DAHS.

DAHS = Division Avenue High School. Yeah. I'm going there. Soon. It's exciting. It's getting me to type in short, quick bursts (and talk the same way) whenever I talk about it. High school! I've read up on it, online. People have posted things like "you don't realize how much middle school sucks till you reach high school" and other stuff. That excites me, too. It's like, wow! High school! That's the place where things happen! That's the place! Anyways, I was visiting their website.

http://www.levittownschools.com/dahs/.

It looks terrible right now. Not gonna lie. I might work on it this summer. Even if I can't use PHP/JS that well yet, I might as well just make some new art for the pages in PhotoShop or something. More on that later, because I don't want to talk about it and then not do it or something.

So, yeah. High school! The journey starts soon. Feels strangely like the beginning of a Pokemon game. Where Oak gives you the first pokemon of your life and you're like "Holy crap!" and then you start your journey. That's what this feels like. I'm relatively happy with my life right now. You may or may not be able to tell by my choice of words and phrases and things. w00t. High school. Division Avenue High School. The Division Blue Dragons! Well. Back to fixing my computer. It's not booting up. Gonna reinstall windows. Hopefully this reinstalling of Windows will be better than my last time. Alrighty then. Back to work!

List of Idols

On twitter just now, I noticed that I (very) frequently change my "list of idols". So, I'm gonna make a full list of my current idols, and possibly look back on it later and add to it or just laugh about it. Anyways, here goes:

• Salman Khan. Founder of Khan Academy. Graduated MIT in 1998. Is the same race as me. Is awesome.
• Paul Ekman. Innovator in reading of facial expressions. Created METT. Is also awesome.
• Sherlock Holmes. Although he is a fictional character, he's pretty much the ideal genius. He is a "good guy", but works on his own (like batman). He uses his genius in a way that astounds people and always helps. Is also pretty awesome.

I think three is a good number to start with. I've had countless idols in the past, but these are the three that came to my mind immediately when I thought "idol".

School + Whatver Else Was On My Mind When I Wrote This

Wow. Just found out my blog isn't blocked at school. May or may not actually make use of this. People behind me are playing cards and laughing. About 75% of the kids in 8th grade are on a school field trip, to Washingon D.C. That means

// okay. So I was in class, and apparently blogging isn't allowed.
// ( it is, but our substitute was kinda harsh )
// I'm gonna continue the story from my current perspective.
// it's half an hour after me getting kicked off the class computer.
// I asked to go to the library. I'm currently typing this on a school library computer.
// anyways, continuing story now.

That means people who didn't go on the trip got grouped together, and now we're going from class to class just chilling. Some are playing cards, some are cursing out the teacher (not gonna go too far into detail, but that was hilarious), and some are watching wrestling matches online (he got kicked of the computer for this too, at the same time I did). Our anonymous teacher (I'm not gonna call anyone out online) was a bit angry at some of the kids in our class, and she didn't seem to be very happy in general. That was possibly the most hilarious 42 minutes of my life.

I'm gonna go play some online games now (I don't know why I said go play, considering I'll still be sitting in the same spot and fully able to keep blogging), because I can't execute any code on these computers besides javascript in the browser (and that's only entertaining the first few times, and then you show it to one person who shows it to everyone and it's not impressive to anyone anymore :( ). The end of that last sentence was confusing because I had a frowny face and a close paren really close to each other. But yeah, most coding related websites are blocked as well (codeacademy is actually the only one that came to mind, because it's the only "coding" site I've tried to go on in school). Some people ask me why I don't just bypass security (it's actually really easy, the school doesn't know much about Tor or booting into Linux or web proxies (werll okay they know about them but it's easy to take the source code for one and upload it to your own website)), but I hate going through all the trouble when it takes 5 hours to load a page. If I just wait until I get home, I have unlimited access to anything on the internet which is amazing for me. I'm surprised my blog wasn't blocked (well the actual blog is, but the dashboard is fine, which is why I can post this.)

So this is probably my conclusion. I felt like writing one this time; normally I don't. I'm gonna think of a really deep quote to end this with.
"They don't think it be like it is, but it do." - Oscar Gamble
(Wow I can't believe I remembered the guy's name) (I promise I didn't google it this time)

GGWP.

C++

It's fun. I wanna make a program. I made a FizzBuzz thing where it goes through a list of numbers, and if a number is divisible by 3 or 5 it'll replace it with "Fizz" or "Buzz", respectively. (Also, if it's divisible by both, it'll print "FizzBuzz". I need to get started on GUIs, because I want to make an open-source program (or at least help with one!)

Minecraft

I never liked Minecraft. It seemed horribly stupid to me that we went from some of the most amazing graphics in the world to a sandbox game that someone could have thought of at the age of 4. "Mommy, I want a game where I can build whatever I want!" My friends love/loved/will love it forever. I refused to pay for it, so I downloaded a crack (I know how seriously agitating this is to the Minecraft community, but honestly if I wasn't going to pay for it anyways, is it really stealing? So I played, I set things on fire, and to me, it's still stupid. It's something I did because I had nothing better to do, and although I would do it again, I like games like League of Legends where there's something exciting going on every second of the game, and it makes your heart beat faster. Those kinds of games are the best.

Also. Note how I said something about "if I wasn't going to pay for it anyways...", because I plan on making a well thought-out elaborate post about piracy (and why I love it!)

Programming Flow

I'm a geek. It takes a lot for me to get stimulated. I'm so used to doing lots of things at once. I'll be doing my homework, listening to music, browsing the internet, and talking to someone on Skype at the same time some days. So, when I'm programming, I can't stand doing it in silence. So I put music on. Usually, music like rap or something upbeat is what I listen to. I've tried other genres, but rap is usually the best. Jay-Z is awesome for "programming music" (a new term coined by yours truly!), but I think anything that rhymes well is good. Anything that has a nice flow, actually. I'm gonna call it the "Programming Flow".

Facebook

Okay. I'm gonna write about Facebook. I've used Facebook for 2 years now. It gets annoying sometimes, and it's repetitive.
Here's why I liked facebook:
-my friends used it

Here's why I didn't like facebook:
-always changing
-addicting, in a scary (it got to the point where if I wasn't being productive and I had access to the internet, I would just log on and check my notifications. If I had some, I would be happy, and if I didn't have any, I would be sad)
-things got old (seeing the same types of statuses over and over again; if I wanted to I probably could have sorted all of them into categories and subcategories and never need a new category for a few months)
-privacy issues (if I ever want to do something that needs a background check, the last thing I want is for people to see the posts I've made on facebook (not that they're that bad!))
-it's not going to last (I shall elaborate)
-it makes physical communication seem so hard when you can just type things into a chat box

When I say it's not going to last, I mean that I think it's just going to fade away eventually, like Myspace, Friendster, Google+, etc.. It might be one of those companies that just does things right and stays on top (Google vs. Bing. When was the last time you heard someone say Bing it?) for awhile, but I don't think it'll do that. Instead, I think it'll fade away and people won't miss it because there will be a new standard that everyone uses.

Because I only had ONE reason on my "liked" list, I deleted my facebook today. I'm hoping my social life doesn't take a dive with it, but I think without Facebook, I'll be more focused in life.