Did I Just Read That?

This. Just...this.
Teen chased up tree by Voldemort the fainting goat

Today I Said to Anda...

"That is supposed to be creepy?" (pretends to fall asleep)

"You don't have to........neh........nuh neh nuh neh."

"Beard it beard it beard it beard it beard it buh...b-b-b-b-b..." (bursts out laughing)

ANDA:

"Uh...duh, aela ghella-OW!" 

"Agh! That looks like a pine cone!" 

"AAAUGH! That thing's wearing glasses, I swear!"

Did I Just Read That?

I was up tonight with just me and mom awake. Mom turned on KSL, and I found this weird headline there:

Man killed in avalanche was adventurous, brave, cautious, friends say

What's it like to be friends say?
I don't know about the "brave" part because that headline isn't up anymore, but the new one is equally funny.

Father of snowboarder says he lived good, adventurous life

I  wonder how he said that if he was already dead?
Here's the article in question.

Worms All Around

Today I unearthed a worm in my peach. It was like one inch long (aka an Inchworm) and it was crawling all around my peach, and Mom said it was lucky I didn't find half a worm, because it would have mean I'd eaten the other half. Ew. She also said that it's rare to find a worm in a storebought peach. I let the worm go outside by blowing it off, and afterwards I threw my peach away, because it's very unnerving to get a worm in your peach.
Egh.

Did I Just SAY That?

Today i asked mom:
"What's donut divided by Pi minus nine-thousand-and one plus two minus the possibility of an earthquake shattering a donut into two perfect halves?"
Now THAT'S a brain buster for all you math madmen out there!

Amusementine Parque

Today we went to an amusement park. It was called Lakeside, and there were so many crazily-fun rides that you'd probably faint if you went to nine other amusement parks that day. There were two zones: The Kiddie Zone, and the personally-named Unkiddie Zone. The kiddie zone had a tiny ferris wheel that i wasn't allowed on because i was too tall, a crazily-scary, crazily-fun roller coaster, and tons and tons of spinny rides, including, but not only, a turtle thing with two bumps at the far side.
The Unkiddie Zone was where the really fun stuff was. There was a big ferris wheel, which we rode, a Bumper cars thing with boats, which we wanted to ride but didn't have enough time to ride, a tough maze that you had to navigate while avoiding see-through plastic walls  (I called it the Castle of Illusion several times), which we navigated, and a crazy thing called the Huricane where you spin around really fast in a wooden airplane model, which we rode. It was so fun, and i wish we could have stayed for longer.
In short, amusement parks are good at their job. I highly recommend that you go to one at least once in your life.

Welcome to Wyoming

Yesterday, we went to Wyoming. Dad was doing a show. We stayed in a hotel called Hilton Garden, and we watched Dad's show. It was awesome. Dad performed at the old Laramie High School building, and afterwards we did some exploration. There was a cool upstairs, and a REALLY cool gym. It was full of darkness, and Anda pretended she was a ghost griffin! I also came up with this really cool intro to a story.

Hiding in shadow, the Masters of Dark and Evil have waited for many centuries to begin their conquest of the world. Day by day, they consume the souls of the innocent and grow stronger with each one. The only one fabled to be able to defeat them is the legendary Hero of Light, but he has never appeared. To make matters worse, the Dark Masters are beginning their conquest. When will the hero appear, what form will he take, and most importantly, can he stop the Dark Masters?

Afterwards, we checked out the building a little more, and then we went to the store, bought some stuff, came back to the hotel, and went to bed. The next morning, we went swimming. We swam for two hours straight before we had to leave Wyoming, and now we're back in Longmont and I feel like my eyes need to either puke or blow up.

Did I Just Read That?

On a therapeutic ice pack:

Reduces hemorrhaging, Muscle Spasms and Pain Promotes Faster Recovery

That's weird...when I'm sick, hurting usually doesn't either mean I'm getting better or happen.
Plus i don't know what hemorrhaging is.

Bacterialectric

Tonight, Mom told us about how scientists discovered that bacteria feeding on sewage create electricity. She said that it also could clean up a lot of pollution, because they eat rotty stuff. We immediately thought about trash powered cars--"More energy-efficiency in exchange for a stinkier fuel tank!"--and Mom explained how it would have a better by-product, water. The possibilities are nearly infinite...

