Trick-Or-Treat Trap

I have a few tricks for trick-or-treaters tonight. I will only discuss one in case any trick-or-treaters read this. It basically involves covering the screen door on my house with black and orange construction paper and hiding in between the screen door and the wooden door.

A Cool Song

I found a cool song a while (weeks) ago, and I finally decided to blog about it.The song is called "Holiday" by Greenday. The music itself is very awesome and I have played it in band class (I'm in percussion). The snare drum part is very easy, which gives me a chance to listen to the music as I play. This is a fun song, and I hope you all have a good October 31!(it's my dogs birthday)

WHOOHOO!

Today is going very well. I just need to practice music and do the dishes then I'm done. Wish me luck in going fast. This is a great day.

Plans

Well, it's decided, we're moving. In about 1 month's time we will leave ID and make for AZ. This means we have to get all of our stuff packed up. We have already ended our time in scouts for now (we need the extra packing time) and Nikolas is quite riled up about this. We will be leaving public school eventually and then we will move. I hope we don't hit any snags. I will keep my blog updated about the move as time progresses. Expect sparse posting in the next month.

My WireMod

A few days ago, I got a mod for my Gmod (yes, a mod of a mod) called Wiremod. Wiremod, or Wire for short, allows you to make circuitry and computers and such. The first thing I did when I got it was I built an auto-tracking gun turret. This turret had one major weakness, it couldn't aim up and down. I solved this problem with 4 "hover-balls" a hover-ball is an orb that hovers at a set altitude, they can also travel straight up and down. This new turret could hit any target in range, and was quite simple to set up. When I talked to my dad about it, he said that it was like a turret on a stick, so I named it the turret-on-a-stick. This turret has a new problem, if thrown off-angle, the hover-balls would get stuck there. The result of this is a turet that is hovering at an akward angle and no longer working right. I can solve this problem by making a turret with 3-axis targeting, although, this is very complicated. A 2-axis turret is simple enough, but add one extra targeting axis and I'm stuck. When I figure out how to make one I am going to save it immediatly, but, until then I'm stuck with my turret-on-a-stick

My Dog is Bugging Me

My dog (Kiko) is driving me nuts right now. I'm the only person in the house that's up and about at the moment and Kiko needs to go out to poop every half an hour or so. So I get to drop everything (even school) every half hour to take him out. Also, he is hungry but won't eat no matter what I do. I need to go get some school done before he has to poop again. I also have U of I homecoming tomorrow. Well, I have to go, hope all who are reading this have a good day.

My Brothers Gmod 10

Last night, my brother got Gmod 10 on his computer. We then played a multiplayer game together and made all sorts of vehicles. His weirdest was a bathtub with rockets and wings on it. My weirdest was a blast door with a seat, rockets, and these things called hover-balls. We had a lot of fun, even though he messed up my first vehicle. We are going to play together again this evening. Expect more funny stories and videos.

Gmod 10 (updated)

Yesterday, I got Gmod 10. IT IS AWESOME!!! The tools are great, the physics are great, the trap possibilities are endless. The only problem I have is that I can't figure out how to make buttons work (a.k.a. push button, activate items). There is an expansion for Gmod 10 called Wiremod. Wiremod is a more complicated tool that lets you make circutry. If I get Wiremod, then the first thing I will do is make a tripwire door trap. I hope to play soon so that I can get on this.

Gmod 10

My brother and I are getting a game called Gmod 10 (Garry's mod 10) today. Gmod is a "physics sandbox" game. This means you can do just about anything. If somebody is annoying you then you can trap him under a dumpster for a while. You can also spawn game A.I.s to bother people, help you out or just look like a dork. This sounds like an awesome, awesome game and I hope to start ASAP. I don't even know what I'll do first because I'm so excited! Gmod 10, here I come!

My New Bed

Yesterday I got a new mattress and pad for my bed. The top of my bed used to be about 2 or 3 feet off the ground. After all the changes (including lowering the frame and adding casters to the feet), the top of my bed is now 4.5-5 feet off the ground. It is so weird to be at head level with my dad while I'm sitting and he is standing up. It is somewhat funny looking to see my dog dwarfed by my bed.

One of my Best Days Ever!

Today is just awesome. I am done with math and biology, and my other school is very short. I am hoping to play before noon. My brother got a clone trooper voice changer yesterday and I am having fun pegging him with my dart guns when he wears it. I have 4 dart guns (Tek six, Dualshot, Magstrike, and Longshot) and I am hoping to get the newest Nerf dart gun, the Vulcan. It is a $45 dart gun with a 25-shot belt feeder. I'm gonna have SO MUCH FUN pegging Nikolas with that thing. If I can get it before Halloween then I plan to ambush trick-or-treaters with it. Well, I have to go, wish me luck in getting done before noon.

Computer Problems

My computer was giving me grief earlier today. There were 2 main problems. 1, stickykeys was stuck on. 2, mouselock seemingly turned itself on and was bothering me. Then my mom found out what was wrong (I was completely stumped) and fixed the problem. Then I go to start my Firefox, and my cursor flashes rainbow for a few seconds. It turns out, my mom turned on animated cursor while she was fixing the problem with my computer. I'm yet to turn animated cursor off, but I will sometime today.

I'm Having Another Good Day

I'm having a good day. I did my math in bed last night, the rest of my school is short and it is not even 1:00 yet. The only thing that could make this moment better is beef jerky.

U ofI Homecoming Music

At my school, we are currently practicing some music for the University of Idaho homecoming day parade and football game. The theme this year is video game music. We will be playing 3 songs: Tetris, Zelda, and Halo. These pieces are very easy for percussion section. I am on a tom (snare drum without the snares) and I can already play these 3 pieces almost perfectly with my eyes closed. The 7-8 class has just begun at playing these. I do hope they are ready by the twenty-fifth.

