To be or not to be? What is the meaning of life? Why? Those are the questions. If I could have any super power I wanted I would chose to have the ability to answer any question I wanted. Specifically those pre mentioned. Why? Well I cannot answer that because I do not have that super power.
To be able to answer any question would mean that when the evil villain is holding some civilians hostage I can save them simply by thinking how. After that I lay my overly elaborate plan into action and after it fails I will come up with a better, less complex plan that the evil villain will fall into and will then be locked up in jail. This less complex plan will probably consist of a big pit dug in the ground and some leaves over top to disguise it.
As for the meaning of life the answer is obviously 42. And To the question why, because I cannot answer that I must make do with saying why not? Yes levitation is great and laser eyes are awesome, but if you know the way to defeat them then their superpower is useless. As well as answering the questions previously mentioned it would be of great significance to know other things. Like how to become evil overloads of the world and I would then be able to implement the list of 100 things to do. www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord
Monday, January 25, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
Books or Movies
Can you read? Have you ever read a book? Have you ever seen a movie? When you answer yes to all three of these questions please realize that you are reading right now and that many of the books you have read in the past have been turned into movies. Whether books becoming movies is a good thing or not is up to you but please at least read this blog which is entirely opinion and not backed by fact.
The book Eragon written by Christopher Paolini was an amazing book in which there are elves, dwarves, and dragons at the same time. Unforgivably the movie was a piece of; for lack of a word I can use without getting in trouble, a piece of junk. This is just one example of a great book being turned into a horrible movie. On the contrary lord of the rings was an ok set of books and was turned into a set of amazing movies.
In grade 7 Mr. Pitt read The Lightning Thief to us. We all agreed that it was a great book and some of us went on to read the other four books in the series. When I went to see avatar in the theatres one of the ads in the beginning was of The Lightning Thief being turned into a movie and well at least by the ad I think it will be a good movie. Though if it is a bad movie I have no power to make it better I hope for the best. As long as there are a lot of explosions and good special effects it, at least in my mind is a good movie, even if the characters are shallow and the plot pathetic.
While in the past there have been horrible movies as well as great ones I still think that reading a book and the movie about the book is a horrible idea. If you read the book, great. If you match the movie, great. But please just don’t do both. It will ruin it for you and please remember that you are reading right now.
The book Eragon written by Christopher Paolini was an amazing book in which there are elves, dwarves, and dragons at the same time. Unforgivably the movie was a piece of; for lack of a word I can use without getting in trouble, a piece of junk. This is just one example of a great book being turned into a horrible movie. On the contrary lord of the rings was an ok set of books and was turned into a set of amazing movies.
In grade 7 Mr. Pitt read The Lightning Thief to us. We all agreed that it was a great book and some of us went on to read the other four books in the series. When I went to see avatar in the theatres one of the ads in the beginning was of The Lightning Thief being turned into a movie and well at least by the ad I think it will be a good movie. Though if it is a bad movie I have no power to make it better I hope for the best. As long as there are a lot of explosions and good special effects it, at least in my mind is a good movie, even if the characters are shallow and the plot pathetic.
While in the past there have been horrible movies as well as great ones I still think that reading a book and the movie about the book is a horrible idea. If you read the book, great. If you match the movie, great. But please just don’t do both. It will ruin it for you and please remember that you are reading right now.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Did You Know???
By the time you read this blog 200,000 songs will be downloaded illegally. At this rate it will take 46 days for every human on this planet to download a song illegally. That’s 6,700,000,000 songs. Remember, someone has to write all those songs. If you read one week of the New York Times you will have read more information than you would have in a life time in the 18th century. Most people just skim through the paper not pausing to think just how much information they are seeing and that their great, great, great, great grandfather would probably never have seen that much information in his life.
This year we will make 32,000,000,000,000 bytes of unique information, more than was made in the previous 5000 years. Those 32 trillion bytes that we will make this year will be but a miniscule portion of the amount of information that will be made next year. And the year after that, and the year after that and so on and so forth. At least until the great apocalypse comes and all the humans are killed by the alien invaders.
Next time you go on the internet or read a book think about how fortunate you are that you live now and not a long time ago. Just remember that 200,000 songs have just been downloaded illegally and that you have read more information than you would have in a week in the 18th century. On the downside we have to know all sorts of stuff that we wouldn’t need to know 300 years ago. Just remember you are smarter than most people were in the 18th century and you are only a kid.
This year we will make 32,000,000,000,000 bytes of unique information, more than was made in the previous 5000 years. Those 32 trillion bytes that we will make this year will be but a miniscule portion of the amount of information that will be made next year. And the year after that, and the year after that and so on and so forth. At least until the great apocalypse comes and all the humans are killed by the alien invaders.
Next time you go on the internet or read a book think about how fortunate you are that you live now and not a long time ago. Just remember that 200,000 songs have just been downloaded illegally and that you have read more information than you would have in a week in the 18th century. On the downside we have to know all sorts of stuff that we wouldn’t need to know 300 years ago. Just remember you are smarter than most people were in the 18th century and you are only a kid.
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