Author: zstraub

So, here it is, its the end of WRT304. Ill just list the assignment and tell you why I picked them.

#5 – The Guinness World Record assignment brought back a few memories from the old childhood, so that was good. It was quick and easy to complete and I had fun doing it.

#4 – The Color Walk assignment allowed me to spend some time with my little sister, which is always a headache, a good one, I swear. She found all the colors and took all the pictures and all I did was spoil a good walk, or is that golf?

#3 – The Brady Bunch Assignment needed to be said, and this gave me the idea and platform to execute it.

#2 – The Forrest Gump assignment really focused the lime light on Rocky haha. Damn, I love that film, and I love messing with Photoshop. I’m not at all good at it, but I get the job done.

#1 – GIF – The great Tony Montana said it best: “What you lookin’ at? You all a bunch of f***in’ assholes. You know why? You don’t have the guts to be what you wanna be? You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your f***in’ fingers and say, “That’s the bad guy.” So… what that make you? Good? You’re not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don’t have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. So say good night to the bad guy! Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you. Come on. Make way for the bad guy. There’s a bad guy comin’ through! Better get outta his way!”

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Okay.. so.. this may not be an actual moment from history, but it’s a moment from MOVIE history. But, this is not just a movie, it is a SPORTS MASTERPIECE. In Rocky I, final fight, Rocky Balboa takes on Apollo Creed for the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship. Balboa, an amateur at the time, lost the match by split decision, but as Creed stated “I won, but I didn’t beat him” and my favorite line: “There ain’t goin be no rematch”. Which opens up a sequel, duh. As much as I would have liked to photoshop my face onto Rocky, I feel like it would have done him a great disservice for all the work he did for the world, for example; SINGLE-HANDEDLY WINNING THE COLD WAR (circa Rocky IV). ds106assignment

If I could only eat pureed food, like many of the patients I work with; I would eat pears for the rest of my life, maybe even for every meal. Throw a little cinnamon in there and BOOM, party in the mouth. I know for a fact that one of my patients HATES pureed pears, and all desserts for that matter, so.. sometimes I’ll ask them if I can steal their dessert and I’ll eat it behind the nurses station. O’Doyle Rules! ds106dc

Yeh.. This one was weird.. I don’t really know the point of it and it involved absolutely zero skill and imagination to make. I could have photo-shopped it.. but work smart, not hard, right? ds106dc

This was actually a super fun assignment.. I simply changed the HTML on the Guinness Book of Wold Records Website. I used to do this to my buddies Facebook pages when I was like 12. Good Memories. ds106assignment

This is obviously not a joke and it’s something we all need to take very seriously. We, as adults, as students, as advocates, as future leaders, as HUMANS have the obligation and opportunity to stand up for our fellow friends and family in the black community, and other minority communities, that are enduring and have endured a lifetime of cruelty and discrimination. We must speak up and speak out, because their voices are not being heard. Their voices fall silent on the ears of the racist policy makers that run this country. Black Lives Matter. We will prevail together. ds106assignment

Trolled.

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Sandy is a Miniature Schnauzer and enjoys barking, eating, sleeping, and pooping. He is a friendly dog and loves to be snuggled and eat chicken nuggets. He weights 7.4 lbs soaking wet. His hair grows really quickly and it needs to be trimmed weekly or his poop will stick to his bum. Other than this, Sandy is an easy going dog/puppy. He enjoys babies and children and will lick them from head to toe in order to show his affection. He is a good little doggo. ds106dc

Earlier in the semester; I had a professor, for thirty minutes, accidentally point the camera at his crotch during a zoom meeting. In the private chat, everyone laughed, but nobody said anything to the guy. This reminds me of a quote from my favorite author Christopher Hitchens: “Once I realized my god-given male member would give me no peace, I gave it no rest in return.”. Classic. ds106dc

This is the Fakebook post:

And this is the Twister post:

I am a huge fan of Charles Darwin and all the work he has done in the world of Naturism, Evolution, Geology, and Biology. However, in the modern world, he would have behaved like an absolute gangster. With an IQ of 165, a finch on one arm, and a voluptuous woman on the left, he’d be primed and ready to annihilate anything in his path. ds106assignment

I love candles. I use them a lot. I especially love this candle, and would use it all time. Happy, sad, angry, lazy, whatever the mood, i’m over it. This candle is a personification of my existence. This was an easy daily create, not much to it, not much to write about except my passion for disobedience and the word fuck. #byefelicia #ds106dc

So, this GIF was last year on the 4th of July and my little sister wanted to try and hit an american football like a baseball, so I threw it at her face. It’s obviously not as cool as Dr. Cripps and his surfing GIF (not brown nosing, genuinely rad). The first thing I ever threw in my sisters face was a tater-tot and the last thing (last week) I threw in her face was a tangerine. It is my hobby. ds106assignment

This photograph was taken straight from the Big Picture website for the Boston Globe. The Smashing Pumpkins are an “Alternative Rock” band from Chicago and were formed in 1988. This meme references one of their most popular songs, its called “1979”:

I remember taking way too much LSD and listening to this song. I remember wanting to beat the Americans to the moon and urging the launch of the Sputnik Satellite before the stroke of midnight. We filled a baby pool full of Coca Cola and dumped about 1000 mentos in their, oh, and a toy dinosaur. Thinking it would launch the dinosaur into space. This is the stuff you do when you are 16 in Scotland. ds106assignment

This brings me back to my rear peg grinds and my 360 tire taps and my barspins on the BMX track. The amount of bike related injuries I’ve actually had is worrying: dislocated jaw, broken nose, 12 stitches for my shin, 8 stitches for me knee, butterfly stitches for my chin, black eyes, road rash, hematomas etc. The ER knew me well growing up and I have the scars to prove it. Damn, now I really wish I had a BMX again, maybe I’ll look around and see what I can find ds106dc

Christopher Hitchens is one of my all time heroes. I read this book for the first time when I was a little 14 year old going to a strict protestant high school on the west coast of Scotland. It didn’t go down well with my teachers. They considered it “beyond my years” and “out of my scope of learning at this this time”. Hitchens, in general, helped shape my personality, but “God Is Not Great” helped me understand some important things about the personality of others. It is a tough read, and has no pictures (sadly), but Hitchens brings comic relief to a subject matter that really isn’t anything except scary. If you want to learn about Hitchens and his free thinking, philosophical, and loving approach to the criticism of organized religion, then this is your book. Here’s a couple quotes to get you juicing: ds106dc

“I leave it to the faithful to burn each other’s churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do” – C.H

“The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey.” C.H

“Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.” C.H