Look At All These Medels...
Olympic Medal winners at NBC Olympics.com!
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Wow....
Well, it is kind of hard to believe, but yes, this is my last “official” blog. It has been quite the year and lots of lessons have been learned, and hopefully they will be continuously applied throughout the rest of our lives. I never really thought I would hear myself saying this, but I really am going to miss all of you, saying that over seventy five percent of you will be going to Layton High school. It is sad to believe that most of us will not be talking anymore after this year simply because we will not see each other again. Towards the end I have been really busy with getting ready for Olympiad and all, and you know, as I have thought about every person in this “class” I have thought of something that I could say to every one of you, and unfortunately those comments will never be said, and those conversations will never be held. I know that the reason most of you probably stopped reading my blog is simply because I am always so reminiscent, and I sound like some old geezer, but, well, I do not know what I really could say.
But as we leave this year lets all think about what we are actually leaving behind, that is exactly right, a legacy, it was three years in the making and now, the main part of it is complete, but now we move on to complete the other part, and that other part is what we make of the life that we started in this school, so we must remember that we must keep working to complete this legacy that we started. We will watch the seventh and eighth graders do the same that we have been doing. And once again, without noticing, I have started to ramble again. But really guys, we always need to try to be better as we will always have that younger generation watching us to see what they should do next. Se need to continue on and try our hardest to get better and try not to get tired with anything that we try to do.
Well on a bit lighter note… How but something funny
Police Humor
So, you thought that cops had no sense of humor… the following were taken off of actual police car videos around the country.
· “Relax. The handcuffs are tight because they’re new. They’ll stretch out after you wear
them awhile.”
· “Take your hands off the car, or I’ll make your birth certificate a worthless document.”
· “If you run, you’ll only go to jail tired.”
· “Can you run faster than 1,200 feet per second? In case you didn’t know, that is the
average speed of a 9mm bullet fired from my gun.”
· “So, you don’t know how fast you were going. I guess that means I can write anything I
want on the ticket, huh?”
· “Yes Sir, you can talk to the shift supervisor, but I don’t think it will help. I am the shift
supervisor?”
· “Warning! You want a warning? O.K., I’m warning you not to do that again or I’ll give you
another ticket.”
· “The answer to this last question will determine whether you are drunk or not. Was
Mickey Mouse a cat or a dog?”
· “Yeah, we have a quota. Two more tickets and my wife gets a toaster oven.”
· “In God we trust. All others we run through the NCIC.”
· “Just how big were those two beers?”
· “No, Sir, we don’t have quotas anymore. We used to have quotas, but now we’re allowed
to write as many tickets as we want.”
· “I’m glad to hear the chief of Police is a good personal friend of yours. At least you know
someone who can post your bail.”
· “You didn’t think we gave pretty women tickets? You’re right. We don’t. Sign here”
Well remember if any of you any need anything I am always here, and feel free to give me a call. And I will miss all of you.
But as we leave this year lets all think about what we are actually leaving behind, that is exactly right, a legacy, it was three years in the making and now, the main part of it is complete, but now we move on to complete the other part, and that other part is what we make of the life that we started in this school, so we must remember that we must keep working to complete this legacy that we started. We will watch the seventh and eighth graders do the same that we have been doing. And once again, without noticing, I have started to ramble again. But really guys, we always need to try to be better as we will always have that younger generation watching us to see what they should do next. Se need to continue on and try our hardest to get better and try not to get tired with anything that we try to do.
Well on a bit lighter note… How but something funny
Police Humor
So, you thought that cops had no sense of humor… the following were taken off of actual police car videos around the country.
· “Relax. The handcuffs are tight because they’re new. They’ll stretch out after you wear
them awhile.”
· “Take your hands off the car, or I’ll make your birth certificate a worthless document.”
· “If you run, you’ll only go to jail tired.”
· “Can you run faster than 1,200 feet per second? In case you didn’t know, that is the
average speed of a 9mm bullet fired from my gun.”
· “So, you don’t know how fast you were going. I guess that means I can write anything I
want on the ticket, huh?”
· “Yes Sir, you can talk to the shift supervisor, but I don’t think it will help. I am the shift
supervisor?”
· “Warning! You want a warning? O.K., I’m warning you not to do that again or I’ll give you
another ticket.”
· “The answer to this last question will determine whether you are drunk or not. Was
Mickey Mouse a cat or a dog?”
