New blog!

Hey, I started a brand new blog about Atheism in america... and rightfully titled, "www.atheisminamerica.blogspot.com" I've been itching the atheism itch for quite awhile (the summer) and most of the people that I are subscribed to the blog are religious, and I'd really appreciate it if you would follow the new ones and give comments. I'd really like to hear your guys' thoughts and it'd be great to have some discoussions and (unformal, and nonagressive) debates.

First Atheist President

Note: This isn't supposed to offend ANYONE

Is what I'd love to be. I think that would be pretty amazing.

Alot of presidents have been accused of not being theistic like Abraham Lincoln, and Thomas Jefferson and even George Washington. 3 of our countries greatest leaders all possibly Atheists. I think everyone has a very slanted view on Atheism that needs to be sorted out.

"Why don't Atheists just shut the hell up?"

Well, we've got to listen to a lot of religious stuff, for Atheist students... every day. "I pledge allegiance, to the flag of the United States of America. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation UNDER GOD indivisible with liberty and justice for all" and not to mention the "In god we trust" on the currency.

Atheists are similar to a minority group. We all fight for the seperation of church and state. I don't believe that religion has any place in a court room, legislature, or even in the executive office.

One thing that needs to be cleared up is that Atheists are not anarchists... just because we don't want the ten commandments in front of a court house doesn't mean that we want murder and incest to be legal. We just don't believe that it should all be based soley because "god" talked to a group of people very conveniently when no one else was around... and these people just happened to be strong leaders.

So, as the first Atheist President... I would, open the pledge of allegiance so the word god isn't in there, take it off of the currency, pass laws based on morals and ethics... not based on what the bible says, and not let religion control the government like it is right now... because after all, religious wars are just about who has the better imaginary friend.


Also, one thing I'd like to point out... I'm 100% atheist, not agnostics... Agnostics are unsure of the existence of god. Atheists BELIEVE there is no god. I do not know if there is a god or not, however of what evidence I've seen... I believe that there is no god. And you can't call me agnostic because religous people don't know if there is a god or not... they just believe there is.

Success

Hey everyone!

Well, I'm back home finally. It's been a pretty amazing week. I did some workshops and I absolutely got the edge.

Taking home an 8th place Trophy for Help Desk was no small feat. I competed against the elite 100+ students from 50 states plus the U.S. Territories. I was excited to know that I was in the top 10 out of the NATION. I feel that nothing can stop my success now.

And now that it's over... It's time to start again. I am going to be recruiting for FBLA for my high school for the 2009-10 school year. If you are a) at my highschool and b) interested PLEASE let me know as soon as possible. I'd like to get this ball rolling.

FBLA NATIONALS!

Hey everyone!
In Anaheim, CA right now for my FBLA National competetion. I just found out I made it to finals top 10 out of 100.

Hail Washington!

Stop acting like dumbasses.

Okay, so my farewell; end of the year blog is going to be discussing... high school teenagers; not all of them, but a majority. I'm pretty pissed off right now, so

First, don't fuck around with relationships.

So many people feel that it is an obligation to have a boyfriend / girlfriend; and then you take the popular stance "I'm going to focus on other things than boys/girls", and then go back to what you were doing an hour later because you "fell in love". Well; what you all consider "love" isn't love... I'm not even sure it's enough to call it lust! Remember, what you do in college decides what happens later on. If you want to work at McDonald's cleaning up the diapers in the bathroom for 8 hours a day making less than 12 bucks an hour... have at it. Everyone knows the world needs some deep friars.

Now if you are 14-25 with this job, it's acceptable as long as you're planning for something else. Everyone should want the best out of themselves. Settling for less is called quitting. You are never stuck in a position you cannot get out of. It's not going to be easy, but you can get out of it. Take for example Chris Gardener, who was portrayed by Will Smith in the pursuit of happiness. He struggled with being homeless and raising a son alone in San Fransisco, California. Today he is a millionaire and makes a lot of money telling people his story as a motivational speaker.

