Quote of the Momment 12/5/08

This moment's quote of the moment:
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
--Woody Allen

Quotes of the Moment

I suppose it would be more fitting and cliche if I called it the quotes of the day, but I'm probably not gonna get the chance to update it every day anyway, so whatever. Here are the very awesome things that I hear and see due to my keen hearing and observations. So, today, we have the quote by Christian singer, Brian Littrell, of the Backstreet Boys.

=> If you really love someone, put their name in a circle, not a heart, because a heart can be broken but a circle goes on forever.

Interesting things to know.

=>The billionth digit of pi is a 9
=>The average North American eats about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.
=>Most car horns honk in the key of 'F'.
=>Most toilets flush in E flat
Just some things to know. More later.

The Inexistence of Tomorrow

You've probably noticed how tomorrow never actually comes, but if you haven't, now you know. However, that means every second that's in the past is yesterday, because at each second some random place in the world is turning into a new day. So, everything except THIS momment, whatever's happening NOW, is yesterday. What's happening NOW is today, but today changes every second, and yet, it's the same....does that make sense? Don't blame me if it doesn't, blame whoever invented this language and the words "yesterday", "today", and "tomorrow" for not thinking of all this stuff first.

Doorknobs

I don't like doorknobs. Especially the kind that are round and you really can't use your elbow to open. You actually have to move all your stuff from both hands to only one, and now you're balancing all your stuff precariously and don't know when it could suddenly fall on your foot and crush your toes, and in the end the stinking door is still closed. Also, even if you do have your stuff balanced, it always seems that when you're in a hurry the door is harder to open. You're trying to hurry to wherever you need to get to, and you're trying to twist the stupid doorknob, only for some reason you can never get the knob to turn enough so your pushing on the door really hard while you think you're turning the door enough, but you're really not, because it's not opening, and it seems really stupid because you're pushing pretty hard on the door and it hurts! And then when you finally get it open, you have the possibility of being late, so you have to speedwalk if you can't run (which is frankly more tiring than running) and on top that your knee or elbow or whatever you were pushing the door with really hurts because it won't open. You see now the hassle of doorknobs, especially when they're round?

New Member

Alright, I told her I would, so here it is. An introduction for Jamie L., newest poster of this blog! Say hi, Jamie. Well....yeah....she's one of the extremely scarce population of awesome people of Topeka Kansas, so I decided she had a right to be posting.

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Well, I couldn't really think of a good name for this post because it's mostly a free-type sorta thing, and I don't know what's it's about yet. See, I saw that I haven't posted in a long time, so I thought I might as well.....but does anyone even read this anymore? Because I don't think anyone really reads it anymore. But whatever, it looks cool, and now I can say I have my own website. I guess I'll try to post more, but yeah....I'm done for now.
Bloop.

Signature Closing

I have a signature closing now!! it's "Bloop." Awesome huh? it's totally me...

Bloop.

Changes

As you can see, i changed both the blog header and the blog website. Being the Christian that I am, I changed it to eternity above because I have an eternity above. The header's "a sudden epiphany" because...it sounded cool...and i have a lot of those...but yeah, that's it...

Don't like the new library. Or school. Or apartment.-

The library here is horrible. It's too big, the computers are old and slow, to checkout you always need to wait at least 15 minutes in line, the keyboards are clacky and old, all the good stuff is checked out because the library serves the entire city, so there's always a ton of people. Everything's really hard to find, there's about 4 catalog computers TOTAl spread throughout the library. The youth section is mixed with the little kids sections, the librarians take forever printing the receipts, the reference people are kinda unfriendly, there's too much space so you always gotta walk a long way to get where you want, and i'll think of more reasons why the library is horrible later.
My apartment is a lot smaller than my old one, we barely have room for everything. A whole lot of our stuff is still unpacked because we don't know where to put it. My dad said we'll invest in a house in a year or two. there's about 4 trees per building, and the houses are really close together. It's not much to look at.
The schools are really slow. I'm basically relearning the stuff I learned in 6th and 7th grade, which is sorta ok considering I won't have a hard time remembering everything, but it'll also be really boring and depressing. Except in geometry. This is the way the teacher teaches: Read what it says in the book, give a LOT of examples, re-explain in his own words, and then give us 3-4 pages of homework (block schedule).
So, that's a little run-down of my life for the possibly the next 5 years. People say time flies, so I'm hoping they're right...I'll give a run-down of good things here later, once i find them...

