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  1. Toa of Nerds
    I'm doing Biology, and I've come to realize that the fast majority of smart people in this world are unapologetically dumb. Let's face, no smart person on earth decides to classify life, and then give names such as Perissodactyla (which messes with my spelling checker's mind) to the different classes of creatures. Why can't we just stick with birds and fish?
     
    That's not the end. Apparently, if you're talking about plants there are different categories. So instead of "Phylum", you've got to deal with a "division", which is pretty much exactly the same, except that it has a different name. Now, what kind of genius thought that one up.
     
    Now, I thought that the highest you could go was one of the five "Kingdoms". Well, it seems as if some genius decided that a Kingdom wasn't big enough and created another level called a "Domain". Now there are three Domains, and out of those three, two have only one Kingdom in them. Only a scientist would create some sort of crack-pot scheme that is 2/3 useless.
     
    At any rate, all that these classifications have succeeded in doing is to make my life more complicated, the exact opposite of what they were supposed to do.
     
    -don't touch my pocket protector
  2. Toa of Nerds

    Core War Contest

    By Toa of Nerds,

    I have now officially started work of Biosector 01's core war contest. Even outside of Bionicle, I try and enter as many writing contests as I can find. So far, I've won an MP3 player, a gift certificate for a book store (which got lost in the mail), and $200 (which was supposed to have arrived about a month ago, can't really say much though considering the contest was held by the "McConnell Center" (named after Mitch McConnell, the senator for my state), a part of the university of Louisville). Although my record for winning writing contests is un-blemished, my record for actually receiving the prize money needs a touch-up .
     
    Thankfully, should I win this contest, I don't have to muck about with the mail (or politicians) . That is, of course, if I win. I've seen some pretty good stories so far, and my best wishes go out to all the other authors out there. BZPower is a big place, and in that place there are quite a few excellent authors.
     
    Now, having said that, I go off to my story. Wish me luck in penning the deaths of as many nameless characters as the word limit will allow!
     
    -don't touch my pocket protector
  3. Toa of Nerds
    I've got a problem. It's a problem that many parents and teachers would love for their kids/students to have. The problem is very simple: I've got too many books. Too many books to read. Just when I thought I'd settle down into one book for a change ("Making Money" by Terry Pratchett) my dear sweet mother dropped by the local thrift shop and acquired a box full of classics that I need to read for high school lit. credit. The sad part is that I actually want to read those books but can't.
     
    So "Crime and Punishment" can wait for now, but oh, look. "Les Miserables" is looking so, so pretty. Oh, Victor Hugo, don't tempt me. After finally finishing "All Quite on the Western Front" I thought things would settle down, but oh no. I just had to go to the library and pick up a newer thriller by Jason Elam (if you follow American Football avidly, then yes, it is the same guy) called "Monday Night Jihad". Football? Jihad? Read me!
     
    And that's not even counting the fact that I'm going to have to read "Catch-22" soon for literature. Looks to be a great book, though. From what I've heard, Joseph Heller put together a masterpiece. Even if I finish that, however, I've still got all of the Halo books on the waiting list. Oh, and did I mention that I wanted to read all the Bionicle books again? Sometime. I hope.
     
    -don't touch my pocket protector
  4. Toa of Nerds
    What do I mean when I say "perspective". Well, if you look it up in a dictionary you get this:
     
    A particular evaluation of a situation or facts, especially from one person's point of view.
     
    So according to that, your "perspective" is how you look at things. Your personal view of the situation. So, what do I mean when I say "it's all about perspective"? Well, it can be summed up like this:
     

    It's all about perspective; life is all about where you stand, who you're standing next to, and whether that rather plump person in the front row is blocking your view. 
    That sums it up quite nicely doesn't it?
     
    Where you stand is basically what you think. Take politics for example, one person might be for less government, and another person might be for more government.
     
    Who you stand next to deals with the other people in your life. Because the environment around you shapes what you think. For instance, in my state a new road is being built. Someone in Wyoming would think that it is a waste of money because they don't have any use for a road in Kentucky.
     
    And the final part, well, I'll just leave that up to your imagination .
     
    -don't touch my pocket protector
     
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