Sisco Inferno

November 29, 2005

Vacation is Over

Filed under: Life

Now that Thanksgiving vacation is over, I shall tell you about the whole thing at once.

Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2005- I told you about this in my last post, The Wrong Trousers and Mother Goose Rocks.

Thursday, Nov. 24, 2005 aka Thanksgiving Day- Usually we go to New York to spend the holiday with our relatives, but this year we stayed home. We decided to go out for breakfast and we drove around looking for a place that was open. By time we found one, Cracker Barrel, it was closer to lunch time. Me, my mother, and my father got the Thanksgiving lunch/dinner that they had, my sister got a breakfast sampler, and my brother got blueberry pancakes. The Thanksgiving meal had turkey, ham, stuffing, sweet potato, cranberry sauce, choice of vegetable, and small biscuits/corn muffins but only small amount of each, so it ended up being about the size of a normally large restaurant meal. And it had pie! Everyone had a different one, I liked my chocolate pecan pie. The meal was big and so we didn’t have any other meal except for cereal at night. My brother complained that we only had one meal that day, though I continually pointed out that everyone else had two (he didn’t have the cereal).

Friday, Nov. 25, 2005 aka Black Friday- This year was the first in a while that we went shopping early on Black Friday. We left around 6 am and first went to Target. There, among other things, we got Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban for $5.88 plus tax. We then went to Kohl’s and Best Buy, where we bought nothing. Lastly, we went to Staples back in Hershey, the place I was waiting for the whole time. At Staples they had 512 MB USB flash drives for only $9.99 plus tax after rebates, but by the time that we got there, they were out, though they had slightly different one’s for $12.99 plus tax after rebates. There were two models at this price, I got the smaller one and my brother got the larger one. You’ll probably be able to see them at school on Tuesday.

Saturday, Nov. 26, 2005- I slept in, waking around 11 am or noon or so. When my mother got home at 1 pm, me and my brother scrambled to get ready to go out. When we were almost there, I suggested to my mother to let us out of the car here so that we could walk the rest of the way and she could get going on her way since she was runny late. My brother inexplicably took longer to get out of the car and so I was way ahead of him the whole time as we walked the last leg of the way to Shank Park. Yes, it was Ultimate in Shank Park! There was a very large turnout and so we split into 4 teams and had a small tournament. My team won and they congratulated me on catching the winning throw for both games. We then went over to Caitlyn Craig house for pizza, monopoly, Super Smash Brothers on their N64, Scrabble, and I am Sam. Not all activities were done by me, the great amount of people necesitated that we subconsciously split into different activities. It was a great time, at Shank Park and at the Craig’s house.

Sunday, Nov. 27, 2005- Didn’t really do much, just relaxed.

Monday, Nov. 28, 2005 aka Today- Did some homework, wrote this, and ate some chocolate covered raisins. And we finally got around to openning the USB flash drives from Friday. With the different skins that mine comes with it can be blue, bright pink/red/magenta, or brushed steel. And it’s all tiny. And it’s 512 MB. I like it. The first thing I put on it is Smithers: The Video Game. It is a great game made by Joe Gershenson and you can get it at his site over here, at the bottome of the page. Inspired by Zach’s comment on Joe’s Xanga, I plan on making a Lindsmer video game soon.

This was a pretty enjoyable vacation.

November 23, 2005

Captured!

Filed under: Life

I have captured Feathers McGraw! He’s right here!

Today in English class we watched The Wrong Trousers. It was a good time, very funny, as my class mates can atest.Today starts the Thanksgiving vacation. We don’t have to go back to school until Tuesday! This shall be fun.

Already on the vacation I have discovered a new music sensation, Mother Goose Rocks. The song snippets sound good but what is really great is getting to here the whole length of Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes at their site or at Albino Blacksheep. What makes it even funnier than a nursery song sung to rock music is the flash animation that accompanies it. Featuring “Bono, Bush, Blair, Benedict, and Oprah” it is pretty funny in my opinion.


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November 19, 2005

Back from HP

Filed under: Life

When this post was posted at my xanga, it was the 42nd post there. This next paragraph pertains to that.

Hello for the 42th time! Big occasion this is, my 42th post! Zach said people seem to be using smilies less now a days and this is an occasion to celebrate so I will combine both problems into one solution. Smilie formation!



