Weekly Blog Post

In most cases I enjoy a good joke. On April 1st, a new YouTube video came out. It was the legend of Zelda movie trailer, and it looked like it was going to be an awesome movie. I am a big movie buff and so I was excited to see the movie. I would assume that, since I am not a huge video game person and I was still excited about it, that a person that was into video games would be doubly excited. A few days later I was talking to my friend Aaron about the trailer and he let me know that it was just an April fools joke. He understandably was bummed since he is the biggest Zelda fan I have ever met. I was bummed as I said because I like movies. I understand that the people responsible for making the trailer just wanted to mess with people, but I think that is the wrong way of doing it. Aaron said "this would be the greatest movie of all time..." maybe the joke will be on the people who made the trailer, when they realise how much money they could have made on the movie. Perhaps, since it was such a big hit the trailer will become a real movie. Until them we can only hope.

Weekly Blog Post

Talk about a temper. In Allentown Pa. a man was charged with pushing a friend down a 500 foot coal mine! That is not the type of friend that I want to have. The kicker about it was the friend that got pushed, survived the fall! Richard D. George was the pusher and the friend that got pushed was Nathan Bowman. The two 23 year olds had gotten into an argument and then that’s when the push accrued. George called 911 after pushing his friend. Later while questioned told a story that made little sense and then finally admitted to the crime. George was charged with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and other offenses. Bowman, the friend that got pushed came out with a broken collarbone, broken tailbone, and suffered injuries to his ankle and writs. Talk about getting off easy. I mean out of context those injuries would be a total bummer but after a 500 foot fall, I would be very happy to be alive.

Weekly Blog Post

The world is hungry. Lately there has been a real problem with food shortages throughout the world. Some of the contributing factors are, drought, the continuing rise in the cost of gas, and methods for alternative fuels. As for the drought, that is an issue all its own, I am here to talk about the gas. The cost of gas has always been an issue with consumers, yet instead of people doing anything about it, most times they just deal with it and pay up. Currently in America uses gas for most our transportation vehicles, from boats to cars to airplanes. America uses large ships to import various goods throughout the world. The large ships use large amounts of gas, not to mention the possibility of springing a leak and not only, waiting even more gas, but also doing serious damage to the ecosystem. The cost of shipping from one country to the next has helped to contribute to the rise in the cost in gas, and with it, the rise in the cost of food. So, people say “well, gas is getting expensive what can we do?” they think about it. “Hey I have a great idea, we can start to convert to an alternative fuel we will use ethanol!” “What!? Are you nuts? We have a monopoly on gasoline not ethanol, anyone can make ethanol.” “We will make a specific type, and we will use corn, we have so much of it already and we will keep our monopoly on the fuel industry, why not?” “Hey that’s swell!” Well, we did have plenty of corn, for people to eat. Once we started making fuel out of it, it stopped being so cheap. These factors combined together make one big problem for the world. If people were less concerned with money and more concerned with the rest of the world, maybe we could make a real solution.

Reflective writing assignment

The center point for my final multimedia project is surfing. I have already gotten started on the video, I have already shot the footage, at least most of it, and I have began to edit. For the rest of my multimedia assignment I intend to have some still photos, links to other sites about or relating to surfing, and an explanation about my project. I think this will be a worth while effort because I will be able to use what I accomplish in this class in my 100W class also. This class will be/ is different from my other in class lab assignments because for one reason much of the work is done outside of the class. Much of the rest of my material and research will also be done outside of the class. It is hard to say the amount of time that will be spent on this project because it will be spread out threw a number of days. I would say that I have already spent about eight hours on the project so far and I am only about a quarter of the way through it. I look forward to the completed product.

The Bagel Trap

For my video project my girlfriend Kelsey and I made a video about our trip to the House of Bagels. Here it is, I hope you enjoy it.