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asklinkara: Now if you’ll excuse me, I have important work to do on my insanely powerful warship...

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 01:50:18 -0400

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have important work to do on my insanely powerful warship that could literally reduce everything on Earth to ashes.

Of course, his warship can reduce everything on Eaeth to ashes, but it couldn’t take out a spaceship shaped like a mansion…

Line-by-Line: Student Suspended for Breaking School's Zero-Tolerance No-Hugging Policy

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:23:53 -0400

It’s been a while since I did this, and the last time I did it was on a different blog entirely. But I found myself screaming at this news story the whole time I was reading it. So let me do the same on the internet!

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News story to be ripped apart today: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/03/student-suspended-for-breaking-schools-zero-tolerance-no-hugging-policy/

Title: Student Suspended for Breaking School’s Zero-Tolerance No-Hugging Policy

By Line: <Author Uncredited>

Date: November 03, 2011

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Dateline: PALM BAY, Fla. – A 14-year-old Florida student who hugged his friend was suspended as a result of his middle school’s zero-tolerance no-hugging policy, myFOXorlando.com reported.

What? ANOTHER Fucking Zero-Tolerance policy?? I have a zero-tolerance policy for zero-tolerance policies…

Nick Martinez said he gave a quick hug to his best friend, a female student, between classes.

Oh No! They hugged!! Call in the police!!! It might be Sexual Harrassment!!
Also, it was a boy and girl hugging. I wonder if it was two of either if this would have still happened…

The public display of affection was spotted by the principal of Palm Bay’s Southwest Middle School, 74 miles southeast of Orlando. While the principal said he believed the hug was innocent, he brought the two students to the school’s dean, who penalized them with in-school suspensions.

….Well if he thought it was innocent why The Fuck DID HE TURN THEM IN?!?!?!?!

According to the Southwest Middle School’s student handbook, students can receive a one-day out-of-school suspension for kissing, while students caught hugging or hand-holding are penalized with a dean’s detention or suspension.

……….why? Why the hell do they have that waste of rules when they could be using their enforcing energy for more PRESSING things, like, I dunno, drugs and guns and gang activity……

School administrators said a committee of parents approved the “no hugging” policy years ago, and there aren’t plans to change it any time soon.

Probably some parent that wanted to stamp out the last remains of her kid’s fling. She figures she can control her kid’s fling at home, but not at school, so she proposed this.

The school’s strict policy stipulates that there is no difference between an unwanted hug, or sexual harassment, and a hug between friends.

YES THERE IS!!!! This statement, in other words, has removed the common sense from hugging. JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER ZERO-TOLERANCE POLICY!!!

Christine Davis, spokesman for Brevard County School said the school’s “focus is on learning; therefore, we cannot discriminate or make an opinion on what is an appropriate hug, what’s not an appropriate hug,” said Davis. “What you may think is appropriate, another person may view as inappropriate.”

If you’re so focused on learning, tell me this. How is being suspended for hugging someone else going to help their learning? I mean, now they’re going to miss a day of school - when they COULD BE LEARNING - because they hugged someone else!!

“A lot of friends are hugging. I just happened to be the one caught doing it,” Nick said. “Honestly, I didn’t know because I didn’t think hugging was a bad thing. I didn’t know you could get suspended for it.”

IT’S NOT A BAD THING, KID!! You’re school is just stupid and wasting time on something they shouldn’t be wasting time on. And, given what he said, it’s a rule that ISN’T EVEN ENFORCED WELL!!

Nick’s mother, Nancy Crecente, said she plans to ask the school board to change the policy.

PLEASE, Nancy, PLEASE DO! Please bring some common sense to these IDIOTS who implemented a ZERO-TOLERANCE POLICY!!! UGH!!

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Kardashians, take note.

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:45:59 -0400

shitmystudentswrite:

Divorce rates are going to be lower if you are not getting married.

In Soviet Russia, North Wind Breaks You

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:27:01 -0400

You know that story about the Sun and the Wind attempting to take the jacket off a man? Reprinted here: http://www.mikelockett.com/stories.php?action=view&id=39”I might admit that you are stronger than me if you can beat me in a contest,” said the Sun.

The North Wind’s ego wouldn’t let him turn down a challenge. ”I can beat you at anything,” he stated.

“Let us agree,” said the Sun, that whichever of us can make that man below us take off his coat is the more powerful.”

