I though this was a weird appearance for a make your own bracelets kit....
Are you all doing okay, Claire's product namers? Perhaps you need a quick break? Some fresh air? A dictionary??? I don't know about you, but that looks like a scarf to me...
While looking for more information about an upcoming school trip, I found this horrendous typo that's so bad I almost think it was intentional.
Look at this:
I mean, it take more than a slip of a finger to type an "i"with a diaeresis (that's the two dots), inverted question mark, and a fraction instead of an apostrophe and an "s", right?
Now I'm curious about what really happened. Conspiracy theories and all other suggestions are welcome!
"Your source for somewhat true and completely wonderful local news." WILDLIFE This week marks the beginning of a new cumulative-poultry consumption observation process by local birds. "During this time, the amount of bird products consumed by each barbarian human will be recorded in the databases of our flat-screen supercomputers," a nearby grackle cawed menacingly at a Möbius reporter in the wee hours of the morning. "All those who exceed the maximum consumption will be promptly punished for their sins against Aves! Cower in fear, puny humans!" Residents of the surrounding area reported being awakened early in the morning by sqwak-ing birds, having unusually large amounts of bird excrement on their car windows, and being afflicted by the traditional sneezing and-coughing dust spread by vengeful birds at the conclusions of observation periods. However, bribes of Raspberry Pi(s), Arduinos, and SD cards have been proven to significantly decrease the number of consequences experienced by eaters of eggs and bird meat. To bribe your neighborhood birds, simply deposit the bribe in any nearby bird's nest. ******** EDUCATION Judges at a nationwide science fair competition for students have adopted the habit of procrastination common among the contestants. "I know the results were supposed to come out like two days ago, but come on, they can wait for another couple of days! I deserve a break, man 'cuz I looked at the first two pages of this one yesterday! I'll do it- but not now,"claimed one judge before turning back to his game of throwing virtual birds at structurally unsound buildings. --- Local teacher secretly hungry, students say. "She's, like making so many references to food," said one student. "If you're hungry, then just, like, use your calculator to call the school black market and get some zip-tab coconuts or something. Everyone knows that!" --- State decides not to fund testing for science and math. Instead, the Bored of Education, presumably somewhat bored with education, prompted the state to pay for end of course tests for the Introduction to Modern Metalworking (often referred to as Tin for the New Millennium) and Chair Studies classes. --- Bizarre new proof for E=mc2 introduced by a middle school math teacher. When asked for a summary, she told Möbius reporters that it "involves a complex diagram with a circle" and that she was "inspired by ClipArt." Mathematicians city-wide are possibly currently examining her work. ******** WENDY'S RECIPES Tartar Sauce and Fish Sandwich
First, get some magnesium sulfate and tartaric acid. Then mix them together, adhering to standard chemistry safety procedures. Allow the resulting solution to evaporate and form crystals. Next, take your microscope and examine the crystals and find one or maybe a couple thousand that resemble a fish, depending on whether or not you supersaturated the solution. Finally, scrape off the crystal(s) and put it between two pieces of bread. ******** WENDY'S EQUATIONS Student + dying == Studying Combination + permutation == Communist nation Marshmallow + bath == Math ******** RF'S DATING TIPS "With these tips, you'll never not get not rejected!" Asking someone on a date: 1. Buy a date fruit. 2. Approach the person you wish to ask on a date. 3. Place date on floor. 4. Step on date. Be sure not to cover up more than half of the date! 5. Ask the other person to step on the date as well. If he or she is reluctant, say that it's for science. 6. Repeat until the answer is yes. 7. Tell everyone you went on a date with that person. --- Asking someone out: 1. Make sure that both you and the person you're asking are indoors. 2. Do something that causes the indoors to become very uncomfortable. 3. Mention the discomfort to the person. 4. Ask, "Do you want to go outside with me?" or something along those lines. 5. If person does not say yes, make the room even more uncomfortable. 6. Repeat until the other person says yes or you're both dead. 7.Tell everyone you went out with that person. (assuming you're not dead)
Five stars for not receiving the product you thought you'd receive?
