{"id":679,"date":"2010-08-15T15:39:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T19:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=679"},"modified":"2010-08-15T15:45:25","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T19:45:25","slug":"graduation-speech-and-animation-and-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=679","title":{"rendered":"Graduation speech and animation and stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Valedictorian unhappy with school &#8211; part 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Back on <a href=\"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=664\">August 4th<\/a> I posted a link to a graduation speech in which the valedictorian went over some major criticism of the current American education system, which I mostly whole-heartedly agreed with.  After all, I&#8217;ve ranted about the education system on this blog quite a few times.  I said that I couldn&#8217;t verify the speech though; it was only posted on the web from a second-hand source.  However, I finally came across an actual recording of the speech, which seems to have been uploaded to YouTube by the speaker herself.  So, for your enjoyment, or for your frustration with young people these days, here&#8217;s the speech:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9M4tdMsg3ts?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Woohoo!  Yes!  Indeed!  That&#8217;s right!<\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-5\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_5\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/newblather\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_5_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"a67094a886\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"5\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Do you agree with this speech?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-5-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-16\" name=\"poll_5\" value=\"16\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-16\">Yes<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-17\" name=\"poll_5\" value=\"17\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-17\">No<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-18\" name=\"poll_5\" value=\"18\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-18\">I didn't watch the video<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(5);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(5); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-5-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img src=\"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>Animation Mentor progress<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Week 8 (of 72) starts today!  I&#8217;m pleased with my assignment this week, though of course I can still see areas that could use some tweaking, but you only have a week, so running out of time is inevitable.  I&#8217;ll upload it to YouTube tonight or tomorrow.  I was hoping to revise my pendulum assignment from last week, but never got to it.  (I got sick that week so didn&#8217;t spend as much time on it.)  Oh well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The transforming room<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Someone on Facebook posted a link to this very interesting video:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"264\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Lg9qnWg9kak?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Of course, here in America, if you have enough money to afford designing and building something like that, then you probably have enough money to just buy a more spacious place, unless I suppose there&#8217;s some squished location that you really really want to live in.  It would be awesome if someone opened up apartment buildings or hotels in which every room was like this; should get some good business just for the uniqueness of it.  (Probably apartments; hotels would probably need too much maintenance.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valedictorian unhappy with school &#8211; part 2 Back on August 4th I posted a link to a graduation speech in which the valedictorian went over some major criticism of the current American education system, which I mostly whole-heartedly agreed with. 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