Compcont

Today, all i have to do for school is a Compare/Contrast paragraph about Mickey's Christmas Carol and the original, the movie version of Around the World in 80 Days, and the game version of Around the World in 80 Days. I'm doing the Comp/Cont thing on my blog...Here 'Tis.

Mickey's Christmas Carol is similar to the original. One way it's similar is that the plot and characters are basically the same. Some of the lines are also mostly unchanged. Marley's chains are also still made of odd things (though not the same.) However, like most story-to-movie adaptions, there were changes--The most obvious is the characters. They look like Disney characters. Also, it's considerably funnier (For example, instead of just "Merry Christmas," Bob Cratchit says "And a Bah, Humbug--I mean, a Merry Christmas to you, Scrooge.")
Scrooge is slightly nicer and barely survives his encounter with the Ghost of Christmas Future, who actually has some lines of dialogue. Mickey's Christmas Carol is certainly similar to the original, but there are many differences as well.

How do you like it?

Did I Just Read That?

Today on my school, i found this gaping error:

President Lincoln's blockade strategy forced the quickly formed Federal navy, which included converted yachts and ferry boats in its fleet, to patrol more than 3,500 miles of coast. To simplify this task, navel ships concentrated on blocking a few key ports.

Innie or outie?

Benji Says,

Today, around the end of dinner, Benji and Dad were playing Hi-five. instead of the usual stuff, he said...

Gimme five. On the side! Up high! On the another side! Down low! Too slow!

Um...what?

Did I just read that?

When i was doing school today, I discovered this humorous line in a lesson about electricity :

Electricity can be dangerous to humans and other people.

I didn't know there was a guy named Humans!
Here's the link: http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/topics/13k.html

Did I Just Read That?

Today, Anda asked how to install Java onto my new laptop. When she Googled the manual to try to find out how, we found this sentence:

Some Java applications may experience problems or worse problems under other JREs.

So what's the difference between a problem and a worse problem?

Destination Imaginaton

Today, I had to go to a school somewhere far from Longmont for my Destination Imagination Competition. I went with my team members Anastasia Damick and Kaiya Hirai, with Kaiya's mom. When we got there, we had to wait a while for Emily Taft and Jazz Mueller, my other two team members, to get there. Then we had to wait a bit, and then we had to do an Instant Challenge, a quick challenge that took a short time. I'm not allowed to talk about it until the end of July, and all I can tell you is this: It was fun, and we had to do something. After July, I'll edit to include details. Then we got taken into the "Break out" room, where we got to wait. We also got free pencils and rubber eraser-coverers (and maybe erasers) that were made to look like small milk bottles. Then we went to the gym in the audience part to do a little preparation and watch one of the performances. Then we went to get our structure tested, and it was perfect except the popsicle sticks, which were an eighth of an inch to large, so we had to clip the sticks with pliers and remove the unneeded wood with a pocketknify-thing. Then we tested again, and it passed. Then later we went on, and did our skit. It's about an alien who tries to take over the world, and is foiled by getting flung into the sun. We did it perfectly, and Kaiya had to add weights to the structure after her role as the hiker. We finished with ten seconds left. Afterwards, we left, and on the way home, we got ice cream from Sonic. Then when i got home, i went to bed.

Mister Tim

Last night, I went to Dad's show. After scouts, i had to re-get my shoes on and hurry over there. I was allowed to take two Animorphs library books, provided i didn't lose them, and read them while they set up. It was kind of cool, really. I was surprised when Claire (one of my classmates at church) showed up, and before Dad performed, we got to see Thom Wall, a juggler, juggle some knives and then balance one with red ribbons taped to it (he wanted us to pretend it was on fire) on his chin after cutting a carrot on it and at the same time, play an electric ukulele after explaining that "ukulele" meant "silly little guitar-like instrument made entirely of knives!" and cutting another carrot on the ukulele. It was really funny. Then at last, Dad came onstage. He started by singing something i can't remember, followed immediately by "Zombies", which, unfortunately, didn't use the siren up at the ceiling. Then i can't remember a rather large chunk, but eventually he started singing "Horticulture," and then "There must be something more to this" (i don't know the real name) and then "Hawaii", in that very order, and i saw a connection in the order. During question time, i inquired if it was just a coincidence that the order was there. He said yes. After question time, it was requests. I requested something lyricless, like video game music. He didn't do video game, but it was still lyricless. After that, he sang a few songs, and the show ended. I got to help him pack up and leave, and that was the end of the show. By the way, Dad also got a Thom card (With his name, address, email adress, phone number, picture of him with a ball on his head, etc.)

