Day of Service

                  Hello, to ever keep the ever learning class up to ever knowing my interests, I am posting on my involvement in San Jose State’s Day of Service last friday.   I invented it, just kidding, I volunteered to help at a school.  So we walk to the elementary school (insert name here) and I get an assignment to help out with the 10 year olds with behavioral problems.  I think if people want to interact with the community to really understand it’s status, a beginning sentiment should be searching and interacting with the 10 year old children with behavioral problems of that community.  
                   Boy oh boy, I remembered so many time passing games that I taught these kids, we played war, one of them chose the Nazis as his country, I lectured him on the horror of the Nazis, and finally we played tag in the playground while yard duties halted their usual “no running” screams when they saw their small assignments accompanied by a large college student running and laughing amongst them.   

                   I think we should incorporate kids into new media, I think they should directly interact with us while at school, and networks should be founded with intentions of providing conversation and learning for children and outreach and internship in various fields for students and adults.   Booya -Nate

Social Media..ness

           To so wonderfully increase my awareness of social networking and its ties to media and relevance for my needs, I caught up with an old facebook account I created some 12,000 hours ago.  I immediately noticed how plain most facebook pages were.  They consist of text and text.  The fun thing though is it’s inclusion of several widgets and applications that allow a very above par time browsing through the pages of useless facts and drunken pictures.  My favorite widget is a globe that shows where that person has visited and lived and where they would enjoy going.  I’ve visited four percent of the world.  The world’s land mass.  Booya.  Big booya.  I would like to include a link to my facebook, but you can’t view it unless your logged in I think.  That way they suck everyone into this slithering cesspool of widgets.  Just kidding.  But not really.  -Nate     

Torch comments

                  So I ventured to the torch rally on Wedsday the 9th.  It was oh so many things.  I really wanted a shot of the torch runner but I wasn’t even able to spot him.  In fact I didn’t even know if they had sent the runners off or not until later that night on the radio.  There was such an abundance of protesters, that the marked off streets flooded onto side streets, traffic was blocked, and Nate took pictures.  
                   Since the biggest protest group there was for the freedom of Tibet, a scuffle with them and Olympic supporters would of ended the run quickly.  So I think the mayor changed the route a few times, which really is a downer for those who just wanted to see the torch.  
                   It’s my opinion that protesting really does contribute to a cause not necessarily directly, but by shining light on an issue.  The protesters for Saving Darfur for instance, gathered, shouted, and talked.  The Tibet protesters were much more aggressive, which is good, but well….It’s a given that countries use the Olympics to gain political advantages, but that’s the government over the Olympic commission, it’s not the Olympic commission.  So to protest the Olympics, and grab the torch from a runner as in the Europe run, your putting direct opposition against the Olympic organizers, not fully the Chinese government.                                    If one really wants to create such a big effect on something, people everywhere need to be informed.  If your disposition requires immediate action, an incredibly organized form of anarchy has to be brainstormed..otherwise you’ll have chaos and hypocracy and fighting to fight, which is a mindset that might be nice for an individual to momentarily increase perspective, but in terms of a whole country it causes pain.                            

Anyways, check out these photos I took, the three guys in the one were completely naked supporting humanity.  Peace. -Nate.

 

Hello.  I have seen posts on the Olympic flame torch relays and would like to express my enthusiasm and support for the secret(ness) of the SaveDarfur Campaign to protest China in SF.  The protest concerns lack of potential help on the goings on (entirely new issue) and will be on the torch rally on the 9th of April.  I am going to take photos.  I am also considering writing an article and putting a Spartan daily staff members name on it.  New thought, the Spartan daily should take freelance written articles if well prepared, cited and written.  Newer thought, does the Spartan daily take freelance written articles?

On a side note check out this photo I so slyly took during the “Little Saigon” happenings downtown.

-(Lord) Nate

Review of the Department’s Review

So this is my finally posted review of the random review we had which included free donuts.  My reason for reviewing this instead of superbowl commercials entails me making espresso drinks for 8 hours while the game went on.  I’m not bitter.  In the course of the department interview*(?), two or three members from different boards of something or other asked incredibly general questions and elaborated with different facial gestures of surprise when they received unspecific answers.  They also had free donuts.  Mine was rasberry filled.  My main annoyance with this small (40ish people) meeting was the fact I never knew what these people are going to do with the information presented them.  If they are directly reporting to someone who can help our budget i’m sure everyone would be trampling each other to participate.  Or at least passively throw paper airplanes with opinions inscribed on them to partake in the discussion.  ”For those of you who are shy please bullet your plane opinions towards the man in glasses’ eyes..Having glasses on protects him from your rage.”  What a completely insane side thought.   Also, furthermore, in addition, the donuts were still there in my evening class in the same room.  Apparently funding commissions don’t have very gallant approaches to throwing away trash.  I’ve also noticed well dressed business like men sacrifice Bill Clinton-esque thumb gestures for twiddling with their glasses and well dressed business women twiddle pens and dramatically point them for answers.  This is not proven, just an observation.  Do not quote me.  Making a wiki page however is fine.  Also peachy.    -Donut lover nate

Me Have Pretty Picture

this image is resized, cropped and color eliminted like pleasant ville or some other weird..place involving a spidermanesque actor. Vote. -Nate

Originality

Guess what guys. I’m posting a photo. A building photo. That I was told to post. I call it photo 3.  CAN YOU TELL THE DIFFERENCE!!! I CAN”T!

The beginning, the beginning, of this blog.

Hello, I am Nate, enrolled in this class to get a better uderstanding of current media techniques to further my journalism education and ability to reach people if needed. I’m excited for this class and also pretty hungry, probably for sushi. Or icecream. and cigarettes.