Howdy y’all, long time no see. I think today will be about the latest book I have (finally) read. Today, after getting it on release day, I finally finished the third book of the Eragon series, and boy do I regret finishing it now, without knowing when the next will finally be released. I admit that the series reads a little childish, for lack of a better word, and there are some problems with the way things are presented, but I love the series nonetheless.
Be warned Spoilers Below
As an avid theorizer, I am going to go ahead and join the hoards of others and theorize what may happen. Since I can come up with so many scenarios, I will only bore you with just the main ones, possibly over a two part or three part series :O.
For the first part, I will go over how I think it will end. A big bomb on how it will end was dropped within the first book, where Eragon’s fortune is read and his future predicted. The prediction was basically two people are sailing away with two dragons overhead, and a person watching from shore. I have two main theories on what happens with this, as follows:
1. The two people on the boat are Eragon and Arya, with their dragons flying overhead. The person watching from shore is no one of importance, it could be Roran or Murtagh, or less likely anyone else. They could be leaving for a variety of reasons, but my main two are either the rest of the world, or because it is the only way for peace to truly last. They could also be exploring the world to maybe find something, or various other reasons.
Probability that this or a slight variation happens: 75%
2. The two people on the boat are Roran his wife, with Saphira and the green dragon flying overhead. The person on shore could be Eragon. The reason Eragon stays behind is this is the only way peace can happen. This could happen if he seeks a bittersweet ending. I would rather it not happen, but it sounds interesting. Why Roran and his wife? Not sure, It could be some other group.
Probability this or some variant happens: 22%
3. The last 3% is a cross of these two and every other of my smaller theories and possibilities. They aren’t worth mentioning.
This is the main part of the book that interests me, since most books end in ways that make me long for more. There are bitter sweet ending in which the main characters disappear over the horizon to journey into the unknown, like Lord of the Rings.
A small theory that I have which has probably been mentioned many times is the Vault of Souls. I believe it could be a place where more heart of hearts are kept, in case something happened. This, along with the words that Brom mentioned in the first book are the two things I want to know most for the next.
For now, I will continue next time, if I put time in to talk about the next parts.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Thursday, November 12, 2009
I hate bacteria
Howdy!
Today I feel like complaining about school again. This time, I will focus on a lab I haven't had much trouble with, my micro biology lab. This weeks lab required us to identify three organisms from an unknown solution. this required us to separate them out and perform a series of tests.
this would be all fine and dandy if the damned things would actually separate for me. I plated the sample four times while none of them would have separate colonies form. This sucks because each correct identification is worth 4% of my final grade in the class, and I can only get one definite identification, and two that aren't definite.
This bites.
Well, lets end on a bright note. I like archery. One of my friends invited me to the archery club this year, and so far I am having more fun in it than I am in any other club I have been in. I suggest trying it in your life.
Well, I guess I will end here since I need to hit the hay.
Cheers,
Eld
Today I feel like complaining about school again. This time, I will focus on a lab I haven't had much trouble with, my micro biology lab. This weeks lab required us to identify three organisms from an unknown solution. this required us to separate them out and perform a series of tests.
this would be all fine and dandy if the damned things would actually separate for me. I plated the sample four times while none of them would have separate colonies form. This sucks because each correct identification is worth 4% of my final grade in the class, and I can only get one definite identification, and two that aren't definite.
This bites.
Well, lets end on a bright note. I like archery. One of my friends invited me to the archery club this year, and so far I am having more fun in it than I am in any other club I have been in. I suggest trying it in your life.
Well, I guess I will end here since I need to hit the hay.
Cheers,
Eld
Monday, November 2, 2009
Few random thoughs
Howdy!
Today, I feel like talking about something I thought in class today. I don't remember exactly what made me think of this, but it was a really random thought. We were talking about ants cultivating fungus, or something like that, and I suddenly started thinking about how this one person was trying to guilt trip me into becoming a vegetarian.
This person is in a club I am in, and for some reason, he asked if I were a vegetarian. I said no, I eat meat. He goes on and asks if I cared for animals at all. This question made me laugh. If he knew me at all, he would know this is a silly question, because I absolutely love animals. I care for them more than a lot of people on Earth, I just happen to eat some of them.
