Saturday, October 4, 2008
"Closer to the Truth" is growing on me.
I played with the tune on the piano. In case you were wondering, the song is in D minor.
Friday, October 2, 2009
BARA MAGNA
• The Element Lord of Water has the ability to project his consciousness into any body of water.
• On the Element Lords: "I don't see them as insane, as that would mean they could not tell the difference between right and wrong. And I don't really see them as evil ... for all we know, the one who won the war might have made life wonderful for all the Agori. I think they are ambitious, power-hungry, often callous and reckless, but those don't add up to evil.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Yes, Mr. Petrelli...
*Glares back silently*
mh hm...
*Glares back silently*
wha...?
*Glares back silently*
o-of course, of course...
*Glares back even more silently*
y-yes, sir, I understand sir...
*Glares back silently even more*
er, what...?
*Glares back silently again*
Oh, it's being taken care of...
*Glares back silently again*
absolutely, Mr. Petrelli, perfectly clear...
*Glares back silently again*
They are... on their way...
*Glares back si
Monday, January 22, 2007
It all happens so fast in the new Bionicle short movie that I never noticed this until I watched it the tenth time or so.
Kalmah has the mask and fires a squid at Ehlek, Ehlek fires it back, Pridak comes up from behind and -- wouldn't you know, he slices right through Kalmah's tentacle with his blade, making it spill blood into the water. (Although, please, I ask you not to resurrect the blood on Pridak's face argument, as I sorely recall that debate.)
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
First of all, allow me to say happy new year! I sure am looking forward to 2007!
Secondly, sorry about the fact that I haven't posted since... the other day... I forget which one exactly. It was about iPods.
Guess what -- this entry's about iPods too!
Looking back on Christmas shopping at Office Max... I cannot tell you how many items had a totally unneccessary iPod station built into them. I mean desk lamps, televisions... dishwashers . Serously though, i
Monday, March 17, 2008
Dark Mirror Chapter 5 was posted on www.bioniclestory.com today.
This episode was long, most likely thanks to how easily prolongued the interactions in this chapter could be. Makuta Krika has infected Takanuva with a powdery Makuta virus that allows him to fly at least temporarily. Flying over the protodermis seas in the direction pointed out by Krika, Takanuva comes upon Matoran Jala, Puku pulling an Ussal cart, Toa Bomonga, and Toa Kualus. The two Toa are riding M
Saturday, March 17, 2007
This past year, I've developed a habit most unusual for me: napping. I would have never seen it coming, but since my school lengthened the school day by 22 minutes this year, I've found it necessary to recharge my batteries upon entering the safe haven of my home once again. It got really bad this past week, because I slept for hours every day. I don't think I once ate dinner with the rest of my family those past five days. Just yesterday, Friday, I fell asleep around 7
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Some days, you just never seem to get a break. I took a day from school yesterday just to catch up on all of my work. Even though I worked all throughout the day, I was up until three in the morning. Even so, I still didn't find time to study properly for a chemistry test. If this is high school, I don't want to know what my workload will be in college. I fear for my life.
So on days like these, sometimes it's just best to take a break from serious things in lif
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Halloween
"Forgive the delay, Turaga." So yeah, I don't have a Halloween costume, and I have lots of cereal in my dorm room. Looks like I'm gonna be a cereal killer this year. Yup.
BIONICLE 2010
• Teridax will be arriving on Bara Magna in order to kill Mata Nui.
• In the Stars lineup, Tahu, Takanuva, and Gresh are the good characters, and the Rahkshi, Skakdi, and Skrall are the bad characters.
• Tahu is reverted to Toa Mata form by the Ignika. • The Great Be
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Often the most effective way to understand and experience a Lego model is in taking it apart. All of the pieces are revealed, and how they connected becomes apparent in the disassembly. You can gain a great deal of insight from a model even you yourself built.
