Shire Time Session 13
Last Blog :’(
Well this is the last blog in The Shire. So let’s just make it a bunch of random thoughts:
I’m about to go to the beach for Easter so I’m sitting here listening to Jimmy Buffett, reminiscing about his concert in Raleigh two nights ago, which was awesome.
I need to go to 2 jazz concerts and write reviews by Wednesday for my MUSC 145 class, which if you’re looking for a VP credit it’s a pretty cool class. Difficult though.
Im up to 88 words, now 94, now 95, hahaha ohhhh that’s just funny.
Over the summer I’ll be a waiter at Tripp’s in Greensboro in New Garden, so if you in the area stop by for an awesome steak and tip me big ;)
The weather was soo awesome but today it’s looking a little rainy/ partly cloudy and a high of 73.
Interesting fact: I want a fancy smancy phone like everyone else with internet and coolio apps and stuff.
I’m supposed to be leaving for the beach now but I’m running a little and not packed yet…ut ohh Logan said she’s gonna kill me. I wish we had class again so I could tell you guys to call 911 if I didn’t show up but no I’m just doomed.
iPod is syncing for the trip.
226 words now, struggling but this helped a bit. Now I’m at 238.
I can’t decide whether I would want to eat a rotten egg or green ham? Quite a conundrum.
Do you think that if you switched brains with someone, you could think the same way or do people have completely different ways of thinking?
If we evolved from apes, why haven’t the apes evolved?
Did Adam (as in Adam and Eve) have a belly button because he was just created so there was no need for an umbilical cord but he was created in the image of us so he should have one? And Eve too because she was born out of a rib from Adam?
That’s kinda funny that men came before women and women came solely from man’s rib.
If we are at peak oil, why isn’t there more of a rush to find new energy sources?
Why can’t we develop a ray gun if we can clone sheep, if would be much more helpful.
Finally, why can’t it just be summer already?
Thanks
Thursday, April 21, 2011
GTA
Shire Time Session 12:
Grand Theft Auto
What is a fun game to play in the Shire? Tag, Red Rover, I Spy…nope Grand Theft Auto hahaha its funny because its sarcasm. How would crazy GTA things have anything to do with the natural beauty of a Shire?
So I was in a friend’s room this afternoon and he had just come home from Greensboro. He stole some more games from his brother because all we have played all year is Fifa 10 and then Fifa 11. (great timing on when to get new games Veazey, 2 weeks before we leave). One of the games he brought back was Grand Theft Auto IV, which if you haven’t ever played is full of guns, drugs, theft, murder, fighting, prostitution, crazy Russian mobsters…so basically its everything fun balled up into one.
My friend and I were talking and he said that 2 of our friends in middle schools stole some drinks from a gas station and when they got caught they said they did it because of Grand Theft Auto haha. But anyway, then they didn’t even get trouble; all that happened was that their GTA was taken so they couldn’t play. (real good parenting there).
This story got me thinking about the debate of whether Grand Theft Auto and similar games are too harsh. I still feel the same I always have about things like this; there’s no way a video game would ever make me more prone to murder or theft or something like that. Some people are just way too uptight and need to chill out and let their kids play some videogames.
However, with that being said I think there is definitely an age limit that needs to be enforced. I believe that 18 is fine because that really means like 15 or 16 and I think by 15 or 16 kids have a solid moral sense. Hopefully but times are changing I guess, getting more and more crime ridden. Parents just don’t raise us like they used to. No more paddling in school, well actually my elementary school in Alabama still paddled. It was intense and I’m glad I was never paddled.
I think we need to let kids be kids but then lay down the law when they cross the line.
Grand Theft Auto
What is a fun game to play in the Shire? Tag, Red Rover, I Spy…nope Grand Theft Auto hahaha its funny because its sarcasm. How would crazy GTA things have anything to do with the natural beauty of a Shire?
