Today Braden learned how to effectively use control-c and control-v, I mean learned about two careers in the finance cluster (the entire system of which he regards as nonsense) through diligent research and typing about it on fact sheets.
Those careers were actuaries and tellers. Braden has little interest in either of these careers, but as always he is forced to water a budding lack of agency via blogs.
Both deal with numbers, and more specifically money, but then again that's sort of what finance is. But truth to be told, Braden, the slayer of thousands of Where's Waldo? books cannot find for the life of him other similarities between the two. Both work with computers in some capacity, though they use them in fairly different ways.
'Tis all.
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Election Day and Government Careers, ugh
As the leader of an evil ninja clan, I mean IF I was the leader of a secret ninja clan, theoretically I'd need a form of government, personally I'd rather just run it as a monarchy but ninja political riots are pretty messy, so democracy it is.
Presumably I'll need some sort of legislature, and since there'll be lobbyists and tax collectors, to get the vote back I'll need to get rid of them and in doing that I must know them (stretching it a bit I know).
Both use computers heavily, so perhaps some cyber-ninja lackeys, both need to be enterprising, so perhaps a sabotage of their businesses.
Maybe even the warping to ninja-hell of various colleges as a college degree is almost necessary, and I just realized that all of the ninjas declared their loyalty to me anyway so bunk a democratic ninja clan, which I'm not the leader of of course.
Presumably I'll need some sort of legislature, and since there'll be lobbyists and tax collectors, to get the vote back I'll need to get rid of them and in doing that I must know them (stretching it a bit I know).
Both use computers heavily, so perhaps some cyber-ninja lackeys, both need to be enterprising, so perhaps a sabotage of their businesses.
Maybe even the warping to ninja-hell of various colleges as a college degree is almost necessary, and I just realized that all of the ninjas declared their loyalty to me anyway so bunk a democratic ninja clan, which I'm not the leader of of course.
Friday, November 1, 2013
The Week in Review
Truth to be told, this week went by without me really noticing it, 'twas but a blur, but if I had to classify this week as one of the Midsummer's Night Dream fairies (I don't, but why not), I'd say its a bit like Peaseblossom, flighty and a bit annoying in retrospect, just kidding, Peaseblossom has no personality. In all honesty though, it seems like this week we did a lot without really getting anything done, but that's just me.
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Arts, Video and Audio, Tech and Communications, Choose Your Own Adventure Version
Start: Through the element known as Plotconveniencum, you find yourself in the website ONet, deciding to explore the website via Plotconveniencum-bomb detonation. You:
Detonate and leave: go to path Detonate
Go to Graphic Designer: go to path Graphic
Go to Film Editor: go to path Editor
Graphic: You notice that there's a lot of words scattered about this page, you narrow it down to three distinct options, maybe four.
Go back to main page: Go to Start
Look at the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: KSAG
Look at Tools and Tech: TTG
Look at Wages: WG
Editor: Special effects have always interested you, and from your watching of the Nostalgia Critic you know that the editors have a hand in the process, but they also stitch the cuts together, and you figured you could fancy yourself the movie equivalent of Frankenstein (the monster is called Frankenstein's Monster, Frankenstein is the doctor). So what to look at?
Look at Wages: WE
Look at Tools and Tech: TTE
Look at Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: KSAE
Go to main page: Start
Play Meat Boy and test your
WE: Wassup Wario?
(achievement unlocked: random video game character)
(achievement unlocked: gimmicks from previous blogs)
Well, money is a pretty big factor, you may be a professional chainsaw-bear tamer, but if you aren't making any money you won't even be able to pay the medical bills. $51,300 isn't bad, but what about Hollywood? California? 81,800 is pretty nice, still not the six digits you were hoping for, but oh well, you could always console yourself with some of the other possible benefits of the job. Go to Editor.
TTE: Desktop Computers? Hey, Diablo 3 is currently your main source of income, this doesn't seem like too big of a stretch, and the Music Editing Software sounds nice, autotune, as much as you hate it, does admittedly make the Black-Eyed Peas tolerable, quite the feat if you do say so yourself. Go to Editor.
KSAE: You know the English Language, and stalked an artist once, so you think you have a handle on the whole Fine Arts thing, but listening and thinking? You don't know, this career looks suspiciously like work, something that you have an almost religious objection to. LEG IT! Go to Editor.
Look at Wages: WE
Look at Tools and Tech: TTE
Look at Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: KSAE
Go to main page: Start
Play Meat Boy and test your
WE: Wassup Wario?
