In the year 2020, where will I be? Who will I be? What will I be? I still plan on being Alexander MacNeill, I would like to think my fundamentals won't change, but I guess I won't be able to see what changes and what stays the same until this time comes. The year 2020 will be close to my 10th year after graduating. I have a list of questions and points and I will go through and address the questions and points I see to be worth doing so; probably all of them.
My accomplishments and goals are similar to as they were in the year 2010, limited but still there. I still don't dream big, although my metaphoric dreaming has expanded a bit with age. What I have already done were not goals that I set out to do, well many of those have been reached such as reaching a time around fifteen seconds for solving a rubik's cube, but accomplishments none the less. Around the time of 2010 my thoughts on what I would like to accomplish by this time were simple, have a job, a small house, a pet cat, and what did not seem very important at the time but does now; marriage. A concept that grew on me more and more as my girlfriend became closer and closer to me over time. All of these ideas that I didn't set as goals, but expected to happen became true over time, roughly in the order provided.
After highschool I continued highschool for as long as I could, the free education was great. Past that there were courses at the local college that I was able to take that interested me. They didn't lead me very far but looked good on my resume and were taken because I wanted to in the first place, not necessarily because I needed them. Schooling outside of Powell River was needed eventually, to thirst my ever knowledge seeking mind and it was found, but my home town was missed as expected.
Soon as possible I moved back into town and am now happy in my position here. Decent pay, enough to keep me going. Family all around, some friends still around town but many more to make. That lovely small house, well an apartment for it is all I wanted. The family that was in town when I left is almost all still around. The concept of starting my own family with my wife is much more appealing than it seemed to be back in highschool, for the concept of children being annoying has lessened a bit.
My opinion on world issues is still the same, though I've looked into the way I look at things and have found a way to word the philosophy of how I make my opinion on events much better than what I use to try to use to explain when asked why I think what I did. The large issues that were around ten years ago are still there; gas, vehicles (which I don't really use any more since I moved back into Powell River. A bike works just fine), money are all over the news. The newest war issues involving the United States and the further debt they are risking by continuing it are always mentioned but many are starting to tune these repeated crys out much more than before. It's nice.
The technology available to me has upgraded with time, but the technology I choose to use is lesser than the cutting edge. It's all I need, maybe not all I want, but still all I can afford. Having what works is important, not having what works best. After thirteen or so years of using a rubik's cube the fun it use to have has gone away. I found once I ran out of goals to set regarding it, there just wasn't as much of a point to practicing. My newest toy is sill an older type object, not commonly used by most people though is in the process of coming back into popularity. Something odd that caught my attention and refused to let go until I had it not just figured out but mastered and remastered.
My passion is still for what I enjoy the most. It not longer is the same as it use to be but my old favorite topics never died out. The internet is always there to provide me with what I need to continue my newest hobby. Parkour is still kicking through my mind daily, but with slight ageing and not enough activity my abilities in some aspects have become lacking. The love for my friends and family have grown for those who are close to me, and it has slipped away for the many who weren't around me. As you distance yourself from people letting go of them becomes much more easy and after being out of town for a couple of years I found who was always around for me. Alternately I found out who wasn't, and those are the individuals who slipped away.
Of Course this is all just a projection, a guess of what is to come. I'm hoping almost all of it to be true. Only time will tell, but until then I don't intend on just waiting around, I'm going to keep working in the present time, so that when the future comes what I was doing for the present payed off. The future may not have set goals in my mind, but it does have the idea that my present should be what I want it to be at that time isn't going to fade away very easily, hopefully that will set me up for a good lifetime.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Time
I have no time, well no free time. Since school started it's been busy, and at first it was enjoyable but then sleep deprivation set in a little bit, the fact I havent had time to do anything was realized, and my limited free time has been spent on the computer or with my girlfriend.
The first few days of school were nice, social activity was easy to find, my classes were easy and I had a free block to do what ever I wanted. What ever I wanted ended up being extending my Digital Media class because I love that class but it was well spent. This was a problem however looking into what my classes would be next semester, I would want a free block then and I didn't have one. A note to the counselor and a few days wait was all that was needed to get my math class switched with my free block. Entering my math class a few days late was not very fun.
