Good morning! (Taken with Instagram at Foothill College - Room 4201)
Lieutenant of the Air Force #frc #omgrobots (Taken with Instagram at Edward Jones Dome)
We found Dean Kamen’s “bitch, please” face. #frc (Taken with instagram)
FIRST National Championship 2012, last day! #frc #omgrobots (Taken with Instagram at Edward Jones Dome)
This is what happens when homework becomes increasingly boring. My hand is tired now. (Taken with Instagram at The Hamlet)
Rich people, alienation, etcetera.
Money is the root of evil. Always.
Seriously though, how can people as dumb as a bag of rocks have so much money to spend on nice things that others can’t have because they’re too poor to buy them and have to resort to alternatives? Why the hell do these types of people buy things that they honestly don’t really need and waste so much money on them and never use their full potential? I’m talking about items such as iPhones, maxed-out MacBook Pros, and imported European cars such as BMWs and Mercedeses.
You know what drives me insane? Is that they buy those things, but all they do is just basic stuff they could do on different items. They bought a MacBook just to check email. I could check email at the public library, on a computer that’s about five years old, without the latest software, and still be safe about it. They bought it to also write shitty essays in Pages. They could’ve easily done the same thing on an Acer machine that costs barely even a fraction of the price of a MacBook and possibly do even more things on it than imaginable.
I’m not talking about Mac vs. PC. That’s for a different post. I’m talking about the people behind the Macs.
I get that some students buy Macs so that they don’t have to worry about compatibility, so that they can store photos more easily and so that they can have something that won’t give a flying crap if you drop it from a height (although a ThinkPad could survive an atom bomb), or professors want to look more elegant with it or whatever. But if you’re not either one of those who just has money and they prefer the brand name of “Apple” instead of some other cooler name like “Alienware”, then I will seriously give you the eye about it. And if you’re just buying it “because you can”, you’ll also get the eye about it. Think about it- there are kids dying in Africa!
I’m not saying you shouldn’t buy a Mac. I’m saying that if you don’t have a need for it, don’t buy a Mac just because you’ll think it’ll be easier for you to check your email, stalk around on Facebook and watch YouTube.
Same with cars too. Why buy a BMW or a Mercedes if all you’re going to do is drive to school and back and maybe the grocery store a couple times? You’re not a CEO or a famous person (that is, if you are a student) and don’t need to show off how rich you are. That just makes you look like a douchebag. Furthermore, if you crash it, you’ll be paying much more to fix it than you would on a Toyota or a Hyundai. Besides, the latter two mentioned last longer and are more fuel efficient than the more expensive imports.
And last but not least, don’t be one of these customers:Â http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg
So on talking about alienation- just because someone’s had a hard time for a month doesn’t mean they should be ignored and, worse yet, have everyone’s feet wiped upon them. Yeah, they can be a prick at times, but that doesn’t mean to make things worse for them than they already are.
Okay, I’m done ranting for the night. kthxbye
I like classrooms with a lot of natural light. Fun things happen. Also, physics! (Taken with Instagram at Foothill College)
