Friday, March 31, 2006

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Yahoo! Mail

I recently have had HUGE problems with Yahoo! Mail at school. They have disabled the Java, so now I can't do anything! Gmail by Google does work though. Blogger also works.

Sunday, March 26, 2006

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Rainbow Road(Sequel to Rainbow High)

Rainbow Road(Sequel to Rainbow High)
By Alex Sanchez
Synopsis: After Jason comes out, he is contacted by a high school for gay and lesbian teens, which would like him to come to LA and speak at their school. He embarks on a road-trip with Kyle and Nelson, and everything goes wrong as they leave. It is great for people who liked the first two books. It carries a refreshing theme: traveling cross-country in a small car.
Genre: Teen/ Interpersonal Relations
My Rating: 5/5
Audience: The audience for Rainbow Road is the same as the audience for the first two books: teen/ young adult, and open-minded adults.

Rainbow Boys

Rainbow Boyz
By Alex Sanchez
Synopsis: This book discusses a sensitive subject:growing up gay. It’s very good.There are three boys: Kyle(A swimmer with a crush on basketball star Jason Carrillo), Jason(a closeted basketball star who is the school hero), and Nelson(Kyle’s best friend who is openly gay). I won’t go into it too much, but you really should read the book, because it is just so eye-opening!
Genre: Teen, Interpersonal Relations
My Rating: 5 stars
Audience: The intended audience is young adult/teen, but might also be interesting for the openminded adult.
Press Reaction: “A forthright protrayal of growing up gay” -USA Today

Rainbow High(Sequel to Rainbow Boys

Rainbow High(sequel to Rainbow Boys)
By Alex Sanchez
Synopsis: Nelson and Kyle try to start a Gay-Straight Alliance. Jason tells his girl-friend of two years that he is gay. Jason then comes ou to the world on TV. Kyle is accepted to Princeton.
Genre: Teen/ Interpersonal Relationships
My Rating: 4 stars/5 stars
Audience: The intended audience is young adult/teen, but is also interesting for the openminded adult reader.
Press Reaction: “An important book for gay teens and their allies” -VOYA
Awards: Lambda Literary Award Finalist

Mortal Engines

Mortal Engines
By Philip Reeve
Synopsis: Tom, an apprentice is exposed to high society, and then gets pushed off of London, and meets a girl named Hester, and together they trverse the world of city eating “traction cities”. Takes place in the year 3500 AD.
Genre: Science Fiction
My Rating: 3.5 stars/ 5 stars
Audience: Anyone who likes an action-packed novel that will keep you in the edge of your seat in suspense.

Compulsion

Compulsion
By: Keith Ablow
Synopsis: A former forensic psychiatrist is called up by an old buddy, and ends up trying to solve the mysterious death of Tess Bishop(daughter of a billionaire [father] and former model [mother])
Genre: Psycological Mystery
My Rating: 3 stars/5 stars
Audience: People interested in reading about mysteries and in-depth thinking, and the process of solving major problems in a logical manner.
Press Reaction: “Keith Ablow is king of the psychological thriller. He writes like a man possessed.” -Dennis LeHane(author of Mystic River)

Books

These next few posts are about books that I have read.

Monday, March 20, 2006

Stereotype Lecture

Today, South had a speaker come in and talk about stereotypes. I'm not going to use that word again, because it's so long. :) It was fun. There was one topic that I would like to mention. He talked about black people being steriotypical against whites. I thought that this was significant, because I know someone who is African-American, and he says that all white people are racist. I am not saying that all black people say that, but Ime(that's the kid's name) is being racist be saying that all white people are racist. He is also being prejudice. In our society, a black comedian can talk about all white people, and get away with making prejusice statements again white people. If a white comedian trys to do the same, they will be deemed "racist". I find that interesting, because you would normally think that black people are just victoms of racism, but the speaker tells us that they are also helping in the effort of racism. It's very bad, and I know that I am touching on a very sensitive subject, but I do want to say this, and I will say this, because I am hereby excersizing my freedom of speech.

