i’m not saying anything!
Jason: “Dan’s the kind of guy you just want to keep in your pocket, you know. He’s like a swiss army knife, a netcat.”
Strat: “And he has a Leatherman! And it’s the coolest damn Leatherman too!”
…this was after I figured out how to fix Jason’s old HD by putting in the freezer and running SpinRite on it. I’ll make a post on my other blog about that little trick after my server comes back online.
Last night I went with some of the SFS guys to the Trailer Park Bar and Cafe in Manhattan. Everything they serve is gigantic and I had way too much of it. I ate so much food my brain stopped working. When I got home I had to sit in bed for 3 hours so it could digest before I could go to sleep. I had to keep a bag next to me because I thought I might throw up. Not to mention, the place seriously creeped me out (do people actually live like that down South?). I don’t think I’m going back… ever.
Oh and it was way overpriced. Value my ass.
I’m sitting here in my sunglasses at 10:20am. I woke up at 7:30am. I am completely back on schedule. I don’t think it’s neccessarily that I’m currently wired to go to sleep later and wake up later, I think it’s more that my sleeping patterns are more malleable than other peoples. In the course of about 3 days I was able to go from sleeping 7am-6pm to 11pm-7am without the aid of an alarm clock. Pretty good.
Now I have to cope with the unchanging nature of all the people I know and depend on. I tried to pick up my check for CSAW from the CS Office at 9:30am this morning and no one was there. I went to go visit the guys in ISIS at 10am and no one was there. I guess this is why I never woke up this early in the almost 2 years I’ve been here. No one else does so there’s no point! But I like it. I feel like I can do more in a day (even though that’s probably not true).
Let’s see how long this lasts.
I went back to Mineola on Thursday and Friday. I met some of my teachers in the language arts and social studies deptartments and a few of the students I still know that go there (there aren’t many anymore).
They gave me such a hard time getting upstairs the first day (without the mohawk), it was so dumb. The secretary was so worthless, she wasn’t even listening to me, she just didn’t want to deal with me. I finally got one of the “guards” to walk upstairs with me to Bomser’s room and once I found him, the guard left. The point of the guards isnt to make sure the school is safe, its to make sure that kids are following the rules. Because they suck at making the school safe. That’s a rant in itself.
I went back the next day. 9am. This girl died the day before that was in 11th grade, so they used it as an excuse to put the school on “lockdown” even though it didn’t look very locked down to me. Oh, and this day I showed up with a mohawk. This time the secretary and guards wouldn’t listen to me at all. They completely ignored everything I said. They wouldn’t walk with me upstairs. I told them I just wanted to sit in the SS or LA offices and talk to two teachers I met with yesterday. They said no. I even saw Mrs. Bernstein, Mr. Nagler, and a whole bunch of aides in the lobby who stopped by to talk to me, none of them wanted to let me go anywhere. How bogus.
I wish it were a controlled experiment to see if they were actually treating me different because of my mohawk, I’m pretty sure they were just using the girl as an excuse. They hate me over there.
I went home and suprised my parents with my mohawk. I came home the first day with a hat on and didn’t tell them anything. My mom was even trying to make jokes about my “long hair.” On the second day I put my mohawk in after I got out of the shower in the morning. My mom screamed when she saw it. The cat thought I was going to kill it lol. It kept staring at my hair with real wide eyes and when I walked over to it, it crouched down on the ground and moved away. It was hilarious.
And apparently it’s the day after tomorrow around here. It’s going to snow like 30 inches or some shit. I hope my classes are cancelled on Monday!
I won’t be using names in this blog post to help prevent google from giving hits on their respecitve names; I’ll use titles instead. Anyone that knows me can fill in the blanks.
In case you’re out of the loop: I wrote a post on my other blog titled “Mineola is going down the drain” with a link to the Newsday article about the Assistant Superintendent of Finance getting arrested. Then because I was told by someone else that same day, I wrote that I heard a rumor the Superintendent himself was involved in the case. Long story short, he found it and instead of clearing up the matter, he decides to use taxpayer money (school lawyers) and my Dad to frighten me.
I’m almost positive the Superintendent is bluffing. If he doesn’t call me by the end of this week then he’s got to be. See, if he were to actually start a lawsuit, that means I’m priviledged to investigate my claim against him, as the absolute defense against libel is the truth. In other words, he wouldn’t start a lawsuit if he knows he has skeletons, and I think he does. The manner in which he reacted to this is outrageous, it almost proves to me that he has something to hide. These rumors have been around for at least 3 years and one finally reached me with some substance. I’m not the source of any of this. I also don’t see what he has to gain by actually initiating a lawsuit. It seems to me that it would ruin his reputation infinitely worse by suing me than just politely explaining the truth (but like I said, I don’t think he can tell the truth).
