Video of the Week: 12-31-07

These videos aren't amazing, so don't blame me. Oh well. Get over it.


Match-Shooter. - Funny video clips are a click away


Crazy Faces Compilation - More amazing videos are a click away

Video of the Week: 12-24-07

Unfortunately for you, I do not have any great Christmas Videos, (they would only be Christmas light shows anyway,) but I do have 2 pretty cool non-Christmas videos.


Really Foamy Reaction - For more funny movies, click here


Lube Your Cube! - The most popular videos are here

Yeah, that's all.

Umm... okay...

I got this error about a week ago when I was looking for paper models, and I've gotton it a few times since...



Wow. That's pretty bad when you can't translate English into English...
Just thought it'd make you laugh.

Christmas Pre-Vactation

Hey, you guys may have noticed by my video of the week post last night that I have returned from Guatemala. I did so much stuff I could probably write a 10-page essay on it, but frankly I don't have that long of an attention span, and I've most likely forgotten 60% of it by now. I'll tell what I remember though, and warning, it may still be very long.

Okay, where to start... I suppose I'll start at the beginning of the week.

-----DAY 1 -----

On Tuesday morning, we all woke up at 3:00 AM to go to the airport, because our plane left at 6:00. We put all our stuff in the car and left for the airport. We did all that stuff, and waited for the plane. That flight was fairly short; we landed in Atlanta some time around 7:30. We then transferred to our next flight to Guatemala City. During that flight, we got the "pleasure" of watching the movie Hairspray. Four words: Stupid waste of time. It's about this "large" (to be politically correct) girl who wants to dance on this TV show, but they all think she's to big. Blah, blah, blah. It's a musical. I hate musicals. Jeez. The whole movie she's just going around, singing about how she wants to sing and dance, there's someone who tries to stop her, etc. Basically, (although I can see how girls would like it more,) I don't recommend it unless you like musicals.

Anyway, back to the story. The flight was from like 8:30 to 2:00 or something like that, so they served "lunch" on the plane. Notice the quotation marks. Yeah. Airplane food. They served chicken and pasta, but looking at them you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. The guy next to me got the chicken, (which looked nothing like it,) but then switched it with the pasta, (which actually did look like pasta, but still nasty.) He ended up not eating that, (understandably,) just the salad and stuff that came with it. Anyway, we landed in Guatemala City at like 2:00 or something, and went to grab our baggage. That took a while, because they didn't unload our plane right away. We left the airport and looked around for our driver, but we eventually found him. His name was Renando (I think that's how you spell that). Outside there were a bunch of Guatemalans who make their money off of tips from helping people with their bags. One of them grabbed the bags out of our hands, put them in the truck, and asked for a tip. Yeah. My dad gave him 5 quetzales, which is only about $0.80. (By the way, when I typed quetzales earlier, the Firefox spell check caught it, and one of the suggestions was racquetball... ^_^ ) We got in the van and drove through these mountains and valleys, along these crazy roads. Guatemalan driving is crazy (I'll talk about that in a second). One valley we drove down I think must have been more than a mile deep. We eventually made it to the Posada de los Volcanes hotel though, so we could finally rest. The rooms were fairly small, but otherwise it was nice. We then asked the hotel guy (who spoke fairly good English) where we could go to eat. He recommended somewhere (I don't remember the name). We went there; I got the fried chicken. It was pretty good, but a little bland. While we were eating, people kept coming up to us trying to sell us jewelry and shirts and stuff. That was kinda annoying. Overall, though, the food was good.