Heck, I spent time over the summer in my free time between classes volunteering at a animal rehabilitation keep; taking care of the various critters they have by cleaning their cages and feeding them. This involved getting the crap slapped out of my by sea turtles, my fingers getting bit by pelicans, and getting pooped on by almost all the animals there. If I did not care for animals, why would I go through that? (no I was not doing it for community service)
Well, he went on about how I couldn't possibly care for any animals because if I did, then I would not eat them. This kind of hit home pretty hard. I had a dog for eleven years that died during the summer, which hurt just as bad as if a brother had died, and just the thought of someone implying that I didn't care for him is like a slap in the face.
Anyways, instead of getting mad at the guy I laugh it off as nothing. But it did make me think, why oh why do some vegetarians try to guilt trip us into living like them? I mean, I don't try to make them eat animals or anythinng, so why do they try and make me eat only veggies?
Today, I feel like talking about something I thought in class today. I don't remember exactly what made me think of this, but it was a really random thought. We were talking about ants cultivating fungus, or something like that, and I suddenly started thinking about how this one person was trying to guilt trip me into becoming a vegetarian.
This person is in a club I am in, and for some reason, he asked if I were a vegetarian. I said no, I eat meat. He goes on and asks if I cared for animals at all. This question made me laugh. If he knew me at all, he would know this is a silly question, because I absolutely love animals. I care for them more than a lot of people on Earth, I just happen to eat some of them.
Heck, I spent time over the summer in my free time between classes volunteering at a animal rehabilitation keep; taking care of the various critters they have by cleaning their cages and feeding them. This involved getting the crap slapped out of my by sea turtles, my fingers getting bit by pelicans, and getting pooped on by almost all the animals there. If I did not care for animals, why would I go through that? (no I was not doing it for community service)
Well, he went on about how I couldn't possibly care for any animals because if I did, then I would not eat them. This kind of hit home pretty hard. I had a dog for eleven years that died during the summer, which hurt just as bad as if a brother had died, and just the thought of someone implying that I didn't care for him is like a slap in the face.
Anyways, instead of getting mad at the guy I laugh it off as nothing. But it did make me think, why oh why do some vegetarians try to guilt trip us into living like them? I mean, I don't try to make them eat animals or anythinng, so why do they try and make me eat only veggies?
Monday, October 26, 2009
Macs, games, and football
I have to say, Apple seems a little desperate. Why oh why do they have to rely on degrading the opponent for their commercials? They seem to have to say that PC = bad and headaches, while saying very little else about themselves. It is almost as if they don't want to compare themselves, for fear that the truth of how they compare may be shown. Come on Apple, stop it with these stupid commercials, and instead be like what Microsoft has done, show your strong points.
Anyways, time to talk football! I love the way the Longhorns looked on Saturday. They played a strong game, and looked great doing it. I loved the first half. My only problem with this game was Colt's interception. Very sad.
I have also been hearing a lot about how people are chatting, saying that the UT/OU game was very sloppy. I know saying this now is a little late, by two weeks, but I don't care. If this was a SEC game, those same people would be praising it as a defensive battle, which it was. Sure, it was sloppy, but that is classic SEC style. The defenses were the stars of that show.
On to games! So, my school has a club called LAG. They meet every so often to play games, usually zombie games, and have tons of fun. Well, at the last one we played a game called Zombie Maze, a custom map on Halo 3. It is hilariously awesome. Pretty much the survivors have to make their way through three areas that are part of a giant maze and have to reach an exit door. There, one of the people has to face a keypad on the wall while the others carry on with the zombie killing while the guy facing the keypad puts down his controller and goes to do three tangrams. These three tangram puzzles represent figuring out the code to escape.
This is harder than it sounds. Even when we had seven people protecting the decoder, the tangrams killed us. those things are hard! The closest we got was finishing two after trying for ten minutes. It was pathetic looking. We never escaped.
If you own Halo 3, I seriously suggest getting this map, especially if you have many friends who like fun too.
Anyways, time to talk football! I love the way the Longhorns looked on Saturday. They played a strong game, and looked great doing it. I loved the first half. My only problem with this game was Colt's interception. Very sad.
