This post is really random. I searched through my books on Goodreads and found books that all included the same word (or a form of the same word).These lists include books that I haven't read yet but that I plan to read.
Under the Never Sky
The Burning Sky
Fire
City of Heavenly Fire
Catching Fire
Heir of Fire
Throne of Fire
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The Girl of Fire and Thorns
Fyre
Throne of Glass
Throne of Fire
Crown of Midnight
The Crown of Embers
Clockwork Princess
Princess Academy
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The False Prince
Clockwork Prince
Prince of Shadows
Red Queen
The Queen of Air and Darkness
Queen of Shadows
The Demon King
The Iron King
The Runaway King
Falling Kingdoms
Bitter Kingdom
The Raven King
Return of the King
King Lear
Shadow and Bone
Shadow Scale
Silver Shadows
Shadow Kiss
Prince of Shadows
Queen of Shadows
The Serpents Shadow
Shadow and Bone
City of Bones
Daughter of Smoke and Bone
The Diamond of Darkhold
Gathering Darkness
Darke
The Darkest Part of the Forest
The Darkest Minds
The Queen of Air and Darkness
The Name of This Book is Secret
This Book is not Good for You
Book of a Thousand Days
The Book Thief
A Book of Spirits and Thieves
The Girl of Fire and Thorns
Chain of Thorns
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Harry Potter and the Chanber of Secrets
The Name of the Book is Secret
Ender's Game
The Hunger Games
Bitterblue
Blue Lily, Lily Blue
Red Queen
Red Rising
Chasing Redbird
The Red Pyramid
Blood Red Road
The Raven Boys
To all the Boys I've Loved Before
The Golden Boy
The Girl of Fire and Thorns
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
The Girl at Midnight
Walk Two Moons
The Two Towers
I am Number Four
Four: A Divergent Collection
Five Little Pigs
The Fall of Five
The 5th Wave
The Rise of Nine
Red Rising
Ruin and Rising
City of Ashes
Ash
Snow Like Ashes
An Ember in the Ashes
The Crown of Embers
The City of Ember
An Ember in the Ashes
City of Bones
City of Ashes
City of Glass
City of Fallen Angels
City of Lost Souls
City of Heavenly Fire
The City of Ember
City of Savages
Throne of Glass
City of Glass
City of Fallen Angels
The Fall of Five
Falling Kingdoms
Clockwork Angel
City of Fallen Angels
City of Lost Souls
The Lost Hero
The Iron Trial
The Scorch Trials
The Death Cure
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Death on the Nile
Speaker for the Dead
The Enemy of Death
Eona: The Last Dragoneye
Last Sacrifice
The Last Olympian
The Last Star
The Fault in Our Stars
Days of Blood and Starlight
Number the Stars
The Last Star
In the Afterlight
The Lightning Thief
Days of Blood and Starlight
Bloodlines
Blood Promise
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Days of Blood and Starlight
Blood Red Road
The Blood of Olympus
Book of a Thousand Days
Days of Blood and Starlight
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Palace of Stone
Golden Lily
Blue Lily, Lily Blue
The Titan's Curse
The Winner's Curse
The Sea of Monsters
The Perilous Sea
The Infinite Sea
The Lighting Thief
The Dream Thieves
The Book Thief
A Book of Spirits and Thieves
The Dream Thieves
Dreams of Gods and Monsters
A Midsummer Nights Dream
The Sea of Monsters
Dreams of Gods and Monsters
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Monday, March 2, 2015
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Random Awesome Links
I found lots of these links on The Bored Button which is basically a website that generates a random interesting website whenever you click the button.
- Fun with Triangles! This website is totally random. Basically you can play with a bunch of different triangles and it's somehow really fun.
- 100 Most Common English Words Quiz yourself and see how many you can guess in five minutes. I tried a few times and got 42/100.
- The Great Language Game How good are you at recognizing languages?
- Draw in spinning 3D Just draw.
- Flip Text Write upside down.
- Build a Squid Make your own squid and set it free. Mine is named The Doctor.
- Translation Telephone Play telephone with different languages.
- Future Me Write emails to yourself in the future.
- The Bureau of CommunicationThey offer forms for any situation.
- Here is Today Click if you want to feel small and insignificant.
- What Colour Eyes Will Your Children Have? Click to find out. (I found this website particularly interesting, especially because I have light eyes and every single person in my family has dark eyes.)
- Online Colour Challenge Find out whether or not you're colourblind.
- This is Sand Play with sand.
- Choice of the Dragon Basically the best game ever. You are a dragon.
- How good is your English vocabulary?
- Similar Minds Lots of personality tests. Lots of them.
- A Passing Glance A transgender life simulator.
Sunday, August 10, 2014
The Four Temperaments Correlation
I have linked the Four Temperaments to Myers Briggs in this post.
In the current post I am going to link the Four Temperaments to the Hogwarts
houses, the Divergent factions and Enneagram.
