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I put "All your base are belong to us" in a Japanese translator. Then I put あなたの基盤はすべて私達に属するある into an English translator. The result: "Your basis belongs to us entirely, it is" Looks like that one just got the words re-ordered. This one is the best.
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I wasn't going to do another entry about time systems, calendars, days, and such, but I couldn't help it with this subject. It is a subject that seems so obvious to me, yet I can find nothing about it online: Soltices and Equinoxes of other planets. First, I'll have you take a look at what the dictionary defines these as: I'm pretty sure that 1a and 1 are what we are looking for here. Now, everyone knows that the other planets, and non-planet objects of our solar system *cough*Pluto*cough* rotate around the sun. It's what things do if they don't get burnt up. Not all of the planets spin on an axis (or maybe all the known ones do, but I'm pretty sure they don't have to). Orbiting the sun and the tilt of this axis determine the time of the solstices and equinoxes. This section is very optional and net necessary to understand the rest of the entry: Now, assuming that somewhere there is another planet which spins on an axis. The tilt of this earth is different from ours, and the axis is tilted in such a way that it sometimes points at the sun, and is sometimes parallel to a tangent of the sun. As the planet spins, it does not create days. The North will still face the sun, and the South will be shaded. The Days are actually the length of the planet's year. Winters are always night and summers are day. Odd, I know. But what I'm really getting at is not this little fact, but the equinoxes and solstices. There is a line halfway between the ends of this axis known as the Equator. Equinoxes occur when the sun appears directly overhead at the equator. Solstices occur when the sun is as north as it will get or as south as it will get. In the case of our year=day planet, the solstice occurs when the sun appears overhead at the poles. But anyway, enough of that theoretical planet...what about the real ones. Why don't we calculate the seasons of the other planets. They rotate. And I think it's known that at least one of them has an axis it spins on. Any information on the seasons of other planets would be appreciated.
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It's time for one of those entries again, but this time, it's all links to various Wikipedia articles on the different time systems. Julian Day...Interesting. I don't expect it to by used by ordinary people, but I see the astronomers like it. Decimal Time, Metric Time...Why are these two articles? Anyway, you know my thoughts on these. I use them, kinda. I don't like how they still call the units what they call them though. The prefixes work much better, IMO. Though yes, that does leave 10,000th of a day and 100,000th of a day with no terms, but those can be made up. Hexidecimal Time...See what I said about the units above. Otherwise, it's cool, but I couldn't see it being used. But then, I couldn't see the stupid base six system we use being used either...so, yeah... I'd still like some input. See the second paragraph of the Previous Time Systems Entry. Also, you may be interested in the first rant about units of measurement.
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You might remember my Metric Time System. Though I agree that a year could never be split into a similar system (the months and weeks we have work just great), I made a year one here: Link. It's also handy for Star Trek fans to use in their personal logs. ^.^ I'd like your input. Would it be best to have "111111 microdays" and "111111111 nanoyears" or ".111111 days" and ".111111111 years"? Without the decimal place, the number will always stay at the same amount of digits, allowing me to center it without it looking bad. I like centering better, but it might be better with the decimal so that other people know how it is. An example of the whole numbers at this location. And I know that the nanoyearsmove too fast, but the microyears only change every ~31 seconds. I wanted to show movement, so I had to have smaller units. And the silly SI prefixes don't have anything for 10-4, 10-5, 10-7, 10-8 or the exponential opposites (104, 105, etc). Short entry, but it's all that needs said. Check out the previous entry if you like, because I do. More info on the first rant.
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Title roughly translates to "Woah!" in...well, I'll explain. Due to a discussion about keyboards, I thought it would be cool to change a few things on mine, like adding a £ sign instead of the @ or instsead of the # or maybe instead of the ~. Or better, with Ctrl + 4. The program I found didn't exactly let me do any of that, but it let me rearrange the keys on my keyboard. So, I did this, after looking up common letters. I won't post the setup I ended up with, but it was...interesting. And difficult. As I was about to change it back, having had enough of that experience, someone I don't know that well wanted to talk to me. So rather than embarrassing myself, I said "Hi." "brb" ("s. q;q) The advantages of having T, O and N next to each other is that "to", "on" and "no" are easy. As a final note, this would make an awesome prank on someone if you could get the hang of it.