I have also been hearing a lot about how people are chatting, saying that the UT/OU game was very sloppy. I know saying this now is a little late, by two weeks, but I don't care. If this was a SEC game, those same people would be praising it as a defensive battle, which it was. Sure, it was sloppy, but that is classic SEC style. The defenses were the stars of that show.
On to games! So, my school has a club called LAG. They meet every so often to play games, usually zombie games, and have tons of fun. Well, at the last one we played a game called Zombie Maze, a custom map on Halo 3. It is hilariously awesome. Pretty much the survivors have to make their way through three areas that are part of a giant maze and have to reach an exit door. There, one of the people has to face a keypad on the wall while the others carry on with the zombie killing while the guy facing the keypad puts down his controller and goes to do three tangrams. These three tangram puzzles represent figuring out the code to escape.
This is harder than it sounds. Even when we had seven people protecting the decoder, the tangrams killed us. those things are hard! The closest we got was finishing two after trying for ten minutes. It was pathetic looking. We never escaped.
If you own Halo 3, I seriously suggest getting this map, especially if you have many friends who like fun too.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Various tidbits
Howdy all!
Today, I am just gonna talk about how my past couple of weeks have been. Start with school, wind through news, end with football. Ready? Here we go.
So far, school has yet to improve, crazy teacher is crazy, while the others are slowly growing on my nerves. One of them actually told us today that he puts some false information on the slides to show bad examples of various works... without pointing this out on the slide itself. That means if I miss a class, I could be in a world of trouble if I resort to only the slides. This also happens to be the class I am doing the worst in.
On the brighter side, my labs are going much betterm with the exception of freshman general biology lab, which is surprising. I am a senior and have seen most of this in all the classes I have had so far, yet I can't even get more than half the points of the question section? Really T.A.? Do you have to grade it so hard that if I don't mention a vague factiod about the subject the question is asking I get half off? That is bull.
Another bright side is that American Government is starting to become my favorite class solely on how well i am doing compared to the other classes.
Off to the news.
First, why oh why did Barack Obama get a Nobel Peace Prize. He has done NOTHING to deserve it, yet. The one reason why he got it that I have heard is it could possibly help some proposals of his. This is bull. This is just like how people voted for Sam Bradford for heisman just so they could have two heisman winners duke it out in the national championship(which is also another theory I heard back then). Anyways, I am not saying that he should never get one, but I believe he hasn't done anything to deserve it yet.
Thats all I have for news that I can think of today.
Finally to football!
So, I went to the Cotton Bowl and watched two big rivals, the Longhorns and the land thieves... I mean Sooners(no offense on this little joke), fight it out. I have to say I was saddened by how badly the Longhorn offense did due to the Sooner defense being rediculously good. The truly was a defensive battle the whole way.
That brings me to another point, Sam Bradford. Damn, just damn. I feel sorry for this guy. He wanted to come back, forsaking millions, just so he could try and win a national title. I give him props for this. But with both these injuries, I feel sorry. His whole stock in the draft will fall from this, losing him alot of money, as well as injuries that could cause complications later in life. I hope he gets better. Good luck to him.
Third, Colt McCoy. I loved how he ran during the game, even though he "fumbled" the ball after a beastly run. He did not fumble it. I didn't like his throwing so much, mostly due to the sooners being outstanding with their pass guarding. They did amazing, and it showed with his numbers.
Thinking of that fumble, this was the worst officiating I have ever seen, worse than this high school playoff game I went to where the refs were biased out their ass. Those refs called pass interference so much on my team that were not that it was rediculous. Anyways, the refs in the UT v OU game need to be sent back to ref school. They called so many things that weren't right while having to rely on the booth for many plays. Speaking of the booth, you also need to get sent back to officiating school since you called a horrible verdict on that last fumble by McCoy. That is a little extreme, but seriously, you guys need to get your act together.
That was said without knowing the exact ruling for fumble and whatnot, but I saw another paly in the NFL that had much better angles on the ball and the ball was actually moving out of the guys hand towards the ground, but since it was "between the arm and the chest" it was deemed in possesion. Colt had much more control on the ball, yet they called it a fumble? WTF! I trust the NFL ruling more than the other.
Anyways, I guess its that time to wrap it up and call it a night. Hopefully I will have cooler things to talk about later.
Peace,
-Eld
Today, I am just gonna talk about how my past couple of weeks have been. Start with school, wind through news, end with football. Ready? Here we go.
