so that they have to wander around for ~24 days until they find the super secret spot.” Asshole. Goldeneye and other 007 games are the only ones I’ve ever played that actually have fun mission objectives that consist of more than “find this one spot in this one map.”

Yeah I was going to make this longer but I’m bored with it now.

-- rakaur // 2005.10.18 @ 11:02 PM

The Way You Wish I Was

[ rakaur on Mon Aug 29 at 11:53 PM // category: lccc, life, nikki, relationships, school ]

I wish I had more to talk about on here… I miss writing (not so much now that I’m in a writing class… which is the worst class ever).

Haven’t had much work now that school’s in. The theater is very seasonal, and is only open half the time while school’s in, so I get less than half the hours, so less than half the pay I’m used to. I’m looking for another job to supplement this. So, I’ll be working two jobs, and going to school full time. Good times.

Another thing about school… I wish I knew what I was there for. I have absolutely no idea what to do with my life. I find a lot of things interesting, but nothing enough to spend my life doing.

Speaking of spending my life doing things… my girlfriend and I are getting pretty serious. We’ve only been together seven weeks, and I know it’s crazy, but I quite thoroughly love her. I didn’t think I would at first… and I kept myself from falling for her really quickly because it’s screwed me over so many times in the past. I took my feelings slow with her… and I think it might be for real. It’s causing me quite a delimma though.

You see, I figured I’d be alone for, you know, ever. And, as such, I’ve envisioned my future alone. No girlfriend, certianly no wife, family, etc. Nikki wants all of these things. Marriage, kids, the American family. I generally hate everything about that picture. I was raised in that enviornment… and I hated it. We as a society have some strange conceptions about how things should be for everyone, and people take it for granted, and I hate that. I hate the idea of not questioning how things should be. Why should I get married? Yeah, I love her, and I want to spend time with her, but what’s a piece of paper matter? I think for her it’s more of a religious thing, and she wants me to be religious… but I’m not, and I never will be. That’s just who I am. No matter how much I love her, I can’t just start being hardcore Luthern. I don’t care what she believes in, that’s her business, but she seems to think that if I don’t start being religious then our relationship isn’t going to last. That’s a shame. I’d do anything to keep that from happening, and to keep us together… but I can’t change my fundamental beliefs just because she wants me to. It just doesn’t work that way.

I’m a questioning, anti-conformist, anti-sheep. I hate society because they all act the same. I’m a hardcore think-for-yourself person. She’s not. She’s a believe-everything-that’s-been-fed-to-me person. Those two tend to clash. I love her. If it turns out, down the road, that we’re still together and marriage is a viable option, I’d do it. I’d even have a religious wedding, to appease her and her family. However, I wouldn’t suddenly want a religious family and lots of kids. That’s not me. These things are fundamental differences between us, and we can’t ignore them forever. Eventually, sooner or later, they’re going to come back and it’s going to end badly, and that’s the last thing I want. I can’t lose her, but I can’t change my entire personality to stay with her. If we love each other, we’ll find a way. If she values her religion over our relationship, she’ll break up with me, some day.

I love her. I won’t lose her over something as stupid as religion. I’m tolerant of her beliefs. I don’t think she is of mine (or my lack thereof). The ball’s in her court. I don’t care what she believes in, so long as she doesn’t try to force it on me. I wouldn’t do that, and I can only hope she won’t.

I guess we’ll see.

-- rakaur // 2005.08.29 @ 11:53 PM

Welcome to Junior High

[ rakaur on Fri Aug 26 at 03:43 PM // category: lccc, school ]

College sucks.

College sucks.

-- rakaur // 2005.08.26 @ 03:43 PM

Skewl

[ rakaur on Sun Aug 21 at 02:04 PM // category: lccc, school ]

Fuck, I have class tomorrow.

-- rakaur // 2005.08.21 @ 02:04 PM

Freedom of Speech

[ rakaur on Fri May 27 at 09:25 PM // category: eawr, life, school ]

The fun part is, now that I’m out of high school, those fascist fucks can’t get me in trouble for stating my opinions on the Internet. Which means I no longer have to safeguard my writing and my Website.

-- rakaur // 2005.05.27 @ 09:25 PM

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