The Cartoonist

Awesome B-day Present!

2011-05-08T06:34:00.000-07:00

I got the awesomest present for my birthday. You know how I had the one post, about plants vs. zombies that I thought was so great? Well my completely awesome parents got a Nintendo DS game of it for my eleventh birthday!

We were at a barbecue yesterday, the day before my birthday, and my dad said that we had to go home soon so I could open my present. Of course I asked him why, and guess what he said? "It's something you'll want to play with right away that you can't on Sunday."

Of course I already suspected the one video game, and this practically confirmed my suspicions! When I got home, they had the game wrapped in a bigger box than a container for a video game would need to be. But I had expected this too.

However I still absolutely loved it when I finally opened the box. My parents are the best.

What XHTML Looks Like

2011-04-21T14:50:00.000-07:00

I will now write a site that says 'my name is Bob' in XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) 1.0 transitional with the one sentence aligned to center. Mostly no spaces.

< ! D O C T Y P E h t m l P U B L I C " - / / W 3 C / / D T D X H T M L 1 . 0 T r a n s i t i o n a l / / E N " " h t t p : / / w w w . w 3 . o r g / T R / x h t m l 1 / D T D / x h t m l 1 - t r a n s i t i o n a l . d t d " >

< p a l i g n = " c e n t e r " > M y n a m e i s B o b . < / p >

< / h t m l >

See what I mean in the first post? and I didn't even use page breaks! Or more than one paragraph! Or a heading!

By the way, my name is not Bob.

It looks more complicated than it is once you understand it, I guess.

By the way, read my comment.

XHTML page

2011-04-21T13:28:00.000-07:00

This was written in XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language!) Cool, right?

I made this page with XHTML on my computer with the help of a book I got from the library. It might be dumb, but this stuff is kind complicated.
Call me a nerd if you like, but this stuff is actually fun too.

I would show you what it looks like, except the programming in the computer thinks I'm actually making something, so that won't work.
Stupid computer.
Wait! I can show you!
No I can't. Never mind.

It would be kind of like looking in a mirror of yourself looking in a mirror of yourself looking in a mirror of yourself looking in a mirror, etc., etc., wouldn't it? Actually, not really. I couldn't get closer to the computer without the words blurring up, so it wouldn't have been a great picture anyway.

Anyway, there is a lot more work than just typing normal stuff. You have to put in < p >s and stuff. (Without the spaces in between.) Bye.

Okay, So Maybe I Have Not Posted For Around A Year.

2011-04-21T13:06:00.000-07:00

Except maybe for the post in XHTML and about XHTML, yeah. But at least now i'm posting again, right?

Right?

Oh, come on. Phooey. I guess I have to tell you all about it now.

Well, for one thing, my friend told me about this game called stick war and I liked it. Added is a link, if I can remember how to make one:

Stick War, A Fun Game

I could make one in XHTML! (I will probably be doing most of my posts in the aforementioned markup language) Yay!

And going farther back, I had Christmas and got a marshmallow gun and a slingshot and some legos and a scarf and I can't remember and am I talking too much and also we watched that new movie Tangled even more recently than stick war and (GASP) it's spring break right now and I had the Science Olympiad and...

Oh, I get it. I'm talking too much.

Fine. Now I don't have to tell you, then. Or actually you have a choice: Keep listening, or not.

Yay! I don't have to tell you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bye!

The economy... of a school

2010-05-02T15:07:00.000-07:00

Okay, so there's this thing called market day at my school, where all the fourth graders make something and sell it to other fourth graders, third graders, and fifth graders. I, happening to be in fourth grade, am under pressure to create something to sell. I am going to make origami for twenty-five cents each, and just hope I pull it off with my book report where I can't find the book. So anyway, half the fourth grade is selling on May fourth, and the other half on May sixth. (That's me!) I know I want $10.00 at least, so that's like 46 origami if I pay tithing. It'd leave me with $10.35 so since I need like $70.00 ultimately I'd have to earn about $54.00 since I have $5.48. Still, $54.17 to earn? I'd better get started!

You Have NOT Seen Ice and Snow...

2010-02-15T07:07:00.000-08:00

...Until you've been here this winter. Three-foot icicles? Seen 'em. (albeit for two seconds from a car window) we have, also, three feet of pure snowdrift near the end of the driveway not leading to the road. you want to see H2O as in frozen form? come here this winter. Examples:See what I mean? We are living in the south pole!

Honey Cookie Delight

2010-01-10T11:48:00.000-08:00

Just today, I invented a recipe (yes, all by myself!) and tested it out. It was good, so I decided (OK, so my dad brought it up) to share my invention. I changed the proportions a little, so it might not be exact, but same thing. Now enough waiting. The one, the only, Honey Cookie Delight!

You will need: 1/4 cup of milk, 2 T. of honey, 1/4 stick of butter, 1 and 1/2 cups of flour, 1/2 cup of oats, 1/2 cup of sugar, 2 eggs, 1/2 tsp. of baking soda, 2 tsp. of cinnamon, a 1/4 tsp. of salt, a whisk, two mixing bowls, and a big spoon.

First, take dry ingredients (flour, oats, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt) and mix with a whisk in a bowl. Next, add the quarter stick of butter and mash that into the bowl with the dry ingredients. At this point, crack the eggs into a separate bowl and beat them with the whisk. Now measure the milk and pour it into the bowl with the eggs, then do the same with the honey. The whisk is used constantly, because again you need it to beat the milk, eggs and honey together. Pour the mixture of liquids into the powder-and-butter bowl and stir with spoon. when mixture is judged to be thick enough, take out cookie racks, grease them, and spoon the batter with normal silverware onto them. Be careful not to put on too much close together, or the batter will merge while cooking. Put in oven and bake at 360 degrees for 10 minutes. When they are done, they might look something like this: Makes three dozen if cookies do not come out too big. Enjoy!