Official Moving Decree

Alrighty, i've officially moved to Kansas now. the KS license plate is nowhere near as awesome as AR's: they have a big tall building in the background, and we have an awesome diamond. Our awesome diamond can buy a bucnch of big tall buildings.

Playlist!!

I added a new thing to the blog: a playlist of awesome Christian songs. Now you can listen AND read, AT THE SAME TIME!!

The moon, your hat, and Madagasgar

Madagasgar is an island in the middle of the ocean, next to Africa. It's a VERY big island, MUCH bigger than your hat, but smaller than the moon, no matter how small the moon may apear to be. you see, the moon is MUCH larger than it appears to be. Next time, when you're looking at the moon, you can say in a deep, wise, voice: "The moon is MUCH larger than it appears to be" and people will know that you are very wise and have thought about this a great deal.

Erm....The title is....Erm!! That's it.

SOOOO....I thought it'd be good to post for the first time....in erm...a few days? Nothing really to report...but I went bowling Friday! Although I kept guttering the ball...It's kinda sad actually...I got an email from Morgan, and she thinks my future occupation would consist of something smart and slightly evil...am I that uninnocent? Nobody feels as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish...

Y

I must give the credit of the topic of this post to "The Salmon of Doubt", the book I'm currently reading. It's a compilation of unfinished and/or short articles of the deceased Douglas Adams, author of the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. Yes. You read that right. There are 5 books in this trilogy by the way. Anyway, Adams mentioned a good point. 'Why' was the only question infuriating and difficult to answer enough that it got a WHOLE letter in the alphabet. He mentioned that it does not go "A, B, C, D, E, F, Who?, When?, Where?" but "U, V, W, X, Why?, Z." You see, other questions are very easy to answer, such as "How long is the flight to Europe?" or "What is the value of "x"?" and "How does the seatbelt get so tight when you slam on the brakes, Daddy?" The answers, respectively, would be "1 night and 3 hours", "figure it out", and "don't ask stupid questions, James". But what happens when one asks you: "Why am I alive?" or "Why are we not dead yet?" and so on, you're stuck aren't you? You have to think about the question for hours, and when you decide you have an answer, you start to question your own thoughts, and you spend more hours mulling over your very exsistence. But wait!!! Adams mentioned a very good answer. The only good answer to these questions. There's even room for it in the alphabet. And Why doesn't even have to be the last letter. Wouldn't it be nice if the alphabet went "U, V, W, X, "Why not?" " instead? So, why not?

New things to do before you die.

Ok, it's been a long time since I added something to do before you die. So, I added 4 more today. If interested, scroll to the almost-bottom of the page and take a look.

NOTE: some of these are rather life-threatening and you may want to make sure you finish the non-lifethreatening or jailputting ones before you risk those.

Edit

Ok, I found out that anonymus does NOT like breakfast, although I think he/she/it is lying because he/she/it had asked Ming2 whether she had eaten it already out of the pure goodness of his/her/it's heart, instead of asking about some other meal of the day. Frankly I like the dessert part best. As they say, "Life is short", eat dessert first. So, I reccommend all those breakfast lovers out there to convert to dessert lovers. I also reccomment all those atheists, Buddhists, Hinduists, Muslims, and the other "-ists" of some other religion that's not Christianity to conver to Christianity because the solemn truth of it is that God rocks. More than any other of those other fake gods that the wandering hearts and worldly views support.
End Preaching here.
Also, on a less "preachy" note, we got a new fire extinguisher in our apartment building!!! Or at least a new case. Not sure why. The case is white and the cover thingy is red. It's also plasticy...which makes me think that in the event of a fire it would melt. Well, that's better than having to break it yourself...it's very convenient, but unfortunuately since it's plastic it doesn't have one of the "in case of fire, break glass" signs on it, which sucks cuz I really wanted to break that glass...

Oh dear...

*sigh* looks like I got a new stalker...his/her name is anonymus. If anyone knows the whereabouts or identity of this new stalker, please call your local stalker agency immediately. Don't panic, this is a nice stalker. Distinguishing features: excessive use of text-talk, comments on my blog, has a certain fondness for breakfast.

