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Look At What I Did To My iPhone

My friend Jeff came up to Starkville for the weekend. He didn’t come for Bulldog Bash (which was extremely fun), but to work on an architecture project (long story short, Jackson’s campus had a non-working laser etcher). I found out Saturday he was here, so I headed on over to the Architecture building to chill with a friend who I haven’t seen in months.

After a little while, he comes to me with an idea. Why not etch my phone while we have access to the machine? It was a simple procedure, practicing on a piece of acrylic before putting the laser to my phone. Needless to say, it came out extremely pretty (albeit not centered – but that works, though).

Defending The Nation, Stuff In General

Found from Gawker, this is a definitely interesting image of the president showing off his Jedi skills. No matter how you look at him, Obama is an interesting person.

School’s been on and off interesting for me. Even with 16 hours, the work-load isn’t as light as I had hoped it to be. Comes with being an EE I guess. Still better than the load I had with 19 and 18 hours. I can’t imagine doing that again. Either way, I can’t let myself slack off too much. I need to really kick work into high-gear. I’ve got EcoCAR, labs, and class all at the same time. Trying to throw a job into that will definitely be a juggling act.

Job. MFJ never contacted me back, so I’m going to be looking at housing for a source of income. I hear they have a shortage of IA staff for odd hours. Excellent for me (being a night-owl and all). That and being an IA is not all that difficult. You have to exist and not ignore everything. Hours upon hours of doing homework and occasionally signing somebody in or for a package. Gonna stop by housing this week and see if I can snag a job.

Obama’s Message To The Kiddos

Opposed to him or not, you’d have to be blind to ignore his message. To sum it up, he basically told the kids to “Stay in school, go to school, work hard, respect your teachers, and do good.” Nothing political, nothing controversial. The only thing “controversial” is the decision by some schools to not air the speech and for some parents who, for one reason or another, decided to not give their students permission to listen to this speech. In my opinion, this speech, no matter who delivers it, has a lot of meaning. Had it been W, Regan, McCain, or Gore, I would had listened to it. The message is important, not the speaker. I’m just mildly annoyed at the political polarization we see with this – a view that Obama is not our leader, but our enemy. A view that discounts everything he has to say as nothing of importance, even if it is. A view that discounts every decision, proposal, program, and bill that comes from his administration. Just as with any leader, everything must be first reviewed in whole without bias, then a decision can be made. Sometimes even leaders that you disagree with will produce something you can agree with. Likewise, leaders that you like may produce something you’ll disagree with. Nobody is perfect, nobody is absolutely terrible.

Stop being polarized, America. Subscribe to no single party. Think though everything and form your own opinions and decisions, not those of a political group.

Oh, and read the transcript of Obama’s speech before you continue spreadin’ the hate.