Christmas Colors

Red and green are Christmas colors. When I see them together I automatically think "Christmas! Yeah!" It's just the way it is. Red and green are Christmas colors. Not purple or blue or macaroni yellow. But why not? Well that's the thought I had so I thought I would google it and save you the trouble looking for the answer.

So one website says there are two reasons for these two colors being the official Christmas colors. 

1. Green was seen as the symbol of life before Jesus was born. They would cut down trees and put them in their house during winter to symbolize that they are still alive despite the harsh weather (Christmas tree history right there too...your welcome). The Romans would hang up holly wreaths during a festival called natalis solis invicti (“birth of the invincible sun") in order to welcome back the sun and warm weather. They celebrated these holidays on December 25th. There are also other pagan holidays that contributed to the colors but there isn't much more information about them.  
2. Many of the traditions previously mentioned occur after the death of Jesus too. They are amplified when the green color is seen more as eternal life. Red was also added more with red berries and apples to symbolize the blood Jesus shed.

That's all I really want to share and is the majority of what I found. If you want more here (<-- click that word right there) is a website that you can hear more details that I got bored with because my music is distracting me from focusing on it. 
 
Well I hope you enjoyed that short little background on the colors of Christmas. I don't know about you but it makes me feel better knowing that there is an actual reason red and green are the colors and not just some random colors people decided looked cool together.
~Scooby 

Facebook Poke

Ever been poked? Ever been poked repeatedly? It's annoying, right? Well today I would like to raise your awareness to a terrible epidemic that is sweeping the nation, the Facebook poke. Scientists are now calling this Mustpokealldaylongitus. What never heard of it? Don't worry. You're not alone. This disease is fairly new and most of the world doesn't know about. That's why I'm here, to tell you what it is, how to recognize it, and how to cure it.



What is Mustpokealldaylongitus?
Mustpokealldaylongitus is a day that causes people to need to poke others all day long. Even if they aren't around people they will find a way to poke their friends. Facebook has helped many of these people by having a "poke" button so that the people are poking others without the physical contact.

Symptoms:
The symptoms of Mustpokealldaylongitus varies for every person. However if you recognize somebody you know displaying these three symptoms take them to a Stoppokingallday doctor immediately.

1. Continually tapping finger on a surface. If somebody displays this symptom it probably means they don't have anybody to poke at the moment. Because they can't poke anybody they begin to poke the table. Most the time this symptom isn't even noticed by the person doing the poking.
2. Typing random letters into the keyboard because they are bored and don't want to do homework (this may also be a sign of procrastination if it is contact your Doitnow doctor immediately). If you receive a message of random letters while texting or messaging a friend they probably had the urge to poke something but could only poke you (example: eoiurkdnvdm;audfienkmxcnx,mncvwoeiu). How can you be sure this is the case? If you ask them what that was and they respond "idk i was bored" they probably have Mustpokealldayitus.
3. If your friend goes up to you or a stranger pokes you in the arm and then says "Poooooooooke!" they have Mustpokealldaylongitus and you need to take them to a Stoppokingallday doctor immediately! 

Why does Mustpokealldaylongitus need to be cured? It seems like a rather stupid to be an actual disease.

What's this? You doubt that Mustpokealldaylongitus is an actual disease and needs to be treated?! That is one of the main reasons Mustpokealldaylongitus must be cured! Because people think it isn't an actual disease it is spreading faster and faster throughout the nation.

Remember when you were a kid and you would play the "I'm not touching you! I'm not touching you!" game? Well that was the beginning of this game. Our ancestors had Mustpokealldaylongitus and never even knew it! This disease is very smart and has evolved so much that it can even spread through the internet! 

Not to mention it's annoying.

How do people get this disease? Here are the top 4 reasons:

1. Being bored. When people are bored they need something to do and what better than a poke war on Facebook?
2. Feeling lonely. When people are lonely they see the poke button as a way to say "Hey! Pay attention to me!"
3. Flirtation. When a teen likes another teen that teen is more likely to poke that other teen in order to get their attention and give an excuse to start a conversation.
4. Missing their childhood. When one misses their childhood they want to do something they used to do during their childhood without other people knowing it. By poking somebody through Facebook they are saying "I'm not touching you!" with their hand in your face.

How do we cure Mustpokealldaylongitus?

1. Find somebody with Mustpokealldaylongitus and tape their fingers together. If they don't have on finger alone they can't officially poke you in the correct manner. However make sure they don't have any pencils, sticks, pens, or anything of that sort because they can use that poke with.
2. Never ever start a poke war on Facebook. Once you do you can't stop and the only way to stop is to see a Stoppokingalldaylong doctor.
3. When sitting somewhere make sure to glue or tape a victims hand to the table so that they can't continually poke the table. 
4. Whenever you see somebody do any form of poking (i.e. tapping their finger against their forehead, tapping a pencil on the table, etc.) make sure you force them to stop immediately. 

Because this disease is relatively new I ask to spread the news about Mustpokealldaylongitus to all your friends so that one day this disease will be gone for good. Thank you.

~Scooby

Mustpokealldaylongitus is not an actual disease. If you believed this post you need to get your brain checked because you are very gullable. Just kidding. This is real. Symptoms include poking a hole through their own head, poking a hole through a table. If you see somebody in danger of this disease contact the Stoppoking Hotline at 333-333-POKE. 

Broken Computer

THIS MACHINE IS OUT OF ORDER

YES - WE HAVE CALLED THE SERVICE MAN

YES - HE WILL BE IN TODAY, MAYBE

NO - WE CANNOT FIX IT

NO - WE DO NOT KNOW HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE

NO - WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT CAUSED IT

NO - WE DO NOT KNOW WHO BROKE IT

YES - WE ARE KEEPING IT

NO - WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO DO NOW

THANK YOU

That, my friends, is what was written on a sheet of paper that was taped onto a computer in my school library. Obviously it wasn't working. I don't know why but I found it both funny and sad at what they put on the paper. It's funny because they really do answer all of the questions you could think of asking (if not all then most). However it is sad because they probably had to put that on the paper because people have actually asked them those questions.

