The Family Tree

The event I'm about to describe doesn't include everyone in my family, but it certainly was something significant for my childhood. Every summer my two sister my mother her sister and her two sons went to Tuxpan, Veracruz. We went there because my mom's brother lived their in a little house with his wife and three dogs. We visited him because when my mom was younger she went with her siblings to visit their father at this same place. There isn't much to do there except swim in the pool and go to the beach. The beach there is next to an electric plant so the water is warm, but at least there's no one around. They used to have a ranch with cows and sometime we would go milk them in the morning and drink some fresh chocolate straight from the cow's teet. We would camp out on my uncle garden because the house was to small to fit us all in. We stopped going to Tuxpan because my mom and her siblings sold the ranch, but I definitely miss going and hope to visit again.

Tree Picking

The tree I first thought of was the palm tree cause it's my favorite. I looked up some pictures and noticed that it would be no good because it has no branches. Instead of just getting a picture from the internet I imagined it would be better to use a picture from a tree in my house. I like this tree cause it's kinda big and we look at it every time we eat cause it's right in front of the table. So I believe that this is the right tree because of its size and sentimental value.(Picture will be uploaded soon)

Social Media Revolution

The statistical data showing how fast the social media has been growing blew my mind away. Never in the past would they have imagined getting so many people together in something as remote as a social network. The net is probably the largest place from which we can learn stuff there's not one single piece of writing that you can't find, and yet the most visited sites are pornographic ones. I imagine that if people in the past knew how many things we can have at the stretch of our hand they would think that the world would be such a better place and yet I don't think it is. We humans have found a way to take this technology and not exploit it in the areas that real profit can be gained from.
It has always seemed more logical that a teacher facing the student in person would be able to teach him more than a computer program would, but things are beginning to change and according to studies the computers are now beating the teachers. This idea makes the question of computers being more intelligent than humans pop to my head. Everyday that passes makes me reflect and actually believe that the ideas like: I, robot, The Matrix, Surrogates and more are actually very possible.
You-tube, what an amazing web page it's actually the closest thing to ending boredom in the world. Lately I have been accesing the page more and more it seems better to look for information by someone telling and explaining it to you rather than reading it, and of course for the sports, funny and musical videos. Through you-tube I was able to study for my AP economics exam and I actually found it very helpful. Another page that I have been using a lot is Wikipedia I have actually always found what I was looking for and for me it has been easy to understand explanations, and it's very useful to have everything in categories. News has never traveled so fast before and the use of newspaper is becoming less popular everyday.

Assignment #1

I don't really have any experiences with blogs because although I have read many while surfing the web I had never done one or used one for something else other than quick research information. This block was created by me during my computers class using my email. Adding others blog list was easy as pie because we used facebook to pass the links between every student in the class and then just used the copy paste application to transfer the information from one web page to the other. I haven't given much time to think for what am I going to use my blog but some quick ideas that come to mind are: writing down random thoughts, posting links to interesting things I find (photos, information) and it would also be good to post about new songs,videos or even world wide news.

Number One

In a world full lies and danger we sometimes strive to find truth and happiness, things that in the end are just chemicals in our brain that with enough mental power you could be able to control.