Scatman John

None of you may know him, but he was a pretty epic guy. i got a picture of him. sad thing is, he died several years ago. he made jazz and electronica music, pretty upbeat. this is my contribution to him, to get people to remember him. <--Boom!-->

<- Hero In My Eyes - Project Reflection ->

The hero in my eyes project's main question was "How does a hero become a hero?" I really thought that to become a hero, you had to be named so by people, based on viewpoint or perspective. This project was about writing a story on a person whom you felt was a personal hero to you, in which I picked my father.

The steps I took to complete our project were:

1. We completed an interview with our hero.

2. We made a character sketch describing the moment.

3. We critiqued each other's papers. ( I was almost late...)

4. We changed our papers and modified them, then printed them out again.

5. Charlotte then checked our papers and added corrections.

6. We fixed the paper (yet again) and finished with that.

7. Finally, we used a template Charlotte created to make the same looking type of paper like in the books with famous medal of honor people.

8. We finished the project.

I really learned that heroes are more than just flashy people in pajamas, that they really are mainly people who help out with people, and help to solve their problems. Many of the challenges I encountered included the deadlines, but I could have tried to get extensions on time. Next time, I will try to have the work printed out by the date, and this will really help me by actually getting me full credit instead of half.

The habit of mind that I really used was innovation, because I really was using my own style of writing rather than the usual type of describing a hero.

The Origin of Zero

What really strikes me about these articles is the fact that they both explain a little about who really "discovered" zero. In the first article, It talked about how the first written ancient zero was in Mesopotamia. The second article talked about how the first zero was written in Babylon, which was a part of Mesopotamia in about 400-300 BC. Its quite strange, because there's no one historical answer to the origin of zero. They've decided this by using information from statues and other forms of sources, ranging from written on paper to written on tablets. As I explained earlier, no one person created a new number, but as people began to need a place holder representing nothing, they came up with the number zero. I really don't know how the world came to a consensus without efficient communication, but I would say that they just used what they had and did it the hard way, just so they could understand

(What is the origin of zero? How did we indicate nothingness before zero? by Robert Kaplan, Scientific American

The Origin of Zero by John Matson, Scientific American)

Terminator Take Down

Catching the signal from one of her friends, Angela brushed her skirt, took a deep breath and walked towards where he was sitting. She approached him with a speed like a snail, only a little faster. As she got there, she began to see a side of him she hadn’t ever seen of him before, because he was overly competitive to everybody who was in his line of sight. Whether or not it was eating food or just getting to class, he always attempted to beat whoever was there. She asked, “Do you want to race?” He just replied a simple, “Sure,” and left the room for lunch. Angela knew she was going to beat him, just because she was “the fastest on the field”.

The race eventually came, after school. The day was unusually cool, as fog combined with mist began to roll down the hill behind the school in an eerie way. “Three, Two, One, Go!” The referee yelled, as they bolted down the straight road. Angela ran like Ben Johnson, The second fastest man on the planet, but the boy ran like Usain Bolt, dashing quite fast. Then the ground began shuddering, as the trees began to quiver and vibrate from strong steps. All of a sudden, a heavy metal terminator, steaming from quick transport back to the past, had just emerged.

Everyone had just begun staring when the robot popped out through the trees. It turned its head slowly, looking at the kids and identifying them one by one by ID. The terminator eventually came across the one it was looking for, a boy named Kyle Reese. He just started running as soon as he saw it, and the others just watched in horror as one by one, the terminator just knocked kids over like bowling pins. Angela quickly began running after Kyle to learn a little bit more about him, and to devise a plan to ultimately destroy the terminator.

As soon as Angela caught up with Kyle, she began interrogating him, asking him questions, like when he was born and why he was here. She had gotten all of her answers, and summarized it all up. Kyle Reese was a boy born in 2008, who traveled back in time to try to evade some of the Skynet terminators that were hunting him down in order to ensure that an order was created. Then a plan was devised, one that would destroy the terminator.

