Roller coaster tycoon reflexion

Little hand made rollercoasters are pretty hard to make. They take a lot of time and that is what twelve graders did. All of them sure looked interesting but after two of them things got a little boring.
Well, now starting with the reflexion, I have to say that I didn't enjoy them that much. First of all was a Dragon coaster and the design was pretty cool. The only bad thing was that it wasn't that well done. I give it a 48/60.Later on we went to a football design coaster. I have to say that this one was pretty dull in colors and design but it was about Mexico so I'd would say an average coaster. There isn't that much to say and so I give it a 42/60.After that one we went to a candy land coaster. It was actually pretty good designed with colors and structure. I thought that one was the most colorful and it actually wokred pretty good. I give that one 60/60.Later on was a city one. I thought it was pretty creative by using buildings but it lacked with structure. I think they spent more time on background design than the coaster itslef. I give it a 46/60.There was alsot this Wonder Land coaster which again was dull in design. It had a few spins in the structure but it didn't work so good so I think that one was not as good.At last was some kind of zoo or something. It was actually pretty dull in structure too but it worked so it would have been an average. I give it 40/60.
I think most of them took time but they weren't very good and so I think we are here to improve so I leave no more comment.

Guest Francisco reflexion

Francisco, the mexican who went into United States leaved me a very shocking thought. He told us about what it was like being in Iraq. I never imgained that people were ordered to do such barbaric things. I guess that those people didn´t have a choice. It is really awful too that people or in this case the politicians lie to their own troops just to get what they want. The troops are fighting for many reasons that they have been told but the truth of their prescence in Iraq is something they don´t know. I just think that people must really have a hard time and we can´t judge them of being that dumb or cruel. We should actually harass the politicians. Apparently the politicians even lie to the civilians and so on but I guess that after this event I hava changed my way of thinking of them.

Who am I?

I am a very discrete character. I don't like showing off as attention doesn't suit me. Still, I have a sense of humor but I don't like showing it. I am cold in emotions except when I get some kinda og sugar. This really puts me in a crazy status. People could say when they see me crazy, "Oh, look at that man, he must be very energetic and happy". No, appearances can be deceiving. I really dont have any issues whatsoever responsible for my cold conduct, it is just the way I am.

In school, I really don't communicate with lots of people. I only have this person who is kind of like me but he is really mad. I say he is a very dark character. So, I mostly stay in my place during class and listen to the teacher. I am a good listener and student. Actually, I am very bright. I'd say I am a gifted child and I am not overrating myself. It is just that I don't like attracting any kind of attention and so many people think I am average. I can do many things in my head specially math. I don't like math as it is very easy and not challenging. I like things that applies using my head. Unfortunately in my math class, which is 2 grades above from my regular class, is very easy. I am mostly high average in any other class and could be better if I put effort on it but I am lazy sometimes.

Out of school and don't have much to do. I live near a beach which creates entertainment some days. I have brother and he is so annoying. He is older than me but to tell the truth I am way stronger and bigger than him. Thats another thing, I am very strong physically. I try to excersise every day. You could say I am a very nice guy but I don't relate to other people. Thats one of my problems, not that I have many. I practice Tennis every day which makes me pretty strong as my teacher expects the best of me. I have to say that I do relate/communicate with my parents as they are family and even that is annoying me. I really don't have many things to do in my house but to excersise, read a book, eat or use a computer. My favorite books are the Artemis Fowl series, Catcher in the Rye and some others. Movies are another thing which are sometimes involved in my life. I like some old movies and almost all that include Tom Hanks. Movies nowadays are to dull/boring and blood. Now going to laptops, they can be some sort of major entertainment in my life. I dont have any blog in the internet in exception of http://www.blogger.com/ which is where I am writing this. Take in mind that this doesn't include Facebook, Myspace, etc.. I mostly play a lot of video games in the internet and that is getting me bored. I am not planning to suicide but my life does get really depressing and boring sometimes.

Now you are probably wondering about my likes and dislikes because I just told you so. I find somewhat hard to write this because of my not showing emotions thing but who cares, It is work that counts for grades and I don't want my grades going down. Well, I like Tennis as you may have suspected. Music I am not to crazy about but I do like 70's and 80's music. Some examples are Queen, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Billy Joel and more. I don't like modern music from where I am from as it is really bad. For some reason my classmates love that music and that just make me think if they are crazy. Video games are part of my life and I like them. I have a special list of games which I like and I don't mean X-Box 360 or PlayStation 3. The games from those consoles are to bloody. I don't have a weakness at the sight of blood but I just find all that blood unnecessary (Dont know if that is spelled correctly). Also, I may have misspelled some words here because I don't have spell check and I write fast. Back to video games, I like computer ones as I have only a laptop presently know. I like strategy games and RPG. They are those games that you level up and stuff but that is not what I am here to talk about.

