Wow, I really don’t use this thing. Anyways, over the next few weeks I’ll be posting up some samples of web apps I’ve created, so keep tuned in.
Public Service Announcement:
My car does not have red plates. Nowhere on the vehicle will you see the words “On Time” or “Route Taxi”. I’m employed as a student. Given these clues, why would you deduce that the purpose of my vehicle is to drive you around? If the car is full, it’s FULL. This means that the car has as many passengers as the car is legally allowed to hold. I will not allow exceed that limit just to accommodate you simply because you want to go to Burger King. Also, the car doesn’t need to be legally full for it to be “full”. If I say I want a free space in the car, I have my reasons. It’s MY car, not yours. And why do I HAVE to notify you when I’m leaving campus, and where I’m going? I’m not obligated to carry you anywhere. If you don’t like these terms, then fuck off.
Goddammit.
So, I’ve been neglecting tumblr lately, mostly because I have a social life, so here’s a new post for you guys.
Today, I’ll be talking about Team Fuckery, aka my friends at UWI. Team Fuckery is dedicated to endorsing and facilitating every form of fuckery known to man, except battymanism, because batty nuh fi fuck. #TeamVagina. Our drunken escapades have inspired me to write a series about our activities. Expect the posts soon.
College is awesome.
So, I’ve decided to brush the dust off my tumblr and *gasp* make a post. So here goes!
Today, I’ll be ranting about this illuminati crap that people have been spreading. For those of you who don’t know, everyone’s been running around calling Jay Z and Kanye “demonic” because of “masonic imagery” in their videos. For those of you who take it seriously, here are a couple points to make you think:
- The Illuminati is supposedly a SECRET SOCIETY. This means that they’re not gonna advertise their members. So why are they doing it in music videos viewed by MILLIONS OF PEOPLE?
- No publicity is bad publicity. A smart rapper would insert controversial imagery into his music videos to stir CONTROVERSY and get everyone talking about it. The more people debating the music, the greater their potential audience will be, and by extension, the more fans that will be created. It’s HUMAN NATURE to seek the forbidden, and the Illuminati references will add an air of mystery to the music, and get people curious.
There are plenty of other valid points, but I don’t need to write them here.
Later guys.
Official Music Video for “Fuck You” by Cee-Lo Green of his upcoming album “The Lady Killer”.
I think it’s a great video; it’s fresh, imaginative and witty. Of course the song is a gem as well. Take a look. Bless.
Subsidies have been used for many years by governments to push people or entities into a certain sector of the economy that is under-served; either due to high investment costs, or lack of interest. When a government subsidizes a certain thing, they are saying “Hey guys, we want more of this in our country! Do it now!”. So when they only give a select few the full 80% subsidy for Medicine at UWI, they’re pushing people away from medicine. Now, this would be fine if they did this to every department, but they’re subsidizing other departments at 80% for EVERYONE. I think that it’s garbage that someone who wants to pursue a degree in Carnival Studies should be subsidized while someone who wants to become a doctor and actually, y’know, maintain our population gets told to pay 1.5 Million or 3 Million YEARLY to achieve this. Wouldn’t it be better to push people into the sciences, namely Medicine, Engineering, Computer Science, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Biochemistry and maybe a few social sciences, such as Economics, Accounting and similar majors. Everything else should either be subsidized to a lesser extent or not subsidized at all.
So, I’ve been on vacation (read: days of marathon shopping with my mother) in Florida, and haven’t had time to update this thing, but I decided I’d drop a bit of wisdom on you guys, so today, I’ll be talking about success. Everyone wants to be successful; who doesn’t want a brand new Mercedes-Benz SL63 AMG sitting in the driveway of a multi-million dollar waterfront home, with a Yacht waiting out back to be piloted through the waters, but only a few will actually get closer to that than a picture on your computer labelled dream.jpg. But why? Why is it that Sir Earnsalot has the choice of Beamer, Benz or Bentley, and you’re stuck choosing Nissan, Honda or Chevy? It’s your MENTALITY.
Poverty is simply a state of mind, and I’ll prove it to you with a simple scenario: I have just given you 10 Million Dollars. Not those worthless bits of paper we call currency in Jamaica, but US Dollars. Now imagine what you would do with this new found wealth. Would you buy a Ferrari for each of the homes you’d buy in every major city, and full Gucci outfits to fill your closets? If so, you are POOR mentally, and here’s why: 10 Million dollars isn’t a lot of money. No matter what you may think, 10 Mil WILL NOT last unless it’s working for you. Someone who has a rich mentality would put the money into something working for them. They would buy apartments and rent them out, put it on the stock market, buy bonds, start a business, or in other words, make the money work for them and generate more money, so that 10 mil can become 100, and 100 a billion.