“It’s a bet!,” replied the proud North Wind. He could blow down trees, so he knew he could cause a man to take off his coat. Right away, he dropped down lower in the sky. He sent a puff of air that blew the bottom of the jacket upwards, hitting the man in the face. The man smoothed the bottom of the coat down with his hands and kept on walking. Annoyed, the North Wind blew harder. With the first cold blast, the man pulled the coat more tightly around him and turned up his collar.

The harder the North Wind blew, the tighter the man held onto his coat. The man grasped the ends of his sleeves with his fingers and from the inside of the arm holes pulled the arms of the coat closed at the wrist to keep the wind out. Then the man wrapped his arms across his chest to keep the wind from blowing the coat open. He tucked his chin down and leaned forward into the wind and kept walking. The North Wind puffed and puffed until he was out of breath. All that had happened was that the man hung onto his coat tighter than ever!

Then the Sun took her turn. She began to shine. At first her beams were calm and gentle. But, after the terrible cold of the North Wind, the sunshine felt pleasant to the man. His chin lifted, and he turned his face upwards toward the light. The Sun warmed her rays just a bit, and watched as the man’s arms dropped to his side. She watched his hands re-appear after the man let go of the ends of his sleeves. She turned up the temperature and saw him open his collar and unbutton the jacket. Then, she heated the air around him, and the man took out a kerchief and mopped his brow. Moments later, as the Sun continued to shine on him, the man took off his coat and sat down in the shade of a tree to cool himself.

The Sun didn’t say a word to the North Wind. Politely, she turned and continued her journey across the sky. Both of them knew that her gentleness and kind persuasion were more powerful than all of the North Wind’s bluster and force.

Well, in this story (when interpreted as a political allegory)… THE SUN AND THE WIND ARE COMMUNISTS!! They try and make the man take off his freedom, represented by THE COAT!! The wind, who represents COMMUNIST RUSSIA, tries to do this BY FORCE!! The sun, representing MODERN DAY COMMUNISTS, does this by SLOW SUGGESTION!! IT WARNED US AND WE DID NOTHING!!!!!!! #satire #TinFoilHatsAreCoolLooking

svalts: Zelda - by Splus

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:00:49 -0400

svalts:

Zelda - by Splus

Pet Peeve #6: Misuse of the phrase "X is Dead! Long Live X!"

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:04:32 -0400

I absolutely despise whenever people use this phrase the wrong way, and when people use this phrase, they’re usually using it the wrong way. Everyone seems to think that the phrase is just an overly elaborate proclamation that “X Is Dead!”. But it’s not - it has a lot more meaning to it.

The original phrase “The King is Dead! Long Live the King!” does NOT refer to the same King. A country in the days of kings NEVER EVER did not have a king. When the king died, the instant his heart stopped, the crown was passed to the next person in succession (usually his son, some other heir, or his wife, in that order). The phrase embodies the immediacy of this transition: The king died, the next king is crowned. The phrase is said with nary a breath between the two sentences.

So when the phrase “The King is Dead! Long Live the King!” is said, it is referring to TWO people! The first sentence states the old king has died! The next sentence wishes the NEW king, the one that was crowned with the statement of first sentence, a long life (and often it is this sentence that is chanted in movies while the camera stares at the new king, wary of what’s to come). If the crown was passed to a woman, then the phrase would have become “The King is Dead! Long Live the Queen!” (but that rarely happened, so this phrase obviously didn’t make it into popular culture).

So when using this phrase, use it correctly! The first sentence refers to that which is dead, the second refers to the one which will take it’s place. If you refer to the same thing in both sentences, then you’re wishing that the thing you just proclaimed was DEAD would live a long life. And that doesn’t make sense!

The misuse of this phrase is dead! Long live the proper use of this phrase!

I am really proud of this render. :) This is an unfinished 3d...

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:37:30 -0400

I am really proud of this render. :)

This is an unfinished 3d set for an upcoming comic strip that will probably be called “Pitt and the Pendulum”. It will follow the first year of college of two guys living on campus at the University of Pittsburgh. Chances are the images in the strip will have much more fill light than what you see here, but I love dynamic range of lighting like you see in this render. Also, naked guy there is the base model and not any character of the strip.

magicalnaturetour: Outdoor Dreaming! (by shesnuckinfuts)...

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:10:05 -0400

magicalnaturetour:

Outdoor Dreaming! (by shesnuckinfuts) :)

How the—?!

magicalnaturetour: A Rose Made of Galaxies ~ NASA :) <3...

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 16:05:06 -0400

magicalnaturetour:

A Rose Made of Galaxies ~ NASA :)

<3 space. Before I had minecraft backgrounds on my desktop, I had space backgrounds. :)

geeksngamers: Harry Potter - by Reilly Brown In honor of the...

