You have been warned...

Codejoy — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:23:00 -0500

Dear Blizzard,

If this isn't an announcement of diablo3 then I will come hunt your developers down where they sleep and beat them to death with their own shoes. You have been warned.

Reboot day 1.

Codejoy — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:05:00 -0500

CHKSUM

POST

printf("Step one to rebooting for the week\n");

printf("have fun with kiddo and exercise!\n");

Its been one of those days...

Codejoy — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:40:00 -0600

...all damn week :)

Stasis

Codejoy — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:39:00 -0600

So no updates to the blog, no updates to my flickr. Ya its safe to say I am in a bit of a slump, I keep hoping its one of those brooding slumps where I remerge stronger and better than before, but really I think its just a slump brought on by the busyness of the holidays. My photography is sucking as of late, my technology hates me (built a "cheap" computer that went over budget and then missed the mark of doing what it was built to do but I am still trying). You know its bad when i don't even have an image to go with this post, wait let me put one up.

Sex! And social ills...

Codejoy — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:51:00 -0500

Now that I got your attention with the Sex part, I would like to share a discussion I had with a friend this lunch hour. On the news was a report of a middle school offering the pill to students without parent consent. He asked what I thought of it, and I said I think its great! But I retracted quickly stating, I think the pill is the wrong thing to offer, ESPECIALLY without parent consent as it is a drug, it changes a woman’s body. Though in that same sentence I told him that I thought they should offer condoms in school. Well this is where the discussion started. I wish I could transcribe it word for word, but now it being almost an hour ago I will just state meat of the whole thing.

Essentially, my friend had a huge problem with the idea that schools would offer condoms even without the parents consent. I thought it was a good idea and a step in perhaps bringing down teen pregnancy. His argument was that its not the job of the schools (And there by the government and taxpayers) to be telling kids what to do. To me just offering a way to do something they will probably do anyway safely was a great stop gap measure for a growing problem, and in no way is suggesting or telling kids how to behave. He insisted this isn't the case, and that schools shouldn't do that as their only job is to teach kids reading, math, science etc. While agree with him that schools only job should be that, in reality it isn't. A lot of kids go to school for 8 hours a day to get away from their crappy family lives, so schools have taken on a role unfortunately which they originally intended to do.

He tried to use the argument that if they legalized weed then schools should provide weed to students cause "They are going to do that anyway", another analogy he used was putting brochures for Christianity and denominations within the counseling office as well, which he knew I would disagree with. I'm curious what others, that is you all think? No right or wrong answer, but just curious. I guess his biggest argument is that it takes away any and all say of the parent and government especially schools shouldn't do that. He also thinks its schools saying its okay to do stuff behind the parents back. I just don't see it that way. Thoughts???

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You have been warned...

Reboot day 1.

Its been one of those days...

Stasis

Sex! And social ills...