So far, school has yet to improve, crazy teacher is crazy, while the others are slowly growing on my nerves. One of them actually told us today that he puts some false information on the slides to show bad examples of various works... without pointing this out on the slide itself. That means if I miss a class, I could be in a world of trouble if I resort to only the slides. This also happens to be the class I am doing the worst in.
On the brighter side, my labs are going much betterm with the exception of freshman general biology lab, which is surprising. I am a senior and have seen most of this in all the classes I have had so far, yet I can't even get more than half the points of the question section? Really T.A.? Do you have to grade it so hard that if I don't mention a vague factiod about the subject the question is asking I get half off? That is bull.
Another bright side is that American Government is starting to become my favorite class solely on how well i am doing compared to the other classes.
Off to the news.
First, why oh why did Barack Obama get a Nobel Peace Prize. He has done NOTHING to deserve it, yet. The one reason why he got it that I have heard is it could possibly help some proposals of his. This is bull. This is just like how people voted for Sam Bradford for heisman just so they could have two heisman winners duke it out in the national championship(which is also another theory I heard back then). Anyways, I am not saying that he should never get one, but I believe he hasn't done anything to deserve it yet.
Thats all I have for news that I can think of today.
Finally to football!
So, I went to the Cotton Bowl and watched two big rivals, the Longhorns and the land thieves... I mean Sooners(no offense on this little joke), fight it out. I have to say I was saddened by how badly the Longhorn offense did due to the Sooner defense being rediculously good. The truly was a defensive battle the whole way.
That brings me to another point, Sam Bradford. Damn, just damn. I feel sorry for this guy. He wanted to come back, forsaking millions, just so he could try and win a national title. I give him props for this. But with both these injuries, I feel sorry. His whole stock in the draft will fall from this, losing him alot of money, as well as injuries that could cause complications later in life. I hope he gets better. Good luck to him.
Third, Colt McCoy. I loved how he ran during the game, even though he "fumbled" the ball after a beastly run. He did not fumble it. I didn't like his throwing so much, mostly due to the sooners being outstanding with their pass guarding. They did amazing, and it showed with his numbers.
Thinking of that fumble, this was the worst officiating I have ever seen, worse than this high school playoff game I went to where the refs were biased out their ass. Those refs called pass interference so much on my team that were not that it was rediculous. Anyways, the refs in the UT v OU game need to be sent back to ref school. They called so many things that weren't right while having to rely on the booth for many plays. Speaking of the booth, you also need to get sent back to officiating school since you called a horrible verdict on that last fumble by McCoy. That is a little extreme, but seriously, you guys need to get your act together.
That was said without knowing the exact ruling for fumble and whatnot, but I saw another paly in the NFL that had much better angles on the ball and the ball was actually moving out of the guys hand towards the ground, but since it was "between the arm and the chest" it was deemed in possesion. Colt had much more control on the ball, yet they called it a fumble? WTF! I trust the NFL ruling more than the other.
Anyways, I guess its that time to wrap it up and call it a night. Hopefully I will have cooler things to talk about later.
Peace,
-Eld
Sunday, October 4, 2009
School
Well hello there!
Today, I feel like complaining about school. It has been hard the past few weeks, and I have been dropping the ball lately so, I hope this will help.
So, I am in my senior year of college, and as such, I am gonna graduate within a year or two, depending on how many classes I can get. The problem is, the way things are going, I will fail the classes I am taking right now, which will be a horrible thing to happen. I so far have bombed the first tests of two of my classes, and have bombed the first lab reports of my two labs.
I am not familiar with the way these professors like to teach, or make their tests, so that could be one of the problems, although I doubt it could cause that much of a problem. So far, I have received one grade back, which was a horrid 11%... which makes me cringe. I currently hate the teacher, since I could have dropped the class if he had given the test two days earlier; the dead line for dropping a class without a penalty was the day before the test. The teacher also loves to hit tangents, and I cannot for the life on me focus on all he says. I drift off, and start surfing the web.
The one thing I am gonna try and combat this with is by not using my computer to take notes anymore, and instead write them, which is the way I used to do school. I tend to do better that way anyways, so I might just switch back.
