senior service

last senior service everyone was sick so we didnt have to go.

A.I.

      Artificial Intelligence by Steven Spielberg was made in 2001 in part with Warner Brothers Pictures.  The adventure, drama, Sci-Fi takes place in the distant future where the have created robots who look exactly like real people.  They are called Mecha's for Machines and the humans are Orgo's for Organisms.  I love all types of movies so i found this one very interesting and it was cool to see what Steven Spielberg thought what the future would be like, it not only tells a story but what other people and the writers think.  That it what I love so much about movies.
      The ending of the movie was quite interesting, it was surprising to see the alien race give David another day with his mother one last time.  The thing I was most interested by was that these aliens were so advanced and had the ability and technology to do such a thing for David.  What i would have changed about the ending is just the image that Spielberg portrays his aliens as.  It was the typical alien style.  I would have changed only a few things about the ending but otherwise I thoroughly enjoyed the movie and especially the ending.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

What is Artificial Intelligence?

The literal definition is: the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages.

=>my definition is that i have learned from movies such as iRobot, Star Wars and other classics.  What i have learned from this movies is that our generation is not that far from the science fiction movies. 

Check out My PREZI!!!!

http://prezi.com/yn_qg4ntgao8/gopro/#

BRACKETOLOGY:

What goes in to making the best bracket? How exactly do you pick the perfect bracket? Well lucky for you I am here to tell you how the best way to pick your teams, other than ask a magic genie who is going to win I am the closest thing!
The typical bracket is picked by numbers and who is ranked ahead of who, not once in history has that worked out.  The other way is to pick the school that you like or went to and there is a low percentage of that working out for you.  If your my mother you look up the colleges and pick who wins based off of their mascot and colors.... Not once has she won in our family march madness.
this year if its your first time starting a bracket it is already too late for you.  I have been preparing my bracket since the beginning of the season.  Watching every basketball game and dissecting who is who in college hoops.
Now I wont tell you who I have winning my bracket because I want Warren buffet to pay me that billion dollars when my genius bracket wins.

Deutsches Altenheim!

For my senior service I decided to work at a German old folk home for individuals with Alzheimer.  Connor Peck, Sean Scales, Colm Sheehan and i had a wonderful time doing our senior service together.  We did a lot of fun things like aerobics withe the seniors and bingo.  We also washed and bathed their old decrepit bodies clean of their own feces. The after that we took some of the old ladies in their wheel chairs down to the hair salon and they were just a hoot telling us war stories and some could barely even speak but they just thoroughly enjoyed our presence and it made it gratifying all that I was doing.

Catholic Memorial Basketball has been hot as of late.  This past Saturday night they played North Quincy in the south sectional final at Umass Boston.  They won that game in a dramatic comeback fashion.  Tonight they play Central Catholic for the Emass final at THE Boston Garden.  The crowd will be the final factor in the game as Central Catholic is known for their loud and obnoxious crowds. Catholic Memorial as of late though has been showing that their crowds are something to mess with.  They completely shut down the crowds at Quincy even though they were significantly out numbered by North Quincy students.  7:30 game time be there!!!!!!

My friends and i will be doing senior service this year as it is required that all seniors at Catholic Memorial do.  My senior service will be at the Deutches Altenheim in West Roxbury mass.  It is a german old folks home and my friends and i will be helping around doing whatever we can do to help.  My grandfather has been a participant at this home for quite some time now.  He got me interested in helping out there and it is something i really look forward to.  I look forward to seeing how entertaining these people can be.  I also look forward to getting life lessons constantly from the old people and their lessons. In all i look forward to my senior service.

SOCHI OLYMPICS

MEDAL COUNT – Feb. 20
(Country – Gold/Silver/Bronze – Total Medals)
1. Norway – 10/4/7 – 21
2. United States – 8/6/11 – 25
3. Germany – 8/4/4 – 16
4. Russia – 7/9/7 – 23
5. Canada – 7/9/4 – 20
6. Netherlands – 6/7/9 – 22
7. Switzerland – 6/3/2 – 11
8. Belarus – 5/0/1 – 6
9. France – 4/4/7 – 15
10. Poland – 4/0/0 – 4
11. China – 3/2/1 – 6
12. Sweden – 2/6/4 – 12
13. Austria – 2/6/2 – 10
14. Czech Republic – 2/4/2 – 8
15. Korea – 2/2/1 – 5
16. Slovenia – 2/1/4 – 7
17. Japan – 1/4/3 – 8
18. Finland – 1/3/0 – 4
19. Great Britain – 1/0/2 – 3
20. Slovakia – 1/0/0 – 1
21. Italy – 0/2/6 – 8
22. Australia – 0/2/1 – 3
23. Latvia – 0/1/2 – 3
24. Croatia – 0/1/0 – 1
T-25. Kazakhstan – 0/0/1 – 1
T-25. Ukraine – 0/0/1 – 1

This recap shows the countries who have the most gold medals, not necessarily total medal count.  overall it was a successful Olympics yet again for the United States of America. disappointing losses came in the girls and boys ice hockey. surprising wins came in team figure skating! 

