Monthly Archives: February 2014

Five Facts: Gimli!

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Time to find out more things about the people of Middle Earth! This time we learn about Gimli, a great dwarf and a friend to a elf.
Gimli is my favorite dwarf of all times.

1. Gimli was going to go on the quest for Erebor, but Thorin decided against it because he, being only in his sixties, was too young to go. Speaking of the quest of Erebor, Gimli is the son of Gloin and a relative of Óin, Balin, and Dwalin. I think the dwarves are very closely related.

2. The main reason Gimli joined the Fellowship is that Legolas joined and Gimli doubted his intentions. Funny thing, Legolas and Gimli became best friends!

3. During the battle of Helm’s deep, Gimli was forced into the Glittering Caves. After the war, he became the lord of them and led some of Durin’s folk to make a new dwarven colony.

4. Gimli is the only dwarf to sail to the west to the undying lands. Toliken wrote that this would be very strange for a dwarf to go to an elf land.

5. Gimli uses two axes, both having a long staff in which they could have used as a walking stick. After the Moria Incident, he used Balin’s double-edged axe, but only in the book was it mentioned.

Fun Fact: In the game Terraria, Gimli is one name a demolitionist can spawn with

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Gimli at the siege of Moria

“Wikia.” The One Wiki to Rule Them All. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Feb. 2014.        

What did you find interesting about Gimli? Post it the comments and I might figure the most unknown thing about this dwarf.

 

 

Why are school supplies important? (Expository Writing)

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“Class, take out your pencils!”. Wait. I don’t have my pencil. Again… Having your school supplies is extremely important.

For instance, school tells everyone that you need pencils every day. Say you were to come to class without a pencil, how would you write and keep track of what you learned? I would find it very hard! It’s your responsibility to have and know where your supplies are.

Furthermore, without a binder, organization is futile- you papers would fly everywhere! Plus, you would have no place to store your precious pencils. If you were at the office and your files fell apart, and all the newest ideas fell out, how would you feel? How would your organized co-workers think of you? Nobody wants that kind of humiliation. Having a binder- or any organization system is essential!

Throughout the day- and even you life, have the correct supplies is critical, for learning, for life. Therefore, you should always be prepared. I wonder if there is a way to store all of you materials and supplies together?

MLIA Week 5: YouTube

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Recently I bought a screen recording software to make videos on YouTube. So far my channel was a whopping 4 subscribers! I really love thinking, filming, and editing these short films. After all that I post it to my channel and do all the normal things like monetizing and adding annotations.

My weekly schedule for recording goes something like this:
First, on the weekends I record enough videos to last the whole week. This is known as batch-recording. When the week rolls around, I edit them starting with the first one I recorded. When I’m done, I record special stuff like games with friends Sam and Myles. Sam has his own channel, but Myles is just a partner of my channel. Myles and I run a small conglomerate of channels known as NWK Studios. We get our friends who are just starting out to join us and we edit for them and post their videos. In return we get some of the profits that their channel makes. By the way, our main channel has been up for two years and we have made 12 cents. You might think that 12 cents is a tiny amount of money, but the cost to make these videos is absolutely nothing.

There are some YouTube channels that make 10s of thousands of dollars per week just from the huge fan bases. The only problem is- they all have well over 2 million subscribers. I don’t think that all of our channels combined have even 30.

This little operation is not for the money quite yet, but rather it’s just a bunch of friends messing around.

This week I have been playing a lot of Civilization V with Sam. We play together while talking on Skype and one of us hosts the game. Just in case you were wondering what kind of gear I have, here is a list of my stuff;

Microphone: Audio Technica AT 2020

Screen Recorder: Camtasia Mac

Keyboard: Razer BlackWidow

Mouse: Razer DeathAdder

Computer: iMac From late 2011

I hope you learned some interesting things about me and my favorite pastime.