Anyways, I hope this year will turn around. The one class I kinda am looking forward to is a subject that I hate... American Government. I got a 76% on the first test, which was actually kind of surprising, since I am inherently bad at government themed classes.
On another note, I have run across an awesome comic on the internet called VgCats.com. It has alot of parodies on different games and is overall a hilarious treat. The style is interesting. Another I ran across is the comic called MsPaintAdventures.com This is a hilarious little comic that takes a world the artist has designed with a loose plot that is going on. It is loosely based on a text adventure game, although it isn't. He takes a different fan inputted "commands" and advances the story that way. There are small tangents that form this way that he will incorporate into the story.
I highly suggest reading these two, especially the problem sleuth comic on the mspaint adventure website.
Today, I feel like complaining about school. It has been hard the past few weeks, and I have been dropping the ball lately so, I hope this will help.
So, I am in my senior year of college, and as such, I am gonna graduate within a year or two, depending on how many classes I can get. The problem is, the way things are going, I will fail the classes I am taking right now, which will be a horrible thing to happen. I so far have bombed the first tests of two of my classes, and have bombed the first lab reports of my two labs.
I am not familiar with the way these professors like to teach, or make their tests, so that could be one of the problems, although I doubt it could cause that much of a problem. So far, I have received one grade back, which was a horrid 11%... which makes me cringe. I currently hate the teacher, since I could have dropped the class if he had given the test two days earlier; the dead line for dropping a class without a penalty was the day before the test. The teacher also loves to hit tangents, and I cannot for the life on me focus on all he says. I drift off, and start surfing the web.
The one thing I am gonna try and combat this with is by not using my computer to take notes anymore, and instead write them, which is the way I used to do school. I tend to do better that way anyways, so I might just switch back.
Anyways, I hope this year will turn around. The one class I kinda am looking forward to is a subject that I hate... American Government. I got a 76% on the first test, which was actually kind of surprising, since I am inherently bad at government themed classes.
On another note, I have run across an awesome comic on the internet called VgCats.com. It has alot of parodies on different games and is overall a hilarious treat. The style is interesting. Another I ran across is the comic called MsPaintAdventures.com This is a hilarious little comic that takes a world the artist has designed with a loose plot that is going on. It is loosely based on a text adventure game, although it isn't. He takes a different fan inputted "commands" and advances the story that way. There are small tangents that form this way that he will incorporate into the story.
I highly suggest reading these two, especially the problem sleuth comic on the mspaint adventure website.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Apple Ads
Howdy All!
Instead of this being a random thought themed blog, it is starting to turn into just a ranting area for me. Well, hopefully that will not be the case.
Time for Rant 3!
So, for the past four commercial periods, I have seen at least one Apple v. PC ad. The two that I can remember are the ones where they are talking about "Apple Innovation" and the one where they have that "top of the line PC"
My first problem with these ads are they have to point out bad things about the PC in comparison to the Mac. There is one apple commercial I like, and it really said nothing about the PC. Instead it talking about how they are making more environmentally friendly laptops. Good for them! The problem is the bulk of their commercials are bashing the PC. It looks like dirty election tactics.
The second problem is they are telling half lies with these commercials. It is true that the Apple OS is more stable than Microsoft's, and Microsoft does tend to crash more and have some problems. The problem is that the Mac also crashes and has problems. In the commercial the "top of the line PC" says that "any PC you get is gonna have those problems" This is an outright LIE! I know many people who don't have any major problems with their PC. The only problems they have are when they install something wrong on their computer, or they try to fix said problem with their computer.
My last computer never failed me with BSODs, and only had a few errors with programs. The only system failures I had came from failing hardware, like the power supply and overheating, and when I tried to reinstall drivers for the graphic card after reformatting the drive. All of this happened after I had it for a few years. Of course, this doesn't make them true liers, but under their implied meaning, they completely lie, since they imply that PCs have major problems while the Mac has none.
The other commercial talks about their innovations like the Mag-safe power cord, which is very nice. But, the commercial implies that PCs are not safe from being pulled while the cord is tripped on. So far, all PC power chords I have see come out easy when tripped over. The only time my laptop has been pulled was when the cord was positioned in such a way where it went under the laptop, and the person walked across it. I concede that their cord is safer, but their commercial is deceiving.