· “Yeah, we have a quota. Two more tickets and my wife gets a toaster oven.”
· “In God we trust. All others we run through the NCIC.”
· “Just how big were those two beers?”
· “No, Sir, we don’t have quotas anymore. We used to have quotas, but now we’re allowed
to write as many tickets as we want.”
· “I’m glad to hear the chief of Police is a good personal friend of yours. At least you know
someone who can post your bail.”
· “You didn’t think we gave pretty women tickets? You’re right. We don’t. Sign here”
Well remember if any of you any need anything I am always here, and feel free to give me a call. And I will miss all of you.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Honors English: Almost There
Dear Matt,
As you more than know, this is the start of the last full week of school, in just under two weeks you will cease to be a ninth grader and become a tenth grader at Davis High School. Throughout the Honors English course you always seemed to try your hardest in all that you did, and from the sounds of things, you never really enjoyed English as a subject, that is until now. Over the course of the year, in my regular English class, and over the internet in this online course, I have seen a greater appreciation for what you have, and what you know. You worked hard to complete this course, but there are a few things on which you could have improved on throughout the year.
Mainly with your blogs more than you discussion board posts, I have noticed that sometimes you seem to rushed to sit down and write a really good blog, instead sometimes they seemed a little too rushed to e enjoyable. This really only seemed to become a problem during the fourth term, when your blogs started to come in a day or two late, and were thrown together almost too rapidly. Other than this, your experience in the Honors English program has seemed to be a very good one, and I see no problem in awarding you full credit. Congratulations.
Sincerely,
(This is where Mr. Thompson would have signed…)
So this being the next to last blog that will be posted as an official “for credit” writing. I guess there are a few things that should be said, but really I don’t know any of them to say. I mean, for all of us this has been a profitable year, and for those of us who stuck it out and are here at the end of the year still active in all of our posts and what-not will stand out from those who did not even make it through the first term of this class. Not only has this class made us all better at what we do as students, but it has taught us all a different form of work, not necessarily anything hard, but it gave us the ability to follow through with what we said we would do, and to make us better people by making us all people of our words.(Literally as we write so many blogs……)
But I think that we can all owe a great deal of it to Mr. Thompson as he was the one who was the one who made all of this possible for all of us, without him, none of us would be sitting at our computers at 10:00 every Sunday night… But I think that we all owe a great deal of respect and gratitude to Mr. Thompson as he was up nights a lot more than we were just to get things ready for us to be able to take this class and follow through, so a big round of applause for Mr. Thompson!!!
As you more than know, this is the start of the last full week of school, in just under two weeks you will cease to be a ninth grader and become a tenth grader at Davis High School. Throughout the Honors English course you always seemed to try your hardest in all that you did, and from the sounds of things, you never really enjoyed English as a subject, that is until now. Over the course of the year, in my regular English class, and over the internet in this online course, I have seen a greater appreciation for what you have, and what you know. You worked hard to complete this course, but there are a few things on which you could have improved on throughout the year.
Mainly with your blogs more than you discussion board posts, I have noticed that sometimes you seem to rushed to sit down and write a really good blog, instead sometimes they seemed a little too rushed to e enjoyable. This really only seemed to become a problem during the fourth term, when your blogs started to come in a day or two late, and were thrown together almost too rapidly. Other than this, your experience in the Honors English program has seemed to be a very good one, and I see no problem in awarding you full credit. Congratulations.
Sincerely,
(This is where Mr. Thompson would have signed…)
So this being the next to last blog that will be posted as an official “for credit” writing. I guess there are a few things that should be said, but really I don’t know any of them to say. I mean, for all of us this has been a profitable year, and for those of us who stuck it out and are here at the end of the year still active in all of our posts and what-not will stand out from those who did not even make it through the first term of this class. Not only has this class made us all better at what we do as students, but it has taught us all a different form of work, not necessarily anything hard, but it gave us the ability to follow through with what we said we would do, and to make us better people by making us all people of our words.(Literally as we write so many blogs……)
But I think that we can all owe a great deal of it to Mr. Thompson as he was the one who was the one who made all of this possible for all of us, without him, none of us would be sitting at our computers at 10:00 every Sunday night… But I think that we all owe a great deal of respect and gratitude to Mr. Thompson as he was up nights a lot more than we were just to get things ready for us to be able to take this class and follow through, so a big round of applause for Mr. Thompson!!!
