[edit] About myself
Hello. I'm an American high school student. I participate in after-school activities such as track, cross country, Key Club, and some other stuff that I can't remember right now... I like to listen to music, more specifically alternative rock/rock. I especially like Radiohead, The White Stripes, Led Zeppelin, and Nirvana. I don't really like Green Day... at all. They weren't too bad in their Dookie days, but when they started to get political and became a Pop-Punk band they lost it completely. If I hear Boulevard of Broken Dreams one more time...
Anyways, as far as Wikipedia goes, I'm fairly new here. I've done a couple edits on the Radiohead article and the Red Sox article. Mostly, I like to click the "Random page" button over and over again and then correct the grammar/spelling of whatever article seems interesting. I'm kind of a stickler for such things, against my will. People who mess up "your" and "you're" or "it's" and "its" really bug me. Sorry if you're one of those people! (I'm just kidding, of course). As you can see by my first annoying userbox, I prefer to put two spaces after a period. It's just about the most important thing you can remember. Ever. It looks a lot better. I wish Wikipedia would allow it.
If you're still reading by now then I congratulate you. Whenever I come across someone else's user page, I just give it a glance and leave. What else do you want to know? I think that all segregation and censorship is wrong. Period. I don't understand it. I also don't understand politics. How can someone who can't conjugate the verb "to be" become president? I quote: "The education of our children are appalling" -George W. Bush. Terrible. And what's worse is the situation that he's put our country in. To put it in a very teenage way: he sucks. Then again, the alternative wasn't much better.
I'm actually not a misanthrope as that userbox over there claims. I just think that misanthropes are funny.
I can ride a unicycle. It's all good. I like to read stuff by Stephen King, George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, and Ray Bradbury. I think 42 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything. I don't like TV, unless Monty Python is on (which it never is). The only movie better than Life of Brian is 2001: A Space Odyssey. I don't care if you consider them incomparable!
One of the worst feelings in the world is finding out that your friend smokes pot. Don't do drugs. Why? Because they kill you. Duh. You'd have to be stoned to think that getting stoned is cool. Enough said. Also, did you ever notice that the only people trying to legalize drugs are potheads and heroin addicts? Marijuana as a painkiller? BS.
One of the things that gets on my nerves is that teachers in my school don't allow Wikipedia use. The regard it as the work of the Devil. They fail to realize that even Encyclopedia Britanica has errors. Wikipedia was the only place that I could find a significant article on Averroes, a scholar that was an important figure of his time. Nevertheless, it's important to give references for all articles because some of the stuff posted here is bogus.
[edit] Things to do before I die:
--I figure that with this list I'll never die. That might not be as great as it sounds, but I'm not complaining.
[edit] Things you should worry about:
- Teenage drivers.
- Our president.
- Terrorists.
- The leader of the U.S.
- Unborn babies in unwed mothers.
- President Bush.
- Infomercials.
- That guy who's in charge of the U.S.
- Peanut butter.
[edit] Vandalism
This page has only been vandalized once, and I gotta say that I'm pretty dissapointed. Click the edit button to help out the cause. Seriously though, don't you have anything better to do?
[edit] Today...
Today's featured article
The
history of the board game Monopoly can be traced back to the early 1900s.
Elizabeth Magie invented in 1903 a version of
The Landlord's Game which was a real estate trading game in which players got rich by monopolizing sets of properties. This game, usually called "monopoly", was played extensively from 1904 through 1931 when it showed up in
Atlantic City, New Jersey. There a group of Quaker teachers changed it to a version which was copied by
Charles Darrow. The copy was then commercialized by
Parker Brothers which claimed that Darrow had invented the game and turned Darrow into a rags to riches embodiment of the American dream. In the 1970s, Professor
Ralph Anspach, while defending himself against a trademark infringement suit filed by Parker Brothers and its then parent company,
General Mills, against his
Anti-Monopoly game, uncovered the true history of the game. Because of the lengthy court process, and appeals, the legal status of Parker Brothers' trademarks on the game was not settled until 1985. The game's name remains a registered trademark of Parker Brothers, as does its specific design elements. International tournaments, first held in the early 1970s, continue to the present day, with the next world championship scheduled for 2008. (
more...)
The Red Sox: Greatest baseball team of all time. If they're playing baseball in a parellel universe, chances are the Red Sox are better.
Life of Brian is the funniest movie I've ever seen (and I have seen quite a few comedies).
