Saw 3D

Last night I went to Saw 7 / Saw 3D with my friend, needless to say, it was awesome. I don't want to spoil the movie for anybody that hasn't seen it yet, but basically it ties up the entiee series completely and even throughs in the bow on top. The end was absolutely harmonic and possibly the second best ending to a movie I've ever seen (The first being, of course, Inception's ending). Basing my opinion on the ending alone, I would say that there may be another Saw next year, but it seemed to end completely. I will spoil one part, so,


Dr. Gordon from Saw 1 is in this one, and plays a bit of a big role in the end.


I was slightly disappointed that the beginning scene involving that glass box in public really had nothing to do with the actual story, but whatever, it was still a great movie.

PEACE!

Tango UI Progress

Alright people, so I've recently been doing some work on this mobile phone UI design I call "Tango". Right now it's just a few simple pictures, but that was created out of nothing, soon I hope to have a working java applet where I can have a simple "OS", even though it's not in any way an OS, just an interface.
You can follow my work on this UI at my deviantART Page.

Startups...

I need some help with a startup. I'm thinking about contacting Jay Allison, the cofounder of Digg. I've had an idea for a while involving a project I created called Ezlo, the only problem is I'm 15 and have $1000 dollars to my name. So basically I'm stuck until I can talk to someone with a background in startup companies, I wonder who that could be... Jay Allison was the first person that came to mind.

I HATE THE HTC SENCE TOUCH INPUT KEYBOARD BTW.
Again, typed on my N1.

Drama in my life

Today was arguably the worst day of my life. If any laws remain in tact, it's definitely that of Murphy. Yes, anything and everything that could have gone wrong, did... Until I got to the mall. I wont bore you with the details, but after I went to grab some lunch, my entire day turned upside down. Around 3 o'clock central my parents and I took a trip to the mall of America to check out the newly released Microsoft Store. Of course, abiding by Murphy's Law, they started fighting. You would not believe how pissed off and uncomfortable I Wasatch the time; but after we got to the mall, everything just seemed to disappear. My parents stopped fighting, we got to the beautiful new Microsoft Store, everything was going well. While I was at the store, I got a chance to try out the new Windows Phone OS on an HTC HD7. And I'm not going to lie: it.was the greatest operating system for a mobile device I have ever seen. The system ran smoothly, everything worked sans the browser due to being near no connection points (T-mobile sucks ass). I loved the phone, I wanted to give the obscurely large black man showing it to me my phone in exchange for this wondrous new device. Alas, I could not. So I still have my Nexus One, running an incredibly outdated version of Sense UI not even.designed for the phone itself, and no way to connect it to the PC. Oh well, I'm nor in contract, so maybe I'll get one some day. I <3 4.3" screens. Also, while I was at the store, I was able to demo the $13,000 Surface computer. After that I headed over to the Apple Store (ironically placed directly across the hall) to check out the new Air. Later we went to a fabulous Italian restaurant where I enjoyed Chicken Parmasian and an amazing dessert called Affagato, which is burned carnal flavored gelato with a shot of mocha espresso on top. Wow! Then came the car ride home, which sucked, followed by the arrival to our home, which sucked, followed by me getting painfully sick and my dad not letting me stay Home tomorrow... In conclusion, the mall = great, everything else = epic suck.

And yeah, my parents sent me to bed early, so I was forced to blog this on my Nexus One. Damn you HTC!!!

I'm excited for the new Windows Phone

Honestly, I've been an Apple guy for years, but this June Apple pissed me off. They released the iPhone 4...

With the release of this seemingly beautiful device came many issues and disappointments, most of these from Steve himself. He seemed egotistical and overly-angry and his own customers. I've been examining him since he returned from treatment, nothing has been the same. I got a chance to have a question answered by Wozniak, the question was irrelevent, but the way he answered it really showed their differences.

While I still admire his ability to see genuinly amazing products, I'm sick of Jobs' attitude and feeling toward his primary audience. What really set me over the edge was his announcement of free bumpers, if you pay attention to his tone, you will understand.

So, on to the main idea of this post Windows Phone 7 was released recently, and I've been noticing some key things that would definitely make this a great platform. Yes, there is no cut and paste feature, but just look at iOS, it took years for that to come. Android, I beleive, has had cut and paste since the beginning, and of course I use Android, I love my Nexus One.

I haven't written in my Journal for a while...

...Is an example of a twitter post.

Seriously though, I have this great leather journal that I love to write in, but I've misplaced my pens and haven't been able to write. I'm thinking about buying a Cross Century Classic pen online and switching over to that permanently.

But right now I'm tired and will sleep.

Good night!

Random Epicness

I love how I started that last post talking about homework. In fact, the original title was Homework Sucks. I have no idea how that became a discussion about the Universe. Oh well, it was still pretty awesome!

Homework, the galaxy, and much much... not much else actually

Of course, as I have said before, homework isn't fun, but it is necessary. I still hate it though...

Today I have English, AP US History, and Math homework. Yay...

I'm not quite sure if you've noticed, but I keep ending my sentence paragraphs with...

