That’s right, it’s time for the re-birth of Zombie TueZdays. It’s probably been two years since the last one, but this was worth posting. It was unearthed (ha ha) by Jhonen Vasquez and posted on his Tumblr account. Now I present it to you. Enjoy.
My friend Stephanie wants to buy a bike. Her step father has offered to pony up $50, so she needs to come up with the other $50 for the one she wants.
This is where you come in. I don’t have $50 laying around to give. Even if I did, she wouldn’t take it. On the other hand, YOU can give me money to give to her so she can buy a bike and it will just be me delivering her money to her. Dig? So, what I am asking is that you click the ‘donate’ button below and give what you can.
This isn’t a charity and I don’t have any way to give you a receipt or a tax deduction. This is just doing something nice for someone who should do more nice things for herself more often. Be a sport and pitch in a couple of bucks. You don’t need to front all of the cash, just a buck or two would be amazing. You all kick my ass. Thanks!
-C
Below is the bike she would like to buy:
Steph's Potential Love Affair
Jimmy Roc, my buddy over at YouAintRock.com is in the running, nay IN THE LEAD to become the host for the Revolver TV Rockstar Mayhem festival. What he really needs right now is a little slice of that thing we call democracy. So, get your ass in your computer chair and go vote. Once you’ve done that, go to another computer and vote again. Keep voting until you can vote no more. Let’s do this!
Revolver TV Rockstar Mayhem Festival Host, 2010 voting
I still have plenty of love for Jimmy even though he hasn’t talked about my album Cold Days. Just sayin’, Jimmy! ; )
After poking about on the net today I discovered some troublesome information. It’s not the information itself which troubled me, but the apparent lack of understanding which went into the presentation of the data and what it could mean.
First I encountered an article discussing how America is losing the IQ race against other countries including Europe. The claim is made that Americans just aren’t producing thinkers anymore because our average intelligence is down. Moreover, he said he felt the average IQ for the US and Europe could be far higher if we tried harder.
There is a fundamental lack of understanding regarding the nature of IQ. Specifically, IQ is the mean of the current human intelligence. An IQ of 100 today may not equate to the same brainpower it equates to 500 years from now and probably isn’t the same as it was 500 years ago. Read more »
Five months (or so) after the release of Cold Days and almost 250 downloads, I’ve finished the bonus track I promised. I’ve included both the original album download and the bonus track, “A Thousand Years” below. Leave a comment and let me know what you think.
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download: jccj_cold_days.zip (40.94MB) added: 21/01/2010 clicks: 330 description: the jesus christ circle jerk - Cold Days : album download |
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download: A Thousand Years (7.59MB) added: 04/06/2010 clicks: 100 description: Bonus track for Cold Days |
Just recently, I closed my Facebook account. I would give you my account info to look me up, but it doesn’t exist anymore. Honestly, much of social networking is getting scary and more than a little evil. I won’t go into a big tirade over Facebook and all the reasons I think they are a hazard to anyone who uses the service.
Today I came across a site called QuitFacebookDay. Surprise, surprise, the site is all about quitting Facebook on May 31, 2010. Below the information regarding reasons to quit, the official Quit Facebook Day and some other related bits and pieces, there is a comment section. Read more »
Congratulations, people are taking away my rights and protections and it’s your fault. In this world of technology, we have two types of people, those who use technology and have, at least, a vague understanding of what they are doing and those who use technology and have no clue. Given the sheer volume of clueless people I’ve met, I could make an educated guess as to who you are.
What’s worse, most of you have no idea what you are even losing. Most likely you won’t know until it’s already far FAR too late. By that time, you will be locked out of what could have been by years of red tape and poor administration you let go on.
Let’s take a look at why I say this is your fault. Consider the state of education today. Though some have managed to make it over the hurdles put in front of them, most people fall into the bottomless pit of “it’s too hard.”
Math and science are the coin of the realm. That computer you’re using to read this post was created with math and science. So was your car. So was your TV. So were most of the things you take for granted on a daily basis. Read more »
I saw a news report today stating people are pushing to eliminate handwriting from standard elementary curricula, stating that it is a “hardly used skill.” This is an incredibly foolish perspective. There is no better way to speed the process of an already clear inability of modern children to interact with the REAL world.
Let’s start with something about why people want to give up on handwriting. I found an article stating an unnamed professor believes handwriting is “too slow a technology for the modern life.” Moreover, the article claims handwriting is “hardly used.”
Let’s be very VERY clear about this: I work on the web. I spend much of my time typing. I write things by hand daily. DAILY.
If handwriting is hardly used, then what is the gauge? I find this claim, handwriting is hardly used, so offensive I had visions of slapping every person that has ever uttered those very words. The consideration is that children should spend more time working on their typing skills than working on their handwriting.
This is is a sure sign of complete incompetence in the field of education. To claim keyboarding skills are superior to handwriting skills is akin to claiming calculator skills are superior to mathematics skills.
People that espouse either of these views are idiots and should be culled from the ranks of the education workforce.
This is incompetence and laziness. Let’s review just a few things that handwriting is key for:
Test Taking
Lists
Annotating documents
Recording thoughts on the run
Meeting notes
Class notes
Let’s look at something really crucial: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN POWER GOES OUT??
See, here’s the thing, these “educators” if we can even call them that, seem to think that computers will ALWAYS be available. This is a foolish worldview. This is the worldview of someone that is, honestly, too stupid to be allowed to live.
How do they remember to breathe?
Computers work great as long as you HAVE ELECTRICITY.
See, electricity isn’t just magical stuff that appears wherever you need it. It is delivered over a man-made network from a man made plan which PRODUCES electricity. Apparently nobody clued these classroom dopes into that fact. Have they never noticed that the power goes out from time to time?
Suppose you… I dunno… go for a hike? I’m sure you can just stop, whip out that computer and make a couple of notes. That’s totally convenient. Perhaps not.
Let’s consider another item: COMPUTERS FAIL.
Wait, what? You mean computers aren’t infallible? No, you fucking halfwit, they aren’t. Suppose you are typing something you would have hand-written before and your computer crashes? Now what? One of a kind notes, these were. No backup exists. No way to retrieve them is available. They are just gone. You’re fucked.
Congrats, by encouraging computer skills over essential skills, you may have just ruined someone’s career. How do you feel now, asshole?
I could go on like this for hours. Suffice to say, I have enough venom for every one of these dim-witted de-educators, but I think this might be a good place to stop.
In the end, the problem with encouraging students to strengthen peripheral skills over fundamental skills, you set the students up for failure. Not just failure in the short term, but failure in life. Before you decide to encourage your child or class to set their pencils down and move, wholesale, to the computer, perhaps you should consider if you are comfortable destroying their futures, because you will.
If you have a problem with anything I’ve said, perhaps you need to seriously consider your motivation. Are you truly trying to prepare students for the world or are you simply looking for the easy way out, opting for the lazy, bullshit method over actually TEACHING something.