Lot’s of tests this week turns out that studying without computer is extremely helpful. I am thinking of turning this site’s find it feature on during the week and updating it on the weekend unsure yet. Homecoming is next week so Tuesday band practice, Thursday Bonfire Friday, Parade and Game and Saturday DANCE! Oh yeah me and my friend are gonna take three girls as a group and go to the dance. This should be extremely fun. Have a good week ya’ll!
Michigan colleges lowest!!!!
Michigan colleges have ranked the lowest based on a recent survey of afordablity, and degrees staying in the state for more than five years. Our econonmy is going down hill and people are not even coming to Michigan to get an education they rather get the heck out of here after they graduate from high school. They go to other states driving up our price of higher education. This is rediculous, Michigan needs to learn how to support their colleges better otherwise no one in Michigan is going to be able to afford to go to the college’s in Michigan.
An Abandoned City (photos)
Here is a little photo-session of an abandoned city. When the Soviet Union collapsed, government didn’t have much funds to support some small cities around strategically import objects. People of these cities were left all by themselves. This city is completley abandoed you should seriously look how devestated this city has been left as.
FutureMe!
Dear FutureMe,
Remind me that it is always important to hate diggnation.
Signed,
Ryan444123.
http://futureme.org/ automatically sends you an email of what you said on whatever date you specify. For examply i could send my self an email reminding me to get married in 2036 It is pretty much the most useful site I have found on the internet so far. It allows you to do projects and get reminded of them in the future. Just have your email handy in 2036!
Imagine having a quiet afternoon’s sunbathing on your private, secluded, back patio – and then one day discovering that your nearly naked body has been posted all over the Internet!
This is what one sunbather had when she got a rude awakening when she was discovered to be sunbathing on google earth. Thank goodness goolge has not gotten around to getting my house into focus!
Federal Highway Made Of Mud (Photos)
This is Russian Federal highway Moscow city. The road doesn’t have asphalt surface, though it is a Federal, vital highway. Everytime it rains the road gets paralized, these shots are made a few days before the traffic jam for 600 cars got stuck there. Hunger and lack of the fuel followed, according to the witnesses. I think that maybe the Russian Bearucrats should think about getting some brains and just possibley some asphalt so that their people do not get murdered.
Man Plummets 50 Feet to Grab a 20 Dollar Bill
Mark Giorgio figured a 50-foot fall was worth $20. Giorgio, 47, was counting his money Monday while walking across the U.S. 41 bridge over the Manatee River when a $20 bill blew out of his hand and flew over the rail. That’s like this story of a kid getting kids in the…for twenty dollars at my high school today. AHHH the irony. 
Free Whoppers whenever you want!
On my recent trip to Burger King I made a little departure from my main stay and decided to do a little covert ops. * Find a reciept with the telephone survey on the back.
* Where it says to write the code and place the two letter code followed by 5 numbers (hint: Numbers do not have to be in any order or value except that there has to be five of them) for which month you are currently in.
* Example: WH 12345 the only thing they will check are the two letters.
* You still have to buy any size fry or drink but you will always get a free sandwich of your choosing.
Month Codes:
Based on which month your are in choose the two letters that coincide with that month.
1. Jan = BB
2. Feb = LS
3. Mar = JH
4. April = PL
5. May = BK
6. June = WH
7. July = FF
8. Aug = BF
9. Sept = CF
10. Oct = CK
11. Nov = CB
12. Dec = VM
I love you burger king.
Butterfly Effect
Virgina Beach, Alaska
John Kerry 97, won 176 million dollars from the mega millions lottery.
John Kerry donated the bulk of his winnings to the Red Cross in Washington, D.C.
The Red Cross received his donation and loaded debit cards with it to give to
the victims of Katrina staying in the super dome in New Orlean’s, Lousiana.
The people from Katrina received these debit cards just in time to make
reservations for the first flights out of New Orlean’s. Many of the victims of Katrina
made flight reservations on Northwest flights to Detriot, so that they were far away
from the carnage of the hurricane.