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

The Voice Teacher

As I was typing the last post, a teacher came up to me and ordered me out of my seat, so of course, I complied, but I found that the teacher who ordered me out, was using a very intimidating tone of voice. You may ask why I would dedicate an entire post to this, but I was embarrassed! It was totally humiliating. I just wanted to recommend that people who were thinking of taking voice, should probably not, because the teacher is really mean. I am even observing it in the way that she was treating her students just now. I just wanted to get that out of my system, so I decided that I would write a post on the subject. L8R

Proverb

intimidation is ammunition for those who are unable to achieve. This is a proverb that I created today as we were losing miserably to a bunch of "jocks" in volleyball last hour. I'm at lunch right now, and I thought that proverb up as I noticed that as we got better and our confidence rose, the "jocks" started to try to intimidate in a final attempt to get our confidence down, so that they can win while we are feeling bad, which must seem better to them for some unknown reason. Who knows! Anyway, it worked on some of the team, but it certainly did not work on me. I saw that final attempt as pathetic, and rude, but I knew that they didn't have any better way to express their feelings, which saddens me.

Monday, March 13, 2006

iTunes Music Store

So I have been doing some thinking and have decided that m podcast should be available in the iTunes Music Store. I had a horrible time trying to put it in, because the stupid thing kept asking me to redo the questions over and over again. By the time I got it in, I was considering dedicating a new podcast to developers who might want to put their podcasts on the iTMS(iTunes Music Store), and I would tell them of the hardships that I have had to experience with the store. I decided that I would just complain to Apple instead, so that I wouldn't be hurting anyone. I tried to do that, and the stupid cudstomer complaint form didn't have an other category. That made me laugh because they say "Give feedback on iTunes" and then you get to the page, and it says "Welcome to the iTunes Music Store feedback center" instead of the iTunes feedback center. Actually I could not find an iTunes feedback center, which just made me laugh. Anyway, I just wanted to tell you that it was difficult, but I now have the podcast issues on the iTMS, so that you all can download the episodes to your home computer or iPod, and hear the episodes being read to you. That is just another way that BOJ is on your side. :) Later

Sunday, March 12, 2006

Drivers' Training

In this post, I would like to talk about drivers' training. I can't wait for the class, but my parents are putting it off. They have been since last November, so at this point, I am starting to get impatient. Those of you who know me, know that after I ask for something for months, I get really frustrated when it gets put off and put off without an explanation. If there was some good and reasonable explanation for the putting off of driver's ed, I would not be so frustrated. The biggest problem that I have is that my parents tend to do things as though me and my sister are the same age, even though we are two years apart. My sister and I started watching PG-13 movies at the same time, sitting in the front seat at the same time, and if history continues itself, we will start driver's ed together. That, I could not stand. But my mom denies treating us as though we are the same age, even though we both know that she does. My little sister likes it though, because she gets the privalidges without the responsibilities that I am burdened down with. That just infuriates me. If my parents start us in driver's ed together, we will both want cars, and since my dad is the youngest, he likes my sister better(even though he would never admit it). So, of course, my sister would get a car and I would be stuck on my bike. Since you can't seee me right now, I'll describe my facial expression. My teeth are grinding, my eyebrows are pointing down towards my nose, and my lips are tight. Ok, Bill: count to ten... one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. OK, I'm better. Where was I? Oh right, I was at the part where I said that I would be stuck on my bike. Wouldn't that be great? All of my friends older siblings are driving BMW's, and I'm stuck on an stupid bike! Oh well, I have a while to at least attempt to convince my parents that I am worth getting a car for. It's not like my parents can't afford one, but they just don't buy much for us kids. Well, they do, but by the time that they would finish torturing me in the waiting process of buying a car, they would be dead. I'm not exaggerating, because it took months just to buy a sixty dollar desk chair for my desk after the old one collapsed while I was sitting in it. My parents wanted to fix the chair even though they have had it for longer then I have been alive. Steering the post back to driver's training; I am not sure exactly what kind of car I would like. I would like a new one, so that would mean that it would have to be a cheap car. I would maybe like to have my grandmother's old Saturn. That would be nice, because it is totally efficient. Actually, I would probably trade it in for another Saturn, maybe the Vue or the Ion. Definately not the Relay. I don't need a mini-van. :) Well Later.

The next few posts

The next few posts are going to be some fairly older posts that I typed up previously.

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Hey.

Hey all. I decided to write this post, just to let you all know that I have not neglected this blog, I just have not had the time to write.