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BCS Standings 1 Ohio State 7-0 2 USC 6-0 3 Michigan 7-0 4 Auburn 6-1 5 West Virginia 6-0 6 Florida 6-1 7 Louisville 6-0 8 Notre Dame 5-1 9 Texas 6-1 10 California 6-1 11 Tennessee 5-1 12 Clemson 6-1 12 13 Arkansas 5-1 14 Oregon 5-1 15 Boise State 6-0 16 Rutgers 6-0 17 Nebraska 6-1 18 LSU 5-2 19 Georgia Tech 5-1 20 Boston College 5-1 21 Wisconsin 6-1 22 Oklahoma 4-2 23 Iowa 5-2 24 Missouri 6-1 25 Tulsa 5-1 Holy cow, The University of Tulsa's ranked.
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I'm excited that Bionicle Heroes is for the 360. I was able to get one for my birthday and it rocked my world. The only reason I keep my old Xbox is to Play The Matrix But I digress... Anyway, I love that Bionicle Heroes is for the 360 and I hope more Bionicle games are released.
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I got Lego Star Wars 2 on Friday and beat it on Saturday. It was awesome. The Space Battles, Playing as Darth Vader , Bikini Leia Well Maybe not that but It was still awesome. Cool! Another pointless entry!
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Ok, it's been a long time since I last posted an entry, so I'll fill you in on what's happened so far. My dad and two of my sisters had a birthday at the beginning of the month. My sister Megan turned 15 on Sep. 30, and both my dad and my other sister had a birthday on the 1st! My baby sister Liana turned 1, but I forgot how old my dad turned, (though he'd probably appreciate that .) Let's see... I know, my current favorite songs: Not listed in any particular order. Song Name - Artist - My Comment Never Alone - Barlow Girl - (love the video) Whispers In The Dark - Skillet - (I just plain like it) Move Along - AAR - (nope, still haven't gotten tired of it.) We Live - Superckic[k] - (great message) Never Far Behind - Aly & A.J. - (what friendship really is) Technologic - Daft Punk - (believe it or not, I think I know all the words) Nuisance - John Reuben - (a nice rap with a melody) Hero - Superchic[k] - (the smallest act of kindness can change the lives of many) Ok, back to other stuff. In the past several months, my dad and the company he worked for had been working on a mall. It finished Oct. 4! The day it opened the Malco theater that was part of it was showing every movie for $1, and all popcorn & soda just 50¢! But they were showing movies that either are, or are about to be on DVD. Hence the "bargain." I wanted to see PotC2, but I saw cars again with my family instead. Which, in the end turned out to be best. Near the beginning, PotC2 started to go in slow motion, then started blinking, and went completely black. Everyone in the lobby was talking about it. Oh yeah, and I got Nuparu! Well, that's about it for now. Just assuring you all that I am indeed still alive.