Miscellaneous #2
Well the war of the End-of-Levels has returned for its annual visit once again, just as it does every year. I have actually done really quite a lot better than I thought that I would, but I think the hardest one yet, is that darn Math test. Just a quick clarification- it is the Intermediate Algebra Honors test that I am talking about. (Wow, what a name...) I don’t know what you others thought about it who took it, but for me it was the hardest out of all the tests. I am more of a science nerd that I am a math nerd, as you may have guessed. But I tend to do a lot better in Science than I do Math, although Trig is actually Okay… But any ways I guess that by the time the Math test rolled around I was really starting to get sick and tired of taking tests, and what do you know, I have another one in math tomorrow. Now many of you may have already seen this, but this is a poem that my sister found on taking tests:
Test Prayer
Now I sit me down to study,I pray the Lord I won't go nutty.If I should fail to learn this junk, I pray the Lord I will not flunk.But if I do, don't pitty me at all,Just lay my bones down in the study hall.Tell my teacher I did my best.Then pile my books upon my chest.And when I lay me down to rest,I pray I'll pass tomorrow's test.If I should die before I wake,That's one less test I'll have to take.-Author Unknown-
Well it may not be quite as bad as what is depicted in this poem, we probably all feel like this at times, especially around those big ones. But I guess if we study and study hard we don’t really have anything to worry about but then there always is that little unknown fact that we always fear in a test, but then again, what makes a test, is always that little unknown factor I guess.
Tests don’t always present themselves in the written form that we always dread, they can present themselves in other ways through out our lives, like going through scouting, or lifeguarding, some may never know what any of these are like, but still we will all face them at sometime or another in our life, for most of us those tests will be in the next few years of our lives, like colleges, work, roommates, or other things that might appear to us as mid early year crisis’ to us at the time that they happen to us.
I guess what I really was trying to get at during this blog, as I have for so many other blogs, we all will face trials throughout our lives, and the kind of people we end up being depends on the choices we make as we face these trials.
Test Prayer
Now I sit me down to study,I pray the Lord I won't go nutty.If I should fail to learn this junk, I pray the Lord I will not flunk.But if I do, don't pitty me at all,Just lay my bones down in the study hall.Tell my teacher I did my best.Then pile my books upon my chest.And when I lay me down to rest,I pray I'll pass tomorrow's test.If I should die before I wake,That's one less test I'll have to take.-Author Unknown-
Well it may not be quite as bad as what is depicted in this poem, we probably all feel like this at times, especially around those big ones. But I guess if we study and study hard we don’t really have anything to worry about but then there always is that little unknown fact that we always fear in a test, but then again, what makes a test, is always that little unknown factor I guess.
Tests don’t always present themselves in the written form that we always dread, they can present themselves in other ways through out our lives, like going through scouting, or lifeguarding, some may never know what any of these are like, but still we will all face them at sometime or another in our life, for most of us those tests will be in the next few years of our lives, like colleges, work, roommates, or other things that might appear to us as mid early year crisis’ to us at the time that they happen to us.
I guess what I really was trying to get at during this blog, as I have for so many other blogs, we all will face trials throughout our lives, and the kind of people we end up being depends on the choices we make as we face these trials.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Miscellaneous
Well hitting on what I said in my last blog- Music- well I guess that I am really trying to hit on media in general- there is really not much out there that you can go watch and totally just leave your chair and go into some place that is not even close to reality, someplace that you can just go to and leave everything behind, and think of some other place that you almost wish to be a part of. Someplace that you can be something that does not seem like any other place in the world today, maybe it was the world 200 years ago, back in the old west, when the only thing that you really had to worry about was whether or not your horse had been stolen while you were in the Hotel or if when you walk out into the street someone’s going to shoot you in the back (at least if you are John Wayne..) But any ways, how many things have seen that just take you right out of your seat?
Still on the media note- How many of you have seen Iron man? I think that movie was one that came really close to just taking me over into some other world that I wish I belonged to, well, I guess it did actually. Wouldn’t that kind of technology be fun to be a part of making? I mean, that little arc reactor thingy, that would be totally awesome! I kind of wish that I had the brain to do something like that, but unfortunately, there are only a small hand-full of people that are able to do that. I am so excited to know that there is a second one coming out though! Does anybody have any guesses what it is going to be about this time?