Well I hope you enjoyed this short little post. I thought I would share this experience with you because it was interesting. Have a fantabulous day!
~Scooby

The Fort

Talk about ridiculous prices, creepy old guy, food, dressing up, Waugh and gift, and singing ladies plus magically appearing food and sneaky waiters and waitress saying thank you very much to every one and thanking us. Think of singing "please don't eat me" from dragon song in avpm while eating

So as I said in my previous post I had a Christmas party on the first with some family friends. Every year we get together and we trade off going to each others house. This year it was our friend who is really big into Christmas. When I was younger she would always buy us each at least 10 presents. She still does now just not as much because we got rid of the gift exchange part. Anyway this time she decided to take us to The Fort. The Fort is a very fancy restaurant where two people can easily spend over $100.

This be the place.

 So before we actually left I asked my parents if I needed to dress up. The response: "YES!" I couldn't even wear jeans! That's my life! If you don't know me I hate dressing up. It's a pain in the butt. My normal outfit consists of jeans, a T-shirt, and a hoodie (socks and tennis shoes as well). My hair is also up in a pony tail and no make-up is on my face. When I'm home and know I'm not going anywhere I will where sweats instead of jeans and slippers. Anyway they said I could wear some black pants I had but I really didn't want to because they always have cat hair on them and aren't that comfortable and I'm all about comfort. So I decided if I had to go to this place and dress up it was all or nothing. Since my parents wouldn't let me wear sweats I went with a dress. I even straightened my hair and put on some makeup (I used my friend's boots that I borrowed at one point and haven't given back yet....oops). I brought clothes to change into for when we went back to her house because I refused to stay in that outfit longer than I had to.

The food:
Well once everything started we got drinks (I got water because after looking at the prices of their appetizers I was afraid their drinks would be really expensive too). We got an appetizer that had three different kinds of sausage on it. The one I had tasted like chili to me. Kinda weird. Then we got our main meals (I got filet mignon) it was very good and like $40 dollars. Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. The first time I got the menu I wanted to know if they had a kids meal because I would be fine with that. Well let's just say my father said no to that too. The food was really good though. I'm not a big steak fan but that was good stuff. I would eat that again. My father got a full rack of ribs and I kid you not the stack was as big as my head. There was a lot of food and that was good too. The vegetables were also really good which impressed me because normally I will pass on them at a restaurant.



The Atmosphere:
There was this Mountain Man there that would sneak up behind you and just stand there until you turned around. The only way you would know that he was there is when the people around you would tell you. At first I didn't think he was a mountain man...I thought he was a strange Santa Claus because he had the beard and everything except for the clothes. I was confused. He was rather creepy.



There was also this group of four ladies that would go around singing Christmas carols at each table. That was really cool. They were good too.

The Service:
The service was very good (probably part of the reason it is so expensive there). You got an appetizer menu and once you were done eating your appetizer they would take your dirty dishes and give you new dishes for the rest of your meal. I was really confused at first because they took my knife and fork. When we got our main meal they gave us a different knife that seemed rather sharp to me. You would also be eating and then suddenly see that more food arrived and be really confused as to how it got there and if a waiter/waitress put it there. It was magical. Like the tables at Hogwarts. Our waitress also kept saying "Thank you very much" after we ordered. It seemed strange to me because you are the one making us the food we should be thanking you (granted it isn't free by any means but your still giving us good food). Plus it was weird because she said it to every person and it got really repetive.

Other:
After we were done eating we were given this pieces of paper. Some of the said that if you went to their store you would get a gift. So we went to the shop and got a block of fancy chocolate. That was nice. On the paper the word "Waugh" was written which I didn't really understand why it was there. Maybe that is somebody's name. When I googled it there was an author with that last name and a Waugh school district and a bunch of other people.

The prices were ridiculous in my mind. You didn't get any more food than you would in any other place yet you spent at least $40 unless you were a vegetarian. If you're a vegetarian and you get their vegetarian dish that is $20. Vegetarians for the win!

While I was eating my meal I got a song stuck in my head. It is a Starkid song called "The Dragon Song." Before I share the video you should know that the only part of the song that was stuck in my head was when he sings "So please don't eat me." I was singing "please don't eat me" in my head while I was eating my meat. Sigh. How does that even happen? On the video I would go to 5:45 if you don't want to watch that much and actually want to know what I'm talking about. If you want to watch the whole video go for it!

That was my adventure at The Fort. Sorry this post was rather long.
~Scooby

Survey Time!

So my friend who also has a blog tagged me and my other friend who has a blog to do this survey (you should go check out their blogs here and here!). I think I talked about them before. How their blogs are super pretty and that's why I want mine to be pretty. Remember? No well okay then.

Before I actually do the survey I have to say that I never thought I would get tagged to do this by having a blog. I mean I know that this happens in emails and on Facebook and sometimes people that vlog do it too but I just never really thought it would happen to me. Strange.

Okay. Let the fun/games begin/commence (I couldn't decide which words I wanted to use don't judge!)

If Abe Lincoln and George Washington got into a fight who’d win?
Well let's see George Washington had teeth made of gold, ivory, lead, and animal/human teeth. So he could chomp through any defenses Abe would have...unless Abe's hat was some special material that protected him from gold, ivory, lead, and teeth. If it was today though I'm not sure because they would both have to be zombies. Wait! Is this like an actual fight or like an argument? Be more specific! I'm probably thinking about this way too much...oh well.

Are you dating anyone?