Hogwarts Houses:
Gryffindor: Sanguine, Choleric
Hufflepuff: Phlegmatic, Sanguine
Ravenclaw: Melancholic
Slytherin: Choleric, Phlegmatic
Divergent Factions:
Dauntless: Choleric, Phlegmatic
Erudite: Choleric, Melancholic
Amity: Sanguine, Melancholic
Abnegation: Melancholic
Candor: Any temperament
Enneagram:
1: Melancholic
2: Sanguine
3: Choleric, Sanguine
4: Melancholic
5: Melancholic, Phlegmatic
6: Sanguine, Melancholic, Phlegmatic
7: Sanguine
8: Choleric
9: Melancholic, Phlegmatic
Hogwarts Houses:
Gryffindor: Sanguine, Choleric
Hufflepuff: Phlegmatic, Sanguine
Ravenclaw: Melancholic
Slytherin: Choleric, Phlegmatic
Divergent Factions:
Dauntless: Choleric, Phlegmatic
Erudite: Choleric, Melancholic
Amity: Sanguine, Melancholic
Abnegation: Melancholic
Candor: Any temperament
Enneagram:
1: Melancholic
2: Sanguine
3: Choleric, Sanguine
4: Melancholic
5: Melancholic, Phlegmatic
6: Sanguine, Melancholic, Phlegmatic
7: Sanguine
8: Choleric
9: Melancholic, Phlegmatic
Thursday, August 7, 2014
Alignment
I found another new personality typing system. This one is primarily meant for typing fictional characters. There are nine types: Lawful Good, Neutral Good, Chaotic Good, Lawful Neutral, True Neutral, Chaotic Neutral, Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil, Chaotic Evil. You can read about alignment here.
Since Alignment has nine types like Enneagram, I thought I could connect them. Of course, alignment is not the same kind of system as enneagram, this is just for fun. Real people are obviously not good or evil. It's just a joke.
Type 1: Lawful Good
Type 2: Neutral Good
Type 3: Neutral Evil
Type 4: Chaotic Neutral
Type 5: True Neutral
Type 6: Lawful Neutral
Type 7: Chaotic Evil
Type 8: Lawful Evil
Type 9: Chaotic Good
I am making some edits for a few different fandoms with one character for each alignment type. I will post them soon.
Since Alignment has nine types like Enneagram, I thought I could connect them. Of course, alignment is not the same kind of system as enneagram, this is just for fun. Real people are obviously not good or evil. It's just a joke.
Type 1: Lawful Good
Type 2: Neutral Good
Type 3: Neutral Evil
Type 4: Chaotic Neutral
Type 5: True Neutral
Type 6: Lawful Neutral
Type 7: Chaotic Evil
Type 8: Lawful Evil
Type 9: Chaotic Good
I am making some edits for a few different fandoms with one character for each alignment type. I will post them soon.
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
The Four Temperaments
This post is not about Myers Briggs. To be clear, this post does not refer to the four temperaments in Myers Briggs (NF, NT, SJ and SP). This post is about a thing that I have known about for some time but have not really looked in to. The four temperaments are Sanguine, Melancholic, Phlegmatic and Choleric. Click here to read about them. No, really, you should click the link. I won't bother explaining any of it myself.
I assumed I was melancholic, but I took an internet quiz and it said I was choleric. Of course, internet quizzes are not always right. Neither melancholic nor choleric fit me, but they each include aspects of my personality. I read that most people are a mixture of two of the four temperaments, and that cleared it up.
I honestly do not like the four temperaments very much. They are way too simple. Only four types? But I decided that I may as well try to link it to Myers Briggs because, hey, why not. This was my thought process:
First: The obvious. How do the four temperaments correlate with the four temperaments?
NF: Obviously not Choleric or Phlegmatic. That leaves Melancholic and Sanguine. Both are pretty NF-ish.
NT: Uh... Could be Choleric. Could be Melancholic (kind of). Could be Phlegmatic. Not likely to be Sanguine, though.
SP: Not Melancholic. Probably not choleric. Maybe Phlegmatic? Possibly Sanguine?
SJ: Could be any of them, really...
Okay, this isn't working very well. The temperaments do seem to directly correlate with introvert/extrovert. Sanguine and Choleric are extroverted and Melancholic and Phlegmatic are introverted. It also kind of seems as if Melancholic and Choleric are judgers and Phlegmatic and Sanguine are percievers. That would mean that:
Melancholic: INFJ, INTJ, ISFJ, ISTJ
Choleric: ENFJ, ENTJ, ESFJ, ESTJ
Phlegmatic: INFP, INTP, ISFP, ISTP
Sanguine: ENFP, ENTP, ESFP, ESTP
But, wait. Shouldn't ENFJ and ESFJ be Sanguine? They aren't Choleric at all. And do INTJ and ISTJ fit Melancholic best? This correlation isn't perfect. At all.
Well, let's keep the introvert/extrovert thing but instead of judging/perceiving, let's use thinking/feeling. Melancholic and Sanguine correlate well with F and Choleric and Phlegmatic correlate well with T.
Melancholic: INFJ, ISFJ, INFP, ISFP
Choleric: ENTJ, ESTJ, ENTP, ESTP
Phlegmatic: INTP, ISTP, INTJ, ISTJ
Sanguine: ENFP, ESFP, ENFJ, ESFJ
No. That doesn't work at all. INTJ and ISTJ as Phlegmatic? Impossible.
