Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Well, it's been awhile....

Three years ago, I wrote a piece about Maker Club. Then, for some reason or another, I completely forgot about this place. Just 10 minutes ago, I was looking at some old emails, when I remembered this place. Looking at it, I found most of the widgets to be non functioning, unnecessary, or outdated. Once they were removed, I took a look at some of my old posts, just to see what my early writing was like.

Oh.

People say self reflection is important, so I'll dedicate some time to reflect on my old posts. Reflections below:
  • I praised Minecraft the same way a cult leader would encourage someone to drink the kool aid
  • I had colored text in my paragraphs. Apologies to anyone who had to read this
  • I have a poll asking for opinions of my blog, without the option to vote on anything negative (The poll is still up, and I believe I am still the only person who voted)
  • I felt the need to write down every little detail of my life, and any poor soul who came across my while doing so
  • My posts were usually less than a paragraph long
  • I have a draft saved from many years ago, that includes this sentence: "The first thing that happened (after I did all the non interesting stuff that people don't like to read about) I went to my cabin to unpack". First, that's grammatically incorrect. Second, that's "non interesting".
  • Side note: Does anyone remember marble blast? That game was fun
  • This exists and is an entire blog post: "today I made a drinks stand to try to earn money to get a rc helicopter that can take pictures and videos." That's pathetic for a tweet, much less a blog post.
  • My bio starts by listing my age, my favorite books, my favorite foods, my friends, my favorite teacher, my dog and my nerf guns. Know what isn't listed there? My name.
  • My bio lists Percy Jackson and The Lost Hero as two books, despite the fact that one is a series of books, one is a book within a series, and both series are part of the same story. None of the other books listed are actually books, they are all a series of books. Am I overanalyzing this small misstep from my youth? Yes.
  • UPDATE: I would like to correct this statement: "I think Math is so cruel it could be the worlds worst torture method" (Bio). As of today, this is no longer true. Memorizing and writing Shakespearean sonnets is the world's worst torture method.
  • UPDATE 2: This statement is still true: " I was always pisssed of, that all good games were made for PC, and not mac" (My New Custom built PC). Get to work Apple, we don't pay $3,000 for a nice OS.
  • I underlined my name in my intros quite inconsistently.
  • I told people to check out my book without providing a link to said book. Here is the link to said book
  • On the back of that book is the worst photo of me I have ever seen. I feel that the previous sixteen dollars could have been better spent on literally anything else (including Handerpants), so I lowered it down to ten dollars.
  • I am advertising my book solely for us to laugh at. That thing makes no money as is.
  • I have formatted my name like this: Luka©®™ within the last 2 years.

  • You see the boxes at the bottom labeled: Funny, Interesting and Cool? I am the person who has pressed even one of those. And even then, I for some reason, didn't do it to all of them
  • I have turned 'Don't Track my Pageviews' on and off (It is off as of 5/2/17). On one hand, it gives me a misrepresentation of my audience, on the other hand, having it on is the only reason I have an audience. 


And that concludes my self evaluation (?). I highly recommend you go through my old posts for a quick laugh. If I had one word to describe them (despite my despise for this word's current use), I would choose cringe.


So much cringe.


If I do continue to update, you can expect a number of changes. All posts will be longer than one sentence. No text will be colored and or bolded. I will write about interesting things. I will stop promoting Minecraft. It only made me look like a tool. 










OVERWATCH is the best game ever you can get 2 blue 2 grey! ! ! Love playing it and drinking kool aid!!!!!!!!!! Buy my book on it! !! ! ! !








