Monday, November 28, 2005

Vacation is Over

Now that Thanksgiving vacation is over, I shall tell you about the whole thing at once.

Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2005- I told you about this in my last post, The Wrong Trousers and Mother Goose Rocks.

Thursday, Nov. 24, 2005 aka Thanksgiving Day- Usually we go to New York to spend the holiday with our relatives, but this year we stayed home. We decided to go out for breakfast and we drove around looking for a place that was open. By time we found one, Cracker Barrel, it was closer to lunch time. Me, my mother, and my father got the Thanksgiving lunch/dinner that they had, my sister got a breakfast sampler, and my brother got blueberry pancakes. The Thanksgiving meal had turkey, ham, stuffing, sweet potato, cranberry sauce, choice of vegetable, and small biscuits/corn muffins but only small amount of each, so it ended up being about the size of a normally large restaurant meal. And it had pie! Everyone had a different one, I liked my chocolate pecan pie. The meal was big and so we didn't have any other meal except for cereal at night. My brother complained that we only had one meal that day, though I continually pointed out that everyone else had two (he didn't have the cereal).

Friday, Nov. 25, 2005 aka Black Friday- This year was the first in a while that we went shopping early on Black Friday. We left around 6 am and first went to Target. There, among other things, we got Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban for $5.88 plus tax. We then went to Kohl's and Best Buy, where we bought nothing. Lastly, we went to Staples back in Hershey, the place I was waiting for the whole time. At Staples they had 512 MB USB flash drives for only $9.99 plus tax after rebates, but by the time that we got there, they were out, though they had slightly different one's for $12.99 plus tax after rebates. There were two models at this price, I got the smaller one and my brother got the larger one. You'll probably be able to see them at school on Tuesday.

Saturday, Nov. 26, 2005- I slept in, waking around 11 am or noon or so. When my mother got home at 1 pm, me and my brother scrambled to get ready to go out. When we were almost there, I suggested to my mother to let us out of the car here so that we could walk the rest of the way and she could get going on her way since she was runny late. My brother inexplicably took longer to get out of the car and so I was way ahead of him the whole time as we walked the last leg of the way to Shank Park. Yes, it was Ultimate in Shank Park! There was a very large turnout and so we split into 4 teams and had a small tournament. My team won and they congratulated me on catching the winning throw for both games. We then went over to Caitlyn Craig house for pizza, monopoly, Super Smash Brothers on their N64, Scrabble, and I am Sam. Not all activities were done by me, the great amount of people necesitated that we subconsciously split into different activities. It was a great time, at Shank Park and at the Craig's house.

Sunday, Nov. 27, 2005- Didn't really do much, just relaxed.

Monday, Nov. 28, 2005 aka Today- Did some homework, wrote this, and ate some chocolate covered raisins. And we finally got around to openning the USB flash drives from Friday. With the different skins that mine comes with it can be blue, bright pink/red/magenta, or brushed steel. And it's all tiny. And it's 512 MB. I like it. The first thing I put on it is Smithers: The Video Game. It is a great game made by Joe Gershenson and you can get it at his site over here, at the bottome of the page. Inspired by Zach's comment on Joe's Xanga, I plan on making a Lindsmer video game soon.

This was a pretty enjoyable vacation.

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Captured!

I have captured Feathers McGraw! He's right here!

Today in English class we watched The Wrong Trousers. It was a good time, very funny, as my class mates can atest.Today starts the Thanksgiving vacation. We don't have to go back to school until Tuesday! This shall be fun.

Already on the vacation I have discovered a new music sensation, Mother Goose Rocks. The song snippets sound good but what is really great is getting to here the whole length of Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes at their site or at Albino Blacksheep. What makes it even funnier than a nursery song sung to rock music is the flash animation that accompanies it. Featuring "Bono, Bush, Blair, Benedict, and Oprah" it is pretty funny in my opinion. :)
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Friday, November 18, 2005

Back from HP

When this post was posted at my xanga, it was the 42nd post there. This next paragraph pertains to that.

Hello for the 42nd time! Big occasion this is, my 42nd post! Zach said people seem to be using smilies less now a days and this is an occasion to celebrate so I will combine both problems into one solution. Smilie formation!