So anyway --TEXT MESSAGE!--,ok, now that that's taken care of, I was thinking today about the vast expanses of the Universe (And whether I should capitalise the word Universe) If you lay it out simply, you've got Earth, one rocky chunk of abnormally perfect placement in the Sol system (In Lehman's terms the Solar System, the problem with this title is that there are in fact an endless number of solar systems in the Universe. So I will from now on refer to our solar system as Sol.) As I said, Earth is the ONLY planet perfectly placed (about 93,000,000 miles from Sol (again, for those of you that don't know, solar systems are named after their stars...), because of Sol's relative mass and the distance from Earth that it is located, Earth resides in what we call the Goldilocks Zone, or GZ. This term is used to describe the ideal area for life to exist on any particular planet in any particular system.

The problem with this --TEXT!-- is that only one planet may exist in such a zone in each system; unless (And I'm just guessing here), there were two planets that co-existed on exact opposite sides of the star, which had the exact same mass, and were the exact same distance from the star. Then they could possibly orbit their star without ever being aware of each other. Similar to a solar Eclipse, how Luna (our moon, get your names right people!) essentially blocks out Sol. Only this would be the star blocking out another celestial body (a planet, presumably), which would be MUCH smaller than the star, emitting little to no light reflection. But really, this idea would almost never function as a logical theory.

After the planets in the system (there are many, in Sol's case, 8), there are the stars themselves. Stars don't fall into a group smaller than a galaxy, but we can make this analogy: If there were a super-massive star that had quadrillions (and yes, that's a number [x*10^15 I believe])(Also, it is key to point out that I don't actually know how many stars there are in the average galaxy) of planets orbiting it, each planet simply not caring about the others, and not colliding due to their tremendous distance, than this would basically represent a galaxy, but in star system form. Anyway, there are many planets orbiting a star, there are certainly a massive number of stars orbiting a galactic core (which is just a huge clump of stars, most of which wouldn't support planets due to the fact that's they're all pretty much right next to each other), so what? What do galaxies orbit? Nobody's exactly sure on that, but I'm willing to guess that there is the PoC somewhere (Point of Creation), which all nebulae and galaxies revolve around, possibly even in varying directions. It is wise to not that moons orbit planets, planets orbit stars exponentially slower, stars orbit cores exponentially slower than that, and if galaxies orbit a PoC, they orbit so slow it may not even be noticeable at all, even over the course of a millennia.

So what have we gathered? moon, planet, star, galaxy, PoC. That equals Universe! Hurray!

Alright, time to do my homework...

Minecraft... AMAZING!!!

I recently purchased Minecraft, possibly the greatest homebrew PC game EVER made. You get dumped off with nothing, you make your way around this vast islandous world harvesting materials and building things. Then, night comes... Zombies, skeletons, and spiders come out from their dark slumber, their only mission: Kill you. If you die, you respawn back at the beginning, nothing is your inventory.

You learn to build, craft, and develope, throughout the course of this litterally endless game.

5 out of 5 stars.

So what is TheNumberSix all about?

TheNumberSix is the collection of ideas that pour out of my head.  Basically I write down anything I think about while I'm at the computer.  This is essentially a way to express my mind non-verbally.
I'm hoping to aquire a better address than thenumbersix.blogspot.com, but for now, that's all I have.  So far I have about 15 posts (I forget the actual ammount), and I plan to keep going until I reach 600.  At that point we'll see where I am, when it comes to buying a real domain.
Time for School, oh the joy.
Au Revoir!
(That last statement is ironic because French is the only class I don't have today!)

The Event

What is it exactly? Good question. I have no idea, but it is a decent show. I was going to watch it but I'm playing Minecraft instead (MUST REACH NEXT MOUNTAIN!!!!!)But I'll wastch it eventually.

Homework

Everyone in school knows that homework is the worst. It's time consuming, painful, and annoying. Although, many people don't realize the importance of such torure. It helps us practice or skills for one. Take Halo for example, if you never practiced with your DMR and you go straight into a match of SWAT, you're screwed. Now take this example and apply it to education: If you never practice your skill, be it Math, Science, or whatever you might have a significant educational standpoint on, and you go into a test, you're screwed.

So, what should we take away from this? PRACTICE YOUR GODDAMN DMR!

This new theme is kinda bland...

I just enabled a new design for this site, but it's pretty boring. It reminds me of Apple: grey, simplistic, etc.

I'll probably change this eventually. But that's all for today.

I think I'm going to Saw 3D

That's right, I believe that I should utilize my position as an employee at the theater to see Saw 3D with Andrew, early on Thursday.

Well, that's all for now.

Ubuntu 10.10 Finally works on my Latitude

After I got home today, and after a considerable time spent cooling down, my C640 finally decided to install Ubuntu Maverick without a hitch.  Well, okay, there was one hitch: After it finished I selected restart, and it hung at this purple page for about 6 minutes.  I finally decided to just do a hard reset.

Yes, it actually works.  I booted in and reset the roo password so I could do some serious moding.  For those of you that don't know how to change the root password:

sudo passwd root

Exactly like that, and yes, I know password is spelled wrong, that's what it requires for some reason.  This will thn prompt you to enter your password, followed by the desired root password, and a confirmation of the latter.

