Photos: First attempt at panography!

Here is my first attempt at panography. It's quite simple yet still very fun to do ESPECIALLY if you have a digital camera and photoshop.

For those who might not know what panography is, follow the next 2 links to gain some insight:
http://photojojo.com/content/tutorials/panographies/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/panography/


My first attempt was of my parents house in NE Pennsylvania. As a stated... its not a masterpiece, but those will come as I have more time this upcoming semester!

Enjoy!

I encourage people to try for themselves and see what they can capture!!!

Celebration?

Is is wrong to celebrate semi-important events w/ things that you normally wouldn't do?

The obvious answer is that it really depends.... but in the end ppl will do what makes them happy... with or without proper concern for their own health/status/impressions.

Today was my first day when I did not have to stress about anything for the past 2-3 months. It was a good day. Bought breakfast, relaxed, played guitar hero 3 while having a bi-annual cigar.

All in all it was a good day.


I say to all of you college students finishing finals and heading into the holiday season, Relax. Kick up your feet. Enjoy the time off!
We've earned it!

Finals and the unnecessary...

It's the time of the semester again...

The time where stress is at its highest, the candle burns bright into the night, people walking around like zombies, taking caffeine loaded drinks/pills to keep awake, and countless hours of looking at computer screens/notebooks/hw&test solutions...

Why does the last week of a semester have to be the hardest to get through? We've gone through the WHOLE damn semester... and if you do not know who knows the material by now... then what the hell good are ya?

Its simple... We're Stressed out. On top of just YOUR one final that you know we have to prepare for... we have 5 other professors who expect the same...

Give us a break....

Oh wait.. that doesnt happen... cause we're in the engineering college at psu and there's no such thing as an easy way out....

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All you students out there... Pull through. Do the best you can with the time you have. Things will work out in the end.

Good Luck

FreeRice.Com

My roommate recently introduced me to a site: www.freerice.com . It is quite interesting.

It is a site where you get asked vocabulary questions and for every correct answer, they donate 20 grains of rice to the United Nations who in turn distribute it around the world to starving people.

I prompted made a lil program that automated the process of clicking the links and let it run over night for about 5 hrs. I woke up to 18400 grains of rice as my score for the night!!!

This prompted my roommate and myself to actually calculate HOW much rice I just "donated"/contributed to the poor.

We took out my digital food scale and proceeded to show that 2 grams of rice had about 172 grains. After weighing one cup of rice, we found that there were 16684 grains of rice for 1 cup of uncooked rice. About 2 cups of rice will just BARELY feed a person (calorie intake wise). So my 18400 grains of rice was enough food for 1 person to eat for 1/2 a day. This didn't seem to impressive.

After looking at the totals on the website, I came to a different conclusion...
They state(as of today) that they have donated 7,536,669,470 grains of rice.

Using the measurements that I have recently calculated, this equates to roughly 193203.628 lbs of rice.... in only 2 months.... This presents a different picture entirely...

Sooo... Goto www.freerice.com ... play a lil bit.... help to fight the war against hunger...
Every little bit helps

Politics

Oh boy... here comes a touchy subject if there is any

I'm a registered Democrat. The MAIN reason I became a Democrat is because my parents were and I was lead to believe that it was against my best interest to vote Republican. NOW, i choose to be a Democrat (in general). They are in my mind.. the lesser of 2 necessary evils on most topics and usually correspond with my personal beliefs on what is more important in life.


There are always going to be problems with every candidate that tried to go into office. Every single person has some stand or POV on a topic that I disagree with. The choices are usually few and far between but you must do your best to choose wisely.

I remember the Clinton era. He was a good president but a horrible father/husband with very crappy morals ( ..."I did not have sex with that woman..." ). BUT that is exactly what people do not understand... he had crappy morals... he was a shitty human being... but He did MANY great things for the country ( such as eliminate the national debt.... which should be more of a focus than it currently is...). You do not have to like the person in office so long as they are doing their job.

I am now living through the Bush era... He seems like he was morals (though he blatantly used the idea that he wouldn't raise taxes to get into office yet he did anyways.... twice...) is a good family man and a good Christian. BUT his complete ignorance and numerous bad judgements have put this country into a time of relative ultimate lows...

Elections are coming soon....

Heres my piece of advice... Dont blindly listen to your parents, friends, or family and follow what they do. Do a little research for yourself. Decide whats important to YOU and what candidates take stands on topics that correspond with what you need. (aka If you really dont care about abortion... then whether or not the candidate is pro-choice or not shouldn't matter...)

That being said, here are the things that matter to me...

• Economy and National Debt/Budget
• Education
• Soldiers not dying in faraway lands for no apparent reasons
• Health Care
• Environment
• Immigration

You show me a candidate that puts those things at the top of their list.... I will vote for them (Democrat or not!).