There are many people in this world that will tell you "there is not a situation you cannot get out of, if you try hard enough."

So going back to relationships... obviously there is an attraction between young men and women... it's not rocket science; it's biology, but that is beside the point. Don't feel desperate to have someone to date.

I'm not saying that all high school relationships are a bad thing... but a lot of them end in fighting. Just remember... take it slow.

Second, my history teacher's favorite quote "Excuses are like armpits; everyone's got them... and they all stink"

In social situations, I evaluate people on how much they bring to the conversation... if you just say "iran is entering a civil war" you're not doing much, but if you can clearly explain why, and can talk for awhile about it... A+ for you. People who call themselves "clutzy, stupid, dumb, bitchy, etc." piss me off because they are putting them selves down to a level they think they need to be at. Not listening to someone while they are explaining stuff because you say "oh, I'm to stupid to understand that" well... you're probably not. But the fact you won't listen tells me that you are!

Now; many people I know have excuses "I'm fat, I'm too skinny, I'm not smart enough, I don't understand that, I was raped, I'm too poor, my parents don't like me."

Those are stupid excuses, get rid of them. Chris Gardener applied for an unpaid internship at a business, he used a made up address and no one know/could tell he was poor. It didn't matter, he was human and he didn't want any sympathy from anyone because he was poor. So I don't care what happened before... I just want to know, what's going on from here?

If I ever start my own company, you can sure as hell bet that will be my philosophy. Excuses don't make the cut. I guess my stepdad's old boss used to say "I don't care about the problem, tell me the solution."

I strongly live by those.

I hope this helps some people... Just remember, no one cares about excuses... you may think I'm creating an exagerated generalization... but it's not. No one cares.

Open the windows... It's time to vent.

Okay, so I got an e-mail this morning from my teacher, telling me that we need to take down a video that I worked EXTREMELY hard on off of our website, and stop showing it to people because it is offending the regular classroom teachers at my school. I'm not mad at my teacher, or the admins that told me to do it... but the teachers that (and I quote) "be hatin on us".

The program I am in right now is considered to be a technology academy, it was started by my district at the middle school level to test this theory of Small Learning Communities, Project Based Assessments, and Technology in Everyday Life.

So, they started it for incoming 7th graders, they looked at WASL scores, Test scores and other things... and they were considerablly high. They said "Okay let's keep this going" and opened it for 8th graders... Two levels of this program were getting amazing WASL scores and test scores. So the second semester of the second year of the program... they used the mother school that hosted this program... and gave every student a laptop, and transformed the school into a larger version of the program; guess what?! IT WORKED!

So they said "well, if it works here... then it must work everywhere" so now, in 2009 every 7th grader has a laptop and they're demonstrating it... and even though I do not agree with it... It's still the implementation that the District believed in our program... so they used it!

I've said it in past blogs... but I'll reitterate. The classroom enviroment is changing. Teachers don't sit up in front and just sit there... Students teach themselves many new things every day.

So back to what I was venting about in the first place.

The person who (I have no idea, nor do I care) complained about this video had no right to complain to the school district administrators. Most of the reason why I am mad at them is becuase they had to go out of their way to complain about it. The Admins and my teachers only complied with what they had to for their jobs.

I dont know what makes them think that we think we are elitists. I mean, we were test subjects that passed the test.

I really am going to miss that video; I put bytes of my blood, sweat, and tears in there...

However, I love the challange of making the next one.

Soceity Lecture

Okay; here we go... I've been thinking about the philosophies, and here is mine. It's "Walkerism" great name, even better solutions.

The basis of Walkerism, is that we all stive for 1 common goal, success of humanity.

The technology will supplement soceity; computers will be for organization.

Going Ubuntu

Well, I'm done with windows vista... It's giving me too many issues, that I would have to use illegal measures to fix. So Asta La Vista!... Vista!

