Wikipedia Article of the Week #12 And a Slight Dilemma

OK, I'm sick, so I'm doing this fast. And no, the sickness IS NOT the dilemma.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas

It (was) Christmas, one of the greatest holidays ever! Of course, it's not so fun when the universe gives you a sore throat and cough. But in all reality, this Christmas was great - I now have $72 dollars to spend at Barnes & Noble. What will I buy with that much money??? Perhaps a blueberry muffin...

Wikipedia Article of the Week #11

So... yeah... the most exciting thing that happened last week was that I got a 95 on my math quiz, a war started in my bro's debate class, and I learned some memes. What is this I don't even.

That was a meme, just so you know. Here are some more: "How I shoot web?" and "Do a barrel roll!" and "All your base are belong to us" and "You require additional pylons".

My Wikipedia article this week is NOT about memes (Surprised? I thought so - they're just brain spam. Not worth an article on the Wiki, though they do have them), but instead about that jolly, old elf, Santa Claus, Kris Kringle, Saint Nick, and whatever name you want to choose. Here it is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_claus

I've developed arguments for Santa's existence. I just won't shout 'em out.

Wikipedia Article of the Week #10

Well, here it is: our tenth WAoW. For those of you who don't know what that means, check the previous post. So, given that I've been working on these for ten weeks now, I decided to do something (nothing) special. The story behind this Wikipedia Article is: a couple of weeks ago (Black Friday), my dad, my aunt, the Gibs of Earth, and I went skiing up at Bogus Basin. So, to honor that occasion, I'll do the Wiki article about the sport, not the resort.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skiing

So, let me try something here.

If	you
think	that
this	is
cool,	then
we	are
on	the
same	level.

.

Cool, huh? My wrists got tired doing all of that, though.

Later!

Wikipedia Article of the Week #9 and Some Stats

So, other than Thanksgiving having come and gone ands the discouraging lack of leftovers a few days later (we, luckily enough, still have another tub of potatoes), not much has happened other than the fact that I went skiing on Friday.

Looking back at last week's WAoW (the abbreviation of Wikipedia Article of the Week), I realized that I didn't do what I should've done. When it was around Halloween, as you all may remember, I did an article about Halloween. So, naturally, last time, i should have done Thanksgiving, but I didn't. Well, to compensate you, here is this week's article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(United_States)

Yup.

So, here are some statistics about my blog at the current moment, mainly revolving around my international visitors.
United States (I know it's not "international" for MOST of us): 431 visits.
South Korea: 41 visits.
United Kingdom: 13 visits.
Malaysia: 2 visits.
Russia: 2 visits.
Germany: 1 visit.
Brazil: 1 visit.

All in all, that's about 60 international visits. That's pretty cool, if I do say so myself.

One last thing that I learned while typing this post: typing with a finger that has a band-aid on it from peeling potatoes is very difficult.

Later!

More Than Your Average Eighth Wikipedia Article of the Week

Well, well, well. Another week has come and gone, and that means yet another post. But guess what! I was wrong last week. This post is actually going to be VERY interesting, with viruses, computer errors, and some more.

Alrighty then, to get this out of the way, here's the Wikipedia Article of the Week. So, to coincide with my aforementioned virus, today, I was too sick to go to church. So, I watched BYU TV all day long. I saw one and a half hours of Music and the Spoken Word, The Generations Project, and an episode of LDS Lives. The episode was about... well, you'll find out if you click this link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Browning

To tell you the truth, I expected that article to be much longer. Oh well, at least this article is longer than usual.
I actually got this from one of my friends. Computers can be so funny when they think that they're smarter than you when it comes to grammar. As my computer-centralized uncle said (or says): "The computer is only as smart as the person who programs it." Too true, too true.

Okay, now this one was found by me. Well, my mom saw it before me, but I was the one who recorded this. "The following pages have become unresponsive... kill them." I didn't know that there were internet hit-lists. I guess we learn something new every day, or cada dia for you speakers of Spanish.