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The title of a result of putting "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" into an English-French translator and then putting "Quand la vie vous donne des citrons, faites la limonade" into an French-English translator. Doing the same thing with German, we get: "If life gives you lemons, do lemonade" Do the Lemonade man! English-Portuguese-English: "When the life gives him lemons, do the lemon soda" Russian: "When the life gives you lemons, make lemonade." Surprisingly the same-ish. Spanish: "when the life gives him lemons, do the lemonade" In other news the track meet yesterday wasn't so good. So it went the same as usual. Gained 6 seconds in the half-mile. I was saving because it was again right before the 200-meter. It was last time though too, I just didn't know it. And I added a quarter-second to my 200-meter. I wasn't holding back either. Ah well, I gained a foot in the long jump! For me, 11'10" is good. I just need to add 5 more feet, and I can actually be competition to the other people. *sigh* Why do I even do track? All it does is disappoint and injure you... Update: Bumped because the fad of doing this has made a return. Though it never was too popular.
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As you may have noticed, my entries have become less able to categorize by my current Blog Categories. This one covers around five topics in two of the categories, those being "Other" and "Bionicle." Anyway, on to the other subjects of this entry. First comes a small question/observation about the English language that's bugged me for a while. The difference between our words "my" and "mine." At first I had thought one was a noun and one was an adjective, but it's not the case. You can say "The pen is green" and "That is a pen." But you can only say "The pen is mine." "The pen is my" isn't an accepted use. I still don't know what's with these words and why there isn't just one. I'm sure ToM, Wind, Smeag or the Rachirae could clear it up, though. Hey. This one isn't about a flaw in measurement or language. Actually, it's about pain. I was in the basement and about to go upstairs (the light was even off), when I realized I had to go and get a book or something. I left the light off because it was light enough to navigate and identify the book. On my way back to the door however, I discovered that a toothpick had managed to position itself upright in the matted carpet. I felt the sort of pain right behind my toe that made me shift all wait to my heel within seconds. It didn't even break all my skin. I had thought it didn't break any at first, but later inspection revealed that it had. So now I have a bump on my foot that looks like nothing but feels terrible when weight is set on it. I was finally able to look up the frequency of musical notes. I examined these for a while and found no set interval between the semitones. The only observation I made was the inconsistency and that the frequencies doubled from one octave to the next. Then I was able to look up the method. I never realized that was how they determined them. Very interesting. For those curious the frequency of a musical note is 2n/12 x 440 hertz, where n is the number of half steps above A4 (the A above middle C). That also reminds me, are there English names for the quarter-tones? As an example, what would we call the note half-way between A4 and A#4 (the note being ~452.89 hertz)? The above formula raised a question which has been bugging me ever since I discovered this computer's calculator could do it. How do we define fractional powers such as 21/12. I have come to be able to understand how to multiply by fractions (years ago of course), but fractional powers make no sense to me at all right now. Again, probably explainable by the community's brains. Somehow, even though all my sets are built (save no more than 10 pieces that are missing) I have several extra pieces that I shouldn't have extras of. Metru blue hands? Four Bohrok eye pieces (and I'm missing two in different colors)? Very odd. I still can't figure out where these types of pieces came from. No set has come with the Metru blue hands as extras and I don't believe the UCAS did.