This is mostly of what it is Involved in my life. I can't tell you more of myself as I cant think of more. Just to conclude I am a simple guy who likes to live its life and keep on going. Oh, and I forgot that I don't give up no matter what the situation is (except if the situation is obvious that I am going to loose). My life may be kinda boring sometimes but it isn't routine. Many new things happen some days and I hope they will keep on going. My name is Eduardo and I am from Mexico. That is the last fact you need to know. I guess right now I will sign off and open some new window to play something.

Listening

EFFECTS
Once again we played with audacity. I say PLAY because we really dont know what we are doing. Mostly people and I used recorded sounds. Sometimes there was some downloaded song or sound but that was the minority. I did the same as most did. I recorded some sounds and then downloaded some sound that could blend all the song. All the rocorded sounds were sqeauls and some strange noises and so again I say people played with the program. Everything was pretty simple. There was no comlexity in the songs.

Today I had a chance to see many people's Audacity recordings. I cant really say that many were bad and mine was too, but, mine was a bit better. I am not overrating myself, it is the truth. Although, there were 3 or less people that had something really worked out just like myself but theirs were a little better or the same. There is nothing much to say but that my classmates were being lazy. They spended their time wathcing videos and so I dont blame their poor work. My conclusion is that som people like to work and other just take advantage of the situation and just play.

Audacity Review

The mashup was challenging and partly easy. Making the sounds was easy, the challenging part was knowing which sounds to insert which was very frustrating. If I were to judge which was the best Audacity file in the class, I would say mine because its the only one Ive heard and the others I heard from other projects, well, they weren't very good. Probably if I had to do everything again next year, I would change all of it as much of the sounds are looped but they do have a catchy sound.



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Mashup

Audacity is a very complicated program. This makes my review kind of offensive to my team members although I cannot say a lot of good things about my mashup either. First of all I heard Laura's mashup. Hers wasn't very creative but I did like how she actually took her time and messed with some tools. Then was Adriana's. This one was not creative at all. It was just a couple of songs one after another but the songs were cut at somepoint. Then another song came in so yeah... I can only say one good thing about her mashup, she took her time selecting the songs she would use. Then was Thomas's mashup. He did take his time organizing his sounds which is a good thing but sometimes it just sounded random but otherwise it was a good mashup concerning that it was his first time using it. At last was Rodrigo's, well actually it was not at last as our team members didnt have the pleasure to hear his mashup. I conclude that everyone makes mistakes the first time.

I must say that my mashup was more creative as my team members. I am really not selfish or something as to write bad stuff about them but I did take my time. I really liked how I have a principal song and add some noises to it. It fits pretty well. I really thought it was good until the day the speakers didnt work for some reason. I messed with the tools in Audacity without knowing what would happen without sound. I finally got the speakers to work and the principal song was to loud. I had to show it to my team members and so I did. I left my work with the principal song overflowing with its sound almost the whole speakers. If only I had more time to work on it the mashup would have ended fine. I conclude that everybody needs some experience in something to make something right.

Typing Reflection

I already knew what the typing test was. I had taken it last year. As I started the test the first time this year, i wasn't bad nor good. It was average. What could I say. Mostly in the vacations, the only time I used the computer was to play. Playing games in the computer involves the mouse and WASD keys. I really didn't practice a lot, but, with time I got better. I was improving a lot but was looking at the keys while typing. Technically that was cheating. I was improving every day until I got the message that they were going to give us a "Blind Test". So from then I started to write without looking at the keys. From there on I dropped a lot referring to my scores. My personal goal was to improve my scores without looking at my keys. I never achieved my goal or havent achieved it yet. I think I will get average scores (20 WPM) concerning the scores I have right now without looking at the keys. Probably my accuarcy would be very bad as I havent practiced a lot. So I think I wont be the best but neither the worst.

Future Artifact

I can say 2 words that would describe this project which are fun and easy. It was pretty much looking at some tutorials and taking some things from them. Practically it was fun to fool around with some tools. Sometimes, fooling around helped give the special touch to my project. The only thing that really mad me mad was the Gradient Editor. This was used so I could make the twirl effect pretty cool, but, the problem was that I didn't know how to get to that tool. Practically that was my only challenge and I resolved it by using some other technique which would not work as well as the gradient editor. I have to say that I would sometime like to make another one of this projects but on my own. I pretty much liked everything except the machine that did the Effect of the time traveling. It was pretty bad work there but anyways, still pretty cool. It was definitely fun.


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This is Rodrigo's link to his Future Artifact Project
I really don't know what to say. It is really confusing. I had to get the author of this piece to explain me what is was. He told me it was a dog-making machine. At last I thought it was pretty dull. Why don't you buy a dog at a store? Probably the machine would be more expensive. Then he told me that you could combine 2 or more races of dogs. I thought this to be not as dull as I thought first. Still, I cannot say much about this work. Still, it could be a science machine as new dogs are made and you could actually find a perfect dog. I think some people would pay a lot for this machine.