And along with it being not very fun, it still isn't very fun. I spend all my time trying to catch up, as the teacher goes over what I already know how to do I work on the work that I already knew how to do, but I need to figure out how to do it differently. The teacher wants me to do it in a "Grade 12 way". She doesn't explain what this means, but I think I figured it out.. maybe? I guess I'll find out when this unit is done and I pass the test with a mark on the lower end of the acceptable mark scale. This isn't all she doesn't explain, she doesn't explain much more of anything. She will do the examples, go over the questions people ask her to, but as for base explanation I haven't run into much of it. My text book isn't very good at explaining too but the examples are modelled so you can follow them. Lets see.. what else about math class that comes to mind.. Oh, I'm not sure what I need to do, what I"m suppose to do, and what I just need to note and put aside. I've been told but not very well (and it wasn't explained) but I know the text book work may or may not be collected (I'm thinking it won't be, but if it is I have most of it done. All that isn't is what I don't know what to do.. funny that I don't know what to do, isn't it?) and all we need to do of it is what we need to until we understand it. I already know how to do all of this on the most part, so I shouldn't need to do any, right? Well it doesn't work that way. There have been two required questions, they turned out to be really easy compared to most of the others surrounding it.
Snack break. 11:01
Back 11:15 ish, that was possibly the most intense vegetable chopping experience I have ever experienced before but now I forget what I was going on about regarding math and I decided I've put enough work into it.
Digital Media, my favorite class now and has always been, has been great but I feel like I havent had enough time to work. I've been busy working with my posterous (http://bugworlds.posterous.com), this blog a bit, quotes, writing for the class, I think most of the time has been spent listening and watching videos. So far we havn't had much time to just work. I'm planning on using photoshop a lot, as much as I can. I'm not going to be working with much of the other programs at hand, just rolling with some tutorials I would love to use but the couple I've tried so far have failed terribly. I want to go and take a lot pictures too. Get some great real life graphics to work with. There's so much I want to do and with no free block to extend the time I have in that class there just isn't enough time it seems right now.
My Psychology class is fairly similar to Digital Media. I have the same teacher for it, I see a lot of the same videos he shows boath class. I've been doing more writing for this class then in Digital Media, and it's taken a decent amount of my time. There has been a large amount of reading to do too. The book I'm reading right now, I'll put a mention in about it at the end of this, has a lot of Psychology in it and I plan on reading a college course psychology text book that I have access to once I've done reading it.
These two classes, Digital Media and Psychology have become very much 'take home classes'. The work that I do in the class I also spend a lot of time on, by my choice, at home. I enjoy working with graphics, learning about psychology, and what I do in Psychology class . . . I just realized I have 500 words to type up for an essay for that class ... this entry is going to be cut short . . . I forget what I was going to say now.
Note at end as promised: Is There Life After Death? 'The extraordinary science of what happens when we die' by Anthony Peake, foreword by Professor Bruce Greyson. Look up the book, it's amazing. Complicated, thought provoking, I read it on the bus ride to and from school. Probably not the best time because there's many people around me talking, so I spend a lot of time rereading parts to make sure I understand it.
The first few days of school were nice, social activity was easy to find, my classes were easy and I had a free block to do what ever I wanted. What ever I wanted ended up being extending my Digital Media class because I love that class but it was well spent. This was a problem however looking into what my classes would be next semester, I would want a free block then and I didn't have one. A note to the counselor and a few days wait was all that was needed to get my math class switched with my free block. Entering my math class a few days late was not very fun.
And along with it being not very fun, it still isn't very fun. I spend all my time trying to catch up, as the teacher goes over what I already know how to do I work on the work that I already knew how to do, but I need to figure out how to do it differently. The teacher wants me to do it in a "Grade 12 way". She doesn't explain what this means, but I think I figured it out.. maybe? I guess I'll find out when this unit is done and I pass the test with a mark on the lower end of the acceptable mark scale. This isn't all she doesn't explain, she doesn't explain much more of anything. She will do the examples, go over the questions people ask her to, but as for base explanation I haven't run into much of it. My text book isn't very good at explaining too but the examples are modelled so you can follow them. Lets see.. what else about math class that comes to mind.. Oh, I'm not sure what I need to do, what I"m suppose to do, and what I just need to note and put aside. I've been told but not very well (and it wasn't explained) but I know the text book work may or may not be collected (I'm thinking it won't be, but if it is I have most of it done. All that isn't is what I don't know what to do.. funny that I don't know what to do, isn't it?) and all we need to do of it is what we need to until we understand it. I already know how to do all of this on the most part, so I shouldn't need to do any, right? Well it doesn't work that way. There have been two required questions, they turned out to be really easy compared to most of the others surrounding it.