(achievement unlocked: random video game character)
(achievement unlocked: gimmicks from previous blogs)
Well, money is a pretty big factor, you may be a professional chainsaw-bear tamer, but if you aren't making any money you won't even be able to pay the medical bills. $51,300 isn't bad, but what about Hollywood? California? 81,800 is pretty nice, still not the six digits you were hoping for, but oh well, you could always console yourself with some of the other possible benefits of the job. Go to Editor.
TTE: Desktop Computers? Hey, Diablo 3 is currently your main source of income, this doesn't seem like too big of a stretch, and the Music Editing Software sounds nice, autotune, as much as you hate it, does admittedly make the Black-Eyed Peas tolerable, quite the feat if you do say so yourself. Go to Editor.
KSAE: You know the English Language, and stalked an artist once, so you think you have a handle on the whole Fine Arts thing, but listening and thinking? You don't know, this career looks suspiciously like work, something that you have an almost religious objection to. LEG IT! Go to Editor.
WG: Awwwwwwwwww yeah, it's all about the money. Graphic Designers don't make much you see, $44,150 not bad, Maine though, woah, $28,500? That's pretty bad, you leg it straight out of that part of the page, scared by the distinct lack of six numbers. Go to Graphic.
KSAG: Fluency of Ideas, Active Listening, Writing! Those sound like things you tend to avoid, but the Near Vision and Originality somewhat appeals to your artistic side, and the sight of the word Reasoning makes you all excited ever since that Sherlock Homes marathon. Go to Graphic.
TTG: You fry your hands on a keyboard all day anyway, Notebook Computers look right up your alley, and Web Platform Dev Software sounds nice, you've been making websites since you were three. Go to Graphic.
Detonate: Ohhhhhhhh no, I can't get out of this, neither can you. Go to Start.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Connecting STEM careers, in limerick form!
We did a cluster called STEM.
We to a look at two of them.
With anthropology.
It excited me. (sort of)
Though I would rather have done some chem(istry).
My other was robotic-ism.
I got a bit of criticism.
About taking jobs.
Replacing with robs.
But I think that that's just narcissism.
So why are these two in STEM?
I think it's because they stem (like originate, it counts!)
From science the first,
and unrelated bratwurst.
With mathematics taking place for the lem(ming, a lemming is a nickname for some robots in the field of robotics, as they're dumb)
I DID IT! YEAH!
We to a look at two of them.
With anthropology.
It excited me. (sort of)
Though I would rather have done some chem(istry).
My other was robotic-ism.
I got a bit of criticism.
About taking jobs.
Replacing with robs.
But I think that that's just narcissism.
So why are these two in STEM?
I think it's because they stem (like originate, it counts!)
From science the first,
and unrelated bratwurst.
With mathematics taking place for the lem(ming, a lemming is a nickname for some robots in the field of robotics, as they're dumb)
I DID IT! YEAH!
Colors influencing other colors, typed dramatically, you'll have to take my word for it.
So I took a pseudo True Colors test, though influenced heavily by the image that I have constructed of myself, I'd say that it's still somewhat accurate.
My two main colors were green, my primary, and orange, my secondary, logical and spontaneous respectively.
These may seem in direct opposition to each other on the surface, but that's not what I have to talk about, that topic (being the one I have to talk about) is how they affect each other.
So what does orange and green together mean? A murky brown typically, but in this case it means that, though there is typically a logic behind my decisions, it's the C. Escher of logic, there is logic behind it, but that reasoning isn't typical, it has the appearance of randomness without actually being so.
Or maybe not, I'm not a psychologist, and beyond that, any personality classification test paints in very, very broad strokes, it's the subtleties that matter.
My two main colors were green, my primary, and orange, my secondary, logical and spontaneous respectively.
These may seem in direct opposition to each other on the surface, but that's not what I have to talk about, that topic (being the one I have to talk about) is how they affect each other.
So what does orange and green together mean? A murky brown typically, but in this case it means that, though there is typically a logic behind my decisions, it's the C. Escher of logic, there is logic behind it, but that reasoning isn't typical, it has the appearance of randomness without actually being so.
Or maybe not, I'm not a psychologist, and beyond that, any personality classification test paints in very, very broad strokes, it's the subtleties that matter.
The True Colors of those I know
There are 4 True Colors, Orange for spontaneity, Blue for compassion, Green for logic and Gold for organization.
So I apparently have to classify my teachers and students in some of the broadest strokes possible, and it's still not as good as Myers Briggs.