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Well as a adult, I feel I should pass on some worthy knowledge to you kids. People wanna be successful and wealthy. People assume that they can just become a star or an athlete to get an easy life. Well it isn't that easy, and not something you should rely on for your future. Economics teacher told me these steps. They can work as long as you don't break any of the steps or if something major comes up. These steps are simply easy if you know what your doing. 1. Have a job. Doesn't matter if your flipping burgars or washing dishes. This way your still making money even if your not doing the job you want. Consider this a substitute of backup until you find your correct path. 2. Save and/or invest. You need a base of income, whether it is $10 or a $100. Take a few bucks from a weekly paycheck and put it aside. It will eventually get bigger in size. Investing is helpful as well, such as stocks. Interest is something good too. 3. Stay away and out of debt. Try not to borrow money or take out loans. This isn't gaining any money for you, but more like losing it. If you have a credit card, be careful. Don't use it for something that you can easily pay for with cash. If you have the money for something expensive, buy it. Don't charge it. 4. Be careful with the friends you make and who you marry. Your friends may be awesome to you, but sometimes they can become the biggest moochers ever and rely on you all the time for a few bucks. They will also use you. Same can go for marriage. If you file for a divorce, make sure you know what your doing. it isn't worth to pay 40 grand for an attorney to sort out a dispute that can be dealt outside the courtroom. I myself have accomplished 3 of these steps (I don't have a job, but I have a large income and no debt, no credit cards, and no loans to pay). It is best to start out at a young age. It won't work as well if you start it when your older. 18 is a perfect start. -Omi
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Well, there has been quite a lot going on recently. Or at least, it feels like it. Firstly, it's currently spring in Australia. Oddly enough, I think summer's come too early. But this heat... it's ridiculous. I can barely stand it. Already, I think there have been about 5 bushfires, fortunately none of them were anywhere near me. Relief. Secondly, I've become interested in an old comedy starring Rowan Atkinson called 'The Black Adder'. It's really funny, but quite rude. Not recommended to anyone under the age of 12. But, as you can see, I've renamed this blog after it. Thirdly.... absolutely nothing. Dlakii
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I drove back to campus last night, after a semi-successful fall break (these things are supposed to be stress-free, and relaxing, and mine only succeeded in that for half the time, so semi-successful it is). So, while I was driving back, say, oh, maybe ten minutes from my destination, I saw a deer on the side of the road, grazing. It's like midnight. He decided he was too close to my approaching car, and took off. I was thankful he took off in the direction away from my car. Thankfully. But dude! I saw a deer! A wild deer! In an urban-ish Oklahoma setting. I thought it was cool, anyway.
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Ahh yes the fair, with rides, big rides...the kind that makes you want to get sick. We entered stuff into our fair, ya know, lots of crafts, paintings, projects, and then of course they have shows for Horses, dogs, rabbits, and so on. Though I entered my 1st place Titanic painting (XD, from another contest) and then a newly sketched picture I did of Indiana Jones, I finished in one day in a few hours, so I think it ended fairly well. Though will have to see what happens, the judging is today, and we get to see who one probably this afternoon! Though, besides that, I am not going to the fair probably. I have gone on those rides every year, and even though it is fun, I think I need to give my money a break, and myself since last year was when I nearly threw up because I was riding all those dangerous rides. I also do not have enough money, and trying to save up for more needed things. But yeah... Sorry I haven't updated art; well really I updated a lot that past few weeks ago, but I REALLY need to scan those bloody requests, I just keep on getting to lazy. Maybe after school today. Onto my epic, I got most of the 2nd chapter done, but I remember I post a drawing for every chapter, so I need to sketch one out for that, and then I can update. My two short stories are going awesome also, I'm trying to get those finished, and after posting those, I think I am going to post a library. Though is it just me, or did my KXG story disappear? O.o I cannot find it.