Here’s one of my discussion board responses…
Something that really hit me was, well, I guess the fact that both characters learned that they weren't the only people in the world that were facing challenges, and if all of the world's troubles were piled into a giant pile and divided equally among everybody, they would rather have their own back that they started with. I think that sometimes we all have a hard time remembering that we aren't the only thing that is important in this life- we have to think of others and help them- it is the only way we will be able to cope with our problems in the end, and it is the only way we can learn. By standing strong and facing our own "stack" of problems we can set an example for others and keep fighting the ever growing possibility of being "run over" by the world.
And another…
Well I do agree with the article in most if not all of its statements- but I don't really see any of these things really "creeping" into my life. I don't really text that much as I don't have a phone, and when I do it just seems habit to right EVERYTHING out, that's right I mean EVERYTHING including punctuation, it takes longer, but, well, you know me. I never have really have personally caught onto emoticons as I would rather just say what I mean than have to make other people try to figure out what I am talking about (or what I just said) when I have already moved on in the conversation. Now computers are an interesting thing in our day and age- and I have to admit that they make writing something like this, or especially an essay, much easier. Although I have noticed that my ideas seem to come out better onto paper than they do onto a computer screen.
Still on the media note- How many of you have seen Iron man? I think that movie was one that came really close to just taking me over into some other world that I wish I belonged to, well, I guess it did actually. Wouldn’t that kind of technology be fun to be a part of making? I mean, that little arc reactor thingy, that would be totally awesome! I kind of wish that I had the brain to do something like that, but unfortunately, there are only a small hand-full of people that are able to do that. I am so excited to know that there is a second one coming out though! Does anybody have any guesses what it is going to be about this time?
Here’s one of my discussion board responses…
Something that really hit me was, well, I guess the fact that both characters learned that they weren't the only people in the world that were facing challenges, and if all of the world's troubles were piled into a giant pile and divided equally among everybody, they would rather have their own back that they started with. I think that sometimes we all have a hard time remembering that we aren't the only thing that is important in this life- we have to think of others and help them- it is the only way we will be able to cope with our problems in the end, and it is the only way we can learn. By standing strong and facing our own "stack" of problems we can set an example for others and keep fighting the ever growing possibility of being "run over" by the world.
And another…
Well I do agree with the article in most if not all of its statements- but I don't really see any of these things really "creeping" into my life. I don't really text that much as I don't have a phone, and when I do it just seems habit to right EVERYTHING out, that's right I mean EVERYTHING including punctuation, it takes longer, but, well, you know me. I never have really have personally caught onto emoticons as I would rather just say what I mean than have to make other people try to figure out what I am talking about (or what I just said) when I have already moved on in the conversation. Now computers are an interesting thing in our day and age- and I have to admit that they make writing something like this, or especially an essay, much easier. Although I have noticed that my ideas seem to come out better onto paper than they do onto a computer screen.
It is Coming Again
Well, it is coming on faster than I think any of us thought it ever would- that is right- the end of the year- I am not sure what I was really thinking when I started this year but whatever it was- I guess it was wrong, this year has come and gone so fast. Today I am writing this blog on a piece of paper to be typed into my computer at another time- as I am on the road. (I am actually typing it right now…) It is sort of funny as on the way to Brigham City there are cones ALL OVER THE PLACE! Yup you guessed it, nice, big, ORANGE cones. It is almost like they can reproduce or something. My sister’s philosophy is that they place them so far all over the place- that maybe she should get some and start putting them randomly in someone’s yard- you know- up over the roof… but any ways, I guess that I am almost getting kind of sentimental with the end of the year and all- you look out the window that I am and you see this beautiful landscape- and it almost makes you sad to know that day by day (even right now as you are reading this) this landscape is getting destroyed- that for our children things will not be there like they were for us, that somewhere along the line somebody did not want to take care of it anymore, some idiot came along and ruined it, or some dumb politician decided to put a road through some place he could not fully appreciate. Oh well, I guess that I am kind of the only one in this generation that really likes to think like that anymore. But you know, I guess we all are one of a kind. This year has been a great learning experience for me. Just the fact that people change as we all grow up has really hit me hard this year I guess. I can not believe how much we all have changed over the three years that we have known each other in this group. I have grown probably about 5 inches just in the time I have been at Fairfield Junior.
Well I guess that I am kind of burned out on that subject, so I think that I will move onto another that I guess, well, I think that I have probably already hit on, but you know I guess that it is one that I am pretty good at talking about. As I am listening to some music right now- I will go back to where I have been. It is rare that we see music that is actually clean through and through- and the only music that I have really found that I actually enjoy- and that is country. It always has been my favorite genre. But I guess that everybody has their only favorite, mine is just a little bit more odd than others….
