Today I will outline the most under-appreciated inventions, or utilities available for humans in today's modern society. This topic was influenced by a good friend of mine who has a really awesome blog about really awesome subjects. The following items will be listed in no specific order other than the order in which I think of them.
1. Toilet Paper:
Toilet paper is a fundamental part of nearly everyone's daily life, and without it many of us would be much more vile creatures than we are today. It not only assists us reaching a satisfactory completion of doing our business, but also contributes to combatting nose-bleeds. In addition to those incredible purposes it also doubles over as a great tissue, I only recommend two-ply when using as tissue though.
2. Numbers:
Numbers are a way humans have enabled themselves to interpret and explain the universe, yet people just view numbers as... well numbers. Without numbers we would have no way to make any sort of calculations so just about everything used by humanity today would have never existed.
3. Zipties:
Zipties, while not as useful as numbers, are very interesting and scary things. They can not only be used to make electronics packaging a mission to open, but also as handcuffs. If they are that difficult to break then who is to say than one can't be strangled to death by a zip tie? They are traps and deadly weapons.
4. Sunscreen:
Helping prevent skin cancer more and more every day.
5. Steel:
Steel is used for such a huge variety of reasons, from jewelry to weapons. Without steel I would not be able to represent the immense fashion that I do; a turtleneck and chain all day every day.
This post will be edited as I think up more ideas.
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
I'm Sorry
Hello readers... if you still exist. This post is dedicated to all of my friends and family who have been insisting that I continue blogging. I'm so sorry that it has taken me so long to finally get around to writing another post. So I feel that I owe it to all of you to tell you what I have been up to in the last three or four months. I will attempt to categorize the events by month, but bear with me because my writing has likely gotten much worse (due to me not writing at all anymore) and also because my memory can be pretty awful sometimes. Well here goes:
February:
This month was a big deal because my entire daily life and schedule was completely different from how it was. I was incredibly busy all the time because of swim season starting up, but also I starting dating someone else and it has been so awesome and stress-free the entire time. The same can not be said about swim, swim this year was a bit overwhelming due to the difficulty of practices and days with double practices. Those days consisted of a morning weights workout that typically followed the design of a crossfit workout, and a swim practice after school. I also was juggling swim, and school with my work at the swimming pool. I had done the same junior year but I only made myself available to work on sundays junior year, and now I was trying to work nights after practice in addition to weekends. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays I was teaching private swim lessons when I didn't have a swim meet interfering with the lessons. Needless to say; I was a busy guy. This month I also started mending my friendship with the friend mentioned in my life story and I just had a billion things going on... so blogging was neglected. (Once again uh... sorry)
March:
The first swim meet happened this month and I was incredibly shocked with the times I managed to pull that early in the season. I also finished my TOK class (discussed in another old post about the personality tests) so two of the seven classes at school consisted of well -- nothing. My Chinese teacher who had been gone probably since I started blogging because she just had a child returned. Things with the new girlfriend had been getting a lot better, she keeps herself well-guarded but I could tell she was really trying to let me in and trust me more. Spring break happened and I went to visit the college I will be attending this fall, Montana State University, pretty much the coolest school ever. During that trip my mom and I had really bonded and connected, we had been the only two living in the house just months before yet somehow we had managed to drift so far apart. The trip was not only fun because I got see the school, but it was probably one of the last big events I will get to share with my mom and it could not have gone any better (aside from us almost running out of gas in the middle of Wyoming... but thats for another time). The private lessons I taught on Saturdays ended at the end of March and... that just about concludes the month.
April:
April was the worst month ever at school, simply because graduation was so close but I had to stay motivated because of all the impending tests in my IB classes. It wouldn't have been so bad if we weren't taking practice tests every day in all of my classes, which honestly made me want to go to a corner, curl up in the fetal position, then die. OH! I failed to mention at the very end of March I started playing a game called Politics and War which overtook my life completely during this month. The game also became very popular at school and it actually became the "cool" thing to do... to play a browser-based, typing game. I once heard someone tell another person "you can't sit with us right now, we are talking about alliance affairs" in one of my classes. I still really enjoyed the game but for a little while I only talked to select people about the game. This was also kind of a sad month because the whole new relationship thing (for me) was intended to be relaxed and we both knew we would be going to different colleges in different states... and yeah you get the picture. However, I had grown to have really strong feelings for her and thinking about what to do when fall came was a conversation that I knew was coming, but wanted to avoid for as long as I could.
