If I had this watch, I would be a happy kid. Of course, I'd probably lose it, and be a very unhappy kid after that.

Yesterday, I watched a movie, and I had never really heard much of anything about it prior to then. Having now seen it, I can say I was quite pleaseantly suprised. The movie was The Long Kiss Goodnight, albeit not the peak of movie quality, is a good fun watch. The movie is pretty implausible, and apparently the "critics" didn't like it too much, but I feel quite the opposite. This movie has a lot of good stuff in it. Cool action sequences, good humor, and more!

Ok, I don't know what I'm saying, and I'm no movie reviewer, but as action movies go, this is a pretty good one.

Anyway... more on my sudden enthusiasm for civil disobedience...

You see, here's how it started, and I'm going to write this without fear of censorship by the school, because they've already blocked this site, and all mirrors of it. It's because they've singled me out. Consider... there are a good number of blogs these days in the Bromfield circut, and as far as I know (I could be wrong) only two student sites have been specifically blocked. Me, and Jamorg.Com. They seem to be on my case an awful lot (compared to my peers) in terms of cleaning out my "H:" drive, when at this point, how do I even know that everything there is mine (See link in post previous to this one)? Finally, although here I'm starting to get into guessing... I think they're monitoring my personal browsing or something. Consider, I doubt that (m)any of my peers know of the site "starcandy?" Furthermore, I think I may have visited that site during school almost definitely less than 5 times ever, however, it's blocked by the sonic wall! So, either it somehow fell under some category that's not allowed (which I doubt, because I've been to, or seen other people go to far too many sites that would/do certainly fall under more categories that might be objectionable) or, they're watching me. Big brother is watching ME.

Anyhow, back to what happened today...so me, Tyo, Roux, Lee and Malone were hanging around after school for whatever reason, and we eventually all were in the computer lab doing whatever, when it was... revealed by certain undisclosed members of this group (ok, so one of them may have been me, complaining of the outrageousness of the issue), suddenly revealed that it was in fact possible for any student to look at any other students "personal H drive" on the server. The "H: Drive" is basically a shared folder on the server where students/teachers/other can store their files. The idea used to be that this was a private area to keep stuff, accessible only to network administrators. This is no longer the case. We may have also found a way back into looking at teacher files (I found out about ths problem 2 days ago, and alerted the administration to the facts that (A) having teacher folders be accessible to anybody is a very bad idea, and (B) students are not going to like having their files be publically accessible. The response to point A was an immediate change in permissions on those folder, but the response to point B was incredibly underwhelming.), but before we could test our theory, we were told to save our work, log off, and leave. We then walked down to the library, in order to continue use of computers (some for work, others for further investigation) and upon arrival, we were told that they had recieved a phone call from the network administrators requesting that we not be allowed on to the computers.

Two days ago, same day I discovered all this, I asked if the administrators honestly expect students to allow this to go unabused, and they answered me that they thought that students would exercise better judgement, or be kept ignorant of the fact that it could be done. They horribly misjudge the students. Anyhow... that's what happened, as far as I can tell. The administration is aware of the reaction of dismay students have upon finding out their files are open to anybody, yet they do nothing.

Wow, there's so much more I want to learn. As much as I don't like school... I've got to admit, the whole idea is one I like quite a lot. Consider: Me/my family pays taxes, but as a result, I get to attend school, which is fundamentally free education. I'm also better off compared to the rest of the world in that I go to The Bromfield School, which is my town's local public school, but it's really very good. Anyhow, I get to spend however many years I choose (although the idea is to spend 12...) attending school, and by investing my time, I'm getting a huge rate of return in terms of an investment into my education.

Anyhow, I'm considering attending some sort of summer college program such as this one. In looking at the course catalog for that one... there's so much stuff I'm kind of interested in knowing more about. I mean... there's just so much!

• Intensive Elementary Modern Chinese
• Introduction to Creative New Media and the World Wide Web
• Java Programming (provided that I'm still interested and don't know too much already)
• Introduction to Linguistics
• Introduction to Chomskian Syntax
• Calculus I/Calculus II (provided that this isn't what I already know...)
• Multivariable Calculus
• Linear Algebra and Differential Equations
• Problems of Philosophy
• Introduction to Logic
• Principles of Physics
• Laboratory Electronics: Analog and Digital Circuit Design
• Introduction to Human Societies
• Deviance and Social Control

Wow that's a lot of stuff I'm interested in knowing more about. There's plenty more I'm interested in, or at least curious about but there isn't a course for everything. Anyhow, I forogt the rest of what I wanted to say... so I'm off.

Todo for Tomorrow:

1. Study for Massive test on The Awakening.
2. Read selected articles out of newsweek for Journalism

Todo for longer term:

1. Physics test Friday
2. Math Homework due Monday
3. Math test Tuesday
4. Article on Ads in School due ASAP (get those interviews done.)
5. MASSIVE Commoditties project due two days before February break. Schedule meeting.
6. Science Fair Project: Next step, finding sets in an arbitrary number of cards.
7. Update layout of waloo.org

Distractions:

• SNOOD
• People (via AIM)
• People (via email)
• People (via telephone)
• Blogger.com and the many many many many blogs I am sort of part of. (i.e. this one or my AIM profile)
• Other people's pages I read regularly (read: too often.)
• Oni (Demo, but only for now... the rest is in the mail.)
• limitless access to mp3s (save bandwith restrictions)
• plotting to abuse now infinite power on school computer network
• playing the SET game
• T.V. (now much more so thanks to TiVo)
• Sleep.

Oh MAN I'm screwed.

I've noticed an increase in the use of... well, colorful metaphors, so to speak, and I'm going to attribute it to the incredible lack of sleep I've had in the last week. When I get less sleep, I become more uninhibited, and begin to lose any semblance of a sense of decency.

Anyhow, I've got very little to say, in spite of the fact that I had a whole diatribe ready when I was upstairs doing the dishes, yet I've now forgotten. I really hope there wasn't any homework I was supposed to do that I didn't... Ok, well, I'm going to finish my Java set deck shuffler, and then probably go to sleep.

woohoo! BlogVoices is BACK. Because of this, I expect a wave of comments and such. I want to know how crazy I actually sound when I write this stuff.