Well I guess that I am kind of burned out on that subject, so I think that I will move onto another that I guess, well, I think that I have probably already hit on, but you know I guess that it is one that I am pretty good at talking about. As I am listening to some music right now- I will go back to where I have been. It is rare that we see music that is actually clean through and through- and the only music that I have really found that I actually enjoy- and that is country. It always has been my favorite genre. But I guess that everybody has their only favorite, mine is just a little bit more odd than others….
Monday, April 28, 2008
Dandelion Wine "Synopsis"
To Mr. Bradbury
Author of Dandelion Wine
Dear Mr. Bradbury,
I have recently read your book titled “Dandelion Wine”. I loved the way I could connect to the book, being a teenager of 14. I think that the feeling shared about family, and about summer are extremely common in young adults. Though this book was written sometime ago I could see the similarities between society in our current time and in this book’s society.
Yet another way I could connect to this book is in the way that the character Douglas Spaulding felt the sentimental “twinges” that he did. I too feel these “twinges” every time that something of the past goes away and something more convenient for modern society takes its place. During the reading of this book it made me realize how many different things occur at the same time. Even though they occur throughout different parts of the town and with different people I could see it the way that they all had a common point.
I like in which the way this society isn’t afraid to express themselves. I could tell that all the people in the town seemed pretty closely knit and intertwined. Many times during the book people would bring items or matters to the attention of others that I found most interesting, saying that in our modern society we are no longer able to do so. Doesn’t it almost make you wish that you could still do those things that the children did as kids, or the adults participated in; in the modern day society?
A major difference I noticed in contrasting then from now was sports. Now days it is extremely uncommon to see a kid that is not involved in sports or has no plan to. Most kids now are in something like football or soccer. It seems to me that in the older society represented in the book that was not a common thing to see kids missing days during the week to go to swimming practice or football practice or some other organized activity. Though this didn’t keep the children from staying fit, for it seemed to me that they enjoyed very much to go play and hang out with friends. And this normally included playing tag or some other physical activity.
I personally enjoyed this book, and would definitely count it on my favorites list. This book really helped me to realize that even though society has really changed noticeably there are many common factors that still exist. All through out the book I kind of just wished that I could go back and just live in the care free world that some of the characters had even if it were just for a day go back and see what it would be like to live as a care free child in the early 1900’s. I also kind of wished that I would have just as many wonderful people in my life as they commonly did back then.
Author of Dandelion Wine
Dear Mr. Bradbury,
I have recently read your book titled “Dandelion Wine”. I loved the way I could connect to the book, being a teenager of 14. I think that the feeling shared about family, and about summer are extremely common in young adults. Though this book was written sometime ago I could see the similarities between society in our current time and in this book’s society.
Yet another way I could connect to this book is in the way that the character Douglas Spaulding felt the sentimental “twinges” that he did. I too feel these “twinges” every time that something of the past goes away and something more convenient for modern society takes its place. During the reading of this book it made me realize how many different things occur at the same time. Even though they occur throughout different parts of the town and with different people I could see it the way that they all had a common point.
I like in which the way this society isn’t afraid to express themselves. I could tell that all the people in the town seemed pretty closely knit and intertwined. Many times during the book people would bring items or matters to the attention of others that I found most interesting, saying that in our modern society we are no longer able to do so. Doesn’t it almost make you wish that you could still do those things that the children did as kids, or the adults participated in; in the modern day society?
A major difference I noticed in contrasting then from now was sports. Now days it is extremely uncommon to see a kid that is not involved in sports or has no plan to. Most kids now are in something like football or soccer. It seems to me that in the older society represented in the book that was not a common thing to see kids missing days during the week to go to swimming practice or football practice or some other organized activity. Though this didn’t keep the children from staying fit, for it seemed to me that they enjoyed very much to go play and hang out with friends. And this normally included playing tag or some other physical activity.
I personally enjoyed this book, and would definitely count it on my favorites list. This book really helped me to realize that even though society has really changed noticeably there are many common factors that still exist. All through out the book I kind of just wished that I could go back and just live in the care free world that some of the characters had even if it were just for a day go back and see what it would be like to live as a care free child in the early 1900’s. I also kind of wished that I would have just as many wonderful people in my life as they commonly did back then.
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