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This is actually something pretty cool. Practically this project could really be invented. It could be a world revolution for fat people. I would like this if I were fat. I probably wouldn't buy this artifact in the future as I pretend to stay skinny. It could totally change the world as fat people could go to marathons or even move. I really think this could be a revolutionary invention.

Rain tutorial

http://fx.worth1000.com/tutorials/161124/how-to-create-rain

Rain was a vital part in my project. I decided with the time travel to make it look like a rainy day. Originally it was supposed to be a dark place when time travel happened. What happened next was a mistake. I made almost everything look blurry. So i decided kept the blurry and called off the rain. The picture showing in the tutorial is a dark mansion with rain.

Worm Hole Tutorial

http://fx.worth1000.com/tutorials/161132/wormhole

In the image there is shown a beach with a spiral in the middle. That looks like a worm hole so i decided to do one. I practically would use the concept of the worm hole idea. My real project was a time traveling chair or wristwatch. This made it easier for me to do that. Again, i copied idea and made my own time travel.

Social Media comments

My ideas haven't changed a bit. People specifically say everything that was in the youtube videos. The copied every word. I saw the video before. It was like watching the video again but in text. Their Ideas are pretty null so I stay with my thoughts. I cannot say much about their comments but that they really dont know everything that is out there. There are a lot of risks but most of them dont get it. As I said before, may ideas haven't changed.

Artifact from the future

I picked this picture for many reasons. Cell phones can be very annoying. With this tooth you can contact people without even speaking loudly. Also, it is decay proof which means that it should last forever. Also, it should be a relief if you are driving your car. Also, the police couldn't charge you for talking while driving (for distraction and possible accident).It would be very helpful also if it was resistant. You may be able to loose your teeth but with many of these you could have teeth for a life time or even longer.

With nothing to loose but money in this operation, it should be a good choice to get it. It probably would be very expensive at the date of release but soon, it would lower price and almost everybody could afford it. Those are the reasons I chose this picture.

Social Media

Soci@l Medi@ Effect


Social media is something that would affect the people the minute it started. Social media is the internet, I-pods, television, radio, and all sorts of electronic communicating in some way devices. Everything inside the internet is social media. Social media can be for many things like games, newspapers, blogs, etc. Some people think social media is a fad. This means that everything that shows up will later go or be forgotten. It is like a newspaper but involving people’s lives.

Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter are good examples of social media. All of this websites have dangerous features. In these 3 websites you make your own page and add personal stuff. You may also add friends and even people you don’t even know. This people can actually be kidnapers or something else looking in your webpage for some clue of where people live and stuff. Even people knowing this fact, they still write down personal messages and make videos of them and other friends. They also put a lot of pictures which kidnapers can actually use for identifying their victim. Even if you don’t have a Facebook account or something, your friends may include you in some pictures exposing you. Practically everybody is involved. If you get involved in the social media there are few ways to protect yourself. One of them is firewalls which try to block all viruses. Also porn is a big Issue in the social media. Being a minor or not, you can still see porn in the social media.

At the rate social media is growing, we will be learning from the internet instead of books in no time. This could drastically change everything. Books are very reliable although some of the same subject may be different. Still, in the social media there are all kinds of wrong information. As you can see, there are many ways to exposing to danger in the social media but not many ways of protecting yourself. Practically we will be ruled by this social media really soon. You may think it won’t happen but it probably will. There is no point in starting some sort of campaign against this. Social media is so big and powerful it cannot be stopped.

9.22.2009

You have a problem with this class. This class talks a lot in other classes too. You are not the only one with this problem. You have a problem yourself which is that you are no strict enough. Some people play or go into Facebook when you even say they can not do that. You say that but they are only words. You should punish those people in some way. They don't want to learn but some do. If they do not want to learn, well just make them head to Salgado. They think they can take advantage of you. As a matter of fact, you do let them take advantage of you. They do this with all the teachers so they probably know how to handle you. Some teachers are starting to be meaner and more direct with them about their problems. This has made some people on our class think about what they do. You should also add the consequences that will happen if you are going to talk to them. If they still dont shut up then take them immediatly to Salgado. Next time they are in your class they will behave more. If this does not work then you keep sending them to Salgado until they have pretty bad grades. Probably at that point they will see what is going on. There are a lot of things you should change about your attitude. In conclusion you should just be stricter.

Family tree/reunion

I once went to a family reunion in Mexico. Almost all the family attended. It was kind of embarrassing because besides my brother, 2 babies, and me; we were the only children below 15 years old. We couldn't actually talk with other people. We definitely had not the same interests. I actually was at that reunion because they told me to go there. So I mostly sat in a chair and waited for time to pass by. I didnt socialize with anybody besides from my brother and parents.

Tree selection

I chose this tree because it was 1200x wide. It has many branches such as my family especially in the middle which is where there are more members. This tree would fit exactly.