Poetry?

Do you like poetry? I just made a GoogleSites called Poetry By Us. On there, you make your poetry and put it on your page so that everyone else can see it! Currently, the pages are request only. There are no pages in which anybody can edit. Here is the Url:
https://sites.google.com/site/poetrybyus123/

And a sample poem from that site? I did not write this poem. This amazing poem was written by my friend Shirley C. I cannot and will not give any more additional info on her. The words below are only a little piece of her poem- you can read more if she decides to put it on the website.

The Good and the Bad

There is no such thing as good or bad,

it’s only in the mind,

it is the thing to make you sad,

it is the thing to make you glad,

it’s for us,

for you,

for me.

Pokemon Tower Defense- best online flash pokemon rpg eva!

Click here to open in in a big window.
some things you should know about PTD

• registration required
• true information not required (i.e one of the accounts is mars@solarsystem.net)

Free public account for all (please do not change the password)-

user: mars@solarsystem.net

pass: theplanet

EDIT: Shoot, they took down the images. Sorry, guys.


If you have perfect vision, then count yourself lucky today. On the left is a picture of how someone with bad eyesight might see a faraway tree.









                                                                    



And this is how you would see the very same tree.








Aren't you glad you have perfect vision?

Geophrase

Ok this is a test run for Geophrase, something that detects your location, based on cities near your home. Let's see if you really work.

You live near .

Did it work?

Reminiscing: Ever snapped a worm in half?

Gross, right? I'd never have done it. Until I met the little bird that made me. Below is a picture of Lil' Birdie (that's what I named him/her, who can tell?). Isn't Lil' cute?

Lil' Birdie, right at the place where I found him/her.

I found this little bird on the sidewalk flapping its wings and trying to fly. It kept on opening its mouth really wide and screaming "Eeeeeeep! Eeeeeeep!" So I figured it was hungry. I got enough courage to dig out one small worm, picked it up with my fingers, and dangled it in front of Lil' Birdie's beak. When he/she made no move to eat it, I began wondering if I was doing something wrong. I experimented, and found out Lil' only opened his/her beak if either a) I tapped on his beak or b) The worm dangled in front of him/her was small enough to swallow. Apparently the "small" worm wasn't small enough, so again I gathered up my courage and broke the worm in half with my fingernails and fed it to him/her. Even though the experience of killing a worm to feed to a bird made me kinda nauseous, the satisfied "Eep!" of Lil' was more than enough of a reward. After feeding Lil' Birdie, I gently set him/her down where I found him/her and went (or should I say ran?) home to get the camera. I made sure that flash was off when I snapped his/her picture. If flash can harm a human's eyes, then imagine what kind of damage it could do to a bird! I found Lil' a little before noon at Wednesday, June 15th 2011. When Mother called me home for lunch, I left him/her there in box sitting on a "nest" that I had made (basically, a pile of twigs). But when I came back, I found the box empty, its nest and tiny occupant gone. I hoped that whoever had taken Lil' had put him/her somewhere safe. I will forever remember my Lil' Birdie.

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post above copy/pasted from one of my deleted blogs, Nature6watch. Lil' has probably grown up into an adult bird now, if he/she is still alive. I will always wonder about what happened to him/her.

Day of Silence

Today I participated in the Day of Silence.

All day at school I didn't speak at all, instead used pantomime hand signals. I even wrote a pretty neat speech on the back of my math journal.

"Equality. Doesn't the Constitution stress it enough? But in schools bullying creates an imbalance of power. And inequality. We the kids are tired of being bullied, tired of having our voices being lost in the wind. Today I am silent, for all of the children who have been bullied. Hear our silence. -alias Silver Rose"

It's hard

It's hard to be brave
It's hard to stay strong
It's hard to be calm
And get along

But - if you know what's right
And what's right you do
Then all of life's troubles
You can get through

So - 
Be brave
Stay strong
Be calm
Get along

And then
For sure
All of Life's troubles
Will pass along.

How to get your Sploder game on Blogger

Without Extra Stuff

Note: all the BLUE TEXT are clickable links.

On Sploder:

1. Login to Sploder
2. Click the "My Games" tab
3. Click on the game you want to display in your blog
4. Sploder will take you to the page where you can play your game. Under your game you will see a share box and under the share box 4 buttons: Describe>>, Get Link>>, Get Code>>, and Email>>.
5. Click on the Get Code>> button. 
6. Two boxes will appear: One containing the "Standard Game Code" and one containing the "Myspace Code". Even though Blogger is NOT Myspace, the "Standard Game Code" doesn't work(I know this, I've tried it!) So go on blogger. . .

On Blogger:

1. . . . and in the "Edit HTML" box, paste the Myspace Code. You will need to edit something in the code or else it will say "Get games for Myspace" below your game, and since this is not Myspace, you probably don't want that!
2. What do you have to edit? Usually, all you have to do is find the part that says "<br /><a href="http://www.sploder.com" title="Sploder, Games for MySpace">Get Games for MySpace</a>" and delete it. It probably won't be red, but I typed it in red just so you could see it more clearly.
3. After that, all you have to do is click "Publish Post" and it will be all done! (Unless you want to add extra stuff.

