Ebooks

Lately (for the past 2 days or so) I have been enthralled by a book... Ender's game... I have spent most of the past few days listening to this book on my Mobiblu cube (the world’s smallest mp3 player). I am able to do this because I learned from my mom that the library offers mp3 sound books which can be found for anyone living near me here). I learned that with a click of a button and not much time at all I can download up to 4 books from the online catalog. There are some pretty good titles. If you don't live near me you should check out your library website or tell your library about the program...the one downfall of it is that it doesn't play on iPods. Anyway that’s what I've been doing lately... It is very interesting to listen to a book on tape again (I used to do it all the time). Check to see if your library has something like this... It’s great because you can check things out without going all the way to the library.

firefox

I just remembered that I have Firefox. My favorite thing about it is all the add-ons. I just downloaded greasemonkey! It’s so awesome. I just learned how to remove all of the ads on the web, and it really works. I really enjoy everything that Firefox can do...so if you don't have it you should get it because it rocks.

cheers, Forrest

earth chapter2

Here’s the start of chapter 2 =]

Johan and Tessin slowly walked down the road. I had been four days since they had left the house. Johan knew of an inn that was not far away, four miles or so, he thought. He was light hearted thought because of being away form the man. He felt as free as a bird, but he needed to get away even farther than where they were now, even miles away. He could feel in his heart that the man was too close.

“How are you doing?” he asked his mother

“Fine, I bet we can make it to the inn by night fall” she replied

Johan realized that he had never been this far away into the woods before. He started to notice how dark and dismal it was in the forest. It seamed that it had never felt this uninviting before. He shook off the feeling of uneasiness and went on. At just before dark they came into a clearing of the forest and saw a good sight, the Inn. Together they walked up to the door of the inn and went inside.

Inside sat a tiny dwarf of a man behind the counter. He glared at the two strangers and asked them what they wanted. Johan replied that they were looking for a place to stay the night. He thought for a minute and asked them what they could give him for a room. Johan was about to get the money when his mother touched his arm to stop him.

She said “We will work, if you need it.”

The man thought for a while and then said “All right…take the room downstairs.”

Johan and Tessin went down the stairs to the room below.

It was a dank room, cramped, with just room for a sleeping mat and a small chair. There was a single candle in the middle of the room.

“Why did you stop me from paying?” Johan said.

“Because you must save what little we have for a worse situation.” Tessin replied

Johan thought about what she had said and offered Tessin the bed. She accepted, wearily, and they both fell asleep.

Johan woke up to the sound of a bell.

He jumped out of the chair that he had slept in. It took a few seconds to realize where he was. He then bent down and softly woke his mother. They would need to get up as fast as possible.

hope you like it, forrest

winter break!

So as you can see my blog has fallen by the wayside lately (I've been on the phone for literally like a week...) well I’m back and you have to live with me for a whole 2 weeks... that’s right. I’M ON WINTER BREAK! In fact I got off a day early. The reason?, you may ask. The power went out in every place in my town except for my house. (So I can still write the blog). I got to school at 7:45 and there was no one there... I was pumped. Today is the first official day of winter break... so I guess you will have to live with a couple of weeks of my rants... oh well it can’t be that bad (I’ll try and write more on Earth)… Anyways, I should go now but I’ll work on Earth and post more later.

Cheers and watch for more in the next 2 weeks, Forrest

palendromes s emo dnelap

So recently I was listening to a song by Weird Al called Bob. I remember when I first heard the song I thought that it was a weird song. Then I realized that the whole thing was palindromes.I mean who would have guessed that "rats live on no evil star" was a palindromeI just think that anyone that can come up with a palindrome must be incredibly smart. Then my mom showed me a website with the world’s longest palindrome. I think that this must be the most amazing thing I have ever seen... I don’t know I think it’s pretty cool. If you know any interesting ones then you should post them in a comment so that others can enjoy them.

cheers forrest (tserrof sreech)

Hair cut: its not happening?

Sorry that I haven't posted in the past few days. I seem to have a case of writers block (anyone who has a blog knows this. Anyway, then a few things came into my head. The first one that came into my head was the fact that I am not going to cut my hair now (even if I am a hippy and a crazed penguin). Anyway I asked some people and no one wanted me to cut it off, I even had someone beg me not to. So I decided since I didn't really care, I would leave it the way it is. So when ever I do cut it I will post pics but I’m not sure when that will be.If my writers block lifts I'll make sure to use it as a paperweight...

Sketch Up

Hey, Forrest here, I just remembered a program that I really enjoy! It is a free program by Google but for some reason they haven't publicized it much. I think that it is so great! Its called Google sketch up it is a free 3d design program. Here's a link to some of the things I have designed.

hope you like it.

Cheers Forrest