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!