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:42:32 -0400

geeksngamers:

Harry Potter - by Reilly Brown

In honor of the incredible literary phenomenon of our generation…

Physics Problems Reloaded: 5) The Laundry Cart

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:24:18 -0400

Physics Problems Reloaded: 5) The Laundry Cart:

physicsreloaded:

Question: A man in a Laundromat throws a 35kg bag of laundry into a stationary laundry cart at 35 meters/sec. The cart starts moving at 15 meters/sec. towards the glass pane window. It crashes through the glass front window pane and falls at an acceleration of 9.8 meters/sec² onto a road…

My new other tumblog, Physics Problems Reloaded, a redo of an old blogger blog. At least a tumblog I’m more inclined to pay attention to, plus it has the ability to have others submit posts to it. :)

magicalnaturetour: Poppy Land by yossarian ~ Good Morning...

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:42:05 -0400

magicalnaturetour:

Poppy Land by yossarian ~ Good Morning lovely friends :)

Awesome. :D

darkfox118: great recommendations folks! Here’s a furniture...

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:07:06 -0400

darkfox118:

great recommendations folks! Here’s a furniture store for you :)

Coach potato’s furniture.

Ya know Notch mentioned some time ago about custom paintings.. that would SO revolutionize this stuff.. Id have custom artwork and company logos EVERYWHERE in this place. A potato holding a football.. and all kinds of potato and football memorabilia on the walls.. it’d be great.

Totally gonna try and make one of these as well. :D

grimchild: Princess Zelda in repose. Done for commission. You...

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:22:06 -0400

grimchild:

Princess Zelda in repose. Done for commission. You can email me about commissions at arvalis@mac.com

Sexy. Granted, her legs seem to be bigger than her head but… Sexy. :P

Do you live in Tustin, Ca? I grew up there, and went to Foothill. What is your email?

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:04:48 -0400

I did not. In choosing the name Tustin2121, the place of my birth was not a factor.

US Bill seeks to make it a federal crime to stream videogames

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:19:41 -0400

US Bill seeks to make it a federal crime to stream videogames:

darkfox118:

If this passes, I will have to delete all my videos and stop making screenshots. I do not want to go to jail for 5 years because I didn’t obtain a “performance license” from Mojang for making a youtube video of my maps, or making a screenshot of my work.

CLARIFICATION: This had a LOT more response than I expected. Let me explain how I understand this law and why I said what I did:

The law according to the blog I linked to says that the bill makes it a criminal act to reproduce something via “streaming” or a “performance” which, previous case law has upheld that youtube is a “performance” as is like livestrea or ustream or justin.tv.. IF you A. do it more than 10 times in 6 months B. Make more than $2500 from it during that time period OR if C. the cost of a “license to perform” the work is greater than $5000.

This means that EVEN IF MOJANG DOESN’T CARE.. if they charge more than $5000 for a license OR someone makes more than $2500 from it (you tell me how to make $2500 in 6 months from minecraft pls? kthx.. but just sayin..) the federal govt can make their own case against you.

What would have to be done to circumvent this law as it’s worded would be taht game manufacturers would have to amend their license agreements to include a free or less than $5000 “license to perform.” Now.. my question is what is a “license to perform?” Is it something that SHOULD incur a cost?

Mojang loves the community, I seriously doubt they would ever want to stop the wonderful lets plays, creation videos, and other community driven items from being displayed, but with the possibility of the federal govt enforcing this as criminal, youtube may proactively ban this type of content, or the govt could go after high profile targets to “make an example.”

I hope that makes sense.. I certainly hope I’m wrong too..

Everyone, please tell your Senators to KILL THIS BILL!

<3

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:05:06 -0400

This is a test question, to be answered by the api!

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:15:00 -0400

cUrl_Test

[Edit: This totally worked. For the record, this cUrl command takes a message in the submission feed and “answers” it:

curl -d email= -d password= -d state=submission -d post-id= -d type=answer -d generator=cUrl -d answer= -d question= -d state=published -S -v http://www.tumblr.com/api/write

]

This is a test of Tumblr’s photo set feature. This test is...

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:35:00 -0400

I have far too many wolves on my priv...

Large trees! Also, captions are short.

Death Valley reincarnate

A lovely courtyard unrelated to previous

This is a test of Tumblr’s photo set feature. This test is to test how a photo set is handled by my still-in-concept-stage iPad app for Tumblr viewing. My hope is to get the same features as the Tumblr website, but already there seems to be two things that the Tumblr API does not cover: answer-type posts and photo sets. We shall see….