HALLOWEEN

Halloween started as a evening when poor people would go door to door and beg for food. in return, the poor would pray for the family's dead relatives that contributed. they would mainly gave a pastry called "soul cakes". the children picked up the saying "going a-souling", its pretty much down hill from there. man i used to love tricker-treating as a kid, now Halloween is just another holiday, really just another day. i'll probably just sit at home and watch t.v, or maybe shoot some hoops with some friends. we'll see nothing special though.

RED RIBBON WEAK

this week is red ribbon week, which is sort of drug and alcohol awareness. i know that there are a lot of kids that have drug and alcohol problems in this school and any event that tries to help prevent people from doing those is a good event. unfortunately i don't think it really gets through to the kids, i dont think that it ever will. it has to be a personal choice. nobody is gonna scare these kids into getting sober. they know the consequences and they still do it. that dosent mean you quit trying but, i dont know it seems like your gonna lose no matter what.

WINDOWS V.S MAC

i don't know much about computers, but i do know that i would buy a mac over a PC cause of the cool commercials they have. my mom says not to believe everything that the TV says, so i did a little research. (when i say little i mean really, really little). i checked out this website that talked about the rivalry, it said that macs are the better computers. i guess the commercials were right. but hey i cant afford either of them any ways so i guess we will see who is in the lead in a couple of years from now. here is the site.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/reviews/4258725.html

PLAYOFFS START NOW

our football team got their butts kicked at hotchkiss and now we can not lose again! it has been surprisingly a disappointing year for us, some how we have lost three times. we have meeker this weekend, i hope our team will be ready. we'll have to have the best practice of our lives! our backs are up against a wall, it will be interesting to see how we respond. i think we'll be OK.

"BUMPING AND GRINDING"

k so the school banned a dance that was considered to be way to inappropriate. kid's are not happy. you know what, its hard for me to comment on this subject cause I've never been to a dance before, but i think that the school should have some control over the dancing, if they feel that it is well, to inappropriate. kids go to plenty of party's where they can do this style of dancing, and since the school is paying for the event you don't really have a say, do you? besides there probably doing it to please your parents. if its really bothering you, have parents sign a petition saying they don't really care how you groove to the music.

CENCORSHIP

there is an issue concerning the computers at our school. they currently have a filter in place that blocks most of the websites on the Internet. i understand the moral behind it, trying to keep the students from looking at anything inappropriate but there has to be other ways. i mean as a student it is completely frustrating to try and do research for your class and not be able to get to any of the sites. they have all these computers but the students aren't able to use them as a tool to learn, the whole reason their here in the first place. yes they made it to where you could request to have it be opened up but it never happens, and if for some reason a miracle occurs and you do get a site opened up it is already to late. you have no use for the site any more. i think that there should be partial censoring, block the sites like myspace or facebook, or block sites that have key words that are going to definitely lead an inappropriate site. there are so many different ways to keep the computers safe, without blocking the entire Internet.

"IMAGINATION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN KNOWLEDGE"

i'm not sure if i agree with this statement, i mean ya people had to have a big imagination to be able to invent things and make inventions better. but to make something better you have understand it, you have to know how it works. sure you could just pull it up off the Internet, but what happens when your in a situation where there is no computer handy? as far as it changing the way education in America is being taught, i think that could be a problem. there are jobs like web design where imagination is important, but what about the millions of jobs that are asking that you just know the numbers or just know how to do something that you were supposed to learn in high school or college but you didn't. you relied on a computer instead of your brain and now someone who didn't rely on the computer is taking your paycheck. i think that computers are a great tool but they cant be the only tool.

HEY

hey, my name is jeremy i live in hayden,co. i guess my blog is gonna be about a whole bunch of different random stuff. maybe ill talk about our football team cause we are freaking awsome! i dont know i guess ill just go with the flow. what ever it is enjoy!!