Snack break. 11:01
Back 11:15 ish, that was possibly the most intense vegetable chopping experience I have ever experienced before but now I forget what I was going on about regarding math and I decided I've put enough work into it.
Digital Media, my favorite class now and has always been, has been great but I feel like I havent had enough time to work. I've been busy working with my posterous (http://bugworlds.posterous.com), this blog a bit, quotes, writing for the class, I think most of the time has been spent listening and watching videos. So far we havn't had much time to just work. I'm planning on using photoshop a lot, as much as I can. I'm not going to be working with much of the other programs at hand, just rolling with some tutorials I would love to use but the couple I've tried so far have failed terribly. I want to go and take a lot pictures too. Get some great real life graphics to work with. There's so much I want to do and with no free block to extend the time I have in that class there just isn't enough time it seems right now.
My Psychology class is fairly similar to Digital Media. I have the same teacher for it, I see a lot of the same videos he shows boath class. I've been doing more writing for this class then in Digital Media, and it's taken a decent amount of my time. There has been a large amount of reading to do too. The book I'm reading right now, I'll put a mention in about it at the end of this, has a lot of Psychology in it and I plan on reading a college course psychology text book that I have access to once I've done reading it.
These two classes, Digital Media and Psychology have become very much 'take home classes'. The work that I do in the class I also spend a lot of time on, by my choice, at home. I enjoy working with graphics, learning about psychology, and what I do in Psychology class . . . I just realized I have 500 words to type up for an essay for that class ... this entry is going to be cut short . . . I forget what I was going to say now.
The other class I am in right now is English, it isn't too bad. I will complain about it another day. I will also go more into my free time and how I spend it, and how the free time I have seems to become not free due to the activities I do in this time; maybe it only seems to me I have little free time because I have so much I wish to do?
Before this I typed up my essay for English and found I didn't have enough words so I did what I could to expand. I think I put more words into my explaining my Math class (most likely in a biased manner) then the essay, and this was much easier to write. I'm sure my Psychology essay will be easy to type up after this, I've gotten my writing mind all warmed up and ready to go.
Note at end as promised: Is There Life After Death? 'The extraordinary science of what happens when we die' by Anthony Peake, foreword by Professor Bruce Greyson. Look up the book, it's amazing. Complicated, thought provoking, I read it on the bus ride to and from school. Probably not the best time because there's many people around me talking, so I spend a lot of time rereading parts to make sure I understand it.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Vampires, Zompires?
Recently I watched an hour long presentation on the History Channel I beleive. The topic was vampires. Not real vampires, but rather the fictional type. A large amount of them was how they progressed from cold blooded killers, to morally conflicted dark beings, to bleh... sparkling. I have no need to go into more detail past that last one. There were many other phases in there also but those are the main ones that stand out in my mind. You know how every story can be a metaphor for WWII? One of the original Dracula movies back with the black and white was meant to be like that. It didn't look... too.. no, it looked kind of cheesy but back then it was a hit I suppose. When are we going to look back and see what we did, what we listened to and watched, was terrible for media and society will move on? Anyways, the shimmery vampires were the newest and I thought there had to be something better than that here quickly so I threw together some thoughts and developed my own.
Lets start with some facts.
Diseases are contagious. An illness can effect your body in several ways, usually negative. It can make you feel ill, or just take away your energy. An individual turns into a zombie often due to disease. There are many different zombie ideas as well but in general it is due to an infection.
It's stereotypical for a vampire to bite other people, well in most cases vampires bite just people. Once you've reached the vampire state not everyone is willing to accept you as a person. It must be incredibly unfair for those vampires who wish to just be loved.