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Some of you young kids may not know this, but some of the older members might. Around 1 1/2 centuries ago, there was a man named Henry Clay Work, who was born and lived in Middletown, CT. He wrote a song called My Grandfather's Clock, which was written about a real grandfather clock. This old song was a great hit during the times, and still is to this day. When it went overseas to Japan, it became a huge hit. So huge, that Japanese R&B and Pop sing Ken Hirai did a cover of that song in 2002. Not only that, but a Japanese TV company in New York wanted to make a documentary on the clock, and also had Ken Hirai to host it. Well, the only way to make a documentary is to go straight to the source. What is that source? It is my grandparent's house right here in Granby, MA. Henry Clay Work married into my family (so that means I am related to him), and the clock he wrote about is sitting in my grandparent's living room. I got to meet Ken Hirai and learned about this piece of history that I was oblivious to. I am also seen in the documentary for like 5 seconds. The documentary was released on Japanese television. When 2003 rolled around, Ken Hirai wanted to do a New Years special (for 04). He came back once again, this time with a whole mass of broadcasting crew. He was to sing the song live in my grandparents home. If any of you Japanese, or even Asian members recall seeing this, you just witnessed a piece of history of the Parker family. My family. I will also be able to own the clock as well to pass it on, since the clock goes to the oldest son who has male children and lives in Massachusetts. My dad is the oldest, and has 2 sons, me and my older bro, but my bro is moving to Germany, so I am the possible owner if I have a son. So I just wanted to share that with you guys, since I found an article about it in my desk while looking for something. More info about the song is here. -Omi
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Well, I got through the school week in one piece. Yay! This week was actually pretty good. I did well on all my assignments, and I got most of my word done fairly quickly. But I am glad it's over, and even more glad that I get a long weekend this week. In other life's news, I was out at Laser Quest today for my cousin's birthday party. For those of you who don't know what Laser Quest is: 1) You go to the front desk and get your nickname. 2) When the game starts, you go in a very large, dark, smokey, multi-floor room with 25-40 people, all armed with a laser gun and a vest with sensors on it. The room is not wide open; it is like a big maze. When you're on the upper floor you can shoot down through the transparent floor, and you can shoot through small holes in the walls and so forth. 3) For 30 minutes, you run around with a 40-pound vest on trying to shoot the sensors on other people. The sensors are on the sides of the gun, front of the gun, back of vest, front of vest and shoulders. Yes, this is very good exercise. You don't just stand in one place, you run. And I mean run. Everyone is drenched with sweat at the end of it. 4) After the game, you get a paper showing your score, the people you hit, where you hit the people, how many times you hit the people, and how many times and what people hit you. For your pleasure, I scanned my sheet. Clickey da Linkey. So, that's it for this entry! Have a good day. B) ~Wisey
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The most awesome thing happened today: I fell over laughing. And no, that is not hyperbole. I literally fell over. As the last day of Spirit Week, today was Blue and White Day, after the school colors. It's mainly a field day involving the entire school, divided into blue and white teams, and with the Seniors partnered with the first-graders, the Juniors with the second-graders, the Sophomores with the third-graders, and so on. (And I'm always assigned to the white team, even though I have a lot more blue in my wardrobe ...) Anyway, each person is paired with someone in the corresponding grade, so I had one of the third graders. On a philosophical note, it's annoying that Spirit Week, homecoming, and all those things that promote school spirit are so close to the beginning of the year. If you're new – like I was last year – it's almost impossible to have spirit for a school you barely know. You don't really know people and probably haven't adjusted yet, so it's a bit hard to socialize as you're supposed to ... And then Blue and White Day isn't much fun if you don't know anyone well. Since you work in teams of your color, with everyone from your grade and the partnered grade as one team. (Although the grades get switched around after the first couple rounds.) This year, it was much more (and extremely) fun. A lot of my friends were on the white team with me, and it only helped that the third-graders were rather insane. In the good way. Half the time they were tackling each other and wrestling, white against blue ... Anyway, normally I hate sports and avoid them if possible. But Blue and White Day is hardly sports, more along the lines of entertaining activities, such as passing a hula hoop along a ring of people holding hands, which was the most fun event. The obstacle course (something of a relay: run it and a person in the line at the other end runs back), however, was when the incident occured. Part of the obstacle course is a long board with four cups of water on it, which you have to walk on without knocking over the cups. And if you do, you have to refill them. On one of his turns, Lowell accidentally spilled a cup, so we shouted to him that he had done so. So he ran back, grabbed it, and refilled it ... and then promptly slid, fell, and knocked it over again. So he went and refilled it again. During this, my knees gave way. My side of the line was already doubled over with laughter, leaning on each other for support. I still have a cold, so I already couldn't breathe, and I just fell over and lay on the ground because I was laughing so hard. One of the two best parts of the day. (And don't worry, we love Lowell. He's awesome.) The other best part of the day was that the combined Freshman/Sophomore boys white team won their tug-of-war (against the blue team of the same grades). My hands hurt for hours afterward, but we managed to win! Which helped the overall white team win – something that apparently hasn't happened in four years. So we were all happy. Of course, I was quite tired afterward, but who cares? Three-day weekend! Woot! – ToM
