NEWS FLASH MP3 players suck! The CD format will forever be invincible!
Mood:  on fire
Now Playing: Not an MP3 player!
Topic: MP3 Players Suck

MP3 players are gay. The MP3-CD format will live until some small quarter sized player comes out.

- A standard iPod has generally 12 hours of playback with a charged battery when first purchased. After a year, this is now 9 hours. After two, it is now 6 hours. An average MP3-CD player (using rechargeables) is 16 hours of battery life. Two years from now...16 hours.

 - On average, to turn on an iPod, scroll to your song, pick an album, and a song, takes about 50 seconds. To insert an MP3-CD takes about 8 seconds, and to find your song will take about 25. That's barely over 30 seconds.

- A study was done that every 1 in 20 iPods are defective. 1 in every 50 CD players are defective. After a year, about 40% of iPods dye out, with just over 10% for CD players. The reason of this is because hard-drives MP3 players use are often unreliable. A CD player uses a chip to process data, and a laser to read the CD.

- Burning a CD or MP3-CD is much simpler.

- Any MP3/WMA/WAV file can be burned onto a CD. On iPods and other MP3 players, most of these have to be converted to an exact way.

- The best one of all, it's cheaper. To have 1500 songs on an iPod would be the cost of the iPod, $300. On MP3 CD players, it costs $40 (typical good MP3 CD player) and $1.30 (13 blank CD-Rs), a total of $41.30.

Conclusion: iPods are gay.

Gay 4th Hour and Gay 6th Hour
Mood:  irritated
Now Playing: Fourth Hour Sucks by I Wish I Had Mitchell

"Reading time, find something to read" says Mr. Colon.

 Ok, I'm all for encouraging people to read. But what the fuck is up with reading in a fucking visual arts class. Aren't we supposed to be using our hands and eyes?

 Ok, so I was just sitting there reading of course like usual, of course it's some handout I got in math because I don't have a book, but nonetheless I was reading and participating in some way. So everyone was talking of course because reading time fucking sucks. And I think I said a maximum of three things to Lainie, and it was after I was done reading. Read on my blog loving friends...

So I'm sitting there, planning to work on drawing water (which is impossible) and all of the sudden Colon goes to I think four other tables and mine and says get out a blank sheet of notebook paper. But not all of them. He says we're "going to take notes". My response was "ok, whatever" since notes is just you write notes, correct?

 Ok so he gets up in front of the class and says "Ok everyone, if I told you to get out a sheet of notebook paper, then here is what you do. Copy I will not talk during reading time on the sheet of paper." Now that is fucking gay because:

 1. I barely talked.

2. No one in even middle school copies sentences.

3. He would have no fucking idea if I talked or not because he was over on his computer watching gay porno or whatever he felt like.

 Fuck that, but I did do it though, just to get him off my ass for the rest of the period. Then I throw it away on accident, why would I keep it, it was just work to hand out to people he hates when he's moody. So Austin is collecting them and I said "I threw it away." He goes up to Colon and tells him that and he says "He didn't even do it". Well fuck you because you have no clue if I did or not and if you're that paranoid that someone wouldn't do work behind your back then maybe you shouldn't be a teacher.

And then it's lunch and 6th hour. Which is again English and with the whoriest teacher ever Ms. Dutson. We are currently writing an essay which is glorious because this means she won't hand out weird unexplained assignments or bitch at all because we can just write on our own. Well it's a block hour so that's 1 hour 30 minutes of usually torture but no, not now, 90 minutes to not only complete and essay but also not have to deal with her usual daily complaints and one liners. Well halfway into the period she says "Ok stop working get with your four o clock appointments" which translates into "Fuck you all, do your essays at home and do some weird busy-work that doesn't even go into your already failing grades". And then she explains that it's only 5 minutes worth work. Until it turns into 35 minutes somehow. She's not a math teacher (god forbid, my math teacher may also suck but he can actually explain things).

Well I do have a dental appointment tomorrow with Dr. Iforgoturname and that means I will be missing periods 4-6. Yes, gloriously 4-6, maybe sadly 5, but 4 and 6.

