So, last night I went to the RAFT (Robotics at Florida Tech) meeting, and they’re cracking down to participate in a competition where the participants build a submarine like ROV (Remote Operated Vehicle). We were looking at the costs of parts and the paper work needed to be filled out for the competition (we need to ask the school for funding, all while trying to get everything set for the competition). When they saw the things need, the first thing I heard was “WE DON’T NEED THE 200 POINTS!!!” I immediately looked for what they were talking about (cause I was playing on my computer waiting for a friend to sign online), apparently 200 points of the competition is documents (Technical papers on what you built, why you build it that way etc, a poster, flyers, and some other stuff). Immediately the club president had the ultimate solution, “We just need to get four girls to join!” I wanted to burst out laughing, because that’s what most clubs think or say as a solution to everything, “We need more members!”, “Well, if we just got a few hot girls to join, guys would join not even caring what the clubs about.” (The documents is because guys “are bad (really we just hate to)” write up documents, while girls are amazing at it [probably because girls are naturally more organized than guys (most of the time)]). So this comes to the first rule of running a club (and probably the only rule that most people follow):
- Get girl(s) to join! They attract male members to force into [slave] labor, attract other females (women travel in packs… like wolves!), and are good at doing paper work (so make them secretaries and managers)
Another thing to get members and keep a club from dying, is have activities. In robotics, they build robots, in ACM they had game parties and visits to EA, in paintball they play paintball, in chess, they play chess and have a ranking system of members (this was back in middle and elementary school). Worse come to worse, have club meetings in cool places! Who doesn’t want to go out to the beach and tan eating grilled foods talking about [insert club interest here]? That brings up the second rule:
This next part I guess is a sub-rule to rule one, but get funding! If you don’t know how much you need, look at what you’re planning to do, write it up, come up with what you need (girls are well organized and good money spenders at estimating costs). Think of events, think of supplies need for those, when, why, people don’t throw money at something and expect nothing (unless you’re uber rich and can do that). So rule three is:
- Money. money, money, so get funding, and know how much you need to ask for.
And that’s pretty much the main parts of running a club from what I’ve seen, other than have a President, VP, Secretary, Treasurer, Secretary of Defense, and a banana boy.
My comments on this… First off, men (which I sadly fall under the category) have one tracked minds, girls give purpose, reason, and are needed for all types of events (Does football really need cheerleaders? Not really, but it draws attention, like high school pep rallies, do you get excited for a bunch of guys jumping and screaming? No, only girls can do that [jump up and down screaming making people excited]). Secondly, clubs can be about anything, but if they do something of the common interest [video games] more people show up than you knew were in the club. Next thing I noticed is most men are womanizers (very sad, pisses me off, but true), when I show up to a club meeting, I don’t want to hear a guy talk about how he can’t donate blood cause he’s been with an African American girl (what the heck does that have to do with donating blood anyways? I think it was just an attention thing), or about how he can’t be friends with girls cause he just happens to find a bed anywhere he goes (yes… Macy’s home goods has premade beds, but they’re not for testing), or about how he doesn’t know Asian girls cause he “has never had Asian.” From this, I conclude, that if I ever have a daughter, she is wearing a mask, a huge sweater, baggy pants, gloves, rain boots, and a paper bag, her whole life! Cause I do not want men/boys like that trying to hit on her! I don’t know what the issue is, if every guy has a jerk-hole gene in them and just some broke theirs or have “self-control” (< very good to have), but in all honesty, people have feelings, people are people, don’t use them. Also, (so I’m not only bashing my own gender) women also need to slow down a bit. If you know a guy is a bad guy (or have someone trying to tell you he’s a bad guy) then he’s a bad guy! If he’s dating you, and four other girls, maybe, you’ should get out of that. Also, I’ve been told some girls go into a relationship knowing they’re being used, because they’re curious x.x, well curiosity killed the cat, and got a monkey stuck with a man in a funny yellow had (oh you try acting like you don’t know what’s going on there, but you do!). If everyone was honest about their intentions, then things would definitely work out better, instead