not to worry, I still love you

Gosh frickin' dangit!
School and general laziness has gotten the better of me once again. Late blog posts for all. Hooray.
Since I'm human and they don't take any responsibility for themselves, I'm just going to blame this fancy new site I found:
http://play.pokemonshowdown.com/
Basically, it's a Pokemon battle simulator. Not basically. It is.
It's a lot of fun, and I can also test out cool Pokemon stuff. I like it a lot.
(By the way, if you somehow don't know what Pokemon is, it's a video game where you go around a big country called a region, collecting and battling little creatures called Pokemon. Or big creatures called Pokemon. Or Pokemon that control the laws of nature. You fight bad guys, beat Champions, all that deal.)
Also, I didn't just find it; I'd been hearing about it, since it's super popular, and decided to give a whirl.
It's super awesome.
Anyway, sorry for the late post. I'll try not to make it a regular thing, though no promises shall be made.
Oh! So here's a thing. Recently my dad ordered a whole ton of assorted Lego sets for my family, and part of the package was the Lego Advent Calendars (which at this point is now a tradition, beginning from the first Star Wars one). We got the Friends one for Susannah (my sister, I don't think I've ever talked about her here), the Star Wars one for me, and the City one for my mom, who jumped up and down in delight when she saw it. It was funny.
But anyway, here's what I wanted to show you:

There's the front cover of the Star Wars one, yeah?
Pretty normal.
But now, I want you to look closer. At the bottom of the box. Near the center, but a little to the right. Do
you
see
what
I
see?

HOH MY GOSH LOOK AT THAT
IT'S A CUTE LITTLE CHRISTMAS TREE MOUNTED ON A CUTE LITTLE GREEN ASTROMECH
OH MY GOSH
COMPLETE WITH HOLOCRON STAR ON TOP
such cute
very awesome
wow
Maybe I'll do a review on it or something once all the sets are built, at the end of December.
I also got the newest Lego Minecraft set (that's another game that I like), which was the End:

I already have all three of the other ones. Maybe I'll do a review of this too or something. I dunno. Maybe.
I dunno! I think that's all for me for today, though. Lots of random here's-this-and-here's-that stuff. Maybe someday I'll actually start doing posts with an actual theme. Maybe. Someday.

skewl is more kewl but still krewl

I like summer. Don't you?
It's wonderful! A three-month long vacation (from school, at least) with close to no responsibilities, and you can do whatever the entire time? Awesome!
but then
at the end of the three months
you go
"crap"
'Cause it's time for school again.
If you read my most recent post that isn't this one, then you'd know that I'm going into high school this year... I guess my dad wants me to write a post about how it is start school up again.
I'm going to Santa Rosa High School, in the ArtQuest program, taking both theater arts and choir.
High school has been a bit better than the rest of my school career, but not much. The homework toll is still awful; hours on hours of doing the EXACT SAME math problems over and over and over again. I know how to do inequalities! And number lines suck.
My drama and choir classes are pretty good though. Except for the part where I had a cold during the first week or so of school, so guess where my choir classes went?
to crapland
My ear even got stuffed up, completing my inability to sing. That was awful.
Also, having large amounts of mucus firing from my nose while I was trying to talk and act and stuff sucks. Especially when there are no available tissues nearby.
I'm taking Algebra 2 this year... all review so far... sooooooo boooorrrrririiiiiinnnngggggggg
...and I'm reading Of Mice And Men for English (AQ and Honors!)... again...
I've got PE for my last period, which is fine, because I don't have to worry about taking a jacket or something and then having to take it off halfway through the period, like I would if it was earlier. Nope, it's just blazing hot the entire time. Fun for me.
I actually thought that the "activities" were going to be something fun. But nope! we just get to play football. yay
I've got some friends from my previous school going there, and slowly making new ones...
I guess that's really it. It's fine... I guess...
I don't know why my dad thought this was a good idea
but whatever
I wrote it
it's over
leave now

The Return of the Megadork (I hope)

