A Poem About Horn

Horn was his name
Black Magic did he invest
And released a curse,
Not even his aim.

The Pygons were abundant
And the sword rusted

But Horn had a mission

To put an end to this plague

 

To the coast, to the mountains

freeing all along the way

Until, the king was freed

and the curse was not lifted

 

The Pygon High Emperor was still alive

sitting on his throne

watching the progress of the door to beyond

and the curse was not lifted

 

Through the mountain

above the lava

slowly solving, jumping

and the curse was not lifted

 

Close to the seat of power

In the king’s citadel

Westernesse was in ruin

and the curse was not lifted

 

And the quest was not done

not finished

not fufilled

and the curse was not lifted.

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A screen shot of the game.

 

This poem, for any of you free-app-watchers, is about the current free app of the week. Horn is a game with a super rich story and backstory, good gameplay, and an all-around amazing look. What inspired me to write this poem is the story from my point in the game. I felt that the story could be put in a very poetic way.

Pi day!

Happy Pi Day (to the 69th digit)!
Creative Commons License Photo Credit: Mykl Roventine via Compfight

On the first day back from spring break, one of my classes held a pi day celebration where kids brought in a bunch of pie and we found numbers in a really cool pi searcher. Turns out, my birthday is in the first 200 million digits of pi!

This year it was cool, but next year, it should be all over the world. Not only will it be 3.14, but it will be 3.14.15! More digits of pi will be in the date, so it will have    much more importance.  This many digits of pi will happen only once in then next few eons, so it is truly a once in a lifetime experience. We will be able to tell stories to our children and grandchildren of the day with the the date 3.14.15.

Heck, I could even write a book about pi day and what happened!

Five Facts: Gimli!

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.

 

 

My pets

I have two cats named Mojo and Jumper. They are quite lazy and sleep all day. We got them when they were both tiny kittens of the same litter. They grew up in California and then moved to Texas when we did.
This is jumper:

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This is Mojo:

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As you can see, they are incredibly hard to tell apart. It took me a full day to figure out how to tell them apart, but it took my dad almost 4 years! They keep me good company when I’m at home alone. They are the best pets I have had in my entire life, which is not much.

Halloween

The sweet smell of candy. The spooky decorations around the neighborhood. Can you guess what holiday this is?

That’s right, it’s halloween time! 

I love the holiday. The candy is only part of it for me. Probably my favorite part is the costumes. This year I am going as Bilbo Baggins from the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings movies. What are you going as? Tell me in the comments so I can see what the popular costumes are this year. I have a feeling that morph-suits will be a big one again.

I have this problem with candy. I really like to save it for future use, but sometimes I save it for too long and it becomes bad. If anyone could help me with this that would be great.

Here are some cool facts about halloween.

1. 50% of kids prefer to get chocolate candy while 24% prefer non-chocolate and 10% prefer gum.

2. Jack O’Lanterns were originally made out of turnips.

3. Ireland is typically thought of as the birthplace of halloween.

4. Halloween has been called Hallow’s Eve, Witch’s Night, Lamswool, Snap-Apple Night, Samhaim, and Summers’s End.

5. In 2010, 72.2% of people will hand out candy, 46.3% will carve a pumpkin, 20.8% will visit a haunted house, and 11.5% will dress up their pets.

I hope you enjoyed the cool facts about halloween!

Source: click HERE

 

Should Video Games be A Sport?

I think there is no reason for the game not to be. I know of many games that are great to watch and fun and intense to play. I think it would be fun if they televised people playing games from all over the world. I know of many of people who make a full income off of YouTube playing games, so why not have they play them on TV? Also, the companies would make a good amount of money from entry fees

I’m not very good at these games, so I could never hope to compete live. But as always, there is this tiny little chance that I can get a team that might be a good competitor.
Comment your opinion below and see others!

Top Ten iOS Games

10. Pitfall
I like pitfall because it has an element of infi-runner with adventure. Price: Free

9.GBOD
Giant Boulder of Death is a great play. Made by [Adult Swim], the comic infi-runner makes me
happy. Price: Free

8. Pocket Planes
My first NimbleBit game on this list is awesome. It’s quite simplistic but great fun. Price: Free

7. Vector HD
This is a game about futuristic parkour. It’s is sometimes challenging, but very fun. Price: $1.00

6. SpaceTeam
This game is interesting. You have to work together to achieve a goal while running away from a supernova. Price: Free

5.Plague Inc
An accurate simulator of a pandemic. Watch out though, you might get a little scared and cry. Price: $1.00

4. Powder Game
An IOS version of the popular flash game Powder Game, is very fun to see the works of you and others. Price: Free

3. Nimble Quest
If you like the game snake, this will be awesome for you. The combination of fighter and snake make a great, addicting, game. Price: Free

2.MineCraft
I know many people dislike this game, but it is one of my favorites. I think most people know what it is, so if you don’t, look it up on google. Never the less, I think it deserves a good spot on this list. Price: $8.00

1. Pocket Trains
In my opinion, this is the best game for you to get. It is like pocket planes, but with more detail and strategy. Making trains is a much better system than in pocket planes. Also, the sound and graphics are a bit more interesting. So much fun to play over a expanse of time where you have nothing to do. Price: Free

I hope you enjoyed this list go my top ten iOS games.

Games

So…
I love video games. I know some people think that they are bad for you, but I just can’t see the reason why.
Anywho, I have been playing some really cool games. I would voluntarily recommend almost all of them.
I also make videos of me playing some of them if they are worthy.

Some of my favorites are:
1. Civilization V
2. Godus
3. Minecraft (I know some people hate it, but that’s their opinion.)
4. SimCity 5

Go check them out in the interwebs.