Tech Blog

Technology Essay/Blog

Disclaimer: This is going to be a very long blog… I’m going to make almost all of the paragraphs independent, and not rely on the other portions of the essay to understand parts of it.


Today was KSD STEP’s (Student Technology Educational Partnership) last meeting of the 2008-2009 school year. We had our end of year celebration at the administration offices and it was pretty fun. We had one of the Information engineers (lead computer guy) come and talk to us about what we do, and what we are in for as students.

STEP isn’t based on technology, it’s based on the future… which is technology. I found out today that my school district’s website was entered into the Smithsonian institute for how technologically advanced it was… that was in 1995. My fellow group members are very amazing and outstanding students. Some produce great films, others know a motherboard like the back of their hand, and others interested in networks and other technical developments. I fall under almost all of those categories on minor levels; I know how to use video editing software, I could build a computer from scratch, and I’ve even got some networking in me… I just haven’t found my sweet spot for technology, I’m more of an innovator; and trying to get people into technology.




The traditional structure of the classroom has changed, we’ve gone from “I’m the teacher, you’ll do as I say, and learn what I teach” to “I’m the teacher, I’m here to help you, here is what our goal to achieve is, here are the instructions, if you need help ask questions.” Students have access to so much technology that we can learn virtually anything we want to, we just need to set our minds to it.


The United States has a large advantage due to a previously strong economy and a strong abundance of technological developments. So many people have access to computers and the internet, which helps to support stronger educations. A majority of my knowledge in the computer sciences field has come from surfing the internet and absorbing what I see and applying it in real life. Many people are trying to limit, and turn the internet into a business. I cannot support any of those, because I believe that the one thing that needs to remain open is our internet.

I’ve heard it from two significant people now… an IT administrator, and my freshman English teacher. I know everyone is talking about it, however today it sunk in pretty deep. There is this new theory that is going around “The world is becoming flat” and according to the evidence I’ve seen, I can support that claim. China has 1,330,044,544 citizens, and India has 1,147,995,904 and the United States has 304,059,724.
Now more than ever, the youth of America needs to get into gear and education needs to be a high priority. The famous “bell curve” along with the populations of the world’s leading countries tell us that the United States is going to be behind in the long run. In a few years, India will have as many people graduating with PhD’s as the United States will have graduating; from what I’ve seen. The youth of “tomorrow” is going to be left in the dust cloud left from India and China’s taking all of the high tech, high paying jobs.


Right now, our software relies on a numerous amount of things that can cause our computers to lock up and crash, however many companies like Microsoft and Amazon are creating these “clouds” which is in a nutshell… using their servers for our programs. For example… if you needed to render a video, you could use Microsoft FrontLoad (just an example software… nothing is called FrontLoad) which creates videos, and you press a button, it sends your files to their servers, and they render your video in ¼ the time it would take running on your hardware.

This could mean wonder’s for businesses, schools, and other orgizations for rendering videos, compiling software and other things. I can see the slogan for Microsoft FrontLoad now… “Imagine having the world’s most powerful supercomputer, in your room.”


You can see that technology hasn’t stopped moving forward, so neither should we. Though the world belongs to everyone we should all take pride in what our nation can do.

Funny poem if you aren't a morning person

I woke early one morning,
The earth lay cool and still
When suddenly a tiny bird
Perched on my window sill,
He sang a song so lovely
So carefree and so gay,
That slowly all my troubles
Began to slip away.
He sang of far off places
Of laughter and of fun,
It seemed his very trilling,
brought up the morning sun.
I stirred beneath the covers
Crept slowly out of bed,
Then gently shut the window
And crushed his fucking head.
I'm not a morning person

In Response to: "To My dearest loved ones"

You aren't a buttjack. We've all got our ups and downs. Tech academy drives us into the ground and without our support groups we'd not make it through the days. I am super thankful for all of my peoples to. We complain to eachother and all of that and we all have good ideas of what each other are going through. I think we'd just crumble without it. Our teachers, pull us together by making us hate their assignments... together. It's been that way sense 7th grade and I love it.