This theory can be used to explain why the rich stay rich, and the poor get poorer. In Jamaica, we have women in the ghetto who can always buy a $8000 pair of shoes, but bawl and cuss when Bruce won’t pay the $20,000 it takes to send their child to school. They never seem to understand that if they spent less time and money trying to dress in the hottest weave and shoes (and by hottest, I mean most sketelicious), they might be able to SAVE MONEY, and maybe even *gasp* INVEST!
The rich, however, have a different mentality. When a rich man makes money, he puts it down and makes it work for him. He’ll usually put some into a bank account, for a safe place to store it for use, some into Bonds for a nice, safe income generator, some into the stock market for medium risk wealth growth, and he’ll buy some land and rent it to people / sell it. Following the poor person’s strategy, in 10 years, you’ll be exactly where you started: chasing down money but never having any, but in 10 years, the rich man will be much better off, as will his children, who won’t have to worry about tuition or food.
So why doesn’t everyone follow the rich man’s path? It’s easier to think with a poverty mentality. Its easier to buy bling than bonds. Lacoste looks better on you than land. A Ferrari gets you more pumz than a great stock portfolio, but those things are only SHORT TERM. Ferrari’s age, but a rich mentality is timeless.
Also, this post isn’t bashing dressing expensively provided one can afford to do so. There is nothing wrong with wearing full Gucci if you have the money to support your Gucci addiction.
I wonder if anyone told Nikki Minaj that Barbie is a disproportionate, blonde item made out of plastic. Maybe then she’d stop the “Barbie” fuckery. Wait, no, Nicki Minaj is also disproportionate, blonde and plastic. Now I get it! But to all the teenage girls out there who claim the title of “Harajuku Barbie Lewinsky”, I’m going to break down what you’re calling yourself. I’ll start with Harajuku, since we already defined Barbie.
Harajuku is a JAPANESE style of dressing. Nicki Minaj is nowhere near Japanese, and if you’re calling yourself one, chances are you’re in the same boat. But that isn’t so bad, so we’ll move on to Lewinsky.
Every girl who wants to give head to old, white, married men, put your hand up. Nobody? Well then why the rass are you calling yourself Lewinsky?
The Lewinsky scandal was a political sex scandal emerging from a sexual relationship between United States President Bill Clinton and a then 22-year-old White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. The news of this extra-marital affair and the resulting investigation eventually led to the impeachment of President Clinton in 1998 by the U.S. House of Representatives and his subsequent acquittal on all impeachment charges (of perjury and obstruction of justice) in a 21-day Senate trial.[1]
-Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewinsky_scandal
So, unless you dress like a Harajuku, are made of plastic, blonde, and ruin old white men’s marriages by giving them head, don’t call yourself a Harajuku Barbie Lewinsky. Its just ign’ant
So, welcome to the third post from Cooper’s world. Today, I’ll be talking about why entrepreneurship is not only the best way to go, but the ONLY way to go.
Imagine for a moment that I have a time machine with me, and I’ve taken you back to somewhere before 1838, where all black people in the Caribbean are slaves. Your master determines what you eat, when you eat, when you wake up, when you go to sleep, how you spend your free time, and basically micromanages your life for you. You have NO choice, and whatever the master says, you must do. Now come back to 2010. You’re no longer in slavery, and you even have a nice job. You’re living the good life, right? Wrong. Your boss determines what you eat, when you eat, when you wake up, when you go to sleep, how you spend your free time, and basically micromanages your life.
“But Cooper, we’re not slaves.”, you may say, “How can you say that?”.
Here’s my logic; When you work for someone, they determine your pay. If they decide that you aren’t going to be able to buy that shiny new Mercedes-Benz, you aren’t going to be able to buy that shiny new Mercedes-Benz. End of story.
“But Cooper, I can afford that shiny new Mercedes-Benz! I make millions yearly! Aren’t I free?”
No, you’re not, because you still don’t have the luxury of flexible time. When you work for someone, they determine when you have free time. If your boss says “Work this weekend”, you’d better find your ass at the office, or there goes that shiny new Mercedes-Benz.
“Oh my god! You’re right! I’m doomed!”
No, you’re not. Thankfully, there is a solution: Entrepreneurship. As an entrepreneur, you may lose the stability of a salaried job, but you gain freedom, flexibility, and the potential to earn more than some guy in a tie says you’re allowed to earn. you don’t even have to give up your day job; you can start a business on the side and watch it grow, with no risks. So tell me now, why get a 9-5, when you can start a business, and go 95 in a new Porsche?