Oh wait. You were serious? No I'm not. In fact I will probably end up living alone and being the crazy cat lady in your neighborhood. I have however thought about having a fake boyfriend and seeing how everybody would react.

Love at first sight?

This kind of confuses me because when you meet somebody you normally go out on a date right? So you don't actually fall in love with them right when you see them. You don't randomly see a stranger and then get married do you? If so (and your happy) cool, congrats! I just find it unlikely.

What do you think about love? If single, what are you looking for?

Love. I love Italian food. It's so good. Oh. Not that kind of love? Well it's good when it works out but it causes a lot of problems while making it work out or while searching for it. What am I looking for? I don't know somebody nice, funny, tall, and doesn't mind my strangeness and makes me happy I guess.

If zombies are dead, how can they walk? Their bodies shouldn’t function at all.
Because they are magical.

What's on your mind RIGHT NOW?

Ack! Put on the spot! Um...um...Christmas! I need to make my blog all Christmasy (when you see this post the blog should already be pretty) and my parents are putting up decorations as a type. Except I'm rather upset because its December and its 60 degrees out. What is this nonsense!?

If you had a snail that could magically grant wishes, what would you name it?
Snaily the Magical Snail of Happiness. SMSH for short.

What makes you the happiest?

I really like watching a movie or reading a book while its snowing outside and I have a blanket on and a cat laying on me a cup of hot cider next to me and a fire going in the fireplace. Yep I like that.

You collect....
Erasers (pretty much any office supply). I used to collect rocks when I was younger...I don't know what happened to all of them but there were a lot. I make bracelets? Does that count? No...oh darn.

Let me guess, you're blond.

You would be wrong! So ha! Your not as smart as you thought you were!

Someone just stole your ice cream cone!
Well that's rude. They owe me an ice cream cone! But I'll probably rant about it and then forget about it.

Where do you want to be in 5 years?

Graduating college with an internship or an idea of what I'm going to do or go.

What's a quirky thing about you?

I have no idea. You'd have to ask somebody that knows me about that.

What is your guilty pleasure?
Oh gosh. Maybe the videos I watch on youtube. They are mainly vlogs by dudes that are like 21 and sing and create cool stuff and make me jealous of their lives.

What are common things that are said to you?

"You're good at listening" "kedkjdkjddkjf" "Stop!" "You wear tie dye everyday" "Wear it! Please! It will be so cute!" "I hate you!!! ...but not really."

What's an embarrassing moment?

I would talk to myself at work? Oh! Skype told me that someone messaged me so I looked and there was nothing there. So I messaged them anyway and confused that person with my confusion.

Do you like to party?
 Depends on the party. It can't be super crazy or I think I will probably feel sick or just out of it. If we like have a normal party without screaming and such sure they can be fun. Just not everyday...that's too much.

If you had the chance to go back in time for 24 hours, where and when would you go?
Oh gosh. I have no idea. Oh! I know! When and where Jesus was born! Bam!

Who do you like better, Bill or Ted? Why?
Hmm I'm going to go with Bill just because I could call him Billy and that's part of the name Billy Bob Joe Bob. Also now the name Ted reminds me of the movie Ted which I haven't seen and don't want to see.

What's your favorite type of soda?
I don't drink soda. I drink pop. Just kidding. I'm not really picky the only one's I don't like are Coke and Pepsi. My favorite could be Mountain Dew I guess.

What is one thing you'd change about yourself?

More confidence maybe.

If you were on death row, what would your last meal be?
If I was dying would I really be thinking about what kind of food I want? Well let's say Italian food. If I'm going to be really specific I would have lasagna from the Italian restaurant I went to in Lake Tahoe (that is a city don't worry) that was the best lasagna I had in my life.

You have the choice to live with a gorilla who knows sign language or a dog who sings lullabies, which do you choose?
Dog because they have already taught some monkeys to know sign language so a dog that can sing would be more unique.

What did you do yesterday?
I watched videos and then went to The Fort for a Christmas party with some family friends. More on that in a later post.

Any last comments or questions?
This is a very strange survey. Where do people find these things?

What would chairs look like if our knees were on the back of our legs?
There probably just wouldn't be a back. If there was then it would be in the middle of the chair and there would be elevated somewhat so that ur legs could fit underneath it. Try thinking about how we would have to walk...weird.

~Scooby

Copyright?

So I'm kind of psychotic about if I'm going to get angry messages from people when I post a picture or something or mention a book or post a video or anything else in that matter. Why? Copyright that's why. It confuses me so much and I'm not really sure what I'm allowed to do or say and what I'm not.

Because of these issues I thought I would share this video with you that pretty much explains my feelings on this matter.

Yes. That is how I feel and yes that was Darren Criss who is now Blaine in Glee. Now then this video is by Starkid who I have recently become obsessed with. They had Darren Criss before Glee and they have done some amazing stuff that is awesome and funny. Will you be hearing more about them? Probably.
~Scooby

P.S. So maybe my situation isn't quite the same as there's was. They took their stuff down because they did a musical on Harry Potter and had to make sure there weren't any copyright issues. They got so much attention which is why they got worried. Yeah I'm not taking this down and I'm not nearly that popular (I'm pretty sure the only people that read this are people I know).

Thanksgiving!

So before I go off on a tangent I'm going to say what needs to be said.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gobble Gobble

Yes I know that's tomorrow but I probably won't get the chance to say it tomorrow so I'm saying it now. Deal with it.

So thanksgiving break for me started really at 8:20 AM Friday last week. Why such an odd time? Well I will tell you why. SDYC was this last weekend and I went to that (that stands for Southern District Youth Conference. It's this big conference (imagine that) where youth (wow strange that's part of the name too) go to worship and learn more about God. We left on Friday around 11 AM. Will you be hearing more about this conference? Well I would like to tell you more but I probably won't. I had a test first hour that day and couldn't make it up the day before because I was making up another test I would be missing. So I went to school for the first hour to take the test (AP Biology test...not fun) and then left.