I'm going to start another post soon. :) so

Live long and prosper
-Spock

Plan for next coming years

High school is... complicated.

I've talked with alot of people about this and the reoccuring theme is that people said it wasn't that hard... and that it was only them, because of other stuff... but really it is hard, just the transisition from MS to HS.

One thing is that we don't listen to our teachers very well... they warn us and we ignore them; then we scramble to get things done while they laugh at us.

Next year, I am going to be more organized with my paper... I am going to do all of my homework.

Quotes

"You don't defeat an empire fighting by their rules."


This is from a movie, "Traitor" great movie. I reccomend it to anyone who is a "Thinker"... but this quote and and several others really stuck out to me.

This one is very true... can you destroy and empire fighting by their rules. In the movie's context its talking about America as the empire and they are suicide bombers. However, I believe a quote is a quote no matter who said it. Everyone disses Hitler, however he was one of the greatest leaders the world has ever known... what he did was horrible, how he did it was horrible. But he was able to make human beings turn against their own kind.

We cannot destroy what needs to be destoryed if we fight by the rules set by them.

Anyways, I'm gonna write another blog here pretty quick. Just gonna end this one here.

ASB Elections

So, I really need to find my own blog ideas...

but here we go, ASB elections today. Kind of a running theme for the elections are "I won't do anything that I can't promise, I won't bore you with my speech, and I am going to make our class the best yet"

Well my reply, bull crap, fail, and how?

ASB is the associated student body, it's organized to represent the students. I agree with our president-elect about making advisory classes have representatives. ASB is something that I was a part of in 6th grade, I was president by non-opposition, which I dont know how to take that... I'm still not sure that if I ran anyone would've voted for me.

I had corney slogans and all of that and gave the same speech as everyone did today. All speeches follow the same pattern, and I think we need to branch out. So here is my "too late to run for ASB president speech"

Hello Kent-Meridian, my name is Tyler Walker. I'm kind of the name without a face. I have dedicated my self to the Future Business Leaders of America, Royals Week in Review, the Student Technology Educational Partnership, and the Debate club. Many people know me was a geek, or nerd; mostly because I get excited about technological things that no one would. I am going to tell you the major things that I would like to achieve for next year. First, we have many clubs at our school; many of which that are somewhat cut off from other groups. I would like to create a "club" that has all of the groups presidents and one member from each group to give presentations about what that group is doing once a month either afterschool or during 5th/6th period.
Leadership is one thing that is required in a business, because high school is supposed to teach us most of what we need to know for the rest of our lifes."

You know what, I'm done with that because I have more to say.

One of the things that pisses me off, is that great ideas, and great people are silenced by ignorance.

I'm not going to say that "I am great" because that is arrogant, but in my debate class we are doing "student congress" which is when the class debates on topics around a table and votes on them. Most of mine which are very intellegant and are worth implementing. One was using a structured class room order, similar to parlimentary procedures. Everyone shot it down because... "I used big words" the other one I am suggesting is "Network Neutrality should be implemented as law".

A summary of it is that big internet providers, like comcast want to start playing with our internet. Their goal is to make a layered (tiered) internet that makes faster internet for sites that pay a tax to them. They want to play the gatekeepers of the internet. First, the tiered internet isn't just for people who make websites. If you are going to get this faster connection to the websites that pay for faster speeds... you have to pay also.

Bottom line, we need to make sure that the government makes sure big cable companies don't screw with our connections.

Formulated blog out of everything everyone else's blogs say.

I'm going to pretty much copy off everyone...

First, IB... To IB or not to IB that is the question... I am very faithful to the technology academy and it has been a part of me sense 6th grade when I first heard about it; I had dreams, and the technology academy is continuing to fulfill them. My favorite thing is that it's a small community that I can do things in, such as the promo video, and the website. I greatly enjoy that sense of togetherness that comes with tech. It's one the things closest to me right now.