This one, I also found. You'll need to click on this.

So, in other news... its been snowing here, on and off all weekend, but it's not going right now. I've also been sick all weekend. Any correlation? ...I hope not. And do you remember that woodpecker from the last post? He's still at it.

Later!

Wikipedia Article of the Week #7

Okay, this week's been too busy for me to gather up an interesting post idea. Maybe, once I leave home in f(x) amount of years, I'll be able to create more interesting posts more often. So, here it is, the seventh article of the week.

This week, it's Unix, partially because I already pulled it up in the Wiki and it'll be easy to copy and paste. Here ya go:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix

I'm not entirely sure what it's about, but... oh well.

Actually, never mind that earlier portion of the post: something interesting is occurring here. There's this woodpecker in the neighborhood that seems to like our house very much. In fact, I just had to go outside and scare it off earlier. It's actually kind of annoying, because when it starts pecking, you can hear it: thump-thump-thump. Thump-thump-thump. And it won't go away, either, until it gets scared off. But even then, it just returns a day or so later. Cool looking bird, poor nasty habit.

And, in other news, in health, we watched the five-minute computer animated video about dedete-ded-etes (or germs). Besides the overall poor animation quality of the video (compared to today's standards, and even some standards back then) and the poor acting, the people who threw it together managed tom misspell scary as "scarey." Wow.

So, besides that, not much is occurring, beside the writing contest at school and me creating my own logo this week. This may or may not be the most interesting post for a while (unless you are utterly captivated by Wikipedia articles), but when I do create an interesting post it'll tell the world via Facebook.

Later!
-The Green Knight of What?

Wikipedia Article of the Week #6

Nothin' much goin' on in my head, so here it is: the weekly Wikipedia article! This week it's the calculus-based math thing, the derivative. That's what's going on in math right now, and as it turns out, it can help me with physics. The sad thing is, however, I'm past the unit in physics in which that can help me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative

...sometimes it's hard, sometimes its not. Go figure.
 Oh, and one last thing:I got a glob of blueberry play-doh today in Sunday school. It's so cool!

ECHO! Echo! echo! echo. (What? I couldn't hear you over your echoes.)

I threw this together in about five minutes. Literally.

ECHO! Echo! echo!

This is what's called a Typography Poster. There are three kinds, but I don't know how to explain them. This one (if you can't tell by the word staring you blatantly in the face), is Echo. This is my second one; perhaps I'll post my first one up. The first one took way longer.

Wikipedia Article of the Week #5

I really ought to do more posts that Wikipedia articles all the time. It'd be much more interesting. However, I don't have anything right now, and I almost forgot to do this, so let's continue with our Wiki article.

This week, our article is a shout out to Halloween: the Halloween article in Wikipedia! How cliche. Well, here's the link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween

I didn't know that they did trick-or-treating in Sweden, but definitely not in Japan! I guess that's my closed mind for ya. But really, who knew there was Halloween in Japan? That surprises me.

Wikipedia Article of the Week #4

Ah, my brain is fried. With all the homework I've been doing, my brain is pulsing. I wonder if college will be the same.

Since my brain is fried, here's the point: Wikipedia article of the week. This week, it's the trebuchet, a medieval device for hurling blunt objects at your foes in the hopes that you'll knock a few down. As I am helping build a device similar to this for physics this week, I decided to do this.

The link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebuchet

I think everybody knows this, but it's not pronounced Tre-BUH-chet, but tre-boo-SHEY (as in they).

