Fresh weather

Sometimes in life you need the weather given to you in a different way. In a fresh way. My man Fresh D will hit you in the head so freshly with the weekend weather report you wont know what hit you. Freshly forecast from a fresh individual.

NBA is getting a piece of the bailout pie?

The National Basketball Association is set to borrow 175 million dollars because some of the teams have been struggleing in thie weak economy. Half of the 30 teams in the NBA said they are in need of the money because of Operating losses. The bailout will come with an interest rate around 8 percent.
At first thought i would think that they could cut back a little on every players salary but than i think again and that isnt an option. The NBA salary has to be recession proof. If Lebron James and was put on a Derek Fisher salary than Lebron James would probably not try as hard to entertain people with his high-flying dunks and antics. He would probably play like a Derek Fisher. Not a fun sight. Big buckets=Big bucks. I say they cut back on the amount of teams that go to the playoffs. The less amount of games, the more of a solid fan base. The stronger a fan base, more money from advertisments. Go Jacks

Man wins a 12-hour-sex-session wager...than dies

A man in Russia made a bet that he could please these two women for half a day. So he took a whole bottle of Viagra. The wager was $4300 dollars. He won the bet than died minutes after. Ouch.

Assignment #2

Japanese Rape game?

A video game in Japan that is based on raping women and children has been released. You score points for stalking and raping people!!!! LOL what is the world coming to? i thought Grand Theft Auto was bad when you can do a drive by or light some pedestrian on fire. But this???? I wonder what type of people actually play this game? Is it a game to be played with your kids or in a group setting lol? Good stuff, Go Jacks.

Jamaica bans sexual and criminal songs from radio play.

Jamaica has just implemented a ban on songs with sexually suggestive lyrics along with content about high crimes. Under the new regulation, all music with lyrics detailing murder, arson, rape, and gun violence cannot be heard over Jamaica's TV and radio broadcast systems. The new dancehall trend in Jamaica is called Daggering, it simulates sexual intercourse on the dance floor and this is that target of the ban. This will peobably hurt 90% of their rappers because those are two topics that any and every rapper talks about. Lol if something like this was implemented in America than we wouldnt have any more rap. Ouch!!

Too easy

I thought this was pretty funny.

Dont you just hate when people cant park????

Mabie not the father????

13 year old Alfie may not be the father of the little guy. Word on the street is that the girl slept with two other guys (kids) around nine months before the baby was born. I guess being promiscuous doesnt have an age limit. Ill keep you posted on who is or isnt the father.

Casino night

I volunteered to help out at Casino night in Caldwell hall on Friday night and it was a good experience. Now i can respect the dealer. Im not sure how much they get paid or if they get benefits or hours or anything but i know that it is somewhat stressful to keep the game and the players under control. First it helps to know all of the rules and not the basic ones that i knew. Second is to be able to count and count quickly. Third is to not get emotionally attached to the game. Im a competitive person and i was enjoying taking all of their fake chips. I felt good about myself but than i realized that the dealer always wins and my bubble was busted. It started off rocky with the rule differences and trying to count too fast. At the end i was somewhat a pro dealer and i should be put on payroll somewhere.

Whats on the I-pod

Drake (Drizzy) is from Ontario Canada. Signed with Lil' Waynes Young Money Entertainment. Has been on the Canadian well renound childrens show, "Degrassi". He has Been called the "New version of Fresh Prince." I first heard his song with Colin Munroe called "Cannonball". I heard him on some of Lil' Waynes tracks and listened to some of his mixtapes. Drakes lyricism is strong. Wordplay is nice and he does the singing/rapping thing well. "So Far Gone" is his latest mixtape that came out on Friday morning and it is one that doesnt get old as you listen through it. Drake has a likeable flowstyle with bars that are easy on the ears. I wouldnt label him as a hipster or a backpack rapper but somewhat of a less conscious, conscious swagger driven rapper. He has apperances from the likes of Weezy, Bun-B, Trey songz, Santogold and A couple Canadian artists. He holds his own on the mixtape and doesnt really need to have the features. I felt that some of these tracks that were only one or two versus long could have been filled and used for a single or for a LP track. Drake is in heavy rotation in my I-pod so feel free to check him out. Listen link.

Shaq and Kobe

Ever since the split of Shaq and Kobe i have been on the Kobe side of things. Ive always felt that Kobe was a better basketball player and that Shaq was just a strong, quick, big guy who has refined his post and dancing skills. All of Shaq's off the court antics like becoming a sherrif, his diss freestyle about Kobe, his interviews full of one-word answers were all getting old and tired to me. I felt that Shaq just wanted attention because he knew that Kobe was still on an incline and Shaqs skills were declining. Kobe has been and always will be a beast on the court. Shaq was dominant and still is somewhat dominant on a slowed-down paced Phoenix Suns team. This all-star game named Shaq and Kobe as the Co-Mvp's. Shaq said that Kobe should have outright won it and i feel the same way. I personally feel that they gave it to both of them because it was a sweet reunion with shaq-kobe-phil jackson, the game was in phoenix, and Shaq opened the game with a stunning performance with the Jabbawockeez. It seems that they have put their differences aside and things are going smoothly between the two superstars. So Shaq is A-ok in my book. GO Warriors.

13yr old baby daddy!!

A boy who is 13 years old and looks as if he is alot younger than that impregnated a 15 year old girl and had a healthy baby. The boy said that he will do his best to help support the baby physically and financially. He was scared to tell his mom because he knew that she would get mad at him. When i was 13 i thought girls were still somewhat foreign and i wasnt too sure where babys came from also.