Maybe the customer thought the picture was bad? Or perhaps he or she for some reason thought that the stars rating system is like the Science Olympiad scoring system, in which the winner receives the least points?
My father signed me up for an online math class without explicitly telling me until roughly an hour before the class began. Somewhat surprisingly, it was okay, and I think I may have even discovered the foolproof answer to everything. Not 42, for you Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reader(s).
While writing the script for the play to be featured on this blog, I encountered an unexpected case of writer's block. Because of this, I would like to tell you about two interesting books I found while researching content for the play.
In case you can't read upside-down letters, it says "NSA Family Encyclopedia"
1. NSA Family Encyclopedia- I'm pretty sure this isn't actually from the NSA, but the book never tells you what NSA stands for, which is pretty suspicious in itself. But then when you turn to the second page, it says this:
Dun dun dun.
2. First Grade Reading Textbook- This textbook is for the most part a normal reading textbook. But then, there is a piece of music in there that is comparable to the French Horn parts of the music played by Symphonic Band. I mean, look at it! It has THREE sharps in its key signature! And this is a FIRST GRADE TEXTBOOK! Music education these days!
Sure, first graders should get harder music than middle schoolers.
Sorry, there are two Whimsy Dragon pictures. I can't do anything about it since the Whimsy Dragon pictures don't show up at all when I try to edit the post. Just bear with it.
After the mysterious Webkinz tag was found by me, I went on my Webkinz account and discovered that the Webkinz Travel agency had been removed from the game. Along with the removal of the need for buying tickets to the island thingy and the entire Webkinz spa, the Whimsy Dragon travel agency clerk( I can't remember her name) was also removed.
On Runescape recently, the quest One of a Kind was released. With this update, Celestial Dragons were released.
I noticed that the Whimsy Dragons and the Celestial Dragons slightly resembled each other, and this gave me an idea for a crossover fanfiction, where the former clerk of the Webkinz Travel Agency was actually removed because she was sucked into Runescape and became either a Celestial Dragon or a pink Dragonkin*. However, unlike Connor, I do not feel that I currently have the writing capability to write a good Runescape fanfiction. If any of you wants to borrow the idea and can submit a decent rough draft to me, I will let you have the idea. If not, then I will keep this idea for later.
See? They both have blue spots, a somewhat pink color, and sort-of similar paws.
Celestial Dragon
Whimsy Dragon
* The identity of a Dragonkin is a possibility since the abbreviation of Webkinz is Kinz, and assuming that Kinz is a plural noun, the singular form of Kinz is Kin. Kin has been used as an abbreviation for Dragonkin by the Runescape staff before, so the draconic travel clerk could be both a Webkinz and a Dragonkin. See? It all adds up.
"Your source for somewhat true and completely wonderful local news."
EDUCATION
Determined student returns to school only a day after coma and is injured once again. School officials are suspiciously oblivious.
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Middle school students are preparing for a prestigious science competition. One particularly popular event is the new "Shove Ping Pong Balls and Batteries Into a Plastic Bag Tied to a Robot" marathon. We spoke to one student, asking him about this wonderfully educational event. "DON'T STEP ON ANYTHING! Oh, and yeah, I really like this event," he told us as he triumphantly deposited a battery into the plastic bag on his team's robot. "Our robot has a 100% success rate, especially when I get to push the things into the bag! When I don't get to push the things in, it still has a 100% success rate 40% of the time!". The competition will be in about a month and a half.
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Missing a substitute teacher, the middle school Geometry class descends to Lord of the Flies-esque chaos.
******** HEALTH
Local researchers have unexpectedly discovered that school hallways are an excellent model of blood clots. Plans are being made to bring medical students to observe the circulation of people in various middle and high schools.
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Spring break is coming up soon for me, and one of the main things I want to do is to read.(Also sleep, work with my Arduino, make origami, and write a Mobius News post.)
Because I often like book recommendations, I thought I'd give you reader(s) some books that I have found interesting or think might be interesting but have not read yet.
