Today on ESPN.com/High School Videos
Today I read an article about Bill Self on ESPN.com, basically talking about how awesome he is and how good he's gonna be at Kansas. Well, I myself was a pretty big fan of "Coach Self", that is until he ditched the Illini. Reading that article pissed me off further, and now I hope he falls on his face at Kansas. Those Jayhawk fans might be welcoming him with open arms now, but after a few seasons of not making it past the Sweet Sixteen with talented players, they will be quick to turn on him. He will soon wish he was back in the lovefest that was Illinois, with his son being coached in basketball by Dan and Ray.
On ESPN.com Page 2, the look alike item was Josh Beckett and Lou Diamond Phillips. Add this to the list of matches that I have called in the past. I think the only movie I have seen Lou Diamond Phillips in was "Stand and Deliver", which I happened to watch twice because I took Calculus twice in high school. For a movie that they show in math class, I must admit that it was pretty entertaining. "Kimo I can count too: one.... two........... three"
Now I'm trying to think of other stuff they showed us in high school. I remember there was one short animated thing about the Mean Value Theorem where this guy gets caught speeding by a cop because they timed how long it took for him to go from one tollbooth to the next, and since his calculated average speed was over the limit, they screwed him by using the MVT. Yes, that was one of the more flaming videos I remember from high school. Other movies I remember include Breakfast Club, Roger and Me, and some Spanish movie about these Mexicans trying to cross the border. I'm sure there were a lot of other awesome ones I'm forgetting.
It seems like we watched the most videos in social studies classes, like US History, Political Science, Economics, etc. Probably because those teachers tend to be the laziest, in general. Looking back, I realize that they were pretty much all overweight, and extremely liberal minded to boot. Anyways, the one video I remember watching the most was this series called Economics USA. I think it was made in the early 80's and I don't think it could have been any cheesier. Then one day at home, I was randomly flipping channels and discovered that they were showing Economics USA on PBS. I was like, "wow, this is awesome". Then, a couple years later me and Chras took a self-paced COD class for Microeconomics during one summer. Basically, we just had to read through a text book, take a few exams, and watch a bunch of videos that we were supposed to rent from the COD branch in Westmont. It turned out that the videos were Economics USA. I swear, I just can't seem to escape "your host David Schumacher and economist Richard Gill".
One bad thing about my experience is, since I went to school in Taiwan for my freshman year, then came back to DGS for my last three, the two systems screwed me out of taking Health class at either school. I never got to officially learn about avoiding drugs and sexually transmitted diseases. I guess that explains why I turned into such a major crackhead/male slut. See, at least there's an excuse.
