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verbal: misc

  • Thoughts
    A series of thoughts from a time in life.
  • Of Vision
    This is a small piece I wrote for dreamsofchange.net. The site didn't take off, so I'm putting what I wrote here. It's a good reminder to me every time I look at it.
  • Cheaters are Losers
    This is an IM exchange between me and someone who copied a paper off my site. I present it here both for your entertainment and to warn people against copying papers.
  • Interview with Professor Irving Biederman
    For one of my classes I had to interview a scientist. Though I did manage to cover what the interview was really supposed to be over, my fascination with the subject material led this interview to really have a lot more information than it needed to have. I present it here for more to lead about this subject.
  • Australia by Foot
    In the summer of 2000 I spent six weeks in Australia working on a website called RealGold. Once the games started I had some time to wander around Sydney by myself. This was originally an entry in my Australia weblog, but I felt it deserved to be here.
  • Trip Thoughts
    I wrote this in the summer of 2000 on the bus from Bakersfield, CA, to Los Angeles after spending a couple days in San Francisco. Obviously my college views have changed since then, but this really reflects what I felt at that time.
  • Homecoming Queen Speech
    In 2000, while I was still in Australia, I was supposed to give a speech for a friend of mine who had been nominated for Homecoming Queen. This is the speech I would have given had technical difficulties not stymied the best of plans.
  • Utopia
    A paragraph for English on what Utopia is and what it means to me.
  • National Merit Essay
    I wrote this for the National Merit competition. I guess it worked... I was a finalist.
  • Thoughts on School
    The last of last year's school paper columns. This one is the most amusing to me, if only because I managed to use duncical nonsense in print.
  • NM Class Offerings
    Not my best work, but this was another column for our school newspaper. It ran along-side a serious article saying we should offer more classes.
  • Student Council Speech
    For some odd reason I decided to run for Student Council last year. All people running for Student Council have to give a speech, so I did. Actually... I gave two. The night before I wrote one speech for me, and one for a friend. He didn't end up using it, so I setting them both in front of me and mixing them on the fly. Here's roughly the result.
  • Elian Gonzalez
    I wrote this as a column for our school newspaper. And yes, they did print it.