Brighton, MI
When the first refugees from Katrina arrived in Detriot they were glad to be back
to a secure place where no one robbed or rioted. Many arriving in Detriot still received
about $100 a day from FEMA to live off of, in addition to their debit cards. One refugee,
Bill Taylor, 27 out of New Orleans got a ride all the way out to a town called Brighton,
Michigan. Here he stayed in a Mariott Courtyard until he could head back to his home
in New Orlean’s. Bill Taylor ended up staying at the Marriott with about 18 other refugees
as they waited for New Orlean’s to come back together. Bill Taylor ended up marrying Mary
Schroeder of Bayside, NY 5 years later.
Bayside, NY
Mark Schroeder 17, was driving in his silver anniversary Pontiac at 12:46 A.M. on Saturday
morning. Mark suddenly began to feel very tired, much unlike him and began swerving
on the road. Mark hit another car carrying two 7 year old twins and there mom driving
home from their grandparents house. Mark luckily lived, the mother of the twins
did not fare so lucky. Mark caused the twins to be separated at age 11, with Kyle
being sent to Orgegon and Conner to California.
Ontario, California
One day, a complete stranger appeared in Ontario, California. Not knowing where life would
take him he set out to find his long lost brother. He searched the entire city but could
not find him. He searched for a month on end and could not even find a trace of his brother.
It turns out he actually met his brother, his brother died on the scene of a highway crash in
South Carolina in which he had been a paramedic on. He was so heartbroken that he
rushed to LAX and go onto a flight to Paris and disappeared into the French countryside.
Paris, France
Paris, the city of love. Not for one strange man, whose name is Kyle. He is devestated
by the death of his brother, who he was seperated from at age 11. Kyle was searching
desperately for pece throughtout France and he finally has decided to move on to England.
Maybe he will have more luck there he thinks. Sadly he does not, Kyle then moves on to Germany.
Kyle finally finds a nice women to settle down with in Germany and begins to get into a normal
life routine, however he passes off a disease he caught, small pox while traveling in the countries in
Africa to his wife, Maria and she infects thousands of other people in the train station in Munich before dying.
A New Release[Book of Life]
Coming Soon to A Screen Near you.
The worst school lunches money can buy
It’s September, which means parents everywhere are loading the fridge with healthy food, vowing that this year they will fix their kids a tasty, nutritious, made-with-love lunch every day. This usually lasts about a week. Slate chose nine prepackaged lunches that kids eat and ranked them on how bad they are. You have to check this out. I always found lunchables to be rather vile and disgusting but this brings a whole new meaning to the word “gross”.
Internet worse for your grades than alcohol
“A survey at Michigan State University finds that more students have experienced negative academic consequences from excessive Internet use than from excessive alcohol consumption. But are they addicts?” 28% of students pulled have withdrawn from a class or dropped it all together because of excessive internet use. But only 8% say that alcohol made them do the same thing very intresting.
Mod for digg :D
I have written a modifcation for wordpress that will not be publicly availible for a while. It allows a user to enter keywords and have articles meeting those keywords be posted on their blog through digg. I currently have it set to offbeat news and a couple keywords. Pretty neat huh?
Cocaine beverage enters energy drinks market
A new energy drink called Cocaine, aimed at the young party-going market, has been launched in the US. This is definantly a different step. Probably will be at least somewhat succssesful with the upper middle class group of snobs who think drugs are cool. Good job Cocaine you made me hyper. What are you drinking? Cocaine!
McDonald’s serves up GCSEs
BURGER giant McDonald is to serve up GCSE lessons in English and maths for workers in its diners. I would just like to praise McDonalds for there great accomplishments with there workers to continue to provide them with the skills they need to work somewhere else than McDonalds for the rest of there lives. Good job Mc.Donalds.
Pirate Bay in Talk-Like-A-Pirate-Day Mood
Avast! Arrr, Pirate Bay be celebratin’ th’ International “Talk like a Pirate” Day, shiver me timbers! Who knew there was such a day!