And, I'll start off this next part by saying this... I want to be great, I dont care really what I do... but I want to be great at it. I'm obsessed with technology, and the way it evolves, I'm very quixotic when it comes to anything new, and conceptional; because it can be changed. I like change.

So, I'm afraid that if I join the IB program... my leadership skills and all that will be ruled with an international standard that we just sit and learn and very rigorus... It's kind of freaking me out.

Also, I'm trying to advance myself and teach myself things people goto college to learn, and it's hard... I guess, I just don't want to be an idiot when I get there and not know what is being taught.... *sigh*

Also, I had a what I believe to be stress attack during 1st period... I'm really going to come back next year with an organised self and able to dominate the 10th grade and kick some glass.

Haha! Beat that Micheal Jackson!

Well, started off with Windows 7 in a rough patch, couldnt get internet... sad, right?

Well using my T-dub powers I whipped it... whipped it good.

Windows 7!!!

Finally I broke down and got it. I am now free to roam about the GUI.

No one but me probably gets that... but who cares :)

Ignorant humans (not religion this time)

Okay, time again for another rant.

I was sitting in debate class today, and we started doing student congress; pretty much like voting for bills and stuff for our debate class. It was fine till people started talking. Seriously, everyone wanted things to be easier. Now, I'm most likely going to swear because ignorant people piss me off.



One bill was "grading should be easier". What the hell? I have an A- in that class and I do my work. I don't have any empathy whatsoever for people who don't do their work and want better grades. One of his arguments was "It's just debate, its not like an english class or anything" well, dumbshit it is too. It's taught by an english teacher, and it's an credit course. If you fail the class it means you aren't showing your learning.



I gave a negative speech on the subject, and I made very good points and my teacher seemed to agree with me. No other students did... but I regard some of them as ignorant dumbf***s not all, but some. I'm not pointing anyone out specifically... so I shouldn't be getting in trouble for posting this. I'm just extremly pissed. Anyways, back to the story... Overall my speech was so much better than the other person's, and of course the whole class voted me down for obvious reasons.



Later I gave my speech, I said that the classroom should be run like a government, some what like my english class. It's a great idea having one meeting a week under a loose version of parlimentary procedures, which is how you hold parliment and business meetings. It's a good idea, I presented it well, and the teacher thought it was a somewhat good idea I think. But of course the ignorants just ruled over it and failed the bill; which is fine for me, we've only got a few weeks left anyways... It just pisses me off to the point where I envy those awkward hermits that live in the mountains... because I often think they are very smart, and I may eventually live like that. It's just difficult living with people who are so stupid. Everyone just wants the easy way out...



Don't get me wrong, I have my times where I dont want to think, work, or do anything else. It's my time to be "ridiculous" no one is ever always mature or always smart... we've got our stupid times and all of that. Why do you think so many geeks have those stupid "why would you ever need that" stuff? It's because if not, we'd explode. I'm satisified writing a 3 page paper of technical documentation, and then going to YouTube trying to get rick roll'd or myspace and chatting people up. It's how I work. But if someone asks me a question I answer it, if I dont know the answer. I find it; or tell them why I can't find it. Unless I'm running low on resources where I just kind of ignore everyone. But I believe that knowledge is our greatest tool, next to experience.

Blog blog blog

Well, I guess it's about time for another rant.

In science we talk about the sun and how eventually it will blow up destroying everything on earth. Well, its depressing... our teacher only helped by saying "but we will all be dead by then". And I realized that i'm not afraid of dying... I just dont want to be dead. It's got me in a funky attitude, I talked with Mr. D-mo about it and we realized that we don't want to be just another head stone... we want to be fudging remembered. I really do, I don't want to lose my legacy within my family, but I want people to feel something when I die. I will probably cry the day Bill Gates dies, I'm not going to lie. He is one of my personal heroes, not because of the money but because his dream came true. He wanted a computer at almost every home and he did it. He has improved my life in ways I cannot explain, one day I would love to shake hands with the man. It would be one of the best days of my life.

