In the spirit of Indexed (one of my favorite blogs–if you don’t read it, you need to RSS it right now), I decided to do this blog posts with index card photos to help elucidate my point.
1) Girls are looking older while I’m getting older.
The NYTimes published an article about the rampant sense of entitlement on college classes everywhere.
The article is basically this:
I’ve had enough. I will not stand for it any longer.
This post is dedicated to my little sister, S. Lin, J. Chang, and all the other women(1) who believe that leggings or tights are a suitable alternative to pants. I assure you they are not. Please stop wearing them as such.
Lindsey Lohan, American Apparel, and prostitutes have pushed the “leggings as pants” agenda. Suddenly, our society feels like these entities are appropriate role models and women everywhere follow suit. Think about that for a second. Do you want to be like Lindsey Lohan? Do you want to look like a walking American Apparel ad? Do you have sex in exchange for money? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions–please leave my blog immediately and do not return.
Footnotes:Christian teens have sex.
I’m not sure if this is a surprise to anybody, but it happens. In fact, a new study published in this months Pediatrics (1) found that those who make “virginity pledges” and those who do not will end up having the same rates of oral and sex behaviors, STIs, and premarital sex.
Footnotes:I’m not really that morbid and I rarely think about ways I do or do not want to die…(1)
But please do not ever let me die in a stampede of recession-stricken, Wal-Mart shoppers the day after Thanksgiving. Can you imagine that? That’s freaking terrible. Seriously — that’s an atrocity.
Let’s look at this critically. The man was a 34-year-old temp employee. He works at Wal-Mart, which means he received no health benefits and gets paid minimum wage (and still $5,000 less than the average non-union worker in the retail industry). Even worse, he was a temp at Wal-Mart so not only is he not doing well financially completely broke, he’s even broker than his completely broke coworkers.(2)
Footnotes:So… surprise, surprise! New York City is not a cheap place to live in and NYU is not a cheap school to go to.
And now my financial aid is being held up because there is an $18 discrepancy between my 1040EZ and my W2. That’s right — $32,000 in financial aid and they are upset about $18. Ridiculous. When they told me, I shot them an email telling them that $18 is less than half a day’s work at minimum wage and that it would probably cost me more than $18 to find it and give it to them. I might as well send them a twenty dollar bill or they can just take $18 away from my loan package.(1)
Then, just to rub a little salt in my hemorrhaging bank account, another group sends me this email:
Footnotes:Remember back with me for a bit here.
Remember back to 2004, when Facebook was the envy of programmers and hipster kids everywhere? Back when they only allowed Harvard students? Then only Ivy League students? Back when having a Facebook account also meant you had a top-tier education and would likely go on to become a very successful person so it made sense to network(1) with other people from other Ivy Leagues who would also probably be successful people. And everybody else in the know was jealous?
That may have been the only point in time that I wanted to be on Facebook. Continue reading…
Footnotes:I was enjoying my iced coffee today at a trendy little New York coffee shop and witnessed two atrocities against all things decent by the same person. Laptop plugs that are in the “wall wart” form instead of the “power brick” form and popped collars.
I will address both serious issues today.
Long-time readers will know this isn’t the first time I’ve ranted against people buying dSLRs before they know how to use them or expecting magical photos because they have a bigger camera. But, unlike other rants, this one will contain actual recommendations.
Now, this rant isn’t about every single SLR owner out there. If your only intention is to record memories, by all means ignore everything I have to say. But if you want to record memories that other people can also enjoy or take photos that tell stories or be “artistic”, this will probably apply to you.
If you don’t know the premise of my rant, it is this: Too many dSLR users today forego learning about photography as an art and the result is a multitude of bad photographs. And I’m not going to sugarcoat it — I mean really bad photographs. There are plenty of ways to approach a new hobby or art. You can take lessons from an instructor. You can read the classical materials pertaining to the art. Some of the more gifted and observant can look at other pieces of art and draw out the essentials from finding patterns. But rarely do you become really great at an art by just picking up that brush and stroking away blindly.
New York University.
Now that I’m closing in on the end of my first graduate level course at NYU, I can give a more accurate assessment.
As a bit of a disclaimer, let’s be clear that my baseline is SDSU — despite it’s reputation, a wonderful school but not exactly a high caliber educational institution by any measure.
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