Massive Revision

Well, I think that I might be revising the blogspace soon. And by that, I mean custom background - a sketch of mine that I just scanned and am about to put through to Adobe Illustrator CS4.

And what's this? Lo and behold, it's a Wikipedia article!

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

You may now rejoice.

...Ow.

The sentence below is true.
The sentence above is false.

Paradox. 'Nuff said.

Wikipedia Article of the Week: Eagle Scout

Whoa, wait, what? It's really been over a month since I last posted? ...No surprise. I get bored of Wikipedia Articles too. But this week, I'm tying it in with one of the next major events of my life: the long-awaited, hard-earned Eagle Scout (project write-up). Ugh, it's one long process, somebody you telling to put something in then telling you to pull it out and more. Before I rant, here is the article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Scout_(Boy_Scouts_of_America)

It has a disambiguation page. Go figure.

Anyways, back to my rant (or whatever you want to call it). My plan for this whole deal is to make blankets and birthday kits for the Salvation Army here in Idaho. We already have the fleece for the blankets, even though the project hasn't been approved. Why, you may ask? Easy. It was on sale, and we saved about $300. (The hopefully final draft of the project just finished printing.) But once this thing gets approved - I will be incredibly happy.

Now, on to my other lives: I plan on taking the Driving Test real soon. I went to Horseshoe Bend (strange name, small town - the Church building there is about twice the size of my Seminary Building. No Cultural Hall, it would seem) with my Dad and Grandpa, ate lunch at this incredible restaurant (the hamburgers there are always a 1/2 pounder) then drove back to the valley, where I proceeded to waste my time playing video games, eating dinner, and watching some Indiana Jones with the family - for a little bit.

Life #2: School has reached a new Semester, and I love it more than last semester 100 fold. I no longer have Health - that class is demonic, I could've passed the final without taking the class, etc. - and instead, I have creative writing. I'm happy about that. Also, in my seminary class, three of my friends are in there, and I've already made another. And in Spanish, one of my seminary friends is in that class, as is my brother, The Blue Knight of How (or the Gibs of Earth, for those of you familiar with his blog - see the post titled "Advertising" to check it out if you want), and other friends. English, with Kohlmeier, is pretty incredible - we're going over argument now - and I'm quite happy with this semester. Not too many hard classes in one day - its a prefect 1:1 ratio of hard to easy classes each day.

Later, y'all!

P.S. I'm not sure if you noticed, but I have a new page up. You should check it out, just for the fun of it.

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.

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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!