A Pology

I would like to put a formal pology for revealing Squared's area of residence in the previous post. Actually, she does not live in the city I mentioned in the previous post. In fact, she lives in...um... PARIS, FRANCE, EUROPE, EARTH, SOLAR SYSTEM, MILKY WAY, UNIVERSE, GOD'S ENTIRE KINGDOM. And her name is...uh...Crystal Smith. Also, didn't i mention you're awesome cuz your square? It's not an insult. And Squared II only refers to my second time in refering to you in my post, it's like part 2 of the Squared anthology. Also, I think the conversation between black wave and anonymus was highly entertaining...but did you eat your breakfast today squared? *concerning look from a caring friend*.

Squared II

I'm guessing whoever asked about who the person in the previous post is does not go to my church or you would know about out little inside joke. "Squared" is our nickname for Ming Ming. Since you don't go to our church, you probably don't know her, since she lives in Bentonville. Any, Squared in special. See, everyone else is sphererical, but she's so awesome she's square.

SQUARED!!!!

SQUARED!!!! I KNEW IT WAS YOU!!!!! Helen Z. told me. See, she's nice. How's China? Maybe you'll see Emily there. Or Helen Z. Cuz she's going too. YOu need to add more to your blog. Spice it up a little. Hey, why'd you have to keep your identity from me for so long? Making me think you're a stalker and all? By the way, you're really bad at this whole stalking thing. You need my help. See, you acted the way you usually act when you commented on my posts. That led me to believe it was you. That and the fact that you let it slip to Helen Z. *sigh* so many flaws in an otherwise masterful stalking. (the flaws make it not so masterful).

What IS an Emirp?

Well, I just thought I'd clear something up today. Emirps are my favorite numbers! They rock. Actually, the word rocks. Anyway, an emirp is a number that's prime backwards and forwards, like 187, which is prime, and 781 is prime too, making it an emirp. That's fun to say. Emirp.

Last Week

Well, this is kinda about last week, but we had the AWESOMEST WEEK OF CHOIR EVER! Tue. and Wed. we played Guitar Hero II. Sarah W.'s GOOD. Thur. and Fri. we watched Ratatouilled, which we were supposed to finish Mon., but noooo it had to be democratic, and the rest of the class wanted to play Dance Dance Revolution, which was kinda stupid cuz the songs were really short, and no one except Sarah W. tried to do better than "light".

Poll Results

Ok, the poll's been outta biz for a while, but here's the results:
The question was whether YOU, yes YOU, think if a tree falls it makes a sound or not.
1 brave person decided yes, it does, cuz it's a tree.
No brave people decided no, no one heard it, so how do you know it made a sound?
4 not so brave people said that if a monkey howls and no one's there to hear it, is it still a monkey? which a QUESTION people!
Another brave person says it depends on where it lands, which make sense cuz if it lands on water it would go SPLASH! instead of CRASH!
And one person under consideration for braveness said that their brain can't handle the capacity of such a complex question. They're under consideration because I can't tell if they picked that out of braveness or stupidity. Although that mighta been my vote...

Wow, Long Time, No Post

It's been a while! I just didn't feel like there was anything important enough to mention. However, in the Award Ceremony today, I got all the nerd awards. :( I got the Presidents Excellent Learning Stuff Award...or something like that...the Duke TIP-er award, the Congrats-at getting-3rd-place-in-the-ACTM-state-competition Award, the Congrats-on-getting-3rd-place-in-the-school-spelling-bee-award, all the subject exellence awards for my pod, the -participation-in-class award, the teachers-think-you-have-great-things-to-say award, the great-writer award, the the spelling bee award. All the nerd awards. *sigh*.
On a happier note, school's almost over. We have 7th grade celebration tomorrow, and we're playing kickball 1st thing. We only have 16 people in our homeroom, and we're going against Mr. Rhodes's class first, so we're gonna get creamed.
On a not-so-happy note, Sarah W. is moving, Jenny R. is moving, Marisa G. is moving, I'm not going to Woodland, about 3 of my friends are going to Ramay, my summer's gonna be boring, Ming Ming doesn't go to our church much anymore, and many other bad things are happening in Fayetteville. Ya know, Fayetteville's like a train station. People living here have generally moved from somewhere else and/or is moving away. They never stay too long. Or they might miss their train.
Also, anyone know who "Black Wave" is? He/she is another blogger, and he/she commented on my blog, and i have no idea who he/she is. Now here's a REAL stalker.

