*Assok Noises*

Credits to the amazing artist, modmad!

I really hate analyzing books. If you want to analyze a book, analyze it's story, not the words! I would happily analyze every classpect combination in Homestuck but the meowment you ask me to analyze Andrew Hussie's use of characterization to develop the plot I am absconding as far away from you as I can.
The worst part is, I decided to put Elevatorstuck on repeat in the background while I write. I'm not annoyed at it, but it's getting repetitive and I don't feel like doing anyfin about it so I'm just kind of sitting here listening to Elevatorstuck while internally making Assok noises and analyzing books.

~Jay

HOMESTUCK

ACT 7
ITS OVER
DEAD

~Jay

Okay so

Small Ingress rant.
I recently finished catching up with the story of Ingress, and I'll just say I'm a little confused. For those who aren't caught up to the most recent Obsidian anomaly, I'll explain to the best of my ability.
The Acolyte of the Enlightened and Jahan of the Resistance have found that the 13MAGNUS portal that exploded during the Shōnin ceremony was acting as a beacon to a new alien species, the N'Zeer. The shapers within the portals and the Acolyte don't want the N'Zeer to enter our world, believing they will only bring destruction to humanity, while Jahan and the Resistance want to bring the N'Zeer to Earth as quickly as possible.
This is where I got confused. I thought that the Enlightened were supposed to welcome these new visitors, we do, after all, want to enlighten ourselves with the knowledge and technology these aliens will bring. Have we become so close-minded that we will listen to whatever the shapers say? Heck, we know basically nothing about them!
The Resistance, at least my understanding of the Resistance, don't want aliens to be influencing humanity. Yet Jahan seems insistent on bringing the N'Zeer into our world. Have our interests flipped? Am I the only one confused about this?

~Jay

Huehuehue

I'm level 6 in Ingress X3

So, fur those of you who don't know, Ingress is an amazingly creative augmented reality (AR) game about a global struggle between two teams –

     the Enlightened and the Resistance

 

These teams are fighting for control over a fictional substance named Exotic Matter (XM), which is both matter and energy. If exposed in significant amounts to humans (and, I assume, other similar creatures) it is capable of enhancing their natural abilities. It's also able to influence and control human thought The following is a very brief history from this page:

"In July 2012, a comic artist named Tycho confronted people in a panel about a hidden truth. He was escorted away. On his web site, there were five posters posted. each contained a number of images, words and codes. They all seemed to indicate a conspiracy. There were also cards handed out that mentioned something called the Niantic Project and a phone number that first lead to a voicemail asking for information about Tycho, but later changed to an audio code that lead to geographic coordinates for the CERN lab in Geneva.
In November of 2012, a website, www.nianticproject.com went live. It was run by someone named P. A. Chapeau, a mysterious blogger who was investigating the Niantic Project. He began sharing videos, audios and leaked documents, all uncovering that the Niantic Project was more than a simple science project housed at the CERN lab.
Throughout the month of November we learn more and more about the Niantic Project as well as an app called Ingress (released November 14/15). We learn that the Niantic Project appears to be a scientific project sponsored by the NIA to study the effects of something called the Shaper Mind Virus and something called Exotic Matter (XM)."

After the release of the Ingress app, the fight for XM went worldwide. Players all over the world are now able to see the portals leaking XM into our world. They were starting to create control fields  (by creating XM links between three portals). The original Niantic research project was shut down, but since so many people were able to interact with these portals, XM anomalies began to appear. I won't go into the anomalies right now, but if you watch this video, it should explain some stuff to you.

Now, I'll explain the teams.


The Enlightened:
This faction is represented by a green eye surrounded by four polygon-esque shapes.
The members of the Enlightened aim to harness the power of exotic matter to evolve humans to a higher form of being. They want to help the shapers infiltrate the Earth, believing that the shapers will bring massive amounts of knowledge to humankind.


The Resistance:
This faction is represented by a blue key inside a pentagon.
The members of the Resistance want to remove exotic matter from the world. They fight the efforts of the Enlightened to assist the shapers infiltration, believing that the aliens will only enslave humanity.

Whichever team you choose, I hope you have a lot of fun playing this game! Ingress can be downloaded from the app store here and Google play here.

~Jay

annnnd I'm back!

Since there was a two hour delay, the schedule for the day was kind of messed up. The classes we missed in the morning was rescheduled for the afternoon, and all the classes are shortened to make sure we still end at the same time. Some of or tests were postponed because of the reduced time, and it seems that the classes assigned less work than usual, or maybe it's just me.
Anyway, I'm back from my 2nd morning class and now I'm going to start on my homework.
I whale update again soon.

~Jay

2-hour Delay!

Today, there was a big snowstorm near the Academy and all classes were delayed for 2 hours.

I know, a snowstorm in April. You'd think the ocean would maybe keep the weather stable, but I guess the ocean is on break or somefin XD

Look at all this snow!

~Jay

P.S. I don't actually live in California irl, obviously. There are no pine trees there. Also it would never snow in April. This kind of stuff happens up in the north.

New Laptop!

Today, I got so tired of my other computer that I finally went out and got myshellf a new laptop XD My other computer is reely big and not very purrtable. I just nefur bothered to switch beclaws I kept it in a room in the TARDIS since time travel usually doesn't require computers. Meow, in Starfleet Academy, I use computers fur almost all of my assignments. Of course, I still keep up with fandoms on the internet, which is inaccessible to the school computers given to all Starfleet Academy students (there's still an internet connection on these computers, it's just separate from the world wide web), so I've been using my other computer, but it takes up 90% of the space on my desk. The Starfleet assigned computer takes up the other 10%. I dealt with it fur a whale, but I could nefur use my tablet fur digital art, so I finally decided to up(or would this be down)grade and get a laptop.
So yeah. I have a new laptop.
Meow.

~Jay

Future Science Leaders

So, I'm in a program at a science museum back on Earth that meets every Caturday. We basically have a short meeting in the first 2 hours about possible hands on activities we can show to museum guests, and then for the other 3 hours we would bring the activity out to the museum. It's a really fun way to get kids engaged with different kinds of science. It's so great to see their minds blown by all our cool activities XD
My favorite part of the museum is the animal room. They've got mostly fish and aquatic creatures, but they're starting to expand into land animals. It's really interesting! Today we're feeding various species of leeches. We just filled up some sheep intestines with THE BLOOD OF MY ENEMIES synthetic blood made especially for feeding leeches. My friend Zena was responsible for pouring the blood and she was, let's say, very satisfied.

(yeah, that happened)

Anyway, that's about all! Until next time, Desert Bluffs. Until next time :3

~Jay 

so uh...

I haven't updated in almost a year XD
I won't blame this on time travel this time, because it's actually my fault. I've almost completely forgotten about this blog. Starfleet Academy is pretty rigorous and I don't have much leisure time. I mean, I am taking all honors classes plus an extra foreign language course that isn't required, so I may only have myself to blame for all the work I've been getting X3
Anyway, I have a break coming up soon, and I'll actually be going somewhere this time! This break will happen during the last week of April, if my calculations are correct. Expect photos and other stuff :D

~Jay