blogging abt geeks 2

1b. What was your first encounter with the internet like? What are some things you remember using the internet for then? Describe your relationship with the Internet compared to other forms of mass media: radio, television, film, books, etc.

I mean when we first got our computer there wasn't alot for like 7 year olds to do so i mostly just played browser games on y8 (thats also a throwback lmao) and i had a facebook (not at age 7 i got one in 6th grade they should not give 6th graders facebooks i cringe at what i have written on there) and i talked to my two friends that i had at school it was great but then we left that school and i dont talk to either of them anymore lmfao but one of them is hot now so thats great i want to love him

blogging abt geeks

1a. Describe your first experiences with computers and the internet. A. What was your first computer? What did you use it for? How did you react to it? Describe your memory to the best of your ability.

so my first experience with computers i think my dad got a computer for the family quote unquote but it was just me and my sister who used it to play browser games like poptropica (wow what a throwback do yall remember that HAh me neither)

i guess she used the computer more than me so her eyes are like bad and she wears glasses and contacts and she told me a story about how before she corrected her vision with nerd goggles she would sit there in her 6th grade class and she was blind asab so she couldn't see the board LMFAOOO IM CRYING

how did i react??? i guess i liked it alot bc i spent alot of time on it and we had fun but my sister had the comfy chair so i had to stand next to her and my legs would hurt and she didn't care i still love her though #shoutouttosis2017 *insert 100 emoji*

my attempt at writing like john green

At times I thought that the universe would play with my life for no clear reason, and the stars would die and explode with laughter at my dismay. The beautiful man named Luis sat down at the table across from me, dropping a plastic container of food onto the surface loudly. If I hadn’t been so deep in thought, I would’ve jumped at the sound. He raised his arms questioningly, like he was waiting for something witty to happen.

“Nothing?” He laughed while screeching a chair across the room.

“Oh sorry, I’m just uh,” I audibly sighed. “Thinking about some stuff.”

Luis nodded with a mouth full of food. The smells of ethnic food drew my attention. “Yeah, we’ve gotta do that every now and then.” I snapped out of my daze to look over at what he was doing. He was now paying no attention to me, as if I had only existed to him for a second. So wrapped up in the things that were happening on his phone. I didn’t mind it, since it’s not like someone like him would do anything otherwise. I sat there in admiring him in a neutral state. Observing the little things that he did when he thought no one was watching. The occasional eye twitch when you try to keep still and focus, the little smirk when something amusing scrolls by, the tapping of the leg when your mind was absent and the body was free to do what it wanted. I appreciated all of it, and he didn’t even know.

technology when i was little

Think about the media technologies in your life when you were growing up. How did you watch TV shows, listen to music, or communicate with friends? How have those technologies changed since you were very young? 

So I was born in 2002 so therefore I am an angsty teen

The technology that we have today isn't really that advanced from childhood, I guess the closest thing that we have to advancement in our tech is smartphones. Very basic thing to say. The TV that I watched was always on this big box with a huge screen. Movies were pretty much in the same manner or at the theater. Looking back, I wasn't very much of a music fan. It's just so crazy to me now since at the moment, I'm someone who's music is very important to me. My headphones have to be on me always. I didn't start having actual friends that I wanted to talk to outside of school until like 5th grade, and I did that on Facebook. You know, the most basic form. It was either facebook or calling on the phone. 

im back

hi did you miss me

Q. Pick an example media product that you like or find helpful to your own life (it probably should be something you already consume). Explain what it is and why you find the product useful or helpful. Give some examples as to how the product has use (in other words: what good is the product to your own life or experience--why do you like it? etc.)

A. so im gonna talk about a TV show i like and its called Parks and Recreation

most of the people that i've watched this with dont like it bc they think its corny and not funny

i dont know if this is a fact or not but the show format is like almost exact to The Office (maybe because the directors are the same idk??) The thing i really like about both of those shows is this really weird thing that they do when a joke is told or something happens thats really awkward they zoom into the actor's face and that makes me laugh really hard for some reason

something thats harmful to the public is buzzfeed bc its very biased and propaganda based / like its all feminist and leftist and they all hate men for some reason like why some of the men hate men liike wat 

♥♥my favorite quotes from the elegance of the hedgehog♥♥

by Muriel, Barbery.

“People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.”

“If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.”

“I have finally concluded, maybe that's what life is about: there's a lot of despair, but also the odd moment of beauty, where time is no longer the same. It's as if those strains of music created a sort of interlude in time, something suspended, an elsewhere that had come to us, an always within never. Yes, that's it, an always within never.”

“Do you know that it is in your company that I have had my finest thoughts?”

“The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.”

“Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls.”

“Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an adult and you realize that's not true, it's too late.”

 (MY ABSOLUTE 1000% FAVORITE) :
“They didn't recognize me," I repeat.
He stops in turn, my hand still on his arm.
"It is because they have never seen you," he says. "I would recognize you anywhere.”

“When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.”

“We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.”

“There is always the easy way out, although I am loath to use it. I have no children, I do not watch television and I do not believe in God- all paths taken by mortals to make their lives easier. Children help us to defer the painful task of confronting ourselves, and grandchildren take over from them. Television distracts us from the onerous necessity of finding projects to construct in the vacuity of our frivolous lives; by beguiling our eyes, television releases our mind from the great work of making meaning. Finally, God appeases our animal fears and the unbearable prospect that someday all our pleasures will cease. Thus, as I have neither future nor progeny nor pixels to deaden the cosmic awareness of absurdity, and in the certainty of the end and the anticipation of the void, I believe I can affirm that I have not chosen the easy path.”