Oh, No Blog For A Whole Month?
Mood:  chillin'

No blog for a whole month. You're probably wondering where I've been. Busy, that's where. Ok, maybe not, maybe it could be Tripod screwing up everytime I try to sign in, I can't decide, but I am here now & I am writing.

The one thing I must mention is the rain Tucson has been having the past couple of days. It is wonderful. I love it when it's just scattered showers, it makes it not look like a place hotter than Miami beach. But I hate it when it poures, it sucks, I can't believe people in Washington love that. Who the hell can enjoy going outside expecting it to flood on a daily basis?

Well, I have made a few mash-ups in my spare time, one that collides Crowded and Check On It. It seems that it's hard to mash those together but I did it.

Otherwise, I'm not doing much other than listening to my iTunes playlist and of course on the USA-attacking MySpace.

And The Weather Keeps On Sucking
Mood:  irritated
Topic: Weather

*This more refers to last night and today's extremely early morning.

 I think it was about midnight when I just shut the computer off and flipped on the TV. Yes, I go to bed at midnight and usually later, and I will until dreaded August 15th. But, the point was that at about midnight the t-storms thought let's keep northern Tucson up until 5 A.M. And that's what was going down practically all early morning today, thunderstorms. The power also went out various times around two. It was serious hell and it also made the alarm clocks useless. Obviously I couldn't watch TV since I have Dish Network. However I was able to listen to the radio and every 15 minutes there was some storm alert. You know, the annoying kind that beep at full volume and some old lady comes on and says there's thunderstorms in practically any city in central or southern Arizona. Yes, this includes both Phoenix and also Tucson and everything in between. So I figure just sleep through it until the thunderstorms come through and practically screw that idea. I think I fell asleep between four and five in the morning and I got up at three. You read that, three in the afternoon. Then I guess they had no news so they ranted on how bad the storm was. They said we got 7" of rain and it flooded thousands of streets of course in my area. Let me explain this in further contrast, most of the roads in my area are DIRT roads. I think in second grade you learned that dirt + water = mud. And that works here. There's mud on damn near EVERY street and there's probably one or two ways out of here, barely. But then I turn on the Weather Channel and people are complaining that it's hot on the East Coast and that it's 100 degrees at best. Well I guess those storms were smart to keep the west coast and most of the midwest out of the whole global warming thing. Screw the east. They can't stand 100 degrees but the southwest stands 110 degrees all summer round and STILL get pounded with thunderstorms. It isn't even raining in the east coast, it's all in the west and midwest.

On my blog, I'm thinking of another style of my layout since the green/black thing really was just a suitable replacement until I actually get a decent one. Most of the Tripod generated ones suck but I'll be sure to work something out.

Mother Nature Sucks
Mood:  don't ask
Now Playing: Michelle Branch - Are You Happy Now?
Topic: PISSED OFF

Mother nature sucks.

 Alright, so I was sick of all the slashes clogging up on my H10, so I decide to re-format it and add the music with semi-colons (don't ask why I can't just make it add the semi-colons). So it's at about 84% and mother nature decides "Hey, it's monsoon season, let's crash Travis's poor download!" Alright so it's at exactly 84% and then mother nature decides it's going to ran. This download takes about an hour and a half, which means if your at 84% unless it's going to a life or death situation your going to keep going. So it's raining. Then it's at literally 97% and then comes in the thunder. That's right, THUNDER. Almost done and I already notice power watt changes becuase the light went from light to almost black to light and vise versa. At this point I could careless about re-uploading the music, I just want the H10 formatted so I can get the hell off the computer. So I turn it off, and thunder is GONE. Literally SILENT. So now I have to boot it up again to load up the tunes. And it's on Windows Media Player so not only will the computer be slow but it will take about a half hour. I click on Windows Media Player and it loads and for the most part it's uneventful.

This is why I hate July. I love the summer and all but the weather sucks. First it's 110 degrees outside all day and afternoon. Then all night it pours with thunderstorms like another Hurricane Katrina. Then again I shouldn't be complaining, at least 100 degrees temperatures are pretty average for the summer. In most areas of the midwest it's like 80 and now it's 100 because of global warming or whatever the New York will be an ocean in 1000 years thing is. California is in record power usage. So, I shouldn't be complaining I'm having average weather. It sucks everywhere. Damn you mother nature...