 
   
       
   
 

I just got home (a half hour ago) from the forth Harry Potter movie. A went with a largeish group composed mainly of juniors excepting, of course, my brother Sean and myself. It started earlier this week when the people at my lunch table decided to all go together to the movie and that Felicity would collect our money and buy our tickets ahead of time. Yesterday at lunch I gave Felicity money for myself and then later at Cooking Club I gave her additional money for Sean. This morning Sean payed me back for his ticket and at lunch I was told where we were meeting after school to get to the theater. I told Sean this before our math classes, he has class across the hall from me during 5DE. After school we gathered outside the main office and then proceded into the parking lot to ride in two cars over to Cocoaplex. There were ten of us at that time so we fit quite nicely. We got there much earlier than I usually arrive at movies and so was able to see all of the pre-previews things on the screen twice. More people arrived, namely Josiah and Fauzzie (sp!) though separately. The movie was good, more on that later. After the lights went back on I discovered that Luba and Tim had seen the movie too, right behind us. Then in the theater’s lobby I discovered more people, namely Zach and Kaylyn (sp!), most definitely separate.

This message is viewable at three locations: Sisco Inferno, The Rest of Sisco-Land, and my Xanga.


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November 16, 2005

Gaim

Filed under: Computers

Recently I downloaded and swithed to using Gaim. After using it for a few days, I have found it superior to Aim. One of my favorite features, if not my favorite feature, is that you can have more than one conversation in one window. It does this by using tabs. Because of this feature I have thought of Gaim as the Firefox of IM clients. Once I started using the tabbed browsing of Firefox, non-tabbed browsing seems so unnatural. I don’t think I am quite there yet with IM’ing, though it is quite a convience to have it all in one window.

Another fine feature is what Gaim doesn’t have, ads. As Gaim is open source and Aim is not, there is no company behind it collecting money from your usage. Also, I look forward to liking the logging feature. If you enable it, it is disabled by default, then you can have your every conversation logged for future reference! Jake was telling me that he has every conversation that we ever had logged. This feature could come in handy sometime. A major feature is that you can seemlessly talk to people on different protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, and a slew of other ones. Without a multi-protocol client you would need to have an IM client up and running for each protocol you have a friend on.

Gaim, get it.


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November 11, 2005

Pop

Filed under: General

Today in Spanish class we had a “pop” quiz. “Pop” because we knew a head of time. On Wednesday Sra. Clouser informed us that we should probably know the material as is open for testing in the near future, implying a quiz this week. As it wasn’t yesterday as some suspected (I know Josiah did), it had to be today. <joke> Some time we should have a quiz about soda, because then it would be a pop pop quiz. </joke>

Yesterday during chem I was called to the office. Mr. Murphy had called Kate Rowe, Frank, and I to the conference room between the main office and guidance. He told us how tommorrow (today) a consultant from the Successful Practices Network would be coming and that he had selected us and a few others to meet with the consultant. Today during third period I returned to the conference room and found John Snyder, David Rudnik, and Katie Collier in addition to Kate and Frank. The consultant, who called him self a liaison officer, asked us about why we were selected and various topics about the school. It finished a few minutes into 4th period, which Mr. Murphy said it wouldn’t, and so I was able to make a grand entrance into Spanish class. Sra. Clouser asked where I had been and then I struggled to say where I was, but then she understood. Martha asked where I was and I directed her to what Sra. Clouser was saying to someone else. We played escaleras for review and then took the “pop” quiz.

Afer school I went to the ACE room for the first time, not because I was in trouble but to make up the World Cultures current events quiz I missed during 3rd period. I know I didn’t get a 100% because I had forgotten who Charles Thompson was. Unfortunately, Mr. Bean hadn’t allowed our class to use our notes at all during the test because he felt we hadn’t done our part this week, too many people not having current events to share. If they had gotten to use their notes, I would have and then I would have gotton the Charles Thompson question correct. But it is okay because I got to eat some cake afterwards…

After the quiz I went to the cafeteria where the German Club’s Veteran’s Day festivities were almost over. Mrs. Bectel was telling Elliot how a class after his add a very exciting demonstration. In each class she showed the reactivity of sodium by dropping a small piece into a pan of water. In the one class the piece was too big and it exploded, leaving residue on the shield and on the counter. At the other extreme she put the sodium into a beaker with mineral oil floating on top of water. In that case the sodium was supposed to drift down through the oil, since the sodium is more dense, react when it makes contact with the water, drift back up, and repeat numerous times. Problem was it didn’t repeat. For our class she cut the sodium into a few pieces so it didn’t explode, just release gas and zoom around the pan.

After eating my cake I went over to Founder’s Field where the Ultimate game had just started. Later after much throwing, the pizza had arrived. We were able to get 3 free pizzas because Bricker’s Pizza ran an add in the Broadcaster with a coupon for a free pizza. It was good pizza. Hot pizza, cold air, and the sight of Cameron and Alex throwing cheese from the last slice at each other. Play resumed but ended when Brooke got hit by the frisbee in the face. You can give her your condolences here.

I’ve become a co-admin at a new forum! There have been a lot of new forums lately, but this one is focused on being one, large game. Try it out, The Online Market.


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