We started heading back to the hotel, but we stopped by a few shops on the way home. Mostly all of us got something. I got a beaded snake, my brother got a beaded thing that said "Guatemala" on it, my sister got a beaded dolphin for her friend, my uncle got a mask, my grandma got some jewelry, and my parents may have gotten something too, I don't remember. On our way back, there were a bunch of people walking around trying to sell us stuff. Two of them were really persistent; a lady and her son. They both tried to sell us stuff at the restaurant, and they followed us all the way to the ATM, which was about 5 blocks away. My mom bought a doll from the kid just to make him go away, but he didn't. While my dad, my siblings and I were in the ATM room, my mom and my uncle were outside repeatedly saying "no gracias" (no thank you) to try to make them leave. When the boy was convinced that they wasn't buying any more, he cursed them (in perfect English, they say) and left. This ticked my mom off, obviously. We went back to the hotel. We took showers and turned on the TV. There wasn't anything interesting, so we watched the end of Snakes on a Plane. I didn't see enough to be able to comment much, but the violence and language would definitely give me enough information to not recommend it to kids. We then went to bed.

Wow. I was not expecting myself to be able to remember that much of day 1. Wow. Anyway...

Oh yeah, I forgot to talk about the driving. Basically, it's crazy. The are all really good drivers, to the point that they are all really confident. They do crazy things there, and still crashes are very rare there. When they pass other vehicles, they sometimes leave less than an inch between the two cars. And yet, they don't crash or even get scratched unless it is completely impossible to stop. It's hard to explain unless you've personally experienced it, so I'll just leave it at that.

-----DAY 2-----

There were roosters in the back yard of a house next to the hotel. I'm going to help out the Mythbusters with a few myths about roosters:

Myth 1: Rooster crows can wake you up
CONFIRMED
Not only do they wake you up, they keep you up until they stop crowing.

Myth 2: Roosters crow because the sun comes up
BUSTED
Unless the sun came up at 3 in the morning and I missed it, they most certainly do not

Myth 3: Roosters are the most annoying birds ever and their crow makes you want to shoot them
CONFIRMED CONFIRMED CONFIRMED CONFIRMED CONFIRMED CONFIRMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh my gosh I wanted to kill those blasted roosters!!!

As you may have gathered from my myth busting, the roosters were annoying. They started crowing at 3 in the morning, and their crow sounds like somebody's being murdered! Man, I hated them.

So yeah. I woke up at 3, and tried to sleep until 7 when I was officially woken up. We went to breakfast at a place that I believe was called The Deli (not an amazingly creative name). I got pancakes and orange juice. The orange juice was HUGE!!!!! It came in this giant glass that must have been 5 or 6 inches across.

We then went down to the beach of Lake Atitlan to go to a boat tour. We met this guy named Ibraham who made us some pens with our names on them. We then got on the boat (the Cristalina, I believe) and we went to three different villages surrounding the lake.

The first one was a bunch of shops on a giant hill. They didn't have much, but we did get some Gatorade. ^_^ We had 2 hours at each village, including the travel to get there, so we left that village at 11.

The second village had a bunch more shops with some cool stuff. Since we had to leave that village at 1, we were getting hungry. We went to a shop and I got some Doritos (they turned out to be spicy cheese or something like that). Those were pretty good.

At 1, we went to the third village, but the trip took a while so we got there at like 2:30. It was another village on a hill. There were only like 4 shops, so we didn't do much there. We went back to the boat at 3, and the we went back to the hotel. We had some Goldfish and watched TV until dinner.

At around 6 we headed down to the place we had gone the day before, and on the way I got this cool hourglass thing. This time we all partially split a big dinner plate with 2 steaks, 2 pieces of chicken, 2 pork chops, and 4 sausages. That was GOOD! About halfway during the meal, the kid who had been trying to sell us stuff the day before (the one who cursed at my mom and my uncle) asked if he could have some chicken. We gave him some, and then we gave him a box of the rest of the meat to take home to his family. My mom started being all philosophical saying stuff like "bless those who curse you" and stuff. Haha. We did a little more shopping that night, and then we went to bed.

-----DAY 3-----

Early the next morning we left for Chichi, one of the major shopping cities. We got there at around 10, and we were told that we had until 3 to shop. We looked around and got a few things, but nothing amazing. One interesting thing I noticed was all of the people carrying around chickens... At about 1 we went to a steakhouse to eat (I believe it was something like the Las Brasas Steakhouse... maybe...) Basically everyone hated their food, except my uncle and me. My uncle liked his, (I think,) and I thought mine was okay. Everyone else did not like it. But at least it was food. We continued to shop, we found some interesting things. We found a guy who had switchblades (the kind that pop straight out), and my uncle was going to get one, but then we thought that they may be illegal in the US, so he didn't. I got a cool knife that was like a switchblade that swings open instead of sliding out. We went back to the van and waited until 3. We then left for Antigua.

