Lord of the Flies, Python, and xkcd.

I've got ~140 pages to read (and ~20 pages to write) about Lord of the Flies in the next month. Should be pretty easy, I'm not too worried about it.

What I am worried about is the DAHS website. I was working on it, and realized it still looks pretty amateur (BAD). It also has a lot of pages I haven't finished yet. I've been thinking about working on the website, but not rushing myself too much. I'm gonna release it a little later. (Although I'm still going to the web design teacher about their use of frames... it hurts to look at).

I've been doing some more Python, and I can't love it enough. It's hilariously fun, and I hope I can get a job in it one day, because being paid to code things in Python sounds like heaven.

Also, I've taken a recent interest in xkcd. I've always loved the webcomic, but for some reason, I decided to go through a TON of their comics and read all of them + their alt texts, and I love them.

I can't wait for high school to start, but I hope I can still fit in all my Python/DAHS website binges where I just kinda sit at my computer all day and either work on something in Python, or work on the website.

Business

warning: excessive html/css in this post, if you don't like it, don't read

jk, shouldn't be too much. ANYWAYS

I was working on the website for DAHS again, and got to the business page. Apparently, they decided a description of EVERY business class would be appropriate. Now, their site uses frames, so it's pretty damn easy for them. Since I don't want to use frames, I'm thinking of either making the Business page one LONG page, or putting all the classes/descriptions on their own separate page. Dude I swear separate is the ONLY word I ever spell wrong without realizing right away, it looks like it should be seperate. :(

DAHS Website

As I hinted in a previous blog post of mine (http://arnavisaboss.blogspot.com/2012/06/dahs.html), I'm gonna work on Division's website. I've only gotten to the index page and the Art page so far, but by the time I'm done, this site should be a masterpiece.

Timezone Birthdays

I'm thinking of a very particular person when I post this, but yeah. I know someone who has a birthday but celebrated it in a different time zone. This confuses me.

A birthday marks how long you've been alive, right?
So, say you were born at 6:53 PM EST.
Then you move to another time zone.

You celebrate your birthday as soon as it hits 6:53 PM, but if your time zone is later than the one in which you were born, it's not REALLY your birthday yet, and if your time zone is earlier than the one in which you were born, it's been your birthday already.

Take the former case. It's not really your birthday yet. This means you haven't been alive that long yet, so you need to wait your turn until it's REALLY your birthday to celebrate.
fake anger, btw. Happy birthday.

Code Snippets Page Added

I added a code snippets page, because sometimes I'm bored and don't feel like writing something huge, so I just start something and see where it goes. Also, Python! I'm using it a lot lately. Fun stuff. After this, I wanna jump into PHP because it seems pretty fun.

Pirates vs Ninjas

Why are you posting this, Arnav?
TO MAKE A POINT


Pirates have all the following:

• Guns. Not dumb modern guns. Guns that used gunpowder, and wood instead of steel.
• Swords. Not weird Asian ninja swords. Cool, curved, cutlasses.
• Gold. Ninjas will NEVER have as much gold/treasure/booty as pirates.
• Beards. Just sayin'.
• Eye patches. Ninjas don't get to have eye patches, and see in the dark.
• Hook for a hand. Something that lets you stab things with your hand, and doubles as a weapon? YES.
• Peg leg. Ninjas have all their limbs. Ew.
• Cool universal logo. There IS some variation, but it's usually just the skull and cross-bones. Do ninjas have a universal logo? Maybe a random red dot on a white flag. Not a REAL logo.
• Ships. How do ninjas go from continent to continent, and steal things? They don't. They're not pirates.
• Explosives. Would you not love to plant a barrel of gunpowder on an enemy ship (that you got on to by swinging across from a rope) and then swing back to your ship and watch the enemy ship explode?
• Captains. Ninjas have no captains. There's no sense of leadership.
• Cool way of talking. Ninjas don't. Maybe whispers, but anyone can whisper. Not everyone can pull off the whole pirate "arrrrrrrgh" thing.
• Cool hats. Ninjas get headbands, but that's NOTHING compared to the cool curvy pirate hats.
• Flying pets! The higher-up pirates (Edward Teach i.e Blackbeard) got cool birds like Falcons, and the other ones still got parrots and monkeys (monkeys don't fly, but still. do you want a monkey? are you allowed to have one, as a ninja?)
• "Teams". Pirates have a crew. Ninjas are forced to work alone, and if they work in a team, they ALWAYS lose. If you've ever read a comic or watched an anime or something, you'll know that the more enemy ninjas there are, the less chance they have of winning. The more pirates there are, the more your butt is about to get kicked.

Ninjas have the following:

• stealth
• nothing
• they suck

Being A Pirate

After watching about half an hour of a Pirates of the Caribbean (thank god for spell check), I thought about what it would be like to be a pirate. It just seems so fun. Taking over ships, swordsmanship, getting money, ruling the seas, etc.. It seems so thrilling. Another thing is the personality of most of them. Almost always drunk (this might be wrong, considering I'm basing it off my half an hour of Pirates of the Caribbean), spontaneous, and they seem to enjoy life. There's no "teenage drama", there's young men learning to use a sword for the first time and young women learning to cook and clean (sounds sexist, but times were different back then). I feel like playing an MMORPG in which one can take over the seas and plunder other ships and things. I think there was a Roblox game about it (there might still be one... brb redownloading roblox). No, seriously. I am redownloading Roblox right now just because I have the urge to feel like a pirate today. I'm awesome like that.

Pirates are better than ninjas.

edit: guess what I decided to be for Halloween this year?