of saying “I love you.” Tell the person what you really want to say, “I want to get in your pants”, “I’m only dating you just to have fun”, “I want you to buy me clothes”, “I thought you’d look good to show off to friends”, “No one else would talk to me”, “I’m trying to sleep with 40 women before the end of the year”, “I’m looking to settle down, and I’d like to be with you for the rest of my life”, “I need you and I hope you need me too”, “You’re a good cook”, “I love you.” If everyone was honest with what they were expecting, then things would be better I think, we could put this into political issues instead of “I want our nations to be good friends in this tough time”, how about, “Please save my ass”, “I’m hoping for cheaper oil”, “Your women are hotter than ours, we wish to import”, “I’m only friends with you in hopes of being friends with [enter country here]”, “I really believe that our nations together can better the world”, stop with all the lying, when talking to the public “We are doing the best to rescue the economy”, how about, “Dang dudes… You’re screwed”, “Find a dumpster fast”, “I hope you poop money”, “This will only work if everyone does what I say.” Stop lying! Tell the truth, that’s all there is, why is lying a sin? Cause it screws everyone over. Say what you mean, only if you mean it. Love is suppose to be unconditional, meaning no conditions required! If it’s conditional, state you conditions! “I love you, as long as you do my laundry [or other required task].” In all honesty jerk guys, and jerk girls, lying and saying crap they don’t mean is breaking good people! You are ruining people, the potential they had, and are ruining the lives they could have had! You are taking people who are discovering themselves, and basically calling them worthless trash with what you are doing to them. So stop it, back off, and if you hurt someone I care about, I’ll kill you, or severely hospitalize you, and that’s not a threat, it’s a promise, so stop screwing around.
Next thought, a company can fire employees that don’t do their job, correct? Then who’s there to manage the higher ups? It’s a crime to embezzle a company right? Then aren’t all these companies that are going out of business with all their executives embezzling money? I mean, if every loses everything, but the executive, then I believe that something is wrong. And AIG, announcing a bonus for their executives after they get bailout money from the government a form of embezzlement? “To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with” – Definition. To me, that means, if a group of people come out filthy rich from their company (or the company they work for) going out of business, or whatever, they are embezzling money. “Well I made the money,” well, people put money into your stocks in hopes of it going higher, meaning, they trusted you with their money, and you failed them by handling the money wrong. People pay for your product, and it isn’t what you say it was, you were given money for a service, but failed to provide it, you’re managing money wrong. Misappropriate – “To use something wrongly.” That doesn’t just mean, taking the money and running, that means, putting money in the wrong areas. People believe that the government shouldn’t mess with businesses and stuff, and that’s why we’re a capitalist nation, and by stepping out and giving bailout money to a company we are stepping on socialism, and if they can’t handle doing what they need to do with that money, then maybe the government needs to take it a step further, and make the company do what they have to do (zomg! Communism! The company no longer is privately owned, but owned by the state, which in America is controlled by the people for the people!). Even though people are against communism, in drastic times calls for drastic measures, and people need to start doing what they say they’re doing, or we need to appoint a “Secretary of Snitching” who will go out and snitch on companies failing at their jobs, because they are embezzling money (which we can see actually means “To screw up with money”).
Random thought, if it costs too much to kill a prisoner on death row, I believe we need to bring back gladiator games. It will be cheaper, most cost effective, and entertaining for the masses that go see it (humans are naturally attracted to violence, so they will come!). This will also help stimulate the economy somehow with the circulation of money to somewhere, getting sponsorships for prison teams (“Death Row Prisoner DJ McPhillin wears Nike’s and loves to listen to his iPod as he runs through slaughtering the other team with his Sword specially made by Sony”). I also think it would be interesting to see what an executive who caused hundreds of people to be jobless and steal millions of dollars would do against a psycho cereal killed in the arena (but that might just be me).
FFSM
Son: “I’m going to have a baby sister?”
Father: “Yes, and we’re getting her a sweater she will never take off!”
Son: “Can I get a sweater?”
Father: “No…”