After about 2 hours we got there, and we checked into the hotel. We got a really nice and big room. We were all hungry, so we went to Burger King (yes, fast food!) I thought that they has chicken fries, (because papas fritas means french fries, so I thought pollo frito meant chicken fries,) but it turned out they didn't so they gave me chicken nuggets instead. Those were okay, but nut nearly as good as chicken fries. We then got ice cream, (yes, they had ice cream at Burger King,) which was pretty good. We then went to the hotel and went to bed.

-----DAY 4-----

Let's see, we woke up and went to McDonald's for breakfast. I had pancakes, (or as they call them, "Hotcakes"), which were really good. We went to the market, and we got some stuff. We all got some beaded key chains, some Christmas ornaments, etc. My brother got a little banjo thing, and my sister got a little drum. My uncle got like 5 more masks, which he had to take back to the hotel in the middle of our shopping. We went to Pollo Compero for lunch. They have amazing chicken. I also found out that there are Pollo Compero's in the US, too, in places like San Fransisco, Houston, Chicago, etc. We had ice cream there, which was really good.

My brother and I went back to the hotel while everybody else went shopping some more. I watched The Benchwarmers and Talladega Knights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. The Benchwarmers was great, I was laughing all the way through it, and Talladega Knights, was pretty good, but not as good. They got back from shopping then we went to dinner at Burger King with these two girls we met. They told us that Pollo Frito meant fried chicken, not chicken fries. Haha. I had chicken nuggets again. We then went to the hotel and slept.

-----DAY 5-----

Early in the morning, we got packed up and ready to go to Guatemala City. We also ate breakfast at the hotel. I had pancakes, (again,) but they weren't very good. I tried to post a comment on The Vanishing Blog, but I couldn't log in because my dad's PocketPC couldn't interpret the button as a link; it just thought it was a picture. (On a side note, it's amazing how many internet cafes and WiFi hotspots there are in Guatemala...) While we were waiting, this car that was parked outside our hotel kept going off... I believe that it went off 41 times before we drove away. ^_^

After about 2 hours we arrived at the Grand Tikal Futura hotel. O_O It was the biggest hotel I've ever been in!!!!! It was 11 stories, with 3 glass elevators in the middle. It also had a gym, indoor swimming pool, and a mall! It was soooooooooooo cool. But, unfortunately, (ruining the happiness,) we found out that the people using our room were not going to check out until 3. It was some time around 11. We had to wait in the lobby for 4 hours. So, we looked around at the pool and stuff, went up on the roof (they let you do that), went to the 11th floor and took pictures, rode the elevator, played DS, etc. It was extremely boring, and the fact that we hadn't eaten yet didn't help. To make things worse, we were told we couldn't eat until Vannessa got there. (By the way, for those who don't know, the reason we were in Guatemala was because we're adopting her. But that's another story; ask my mom...) They said they would bring her at 12:30, but we ended up waiting until like 2:30 or something like that.

After they arrived, (and we got our room) we went to the food court in the mall to eat. It was packed. Even though it was 3:00, it was completely stuffed. It's a miracle that my Grandma got us some tables. We got pizza from Pizza Hut, and it was really good. After that, we went back to our room and watched Star Wars V and VI. And it was in English! My sister wanted to go swimming, so we went down to the pool, but we found out it was closed. The sign said that it closed at 21:00, but I had a brain fart and read it as 11:00 PM (which would be 23:00 for those of you who don't understand military time). So I was telling people that it closed at 11 when it really closed at 9. Whoops. I do stuff like that all the time. O_o So anyway my sister kept blaming it on me, but my mom was trying to convince her that it would have been to cold anyway... So then we went to bed.