In case you can't recognize it, it is a Webkinz tag. There's nothing strange about it to you, but it definitely deserves the sinister music in the title. For several reasons:
1. I don't have a Love Monkey- I have never even seen a Love Monkey before in real life. Therefore, I could not have ever gotten this tag.
2. All my Webkinz tags are stashed in my bookshelf- This tag was not at its spot near my computer beforehand either. It has also been years since I last played Webkinz, so there would be no need for it anyways.
3. Even if Ganz mistakenly gave me this tag with my Love Frog or Lion, then I shouldn't have it anyways- I gave away my Love Frog's tag years ago. If this tag came with any of my other Webkinz, then I would have known since I looked at and used their tags often. When I put my Love Lion's code into my Webkinz account, I got a lion. Not a monkey. It's not my Lion's tag.
Characters-
Coeltree- The deceased person
Huum(the priest)- A clergy man of questionable origin, who was hired just to make the funeral more dramatic.
Mr. Scoot- The organizer and owner of the funeral home
Whue- A random person at the back of the crowd of people attending the funeral, but separated from the others by his distinguishing behavior.
Grieving Person 1(Self explanatory)
Grieving Person 2(Self explanatory)
Audience- A crowd of about ten people
Enter all characters ( Huum stands next to dead person, who should have already been on stage. Mr. Scoot faces the front of the audience. Both Grievers stand in the audience.) Mr. Scoot- We're hea te-day to mourn the passin' ov -( insert coughing fit; Scoot doesn't quite know the name of the deceased) Excuse me!- and to remembe' and celebra' hea live. (Mr. Scoot Audience and Grievers- *sobs loudly* Huum- And now, a prayer to ensure her safe passage: Dear Pork God, we hope with all our hearts that this person passes safely to the Land of Vegetables and that her path is not obstructed by carrots. Keep the corn away. May the afterlife be filled with beans and potatoes for the deceased. We pray this in your Porkiness's name. Bacon. Whue- *giggle* Audience and Grievers- *sobs loudly* Huum- Would anyone like to say any words of remembrance? Grieving Person 1-(Raises hand) I would-d! *sobs*Coltree was the best person ever! She was so smart, and she got straight C's! *wipes away tear* Whenever, I met her, she seemed so friendly and full of life, even when she was comatose! No one in the world was as amazingly perfect as she was!*Audience and Grievers sob* One time-
(Mr. Scoot walks onto stage at this moment.) Mr. Scoot- I am sorry te announce that there'll be no re-freshments at thees funeral.( Mr. Scoot leaves.) Audience and Grieving Person 1(but not Grieving Person 2)- AAAAWWWW MAAAAAN!(Half the audience and Grieving Person 1 walk off the stage and mumble things like "What kind of funeral doesn't have refreshments", "I wanted some refreshments", "I wasted two minutes of my life here! Two whole minutes!", etc.) Whue-*Has a hysterical laughing fit, and makes a vain attempt to disguise it as sobbing*
(Have 10-15 seconds of awkward silence[except for Whue's laughing] here after half the audience and Griever 1 leaves) Huum- Would anyone else like to say anything? Grieving Person 2- *sobs* Coltree and I were SO close! She was, like, my uncle's cousin's co-worker's sister's son's former roommate! * sobs* I , like, knew her whole full name!*breaks into sobbing fit* Coeltree- * sits up suddenly* My name is Coeltree, not Coltree, get it right! * Looks around* Wait a minute, who are you people? Huum- May his Baconess save us, a zombie! Whue- * laughs maniacally* Remaining griever and audience- ZOOOOMMMMMBBIIIIEEEE!
(Huum, Griever, and audience run off the stage while screaming) * Intro to Latintutorial begins playing* ( Mr. Scoot walks in) Mr. Scoot- Sorry 'bout that, I'm ex- Hey! You're alive? Whe'e is ev'ryone? Coeltree- They thought I was a zombie and ran away. What's going on here? Was I dead? Mr . Scoot- The morgue said you died of, um, a sonic he'gehog mutation or sumthin'. Yer lucky I don' start the em-embelmation process befoe the funeral recepshin.
