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McDonalds University - What the Hell, Ray, what the Hell?...

2 nights ago, when I was talking about finding a job with my family, my father told me about McDonalds University. I didn't even know it existed before he told me about it, and the name is no coincidence either. It's a management school for McDonalds employees. So, why does McDonalds need a university? I don't know. I don't want to know. All I know is that this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of. Don't believe me? You can read all about it by clicking on this link.

Somehow, I'm sure this spits in the face of intellect.

My wasteline may have shrunk!

So, in my second post, I was complaining about how bad my job with the paper was. Well, something good is starting to finally come out of it. This morning when I was delivering papers, I felt like my pants were going to fall off near the end of the route. That's never happened before, and combined with the fact that I wore my belt as tightly as possible, I figured that might mean that my waistline has been shrinking. So, I figured I must have lost weight, but when I went to weigh myself, I still weighed 195 lbs. My guess is that maybe I'm gaining more muscle in certain parts of my body and burning fat, but then it could also be all in my head.

I think I should also point out that my New Year's resolution was to drop to 180 lbs. I used to weigh 210 lbs., but when I cut myself down to 3 meals a day without any snacks between meals, I found that I easily lost 15 lbs. But I felt hungry constantly when I did, so I didn't do that for long. Now I'm just trying to eat healthy and try to get the nutrients I need in my diet. My dad left for Florida to visit relatives, so without him around I have been eating a lot better. I know that's probably an awful thing to say, but it's true, whenever he was around, he always influenced my eating decisions badly. That's also a reason for me to move out of my parent's house, as well, since the person I want to live with eats super healthy, and she could probably teach me a thing or two about proper nutrition. I think with her help I can reach my weight goals a lot easier. But for now I'll take advantage of this absence of fatty, unnutritional food I've been eating and see if that also helps. I hope that it does.

Could Asus be the next big name in computers?

Last week, I was shopping around for a laptop at a local Best Buy, and when I asked someone for help picking out a computer, I mentioned that I needed something that I could play MMOs like World of Warcraft on, and so he pointed me to this computer that was super cheap. It was an Asus, and off brand that supposedly was a huge hit outside of America. Well, as he was explaining that to me, some guy with a bunch of kids goes up and says "That's not gonna be an off brand for long, it's going to crush Dell, HP, and everyone else!" So, that got me curious. The pricetag was already low for the particular laptop that I was looking at, at $699.99, but just having that happen to me has me curious. What is it about these computers that make them so popular with the people who buy them? Well, I'm eventually going to buy it when I save up the money for it, and by then it will probably be on sale. But yeah, the point of this article is simple, if you're an investor or in the market for a computer, take a look at an Asus computer, it could be the next big thing.

It's worse than that, it's dead, Jim!

There's no point in maintaining my PTC blog, it just seems like a waste of time anymore. So, for those of you who might have been following it, just forget it exists, because I neither have the time nor motivation to do it anymore. I honestly make more money on my paper route than I do on all the PTC programs I signed up for COMBINED, so what's the point of signing up for half of them? I give up, it's not worth it. I'll just find an honest to God job and actually make a decent living instead of desperately clicking for pennies.

Phew, I feel like a weight has just been lifted off my shoulders now! But I'm still going to try and see if I can make Neobux work for me, I'm trying to rent referrals on there so I earn money faster. It seems to be working. Slowly. But still working.

Earthlings

Yesterday, I found a movie about Earthlings. I'm not just talking about humans, but I mean every living thing that exists on the planet Earth. The movie is simply called "Earthlings", and after watching it, I think that I want to become a vegan. I'll warn you, this film is graphic at times, but if you care enough about the humane treatment of the other animals we share our planet with, then I strongly urge you to see this movie.



If the movie isn't working, simply search for it on Google Video by entering "Earthlings" in the search bar.

Avatar - Could this be the best movie I've ever seen?

