My Life

dont pee on my leg and tell me its raining....

2005-09-02T19:57:00.000-07:00

I also love judge judy....

hahahaha

2005-09-02T19:55:00.000-07:00

hey, so someone is messaging my blog spot still....thats cool.....i dont know who you were....it came up annoyamus...but yes napolion is AWESOME....cip can you bring me my chap stick??? hahahaha

thats it folks....

2005-07-08T11:19:00.000-07:00

and im out... fun class....actually learned alot!

its a shame they dont offer this during the fall/winter.....i bet it would be the talk of the town!

yeah i said it....

thanks for fun and though-provocing time
and putting up with my lack of spelling......

Miranda
ps: tracy you do look alot like tina fey!!!!

2005-07-08T11:07:00.000-07:00

the use of the internet to resist or challenge mass culture – both in relation to politics, and other socio-cultural ideologies
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The internet is a great source of communication. The key is that it is not just one sided information either. Becasue anyone can learn how to create a website, or in this case create animation you can access it. the only problem is that there is SOOO MUCH INFORMATION where do you start, what do you believe, etc. But once again, the internet is enables ANY AND ALL view points the chance to speak out....

i watched on jibjab.com, this land is your land.....hahahaha F-ing hallarious.....

once again showing that, the private/public space no longer applies on the internet....you can bitch, comment, instruct, lie, anything you want too on the internet.....

cyber music

2005-07-08T11:00:00.000-07:00

Comment on the influence of Cyberculture on Contemporary MusicThink of some examples from your own musical interests and discuss
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When i think of cybercultural music; obviously i think of daft Punk and other techno-ish groups; interestingly i did not think of radiohead, as meantioned in class....

the latest radiohead album, kid a, is even more cyber-esque in its hybrid music. My favourite song right now is Idioteque. its such a good mixutre of folkish melodyies while using synthisers (how ever you spell it) and other computer generated beats.

LCD soundsystem is also another good group that often make me feel robotic....in a good way....

i definatly think the convience and availablity of computers enhances musicians to use them. It is not jsut about creating a guitar sound or trumpet , its about how indivualistic and creative you truly can be.

I have a program called Fuity loops where i can create my own cyber-esque music....and have done that...i have made some songs for films and such....and its cheap!

Gamers

2005-07-04T09:56:00.000-07:00

The mini clips of the video game previews really annoyed me. I found them extremely sexualized and not giving much information in way of the game it self...it was all about sex selling the product.

I really found that vixon show funny....i think that due to the way they trivialized themselves as game geeks (cracking jokes and making odd comments), put more emphasis on the fact that these games were not real. Through the way they made reference to masterbation over a game character, as an audience member i laughed at them and how sad they were.

the last video, i agree with the typecasting of women characters but as joanna said (i think it was her) more and more female characters are becoming diverse....

anyways i think the game market is realizing the potential to sell to women now as well.....hense all the women kicking men asses games......what better way to liberate someone then to give them a game where they can kill their oppressors....

the sims....

2005-06-28T17:11:00.000-07:00

this is the sims....

alice bot

2005-06-28T17:08:00.000-07:00

alice was werid...but more of a novilty then anything special....she seems very primative, but then again, maybe due to hollywood i am expecting her to be able do more....

over all....it was very obvious she was programmed to react to my key words.....

Seminar Servey/quiz

2005-06-26T21:39:00.000-07:00

yo email it back to me at ilovemyguitar169@hotmail.com
thanks freinds
(thats me with the black hair....jsut so you know who i am....)
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1. What Game do you play?
2. What is console do you play on?
3. Do you use the internet to further your offline gaming? If so how? And describe
4. What character do you use and why?
5. Do you have any relationships offline with people you play with?
6. What is the typical amount of people you play with?
7. Why do you play? (what are the benefits or needs)
8. How many hours do you play in a week?
9. Is there any clans/families/generally same people you play with?
10. Is there any websites for this? If so what is it?
11. What is the sex of your character?
12. What is your online identity?
13. Has your online gaming affected any parts of your life? If so what? (social, work, etc.)
14. Are there any slang only used in your game? If so what?
15. Is there any thing else that you want to say about online gaming and your game, that I may not have asked?

2005-06-23T17:49:00.000-07:00

LARGE AND IN CHARGE

I LOVE JUDGE JUDY!!!!!!

2005-06-23T17:45:00.000-07:00

*pssst.....i am the hottest man ever!!!!!!!!!

its me, margret

2005-06-23T17:41:00.000-07:00

Dear God,
I love this man......But why?.
this is a picture of alec from the shadow

k whatever....

2005-06-23T17:27:00.000-07:00

I think people's identity on their blog is going to be a bit more "on-stage" just becaseu this blog is serving a accademic purpose....although due our converstations about not carring about what people thing discussion...

all of this is so confusing

leslie 4 life

My Identity

2005-06-23T17:25:00.000-07:00

Who am I?

I don't know....who are you?