Sociopathics are annoying...
Mood:  happy
Now Playing: Busta Rhymes - I Love My Chick on the radio
Topic: Comedy

Alright, I know you'll say it's rude to say someone sucks for having some sort of disease, but this really is something that's pretty damn funny.

 So it's 11 P.M. I live in the middle of nowhere so I pretty much can only go to my friends' house at limited times so I usually am on the computer a lot. So I go on Epinions (aka guilty pleasure) to rate some music reviews which I always do and I find this one called Stupidest Things Said on Epinions

-----> linkhttp://www.epinions.com/content_4796883076

It was all based on stupidest thing said on Epinions music reviews. Most gave it a Not Helpful but I blindly gave it off-topic since it should belong in the humor section of the Writer's Corner instead of the Music section. So I made a comment to move it to humor and I'd give it a good rating and all that. I check back for more comments just because I thought that was just weird then Speeddemon comes on here and says "This is a copy of so and so's review." That broke the barrier, and I eventually switched from Off-Topic to NH.

So what does this have to do with sociopathics. I'm not finished yet. So I finish my review of the Let Go CD and all that and I titled it "OMG AVRIL LAVIGNE!!1" or something like that just in spite of all the ridiculousness of the 5 and 1 star reviews. So this person (I'm guessing male) comes on my review and without even reading tells me to quit copying other's reviews. What the fuck? So I gave him a slight piece of my mind and tell him how sociopathic he is and he should be tested and a whole bunch of other slightly funny stuff. I'll update soon.

So, how can someone become sociopathic. I think the only mental diseases I can understand are schizophrenia and paranoia, since a-holes cause that real fast. But how can someone purposely turn things around like that? People can't cause it, if someone tells me to turn around something I surely wouldn't [then again I don't have a mental disease]. But how do people get that? Just wondering?

6 Things

1. What is up with Bold Move. Those that don't live in Arizona won't know what I'm talking about. I'll tell you now...who in the hell goes on the radio and tells their boss that they're quitting without notice.

 2. I don't get private labels.

3. Why does NBC have all these night shows. Remember when they used to air nothing but sitcoms?

4. Where did the first half of July go? The first half of June was almost too slow, and then late June/early July wizzed by, and now it's going all slow again. Well, that's good.

5. Why are there school advertisments out already? I know it's a month exactly away (now even less for some), but it just seems to early for it. Well, at least I'll have stuff to actually write in here...

6. I don't feel like putting 6 things.

7. About 15 advertisments in 7 seconds just got on my computer, and then they stopped...

A Public Affair
Mood:  irritated
is the worst song I've heard in a long time.....

Wow Is It Great To Look At My Blog
Mood:  happy
Yeah that was just a joke.

So let's see here. Recently I stated how much I hate TV advertisements...mainly because I was bored but it seems to be getting record hits.

In other news, next week I'll be in Mexico so don't expect to see me around =P. Of course there are other people who could careless about summer break and stay at home all day watching a fucking MySpace friends list. I'll sure to take some pictures and put them on here and maybe MySpace but I could careless about that site and haven't gone on there in at least a week and don't plan to.

I'm also thinking of what to change on my webpage (for those who ventured to here using Tripod, its http://yupthisistravis.piczo.com/.

Alright, well I have nothing else to say about this day. C ya

Let's Just All Bag-Up and Move to Phoenix
Mood:  don't ask
Now Playing: Big Snoop Dogg (his new name) - Drop It Like It's Hot
Topic: Disgruntelment
What I mean by my title is that all the people that live there that are unemployed are probably going nuts. Their grocery store bagging sed to be $5/hour and now it's $9/hour. This means if you work 10 hours everyday [yes, when it comes to unemployment you have to work weekens, sorry], that comes up to $630 a week. That's actually some pretty good pay, especially when you're just asking paper or plastic. My Disgruntlement about this issue is why Tucson is still doing $5/hour? That would be $350 a week, about 55% of the Phoenix rate.