-----DAY 6-----

We woke up fairly late because we didn't have to do anything that day. We went to McDonald's for breakfast, and I had Hotcakes again (they're my favorite!) We looked around the mall, and I found out that they sell Wii's for twice the price there! We watched more TV, and for lunch we had Domino's/Taco Bell. Supposedly, the Domino's was supposed to be the best Domino's in the world, but everybody in my family says it wasn't very good. I thought the taco's were good though. They needed a little more cheese, but they were still pretty good.

Now we were getting bored, so we decided to mess around on the elevator. We went from top to bottom a bunch of times, jumped when it started, danced, sat down, etc. A few times my brother decided to hit all of the buttons, but later that night one of the hotel workers jokingly said "Are you the guys who have been hitting all the buttons on the elevators? The security guards were looking for you." I knew he was being sarcastic, but I got his drift that he wanted us to cut it out, so we didn't do that anymore.

We watched even more TV, and then we decided to go swimming. It was the coldest water ever. Even the hot tubs were freezing. Apparently, the hot tubs weren't working, and the hot tubs were what kept the pool warm (there was a pipe from one hot tub into the pool). There were just getting ready to fix it; we came a little too early. We didn't stay there extremely long due to the temperature.

I'm losing track of the order of what happened, but some time this day we were forced to take our Christmas pictures...

We went back to the rooms and played with Play-Doh (it's amazing what you will resort to when you're bored). I made a few things and stuff. Yeah...

Then we had Pollo Compero for dinner. After that we watched even more TV and went to bed.

-----DAY 7-----

We woke up, ate McDonald's (yet again), and looked at the rest of the mall. I got a big stuffed Mario, which I thought was pretty cool. I guess we watched more TV and stuff (that's really all there is to do). We got Pollo Compero for lunch and did some other stuff... etc. We were really bored.

We went swimming again, (when I say we I mean my siblings, not me,) and again the water was freezing, but this time the guy was doing repairs. He got the hot tubs running again, but I didn't have my swimsuit so I couldn't get in. (BTW, while they were fixing the hot tubs, the water level was lowered. The hot tubs have these buttons to start the jets. Because of the low water level, when these people in this one hot tub near where we were sitting tried to turn on their jets, it sprayed all over where we were sitting. Luckily, I was somewhere else, but my parents and my Grandma weren't so lucky; they got sprayed. That was pretty funny.) We stayed there until dinner. We got some Pizza Hut, but again the food court was full so we went to our room to eat. We watched more TV and went to bed.

-----DAY 8-----

Yay, the final day. We got up early, packed our stuff, ate McDonald's, (for the final time,) and waited. We had to wait for our shuttle to the airport. It came, we went to the airport, and our plane left at (I believe) 1:30. We had lunch on the plane, and this time it was better. I got the chicken. It was pretty good. The movie on the flight was Arctic Tale. It was just an over-dramatized documentary like March of the Penguins, except instead of penguins, it was polar bears and walruses (or is it walrusi? lol). Blah blah, global warming in destroying their home, blah blah. I mean sure, being environmentally friendly is great and all, but read this post on The Vanishing Blog if you really want to know about global warming.

Anyway, we landed in Atlanta at about 6, and we got on our next flight. It was fairly short. We arrived in St. Louis some time around 8:30, and then we went home. I posted the weekly video, then I went to bed.

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Here I sit now. This is the longest post I have ever written, and hopefully (for your sake as well as mine) is the longest I ever will write. I woke up at 9 this morning, started writing, played in the snow for an hour, wrote some more, had lunch, went to a class, got back, wrote more, went to church, got back, and wrote the rest. I've probably been writing for a total of 6 hours. I hope that it hasn't taken you that long to read it.

I commend you if you've read all the way through this. I could've written more, if I could remember it. If you skipped to the end to see what I said, go back and read the whole thing, you cheater! lol

Post stats:
6 pages
3,458 words
14,626 characters (no spaces)
18,126 characters (with spaces)
323 lines

Wow, it ended up almost being a 10-page essay anyway!

