January 20, 2006
January 13, 2006
Friday the 13th?
Wow! Isn't Friday the 13th supposed to be bad and everything? Well its great, because we finally have our Tablet PCs in Education Neek Talk up! Heck yes! It's kinda long {7 Minutes}, but it's okay because it's about students with Tablet PCs! Isn't that awesome?
January 09, 2006
First Day!
Yesss! We just got back from our first day of the second semester. Awesome! Of course, my classes didn't change or anything like that - thank goodness! =D
January 08, 2006
You know you're in IB / AP when ..
I got this off a bulliten. There were a few more, but they weren't as true, so I just took those out. The ones left are so true!
You Know Your In IB/AP when...
You And Reality file for divorce.
You have great revelations concerning Life, the Universe, and Everything else, but can't quite find the words for them before the white glow fades, leaving you more confused than before.
You begin to talk to yourself, then disagree about the subject, get into a nasty row about it, lose, and refuse to talk to yourself for the rest of the day.
Five words: "WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?!?!?!?!?"
You can spell "Baccalaureate".
"I.B., therefore I B.S."
"Friends" and "fellow IBers" are interchangeable.
You've fooled yourself into believing that colleges actually care whether you're in IB or not.
You frequently catch yourself saying "What?? We had homework??"
You manage to complete a semesters worth of homework the day before the term ends.
Your books weigh more than you do.
Your thesis for the Extended Essay is whether or not Bert and Ernie are gay.
Your alternate thesis for the Extended Essay is why IB jokes/checklists are so prolific and the amount of fact contained within them.
You plead insanity on a research paper.
Your plea is accepted by your teacher.
Your backpack is only comfortable when it weighs >30 pounds.
Your home becomes a "home away from home".
You actually worry about the 105% you have in math.
You find that you overreact when you get 2 points marked off on your homework.
You find yourself spelling words out on scantrons. You are deeply saddened when you can only find one letter of "IB SUCKS!"
The bags under your eyes are heavier than the ones carrying your textbooks.
You actually put the apostrophe in front of the word "'cause."
You think SEX is an acronym for a test you take after the SAT.
Your brain is so overloaded that you forget the simplest things.
You hold "parties" to study.
You look forward to your parties.
Your fellow IBers look forward to your parties, attend them, and do actual studying there.
You feel guilty if you go more than a week without homework or some form of schooling.
Your Theory of Knowledge class has you seriously thinking if Hitler was justified in killing those 6 million Jews.
You spell "am" wrong
You brag that you only got 2 hours of sleep last night
You look forward to arguing
You realize the IB drop outs are smarter than you are (they are???)
Your main addiction is to sleep...and you're always experiencing withdrawal.
You spend entirely to much time complaining about the work and work load, and probably more time complaining than actually working
You know the governments of other countries better than you do the US's
If you aren't stressed out, something is wrong
You KNOW our school is run by monkeys, and the incompetent administrators are just there to put on a face for the parents
You have mastered the art of proving the teacher wrong
You have mastered the art of getting extra points on a test or quiz
You have mastered getting the teacher to postpone an assignment via complaining, claiming that you have another major project, etc.
You scrutinize every question you get wrong on a test or quiz just to make sure it's really wrong... even if you already have an A on the test or quiz.
Your teachers love you but hate you at the same time
You aren't stressing over SATs, your putting that energy into IB and AP tests
You can improvise a rebuttal to anything and have it make complete sense even if it's total B.S.
You have a panic attack a day
You are so accustomed to being stressed, that when you aren't, you have a panic attack
You're first questions on the first day of classes are "What is your policy on late work?" and "Do you give extra credit?"
When on a easy night you wonder endlessly if theres some sort of essay you're missing
When Sparknotes, Pink Monkey, and Quoteland become your best friends
Google Sidebar
Yesss! When we went to the google booth at CES, they showed us the Google Sidebar. We thought it was totally awesome so we went to desktop.google.com and downloaded it.
It took me three tries though ..
The first time I accidentally downloaded something different - The google toolbar or something like that. And then the second time it didn't work, but then the third time - wo0o0o! I had to close down Firefox though, which had about ten tabs open .. =( lol
So it has an email section, a news section, a web clips section, a "Scratch Pad", a section that shows my pictures, a map area, weather, and a "ToDo" list. Awesome yo. I guess we'll have to see how it goes!
Famous People?
What kind of famous person goes to CES? Well, apparently Ludacris, Ellen Degeneres, Tom Cruise, and Katie Holmes do!
We decided that Ludacris was there for car stuff and stereos, but we couldn't figure out why the others were there! I mean, come on! I had to show a business card with business affiliation to get in .. Just because they're famous doesn't mean they can get into anything they want.
Chris Barry was telling us about how Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes were walking around with a whole bunch of body gaurds .. What's that? You can't get the whole experience of CES without the crowd running you over and people knocking into eachother .. That's just plain boring!
January 07, 2006
Stevie Wonder
Yay! Monster gave us wonderful seats to the Stevie Wonder concert last night! It started at about 10:30, after the Monster awards .. which could've been a little bit more interesting .. and the first couple of songs, nobody knew so it was kinda boring, but then after he started singing the ones everyone knew, it got a little more exciting.
He had his daughter come out, which was pretty awesome - and they sang a song together. He seemed a little restless during the entire thing though. Well anyways, it was pretty cool!
Moved Neek Talk
Beth and I decided to put our podcasts onto Tablet PC Blogs
We'll still link to them on these blogs. =D
Also, we wanted to make a joint email account, so you can email us at NeekTalk@yahoo.com. We'll still check our old email addresses though.
Thanks to everyone who listens to the podcasts, we appreciated all the support!
January 06, 2006
My Hand?
Well since the first day at CES is now over, my aunt Lora and I were looking through the photos - my hand is everywhere!
First it was on Robert Scoble's Flickr
And it was also on the Tablet PC Page in the CES January 5, 2006 part of the slideshow.
Isn't that great? You always get .. MY HAND. Heck Yes!
January 05, 2006
Neek Talk 3
We made our third Podcast about the trip to CES yesterday!
Our next one will be on our first day on the floor, and our experiance registering.
Here's our Neek Talk
Neek Talk 2
We made our Second Podcast which is about Audacity and how to make a podcast. {We're experts, yo}
January 03, 2006
The Letter "L"
Okay, I am officially frustrated with the letter "l" when using the Tablet PC. I've heard rumors that you're supposed to slant to the left, but thats really sad. That's the letter I hate the most, lol.
7th Heaven?
Dang it, only 10 more episodes! That's so sad .. of course, they show doesn't really make any sense. Like, why in the world did Mary and Carlos get divorced? And whats going to happen with that? And what's with Simon and Rose? Noo they aren't good together! BREAK UP! lol
But I missed what happened in yesterdays episode =( Oh well!