Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Cant link 2 my old page..but heres the link

http://boulderguy-talkaboutsex.blogspot.com/

This was my original blog... Started it for a class @ CU and wish I could still log into it ;) . Since then I have told almost everyone who matters to me about my sexuality and its going great! Yes, this life is often more difficult; but living free and open makes me feel that I am an individual with true free will.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

OMG

So I was on facebook tonight and in the advertisements I found this link. All I can say is what the hell is wrong with these people. I personally wrote a comment to the contact us section explaining how rediculous this was. Please join me if you can by telling these assholes to go kill themselves.

http://www.impeachobamastore.us/contact-send.sc

Friday, December 12, 2008

Batman as the new bond

In reguards to technology, Quantum of Solice is a definate dissapointment as a Bond film. Sure the movie is action packed probably more than any of the previous 007's, but the gadgets were always a key part of Bond's character. The new movie had almost no gadgets simply cell phones and guns. Batman, the Dark Night, however, has taken over the gadget aspect and had numerous new technological ideas. Also action packed, I think that Batman is becoming the new face of this type of film. Turning from the previous gothic style formated by directors such as Tim Burton, the newer films have become a traditional new age action hero steryotype but manage to incorporate great acting and plot diversity.

More on media

In addition to the political influences the media has, it is also helping to damage the priorities of our and upcoming generations. In a gender aspect specifically, women are taught at a very young age that appearance is the most important thing in life. They grow up modeling themselves after women who are painted up and graphically enhanced to create a billboard or magazine cover. These idealisms created by the media can easiy cause young women to become uncomfortable with thier natural bodies and cause them to begin eating dissorders. More recently, men are having the same effect brought upon them. More than the body image though, men are told that strength and success are the most important factors in life. The media is bringing on extreme binaries that is helping to keep our nation segregated and rut stuck. We need to get over the binaries! Media sources need to become more moral instead of profit seeking!

Media effects

It is crazy how large of an influence media has on all of us. I think that journalists need to take their jobs more seriously from a moral stance rather than an opportunistic one. The recent presidential election is supportive evidence for this idea. Both candidates were targeted all year reguarding very little about their actual political attributes. McCain pointed out that Obama was a cigarette smoker...Oh noooo!...an in return Obama's campain helped bring to light how idiotic McCain's running partner was. Things like this distract those who are making un-informed decisions on the matter. I have'nt reasearched every aspect of their runnings, but I have definately tried to obtain several points of few on each candidate and find simple facts of their pasts. The media can sway many peoples decisions though and also just creates unrealistic idealisms for the people to try and live by.

Dreamweaver

Two years ago I had to take a telecommunications course at CU-Boulder. Not even knowing what that was, I was shocked by the class and it prooved to be extremely difficult. 00110010 - This meant absolutely nothing to me but now I understand that this is the binary code and that most systems are built upon the simple principle of two's. We later went into html and had to form a website from scratch wich was a real challenge for someone as un tech savy as myself. Now, back at the Fort, my Interactive Media Productions course has introduced "dreamweaver" to me. I think that it is really cool that there is a far easier way of creating a website than programming it from scratch.

HALO

Now I am not a big video game fan but Halo is definately an all around good time. I do not agree that it is in any way beneficial for the mind, and parents should not allow it to influence their children at all. However, the game is simply fun. When I was younger I spent hours playing sega and super nintendo. I finally got the n64 and played it till my hands were sore. After that new games and systems began coming out and I lost all interest. I bought a gamecube but probably played it a mear 30 times. After about a year or so with no gaming except the occsional relapse of drunken Kart and Smash, my friend finally convinced me to play Halo on xbox 360. Three hours later, I was hooked. I'm not saying I would ever go out and buy it, but every time I visit either of my two best friends that is definately something we can all enjoy. It's odd that sitting around killing each other can bring so much glee to the lives of good friends.