I planned on getting a lot done over thanksgiving break. I had planned on making like 4 bracelets, reading a book, finishing with college, and doing all my homework in the first two days. I had also planned on blogging everyday. Well I finished 2 bracelets, read half my book, did some college but not a lot, and haven't even started my homework. Obviously I haven't been blogging everyday either. That sounds like something so simple to do. Just share a video or something dumb that happened and post it. Hurray! Easy peasy.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy

Well turns out its not that easy. See some stuff happened in my life that caused that to happen. The main one is that iTunes hates me and decided to stop working. There was an update for my iPod so I tried to do that but I had to get the newest version of iTunes. So I did that thinking "Well at least I will be all updated." Then when I tried to update my iPod it said "Couldn't connect to iPod server." Well when I read that I was like what and just tried it again and as you can probably guess it still didn't work. Oh I couldn't sync my iPod either.

My look when it said it couldn't connect to iPod server.

 So I googled and everything I found was too smart for me to do or I didn't understand what they were talking about. So I told my father and he tried all this stuff and that didn't work so he emailed the iTunes people. Well when they replied they told him to try everything he already tried. Thanks that was really helpful...not. So my father downloaded the newest version of iTunes onto his computer and I was so impatient that I went and updated my iPod on his computer. Well I lost all my music, apps, and videos by doing that. I still have all my pictures though which is very strange to me but whatever. I got very frustrated when this happened because well iTunes on my computer didn't have any music or videos or anything because he uninstalled and reinstalled so it was blank.

Stupid Apple

My father found all my music and stuff though and put that on iTunes. Still can't sync my iPod though so I have an iTunes that is rather useless and can't use my iPod for anything I really want to use it for. So my father was on my computer for a good amount of time so I couldn't use it (I suppose I could have used his computer...oops).

I also watched the first three Pirates of the Caribbean movies. I learned that I don't really like them because they are so gross and strange...but they are so good! I finished watching the third one today and well it took me 6 hours to watch the whole thing (I was interupted many times and had to leave the house to do errands...hurray (<-- read in sarcastic tone)). That was fun and I finished some bracelets during that time.

While I was doing my errands there was one dude that annoyed me. I was stopped because the light turned yellow and the dude behind me wanted to turn right. I was the only person in front of him and I was going to straight so normally he would have to wait for me to go before he could go. Well when I looked in my rear view mirror he was all like "You have got to be kidding me". That didn't bug me though because I tend to get that reaction a lot. What bugged me was that he started to turn his wheel and went up on the curve to get past me and turn. Really? Come on now.

Because of this dude I have decided to share this video with you about driving. Note: It is a series with 10 episodes and this is the fourth episode. It is probably my newest and shortest obsession. You should watch it. Anyway this explains the rules of the road because I think the world needs to be reminded about how to drive.

I found that quite amusing and maybe it will remind you to be careful when traveling. Enjoy Thanksgiving! 
~Scooby

P.S. REMEMBER THE RULES OF THE ROAD!

Blog Talk

Well as you can tell from the title this post is going to be blog talk (although I don't really think I know what that is). In this post I am going to share some of my feeling as I have watched the stats grow and do there thing.

First things first viewers. So Blogger has this nifty world map thingy that says how many viewers you have from different countries. The top one, of course, is always America. Considering how I live in America that makes sense. What confuses me though is all the other countries that actually see it. Those tend to vary constantly and normally have only like one view. How does that work if you are actually reading it? I mean, if you speak another language? Does it automatically change the language for you or are you really skilled and can read English? I think it probably changes for you automatically but that makes me wonder if there could be a translation error? For example, if I say "mer" how does that translate? Basically if I make a word up (which I do frequently) how does that translate?

The whole translation error wondering on my part makes me think of this fun link I found while I was bored. Basically it is this website where you write something and it translates it into 20 languages and then back to your own language. It's like the game telephone that you play where you whisper something into somebodies ear and and then they pass it on and by the time the last person hears it the phrase is something totally strange that it isn't even close to what it was in the first place. It's very fun, especially if you write a very strange story. Click here to enjoy this amazing website. I think I might have fixed this by adding a translation thing on the side. I tried it and it was pretty cool.

Next is views. Now I tend to pay attention to the views of certain posts more than the total views the blog has. I noticed that my Micro Gum Packs! had a whole lot more than all my other posts. I'm pretty sure this is because of the pictures on it (you'd be surprised at how much people search for a picture of gum packs). So be expecting more pictures.

Just because it needs a picture and I hope you are saying this to yourself. 

Well there's my questioning this whole blogging thing. I hope I didn't confuse you (if anything I probably made you think I'm and idiot...oh well).
~Scooby

P.S. Sorry that it is so wordy and stuff.

Nillili Mambo What?

Once again what did I just watch?

So um...I don't know if I should admit this or not but I found myself actually enjoying this and laughing at it. Especially at the end and when the guy was chasing a rooster. Nothing says gangster like chasing a rooster right? Haha so funny.

Oh yeah and lets not forget the lines "this song is groovy groovy." That may be true but considering how you're acting I don't think you should really be saying that. Just a thought. Along with "okey dokey" I think you've got a really tough song here guys...not.

Now lets get to the plot of the music video. Yes, there is a plot (I didn't notice until somebody pointed it out to me). The first dude steals the diamonds from those business looking guys (why the left the diamonds alone I have no idea). He shows it to his friend who is eating a lollipop...yes also very tough. They try to open it and get caught with the diamonds because he holds up like the monkey in the lion king.

Yes just like this.