May:
Well to start the month off swim season ended (sorta) but then I still went to practices to help out with all the state stuff, even though I didn't personally qualify myself. State was super fun, the actual swimmers and all of us other guys who went just to look pretty had some interesting pranks going on at a mall in Denver. I also made the paper plate awards with the two other captains, they were the best paper plate awards in Palmer high school history. I also graduated... so that was kinda cool. My dad and two younger sisters came from California to support me the entire graduation week and that was really awesome. It'd been awhile since I'd seen them and to me it seemed like my dad cared more about this than anything else I had done in my entire life. I was amazed with how helpful and overall awesome he was this entire trip. At work I started working way more and it was nice to see all of my co-workers on a regular basis again. The month concluded with a camping trip that consisted of 7 people, this camping trip was actually located where we spread my grandfathers ashes about half a year ago and it was an incredibly fun experience I got to share with my girlfriend, teammates, and friends. It also made me somewhat upset because I know I only have a couple months left to share with these amazing people. That weekend was spent with an amazing girl who was willing to do anything to help out (I helped out someone else put a tent away, I went back to mine and it was all put away.. properly too.) Great friends who drove up early to set up camp while the rest of us were too busy to go up early, and just extremely fun people to spend time with.
Okay well... I am going to attempt to post regularly again, I feel incredibly guilty to have neglected it for so long. Alternatively if you register on Politics and War... Rose alliance is where its at.
-UsedtobeSadeeiq
February:
This month was a big deal because my entire daily life and schedule was completely different from how it was. I was incredibly busy all the time because of swim season starting up, but also I starting dating someone else and it has been so awesome and stress-free the entire time. The same can not be said about swim, swim this year was a bit overwhelming due to the difficulty of practices and days with double practices. Those days consisted of a morning weights workout that typically followed the design of a crossfit workout, and a swim practice after school. I also was juggling swim, and school with my work at the swimming pool. I had done the same junior year but I only made myself available to work on sundays junior year, and now I was trying to work nights after practice in addition to weekends. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays I was teaching private swim lessons when I didn't have a swim meet interfering with the lessons. Needless to say; I was a busy guy. This month I also started mending my friendship with the friend mentioned in my life story and I just had a billion things going on... so blogging was neglected. (Once again uh... sorry)
March:
The first swim meet happened this month and I was incredibly shocked with the times I managed to pull that early in the season. I also finished my TOK class (discussed in another old post about the personality tests) so two of the seven classes at school consisted of well -- nothing. My Chinese teacher who had been gone probably since I started blogging because she just had a child returned. Things with the new girlfriend had been getting a lot better, she keeps herself well-guarded but I could tell she was really trying to let me in and trust me more. Spring break happened and I went to visit the college I will be attending this fall, Montana State University, pretty much the coolest school ever. During that trip my mom and I had really bonded and connected, we had been the only two living in the house just months before yet somehow we had managed to drift so far apart. The trip was not only fun because I got see the school, but it was probably one of the last big events I will get to share with my mom and it could not have gone any better (aside from us almost running out of gas in the middle of Wyoming... but thats for another time). The private lessons I taught on Saturdays ended at the end of March and... that just about concludes the month.
April:
April was the worst month ever at school, simply because graduation was so close but I had to stay motivated because of all the impending tests in my IB classes. It wouldn't have been so bad if we weren't taking practice tests every day in all of my classes, which honestly made me want to go to a corner, curl up in the fetal position, then die. OH! I failed to mention at the very end of March I started playing a game called Politics and War which overtook my life completely during this month. The game also became very popular at school and it actually became the "cool" thing to do... to play a browser-based, typing game. I once heard someone tell another person "you can't sit with us right now, we are talking about alliance affairs" in one of my classes. I still really enjoyed the game but for a little while I only talked to select people about the game. This was also kind of a sad month because the whole new relationship thing (for me) was intended to be relaxed and we both knew we would be going to different colleges in different states... and yeah you get the picture. However, I had grown to have really strong feelings for her and thinking about what to do when fall came was a conversation that I knew was coming, but wanted to avoid for as long as I could.
May:
Well to start the month off swim season ended (sorta) but then I still went to practices to help out with all the state stuff, even though I didn't personally qualify myself. State was super fun, the actual swimmers and all of us other guys who went just to look pretty had some interesting pranks going on at a mall in Denver. I also made the paper plate awards with the two other captains, they were the best paper plate awards in Palmer high school history. I also graduated... so that was kinda cool. My dad and two younger sisters came from California to support me the entire graduation week and that was really awesome. It'd been awhile since I'd seen them and to me it seemed like my dad cared more about this than anything else I had done in my entire life. I was amazed with how helpful and overall awesome he was this entire trip. At work I started working way more and it was nice to see all of my co-workers on a regular basis again. The month concluded with a camping trip that consisted of 7 people, this camping trip was actually located where we spread my grandfathers ashes about half a year ago and it was an incredibly fun experience I got to share with my girlfriend, teammates, and friends. It also made me somewhat upset because I know I only have a couple months left to share with these amazing people. That weekend was spent with an amazing girl who was willing to do anything to help out (I helped out someone else put a tent away, I went back to mine and it was all put away.. properly too.) Great friends who drove up early to set up camp while the rest of us were too busy to go up early, and just extremely fun people to spend time with.
Okay well... I am going to attempt to post regularly again, I feel incredibly guilty to have neglected it for so long. Alternatively if you register on Politics and War... Rose alliance is where its at.
-UsedtobeSadeeiq
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