Project Cure

“Stalking elk past department store windows and stinking racks of beautiful rotting dresses and tuxedos on hangers; you’ll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life, and you’ll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower.  Jack and the beanstalk, you’ll climb up through the dripping forest canopy and the air will be so clean you’ll see tiny figures pounding corn and laying strips of venison to dry in the empty car pool lane of an abandoned superhighway stretching eight-lanes-wide and August-hot for a thousand miles”(Fight Club). I wish the future could be like this…I feel that our society is becoming too modern and unattached to a little thing called life. I rarely see kids go to the local park or walking dogs, only old people. Those people get it though, and though that sounds dumb it’s right. I feel that those people lived more invigorating lives then some of us ever will as we had behind smart phones and computers. I fear it will only get worse as the future goes on, unless this technology drives in a different direction. Instead of excluding us from the outdoors, maybe it could direct us towards it. Finding a way to incorporate both in a way that blends into something beautiful would be great, but I guess for now I can live in the past and wish Brad Pitt was here to blow up the nearest financial buildings in order to send us all back to the stone age and start over.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/06/news/economy/budget_crisis_congress/index.htm?hpt=T2

This article is intimidating upon reading it. The article talks about the growing economic crisis shrouding our economy today. According to the article, the U.S. government has continuously borrowed money that they haven’t yet paid back. This is the world’s money, in which each time the money is borrowed a high interest rate is involved when paying back. Even worse than the fact that this debt hasn’t been repaid back yet, is the fact that the government continues to borrow money as well. This has caused serious problems for the current generation as well as growing problems for the future generations. For example if this continues then 22% of the benefits involved with social security will be lost, as well as people will not be able to start drawing it until later ages. All of these problems continue to dawn on us, but I feel that many are not aware. Action must be taken place though, and possibly the only people that can do it is the government themselves. Although they are the ones responsible, they are also the only people with enough power to enact some kind of change. Possibly if people are aware of the situation, they can call others to attention and start a movement to help. Either way, a solution must be found before it influences the future generations in an extremely harmful way.

Guitars can be extremely hard to tune, so simply use harmonics and all those troubles can go away. The only downside to tuning your guitar like this is that you have to at least be able to tune your low e string by ear. The good news is, if you play and tune a guitar enough, you can almost instantly recognize where that note falls. As for the other strings, tuning by harmonics is simple, place your finger lightly on the fifth fret on the string before it and tune that string to the tone you hear. This works all the way to the g string, where you have to put your finger all the way down on the fourth fret to tune the b, then the fifth fret of the b string to tune the e. Sound a little complicated? It isn’t. It’s actually the same routine most people use to tune a guitar except using harmonics instead of pressing all the way down on a fret. Not only is this way more accurate, but its way cooler when you want to show off. Have fun..

Harmonic Guitar Tuning Method —powered by eHow.com

The video was also trippy which I loved, but I fell in love with the song because who isn’t on the pursuit of happiness?

Future of colleges

http://education.gsu.edu/ctl/Programs/Future_Colleges.htm

This article was an in depth personal view of what colleges are turning out to be. Using research from as far back as a paper statement in the 1800’s, this researcher from Columbine University is well credited and analyzes the matter at hand well. I feel like what he says can be very true, students are beginning to be viewed more as consumers as opposed to students.. We go to college today, and we can tour what we want, we have a time period to where we can experience a class and drop out with no academic penalty. We have the luxury to choose among web or live lecture classes, among professors, and of course among particular times. While most of this is good, many of the negative aspects are ignored. Who is really teaching us? And do they deserve such credentials when half the class fails most of their exams? This author’s article questions many things such as this, saying that professors will be soon based on their popularity and not on which university they came from. So many things are beginning to add up, that I feel one minor mistake can be extremely influential.