(Mr. Scoot leaves muttering "In my dey, dead peeple stay'd dead...")
(Coeltree gets up follows Mr. Scoot.)
(Whue, who has been laughing during the entire conversation, continues laughing as the curtains fall.)
Intro to Latintutorial(watch the first five seconds):
... is good news?
Well, it looks like we won't have a Möbius Strip News issue out today.
Hopefully, we can start posting weekly "news" updates again next week.
Remember what I said in my previous post? Oh wait, you probably didn't read it. Anyway, I said that Google+ identifies text not in your language and gives the options to translate it for you. I'm reconsidering that now.
Why? Take a look at this post, please...
No, I'm not sure why there's a blue do at the top in the white space... Probably an accident.
That's not English, really. It's written with the Greek alphabet, I think. Yet, when it's "translated"...
It gets translated to... Greek again. (I think. Correct me if that's incorrect.)
This makes me wonder what Google+'s translate is really supposed to do. Maybe it's just a temporary glitch. They might have been changing things across Google and done something to the translate on accident (or on purpose, possibly). By the way, today I noticed that the profile picture at the top right of the page when you log into Gmail has become circular, so it's possible that they've been changing stuff on Google+ as well...
Either way, the translate option seems to have suddenly "broken", so to speak, since the last time I posted about it.
Whenever there's any sort of break from school, I like to consider the many things I'd like to accomplish. Somehow, I always think that not being in school will give me a lot of time and energy to do things. That is not the case. Here's a tiny sample of stuff I wanted to do but didn't do.
1. Program a Python game. -- Honestly, I've wanted to do this since the summer, but I never quite learned enough Python to make a game. I could just get all the code online, but that obviously would not be me programming. It's not that I don't have the resources to learn. There are online resources, and I have an introduction to Python programming book (with a target audience of 10 year old children, which does not include me).
2. Read 1984 by George Orwell. -- Having recently studied Orwell's Animal Farm at school, I figure that it would be a good idea to read another book of his. I bought the book last year with the intention of reading it, but I never did. I still have not read past chapter 3.
3. Write a rant for The Incredible Present. -- My friend added me as an author on his new rant blog, and I've been meaning to write a rant for it. It makes me feel a little better that as of now, he hasn't posted a rant either. I'll post the link to the blog once there's some actual content on it.
4. Clean my desks. -- There's one upstairs that I mostly use as a storage space, and one downstairs on which I have my laptop and several stacks of stuff. As a result of piling random things on it, I can no longer use the upstairs desk as a writing surface or a place to rest a book as I read it. That's become somewhat problematic, but obviously not problematic enough for me to do something about it! As for the downstairs desk, I'm being inspired by the architecture in big cities. I'm building up! Basically, I combined some stacks, and look, more desk space! But it's not exactly cleaner...
5. Remember the Latin I learned last semester. -- I took home my textbook thinking, Yeah, I'll definitely have lots of time to review! Ha, nope. I'm currently figuratively digging through my brain to remember how to decline the pronouns is, ea, and id.
Google+ has a feature that is supposed to recognize things that are not in your language and provide the option of translating them. In theory, it's a good idea, but I don't think the language recognition is superb.
For example, I was on the Google+ page of Connor (author of There's Always a Catch) when I saw this:
In my opinion, that's obviously in English. I decided to see what Google+ thought the post meant, so I clicked on "Translate." Lo and behold...
I'm wondering why the program might have thought Connor's English to be something in another language. Occasionally, I come across a horribly misspelled comment or a post with the "Translate" option, but that is somewhat understandable. Here, however, there are no misspellings or symbols not used in the English language. What other language could "Tickle Me Elmo deserved to die" possibly be anyway?
Oh, for context, here's the GIF that was in Connor's post:
(Since we haven't had a Technology These Days post all year, I decided to write one. I mean, it's not like N is going to show up and start writing them again... Yeah, the format is a little different, but let's just call it a Technology These Days post anyway.)
Are you all doing okay, Claire's product namers? Perhaps you need a quick break? Some fresh air? A dictionary??? I don't know about you, but that looks like a scarf to me...
