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I have been told that I should update my blog. Well guess what. I just did. Happy now? ~EW~
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I want to complain about and to someone pretending to be me. First off, quit trying to look like me because you're not! It irritates me that no matter what I wear, he copies me, especially since I like to be original, but if he copies me, what's the point? Can you imagine my dismay when I make a face and this guy makes the exact same face as if to mock me. Gah, I'm so flustered about this horrid knock-off, I can't even think clearly. You know what, person in the mirror, just stop it already! :angry: ©1984-2008 Toaraga EAM
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sup homies fo shizzle This is basically the last blog entry here until (1) I renew my premier membership, (2) BZPower has another anniversary, or (3) I decide to post another spam entry later today. New... I'm gonna try out for acoustic guitar on our church's worship team. Prayers = the helpful. That same goofy grin that was infecting KIE the other day has now reached me, what with me having a short phone conversation with Unattainable. I had to call her because when I mailed her an invitation to my birthday partu, I sorta... forgot to put the date of the actual party on it. And I'm working on getting some manga-ish Bionicle art done for a potential art topic. later lol
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Also known as Groundhog Day. I wonder if his shadow will have some adverse effect on the Super Bowl... that would be so awesome if the groundhog totally messed up the Ad Super Bowl. "False start, groundhog. That's six more weeks of winter!" (Or would that be finish in this case?) Go Doritos! (I might as well pick a winner in something.) ©1984-2008 Toaraga EAM
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So, recently a friend sent me this small little quiz. I found that it was quite fun, and so I'll share it with all of you. Linketh - (Link seems to work best in Internet Explorer. At least for me.) I scored a 20. Try it and then discuss! Don't give away answers or questions though. Kohaku
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As you know if you've been following my blog for a little while, I am homeschooled. I'm technically in the 9th grade, though I'm only turning 14 next Monday, and I'm learning Algebra II from a DVD series by The Teaching Company. Now, I suppose that stereotypically that makes me a nerd who loves school and hates what is generally considered "cool" (actually I just hate most "cool" things ). That's a rant for another day, but long story short I actually hate math, despite being fairly good at it. I especially hate wasting half an hour a day listening to a guy talk about exponential functions (of course, if I was still public schooled I'd have to waste a whole hour and a half on the same thing ). Thankfully, out of the 30 lessons in the tape series, I've finished 26--I'm now on the last of 6 discs. Thus I decided to listen to my iPod during the lesson, not to drown out the professor but to enhance his lecture. Perhaps coincidentally, the half hour of music I chose lined up quite nicely with the lecture--when a difficult problem involving finding the determinant of a 3x3 matrix appeared on the screen, Duel of the Fates from the soundtrack for Star Wars Episode 1 felt quite appropriate. The bitter-sweet end title of Episode V came at the end of the lesson, appropriate because while I'm close to being done there's still four lessons to go. For tomorrow, I'll line up a different half hour of music. It enhanced the entire experience and--dare I say it--made it fun. It was like watching a 30-minute movie and learning at the same time. It makes total sense, if you think about it: when you watch a scene in a movie, the music tells you what to think of it. A scene meant to be sad with bright, happy music will make no sense. A battle with quiet, peaceful background music just won't seem right. So when you hear music while doing something, it alters your state of mind and puts you into whatever mood the music is in. It's possible to alter your emotional state without music too--just by smiling or frowning things you can make yourself become happy or sad, and by forcing yourself to laugh, almost anything can be funny. Thus if I one day become a teacher, I will allow my students to bring their iPods to class and listen to music while they do classwork. I imagine that I'll be a very popular teacher.
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When I downloaded an album of Star Wars music last week or so onto my iPod (Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, if you must know which one), I couldn't possibly have predicted what torture I would undergo today with it. From around 10:30 AM to 4:00 PM, I was out of the house and all over the place. First we went to the not-so-local library to pick up a DVD that I am going to use to teach myself quantum physics (not the math part, thankfully--I don't know if I know enough math to do anything I would have to do in quantum mechanics), and there I began listenting to the 23-song album that lasts for 2 hours, 10 minutes and 42 seconds. As we did various things around town that day, including walking around a Wal-Mart, where we picked up a Kopaka Phantoka, I slowly progressed through the album. It was sort of like watching the movie without words, sound effects, or a picture. By the time we stopped at Chick-Fil-A for lunch, I was already at the part where Han Solo gets frozen in carbonite. By then the Imperial theme ("Dun dun dun DUN-dun-dun DUN-dun-dun"--you know, the famous part) was so ingrained into my head that I'm still humming it now. After a while I stopped hearing it from the earphones and started hearing it from my brain. I guess that's supposed to happen, but I don't like Star Wars music enough for that to be a positive thing. Really I like Star Trek better, especially TOS. I haven't seen too many actual episodes (the ones I've seen have been mostly TOS, so that could explain my opinion), but I've seen all of the Star Trek movies, and I like the first six (the TOS ones) better. Coincidentally I've got a little Star Trek music on my iPod now, but only a few minutes of it. I'm sorta getting off topic here so I'll just end this entry before it turns into a swirling mass of text that engulfs anyone who tries to comprehend it. The End.