They give it to another dude and a bunch of other nonsense happens that I don't really follow. All I really know is that there are a ton of suitcases (and of course the dude chasing the rooster...very cool).

There is also the dude that has a gone and is all confident and then when he pulls the trigger it fails. And then the people that were pointing a gun at him start beating him up? Seriously?! You could have shot him! They didn't even do a very good job at beating him up either. When you see him later he is limping (why I don't know it didn't even look like they were hitting his legs anywhere) and his lip is bleeding. Oh poor baby! Don't worry your face is still pretty even though it shouldn't be.

I like the ending though because they fail at the end and then turn on each other. Much better. Except the high pitched girl voices and screams didn't help. Oh well you were close.

Does the video make sense? No not really but I still enjoyed it because it was goofy. Just the way I like it.
~Scooby

P.S. This is the same group I did my other post on (NalinA what?) and I didn't know that until somebody told me that. It all made so much more sense!

Fun in Zoology

I am currently in one of our computer labs for zoology. We are supposed to do a research paper on some topic of some animal you pick. Descriptive, I know. When I first heard about the paper I wanted to do an ocelot. However, with more research on them I could find a specific topic that would work to write 3-5 pages on.

This is an ocelot. They are so pretty!

I have now decided (thanks to our sub who is quite helpful surprisingly because she is a vet) that I will talk about an endangered animal and how to help preserve its habitat and stuff like that (yes, I know I'm being very descriptive like I always am...not!)

I have narrowed it down to either a Red panda

Aren't they so cute!?

or a clouded leopard.

I love their tail!

I'm not really sure which one I'm going to do but it will probably depend on whether or not one of my classmates does the red panda or not.

This class has been very nice we pretty much just looked up cool animals and found some very interesting species.

This is an Axolotl also known as a Mexican walking fish. 

Well hope you enjoyed this random post. If you know of another really cool animal tell me about it or just admire it. Animals are awesome!

~Scooby

P.S. I "updated" my blog for the holidays. I don't really know if I really like it or not but I kind of decided I liked this one the best so I'm going to stick with it until Christmas. It's kind of bright but that means its like the leaves on trees right now! I don't know. 

Happy Halloween!!!

Happy Halloween everybody! I hope you have a super day and get lots of candy! So just a heads up I probably won't be changing the design until the week of thanksgiving so don't get mad at me if my blog is still celebrating Halloween even though its been over for a few weeks. Also probably won't be blogging much either (I got lucky today and did this during my off hour).

In the spirit of Halloween here is one of my favorite things during the holiday season...dancing lights! This one is to Gangnam Style by PSY if you didn't read the title of it already. It is kpop but if you haven't heard it, well it's very popular and you must be out of it (they played this at my homecoming).

Well thank you for visiting and I found this video too since it's a shorter post than normal and Halloween should be a fun holiday for everyone (even if your not in America). It's really quite interesting just stare at the swirly thing for 40 seconds and try not to fall asleep...I almost fell asleep so see if you can do better than me. Good luck!

Happy Halloween (again)!

~Scooby

Catching Up

I'm back!! Did you think I had gone forever and would never come back? Well never fear I am back and ready to rant! Hurray for rants! Oh wait! Before I do that...have you forgotten who I am? Well I'm not really going to say who I am but I will catch you up on what has been happening in my life (even if you don't really care).

Let's see the last post is Fun Facts About Life (Part 2) which means school must have just started. Oh yes, that's why I have been neglecting this blog. Well let's get started then shall we?

School started and took over my life. How? Well with all the homework the teachers have given me and the clubs I decided to join. The classes are actually classes that you have to think in (unlike some of the classes people I know are taking so they are just cruising there way through school all happy with no homework). There are a couple of AP classes in there (I'm still not sure if that was a good idea on my part) and then government. Oh government. Government as you can probably guess is about politics and the US constitution and all sorts of that good stuff that I am clueless on and really don't care that much about (probably not good considering I live in the US...oh well). So I have been struggling a lot more than normal to keep my grades up in government and the AP classes which is rather frustrating and annoying. Oh! I almost forgot about zoology. We have very little grades in that class and we turned in this journal of our labs and what not and he graded it. Well the teacher is a lot more picky than it would seem. For example, he took points off on me for not coloring I drew in my notes while we were dissecting it. Normally I wouldn't care that much but the jellyfish was clear. CLEAR! How the heck am I supposed to color something that is clear? Sigh silly teacher.

Continuing with sill teachers...teachers are mean. They say, and I quote, "Make this the best year you can!" So I think to myself okay cool I will try to go to every event and just have a great time. But then the teacher follows up with: "Here's your homework." *falls off of chair* Seriously? I can't do everything if you keep giving me a ton of homework! Ugh.

As for the clubs well I am currently in Culinary Club, Anime Club, and National Honor Society, and Drama (kinda sorta...I will elaborate in a bit don't you worry). I helped my friend last year make an Anime Club and it's really pretty cool. They people are very interesting and have a lot of character that makes it fun to get to know them. In the club we really just watch animes so overall it's a good time. I helped some of my friends make a culinary club this year too. That's also a good club because you make good food and I really like food. I don't understand why anybody wouldn't want to join that club because it's food. Who doesn't like food?! National Honor Society is really easy there's only one meeting a month and that just tells you about volunteer opportunities. It's good for me that I sing at my church and get all my hours there so I don't really have to worry about that one very much. And then there is drama club. Okay. So I have gone to a meeting and helped with the set (for like an hour). I was going to do more but before I actually started going to meetings (well...a meeting) I was busy. I can't remember with what, probably school, but I was busy. Then I was going to help with the set (because I can't act so I'm going to help build the set) after school for a week!...but then I got sick...Oops. So Drama is the one that I really need to start doing more, don't worry, I am working on that.

