This is a poem I wrote for English class. The teacher told us to write a poem about anything that is manufactured (cars, television, phones etc.) and I chose to write about my iPod. This is kind of like a rough draft and I will try to make it better (you guys can comment and give me some suggestions too). Well here it is:
The distinctive white earbuds
Easily seen from wherever you stand
The sound coming from them
As clear as crystal, listening to your favorite band
Down the wire, and into the metallic case
Cold to the touch, yet so warm in the hand
All that music in such a small space;
It seems like there is always space for more
This is the iPod, with beauty and grace
And it lies in my pocket, ready to implore:
“Play more music, just let it roar!”
I also found this quite strange but funny poem about eating and iPod shuffle over here. Check it out, it’s quite funny.
Yep, thank goodness it’s Friday. So what happened today? Today at school, I reconciled with a lot of people that I had been angry with the other days. I guess that that is a good thing because I can communicate with these people again. Tomorrow, I will be playing soccer with one of the people that I reconciled with today. I hope that all will go well. School was pretty boring, especially History. As I said we have a brand new history teacher who is a grandma (no offense). Well, actually all the classes were boring. On the better side of what happened at school, we were let out 15 minutes early to lunch because our Health class was abruptly ended. I was able to finish all of my lunch and still have tons of time to play volleyball and talk to my friends. I am going to have to do some extra studying tonight but that is fine because I do it everyday anyway. Oh yeah, my friend started a blog a while ago. It is located at Arquill’s Xanga. I personally hate Xanga but that is what he decided to use so yeah.
Oh yeah. It is going to be a long weekend this week. Monday is labor day so no school for me! That sure is good, it means more time to do homework!
Well, not much to say. I guess I’ll be “signing off” (that’s so cliched…)
This is part of the story about how easy it is to copy software from computers to your iPod without paying for your software. It is a shortened version. If you want to see the whole article head on over to Wired and read it.
When Apple introduced the iPod, the company was aware that people might use it to rip off music from the Net or friends’ machines. Each new iPod, in fact, is emblazoned with a sticker that warns, “Don’t Steal Music.”
But it is unlikely that Apple imagined people would walk into computer stores, plug their iPod into display computers and use it to copy software off the hard drives.
This is exactly the scenario recently witnessed by Kevin Webb at a Dallas CompUSA store.
Webb, a computer consultant from Dallas, was browsing his local CompUSA when he saw a young man walk toward him listening to an iPod. Webb recognized the iPod’s distinctive ear buds.
The teenager stopped at a nearby display Macintosh, pulled the iPod from his pocket and plugged it into the machine with a FireWire cable. Intrigued, Webb peeped over the kid’s shoulder to see him copying Microsoft’s new Office for OS X suite, which retails for $500.
When the iPod is plugged into a Macintosh, its icon automatically pops up on the desktop. To copy software, all the kid had to do was drag and drop files onto the iPod’s icon. Office for MacOS X is about 200 MB; it copies to the iPod’s hard drive in less than a minute.
“Watching him, it dawned on me that this was something that was very easy to do,” Webb said. “In the Mac world it’s pretty easy to plug in and copy things. It’s a lot easier than stealing the box.”
Webb watched the teenager copy a couple of other applications. He left the kid to find a CompUSA employee. “I went over and told a CompUSA guy, but he looked at me like I was clueless,” Webb said.
Unsure whether the kid was a thief or an out-of-uniform employee, Webb watched as he left the store. “I thought there’s no point in getting any more involved in this imbroglio,” Webb said. “Besides, this is Texas. You never know what he might have been carrying.”
Almost 2 months ago, my first US History teacher left the school because she was pregnant. We got a new teacher and I commented on that here Well, that teacher had to go back to Canada for some personal reasons about 2 weeks ago. After that we had a couple of substitute teachers who came in and taught for a week. On Monday, we got a new teacher (oh man, forgot her name!) and she will probably be teaching us for the rest of the year. So that’s the third history teacher we’ve had this year in grade 9. Just thought it was pretty strange.
This is a short song that I originally created in Grade 3. Now 4 years later, me and my friends have edited the song to make it better. I know it is lame and very simple, but don’t flame me or copy it, but you can sing it.
I’ve got the power
To take a shower
In half an hour
In the tallest tower
Of the highest flower
And still smell sour
This song is to be continued when I can find more rhymes for the song.
