Last Blog!

This is my last blog and I'm actually really excited. So why am I excited? Well I'm not going to have to write reminders to write my blog every week. I won't have to think for like 5 minutes about what to write about any more, this will probably cut back the number of headaches. And reason number 1.... I won't have to listen or read or hear about what everyone else has written or what someone thinks about what I've written. Yes! The second we all stop writing our blogs is the second that about half the controversy in our lives will stop dead in it's tracks.

Gas Prices

Why is it that gas prices fluctuate so much? More people travel and drive during the summer months so by increasing the price per gallon the oil companies make a very large profit. That also why natural gas prices become so high during the winter months. Over time gas will go up in price because of the terrifying fact that the supply is becoming limited, while the demand is growing at an alarming rate.

Why Guys Hate Dances

So I was just talking to a good (Female) friend about Prom and I asked her this question. "How come girls whine and complain about needing enough time to get stuff for Prom, but every girl I've talked to so far has gotten their dress the day after they were asked?" She told me about how they probably need to be altered and that takes awhile, but then she confirmed me something that I’ve known for quite awhile. That when a girl brings up how soon a dance is coming up, all she is really saying is that she wants a guy to take notice so he may ask her.

Ok. So why in the world would a girl think that would work? Well I guess steering the conversation to Prom (or any other dance) gets you in the ballpark. But almost every girl does this in a very noticeable way and it makes her seem desperate, which is not a good indication to the guy. So why is this not a good thing to be talking about with a guy? Well, you’re making him feel guilty about not going is definitely going to destroy any chance you have of being asked to the dance. Why is that? Well human beings naturally don’t take pleasure in being told they are doing the wrong thing. As well as now that you’ve ticked off that guy for making him feel bad about himself he makes a mental note to “Never ask that girl to a dance” and when guys have some profound new info. On a girl of course he’s going to tell his buddies. So, in the after math of this train wreck, that girl’s odds are not very good at all that she’s going to that dance, or even the next one. All you girls reading this right now don’t be too mad at me for being an insensitive jerk. Because I’m going to tell you how to get guys thinking that they’ll definitely ask someone. Actually I’m going to use a story to portrait the right way to make a guy feel guilty, without him feeling guilty.

When I was thinking about who I would ask, or even if I was gonna go, to Prom I heard to opinions. For the stories sake we’ll call one girl Lindsay and the other Jane. Now, these are totally made up names to protect the real identity of the girls. So on one hand you have Lindsay saying “You know you really need to ask someone to Prom. If you do you would make her sooo happy. Don’t worry about if she’s happy to go with you, it’s a guarantee she’ll be happy just to be going.” Then the fictional character Jane“YOU HAVE TO ASK A GIRL TO PROM OR SHE IS GOING TO BE AT HOME ON PROM NIGHT BALLING HER EYES OUT AND IT’LL TOTALLY BE ALL YOUR FAULT!!!” Well, after such verbal abuse as that I almost started crying, but I didn’t because I thought “What would Chuck Norris do?” Ya so, after scrutinizing both opinions, who do you think got asked to Prom? I rest my case.

-Signed, a really frustrated dude

Teasing

I'm actually listening to a "This American Life" episode about reputations. This guy asked, on camera, what his friends really thought of him. They all said they honestly thought he was a real jerk, even his Mom! It was because he teased everyone so much. So why do we tease? It’s a big ego thing; someone may put another down to look bigger in front of others. Someone else may tease because they were teased or even abused as a child. So now they do it to physically weaker people because they think it’s just a part of life. So my goal this week is to not tease anyone, it’s going to be very hard, but I think it’s possible.

Blog

So I was thinking. Why in the world do people blog? It can be seen as a waste of time. But people do like to be the center of attention. Humans like to be listened to, so it's a great way to get your ideas/thoughts out to the world.

"Healthy" one day, Anorexic the next?

I was wondering the other day why it is that a person’s weight can fluctuate so much or not at all. In PE last week we did our weight, BMI, Fat percentage, etc. It was really odd. The little machine thing we used said that for my height (6’ 3”) and my age (17) that my target weight is 185 lbs. I was 182. That’s normal not odd at all you may be saying, I was only 3 lbs off. However, we did it a couple weeks ago, my height and everything being the same, and I weighed in at 169 lbs. It just blew my mind. So I weighed my self again today, just not on the fancy school’s machine, and I was 174 lbs.

A large portion of a person’s overall health is determined by their diet. What they eat and how they eat it may create changes in their body. Just not as rapid and dramatic as mine. A sickness can also amount to rapid weight fluctuation and should be closely monitored. Another explanation would be a person’s heritage. Much of your stature and health traits are passed through genetic code. You could have your Grandmother’s metabolism or any number of things. There are so many things that add to a person’s state of health.

Then you have the other side of the spectrum, people whose weight hardly ever shifts, even with a changed diet. This is probably due to the way food break down occurs in the stomach, since this process is different in everyone.

However, there is a different explanation to this phenomenon. One that affects lots of people everywhere, it’s what causes my weight fluctuation. I new this was the case before I even stepped on the scale that first time. It is the affect of drugs. Not illegal drugs! Prescription drugs that will suppress and at other times enhance your appetite. You must be very careful if you take a medicine that influences your appetite at all. Don’t forget to eat! It’s almost like being Dory, from Finding Nemo, because she is constantly, yet comically forgetting crucial things.

The effect of violent video games?

Many people protest the production of violent video games. They say that's the cause of such massacres like Columbine, but do they really? I agree it definitely doesn't help. It may give them ideas of terrible things to do. But those sick individuals who do those things are most likely thinking about doing them before they play a video game.
Some games have been copy-cated which would point the finger to the games developers. But instead couldn't it be seen as laziness on the criminal's part. They didn't have enough energy or intelligence to come up with there own plan. Even though playing violent video games isn't good for a constant 5 hours, I don't think it's too harmful every once in awhile.
So would it stop world crime rates dead in there tracks to end production of violent video games? I'm going to say, probably not. It might bring down the aggression level in some people, but it's not going to stop violence and murder.
Is the phrase "Boys will be boys" correct in it's thinking? When I was younger the first violent video game I played was when I was about 12. Before that I had never heard of video games, let alone violent ones. I thought it was so cool though. I got to be a ninja and go around round-house kicking the bad guys for as long as I wanted. I think video games are actually good for young guys to be playing. Especially of they live out in the country like I did.
There was absolutely nothing to do when I was younger. So me and my friends had to keep ourselves busy out in the rattle snake infested fields of the west desert. Before the whole idea of violent video games was even introduced to us we would play cowboys and Indians and others such games with cap guns and occasionally even our fists.
So boys will be boys. After video games really got popular where I lived we stopped beating each other up and beating up fake figures on the TV screen. Little boys are going to have violent feelings frequently during there youth and there's not much that can be changed about that.