Let's have a little talk about income. Of course you little young people out there don't understand, for all I know you think money is just givin to your parents ofr no reason and you can get whatever you want. Well, it doesn't quite work that way. You have to add up all of the income first. If you lived in Phoenix and got a bagging job, that's $2,835 a month. In Tucson, $1,575 a month. Both sound like a ton but remember you have to spend some stuff too.

Food, for one person, would be about $7 a day if you round everything up. No, you can't have fast food every day and rarely a snack. $7 a day is about $220.50 a month. Now you have $2,614.50 which still seems like a large chunk of cash but it really isn't.

Now all of the bills. If your living "ghetto style" you have to sacrifice a nice Lexus with one of those $400 cars on the street--or you can also steal one too but that wouldn't be smart. Ok, back to bills. Electric bill, water bill, phone bill, internet bill, all adds up to about $1,300. Now it's $1,314.50. Sounds like a lot but wait till we're finished.

Apartment? Average apartment, $700. Now we're at $600.

Now you have to figure in gas. Here's where a lot of your money gets spent. Let's say your job is about five miles away (that's what you get for a nice apartment). 5 miles ot it, 5 miles back. 10 x a month would be 300 miles per month. Your car goes the average 15 miles to the gallon. That's 20 gallons a month. Then your little "extra" trips would also add in 20 gallons a month. That means your money $580.

And if you know how to spend stuff wisely, you'll have about $400 leftover. Hey, maybe this isn't too bad. Of course that's only one person. If you have a girlfriend, your income won't change if she also has a bagging job. Take out $300 per kid.

If you live in Tucson, that's about -$800 leftover.

So this amazes me. Someone can live in Phoenix and work at a grocery store and get paid pretty well and someone in Tucson can have that same paper or plastic job and make no where near the Phoenix amount? WTF? Shouldn't the cities all be equal?

New Blog-How Exciting
Mood:  rushed
Topic: Web
Alright, so I finally did it. No...not like that you digusting pervert. I finally created my new blog. I first started with MySpace and then MS turned into a boring site so I ditched that one quick. Then I did one with LiveJournal which was fine at first but then it got way too hard to use and all that. Then I finally settled on a Tripod blog and this thing is great. I can easily add it to my Piczo site which i wanted plus I can customize it however I damn well choose.

I still have a shoulder ache...it's only sprained but it hurts like hell. Oh well. [hey, that rhymed?]

Well, I'm gonna just chill online and maybe just maybe it'll get better tomorrow.

Feel free to IM me on anom8trw8 or uhhhimtravis

And the post below this one was one way back in February and I'm too lazy to change it. Oh well.

...
Mood:  irritated
Topic: Quiz/Survey
Well, forget fact of the day...that didn't effectively make more blogs...did it....

Anyhow, I'm gonna talk about a lot of things. I'm really bored, and I could right tons of things. SSo, I'm going to write down 15 things you should know.....



1. "..." is a trademark of me.

2. Although it may not seem like it, English is the most important subject to learn.

3. I didn't go anywhere for spring break so feel free to tell me your wonderful stories.

4. People in multi-media, the music module is really the only one you'll consider "good".

5. I'm mad at a lot of people right now.....

5 1/2. About 95% of those people don't know why and 90% of them don't even know that I'm mad at them.

6. April is known as the month of death.

7. Since when did concrete smell like used crayons? Please somebody tell me.

8. Our school needs to stop looking at people's Myspace.

9. This is probably the least amount of times I've been on in a week.

10. Out of all of the views I get for these blogs, 5% of the people that look at my blogs comment them.

11. I need more comments, please do so after reading....

12. Wooden pencils are terrible, mechanical one are always better.

13. Jeans have been wrongly manufactured for over 100 years now.

14. I'm kinda suprised about cereal choices, fruit loops....fruit and milk....tell me you've eaten fruit with milk [lie to me if you have to]

15. Yup...this is the last one.



Why only 15? I was going to write 100 but I doubt you even made it this far.....

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Topic: Pets and Animals
I'm not on MySpace a whole lot now. It's not all that interesting to me.

