Posts by Hous0430

American Academics Hard(ly) At Work

I recently have left Kent State University do to the fact that trying to take classes for C++ or even C# is nearly impossible or frankly not offered at all. When I was in high school all about 10 years ago, Kent had a Technology program offered at my high school. In that program I got my feet wet with some VB and C++, I later fun-off to go join the military and when I get back and want to put that GI Bill to good use. I enroll in Kent thinking that "they seem to offer what I want", I get there and they have NOTHING! Everything seems to now be Java or Python, with VB for the "over achievers", this from a college that proudly claims to be a "leader in technology". Needless to say, that yes some (if not most) Com Sci and Tech students are lazy here, it makes it impossible for those of us who actually want to be programmers. Ultimately, as long as most of the students want to "sell themselves short", the academic community here isn't going to offer these classes, it's all about the money and if there's no interest in these classes they're not going to offer them.

Remember Beanie Babies?

The stupid little plush things that plagued the consumer market 12 years ago. You know the ones that specifically low-balled retailers around Christmas time by only sending partial shipment, if any to said retailers to create hype (and thus launching a plague I go through every Christmas, trying to find the newest <shitty toy name here> for my little cousins)? Yeah, same concept, only for us big people, just waiting for the inevitable riots to happen.

P.S. I'm running strong on a 15 year Apple boycott (not even an iPod, just on GP).

I appologize

For the "southern" denizens of my state, not everybody is crazy in Ohio (just those "southies"). It is true that at least he asked, but plagiarism is plagiarism.

No, Luke, no!

Google, please don't ruin my hopes of finally owning something that can compete with the force that is known as "Apple", and doesn't remind me of the Gestapo.