The wish list of Little Man

Well, Christmas season is upon us. It becomes apparent right about now, when everyone's wishlist is stuck of on the fridge and flying around email.

My favorite has to be my little brothers- for the last two years now, his lists have just made my minute whenever I read them. Its a little time capsule of who he is at the moment- his quirky sense of humor, his optimistic look on life and his creativity, untouched by the critical mind of adulthood, or even "the big kids" world.

Below is his list, republished with permission:

1. Webkinz (a bunny would be nice, but any other one is okay too)
2. L'ilkinz (a black cat would be nice, but any other one is okay too)
3. Mobile Devastator (Lego set)
4. Aero Booster (Lego set)
5. Blade Titan (Lego set)
6. Cyclone Defender (Lego set)
7. Sky Guardian (Lego set)
8. Golden Guardian (Lego set)
9. Rollercoaster Tycoon (1)
10. Rollercoaster Tycoon 3D
11. Another Golden Guardian (cause in the comics there are like, 21 Golden Guardians…. it's really cool. So please, if you can-if you have enough money…uh…get me 21 Golden Guardians? Heh heh…Please?)
12. Five cinnamon sugar pretzels from Sam's Club and 5 salt ones…please.
13. Blazing Falcon (Lego set)
14. $50
15. Laptop
16. Tough Book
17. Candy Corn
18. Candy
19. Freezer
20. Couch
21. Ice cubes
22. Cups
23. Water
24. Fruit
25. Wood
26. Screws
27. A Designing room right next to Zeke and my room
28. Six birds
29. Five dogs
30. Two cats
31. Five Hamsters
32. Eight horses
33. One acre of land [Editors Note: Getting into real estate already? This kids a genius. I wish I could get him this...]
    
34. Hay
35. A pond
36. Paper
37. Markers
38. Trees
39. Giraffes
40. Zebras
41. Monkeys
42. Bird seed
43. Monkey bars
    
44. Fences
45. Telegraph
46. Batteries
47. Pencils
48. Wires
49. Insulators
50. Conductors
51. Paper clips
52. Computer
53. Rollercoaster simulator
54. Everything simulator, made by drawn pictures seen by mirrors make the picture move in front of you moved by motors
55. Bricks and cement
56. Nails (not like fingernails)
57. Tissue box
58. Table
59. Chairs
60. Tank (like an aquarium-about 500 feet long and tall)
61. 100 Goldfish
62. 50 sea monkeys
63. Bible (Just in case I lose my other one)
64. Map of Londonderry and Manchester in one
65. Underground tunnel to Andrew's house, Andrew's house, Andrew's house, and church [Editors note: Little man has three friends named Andrew. He never grows tired of how funny that is.]
    
66. CRZ (when I am old enough to drive I can drive it!) [Editors note: Takes after his brother when it comes to taste in cars it seems!]
    
67. Helicopter
68. 50 RAMS
69. 1 3D card (for a computer)
70. 2 extra motherboards
71. 10 speakers
72. 1 that controls the sound for each speaker with a paper clip and two slots-one for input and two to left and right speakers
73. Keyboard and mouse

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Hope you enjoyed his list as much as I did...man I love that kid.

The infamous SB 268

(This is Little Man hamming up for the crowd control. Just kidding.)

Today I went over to Concord to protest SB 268 with some others from the home school gang. SB 268, for those who do not know, is a bill that would hike the mandatory age for attending high school from 16 to 18. It also has a lot of negative effects on current home school law.

Anyway, the protest was great. We had probably about 30 people or so, spread out all around the main building where the representatives were going in to vote on the bill today. It has already passed the house, but we have a real chance of getting it killed or brought to further discussion with the representatives. I only have the above pic of Little Man because, even though I brought my camera, I was to stupid to remember to take pictures with it... we had a lot of fun anyway though. New Hampshire is so cool- we have a house of representatives second only to the Brit's house of commons and most of them are very approachable. We had a lot of reps tell us that they were going to vote no on the issue, and we even had a few who were undecided come up to us and ask what are reasons were. Most people are cool like that in the house- they only get paid something like $100 plus parking, so they are not really career politicians.

We should be able to find out what happened with the bill later today. Stay tuned...
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UPDATE: The bill has been rejected by the house! Read about it on WMUR. Congratulations to everyone involved!

Lynch is not happy with this at all of course, and neither are a few reps. They have tried to make it look like the house has "given up" on the problem. One of them vowed to get it passed, possibly by sneaking it into another bill. So... looks like we might have a fight on our hands. All I can say is...

BRING IT ON!

New theories of flight: Why didn't I think of that?

This is my brother:



For a period of several days, he continually badgered me about putting up a full description of his craft and it's technological and scientific break throughs. Many an occasion he would come up to me, and with out context start telling me new features of his creation or of motifications to its principles of operation. He wanted for me to be sure to pass them on.

