A Sea Sick PSA

If don’t know about bands, you won’t get it..  This is just some smack to go along with the upcoming event for Texas Southern & Jackson State’s Battle of the Bands & Game.

Randomness October Edition

A few Months ago, I was on the Louisiana Leadership Institute website where I saw that the webmaster used my pictures within  a Transitioning Image frame. I think it’s cool because the pictures are old. but I guess they’ve done their justice. I appreciate it. if only they would have credited me.

Things like this make me feel like my work is great, many have given me kudos for my work. I appreciate it all.

Here’s what I’m referring too though.

lol soon after I went to Facebook got this error message trying to post some music links.

Yall Probably don’t get this, but this was basically an argument with a rival band during the first week of September.  I copied it just because it was proof of the fact that band members from that school see that particular event as something HUGE, and it’s not all that…. But.. when a band doesn’t travel. they act like they’re the only ones that do when they do..lol

This Chat was funny.. Not because Trumpet Barnum sounds like a Leprechaun, but because the other guy asked “What is Co-Ed” ..smh **Facepalm** lol

One thing you don’t do when I’m admin.. that’s  have multiple accounts to post on certain forums or in certain areas. I have 1 account and I can do EVERYTHING from that 1 account.

at this point the guy was mad, so I banned him again

Another reason folks get banned from the site, we ask that folks put the right info. false info is automatic banishment because we’re trying to prevent spam..   many of these were multiple choice. but you’re supposed to choose what YOU are.. not ALL OF THEM..

Haha.. That Bandhead Artwork.. I Sketched this up.. it wasn’t my best but I’m good.

Old Msport Screenshot

B. Franklin is in this pic walking past the camera

An Old N.O Rap group Album cover… don’t know what happened to them.

 

Another.. this guy coached football and walked with the band

Fila Phil dude’s like a  a N.O rap Legend now

Name says it all

and you saw the video I posted of this… and Pi You Screenshot

here’s one from an earlier version of that series of console games

The K

Retro Contra

LOL!!!!

 

That’s it for now folks

Bing on Google

I was browsing a website and I came across some google ads, but what was being advertised was a Contest started by Microsoft's “Bing”. I thought it was kind of weird to see it there. but I guess it’s one of those situations where all that matters is the Kids. (or the money) because this particular ad is about a contest to win money for a school.

I know things like this aren’t “new”. but it’s odd that a search engine would promote themselves through another engine.

I should have been there.

By the looks of it, the OPSB Wants more of their schools back, and so do parents and teachers.  Why? because They’ve found that the OPSB has been moving in the right direction, while some RSD schools have no sign of "Recovery”. 

There are a number of schools the RSD has which are Great. some of them have Selective enrollment, Other Schools are open to everyone. from what I’ve seen, it took maybe 3 years for the RSD to establish themselves in the city and they’ve come along just fine. Along with the great things, It seems as though the RSD has become responsible for some things, that Students, Alumni, and Parents just don’t like. 

Some schools  they’ve reopened are now Closed, Others have had Name changes & Grade classification to fit a certain criteria. In some area’s the schools wont accept neighborhood students who may have a hard time traveling across town to other schools.. small issues like that have cause lack of support from the community

The Biggest Issue of the Meeting they had Yesterday was Performance levels and the fact that OPSB’s Improved and has outdone the RSD so far in test scores. Now of course they feel that they’ve become more stable to run more schools.  Someone at the meeting suggested that OPSB take the Failing Schools from RSD and leave the Good Charters to RSD.  In my Opinion. That would make sense. But, the purpose of Recovery is to make the bad schools better.

A while back, the Original purpose of RSD was to Create a system to get  New Orleans Public Schools back on the right track, and then give them back to the OPSB, basically being a temporary district put in place to Help the Orleans Parish School Board. Now days, that situation has come to the point where RSD is doing their own thing with no regard to OPSB. and Now that OPSB wants more control, some folks see it as a problem due to OPSB’s Past.  

I support Both Districts myself, but I think there needs to be one system governing Majority of the schools here. Preferably the OPSB. though. because the way I see it is, although RSD doing what they do to better educate the students. they’re destroying traditions by changing so much. Many folks may say.. “it’s just a school”.. but school traditions are the foundation of Pride, the things that make people feel good about going to school.  My alma Mater’s about to be demolished after 5 years of closure because NOBODY did anything to save it. not OPSB, not RSD.. nothing. it was just There.  THAT should have been brought up at the meeting..  LAWLESS AND DOUGLASS should have been brought up at the meeting. there are NO public High schools in the Lower 9th ward. what about those students.

.*sigh*

I just wish I could have been at that meeting to hear some of the people give their points of views.

Those Crime Cam’s Aren’t Effective anyway.

I’m at NOLA.com reading a number of articles regarding Landrieu dumping the Crime Cams. and well. yeah. It’s about time. They were as little effective as NOPD’s Call Response Timing.

I remember when they were being installed, They were put in some of he Worst neighborhoods, mainly in spots where human traffic was common in the day.  Over time those areas became empty simply because the Crime cameras were there.  Why? anyone who was doing anything wrong, knew they were there (duh they are huge and clearly visible from a distance).. so they Avoided them altogether. 

There are a few crimes that were caught on the cameras, but in few of those cases. it was too late, they only used the camera to attempt at catching the culprit. otherwise The cameras were faulty, they didn’t work 100% of the time. Some were shot out.

A good and yet Fictional approach of the crime camera situation would be like in the movie Déjà vu or even Minority Report. That Would be the Idea of using the camera to stop a events before they happen.  But…things don’t necessarily work like that in real life. On one end, somebody would have to be REALLY watching what's going on, and reporting this stuff to police so they can be on location in time to seize things before they get too bad. but Nope… things just don’t work that way..  With The Faulty Cameras came Crime in areas where cameras either didn’t work, or weren’t in place.  That’s all I have to say about that.

Aside from Camera Usage, you had problems with who’s maintaining, where money was going, why cameras weren’t working. and a whole lot of “he said, she said” going on politically. in the end wasting millions on cameras that had little impact on stopping crime in this city. With that said.. It’s time to get rid of the Cameras.