...hey.
Have ya missed me?
...well...
Yup, it's been a while. School screws three posts a week. I haven't even had one post in more than a week.
Yeah, I started school.
...homework sucks.
Every single dang night I've stayed up 'till or past my bedtime. And then I have to get up at 6, and I have my alarm clock set for 5:30.
Is not nice it is.
My brother and I were going to write a co-op post for all the peoples, but I think we some practice on that.
...a tiny bit.
Anyway, this is mostly a post for the purpose of "Hey! I didn't actually die from that cold," and now that I think about taking a break right after that post about being sick is really creepy and horrifying.
I didn't really take a break, it's just that I didn't have any time to do anything.
I don't think I'm going to make myself write three posts every weekend, so it's probably going to revert back to one and MAYBE two every week, either on Monday or Wednesday. Probably Monday, and any extra will be Wednesday.
So...
school's nice, I guess.
I'm in high school now, and I'm going to Santa Rosa High School. It's pretty cool. and stuff
uh
I ate a burrito today for lunch
probably both on the day I write this and on the day this is posted
mwahahhahahahahahahhahahahahaha
um
welp
...I guess that's it for now.
I think I'll be doing another post Wednesday, though. About what? No idea? Tune in next time to find out!

ahm a zoombeh nao (I'm a zombie now)

You know what sucks? Being sick.
You know what sucks even worse? Being so sick that you wake up at five-thirty in the morning, unable to move due to a combination of dog at your feet and being sick, not caring about the fact that 1. you are drooling all over your pillow, 2. you really REALLY need to pee, and 3. your nose is dripping all kinds of snot.
*sigh*
Does anybody like getting a cold? I thought not.
I don't even know why viruses exist. Not even like like I wonder why mosquitoes exist, though. They simply... shouldn't exist.
That has a double meaning. The first is "OH MY GOSH WHY ARE YOU HERE I HATE YOU," and the second is "How did this even happen? It's not even living. It doesn't even have a base instinct to survive, like microbes do!"
It's just... so... weird.
So, let's see about this. A virus is a string of genetic code in a sack of protein, right? So... what?
I guess I need to get my questions for this sorted out now. Here we go:
#1. How did viruses come into being? Did they "evolve" after or before true life was created?
#2. How do they respond to their environment? It's the one trait they share with living organisms. But how do they do it? They have no sensory organs, or organelles as they are called in the microscopic world.
#3. Why is it that they have to reproduce? They have no instincts at all! THEY DON'T LIVE!
*sigh*
I don't even know. Maybe I'll go do some research and come back with...

*****

...this stuff.

#1. Viruses are the most abundant type of biological entity?!? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/

#2. Not even Wikipedia is sure how viruses happened. See above link.

#3. Viruses apparently help evolution go along using HGT (horizontal gene transfer)... wat

#4. They can evolve through natural selection, 'cause ya know, those things die SO OFTEN! I hate 'em.

...

so...

You're thinking I have the answer to whole thing right now, don't I? Dang it, I wish!

I don't know. I can't seem to get anything the information. Except maybe the second half of question #1 was answered... Wikipedia says that some may have evolved from plasmids and some may have evolved from bacteria. I, honestly, have no idea.

My theory is that viruses are actually alien space-robots, sent here by a most malicious alien race when the Earth was still young, and have since changed into strange horrible zombie-cells. Wanting to share their pain with the world, they infect everything to make them feel like zombies.

Yes! I've done it! It's a completely solid, sound theory! It's totally airtight! NOTHING CAN PROVE ME WRONG NOW! My discoveries will be spread across the globe, and I will be renowned as the most intelligent person to have ever existed! YES! MUAHAHAHA, MY PLAN FOR WORLD DOMINATION IS FINALLY COMING INTO REALITY! And, we will defeat the viruses, once and for all -- WITH SYMPATHY!

Now, to figure out what those mosquitoes are all about...

Big Ball of Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey Stuff

Whiya, third post incoming!

Like the title reference? I do too. That right there is a good show, Doctor Who is.
Unfortunately, we’re not here to discuss Doctor Who, or even real time travel. Instead, I would like to discuss something more like time... travel. Without the traveling bit.
To rephrase: rewriting history.
I don’t know why I wonder about these sorts of things, but I do. Have some background information. Well, information information. Stuff. Just read.
So you have the present, a moment in time where stuff happens. The stuff happens in the present and then becomes the past, and the stuff that waits to be the present is the future. What happens in the past determines the present, and what happens in the present determines the future.
What I was wondering is this: if you could change one tiny thing in the present or past, how much would it change the future?
Say we have two situations: Present #1 and Present #2. There is only one difference between the two Presents: a breath of air has changed its course by, maybe, 5 degrees to the west. What happens then?
It may seem like an extremely minute, unimportant change, but if I’m correct, then this could be huge. Maybe that one speck of pollen that was destined to land on that flower in Present #1 didn’t in Present #2, and the flower died without ever reproducing, causing the entire species to die out, spreading famine throughout the globe, changing evolution forever. Maybe the wind was at just the right angle to push the baseball into the batter’s swing zone in Present #1, allowing the undefeated team to win again, but in Present #2 the batter swung wildly and the defending team won, altering sports history. Or maybe the wind blew on that worksheet just enough in Present #1 and it flew away, never to be seen again, while in Present #2 the owner of the paper kept his work and presented his findings to the world, suddenly revered as a genius.
Maybe in Present #1 someone slurred one of their words, making the other person in the conversation mishear and do something completely different from what the first person told them to do, causing that super-criminal to get away and live to commit new crimes, and in Present #2 the second person heard loud and clear and apprehended the dangerous man, putting a stop to his rampaging.
Maybe... well, I don’t feel like making up any more examples. I’m sure you get what I mean, though.
Maybe I'm just not smart, though, and this has been recognized by... everyone ever.
Did you think it was interesting? I hope so...