First, blue, as for my teacher, I'd have to say my band director Mr. Tripp falls nicely into that category, when he's not concerned about the feelings of all of his instrumentalists (which is rare), it's because he's feeling so much emotion that the part of his mind thinking that this isn't terribly kind is being drowned out. Coincidentally, the Bluest student I can think of is in the band, a trumpeter name Breeze. She's somewhat naive, but only because of that compassion, and though she doesn't tend to get large bursts of emotion, it may be she just hides them for the benefit of those around her.
And green, Mr. Aydt's pretty logical, not uptight, but he doesn't think very freeformy if that makes sense, probably not but whatever. As for a student, none that I know, they may be somebody I'm just not thinking of, but as far as I know I don' know any overly logical kids my age. I wouldn't say I have any orange teachers, same for students, most of them have mellowed out with age, and tend to ditch their spontaneity, though I don't really know most of the people my age anyway, so I could just not being seeing it.
Everett's a gold, definitely, he's peppered with the other archetypes too but he is a very structured and civic person, teacher wise, maybe Mrs. Wilson, to her, the journey is the destination, and the journeying will take place within the designated area and with footsteps to the beat of the drum, if you must rest feet shoulder-width apart and head lolling at a forty-five degree angle, take that as you will.
That's pretty much it.
Everett's a gold, definitely, he's peppered with the other archetypes too but he is a very structured and civic person, teacher wise, maybe Mrs. Wilson, to her, the journey is the destination, and the journeying will take place within the designated area and with footsteps to the beat of the drum, if you must rest feet shoulder-width apart and head lolling at a forty-five degree angle, take that as you will.
That's pretty much it.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Job Descriptions, Skills, and Education for Business Management and Administration, nothing special
Ah pigeonholing, a lovely practice if you're a teacher or dictator (note: this list of people that enjoy pigeonholing is mostly coincidental).
So today, I've been pigeonholed, so, without further ado, writing without any emotion.
So to be a Computer Programmer you need to be good at things like time management, programming(I'd say duh, but again, no emotion), number facility and system evaluation, as opposed to an energy auditor's skills, like writing, speaking, and critical thinking.
As for a description of the jobs, energy auditors go to places like houses and businesses and make sure that they're not wasting electricity by looking at things like, is the insulation okay, are there any leaks in the water pump? and so on and so forth, whereas a computer programmer creates, refines and tests computer programs.
And finally, education, while a computer programmer doesn't need any formal education, it is helpful, whereas an energy auditor needs to be certified through acourse, online or otherwise.
That is all, bleep boop
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Stylish Learning, voiced by Old Man Snitchez
(in old man voice)
When Diablo attacked the town Tristrom, I knew that my career as a kobold slayer for the city council was over! But kobolds weren't a threat anywhere else, which means that I needed to learn something new, but unfortunately I didn't remember how I learned best.
My instructor, who smelled like a kobold and who I had a hard time... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ( 1 hour later) AAH! Oh yes, where was I? Right, I had a hard time not stabbing my kobold teacher, and after taking the exam (okay new guest star, um, how about Link?) ... (oh, right, uh, eh, I'll just do it)
So after taking the exam, I found that I was a fairly even mix of the three main styles of learning tactile, a hands-on sort of learner, auditory, learning by hearing, and visual, learning by seeing.
So I was given four questions about this, a) what is my style? An even mix. b) what does your style mean to you? I rather like the multi-method result that I got as it shows that this music thing, listening, playing and writing it (the latter to varying degrees of success, all of those degrees bad) has effected my way of thinking, as previously I was an almost purely visual learner. c) How does it impact your learning? Well, I suppose it mean that I need to be more thurough with something like studying, but at the same time it should cement things in my mind more easily. d) And how might I use this information to ease my learning in high school and beyond. Honestly, I can't give an answer for that, but I suppose that's the point. The journey is the destination and all that. And to make people know I'm not really that profound, try watching Zero Punctuation.
When Diablo attacked the town Tristrom, I knew that my career as a kobold slayer for the city council was over! But kobolds weren't a threat anywhere else, which means that I needed to learn something new, but unfortunately I didn't remember how I learned best.
My instructor, who smelled like a kobold and who I had a hard time... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ( 1 hour later) AAH! Oh yes, where was I? Right, I had a hard time not stabbing my kobold teacher, and after taking the exam (okay new guest star, um, how about Link?) ... (oh, right, uh, eh, I'll just do it)
So after taking the exam, I found that I was a fairly even mix of the three main styles of learning tactile, a hands-on sort of learner, auditory, learning by hearing, and visual, learning by seeing.
