I'm Afraid This is Goodbye... Thursday, June 12th, 2014

I'm afraid this will be my last post... ever... in the school year. But then there's summer, so who cares!! I was going to write about something, but I have decided not to so I don't know why I'm still typing this, but whatever.


Well, I finally have my firs debit card!! Technically! And it only works at Starbucks. But (w)hatever, I don't really care, it still counts. Yeah...



Well I hope you all have a wonderful summer, and I'll hopefully keep you guys, the people reading my blog, posted on what's going on.


Sincerely,
Simon

P.S. Peace out.

LOOK WHAT I FOUND!! 6-9-14 Edition____Year Round Schools 1.15.14-Draft

    Michigan's should NOT go on to a year-round school schedule, because they would end up learning less. The year-round schools give kids too much stress, and makes it hard for them to work for a long time. And the more vacations allow more chances to forget classes, though the traditional schedule has less vacations, meaning less chances to forget.
      Lots of people don't go on vacation during the school year, because they will miss a lot of work, and have to make it up, so that's why lots of people go on vacation over the summer, because then they don't need make-up work. Another thing is Summer Camp. Lots of kids go to summer camp, so they can learn more on a topic in school, like music camps, or art camps and lots of other things, like math camp. Kids also like to be on a swim team, but that wouldn't be possible if there was a year round schedule.

Literrary Essay-2014-6-9

Blood on the River:

Literary Essay by:

Simon Oliver Stevens

(Claim)

“I take another deep breath. My anger is focused. I have made a decision. I have a plan. I believe Reverend Hunt would approve-I have made this decision out of love.

I am going to steal a baby.”

This is quote out of Blood on the River, Chapter Twenty-Five, page 208. It helps support my claim that 'Samuel has found a new family, and he very dearly cares for them.'

(Reasons)

(Reason 1) “I take another deep breath. My anger is focused. I have made a decision. I have a plan. I believe Reverend Hunt would approve-I have made this decision out of love.

I am going to steal a baby.”

One reason, Sam steals Ann's baby, Virginia, and brings her to Point Comfort, is to force Ann and John Laydon to follow him to Point Comfort, because he wants them to be safer. Sam does this because he believes that Point Comfort will be much safer than the palisade, which it ends up being.

(Reason 2) Another reason, of why I think my claim is genuine, is that, in the book, it says “After she heard what happened to Captain Ratcliffe, Ann begged Captain Davies to retract my sentence,” (Page #216). Ann does this, I think, because Sam is the people of Point Comfort's only chance to survive. Another reason I think Ann did this, is because Sam was like a son to Ann and John.

(Reason 3)

(Conclusion)

In conclusion, any of Samuel's intentions, we meant to help his new family, because he loved his new family, because he had been an orphan for most of his life, and he finally found a family that he loved, so he didn't want them to get hurt and die, so he was trying to help them, which, in the end, he ended up doing.

5/29/14 AHW

So I was browsing iFunny, you know, just, toodle-a-doo, when all of the sudden I see this post, and its about this cat, who everyone in the neighbourhood called ugly. It has scars everywhere and was missing an eye and a tail and its legs were messed up. Everyone was doing cruel things to it. Then one day, this guy hears the cat shrieking and this dog growling, and so the guy runs all the way down his stairs and he finds the cat on the ground, dieing ;(, and so he picks it up, and after all of that torture, all it had wanted was some affection. And it made me so sad happy.

Literrary Essay May 28th, 2014

Blood on the River:

Literary Essay by:

Simon Oliver Stevens

(Claim)
My claim for Blood on the River is that, Samuel found a new family.



(Reasons)
(Reason 1) One reason, Sam steals Ann's baby, Virginia, and brings her to Point Comfort, to make Ann and John Laydon to come to Point Comfort, because he wants Ann to be safe, because Sam beilieves that Point Comfort will be safer, which it ends up being.
(Reason 2) Another reason, of why I think my claim is ____, is that, in the book, it says “After she,” being Ann “heard what happened to Captain Ratcliffe, Ann begged Captain Davies to retract my sentance,” (Page #216) and Ann does this because, I think, because Sam is the only one with the beeds, and the people of Point Comfort's only chance to survive. Another reason I think Ann did this, is because Sam was like a son to Ann and John.
(Reason 3)

At-Home Writing May 27th, 2014

After watching Hunter's Video today, I am now trying to get Mac OS X Mavericks onto a Virtual Box (a virtual Operating System) on my Ubuntu System, on my laptop.

