Web Sites

The Internet is a wonderful thing. I would not be able to do half of my Christmas shopping without it, or my school. It serves as a wonderful communication devise, and it is a great source of laughter. It can also be place for fun, and a place to make money. It can also be a way to keep in touch with old friends. I use many sites, and do a great many things with them.

Amazon, I do at least 50% of my shopping on Amazon if not 75% this is a great site for a couple of reasons. One, convenience, do all your shopping with 1 click, even groceries! Two, there is no tax in most states, and if spend more than $25 from Amazon direct than there is no shipping! These reasons, and others should tell you to shop on Amazon! Ebay is also a shopping network, and you can buy more stuff, but it is an auction.

Wikipedia, and others serve as a great research device, but with Wikipedia all material can be edited by everyone and is often one person's opinion instead of fact.

Through E-mail, and Facebook you can keep in touch with friends and family. This is great for when you have family across the country or anywhere that you don't want to wait for mail to come, or don't want drive to go there often.

To laugh your head off with stuff online, I recommend Cake Wrecks , Fail Blog, and There, I Fixed it. These sites are hilarious!

There are many sites that allow you to play games on them including this one, if you scroll down to the bottom there is pac-man. You can also play games on the many apps on Facebook, including Farm Town, Farmville, Yoville, and more! There are many other sites with games such as Ninja Kiwi, and free math games. If Iwould give anyone a guide to the internet, this is what I would tell them, "Follow this, and you will never be bored!"

Thanksgiving

Hi peoples of the world! I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving, and sufficiently stuffed themselves. Also I hope that they survived Black Friday, and will spend less than $100 on Cyber Monday. The media has had a heyday with Christmas specials like, Merry Madagascar BEFORE Thanksgiving! And last night CBS had "The Dog Named Christmas." On Wednesday they will have Rodolph the Reindeer.

My Thanksgiving was fine. We lived in Dessert Land as we had and apple pie, 3 pumpkin pies, a cheesecake, a date pecan pie, a pecan pie, a chocolate pecan pie, pumpkin cookies, angel food cake, Troyer's cinnamon rolls, Viv's favorite the fruit roll up, and of course date pudding. We had turkey, Venison fillet wrapped in bacon, killed a week ago (not by me,) WHICH GRANDMA TRIED!! , home grown broccoli, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, and more high cholesterol foods. As for people we had us, the Millers across the street, G+G , Hazel and Terry, my mom's uncle Vern and Aunt Brenda from Buffalo NY, Mom's cousin Pam and her husband Hans, and the Farrs. That concludes our post.

Friday the 13'th

On Friday I am going to a lock-in with Ryan, and I noticed it was on Friday the 13. Why is it unlucky?

This is what I found out. Friday the 13 is a day donned to be unlucky. The fear of this day is Paraskevidekatriaphobics.The fear of the number 13 is called triskaidekaphobia.One theory says that Friday was unlucky and so was 13 thus Friday the 13 is ultra unlucky.

I found that several things have happened on Friday the 13. In 1307 King Richard arrested the Knights of Templar on Friday 13. In 1733 22 ships left Cuba on Friday the 13th. They met a hurricane and turned back. Only 4 ships survived. In 1972 there was a plane crash in the Andes with a rugby team on it. It crashed on Friday the 13th. Later a movie was made out of this. In 2004, a hurricane named Charlie hit Florida on Friday the 13.

Some things are released on Friday the 13 for effect. Resident Evil 5 was released on Friday March 13, 2009. And four of the jason movies were released on this date. But it is safer to drive on Friday the 13 because less people go out on the roads, kinda hypocritical, but whatever. Click for more info.

Another School Report

The West Virginia History Museum

The WV State Museum is a museum of WV history in Charleston, WV. It is set up so the entire museum is a giant walk through time. It also has oral explanations of the exhibits via speakers in the ceiling. The line starts at 300,000,000 B.C., and then goes through various time periods up to current times. Each exhibit explains how the time period affected West Virginia as a state.

In the beginning, there was a room that was prehistoric and had a lot of fossils of ferns and other plants. These fossils eventually decomposed and became coal. West Virginia is rich in coal deposits. In that same room there is a 4000 pound block of coal that was used as a desk in an AEP office.

In a room for the Civil War there is an actual Civil War Stars and Bars Confederate flag, and a Civil War cannon. This room had cool sound effects that sound like a battle from the Civil War. West Virginia during this time became a state when Virginia succeeded from the Union.

There is a room in the middle of the walk that has an old fashioned switchboard from the 1930’s 50’s. Across from that is an old movie theater that for some odd reason had leopard print seats.

Near the end there is an exhibit of all the military uniforms from The Spanish American War until The War on Terror. This was also interesting because in the wall they had mini TVs that showed first hand accounts of West Virginians who had fought in the wars.

At the end there was a room that had a box of 27,000 marbles all made in WV. Slightly past that room, there was a slide show of photos of West Virginia that has some cheesy John Denver playing in the background. WV must like cheesy music, oh well.

An interesting point is that the floor shows the main mode of transport in the era. For example, at 300 million B.C. the floor was covered in dinosaur tracks, and as time progressed there were human tracks, horse tracks, cobble stones, railroad track, brick, cement, and asphalt.

This museum is a very interesting museum that showed the history of WV very well. It was as informative as it was interesting. The cool displays matched with hard fact. A history museum that rocks!