So I was given four questions about this, a) what is my style? An even mix. b) what does your style mean to you? I rather like the multi-method result that I got as it shows that this music thing, listening, playing and writing it (the latter to varying degrees of success, all of those degrees bad) has effected my way of thinking, as previously I was an almost purely visual learner. c) How does it impact your learning? Well, I suppose it mean that I need to be more thurough with something like studying, but at the same time it should cement things in my mind more easily. d) And how might I use this information to ease my learning in high school and beyond. Honestly, I can't give an answer for that, but I suppose that's the point. The journey is the destination and all that. And to make people know I'm not really that profound, try watching Zero Punctuation.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
What information I researched and why it doesn't matter to me (Human Services), with achievements
I did two careers in the cluster of Human Services, Barber and Clergy (like a pastor).
The three things that we needed to present for each was wage, education, and job description.
Let's start with wage.
(Achievement unlocked: It's all about the green)
Barbers don't make too much, about $26,000, a few thousand dollars over the poverty line for a family of four, Pastors tend to make more, around $44,000, not really a bad career.
(Achievement unlocked: Servant of the Lord salary bonus round)
But it is rather balanced, barbers don't really need any education, so they make less, and beyond that they work a much stricter set of hours, pastors, especially Catholic ones, tend to need some form of an associate's or bachelor's degree, though you could just get an online certificate.
(Achievement unlocked: FOO strategy)
(Achievement unlocked: Bizarre reference)
However, being a pastor has some fairly unpredictable hours, as being a good clergy-men means helping around your community, and individuals when they need it, spiritual, or psychological, whereas a barber's hours and roles to fulfill are fairly predictable.
(Achievement unlocked: asdfadsfasdfafsdfhdsgjsrjtiauerva)
(Achievement unlocked: incomprehensible gibberish)
(Achievement unlocked: achieving for the sake of achieving)
To be straight, seeing as I don't want to be either of these, none of this matters to me, none at all.
The three things that we needed to present for each was wage, education, and job description.
Let's start with wage.
(Achievement unlocked: It's all about the green)
Barbers don't make too much, about $26,000, a few thousand dollars over the poverty line for a family of four, Pastors tend to make more, around $44,000, not really a bad career.
(Achievement unlocked: Servant of the Lord salary bonus round)
But it is rather balanced, barbers don't really need any education, so they make less, and beyond that they work a much stricter set of hours, pastors, especially Catholic ones, tend to need some form of an associate's or bachelor's degree, though you could just get an online certificate.
(Achievement unlocked: FOO strategy)
(Achievement unlocked: Bizarre reference)
However, being a pastor has some fairly unpredictable hours, as being a good clergy-men means helping around your community, and individuals when they need it, spiritual, or psychological, whereas a barber's hours and roles to fulfill are fairly predictable.
(Achievement unlocked: asdfadsfasdfafsdfhdsgjsrjtiauerva)
(Achievement unlocked: incomprehensible gibberish)
(Achievement unlocked: achieving for the sake of achieving)
To be straight, seeing as I don't want to be either of these, none of this matters to me, none at all.
Friday, September 27, 2013
STEMs, and why pandas eat them.
Response to "Titles"
STEM, being, science, technology, engineering and mathematics, is one of the 16 "career clusters", it is also one of the four academies that our faculty decided to be a larger grouping for the clusters.
I was pigeonholed into the topic of why this is, so, why not? The question is, why is it that STEM is an academy and a cluster, well...
One of the biggest things about this is that technology touches upon every career (brief tangent: I hate people misunderstanding what technology is, if a monkey throws a rock at a panda, it's technology), that's a lot of it. Another part of it is that science, technology, engineering, mathematics, are so interconnected that not having them as a cluster wouldn't make since, but are also so broad as to be an academy.
My teacher said to be thoughtful, so the question I ask is this, why am I in this class? Because it's required, but on a broader scale. Also, next time, limerick form.
STEM, being, science, technology, engineering and mathematics, is one of the 16 "career clusters", it is also one of the four academies that our faculty decided to be a larger grouping for the clusters.
I was pigeonholed into the topic of why this is, so, why not? The question is, why is it that STEM is an academy and a cluster, well...
