I sit here yet again with a large lists of topics to choose from to write about. I have an incredibly large amount of homework tonight, so I regret saying that I only am giving myself forty minutes to write tonight. I’ll have to pick some of the easier ones to write about and simply let the words pour out. So, we’ll skip the breezy cheesy intro and get right into the good stuff.

Let’s begin with the “Scott Is Hot Shot”, shall we? In case you’ve been slacking off in your blog reading, I’ve put a few moments of my boredom to (good?) use by hooking up a small camera in the corner of my room. This camera, curiously aimed at my back and monitors, takes a picture every sixty seconds and feeds that data to a server where it’s accessible via my website. Thus, you can go to my website (at the moment, it’s on this page) and see what I’m doing any minute of the day! Yeah, I know, it’s really weird. I don’t know what to do with it yet. I’m still 50/50 whether or not I should keep it. If I decide to keep it, I’ll implement it somehow with the layout of my website so you can always see what I’m doing when you go to it (thumbnailed of course) and/or have the option to launch a pop up auto-refreshing viewer. All ideas at this point though, don’t get too excited. So, for those of you who think I write this blog for other people only, I’ll prove you right! Watch me post a meaningless image in your honor.

I was reading someone else’s blog the other day and came across an article that caught my eye. It talked about how cows are raised in America to be terminated and have their bodies made into meat which we ingest. He said this all from a “if you eat meat, you are a horrible person” standpoint. (He wasn’t so direct, but remember I am summarizing here) Anyway, I thought it’d be an interesting topic to write about. We Americans (whose poorest people on welfare even earn more money than the average hard worker does in Taiwan) have become so dull to our lives that we decide to nitpick on silly little things like this. Humans have been eating meat for thousands of years, and although that’s no basis for an argument, it does make one a little cautious about all the saying “people shouldn’t eat meat”. The article that the guy wrote about described in some detail the process of how these cows are raised and executed. They’re fed a special diet all their life (forget about mad cow disease for the moment) that enhances their meat and makes them grow well etc etc. Then, when the time has come for them to go, they are shocked (electrically) and their brain instantly gets zapped. This process is instantaneous and painless. They are then hung upside down and a slit cut in their throat to drain the blood (to keep the meat nice). The person who wrote the article (that I wish I still had the link to!) claimed that this was an outrageous and horrible method of inflicting torture among animals. Now, I’m sure that the far left-wing environmentalist animal rights activists will be quick to point out that there have been cases in America of “animal cruelty” when it comes to slow deaths and bad lives of cows etc etc. These have happened, but they aren’t the norm! If something really bad were going on, it’d be found out and fixed quickly. Shall we declare cars as evil and horrible things because someone decides to use one to run over somebody? No, of course not. The few instances of horrible conditions of cattle raising and butchering aren’t representative of everyone in the group. Even so, the methods of killing cows these days seem amazing to me! Compare it to some of the eastern countries where the only way to kill a large animal without damaging it’s body is to bash its eyes with rocks and try to poke in the sockets with sticks to scramble the brain up – that is if the animal even gets to reach adulthood without starving to death. Even though the vast majority of cattle ranches in America raise their cows and terminate them in very sensible and humane ways, there are always people who still try to find something to throw at it. Although I forgot the exact wording, the person who wrote the article went so far as to say “I consider cows equal to myself.” The fact that one person believes this greatly disturbs me. Yet, I can not help but realize that many more people must share his viewpoint. That, my friends, scares the heck out of me.

“No one reads your [stupid] blog … Your blog is for the public” I get sent lines like this all the time! However tonight I got one from one of my close(r) friends and I was a little surprised. Is this true? Had my intent shifted from it’s original meaning? Well, I always remember saying that “I write my blogs for myself, not for the people who read them.” Over the last few months I’ve gotten a lot more visitors (right now I get around twenty thousand hits a month) and it’s really hard not to let the change in traffic affect the original purpose of my blog. I’m sure the advent of my Scott is hot shot mixed with the prettiness of my website and new layout and things of this nature triggered my friend to say these things. However, it did make me stop and ask myself “Is he right?” I had to think about it for a minute, but then I was able to even out both sides until I figured out a nice answer. As far as the first comment (about no one reading my blog) that’s fine with me. I don’t really care about website hits and volume and that sort of thing. I mean, sure, it’s really cool to go up and see how many people went to your site today, but it’s just icing on the cake! The meat of his comment was “your blog is for the public”, whereas my original claim was “my blog is for myself.” I’d say that both of these are really close to being accurate. How is this possible? Well my friend said that he things I write for the public, which I definitely do! However, it’s not the only reason I do it. The reason I do it is “for myself.” When I define “for myself”, I come up with some concepts on the lines of recreation. Simply put, I love blogging because it’s fun and relaxing! I blog for myself, while at the same time doing it for other people to see. Even though [I think] he meant is as an insult, I’m glad he said it, because it put it back in perspective. Of course I write for people to read it! Of course I care what people think [to a certain level]. Obviously, I write things that I hope will be interesting. In this process, I have fun and make new friends, which is what I do “for myself” to have fun =oD

You wouldn’t believe how dumb my classmates are! Ok, let refine my subject here. In all of my classes, the students are more or less normal as far as the intelligence scale goes. However, I have this one class on Thursday nights (macroeconomics) that never ceases to amaze me. The class goes from 7:00pm to 9:45pm (it’s a night class). I don’t know if it’s the late time that does it or what, but you wouldn’t believe how many STUPID people are in this class! People shout out answers and ask questions that have ZERO relevance to the topic at hand! Sometimes, when somebody will (by chance) say something remotely related to the current issue, it will be such a dumb comment that it just makes me want to smack my forehead and stand up and yell “YOU IDIOT!” while I sit in my seat and watch everyone else pause and ponder the question just asked as if curiously contemplating the solution. A perfect example of this is the fact that NO one in the class could see how raising the minimum wage in America to 25$ an hour would be a bad thing! I just sat there dumbfounded. Is it just me, or am I helplessly surrounded by idiots in this class! In that class, I feel really smart, but also mentally insulted by my own presence! I don’t get it! I don’t know what goes on in these peoples’ heads, but it’s just like… how on earth can you not think things out in your head? I’d understand maybe 3 or 4 people in the class being a little slower and what not … but EVERYBODY? Wow…

Well, you have a lot to look forward to! Tomorrow night I’ll be having a little more free time and I will write about some more stuff that I hope will be interesting. Also, keep an eye out for some changes! I’m going to try to use some free time I get (late late tomorrow night?) making the comment page(s) better and implementing my Scott is hot shot into my website and holding a silent auct-… oh wait… I can’t talk about that yet. You’ll have to revisit my site in a day or two to see what that’s all about. Like Janet Jackson’s right bazoom at the super bowl halftime show: I’m out.

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