Yeah, that wasn't really funny








But on a serious note: Overwatch is pretty fun

Thursday, October 9, 2014

Maker Club (yes this is a shameless promotion)

Hi, today I am going to promote a school club I go to called Maker Club. We mostly do 3D printing/maker activity's, when I say activities I mean we all do whatever we want. We are going to be attending the following events:

East Bay Mini Maker Fair - OCT 19
List of Makers (we are in here)
Tickets

Discovery Days - NOV 1
Main Site







Website: Tales of a 3D Printer

Saturday, September 27, 2014

My New Custom built PC

All the grammar and spelling errors are unintentional

Quite some time ago (around january, 2013, the beginning of time) I was always pisssed of, that all good games were made for PC, and not mac, and for the record I am an apple user, so around late 2013 I started saving up money to buy a computer, the problem? they were so expensive. and I only had $800-$900 to spare, so I looked into building one, at the time I thought it would be like building a rocket out of jello and silly putty, but its more like a more advanced, delicate and expensive version of legos. I did some research and found a good web site, PC Part Picker, to help me find the right parts and find the best deals for them. I spent a lot of time reading about balancing CPU and GPU, ram speeds, hard drive rpm's and a good case. lucky for me, my dad knows someone who makes custom pc's who could sell some parts to me for AmAzInG (amazing) prices. some of my original list had to be changed to accommodate for the parts I was buying. eventually I had bought every part I needed for my PC, I even bought a case called Elysium . eventually we built the computer, his knowledge sped up the process x10 and in a few hours, I was booting into windows 8.1
and The Image below is my first PC
The Finished Result

Friday, August 22, 2014

10 days summer camp in Pensivania

2017 Authors Note:

I wrote this several years ago, but it never got to see the light of day. I recently wrote a self reflection, and referenced this in it. I figure I may as well have it posted. on with the blog:


In August I visited the east coast to visit relatives, and go to a summer camp that I enjoy. Its name is Longacre Leadership, and while I have not done the full camp, I have done 2 years at the minicamp, so this will be a summary of my experiences there. The first thing that happened (after I did all the non interesting stuff that people don't like to read about) I went to my cabin to unpack and I also happened to be the first camper (besides my sister) eventually my friend from my last year at longacre arrived, and we also got to see another friend from last year drop his sister off. fast forward many minutes, and we were all getting ready to walk to the on-site pool where I had a blast at last year. to summarize it, I passed the basic swim test, and jumped in the pool. then after some swimming, I played apples to apples and laid on a pool chair (not the ones that go in the water). This is how all the pool days went (except for one)



Friday, January 17, 2014

The Marin Headlands, a mon-fri Trip to My least favorite place

Hello again everyone! Sorry I haven't updated recently, but I have plenty to write about. A few weeks sometime in September ago my class was going to go to the Marin Headlands. I had went there in 4th grade and didn't want to hike all day, sleep in a dorm with ten other people and have my shoe filled with sand all day so I was counting on the government shutdown to cancel the trip, but the government opened up again so I had to go. I'm only going to talk about the hikes and food because there is something else I want to tell you, but later. The first hike was to the lighthouse, and it wasn't really that bad, except it was very windy when we got there so I just make a blanket out of my 2 jackets and tried to take a nap for the short time there. The next hike was to Hawk Hill and it was an all uphill hike and by the time we got there my legs had died and had gone to leg heaven. The night hike is just plain creepy, I'll leave it at that.

Ziplining

Hello again! I have some videos to show you of the ziplining place I went to. Whoever can guess what I recorded the Videos with can imagine a one way airplane ticket to Hawaii. Ezra is not eligible to guess because I told him what I used. here are the videos of the 8 courses, the last one was a 1/2 mile long. There are other videos, but they are still uploading.


Tuesday, December 31, 2013

By the time anyone (but me) reads this it will be 2014, Sooooo

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!
HAPPNEYEAR!!!!!!!!
HAPPNEYEAR!!!!!!!!
HAPPNEYEAR!!!!!!!!
HAPPNEYEAR!!!!!!!!
I am in Hawaii right now and it is NEYEARS EVE!!!!!!!
My parents and sister are in bed right now and it is 9:07 at this very moment(my very moment, not yours) and I am sitting around, waiting for midnight. The resort I'm at is Hilton and my tower name is Lagoon Tower. My room is near the pool, but you have to walk around a food shack to get there and at that point I can see the beach and pretty much all of the pool. The water is quite cold but after going down the water slide a few times you get used to it. The resort is so big there is a monorail running across it. When I went to the main lobby for some video cards there were some parrots squawking "Hi! Hello! Hi! Hi! Hello! Hi!".


