Beasts of the Southern Wild

In my G&T 2 class we watched a eye opening movie called Beasts of the southern wild. It was about a little girl names Hush Puppy who lives with her father in the bathtub. In the movie, a huge storm hits the bathtub, and completely floods the area. The few remaining inhabitants of the bathtub are forced to reside in one house, that lays above the water line, and travel around by boat. In order to get the water to recede, Hush Puppy's father blows up the levy that is holding all the water in the bathtub. Towards the end of the movie, the viewer becomes aware that Hush Puppy's father has a serious health condition, and eventually dies. The homes of the characters were very surprising to me. They were all in shambles and poorly constructed. Even though they face harsh conditions, they are still happy with where they live and don't want to leave. The relationship between Hush Puppy and her father is very interesting as well. It's hard to describe in words, it was kind of like an extreme love/hate relationship. Hush Puppy would do something she wasn't allowed to do, and her father would yell at her, then they would start doing something almost fun, while they were still angrily yelling at each other. Her father wasn't that protective of her either. She just wandered off to where every she wanted to go and her father wouldn't care. He even left her alone for a day or so, because he was in the hospital. Her father told her to pull the fuse on some dynamite,while they were all less than 30 feet away from the bomb. This video can also help us learn more about humanity. The inhabitants of the bathtub live totally different lives then we do here in the states. There lives are striped down to the bare essentials. The technology we have here, most likely alters our behavior as humans. But, if we analyze the people in the video we could get a better sense of what it means to be human, without any added stimuli.

Passion Project Update

My power point presentation is well underway, and I almost have all the information I want to explain to my class. I've already got 25 slides.  My miner has been up and running for a few weeks, and has already mined 22 litecoins! Each coin today is worth $4.16 as of 11/14/13 at 10:23 am. So I have currently made $91.52. I am almost halfway to my goal of mining 50 litecoins. Mining them was not easy, it seemed like I ran into another problem everyday. Such as freezes, connectivity issues and hardware incompatibilities. The additional information I still want to explain is a bit technical, and I may have trouble explaining it to my peers. I will need to find a way help other people understand what I am talking about, such as analogies to more commonly known things, or telling them excessive background knowledge they would need to understand. The second option sounds boring, and a lot of work. I think I will stick with the first option.

Myers-Briggs Personality Types

The results of this test astonished me, my personality test result was surprisingly accurate. I got type ISTP.

Here's the description - Tolerant and flexible, quiet observers until a problem appears, then act quickly to find workable solutions. Analyze what makes things work and readily get through large amounts of data to isolate the core of practical problems. Interested in cause and effect, organize facts using logical principles, value efficiency.

That's me.

I will put up with anything, and don't really stick to my own personal rules. I am quiet, I don't talk a lot or loudly. I am a problem solver. I enjoy fixing things. People ask me to fix their problems all the time. I love tinkering with things and finding what makes them work. I can also find little problems among big ideas. Cause and effect are similar to finding how things work. I try to arrange my life logically, including my thoughts, possessions, and lifestyle. I love it when things work, and work well and are efficient.  

This new information on personalities helps me understand how people are different, but the same. The test gives you two different options on four different aspects of your lifestyle, creating 16 possible personality types. Everyone in the world should have a similar personality, and from their personality type, assuming it's accurate, we should be able to infer how they act in a certain situation.

The information can help me answer our big question on what does it mean to be human because everyone has one of these sixteen personality types. Your personality is part of what makes you human. Although were all different, we are all are similar in several key ways, and personality is one of those key similarities of what it means to be human.