At first, MySpace was a new experience and I signed up in 8th grade, the same time everyone at Tortolita was MySpace blooming. It was cool being able to talk to other people from your school, not from your school, not from your state, not from your country, etc. Well, it's now condensed into nothing. I have a VERY strong feeling MySpace is eventually going to crash and burn in a year or so. Less people are signing on, and the millions aren't changing by a lot anymore. People arent singing on which makes it boring. When I first signed up, every one in the deep blue sea was on, no matter what. Now, I'd say that statement decreased by 70%.

MySpace also isn't as interesting as it was. Sending mails, adding friends...or new friends, uploading pics, changing settings, couldn't get any better right? Wrong. Sending mails isn't a very popular thing since AIM is still standing strong (while MSN and Yahoo! are bitting the dust). Adding friends, well, you can't add forever, can you? You can't keep uploading the same pictures. You can't keep changing settings, I could do that on Microsoft Word if I wanted.

Something MySpace could use are chat rooms. AIM and Yahoo have them but they're cluttered with bots. I'm talking about ones that require an account and all that. No one cares about the videos or music sections, last time I checked MTV started that in 1981.

Me? Oh, I'm doing absoultely nothing.

...

huh?

I was supposed to talk about pets and animals?

Well, I forgot what I was gonna say...

Ask me later

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Hey, I finally picked the right category
Mood:  lucky
Topic: Life
Ok, so this is it and why I'm writing. 24/28, that's what it means. To some that's just a fraction/ecimal, to some its nothing. To me, that's the percent of sh.it I've accomplished over the 24 week course of 8th grade, and with only 4 weeks left. To most of you, this just means oh summer break. To me it means a WHOLE lot more.

Maybe...well you see. Tortolita is probably the worst and most boring, terrible school out there. To some, this just means oh, well all teachers sucks all schools suck. Not really...let's go into this situation a little deeper...

1. I really do hate most of the 8th graders. They sicken me and are the reason why I have a count of 127 friends. They're all boring, the same, typical eighth graders that basically live on MTV (Even though some of their shows are ok, you get my point). Goth, prep, gangsta, nothing else, and something I can't stand, which are called LABELS.

2. I really do hate most of my teachers this year, and no one else can blame me. Most would say, oh all teachers suck because their mean or what not stupid stuff 8th graders come up with. Ms. Hutchins is really the only Purple teacher that actually does her job (Kate laughs). Ms. Seery also but she piles you with homework. Ms. Willard does absoultely nothing. Mr. Richards does absoultely nothing. Mr. Bertelsen does nothing. They don't teach the subject and they wonder why their average is a 58.2/P>

3. Summer break is too a factor in this.



Well, that explains it. I'm sick of stupid people doing sh.it. I'm tired of teachers who don't try. I'm sick of having long school hours and waking up at 7 am or earlier. I'm sick of having to eat my way through life because there's this barrier that won't go away. I'm really happy that these are the last four weeks of school. When I walk out, I'm not going to be crying (oh I wish I was still here). I'm going to walk out knowing I'm not going to have to step on this school again. I'm not going to see Mr. Bertelsen's face telling me what to do again. I can't wait.

Fact of the Day
Mood:  party time!
29% of men think baldness has a negative effect on business and communication.

Here's some you missed....

4/5

Oklahoma has the highest number of Native Americans but no indian reservations.

4/6

In the 1500s, Queen Elizabeth outlawed beating after 10 P.M.

Don't ask where I got these. Me, Ricky, and Allie know, and are the only ones who will know.

just broke this lamp...
Mood:  don't ask
Topic: Movies/TV/Celebrities
with a vaccum and now Emily is laughing at me.

So I was looking at the hype of other service besides MySpace and here's a basic run-down on them.

LiveJournal - Pretty much a blog which Myspace already has. It does have some nice features in it. If you use the blog more often than the Myspace (clearly not much do) I would say go for it.

Xanga - Really I thought it was a waste. It was pretty much a blog with the same features I saw in Myspace and Tripod blogs.

Piczo - This is something I got and my gangsta fish friend helped me find it. It's a pretty cool thing. Here you get a website (13 pages for starters!), a guestbook, a photo album (unlimited photos!), and free HTML. The only thing that sucks about it is that there really isn't a way to connect with other users that have it unless they have given you their Piczo account name which makes it kinda hard to not only make friends but find the ones you have. Another thing is that it doesn't have a blog, I've been looking everywhere for copy & paste blogs or active text but I haven't found any of that yet.

