The Pale Warrior: Chapter 1

“For age thirteen, Tawney Firestone.” Tawney’s mouth dropped, and her chest tightened for a second. Beside her, her much taller twin brother’s hands clenched. Whether more out of anger for not getting chosen for the test, or anger for his sister’s now nearly certain death, Tawney wasn’t sure.

The room was silent, void of the applause that had accompanied the other choices. Tawney’s mother leaned heavily on her father, who was pale white.

Tawney couldn’t believe it. After all her brother’s long preparations, after all his certainty that he’d be chosen, almost everyone in the town had come to believe it, too. After all, compared to his frail sister, what other choice could there be?

Even Tawney, who’d always been ready to face reality mentally, if not physically, couldn’t help crying.

Even Arnold, the chooser, who should know best of all that there was a fifty/fifty chance for it to be Tawney looked surprised. Even his voice, normally powerful, sounded deflated as he called again. “Tawney Firestone, please step forward.”

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Four years in the . . . er . . . book?

Fours years now that I’ve been on the internet. I’ve enjoyed my time here, and I’m looking forward to the times to come. It’ll be long and hard, and I’ll probably never be very good at keeping up with the posting, but it’ll also be fun. Who knows, maybe I’ll someday end up as popular as my mom’s blog, Let’s Play Math. I doubt that though, because I have a feeling her math blog is easier to find because it’s math related :P.

Still, I’m actually happy to just have a small crowd. It doesn’t make me feel as pressured to work on my stories (though maybe that’s a bad thing), not just my random posts that are mostly related to my life.

Anyway, in honor of this Blogoversary, I’ve decided to post links to most of my fellow bloggers whom I’ve met on the way. If I forget anyone (which is why I said most), feel free to remind me, :P.

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X-Men, First Class

So the other night I watched X-Men: First Class in theaters (obviously). And so I thought I’d share my thoughts. I guess. I don’t know. I tend to overrate things. Oh well, I feel like writing this. Sorry if I accidentally include anything you feel is a spoiler. And I won’t actually do any rating — I’ll just tell you about the movie.

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Up-to-dateish for the summer

I’ve changed my theme (as you have probably noticed) to show that my blog is officially ready for summer.

Here’s some goals for my summer:

  • Draw a lot.
  • Write a lot, on novels and blog.
  • Probably read a lot, but that’s not really a goal. . . *cough cough*.
  • Be better at doing school work.
  • Be better at doing chores.
  • Be better at not sleeping my mornings away *heh heh*.
  • Improve riding skills.
  • Be more active and outdoorsish.
  • Swim a lot.
  • Those sort of things.

Of course, some of these things you’ve already seen to be on my to-do list from my Spring. . . Or Summer/Oddities of  me post, still this is a more official list. Let’s see how long this lasts *heh heh*.

LOL

Okay, not very imaginative title. . . anyway, so my sim is a sculptor, and she made this sculpture, and its name is funny. Why? Well, wouldn’t you find it funny if your sim’s first masterpiece sculpture (I’m pretty sure it’s her first) is a “You’ve Got a Big Head” sculpture? XD.

P.S.: It’s a sculpture of a big head, in stone ._.

COLLABORATORS UNITE! Wait, uhm. . .

Er, isn’t the point of collaborating and collaborators is that they are united? *Shake head* Oh, well.

Anyway, why am I talking about collaborators and collaborating? Because I am one. Yesterday me and Gecko got together a shared blog. It’s call *druuuuuuum roooooooooll* Collaborative Randomness and the idea for it started with my post about dividing by zero (the one right below this ‘un). In fact, we might have a continued story line from that there post on Collaborative Randomness (Also known as: Coll. Rand.).

We created this new blog for two purposes: 1. because we’ve always been curious about the whole shared blogging  thing, and 2. because Gecko is moving to an (apparently squarish [see coll. rand]) state. WAAAH ): WAAH! I NO GET TO SEE HIM NO MORE *sits in corner* Waaaaaaaaaah DDD:::::::

Anyway, now we have a shared blog, and it’s awesome . . . and it’s random . . . and it is

COLLABORATIVE RANDOMNESS

Why you can’t divide by 0 (the non-serious way)

Because when you do, everything explodes. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM.
But if everything is exploded, then you have nothing left. So divided by zero stuff is zero, because everything’s incinerated and there is nothing left, and nothing = 0 (or 0 = nothing).

For a more serious explanation, looked around Gecko’s blog, but I’m too tired to bother searching for it. Cya.

[This is Gecko, and I divided by zero, and the world’s still here. HA!]

That’s just because someone (probably to CIA or government or something) decided to hide those type of explosions. IT STILL HAPPENED! IT STILL EXPLODED! They just hid it from you!!

[Um. You said that if you divided by zero, there would be nothing left. Everything is still here. I HAVE PROOF BECAUSE IF YOU’RE READING THIS, READER, YOU ARE HERE, THUS DISPROVING IT! ):< ]

BUT I DIDN’T MEAN EVERYTHING IN THAT WAY! D<<<< The numbers would explode, whatever you divided by 0, the 0, and the division sign, and possibly the = sign, too, is what exploded. Therefore, there is nothing left of the math problem, so the answer is zero.

[I can still write 8/0=???. The numbers are still here. Now, uhm, er… cheeeeseeee]

BUT DID YOU ACTUALLY DO THE EQUATION? No, you just wrote it; it didn’t actually do the equation. You just wrote it. Therefore, it didn’t explode. If I just write 1+1=??? Have I actually done the equation? NO!

