Stuff (Nathan's News)

It was Easter! And God put a display of his power (okay so not a cross in the sky, but something as cool and that IS a photo of it in a way took me like an hour to do that just kneeling with my camera pointed at the sky). I'll leave you to wonder at it for a little bit.

And on another happy note, Brisbane Lions (the team I barrack for) is doing exceptionally well with a percentage around 180%! (even if it's only up to round 3)

And at some website (warholizer) I made this picture (it's me in the suit from a previous video I did):
Which I think is really cool.

Especially when you make 6 of them (every one of them is unique) and use this to do this:

Cool Slideshows

which I think is really cool.

And, to yet another happy note, I was awarded the Thinking Blog Award by Julie. Apparently my Easter story (that had nothing to do with Easter per se was impressive and thought provoking which is nice to know.

I don't have time to add my 5 people as I'll be at Nick's for the next 2 days and I've got to go NOW!

A New Blog/Story For Me!

Sorry I haven't been posting much lately. Well, anyway, I'm making a new story called... well actually I don't really have a name for it yet- suggestion would be welcome. It's at http://historywriters.blogspot.com/ please, please comment. Anway, hopefully this will be the first novel I've ever completed. So goodbye for now, relax and enjoy this serial.

Santa and Pranks (two more links I found recently)

These are just some other links I found yesterday.

I am proud of the Air Services Australia for working so closely with Santa Clause in making safer flights and sleigh for him. You can find out all of Santa's recent media releases, the proposed (and excepted by some international board) flight path, the training program he himself uses etc. You can find the media releases here.

This is a website I recently found called the museum of hoaxes and is really good.

My Accent

I'm not entirely sure what my accent is. I sometimes catch irish, scottish or english in it (I think that's because I like those accents and enjoy speaking it) and I can sometimes hear my accent change as I speak which is weird. Apparently I've got a different accent for different occasions ie: my performing accent (which I can hear) and my casual accent. I presume I have an Aussie accent all up but I can never hear the Aussie accent. To me it's just talking in a plain voice. Anyway I took a test in what sort of American accent I have and I got:

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Inland North You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."
The Northeast
Philadelphia
The South
The Midland
North Central
Boston
The West
What American accent do you have? Take More Quizzes

I'm not sure really what to make of it because I don't frequent America or even Inland North America so not sure what to feel. If you're from America can you fill me in?

Miske's

I was doing and English essay and was kinda proud of it, so especially as I don't usually publish something deep here I thought I would share with you all my research in this greatly unrecognised field that I thought was fascinating.

Miske’s used in Communication
By Nathan Moore
Miskes have long been used with people in varying degrees of all ages, languages and nations to communicate. When words become unnecessary or indeed, too much effort, the appropriate miske is usually sufficient. Teenagers who believe they have a right to remain in bed that is being talked to by a (generally grumpy) parent is the easiest and most common way to observe this behaviour first hand.
Miske’s include hums and virtually all other intangible sounds that still have a meaning that is expected that the listener should understand the intended message even though it is not making use of a proper language. Miske’s are separated into 6 groups; laughs, giggles, hums, gags, growls and gunts. Gunt’s is by far the most varied group, so much so they are in turn separated into several sub-categories. Agreements, confusion, disagreements and thoughtfulness are the afore mentioned sub-categories.
‘Hums are generally well known what they are and hardly need any explanation. ‘Gags’ are supposed to represent the act of regurgitation and are used to communicate utter disgust with a thing/person
/act. Generally it is considered funny for some reason and a laugh or a giggle is usually accompanied with it.
A laugh is a quaint little noise that varies incredibly much, even from time to time, let alone person to person. Despite the massive quantities of variation, the laugh is universally accepted as a (would you believe it) laugh the world over, except for a handful of fathers who produce a sort of gurgling sound in place of a laugh and it seems only said father can tell it’s a laugh. Debate rages over whether this anomalous resonance should be given it’s own sub-category or even a straight category, but no official move has been made to do such a thing.
Laughs generally occur when somebody hears something that is considered funny or ‘appeals to their sense of humour’ (i.e.: in a joke or ‘harmless’ prank). Giggles are a variant of the laugh and are pretty similar but each ‘ha’ is a lot more succinct.
Growls originated and used to be the domain of the animal kingdom and are used by people who decide to use this particular miske to intimidate his or her opponent that is generally a person but sometimes extends to a troublesome pet and/or object.
Gunts are generally the hardest to understand and are incredibly varied. Gunts are sometimes referred to as grunts but gunts are the ‘proper’ name. Agreements are generally higher pitched and should usually be taken as strongly as if it was a verbal agreement. Confusion gunts are generally short, sharp and means the other person wants clarification from the person it was directed too. Disagreement gunts are usually angry or frustratingly sounded for obvious reasons and are, well, disagreements. Thoughtfulness gunts are usually a long note and generally you should wait to they finish whatever they are going to say after it.
In conclusion, miskes, although not always considered the ‘proper way to put things’, are an essential element of almost any language and should be practised and learnt to improve your day-to-day communicative skills.

