Done, mofo’s

I am done with high school. Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory school and it’s distorted society can now be a part of my history, not my life. (that’s an interesting philosophical contradiction, but you know what I am saying). The question is now what. My parents are not so subtly hinting towards a job, but I want to spend my summer doing… well not that.
I have a few projects to work on, the sketch videos, the book that will be finished eventually, (eventually!), working out/exercise, and the like. Hanging out with friends will also be a big one. Lots of open houses (aka grad parties everyone has) to attend. Already missed a few big ones I feel bad for missing.
Tomorrow I want to bring my ping pong table to school, set it up, and play it with my friend while everybody would be taking tests. Appropriate? No. Hilarious? yes.
Right then
DONE WITH HIGH SCHOOL FOREVER
(I hope)

Damon fowler follow up

We are Jessica Ahlquist, Damon Fowler, and Harrison Hopkins: Three students fighting prayers in school. AUA : IAmA

Updates to this interesting story as it happens on the internet, i first posted about a few days ago. Reddit taking command, this show of communication is cool.

Charcloth

Chatcloth is like charcoal, but in cloth form. One can use it for kindling or ... well, I don't really know what one uses it for, but my friend wanted some. Me, being his "neutral friend nearby with a firepit" was between he first and fourth person he went to for assistance. He arrived at my house and was honestly surprised wen I didn't know what charcloth was. By taking cotton, tightly packing it into a non airtight container and then heating it up gratuitously, charcoal is easy to make.

Even so, it still doesn't explain what he wanted it for. With this kid, there is never an explanation.

This is Cool

I am typing this post on a 4.5 inch multitouch screen. That right. Bitches, no buttons. This uberthin screen is predicting my touch input and suggesting words for me to type fashion. I mean faster. I am listening to music stores digitally on a failure-proof system miles away. It is streaming through a number of satellites before it comes to this device and losslesly plays. In front of me is an episode of Sunny In Philly also being streamed from miles away, in full HD to my television set. The TV, by the way, is displaying a new HD image 60 times every second.

So that's kinda cool.

And after all that it failed posting on the first try. Boo.

Its an android

Typing this post on my new android Samsung infuse phone. The upgrade has has been long in waiting, necessity. Two finger typing isn't that bad, the text is predictive and when there is no text to predict, punctuation apears in the bar. Its neat. I tried swype, but had to switch away. Two years with old touchscreen, I'm just too used to the tap.
I think I put in a picture I just took, let's see how that turns out. It could make writing wins much easier.

Something Something Something Rapture

Chilling on Reddit tonight. I don’t frequent Reddit for my own reasons, but today I am reading up on the Rapture with the best news in town: Dipshits commenting on dipshits posts. But once you cut through the 98% of useless comments, some good discussion can be found. Anyway, here are some links for the day.

Damon Fowler – High school Atheist living in the bible belt who complained about a school player. (I assume public school). The school stopped the prayer, but the community is lashing out at Damon. The internet is fighting on Damon’s side.

Related to the Damon thing:

•  Go Jareth (think of what Damon has to deal with)
• Another Summary Article from The official blog of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
• Damon’s Brother Updates us

Related to the Rapture

• Rapture Excuse Bingo Card
• Facebook Status
• Sounds like a plan
• If no Rapture joke
• The Oatmeal gives us his two cents
• Excellent Point
• Doonesbury Nails it
• The Onion

If, of course, you honestly wanted to know what the rapture was, you can

A: Google it. I got these results:

• jesus-is-the-way.com/Rapture.html
• www.raptureready.com/faq/faq149.html
• christianity.about.com/od/faqhelpdesk/a/whatisrapture.htm
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture

B: Click this

C: Follow the knowledge of two girls I was walking behind, listening to, after school today

“So the world is going to end tomorrow?”
”No, Only terrorists believe that”

I kid you not.

D: None of the above, because you are too busy grieving over Macho Man Randy Savage, RIP.

Writing down every damn thought

My friend and I are toying with the idea of creating some sketch comedy pieces. He had previously (ok, still does) consider the genre a dirty style of comedy, but I pointed out that it isn’t dirty. Only concise. I am wary to do it because I am a perfectionist and I don’t want to make crap.
But we probably will, which leads us to our next problem. The ideas. We have them already, but will always have more. I have one central collection notebook which acts as a fishing net for all of my ideas and such. Stefan uses some app on his IPhone. But going thru my notebooks, it was very annoying to filter the different ideas. So from here on out I am carrying a second (lighter, thinner, paperback) notebook (moleskin, of course) to take comedy notes down while other notes go in the reporter style notebook as always. I have rocked separate notebooks before, when I carried ‘the list’ which is a list of movies that I want to see, reminding myself.
As for the sketches, we will try and balance strait up sketches with more vloggy, sitcomy, play ourselves-ey, humor, which also there are lots of ideas for. It should be very funny, but can we master lighting, camera work, editing, and make it look good?