Tagged

I was tagged in a post, where you respond to the questions asked by the person who tagged you, and follow the initial rules at the beginning. Damn it, Kayla. These things are sorta fun.

      • Post the rules that are a part of this game
      • Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post, and then create eleven new questions to ask the people you’ve tagged
      • Tag eleven people and link to them on your post
      • Let them know you’ve tagged them!

I won’t be following the last two. Frankly, I don’t even know eleven people on WordPress, and if I did I wouldn’t be comfortable tagging all of them in this type of post.

Here are Kayla’s questions and my answers. I underlined and italicized the ones I felt were important.

1. What accomplishment are you most proud of and why?

I haven’t really done anything outstanding that comes to mind. Sorry.

2. TV or movies and why?

TV, of course! TV shows last longer and you can generally get more out of them. When a movie is over, it’s over. Though waiting for the next episode of a TV show to come out is obnoxious.

3. What is your favorite city in the world and why?

If it counts cities I haven’t visited before, I’d say Silicon Valley. (Though it’s technically a region, not a city.) A lot of major tech giants are in the region, and I’m obviously interested in technology. As for cities I’ve visited, I can’t really answer that. I don’t go very many places. I can say what city definitely does not make the cut for my favorite, and that is Washington DC. It was hot and incredibly crowded, two things I can not stand.

4. Where do you imagine yourself in ten years?

Some kind of tech position. I’m pretty interested in programming, the only thing holding me back from doing anything right now is that I have a relatively short attention span and educational self-teach books are boooringgg.

5. What is one of your more ridiculous or silly fears?

I’m extremely afraid of being a nuisance to those around me. I fear that I’m actually just an inconvenience in my friends’ lives. Part of this is due to prior issues I had with one particular individual, I guess. I could go on forever in this area, I have a lot of ridiculous social fears. Maybe I’ll write a post about it one day. I don’t think so.

6. What is your go-to method of procrastinating?

That’s a super easy one. Video games, sleep, and talking on AIM. Talking with my friends on AIM eats up a lot more time than you’d think, for me.

7. What is your favorite word?

Oneiric. It’s fancy and I like sleep.

8. Name a famous person who has changed your perspective.

Haven’t really thought about it. This is my lazy way of not answering the question.

9. Would you rather be overrated or underrated?

Overrated, I suppose. Being underrated kind of has a feeling of where you don’t feel like you can do anything, and I know this feel. Neither are really good though.

10. What do you think is your driving motivation in life? Why?

I want to write life-changing software. Something that’s just that one program where you’re like, “Whoa, holy crap. This is the best thing I’ve used ever.” On another side of things, I want to make those around me happy. I like seeing my friends and family happy. It’s important to me, sometimes even more important than my happiness.

Thanks for the questions, I enjoyed being uncomfortably incompatible with them. ;~; Numbers 5 and 10 were incredibly great questions, although internally I kept being reluctant to answer them.

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Prevent the Stop Online Piracy Act!

SOPA

Okay, let’s hope you’ve heard of the Stop Online Piracy Act that’s been floating around the House, and the similar PROTECT-IP Act in the Senate. It’s also known to some by the more aggressive name, “E-PARASITE Act”. SOPA looks good on the surface, but slightly below that surface is a mass of unwanted and undesirable effects; SOPA needs to be squashed in it’s path. Anyone close to me knows of my strong disdain for government, especially in situations like this. As Google’s Eric Schmidt called it, “draconian”, indeed it is. Lifehacker, Reddit, Kickstarter, CNET, Google, Avaaz, AOL, Mozilla, Facebook, eBay, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yahoo!, Zynga, Tumblr, and most and certainly not least, the EFF. That long list of influential and powerful tech-giants all want the Stop Online Piracy Act to fail. Several of them even wrote a joint letter with Mozilla, here.

“SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, is another one of those bills that sounds like it’s going to do something mildly positive but, in reality, has serious potential to negatively change the internet as we know it. [...] The issue is, [...] it doesn’t really matter whether you’re in support of piracy, against it, or just don’t care. SOPA makes it possible for companies to block the domain names of web sites that are simple capable of, or seem to encourage copyright infringement.” -Lifehacker

“As written, they would betray more than a decade of US policy and advocacy of Internet freedom by establishing a censorship system using the same domain blacklisting technologies pioneered by China and Iran.” -Tumblr

“To promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation by combating the theft of U.S. property, and for other purposes.” This quoted line, from the bill itself, is exactly what is meant by everyone saying it’s “nice on the surface.”It sounds promising, doesn’t it? It’s a shame it’s a lot more than that: highly dangerous to the internet as we know it.

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Stop Bullying!

“Those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” -Dr. Seuss

    Okay, we have all been around it or involved with it regardless of if it was a conscious decision or not. I have been in the past. Likely, you have too. Or were involved with bullying. Or are being bullied now. A ton of these things have been written almost to the point of rendering each other redundant. But it’s still a growing problem, still an issue, still ruining lives. That’s why I’m writing this now. (I was also inspired to write this by my friend Gennivieve who decided to do a brief in-school inspirational speech during break. Even though the small meeting was brief, it was still inspirational.)

    A great deal of people refuse to admit or believe that bullying is a problem. However, this is not the case. Bullying is, in fact, a distinct problem. A majority of people actually even jump in on the bandwagon of bullying unintentionally, convincing themselves that what they’re doing is “joking.” And, also there’s a large amount of people who just think that only physically bullying someone counts; verbal bullying is just as bad, and can lead to the same horrifying and sickening sad outcomes.

    Think about how you would feel if someone, or even groups of people, continually made comments about how you look or act. Think about how you would feel if someone was making snide remarks and jokes about your every mistake or flaw, gestures and general hostility to you because, maybe you’re just different from the bully. News flash, “different” doesn’t exist. Everyone is unique, nobody is identical in who they are. Which means that everyone is different. Be who you really are, not someone fake who you are not. Don’t try to just “fit in” with the “popular crowd”, be who you are.

    And for those of you who are bullied now: stand up for yourself. Stand up for who you are. Ignore the things they say! Stay strong and just stay yourself, no matter what. Don’t stoop to their level become a bully yourself. Don’t empower the bullies with more fuel to their flames by letting them know they’re actually hurting you. Don’t let them get to you in the first place, they don’t matter. The entire point of people bullying would be gone if the people they were trying to hurt weren’t bothered, and it’ll be a lot better for you if you don’t let those mean comments and become deep wounds. Just always remember, nobody will ever be “normal.” Because “normal” doesn’t even exist. Being different is a good thing, it makes you who you are. It makes you unique.

    Everyone excels at their own thing, and just because someone is bad at one thing doesn’t make it right to demean them. Why? Because they’re good at something to. Bullied people aren’t worthless human beings. They’re good at something. You have your weak points and strengths as well, as does everyone. Nobody is perfect. Not you. Not anyone.

EDIT: I’d also like to point out that if someone who you consider your “friend” fits the criteria, they’re not actually a friend.

EDIT (5-12-12): Rereading this, I’m not satisfied with the quality of this. So one day, I’m going to rewrite it so it won’t be so crappy. It’s an important topic and I think I just slopped this post together.

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by TemporalBurst on October 13, 2011  •  Permalink
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Posting

Hello! I’m Temporal Burst, and you’re looking at the first blog post I’ve made that isn’t worthy of even being called a blog post. :’D

Anyway, I plan on updating this and making a few rambles and rants whenever get some time, this week has been really hectic and tonight marks the endpoint for all of the super-massive craziness of my school’s Homecoming Week.

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by TemporalBurst on October 8, 2011  •  Permalink
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