Okay, okay. How about forgetting the extrovert/introvert thing and using judging/perceiving and thinking/feeling.
Melancholic: INFJ, ISFJ, ENFJ, ESFJ
Choleric: ENTJ, INTJ, ESTJ, ISTJ
Phlegmatic: INTP, ENTP, ISTP, ESTP
Sanguine: ENFP, INFP, ESFP, ISFP
Not at all. ENFJ and ESFJ can't possibly be Melancholic. INFP and ISFP can't possibly be Sanguine.
What about Intuition/Sensing? Can I use that? Maybe, But I don't see any direct correlation.
I decided at this point that the four temperaments did not correlate directly with Myers Briggs. But of course I still have to find the closest thing to correlation. What if I use I/E, F/T and P/J? That means that:
Melancholic: IxFJ
Choleric: ExTJ
Phlegmatic: IxTP
Sanguine: ExFP
Any types that do not fit directly into one of the four temperaments will be divided between two. Here is a table:
It is not perfect at all. But it was my best guess.
I assumed I was melancholic, but I took an internet quiz and it said I was choleric. Of course, internet quizzes are not always right. Neither melancholic nor choleric fit me, but they each include aspects of my personality. I read that most people are a mixture of two of the four temperaments, and that cleared it up.
I honestly do not like the four temperaments very much. They are way too simple. Only four types? But I decided that I may as well try to link it to Myers Briggs because, hey, why not. This was my thought process:
First: The obvious. How do the four temperaments correlate with the four temperaments?
NF: Obviously not Choleric or Phlegmatic. That leaves Melancholic and Sanguine. Both are pretty NF-ish.
NT: Uh... Could be Choleric. Could be Melancholic (kind of). Could be Phlegmatic. Not likely to be Sanguine, though.
SP: Not Melancholic. Probably not choleric. Maybe Phlegmatic? Possibly Sanguine?
SJ: Could be any of them, really...
Okay, this isn't working very well. The temperaments do seem to directly correlate with introvert/extrovert. Sanguine and Choleric are extroverted and Melancholic and Phlegmatic are introverted. It also kind of seems as if Melancholic and Choleric are judgers and Phlegmatic and Sanguine are percievers. That would mean that:
Melancholic: INFJ, INTJ, ISFJ, ISTJ
Choleric: ENFJ, ENTJ, ESFJ, ESTJ
Phlegmatic: INFP, INTP, ISFP, ISTP
Sanguine: ENFP, ENTP, ESFP, ESTP
But, wait. Shouldn't ENFJ and ESFJ be Sanguine? They aren't Choleric at all. And do INTJ and ISTJ fit Melancholic best? This correlation isn't perfect. At all.
Well, let's keep the introvert/extrovert thing but instead of judging/perceiving, let's use thinking/feeling. Melancholic and Sanguine correlate well with F and Choleric and Phlegmatic correlate well with T.
Melancholic: INFJ, ISFJ, INFP, ISFP
Choleric: ENTJ, ESTJ, ENTP, ESTP
Phlegmatic: INTP, ISTP, INTJ, ISTJ
Sanguine: ENFP, ESFP, ENFJ, ESFJ
No. That doesn't work at all. INTJ and ISTJ as Phlegmatic? Impossible.
Okay, okay. How about forgetting the extrovert/introvert thing and using judging/perceiving and thinking/feeling.
Melancholic: INFJ, ISFJ, ENFJ, ESFJ
Choleric: ENTJ, INTJ, ESTJ, ISTJ
Phlegmatic: INTP, ENTP, ISTP, ESTP
Sanguine: ENFP, INFP, ESFP, ISFP
Not at all. ENFJ and ESFJ can't possibly be Melancholic. INFP and ISFP can't possibly be Sanguine.
What about Intuition/Sensing? Can I use that? Maybe, But I don't see any direct correlation.
I decided at this point that the four temperaments did not correlate directly with Myers Briggs. But of course I still have to find the closest thing to correlation. What if I use I/E, F/T and P/J? That means that:
Melancholic: IxFJ
Choleric: ExTJ
Phlegmatic: IxTP
Sanguine: ExFP
Any types that do not fit directly into one of the four temperaments will be divided between two. Here is a table:
MBTI
|
Temperament
|
ENTJ
|
Choleric
|
INTJ
|
Choleric, Phlegmatic, Melancholic
|
ENTP
|
Choleric, Phlegmatic, Sanguine
|
INTP
|
Phlegmatic
|
ENFJ
|
Choleric, Melancholic, Sanguine
|
INFJ
|
Melancholic
|
ENFP
|
Sanguine
|
INFP
|
Phlegmatic, Melancholic, Sanguine
|
ESTJ
|
Choleric
|
ISTJ
|
Choleric, Phlegmatic, Melancholic
|
ESFJ
|
Choleric, Melancholic, Sanguine
|
ISFJ
|
Melancholic
|
ESTP
|
Choleric, Phlegmatic, Sanguine
|
ISTP
|
Phlegmatic
|
ESFP
|
Sanguine
|
ISFP
|
Phlegmatic, Melancholic, Sanguine
|
It is not perfect at all. But it was my best guess.