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Just to let you know, I'm still looking for a place that I can upload audio clips. Any suggestions would be awesome.
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I saw I am Legend today. It was a good movie, but it was nothing like the book and the book is way better. Other than that, I also went to the shops today and didn't see any Phantoka. that's it, I know this is a really short entry, but I hate typing on this keyboard.
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Can't find it on Toys R' Us's website, the Lego or Bionicle site, ebay and Toywiz is very expensive and Amazon has nothing. So anyone know where I can get one, like a website?
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Alright, well, in my homeschool association, we get these emails other homeschoolers send out to everyone. Now, since 82.3% of homeschoolers are absolute outcasts of society, we get some... pretty dumb emails. You know, from weird people. Like there will be an email with the title "FREE WINDOWS XP NEVER USED!" Only upon opening it do you see the true content of the message, "Does anybody know where I can get a free mint Windows XP?" Well, the reason I say all this is because the other day we got an email... titled... in all caps... eczema update. Those darn homeschoolers and their dry, itchy skin.
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While everone's running around on BZP going like, ...there's still no snow up here in my neck of the woods. Oh, sure, it flurries a couple of times. It even snowed enough once for Rachael and I to write messages to each other with our feet on the driveway. But have we had more that 0 inches? Noooo. So next time you get on BZP and brag about how you have snow, keep in mind the mood I'm currently in.... You have been warned.
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Well, I'm starting a new theme to my blog, and it's about my RPG, and just games in general. So, I think I'll do one of two things to start my new blog theme: 1. Delete some of my blog entries (only unimportant ones). 2. Lock them all. 3. Keep doing what I'm writing about: Random ideas. If I get no comments, I'll go with number one. It's not like anyone cares, though. Okay then, if you do want to vote just tell me if you want me to do #1, #2, or #3. This ends Monday January 28th, 2008 EST...Not really any specific times. I've decided myself. Guess which one I'm doing: none! Well, I'm sort of doing number three, but I'm staying with my theme: Games in general, unless I have something personal to write about.
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I'm learning Japanese, and it seems the emoticons have already taken over katakana, one of the Japanese alphabets. Observe this character, pronounced "tsu", closely: ツ This primitive, fossilized life-form seems to be a direct ancestor of the Emoticon Overlord . Apparently "tsu" had not yet evolved the circular, yellow body that all emoticons now share, and instead had a chameleon body of unknown shape and size. Still, the constant expression of happiness is present. I am looking into this matter more closely and looking for more fossilized emoticons in the rest of the Japanese alphabets, and perhaps in this way I can discover their weakness, and retake my blog. I've already begun to learn hiragana, the "main" Japanese alphabet, and have learned the first 15 characters. (あ い う え お か き く け こ さ し す せ そ) With these, I can write the word "すし", which says "sushi". Regrettably, I have not yet found any more emoticons in my studies so far. However, I will keep trying, even if I have to become fluent in Japanese to do it. EDIT: I bet most of you can't read the Japanese text in this entry... So that smiley character appears as a box to you. No wonder no one gets it.
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There are some people in this world who can be endlessly frustrating, and you know that no matter what you say, it won't do you or them any good. I met one such person tonight on a certain Bionicle fansite which I am no longer allowed to mention here... An anonymous spammer, he was, so I have no name to call him except for a long string of numbers (24.70.95.204, to be exact)... He went ahead and edited various pages with a message saying basically (this is a slightly more appropriate version of what he said) that all Bionicle fans were nerds who would live in their parents' basements till they were forty. Being that we are all Bionicle fans here, I'm sure that this is insulting to almost anyone on BZPower who reads this. So after doing away with his spam and blocking him infinitely, I told him off. I spoke my mind, basically, and told him that the Lego fans were the ones who would become published authors or architects, while he would be the scum of the earth in his mommy's basement. I guess that was probably a little harsh, but if you had seen the actual messages he wrote, I think it would justify a hundred times over what I said. Ranting to no one in particular in my blog has made me feel better, though... sooo... does anyone have anything to say about this?
