Blog of a crazy man

Well I finally got a date, and it only took me the first sixteen years of life to get one. I’ve never met the girl but I’m going on a date with her Friday. I got one note from her, but she didn’t tell me that much about herself, but asked me alot of questions. The only thing that I know about what she looks like is that she says that she has blond hair blue eyes, and what her friend, who set us up said, which is that she has big breasts. I’ll post all the details of the date either Friday night or Saturday.

Today in US History my teacher told me about something she had heard about bloggers. I’m not sure if she knows that I blog, but I’m pretty sure she guessed it. When she was at a teachers convention she listened to someone talking about an article he had read about bloggers. The article accused them of just wasting countless hours of their lives on the internet. The man though thought that bloggers are just searching for truth. What she found interesting is that some people look at the internet as just a waste of time and others look at it as a way to find truth, as a great way to find knowledge as a colecive way for people to search for the truth. The place were the collective knowledge of mankind can accumulate and search for truth, and bloggers are the heart of this. They sort through massive amounts of information to try to find whats worth keeping and what is just garbage. OK, so she didn’t go nearly that in depth with it, but I descided to elaborate.

I know what your thinking, “Why in the world would I VOLUNTEER to have adware on my PC!?” That’s a good question, but consider this, what if the adware maker payed you to put the adware on your PC? Would you reconsider?

Here is my idea. We take something like the Firefox adbar, modify it, and then pay people to install it. Now they couldn’t get payed on ads clicked, because then people would just be clicking away to rack up their pay. We could just pay a standard amount, but then the people who don’t bring in any revenue are wastes of money. I recomend paying people on the probability of a click. To do this the adbar would track certain information like, how many hours were spent online and how many sites were visited. It’s important that both of these be tracked, because if the person spends 10 hours online in one month but only visits one website then most of the ads that the person would click are clicked within the first couple of hours, but someone who spends 10 hours online and visits 100 sites, they will end up clicking a much larger number of ads. Its also important that the code be open source, that way the people can be sure that the adware is only monitoring the data that it’s supposed to. This also brings one other thing, the ad service could register the IP and determine if the ads were actually displayed to that IP, just incase someone is using a hacked version that sends the usage info without displaying the ads. Of course for the version described Google would need to act as the ad service, but because it can be built on the open Firefox software, there is plenty of room for competition.

Just thought I would share this with the world. It could be the perfect solution to our adware and spyware problems.

I got the full story of what happened to my brother, Aaron, who lives in Pensecola. One of the tornados touched down right in his back yard and tore the trees out by their roots, his house wasn’t damaged except for a few missing roof tiles, and he came out without a scratch. My sister in-law is a nurse and has been at the hospital for three days. I also know a kid who goes to the colledge there and he mist being hit by a support beam by about five minutes. Let this be a lesson to you that your life is just a fragile thing, but God can preserve us.

Yesterday was busy. Right after school I went to my friend’s house. I was going to spend the next two or three hours there and then she was going to take me to the Scout meeting since she was going too. Well Kristin (my friend) had a headache when I got there so I sat around watching TV with her Dad and sister until it was time to go to the Scout meeting (about 6:30 PM). Kristin was feeling better by that time so she took me with her to the meeting. The meeting was more fun than usual. We played capture the flag outside for about a half hour with some tennis balls and kick balls as weapons. Then we went in for a short lesson on the phonetic alphabet. When we were getting ready to go back to Kristin’s house, where my brother Chuck was going to pick me up and take me home, Chad said that his mom couldn’t take him home and that he needed Kristin to give him a ride. Well she agreed but got lost on the way to his house. By the time that we got back to Kristin’s house it was already 10:00 PM which was the time that I was supposed to be back to my house. Chuck was angry that we were late and my mom was even more angry. So I finally got home at 10:30 PM. The day was actually pretty fun.

Today so far has been pretty usual. My school started their annual candy sale. If you sell three boxes you get a screaming slingshot monkey. Kari really wanted one so I promised her that I would give her mine if I sold three boxes, but that is a pretty big if.

We learned our first Bible verse for Spanish 1 yesterday. This morning I told my brother (who hasn’t been in Spanish 1 in two years) that we learned our first verse, and, without missing a word, he said, “Yo soy el camino, y la verda, y la veda” which is of course from Juan 14:6a, our first Bible verse. He couldn’t remember what it meant, the reference, or, for that matter, anything else in Spanish, but he did know the words.

For those of you who don’t know, the verse in English reads,

John 14:6a
“I am the way, the truth, and the life”

“Understand, that it is easy to part with or give away great priviledges, but hard to be gained, if once lost. And therefore all depends upon our prudent care and actings to preserve and lay sure foundations for ourselves and the posterity of our loins.”
-William Penn The Excellent Priviledge of Liberty and Property Being the Birth-Right of the Free-born Subjects of England 1687

We went over this document in US History today. Just something for you to think about.

Nothing too exiting happened today at school, but, if all goes according to plan, tomorrow I should have some very interesting stories. I guess I should explain. See, yesterday one of my teachers told the class that in 1924 most women only washed their hair once a week and when they did wash it they used eggs. Well, my friend Scott decided that he wanted to try to wash his hair with eggs. So this morning before school I looked up how to wash your hair with eggs on Google, and I found that it was just as simple as beating the eggs, smearing them in your hair, and then rinsing with cold water. It’s important that you use cold water or else the eggs may end up cooking in your hair. So I told Scott today that if he still wanted to try to wash his hair with eggs all he had to do was beat the eggs, smear them in his hair, and rinse with hot water. He figured the hot water was to kill anything in the eggs that might make his hair smell bad, and he also said that he was going to try it. Hopefully he will have tried it by tomorrow. The prank might be mean, but it will be so funny.

This is my personal blog, it’s nothing more than a place for me to come and vent about my life. It’s mostly because I have a bad memory and forcing myself to write down what happens during the day, I might be able to remember it better. So let the blog begin!