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.
Friday, November 20, 2009
iPods
On the 18th of November after S.O.S I walked into my working with words class fully expecting to have a lot of dry work and not much fun at all. Usually the only thing that makes this class and the work in it bearable is the use of my iPod. Unfortunately that day I sat down at my desk with my iPod and binder ready for the class. The handout gets passed out and I settle into my chair seeing the work I have an hour to complete. Oddly Dr. Sky objected to the use of my iPod and said that a new rule had been put into effect and that we could not use our iPods. I openly objected to this saying that we always used our iPods. The only thing she had to say was that it was a rule and she had to follow it.
That class was absolute torture. Not only did I have seven page of grammar I had to listen to other people complaining about the same thing I was. After what seemed like double the time we were dismissed for lunch and to the freedom to talk to each other. At that moment I remembered that my friend from another school had written a petition and was able to go off campus at lunch so I thought why not do the same here. That is why I am writing a petition volleying for the use of our iPods in class.
That class was absolute torture. Not only did I have seven page of grammar I had to listen to other people complaining about the same thing I was. After what seemed like double the time we were dismissed for lunch and to the freedom to talk to each other. At that moment I remembered that my friend from another school had written a petition and was able to go off campus at lunch so I thought why not do the same here. That is why I am writing a petition volleying for the use of our iPods in class.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
The Only Fuel to Hate is Indifference
“The only fuel to hate is indifference” Dr. Eva Olsson came to SJK to say some very simple words with an astounding meaning. I was awestruck to find out that this old, frail woman standing in front of me was in fact a survivor of the worst deed done by humans. She was a survivor of the Holocaust. Dr. Olsson came and spoke with such enthusiasm and belief that you had to not only believe, but accept what she said. Not only was she speaking, she also had a visual slide show in the back showing the mounds of people being loaded on trains, the gas chambers where millions were killed, and the mass graves where millions were buried.
”You went to the left or the right”. Eva Olsson said in her presentation. “If you went left you got a free walk into the gas chambers where you suffocated. If you went right you got the privilege of serving the rest of the war or the rest of your life (whichever came first) to hard labour in a field or factory making tanks or bullets for the Nazi army”. Leaving that day I realized that what happened to Eva is happening to a lot of people every day around the world. In Africa children are starving to death every day and the entire world is turning a blind eye on it. If I have learned anything from Eva it is that the worst thing you can do is nothing, unfortunately that is exactly what happened when she and millions of others were in the fight of their lives against the Nazis and starvation.
As Eva recalled stories of the Nazis forcing everyone to leave their shoes behind on the rivers edge and March down the road to the gas chambers where the air was forced from their lungs I thought back to earlier in her presentation when she said that the Nazis would shout any woman holding a baby. First I thought it was just another thing they did but then realized there was more cruelty behind it than there appeared. The bullet would pass through the baby’s head and into the woman’s heart therefore saving a bullet for the next person. If anything this showed me that humans are capable of great compassion and great cruelty. Having Eva speak to me has forced me to finally see the world as it is, a smudge of dirt in the endless expanse of space, but remember this planet is not just dirt, there are also diamonds.
”You went to the left or the right”. Eva Olsson said in her presentation. “If you went left you got a free walk into the gas chambers where you suffocated. If you went right you got the privilege of serving the rest of the war or the rest of your life (whichever came first) to hard labour in a field or factory making tanks or bullets for the Nazi army”. Leaving that day I realized that what happened to Eva is happening to a lot of people every day around the world. In Africa children are starving to death every day and the entire world is turning a blind eye on it. If I have learned anything from Eva it is that the worst thing you can do is nothing, unfortunately that is exactly what happened when she and millions of others were in the fight of their lives against the Nazis and starvation.
As Eva recalled stories of the Nazis forcing everyone to leave their shoes behind on the rivers edge and March down the road to the gas chambers where the air was forced from their lungs I thought back to earlier in her presentation when she said that the Nazis would shout any woman holding a baby. First I thought it was just another thing they did but then realized there was more cruelty behind it than there appeared. The bullet would pass through the baby’s head and into the woman’s heart therefore saving a bullet for the next person. If anything this showed me that humans are capable of great compassion and great cruelty. Having Eva speak to me has forced me to finally see the world as it is, a smudge of dirt in the endless expanse of space, but remember this planet is not just dirt, there are also diamonds.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
We Day
4:30 my eyes are forced open by the insistent yelling of my mother.
5:00 I leave for school
5:20 I arrive at school
7:00 I arrive at the Air Canada Center
9:30 the presentations begin
When I stepped off the bus in Toronto I had no idea of what to expect. We were about a block away from the ACC. At the ACC there were about a hundred people at the gate. I thought at that point that there was no way that we would fill all the seats. When we were finally let in half an hour late we were forced to stand in another line. After an hour of waiting we were finally let through the doors into the arena. As people filled in through the doors I became aware of a problem that was yet to be. Behind me were two little girls who could easily make you go deaf from their screaming if they were on the other side of the stadium. Again they were right behind me!