Peter Piper

Sorry I haven't posted a blog for so long, I intend to do another movie a.s.a.p. I'm going on camp next week so I won't be able to blog then. Now, a random comment:

"Peter Piper picked a pepper and he sneezed. Because he is in fact allergic to pepper!"

My Uncle

One of my uncles was one of those people in the deli and he told me the following story:

One of the busiest times for a meat-department manager in a supermarket occurs when there is a sale on particular cuts. When we put cross-rib roasts on sale one day the result was predictable. I'd bring out a cart of roasts and before I could get them on display, women customers were jostling for their share. Three times I returned with a cart of roasts and three times they were gone before I got to the counter.
The fourth time out I noticed that a man who had quietly been watching began to approach my cart. He elbowed his way in, pushing and shoving, and finally grasped a roast. Before he could retreat from the crush, an irate woman glared at him and said, "Sir, how about being a gentleman!"
The fellow turned and said, "Ma'am, for twenty minutes I've been a gentleman, now I'm going to be a lady!" And with that he smiled, took his roast and walked away.

Warning Sign At Zoo

Although fun to visit, zoos do pose certain perils. But to whom? A sign posted in the Knoxville Zoo in Tennessee cautioned visitors:
"Please be safe. Do not sit, climb, or lean on the zoo fences. If you fall, animals could eat you, and that would make them very sick."

I just love those sorts of signs:)

Q: How long does it take for a telemarketer to hang up after you put down the phone?

A: A mere 2.28 minutes.

I just got rang up by a telemarketer. I said "Hello" and there was silence. The silence. The one that is followed by a telemarketer. Some people hate them. Okay, most if not all people, hate them but I don't. "Hello how are you to-?" I got all excited. 'Yes Yes Yes!" What to do? What to do? There must literally be thousands of tricks and things and conversations trading 'war stories' of a particularly clever battle. Actually I heard that over in the U.S the government put restrictive orders on them. And you know what? They told them over the phone during tea time! :D
Anyway, I randomly chose the 'put phone down and time how long it takes' one. Apparently they're not allowed to hang up. Needless to say, I was disappointed with this telemarketer and am considering my legal options.

1300309988: Is your child interested in fire?

On Friday Mr. Mac set homework for us: dress up as someone from the middle ages and do a 2 minute talk about it. The only clothes that sprang to mind as I was thinking about it was a silk bathrobe Dad has that I used to use all the times for these sort of things. Being a bit more of a perfectionist these days, I didn't really want to do that until it struck me! Be a noble who just got out of bed! So I did that and got a birthday candle to be my lamp. All sorts of things happened because of that but most importantly it meant that fire was in the back of mind. Anyway, a friend of mine that goes on my bus had found a mobile phone just before he got on the bus- a really good one. So he did the right thing and handed it in at the police station curious (and bored), I followed.

So, just in case that confuised you, here's a re-cap:

-Fire is on my mind
-I am stading in the police station

Hate notes they make you sound like you waffle on.

Anyway, I was standing in the Police Station and noticed a poster: Is your child interested in fire?
And it had a picture of a kid with a lighted match in his hand.
Naturally the first thing that came to my hyper-active mind was: Pyromaniac Anomous.
This really made me curious so I asked the policeman about it but he didn't seem to know a great deal. So I went home but my curiosity grew so I got changed, grabbed my mobile and headed back to the police station. I copied the number so now it is stored on my mobile. I can ring phones on my computer so I tried that but it hung up straight away so I got my mobile and rang it but I got the answering machine: Hello, this is the Juvenile Fire intervention... So I hung up and looked it up online (but first I wrote this). Hopefully I can catch someone so I can ask them.

To Be Continued...

Quotes of the Day

A couple of bible verses because it's Sunday:

"Suffer the little children to come unto me, for such is the kingdom of God.” Mt. 19:14 King James Version.

2 Corinthians 12:13-15 (New International Version)

13How were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was never a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!
14Now I am ready to visit you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you, because what I want is not your possessions but you. After all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children. 15So I will very gladly spend for you everything I have and expend myself as well. If I love you more, will you love me less?

I knew it. Look at the context. Find fault in my theory O parents.

John 11:39
"Martha... saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh" I heard somewhere that: 'he stinketh' used to be one of the most well known phrases in the bible.

An answer to a tag and Thought of the Day

My mum tagged me to answer the quiz so here goes...

One book that changed your life
Um... For a starter that a toughie. Wait, probably one of Mum's cook books. It really deserves credit for some of the food I've eaten.

One book that you’ve read more than once.
Time Stops for No Mouse by Michael Hoeye. It's got good re-read value.