I Feel Special

Ahhh...i went to Lil' Rock on Thur., it was a total nerd convention. People were wearing suits and talking smartly and it was really weird. It was boring cuz i spent a total of 8 hours on the bus listening to Sarah W.'s iPod and talking to her. Today, Saturday, I'm at Helen Z.'s house, cuz i just finished seeing Prince Caspian at the Razorback theater. It was fun, and they took a lot of stuff out of the book. Any I feel special cuz I got a lot to do (tonight I'm going to the Ghoti thingy) My mom was talking about how I'm busier than she is. Hah.^_^

New Toys!!

You may notice the new toys on my blog: the Happy Today toy, the Awesomest Link Button, the Do Not Click Button. The last one is kinda stupid, but fun. I beat it. If you need help, comment here.

Comment 'Bout #6 on My Things to do Before You Die List

Yeah, that was suggested during algebra class one day when we were talking about inverse variations... it was our POD problem (problem of the day) to think of a real life example of an inverse variation, and that's what Mason said. I just suddenly thought: what a great thing to do before you die! So I added it to my list. Just don't forget to take a key with you.

Question to my Classmates Who Read this Blog

Who sits by Brittany? I got a comment from someone on the last post and they claim to be someone who sits by Brittany. Is this a real person I know, or is it some stalker? I hope I'm not being stalked. If that's the case, I have a note to the stalker:
Please don't hurt me! I didn't do it! I'm not rich, don't take me for ransom! I'm just a poor, humble student who has nothing better to do than go to school and make up blogs. If you get any closer, I'm telling Faithe's dad, who's a cop. Hah! I got you now!! OH!
That should do it. But still, if someone does know who sits by Brittany, please let me know. I don't wanna get kidnapped! I wanna live a good long life, retire comfortably, and have enough money to pay my friend's jail bail.

New Addition

I have a new addition on my blog: my OWN list of things to do before you die. It may look skimpy now, but it shall flourish!! It shall conquer "101 Things to do Before You Die"!! Ideas are welcome. Also, you might notice a new poll. I'm gonna start doing polls on hypothetical questions now. Also, the first addition to my new list is there courtesy of Caleb W. Gimme an idea and you get your name on my blog.

Results

A little late, but here's the ACTM results:

1st: Toni L.

2nd: Adam F.

3rd: Me!!!

Mr. Petrone's actually kinda happy that I took 3rd instead of Sarah H., cuz he made this promise: he said if his class took 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in the regional, which they did, they would have a party. If his class took 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in the state, he would have a party at his house. So he had this little hope in his heart that One of Mrs. Weishaar's would take one of the places. Also, almost everytime I told someone that I got third, they would go: "you beat Sarah!" with this note of surprise in their voice, like they can't believe it. What's up with that?

ACTM

*sigh* ACTM is tomorrow...I don't know why I'm going. I'm gonna lose. End of Course was depressingly easy. Oh dear. What's the world coming to these days?

Benchmark

Benchmark tommorow...i think the benchamrk should be proud that it is depressing enough to have a place in my blog. I think it should see this as a great honor, and that it should willingly embrace the fact that it's existence is to make the lives of children who take it very depressing, and aid in the adults plan of turning lively, youthful children into boring adults.

Random

Well, I've learned from my past mistake--never use green as the font color!

Now, I don't have much to say. Oh! I do. When you play twenty questions. You should ask the questions like thus:

Are there more than five letters in the word?
Does the first letter begin w/ a letter from the front half of the alphebet...etc.

:)
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Uncooperative Chess Experts Part II

You've already heard about the fact that I'm doing my ISS on chess and that Mr. Petrone is my expert. Well, today I interviewed him. This is as close as I could get to our specific conversation:
Ok, how old were you when you started playing?
6
What got you into chess?
Dad.
Can you elaborate?
No.
Happy mems? About chess?
All of them. Chess is a happy game.
Depressing mems?
None. They're all happy.
Got any reccommendations for beginners?
Yes. Play a lot.
With...what type of people? Who?
Anybody.
Got any favorite strategies?
Win.
Are you an offensive player or defensive?
Offensive.
Does Mrs. Weishaar know the Ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything?
Yes.

New Poster!

Ah, you've probably noticed the fact that there's a new poster. If you didn't, I'm telling you now, I've got new poster. Deal with it. She's my best human friend, so she has a perfect right to post about the situations in her life that she feels a great desire to post.

So...does anyone even read these blogs?