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I was thinking while reading the latest BotW article and looking at my various entries and their crazy insanities (unnecessary adjective, I suppose). It's good I don't expose you guys to my pure random thoughts. They're really random. Here are a few thoughts (which I've been wanting to write for a while it should be noted) with the randomity brought down a few levels down from maximum bearable range: How on earth did the existing time system come to be. There are 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes an one such hour, and 60 seconds in such a minute. This system is based loosely on base twelve, though in ways that make no sense. In this age, and in most known of the past, we deal in base 10. But, as if this wasn't bad enough when they decided they needed a unit smaller than seconds they didn't make them 1/60 or 1/120 of a second, but 1/1000. If base twelve is to be used, stick with it! Or totally convert to base 10. Decidays, cenitdays, milidays, tetrodays(?), pentodays(?). .1 day is approximately 2 hours, 24 minutes. I've found that this system works quite nicely and has a much more modern feel about it. Almost sci-fi. But in any case it's much better than splitting the day into 24 and then splitting that into 60. For more information on metric time, you can visit this lame page I made a few months ago. While we're on the subject, why 360 degrees in a circle? We seem to again be functioning on base twelve again. And then, of course, once again, there are 60 lesser units in this greater unit. And WHY are these lesser units called minutes again?! Time only has a relation to a circle in the rotation of the earth, in which case 15 of these degrees is an hour. Very, very strange. Now to the final question involving our silly base twelve measurements: How did they get to be used worldwide? It would appear that Rome might have used the time one, as our PM and AM abbreviations come from post meridiem and ante meridiem. But whey did Rome use them? Their number system (in language, not the numerals) were in base ten, as seen by the fact that there is a word for one thousand, but the way to express 1200 is simply saying "one thousand plus two hundred." And if the Romans didn't use them, who else could have made them global? Alexander, who was before Rome? Also, how did the US system for measuring...everything come about? Did they want to be totally different from England in such ways that they forced their citizens to adopt this crazy system of measuring. 12 inches in a foot, 3 feet in a yard, such-in-such feet in a rod, so-and-so rods in a mile. It would appear to also have roots in the number base of twelve. The similarity in length of a foot and a the sorts of things you walk on should be noted, though 12 inches is a small foot. Most important is the similarity between a meter, a foot, and the length from the tips of someone's finger to their chest. Also, I laugh at how the US is trying to switch to metric. They measure their American football fields in yards and their tracks in meters. What was Fahrenheit trying to do when he made his heat measurement system? As far as I can figure out he wanted average human temperature to be his 100 degrees but was off. The other mark he was trying to hit must have either been 32 for freezing (for no reason other than that he liked the number), he liked the idea of -40 in Celsius and his measurements to be the same or the number 212 appealed to him for boiling. Oh, and is 1/60 of a degree called a minute? * So what if they are all about measurements. They've been bugging me for months. I was going to do something about the crazy English languages and spelling of some words, but this look up so much space. Edit Note: It seems the US system of measurement comes from the Imperial units used in Britain at some point, but I still do not know why. * Somehow this sentence lacked the intended "here" or "this. I really meant to say "Is 1/60th of one of these degrees also a minute?", as I was discussing Fahrenheit.
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My family was talking about what they thought was the most untrainable animal (because Sister A brought up how people claim cats are). She got talking about how smaller animals were easier to control and I came up with a humorous counter to her argument. "Oh yeah. Try training a Spiny Sea Urchin. If it disobeys, just slap it." If you don't know why that would be bad, look up the SSU. Also, what do you think is the most untrainable animal?
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This is probably my list transmission from my Personal Telepathic Communication Device. Should be fixed by Monday. It is malfunctioning. You may still check what I am doing by the transmissions of those around me, however. Also, as I won't be able to contact BZ-Koro at all, I am leaving my BZPRPG characters to: Uchiha Seraphim--Gratcia Vak the Angel of Death (Angelic names here...) //ShadowT//--Wair, Fauns Tony Stark: Iron Man--Blur, Sala Split the other characters by who usually is around them the most, or by who has character-sat them last time I was gone.
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List of Random Thoughts: My last loose tooth is to the point where eating can be painful no matter which side you chew on and you have to check which position the tooth is in before closing your jaw. The time currently is 15:02 I went down to the ranch my sister works at and ran for 27 minutes and 17.35 seconds. The emoticon is cool. Too many people use Jack Sparrow avatars, IMO. This entry is longer in code than Shine's.