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Post and tell me if you share my interest in these authors: -William Sleator (Wrote Interstellar Pig, Singularity, House of Stairs, The Boxes, Marco's Millions, and much more) -Lemony Snicket / Daniel Handler (Wrote A Series of Unfortunate Events, all of its companions, and some other book I'm too lazy to look up) -Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Wrote The Little Prince, an ingenious allegory which I suggest that everyone read) -Louis Sachar (Wrote the Wayside School trilogy, Holes, Small Steps, and much more. -J.K. Rowling (everyone knows what she wrote ) -Douglas Adams (Wrote all five books, of the Hitchhiker's trilogy, as well as the two Dirk Gently novels and four episodes of Doctor Who) -Shel Silverstein (A kids' poet with mad writing and illustrating skillz) -J.R.R. Tolkien (Wrote The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth, and many other books which belong to the same series) -L. Frank Baum (Wrote The Wizard of Oz and all 13 of its sequels, as well as Little Wizard Stories of Oz, The Magical Monarch of Mo, Queen Zixi of Ix, The Sea Fairies, Sky Island, and numerous other books that intertwine with the Oz books in some way or another) -Roald Dahl (Wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Matilda, The Witches, The B.F.G., and too much other stuff to list. -Jules Verne (Wrote 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, From the Earth to the Moon, Round the moon, Around the World in 80 Days, and many more great sci-fi classics) -Eoin Colfer (Wrote the Artemis Fowl series) -C.S. Lewis (Wrote The Chronicles of Narnia) Thanks to Turakii for pointing this one out! -Greg Farshtey (Shame on you if you don't like this man's books.) This doesn't even mention some great picture book authors or others whom I have neglected to mention.
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No. No we didn't. Thank goodness. This week was (and still is) Spirit Week for my high school. As usual, each day of the week there's a theme, but each class also has their own theme. Not only does my class work terribly together, but we're also the smallest class in the school. The Juniors have almost twice as many people as us. We were expecting our class skit (based on the theme) to be terrible, and rather certain that we'd come in fourth place as we've been most of the week. Our theme – chosen mainly by Alex (female), as the vote wasn't entirely democratic – was stereotypes between private and public schools. Yeah. Not the best of themes. The four lifers and one other represented our school; everyone else represented public schools (to accentuate the size difference). Henry, Winona, and I were nerds. Now, we had come up with a basic script by yesterday, written by Henry. Yesterday 3rd and 9th period, we went through it (modified since the beginning of the day), to promising results because everyone at least knew their part, directed by Winona and, on occasion, Ian. For reasons beyond my comprehension, this morning I arrived to find that Mike had decided to change the skit entirely, and for some other reason, people had gone along with him, although I was unable to find anyone who liked his idea during the day. At least several dozen other ideas were proposed throughout the day, most of which involving Lowell narrating while everyone else acted silently, or else the class standing in a line on stage and screaming for five minutes. Fortunately, sanity returned to us (largely thanks to Dani) by our rehearsal after lunch, and we just used the original idea, because everyone knew it and it actually had some direction. Then there were the skits. The Freshmen chose Barbie vs. G.I. Joe, with all the girls dressed as Barbie and all but one of the boys (who played Ken) as G.I. Joe. Predictably, the Barbies got into a fight over Ken, who was later apprehended and dressed as a girl by the G.I. Joes. Quite entertaining. And then we were on. In the end, it actually went well, despite our conviction that it would be terrible. Lowell narrated as groups of stereotypes walked across the stage, the fight scene (don't ask), and the final dance. But – we actually got the most laughs. People found the skit hilarious, and Dr. Jones (one of the judges) rated ours the highest. The Juniors' theme was a workout video. They have a (comparatively) huge class, so they can pull this sort of thing off, with all the boys lifting weights and exercising and training at first, and then the girls stealing the stage and doing aerobics, and the finale of one of them dressed immensely fat and then shedding layers of extra clothing stuffed with towels to become thin. I actually liked the Seniors' theme the best: James Bond. Ciáran played Bond, and the other guys (namely John and Dillon) were villains and henchmen, except for Aaron, who for some reason was a woman. All the females were dressed as secret agents, who flocked around one of the actors at one point and then ran off the stage with him. There was also a random breakdancing competition, which made no sense at all. But I still think they had the best skit. So ... the point of all this is that we may actually have a chance of coming in something higher than fourth. Because people (ourselves included) actually liked our skit. Woohoo! – ToM
