Month: June 2006

Don’t know how legit this is, but its supposidly what Bill Gates said at a high school recently… either way its got some good advice to it.

Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.
Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!
Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping, they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

Wow. 50 points last night. Believe it.

Layman sent some links on more info about the Left Behind Game.
Apparently you lose points when you kill someone and gain points if you save someone.
See the ABC News report.

Eric said he’s sleeping in if the apocalypse takes place next Tuesday.

I’m also in total agreement of Eric when he says, “I have no problem with people who are looking for apocalypse, I have problems with people who are so concerned with it that they think it’s an excuse to ignore the other problems going on around us.”
Also, the end of the world must be near, because Left Behind Games is getting ready to release a video game based on the rapture and end times. Do you get to go around killing sinners that won’t repent?
From PinkDome:

The head of a company that makes RIFD tracking tags has proposed that we insert them in immigrants. Just like our favorite puppy, we can insert these chips into people. Why, that idea isn’t ridiculous or offensive at all!
But isn’t that a sign of the apocalypse? It seems an awful lot like a sort of mark of the beast to me. A chip instead of a bar code, whatever works. And did you ever think the day would come when you’d read a reference (even a joking one) to the rapture on this blog?

MTV.com reports that Bono and mates are ready to get back to the music this month, despite Bono’s recent work in the fight against AIDS, debt and other African struggles.

Lately, it seems like Bono has been more concerned with saving the world than making music with U2, a fact that he — and a large portion of his band’s fanbase — is quite aware of.
Which is why, starting this week, he’s clearing his schedule to begin working with the band on the follow-up to 2004’s triple-platinum How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb.
The frontman broke the news in an interview with the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper (conducted last week while he was on a humanitarian mission in the African nation of Tanzania), announcing that as “a full-time musician and writer,” he’s been penning songs by the bushel and he’s itching to get back into the studio with the band.

Also according to MTV, Interscope records was not aware of the band working on new songs or a new album.
Bono said he had begun writing new songs as he’s learning to play the piano from one of his children’s piano teachers.
Bono has mentioned in previous interviews a number of songs that were left over from the 2004 All That You Can’t Leave Behind, tripple platinum release. But Bono also said during reports on the NBC Nightly News last week that he’s got tons of songs he’s been writing and working on – so I would expect an entirely new album with an entirely new catalog, although they could always pull one or two songs out of the ATYCLB sessions.

A Mesquite resident recently won a position to work as a developer for Legoland in California. How cool/lucky is that?

Until recently, Clay Hervey stored his childhood obsession in five wooden Army ammo boxes in the family garage.
Clay Hervey of Mesquite took second place in a Lego building contest. He hadn’t played with the contents in five years.
“I remember Saturdays because we used to have carpet in here,” the 21-year-old said in his Mesquite living room. “I would come and dump all the Legos out and just be laying there for hours building stuff. My mom used to say that she didn’t need a baby sitter. Just buy a new Lego set … and let him go.”
Years later, Mr. Hervey’s zest for creative construction has paid off. Last week, he and Jason Poland, 23, of Houston snapped their way to second and first place, respectively, in the Legoland Model Builder Search national competition in Carlsbad, Calif.