One of the biggest things about this is that technology touches upon every career (brief tangent: I hate people misunderstanding what technology is, if a monkey throws a rock at a panda, it's technology), that's a lot of it. Another part of it is that science, technology, engineering, mathematics, are so interconnected that not having them as a cluster wouldn't make since, but are also so broad as to be an academy.
My teacher said to be thoughtful, so the question I ask is this, why am I in this class? Because it's required, but on a broader scale. Also, next time, limerick form.
Friday, September 20, 2013
Presented in English, Romanian and Icelandic
I was thinking about what sort of connections might be between a Lawyer and Video Game Designers or Programmers.
Mă gândeam la ce fel de conexiuni ar putea fi între un avocat și designeri de jocuri video sau programatori.
Ég var að hugsa um hvaða tegund af tengsl gætu verið á milli lögmanns og vídeó hönnuðir leiksins eða forritari.
Copyright is an absolutely massive part of the video game industry, between clones of the most popular game at the time, or the tangle paperwork that comes with something like a crossover.
Dreptul de autor este o parte absolut masivă a industriei de jocuri video, între clone de cel mai popular joc de la momentul, sau documente încurcătură care vine cu ceva ca un crossover.
Höfundarréttur er algerlega gegnheill hluti af the vídeó leikur iðnaður, milli einrækt af the vinsæll leikur á þeim tíma, eða flækju pappírsvinnu sem fylgir með eitthvað eins og crossover.
There are shows on the internet such as Death Battle, taking random pop-culture and pitting them in a fight to the death, and they have to fight constantly to keep their show going.
Există spectacole de pe internet, cum ar fi moartea Battle, luând aleator pop-cultura și pitting-le într-o luptă până la moarte, și ei trebuie să lupte în mod constant pentru a păstra show-ul lor merge.
Það eru sýningar á internetinu, svo sem Battle Death, taka handahófi pop-menningu og dæld þá í baráttunni til dauða, og þeir verða að berjast stöðugt að halda sýning þeirra fara.
There's more to this, and much more than I could ever cover, so until then, learn Icelandic.
Það er meira að þessu, og miklu meira en ég gæti aldrei ná, svo þangað til þá, að læra ensku.
Există mai mult la acest lucru, și mult mai mult decât am putea acoperi vreodată, așa până atunci, să învețe limba engleză.
Mă gândeam la ce fel de conexiuni ar putea fi între un avocat și designeri de jocuri video sau programatori.
Ég var að hugsa um hvaða tegund af tengsl gætu verið á milli lögmanns og vídeó hönnuðir leiksins eða forritari.
Copyright is an absolutely massive part of the video game industry, between clones of the most popular game at the time, or the tangle paperwork that comes with something like a crossover.
Dreptul de autor este o parte absolut masivă a industriei de jocuri video, între clone de cel mai popular joc de la momentul, sau documente încurcătură care vine cu ceva ca un crossover.
Höfundarréttur er algerlega gegnheill hluti af the vídeó leikur iðnaður, milli einrækt af the vinsæll leikur á þeim tíma, eða flækju pappírsvinnu sem fylgir með eitthvað eins og crossover.
There are shows on the internet such as Death Battle, taking random pop-culture and pitting them in a fight to the death, and they have to fight constantly to keep their show going.
Există spectacole de pe internet, cum ar fi moartea Battle, luând aleator pop-cultura și pitting-le într-o luptă până la moarte, și ei trebuie să lupte în mod constant pentru a păstra show-ul lor merge.
Það eru sýningar á internetinu, svo sem Battle Death, taka handahófi pop-menningu og dæld þá í baráttunni til dauða, og þeir verða að berjast stöðugt að halda sýning þeirra fara.
There's more to this, and much more than I could ever cover, so until then, learn Icelandic.
Það er meira að þessu, og miklu meira en ég gæti aldrei ná, svo þangað til þá, að læra ensku.
Există mai mult la acest lucru, și mult mai mult decât am putea acoperi vreodată, așa până atunci, să învețe limba engleză.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Nothing to do with bears (intro)
Unfortunately this has nothing to do with bears.
Apparently I have to blog about a class called Career Exploration, this is a place you should not go, it's about looking at random careers and learning about them, granted it's a new class and there's no established way to teach it, but nevertheless, avoid this assortment of letters, at all cost. (Insert Cthulu picture)
Apparently I have to blog about a class called Career Exploration, this is a place you should not go, it's about looking at random careers and learning about them, granted it's a new class and there's no established way to teach it, but nevertheless, avoid this assortment of letters, at all cost. (Insert Cthulu picture)
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