Movie Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a title that I could've just said as "Ninja Turtles"

I really wish I could find normal-sized posters.

I saw this with my dad and my sister Friday the 8th, and it was better than I expected. I must say, though, that I no hope for it.

From the first time I saw the trailer, I had this sort of "nah" feeling about it. Mostly it was because of two reasons: the first was the animation of the turtles, which was weird at first. The real-life sorta style felt very strange to me, I can't quite put my finger on why, but it just threw me off.

The second was Michael Bay appearing... somewhere. I don't remember how the other Transformers movies were, but I saw the fourth one (which was my first post) and went BLEGHLEEEHHHH. So I became very, really, incredibly, tremendously, horribly, terribly, insanely scared.

However! It was quite good. I can't quite judge it as a continuation of the rest of the TMNT stuff, since there isn't a whole lot of it that I've watched, but it was pretty good. 4 out of 5 stars, I guess, since there were still some mistakes.

SPOILAH MOAD ACTEEVATEHD

Spoilah moad acteevatehd. U haf bean ward.

There wasn't a whole lot that stuck out as being gecky, but one thing (and another to a lesser extent) is irksome.

When the three turtles (- Raphael) are stuck in the mountain base laboratory, they lose a ton of blood to the pumpy things. April, Raphael, and "that old guy," as Michelangelo calls him, go to rescue them. April just sort of... pumps some adrenaline into them. She doesn't even give them any blood back, some of which is still in the pumpytubes. And then they completely tear apart the cells that they were unable to break before.

Wat? Ppplllbbblblblblpppp.

The second thing is when Shredder (whose robot redesign is frickin' amazing, but slightly unnecessary) power-steps on Raphael's shell and it cracks, he's still able to fight well with no problem. Wat2? Ppplllbbblblblblpppp2.

Overall, though, it was very excellent, with nice humor and action and stuff. And the thing at the end where Michelangelo blows up "that old guy's" (no, I can't remember his name) car was priceless. PRESLIIIIIISCE

Stuff 'n' updates 'n' stuff stuff

So...
I said last week that there would be another post up.
That didn't really happen, did it?
I'm really sorry about that, guys. I had the post ready to go, all perfect and stuff... and then I just... forgot.
But! I promise to (try) to never forget again. You can call me silly, disrespectful names if I do.
There WILL be another post Thursday. And another one sometime else.
Moving on...
Have you ever even seen the dorky potential of a middle-school (now high-school (just say teenage)) boy? I have. Something strange happened to me last Thursday, almost at the end of a mission...
I was playing Spore, which I finally bought, and I got into a little predicament... man, I don't even know where the record button is for that game. I was button-mashing so hard.
That brings me to another subject of this post!
When I did my post on Spore a little while ago, I suggested that I could do a little play-through thingamobob once I bought it.
Well, as you can see, I bought it.
So I would like to know if anybody would actually enjoy that sort of thing if I did... if I don't get any feedback, it's happening, 'cause I know that I would enjoy it. Heck, I might even just ignore all your requests and do it anyway.
Heh. That is, if there are any requests to ignore. I don't think it's very efficient to take a poll on a new blog.
To more things!
I got a gold-plated dragonfly box yesterday. Hee hee hee. I don't know why you need to know that, but I think it's cool. However, I think the rest of that story is for another post... (creepy foreshadowing DUN DUN DUN)
Gahck, I really don't have anything else to talk about. The main point was about the missing post, and there'll be some more fleshy posts going out the rest of the week, so I've gotcha covered.
<cheese> Me, signing out! </cheese>
(And sorry for the weird formatting up at the video. If I put the next line of text down, it deletes the video. Ehck.)