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I saw CLOVERFIELD, ask any questions here if you want.
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Just saw the 5:25 showing after school today. Saw it with three friends and it was great. Though they didn't really like it that much. Ask me about it if you want, but I might not give a synopsis, and if I do, not a full synopsis or into a lot of detail.
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Well, I've been a member of BZP for an entire year now, and I've got to say that I truly didn't experience life until I joined. According to the server here, I joined Jan 16 2007 at 04:42 PM (central time). And it is now 04:41 PM (also central time). I realize a Vahi may not be very much to some of you, but it means a lot to me. I'd like to thank all of the great staff members all around BZP that make it the amazingly enjoyable place that it is. I also thank all my friends here who have made BZP even better. A final thank you goes to all the faithful readers of my blog who have turned my full attention to the blog community, and not so much the forums (aside from the BBC; where I spend a lot of time each day). May all of you be here on BZP with me until its final day. Argetlam
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First off - yes, I have switched names with Takua the Wanderer. Anyway, I'm seeing Cloverfield 10:00 AM tomorrow. I hope it deserves the hype it's received and I'll post my thoughts on it tomorrow in another entry. That's all for today.
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I want to let you know that Omicron's large banner and avatar are the reasons why we have board messages. Thus, Omi is the culprit. All care should be directed towards Omi. Thank you. ~EW~
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No wait, I think that's a typo. ==Begin transmission== I interrupt this blog entry to bring you an important message... okay, an interesting one. Believe it or not, I was actually going to set up a joke and have a picture of red socks here, so I did an image search on Yahoo. I got several results (far more than I wanted/expected), so I tried some other colors. Same results: way too many. Finally, I put in "socks" and got 1,109,206 results; I then proceeded to Google and got 3,140,000 results. For the love of all things imagery, why are there so many pictures of people's footwear on the Internet? That's simply horrifying. O_o ==End transmission== So anyway, people scare me. ©1984-2008 Toaraga EAM
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Somebody rated my blog really low, and the rating dropped by .2 . Oh well, for a couple of days, I had the highest rated blog in the entire blog community. Thanks to all those who helped me achieve that! *sniff* This blog is dedicated to all my faithful readers. *sniff sniff* [/sadness]
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What I found was not at all what I expected; in fact it made me babble like a... not-smart person, for lack of a better unfiltered term. But now that I have regained the ability to speak intelligibly, I am proud to be able to say that I won the 54th (if I know my Roman numerals) Blog of the Week, and the first one of 2008! My blog shall forever wear this banner with pride: The emoticons will be here in a second to feed on the happiness, but I'll enjoy their company for now... After all, they were one of the main reasons I won this week. Apparently the other reason was Metroid. Now who wants to hear a speech in which I verbally demonstrate my appreciation of everyone who reads my blog and the Blog Assistants for choosing me? ... No one? Oh well, then. In other news, I was recently signed up for TLCI (The Learning Community International, I think), a "private school" in which you basically are homeschooled by your parents and meet a few times a year with a consultant who helps you create a curriculum based on your interests. My first meeting with my consultant will be next Friday, it seems, when she'll ask me what I want to learn. I'll probably say that I want to learn Japanese, improve my writing, continue in math (since I'm doing Algebra II already in 8th grade, I really don't need to do any more math for the rest of my life, but I guess I'll at least learn a bit of calculus ), and try my hand at stop-motion animation (if anyone considers themselves "pretty good" at stop-motion, I'd love for them to notify me, becuase I have a few questions). I think this kind of thing will be fun. Perhaps not math very much, but writing and playing with Bionicle is stuff I do already on a regular basis. On a sadder note, my brother's hamster Chestnut died last night. On the bright side, he died in his sleep from old age. His last hamster Cocoa caught wet tail from my hamster and they both died within a few days of each other. Then there's Shadow who apparently does not plan on dying anytime soon--she can go for long periods of time without food or water and she'll be at least two this summer (we don't know how old she was when we got her, but she was already an adult, so she's lived a very long time for a hamster). I have a theory that she and our 16 or 17-year old cat Misha are somehow connected to an infinite supply of life, perhaps from the sun? That means they could potentially live for the next few million years when our sun finally dies... And finally, if any of you readers have survived the above blocks of text, I've got two new additions to my collection in the world of gaming since my last blog entry. One (not surprisingly) is a Metroid game--Metroid Prime Pinball. I haven't beaten it yet (as it seems, beating it will be insanely hard, since there's no way of saving any progress you make), but this means that the only Metroid game I'm missing is Metroid II! And the second game I got is called Mega Man Star Force. I haven't played any Mega Man games before, but the box art attracted me, I read some reviews, and I decided to get it (my brother got the same game, but the Dragon version instead of the Leo version which I got). It's a really great game, better than I expected. Next thing you know I'll be trying to get every game in the Mega Man series... Anyway, I would just like to restate my happiness for winning again, and the best way to do so and end this blog entry is like this:
