I raced the bus to school the past few days. I rode about fifteen miles from home to school. All this to prove the inefficiancy of the schools system, established by hypocritical ignorant boobs that try to act like they know everything.
The bus comes usually at 7:10 in the morning. This is not even fact, for some days it comes at 7:06, or 7:16. Sometimes, the bus doesn't come at all. Yes. It just decides not to show up. This happens about once every two weeks or so. It's not even like the bus has a routine it is in.
Arrival time variability is a result of poor scheduling and poor disipline of drivers.
I departed from my house at 7:10, about the time the bus arrives at my stop. I progressed to the school, and successfully beat all the buses to the school, by about fifteen minutes. No sweat is on my back, no huffing and puffing. I can proceed to class early.
At 7:35, most of the buses have arrived. About fifty buses sit in a line, full of students. At 7:37, they release the students. Yes, they release all the students, all at once. Yay! Hello gridlock at the front doors!
Who thought that the idea of keeping all the buses sitting in the lot full of students until a predetermined time? Why would you do this, and not let the buses discharge students as they arrive.
Why would you do this!!?? Why would you wait for every student to arrive, then open the doors and let three thousand students onto the sidewalk at once? Why wouldn't you let the buses discharge students as they arrive? Why?
Why wouldn't you want to reduce the amount of students in one spot at once? Why wouldn't you want to reduce gridlock on the road, as all fifty buses depart the school at once, all going in the same direction?
Why?
I ride my bike home, and beat it by fifteen minutes. I stopped at Wendy's for lunch.
Wow, I didn't think a bike was faster than a car. Guess I was wrong...
I wonder why...
Friday, May 22, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
The Value of Project Lead the Way
I sit at my computer station for Digital Electronics now. After just eighty minutes of Jazz Ensemble rehearsal where intense feelings mix with hypocritical thinkings, I sit here, bored out of my mind wondering what the hell I should do.
I do this every other day, day after day, week after week. Sitting at my computer for Digital Electronics.
On occasions (now usually known as 'special occasions') we get an assignment to complete. The groupies and I complete it in all due speed, making the project into a team effort so that we can complete it in minimal time. We soon return to online chats that bypass surf control, enjoying the time before the work begins next block; English.
Our teacher doesn't care, really. I can recall a day a group of us students downloaded Quake and hooked up to a server for multiplayer action. Teacher made a round of the computers, walking behind child after child not designing circuits, but playing Quake. Everyone looked at each other, the same message engraved into our face: "Uh-oh, the shits hit the fan now." Nah, teacher didn't scold us for such actions, but rather asked us where we got it. He wanted it for his computer too. I guess multiplayer action is too intense to resist, even for the most pompous of us.
We had two grades for the entire quarter. A test taken in class, which wasn't graded, in which everyone got a hundred. And a breadboard assignment. Everyone did it for another one hundred.
So I sit here at my computer station in Digital Electronics with a one hundred average, but not knowing what the hell I should know.
This works.
Until the final...
I do this every other day, day after day, week after week. Sitting at my computer for Digital Electronics.
On occasions (now usually known as 'special occasions') we get an assignment to complete. The groupies and I complete it in all due speed, making the project into a team effort so that we can complete it in minimal time. We soon return to online chats that bypass surf control, enjoying the time before the work begins next block; English.
Our teacher doesn't care, really. I can recall a day a group of us students downloaded Quake and hooked up to a server for multiplayer action. Teacher made a round of the computers, walking behind child after child not designing circuits, but playing Quake. Everyone looked at each other, the same message engraved into our face: "Uh-oh, the shits hit the fan now." Nah, teacher didn't scold us for such actions, but rather asked us where we got it. He wanted it for his computer too. I guess multiplayer action is too intense to resist, even for the most pompous of us.
We had two grades for the entire quarter. A test taken in class, which wasn't graded, in which everyone got a hundred. And a breadboard assignment. Everyone did it for another one hundred.
So I sit here at my computer station in Digital Electronics with a one hundred average, but not knowing what the hell I should know.
This works.
Until the final...
What happened to jazz?
Jazz today dominates about only 3% of the music market, and for some obvious reasons.
1. People differ in the way they listen to music. Some people listen to music for rhythm, chords, and feeling. Others listen to music to decipher the lyrics of a song to get the meaning of them. People usually change what they are tuned into song to song. On a Chinese song, per say, an American usually doesn’t listen for the lyrics, but more for the rhythm, chords, and feel. At the same time, an American listening to an American song, will most likely search for meaning in the lyrics. Still, people have a dominant side to themselves. A person will be dominant either to lyrics or rhythm. Sadly, as the years have progressed since the inception of the jazz style of music, people have progress from listening to rhythm into those who want lyrics. Jazz, though, has remained a music form which draws itself upon the formation of complex tones, and deep chords that can either attract or repel the ear. These variations make jazz jazz. But, with the majority of people listening for lyrics, these chords, feels, and rhythms go unnoticed. This repels people from jazz, as it has nothing new to offer from what they can hear.
2. Ever since the conception of television stations who deal with music, such as MTV, people have become less involved with the music that is actually being played, but more with the video being played. Now, if a song has a great video, people love it. The rhythm that reflects in the song is ignored, along with the lyrics. This kills jazz, for it isn’t a music genre made for fancy music videos, flashy dancing, or light shows starting epileptic seizers. It is a form of music that fuels itself off of those who write it, play it, and most importantly, listen to it.
3. Does the technology/digital age play a role in the downfall of jazz? Yes, it does. As people around the world become more accustomed to having information available to them at the click of a mouse, their ability to wait for information cliff dives. No longer do people want to stop and think about what they want to, or are doing. They instead want stuff handed to them now…no thought involved. Jazz, though, requires everyone involved with it to stop and think. This being against what is wanted, no one wants involvement with it, thus leading to its downfall.
Yeah, So that stuff kinda can kill jazz popularity.
1. People differ in the way they listen to music. Some people listen to music for rhythm, chords, and feeling. Others listen to music to decipher the lyrics of a song to get the meaning of them. People usually change what they are tuned into song to song. On a Chinese song, per say, an American usually doesn’t listen for the lyrics, but more for the rhythm, chords, and feel. At the same time, an American listening to an American song, will most likely search for meaning in the lyrics. Still, people have a dominant side to themselves. A person will be dominant either to lyrics or rhythm. Sadly, as the years have progressed since the inception of the jazz style of music, people have progress from listening to rhythm into those who want lyrics. Jazz, though, has remained a music form which draws itself upon the formation of complex tones, and deep chords that can either attract or repel the ear. These variations make jazz jazz. But, with the majority of people listening for lyrics, these chords, feels, and rhythms go unnoticed. This repels people from jazz, as it has nothing new to offer from what they can hear.
2. Ever since the conception of television stations who deal with music, such as MTV, people have become less involved with the music that is actually being played, but more with the video being played. Now, if a song has a great video, people love it. The rhythm that reflects in the song is ignored, along with the lyrics. This kills jazz, for it isn’t a music genre made for fancy music videos, flashy dancing, or light shows starting epileptic seizers. It is a form of music that fuels itself off of those who write it, play it, and most importantly, listen to it.
3. Does the technology/digital age play a role in the downfall of jazz? Yes, it does. As people around the world become more accustomed to having information available to them at the click of a mouse, their ability to wait for information cliff dives. No longer do people want to stop and think about what they want to, or are doing. They instead want stuff handed to them now…no thought involved. Jazz, though, requires everyone involved with it to stop and think. This being against what is wanted, no one wants involvement with it, thus leading to its downfall.
Yeah, So that stuff kinda can kill jazz popularity.
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