If anyone knows me, they know that the hype tends to have the opposite effect on me and actually makes me not want to do something. Lately, everyone has been talking about this movie, Avatar, and walking in, I expected it to be some kind of fad. But, I can finally say I watched it, and I can honestly say this; If you think this is just some half-hearted, hyped-up movie, think again. It's actually popular for a reason. Let me give you a brief plot synopsis. I'll try not to spoil the movie if I can, but I can't make any promises, so read the next paragraph at your own risk.

The movie starts on-board a spaceship headed to planet Pandora. The mission is to relocate the indigenous humanoids, known as the Na'vi, from Hometree so that the humans can extract a rare mineral known as unobtanium (real original, right?) The main character is a human named Jack Sullivan, an ex-marine who was sent in as a replacement for his late brother, who was supposed to be on a mission to negotiate the terms of the Na'vi's relocation through the use of an avatar, a shell that resembles a Na'vi body, and is mixed with DNA from the Na'vi and Humans, and grown in tubes. Jack Sullivan takes this mission because he is a paraplegic. Controlling an avatar would mean to realize his dream of being able to walk again. However, he meets Col. Miles Quaritch, a more experienced Marine than Jack, and Miles makes him a promise that if he succeeds in his mission, he'll give Jack a new set of legs so he can walk again. So, Jack finally gets ready to link with his new avatar, along with Grace Augustine and Norm Spellman, and Jack adapts to his avatar body very well. However, on his first day, he gets lost in the woods, and has to survive the night. Well, just when it looks like he is about to get defeated, a Na'vi, who we later find out is the princess of the Omaticaya tribe, Neytiri, steps in and saves him, and also refrains from killing Norm due to a sign from their sacred tree that convinces her she should let them live. His relationship with her is tense at first, but eventually she is convinced to let him into the village to meet the rest of her people, and Jack is allowed to live, on the condition that he has to learn the ways of the Na'vi. He starts out clumsy at first, but over the course of time, he learns the language, and works all the way up to the point that he learns to tame the wild beasts that the Na'vi use. Eventually, Jake falls in love with Neytiri, but just as Jake falls in love with the jungles of Pandora, the bulldozers come in and try to invade Hometree. Eventually, Jake reveals the whole plan of the Humans to force the Na'Vi to relocate, and this causes everyone in the tribe to lose their trust in Jake. However, Neytiri's mother, Mo'at, gives Jake a second chance, and offers him the opportunity to prove that he is a Na'vi. So, in order to gain their trust, Jake tames a Toruk, the most fearsome flying beast on Pandora that only one Na'vi has ever been able to tame. So, then Jake comes to Hometree with the Toruk, and people see him as the Na'vi legendary hero, Toruk Makto, and he declares a war against the Humans bent on destroying Hometree.



I saw the movie in 3D, too, and had to wear the dorky pair of glasses pictured on the left. Imagine what these would look like on your face. But the technology behind these glasses is impressive, it makes it seem like the characters in the movie are right there in front of you. However, the movie didn't even need 3D. The special effects were incredible, and even though I spotted a few movie clichés (like the thrown in love story and how in every movie the good guys always win), they didn't really feel that forced, and the movie's director, James Cameron, made everything in the movie work really well. However, that's not the number one reason why I loved this movie. If you can look past all the glitz and glamor, you'll see that deep down, the movie has a deeper metaphorical meaning to it. One of the movie's main bad guys, Parker Selfridge, represents the evils of Capitalism and Imperialism, and the Na'vi almost make me think of the indigenous Americans and their way of life before the pilgrims came in and dispossessed them of their land. And in a way, that's what this movie indirectly seems to be all about. The Na'vi, much like the Native Americans, were about to be dispossessed of their land, and they stood and fought. And, like Jake, some colonists did assimilate with the Native Americans because they found that their way of life was superior to the ones the colonists were living. My only concern is that this message would be lost on all the millions of moviegoers who have followed the hype, and would fail to see the deeper meaning that this movie has in store for people that would think about it in this light. In that way, this movie is a work of pure genius, and that means a lot coming from me, since most modern movies just seem too cliché and boring to me. So, yes, it was definitely worth the hype that surrounds it. If I had to give this movie a rating from 1 to 10, I would give this a perfect 10. If you haven't already, you need to go see this movie.