They could be meaning actual desktops, in which case, the cords shouldn't even be exposed for a tripping hazard. Most towers will be placed on a desk with the cords not stretched across walkways. If they are, then sorry to offend anyone, you are stupid. It is an partially asinine move for one reasons you are being inconsiderate by causing a hazard. It is stupid because you are risking your desktop to a hazard.
I just saw another ad from Mac, the one about how all of a Mac is made by one company, while a PC is from all sorts of places.
I am not too good at economics or anything, but I do know what I am talking about when I say they are overpriced. There was a business back in the olden days that bought pretty much everything that dealt with their product, from the herds of cow, to the train system that brought them to different place, as well as the processing plants and distributor. This person could lower prices below other companies and thus out sell everyone. The thing with Mac is, either they don't understand this concept, or they just want a giant profit.
I don't know their actual revenue, or how much profit they make on everything they sell, but they need to drop their prices. You can buy a PC for very cheap, while a Mac of similar specs runs for much more.
Overall, I hate these commercials because they give you half truths and use deceiving dialog to try and sell their products. I have a few other problems with Apple that I am sure to mention within future posts of mine, but for now my rant is done.
Hope you all enjoyed another episode of Eldorn's rant corner.
Peace
-Eld
Instead of this being a random thought themed blog, it is starting to turn into just a ranting area for me. Well, hopefully that will not be the case.
Time for Rant 3!
So, for the past four commercial periods, I have seen at least one Apple v. PC ad. The two that I can remember are the ones where they are talking about "Apple Innovation" and the one where they have that "top of the line PC"
My first problem with these ads are they have to point out bad things about the PC in comparison to the Mac. There is one apple commercial I like, and it really said nothing about the PC. Instead it talking about how they are making more environmentally friendly laptops. Good for them! The problem is the bulk of their commercials are bashing the PC. It looks like dirty election tactics.
The second problem is they are telling half lies with these commercials. It is true that the Apple OS is more stable than Microsoft's, and Microsoft does tend to crash more and have some problems. The problem is that the Mac also crashes and has problems. In the commercial the "top of the line PC" says that "any PC you get is gonna have those problems" This is an outright LIE! I know many people who don't have any major problems with their PC. The only problems they have are when they install something wrong on their computer, or they try to fix said problem with their computer.
My last computer never failed me with BSODs, and only had a few errors with programs. The only system failures I had came from failing hardware, like the power supply and overheating, and when I tried to reinstall drivers for the graphic card after reformatting the drive. All of this happened after I had it for a few years. Of course, this doesn't make them true liers, but under their implied meaning, they completely lie, since they imply that PCs have major problems while the Mac has none.
The other commercial talks about their innovations like the Mag-safe power cord, which is very nice. But, the commercial implies that PCs are not safe from being pulled while the cord is tripped on. So far, all PC power chords I have see come out easy when tripped over. The only time my laptop has been pulled was when the cord was positioned in such a way where it went under the laptop, and the person walked across it. I concede that their cord is safer, but their commercial is deceiving.
They could be meaning actual desktops, in which case, the cords shouldn't even be exposed for a tripping hazard. Most towers will be placed on a desk with the cords not stretched across walkways. If they are, then sorry to offend anyone, you are stupid. It is an partially asinine move for one reasons you are being inconsiderate by causing a hazard. It is stupid because you are risking your desktop to a hazard.
I just saw another ad from Mac, the one about how all of a Mac is made by one company, while a PC is from all sorts of places.
I am not too good at economics or anything, but I do know what I am talking about when I say they are overpriced. There was a business back in the olden days that bought pretty much everything that dealt with their product, from the herds of cow, to the train system that brought them to different place, as well as the processing plants and distributor. This person could lower prices below other companies and thus out sell everyone. The thing with Mac is, either they don't understand this concept, or they just want a giant profit.
I don't know their actual revenue, or how much profit they make on everything they sell, but they need to drop their prices. You can buy a PC for very cheap, while a Mac of similar specs runs for much more.
Overall, I hate these commercials because they give you half truths and use deceiving dialog to try and sell their products. I have a few other problems with Apple that I am sure to mention within future posts of mine, but for now my rant is done.
Hope you all enjoyed another episode of Eldorn's rant corner.
Peace
-Eld
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