I saw this video from the AP and just had to share it with you. It's of this Russian bridge swaying uncontrollably. It's pretty freaky...
Saturday, 29 May 2010
Thursday, 27 May 2010
In honor of Northern High School (and the SEN10R Class) I decided to have a "Ha Ha/Oops Award" for a game created by a group of seniors called "The Cup Game". The game is very simple: the seniors just place a cup from a fast food restaurant on the top of their car, sit back, and laugh at how people will go out of their way to tell them that there is a cup on their car's roof. The NHS newspaper, The Round Table, had an article about the game. It mentioned some of the things people have done to try to perform their civic duty. The article said that one person literally ran across Roxboro Road (a busy street) just to tell the guys about the cup. Another blocked the guys from leaving a restaurant until they were told about the cup on their car.
So...can you guess who gets which award? The "Ha Ha Award" goes to the seniors for creating the game and the "Oops Award" to the citizens of Durham who thought they would just do a good deed and tell a guy that there was a cup on top of his car. Too bad for them that they went to great lengths to perform this deed. Congrats to this week's winners!
It's taken a while for me to calm down enough to blog about the oil spill in the Gulf, but I think I'm ready now. I have been boiling over this ever since it happened. I mean, it's bad enough that the oil spill even ocurred in the first place, but when you have a company like BP who has lied and delayed so much, it has turned into an unfortunate event.
What makes me even angrier is that this was all caused by faulty equipment either produced or owned by BP. In fact, every mishap BP has been involved with, the culprit has always been faulty equipment, safety violations, etc. In other words, it's always been their fault. But, oh, this one disaster takes the cake. The Gulf spill makes the Exxon-Valdez look puny in comparison. At least Exxon didn't lie and delay. At least they were out there doing something about it. Some scientists even said that this spill is twice that of the Exxon-Valdez.
One things that really upset me was seeing footage of CNN's Anderson Cooper in a boat with Louisiana's governor and other officials in one of the marshes on the coast. Cooper, with a glove on, dipped his hand down into what was suppose to be water. When he took his hand out, it looked as if he had just dipped it in a vat of chocolate syrup. It was disgusting! Now, BP, more than a month after the fact, has started a procedure called "Top Kill" which is suppose to plug the leak. They also said it would be plugged in 24 hours. Now that has changed to 48 and it'll probably be a week tomorrow. BP just continues to lie and not answer questions. I have always kind of liked BP. I get gas for my car from them 99% of the time, but all that will definitely change!
Thursday, 13 May 2010
This week's Oops Award winners are: DPS (Durham Public Schools), the city of Durham, and the state of North Carolina for the budget cuts coming to most (if not all) schools. It wasn't very hard deciding the winner because what they are doing is ridiculous. You probably recall that I blogged about this recently in the post "Unexplainable" and now I'm really fired up about the issue. Many teachers are becoming victims of this budget crunch when they really shouldn't be at all.
Hitting closer to home, I found out today that two teachers I have had in the past at Northern were being cut. Get this, one of the teachers is pregnant and should be due in just a couple of months. How is she going to manage that? Luckily, the other teacher being cut has another job set up, but all this shouldn't have happened in the first place. I just don't understand how the district can cut so many teachers from their jobs but, at the same time, be in the process of building three new schools and not being willing to cut salaries of top administrators. Does that make since to you?
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