There are so many blogs out in the wide, wide world? Who takes time to explore 'em and read 'em all? I don't...and I really have nothing to say so ta-ta.

Uncooperative Chess Experts

Ok, I've finally (and reluctantly) decided that Mr. Petrone is my expert for the ISS (Independant Studies With Seward. Get it? Hehe.). Unfortunately, he is not very cooperative. He refused to do an online interview, although that way he doesn't have to say anything and I don't have to prepare an interview for him, plus now I have to stay for a few minutes after school just because he's uncooperative. Isn't the interviewer supposed to call the shots? *sigh*

NO SCHOOL FRI.!!!

Alrighty, there wasn't school Friday, and that was pretty awesome...But I had CAP conferences the day before, and there was a bunch of paperwork, so that was kinda depressing. However, I got my report card back, and I got 100 in every encore, and 97 in everything else except language, where I got a 95. That's not bad, especially since I usually don't get higher than 94 in Algebra, but Mrs. Allain gave me an 'S' in science. I have 'E's in everything else, but I guess I talk too much so she gave me an 'S'. I don't think my dad noticed though. He was too busy sulking at the fact that my career test showed that I would be least sucessful in business and finance, and that's where you make all the money.

Funny Numbers

The numbers in this font look funny! Haha. 1234567890.

Freaky Dream

I had a freaky dream a while back. This is what happened:
I was walking down to my bus stop, and I saw a body in the grass. I walked up to see if he was still alive. He wasn't moving. Suddenly, without moving, he says in a low voic, "I suggest you call the police." I didn't move. Then he got out a gun and pointed it at me, so I ran into the rent office and called the police. I waited in the office for a while cuz i was scared, and waited. Then, I went out again, and there were 3 dead policemen in front of the freaky dude, and the freaky dude was in the same position, but somehow i knew he was still alive. Then, the bus came, and I went to school. i had keyboarding 1st period that day, so I went to keyboarding. Somehow, Kyle M. was in my class (he normally isn't) and I knew somehow that he was out to get me and that he was with that freaky dude. So, I sat in keyboarding the entire class cuz either he was telepathecally threatening me not to type or i knew that i shouldn't type (I'm serious, it was definetely one of the 2). Then, later, I went up to Tech Time cuz ya know, I didn't do anything in class, and that's when I woke up and realized it was 6:43 and I'm usually out the door 6:44 and I had to rush, but I made it out the door at 6:45, but the bus didn't come 'til 7:00, so I rushed for nothing. I'm serious, I had that dream. But I always have funny dreams, for example last summer the day before I went to horse camp I dreamt that all the kids in my 6th grade homeroom were at horse camp square dancing, and that list includes Brittany H. and Logan B. and Heath M. and them.

Poll!

You will discover that there is a poll at the bottom of the page! That's for you to vote. Obviously, if you don't know who Mrs. Weishaar is, don't pick that. Actually, Mrs. Weishaar is my Algebra teacher. Someone told me that she knows the ultimate answer.

Buttons

Buttons are so awesome! Not like buttons on your clothes: buttons that you push, like on an elevator. It annoys people so much when you push all the elevator buttons and make it light up. I like making patterns with them. Anyway, back to buttons. I love how when you push a button, it goes down, and then when you loosen up, it goes up. That's so cool! Especially when it makes a sound.

GT Today

Cool, it sounds like a newspaper article. Today, I made a big box, a little box who's volume is literally 8 times smaller (I figured it out mathematically), and I got a marble from Josh. So, I put the marble inside the small box inside the big box. It rattles!! I find such simple pleasures in life. Also, Sarah W. TRIED (emphasis on TRIED) to teach me how to solve a rubix cube and Ann promised to give me her rubix cube. I also beat Brittany at chess! I was using a strategie while I didn't know I was using a strategie! Huh. That word strategie looks kinda funny...

Minesweeper

I beat Minesweeper on expert in 276 seconds!!!! I can prove it too, if my dad would let me borrow his laptop...

Neko!

Alrighty, today, I got a Yahoo!! Widget. 3 actually, but only one's important. It's Neko! He/she/it runs around your screen and follows your mouse. But that's not important. Today, he/she/it managed to run exactly 2 miles across my screen! Also I learned that I have a 17-in. computer.

First Post!!!

Alright, let us all take in this moment of new posting...Moment over. So, this blog is just gonna be about what's going on in my life for the very few people that care.