ok so heres what has changed...
i dyed my hair purple (4 times and it hardly sticks.. i think my hair is rebelling)
i got a double piercing in my ear and it didnt hurt as much as the first one...
i got a job and my mom laughed at my paycheck... ;( and im saving up for a good laptop :)
i had an amazing christmas, hannukah and new year :) (hope you did too?)
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Book Report :)
Reading part of Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side is identical to reading any other teen vampire romance novel, they are all interchangeable, with the same characters, same scenarios and same characters. This time, the brooding vampire is new in town and is already the main characters fiancée, unlike in the Twilight series when it takes till the last book for them to get married. This book is not as well written as the Twilight series, but that can be understood seeing as it was only written to be cranked out into the vast world of teen vampire books, in the hope that some unfortunate soul will pick it up. In the end as in Twilight and all other vampire books they fall madly in love.
This book is more based on Dracula then most of the others. The vampire in the book, Vladescu is fromTransylvania and actually lives in an ancient gothic castle. He can go out into the sun, and doesn’t sparkle like Edward. He also doesn’t sleep in a coffin, something almost all vampire novels have in common. I suppose, coffin-breath is very bad. He has fangs, but they only appear sometimes and as always he is incredibly tall. In the beginning scene he stands in the rain in his dark trench coat, something which should have sent off a “cheesy book” scene off in everyone’s heads. Even the most die-hard Twilight vampire fans, will –hopefully- scoff at this book, and I am ashamed to say I read the whole thing through, if only in the way you can’t help but turn and look at a car crash.
This book is more based on Dracula then most of the others. The vampire in the book, Vladescu is from
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Saturday, July 25, 2009
pink...
my friend just came back from vacation for like 2 months. guess wat she did??
got sidebangs and dyed them BRIGHT pink
its c-r-a-z-y...
got sidebangs and dyed them BRIGHT pink
its c-r-a-z-y...
Friday, June 19, 2009
Wolfram Alpha Review: only for 'mathletes'?
just finished reading "There are No Children Here" by Alex Kotlowitz, its an amazing book about these two boys growing up in the Chicago public housing. I didn't think I would like it but I loved it. The guy who wrote it Alex Kotlowitz is an awesome writer and journalist for the Wall Street Journal. Another WSJ journalist not so much, Carl Bialik's newest article left me fuming.
He wrote about Wolfram Alpha, and while at least he didn't sat it was a "google-killer" like so many other ignorant articles, his was just as oblivious to the wonders of Wolfram Alpha.
Even the title "Sum Help: New search engine for Mathletes" made me scream.
Then he said it was ruining teachers lesson plans, letting students cheat more easily. The only lesson plans that Alpha is ruining is plans by bad teachers. If you don't make your students show their work in Math then they can cheat, in fact, Alpha may even improve teachers, because now they have to work around Wolfram Alpha. Wolfram Alpha helps me with math, I can now check my answers to see if they are right and do them again until I get the right answer. This is helping my math skills.
As for Quote: "some professors fear it will reinforce the 'devaluation of knowledge.'" Who thinks it is bad for anyone who has internet to be able to find answers quick and swiftly? People whose jobs it is to make everything more pompous and seem more difficult than it is because they are trying to save their jobs. And those are the people who fear the 'devaluation of knowledge'.
Carl Bialik, might just be one of them.
His tone throughout the article is scathing and puts the Wolfram Team in the bad guy seat. For example, quote: "The company behind Wolfram Alpha vows to keep expanding and improving it-" "while harried teachers get headaches redesigning tests and homework".
"The team behind (insert villian here) vow to keep expanding" That sounds a little... comic book doesn't it? Joker vs. Batman sorta? But its nor Alpha vs. teachers at all. Alpha will help anyone with internet be able to learn, isn't this something teachers want? Wolfram Alpha wants to make "systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone" doen't teachers want that to? Shouldn't teachers be joining with Alpha to help make classrooms better? not complain?
He wrote about Wolfram Alpha, and while at least he didn't sat it was a "google-killer" like so many other ignorant articles, his was just as oblivious to the wonders of Wolfram Alpha.
Even the title "Sum Help: New search engine for Mathletes" made me scream.
Then he said it was ruining teachers lesson plans, letting students cheat more easily. The only lesson plans that Alpha is ruining is plans by bad teachers. If you don't make your students show their work in Math then they can cheat, in fact, Alpha may even improve teachers, because now they have to work around Wolfram Alpha. Wolfram Alpha helps me with math, I can now check my answers to see if they are right and do them again until I get the right answer. This is helping my math skills.
As for Quote: "some professors fear it will reinforce the 'devaluation of knowledge.'" Who thinks it is bad for anyone who has internet to be able to find answers quick and swiftly? People whose jobs it is to make everything more pompous and seem more difficult than it is because they are trying to save their jobs. And those are the people who fear the 'devaluation of knowledge'.
Carl Bialik, might just be one of them.
His tone throughout the article is scathing and puts the Wolfram Team in the bad guy seat. For example, quote: "The company behind Wolfram Alpha vows to keep expanding and improving it-" "while harried teachers get headaches redesigning tests and homework".
"The team behind (insert villian here) vow to keep expanding" That sounds a little... comic book doesn't it? Joker vs. Batman sorta? But its nor Alpha vs. teachers at all. Alpha will help anyone with internet be able to learn, isn't this something teachers want? Wolfram Alpha wants to make "systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone" doen't teachers want that to? Shouldn't teachers be joining with Alpha to help make classrooms better? not complain?
Model of evolution in an ecosystem
My science fair website
its a model of evolution in an ecosystem, hope ya like it!
its a model of evolution in an ecosystem, hope ya like it!
Monday, June 15, 2009
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