Extra Stuff

If you wanted to add text above or below your game, you can do it in 2 ways:

1. This way is so simple and easy even a dummy could do it. In the "Edit HTML" box, type in the text you want above or below the code. Then, click publish post and you're done!
2. This way a little more complicated and might not always work, but you can change text colors, text sizes and other stuff this way. Follow all of the directions as if you were doing "without extra stuff". After you clicked "Publish post", go to "Edit Posts" in Blogger and click "edit" for the post you wanted extra stuff in. Click on the "compose" tab, and you will probably see a big black square box. That box is where your game will go. Move the box by clicking the cursor to the left but not in the box. Use the keyboard and press "back" or "backspace" (depending on which kind of computer you have) to move the box up and "enter" or "return" (again depending on which kind of computer you have) to move the box down. When you have enough space to type text, click on the space where you want to type and type there. When you are finished, click "Publish Post" and you're done!

Fishing game

Favorite game ever (that I didn't make)

Living

I found a great poem by William W. Purkey, and decided to take it one step further.

How to Live

by Mengjing Shi    Adapted from William W. Purkey

Don't let your light flicker

Live like there's Heaven on Earth

Don't be afraid to shine

Love like you've never been hurt 

CPU stuff: Marquees

welcome to Splattermix, the site in which random things are splattered everywhere and mixed together.  You may notice that the words above are scrolling.
You, too, can make this happen. Marquees.
Simply copy the code below:
<marquee behavior="scroll" direction="left" scrollamount="1">TEXT HERE</marquee>
and insert that code in the HTML tab of your blogger post.
By tuning it a little (changing the red text), you can turn marquees into many different things.
The "behavior" part can be either alternate or scroll or slide.
The "direction" part can be either up, down, left, or right.
The "scrollamount" part can be any number at all! 1 is the slowest, infinity is the fastest.
And, of course, you can input any text you want in the TEXT HERE part.
Images can be marquee'd too.

See the image of a dragon above.
It is being marquee'd.
How?
In the HTML tab, do as you would for text marquees.
But instead of text, put in an image by the add image button on the bar.
It should look something like this (though not exactly):

&lt;marquee&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://website-name.com" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="65" src="http://website-name.com" width="53" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/marquee&gt;


Have fun with marquees!

CPU stuff: Glow

Spice up your blog!
Hello! This is called a shadow, or a glow. It might be also called a popout, though, if used correctly.

You can also make this happen.
In the HTML tab, copy & paste:

<span style="text-shadow: COLOR 1px 1px 1px">Text here</span>


Boldened green is changeable, red must be constant.

The 1 px by 1 px by 1 px thing is how big your shadow is.

So you can also make a glowing/shadow marquee, too, using the marquee thingies I posted above.

A Smile

A smile is a treasure

that brightens up your day

but never stolen;

for a smile is only worth its weight in gold

if it is given away.

Comparisons- Life to a Maze

Poem 1

Stay true to your path
Try not to stray
There will be blockages,
But don't panic-you'll find another way.

Life is like a maze
Where you can't turn back
With many twists and turns,
Just try to stay on track.

Poem 2

Come and see, come and see,

The Maze of Life's this way.
With its twisting paths
And its winding roads
Try not to be led astray. 

Hidden Items

The best place to hide something is a place where hardly anyone thinks about, but not so seclusive that people will be suspicious.

Also, the place had better be somewhere people don't go often.

Take fish, for example.

Now, since I was little, I always hated fish. Nevertheless, my father and mother still made me eat it. So, I hid my portion in a napkin and tossed it into the trash.

Sadly, Mother noticed that I had eaten my fish at an abnormally fast speed. So, she searched the trash can. And found the fish, wrapped neatly in a napkin.

Needless to say, I was punished severely. I will not go into strict detail about my punishment, but it was horrible. 

Anyway, I learned the hard way that I had to find a better place to hide my soon-to-be-disposed-of meals.

I started by putting the fish chunks under my pillow. But soon, when Mother was cleaning the bed, the smell of rotting fish made her suspicious. So naturally she checked under the pillow.

You probably know what is coming next. Yup, that's right, more punishment.

It made me think before hiding something. After searching the house, I found the perfect spot.

The study room closet, behind the fan. Since it was winter during our feud, Mother hardly checked the closet, much less behind the fan. During the summer months I'd hide it in a glove. When she retired to her bedroom I'd run to the garage and toss it into the big trash cans, the ones the garbage trucks get the garbage out of.

Lesson? The moderately obscure and moderately impossible place to hide something is usually the best place to hide it.

So, when you've got something to hide, hide it well

New Year

Well. There goes another year. Another year of your short life. Who knows how many years you've got ahead of you. Time goes pretty fast. Who knows, maybe I'll die tomorrow. You never know. So you've got to spend your time wisely, spend it doing things you either a) enjoy or b) have to do. And here's to beginning a new one.