So, I was reading outside in the rain earlier tonight, and it was pretty fun. So I got my Watch_Dogs Season Pass and GameStop extra add-on for my Xbox One today, but sill, no Watch_Dogs has come in yet. The guy at GameStop said that it's cheaper for the company to send the game straight from the warehouse to the costumers, rather than having the store as the middle man. So I'm still waiting.

I'm thinking about extending my Ubuntu Partition, but there are some problems with it, so I don't thinks it perfect yet with my computer. Besides, I won't be needing that much room yet, and if I do, its fairly easy.

So that's my At-Home Writing for the day. Check back tomorrow for anything else I might be up to, or some news on what’s happening already.

Sincerely,
Simon

AHW 5/22/14

So, I am running an experiment for Android KitKat, and I'm making a partition (a seperate section of a memory device, ex. Hard Drive or Solid State Drive) for 20 Gigabytes. I'm going to install Android on it, and test it out, and if I like it, and am okay with 20GB of space, I'll keep it, but only if it works, which it should.

If I keep it, it turns into a tri-boot, which is very dangerous, and confusing, but I'll figure it out, I'm still going to try to install Mac OS X, creating a quad-boot, which might be a maze to get to each partition, but may be pretty simple if I install a Hackintosh (what a computer is called when it has Mac OS but isn't a Macintosh itself) boot-loader (a program that easily selects different boot-able partitions) and hopefully it'll selectthe four different boot-able partitions, which would be pretty cool, but I think I'm going to hold off on the Hackintosh/Mac OS X idea for now, because a lot of the times the drivers don't work, and you need special programs to make them work, so for now, just Winodws 8.1 and Ubuntu, and maybe Android KitKat.

UPDATE: 2 O'Clock

So, Android failed, it was not recongized as boot-able through my flash drive. SO for now, I'm just going to stick with my fabulous dual-boot for, and do some research on Hackintosh, so I can install the correct drivers, and make sure its touchscreen compatible.

Another thing, one of the laptops Mr. Joseph had me bring home, I feel that if I upgrade the RAM to a Gigabyte or two, it should be able to run Ubuntu, the other one, the smaller WinBook, is a no go, and will probably have to be re-installed with Vista, or XP (ugh), on it.

In other news, I'm going to save up money to buy somethings on eBay, a screw-driver, and gameboy cartridge battery and a new laptop charger, and some awesome headphones (SkullCandy's), and then a nice Android Tablet, so that I can put Ubuntu on it, which looks really nice on a tablet. Maybe when the new Windows Surface Pro III comes out, that too, but currently, after I get the headphones, I'm gonna be working the money game.

AHW 5/21/14-Successful Windows 8.1 and Ununtu Dual-Boot

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I am SUCCESSFUL!!

I am currently installing Ubuntu, to my, Acer Aspire V5, to create my Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu dual-boot, as told previously today. One thing that I am wishing for, is that the touch-screen driver works out of the installer (which it does). As told on mine, and maybe Hunter's blogs, one of the laptops I got from Mr. Joseph, the touch-pad mouse didn't work, it only worked, in the installer.

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<Update1>

So it turns out, the touch-screen does actually work, just a little worse than I though it was, but I can still try the new mobile Ubuntu, that the Ubuntu Devolpers have just finished, it might be really good. Anyway, I'll post a video later tonight, after I edit the book discusion video, of my Ubuntu boot-up setup, and me using the touch screen.

Signed,

Simon

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AHW 5/21/14 Morning Writing

               So, it turns out I won’t get my game on the date its released, because GameStop is too lazy to have it sent to them because I changed it to the special package to late, so they’ll ship it from the factory on the release day.

               Anyways, I am planning on tri-booting my laptop, with Windows 8.1, Ubuntu, and Mac OS X. I am currently only going to dual-boot with Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu, because when I install the Mac OS, I want it to be touchscreen compatible, which is possible, proven on Microsoft’s Surface Pro 2, dual-booted with Android and Mac OS, and pretty amazing.

