Wow. This page has gathered dust. *strolls through quiet posts of silence* Well... How's life? Why do I ask zee question? There will be no reply... Since I last posted, I have been on a Homestuck panel at Sunnycon: WARNING! THESE VIDEOS CONTAIN... UM... Well, nothing explicit, but it can be called 'Homestuck Tomfoolery' and some people may go "Urm... k, I do not want to watch this..." There is a pair of pink underpants involved, I seem to remember. I am in the background on one of these videos. Invisible. I was on the panel but my character is mute and unlikely to Strife.
I also saw Biffy Clyro live, which was awesome. :3 First time I'd ever been to a concert. It was joyful and magical and there was a tree on stage. A tree made of bones. o_0 Then everything happened. Exams. Nightmares. More Exams. I should be revising now. byes, I'll update soon! Dark Dragon
Right I'm back again, for now at least. I've been meaning to write a book for some time now, but I'm not sure on what to write about first, so here's my plan, you can decide the story line for me. The way it works is, if you comment on this post with an idea for a story, I will pick the most popular choice out of the comments, and then proceed to write the first chapter. This will then be posted on here for you to read, and then comment on what you think should happen in the next chapter (or what should be changed in the current chapter). This is the same for each chapter after that until we have a full story, which I will post in full on my own personal blog. Please comment though, otherwise this strategy will fail miserably, plus you won't have any input in my story. I will read the comments sometime in the next fortnight, depending on the volume of comments. -McDogFace
Yo. Today I'm gonna blog about a nun (is she a nun? Are Sisters nuns? Probably.) She is pretty bwas. I first found out about her during the last few lessons before school broke up for summer last year. We got to watch a film called 'Dead Man Walking', which was about capital punishment. It was about a man who had been convicted for the murder and rape of a young woman, and the murder of her boyfriend. Until half-way through the film he claims he didn't do it. Then he admits the truth. He's the bad guy, right? Kind of. He's a Bad Guy, but not The Bad Guy, depending on your view of things. The film was about how he enlisted the help of Sister Helen Prejean to... I dunno, clear his soul or something? Her job was to help him 'die with dignity', to help him admit his crimes and accept what he did and accept the punishment -death. Through this film, you see the horror of having to kill someone for a murder. You meet the victim's parents, who want retribution and rightly so, and then you meet the criminal's family and... I dunno. It's hard to say what one feels when watching that film. Well anyhoo, the film 'Dead Man Walking' is based on the book 'Dead Man Walking' which was written by the real Helen Prejean. And she wrote the book from first hand experience, because it was her job to care for the souls of those who had no friends, for those who had done the unspeakable. They are the scum of the Earth, but it is said by most Christians that we have a forgiving God, and we should be more forgiving. As mortals, we cannot forgive a rape and a murder. Those things are sick- mostly the rape. Unspeakably disgusting. But should we kill people for it? In my opinion there is no 'humane' way to carry out capital punishment. You know how the lethal injection is supposed the be the best way to do it? There are three stages to that injection: first they paralyze you. You cannot move, but you can still feel things. Then they destroy your insides; lungs fall in, muscles loosely let one's bowl contents fall out, your organs dissolve. You are still awake at this point. Then they finally stop your heart. Other than the slightest twitch of the face, the viewer can not tell how much pain you are in. As GLaDOS from the Portal games says: "You don't feel pain, or at least you cannot COMMUNICATE that you feel pain. I consider that a failing, by the way." They can't show you how much pain they are in. Yes, they probably deserve it. But do we have the right to do that to another human being? Well anyhoo, in R.E these past few days we have returned to the topic of capital punishment, and we watched a documentary about it. At some point we also saw an interview with Sister Helen Prejean but I am terrible at finding videos on youtube, so here is a random interview with her. The one we saw was quite humourus, as she did impressions of people who directly quoted the Bible to defend capital punishment. People trying to out-quote a nun? Ha! As was said in the film and, according to the documentary, real life; "Killing is wrong, it doesn't matter who does it, if it is me or your government." Dark Dragon
Why do revision? Why do schoolwork? You are useless; nothing you do is going to work. Not a good friend. Not a good student. You're going to fail in the exams so why bother revising. So I'm just going to sit here, last day of term, and stare and bits of paper and pretend to revise. But why bother? I'm not clever. The information never sinks in. Oh, we have passed 4444 views. Clever us. I can't get to sleep because a voice in my ear tells me how useless I am, and as a sidenote hoe I should go and throttle my brother in his sleep. Ah, these are the days. School again. Let's think positively, shall we? I actually woke up at a good time this morning. Eight-of-the-clock. Sure, I'm aiming for seven-of-the-clock, but it's progress! Last night I managed to do four or five stupidly hard Sudoku. You know how you need 1-9 in each row, box and column? And they