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