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Officer draws weapon on 7-year-old girl
She said at one point the officer got so angry he cocked his gun and said if Joshalyn moved again he would blow her brains out. This guy is a flaming grade a idiot. I want to start a petition to remove him from the force. Her insurance was the only thing wrong with her car, the car was towed and fine sure. She didn’t put up a fight on that. Ten police cars later and an officer threatening to shoot your kids, I WILL SEE that officer removed from the force and then tried in court for civil charges for the mother. This is redicilous and the mother should be elligible for millions of dollars in restitution.
Soviet tank raised from being underwater for 56 years – still runs!
14 September 2000, a Komatsu dozer pulled an abandoned tank from its archival tomb under the bottom of a lake near Johvi, Estonia. The Soviet-built T34 tank had been resting at the bottom of the lake for 56 years. It was found that oil was still in the tank, and the Estonian war history club members successfully started the engine. Wow, Soviets build their tanks to run I guess. Pretty much the only thing that still works from that Era anyways. 
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Man finds his car seven months after forgetting where he parked it
he said: I had almost given up hope of finding the car again but I knew it must be there somewhere. In the future i’ll make sure I park in places I know I can find. Dude, where’s my car? Who didn’t see that one coming. This guy is utterly amazing! I want to meet him for sure. I mean come on leave a cell phone in your car at least so you can find it or ask the local airport to let you up in a helicopter to search for it by air or file a police report. Guess the Brit’s just are not as effective in finding cars as us in the U.S.
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Strongman lifts helicopter
An Austrian strongman has set a new world record after a 1.8 tonne helicopter Landed on his back. Franz Muellner supported the machine for almost a minute after it landed on his shoulders to secure his place in the Guiness Book of World Records. Wow, great job dude! I am proud of him this is an amazing feat, and no less a helicopter! Wow, I am barely able to hold my 50 LB. book bag on my back. I would get crushed by a helicopter!
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Racially divided “Survivor” : Least-Watched Season Opener
The controversial new format of the CBS reality show “Survivor” — dividing teams of contestants by race — proved the series’ least-watched debut episode since its first season, Nielsen Media Research reported on Friday. Was anybody expecting this? Heck yes! I think for one that this is probably the cruelest, least civlized, and worst game show I have ever seen. Have you ever seen a Wheel of Fortune contest discriminated agianst, how about a jeprodey? I don’t think so. I hope survivor dies out this season, along with all those other shows that cannot learn why the heck it is important to stay free of all this uncivilized crap. I know that shows I watch are better than this. You should watch shows that are better than this too. Good day!
Below….
There are two vignettes I have published below. Feelf ree to look them over. They ARE NOT in final form. I will be starting a sub-section or sub-blog to host all my writings actually. Many from last year are in the process of being moved here. Ryan444123.com always changing.
Crick-Crack
Annoying, Aggravating and agitating, that’s what cracking your fingers is to me. Cracking my fingers is like taking a sledge hammer to my fingers. Cracking my fingers was the worst habit I have ever started. I think into the future after maybe 40 or 50 years of being addicted to cracking my fingers and see how inactive I will have to be because of arthritis and other problems. I do not want to be as lazy as a cat; I want to be out and active in the world jumping off cliffs and stuff like that. The though of having to be inactive because of one bad habit eats away at me.
Cracking started off slowly and easily back around the time I was in 5th grade. Everybody thought it was the coolest thing to do, so the pressure got to me and I finally started to crack my fingers. At first it was just a minor thing to do, and then I would do it if I was bored. It was like an obsession forming into a train wreck in my life. Finally, I have gotten down to the point where I only do it once a day now. I am disappointed I got to this point even. However, hopefully I will be able to do more activities I enjoy when I am 60 or 70.
Reunions[Book of Life I]
Having traditions like really rocking reunions are a fantastic way to connect with other people. I especially enjoy traditions because of their power to bring groups of people together that have not seen each other in a rather long time. My favorite tradition is one I go to every summer, my family reunion. These reunions can be fantastically fun or fabulously flub-like. Traditions can make or break my summer, I either have a great summer because of a reunion or I have a horrible one because I did not go to a reunion.