He wouldn’t be able to win a libel case either. I’m almost positive he gets identified as what’s called a “public figure” and has to hold his claims up to a higher standard (because he’s a government official with immediate access to multiple media outlets and has been seen in the media many many times). Even if what I say is false, he wouldn’t be able to do anything, he has to prove “actual malice.” That means he has to prove I was out to intentially harm him and prove I knew the statements were false before I made them. Obviously he can’t prove those because they’re not true. I am asking a legitimate question that has been circling this community since he got here. I don’t know if its false. If its false then I wouldn’t be asking the question!
So in other words, this is just a threat to get me to shut up. And that’s illegal. It’s called a SLAPP in technical terms. A Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. It means it’s a lawsuit called to chill the speech surrounding a topic, make something undiscussible even though its a legitimate line of questioning. New York has numerous Anti-SLAPP statutes that allow me to counter-sue for large sums of money. It’s very very highly illegal.
I mailed letters to a few different organizations (EFF, ACLU, NYCLU) I hope will help me out. Luckily I’ve been a paying member of them since the first time this happened with my Principle when I was back in HS (he got angry over a newspaper I started). So maybe they’ll pay attention. Harvard also has an Internet Law center that focuses on blogging, I emailed them as well.
This is just completely stupid. Mineola sucks.
what the fuck? I haven’t been outside my room for like 3 fucking days
and now it’s fucking snowing outside, what the fuck is this?
I checked that this page wasn’t indexed by google before I wrote this, but I’ll be putting protections in place to make sure it never does afterwards. Talk about a ‘chilling effect’.
I’ve recently been on the receiving end of a SLAPP threat. SLAPP is an “cute legal acronym” for Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation. This was the result of some talk I had about my high school on my other blog. More information about SLAPPs can be found here: Disinfopedia - SLAPP’s, New York’s Anti-SLAPP Statutes and Cases, Anti-SLAPP Laws and the Internet, The Anti-SLAPP Resource Center, and closer to home in the Long Island Press. One more important one: Cyberlibel, Defamation on the Internet. The cyberlibel one may be old. This kind of law changes all the time. The Communications Decency Act and any rulings on Anti-SLAPP lawsuits in New York could possibly rewrite that entire paper.
This is all total bullshit. They’re claiming slander, what I said about them was referenced to someone else, hence, not slander. They’re going after me with the school lawyer, and therefore, taxpayer money. I’m sure that everyone in Mineola will be proud to know that their money is being used to frighten kids on the internet.
And look! I’m not even repeating what I said. In my mind they’ve already won. But my dad complicates this whole mess. He works in the school district. Sucks for me. I may be searching for other outlets of free speech in the future when I have matters like this to publicly disclose.
What nonsense.
How ironic: Committee to Protect Bloggers via: BoingBoing
I went to go see The Day After Tomorrow with Niki and his roommates at Time’s Up tonight. Man was it awesome. They had had guys that looked like Bush and Cheney playing the Pres and VP. The President’s only line in the whole movie was “What do you think?” asking the VP and then HE DIED. It was so awesome, there were all these little things referring back to actual events. What made it so much more funny was that the plot and dialogue were so cheesy and stupid but everything was meant to be so serious. I loved it.
Time’s Up is a community run environmental organization in downtown Manhattan (specifically at East Houston and Lafayette St.). Among other things, they help generate interest in bike rides all around the city and have free movie showings every Thursday. Check out their website for more about what they do.
UPDATE: Interesting fact, The Day After Tomorrow is a carbon-neutral film. Meaning, for every ounce of carbon let into the air by production equipment used to work on the movie, trees were planted to offset them. The director, Roland Emmerich, even payed $200,000 out of his own pocket to help this happen. More info is in the IMDB interesting facts section and this treehugger article.
For some reason I’m surrounded by idiots in the groups I’m a part of on MySpace. I keep getting group bulletins like:
Subject: Add me perhaps?
Body: I’m a cool person, not “cool” but a good friend, whatever, Add me….please?Subject: add me plz
Body: add me plz i need friends!!!Subject: add me if u hate bush
Body: if u hate bush add meSubject: hey
Body: hey im new here, if anyone would want to add me as a friend, id appriciate it, thanks a lot
So I’ve just had enough of it tonight. I’m feeling badass with this mohawk. I’m gonna start a riot. I posted this to the group where most of the losers seemed to be coming from:
Subject: all of you are losers
Body: i don’t like bush as much as the rest of you, but all this “add me” crap is getting fucking ridiculous. you think you’re going to fix anything that’s wrong with the government by fucking cyberz’ing with some chick online. fuck you. stop your fucking bullshit and get constructive. stop wasting my fucking time reading myspace group bulletins. whores.
A riot I wanted, a riot I got. Within 10 minutes I got 12 replies and 3 friend requests. Here’s a sample:
I did something ridiculous today, which I thought would turn out horrible. I resisted Greg for a good week. Really though, can anyone tell me my hair wasn’t getting too long? So what the hell, we had a mohawk party!
Check it out: Mohawk Party
you know you love it!
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