Whew...

Now off to bed...

And remember...

Don't drink the water!!

Video of the Week: 12-17-07

Hey, here's the weekly video.


Magic Table - These bloopers are hilarious

Not an amazing video, but I thought it was interesting.

Papercrafts, yet Again

I decide to have one last post before I left for a week, so here it is. My latest papercrafts:



Galaga Models (I showed the other 3 before, but now the Bee is done. You can find the link in that other post.)



Sonic and R2-D2.
Again, the link to Sonic is in the other post; the one with Shadow. I was able to find R2 (and many other models) on this site, but that's not where I originally found it. The R2-D2 can turn his head, and when you rotate his legs from his standing position to his moving position, his third leg comes out by itself! It sticks sometimes, but it's really cool. Look at the video:

Video of the Week: 12-10-07

Okay, the video of the week:


Heads Or Tails | How To Win Every Time! - The best video clips are right here

Except that video's not very amazing, so I'll give a second one:


Ping Pong Cup Madness - More free videos are here

That's better.
NOTE: I'll be gone next week, so the Video of the Week will be on Wednesday instead of Monday (unless I have internet access).

Blender Carving Tutorial

Okay, this is the first Blender tutorial I've made; it shows you how to make a realistic carving that ends up looking like this:



If you're interested, you can download it here.
Here is a link to it in the Blender Artist Forums.

Video of the Week: 12-3-07

Okay, here's the first Video of the Week! Despite the fact that today was the original release date for Smash Bros Brawl, (now it's been delayed to Feb 10,) I shall refrain from posting a Smash Bros Video, I hope...

Cloud Lamp


Cool $10 Cloud Lamp! - Click here for this week’s top video clips


Okay, I couldn't resist. Here's a funny/cheesy Smash Bros Melee spoof:

Weekly Videos

I've been finding SO many cool videos on the internet lately, I figured I'd show them all to you, but I didn't want to do them all at once; you'd probably get bored or yelled at by your parents to get off the computer. So I've decided, as a way to keep myself active with this blog, that I will (hopefully) be posting video or two that I've found interesting every Monday.

Now, we all know how long these promises last, but I hope to remember for a while at least.

Note that this will not replace my normal posts, I'll still be doing those whenever I want, but now you have another thing to look forward to on Mondays.

WindowBlinds

EDIT: I regret to announce that I had to remove my Vista theme; it apparently started corrupting some files. I don't know if it was WindowsBlinds or the actual theme itself, though. Oh well, after a few days with the theme I didn't notice the look anymore.

Hey, this is absolutely incredible. Today, I found out about a program called WindowsBlinds. It's a great tool you can use to apply themes (and make custom themes) for your computer. So after installing it, I found this theme that looks like Vista! Obviously, it's not Vista itself, it was home made to look like it. It's just like any theme that you could normally install on your computer. It's really cool; I've always liked the look of Vista, but of course my parents were like "You don't need Vista", so now I can at least have something that looks like it. Here's a video of my computer with its new theme:



I'm really excited. I just hope I don't have to pay for the full version of something for me to keep it.

And of course, that's not the only theme. There's probably tens of thousands of others.

GIMP 2.4

Hey, good news, there's a new version of GIMP! They're up to version 2.4 now. Here are the release notes. It looks sweet! I can wait to download that.

Impossible Triangle

I'm sure most of you guys have seen the impossible triangle illusion, but have any of you seen it made into a papercraft? Yeah, this is the first papercraft I've made by myself, and I think it turned out pretty well! I'm not a pro, of course, so there are some small problems, but in the end, it's really cool.

You can download it here.

Newest Papercrafts

Here are some of my latest papercrafts:



Super Mario Bros. End (found here), Shadow the Hedgehog (found here)



Rubik's Cube (I don't know where I found it). It actually twists! It just gets stuck a lot.



Paper Boomerang (found here)



Paper calender (found here)



Space Invaders enemies and Galaga sprites (both found here, bottom of page)



Here's my whole collection. I told you the Master Sword would look awesome right there!