That is all for now, but i will try to post whenever something cool happens but when I'm not posting try to get parrots to say strange things at zoos and other parrot including events.

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Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Merry Christmas!

Hi everyone, I'm back and I wanted to say merry Christmas. I haven't been able to post for awhile because of (mainly) school, but I will try to fill you in as much as I can. One of the biggest things that has happened is my birthday (I might have already told you, but I'm 12 now). The next thing is that I cut my hair. It used to be very long and now it's much shorter. The next thing is  that I got a rather large set of bills from my grandma. This brings me to today (Christmas Eve) and to where I am right now, which is in the car driving away from Squaw at 4:44 writing this on my dad's iPhone 5s at 60 mph. 3 hours ago I was strapping on my boots, 2 hours ago I was tearing down the only run open at the moment, and one hour ago I was chomping down on a preheated creep. Fast forwarding to tomorrow I will be ripping wrapping paper apart with Ezra on Christmas Day. This is all for now, but I will try to post more often. If I get a GoPro then I can show you what I do on the slops. Bye! For now...,

Saturday, July 27, 2013

My youtube Channel!

Hello again everyone! Today I uploaded my second video of a let's play series to youtube. I want lots of people to like, favorite and subscribe, so click the link below \/
                                                                   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Eh6xTsgyg

Also, check out Paris: for Kids by Kids. It has reviews of places I've been in Paris. Along with a few other people I add my rating and review to the blog.

http://parisforkidsbykids.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

London, Paris, Toulouse and home

Hello again. It's me Luka I'm back in America, and I woke up at 4:17 a.m! What I did in Toulouse was fairly simple.

  1. Complain about the heat
  2. Go on a extremely boring ride in a boat through a canal
  3. Do one or two boring touristy things with my dad's brother and his wife
  4. Complain about the heat
  5. Sleep
  6. Eat
Flying back was pretty nice; we flew from Toulouse to London, Heathrow airport. And from there we flew to the states. I watched Skyfall and G.I Joe: Retaliation. I would have had watched Die Hard: 5, but I got bored by then. When we landed I felt that it should be pitch black outside, but it was bright out. I slept on Bart for the longest part of the ride. Then at home, I waited till 7, and then fell asleep. And then woke up at 4:17 a.m thinking it should be light outside, but it wasn't....

The surprise I told you about in the first post is that we are getting kittens! I will post pictures right when we get them (which will be in a while : / )


Monday, July 22, 2013

London, Paris and Toulouse

Hello again for episode 3 of my 4-7 episodes! I am in Toulouse right now, but I will talk about my Paris experience. So I'm going to skip the train ride from London, but I will start at the point when we walked into our apartment. We took a small, yet good elevator up to the second floor. The apartment had beds for everyone, a good kitchen, a good living room, and because of the big fountain right outside our apartment we got to see dancers and singers do their things right outside our balcony. I went to bed at 2 that night. When I woke up I got a nutella crepe from a nearby stand. We got a 2 day bus pass, and just listened to the audio tour which was sometimes a 'bit' off, first full day in Paris: Done
The next day we used the bus all the time. We used it to go to lunch, and then a french naval museum. 1-2 days later my families waiting in line for the Eiffel Tower. We got there early, so we didn't have to wait long. When we got back down the line was about as long as the Eiffel Tower is tall. (exaggeration x10) It was only a sixth of it. We also saw the Arc De Triomphe. Don't try to climb up, you will probably fail... The view was still good, and where the more modern american buildings start is what I call New Paris*. The last days were with Ezra, so It's going on Luka Land and Ezra World. Hopefully.