               I’m currently writing this in the morning, and… there’s the bell. So I guess I’ll have to go in a minute. So, currently, I’m planning, which should happen today, to dual-boot Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu.

At-Home Writing-5/13/14

I am really excited for a game that comes out the 27th, it's called Watch_dogs. It is a really cool game, with really cool features. I'm saving up to buy the special edition, which has some pretty cool stuff in it.

The game itself has HUNDREDS of different NPC's, and fun little in-game things. One, of the two, really cool features, is that at anytime, someone can come into your Single Player world, and try to hack into your system, and you then have to try to stop them. Another cool feature, is that you can connect to the game from an app your phone/tablet, and help the player, or challenge the player to do various things.

Another thing, you can do, is call in you "crew," and they can do different things with you against another "crew," or team, and the possibilities are ENDLESS!* It was meant to come out in November, 2013, but they pushed the date back a bit, because they had to make it better. A conspiracy I had, was that they just did this too gain hype.

*Possibilities are actually end-able, just they are so many of them, I decided to exaggerate just a tiny bit.

So yeah, that's the game I really, REALLY want, not some bad Titanfall(AMAZING)/Halo(Also USED to be Amazing) mock-off (Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare). Are though there are other games that look good, this is the game I'm looking forward to the most.

Signed,

Simon

HTML Code-5/12/14-100TH POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In-Class Writing/At-Home Writing

WARNING: I am writing this in html!

Yayy!! It's my 100th post!

(Including drafts :( *sadface*)

So, I looked at my grade, and I think I'm going to need people to Sherpa me in a class like Spanish, someone like Leo or Ryan, someone who does really well in Spanish, and usually doesn't forget their work, I think it would really help me pick up my Spanish grade.
So, this is something that happened on my way home from school, when I had gotten off the bus, it had started to rain! Not TOO hard, lightly, mostly. But as soon as I got to my front door, and my brother walked up and saw me, it started to POOR!! Really hard. After that, my mom came home, and said that she was waiting for me at the bus stop, and somehow I had gotten home early. WOW. What a day today. I pretty good one I'd say!
Well, I guess that's both my In-Class and At-Home Writing for the day! Hope you read my blog next time.

Simon

In School Writing-5/9/14-Ubuntu Opportunity

     Mr. Joseph gave my friend, Hunter, and I the old laptops, because he doesn't know the passwords to them, so we are going to install Ubuntu on them, over the weekend. I hope this doesn't interfere with any plans my mom made, that involve going into the OUTER-NET!! Simon no like the outer-net, Simon stay inside with technology.

     Anyways, I might go to this really crappy outdoor skate park in Berkeley, and maybe do some other fun stuff, like use technology.

Extra Ubuntu Photo


     So Mr. Joseph told me to just write, so I am. I'm just typing, typing away, fixing my errors as I go on, because that's what I was told to do. I'm really bored, and a little hungry. So over the summer, I am going to work out and exercise and loose some what weight so I can be "Strong like bull," and I'll be all tough and stuff.
     I'm also going to try to make some money, and save up for some stuff, like some games and stuff on eBay and Amazon. So my mom said she was going to buy the Watch_Dogs game, so I'm saving up $70 so I can get the limited edition, and the seasons pass, and some stuff on eBay,and some weapons and headphones. So yeah, I hope I don't get bored this summer, because I found some things to do.

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April 23 2014-Letter of Complaint-Draft

Dear     ,
     I am a student at Birmingham Covington School, in the Birmingham Public Schools Distract, and I have a complaint about the computers at our school. After April 8th, 2014, Microsoft stopped supporting Windows XP, so our distract is updating our laptops and desktops to Windows 7, but the laptops hardware will probably be slow running Windows 7. Though if it isn't slow, I still think our distract need newer laptops. All of our laptops our slow, have old hardware, and are probably as old as Windows XP itself, so I think the school should get new Windows 7 laptops.