Education and the Internet

2005-06-23T10:17:00.000-07:00

i went to http://www.educause.edu/ and explored what they had to offer....i noticed that thanks to the internet....now NOONE has an excuse about not being able to get a post-secondary education. Even though the website does not offer actual classes, people who surf this site can find links to other eudcational sites be it univerisities such as brock, but other on-line degree oriented sites.....

http://www2.itt-tech.edu/emc/onlineprograms/

its crazy what you can do now on the internet......but i wonder the legitimacy of it all.....

status of my condition

2005-06-22T09:17:00.000-07:00

well its official......im extremely sick......my roomates have started putting garlic on their doors as if to ward me off......my room is where kleenex goes to die......and i have been eating chicken broath for the last 5 days.....sick!

im going to the dr. tommrow...hopefully, if they ever pick of the phone........

sincerely yours, deathly

i love habbo hotel

2005-06-20T19:22:00.000-07:00

i love habbo.ca

its awesome....i dance for hours....it looks like im seizuring....

funny.....

cont.

2005-06-16T08:35:00.000-07:00

*You have to be careful with the addiction model as applied to the range of human behavior. Is a prodigy who practices day and night a violin addict? Perhaps. Is a great actor addicted to the attention of audiences? Probably. Is addiction the proper lens for evaluating the violinist's or actor's behavior? Probably not. But nobody who has let her meal grow cold and her family grow concerned while she keeps typing furiously on a keyboard in full hot-blooded debate with a group of invisible people in faraway places can dismiss the dark side of online enthusiasm. If a person has a compelling--even unhealthily compelling--need for a certain kind of attention from intelligent peers, the WELL is a great place to find it. Blair called it Compconf Psychserv. It was cheaper than drugs, cheaper than shrinks, and it kept him off the street. He was smart enough to know what had happened to him, even as it tightened its grip.

*"The system is the people"

*In virtual communities, the sense of place requires an individual act of imagination.

Some interesting thoughts that the article brought up...

2005-06-16T08:25:00.000-07:00

i dunno, i found these passges extremely important and wanted to share...

Rheingold, R. The Virtual Community, 2nd ed. (Intro, Ch 1 & 2) http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/

*Because we cannot see one another in cyberspace, gender, age, national origin, and physical appearance are not apparent unless a person wants to make such characteristics public. People whose physical handicaps make it difficult to form new friendships find that virtual communities treat them as they always wanted to be treated--as thinkers and transmitters of ideas and feeling beings, not carnal vessels with a certain appearance and way of walking and talking (or not walking and not talking).

2005-06-14T23:25:00.000-07:00

Blog Ponderings…What are some ways the internet can become domesticated? How might this change from household to household?Will the sexual division of labour be re-divided in the "wired home"?How do YOU use the internet from home? Is it different from other people who live in your home? Is it different from your friends?

SO i think that the internet can be domesticated by the overload of "personal computers" due to the inexpensiveness of them....i mean go to the futureshop.ca website and you will find computers for a under a thousand dollers....and getting cheaper by the minute... so due to this domestication we have new needs and anxieties created....we will always be a socieity that has a hirarchy and computers is the perfect accessory for this...once again bring socio-economical aspect into play. Computers are helping to level out the devide due to the immense annominity available to someone "online"...but i mean those classes will always exist....
I use the internet to download songs, look up guitar tabs, play online poker, research for essays, TALK TO PEOPLE....the internet has become my safe heaven for dating....in the sense that i get the guy's email and talk to him online....i dont just meet randoms online...;) i dont agree with that...but i dont judge either....
I am in a student house....so everyone uses the computer for the same reasons....its once again related to social/age/quality of life of the people. My needs are different then my moms....
but my needs are different then my 19 year old brothers needs....he isnt as serious about school as i am....he doesnt play the guitar....but he does talk online, get game cheats, play games online, download music....
anyways thats my opinion on this....:)

i can not handle boys

2005-06-14T12:30:00.000-07:00

hahaha is this a place where i can share my "inaeptness" with men? cuase pretty sure i need to take a "how to aproach boys" class.....if anyone is interested in my stories regarding my landlord's very cute son...let me know....

they are pretty redic....

if you havent noticed about me yet...i sure do have a on-going soap operaish life....purposely created by me of course....;)
well im getting ready to go to class....see ya

brunt to a crisp

2005-06-09T16:01:00.000-07:00

so i went tanning yesterday and i fell asleep and yeah, pretty much a lobster. Its actually quite sore....
so thats why i'm not in class.....

soon i will have no freinds

2005-06-07T19:32:00.000-07:00

the time is coming near eh?

For Real

2005-06-07T18:48:00.000-07:00

ok, i personally find these dumb for 2 reasons...1) who is going to read this and 2) i can't spell
im excited to write about internet porn....for my essay....and i like the fact that i can enter into this journal thingy from anywhere....
im watching napolean dynamite....i love that movie....its so funny...

i think another good area to investigate, in terms of this class....would be how people talk on the internet...i mean im queen of not only dot dot dot's but also internet acronms....

im gunna post some pictures too.....just casue i can...

jizzy is the devil

2005-06-07T17:23:00.000-07:00

you are pure evil........on two legs

Hello Yeasty (aka Miranda)

2005-06-07T17:17:00.000-07:00

good blog ttyl....

Jizzy

2005-06-07T16:50:00.000-07:00

sittin' beside the jizster

i love napolian dynamite

2005-06-07T16:47:00.000-07:00

pretty much love that movie....

check it

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/ndsound.php

class

2005-06-07T16:45:00.000-07:00

in class