Filed under: Classical Writing
Once there was a whipping top and a ball that lay together in a toy box with a lot of other toys. The Top said to the Ball, “Let’s get married, since we live in the same box,” but the ball wouldn’t even reply. The next day the little guy that owned the toys came and painted the top, so when it was spinning it looked cooler. “Look at me,” said the top to the ball. “What do you say now? Now will you marry me? It would be perfect; you fly and I spin. No two toys could be happier.” “Right,” replied the ball “Maybe you do not know that my shell is made of morocco leather and my insides are made of Spanish cork.” “Of course; but I am made of mahogany,” said the top. “The major himself turned me.” “Haha, yeah right” said the ball. “If I am lying may I be gunned down by an AK-47 this very minute,” replied the top. “You sure can lie,” said the ball. “I’m not lying!”, claimed the top. “Well it does not matter anyway,” replied the ball, “I am already half-engaged to a swallow, for every time I fly up into the air he sticks his head out of the nest and says ‘Will you?’ (people, I did not make up this part, blame Hans Christian Andersen) and I have said ‘Yes’ to myself silently and that is as good as being half-engaged. But I promise to think of you always.” “Much good that will do me!” said the top. And they talked no more. The next day the boy that owned the toys came and got the ball and played with it. Every time it came down it seemed to bounce a little higher but then suddenly the ball jumped so high that it disappeared and it never came down. When he saw this the top thought to himself gloomily, “She has been married to the swallow.” . . . (Sad and gloomy music)
To Be Continued
Filed under: Classical Writing
Once there was a prince dude, who wanted a real princess for his wife. He roamed the entire world looking for a totally real princess, but he couldn’t find one! He went home all sad and depressed and moped and did all that other stuff people do when they want something. But then one night, during a thunderstorm, his Dad, the king dude, heard a massive “Whump!” and then a massive dent appeared in the door! Whatever was out there had to be big and strong, something capable of leaving a massive dent in an armored door. Then whatever it was smashed into it again and again so he called to his wife the queen, “Honey! Get the anti-radiation RPG ready, I think the Hulk is outside!”, (by then of course the door was practically off its hinges) and then he opened the door. . . and he saw. . . a . . . princess, but she was soaked! And she asked if she could stay the night, “Of course!”, said the king, but the old queen thought, “Princess eh? We’ll soon see!” So the queen put a single pea under twenty matresses and another twenty gazillion eider-down beds and the princess had to sleep in orbit all night.
Scenario A: Princess person feels pea. Prince guy asks her to marry him. She says yes. Happy ending (Yaay!).
Scenario B: Princess person feels pea. Prince guy asks her to marry him. She says no. Sad ending (Waah!).
Scenario C: Princess person does not feel pea. Princess person leaves. Inconclusive ending (Huh?).
Scenario D: Princess person does not feel pea. Princess person leaves. Prince dude chases her and asks her to marry him. She says yes. Happy ending (Yaay!).
Scenario E: Princess person does not feel pea. Princess person leaves. Prince dude chases her and asks her to marry him. Angry princess turns into She-Hulk. She-Hulk turns prince into crowbait. Coolest ending ever!!! (Awesome Dude!!!).
Filed under: Physics
Things I learned:
- There is a minumum temperature that a system can have and that temperature is called Absolute zero
- Water Boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit; 100 degrees Celsius; 373 Kelvins; and 672 degrees Rankine.
- Ice melts at 32 degrees Fahrenheit; 0 degrees Celsius; 273 Kelvins; and 492 degrees Rankine.
- Nitrogen boils at -321 degrees Fahrenheit; -196 degrees Celsius 77 Kelvins; and 139 degrees Rankine
- Absolute zero is -460 degrees Fahrenheit; -273 degrees Celsius; 0 Kelvins; and 0 degrees Rankine.
- The sun’s temperature is about 6,000 degrees Celsius.
Filed under: Physics
Things I learned:
- A gigahertz is a billion clock cycles per second
- A clock is a circuit that switches back and forth between two states at a steady rate which produces a series of electrical pulses at a steady rate throughout the computer. It’s job is to synchronize the different functions of the computer.
- USB stands for Universal Serial Bus
- A Computer consists of a CPU; Ram; USB ports; a Display; a Disc controller; a Keyboard and mouse; an Optical Drive Controller; Optical Drive; a Clock; and a bunch of serial to parallel converters.
- LCD stands for Liquid-crystal display.