Kyle ran and attracted the terminator’s attention, and led it to a nearby construction site. Angela was there, ready with some barrels of cement, and the crane that had a metal beam hanging from it. As Kyle ran through the site, the cement barrels fell off due to the vibrations sent through the ground, landing in front and on top of the terminator. The cement hardened, then completely solidified, causing the terminator to slow to a stop. The kids both thought they had defeated it, but they were wrong. It broke free of its concrete jail and decided to attack the helper. Angela didn’t see it coming, so she was grabbed and pulled around like a rag doll, until she fell unconscious. Kyle ran for his life.

As soon as Kyle got away, he went to the police station and asked for some assistance in attacking a crazed mechanical beast. Every officer there laughed and blew him off. No one knows what happened to Angela, because by the next day, the terminator was gone, and there was no evidence of a struggle. The End.

When I Shot my First Gun

CRACK! BOOM! You could hear as I caused the gun to click several times, on a warm, nice day in July. The kick from the rifle hit my shoulder, making me feel excited. The adrenaline rushing through my body like a hot knife through butter, I fired several more shots, each one making a loud pinging noise as the metal hit the metal. I was having so much fun, I forgot about where I was aiming, and my finger twitched. As soon as my finger twitched, I saw the dirt fly straight up. It was amazing, watching how as you don’t pay attention, dangerous things could happen.

As I moved to a different weapon, I felt strange, as if I had a fuzzy feeling inside myself, as if I were extremely nervous, but I was just quivering from a lot of leftover adrenaline, still coursing through my body. My Uncle yelled," Don't get nervous! If you do, then you might misfire!" As I got to the next gun, I was ready, and I took his advice. I saw it was an AR-15, with a loud boom after a shot, which scared me, causing me to jump every time it shot. It was awesome, shooting the gun of course.

We went back into my uncle’s garage, as the smells of oil and dust hit my nose with the strength of several decades. They seemed to impound my nose in a jail cell of smells, while my uncle talked about a mounted machine gun in front of him. I would say that it was a pretty darn solid weapon. He quietly said," This gun fires 50 cal. Bullets." We then sprinted back out to clean up our mess outside.

We went inside the cold, wooden house, which seemed like there was something other than us, ate some deliciously made roast beef, then fell into a deep sleep, awaiting a new day, one that would involve much more work than just shooting guns, but that's another story. After that day, I've always felt like more of an adult, like I'm older than I think I really am.

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Metal roar, Shrieks, and Murmurs

Go to this url for this sound:
http://margaretnoble.net/blog/metal-roar-shrieks-and-murmurs/comment-page-1/#comment-1481/#comment-148

The sound of a low lawnmower, enough to give you a chill, rises through the air. Then the sound of an elevator, rising through a shaft, eerie enough to give you a fast heartbeat. A sound of slight rubling in the backround, like a low moan of an engine and it’s pistons ramming slowly against it’s metal. Then you hear the complete harmony of all of them together, making an slow, melancholy version of a symphony. Thats what it’s all about. The eerie sounds of the low, ominous objects are enough to scare even the toughest of men.

Locker problem

Locker Problem
The locker problem was about the amount of lockers that would be opened up out of a thousand of them. Let's say that the first kid opens up every locker. Then the next kid, the second kid, would change the lockers with factors that have two in it. Thirty one of the one thousand lockers are open. All of the lockers are perfect squares, mainly because they have to open and close an odd number of times. This is because they have to open and close an odd number of times. If they were to open an odd number of times, it would most likely go open, closed, open. In the diagram below, it should show the lockers that are open through fifty.