[

See, jury? I really did divide by zero! And THAT is why I am RIGHT! HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAA MUAHAHAHAHAHHA *cough cough* Ha ha, ha. Ha.

]

AH! LIKE I SAID! PROOF THAT WHAT I SAID IS RIGHT! THEY’RE HIDING IT! IT’S ALL A LIE! IT’S ALL IN THE BACKGROUND! THEY’RE ALL LIARS! WHOEVER MADE THIS CALCULATOR IS A LIAR.

[Wait… WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT?? OH RIGHT ABOUT DIVISION BY ZERO!!! I SHALL NOW REFER TO MY PREVIOUS POST ABOUT… (hold on…) http://climbinggecko.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/why-anything-%C3%B7-zero-is-impossible/ HA HA HA MY LOGIC BEATS YOUR LOGIC! THERE ARE NO CONSPIRACIES, THE GOVERNMENT IS GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD GOODGOODGOODGOODGOODGOODGOODGOODGOODGOODGOODGOODGOODGOODGOOD]

THANK YOU FOR PROVING MY POINT!! *points to drawing with all the squiggly lines* IT EXPLODED! IT EXPLODED! AND THE CONSPIRACY COULDN’T HIDE IT BECAUSE. . . Uh. . . erm. . . because. . . because . . . BECAUSE THEY DON’T KNOW YOUR BLOG EXISTS! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[I is robot. BEEP BEEP HUMANS HAVE NO GOOD LOGIC beep beep]

IT’S ALL A BIG CONSPIRACY! THEY’RE PLACING ROBOTS AMONG US!!! MWAHAHAHAHA!!!! ALL A GIANT CONSPIRACY! . . . wait, you’re a robot? o.o nooo! YOU CAN’T BE A ROBOT! YOU’RE MY FRIEND! MY FRIEND IS A ROBOT! THE CONSPIRISTS HATE ME! YES YES THEY HATE ME (my alternate personality: No wonder — you’re trying prove they exist and expose them. . .) THEY REPLACED MY FRIEND WITH A ROBOT THEY HATE ME!!! I WILL AVENGE YOU (my alternate personality: But if he was always a robot, why do you need to avenge him, and how can you prove he wasn’t always a robot?) I WILL DESTROY YOU CONSPIRIST PEOPLEZ!!! IT’S ALL A GIANT CONSPIRACY!

{Around then, everyone concerned with this post (besides the conspirators that there is actually no proof of their existence and probably don’t really exists) were dragged off to an insane asylum. . . So yeah, but they allowed them to continue to post under close supervision. Also I’d like to give thanks to–}

THE INSANE ASYLUM IS ALL IN ON THE PLOT!!!!!! THEY’RE ALL PART OF IT! THEY’RE ALL PART OF THE CONSPIRACY!!!!

{As I was saying–}

[*runs around beeping* BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BINARY SYSTEM OVERLOAD BEEP BEEP]

{WOULD SOMEONE CLOSE THOSE DOORS ALREADY? Anyway, this post was brought to you by Panera and Sushi Cat. . . Oh, and Gecko really was here.}

Programming Adventures

Okay, so I was playing with website programming, and playing with CSS (Cascading Style Sheet), and I came across a bug. I couldn’t get my thing to work. It absolutely refused to obey me, and the text wouldn’t change colors. This is about what it looked like:

.Right {
color: blue;
font-size: 150%;

{

p {
color: red;

}

See my glitch? You might, but I didn’t. I went back and forth between my two things (one was the style sheet, the other was the content things), and then I finally noticed it.

Instead of putting a } at the end of my .Right class, I had a {. Fail. Just the simplest things are what tend to slip past our eyes the most *sigh*.

Oh, and by the way: If any of you are interested in website programming, I’d check out Creating A Website of The Missing Manual: The book that should have been in the box. The third edition is the latest (came out this year, I believe) . . . that I know of, anyway. Great book, well written, and Matthew MacDonald has other The Missing Manual books on other things such as Javascript or CSS (which he covers briefly in Creating a Website, but I guess they’re more detailed and what not. Haven’t actually checked one out. . .). Anyway, great author, great books, on with the plot!

As long as I’m linking you to website programming things, I might as well link you to this post by my close friend Climbing Gecko, who has recently reached his hundredth post, CONGRATS GECKO!

And finally

Now, as a final note on the programming track, I thought I’d share a quote from one of my sister’s shirts. It basically says (I can’t remember word for word, but this should be pretty close):

100 bugs in the system

Fix one, run it again

101 bugs in the system

😛 yep, that pretty much describes programming XD (now somebody’s bound to come along in the comments and post what it really was. . .).

My Winter Wonder Land (part seven)

My winter wonder land continued (at last):

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Stand In The Rain

One of my favorite songs is Stand In The Rain, by Superchick.

Also there’s Beauty From Pain, which I feel represents how even when times seem bad, it’s all working towards a glorious end, and it’s all part of God’s plan, that there’s some purpose in it all (similar to Stand In The Rain):

Yeah, so I like Superchick. Though, they’re like one of the few artists that I can keep sort straight, so that might be part of it 😛 Yeah, I fail at keeping musics and songs and artists straight.

I also enjoy songs from Chris Rice, Johnny Cash, and others. Most I think are Christian artists because those are the ones I can keep straight, more or less. Mostly Less 😛