All in all, I am glad to get this OS up and running again, it's a decent build, and offers a lot of great UI choices.

Adios!

Latitudinal Error

I am outraged!  I was attempting to install a copy of Maverick this morning on my Dell Latitude C640 and the damn thing just won't boot!  I have no idea what's causing this; however, I intend to find out.

I tried installing this copy from the same DVD 4 times.
1. Worked like a charm.
2. Didn't even get passed the welcome screen.
3. Crashed due to an sda/dev1 error.
4. Thought my disk drive, hard driveand DVD were all faulty.

This is rediculous, I'm switching to a Mac.
/s

Inception

The idea, amazing.  The movie, even better.  No, this is not a review, but going to the movies tonight reminded me of the wonderfulness that is Inception.  I saw this movie twice over the Summer.  And personally, I thought it was THE BEST movie ever.  I gave it a 6 out of 5.  I'm not quite sure if you've figured this out yet or not, but I love The Number Six.

Retake?

So... I stomached that garbage again.  And I must say...

I LOVED IT!
NOT.

It was fun because I brought my best friend, but honestly, if they make another one of those horrible movies, I'll have to burn my photos of my step-aunt (PA2 reference).  The acting was dry, and the plot is a mess, but it did supply some good startles, Andrew and I both jumped at a few specific parts, namely the large activity in the kitchen, and the first loud noise.  Andrew had a great time, and we played some Gauntlet Legends, a game supplied by the theater, afterwords.

Exiting the auditorium, Andrew pointed out a wonderful question: What ever happened to the dog?  This really doesn't constitute a spoiler (mostly because there is not plot), but the dog was taken to the vet, and they said she was fine, but three weeks later, no dog!  We have no explaination for this since the family was fine for over 20 days!

Overall, I will alter my opinion on the movie by giving it 3 out of 5, this is my final review for Paranormal Activity 2.

The Sixth Post

I see dead webblogs...  They're everywhere...  They walk around (the internet) like everything else...  They don't even know they're blogs...

Android is Awesome

Of course, as the title implies, I love Android.  I'm currently running Sense UI on a Nexus One with MoDaCo's 2.1-update1 root access.

On the 22nd of October I followed a guide by http://theunlockr.com/ and succeded in Rooting my N1 with relative ease.  I proceded to flash the amon_RA Sense ROM.  I have to say, it's absolutely beautiful.

Off to the Movie... Again

Yes, I'm going to Paranormal Activity 2 again, this time with a different group, and hopefully it will be better.  I'll offer my revised opinion after the film.

See ya!

Paranormal Activity 2 Review

Alright, I'm going to lay this out plain and simple: This movie sucked.  I have seen the first installment in the series, and understood the references, but it still couldn't draw my attention.  I cannot believe that the producers didn't learn from the mistakes pointed out from the first movie.

For those of you that don't know, this is essentially a prequel to the first PA  It does a great job of elaborating on the storyline, that is to say, it added a storyline...

The movie starts off with a happy couple and the husband's daughter moving into a new house, accompanying them is Hunter, their new-born son.  I don't want to go into the story too much, to prevent from spoiling it, but I will say that Hunter is the first male born in their family line for quite a while.  In the first movie, the paranormal activity was explained as being via a demonic presence.  If you happen to know much about the occult yourself, you may have already figured out the ENTIRE story, otherwise, go ahead and see the movie, as long as you bring someone, it can be quite a fun experience.  The movie playing in the background just happens to suck.

Well, that's my review, I give this movie 2 stars out of 5.

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Until next time.

Randomness

I've recently been teaching myself HTML, not that anyone cares, but I think I'm doing pretty good when it comes to learning it.

I saw Paranormal Activity 2 on Saturday, I'll probably post a review of it.  I work at a Movie Theater, so I get to see movies for free!  In fact, I'm going to see that very same movie tonight with my friend, for free!  Just thought I'd share that.  By the way, seeing a movie twice for me doesn't mean I like it...

I'm not quite sure what to post in a blog, I've only had one other blog besides my twitter, and I basically copied Engadget posts.  Long story short, it sucked.  I just noticed that there is a "Labels" section in the post window.  I don't know why I would want to label it.  But, meh, I might as well find something to label these posts.


BTW: I suck at grammar, so...

Okay, that's all for now.

Ubuntu 10.10 has been installed!

Alright, this is my first post, and I wanted to talk about Ubuntu.  Yesterday I installed Ubuntu 10.10, Maverick Meerkat, on my old Dell Dimension 4550.  The OS runs like a dream, breathing new life into my old Dell.  I've implemented my custom Eterna "UI", which is basically just my own adjustments to the default Ubuntu UI, giving it more usable features.

I've also installed the Faenza theme for Gnome from here.  I love these icons and images.  So far, I've adjusted to the new system and may not go back to my Windows 7 Home Premium drive for a while; Although, when I fill up my 160 GB drive I might need to.

So, this post is simply an textual introduction to my work space.

I will probably be blogging frequently, but don't count on anything all that much.

~Kyralik