Frizbeh

I have been playing outside with Anda and Dan recently, playing an imagination game called the "Doppelgämer," a pun on doppelgänger and game. Today, we got distracted, went inside for something, and forgot. When i came out again, Anda and Dan were playing with a frisbee. I quickly joined in, and then we had a blast. We improved our skills, invented new moves, like the Starball, where a frisbee bounces off something and continues flying, and played a little activity. After that we went in and i wrote this blogpost.

In unrelated news, i have recently discovered that eggs, except for the shells, are cells.

Lunex

So, last week, Thursday or Friday, there was this partial lunar eclipse. It looked like the top of the moon was slowly vanishing, and we stayed out to watch, accompanied by Athena, the black-and-white cat that lives at Grandma's house. We changed positions occasionally, finally choosing the dirt-field. We stayed out a while, then went back in.

This...has got...to be...the coolest...experience i've...ever had....

Okay, today was neat. There was a recent car crash. Mom heard two crashes in a row and ran out to see what was going on...and so did all the neighbors. We ran outside to the backyard to watch while Mom got halfway up the block and was obstructed by a tree. It had been crashed by a car that had been racing with another one up our street. The car had tipped over and knocked over the tree and got badly smashed up. The other, unhurt car got away and mom thinks it's red, but someone else thought it was yella. The guy next door crossed the tree first and warned the girls not to come across. Several of them looked across, but all they saw was a crunched up car.
Mom says that it was so crunched up that she "couldn't tell if it was upside down or not." All this time, we had been watching, but we didn't see it; Mom told me. We did notice, however, that a lotta police cars, fire trucks, and ambulances were gathering. And that they were blinding. Then she came back in, seriously depressed, because she thought the driver and passenger were dead. Then mom went out again 2 check on T neighbors, told the police and the witness that the witness could park in our driveway, someone else came up and she let it park in our driveway, he went through the shrubbree to his mom's house, where the car had crashed the tree, she came back in and told us that we could come out and watch under that big pine tree in the front yard. I went out with the others, but got poked in the feet about 1 1/2 yards towards it, so i went back in and got my shoes on. When i was going outside, i was interrupted by mom, who said a helicopter was gonna land almost right in front of our house. It did, and we changed peeking windows multiple times, finally settling on the one in my bedroom. When it landed, me and Anda were in her bedroom, then we switched multiple times, finally my room. Eventually it took off and we came outside. We watched for a while, then a neighbor lent us her blankets. We watched longer, then detectives started taking pictures around the scene, and so did a newsman. The police had put up police tape, where the newsman was behind. Eventually, a special truck showed up and shone a light on the road, helping them examine the skid marks.  We watched for a long time, then mom pointed out the car fluid that was spilled on the road, then we watched longer, then we went in, but not before a policeman had given Benji some of the police tape. We waited for Dan's moment of delight when a tow truck would get the car that had been crushed like an eggshell. It came, and it ended up being the epic-est experience i've ever had, not counting the time when i was the one on the hospital bed thing. Afterwards, the police cars lingered for a while, then they went away. This is a shorter post than i expected it.
Edit: On the other hand, this is the longest post on my blog as of August 8, 2011.

Hoo-yay!

It turns out that it was completely useless doing that "RPG Maker XP XP-ired" thing. Why? Because yesterday, mom helped me register it, as well as Game Maker version 8. Game Maker has no day limit, but it has a feature limit if it's unregistered. Now all the features are unlocked--triggers, particle effects, rotating sprites through objects, even gradients! RPG Maker always had all its features, but had a 30-day use limit. If anybody wants to try my Mario fangame, visit Yoyogames.com. Watch out, there's lots of other Mario fangames!
PS: In completely unrelated news, i have recently acquired a new scar.
Edit: You can't actually find it on YoyoGames yet. Email me if you want it.