I wrote this in 10th grade

Mike McIntosh

Period 8

October 15, 2001

Why people want to be like Mike

He is:

A) accountable

B) believing

C) cool

D) Dang good looken

E) eats a lot

F) fights for food

G) great guy

H) helps others make fun of others

I) intelligent

J) joyful

K) Kills the moment

L) loves to sleep

M) monotheistic

N) never goes with out his Dew

O) on time

P) P.H.A.T.

Q) quiet

R) real

S) sexy

T) talks a lot

U) under the table

V) very good looken

W) weird

X) xtra weird

Y) your reading his paper

Z) zippy

Doesn't sound like much has changed in 10 years. I'm still weird and I still think I'm good looken.. LOL.

Breakfast...yum

Short Term Part 2

Does the digital world that we live in contribute to our short term lives?

Everything we do in the digital world leans toward the short term mind set. Facebook and Twitter allow us to be more connected than ever with friends and family. We summarize events, entire days, and life changing moments with a single post. This post flashes for only a moment letting the world see you if they choose to look, then it falls to the bottom of the list. A text message conversation quickly becomes extinct as your phone clears old messages. Even email, with its seemingly endless storage capacities, has a way of loosing a thought under th piles of digital junk mail.

Will my grandchildren see the love letters (emails) I wrote my wife before we were married? Or will it be lost forever in my Gmail account? Will my home videos and photographs hold the same value once they're posted to the web? Am I trusting in Google and Facebook to store all of my memories in hopes that they will be there fifty years from now?

Short Term

We are short term. Our minds, hearts, and lives are fleeting. As humans and more so Americans we live in the moment and the moment alone.It shows itself in ever aspect of our lives, from the way we communicate, to how our government tries to fix the economy. More and more we only care about the present and are finding it harder and harder to care about the past or the future.