Then there's work (there is a more detailed post about this I just haven't finished it yet...sorry). I close on Friday's and work in the middle of the day on Saturday. That is (was) my main homework doing time. Now I do like an hour of homework here and there...it's such a struggle. Then on Sunday I have church (which is good and am never going to stop going to) and youth group...so that means I have very little time on Sunday to do homework. (I think this paragraph was supposed to be about work and not be complaining about not having time to do homework...oh well).

Oh yeah, did I mention that I missed a week of school because I was sick? I didn't? Well I missed a week of school because I was sick. Luckily I didn't really miss anything and stayed on top of it while I was home (I also watched the Lorax =) it was fun...I really just said that so the smiley didn't have a double chin).

Now I am on fall break! Hurray! I have no idea what I'm going to do but maybe I will be able to post stuff and rants. We'll see what happens.

Well that's been my life for the last month or so. I probably forgot something but that's just how it goes. I was going to rant about some stuff or share stuff I have discovered throughout but well this post is already rather long so there you go.

~Scooby

P.S. Do you like the design? Yes, I like the holidays I might even post about them so there is your teaser to come back again...I don't know.

Fun Facts About Life (Part 2)

I know you have been anxiously waiting for the second part of this fun facts about life series (I guess this is like the sequel huh). If you missed the first half called Fun Facts About Life (Part 1) well lets see if you can figure out what to do (I'm very helpful I know). Now if you are saying to yourself: "I don't really care about these facts" or "I have nothing to do and somehow I ended up here and I am going to read this post that seems pointless so I actually do something" or even "I haven't been waiting for this post at all..." well I kinda figure that's the case. Enjoy anyway.

If you're not already mad at me for telling you these amazing facts about us then I don't think I've given the book justice. Do you think your different? If you said yes, your wrong. Apparently modern humans, so us, have little genetic variability. Isn't that nice? Fifty five chimps have more diversity than the entire human population. Makes you feel really special doesn't it?

I should note that he did explain why this is. There was something about a really big rift that we haven't explored that might have the answers. I wasn't really paying that close attention.

Want to know the reason we don't know what a dodo looks like? Well that's because after the last dodo died the director of a museum thought the stuffed dodo they had was getting unpleasantly musty so he ordered it to be thrown in a bonfire. Poor dodo (what a funny name). A dodo was the largest member of the pigeon family, in case you were wondering.

One of the last big creatures to go extinct was Steller's sea cow:

 

The assumed look of Steller's sea cow.
http://animalsnomore.com/extinct-animal-Stellers_Sea_Cow.php

It is related to a dugong (that's a fun name too).

A dugong. Pretty cool looking, actually.
http://seapics.com/gallery/Mammalia/Sirenia/Dugongidae/dugong-search.html

 The Carolina parakeet is extinct. This is because whenever they were hunted the would fly up but once the shooting was done they would return to the same place to check on their fallen comrades. The last one died in a zoo and was stuffed...but the zoo lost it.

The Carolina parakeet. So pretty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Parakeet

So apparently for the longest time the people who really liked the world's living things were the ones that killed them. I really hope that isn't true anymore. I really like my cats. I really like cats in general and I really don't want them to go extinct because they are so cool (along with all the other animals out there, don't worry I'm not one of those people that likes one animal and doesn't care what happens to all the other ones.

Well I hope you enjoyed these facts. Maybe you actually learned something! I know I did, although I don't think I learned what my teacher intended for me to learn. Oh well at least I learned something rather than nothing.
~Scooby

NalinA what?

Um...What did I just watch?

Well if you aren't familiar with what this is, this is kpop. What is kpop? It is korean pop music. Why do I watch this? Well it's good music and once you get past the strangeness and the language difference the songs are pretty catchy. I will find myself singing a kpop song at school (except I don't normally know the words so I will sing the tune or if there are english parts in it those will repeat 100+ times in my head).

Anyway somehow I found myself watching this music video by this group I had never heard of before (that tends to happen a lot though because there are a ton of groups and a ton of new groups that always come out too). As I was watching this song I found myself analyzing it and therefore decided I would share.


Okay so it starts with this dude in front of some wall with something on it that I don't know. Then the dude lights a lighter and lets it sit there. Firstly, why did he light that? Was he bored and pulled it out and lit it or what? Secondly, I never actually saw him close the lid when he put it in his pocket. When I first saw that I was like "Wait! Is he lighting himself on fire?! What's going on!" Well I'm going to assume he's not lighting himself on fire and that they just changed frames right as he closed the lid, but that really through me off.

Then it goes to this other dude drinking something strange....what the heck is he drinking anyway? Then these dudes in the back ground start to (I don't know how to describe it) abuse (?) this girl and he spins a coin and then beats the guys up (good for him...actual punching! Wow!) grabs the coin that is still spinning and leaves with his entourage. Now then he is very good at spinning that coin. I wonder how many takes it took them for that to work. Did he even pay for his weird looking drink? I thought that coin was to pay for it (although I don't think that would have been enough) but then he snatched it away. Um after looking closer I have come to think that some members of his entourage were also some of the dudes abusing the girl (look at one of the dudes jackets there is an 8 on it in the background and one of the first dudes to follow. Okay so maybe that dude wasn't the one abusing the girl but he was very close and was watching. Also it would have been easier for him to beat up the abuser but I guess that's the leaders job? Who knows. But where did his whole entourage come from? One moment there were like 4 in the background and then next minute there's like 50 people following him!

There are teams. Team Black Dragon and Team Red Tiger. I'm pretty sure they are rival groups and yet they end up dancing together? Weird. I don't know about you but if I'm somebodies rival I tend to avoid them. I definitely wouldn't dance with them. Plus they are doing the same dance...that means they must have coordinated together. Does that mean they don't really hate each or other? Or did both groups conveniently plan the same dance to do at the same time? Hmm...