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So... yeah. My new school's been decent this week. I got 100% on a science assignment and I think I did half decent on an LA exam, so it's cool. B) Though I must say Tuesday was kinda miserable. I felt very sick all day, but luckily I didn't lose any of my stuffing. ~Wisey
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Ok, ok, gee, I am updating! But onto the BZP news! *Serious news theme song* Today, I would like to report that my fairly good friend and great artist, Zeestan has his birthday today. So everyone give him a good pat on the back. LK is updating. Lady Kopaka has been suddenly busy with much school work and a big Webcomic project, not to include that her dear sister*coughnotcough* has comenderd LK's computer 24/7. Lady Kopaka's finger is much better. And she did indeed start drawing again the day after it got cut. Lady Kopaka has now told me she seriously needs to stop talking in third person. Who am I then? Well...I am not really sure myself. ______ Um, anyway… hi? Well what's to say? On more subjects of BZP and me, I would like to point out that I have two short stories going along with the second chapter for my epic. What are the short stories about? Well hints: They are both based on my favorite movies; one has my fav made up Bionicle. Art eh? Well, I admit I haven't worked a lot on that. Been very into my comic (Think Ninja's), and I still need to finish those durned request. Sorry mates. Anything else? Nope...Now to the matter of Real life. _______ On Saturday I had a sleepover with my bestest buddy Laur, yes a little late on telling this. But I just HAVE to tell you what we did! We did a netflix commercial (Best stuff btw) and here how it went. A lady (my sister) comes walking in her living room, seemingly from outside. She puts keys down and is shocked to see what was in the living room. There was some dead and freaky person (Laur) in a black dress lying on her couch. And this other Matrix like guy (me) is there. Me: Hello, we are the horror movie you ordered from Netflix. Laur: (Some how comes alive and smiles) Hi! That was the best thing I have done with her in a long time. Goodness gracious! Here I go again ranting about random stuff, and it is sure that no one is brave enough to read this. Well, farewell all!
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Luckily, there's none! Yoshi
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So, peeps, how'd school go today? My day wasn't too bad. It was probably the worst school day of the year so far for me, but still, not bad. Ze Visey shalt explaineth to thy... I'm doing a different program for school this year. It's called Saint Paul's Academy, or Center for Learning at Home, whatever you prefer to call it. Everything is done over the Internet. It is very much like a public school, except more flexible, and you don't have to get up and go on the bus every morning. Here are a few screenshots for you: Desktop Classroom Students' lounge Anyways, it turned out that because of a technical error when I was doing my science test, it didn't get submitted when it was supposed to be. Therefore I got it in late, and I'm probably going to get a bad mark because of that. Oh well, I'll live. B) ~Wisey
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I just got back home from that, *Shudder* School. Next I have to do homework. Luckely I only have Science. Yoshi
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I wernt to a pumpkin patch with my cousins today. I got a huge pumpkin! I also got 3 tiny pumpkins. On the way back home we got slurpees. I got a brainfreeze . Then my cousin and I started playing with my X Pods. Then that brought us here. Yoshi
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I was reading Sporks Blog and I read that he knows someone who knows someone who knows the president. So I thought about my Dad. He has met a previous president(I don't know which) Yoshi
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Today my Aunt is comig. We are also going to a pumpkin patch later. Yoshi
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My electric toothbrush died while I was using it. So I had to move it around by hand. This is my last entry of the day. Yoshi
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I was going to play Scrabble with my Dad. Then he noticed that it was almost 9:00. Now it is. So next I go to that place called bed. Oh yes, I probably will only post 5 or so entries tomorrow. Yoshi
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I just watched the end of the Chronicles of Narnia. I got Spaghetti during it. Now let's look in my wardrobe.. Yoshi
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I have just gooten back from a 2 hour car trip from my aunt's. All the way thinking about BZP. Yoshi