So I was in a friend’s room this afternoon and he had just come home from Greensboro. He stole some more games from his brother because all we have played all year is Fifa 10 and then Fifa 11. (great timing on when to get new games Veazey, 2 weeks before we leave). One of the games he brought back was Grand Theft Auto IV, which if you haven’t ever played is full of guns, drugs, theft, murder, fighting, prostitution, crazy Russian mobsters…so basically its everything fun balled up into one.
My friend and I were talking and he said that 2 of our friends in middle schools stole some drinks from a gas station and when they got caught they said they did it because of Grand Theft Auto haha. But anyway, then they didn’t even get trouble; all that happened was that their GTA was taken so they couldn’t play. (real good parenting there).
This story got me thinking about the debate of whether Grand Theft Auto and similar games are too harsh. I still feel the same I always have about things like this; there’s no way a video game would ever make me more prone to murder or theft or something like that. Some people are just way too uptight and need to chill out and let their kids play some videogames.
However, with that being said I think there is definitely an age limit that needs to be enforced. I believe that 18 is fine because that really means like 15 or 16 and I think by 15 or 16 kids have a solid moral sense. Hopefully but times are changing I guess, getting more and more crime ridden. Parents just don’t raise us like they used to. No more paddling in school, well actually my elementary school in Alabama still paddled. It was intense and I’m glad I was never paddled.
I think we need to let kids be kids but then lay down the law when they cross the line.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Tiny Wings vs. Angry Birds
Tiny Wings vs. Angry Birds Another Great Debate?
By Staff Writer Evan Brown
What is The Shire always full of? Birds…duhhh
And iPods so we need to decide what app is better. The iPod App Team has a newcomer called Tiny Wings, while he is a young new recruit, his skills are already shining through. There is some tension within iPod App Team between the newcomer and the last year’s MVA (Most Valuable App) Angry Birds.
Angry Birds quoted 4 days ago saying, “Well personally I believe that [Tiny Wings] has a lot of growing up to do and while he does have the skills be a star, he doesn’t have the mental capacity to be a iPod App Team leader.” This rather harsh statement from Angry Birds sparked quite the response from Tiny wings.
Tiny Wings tweeted this two days later—“F**k Angry Birds. He is just an old grumpy man who isn’t comfortable with a new upcoming stud like me breathing down his neck. #toosicktocare #tiredofoldpeople #whohellisangrybirds #goaheadandretirebrettfarve.” This retaliation is sure to ignite even more tension between the two teammates. The future of iPod App Team is shaky at best.
The root of this debate is the stark success of Tiny Wings. In one week, he shot to the Number 1 Spot on Apple’s Top App List. February 18, 2011 it was announced and soon after Angry Birds retaliated by getting some new clothes and moving to Rio. His new version Angry Birds Rio was released a few weeks later.
This slick move by Angry Birds’ agent Rovio Mobile Ltd. shot Angry Birds back up to the top with style. The newly modified Angry Birds Rio said in an interview, “Recent events have just proven who is boss and that is me. [Tiny Wings] needs to accept defeat and realize that he gets boring way too fast.”
As of this morning Angry Birds is still above Tiny Wings; however, a newbie nautical bird-game named Air Penguin joined the team and slipped into the prized Number 1 position during Angry Bird and Tiny Wing’s feud. They were both simultaneously quoted as saying, “I don’t even have to worry [Air Penguin]; he’s got nothing on me. Give it a week he’ll be gone.”
Will the veterans be forced to retire cold turkey? We shall see in coming weeks.
