Burrr *CLAP* *CLAP* it's cold out here!

Well I went to our school's Sadie Hawkins dance for the first time yesterday... I apologized to my date for making her pay for it...

But after that we went to some AFTER PARTIES!!!

Our first stop was to the "official" senior after party. Generally our group avoids these like the plague, but for some reason we ended up there.

Small room. Not many lights.
people out of their right minds.
two by two they walked off into the unknown.

Man were we out of place.

Shortly afterwords we drove back to headquarters to pick up cars and change clothes for a more private party. Our arrival was oblivious to the parentals so we had to stay outside in the backyard. Ordinarilly this would have been great; there's a marvelous forest wonderland with rivers and pools and gravel courts for strange sports. The problem to day was the cold.

Earlier that day the weather had been slightly chilly, but you didn't have to wear a jacket or anything that heavy. But when the sun went down it was freezing again. Our host was lighting the fire pit when we arrived but it provided very little heat unless you were laying dangerously close to it. We ended up sharing a blanket between us.

A little later on, more party guests showed up with FOOD! it didn't last long.

Finally guests were starting to leave and it was just the host and a few others left to huddle together for warmth. I lost feeling in my feet a long time ago but i was in it to win it!

We waited till 2 am and then we helped erase the evidence of a party. We dashed off to the community car and took all the heat from the engine we could.

It was very cold.

Mountain Blade?

NO!!!! It's Mount & BladeA non-liner RPG that a friend of mine introduced me to.

First off------LOVE IT!
Although my laptop can show the graphics correctly, it runs nice and smooth. My desktop handles it fine. We believe the problem lies in my laptop's Dual Core processor verses my desktop's Pentium.

ANY WAY back to the fun stuffs.
First off this game has no real storyline. Think of The Sims and Oblivion combined!
The realism in this game is it's shining point and after a while the old-school graphics will grow on you. The creators of the game made it this way so that it could be easily modable (adding content to the game... really complicated.
After a few trial character creations, I found the one that appealed to me: A horse-back archer!
I named him Rovin because i was lazy but also wanted to stay unique.
I choose the "realistic" save option that autosaves constantly so i can't rewrite history and i set my "damage taken" and "damage done" to normal (they start on easiest) and set the amount of participants in battles to the minimum of 25 maximum at a time. Giving me a difficulty of 88% XD.
I'll keep you posted on my Mount & Blade progress....GEEKS AWAYYYYYYYY!

Feast Your Eyes

On images and how they work.

As a warning: Images are my weakest knowledge pool in Web design thus far.

Pixel is a picture element.
How many are up and down, how many are across.
The more pixels you have the nicer your picture will look!

In a Pixel picture element there are three colors: Red, Green, and Blue.
How much of each color is turned on will determine what color you see.

Inserting Images on Web Pages- Once you got you pictures saved somewhere on your computer, you can upload at will!

Images are not inserted into a web page. The image tag is a LINK to an image file that the browser will display.
To use an image as a background, include this in your body tag:

To put an image onto a page, use the image tag.
< src = "imagename.extension">
This will ONLY work if the image is in the SAME folder as the page. If the image is inside a folder that the page is in, this is the tage:
< src ="foldername/picturename.extension"> <>

Your Mark

Ok now for the topic of logo's: what makes a good one so great?

Lee Newham says that every good logo has these 5 characteristics:

It’s describable

It’s memorable

It’s effective without colour
It’s scalable i.e. works when just an inch in size
It’s relevant to the industry in question

Now let's review a few logos:

First We have

1. This is a simpler logo, but it catches the eye= it's memorable and describable.
2. Now without color this logo loses a lot of its impact= not effective without color.
3. The logo informs you immidiately what the industry is= relevant to the industry.

Next we have (alienware )

1. The logo is a bit more complicated but still easy to describe= memorable and describable.
2. It's the size of logo doesn't affect its message much= works with just an inch in size.
3. If you're not into technology, you might misinterpret the logo= not extremely relevant.

Last we have

1. This logo is the most complicated of the three but the writing helps identify it= memorable
2. The color design makes it relevant and because of the shading, it doesn't need to be in color= relevant and can work without color.
3. Because it has words, the size of the logo matters. If it's too small you can't read it= not scalable in size.

Now if you want to interpret some logos of your own feel free. Here are some examples:




And there you have it folks!

*DOES NOT COMPUTE*

Well that's not true, it does compute...my cell phone that is!

That's not all it does though. It's also a calendar, alarm clock, task manager, memo taker, gaming device, Internet source, music player, tip calculator, voice recorder, timer, and stopwatch, to name a few things.

For school purposes my phone comes in very handy. It's an emergency calculator when i can't find my real one. I set alarms with it so i don't forget important events. my phone receives mass texts from the dean of our grade, informing us of meetings we can't afford to miss. I use the memo tool to write down the days assignments so in case I'm unsure of the day's assignments. I use the calendar function to plan out my assignments so they don't all run together and result in an all-nighter. When homework gets too boring, it's nice to put on some music to keep me awake.

My phone's pretty nifty, even if it's not an iPhone.

Be Careful What You Wish For...

After finishing a long night of homework, our hero looked at the news one more time to make sure there would be school tomorrow. With his fears relieved, the hero picked out his clothes for the next day and went to sleep.

When he woke, he pulled back the blinds in his room. In the darkness he could see that the street was wet and nothing more. To make sure though, our hero detoured from brushing his teeth to turn on the news to see if any schools were closed. To his surprise, many schools surrounding his were closed. As usual, his school was open and ready to go. The hero went back to his daily routine to prepare for the day.

Once the sun came up, the hero saw that his entire neighborhood was covered in a blanket of snow. He had never seen so much snow in person ever before! But school was still in session so our hero convinced his father to drive him to school and they left for the day's grind.

The highways were dangerous. Everyone on the road zoomed down the road at break-neck speeds of 30 to 35 mph. Luckily the HOV lane was open, so our hero got to get school a little faster. He was still late though, arriving at school almost halfway through his first period AP Calculus class. The hero got another lucky break, he had missed the previous days and his math teacher let him take the quiz next week so he didn't have to come to class that day.

Everywhere snowballs zoomed past the hero's head, it was a good thing no one was aiming at him for he was in no mood to try and dodge. All around him he heard teachers and students talked about how much they did not want to be at school. In his 3rd period website design class he saw the email from the principle: school would end at the end of 6th period, later to be revised, for seniors, to the end of 4th period. We finished out website design by taking photos of the snow to upload to our blogs.

The day ended for our hero and, after spending time in a winter wonderland, he went home. He fell asleep on the way and was jolted awake by the car coming to a sudden stop. The car couldn't get up the drive way because there was half a foot of snow in the way. He and his father got out of the car and shoveled a way for the car to get into the garage.

The hero was finally able to rest for the day when the lights flickered. Suddenly the power went out, and it did not come back on. He had to sit in the darkness watching the sun go down with nothing to do, the entire block was out of power. It was about 45 minutes before the power came back on, just before the cold took over the house.

The day ended covered in snow and with blinking power. A good day for our hero!