Wikipedia Article of the Week #3 and the "Burning" Stake Center

Alright, to begin this week's post, I'm going to start with the traditional Wikipedia Article of the Week. This week, it's the For Dummies series (like Computers for Dummies, Illustrator CS for Dummies, Italy for Dummies). Why is this? Well, yesterday I was doing my AP Physics homework (have I complained about how hard that class is yet?) when I nearly gave up, got my dad to take me to the Barnes & Noble downtown, and we bought 2 books and a pack of 600 SparkNotes flashcards to help me with the homework. I owe my grade to Physics for Dummies. Here's the link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Dummies

So about that "burning" stake center. Today was stake conference, and it was all going well and quiet, and the President of BYU Provo was speaking (that guy has a great sense of humor), when the fire alarms start blaring. At first, I though it was an technical issue, until the strobe lights began blinding the entire congregation. Well, it wasn't that bad, but still, they were bright.

Anyways, Elder Cecil Samuelson kept up a great sense of humor, and once the alarms stopped blaring, things went back to normal (except for the strobe lights still flashing). Just to make sure I was clear, there was no fire, probably just some faulty wiring or a little tyke with all too curious hands.

Later!

Wikipedia Article of the Week #2

It's a new week, and we all know what that means - A NEW WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE! No, it's not random for two reasons. One, I decided that it'd be more interesting to do articles I thought were interesting. Two, it's my brother's b-day (Happy birthday, Gibs of Earth - you still owe me), so I thought I'd choose an article that he'd like.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln-Douglas_debate

It's the type of debate called Lincoln Douglas this week! I took debate for a semester in eighth grade (When I lived in Oklahoma to all my non-Oklahoman friends). The style we did (for it was the only option) was Public Forum. Before I get swamped with requests for me to join the debate team, I want all of you to know that I took it as an alternative to PE. Nevertheless, it was still an awesome class.

Later!

Advertising

My brother, the Blue Knight of How?, is the brother I alluded to earlier about having his own blog. However, his is not called the Blue Knight of How, but is instead "Gibs of Earth." Why do I advertise it? I call it collateral. I advertise him, he advertises me. I got the idea from another friend of mine (who I also alluded to in my first post), the guy at BYU. His blog is "College: The Blog."

Now that I've advertised two blogs to my... seemingly limited audience (let's be truthful here. As far as I can tell, and I can't tell you much, I'm the one who visits my blog the most. How often anyone else visits is completely unclear to me. As of this post, I've only had around 5 pageviews that weren't mine) I think it's time for me to wrap up this post with a single message:

...Wait. I don't have one. Nevermind!

Random Wikipedia Article of the Week No. 1

So, I wanted some way to make me post at least once a week, so I thought: why not some sort of weekly event? Redundant, yes, but effective. So, I decided to do a random Wikipedia article (that I liked) of the week. You are sure to NOT find stubs, articles about most musical groups, most disambiguation pages, or things I'm not interested in. I'll just post this week's link here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Irish_Treaty

I didn't read the article, but it seemed to have some sort of historical significance, so here it is.

The Green Knight of What?

'Tis I, the Green Knight of What?, where I (almost) always ask, "What just happened?"

Okay, so I might not always say that, but I'll try to at least once a week. So here it is: What just happened? The answer lies before your eyes at this precise moment: I made a blog. Why? I felt like it. That, and my brother made a blog around a year ago, and one of my friends (now at BYU Provo) has a blog as well. Correlation? Most likely. Now, before I go on, let me say this: do NOT expect regular updates from me; I'm just saying that I'll try to update once a week.

What to expect: drawings, comics, rants, or other sentiments of my metacognition (I had to go to Wikipedia, the best website ever, to make sure that was spelled right). If that sentence makes no sense towards the end, and odds are it doesn't, then that's just me. I'll also tend to go off in tangents entirely unrelated to the current post, as I am about to do.

Do you know what I hate? Tests. Not just any test, but tests where the teachers make all the answers "4," "A," or "A, C, B, D." Those last two options - they both happened to me. I heard the example of #1 from my current math teacher, who, in his first year of teaching, did that. I'm glad that doesn't happen to me.

Well, I'm out of ideas. Expect my posts to be short and to the point, and to (almost) always end with a single word:

Later!