When I think of this word (redonkulous) I think of the outrageous gas prices and how we’re being ripped off.
What does redonkulous mean? According to the good ole’ Urban Dictionary it means:
redonkulous
re.donk’u.lous adj.1. significantly more absurd than ridiculous to an almost impossible extreme; without possibility of serious consideration.
2. fitted to excite absolute ridicule; intentionally crazy and silly; completely absurd and laughable.
Also from “The United States of Arugula,” on describing the industrial chickens available from Tyson and Perdue:
“Pen-raised chickens, like San Fernando Valley porn, offered consistency and enormous breasts, but little in the way of lasting satisfaction.”
It’ll give you a completely different perspective on the freezer aisle!
Here is a quote that I found today on the back of the tea container while brewing some tea; found it hyterical.
The whole problem with western civilization is that ever since the Greeks we’ve been trying to squeeze the mind into the brain - and it won’t fit. The great Gift of the Leaf is that it relaxes the brain, freeing it to float to its true home in the boundless and the inexhaustible - the sublime state we call Tea Mind.
Okay, so I just need to rant for a little bit about this, and I don’t like to complain/rant, nor do I like people who do, but I want to so, just think of this as like a disappointment.
Over the weekend Twitter has been having some serious cach problems according to their blog. Ever since I’ve been on the Twitter network it has been a pretty reliable platform and I’ve only had minor problems with it.
One of the reasons people are getting so irritated is that the Pennsylvania primary is tomorrow and people go onto Twitter to get the latest stories and polls; those stories can’t be put out because of the Twitter platform being bugged up. Our main communication platform is down and it’s rather irritating.
I guess this problem started late on Friday and Twitter JUST NOW put something up on their blog stating the problem and that they’re working to fix it.
Pownce, and even Friedfeed is not comparable to Twitter. I, along with many people on Twitter believe that we need a secondary source exactly like Twitter so when one goes down, we have another!
Twitter has been quite a reliable platform, and I love that, but damn, when it goes down, we feel it.</endrant>
UPDATE: Everything is back to normal!
A few years ago I wrote what some found very interesting, and very true about the currupt public school system. Here is an excerp:
“Public school is so lame. You aren’t graded on your understanding of what is being taught, but rather by the amount of effort you put forth toward that goal. The focus has drifted from true education, to a bureaucratic system of technicalities. Most teachers no longer worry about whether a student understands the concepts that they are trying to teach, but only that the student has completed the assigned work. I hear from my peers that they only do what they must to please the teacher, and avoid any true knowledge. For example, I doubt that anyone of my peer in my class actually reads the text. Instead, they look for bold print and headings, after having read the questions they mean to answer, thereby missing whatever content was discussed in the text which was not addressed in the assignment. Many of my peers will not read novels for understanding, or even for pleasure, but would much rather read summaries so as to finish “The project” whilst doing the least actual work possible. In an attempt to alleviate these issues, teachers have only made work loads more challenging. Instead of being a solution, it has become detrimental to people who actually seek knowledge, simply due to the fact that pondering takes much more time than checking an external resource for “The answer.”
People are unique in that they are of different capacities. People will invariably learn different subjects at different rates, to different limits. It does not make sense, therefore, for everyone to be forced to keep one pace. I believe that if a person completely understands a concept, that person should NOT be held from higher concepts. And this is why I am home schooled!”
So ontop of that I found something rather interesting earlier this morning that has to do with the topic. Here it is, quoted from the Chicago Tribune:
In what has been called the most competitive year ever for college
admissions, Chelsea Link defied the odds to get accepted into Yale. Then
Harvard.Then came the fat envelopes from Princeton, Columbia, University of
Chicago, Stanford and Northwestern University.Making that feat still more extraordinary, Link has been home-schooled
since age 5.“I was a little nervous,” the Evanston 18-year-old said. “I was worried
that I might not get into even one school.”This isn’t false modesty on Link’s part, but an acknowledgment that many
stereotypes about home schooling—think barn raisings and “Little House
on the Prairie” wardrobes—are still entrenched.While the pool has expanded, so has home-schoolers’ savvy about how to
package themselves, said Christopher Watson, dean of undergraduate
admissions at NU, where the number of such applicants has doubled since
2002.“We haven’t changed the way we review applications, but the way
home-schoolers are submitting applications has changed,” he said.
“They’ve become very good at taking out the question marks.”Now, the only uncertainty for Link, who hopes to study neuroscience, is
where she will attend. She has until May to decide, although the crimson
sweat shirt she wore may have provided a clue. Harvard offered slots in
the class of 2012 to only about 7 percent of 27,000-plus applicants, an
all-time high.To make that coup even more impressive, Link received the good news via
phone in late February, even though the official letter did not arrive
for another month. Only 10 non-athletes nationwide received one of these
“heads-up” calls.
Interesting huh?
Okay, while browsing around the interwebz yesterday I came across this awesome band called Digitalism. Now if you don’t like electronic music, you might not like these guys. They are an indie band and I am in full support of indie bands along with my best friend Joshua, were like the indie junkies.
Anyways, I wouldn’t say they’re completely in the electronic genre, but part of them is. I’d say they’re in between electronic, indie, and alternative. You should definitely give them a listen. I bought 5 songs yesterday from them and have been listening to them since.
I love music that just lets me escape, and these guys definitely help me do that.
Also they’re from Germany, which makes them all the better! Go check em out!
Going into Kai Tak airport in Hong Kong with a crosswind.
As a huge and active member on Digg, I thought this was pretty cool.