give you numbers at the start? These guys don't give you numbers. They give you clues to what the numbers may be. Grrrrrr. Well, from left to right on my favorites bar (the websites I try to visit daily) I have the following news: -RANDOM WORD GENERATOR: didn't click it. -FLIGHT RISING BETA TEST: one of my baby dragons has grown up. The rest of the litter will mature tomorrow. I have seven dragons: my two starter dragons, and their two children, and three adopted dragons. The two adopted ones have matured so far, giving me four adults to use in battle at the Colosseum, and three little babies to admire all the time. The soon-to-be-adults are Eliza, (a purple mirror dragon named after a character in Fire World), Emerald (a completely green dragon, who is adopted. I love her so much: so cute!) and Bluetongue. Despite a green mother and a grey father, the purple and blue dragons are in fact naturally born into my clan. Weird. -SMITHSONIAN DINOSAUR BLOG: didn't click it. -GOOGLE TRANSLATE: didn't click it. If you are bored, go onto google translate, type something funny in, and make the voice-person say it. -CUCKOO YOUNG WRITERS MAGAZINE: didn't click it. -FACEBOOK: had a look through things. Today I was tagged in a picture of a really cute Cthulhu; d'awwwwww! (Cthulhu being the tentacled god of madness. Look him up, then read some Lovecraft. Like Poe, but more aliens) -HOTMAIL: didn't click it. -ROMANTICALLY APOCALYPTIC: it updated! The people who make it are moving into a new studio, so the picture isn't done by Alexius, but by another artist who does fantastic drawings of the adventures of Stalky and Lifealope. This week one of Annet's robot-thingys woke up, and found a patch of grass which is ILLEGAL! So she summoned lots of robot bugs called 'Gardeners' and burned the place down. -HOMESTUCK: it updated! The adventures of Jane Crocker, who is upset at the minute because Jake is being an arsehole. Also, Roxy got covered in glitter, so even if she is invisible and can fly, she is being tracked through the streets of Durse. -POST OF RANDOM STUFF: I'm here aren't I? I've also checked the blogs at the side: James Gurney (who wrote Dinotopia!) made a post about abandoned buildings (huh, should he read Romantically Apocalyptic?) and also, I felt inspired to post something today. -DEVIENTART: Alexius made a post about the new studio/office/thing, his new intern, and a book which has one of his artworks on zee cover (I had a look at it. Post-apocalyptic love story anyone? I'm not too keen on love stories myself). Someone thanked me for 'fave'ing an epic sketch of Flight Rising dragons, and a paleo/fantasy artist has returned to his art school which has better internet than his house so he is posting pictures like billio. -GOOGLE: What would I need to google at this time in the morning?
Ah, school. How I hate thee. I was revising most of yesterday for the chemistry resit. Today I need to revise some more. But I can't be bothered. So I'm putting this post on the blog, then I am off to write some more of my story, Draconic Entomology, and then I'm going to work on the fanadventure with my friends (it's like a role-playing fanfic for Homestuck) and maybe I'll do some more stuff on the Beta Test of Flight Rising. I'm a beta tester guys. And when this game comes out, if you choose to play it, you shall be addicted to it just as I am. SO MANY DRAGONS! And with that, I shall leave you with:
I promise not to get sentimental as I go over the events that happened this year. In fact I wont. Because a lot of bad things have happened, (such as wars and those who died in them) and then a lot of boring things happened (such as school and the Olympics) and not much else happened. However I will say that Britain had its wettest year in recorded history. ...And Mcdogface has not said much on this blog this year. Um... This was the year I discovered and became obsessed with Romantically Apocalyptic, and this was the year that I had a truly awesome Christmas. I'm halfway through my GCSEs, going to resit some of them in January, and I think 2013 will be a lot like 2012, although I only have one calender (in 2012 I had three) and there wont be a huge doomsday prediction. That's it really. See you guys in 2013! Dark Dragon
Surprisingly the day with the most awesome date ever was not that different from any other day. We now need to wait 89 years until we have a year with all the numbers the same again. For our generation it was an annual occurrence, but for the next group of humans they may never experience it. When I'm older I shall turn to my friends and ask "Remember when every year all the numbers were sometimes the same?" and they'd nod and say "Yeah, before 2013 right?" Ah well. Twelve is my lucky number. Here are some facts about the number Twelve: -While twelve means a dozen, a baker's dozen is in fact thirteen. This leaves a chance for error when baking, so if one of the loafs gets burned then they are still selling twelve loafs. -Magnesium, a metal used frequently in chemistry lessons, has the atomic number 12. -A dozen dozens is a gross. -A system of counting with dozens rather than tens is called a dozenal system rather than a decimal system. -A group of twelve things is called a duodecad. The ordinal adjective is duodenary, twelfth. The adjective referring to a group consisting of twelve things is duodecuple. Some places where the number twelve can be found: THE CALENDER Twelve months Twelve Zodiac Signs THE BIBLE 12 apostles 12 sons of Jacob 12 tribes formed after Moses left Egypt And um... Somewhere else? Most alphebets have 24 letters, and half of 24 is 12. Let's face it, twelve is a cool number. Happy twelfth of the twelfth oh twelve! Dark Dragon