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So, in Phy's Blog he spelt a word learnt. Now, Shine, trying to correct him, spelled it "learned". Phy replies with a comment about how Americas spell, saying that it is spelt learnt. Notice the way spelt and spelled are spelt...er...spelled differently. How did the US get so crazy on spelling while Canada, UK, and Austrailia stayed the same. Canada is no farther away from the UK than we are, and Australia is probably farther!
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Twelve hour one-way, guys. I'm asking your help deciding what else to bring, if anything. I have a few spare inches in my back that can be filled according to the rules of the airplane, thingamabob. So far I have in here: -A deck of cards -An Almanac -SuDoku book with Sudoku X puzzles -Notebook (3/4 full) -Battleship on paper! -A few religious items -2 kid joke books -Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes. Picked this at random, lol -MP3 Player -6 Electronic games -Headphones -Clipboard with approx. 8 papers half-full of BZPRPG future info I have planned. -BIONICLE Encyclopedia -Rahi Guide -Dark Hunter guide. -Ooh, a calculator No, I don't have anything that has Wi-fi on it. No Bionicle World either.
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1. Thankfully, my 8000FF color still goes good with VahkiPower skin, though not as nicely. 2. The new annoying adds that are dark red go well with the VP skin. Good planning, whoever made the skin. 3. I can tell the skin contest was made before the blogs were up, or at least the blog buttons were not included, because the red heart for favorite has blue around it, and the blue 'New posts" or "No New Posts" are also blue. 4. Remember to brush your hair and comb your teeth. That's something I said today to the person I'm babysitting.
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I'm gonna be gone tomorrow through Monday. But that's not really what I wrote this Blog Entry to tell you about. I really wouldn't even need to tell you know anyway, except that my internet connection has been instable lately. So I'll tell you ahead of time. I'm going to be gone from 5-18 to 5-28. I'm going to be in the British Virgin Islands on a sail boat. First time I'll have been to a British territory too. First time in the Caribbean, first time flying over part of a sea/ocean. First time in an airplane larger than a four-passenger. Why was/is spell check telling me to change Carribean to "Carri bean"? O.o Edit: Thank ToM, apparently I had my double letters flopped.
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So, I got a problem wrong in Geometry. It was "Are the diagonals of a cube perpendicular?" Now for those of you who don't know what a diagonal of a cube are, it's a line that goes from one corner of the cube, to the very opposite corner. There are four of them. As a result of me sticking to my "Yes" answer, Mom made a 3-inch cube complete with diagonals! She made diagonals by making two 3-inch by 4.24-inch rectangular paper with the diagonals of the rectangle drawn on it. She inserted these papers into the cube, splitting it in half. By inserting the other paper into the cube (using slits to make them overlap), I had a cube with diagonals! So I discovered that the diagonals on opposite planes (planes being represented by my rectangular 3x4.24 papers) were perpendicular (because the planes are perpendicular), but the diagonals on the same plane are not. However if I put the lines on planes that are drawn from four different corners (I can't really describe that one), it's the opposite. The ones on the same plane would be perpendicular, but the ones on different planes would be oblique. But hey, I ended up with a cool cube (Cule) with a three-dimensional X in it. Thus, an X-Cube.
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I've always liked puns. I've always liked BZP. But now, it's Marvelous.
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Go to Google. Go to the maps section and choose "Get Directions". For the From put: New York, New York. To: Paris, France. Scroll down to direction line 23.
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Someone was once and guard duty and said: "Dogon guard duty!"