One book you’d want on a desert island.
Hard to choose really. I think it would come down between:
How to survive on a desert island with ease and luxury
or
How to make a helicoptor with nothing but leaves and wood on a desert island and how to fly it guanteed for dummies.

One book that made you laugh
Squeky Clean Comedy by Judy Brown. A joke book. I always amaze myself with my originallity.

One book that made you cry.
How to make your faviourite dishes out of vegetable, by Jack Ghut.

One book that you wish had been written
One of those self-guide books on reading. You know, like:
A dummies guide to reading.

One book that you wish had never been written
All the dictionaries. I would have perfect speling plus, imagine all the words I could come up with!

One book you’re currently reading
Anonmous tip, by Michael Farris

Thought Of The Day

Had a thought earlier today and I'm not sure if it breaches privacy rights but you know how some people spell their name backwards and see what they come up with? If you say the words backwards, someone I know full name is: More Jack Russell. I think he hates Jack Russells too. Ironic aint it?

Quick Post (relating to my 'prose')

I was doing homework using google and this is one of the things that came up:

deviantART: TAIAHA
Art - community of artists and those devoted to art. Digital art, skin art, themes, wallpaper art, traditional art, photography, poetry / prose. Art prints.

Quote of the Day

The main football league in Australia is the AFL (Australian Football League). There is a team called Essendon in it.

"The Essendon Football Club has not won a single football game since April Fool's day."

-Nick

My Prose?

Today I created an original and creative (as per always) poem (as per never before of free will). It is fiction of course and is about my granny whose name is Smith and she is bad and my constable father whisks her away eventually to the Granny Smith Apple Factory (Granny Smith is an Aussie brand of apples) and then I die etc. Anyway, as it is over 1,000 words long, I could not make it a complete poem and I am not going to totally abondon my style of writing for the sake of the poem, so I just casually labeled it a poem. My Mom said (before she read it ) that it said it sounded like a prose, and if I didn't know what that means I should look it up in the dictinary. (I don't think she knew what it meant either). So I did and it said (according to dictionary.com):

Ordinary speech or writing, without metrical structure.
Commonplace expression or quality.
Roman Catholic Church. A hymn of irregular meter sung before the Gospel. intr.v. prosed, pros·ing, pros·es
To write prose.
To speak or write in a dull, tiresome style.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin prsa (rti), straightforward (discourse), feminine of prsus, alteration of prrsus, from prversus, past participle of prvertere, to turn forward : pr-, forward; see pro-1 + vertere, to turn; see wer-2 in Indo-European Roots.]

Thanks Mum.

P.S. I've since found out that mum meant every word and she already had full understanding of the particular word, "Prose". Apparently it was a ploy to make me look up a dictionary. She then fixed up all my spelling and grammatical errors in this and my other blog posts even this P.S. and to shock, horror, make it sound better - as if my style isn't good enough.

Quote of the Day

'#@*$ The cops are here! How did they find me?'- Woman stranger to my dad on a holiday a while ago. No laugh followed. No arrest followed. Unfortunately. Wouldn't that be cool?

My Life Goals

This morning, my Dad beat me 9-8 in Table Soccer. This, needless to say, suprised me alot. However, I reasoned that I should not be upset because:

a) we were both tired (it was 10:00 am for crying outloud) but me more so because Dad usually wakes up at 6:00 am or whatever.

b) This means that neither of us were performing at our peaks, and the game could of gone either way.

c) Considering the amount of times we have played it, I suppose losing was only a matter of time (that fact was not processed until today).

d) I blocked the memory temporarily from my mind (so one wonders why the heck I'm writing this down).

BUT, more importantly, today I completed a life goal of mine- to beat Dad 9-nil (somehow he always seems to get that cruical one point in there). That is one of my life goals among:

1/. Slam dunk (nearly there :D )

2/. Save up my money so I can buy Medieval Total War 2 (for PC) as soon as it comes out

3/. Watch Pirates of the Caribean A.S.A.P when it comes out.

4/. Make Revelations in (mostly) CGI like Noah's Ark (but better than that).

5/. Finish the story I have started writing

6/. Sell a copy of THE FLOOD over this blog (i.e: YOU buying it)

7/. I do have others but I can't seem to remember them at the moment. If you watch this space one day this sentence and the last will magically disappear and be replaced with my other life goals.

Wow, that was a pretty deep blog.

Two cool things

You Passed 8th Grade Math

Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct!

Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?

Whew!

You Are Likely an Only Child

At your darkest moments, you feel frustrated. At work and school, you do best when you're organizing. When you love someone, you tend to worry about them. In friendship, you are emotional and sympathetic. Your ideal careers are: radio announcer, finance, teaching, ministry, and management. You will leave your mark on the world with organizational leadership, maybe as the author of self-help books.

The Birth Order Predictor

Cool! (I am an only child)