a bunch of crap i come up with

After months and months of thought, I have determined that we are all totally & completely fucked.

The tree of liberty is extremely dry and will need a very intense watering to get things right again.

How would I fix my school?

I think every high school student should have to be involved in some type of activity, whether it be a sport, theatre art or club. And ever teacher would have to sponsor a club. Share a passion with a kid. Or 50. And don’t charge for any of it.

Epiphany

I’ve had an epiphany: Wall Street Board of Directors = Bush, Wall Street CEOs = Brownie. You’re our guy and it doesn’t matter how bad you fuck up, as if we admit to it, then what does that say about us?

Inspiration? Wanting to give Merrill Lynch’s CEO a $10M bonus after the company suffered losses every quarter for the last year totaling over $11B. Linky

Second reason why mini display ports suck on MacBooks

When I first bought my new MacBook, replacing my older 2GHZ C2D model, I lamented over the fact that I was forced to purchase a mini display port to VGA adapter for $19. Although irritating, I understood the financial and environmental reasons for not including an adapter.

Recently, during lunch, I decided to watch part of Hellboy II while I ate my lunch. I don’t have a lot of time after school, so I figured “Why not?”. I hooked up the MacBook to my Promethean system in my classroom. Promethean uses a re-branded Sanyo short throw projector and can either use VGA, RCA/Composite or S-Video. When I tried to play the video, I received a not-so-very cool alert window from iTunes:

Seems Apple’s inclusion of the mini display port forces you to have a HDCP compliant display if you want to watch the content you purchased on something else other than your factory display. sigh.

I emailed my good friend and Ars Technica writer, David Chartier about the whole issue. He does a great job explaining the whole thing here.