That time I got arrested for having sex in a forest meadow.
In order to fulfill the pre-requisite for taking any computer science course except programming courses, I need to take this class called ‘Introduction to Microcomputers and Information Technology’. Yes, it is more retarded then it sounds. The teacher had to explain (twice) how to take a screencap and paste it into Microsoft Word. This class has two types of enrolled people. People like me who are here to fulfill a pre-requisite, or earn an easy A for a computer class, and people who are scared that if they hit the escape key at the wrong time, they will be teleported to Zimbabwe.
There is one person in this class from the latter group who has given me countless headaches in the two weeks this class has been going. Big Brother must be his BFF because he seems to think that totalitarian control is pretty much the most kick-ass thing since the Big Bang. all he ever talks about (which he does a lot) is how the computer industry will never evolve or refine itself without some form of strict control with which to shape it’s limitless potential. If it’s not suggesting that we need to completely dismantle the videogame industry because it is leading us astray from the ‘true’ purpose of computers, then it’s telling us that the Internet is analogous to a civilization of uncultured barbarians that do nothing but undermine and corrupt the honest efforts of hardoworking people like himself.
He actually had the gall to accuse the entire internet of being frightfully similar to the hoard of Genghis Kahn and that, if left to ‘rampage’ on our own without a strict leadership (Internet version of George Orwell’s 1984) we would possibly obliterate the entire electronics industry before collapsing within ourselves and falling further into anarchy and chaos.
The scariest part is that some of the class was seriously listening to this utter horse-shit.
Fortunately somebody decided to raise his voice, but it wasn’t much help. He basically said that the internet is bad, but it isn’t nearly so dramatic as the older guy made it out to be. he then continued to describe an incident where 4chan managed to get naked pictures of a girl from her (openly accessible) photobucket account, post them at their Seekrit Base, and then email and deliver hard copies of the pictures to her relatives and coworkers.
I would have fought the good fight and backed up the internet, but I was busy entering my name as ‘Anon’ on the highscore list of a game about smashing vans into walls.
On a completely unrelated note
Elfen Leid is just one big metaphor for menstrual cycles.
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