Blog 30 4/30/12

It's That Time!

Last blog of the year. ::sigh::

I'm not even gonna lie. I'm glad this year is coming to a close. It's been a pretty rough one for me. In some ways it feels like we just started, and in some ways it feels like we've been here for 2,304 months. Do you feel that way too or is it just me?

One of the things I like to do at the end of the year is post some of the strange things that have come out of some of our mouths in this room.

Things like (from my mouth):

1) Zachary! Nobody cares how you feeeeeeeeeel. This is the REAL world. How you feel doesn't matter. Only your mother cares about you!

2) DJ! Stop touching yourself from the neck up!

3) What is going on in here? Trying to have a conversation with you people is like trying to herd cats!

4) Elizabeth! Take your medicine! I'm blaming THIS on you!

5) Me: I don't know what Emily's problem is, other than she's sandwiched between two boys. Curly: Ms. L. That didn't sound good.

6) Rye! Put Cloudy out. He's on fire! Ashley: How's she gonna put him out when she's flaming herself?

7) Birdie! If you keep singing country songs I'm gonna call somebody and have your brother card repossessed!

8) Os! Butt is not better than boobage!

9) I don't care! You don't just get to pirate and ninja your way through life! (Anybody remember who this was directed at?)

10) Black is 100% black.

11) Gary! This is a very famous band called The Beatles. You may have heard of them. They have nothing to do with either Jesus OR McDonalds.

12) (To Gary in the hospital) Hey Gare, you want me to bring you some magazines? People? Truckin? Gary: Only you, Ms. L., would ask me if I want a Truckin' magazine right after I got hit by a truck.


From yall's mouths:

1) I CAN move my upper body that fast, THANK YOU! (Tyler L)

2) You can't spray paint camoflage properly. (Mandi P)

3) I have a friend who makes meth. (Seth R)

4) You could give them laser guns . . . (Daniel M)

5) The whole bus thing does not satisfy me. (Caroline K)

6) I hate eyeballs so much (Mandi P, who was actually saying she hated iBoss so much)

7) Can I get a grade for breathing? (Norma O)

8) So Photoshop is how we get into heaven? Oh crap! (Seth R)

9) I don't watch pony shows (James Y)

10) I like elevators. (Trenton B)

11) It's a structured kind of insanity (Cody H)

12) Os: "Caroline?" Caroline: "What Os?" Os: "Nothing. I just like saying your name."

13) What if some people are horizontal? (Gary B)

14) It's ok Ms. L, I get on my OWN nerves sometimes (OsMan)

15) I like beans. (Neil B)

16) I just recently figured out that TGIF and TGIFridays is the same thing. (Ellen A)

17) His tongue is just so disagreeable (Daniel M)

18) I done did it. (Gary B)

19) Welllllll, I'm certainly no expert on mythological creatures. (Reid P)

20) Stop touching things! (Tobin to Victor in Photoshop)

21) AAAHHHHHHHHHH! (Sam when I hit him with a rolled-up newspaper)

22) OMG Mrs. L. has a stalker laugh (Eli G)

23) Can I play with my magic kit now? (Seth R)

24) Mrs. L! Tiffany! (Birdie)

25) Uh . . . . yeah . . . I don't know what's going on. (Rye K)

26) There's plenty of dinosaurs in the sea (Gary B)

27) I hope I get a quote (Tyler S, who I hope is reading this from California. We still miss you!)


And one day when I didn't seem to be hearing correctly:

1) I hate being so sexy. (Jordy, who was actually saying he hated being dyslexic)

2) I'm gonna get hammered all the time. (Daniel, who was actually telling me he's gonna go camping all the time when he goes to college in central Arkansas)



So for your blog credit this week, I want you to do one of two things: 1) Log in and give me your favorite memory from class. OR 2) Log in and leave a piece of advice for next year's class (ala Ms. Christian).

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Blog 29 4/16/12

Hiya Peeps!

Continuing along the house of the future, let's talk about some future kitchen technology.

Back in the day, they thought our kitchens would be WAAAAAAAY further advanced than they are today. I found a you tube video to check out. It also includes more about the Monsanto house:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiACOLuYlJ4


These videos make me LOL. I don't know about YOU, but I'm ALWAYS that dressed up when I'M in the kitchen. Also, I randomly break out in song and dance.

I do dig that rotation see through oven though . . .

So for blog credit this week, go visit this site.

http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/category/home-gadgets/kitchen/

Pick a piece of new kitchen technology and give us an opinion. Please make sure you tell us which product your talking about.

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Blog 28 4/9/12

Howdy Peeps!

Go here and watch these two house of the future videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DJr8QwgLEA&feature=fvst

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38&feature=fvst

For credit this week pick any house feature on one of the videos and give us an opinion. Tell us how you would use it. Tell us why you think it's stupid. Please give me some thought.

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Blog 27 4/2/12

Hiya folks! Thanks for logging in!

Continuing on the house of the future topic, a dude named Bucky Fuller envisioned a long time ago that we'd all be living in manufactured housing.

Go here and read this:

http://www.yesterland.com/dymaxion.html

I don't know about you, but I have a tendency to think that all that shiny metal would give me a headache.

And then there's Disneyland's version of future housing. Go here and read this:

http://www.yesterland.com/futurehouse.html

For blog credit this week, tell me which of these style houses you'd rather have and why.

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Blog 26 3/26/12

Howdy! Thanks for logging in!

So it's time to switch topics. I thought we would explore new household technology for a hot minute.

I've noticed that one of the areas of our lives that advances the fastest is home technology. Just when we get the newest thing bought for our home, the next newest thing is coming along.

Such as this sweet little invention:

http://www.frontgate.com/set-of-two-audiobulb-wireless-speaker-light-bulbs/399794?SourceCode=ZZ50896&cm_mmc=SEM%20Product-_-Google-_-keyword=wireless+light+bulb+speaker-_-Wireless%20Audio%20Bulbs


How 'bout a lightbulb that is also a bluetooth speaker? Heck yeah. Walk into the room, let my bluetooth on my phone find my lightbulb / speaker, play my tunes straight from my phone wirelessly. To my lightbulb. Maybe yall aren't understanding just how cool this is!

So your task this week is to go out on the internets and find something cool for your house (it must be technology related) and come back and post a link here, along with your OPINION. Please don't cut and paste description, we can all read TYVM. As always when we do this kind of thing. you may NOT use a link that has already been posted.

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Blog 25 3/19/12

Hola homies! Thanks for stopping by!

In preparation of switching topics, go here:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/

Pick a product and tell me why you dig it, or conversely tell me why you think it's the stupidest thing ever. Post the link to the product so the rest of us can go look at it and make fun of it with you.

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Blog 24 3/5/12

Hola!

Can I just say . . . . COME ON SPRING BREAK!!!!!

Whew. I feel better.

So last week I was watching Good Morning America and they featured a vibration machine that is for weight loss. For real. I could barely watch through the tears running down my face I was laughing so hard.

Back in the day I can remember my mom and aunt going to a gym for ladies called "Figure World" and it had a machine that jiggled you all over much like this new-fangled contraption.

So for credit this week go read this article and give me your opinion of this "new" idea of vibration machines. Will they work? If you lose weight from this machine will it last? Can I eat pizza while I'm using it?

And while you're at it, go Google and see if you can find a picture of the old-timey ones with the belt you wrapped around you.

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http://www.vibrationmachine.biz/