Saturday, July 12, 2014
Astrology and Stuff
This post is just me rambling about random stuff. Please ignore me.
Okay, so, I've never understood astrology. I looked into it a few years ago and it just sounds really stupid. How can anyone possibly think that the stars have any effect on people's personalities? It doesn't make any sense. I was talking to this guy a few days ago who liked astrology. He thought I would too, since I am slightly interested in the Enneagram. But I think it's the stupidest thing ever. Even if you ignore the whole stars and planets thing, the type descrpitons are just really random. You might find a type that describes you most, but what's the point? I won't say anything about you that you don't already know. It has no base. It's random. You might think your sign describes you well. Obviously, this will be true for some people. It's impossible that nobody would identify with their astrological sign. But their are many people whose signs don't describe them at all. Also, I have noticed that people tend to see themselves in a type description if they want to, and they don't see themselves in a description if they don't want to. For instance, a person I know has always thought of herself as an Enneagram type 5. We read the description and she thought it sounded a lot like her. I didn't think it did. I thought she was a type 9. So I read her type 9, but she didn't think it described her very well. The thing is, I think she saw herself in the type 5 description because she wanted to be a type 5. Perhaps it's the same with astrology.
I'm a Taurus. A bull. Lovely. According to a random site on the internet, Taurus people are dependable, persistent, loyal, patient, generous, stubborn, lazy, possessive, materialistic and self-indulging. Here is a list of these traits with notes about how much they describe me:
Someone said to me "Well, astrology a lot more complicated than that." Sure, whatever, all I know is that it's based on stars, which I think is stupid. And, also, some people seem to think that if you make something more complicated, that somehow makes it more accurate. I have this problem with Myers Briggs, too. In all the experience I have had (which, I admit, is not very much), I have found that complicated things are not better than simple things but it is in fact the other way around. I think Einstein said it well. "If you can't explain it simply, you do not understand it well enough." I apply this principle to everything, science, math, people. Especially people.
If you like astrology, good for you. I just hope you don't think it's the answer to the universe. I also hope you don't think Enneagram is the answer to the universe, or even Myers Briggs. Every personality typing system is inaccurate. That is the beauty of people, they are too complicated to truly explain. Some people would say "so don't try", but I like to imagine that I understand things, though I never forget that I really don't. I like creating order in the universe. It's fun to look at something random and messy (like a human mind), and pretend that it is something infinitely simple. But it still isn't the truth. And so when I tell you that I am an INTJ, what I mean is not that those four letters completely and accurately describe every bit of my personality, what I mean is that those letters are a way I have found of looking at myself. It is not reality, it is a pair of glasses. I am looking at myself through the lens of Myers Briggs.
So, technically I have just argued against my own point (I do that a lot). I have pretty much said that astrology is just as good as Myers Briggs. Both are equally valid ways of looking at people (ignoring the bit about stars, again). It's just that I personally do not like astrology.
And I think have successfully made my way back to the beginning of this post and probably also successfully confused you. Like I said, ignore me.
Okay, so, I've never understood astrology. I looked into it a few years ago and it just sounds really stupid. How can anyone possibly think that the stars have any effect on people's personalities? It doesn't make any sense. I was talking to this guy a few days ago who liked astrology. He thought I would too, since I am slightly interested in the Enneagram. But I think it's the stupidest thing ever. Even if you ignore the whole stars and planets thing, the type descrpitons are just really random. You might find a type that describes you most, but what's the point? I won't say anything about you that you don't already know. It has no base. It's random. You might think your sign describes you well. Obviously, this will be true for some people. It's impossible that nobody would identify with their astrological sign. But their are many people whose signs don't describe them at all. Also, I have noticed that people tend to see themselves in a type description if they want to, and they don't see themselves in a description if they don't want to. For instance, a person I know has always thought of herself as an Enneagram type 5. We read the description and she thought it sounded a lot like her. I didn't think it did. I thought she was a type 9. So I read her type 9, but she didn't think it described her very well. The thing is, I think she saw herself in the type 5 description because she wanted to be a type 5. Perhaps it's the same with astrology.
I'm a Taurus. A bull. Lovely. According to a random site on the internet, Taurus people are dependable, persistent, loyal, patient, generous, stubborn, lazy, possessive, materialistic and self-indulging. Here is a list of these traits with notes about how much they describe me:
- Dependable: I think this describes me.
- Persistent: Definitely. I don't give up.
- Loyal: Ha ha, no.
- Patent: Depends. Do I get ice cream?
- Generous: Nooooo.
- Stubborn: Yesssssss.
- Lazy: Kind of.
- Possessive: Not at all.
- Materialistic: I am the exact opposite of this.
- Self-indulging: Not really.
- Analytical: Totally.
- Observant: Kind of.
- Helpful: Definitely not.
- Reliable: Mostly.
- Precise: Depends.
- Skeptical: A bit.
- Fussy: Maybe.
- Inflexible: Yes.
- Cold: Sometimes.
- Interfering: Not really?
- Confident: I act like it but not really.