Awesome Games & Game Sites In Sight

2009-12-12T09:59:00.000-08:00

I have decided to add a window to fellow kid viewers. If you just happen to pass by this here blog once in a while, and you're looking for fun, kids, you're looking at the right post! Read on to discover the ultimate digital world!

Plants Versus Zombies: Get Ready To SOIL YOUR PLANTS!

THIS GAME IS AWESOME! You got to repel these (brain-eating) zombies coming at your house, which is always on the left, and you have endless plant seed packets containing aquatic weed, mushrooms, and plain plants to destructify (just my fancy word for destroy) them.

BUT WAIT! These are no ordinary garden- grown leafy greens. Power-packed orchard grenades are more like it! These green and growing soldiers have wacky names and powers to match, such as:

Plantern- gives off light. Useful in the fog version of the game to clear your view, or a different mode, called vasebreaker endless, to see what's in the pots around it. Otherwise, quite useless.
Wall-nut- a wall, silly! This dude protects all the plants behind it until it's completely eaten away. Here's some advice: put this buddy to the right of shooting things, directly to the right of chompers, (they are very weak while chewing) or directly to the left of spikeweed- zombies can't eat that, just walk over it.
Spikeweed- thorn in your side! plant him in the ground and zombies get hurt while walking over it, and best of all: IT'S UNEATABLE! Remember, that doesn't mean zombies can't get past it, it's just too short to eat.

So get moving and play the game!

onemorelevel.com

SO COOL! The place is a lodging for awesome entertainment projects. There's really sweet stuff in that place. The place is too full for me to go into details, but I trust you'll take advantage of my link and find out for yourself.

last but not least, Addictinggames.com.

Count yourself lucky if you've been here before. The escape games take a lot of brainpower! It's got other cool stuff, too, and again I hope you know that you just have to click the title to sample it.

So, my fellow children, i've given you advice. It's up to you what you do with it.

Feel free to post questions, everybody, if you have a blog. If not,you probably know me in person and can ask that way.

See ya!

Botany, Train & Me

2009-11-19T05:01:00.000-08:00

In fall, of course,we went to longwood gardens.I won't bore you with details, and mainly depict our experience in pictures.

Inclined to visit now?

The average camper

2009-08-23T06:24:00.000-07:00

One day, our family went outdoors and slept in a nylon dwelling, known as camping. On our first night, we had an unpleasant surprise: our tent was full of unknown (biting) insects. My head still itches.

Instead of getting a relief from bugs that morning, we realized that Yellow Jackets had discovered the leftovers of our s'mores from the night before. Since we were going to have an equally sweet cold cereal for breakfast, it was not a good thing. Poor baby Nora got stung twice. Later that day,we went to the beach and I, for one, eventually got battered underwater head over heels by the high tide. Afterwards, We received a well-deserved rest watching the newest studio ghibli film, Ponyo.

The next day, we moved from Cape Henlopen to Rehoboth, but not before taking a long hike in which my family never could really catch up to me unless I let them. We met up with some of our parent's friends at the beach, where the waves were so big you could only wet your feet. My parents made up for this with an ice cream.

Now we're home hoping that the small vampires that ate us that first night weren't fleas that we brought back with us. Good-bye, bugs, salt, sand and such. Don't come back.

A Sad So-long

2009-07-12T06:21:00.000-07:00

You know how some things are inevitable? Like they have to happen, no matter what you do? well, something happened on july second that made it inevitable that Lucy would cry.

our cat, Curio, said good-bye and dug her way under the soil. or, in other words, went to sleep. died. Either one is valid.

we dug her a snug hole by one of our saplings. The girls renamed that young tree 'The Curio Tree' in honor of our one-year-old purring friend. It was a sad moment for all of us, and even Mom and Dad started to cry.

We've mostly gotten over it now, but about a week ago I gave myself to watching films of our kitten, not even one in cat years (the equivalent of one human month.) See The Double Stitch. We hope to get another kitten in about a year. So-long, my faithful feline friend!

Cousin Collision

2009-06-25T10:47:00.000-07:00

They're a handful. They're youngsters who never fail to take joy in a boy who beat himself up with pillows to entertain them. They're the self-appointed kings of the world. They're...drrrrrrrrrrrrapataptap... my cousins!

this picture depicts me, my sisters, my aunt, and my cousins (who had better things to do), photographed by my mother. And the part about the beat up boy? Yeah. It was me. What I do for family.

Of course they were assets too. We played cops and robbers, the younger of my two older cousins saying "I'm a police" whenever I told him he was the thief. We also had about 1 hour's extra screen time. All five kids had half an hour of our nintendo DS, which I'm guessing they don't have by the way Johnny, the oldest, kept asking me the location of after I told him about it. Maybe I shouldn't have.

A bittersweet goodbye and they've gone, disappeared to Utah again. And I might want to keep it that way.

Pocket Monster Prize

2009-06-13T11:48:00.000-07:00

Say one day you got the chance to obtain something you'd been wishing and working for over a long period of time. Like a half a year long time. Well, that is just what happened to lucky Ian Goodwin, exactly one week from my birthday.

Half an hour after returning from Gamestop, I seated myself on the couch and switched on our Nintendo DS. This was it. The big one. Finally, after six months of waiting, I had bought my own Pokemon Pearl Version.

After an hour and forty-five minutes of pleasure, I sat down and ate my dinner. I continued to play over the next month... and I still do.