Joel Luther

I am a student leader of CYC/YCI. Last year, I was the president. This year, I'm just a leader (new school). Today we had our annual See You at the Pole. If you don't know what that is, go here, or just let me tell you that it's a kicky event where students gather at the flagpole of a PUBLIC school and pray. How awesome is that? Anyway, today was SYATP. It was awesome. Seriously, it was the best SYATP I've ever been too. Not to say that the ones at the middle school weren't great, they were, but this was better.

On to contests. I enter them all the time; rarely win any of them. Last night, ABC called and said our family won an iPhone and $450 bucks. Seriously. I'm wondering whether or not to accept it because the taxes on it are crappy. Plus, I think you have to activate it to use the media player functions? I really don't want to activate it .... just use it as in iPod. I'll probably end up modding it.

I have a cold. It's 90 degrees outside and I have a cold.... I feel like crap.

TV. Last night's thoughts:

Beauty and the Geek - CW: Eh. Same old, same old. Nothing great, nothing bad

House - Fox: I didn't realize Boston Legal and House overlapped, so I watched that instead. I did record House though. Now the challenge is finding time to watch it.

Boston Legal - ABC This show is ace. Perfection in every way.

Tonight's shows:

Deal or No Deal - NBC It's ... just a game show. HUGE meh because it's not really anything special, but it's the only thing on nearly worth watching.

Private Practice - ABC I love Grey's Anatomy. It's awesome. So this will be awesome too. FACT.

Dirty Sexy Money - ABC This show does not look like it will interest me at all. But I keep hearing it's great, so I might as well give it a shot.

--Joel

So we had open house at school tonight. Here's something interesting about me: I have never made below an A. Ever. That still holds true after today's progress reports. It was rather pointless, we just went around and got progress reports. Lowest grade was in Honors English (95.1). Meh.

On a side note, today marks the beginning of the fall television season. Here's what I'll be watching tonight:

Chuck - NBC A show about a computer nerd. Perfect.
Two and a Half Men - CBS A hilarious show; the premiere looks awesome.
Journeyman - NBC Eh. It looks okay; not fantastic. But I'll be watching.

All of which will be controlled with a Wiimote on Windows Media Center thanks to my recent purchase of a blueooth receiver.

--Joel

Edit: wow, sucky phone camera. What you probably can't see is that this is a Xbox 360 unit at Wal-Mart with a red ring of death. Just found it amusing.

Okay, let me just say that I love the new game show 'Power of 10'. I love statistics and the like, so this show is right up my alley.

I do have one minor problem with the show: THE ENTIRE PREMISE IS WRONG.

Allow me to quote Drew Carey, the show's host:

Starting with the $1000 question, every time you get a question right the dollar values are going to increase by the power of ten, all the way up to ten million dollars.

Are the producers that stupid?!?

Perhaps a new question should be "What percentage of Americans don't know the difference between raising a number to the tenth power and multiplying a number by ten?"

But then, as the credits rolled, I realized why the show's premise was so incredibly dumb:

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But I must say I would be quite impressed if they actually raised the prize money by the power of ten each time....

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It was great. I made lots of new friends. Didn't win any contests ... but came close in "Name That Spell." Stupid Bubble-Head charm. I was the ONLY person in the whole crowd who knew Amortentia. A couple people told me I should have won just for knowing that.

I was 18th in line ... better than last year: 174.