Now we get to the lyrics. Oh boy.

"I don't know I don't know I don't know but I'm hot, hot." I thought you didn't know? So you're hot but you don't know? I'm confused....

"You know what you know what what you know what what I mean mean." What do you mean? I really don't know what you mean... It's like they knew somebody would get on there last line so they put this in to say to question it you know what I mean! Just like when you tease somebody about what they said and they reply "You know what I mean!" Unfortunately I don't know what you mean.

"Because everything about me is perfect." Um...a little full of yourself aren't you? As I have described in the last two paragraphs no you're really not perfect.

The best part is what they say after that though: "gugugaga gugugaga" They are speaking baby speak. Maybe they are telling babies that they are perfect, I don't know, but that is just strange.

I also remember him handcuffing some girl to himself. I don't know about you but if some dude came up to me saying he's perfect and then "gugugaga" I would run and hide. I wouldn't let him handcuff me to himself. That is a major creeper alert.

So when the two group leaders meet they begin to "fight". Okay so they aren't actually fighting they are pushing each other. Eventually one gets shoved harder and ALMOST falls (even though he looks good when he falls too...sigh) and he's like "Oh no you didn't!" So he makes a hand gesture and everybody else begins to get in the "fight" as well. Once again they aren't actually fighting they are shoving each other. Lame. Then one leader stomps his foot and everybody falls over. "Oh no! He just stomped his foot! That's even worse than shoving! Everybody hide!" Seriously? So lame. Except for the other leader he wasn't intimidated...but I think he's going to need to get some new members in his group...they both are actually.

Is he having a dance off with a girl? I'm confused. Whoa!! Why is there a girl mixed in with this fight?! That's not okay! (She's even in the shoving war!)

Oh wait!! I think I understand now! The two teams were going to have a dance off and they each had to create their own unique dance. However when they got to the location and started their dance off they that they were doing the same dance! This angered them so they started the whole "You cheated! Not fair!" Well neither one liked being called a cheater so they started shoving each other. Then this girl comes along and is like "You all are lame! This is how you dance!" But she is doing the same dance as everyone else.

Hold up...why did that dude have a lighter in the beginning? You never see it again in the video.

Oh! How come there voices randomly get really high like they just inhaled a gallon of hydrogen? It's random and weird. Sometimes they sound like a squeak toy too. No me gusta.

So at the end...who wins? All we see are the two leaders finally actually fighting (but we don't see them actually land any blows we just see them make a cool "I'm going to kick/punch you" pose). And! They are in the same group...I hope they don't feel like that in real life because that could be really bad.

Okay so despite my making fun of it I think it's a catchy song. It just don't make sense. That was also a lot of ranting and might not have made much sense but I hope you enjoyed it anyway.
~Scooby

P.S. I'm still not smart enough to figure out how to fix the video size so bear with it.

P.S.S. They subs were wrong on the heads shoulder knees part....the person that did the subs can't type.

Fun Facts About Life (Part 1)

Over the summer I had to read a book for AP Biology. It is called "A Short History of Nearly Everything." I was told to read this book by the teacher that originally was going to teach the class (the teacher told everyone to read it). Well when I got to school I had a totally different teacher and the new teacher never even mentioned this book. Sigh.

Now this book wasn't very encouraging and I found a lot of stuff that (when I really thought about) isn't very nice. So I thought I'd share my findings and thoughts with you.

The third paragraph of the first chapter says "Imagine if you can, which of course you can't..." Why would you tell me to imagine something if you already know that I can't? That just doesn't make sense. It's like saying, "Hey! Can you see that! Of course you can't because you're blind!" Rude.

Did you know we have the genes to grow a tail? Well now you do! The genes just aren't turned on if that makes sense. (I think this is the most exciting thing I learned from this book.)

Apparently a common newt is "more genetically splendorous than we are, by a factor of five." Doesn't that just make you feel so loved? Well don't worry about it because later on in the book it says that it's not how many genes you have, but what you do with the genes you have. So I guess we are smarter than the newt. Well let's hope anyway.

The Earth is not as stable as we thought it was apparently. Isn't that comforting? Apparently it goes violently between periods of hot and really cold. Good to know that we are living on a planet that can't decided if it's hot or cold.

Now the book is saying that ice ages might occur because of a rise in temperature. I don't know about you but that doesn't sound good to me. With global warming and what not I would say we are due for another ice age.

I realize this has nothing to do with this has very little to do with this
post but it's a good movie and you should see it.
http://reelauthors.com/blog/screenplay/ice-age-4/

For two chapters now it has been talking about our ancestors and I'm pretty sure I was daydreaming through the whole first chapter. However I'm now in the second chapter and apparently we know more about other hominids than we do about ourselves. The Google definition of hominid is: "A primate of a family (Hominidae) that includes humans and their fossil ancestors." So we know more about our ancestors (which according to this book we don't know much about them either) than we do about ourselves. Good to know...I guess.

That brings me to another problem with this book. While reading this I have realized that the term "We don't know much" appears on practically every page. So we are a smart species but we don't know much. That's nice.
~Scooby

P.S. You might have noticed the "part 1" in the title. Yes I do have more complaints about this book. But I thought I would spread it out so you don't get a mean science overload.

P.S.S. Should I be mean and wait a month to post the second part to this? You know kind of like suspense to make you come back and get impatient because you want to learn more about mean science that this book told me about? Well I guess we will see right?

It's Only September!

On my way to church this morning we had a Christian radio station playing in our car. At first I wasn't paying much attention to the music. Then I realized I liked the song and got happy. I got so excited that I even said "Oh!" out loud. Before I could say anything else I realized why I got so happy. It was a Christmas song that was playing.

A Christmas song...in September. What?!

