http://creativesmoke.com/blog/index.xml Isaac's Recent Blog Posts en-us Copyright 2008 Creative Smoke. All rights reserved. http://creativesmoke.com/?page=blog&id=11 http://creativesmoke.com/?page=blog&id=11 http://creativesmoke.com/?page=blog&id=9 These wax explosions might be very appropriate for celebrating the downfall of APUSH or something... A little Background Recently, I visited the Sierra Nevadas with my parents, and my brother Elliott. Over the last several years, we have taken trips up there, to enjoy the peace and quiet (most of the time), swim, hike, and make campfires. That was over five years ago, when I was much younger, barely past the double digits. One thing lead to the next, and soon my brother and I were . . . http://creativesmoke.com/?page=blog&id=9 http://creativesmoke.com/?page=blog&id=8 I will first say that I am saddened deeply by the recent disaster in China. While searching around on the internet, I found this: This phenomenon is rare, and its existence has not been proven. I just think that this is really creepy . . . http://creativesmoke.com/?page=blog&id=8 http://creativesmoke.com/?page=blog&id=7 This website (Creative Smoke) looks completely and absolutely terrible on Microsoft Internet Explorer. ARGH. Why can't they at least make their browser standards compliant. I plan on working several hours this weekend to rewrite all the code for my site, in order to support IE. . . . http://creativesmoke.com/?page=blog&id=7 http://creativesmoke.com/?page=blog&id=6 I am no longer allowed to use school computers once again. I suppose using Terminal to work on a website is the clear practice of an evil hacker. I don't see much use in fighting these allegations, so I will just accept my fate, and let the bureaucracy handle it. Guess what I was doing? I was trying to make a song play on my website. Oh, wow, very evil, and very against everything the world stands for. Oh, and one last thing, I looked over the internet agreement I signed, and no . . . http://creativesmoke.com/?page=blog&id=6 http://creativesmoke.com/?page=blog&id=5 After an excruciating day of school, I finally got a break. During break today, I was talking to that special person I mentioned earlier and said, "Do you want to go to the beach with me?" "Of course, but your mom won't like us not studying." I replied,"I'll call her right now." After a few moments of discussing, I was pleased to find that she supported my idea completely. Later in the day, I rolled off to the beach with my special friend and her friend. We ran, skim boa . . . http://creativesmoke.com/?page=blog&id=5 http://creativesmoke.com/?page=blog&id=4 AAAHG. I woke up this morning, and it was still Wednesday. I cannot handle it. I cannot take this anymore. I am so fed up with school. Well, I managed to pull myself out of bed, because I knew I would see someone special soon. OK, so I took my shower, got out, and to add insult to injury, my deodorant was nowhere to be found. I walked into the kitchen, and there as no bread for my lunch. I kind of flipped out. No that AP testing is over, I see no reason whatsoever why I sho . . . http://creativesmoke.com/?page=blog&id=4 http://creativesmoke.com/?page=blog&id=3 AP testing is finally over! Although this should be simply a time of rejoicing, I have this foreboding feeling about my scores. My first English essay, in modest terms, was amazing. Many of you may be familiar with the terminology "magical at times". Well my essay certainly was. I also have this feeling that come July, my essay will have received a score of 4 or 5, and all of my gloating will be for not. What about APES? Well, the multiple choice was a piece of cake, with a few ex . . . http://creativesmoke.com/?page=blog&id=3 http://creativesmoke.com/?page=blog&id=2 As some people may know, I have recently created the Terra Linda Wiki. The Terra Linda Wiki is a collaborative site for students, teachers and parents of Terra Linda High School. So far, I have created the site, and put it on a temporary url. I plan to move it to wiki.terralindahighschool.net, but I am working my way through the SRCS bureaucracy. I will submit a formal letter tomorrow, and see how it goes. I am optimistic to have the site ready for a public launch within two weeks. . . . http://creativesmoke.com/?page=blog&id=2 http://creativesmoke.com/?page=blog&id=1 A while back I was intrigued by the idea of using pixels to represent digital information. This concept has already been utilized by Nintendo's Gameboy, providing people with an accessory that can read small cards with tiny dots on them, allowing cheap retro games on a new media. I think that this concept could be put to work, enabling anyone to print up a little sheet of paper with a few KB, or maybe only a few hundreds of bytes of information stored in the pixels on the sheet. This would be pe . . . http://creativesmoke.com/?page=blog&id=1