- Ambitious: Sometimes.
- Generous: Nope.
- Loyal: I'm kind of like a Slytherin in this way.
- Encouraging: Not unless I have to be.
- Pretentious: Not really.
- Domineering: Well, okay, yes.
- Melodramatic: Not unless I'm angry, which really isn't often.
- Stubborn: Yes.
- Vain: Not at all.
Someone said to me "Well, astrology a lot more complicated than that." Sure, whatever, all I know is that it's based on stars, which I think is stupid. And, also, some people seem to think that if you make something more complicated, that somehow makes it more accurate. I have this problem with Myers Briggs, too. In all the experience I have had (which, I admit, is not very much), I have found that complicated things are not better than simple things but it is in fact the other way around. I think Einstein said it well. "If you can't explain it simply, you do not understand it well enough." I apply this principle to everything, science, math, people. Especially people.
If you like astrology, good for you. I just hope you don't think it's the answer to the universe. I also hope you don't think Enneagram is the answer to the universe, or even Myers Briggs. Every personality typing system is inaccurate. That is the beauty of people, they are too complicated to truly explain. Some people would say "so don't try", but I like to imagine that I understand things, though I never forget that I really don't. I like creating order in the universe. It's fun to look at something random and messy (like a human mind), and pretend that it is something infinitely simple. But it still isn't the truth. And so when I tell you that I am an INTJ, what I mean is not that those four letters completely and accurately describe every bit of my personality, what I mean is that those letters are a way I have found of looking at myself. It is not reality, it is a pair of glasses. I am looking at myself through the lens of Myers Briggs.
So, technically I have just argued against my own point (I do that a lot). I have pretty much said that astrology is just as good as Myers Briggs. Both are equally valid ways of looking at people (ignoring the bit about stars, again). It's just that I personally do not like astrology.
And I think have successfully made my way back to the beginning of this post and probably also successfully confused you. Like I said, ignore me.
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Saturday, May 3, 2014
Having Fun With Google Translate
I translated this into a few different languages and back to English:
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost,
The old that is strong does not whither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring,
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
Until I got this:
All the gold morning sickness
Do not lose them all
Ma, all its flower from the body powerful
O ye ice and not take deep root, and arrive
Shivered fire you
In the dark area
Innovation is a broken knife
The throne, the crownless elected
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost,
The old that is strong does not whither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring,
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
Until I got this:
All the gold morning sickness
Do not lose them all
Ma, all its flower from the body powerful
O ye ice and not take deep root, and arrive
Shivered fire you
In the dark area
Innovation is a broken knife
The throne, the crownless elected
Friday, February 21, 2014
A Post Where all I do is Confuse You
My blog looks slightly different and weird because I changed the fonts and stuff. I also added a search box which I find awesome. Um, you probably don't care. My brother, who loves computers, was helping me with it and he thinks I shouldn't have the background as black, but I like black. It's one of my four favourite colours. If you care, my other three favourite colours are silver, purple and blue.
My least favourite colours are red, green and pink. Some people find it weird that I have favourite and least favourite colours since I'm colourblind. But, the thing is, I don''t really care about how colours look. Since I can't see them, that doesn't really matter anyway. My favourite colours are my favourite colours either because I like the name, or I like something associated with that colour. Or both.
Speaking of colours, why do Canada and USA spell it differently. It's so confusing. Same with "favourite" and "neighbour" and some other words. I never know which way to spell them. I always spell colour and favourite the Canadian way, but I spell "favor" the American way. I have no idea why. Sometimes I just avoid using those words because I don't know how I'm supposed to spell them.
I used to be good at spelling. Now I pretty much rely on spellcheck to save my life. I just don't feel it's worth the time to try to be perfect at spelling. I'll figure it all out eventually.
This post wasn't really worth your time, was it? To make up for that, here is a picture of a kitten:
Speaking of kittens, my family is thinking of getting one or possibly two. They've agreed that we can name them after fictional characters which is super awesome. Right now we're thinking Sherlock for a boy and Luna for a girl.
Sherlock and Luna would be an... interesting ship. Um, I think I'm going to leave now. Good bye.
My least favourite colours are red, green and pink. Some people find it weird that I have favourite and least favourite colours since I'm colourblind. But, the thing is, I don''t really care about how colours look. Since I can't see them, that doesn't really matter anyway. My favourite colours are my favourite colours either because I like the name, or I like something associated with that colour. Or both.
Speaking of colours, why do Canada and USA spell it differently. It's so confusing. Same with "favourite" and "neighbour" and some other words. I never know which way to spell them. I always spell colour and favourite the Canadian way, but I spell "favor" the American way. I have no idea why. Sometimes I just avoid using those words because I don't know how I'm supposed to spell them.
I used to be good at spelling. Now I pretty much rely on spellcheck to save my life. I just don't feel it's worth the time to try to be perfect at spelling. I'll figure it all out eventually.
This post wasn't really worth your time, was it? To make up for that, here is a picture of a kitten:
Speaking of kittens, my family is thinking of getting one or possibly two. They've agreed that we can name them after fictional characters which is super awesome. Right now we're thinking Sherlock for a boy and Luna for a girl.