My choice of writing instrument

As a youngster i used to notice that not everybody wrote with the same pen. Some men had thick pens, some had slim shiny ones, some preferred the cheap but efficient ones. It wasnt until two years ago when i started to collect random writing utensils that i found a pen that i couldnt let go of. I would pick up pens from the ground, take from vacant desks and occasionally i would take from an establisment if the pen looked appealing. After a couple months of pen scrapbooking i had a nice-sizeed pocket full to the brim with pens. But the Pilot G2 was the pen that i couldnt put down. I would use the black one until it was done and look for another. None of the other pens were able to stick with me. Now i just buy a fresh, crispy pack the Pilot G2 whenever i need pens. Whenever im in between classes or just not using the G2 it stays clipped to my collar for easy access. I never really thought i would becaome a man with a specific pen but i guess i never thought that i would be going to school in South Dakota.

Human Trafficking?

Human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world. I watched the movie Taken and its main plot was based around the kidnapping of a teenage girl who was one of many who were being illegally trafficked. I was aware of criminals selling foreign immigrants to entities in America for profit. I never thought of how bad it was until i watched the movie. It is a several billion dollar industry. The reasons for the victims range from religious cults to forced prostitution to trafficking for early marriage. Abduction is the easiest way to traffic someone. The criminals use fniancial leverage, debt bondage and treats to get the abductees to work for them. The movies depicted the captors drugging the girls to an almost unconscious state and soliciting them as prostitutes. According to US State Department data, an "estimated 600,000 to 820,000 men, women, and children [are] trafficked across international borders each year, approximately 70 percent are women and girls and up to 50 percent are minors. The main reason for trafficking people is for free or extremely cheap labor. The movie sparked an interest in this subject. Its not a fun topic but i figured i would share this with you since i looked into it a little deeper than the movie.

Step your TV set game up. Or not.

Digital Television Transition is to Take Place February 17, 2009. Dont be worried about it, this does NOT mean that you have to go out and buy a brand new HDTV to watch basic television. Although the HDTV companies are making money off of people thinking that they do have to purchase a new HDTV. All the transition means is that the old television that is covered in duest in the attick with the rabbit ears and click dial wont work. They are switchin from an analog signal to a digital feed.

2008-09 Football Banquet

The banquet wasn't too long this yer. The highlight tape was somewhat lengthy. Food was good (ravioli) and everybody looked their best. Go Jacks.

Grammy Awards 09.

If you didn't watch the 09' Grammys you didn't miss too much. I wasn't sure who the official host was and it seems that the best part of the Grammys was the parties the night before the actual show. T-pain wore a top hat, Lil' Wayne was sober for once, Stevie Wonder was apart of a couple performances as usual , Jay-Z wasn't sitting next to Beyonce, Ne-yo brought a girl to prove he is not gay, Kanye rocked a shag haircut, everybody won a lifetime acheivement award it seemed and foreign artists were getting alot of love. Jennifer Hudson performed for the first time since her family incident and killed it. Jigga, Wayne, Ye' and TIP performed "Swagger like us" all at the same time for the first time and murdered it. Thats all i can pretty much remember from the awards show. Hopefully next year we can get some more American artists to show up and mabie a song with someone featuring Lil' Wayne.

Class monologue

Rendering a video can be nerve racking at times. I haven't quite grasped the concept of why we need to render each and every clip of our movie. I feel that if i can see the clip, than the clip is fine to work with. This project was tougher than the previous project because more cutting and pasting clips was involved. The text on the screen was the easiest part but it still caused problems when i was trying to put the text over the footage. Overall it was a good project that showed me more efficient ways to make a video clip.

Hannah Montana trippin?

Actor/singer Miley Cyrus was seen in this photo pulling her eyes into a slanted position. This is offensive to people from an Asian background. She released a statement on her fan site saying that she was just trying to make a funny face. She said she wasnt tryin to be racist at all or trying to make fun of anything. Lol i wonder if the Asian guy sitting next to her thought it was funny or not.

Its supposed to get warmer this week.

Weather out here in Brookings SD is pretty chilly (forecast). Last week we had a couple days of double-digit below zero temps. This week we start off in the single digits and we end in the twenties. The interesting feel of the negatives is that freezing of your mustache hair when you exhale or the frozen dreads after a good, sweaty workout. Warming the car up is a chore. I have to run outside ten minutes before i even think about leaving just to start my car and get the heater going so the scraping of the ice on my windows isnt too tough. Everyone talks about how fun snow is and i feel the same way sometimes but the snow i'snt all too fun when you live in it.

This is what people in the Phoenix seen on their cable during the superbowl.

During the Super Bowl after Larry's touchdown the Comcast cable company accidently (or on purpose) aired this segment of porn for several seconds. Somebody is getting hit with a lawsuit.

The new G.I. Joe

August eighth is the day one of my favorite cartoons is bringing us a movie. I hope that it is done right and not done like some of the other comic book re-makes that have failed to please their devoted fans.

Our first time editing a video was a fun time. We learned how to take the footage from our camera and edit it into video form. The tricky part was figuring out how to finally compress the file and make it read to be uploaded onto our blog site. This will be very instrumental in making more and better videos to put on my blog.
The skills that i have learned will be put to good use. Although i dont have the software on my personal computer i will still keep the video blogs coming.