Food Project 2013

I'm having a productive weekend. I've officially memorized my lines for Hamlet, I ordered my new laptop (and no, I'm not getting a cheap-ass one this time), we bought a microphone to accompany my piano playing, and I finished editing the video for my Food Project! So yes, it was a good day.

Anyway, in order to give myself a fail-safe, in addition to bringing the video to school on a flash drive, I'm uploading it to this blog. I recommend watching it as long as your computer can handle enormous log-jamming files. It's got that 'home movie' quality, but I think I did a pretty good job with the video editing.

This is the first time I've used the video feature on Blogger since they changed their layout, so I might have to go through a few test runs to get this right... but here's hoping. No news or insightful investigative reporting on this blog post; this is solely for school. Watch this epic video, though. It's pretty parkour.

Bye!

Call of Duty: Modern Nørdfare

My entire school got its picture taken today (well, just the 8th grade class). As usual, I was put in the back center, seeing as I am the tallest. In the school. Period. This actually surprises me, because there really should be SOMEONE in the school who's 6' 4". But no.

We ended up having an epic battle, with the short people calling us freaks and us calling them midgets. All in good fun, of course. Then we started a march through the school chanting 'Height Makes Right!!!' We didn't see much opposition, mainly because they would have been stepped on.

Unfortunately, I have other topics to talk about today other than my epic height-itude. Remember the Norwegian guy who killed over 70 people last summer? The guy was Anders Behring Breivik, and he stated this week that to prep for the shooting, he played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II. Three words: What an asshole. We did not need this. Video games were just about to be accepted as what they are; a legitimate form of teamwork that requires skill, planning, and problem solving to play. But then Knut of the North over here decides to out himself as a COD player. BIG HELP.

I play this game a lot myself, and I haven't gone on a killing spree yet-- THE VOICES!!! STOP THE VOICES!!! Blaming the video game industry for violence is like blaming General Motors for car crashes. It's not the company's fault if someone uses their product in the wrong way. Actually, it's even MORE different: COD doesn't sell people guns. In fact, even with all my Modern Warfare 2 training, I wouldn't do very well at a shooting range.

But we will always have a group of overreacting nutjobs who think they can comment on the subject, even though they haven't experienced either gun violence or video games firsthand. It really isn't my problem if people think that games cause violence. But consider this: Not everyone who plays Farmville lives on a farm. Not everyone who plays Minecraft mines. And not everyone who plays Pac-Man runs around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive music. Wait...

Anyway, if anyone would LIKE to comment on the subject, I ask only this: Rent MW2 for a few weeks, play about an hour a day, and then go to a shooting range. How many targets did you hit? Did you do well?

I didn't think so.

Bye!

Obama VS Gunray

ALERT: THE VIDEO THAT USED TO BE HERE WAS DELETED DUE TO THE FOLLOWING REASONS:

A) IT IS VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY BAD.

B) I HATE THE WAY MY VOICE SOUNDS ON TAPE.

IF YOU HAD TO SEE THIS VIDEO, I PITY YOU. THAT IS ALL.