Sherlock and Luna would be an... interesting ship. Um, I think I'm going to leave now. Good bye.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Random Links
Here is a list of pointless websites and Youtube videos that I found interesting or amusing. Please consult it if you are bored and have nothing productive to do.
- mostawesomestthingever.com
What's the most awesomest thing ever? Go to this website to find out and vote.
- 39000 Dominoes
An interactive Youtube video with dominoes. Please watch this video. It's amazing.
- Scale of the Universe
How big is the universe? How big is an atom? Go here to find out.
- Scale of the Universe 2
An even cooler version of the link above.
- The Mushroom Game of Life
I don't know how to explain this.
- Google Fight
Search two words and see which one has been searched more times on Google. The words actually fight, so it's really cool to do something like Harry Potter vs. Percy Jackson or Gandalf vs. Dumbledore.
- Koala
Completely pointless and random.
- Google Gravity
Just click the link and try to search something.
- Akinator
You've probably already been to this site, but check it out if you haven't.
- justflipacoin.com
Exactly what it sounds like.
- amiawesome.com
Are you awesome? Click here to find out.
- hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com
Has the large hadron collider destroyed the world yet? Click the link to find out.
- mostawesomestthingever.com
What's the most awesomest thing ever? Go to this website to find out and vote.
- 39000 Dominoes
An interactive Youtube video with dominoes. Please watch this video. It's amazing.
- Scale of the Universe
How big is the universe? How big is an atom? Go here to find out.
- Scale of the Universe 2
An even cooler version of the link above.
- The Mushroom Game of Life
I don't know how to explain this.
- Google Fight
Search two words and see which one has been searched more times on Google. The words actually fight, so it's really cool to do something like Harry Potter vs. Percy Jackson or Gandalf vs. Dumbledore.
- Koala
Completely pointless and random.
- Google Gravity
Just click the link and try to search something.
- Akinator
You've probably already been to this site, but check it out if you haven't.
- justflipacoin.com
Exactly what it sounds like.
- amiawesome.com
Are you awesome? Click here to find out.
- hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com
Has the large hadron collider destroyed the world yet? Click the link to find out.
Friday, September 27, 2013
My Opinions: Time Travel
Recently I have been thinking a lot about time travel. I have watched a few documentaries on the subject. I don't pretend to be an expert on time travel, but I have a few opinions I would like to share. I really have no idea what I'm talking about.
Time travel is possible. In fact, you're doing it right now. You're traveling through time in your little bubble of existence going forward, always forward. Time travel to the future (in my opinion) is definitely possible. To travel 500 years forward in five seconds isn't bending the nature of time, all it does is speed up the process. But what if you would like to travel into the past. Is it possible? I personally don't think so. In this post, I will explain why.
To make this more understandable, we'll talk about you for a while. Lets say you are living a happy care-free life. Everything is wonderful and you are surrounded by butterflies and sunshine. But one day you make a giant mistake. You leave a casserole in the oven while you are out frolicking in a meadow and your house burns down. This is not a very pleasant turn of events, and you'd really like your house back. So you hop in your time machine, go back in time a couple hours, sneak into your house and turn off the oven before your house goes up in flames. Problem solved.
Except, not really. First of all, did your house burn down or not? This does, at first seem obvious. It didn't, because you went back in time and prevented it. But think again. The reason you went back in time in the first place was to stop your house from burning. Why would you have gone back in time at all if it hadn't burned down in the first place? So does that mean the your house actually did burn down? But if that's the case, your house should technically not be there anymore, but it is, since you went back in time to save it. In this case, there are two versions of reality. One in which your house burned down and one in which it didn't. Both realities are equally true and you have memories of both realities taking place.
But what about the innocent bystanders? What do they remember? Lets say you have an elderly neighbour named Mrs. Marmalade. She lives a peaceful life of knitting in her rocking chair and reminiscing about how wonderful the old days were. Then one day, her peaceful existence is brutally disturbed. She looks out the window to see that her neighbour's house is burning down! She calls the fire department and they rush over right away, but they're to late to save the house. Your house is destroyed. But wait, it doesn't matter. You went back in time and saved the house anyway. So Mrs. Marmalade never called the fire department in the first place. She didn't need too, the house was never on fire. Let's take a peak into Mrs. Marmalade's mind. In her memories, the house never burned down and everything that day passed by completely normally. But in your memory, the house burned down and you went back in time to save it. Your memories and Mrs. Marmalade's memories of the same event are completely different, which is impossible, right? Well, no. Technically, two people witnessing the exact same event might see it in different ways. This happens all the time. Humans do not have perfect memories.
Let me make this situation even more confusing. Lets say that Mrs. Marmalade is actually an evil mastermind disguised as an old lady. She hates you quite a lot (lucky you) and so one day she randomly decides to go back in time and set your house on fire. (You may wonder why she went back in time to cause the fire instead of just doing it in the normal way, but this is because the original version of herself was sitting on the porch knitting at this exact time. Anyone watching would conclude that it was impossible for the old lady to have set the house on fire. She was sitting peacefully on her porch when it happened.) So Mrs. Marmalade goes back in time (unknowingly to the exact day that your house burned down in the first version of time) and sets your house on fire, making it seem as if the fire was caused by you accidentally leaving the casserole on. Then she leaves the scene of the crime and returns to her regular time. You get home to find that your house has burned down, and so you go back in time a few hours and turn your oven off.