Okay I really love Christmas music but I also think that it should only be played at a certain time. That time is after Thanksgiving. Why? Because we should focus on every holiday equally not just the one's that make us the happiest. Don't skip over Thanksgiving just because you don't have anything to sell to people. Think about the commercials for Thanksgiving. "Be thankful for what you have! But your rug looks worn down and you should get a new one." They can't really advertise Thanksgiving so they skip over it. Not okay, but I digress.

Why does this bug me so much? Well I'm glad you asked.

1. As I have already pointed out its only September. We haven't even come close to thinking about Halloween for crying out loud!
2. The Christmas songs they were playing on this Christian radio station weren't Christian. Now I don't think all Christmas music should be about Jesus. Some of my favorite Christmas songs aren't about Jesus. I just think that a Christian radio station should be able to a Christian Christmas song. I heard three Christmas songs on this station and none of them were about Jesus. 

The radio station did explain that they are randomly playing Christmas songs only this weekend. They explained that they are doing this because its been a hot summer and they are playing Christmas music to help us mentally cool down. Like our brains were going to explode because it's not Christmas yet. Well whatever it was an interesting surprise and I don't listen to that station very much so I guess I'll survive.

Do you need to mentally cool down? Well here you go:

~Scooby

P.S. Until I get smarter at videos you are going to have to deal with awkwardly sized videos.

Coolest Bird Ever!

Oh dear...have I been neglecting this blog?! Well that's not good is it? Well sorry about neglecting this blog school has started once again which means homework is now present in my life. Also since I'm taking smart people classes I have more homework than I had anticipated. Oh well.

I seriously doubt that if you're reading this right now that you're a huge fan of me/my blog. Especially since I made it a month ago. However if you are a fan and after every post wait impatiently for another...sorry. I will blog when I can and prepare posts so I can just hit the publish button (therefore I am blogging without too much thought...if that makes sense).

Any ways...I saw a really cool bird this morning! I think it's my new favorite bird. Only problem is that I don't know what type of bird it is. I tried googling it which normally works but I couldn't figure it out (darn). That's not that important though. What is important is why it is so cool.

This morning we were sitting outside eating breakfast (ever since we went to Hawaii eating outside has become our new thing). We have a bird feeder outside by the table we were eating at. While we were eating birds would come and go, not staying very long but long enough to get a seed. Well one bird caught my eye because I thought it was particularly pretty. Once I finished eating I started to watch it more (I had to keep all of my attention on my food because it could have gotten away if I didn't watch it close enough...just kidding! I really like food, especially since we were having my favorite breakfast I was enjoying eating (does that makes sense? (wow! parentheses in parentheses! again! (okay I'm done now (okay now I'm really done...(promise...hehe))))) my food and didn't want it to get cold).

The first thing I noticed was that it would fly right at the trunk and grab on so it was clinging on to the trunk...not on a branch like you normally see. Okay maybe that's not that exciting but I'm not done yet. At one point it was on a branch and was hanging upside down on the branch. Another time it hopped (birds don't really walk) around he branch...so it was right side up and then sideways and then upside down and then sideways and then right side up again. I didn't understand why it was doing this strange behavior but then I noticed it was pecking at the bark on the tree?

That's when it hit me (imagine a light bulb over my head). The bird was taking one seed at a time and hiding it in the bark of the tree. It was storing food!!! Whoa!! Okay you might not be as excited that as me but I think that's pretty dang cool. Also at one point it was climbing up on the bark it it threw the seed in the air and then caught it again...like when we toss a ball back and forth between our hands, only it did that with its beak. Pretty cool right?

The awesome bird.

Unfortunately I don't know what it's called otherwise I would give you a better picture of it (I took this picture so no I didn't find it on the internet). I tried using that picture to google it on google but it didn't work...sigh. Oh well it's a cool bird anyway.
~Scooby

Sidewalks

I think people are confused. I keep seeing people walking or running in the middle of the road. I don't know why they are confused...maybe the name isn't clear enough. Because of this confusion I have decided to do my best to explain the true purpose of a sidewalk.

I'm going to break down it's name first. A sidewalk. It's not something you walk on the side of (I think this might be what most people get confused with). Sidewalks are very convenient. They are on the SIDE of the road so that you can WALK on them. I hope that makes it more clear.

The purpose of a sidewalk (you don't have to have a dog to walk on the sidewalk either)
http://www.picturesof.net/pages/100207-128817-601053.html

I was driving to work in my neighborhood when I saw these two middle school students (at least that's what I'm assuming) that were walking in the middle of the street. Normally when you are walking on the street and see a car you move out of the way because the car can, oh I don't know, kill you! Well maybe more like injure you but still. These students didn't move. They kept walking towards me (yes we were moving towards each other) while I was driving my car. I (Me! Not them, me!) had to move around them unless I wanted to hit them (I didn't go with that option mainly because it's too much paper work. Just kidding! I'm not that mean.). That's ridiculous. There is a perfectly good sidewalk that you should be using. We even have to shovel the sidewalks when it snows (by law where I am). Use the stupid sidewalk!

Another time I was in the passenger seat with one of my parents driving, I can't remember which but that's not important. Anyway I saw this couple walking their dog on the street. The couple were in the street. The dog (yes, I said a dog) was on the sidewalk. Wait. What? The dog was smarter than the couple! All they had to do was a take a step up onto the sidewalk. Is that really that hard?

Well that's the end of my rant about stupid people and sidewalks. I hope you enjoyed and I'm sorry but I still don't have a catch phrase (if you think of one and feel like sharing, please do otherwise I might never think of one).

Oh one more thing. USE THE SIDEWALK!!

~Scooby

P.S. You can still walk on it if it looks like this but I recommend admiring it first and taking a photo and don't smear it because that would be sad (yes that's a very bad sentence but I'm not a writer and you should know that by now).

That is pretty dang cool for a sidewalk