EQAO

To those of you who are worried that you may fail the upcoming EQAO: here are some sample responses some of last year's questions. Stay away from imitating these at all costs, and you should be fine.

Question: Explain why the final sentence is an effective conclusion to the selection. Use relevant and specific information from the selection to support your answer.
Response: Because it explains why he was kind of rude to them, but also not a good enough excuse to be rude to them.

Question: Describe two positive features of living in Canada. Give reasons to support your answer.
Response: To live in Canada is hard and sepasileay whan you come from a differard canteray. living in Canada is so hard becaus the Calgear differanit the canteray is differanit evriy thinb is differanik from whar you come from but it hard to live wear you come from to becaus some cantireas thor is setil war so i am hapey that i am in Canaa But i wont for get my Calgear in Canad [sic]

Question: Are today’s famous people good role models for young people?
Response: Today's famous people are not

Bolt

Disney's "Bolt" is probably one of the cutest movies ever made.

The New Shuffle

Apple announced this new iPod shuffle without any buttons. It is an awful product, and here's why.

If you like using your own headphones with your MP3 player (as opposed to stock ones that may come with the player), this new shuffle becomes an iPod without a single button - it's just a block of metal. Apple is expecting you to use their own crappy, uncomfortable headphones instead of your own ones in order to even turn it on. I hate this. I have really good earphones, and, supposing I have this shuffle, I won't be able to use them.

I also hate their most touted new feature, "Voice Over" which basically announces the title and artist of the song that you're listening to using a synthesized voice. The synthesized voice that they chose sucks. I know you can say that it's "really hard to make it sound good," but seriously - if you go with using a voice, don't use some crappy one and just go around saying, "Oh my God this is so good, look at what this can do!"

And that's for the voice that comes with the Mac. The voice that comes up if you sync with a Windows computer is just so much more awful. I don't even know how to describe it.

And that is my short rant of the day. The biggest thing for me is the lack of buttons, though. Stupid inline earphones!