The Human Race Machine

The Human Race Machine can, in no way, change the way people think about other races. In fact, every website I visited was only advertising the Human Race Machine as a marketed product. In my opinion, it is rather offensive, more like a freakshow for people who probably have no appreciation for what the machine is supposed to do.

All it did is show you what you would look like if you had some really intricate stage makeup applied. Actually, it would even require such intricacy, to be honest. Just a change of makeup tone.

Maybe I feel that it is offensive, because the question was, "How does the Human Race Machine change your perspective on yourself and others."

It may in fact, have an effect if your intial response was, "Oh my god! That is what I would look like if I were Hispanic!" or any other ethnicity.

To me....totally offensive. I find people in all colors equally, but uniquely beautiful, and they should change nothing about themselves. Nor should anyone. People, let's stop this perpetual struggle among races. Like the product advertises, "There is no gene for race."

How Internet and Digital Media are Affecting NPR

Obviously the internet and digital media are taking over with regards to the mediums in which society gets its information these days. Whether it is reading the news, or listening to your favorite song, the internet seems to pretty much have it all. The NPR defititely feels the strain when it comes to the audience they are recruiting, and it seems that most that still revert to listening to the radio tend to be the older crowd.

However, even the older crowd is getting into the swing of things, mainly because in our day and age, some information mediums only have their access available through the internet or some other type of digital media. My dad, for example, who is 72 years young, even gets the majority of his news from the internet. Why bother perusing through a newspaper filled with random information you aren't intersted in, when you can fine tune your search through a detailed search engine to find exactly what you are looking for?

The conversation we listened to in class didn't seem to be very informative to me, however. Maybe it is because I am still considerably old school. Whichever news or entertainment media reaches me first, wins every time. For example, when I come home after a long day, my house tends to be filled with music, not from an IPod, or a music website, but from the rickety sound of my fiance's record player. There is almost something romantic about the rough sound of an original record that almost makes me feel like I am really there 20 years ago, listening to it for the first time.

I suppose it could have been more infromative had the speaker answered some of the posts that my fellow classmates were submitting, because a lot of them were particularly insightful. However, I couldn't seem to get past the loud static that was blasting through the speakers. I suppose if I had done a little more research prior to listening to the speaker, I could have applied a little more insight, and understood the basissof the topica little more thoroughly.

Twittastic!

In my honest opinion, although tweeting might be fun for someone who can more easily access its features via cell phone and such, I actually feel I don't have the time for it! A simple 6 tweet assignment actually consumed my whole weekend, because I wasn't sure when the appropriate time span was to wait in bewtween tweets! I am not used to having to update my status so often, and I actually was in a panic because I was not sure at times what pointless bable I was supposed to be putting out there to see if someone else.

Each time I hit the send button, I cant help but feel that I am sending one more pointless missive that no one cares about, because they are worrying about the same things themsleves on the other end!

However, the assignment was rather enjoyable once I got the hang of it. It was useful in being able to put out the information that I need to find a new home for my dog, and post a picture of her as well. I guess that Twitter seems more enjoyable to me to use when I am simply bored. I have no real urge every fifteen minutes to an hour or so to update exactly what I am doing at the time.

Don't get me wrong, when it comes to posting some semi-urgent news, it would seem to be the immediate answer. Luckily, some people can even receive those updates immediately on their phones. Maybe that is why I don't have as much need for it because I cannot utilize all its features that make it unique.