It is also a common stereotype that vampires don't like the sun. Their skin can react in many ways, but all ways I can think of are negative. Some more than others, bursting into flames isn't so bad.
Vampires are not all that different from zombies. They just have a different strain of a similar disease. Diseases can lower your metabolism and be spread through bodily fluids. If you are bitten by a vampire, there is a high chance of the illness being passed on.. That is if they don't kill you. If they want to do or not it is a good idea in most cases for vampires to do this. Not all may wish to pass on this disease, for various reasons. I don't think I would want many people in my neighborhood being vampires if I was one, it could attract too much attention.
Along with being contagious there is the aspect of metabolism that has already been mentioned. The body shuts down on the most part, keeping itself running at a very slow rate. Instead of living forever, you will happen to live for a much longer than usual time. Growing older happens at a much slower rate with a metabolism low as it will reach.
Paired to this slower aging many internal organs shut down. This stops many normal functions of the body such as creating blood and digestion. Stomach acid is not produced however the stomach will still continue to absorb liquids it intakes. With there being nothing to break down anything that is put into the stomach it goes fairly quickly into the blood stream. With no new blood being created the individual needs a way to get blood, I'm sure you can figure this out. A lack of vitamins is easily fixed with Powerade due to it's already semi-broken down sugars allowing for easy, quick digestion. Skin is made less flexible and cold due to there being many less activities within the body creating heat. This lack of warmth in the skin already causes the sun to be much more intense than it usually would be. There is much less to no pigment produced to help defend against the sun, and any damage done to the body will take longer than usual to heal itself.
A quick note, fangs aren't legitimate, you can break skin with a normal bite force and your every day teeth.
As a body shuts down in the manor it would in this situation, the brain also shuts down slightly. It is brought to a more animal like state. Easily agitated, less social, territorial, and more prone to violent acts instead of talking things out. With less desire to be social, a dislike for the sun, and a more hit first ask questions later attitude it's easy to slip away from society who would likely be suspicious of you due to your appearance. I'm sure it's easy to see why you don't see many vampires about, and how folklore forms around them.
Lets start with some facts.
Diseases are contagious. An illness can effect your body in several ways, usually negative. It can make you feel ill, or just take away your energy. An individual turns into a zombie often due to disease. There are many different zombie ideas as well but in general it is due to an infection.
It's stereotypical for a vampire to bite other people, well in most cases vampires bite just people. Once you've reached the vampire state not everyone is willing to accept you as a person. It must be incredibly unfair for those vampires who wish to just be loved.
It is also a common stereotype that vampires don't like the sun. Their skin can react in many ways, but all ways I can think of are negative. Some more than others, bursting into flames isn't so bad.
Vampires are not all that different from zombies. They just have a different strain of a similar disease. Diseases can lower your metabolism and be spread through bodily fluids. If you are bitten by a vampire, there is a high chance of the illness being passed on.. That is if they don't kill you. If they want to do or not it is a good idea in most cases for vampires to do this. Not all may wish to pass on this disease, for various reasons. I don't think I would want many people in my neighborhood being vampires if I was one, it could attract too much attention.
Along with being contagious there is the aspect of metabolism that has already been mentioned. The body shuts down on the most part, keeping itself running at a very slow rate. Instead of living forever, you will happen to live for a much longer than usual time. Growing older happens at a much slower rate with a metabolism low as it will reach.
Paired to this slower aging many internal organs shut down. This stops many normal functions of the body such as creating blood and digestion. Stomach acid is not produced however the stomach will still continue to absorb liquids it intakes. With there being nothing to break down anything that is put into the stomach it goes fairly quickly into the blood stream. With no new blood being created the individual needs a way to get blood, I'm sure you can figure this out. A lack of vitamins is easily fixed with Powerade due to it's already semi-broken down sugars allowing for easy, quick digestion. Skin is made less flexible and cold due to there being many less activities within the body creating heat. This lack of warmth in the skin already causes the sun to be much more intense than it usually would be. There is much less to no pigment produced to help defend against the sun, and any damage done to the body will take longer than usual to heal itself.
A quick note, fangs aren't legitimate, you can break skin with a normal bite force and your every day teeth.