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Perhaps you thought I had died (or worse, lost interest in BZP), but I'm here now to tell you that I am in fact still breathing. I'm just having a busy week, and many of the days in this busy week have been bad ones. I'd rather not go into all the details (nothing deadly serious, but it's something I just rather wouldn't talk about). I forced myself to do a blog entry today because it's been almost a week and I need to give BZP a sign that I have not entirely abandoned my blog. And I also think that writing--anything at all--will start to put me in a better mood. And I also can't sleep. So I'm just gonna say some stuff here until I get tired or find something better to do. What to expect of my activity on BZP for the next few days: -The next chapter of my epic will be posted on time, unless something cataclysmically horrible happens to me between now and Friday. -As for my comedy... I don't know. I would like to get the chapter done this week but I'm sooooo busy, and it's at the absolute bottom of my priorities right now. Optimistically, I'll have it done by Friday. Pessimistically, Chapter 4 won't be up until next weekend (not this Saturday but next). And realistically, it'll probably be up early next week. -Blog updates should be as frequent as they were before this long break--I'm hoping to do Emoticon Freewriting tomorrow, since it will have been one week, even though I've only done two entries now since the last one... -Posting may be minimal, but no one cares what I post anyway, right? It's the stories and the blog that people actually read. Kinda snagged again in my writing... Chapter 19 is dragging on forever, and I've only got the first few paragraphs. The sad part is that I know exactly what's going to happen, but I can't make the words come anymore. You can't exactly call it writer's block so much as boredom with the subject. I can write fine about anything else, but I can't get any further in my epic... I'm also composing my own piano piece--nothing great, and it's coming VERY slowly, but yeah. It's loosely inspired by my epic--I suppose perhaps the reason I can't write any more of either one is linked? Funny thing is that I already know how both will end, but I can't get through the middle. What I should be practicing is my recital songs however, because my recital is in less than two weeks now. Nothing I'm worried about though--this is my 20th recital (give or take) and my songs are particularly easy this time around. And finally I would like to tell you one of the many things that is keeping me busy this week: my family is part of a homeschool group and right now we're doing a workshop where we each have to prepare a report about a certain country, bake a dish from that country, and dress up like an inhabitant of that country. I'm doing Greenland. The report will be a piece of cake, once I put my mind to it, but you have no idea how long it took to find a Greenlandic dish that didn't involve halibut or prawns, and how long it took to find something that could reasonably be a substitute for polar bear fur for the Greenlandic clothing. I should've done something easy... like America. I could just write the report, come dressed normally and bring a hamburger.
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When I woke up this morning, I was feeling fine, but by noon I had a horrible sore throat. It felt like someone was poking me in the back of the eyes and pressing on the sides of my head. Quite miserable. The Mucinex I took really didn't do anything at all, despite what the commercial would lead you to believe. Now, it may be totally unrelated, but I got a flu shot last Sunday. Almost every time I get a flu shot, I'm sick a few days later. My brother, who also got a flu shot, was a bit sick earlier in the week too, though not as bad as I am, but my parents who haven't gotten flu shots are fine. This seems to happen every year, and now I'm beginning to wonder if I'm immunizing against the flu at the cost of becoming vulnerable to the common cold. But I'm having a good day otherwise. I got Metroid: Zero Mission and Metroid Prime today--they just so happened to be at my local GameStop, even though they weren't just a few weeks ago. Zero Mission seems pretty short, so that might actually be my next review. Plus I plan to beat Prime before going any further on Prime 2. My Metroid collection is almost complete--I just need Metroid Prime Pinball and Metroid II. The former I saw in GameStop today, but I didn't bother getting it because I figured I could get it used for under $20. The latter will be near impossible to find, since it was for the original GameBoy and thus will probably not be anywhere, not even used. I'm hoping I'll get lucky and it'll be added to the Wii Shop Channel. Otherwise I'm going to have to buy a GameBoy just to play it. I totally forgot last night that I've been a citizen of BZPower for two years now! In that time, I managed to get (about) 500 posts and three proto boosts. So... yay me, or something. I'm sure you guys who actually read this blog are quite sick of hearing about Metroid games and my boring life, so tomorrow I'll try to do an interesting entry. Hopefully.