-Luka






*same for London/New London

Friday, July 19, 2013

London. Part 2: The Wrath of the Tour Guides.

The next day I woke up to the kittens milking. I got the room with the cats and it was great. I had just eaten breakfast and had flopped on my bed when my mom came in telling me to get ready to go.

I didn't know where we were going, but then I found out when we met the tour guide. We walked through the city and to Buckingham Palace, and at 12 we had a light fast lunch, and continued. To make it clear I hate tours, and walking, so this was torture method 2B. We ended the tour at about 5. It was about 8 hours and 4 miles. It was basically a forced march.

Monday, July 15, 2013

London, Paris, arcs and towers Part 1 The Start

Bonjour à nouveau! C'est moi! Luka!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Il a été très occupé pour moi ici po .. Paris?
For those people who don't speak french (or didn't use google translate), I just said I'm busy here in Paris. And it's true! I hope you wouldn't mine wiping up google translate to translate, cause you'll need to! I also have some great news that i will tell you soon...

First: London
Second: Paris (Current Location)
Third: Is a surprise!

London:
it started out as and plane flight for my family would start. going to the airport.
We used Bart and after 1 loooooong hour we finally pulled into SFO Airport.
We used small suitcases and we had already printed our boarding passes, so we didn't need to check in.
We went to gate A11 for our 6:30 and waited

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1 or so hours later...


our flight is delayed, our terminal sucks and our flight is moved to gate A8

3 hours later...(10:30):

 I'm on a Boeing 747 in the middle isle and I'm flying with Virgin Atlantic
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Then the flight lands and I'm in London! We grab a cab to our friend's house and meet their kittens!
We eat dinner, use their trampoline and go to bed and all is good. Till the very next day......

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

If you read the last post and signed the petition read this

The number of signatures needed is now 200, but we have 104 and we are moving up nicely

sign it if you haven't.
http://www.change.org/petitions/maxis-ea-and-electronic-arts-finish-simcity-for-mac-earlier#share

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Greetings from the house

Hello to you all, it's me, LUKA THE MAGNIFICENT. It's been busy for me now that Summer Vacation!!!!!! is on (Summer Break for most adults born before 2000).

First: The new Simcity News.



The News:

Okay fist off, if you have no idea or don't care about Simcity then don't read this post. If you want to continue, and are a mac user that cares about Simcity's mac release date, then continue reading. So I'm guessing that most of you were pissed when they moved the release date from march fifth to June eleventh. If you were than you can enjoy writing extremely angry comments, while pulling you hair out, while shrieking swear words at the computer in reaction to this post. (I did all of these and it helps, trust me) read this article.

Oh, and so you can see which comments and replies were mine, my username is "ThoseAreMyPies"

http://www.simcity.com/en_US/blog/article/simcity-mac-update-and-beyond

And if you want to be a hero to the mac gaming community just click the link provided below
and fill in the boxes and you will count as 1 person who joined the petition. all of the info you need is on the page. Also on a closing note, if you have friend who would want to sign this then ask them! we need 5 more people.

https://www.change.org/petitions/maxis-ea-and-electronic-arts-finish-simcity-for-mac-earlier#share



Cheers!
-Luka

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Torture method #1. The spring concert.


Hello again everyone and welcome to another torture method story. Last time I put 7a (The school extravaganza) and when the spring concert came I knew that this was the worst thing of all. First I will tell you about the winter concert. My school has two concerts every year, the winter, and the spring. The winter concert isn't that bad (except for the fact that I hate singing) everyone goes to the upper school (Our school has two building's. one elementary, one middle) and do it for the parents. The spring concert is the real problem. Everyone, I mean EVERYONE comes to the first congenital church of Oakland and all the grades preform at least one act. Also junior, intermediate, and advanced bands have to play. Also advanced orchestra play. Some classes have kids who play Chello or Violen. This year the concert was about two hours. Last year it was about three. That wraps up todays torture method story.