After a time of who knows how long we were told that it was lunch. I had no idea that I was really hungry. The speakers and performers had done their job better than I thought possible. I stayed sitting down for over three hours! In the halls behind the stadium it was impossible to move faster than a slug. The only difference between those few minutes and half time in a leafs game was that the washrooms were still half empty.
5:00 I leave for school
5:20 I arrive at school
7:00 I arrive at the Air Canada Center
9:30 the presentations begin
When I stepped off the bus in Toronto I had no idea of what to expect. We were about a block away from the ACC. At the ACC there were about a hundred people at the gate. I thought at that point that there was no way that we would fill all the seats. When we were finally let in half an hour late we were forced to stand in another line. After an hour of waiting we were finally let through the doors into the arena. As people filled in through the doors I became aware of a problem that was yet to be. Behind me were two little girls who could easily make you go deaf from their screaming if they were on the other side of the stadium. Again they were right behind me!
After a time of who knows how long we were told that it was lunch. I had no idea that I was really hungry. The speakers and performers had done their job better than I thought possible. I stayed sitting down for over three hours! In the halls behind the stadium it was impossible to move faster than a slug. The only difference between those few minutes and half time in a leafs game was that the washrooms were still half empty.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Norval
Norval
On October 20th the entire of the SJK middle school population went to a team building day. The day started 15 minutes early because Ms. G told everyone to be at school 15 minutes early. We left the school on two overly cramped busses. At Norval we were separated into our grades and had some fun. The grade eights got to do pig toss, or Inuit blanket toss in which everyone held a part of a circular blanket and threw someone in the middle into the air and then caught them again. We were then split into two smaller groups. The group I was with went to the base of a fourteen foot wall and were told the only thing we could use to get over the wall was each other. We pent the first fifteen minutes just “talking” about how we would get to the top. Eventually we came up with the system of Wyatt and Cassie would hoist one person at a time as high as they could reach. Then the person being lifted would grapple with the top of the wall to get over.
The Third activity that we did was appropriately called mission impossible (movie #1). One person was strapped to a harness with four ropes attached and was told to pick up four balls on the ground, without touching the ground. This “impossible mission” would have been impossible if there was no communication. This game taught me that if no one speaks up then nothing will get done. After a healthy lunch of jam sandwiches we went inside the main building for the afternoon. Inside we were greeted by three overly enthusiastic drummers who proceeded to teach us with very few words how to make a song with over a hundred drums a have a lot of fun.
Sitting in my chare and miss spelling chair even though the computer says that I am not I find it easy to think back and recall the fun of getting over wall, throwing people with a blanket, or swinging people in the air with only the trust of the person in the air to keep it all together. On the wall the person dangling in the air above every on else had to depend on the people on the other side of the wall standing on a platform to make sure that they did not fall to the ground. Though in the other group there was a lack of communication resulting in the fall of Aureon onto the ground half an inch away from Tristan nearly knocking him unconscious. Not to mention killing the unicorn (and donkey) that Aureon now insists saved his behind from a very prickly situation.
On October 20th the entire of the SJK middle school population went to a team building day. The day started 15 minutes early because Ms. G told everyone to be at school 15 minutes early. We left the school on two overly cramped busses. At Norval we were separated into our grades and had some fun. The grade eights got to do pig toss, or Inuit blanket toss in which everyone held a part of a circular blanket and threw someone in the middle into the air and then caught them again. We were then split into two smaller groups. The group I was with went to the base of a fourteen foot wall and were told the only thing we could use to get over the wall was each other. We pent the first fifteen minutes just “talking” about how we would get to the top. Eventually we came up with the system of Wyatt and Cassie would hoist one person at a time as high as they could reach. Then the person being lifted would grapple with the top of the wall to get over.
The Third activity that we did was appropriately called mission impossible (movie #1). One person was strapped to a harness with four ropes attached and was told to pick up four balls on the ground, without touching the ground. This “impossible mission” would have been impossible if there was no communication. This game taught me that if no one speaks up then nothing will get done. After a healthy lunch of jam sandwiches we went inside the main building for the afternoon. Inside we were greeted by three overly enthusiastic drummers who proceeded to teach us with very few words how to make a song with over a hundred drums a have a lot of fun.
Sitting in my chare and miss spelling chair even though the computer says that I am not I find it easy to think back and recall the fun of getting over wall, throwing people with a blanket, or swinging people in the air with only the trust of the person in the air to keep it all together. On the wall the person dangling in the air above every on else had to depend on the people on the other side of the wall standing on a platform to make sure that they did not fall to the ground. Though in the other group there was a lack of communication resulting in the fall of Aureon onto the ground half an inch away from Tristan nearly knocking him unconscious. Not to mention killing the unicorn (and donkey) that Aureon now insists saved his behind from a very prickly situation.
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