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The new (or at least semi-new) Washington Dollar coin has a strange familiarity about it. Oh, that’s right. We all saw it before in the early 2000s (yes, scarily enough, we’re getting in the late 2000s). Think hard. Yes, it’s pretty much a Sacagawea Dollar with a new head. Speaking of heads, the “front” side of a coin is usually the one with the date written on it, correct? Not so with this. If we went by that, the circular edge would be the front side. Not much probability going on predicting if the coin would land face up or not. The entire lettering on the side is as follows: 2007 D* | E Pluribus Unum - In God We Trust - 2007 D* | E Plurbus Unum - In God We Trust - 2007 D*……… The side is wide enough to fit the lettering, so I’ve found the coin will roll very far. Doing a few experiments, I’ve found that the coin can be started rolling on top of a table, fall off and—so long as the floor is a hard surface—continue rolling for a good ways. I’ve also seen it go over 8 feet rolling. The side with Washington’s head: Above the face of the US’s first president words round along the coin from ear to ear saying “George Washington” in all caps (as were all of the letters on the coin. Forgive me for not saying so). Below that a very odd (as usual) picture of GW covers almost the entire face (unintended pun) of the coin. The artist paid much attention to detail. Though the face is not looking directly forward, Washington’s eyes are. There isn’t anything new or cool about the hair. A notable and odd detail: the letters “JPM” rest on the bottom of George’s collar. Perhaps it’s “JFM”; I’d need a magnifying glass to know for sure. They’re that little. Below ‘is head we have the letters “1st** President 1789-1797.” My first thought was “Wow, he only lived 18 years!” But I’ve got it now. That was how long his presidency was before they amended the constitution with the 2-term rule. Fingerprints must be really easy to track on coins, because mine are visible to the naked eye in the right light already on the back side. Again around the edges, this time on the back we have “United States *insert Statue of Liberty’s Torch here* Of America *insert SoL’s body* United…”. The rest of the statue is contained inside a “ring” around the backside. Not really sure what you can say about a picture of a statue other than that she is not green in this picture. Strange why they chose the SoL for the backside instead of the Eagle, seeing as how France didn’t give the US the statue until years after the death of GW if I remember correctly. Next to the statue’s arm is the “$1” sign. Now that I’m done talking about the sides, I’ll talk about some issues I have with it. The coin is the same color as the Sacagawea Dollar. As such, they may get confused. But since they’re the same amount of money in worth, I suppose that doesn’t matter. A problem would be that in a shadow, the new dollar appears the same color as other coins. It is slightly bigger than the quarter, and a few millimeters smaller in diameter than the half-dollar. I haven’t compared it in side to a Sacagawea Dollar, but I will do that right now. [Pause] Yep, same size as the golden $1 coin from 2000. The new dollar is significantly heavier than a quarter when felt in one’s hands, so that shouldn’t be a problem in vending machines that go by weight. It is also a good deal lighter than the half-dollar. The Sacagawea Dollar is heavier. Now, I don’t have a Susan B Anthony Dollar to compare to. Anyone know anything about their appearance? I don’t. Overall, the coin is still interesting, but dollar coins have been done before. None of them are in print really anymore. People didn’t like the Sacagawea Dollars and we have an almost clone with us right now. I’m gonna put it in my collection though. *Varies with year and denomination. **The “st” in 1st were not capital letters.
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1. So today I find out that Mom can take the time to take my sister to this thing in Utah but can't take me to Brickfest Pdx. The difference is only 350 miles. *sigh* 2. I have a fear of IM shots. I've been trying for years to find a way to make them hurt less. No ideas seem to work. D'you have any? 3. This quote from Eragon is perfect for summing up being staff: You must be kind and wise with them all, for they put their trust in you. Don't speak flippantly or without thought, because your words will have impact far beyond what you intend. - Page 415 Yes, I just finished it yesterday and am gonna borrow Eldest from a friend tomorrow.
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Tufi is a city in Southeast Papua New Guinea. Australia has a: Cape York (handy, it's on the tip of the Cape York Peninsula) in the North-east York Sound on the West-north. And Yorke Bay on the South-east side.
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Lekonua seems to be interested in where we come from (see here), so I knew I had to asnwer him. But I didn't feel like a PM or an edit, so I posted his entry. Also, I edited BBC Contest #40. Remember to vote for Foresight the Eagle in the BBC Contest #40 when the polls are up. I had another entry I was gonna put here, but I forgot.
