What Dreams May Come

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As you may or may not know: I have given up on love. It’s been a while now, I think it started over a year ago. I realized I have enough problems in life without dealing with women. However, last night something happened that made me think. I had a dream.

Now I know what you’re thinking, “Oh my god, you had a dream, so did the rest of the planet asshole.” Well, yeah, a lot of people have dreams and a lot of people have dreams they don’t forget the moment they wake up, and a lot of people have dreams they can’t get out of their head. But I’m still going to write about it so bite me. Continue reading →

Apple Sucks, Part 1: Pretty Doesn’t Mean Better

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In the Shield offices at college we use Macs exclusively. I recently asked Chris if we could get at least one Windows machine in the office, he said no because our industry uses Macs. So I am more or less forced to use it. Now as one would expect, I have standard user privileges, I am locked out of adjusting many features and the console. But even taking that into consideration I notice something. Despite Apple’s advertisements, despite the aesthetic appearances, and despite the word of my peers praising the platform, the Mac just plain sucks. Continue reading →

Why Politicians Suck!

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Being a journalist…in training, one of the essential habits I need to develop is paying attention to the news. I’m working on it. When you do, you realise that there is a lot going on in the world, and it is fucking crazy.

One big thing that occurred was an issue dubbed “Ticketgate”. As you might be able to tell from the name, it was a political scandal.

It all started with a big announcement: Elton John is coming to Sudbury!!! One of two Canadian stops. Apparently he likes playing small venues. Me and my classmates first heard about it from our coordinator on The Cambrian Shield, Chris. One of my classmates, Shaun, was assigned to the story and Chris tried to get him an interview with the man himself…no such luck…apparently Elton don’t talk to the press. Chris tried mentioning that we were not mainstream media…and outing Shaun (he’s not actually gay, which is why it’s so goddamn funny), didn’t work. I guess one wouldn’t expect that to work, but at least he tried. I guess Elton had some bad experiences and he hates us now or something…just like Steven Harper.

But I digress. The journalist on the city hall beat for the Sudbury Star, Denis St. Pierre (I think that’s his name, I’m workin’ off of memory here), broke the story that after people waited outside in the freezing cold (this was in winter by the way) for several hours, some leaving empty handed because of how quickly they sold out, 100 tickets were reserved for city council members…I’ll repeat that…100 tickets were distributed among 13 people before being released to the general public…100…divided by 13…that’s a little under 8 tickets each. Continue reading →

College Politics

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So after that high school mess I signed up for Journalism at Cambrian College. I went to Cambrian to save money by living at home.

Journalism is interesting, but I must say at this particular college they had this odd thing called an independent study course. We pay for a course they don’t teach, instead we buy a book, separately, and they test us on it twice during the semester. What are we paying for? The test? I didn’t come to college to be tested…I came to learn. Courses cost money to pay for equipment (that are not books) and teachers, but there is no equipment and they are not actually teaching us. We were supposed to take two “courses” in our first year (one per semester), I ended up failing the first course I was to take by missing both tests, so I had to take the two “courses” simultaneously during my second semester. Now my first 21 credit courses are included in the tuition, so I can take extra courses during the semester for no extra cost, as long as the total credits on my schedule does not exceed 21 credits. That particular semester I already had a full 21 credits before that “course”, so technically I was supposed to pay for that “course”. My thought was, well technically it’s no real cost to them to them so they probably won’t charge me for it…they did. I believe it was $81 and I literally got nothing out of it. Continue reading →

The End of an Era

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Hello all, I am back. The past couple years have been quite crazy. I’ll give you the rundown of what happened. That camping trip I went on kinda sucked because it was cloudy. For those of you that forget, I went on that camping trip specifically for astronomy. Anyway, ignoring that, there was nothing extremely negative that I can remember. One of our “neighbours” had an accident where a child was burnt (I assume) and that caught my attention. From where I was standing it seemed pretty severe, however the child’s parents were able to handle the situation pretty damn well. I hope if that happens to any hypothetical children I might have, I know what to do and I don’t panic.

Anyways, that was 2 years ago. Since then I spent another year in high school, yes, I know, that would be seven years, I suck, but here’s the rundown. Continue reading (Warning: Contains badly written crap that was a holdover from my LiveJournal days…yeah.)