Star Wars

On Sunday I went to watch Star Wars EP 1: The Phantom Menace 3D with my dad and my brother. Honestly, it had been quite a while since I'd last seen a Star Wars movie. I had forgotten how much I actually like Star Wars (yes, I'm geeky...), to the point where I was sitting, and when the movie started my mind exploded and then began fangirling. I guess there's something special about the Star Wars logo and introductory paragraph on each movie with the space background and epic music.
I think I shall watch all the movies again for the sake of remembering.

Other things I should do:
-Play more pokemon
-Play more videogames in general
-Finish my novel(s)
-Read my books
-Finish knitting
-Start a band
-[insert something I forgot here]

Typewriter

I know I haven't posted in a while. I'm sorry about that. But I'm posting now :)

So I recently bought a typewriter on eBay, and it arrived in the mail on Friday. Today, mom bought the ribbon so now I can finally type. It's a Royal Commander from the 1930's-1940's, and it works perfectly fine :D It might just need a bit of oiling/cleaning up, but other than that I have no problems with it. I think I will not be using word for a long time now...
Also, since I have the typewriter, I decided I can finish writing and then edit my novel with it, since I won't have the internet as a distraction anymore, and I can concentrate on typing.
Well, I'll concentrate on typing when I finally cease to be amused by the sound of the typewriter. It's something like: tk tk tk tk tk tk tk tk tk tk tk tk DING! rrrrrrrrt tk tk tk tk tk tk tk DING!...
and I like it, but it's too amusing for my mind to handle XD Because this is the first time I've ever used a typewriter. Also, somehow, my dad managed to get another typewriter, which means that now we have mine and a Remington (not sure on the model at the moment). However, that one has to be cleaned, oiled, and repaired, cause it's a bit rusty, but overall looks good. And it's so beautiful :D They both are.
Excuse me while I fangirl in an authorly mode.
*goes to type some more*

Another post:

So as we all know (if you didn't know, well now you do), NaNo started 6 days ago. Currently I have 6611/50,000 words written. That means I'm behind by about 3391 words. Today I will write like a madwoman.
Luckily, I just finished the powerpoint I had to do for Theater, and the powerpoint I had to do for History. I think they're both pretty good, except that the History powerpoint isn't really finished because I still need the information of the other three girls in the group, but at least my part is done (animations and all).
Hopefully I won't get too much writer's block today because if I do, I'm screwed. Now, I'm gonna go add animations to the Theater powerpoint, and then probably gonna write while watching a movie or something. Or maybe I'll watch the movie and then write. Or write and reward myself with the movie. Yeah, I'll do that.
And maybe I'll make cookies too. I want to make cookies.

A haircut saved my life.

So tomorrow it’s picture day for my brother, which means he had to get a haircut today. Guess what? His need for a haircut saved our lives (us being him, my mom, and I). How? Well, today there was a shooting in the road we usually take to get home. However, since he had to get the haircut, he decided to get it at the same place as his friend always did (which was closer to the school than it was to our house, and that is quite some distance). We were in the haircut place when it happened. Normally though, we would have been on the road. If we hadn’t gone to get him a haircut, we might have been killed today, for all I know. And that is why haircuts are important. A haircut saved my life.

Einstein's Theory of General Relativity

I know it's been a while since I've written something here. But I decided to do so now. So fear not!

So, in science class, lately, we've been studying gravity (and the Law of Universal Gravitation, proposed by Sir Isaac Newton). Then today, I stayed home and didn't go to school. However, I spent the day doing productive stuff, among them, I watched a documentary I had recorded about Einstein. They were discussing his theory of General Relativity, and so, I found it to be very interesting.
As I was watching, the narrator started talking about Einstein's theory, and then pointed out that according to Einstein, there's no such thing as gravity. How is this possible? you may ask. Well, here's how:

• Sir Isaac Newton knew that unbalanced forces were needed to cause movement, and he thought of gravity when the apple fell. We know that. However, what they don't tell us is that he knew a push was needed to change the object's movement. When the apple fell, he had no explanation as to what that push might be. He resolved to make up the idea of gravitational pull.
• Einstein knew this. One day, he was thinking, and wondered what would happen if a man fell from a building. He concluded the man would be weightless, which was how he began to form his theory of special relativity.
• [insert lots of things here that I don't feel like explaining]
• He decided that what Newton thought to be gravity, is actually the bending of the time/space fabric around objects, and that such bending/warping causes objects to fall to other objects. Kinda like if you had a blanket stretched out, and you had a basketball (for example), and dropped it on the center of the blanket, which by the way isn't on the floor, but suspended, then obviously, that center part would sink down, right? Now, picture another ball (maybe a softball). If you drop it near the basketball, it will fall towards it because the blanket is "warped". This same thing happens in the universe.
• Hence, all we know about gravity is wrong.
• Einstein proved his theory with observations of starlight during solar eclipses (when the light passed near the sun, it was warped).

This means our teacher is teaching us erroneous information, which makes the class quite pointless. Don't you think?

Color

So, for English, I have to do a research project on how the eyes and brain perceive color. Apparently (and this makes very much sense to me, having discussed this before with my dad), everyone sees colors differently. What I mean by this is that we do not see the exact same shade of colors as someone else does. For example, the purple in my blog might seem brighter to me, and darker to someone else looking at it. Or it might be more pinkish than purple to someone. I find this to be very interesting. I also find color blindness to be interesting. My dad, for example, is yellow-green colorblind. He can see yellow. He can see green. He just can't see yellow on green or viceversa. He can't see a yellow golf ball on grass. It's hard for him to distinguish it, even if it seems obvious to me that it's there, and the yellow makes it stand out to me.
And now I ran out of stuff to say. Odd.
I wonder, what would it be like, if someday I saw color the way someone else does. It would be odd, don't you think?

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