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Lately, almost every story that is deemed “newsworthy” is about corruption, murder, insanity, or scandal. If anyone were to view the news reels from this era in the future, I strongly feel they would think we’re just a large bunch of angry, murderous thugs who were out to destroy the world and play with dogs [...]

I haven’t written in a few weeks, so here’s what’s coming this week. I plan on writing around four articles. I’ll give you their titles and short synopses. (They may not be published in this order.)
1. Why Isn’t There Any Heat On “Big Pharma?”
Big Pharma has profit ratings higher than even those of Microsoft and [...]

Greetings fellow Lockergnomers! It’s been a while since I’ve actually written anything. Well, this post marks the first post of “Destiny in Technology.” That’s right, “Swordofdestiny’s Idiocracies” is no more. The posts are still there, but from henceforth this is now “Destiny in Technology.” Anyways, onto business. I am fixing to go into my second [...]

Let me explain my revelation. You see I went to New Maverick Orientation up at the University of Texas at Arlington on Thursday and Friday. At the end of the orientation on Friday we were able to sign up for our classes. Anyways, before that we saw our academic advisers, mine being Linda McQuaid for [...]

Okay, so I guess you can say this started about 18 months before December 30th, 2005 (for future reference, 3 days before my 16th birthday). My father, Charles Lee Johnson, was diagnosed with terminal liver and lung cancer. I didn’t know it was terminal until the week he was in the hospital before he died. [...]

Hey, I’ve always been a fan of anime, since I saw my first anime “Tenchi Muyo” on Toonami back when I was in 4th or 5th grade. Last year I went to my first anime convention, A-Kon in Dallas at the Adam’s Mark hotel. It was a great experience, people cosplaying and such. I even [...]

So, every student in grades 3-11 in the great State of Texas is required to take the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS henceforth). Sounds great at first, a test that if you fail it, you can’t graduate therefore making sure you learn stuff, right? WRONG! Now, instead of learning a curriculum, you [...]

There are basically six types of people on this technology we call the Internet. We have the people who use it every once in a while and could function without it shall be from hereon referred to as the e-lights. Then you have two classes of people within the “business” type people on the internet. [...]

What is life? For some people it’s social, for me, not so much. I’m not a social person. I’m that kid you make fun of every day because he gets so mad about it. I have tried to change and make myself fit to “your” view of what’s “in.” I’ve found that you want to [...]

Okay, I came home Friday night and my mom asks me to try to bring my dog, Baby, inside. I had to carry her to the porch. She went straight to the front door and layed down. She was panting very rapidly. The panting eventually stopped and she started breathing a little too fast as [...]

[tags]music, swordofdestiny[/tags] I love music. I plan to double major in Computer Science and Music at UT|D. I get to go there tomorrow with my local chapter of the Technology Students Association (nationally it’s called Technology Student Association, Texas added the s). I get to apply there for free because I passed the Texas Bronze [...]