A look back

A bit of an interesting video, especially if you're into history and all that jazz. For those of you that are lazy, the video is 4 separate films of the same street, each taken from different time periods. It shows San Fran before the big '06 -1906 mind you- Earthquake and after, as well as 100 years afterward.

And notice the change in traffic! Holy pedestrians, Batman! Talk about jaywalking, these people are walking all over the road with carriages and horseless-carriages zipping all over the place. And that's another thing, the cars are going all over the place, too. It's a big risk to just take a drive out in the city; there are no traffic signals, no crosswalks, no defined lanes of  any sort. It's amazing how just a few decades later, the same traffic systems we all know and love (or hate) was developed. If we think we have idiot drivers now, look at 100 years ago.

The automobile was so new then, it wasn't even 10 years old depending on the manufacturer. They didn't treat it any different then carriages. I don't think they realized the impact it would have on our civilization until much later when Henry Ford made it more aFordable (pun intended) to the masses.

So maybe in another 100 years, someone is going to take this video and then have their own time period's film! Maybe it'll be taken in the air like something from the Jetsons? Who knows!

Loop Da Loop

So, it's Friday! And no, I'm not referencing Rebecca Black, I actually have taste in my music!

Anyways, I  think today was a decent hit off for the weekend. It was a cool morning, I'm not sweating pools out there anymore, I can feel that it's going to be a colder winter yet again!

I'm going to the UNCC Car Meeting tomorrow...for two reasons. One, I like cars; Two... I have to go to a total of 3 social events for my Freshman seminar class, so I might as well do something I like. Frankly, I just don't wanna drive to campus on a SATURDAY.

The class kinda annoys me actually, there's so much work involved in a class that really doesn't matter all too much. Living off campus really doesn't help either as most of the club events don't happen 'til later in the evening. So, it's either I stay on campus for 12 hours of my damned day or come home then come back to campus later. Fuck. That. Really, as cool as college is I don't wanna be there all day long.

Oh, look, I'm ranting again, I was supposed to be having an opportunistic spiel here, too!

I've gotta figure out something else to blog about.

My First Posting

Well, it seems I've now joined the bloggin' crowd, albiet for edumacation, but I'm here nonetheless.I can't think of anything worthwhile to blog about except school, so I guess I'll settle for that for now. And now for some sporatic rambling...

So I'm on my fourth week of college and I'm just barely feeling "assimilated." It's completely different from high school in so many ways, but I'm trying to be adaptive. In high school, "managing your time" meant whether you twiddled you thumbs and slept through class or did your work like a good, diligent student; in college, it means if you choose to do something OUTSIDE of the classroom... not to mention find and appropriate time to do work on certain days and whatnot. The teachers don't give two $#!*'s if you show up or not, nor if you turn in anything; there's at least a gazillion students in the classes that you don't know nor care to know; AND EVERYONE GOES TO CHICK FIL A AT THE SAME TIME!!

I'm wishing I lived on campus or at least closer to school, these daily commutes are killing me financially and costing me a little be of sleepy time. It takes about 30 minutes to get here in the morning and it takes at least 45 in the afternoon. Last  week it took me an hour and a half to get back home. An hour and a half!! Holee hotcakes, Batman! Imagine how much procrastination at home I could've done! Instead I had to stare at someone's bumper and hope that my car didn't overrheat.

I've probably just gotta get back into my groove and I'll be okay. Hopefully. Maybe. Possibly.