The family reunion I go to each summer while boring when listening to stories like a sack of potatoes, can be fun like jumping on a moon bounce. We have activities, from games, to lunch and just general talk. Sitting in the cool gentle stride of the afternoon is my favorite part of the entire day. Many times we blow across the street to my great-grandmas air conditioned house with mountains of candy and crates of Pepsi. Her house is as big as a jungle, you can get lost anywhere inside it, but I don’t care if I do. Life rushing by is just another reason why I find my family reunion especially important. You can connect with everyone you hardly ever see.
Pics.ryan444123.com
http://pics.ryan444123.com now has pictures from band camp, and other band things I do. Check it out. Also, more news will be coming just getting back into the rythm and stuff. If you have any suggestion ryan444123 [at] gmail [dot] com. Later guys!
Drug Testing, the entire school.
EL DORADO, Kan. (AP) — Random drug testing of student athletes has become as routine as study hall and lunch at many high schools across the country. But this factory town outside Wichita is taking testing to the extreme.
It is instituting random drug screening for all middle and high school students participating in – or even just attending – any extracurricular activity. That includes sports, clubs, field trips, driver’s education, even school plays.
Those who don’t sign consent forms cannot attend games, go to school dances, join a club or so much as park their car on school property.
Administrators insist the district does not have a drug problem, and say the new policy – one of the toughest in the nation – is aimed at keeping it that way.
"We see this in the best interest of our students. We don't see this is a punitive measure," said Superintendent Tom Biggs.
Since the policy was enacted this school year, at least 425 students out of 600 high schoolers, and 215 of the 315 middle school students, have signed forms consenting to random urine tests for alcohol, tobacco and drugs. No one has been tested yet, and school officials don't want to tip off students about when the first random drug test will be conducted.
Brett Shirk, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas and Western Missouri, questioned the constitutionality of the practice.
"That policy invades the privacy of students that need deterrence and risks steering those students to a greater risk of substance abuse that makes the drug problems worse," Shirk said. Some authorities said that excluding students from extracurricular activities will just lead them into deeper trouble.
Wow, those people out in Kansas sure are different. I would never take a drug test to go to a football game, its plain stupid, why does everyone need to know if I am taking drugs if I am not participating in the game, what difference does it make. It is really sad that some people think that everyone needs to be tested even though its a personal matter and none of the schools or anyone elses business.
Lego Chain Gun.
A Lego Chain Gun, the most random thing I ever have received back through a Digg search….http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/22386
Down with Sony…
Sony, the japanese consumer electronics giant is having issues producing its new PlayStation 3 numerous sources reported earlier today. Sony was expected to have 4 million units ready for users by the end of this year with the launch date being set for Novermber 11,2006. However, Sony has yet to begin production of these units in one plant and has so far only made 2,500,000 units in the other plants. Overall Sony, will not have enough units to meet the expected consumer rush this holiday season. This probably will mean a bigger up-roar of the now popular Xbox 360 and the Nentindo Wii. However, you can buy both for the same price as a new Ps3. Sony, is definantly going down the wrong road.
Football.
I will have to go to a football game to play in band, then saturday I have a engagment involving a car show and sunday is also busy. Have a nice weekend everyone.
Opinions of new skin? And An Anniversary Note!
I was just wondering, with me being busy with school this week there is a likelyhood there will not be a very good news week this week. How does everyone like the skin? Do you think it is fiting for the blog? Leave a comment we enjoy your feedback. Also on a very special side note this is the two year anniversary of Ryan Blog!!! We started on blogger and moved our way onto our own hosting account. Congrats Ryan blog. Nice seeing you all.
Rosie O’Donell to come to the view.
That’s right folks, the black coffee Television host is coming back froma four year hiatus from her show “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” and getting back to The View. Will Rosie bring back The View. I honestly doubt that the view will gain much from her but I will be glad to see her agian on television. I loved her old show maybe this new stint will have some appreciation for good old Rosie.
Spiral Frog, Free music Downloads for Ads?
Spiral Frog, a music service to be repotadly be relased later this year by Universal Media Group, will have a site named Spiral Frog where users will be able to watch videos and then get free music. I think I will definantly try this out however, you will have to watch quite a bit of advertising I hear and you have to go back to the site. Also, I think that it would be prone to abuse by people clicking and not watching the advertising. However, this will definantly be a different thing to try out.