I just got home (a half hour ago) from the forth Harry Potter movie. A went with a largeish group composed mainly of juniors excepting, of course, my brother Sean and myself. It started earlier this week when the people at my lunch table decided to all go together to the movie and that Felicity would collect our money and buy our tickets ahead of time. Yesterday at lunch I gave Felicity money for myself and then later at Cooking Club I gave her additional money for Sean. This morning Sean payed me back for his ticket and at lunch I was told where we were meeting after school to get to the theater. I told Sean this before our math classes, he has class across the hall from me during 5DE. After school we gathered outside the main office and then proceded into the parking lot to ride in two cars over to Cocoaplex. There were ten of us at that time so we fit quite nicely. We got there much earlier than I usually arrive at movies and so was able to see all of the pre-previews things on the screen twice. More people arrived, namely Josiah and Fauzzie (sp!) though separately. The movie was good, more on that later. After the lights went back on I discovered that Luba and Tim had seen the movie too, right behind us. Then in the theater's lobby I discovered more people, namely Zach and Kaylyn (sp!), most definitely separate.

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Friday, November 04, 2005

It's over.

Today I finished Mostly Harmless in the short time after I had finished my Word Wealth quiz and not everyone else had.

SPOILER WARNING: What follows is my commentary on the end of Mostly Harmless encrypted in Rot-13 to ensure the ending is not spoiled for those who do not wish to know the ending.

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They were all good, I suggest you read the trilogy, all 5 of them, if you can.

After school today I played Ultimate with the other people. I had a fun time, as did the others, and I look forward to the next time were playing.

Thursday, November 03, 2005

Mathy Math

Today was a team math test in Mr. Hamilton's room. There was 100 problems to do in 30 minutes with everyone working together. Before starting we went out into the hall for a group photo. Unfortunately we didn't get an after picture. The questions were difficult, with everyone having ones they were perplexed with.

Today I read chapter 1 of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. After reading the prologue, the strange setting became more known and so this chapter seemed less far out and less funny, though it maintained it's high quality.
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Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Muy Comico y Feliz Cumpleaños

From Google Blog I have found a video similar to the Numa Numa, but lesser. Behold, two Chinese students "singing" I Want It That Way.

Today we had a sabatical from learning in English class due today being Mr. Sterner's birthday. There were drinks, my favorite being the watermelon juice, and food. The selection of delectables included chocolate chip cookies, both homemade and store-bought, peanuts, donut holes, donuts, and Pringles. Mr. Sterner show cased his guitar skills, aweing most of the class. Some took the opportunity to get some homework done, Vinny worked on his chem and Madi worked on her pre-calc. Most simply enjoyed each other's company, the food, and not having class.
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Sunday, October 30, 2005

Penultimate Bread

I asked my brother what kind of bread he was eating and he said, "penultimate bread". I responded saying how he was incorrect and such. A google search for penultimate bread turned up 107,000 results. But there were only 18 results for "penultimate bread". Quotation marks are critical. I hope that number will grow to 19 after the publishing of this post.
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Pretty Colors!

They're o so pretty, you can't deny it. And they're in motion. What are they? 250,000 bouncy balls bouncing down a San Francisco street. Sony took on this endeavor to advertise their BRAVIA televisions though they don't tell you until the end of the commercial. The commercial is stunning and you can see it here. They have a gallery of 14 photos on their site. The commercial is astounding, the colors in motion, merging order and chaos, bounce and roll. It opens panning around the San Franciso skyline, then there are three, and then the swarm comes. The frog hopping out of the drain pipe is a nice touch.

In other news, I've just added "chao" to Merriam-Webster's Open Dictionary. Right now it is at the top as it was the most recently added, but once it gets covered with newer entries you'll have to search in the search box at the bottom of that page. Here's what the entry looks like, if you don't care to go there.

Search results for 'chao':

chao (noun) : simply the singular of chaos, one single unit of chaos. pronounced similar to "cow"
It used in this couplet: To diverse gods Do mortals bow; Holy Cow, and Wholly Chao. —Greg Hill and Kerry Thornley, Principia Discordia, 1965
Submitted by: Brian Sisco from Pennsylvania on Oct. 30, 2005 20:43


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