The Sand Game

A lot of you I'm sure have played the Sand Game, but I've found a site that has 9 different versions of the sand game, my favorite being the Pyro Sand Game. Yeah, I could play that for hours at a time. I just thought I'd post about it.

New Blender Stuff

Just recently I've finished a few things; nothing big, I just thought I'd show you them.

A Cell-Shaded Monkey (hard to tell from the pic)



A Toaster

Those were the only still images I've done lately. I recently saw a tutorial on fluid simulations, so I tried it out.



It's not perfect, but I was running out of time and, since I had to render overnight, I took it as it was. I may update this later.

RoboBug

This is pretty cool.

It reminds me of all those old spy movies and stuff, where they'd have the little robotic fly camera. It's pretty cool that they've made it real now.

Just remember, once these go into action, they can be following YOU, too! :D

Help me out

I'm just testing this thing: Basically, I found this site where I can buy magic things, but they've also got this thing where if you give the page enough hits by giving out links, you can get the thing for free! So just help me out and click on the links, I'll let you know if it works or not:

http://www.binarystuff.com/fxd1207305d3_250.html
http://www.binarystuff.com/fxd1207305d3_126.html
http://www.binarystuff.com/fxd1207305d3_197.html
http://www.binarystuff.com/fxd1207305d3_125.html
http://www.binarystuff.com/fxd1207305d3_143.html
http://www.binarystuff.com/fxd1207305d3_224.html
http://www.binarystuff.com/fxd1207305d3_135.html
http://www.binarystuff.com/fxd1207305d3_178.html
http://www.binarystuff.com/fxd1207305d3_73.html
http://www.binarystuff.com/fxd1207305d3_45.html

Thanks

Pokemon Spoof

This one is HILARIOUS!!! I actually got most of the jokes, too, despite the fact that I don't watch Pokemon!

Super Strength?

I was browsing videos again when I was struck with inspiration: I should try to tear a phone book in half! I started out trying on a phone book that was about 2" thick, (with no luck,) so I tore it in half (the easy way) to make it thinner and easier. It took a few tries, but I eventually got it!

Here's the video:



Yeah, there is a trick to it, but it is still a lot harder than it looks! If you want to know the trick, it's all over YouTube.

EDIT: Sorry, the sound messes up. I don't know why that happens, but oh well. After it stops, skip one second later and hit play again to see the rest.

Amazing/awesome stuff

I was browsing the internet looking for cool videos, when I came upon this cool blog. It's got some sweet magic explanation videos that I watched. After some of the videos, I ended up clicking some of the related videos, because they looked pretty cool. One video would link to other cool ones, so all day today and yesterday I've been watching awesome videos. Here are some of the really cool ones I found:

Burning Laser
Make a BB Gun
Make a Matchstick Cube
Micro Paper Plane
Fake Blood
Put Out Cigarette w/ Finger
Explode on Contact Bomb
Paper Toy
Change Start Menu Text
Amount of Sugar in Coke
Hiding Files
Make Taper Deck
iPod Hack
Matchstick Gun
Turn a Pencil Into an Emergency Light
Smoke Bomb
Black and White Cube
Night Vision
Floating Beer Bottle
TP Tube Gun

There were a bunch of other cool ones, too, but I can't remember them.

As real as it gets?

Hey, I thought this was pretty funny:

I recently found an old version of Microsoft Flight Simulator; more specifically, one for Windows 95. Here are the system requirements:


Multimedia PC with 486DX/66MHz or higher processor (Pentium recommended); the Windows 95 operating system; 8MB of memory (16 MB recommended); 40MB of available hard disk space; Double-speed CD-ROM drive; Super VGA; 256-color monitor; Microsoft mouse or compatible pointing device (joystick recommended); audio board with speakers or headphone required for audio; video card recommended.

And then, on the front it says: As real as it gets

Wow. As real as it gets, eh? I think this serves as a lesson to you people out there who are impressed with today's video game graphics. ;)

Smash Bros. is WiFi!

