Yesterday night, my family decorated our house for Halloween. We did what we do every year, my brother goes and buys new decorations, puts them up, my dad takes a nap, my mom makes food, and I find some old clothes, stuff them with leaves, duct tape them together, sit them down on a chair, give attach some old shoes to the pants, attach gloves to the jacket sleeves, and put a dinosaur mask in the hood. Last year I also rigged it's eyeholes with glowing eyes, so at night he blinks and winks at people. On Halloween, my dad usually pulls up a chair, puts on a mask and sits next to them, holding the candy bowl and scaring away anyone who takes to many pieces. But this year, after I stuffed him, my mom took my brother to dominicks and left me home alone while I put the finishing touches on who I am going to call Steve this year. It felt really serene outside, The sun was setting, the sky was full of pinks, purples and oranges, so I felt like sitting outside with Steve for a while. After about 5 minutes I got bored, so I just randomly decided that I would go inside and grab my guitar and play outside. So I found myself sitting outside on my front door in a lawn chair playing guitar and watching the sun set for about an hour. I felt like I was from the sixties or something. I got some odd looks from passing cars, after all, I'm out there playing an acoustic next to a stuffed guy in a dinosaur mask with blnking lit up eyes. You know, this all probably sounds really strange, so I'm going to go outside and snap a pic of Steve by our garage for you....2 IMPORTS LATER....I'm back! Enjoy these photos, and I look forward to any comments you may have!
Ah the opening and ending themes of Doctor Who. They have been stuck in my head countless times. Why oh why must they make me wait so long for the next episode?! it's been only to weeks and I find my self today feeling like my Saturday isn't quite complete. No brand new exciting episode to look forward to, no popcorn to be made, no european website to be found and utilized for watching it hours before it comes out. I've posted several Doctor Who related items on G+, for those of you who use that. I can't wait for Christmas!!! Those of you who are new to the series, I strongly recommend tuning in this holiday season for the Christmas special. The Christmas episodes aren't usually very scary, and they are based around the Christmas spirit. If you do watch, and are confused about why the Doctor isn't very happy at times, it's probably because (SPOILER ALERT: IF YOU PLAN ON WATCHING THE SEASON 7 FINALE, SKIP THE NEXT FOUR SENTENCES) his two companions whose names you saw in the video, have recently been zapped back in time by weeping angels, and the doctor will never see them again. I miss Amy and Rory, his companions. They were awesome. The girl with the universe in her head, and the Roman centurian. Well, I guess I should just be excited for the next episode, where he is supposed to find a new companion. Also, for those of you who have only seen episodes from season 5,6, or 7, I suggest looking online or at libraries or video stores for the past episodes, so Franko will stop making fun of you. :)
So, last Friday in Social Studies we were discussing the Checks and Balances of the U.S. government, and I couldn't help thinking that the legislative branch is over powered. For those of you who have forgotton, here's a basic overview of the Checks and Balances: So this is how I believe that Congress could gain complete control over the U.S. government: First, they begin passing opressing laws. Both the executive branch and the Judicial Branch would intervene, but would be handled by congress impeaching the president, and then forcing the vice president to appoint all new members of the judicial branch that would believe in their cause. Now, from this point, the only thing that the new president could do would be to call in the armed forces. But when he would try to do so, the Judicial branch would deem it unconstitutional, and the legislative branch would impeach him, putting the Speaker of the House, (someone from their side), into office. Now I believe that the only reason this hasn't happened is because it would cause an uprising of the people against the government, obliterating the hopes of the evil Legislative Branch. This could be avoided in the future if people become too dumb to know about anything that is going on. This is yet another reason to continue to ensure the intelligence of the general poulation.
For, the past few days, we've been discussing 3-dimensional graphing. Mrs. Walters often talks of 3-D, 2-D, and 1-D objects. This has often caused my mind to wander. (often causing me to do poorly on my assignments) So I was thinking are all these objects phisically possible? I'm sure that 3-D objects are possible, after all, we live in a 3-dimensional world. But are 2-D objects phisically possible. It appears that they arent't phisically possible, but are posible in some picures and all virtual images. Paper isn't 2-D. I just want to clear this up. Mrs. Walters often refers to paper and drawings as 2-D. They're not. They have a length, width, and heigth. The height may be miniscule, but it cannot be ignored. the drawings too, were created with ink, which exists in 3 dimensions. Now, this got me thinking about whether or not 2 dimensional figures exist at all. i suppose they do, on screens, because the image itself does not take up 3 dimensions in space. The awesome warped space picture I posted has a length and a width, but I don't believe it has a height. I may be wrong, you more technologically advance people may be prove me otherwise. If it turns out that the awesome photo I posted does have a height, then I can't figure any other way a 2-D object could exist in our 3-D world. Now, Mrs. Walters calls points and lines 1 dimensional objects. This is most definetely possible. A point and line both have a length and width, even on a computer screen. I don't believe a 1-D object is, or will ever be possible, ever. Now, to end this blog post with a cool little twist, can anyone think of how a 4-D object may exist? What is 4-D? Maybe an object with a length across time? Would this cause temporal impossibilities? Please leave your thoughts in the comments, I hope this post made you think! Also, please don't tell Mrs. Walters what I said here. WOW. I was acually in our nation's capitol all weekend. That was totally worth getting up at 3am for. We saw a ton of stuff. The Capitol, the White House, the fake Supreme Court, the Washington Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, the Vietnam Memorial, the WWII Memorial, the Korean War Memorial, Ford's theatre, 1/12 of the Smithsonian, Arlington Cemetary, Fort McHenry, and a lot more. It was an epic trip. I would definetly do it again because there was also a lot of things we didn't have time to see, like the National Spy Museum, or the other 11/12 of the Smithsonian. I didn't buy any real souveniers, but I took over 350 pictures! I hope all of you who didn't go with us will have the chance someday. If you did go, I'm looking forward to your comments!
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