We also have the art of building, creation, putting the pieces together. It requires knowledge of the rules of structure beforehand, rules you almost certainly observed and learned in the world around you w
Monday, January 9, 2012 Hello friends. It certainly has been a long time. I see now that I managed to go through all of 2011 without making a single post - anywhere on this website! The downtime throughout the entire summer probably did not help any. Now it looks like the Official Greg Topic, has just... stopped. And from reading the home page these days you would hardly know that this is a BIONICLE website. Anyway, even though this is a very busy period of time, I think it is important
Saturday, March 1, 2008
I recently ran across the Greek word antron, which means "cave." A quick Wikipedia search revealed that Antrozoidae is one family for bats. Total coincidence or not (probably not), "Antroz" is just one more of dozens of names this year that have real-world roots.
Radiak -- radiant (light is classified as radiant energy)
Photok -- photo (Greek root for "light")
Kirop -- chiroptera (order in which bats are classified, literally means "winged hand")
Tanma -- tan (lik
Thursday, November 9, 2006
I got Bionicle Legends #5 yesterday and read it. I was hoping it would top #4. It did.
Excellent for a BIONICLE book. You know that supposed opening scene where two Great Beings place the Ignika underneath Mount Valmai? The book couldn't have started in a better way. I loved how that introduced me as the reader into the present-day scene right where Bionicle Legends #4 left off. Right afterwards, the plot launched into the Piraka's and Toa Inika's journey to the C
Saturday, January 6, 2007
Look back at yesterday's entry, which was about my brother's school getting canceled. Well, we have a plot twist, friends.
I was in one of my high school classes yesterday when another student said to me, "Someone broke into your school."
"What?" I said, at first a little taken by surprise, since my old grade school doesn't come up in conversation much anymore, especially with students who didn't go there with me.
Sure enough, he told me that someone had br
Friday, September 11, 2009
Remember
CORE WAR
• There is likely some structure which belonged to the Element Lord of Water that still exists beneath the sea on Aqua Magna, possibly having been discovered by escaped Pit inmates by now.
• Greg would say an Element Lord is a good two times as powerful as a Toa. • Skopio were not employed in the Core War, since they cannot be tamed.
SPHERUS MAGNA
• Sahmad's tribe lived in the forested region of Bota Magna.
• The Skrall's original homeland
Monday, October 23, 2006
At least I think I broke a world record. I'm talking about lateness in receiving the Lego mag. That's right -- it is the 23rd of the next month, and I have have just now finally, finally received my Brickmaster magazine. I've always gotten my Lego magazine on the late side, and I've tolerated that. But this is totally ridiculous! What's happening over there at Lego!? Come on, the new comic made it on Bionicle.com over a week before I received my own in print! And you kn
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Everyone online is raving about the recent major revelation: the true name of the original Makuta character, the one and only villain we have seen our heroes battle since Bionicle 2001. It was in 2004 when we first learned that Makuta was not the only one of his kind. We discovered that he was part of an entire Brotherhood of Makuta. Last year, 2007, when it at last became more pressing to distinguish our Makuta from others in the historical storyline, we started calli
Friday, March 20, 2009
BARA MAGNA
• Mata Nui does not get his shield until some time after he forms his body.
• The Sand Tribe was a very populous force even before the disaster.
• Tarduk borrowed the sand stalkers from Metus. • The Vorox and Zesk's regression had more to do with their psychology than anything else.
• Certavus was one of the founders of the Glatorian system. Tarix got along with him.
• Whether or not Bara Magna was once part of Spherus Magna and whether or not Skrall l
Thursday, September 11, 2008
9/11
No one has rated this blog for almost two years now.
But it takes only one to tip the scale from 4.0 to five stars... It would be nice to have that, having cared to post some pretty good entries in my time. On that subject, I'm posting the first OGD Weekly Digest entry tomorrow.
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Another school day, and it was a drag. It took so long for that bell to ring. My head was too full of dreams of summer vacation to learn. It's not over yet, though. I have to study for tests tomorrow, tests later this week, a large group project that's doomed to fail, and finals on the last three days of school. It's...like...the teachers are trying to make us suffer more while they still can!