Flappy Bird-
The game that took the nation by storm has been taken off of itunes.  Why? well to be honest the world may never know. From what the reporters have said is that the controlling the game became "too much to handle" said Dong Ngyen the creator. constant emails everyday about all things the game, how bad it was, how no one could beat it, and how they wanted to kill who ever created the game, was too much for long duck Dong.

Addictinggames.com is a premier website where you can play online interactive games by yourself and with other online players from all around the world. Some of these games include Tower Defense and Earn To Die 2012.  I am currently a player of this website as anytime in class when i whip out my computer i go straight to that website and find an interesting game to play. I always find a game on the website and i have alot of fun while i do it.

What the heck is Google SketchUp? SketchUp is a 3D modeling program that is mainly used for architects.  In this program you have the ability to create and move objects to your own hearts content.  This is an easy to use program suitable for all ages above 29.  The newest update of this program had just came out, it is revolutionizes the 3D programming.

What the heck is a Makerbot? Why does it look like a toaster oven? Who names a toaster oven Makerbot?
-The Makerbot isa 3D printer. What the heck is a 3D printer?  A 3D printer is a machine that can recreate any object in minutes. It doesn't just recreate it on paper it can completely copy the whole object.  This is problematic because it can produce guns and weapons.  This is essentially a war machine. The only other issue is that it can be used for very useful things and eliminate a lot of over use of paper and products.

PARRALLELA

Super Computing for EVERYONE! "The Parallella platform is an open source, energy efficient, high performance, credit-card sized computer based on the Epiphany multicore chips developed by Adapteva. This affordable platform is designed for developing and implementing high performance, parallel processing applications developed to take advantage of the on-board Epiphany chip. The Epiphany 16 or 64 core chips consists of a scalable array of simple RISC processors programmable in C/C++ connected together with a fast on chip network within a single shared memory architecture."

-http://www.parallella.org/board/ 

BLENDER: over the past three days my class has been using this system.  I find it very enjoyable and look forward to using it from here on out.  We made a monkey colored it and put a hat on it and stuff it was great.

The good, the bad, and the ugly, all about the ROTC.  This stands for Reserve Officer Training Corp.  The good is that it pays your way through any college that you can get in to.  The bad and the ugly is that you owe the corp that you applied to years after college.  This service is of gratitude to your country and its a great thing.  ROTC is a great thing.

     What is Digital Game-Based Learning? Good? Bad? Ugly?  What it is, is the teaching of certain information and the learning of other information to students, kids and even adults through digital games.  This idea is a very good one because kids especially have lost focus in school and books.  They have 100% interest in video games and I have no doubt it would improve 100% kids learning abilities.  The bad and ugly is that the kids may focus on just the game part of it, not the learning part.  The ugly is the inability to do so with expenses and time necessary to put into it.  In all i believe DGBL is a great idea, yayy go team!

http://marcprensky.com/digital-game-based-learning/ 

The Matrix Pill, red "see how far down the rabbit hole goes?" or blue "wake up in your bed not remember a thing and go on with your everyday normal life.  Red obviously would be my choice, I am a man of curiosity.  plus I believe that I am actually the one and Neo was just an impostor so I would have to go and set everyone straight.

The use of cell phones in education has increased in recent years due to Bring Your Own Device policy.  This is where students are allowed to bring in a tablet or computer to help them with their studies.  when kids can not afford to buy one of these tablets or computers they are left out, because of this teachers have allowed students to use their cell phones for situations where they may need it. 

21st Century Jobs:
After reading an article about the best jobs of our current century, I realized something.... I don't want any of those jobs.  Dentists, Marketing managers, computer geeks, blah blah blah. All the jobs sound and most likely are very boring jobs.  I want to do something I love, quite honestly I could care less if I get paid well or not.  As long as I love what I am doing and I can survive off of it I will pursue it to the fullest. My ideas of this include playing sports professionally or being on television traveling the world, doing anything that will keep my ADD in check.