Thursday, August 10, 2006
This is it. I'm leaving; I'm not going to be able to go anywhere near internet access until a week after tomorrow.
BIG NEWS: Just "conquered Makuta"!
Friday, August 25, 2006
Yesterday was my first day of school. And I can tell you, even in the "excitement" of starting a new school year , I didn't want to go back today. Got some new kids in my classes -- some cool, some not. And I still see a few old friends even if we don't get the fun of being stuck in some stuffy classroom together for 43 minutes a day. Some of my new teachers I could see right off the bat that they were all right, others are real pieces of work. Actually, some of my teac
Hm. Scavenger Va at post #782 . Still got a ton of those darn Krana to go...
"You. I knew it would be you. Now that you're a Toa Metru, you'll just cast an even longer shadow over me."
--Vhisola
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Christmas break has begun. And now that I have some time off, I'm taking a bit of it to save as many pages off bionicle.com as I can onto compact disks, in anticipation of its change in 2009. There are some parts of each page, like background images or flash objects, that Firefox won't save automatically (I have to use Cache Viewer) or load from an already saved file that I want to open without internet access, as a test. The browser relies on an internet connection
Saturday, July 15, 2006
Nothing to do today. Just the way I like it. I got my Brickmaster set in the mail today. It's an X-Pod, the blue/white robot one. My little brother already bought that set, and that was months ago, so it's not exactly a brand new set. Not doing much. Maybe working on MOCs, reading the Da Vinci Code, TV, etc. Maybe I should get out of here and see if any friends share my boredom.
Saturday, August 5, 2006
I'm working on a project of piecing together the 2001 story. It's not always easy . There's huge gaps, inconsistencies... it turns out that the comics and books don't tell a whole lot of the story.
Monday, September 11, 2006
Here we are, five years later. Everyone always says that they remember exactly where they were when the news reached them that the planes had hit the World Trade Center buildings. Let us offer remembrance of that earth-shaking day.
Do you give a donation to charity? Do you visit Ground Zero? Do you hang a flag outside your front porch? Do you bring it up in school? Do you use the "Remember 9/11" Avatar? All of us commemorate the tragedy that struck five yea
Thursday, October 5, 2006
I uploaded some of my totally random sketches. Some of this stuff is ancient. Random Sketches 1 Random Sketches 2 Random Sketches 3 Random Sketches 4 Random Sketches 5 Good Grief
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Ever had a day that you just wished would end and then it wouldn't?
Sooo tired today . I had way too little sleep last night and had two tests today. I tell ya, it's just been the week of the tests. I think I've had...what, five tests so far? And I still have two more tomorrow. Anyway, to fit the mood properly, the weather for the last three days has just been rain, rain, rain. Cold, depressing days of endless overcast skies with stinging, rainy mist in the wi
Monday, October 2, 2006
"What could be better than small pieces of metal flying undetected across a classroom until they make an annoying snapping noise at the far wall?"
Hey there, ! Today's entry is a very special entry. Right now, I am pleased to have a place to finally post the simple instructions of my one truly, incredibly ingenious invention: the Portable Staple Firing Mechanism, or PSFM for short. This is a staple-shooting device whose structure I came up with back in my late grade
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Scenes from the future on bionicle.com...what do they mean?
61 - The Swamp of Secrets
68 - The Codrex
103 - The Storm
145 - Mata Nui
166 - Epilogue
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Ah, the good old days -- spent playing Pokemon cards on the playground. For all the time I spent with it and for all its fascination, the Pokemon TCG will forever be a part of me, even if my Pokemon days are long gone. And now my younger brother has given me a fun idea.
This is a preview for something larger at hand, of course. However many duties I have in the real world, I will always devote time to some sort of artistic endeavor. And when it's Bionicle, I kn
Toa Pohatu was a Toa of Stone and one of the Toa Mata. He was gifted with the elemental power of stone; wore a Kanohi Kakama, the Great Mask of Speed; and had specialized feet that could be used for precision kicks. Pohatu and the other Toa Mata were a part of the legend of Mata Nui, a legend that the Turaga of Mata Nui often told to the Matoran during the millennium between the Great Cataclysm and the Toa Mata’s arrival. The legend itself was spawned by a mix of common Matoran legends, the past
Monday, October 16, 2006
Here is a far, far more thorough list of my Bionicle collection than the one in my content block, for all eyes to see. Feel free to comment or drool in awe. Or laugh at its pathetic-ness, depending on which way you look at it.
2001 Toa: Tahu, Pohatu, Onua, Lewa, Kopaka, Gali
2001 Turaga: Vakama, Onewa, Whenua, Matau, Nuju, Nokama
2001 Matoran: Jala, Huki, Onepu, Kongu, Matoro, Maku
2001 Rahi: Nui-Rama, Nui-Jaga, Tarakava, Muaka & Kane-Ra, Manas
2001 Kanohi
Sunday, February 10, 2008
I'm sad that since 2006 Lego stopped releasing promo images of canister sets that have backgrounds. The best images we usually get are the white-out ones from Shop@Home. But I recently found some very nice Piraka images that I never knew existed. They sort of have backgrounds.
Hakann Avak Zaktan Reidak Vezok Thok
Thursday, September 4, 2008
If you were a blogger back in the days of olde, you probably remember that the cute little squares that tell you if there are unviewed comments in an entry... were colored orange. Actually, that was a site-wide thing. All the little tags -- you probably don't even pay attention to them -- next to the title of a topic or next to the comment count at the bottom right of a blog entry used to be bright orange, at eye-grabbing contrast against BZPower's light blue bac
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Here I am, well-rested at 6:00 AM after sleeping since 8:00. Such are the wonders of completing all work at school and coming home with none of it. I've often pondered, since my younger and more vulnerable years in first grade, and I've come to realize that without homework, school really wouldn't be bad at all. With a little elbow grease and some good habits, you can maintain a pretty good schedule.
Which nobody can realistically do. And with four AP classes, I
Toa Onua was a Toa of Earth and one of the Toa Mata. He was gifted with the elemental power of earth; wore a Kanohi Pakari, the Great Mask of Strength; and had massive claws that helped him in digging. Onua and the other Toa Mata were a part of the legend of Mata Nui, a legend that the Turaga of Mata Nui often told to the Matoran during the millennium between the Great Cataclysm and the Toa Mata’s arrival. The legend itself was spawned by a mix of common Matoran legends, the past experiences of
Sunday, April 29, 2007
It's time to save the world. One more day... until the next episode of Heroes! I'm definitely hooked on the show. That last episode kicked [hiney]. Every episode is like that, in fact. And the next one is tomorrow! I can't believe Isaac's dead, and then Sylar's still out there. Then Hiro and Ando are in the future, where they meet -- future Hiro! It'll be a cool one.