Letter of Complaint-April 21 2014

Dear     ,

     The majority of the schools computers run on Windows XP, which is a very old Operating System, made 12-13 years ago, and is no longer, as of April 8th, 2014, Microsoft no longer supports Windows XP in security updates, meaning the school is prone to hackers. Our distracts solution is to update to Windows Vista, which still isn't the newest, and is more of a Personal Computer, rather than a work or school Operating System. I think that our distract should update to a better system, like Windows 7 Professional, or Windows 7 Enterprise. If the school did that, the computers would run faster and cleaner, and would have a current, still supported, work/school qualified Windows 7 Operating System.

Sincerely,
Simon

Over Break (Part 1)

     Over break, me and my brother were outside, having fun, and he was riding my electric scooter (so lame) and I was riding his longboard.
     So as I'm riding down the street a car is coming, so I rear over to the left side of the street. So I'm just cruising, and then out of nowhere, this huge pothole (I couldn't see it from where I was), small enough for anything BUT a skateboard. So the wheels fall into the pothole, and flings me foreword. My knees bend, and my right knee hits the ground first, next is my left elbow, and my head lightly touches the ground, but my glasses got bent.
     I lay on the ground saying over and over again "F**k, F**k, F**k, F**k, F**k...," as my brother tries to help my up. He tries to drag me off the street, but it hurt my knee.
     So then I hop on my lame electric scooter, and ride home, with my leg hanging off, and everytime the scooter kind of randomly braked and then went on again, it hurt my elbow.
      After that, I sat down at my dinner table, and ate dinner, and then I started to feel better, I almost broke my leg and arm, but now I'm fine. Wow, What day.

Letter of Complaint Topic List 4/4/14

• Humans
• Not a Lot of Having Money
• Roads Being Bad
• Having Bad Computers at School
• iOS 7 being slow on older devices
• Windows 8 not being able to start up on other devices to install different OS's
• Computers costing to much
• Kids needing jobs but can't get them

Letter of Complaint Topic List

• Humans
• Not a Lot of Having Money
• Roads Being Bad
• Having Bad Computers at School

AHW 3.23.14

Yesterday, was a fun day. My cousin came over, and we went outside, and my brother was on his longboard, my cousin was on a skateboard and I was on my roller blades.

So eventually, my roller blades broke, and it was pretty funny. So then we went out to dinner with all my cousins (on my mom's side) and we went to a buffee, and then we went home and we all went to bed.

And then on sunday, today, we went to the Hospital, to check on my grandma, because she isn't doing so well. So after that, we went to my cousins house and pick them up and we all went out for lunch, and then we watched...
The Muppets: Most Wanted
And everyone loved it. So that was pretty much my weekend.

Letter of Complaint-3/21/2014

I'm still deciding what I want to do for my letter of complaint

At Home Writing (Writing About My Life) March 20th, 2014

Today, I was downloading hacked (modified) Pokemon games for the Gameboy Advanced. And I have decided, that I'm going to make my own, but all the websites I found don't work, but I have a plan. I found a website that has the applications, and explains what they are, but the download buttons down work, so I'm gonna look up the application on google, and find them. Then, I am gonna work really long and hard, and I'm gonna have people test it, and after a few years (I know this isn't gonna be a one month easy/cheesy game, I want it to be good) I'll a full and ready game, and hopefully, it'll be one of the bests.

So that's what I've been doing so far (besides interupting an interview to get picked up 10 minutes early from class), and hopefully, I'll keep doing it until its the very best.

I wanna be the very best
Like no one ever was
To catch them is my real test
To train them is my cause

I will travel across the land
Searching far and wide
Teach Pokémon to understand
The power that's inside

Pokémon (Gotta catch 'em all), it's you and me
I know it's my destiny
(Pokémon!)
ooh, you're my best friend
In a world we must defend
Pokémon (Gotta catch 'em all), a heart so true
Our courage will pull us through
You teach me, and I'll teach you
Po-ké-mon
(Gotta catch 'em all!)
Gotta catch 'em all!
Pokémon!

AHW 3.10.14

I really don't know what to write about tonight. Hmmm... I really truly don't know, I guess I could write about something that's happening in my life, though right now, its kinda gone still. I have headache though, if that's something to right about. At least its better than two weeks ago, where I had a KILLER headache, and threw up.
I think the reason I have a headache is because I had some pop early after I woke up, and I had like three. So I have found out, the hard way. that the cool off from caffeine leaves you with horrible headaches. Its horrible, that's why if you have anything with caffeine, if you don't have it the next day your body throws a fit. And that's why caffeine is bad. Its usually really good.