Evan Brown
Staff Writer
WXXIVS News
Thursday, April 14, 2011
My Mom of the Subject of Eagles
What is better than wildlife in the Shire? Here is a guest post from my mother:
Put away your hiking boots; don’t worry about the weather forecast and stop looking for your binoculars and bug spray. Those items used to be a necessity if you wanted to experience the world of bird watching. I have been invading the privacy of an American bald eagle couple for about 3 weeks right from my own home thanks to a link a friend of mine sent me.
http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles
The Raptor Resource Project is a non-profit group that specializes in preserving eagles, hawks, owls, falcons and ospreys. The group has positioned 2 live cams attached right next to the nest showing different angles that you can view 24/7. At night an infrared light (not visible to the eagles) comes on so we can still view them in the darkness while they are curled up protecting their young. These eagles have been together since 2007 and have raised 11 eaglets (including the 3 that have recently hatched). They live in Decorah, Iowa 80 feet up in a cottonwood tree overlooking a fish hatchery. The nest is over 6 feet long, 4 feet deep and weighs about 1000 pounds. Their first egg hatched on 4/2/11, the second on 4/3/11 and third on 4/5/11. You can watch inches away as both parents take turn sitting on the eggs before they hatched to witnessing the babies crack through their shells to now as both parents taking turns to bring food back to the nest such as squirrels, rabbits and fish. It is unbelievable to watch the adult come swooping down in the nest carrying the next meal. A microphone is also attached so you can hear doves coo, the wind blow and the rain fall. You listen as the eaglets chirp when they are hungry and hear the parents tear away at meat and bones from their prey. These raptors are huge with a wing span of 7 feet and are 3 ½ feet tall but to watch them take the meat in their beaks and so delicately put it in their babies’ mouth is amazing to watch……….and you wouldn’t be able to if you were walking on the ground with all the other birdwatchers with their binoculars. As I am writing this, I have the website pulled up and am watching both parents bring in more branches and twigs possibly to expand their already 6 foot long home to accommodate the lightening speed growth of their babies. The three siblings will stay with mom and dad for about three months while they mimic the survival skills of their parents preparing to start a life on their own.
So turn your computer on. Go sit outside with your laptop if you feel the need to breathe the fresh air. You can’t experience anything I’ve described by walking through the woods, marshlands or fields looking for birds while you swat mosquitoes.
Put away your hiking boots; don’t worry about the weather forecast and stop looking for your binoculars and bug spray. Those items used to be a necessity if you wanted to experience the world of bird watching. I have been invading the privacy of an American bald eagle couple for about 3 weeks right from my own home thanks to a link a friend of mine sent me.
http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles
The Raptor Resource Project is a non-profit group that specializes in preserving eagles, hawks, owls, falcons and ospreys. The group has positioned 2 live cams attached right next to the nest showing different angles that you can view 24/7. At night an infrared light (not visible to the eagles) comes on so we can still view them in the darkness while they are curled up protecting their young. These eagles have been together since 2007 and have raised 11 eaglets (including the 3 that have recently hatched). They live in Decorah, Iowa 80 feet up in a cottonwood tree overlooking a fish hatchery. The nest is over 6 feet long, 4 feet deep and weighs about 1000 pounds. Their first egg hatched on 4/2/11, the second on 4/3/11 and third on 4/5/11. You can watch inches away as both parents take turn sitting on the eggs before they hatched to witnessing the babies crack through their shells to now as both parents taking turns to bring food back to the nest such as squirrels, rabbits and fish. It is unbelievable to watch the adult come swooping down in the nest carrying the next meal. A microphone is also attached so you can hear doves coo, the wind blow and the rain fall. You listen as the eaglets chirp when they are hungry and hear the parents tear away at meat and bones from their prey. These raptors are huge with a wing span of 7 feet and are 3 ½ feet tall but to watch them take the meat in their beaks and so delicately put it in their babies’ mouth is amazing to watch……….and you wouldn’t be able to if you were walking on the ground with all the other birdwatchers with their binoculars. As I am writing this, I have the website pulled up and am watching both parents bring in more branches and twigs possibly to expand their already 6 foot long home to accommodate the lightening speed growth of their babies. The three siblings will stay with mom and dad for about three months while they mimic the survival skills of their parents preparing to start a life on their own.
So turn your computer on. Go sit outside with your laptop if you feel the need to breathe the fresh air. You can’t experience anything I’ve described by walking through the woods, marshlands or fields looking for birds while you swat mosquitoes.
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