1. Bring a small cactus to class with you.
2. Raise your hand, and when you're called on, say that the cactus has a question.
3. Turn and look at the cactus, as if you're waiting for it to say something.
4. After a few moments, shrug, and wait for your professor to move on.
5. Do this once a day, and become increasingly irritated with the cactus every time, sighing heavily and giving it evil looks when it fails to "speak."
6. When you leave the room after class, start yelling at the cactus, "I can't believe you embarrassed me AGAIN...."
1. Bring a vacuum to class.
2. Halfway through class, stand up and start using it.
3. If your professor objects, explain that you "can't stand sitting in this pigsty any longer."
4. Keep vacuuming, grumbling angrily.
1. Get a monkey, and bring it to class with you.
2. Tell your professor that you've hired the monkey to take notes for you.
3. Sit back and relax during class, letting the monkey scribble on a piece of paper. 4. When it comes time to write a paper or take a test, write down things like, "I wish I had a banana" and "I miss my tire swing."
5. Assuming you get a bad grade, angrily fire the monkey in front of your professor.
1. Hide somewhere inside the classroom.
2. Wait for your professor to take attendance.
3. Don't come out when he/she calls your name.
4. Halfway through class, jump out and yell, "Just kidding! I'm here! Fooled you again!"
5. Sit down and be quiet for the rest of class.
1. Sit way at the back of the room, up against the wall, to get as far away from your professor as possible.
2. While he/she is lecturing, shout out things like, "What!?" and "Speak up! You're mumbling!" If your professor advises you to sit closer to the front, tell him/her you can't because you're scouting the room for "assassins."
3. Start asking questions in a fake foreign language.
4. Act like your professor is stupid for not being able to understand you.
5. Get other people in the class to start speaking the fake language too, and have frequent discussions during class.
6. Act like you're really interested in what you're discussing.
7. If your professor tries to interrupt or stop you, act annoyed and motion for him/her to quiet down.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Japan's Underground City: Alice Cities
Japan’s Taisei Corporation of Tokyo’s plan on creating “Alice Cities” is quite overwhelming. “Alice Cities” named after a story called Alice in Wonderland, a story about a girl who fell into a rabbit hole and discovers a land of wonder.
Alice City will be another solution to overcome and ease the overflowing crowds, the increase of energy, and also to protect many lives from earthquakes. The Japanese will welcome a new place to live, less quakes, ad an almost-constant temperature.
The idea of Alice City reflects the so-called Millennium Era where living sophisticatedly in the modern world is a main priority to most people. With the new and high technologies, anything is possible.
Alice City consists of three different sectors: Town Space, Office Space, and Infrastructure Space. Town Space will provide luxurious lifestyles with underground boulevards and open-air, atrium-type plazas free of automobile traffics. Office Space will supply business operations, hotel and parking lots. Infrastructure Space will contain facilities for power generation, regional heating and air-conditioning, waste recycling, and sewage treatment.
There are many disadvantages from Alice City such as a large opportunity to plant more trees and a chance for farmers to grow more crops on land. To some people, Alice City is impossible and too fictional. In other words, it is against the Nature’s Law. A new disaster may occur in the existing ecosystem. Many underground animals and creatures will lose their habitats and there’s a possibility of destroying the earth’s inner body.
So the whole plan must be thought over because people must not wreck the nature just to satisfy themselves with extra-high quality of pleasures.
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