Category Archives: Life
Graduation Speech
Good evening everybody.
As I stood in front of our graduating class this morning, something hit me… I’ve never seen half of you before, and don’t know the names of the remaining three quarters. That leaves the only 1/8th (for those of you who failed algebra) of our class, most of whom, I know and love. [...]
Tagged Graduation, High School, Speech
National Honor Society Speech: Scholarship
Good evening students, parents, teachers and guests, I will be occupying the next 3-6 minutes of your life by speaking about scholarship.
I imagine a scholar to have been well privileged grey haired old man who spent the majority of his time in a dark, secluded, silent, fire-lit dungeon, surrounded by thousands of barely legible hand [...]
Tagged High School, National Honor Society, NHS, Scholarship, Speech
Comcast Upload Timeout
I’ve been experiencing some network issues for the past few weeks. The upload for my Comcast cable internet connection would turn unresponsive for a short period of time, ranging from 2-10 seconds, every few minutes or so. This turned from an annoyance in to a huge problem after a week or so. I use Skype [...]
Tagged Comcast, Firefox, Networking, Research, Skype, Troubleshoot, VOIP
I Miss the Colbert Report
The Colbert Report and the Daily Show has been of the air for almost two weeks now because of the writers’ strike. The problem seems to be the fact that studios aren’t willing to compensate the writers for publishing their work over non-traditional media such as the internet. This is just absolutely ridiculous, I applaud [...]
Tagged Colbert, Comedy Central, Writers' Strike
An Analysis of Obama’s Tax Proposals