If you've been keeping up with the Smash Bros. Dojo, (which has been posting daily updates about the upcoming game, Super Smash Bros. Brawl,) you may have been excited by today's update:

Brawl officially has WiFi!!!

I figured that it would be, but there were some who doubted. If they didn't put in WiFi, then after you unlocked everything and got tired of battling computers, you'd stop playing. The addition of WiFi will be incentive for people to play for years. Seriously, they will.

Camera Issues

Okay, this is hard to explain. It seems that whenever a use my camera to take pictures a lot, it sometimes has trouble with the memory.

Let me explain: After about 5 days of taking a lot of pictures, (it may also have to do with temperature or humidity, I'm not sure,) the camera will sometimes flip into a "third memory". It's hard to explain, but I've taken about 20 pictures in this "third memory", and they aren't accessible from my memory card, the internal memory, or the computer, yet they still show up on the camera, and I can treat them like normal pictures if they show up.

The first time it happened, I was at summer camp, and around day 4 or 5, I took out my camera to take a picture, and I noticed that it said I had about 30 pictures left. This confused me, because the day before it had said about 400 pictures left. I figured it was just having troubles, so I took about 15 pictures, (not all at once, it continued to do this through the rest of the week.) So, I got home and transferred the pictures, but I couldn't find those 15 or so "third memory" pictures, so I checked the card memory and the internal memory, and they weren't there. I wasn't able to find these pictures until the next month, when I went on a mission trip. On the 5th day, the "third memory" showed up again. I was happy to see my pictures again, and I took a few more pictures, but then for the rest of the week I couldn't find them again. I haven't been able to replicate it since.

As far as I know, I haven't changed any settings or anything like that since this started happening, although when it happened the first time, it was in my pocket all day, every day for the 3 or 4 days before it. The second time, it was in my pocket while I was working for 4 days, and then the camera had been sitting in my pocket in the sun for a few hours. Both of these times, I had taken about 50 pictures before it happened.

I know this sounds really weird, but it's true, and I really want those pictures back! (For those of you that went to camp with me, the pictures I lost were the ones of the mole!!)


Does anyone else also experience this problem?

Metroid Prime 3

I haven't posted in a little while, so let me now talk about the amazing game, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. It is absolutely AMAZING. Let me elaborate:

The graphics are incredible. Thanks to a bunch of really cool lighting effects and textures, it looks really cool.

The gameplay is great; the controls are so perfect, I'll never want to play a FPS on another system.
The battles are all exciting, but they aren't just mindless button mashing, they each usually have some sort of strategic element to them. The boss battles are great, they require both strategy and skill, (unlike the bosses in Twilight Princess, which were WAY too easy; they only required strategy.)

The plot is okay; it works well by itself and in combination with the other two games in the trilogy. Unfortunately, the main thing that you must do is collect items so you can make your way into new areas, but the plot still does have other things that you must do, also.

I personally thought that it was a little short, (I beat it in 15 hours,) but it really didn't have to be any longer, that might have just been overkill.

The other thing that I think most people are disappointed about is the lack of multiplayer, but it's still a great game without it.

Overall, it is an absolutely incredible game; it's the best Wii game so far, (yes, better than TP,) as well as the best Metroid so far, so if you own a Wii, BUY THIS GAME! And if you're a Metroid fan, but don't have a Wii, BUY A WII AND GET THIS GAME! It's worth it!

Triangle Puzzle

I'm sure that most of you have seen that infamous triangle puzzle, in which you must remove all but one of the pegs by jumping over the others. I've known the solution (or at least one of them) for quite a while, and, since I haven't posted in a while, I decided to make an animated GIF that shows how it's done. Here it is:

And there it is. Fairly easy to memorize, too.

Tennis

Some of you may have noticed my reply to Matt's comment, in which I said:
"Right now, I'm working on improving my tennis skill level...

Just wait till you see how high I've gotten it..."

Well, now I get to show you. Take a look at this:







You read that right... 2200
My skill level is SO high, it's literally off the charts!