Now, I'm 'concerned' about our future because everyone is trying to be protected from everything that is violent and everything, but you know what? I don't care how violent it is. If it happens I want to know about it. I don't care how I feel about it, because emotions are emotions, the media makes the congress evil, the president stupid and evil, and everone inbetween. They're bored and need someone to pick on; and I am sick of it. I couldn't care less how much Palin spends on her clothes, I couldn't care less about something an actor did. People are people, there are two types... Man, and Woman; statistically we are different but we are still built the same in many ways, there isn't a perfect human, get over it. There are great ones, but they aren't perfect. On the news I want to hear about the war in Iraq, I want to hear about the school shootings, I want to know if a 5 year old was killed by her parents. I want to know because I do care. When I hear about someone getting killed, it strikes a chord within me, I can't just ignore it. Someone won't live on to see the rest of their life because someone took the law into their own hands... let me hear about it.

I personally cannot wait for school to be over, I can't wait to have a life again! Oh, it'll be great fun, even though it won't be. I'm a person who would rather be behind the scenes than attending a party. Such as today, I have a film festival and I was incharge of running our videos and live input. I'm much happier in there than I am out just watching things, I need something to do... so I don't know what I will do. Also, I really want to move out of this state. Honestly after high school, I'm gone... see ya, getting a 1 way ticket to anywhere but here. I've been here and done this... My first plan is to join the Air Force. Depending on how it goes, I'll stay in just to get college paid for and then get out, or stay in an get the benefits. *sigh* It's hard going through life now... but I'm working through it, and by the way, I don't care how much you say your life sucks, because yes... my family has enough money, I've got decent houses and all of that, but socioeconomics determine nothing to me. I'm an over achiver and go getter most of the time, it's difficult, but really I'm not doing anything it feels like.

Letter to the school district regarding tech academy...

Dear Kent School District Administrators,
We are a group of students from the Kent-Meridian High School Technology Academy; we’d like to start off by thanking you for providing this amazing program to us. We have gained much knowledge and work experience through our teacher’s methods. Every teacher in the Technology Academy was an amazing choice on your part. These teachers are all elite in their confidence and their goal’s are not just to teach us, but to prepare us for the rest of our lives. Us, as a group are only about 10 people large, we came up with the idea of writing this letter to you while the majority of our classmates were at an “inspirational” assembly to get back on track to graduate.

For some of us this is our first year, others our third. While we sat in our advisory having a discussion about the Technology Academy, we realized that the program was no where near close to perfection, which is to be expected. However we did think of some things that may improve the Technology Academy as a whole.

Many students in the technology academy take it for granted, using the technology as means to chat, or check e-mail during class. Teachers are not always able to catch the students as they do it, but we don’t believe that punishment is effective enough to stop this behavior from continuing. Other students, while not using the technology inappropriately, complain about the “too much” work we receive, while others are able to manage their time wisely and get their work done on time. We believe it is because not everyone is meant for the Technology Academy. Because we use projects to show our learning we spend much time working in groups, and these projects require a sense of time management, technical ability, and openness to new ways of learning.

For the success of the technology academy in the future, we suggest the following resolutions:

Taking scheduled blocks of time out of class/advisory to meet as a whole academy and work on skills that are needed for the future
Having community members give advice for different job fields
Having teacher/student led workshops and seminars on different aspects of learning, to share the knowledge that is contained in our academy
Using a screening process to decide who gets in
Similar to getting into college, having either a multimedia resume, or creating a project based on a topic given during an informational night
(add more suggestions)
We believe that these scheduled blocks would have a positive impact on the academy and help our students succeed through school and in life.
(Elaborate?)

A student judged screening process would be affective in making sure we get people that believe in the technology academy and know what they are getting into before giving a one-year long commitment to something that not everyone can handle.
(Elaborate?)
We thank you for reading our letter and (add something else here?)