My friend Mario and I decided to work on a science project testing the effects of acid rain on plants. When my teacher heard this, she said that we’d have to change our topic, as another group already chose one similar to it. Then, seeing as to how we chose to test plants and the other group chose to use seeds, she let us do it.
What gets me mad is, the other group stole our idea. They had overheard us somehow (they sit near us during most classes) and chose to get their idea approved before we did.
This was done by the goody two-shoes clique. There’s these three girls who always get good grades. They don’t really talk to others. One of them tried to get a friend of mine a 75 on a quiz, but the teacher changed it. They always get away with stuff. They talk during class, and even do their homework during lunch. They go to the library and do their homework while they talk about people in the class and whatnot.
I’ve gone to school on time today and yesterday. It’s because my Math teacher said I’ve been late a bit too many times. I noticed why I can actually go on time. When I used to be late, I used to hit the snooze button on my alarm clock like 5 times. Now, I hit it just once. Also, I’ve gotten myself to stop falling asleep on the toilet. I think to myself, “You’re not going anywhere doing this, so there’s no use!” It works. I feel different, like I have some more self-confidence, now that I go to school on time.
I’ve started using Bloglines, seeing as to how much better it is than Kinja. I am subsrcibed to a buttload of feeds right now. My feeds are at bloglines.com/public/Shahid. I like the way it’s sorta like checking your email.
I subscribed to some Xanga users’ sites. I found that it was easy to get an RSS feed for a Xanga site. All you have to do is change the word “home” in the URL to “rss” and you’ll have a feed. For example, http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=ambia15 can be changed to http://www.xanga.com/rss.aspx?user=ambia15
Today, I got to work on the new iBook that my school’s after-school department got. I didn’t got to after-school for a while since I had to take penicillin right after school. My school is small, so the department’s head decided to get just one. We use it in the guitar/band/music class. On Wednesdays, we learn how to use computers to make music. My teacher had never used GarageBand, but he let us try it out. There were only three people in the class and one of the kids was working on the teacher’s Windows laptop. It was awesome! I really liked how easy it was to use GarageBand.
I’m taking my iPod into the Genius Bar on Sunday. I need to see whether it’s my PC that’s buggy or my iPod. Luckily, my iPod can still play music. I’m really enjoying the randomness of the music I found on it. I hadn’t played my iTunes library for a while and I had a buttload of free music (downloaded on Tuesdays).
I also wanted to talk about this girl that I sometimes see when I’m going to my Spanish class. She’s like in 10th grade or something. I find it annoying when she sings tries to sing a song. Usually, it’s a song I like (like “Somebody Told Me” by The Killers), which makes it more annoying. She really can’t sing. She sings off-key! I don’t bother saying anything. I don’t want to be mean.
I need to think of a person to write a biography on. My first choice was Evan Williams. Then I thought about Jason Kottke. Now, I’m thinking about Che Guevara. I need ideas! This is a time when my readers can actually hep me! Please make suggestions by leaving comments!
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March 29, 2005 in
School.
Only when you are getting the plagiarist in trouble, though. Seems like a guy, named Nate, got an IM from a girl, Laura, asking for help with a 5-page essay on Hinduism. He decided to mess with the girl. Here’s what the guy had to say:
But it wasn’t enough to get her to tell me to [mess with] myself, so I started making up my plan. Which was real simple: Take her money and cut and paste a paper together from the internet that was so obviously plagiarised that she’d be guaranteed to get caught. And then, if I was able to get the information out of her, I’d report her to whatever her school was, and who knows, maybe even pump her for double money in exchange for not turning her in. Either way, I’d eventually be writing the story up in this blog, and sending her the link to it.
I find it really funny that she had to ask for help a 5-page essay, when I had stayed up all night working on a 30-page essay. I find it even funnier that she’s gonna get in trouble since the guy posted the essay on his blog. We all know that teachers Google text from stuff they suspect plagiarism in! Also, Nate sent the girl’s school president a link to the blog post!
With the help of Julian, I was able to get my iPod fixed, at home! This is soooooooo sweet! I even got 16 free songs because I set up my iPod with the new iTunes and “new” iPod users get a free sampler. I’m so excited. The user interface is different on my iPod because it’s up-to-date now. I can’t wait to start using stuff like podcasts and eBooks.
I just came back from a neighbor’s wedding. It was pretty fun. I took a buttload of photos and even a few videos. I’ll post some on Flickr when my camera’s charged. I also met a few kids who think that Gmail is bad, blogs are pointless, and Macs are for “monkeys who like shiny things.” I didn’t like that, but there was no one else to talk to, so go figure.
I was gonna take my iPod into the Apple Genius Bar, but I couldn’t go because of the wedding. The wedding was a few blocks away from the mall where the store is. I turned my iPod on to let it charge, and it’s not charging. It just keeps alternating between an Apple logo and a “folder icon.” Now, it won’t even go to sleep! I’m probably gonna take my iPod in next Sunday. If nothing can be done about my iPod, I’ll have to send it into Apple to get it repaired/replaced.
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My old art teacher once told us that if you are trying to draw something and you don’t have a good idea of what it looks like, Google it, and print out the Image Search results. A brilliant idea which I’m shocked I didn’t think of.
I think I might be getting the new Pokemon game, Pokemon Emerald Version. Pokemon fever has still gotten me.