RSS Feed - Yet to find this website...

April already??
Mood:  on fire
Topic: Web
I thought yesterday was February or something.

Well, I've been thinking about a lot of things lately and came up with one, solid fact to sum it all up. People shouldn't care...ok maybe not a fact but an opinion. People care way too much about things. So what if your room is messy, go have fun making it worse. Who cares if someone offends you, laugh and make a joke or even better, offend them back.

It's very annoying listening to people crying about stupid worthless sh-it...get over it, laugh about it, or even avoid it which is possible no matter what.

People are too cautious, too boring, too sad...listen to Don't Worry Be Happy a few times and laugh, not only for the sake of laughing but also at how awful that song is.

Another thing I found out not too long ago is that Congress is trying to pass a bill saying all the illegal Mexican have to leave USA. This is again worthless. Not only are they going to come back but who really even cares if illegal Mexicans are here...wtf are they doing to us that's bad? Take a look at the cool things Mexico has bought us, the 99 cents only store, Taco Bell, cheaper products, better commerce, and most importantly, more people. Try telling me you want that to go away (lie to me if you have to).

April Fool's Day was yesterday and because Amber ruined my plan I didn't really fool anyone.

Tomorrow is AIMS day, the glorious day where you bubble in squares all day so the state can see if your smart or dumb. Again this is stupid, you take DAPs, you get grades, the teachers send out what standards you passed, why do we he AIMS? Is it to torture the kids and teens of Arizona or is it to show how stupid Arizona's state is...I can't decide but either way it's annoying. I can't believe the school year is almost over, maybe you haven't realized it but really, if you take off AIMS week and spring break, we have 6 weeks of school. And just take off the last week because you probably won't be doing anything anyhow. That comes up in a month.

Well, I'm gonna go check my mail and write some more later.



Peace out,

Me

PLEASE READ
this is my piczo link

http://yupthisistravis.piczo.com/

blog worth reading
Mood:  don't ask
Hello people.

I'm SO sorry I've been slacking on my blogs. I've been doing a lot of other stuff than being online this week and of course my computer isn't going to be in working condition anytime soon.

So I joined this new thing called Piczo.

It's pretty cool. It's kind of like a MySpace the only thing different is that it's like a website and everything is more sorted out. Not a lot of people are joining it (only around 3 million which is only around 5% of MySpace's members...you do the math). Just thought I'd explain and "get the word out". My link is yupthisistravis.piczo.com FYI.

Street Fair...I'm probably not going unless someone I know is going.


Also, if ANYONE AT ALL knows how to use active text on websites or if this is even possible P-L-E-A-S-E tell me so I can save my soul. (if your not a nerd and don't know what I'm saying then I wouldn't bother).

TGIF! School just keeps on sucking just like it did from the start in August. IDK if I'm going to make it to spring break without dieing. And I hear people saying it's pretty awesome (most likely in CP or some high grade class). What the fuck (and I WILL cuss on this subject) are you saying, school is awesome???, have you been to it lately? Boring learning, predictable days, and seeing barely any of your friends since the 7th/8th lunchs aren't split, it's turquoise/blue/green/maroon and red/copper/gold/purple.

T

TG

TGI

TGIF!

Alright well peace and mail me if your reading this cuz im really really bored.

if you were wondering
Mood:  irritated
Topic: Food
i just did this cuz i was bored

7th grade

1st language arts/schmitt - it was easy

2nd pe/klassen - i pretty much dressed out only half the time

3rd s studies/mccormick - boring

4th re/schmitt - it was easy

6th advanced/jackson - it was hard work cuz it was advanced i hated it but ms jackson was pretty cool

7th science/zawada - hated it

8th comp apps/mcnamara - hated it

8th spanish/shemwell - best elective ever

8th grade:

1st art/doudnik - really easy ms doudnik was pretty cool too

2nd language arts/hutchins - pretty easy

3rd science/willard - i hate this class

4th re/hutchins - its too easy

6th regular math/seery - i hate this class

7th social studies/richards - i hate this class

8th ta/jackson - easy and she cool and i know some ppl in here



if that at least tells u how bored i am...