Now I will ask you the same question again. Did your house burn down or not?
See what I mean? It makes no sense. It's pretty much impossible to figure out what actually happened.
In this example, I assumed that time is flexible. I assumed that it is possible to go back in time to change things that already took place. But this model is impossible. If you change something in the past, it will have already happened when you go back to the future, meaning that you never needed to go back in time in the first place. But what if it were possible to go back in time, but not possible to change the past. Let's say that you go back in time to save your burning house again. But, for some strange reason, your brilliant plan doesn't work. No matter how hard you try, you cannot save the house. You are somehow prevented at every attempt. When you get back to the future, your house is still gone and nothing has changed at all. This model makes way more sense in my opinion. In this universe, both you and Mrs. Marmalade have the exact same memories of that day. In both your minds, the house burned down and it no longer exists. But there's one slight problem. What exactly was preventing you from changing the past? It's not like the world can just randomly stop you from doing something as simple as turning an oven off. It's not against the laws of physics.
So, even if time were solid and unchangeable, backwards time travel still makes no sense.
And then there is another problem. If time travel is possible, and we invent it in the future, why aren't there any time travelers coming back in time and messing with us right now? Why not go back in time and save the Titanic from sinking? There are a few possible reasons for this.
1. Time travelers have indeed come back in time and messed with us, but we don't know it. We think that the Titanic sank in the original version of time due to a tragic accident, but in reality, some evil mastermind from the future (maybe Mrs. Marmalade) decided to kill a bunch of innocent people for no reason by plopping an iceberg in Titanic's path.
2. Time travelers have come back in time, but they can't actually change anything that already happened.
3. Time travel is impossible.
I don't know which possibility is correct (how could I, unless I am actually an evil mastermind disguised a 14 year old girl). Maybe there is another possibility that I haven't thought of. Maybe the humans of the future have enough problems of their own to deal with and don't have any interest in solving ours. Or maybe the universe is actually going to randomly implode in 56.9 seconds and we humans never do get to that time travel stage. We can't know the future for sure, at least for now, and so I will leave you with a bunch of random thoughts that make no sense and a headache from thinking about unsolvable paradoxes. Have a nice day.
Time travel is possible. In fact, you're doing it right now. You're traveling through time in your little bubble of existence going forward, always forward. Time travel to the future (in my opinion) is definitely possible. To travel 500 years forward in five seconds isn't bending the nature of time, all it does is speed up the process. But what if you would like to travel into the past. Is it possible? I personally don't think so. In this post, I will explain why.
To make this more understandable, we'll talk about you for a while. Lets say you are living a happy care-free life. Everything is wonderful and you are surrounded by butterflies and sunshine. But one day you make a giant mistake. You leave a casserole in the oven while you are out frolicking in a meadow and your house burns down. This is not a very pleasant turn of events, and you'd really like your house back. So you hop in your time machine, go back in time a couple hours, sneak into your house and turn off the oven before your house goes up in flames. Problem solved.
Except, not really. First of all, did your house burn down or not? This does, at first seem obvious. It didn't, because you went back in time and prevented it. But think again. The reason you went back in time in the first place was to stop your house from burning. Why would you have gone back in time at all if it hadn't burned down in the first place? So does that mean the your house actually did burn down? But if that's the case, your house should technically not be there anymore, but it is, since you went back in time to save it. In this case, there are two versions of reality. One in which your house burned down and one in which it didn't. Both realities are equally true and you have memories of both realities taking place.
But what about the innocent bystanders? What do they remember? Lets say you have an elderly neighbour named Mrs. Marmalade. She lives a peaceful life of knitting in her rocking chair and reminiscing about how wonderful the old days were. Then one day, her peaceful existence is brutally disturbed. She looks out the window to see that her neighbour's house is burning down! She calls the fire department and they rush over right away, but they're to late to save the house. Your house is destroyed. But wait, it doesn't matter. You went back in time and saved the house anyway. So Mrs. Marmalade never called the fire department in the first place. She didn't need too, the house was never on fire. Let's take a peak into Mrs. Marmalade's mind. In her memories, the house never burned down and everything that day passed by completely normally. But in your memory, the house burned down and you went back in time to save it. Your memories and Mrs. Marmalade's memories of the same event are completely different, which is impossible, right? Well, no. Technically, two people witnessing the exact same event might see it in different ways. This happens all the time. Humans do not have perfect memories.
Let me make this situation even more confusing. Lets say that Mrs. Marmalade is actually an evil mastermind disguised as an old lady. She hates you quite a lot (lucky you) and so one day she randomly decides to go back in time and set your house on fire. (You may wonder why she went back in time to cause the fire instead of just doing it in the normal way, but this is because the original version of herself was sitting on the porch knitting at this exact time. Anyone watching would conclude that it was impossible for the old lady to have set the house on fire. She was sitting peacefully on her porch when it happened.) So Mrs. Marmalade goes back in time (unknowingly to the exact day that your house burned down in the first version of time) and sets your house on fire, making it seem as if the fire was caused by you accidentally leaving the casserole on. Then she leaves the scene of the crime and returns to her regular time. You get home to find that your house has burned down, and so you go back in time a few hours and turn your oven off.
