Alarm System

I need to create an alarm clock for heavy sleepers.  You know, one that has arms that can reach over and shake you until you are awake.  I have the misfortune of not only lacking sleep constantly because of my work hours, but the sleep I do get, I enjoy a little to much so I constantly over sleep.  I am suppose to wake up at 6:30am so I can get to my 8am class without rushing around and still get there on time.  However, my alarm never wakes me up.  I have tried just about everything to help.  Before the semester started I made myself wake up at 6 everyday for two weeks so that I could be use to waking up so early once school started.  This worked a little, minus the fact that I would go back to sleep.  Now that school is in session I started with two alarms...didn't work.  Okay, I'll try three, nope that didn't work either.  So then I heard that if you have a light turn on like a half hour before you wake up, it is suppose to be easier for you to wake up.  Well that didn't work either.  Today I set FIVE alarms, and opened my blinds to help me wake up.  I over slept by two hours!! I gotta get working on this invention, me becoming a morning person depends on it.

phone robbery

SO unfortunately for me, I recently just broke my htc hero due to water damage.... Even though I have insurance on my phone I still had to purchase a new one so not to be dropped from the "insurance" company of my phone.  You're only allowed three phones a year, depending on the reason for the phone breaking.  They do not cover water damage...sooo I could either buy my same old phone for $350.... or buy the new upgraded phone, which was also $350.... I went from hero to evo. I LOVE my evo.  It's amazing. It is so much faster, it does so much more, I am less likely to drop it cuz it is HUGE, etc. HOWEVER because it is "so advanced" and is using the 4g network now.... I have to pay an extra 10 bucks a month so I can have a 4G network...HERE IS THE KICKER.... not everyone has 4G first of all... You are LUCKY if you are in a 4G network....so I am paying for  network that I barely get to use, but constantly searching for this "amazing" network KILLS my battery, I am lucky if it makes it to the end of the day. So I had to buy a car charger to help my phone battery.  This "amazing" phone is saving me money and costing me an arm and a leg all at the same time.  People are saying that Sprint is going out of business.... well at the rates they're upcharges are... I am definitely keeping them in business. My evo is a blessing and a curse.  Once again I say I hate/love technology. Stupid phone.

Technology fail

As much as technology has done for us and how far we have come with it, I still hate it.  The facebooking, the blogging, the constantly needing to be on my phone. I had a huge project due this week, I worked HOURSSSS on this project.  Last step on this final project. the entire project goes missing.  After I constantly saved to be sure it didn't get erased.  Project gone.   Oh yes, I had to start over, fail.  I hate and love technology.  woof.

Community

In recent class discussions we talked about how urbanization does not have community.  I have a great example of this.  If you live in an "urban" area.  You are most likely to live in some kind of apartment complex or something of that sort.   They say that when you live in this sort of environment you are most likely to not know your neighbor or even if you do know your neighbor you do not have any kind of friendship or relationship with your neighbor.  Meaning if you lived in a "community" you are more than likely to have some kind of friendship with your neighbor.   Say you were to go to jail, would you be able to call your neighbor to bail you out? Do you even know your neighbor's phone number? Well I live in the suburbs, in an apartment complex.  There are probably 8 apartment building in my complex.  I do not know a single neighbor.  I recently had my car battery die in the morning when I was suppose to be at school.  I did not have one neighbor that would be able to help me.  There EIGHT FOUR STORY APARTMENT BUILDINGS, most of which are two to three bedroom apartments.  With all of these people that I have my "complex" none of them could help me jump my car.  I did not have a "neighbor's" number to call.  So I had to wait two hours for my dad to drive all the way over to my apartment to jump my car.  I absolutely believe that "urbanization" looses the sense of a community. However urbanization is not just in the city, it's in the suburbs to.  It is wherever there is not a "white picket fence" neighborhood.  I think that it is not due to city dwelling, it is the way people have evolved in general.  Stupid urbanization.

googled?

I do not think it's scary or horrible that google is "colonizing earth".  I think that someday it can be an asset to some kind of global future.  My concern is with the fact of how everything is so accessible.  Not just for privacy and the fact that all you have to do is type in some ones name and you can learn how much they paid for their house, things about their future, and so on.  It also makes me nervous for today's youth, including people my age.  The problem with google is it has made it's users, including myself, lazy.  For instance, research projects for school, or even when you have a "real" job.  It is so easy to just copy and paste someone else's work or find false/random  information.  It has become harder to tell what is actually  "legit" information.  It's not that making information more accessible is entirely bad, but when you make things that easy to find, it makes people lethargic.  I feel like in turn this makes people lethargic in life in general.  Google makes everything so easy, I feel eventually people will lose the knowledge of what "good hard work" is.  

Zombie Kid Likes Turtles

So this video was on TOSH.O recently and I still think it is hilarious. Daniel Tosh does his "web redemption" with little Jonathan and surrounds him with turtles. He repeats turtles over and over and I think he even made him eat some food with the word turtle in it. Then when it comes time for the redemption Jonathan says, "I like zombies". My friends and I have a new way of saying that the other is stupid by saying "I like turtles". :) Thank you Daniel Tosh and Jonathan.