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March 09, 2005
Lots of Noise
Instead of learning history, we went over to the library to watch a student-run presentation. Or the “Global Noyse” (it was an acronym, they couldn’t spell it right) as they called it. Overall, it was… eh, more on that in a second (can’t start bashing it away just yet). They told us to pass the message along, “reach out to as many people as we can” - so… following their advice, I will tell you my story.
Okay, now that I have introduced the topic, I would like to say that the presentation was bad. By “bad”, I mean “very bad”, by which I mean “horrible”. I just can’t stress how bad it was. For one thing, the Power Point was bad (okay, it sucked, but I am trying to be polite). Black and white pages with single-size text just don’t meet good design. Even the Cyber Club® can do better.
I tried to read a book, but they just talked too loud and my head kept on spinning. Yeah, they “talked” about Human Rights violations for an hour. Just talked, talked, talked. They could have just shaddup and let me read a book, but nooo, :). They had to suck it. They didn’t have a clue what they were talking about. They didn’t even pull an act, to pretend to know what they talked about. It wasn’t informative, it wasn’t a comedy, it was plain boring.
Now for a more formal evaluation. Hard work could be such a waste of time. Its sad that others don’t think so. They (their effort) would be recognized and recognized for this, but what have they done? Many would say that they have done something bleeding good, performed some kind of a “public service”, but I would rather classify it as a “boring waste of time”. You want public service?
Take Peter Yung. He is the newspaper man: he distributes the Metro. Not a big thing, but lightens up many a people’s day. Now thats public service. And what recognition does he get? My respect. Thats why he gets to be a case study for this blog. But unfortunately, not much more than that.
Posted by Oleg Ivrii at March 9, 2005 04:35 PM
Comments
Disagree with you Oleg :)
I agree though that some things were not exactly good - like saying that AK-47 is an easy weapon to fire.
But I think that guys did a really good job. Even though I was not interested in the issues myself, like you, but at least they tried to do something, while I was flying in simulator or sitting in front of my locker spending time reading the manual of Boeing 737.
Posted by: Ki-ll at March 9, 2005 10:01 PM
"Disagree with you Oleg :)" - Thats strange Kirill, because I completely agree with you. Yes, they did a good job. But I shouldn't have been sitting there listening to them, I should have been doing history.
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at March 9, 2005 10:07 PM
Roger, Oleg.
I think I just did not get what you were implying.
All I can say is that I was glad to skip a class, because my brain stopped functioning after my AlGeo.
Posted by: Ki-ll at March 9, 2005 10:11 PM
It was a HUGE waste of time, they were regurgitating information that maybe 90% of us have heard before. Child Soldiers - oh shit, run for the hills while you can people, never mind that eastern and western civilizations have used them for centuries, we shouldn't let something stupid like HISTORY get in the way of us mailing little postcards that all end up in some dictator's fireplace.
In fact, I think that these Amnesty people are responsible for the destruction of acres of farmland and rainforest all on their own, with those damn triple-layered paper postcards. I'm going to write my OWN letter to the Prez of Columbia and tell him to not let Amnesty International get in the way of the production of fine Columbian Coffee...Bless that guy in the sombrero and his little donkey.
Posted by: HarGi at March 10, 2005 02:28 PM