AHW 3.9.14

So, a lot happened this weekend.
On Friday, I pulled out my old laptop and put wubi on it, which is a Ubuntu-Windows dual boot. Then did some updates, burned a back up disk of windows (thank god), and went to bed.

The next day, I turned. My laptop, and had to completely restore it, except for Ubuntu. Then, I went to the mall and picked out a watch, and practically sat around the rest of the day.

Then today, on Sunday, I practiced a game, so I could beat my brother, and then lost. But then is played The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim the rest of the day, and now I'm writing this.
So I just can't wait until my birthday and get my awesome watch, it's a rotary.

AHW 3.5.14

So today, my mom asked me what I wanted for my birthday. So after a while of thinking and flipping out, my mom says "How about a nice watch?" So I say, sure, and she promised to take me out to get a watch this weekend.

Another thing I am currently doing, is I am trying to upload a Ubuntu Linux onto an SD Card, but I kept getting an error, then I realized it was just because the internal SD readers suck. So now, I have to do it on my desktop. So I did all that wokr for nothing.

Well that's a short update on my life. So yeah.

AHW 2.26.14

Today, was an alright day. It was good, up until the end of school, because at the end of school, I went out the side door to go back around the school, because it is usually really fun, but the snow was really deep, and I got looked out, and I had to walk all the way around the school, in about 9 inches of snow, and it took and while to get there. And the whole while I was walking around the school, I was really upset, because I knew I was going to miss the bus.

So when I finally got there, I had missed my bus, and I called my mom, and she was really supportive, and she came and got me from the school. It was not very fun, and I won't ever do it until the end of the school year is year, and the heat of the summer has dried everything up.

So that was the story or why my day was ruined, and took a crap on my happiness, but other than that, I would say, that my day was perfect!

Parts of Letters of Compliants

•  Beginning, claim, evidence, conclusion, address, date, cc, reasons, name, problem, paragraph, formatting, middle, end,title, from, personal, experience, facts, TADDLE, return address, inside address, solutions, ISCORE, details, salutation

AHW 2.24.14

Valentines Day Poem, for Mom-2014

Mom,

You are Patient, You are Kind


You are Patient

When I don't do work(5)
When I didn't do my chores(7)
You help with homework(5)
Oh, Yes you hug me lots too(7)
That's why I Love you(5)

You are Kind

We hug when we're sad(5)
And we do things that are bad(7)
You are really fun(5)
And you're such a great mom(7)
That's why I Love you(5)

You are Love, Mom
You are Love

AHW 2.12.14

Today, I had Jimmy Johns. I got the Smoked Ham Club. There was ham spilling out everywhere. Just ham, every bite, was flying EVERYWHERE! My mom suggested that I got the Lettuce Wrap on it, but I said no, there probably wouldn't have been ham everywhere if I had got the lettuce wrap. I usually get the Pepe, but the Smoked Ham Club had more meat and cheese, so I got that, I was stuffed like a turkey. I literally was laying on the couch, and I said "I feel like a stuffed churkey," and yes I actually said Churkey, but well that's what I did tonight, and now five minutes is up, and I'll got to bed now. Good night.

Issues 2.12.14

An issue i have though of is too much homework

Complitation

• They have a bad bus stop routes
• Toys from TV Shows and Video Games are to cheesy
• There should be hair dryers in the boys locker room
• 
  

Today

We did R&E's

Year Round School Essay - draft - 1.29.14

Michigan's School System should NOT go on to a year-round school schedule, because they would end up learning less. With year round schools, the more vacations allow more chances to forget classes, though the traditional schedule has less vacations, meaning less chances to forget.

Another thing would be summer camp, because people go to summer camp to, usually, learn more in a certain subject, like music camps or art camps or study camps, and with the year round schedules, they would loss these extra boosts in school.

Also, kids will be more stressed, because they will be in school ALL the way into College, so it will be continuous and kids will be very stressed, and teacher’s won’t be able to plan the year, because they are always having classes.

So the reason why Michigan’s schools should NOT go on to Year Round Schools, is because they would end up learning less.