I thought that was pretty funny. Once you hit 1800, you go into the gray area, and after 2000, you completely come off the chart! lol

Unfortunately, I now only get around 10 points for a single game, and my opponents are level 2000 and 1900 (that's as high as they get). Oh well. It's worth it.

I'm going to get it up a little higher and then send the pics to Nintendo. :)

The Master Sword

Okay, so, a few days ago, Matt showed me this cool website with swords for a LOT cheaper then you could find anywhere else. So, I obviously checked it out when I got home, and I noticed this sword for only $26. I was stunned at such a low price, so I bought it. 3 days later, it arrived, and it is REALLY cool. As always, I had to take some pictures:







Pretty cool, no? It's going to look AWESOME in my room, right above all of my paper models. :)

Bowling

I played Wii Sports the other day, and I decided that I should try to perfect my bowling. So, after a LOT of practice, I got to the point where most of the time I can get a strike. So I played with this for a while, but then, an amazing thing happened. By some stroke of luck, I was able to bowl a 257. I got 7 strikes in a row at the beginning, and another on the 9th frame. Here's a picture:



Needless to say, I was stunned, and I think that definitely, with a little more practice, I could get a perfect game.

Blender

For those of you that don't know what Blender is, let me explain it.

Blender is an open source (free) CGI program that is very awesome! I'm not going to go much into detail, because you can just go to their website to find out more.

Anyway, I've been doing that for about 2+ years now, and I feel like showing off some of my projects:



The Classic Impossible Triangle



Doodlesworth (Day)



Doodlesworth (Night)



Doodlesworth (Noon)



Cartoon-style Flowers



A Clock



A Plastic Cup



A Solar Eclipse



A Glass Monkey

Those are some of my best ones, but compared to the professionals, I've got a lot of work to do!
lol

I just wanted to say, I've done a bit more work on Doodlesworth since I got those screenshots. It's looking quite nice now.

Paper Models

Well, some of you may already know this about me, but I love to do pepakura (that is, papercraft in English)

Here are some pictures of what I've done so far:



Dragon Illusion

This one is all over the internet (so I don't know where it originally came from) but you can find one here.



Arcade games

You can find these (and more) here.
I would have made more, but my shelf doesn't have that much space.



Nintendo models

Oh boy...
Yoshi, Mario, Kirby, Toad, Luigi, Panda Jimba, Mr. Saturn, Ness, Pikachu, Mario (64 version), Shy Guy, Boo, Goomba, Bowser, and Goron can ALL be found here.
Jack Sparrow's compass can be found here. (Ignore the CD ad.)
You can also find other models on that site, but I haven't done them yet.
Young Link, Zelda, and Majora's Mask (plus many more) can be found here.
Paper Mario was created by me, (as a gag, mostly,) and can be found here.



The Moon

Well, the old file can be found here, but it's missing a page, so if you want it you'll have to specifically ask Red Yoshi for the newest version.
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Pretty cool, no? I love doing them. I have sometimes stayed up past midnight doing them because they're so addicting.

Sulfur Hexafluoride

I thought this was pretty cool. Apparently, there is this gas called "Sulfur Hexafluoride" (a.k.a. SF6). It's about 5 or 6 times denser than air, (meaning that you can float lightweight things in it,) it's invisible, (increasing the "cool" effect,) and it has some strange effects on your voice.

Here are some cool videos with Sulfur Hexafluoride.
I recommend "Invisible Water" and "The Tonight Show: Jay Leno and Josh Duhamel sniff some gas", but there are some other cool ones as well...

The Wikipedia article on it is also interesting.

Now I just want to know if there's a way I can buy some of this stuff...

Introductions

Well, okay. Here it is. I know you all have been waiting to hear my wisdom (I jest) so I finally decided to make a blog. If, on occasion, I have some random thing to show you, I will put it here.

Yeah.

Most likely, if you've come to this blog, you know me personally, but if you were just randomly searching, I hope you find something here that makes you laugh. :)