Brian Sisco’s Xanga

I have here the word doc from Ms. Schmoyer assigning the assignment followed by my exe at multiple locations. They are listed in reverse chronological order, with the latest on top.

PA CD- word doc, exe, mirror 1, this is the latest one.

PA Final Exam- word doc, exe, mirror 1. With this one I included the extra credit features of the background color fading back and forth between black and white and your average bouncing around the screen.

MathPrograms- doc, exe, mirror 1. With this one I included a password screen with 64 exit buttons. The catch is that only one of them works and it is randomly determined which, so it could take you a while to find it. There are also other, numerous features.

Tickets- doc, exe, mirror 1. In this one I have a Swedish stop sign pop up whenever you hit calculate and I give the user options as to how they want the numbers to be rounded.

PA Triangle- doc, exe, mirror 1. In this one I added a large internet panel. This the first program in which I put links to the internet.

PA Quadrant- doc, exe, mirror 1. In this one I added capabilities for graphing linear equations.

PA Pet Clinic- doc, exe, mirror 1. This one was pretty bland.

PA#7 Paycheck- doc, exe, mirror 1. In this one I have a wonderful welcome screen. When the program is run, all the objects are scrambled across an extra large form. Holding down Alt + i makes the background color rapidly change, holding down Alt + 0 makes the objects rescramble over and over repeatedly and holding down Alt + p makes both happen at once!

PA#6 Paint- doc, exe, mirror 1. In this one the user can toggle between enter the input in feet or feet and inches. They can also select a background color from a dropdown box, input the hex values for a color, or get a random color at the touch of a button.

PA#5 Deli- doc, exe, mirror 1. I had the chef give you comments based on what kind of sandwich you ordered. Also, when you click the picture of a sandwich, it says that it is a sandwich.

I’ll put more up later. Side note, either exe link and the mirror link should work. For example, the exe link doesn’t work at my school but the mirror 1 does, and at my house the exe link does and the mirror 1 doesn’t. (WINDOWS HOSTING)

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.

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.