As a body shuts down in the manor it would in this situation, the brain also shuts down slightly. It is brought to a more animal like state. Easily agitated, less social, territorial, and more prone to violent acts instead of talking things out. With less desire to be social, a dislike for the sun, and a more hit first ask questions later attitude it's easy to slip away from society who would likely be suspicious of you due to your appearance. I'm sure it's easy to see why you don't see many vampires about, and how folklore forms around them.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Don't you love how you can make a promise to the internet and then forget about it? But even worse, not forget, but put it to the back of your mind. Every once and a while it comes to the front of your thoughts but you just ignore them and continue meditating over your plans, not putting any of them into play.
I said I would get back to blogging however I haven't done so yet. This is me just stopping in typing this up so I feel as if I'm working towards this goal.
Bugworlds
I said I would get back to blogging however I haven't done so yet. This is me just stopping in typing this up so I feel as if I'm working towards this goal.
Bugworlds
Friday, September 10, 2010
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Posterous
I'm in the process of linking my Posterious to this, or maybe do it the other way around if possible? I guess I'll find out once I look into it more. I need a Posterous account for my Ditigal Media and Psychology class. I have the same teacher for both of these classes and they are in similar format it apears, or at least they have many similarities.
On a side note, they keyboard has no room to rest my wrists and this is unconformable to type.. I might end up moving over so the monitor is oddly far to the left or right but then I will be able to type easier. Anyways..
So I'm planning on putting up many of my Digital Media essays, and Psychology essays here too. I have a bunch of things I wish to write on myself also.
Vampires, I saw a documentary on the history of fictional vampires and came to a situation where they could be real; however my explanation is more zombie like.
String theory, quantum physics; I've done a bit of knowledge gaining on these topics and wish to share my thoughts. Tied into this is reality theories, in which I could explain they are actualy your thoughts that you are not aware of. I love it.
I'll be adding more to this list but that's two things I wished to put down so I would remember to get back to it soon.
Bugworlds
On a side note, they keyboard has no room to rest my wrists and this is unconformable to type.. I might end up moving over so the monitor is oddly far to the left or right but then I will be able to type easier. Anyways..
So I'm planning on putting up many of my Digital Media essays, and Psychology essays here too. I have a bunch of things I wish to write on myself also.
Vampires, I saw a documentary on the history of fictional vampires and came to a situation where they could be real; however my explanation is more zombie like.
String theory, quantum physics; I've done a bit of knowledge gaining on these topics and wish to share my thoughts. Tied into this is reality theories, in which I could explain they are actualy your thoughts that you are not aware of. I love it.
I'll be adding more to this list but that's two things I wished to put down so I would remember to get back to it soon.
Bugworlds
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Welcome back?
I'm now into my 12th year of schooling, 13th if you include Kindergarten, and 15th if you include preschool. Wow, that's a lot of schooling. I'm seventeen years old, that's just mind blowing at first thought for me.
Anyways, I thought I would stop in and share with the world; all four or five people who might read this that is, that I have decided to get back into using this blog. I've deleted my previous posts (well hidden them) for I decided they should be shut away from society. All but my Wall*e post, for it's a great one I think and the world should be educated about that movie.
I ran into a moment of inspiration and decided my thoughts needed to be shared with the world though I didn't want to post them all on Facebook and Twitter tends to cut me off a few characters short. I have a habit of speaking, or typing, more than the even the 420 character limit on Facebook has.
So, I'm back, and maybe a couple people will run into my thoughts and enjoy them and come back for more. Maybe I'll even be consistent and update this often.
Have a good day - Bugworlds
Anyways, I thought I would stop in and share with the world; all four or five people who might read this that is, that I have decided to get back into using this blog. I've deleted my previous posts (well hidden them) for I decided they should be shut away from society. All but my Wall*e post, for it's a great one I think and the world should be educated about that movie.
I ran into a moment of inspiration and decided my thoughts needed to be shared with the world though I didn't want to post them all on Facebook and Twitter tends to cut me off a few characters short. I have a habit of speaking, or typing, more than the even the 420 character limit on Facebook has.
So, I'm back, and maybe a couple people will run into my thoughts and enjoy them and come back for more. Maybe I'll even be consistent and update this often.
Have a good day - Bugworlds
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