The Meat-Sauce Incident

This last Saturday, we had an incident in the kitchen. This incident had to do with a pressure cooker full of food (and still pressurized) and some cold water. The pressure release valve on the lid failed and shot out to I-still-don't-know-where in the kitchen, then the meat sauce in the pressure cooker sprayed all over the place. The spray of meat sauce soaked the windows, the cloth blinds, the countertops, and just about everything ON the countertops. We spent the better part of the night cleaning up the mess. This kind of reminds me of when my dad pulled the orange juice out of the fridge and the maple syrup came out with it. The stuff was EVERYWHERE. It got on both fridges, all over the floor and even sprayed the ceiling. This was easier to get off, but there was a lot more of it. I swear I can still smell meat sauce in the kitchen.

Im Having A Good Day

I'm having a good day today. I did my math in bed last night, my biology was all of 2 paragraphs long, my music will be easy, and I'm on cleaning up the front room today. Also is the fact that it is Friday, so I get to stay up late tonight. Hooray! My computer has stopped buzzing (for now) and I cannot wait to play. It isn't even noon yet and I am almost half done with school. I am very happy about all this. I am also happy because i have a bag of good beef jerky.

My Floor

Today I have to mop my floor, which is a bit cluttered to say the least. So I get to pick up my office chair, carry it out of my room, set it down outside, mop the floor, pick up my chair again and carry it in. That thing weighs like 50 pounds and I get to carry it over the foot post on my bed. Then I set it down, and it starts making tracks. So then I lay the chair down and wet a nice, clean, white washcloth to clean the chair wheels. The washcloth now looks like it has been used to clean off greasy hands that have just worked on a car. Now here I sit, blogging about a grimy washcloth, and I still have to put away cleaning supplies, fold my clean laundry, put away the clean dishes, start the dirty dishes, clean the kitchen counters and stove, and sweep the kitchen floor. Now my computer is lagging, I'll probably have to clean that out to.Well, goodbye and wish me luck cleaning up, I'll need it.

Spore "Epics"

In Spore, "epics" are super-sized versions of normal creatures. Epics appear in the creature, tribal, civilisation, and space stages. They are very powerful and can wipe out most creatures in 1 hit. Some people have managed to beat these things in the creature stage. This is very impressive. There are a few ways to kill an epic in creature, tribal, and civilisation stages. One is to attack it and lure it back to your base (nest, village, city) where you can swarm it. Anther way to beat an epic is to trap it and keep using the attack "spit". Here is a vid of a guy beating an epic in the creature stage, then 2 of funny looking epics.

The Tarantula Hawk

The Tarantula Hawk is a wasp that hunts spiders. It finds a spider, stings it with a paralysing venom, then drags it to its nest and lays an egg on it. The baby wasp then hatches and eats the paralysed spider. Here is a video.

"Spore" Cell Stage

"Spore" is a game by Maxis. You create a creature, then grow it and develop it into a spacegoing race to travel the cosmos. The game has five stages, cell, creature, tribal, civilization, and space. Today I will focus on the cell stage. You start off as a simple cell, having only eyes, a mouth, and 1 flagella. These parts have simple purposes. Eyes are used to see food and predators (duh...). Flagella (faster travel speed), cilia (faster turn and spurts of speed in travel), and jets( large bursts of speed) are used for movement. There are 3 kinds of moulth in the cell stage: filter (herbivore), jaws (carnivore), and proboscis (omnivore). There are 5 ways to damage other cells: jaws (bite), proboscis (suck out food), poison (leaves poison trail when you move and gives immunity to poison), spike (damages all who touch), and electric (projects field that damages nearby enemies and gives electric immunity). Below are 3 videos about the cell stage. All credit for these goes to shadowzack.

Halo 1 Covenant Weapons

In Halo 1, the Covenant have a wide variety of weapons at their disposal. These weapons are as follows: Needler, Plasma Rifle, Plasma Pistol, Fuel Rod Gun, Plasma Sword, and Assault Cannon. These weapons are used by different species of Covenant. Grunt minors(orange) and majors(red) use needlers and plasma pistols while spec ops grunts(black or gray) use fuel rod guns. A grunt with a fuel rod gun is a serious threat. Jackals use plasma pistols all the time. Elites use plama rifles, needlers, and plasma swords. An elite with a plasma sword can kill in 1 hit on higher difficulty levels. Hunters can only use the assault cannon because it is grafted onto their arm. Hunters do not do very well in Halo 1 because of bad programming, but they are still dangerous. The covenant have a large amount of weapos that are bad against The Flood.

Halo 2-3 Drone Enemy

First off, this is my fiftieth post. Second, The "drone" is an insect-like enemy in halo 2 and 3. I have never actually fought one, but I've heard a lot about them. They are very weak, but travel in large swarms. Drones usually carry a plasma pistol, because it is the only thing light enough for them to fly with. I am not sure, but i think they can use needlers as well. Drones are very hard to hit with sticky grenades and are almost always hovering out of reach of normal (non-sticky) grenades. Using a stationary gun against drones is not a good idea because they will tear you apart with plasma pistol fire very fast if you stand still. The best way to fight drones is to keep moving and fire in controlled bursts.

"Brisingr" book by Christopher Paolini

Brisingr is a book by Christopher Paolini. We got this book on September 30 and I have just begun reading it. I will post a book report when I am done with it (no idea when that will be). This is supposed to be a good book and I expect it to be a good book.