Total lockers open in 50: 7
All lockers open
1x1=1 19x19=361
2x2=4 20x20=400
3x3=9 21x21=441
4x4=16 22x22=484
5x5=25 23x23=529
6x6=36 24x24=576
7x7=49 25x25=625
8x8=64 26x26=676
9x9=81 27x27=729
10x10=100 28x28=784
11x11=121 29x29=841
12x12=144 30x30=900
13x13=169 31x31=961
14x14=196
15x15=225
16x16=256
17x17=289
18x18=324

S.L.O.B. character- What I Did This Weekend

September 26th, Saturday 1964
6:06 PM
Today, searched for lil' white girl and black woman. Looked everywhere in Sylvan, they ain't there. Will look for the two tommorow. I'll get some sleep, then look for them again tommorow.

September 27th, Sunday 1964
5:26 PM
Looked for the two again. Never saw them. I swear they must've left the city, but I ain't leaving. It ain't my job to take care of them anymore.

About unrealscape

Well, I've heard unrealscape doesn't work for some of you, so go to paposcape.org. Sorry you have to download a client, but it's the only other good thing online :/ Yeah.

My Order of operations problems

Note: this is for school purposes.
1. [(94-30) / 8] x 12 2

2. [(62 / 2) - 3√8] x 6 2

insert parenthesis.

1. 25 x -20 -35 +20 = -875

My favorite fictional hero

The hero I would like to introduce is Green Arrow!

He is my most favorite hero, aside from pretzelman, whom i couldn't get a picture of. Anyways, he's my favorite hero because he is rich, he can shoot arrows with extreme accuracy, he doesn't have any superpowers, and he is extremely agile.

To me, the green arrow is just plain awesome, because I pretty much just want to be him. He has every single object I could possibly want, the artillery, the money, and the ability. He rocks hard in fights!

What Is Math? What Is Physics?

Note: this is for school purposes only.
Math is a compilation of algebra, geometry, and other stuff to create a worldwide language in which Physics are used. It developed numbers for use in all ways, nature, or form. It also requiresyou to THINK with your BRAIN in many ways.

Physics Are developed from formulas, and lots of numbers to figure out distance, such as 5260 ft. equal one mile (i think...) and work becomes other things people learn for dimensions.

hardest game ever

Although this game is a download, it's the hardest game ever made.
anyways, you should try it.

Eddsworld comic

Check out this comic, as it's hilarious

just know you can get more at eddsworld.co.uk!

new website for runescape server

here it is: unrealscape.com. visit it. love it. enjoy it. marry it. just kidding, but seriously visit unrealscape. it rocks, cuz if you liked frugooscape, then you will love this too.

30 things you didn't know about me

1. I am a 13 year old boy.
2. I listen to 20 year old Metallica music.
3. I love all sort of games, preferably FPS games.
4. I eat steak really easily, as it's my favorite food.
5. I love going on any computers, as long as they're fast.
6. My two most favorite fast food restaurants are Johnny Rockets and Burger King.
7. I used to live in Monterey.
8. I'm Filipino, White, Spanish, and Brazilian.
9. I take a martial art know as Tang Soo Do.
10. I like explosions a whole lot.
11. I live in a family of soon to be 6.
12. I am A martial arts Blue belt.
13. I was baptised in the Phillippines as a Catholic.
14. I want to become a physicist when I grow up, so I can destroy the universe, one atom at a time.
15. I believe in more than one god.
16. I had two pets in my family.
17. I am not able to eat fish, other than tuna.
18. I currently go to high tech high media arts school.
19. I play runescape as a current game.
20. I have climbed up Yosemite falls.
21. I have experience with woodworking and drywall.
22. I am probably on the computer right now.
23. My favorite superhero would be either forge, wolverine, or that asian guy from Heroes who can turn back time, or go into the future.
24. I am a little good at art, like drawing mechs or the sort.
25. I absolutely love the game Guitar Hero: Metallica.
26. In my life, I have seen two major car accidents.
27. The only things I am scared of are the reanimated dead, or "zombies".
28. My favorite color is blue. (kind of usual :\)
29. I am interested in coding computers.
30. I'm a couch potato.