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Happy Late Thanksgiving!

Happy late Thanksgiving all! I, for one, had a good one. NO ONE actually finished my crossword though. But that's O.K. I guess; it was a pretty hard crossword.

http://holydays.tripod.com/thanks.htm Click there to read a very brief summary of the Thanksgiving story.

You know what we all get to do after Thanksgiving? We get to look forward to Christmas! Holidays are the best.

¿Hablas español?

Heh heh, I do. Not fluently though; just what I've learned from taking it in school. No one else in my family knows it, so I like to ask them questions in Spanish and see what they do. My family members that have taken another foreign language respond in their language. Then I don't know what to say.

G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra

I saw G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra the other day. It was just O.K. The movie was well done, and enjoyable to watch, but it brought to mind the devastating phrase I thought I would never ponder: too much action? I think watching people fight for like an hour straight can actually get boring. Also, while the adds kind of made it look like a kid's movie, it was much closer to the level of Iron Man and Transformers. Two other movies that were supposed to be for kids.

I think in modern society, movies have been taken over by a need for high-speed, high-tech action. If it doesn't have that, then it's not a good movie. In the old episodes of Star Trek, the action is slow and dramatic, and the plot deals in philosophy and exploration. But you could never get away with that in a modern blockbuster. Indeed, this is evident in the new 2009 adaption of Star Trek. It's not the same show, or movie, anymore.

Don't get me wrong, I still like these movies. Iron Man was one of my favorites. I just think that maybe we've lost something in modern film.

Cool Fact

I learned the most interesting thing in physics a while ago. You see, because of air resistance, every object has what we call a terminal velocity. This means that you can only reach a certain speed - air won't let you get any faster. Believe it or not, most insects and some small rodents actually have such a low terminal velocity that they can fall from virtually any height and be unharmed.

Pretty neat, huh?

Need A Longer Page...

Wow. I've already written enough posts that they don't all show up on my main page. Feel free to look through the blog archive and read 'em all from the beginning. Some of those guys are pretty recent. Besides, even the old ones are good.

Eventually, maybe I'll start limiting myself to one post a day and just make my posts a lot longer. I don't know; that might not be as much fun.

The Great Outdoors

Wouldn't life be so much better if we all lived in the Shire? I would relax, smoke pipeweed with Bilbo Baggins, and live in a comfortable hobbit-hole. Now that would be the life.

Anyways, I wish the real world were that comfortable. Amidst the many changes we have undergone due to technology, life has become a much more high-speed place. I think sometimes we forget about the important things in life, like the real, natural world we have been given, and how to enjoy what's left of it.

Even our houses are too enclosed. I mean, I'm grateful for them, because they make things so much easier, but because of them we are blocked from nature. Maybe someday I'll move out into the wilderness and live as a hermit. Just kidding; that's probably going to extremes. But I'm going to camp more when I'm older. I guess camping is really the only way to seriously get into the great outdoors.

The Importance of Being Earnest

If you haven't read The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde, you should. It's very funny, and a short read. Plus, it's the type of book (or play, I should say) your English teacher would commend you for reading.

Pictures

In my short time writing a blog, I've noticed that posting a picture can make a post much, much more visually stimulating. I've also observed, however, that too many similar pictures can make the blog annoying. It's an important thing to watch.

Pumpkin Pie

I told my family that I would bake a pumpkin pie this Thanksgiving. Hopefully I can do it without completely making a ruin of the recipe; my mom is going to help me a little. I figure if I start learning to cook now, then I'll be set once I'm older; my wife probably won't want to cook every night. Plus it's a good thing to have in your back pocket.

Above is another picture from Amulet that I thought was pretty cool; wanted to put it in.

Amulet 2

I don't read many graphic novels, but there's one that I think is really good: Kazu Kibuishi's Amulet. He recently came out with book two, and it's like ten times better than the first one. And I already liked the first one. This is an image of the new cover.

The new book really opens up the plot - while before, we really only saw Emily and Navin in a seemingly small, dark world, they are now thrown into the bright city of Kanalis. More characters are introduced, and it has a lot more action. Emily's duty as Stonekeeper is also brought further into the plot; she undergoes training to control the Amulet's power. Overall, it really is taking the series in the right direction, and I enjoyed it very much.

About the Story...

That was a short story I felt like writing. Pretty good, huh? I like to write things in my spare time. It's kind of like a hobby I guess.

A Short Story

The tall, dark man walked down the hallway. His silhouette seemed ominous in the narrow confines of the dark corridor. It was endless; his walk was endless. In monotony he droned on, slowly battling fatigue and hunger. Finally, he came to a staircase. Looking up into its long, elevated slope, he felt that he could not fight death any longer. But suddenly, in the farthest depths of his vision, in a realm barely percepted by his mind, he saw light. A tiny, elusive pinprick of light, far, far away. And this drove him on. His mind was empty, his heart, emotionless. Everything was concentrated on carrying on, on reaching that one pinprick of light, that miniscule hope that lingered, that gave him his last will for life. His back bent. His body shook. He had nothing left. Whatever was making him move, it was an invisible force, one that was not his own. His body was dead, but the will gave it power. And slowly, ever so slowly, the light grew. It grew and grew until it could grow no more; he was there. He had made it. He had risked death to have life, and he had won. And in the light he was renewed, so that he could not pass away.

Homework

Ack, I have so much homework today. It's going to take forever; procrastinating right now. What better way to procrastinate than by blogging?

My neighbors just got a little dog, and every morning before school they play with him outside and he barks his head off. I've been woken up every morning this week. Ah well, they'll probably get tired of taking him out that early anyway.

Homework/raking time. Huzzah!!!!!

First Post

First post here. What to say...

I started this just to have something to write and work on during the day. It's pretty cool; on here I can talk about whatever I want! I can go on forever, and ever, and ever.

I was studying advanced bio today. Even though I'm taking physics, it's an extra class to boost my experience. Plus, I love learning biology. This one is more about the human body, because it's a second year course, so in the first chapter I'm already through mitosis and the phospholipid bilayer. Woo-hoo! In past classes, we've spent way too much time on those subjects. I already could kind of guess the seven levels of an organism that the book teaches, and that was pretty cool. They are organism, organ systems, organs, tissues, cells, organelles, molecules.

Don't worry, I'm not just going to talk about science in every post. I do want people to read this, after all. Too bad you're not all science gurus! If that was the case, maybe I would be the one getting bored after a while. Just kidding; science never gets boring.