However, so fast is my brother's pace of innovation that I felt hard pressed to keep up. By the time he had atempted to retrofit an electric motor from a totally un-lego toyset onto the orginal body, and to make it spin the propeller by a series of ad-hoc gears, the new creation shared few simularities with the one I had photographed earlier. I checked just now and he has a winged lego creation on his mantle right now, but it is something totally other then what he had made before.

I do think though, that his creation and new discoveries were so amazing that I must put to record what they were, before it is too late. Humanity deserves it.

Let us start off with an illustration of this rocket-sled-plane juggernaut:



















First of all, as you can see, this thing is more loaded the a B-52. There are your normal everyday type of guns- the ones for shooting frontways. He's got lots of those- but of course, he also has guns for shooting directly above you. You know the circles at the bottom of legos? Yeah- in his creation, those are guns, too- for shooting people below you.

Her

Before I go on to the new laws of airflow, I have to emphasize how cool my brother's dual gun is- yeah, not only does it shoot bullets out the center, but lazers out the middle. Can your gun do that? I didn't think so.

Allright, now we get down to the real revolutionary bits of this thing. Noctice the two peices marked "Air Deflector" and "Air trap"? These work as such:

When in Normal flight, the air hits the flat up and down part of the air deflector. This causes it to go almost straight up till it hits a cloud- the air then bounces back down and flows over the wing, generating lift. This is the first aircraft to ever be flown based upon this priniple by the way- we are truly breaking new ground- err, air. Cloud deflection- who would of thunk it?!? Its genius!

The slanty part of the air deflector is for landing. Now this is clever- When you need to land, do you slow down? WRONG! You speed up! Why? Well, you see, as you speed up the air is forced over the slanted part of the air deflector, which pushes it up into the Air trap. The air trap is kind of like a parachute- if you enough air in it at the right speeds, POOF! You slow down extremely fast. And so, when making a landing, you full throttle this little baby until air starts flowing into the air trap and BAM! Your landing light as a feather, nice and easy like.

I thought all of this very clever, though when my brother disccused it with me, I asked him if the idea of a valve or flap in front of the air trap may make things easier. He said "Yeah, I was thinking of that." I think it was I who pointed out to him that if your taking off, you would get air in the air trap. He must have been thinking of this all day, for that night as I was trying to get sleep he suddenly shouted out an idea he had. It went something like this:

Little man:"Zeke! Zeke!!"
Me: "eurghhg, mubgph.
Little man: "Zeke!
Me: "Aughhdmgpph... what?"
Little man: "You know how yike (my brother's way of saying like) if you were trying to take off-"
Me: "Wait, dude... is this about the rocket-sled?"
Little man: "Yeah!"
Me: "Ok..."
Little man: "Well, you know how yike if you are trying to take off you are speeding up and speeding up and speeding up?"
Me: "Yeah.."
Little man: "Well actually if I had the air go up like that it would not work. It would not, because it would be like woOop-EIErrn! It would be like speed slow down so it would not take off."
Me: "Yeah, ok..."
Little man: "Well actually, you know how it yeally (thats my bro's way of saying 'really') would take off then? You know those guns on the bottom that can shoot people? Well actually, those would just all shoot at the same time yeally yeally hard and so it would get up into the air, then it would fly."
Me: "Good idea little man- now I want to go to bed. Its ten o-clock."

Topics topics everywhere, but not a drop to post?

So I didn't expect this happening...

Right now I have three really good things to blog about. I want to do them all justice, but alas, I am a lazy butt.

First of all let me apologize in advance to Anders and anyone else who is still part of the dial-up sufferage- there is alot of pictures here. Here is a tidbit of each of them, and because, as I have mentioned before, I am a lazy butt, this may be all you get. Dissapointed? Well then, beg for more.

Ok, foist of all.... I had aLLLOOT of fun fixing my friends computer...


Yeah... thats on MY computer.... The malware was amazingly agile. Mind you, I had TWO antivirus programs on the computer to stop them from even getting that far in the first place.
This story I suppose would be called "The computer from Hell" or "Galen's Bane" or maybe something like "#@#$%#&$ VIRUSES!" if it had a title. The story it amazing, even though I won in the end... albiet a bit battered, but I won none the less. I have to write this one up later, even if it is just for my own theriputic reasons...

Other good story is of my brothers creation:



This is Little Man's "Flying Rocket-sled-ship". Quite a mouthful, but it well deserves its title. This thing has it all- Shields, machine guns, lazers, redundant gas tanks (and gas tank bombs). My brother's brain has the most amazing blend of imagination and engineering. The best feature of this aircraft is probably its aerodynamic design- no, really. My brother explained to me all about the airflow and how it worked- I think he even taught me some things I didn't know about lift. I'll tell 'em to you later, if I get a chance, as well as give you an entire description of its features and which bricks do which.

Well its hard to top that, but this is something I'm kinda proud of:


My new case! (Thanks Mr. Deer!)

I got that thing wired up last night... though one of the Front usb ports I messed up on.

Oi, so ends my oversized post. If you guys want any more of these stories, either pay me one low monthly rate of $14.95 for the extra content plus a Uttereast.blogspot.com mug, or show me some love in the comments.

----Me.