Entries Tagged as ‘America’

22, April 2008

Wrong Number

I currently work on campus as basically technical support for the equipment in classrooms on campus or setting up for events. For some reason though, we always get a bunch of students calling to ask for advising about having enough credits or whatnot.. It’s always weird because they just ramble away and barely give me [...]

1, March 2008

My foot steps

Where my feet have taken me:

Asia:
China: (I’m missing some cities from here because I can’t remember the names at all right now)
- Beijing (2005)

- Guangzhou (2005)
- Hong Kong (I know its not a city but it’s staying in this category!) (1995)
- Shanghai (2005)
South Korea:
- Seoul (2005. This was REALLY brief. Like 7 hour tour)
Thailand:
- [...]

24, February 2008

Sir, your pants are low

Excuse me sir, but your ass is showing…

Like the last time when I talked about the “roll up one pant leg” style, today it’s about sagging your pants. I don’t understand why ANYONE’S pants should be THIS low. Not that I prefer guys who pull up their pants up to their necks with a [...]

17, January 2008

Current Events: China’s Pollution

It’s been awhile since I have done a blog in relevance to current events, so here we go!
Below is data from 2004 (link).

Rank
Country
Annual CO2 emissions
in thousands of metric tons
Percentage of total emissions[4]

-
World
27,245,758
100.0 %

1
United States [5]
6,049,435
22.2 %

2
China
5,010,170
18.4 %

-
European Union
3,115,125
11.4 %

3
Russia
1,524,993
5.6 %

4
India
1,342,962
4.9 %

5
Japan
1,257,963
4.6 %

6
Germany
808,767
3.0 %

7
Canada
639,403
2.3 %

8
United Kingdom
587,261
2.2 [...]

10, September 2007

Only in America: Overly salted

I’ve decided to start a theme on my blog for whenever I run into stupid, overly pompous Americans. So, here is another episode of “Only in America” for you!
Article: Over salted burger leads to charges
A McDonald’s employee spent a night in jail and is facing criminal charges because a police officer’s burger was too [...]