Filed under: Classical Writing
Once there was a whipping top and a ball that lay together in a toy box with a lot of other toys and the Top said to the Ball, “Lets get married, since we live in the same box.” but the ball wouldn’t even reply. The next day the little guy that owned the toys came and painted the top, so when it was spinning it looked cooler. “Look at me,” said the top to the ball. “What do you say now? Now will you marry me? It would be perfect; you fly and I spin. No two toys could be happier.” “Right.” Replied the ball “maybe you do not know that my shell is made of morocco leather and my insides are made of Spanish cork.” “Of course; but I am made of mahogany,” said the top. “The major himself turned me.” “Haha, yeah right” said the ball. “If I am lying may I be gunned down by an AK-47 this very minute.” Replied the top. “You sure can lie,” said the ball. “I’m not lying!” claimed the top. “Well it does not matter anyways,” replied the ball, “I am already half engaged to a swallow, for every time I fly up into the air he sticks his head out of the nest and says ‘Will you?’ (people, I did not make up this part, blame Hans Christiansen Andersen) and I have said ‘Yes’ to myself silently and that is as good as being half engaged. But I promise to think of you always.” “Much good that will do me!” said the top. And they talked no more. The next day the boy that owned the toys came and got the ball and played with it and every time it came down it seemed to bounce a little higher but then suddenly
To Be Continued
Filed under: Physics
Things I learned:
- CDs each hold about 640MB.
- DVDs each hold about 5GB.
- Hard discs have nonvolatile memory which means that when you turn it off you don’t lose your files but it is slower than RAM.
- RAM is faster than a hard disc but it has volatile memory which means if you lose power and turn it off then you lose your work.
Once there was a whipping top and a ball that lay together in a toy box with a lot of other toys and the Top said to the Ball, “Lets get married, since we live in the same box.” but the ball wouldn’t even reply. The next day the little guy that owned the toys came and painted the top, so when it was spinning it looked cooler. “Look at me,” said the top to the ball. “What do you say now? Now will you marry me? It would be perfect; you fly and I spin. No two toys could be happier.” “Right.” Replied the ball “maybe you do not know that my shell is made of morocco leather and my insides are made of Spanish cork.” “Of course; but I am made of mahogany,” said the top. “The major himself turned me.” “Haha, yeah right” said the ball. “If I am lying may I be gunned down by an AK-47 this very minute.” Replied the top. “You sure can lie,” said the ball. “I’m not lying!” claimed the top. Just at that minute a man carrying an AK-47 burst into the room and gunned down the top.
The End
Filed under: Classical Writing
Once there was a prince dude, who wanted a real princess for his wife. So he roamed the entire world looking for a totally real princess, but he couldn’t find one! So he went home all sad like and was depressed and moped and all that other stuff people do when they want something. But one night, during a thunderstorm, his Dad, the king dude, who had just been sitting on his throne thing, just minding his own business, when he heard a massive “Whump!” and then a massive dent appeared in the door, whatever was out there had to be big and strong, something capable of leaving a massive dent in an armored door. Then whatever it was smashed into it again and again so he called to his wife the queen, “Honey! Get the anti-radiation RPG ready, I think the Hulk is outside!”, (by then of course the door was practically off it’s hinges) and then he opened the door. . . and he saw. . . a . . . princess, but she was soaked! And she asked if she could stay the night, “Of course!” said the king, but the old queen thought, “Princess eh? we’ll soon see!” so the queen put a single pea under twenty matresses and another twenty gazillion eider-down beds and the princess had to sleep in orbit all night.
Scenario A: Princess person feels pea. Prince guy asks her to marry him. She says yes. Happy ending (Yaay!).
Scenario B: Princess person feels pea. Prince guy asks her to marry him. She says no. Sad ending (Waah!).
Scenario C: Princess person does not feel pea. Princess person leaves. Inconclusive ending (Huh?).
Scenario D: Princess person does not feel pea. Princess person leaves. Prince dude chases her. Happy ending (Yaay!).
Scenario E: Princess person does not feel pea. Princess person leaves. Prince dude chases her. Angry princess turns into She-Hulk. She-Hulk turns prince into crowbait. Coolest ending (Awesome Dude!!!).
Filed under: Classical Writing
Once there was a prince dude, who wanted a real princess for his wife. So he roamed the entire world looking for a totally real princess, but he couldn’t find one! So he went home all sad like and was depressed and moped and all that other stuff people do when they want something. But one night, during a thunderstorm, his Dad, the king dude, heard a great banging on the door and he saw that the door was getting hit so hard that dents were appearing, and it was an armored door too! So he went to open it, but right as he got there the door fell right off it’s hinges and standing out there was a princess, but she was soaked! And she asked if she could stay the night, “Of course!” said the king, but the old queen thought, “Princess eh? we’ll soon see!” so the queen put a single pea under twenty matresses and another twenty gazillion eider-down beds and the princess had to sleep there all night.
Scenario A: Princess person feels pea. Prince guy asks her to marry him. She says yes. Happy ending.
Scenario B: Princess person feels pea. Prince guy asks her to marry him. She says no. Sad ending.
Scenario C: Princess person does not feel pea. Princess person leaves. Inconclusive ending.
Scenario D: Princess person does not feel pea. Princess person leaves. Prince dude chases her. Happy ending.
Filed under: My lessons
Books I read:
- David Balfour, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
- Fish In A Flash, by Jim Arnosky.
