November 26th 2007
After using my Mac for almost a year, I’ve gotten spoiled. Not only with software, etc., but with colors. Right now I’m on a school computer, with is a Dell desktop with a flat screen monitor, it’s actually a pretty decent computer for a school. So anyway, I’m browsing my favorite sites and I realize that the colors on this thing are actually really horrible compared to my Mac. I’ve gotten used to beautiful colors, and being able to see small differences, no matter how subtle.
I love my Mac.
November 24th 2007
My boyfriend just got an email forward from his Catholic family saying to refuse the new dollar coins because they took off “In God We Trust”. Christians are the majority of America and that’s fine. Atheists, agnostics and whoever else doesn’t believe in “God” want to actually enforce separation of church and state. That’s their prerogative. So what do I have to say about all of this?
In God We Trust wasn’t an original part of the United States. It became the national motto in 1956. That’s 51 years ago. Do you know what was going on 51 years ago? We were scared of communists. That’s right. We adopted God to protect us from communism. Like that is really what kept us from being overrun by them. In 2001, Florida added the motto to their state flag (and seal) and in 2003 Georgia followed. The phrase was added to different coins in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s and was on all of them by 1938, even though people, including Teddy Roosevelt protested.
I think anyone who wants that motto to be taken off our currency and off anywhere else it is has a good stand. It goes against the Constitution to have any government organization supporting any deity, regardless of whether or not the majority of this country believe in it. It’s just ridiculous to think about how most Christians are so narrow-minded. They preach about openness and acceptance, but when you try to express a belief that disagrees with theirs, it all goes out the window.
Think I’m an atheistic moron? Think I have no basis for my claim? Beside recounting every personal example of this hypocritical behavior, here’s some proof you can watch for yourself. Morgan Spurlock, the guy who ate McDonald’s for 30 days created a tv show, ironically called 30 Days and in one of the episodes, an atheist spends a month in a Christian household. You can watch the entire show on You Tube. It’s broken up into 5 different parts. Here’s part one. Anyone who thinks I’m wrong, go watch that. It’ll blow your mind.
Disclaimer: I know all Christians aren’t bad, blah blah. Stereotypes are bad, blah blah. Stereotypes are that way for a reason. Most blonds are dumb, there are more black people in prison and most Mexicans are illegal. The fact is, most Christians don’t even know that much about the crap they preach. They haven’t read the whole Bible (it’s not that long, maybe you can’t memorize the whole thing, but you can certainly read it, especially if you’ve read the Harry Potter series), they don’t know what they’re arguing about. Hell, most of them don’t even realize Protestantism was formed because King Henry wanted to get a divorce and the Pope wouldn’t let him. Anyone want to argue? I’m up for it.
November 19th 2007
I bought some advertising with a blog I follow for That College Kid because he was running a special and I wanted to try it out. His site doesn’t really have anything to do with mine, so it’s obviously not doing that well, but I’ve learned and it does bring a good amount of traffic. So anyway, since I bought that ad spot, I’ve had two people email me asking if I want to buy an ad spot from them, which isn’t bad itself - I like that idea. But their sites are shit.
TCK is PR3, and one of the sites was PR2 and the other was PR 3. I’m not frowning on the PR3 site because that’s nothing to scoff at for a few month-old blog, but their RSS count is 37. TCK has three times the subscribers. Beside that, my other stats were better and their layout just sucked. So my whole point is - why do these site owners think I would pay them for a link? They’re not John Chow…they’re blogs aren’t very good. It’s people like this who put ads before content and these are the people that are ruining the web. There’s nothing wrong with making money blogging, I’ve done that for a few years (Adsense mostly, now I do some paid posts). But building a website simply to make money is…sad. It makes me sad thinking about my web history and how long it took me to build up to where I am today and how people are gaming the system and just trying to make a buck. Bah at them.
November 11th 2007
I’m feeling a little better now. I finally put up my portfolio, SA Design. I ended up drawing a picture of Copper and using that as the layout. It only took me about two days to get the illustration and layout done. I’m pretty happy with the results. It looks a lot like Copper. Coloring was hard at first, I’m not very good with illustrator. I’m still not very good at coming up with content ideas for That College Kid or here even. I had to force myself to write this.
Registration is next week for the spring semester. Don and I are taking a lot more hours than we did this semester. Silly me thought college was going to be hard. Freshmen year sure isn’t. I’m still not taking any of my Psychology courses, but that’s okay. I’m still not sure if I want to keep this major. I’m pretty sure though that I don’t want to do computer science…I don’t really want to be a programmer. And I love designing, but I definitely don’t want it to be my career. If I’m not inspired to do my own thing, what could I do for a client? Besides, if I’m a web designer, what would my hobby be?
Don and I went to the beach today. A girl Don works with went with us and she caught all the fish. Don caught a few, I think. Me and Copper played mostly, he’s not big on fishing. I’m a little sunburned, but that’s pretty normal for me. I actually have a pretty decent tan for the first time in my life. It’s nice to finally be a little bit darker even though I really don’t care that much about my skin. It’s skin. Mine’s white. Who cares. It looks good on me. Copper’s sleeping off his long day.