Now I will ask you the same question again. Did your house burn down or not?
See what I mean? It makes no sense. It's pretty much impossible to figure out what actually happened.
In this example, I assumed that time is flexible. I assumed that it is possible to go back in time to change things that already took place. But this model is impossible. If you change something in the past, it will have already happened when you go back to the future, meaning that you never needed to go back in time in the first place. But what if it were possible to go back in time, but not possible to change the past. Let's say that you go back in time to save your burning house again. But, for some strange reason, your brilliant plan doesn't work. No matter how hard you try, you cannot save the house. You are somehow prevented at every attempt. When you get back to the future, your house is still gone and nothing has changed at all. This model makes way more sense in my opinion. In this universe, both you and Mrs. Marmalade have the exact same memories of that day. In both your minds, the house burned down and it no longer exists. But there's one slight problem. What exactly was preventing you from changing the past? It's not like the world can just randomly stop you from doing something as simple as turning an oven off. It's not against the laws of physics.
So, even if time were solid and unchangeable, backwards time travel still makes no sense.
And then there is another problem. If time travel is possible, and we invent it in the future, why aren't there any time travelers coming back in time and messing with us right now? Why not go back in time and save the Titanic from sinking? There are a few possible reasons for this.
1. Time travelers have indeed come back in time and messed with us, but we don't know it. We think that the Titanic sank in the original version of time due to a tragic accident, but in reality, some evil mastermind from the future (maybe Mrs. Marmalade) decided to kill a bunch of innocent people for no reason by plopping an iceberg in Titanic's path.
2. Time travelers have come back in time, but they can't actually change anything that already happened.
3. Time travel is impossible.
I don't know which possibility is correct (how could I, unless I am actually an evil mastermind disguised a 14 year old girl). Maybe there is another possibility that I haven't thought of. Maybe the humans of the future have enough problems of their own to deal with and don't have any interest in solving ours. Or maybe the universe is actually going to randomly implode in 56.9 seconds and we humans never do get to that time travel stage. We can't know the future for sure, at least for now, and so I will leave you with a bunch of random thoughts that make no sense and a headache from thinking about unsolvable paradoxes. Have a nice day.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
The Awesomest Riddle in the World (Okay, Maybe Not)
I have a riddle. Would you like to hear it? Probably not, but I'll write it anyway. This riddle has multiple questions and you have to answer each one correctly before going onto the next. I've written the answers a little ways below. Don't cheat!
Question One: An airplane is flying in the sky. Inside it are 100 bricks. 1 falls out. How many are left?
Question Two: What are the three steps to getting a zebra into the fridge?
Question Three: What are the four steps to getting an elephant into the fridge?
Question Four: There is a party and all the animals are invited. All come except one. Which one is it?
Question Five: An old woman is trying to cross a wide but shallow river. The only problem is that the river is infested with extremely hungry crocodiles. There are no trees around or anything to build a bridge with. How can the old lady get across?
Question Six: The old lady manages to cross the river but when she gets to the other side she dies anyway. Why?
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Question One: One
Question Two: 1. Open the door. 2. Put the zebra in. 3. Close the door.
Question Three: 1. Open the door. 2. Take the zebra out. 3. Put the elephant in. 4. Close the door.
Question Four: The elephant. It's still stuck in the fridge.
Question Five: The crocodiles aren't there. They're all at the party.
Question Six: The brick that fell out of the airplane landed on her head.
Question One: An airplane is flying in the sky. Inside it are 100 bricks. 1 falls out. How many are left?
Question Two: What are the three steps to getting a zebra into the fridge?
Question Three: What are the four steps to getting an elephant into the fridge?
Question Four: There is a party and all the animals are invited. All come except one. Which one is it?
Question Five: An old woman is trying to cross a wide but shallow river. The only problem is that the river is infested with extremely hungry crocodiles. There are no trees around or anything to build a bridge with. How can the old lady get across?
Question Six: The old lady manages to cross the river but when she gets to the other side she dies anyway. Why?
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Question One: One
Question Two: 1. Open the door. 2. Put the zebra in. 3. Close the door.
Question Three: 1. Open the door. 2. Take the zebra out. 3. Put the elephant in. 4. Close the door.
Question Four: The elephant. It's still stuck in the fridge.
Question Five: The crocodiles aren't there. They're all at the party.
Question Six: The brick that fell out of the airplane landed on her head.
Monday, September 2, 2013
So Here is my First Post!
Hello. Welcome to my blog about awesome stuff (mostly books). I'm not entirely sure what I will be posting on here. Hopefully things that are even slightly interesting. If you want to know a bit about me, visit the "About Me" page. Well, now I believe I am done saying obvious things.
May the odds be ever in your favour.
May the odds be ever in your favour.
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