Haha. The title of this blogpost is EPIC.
Anyway, here is just a youtube video of Indus Valley's amazing sailboat :D
Thank you Livy, Canek and Diego for working together to build this boat. Indus Valley pwned.
(And thank you Jeffery for giving me the song used in the video.)
And thank you Taylor for hauling our boat into the bay and chasing it when it was sailing away.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
Lol. Laugh Out Loud. Lawl.
First off, I would like to thank my friend Brandon for showing me this.
This is absolutely hilarious. Try it with your blogs! You can use other types of "Dialects" for your blog.
http://rinkworks.com/dialect/dialectp.cgi?dialect=jive&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tayloritablog.blogspot.com%2F
Funny stuff. Haha.
This is absolutely hilarious. Try it with your blogs! You can use other types of "Dialects" for your blog.
http://rinkworks.com/dialect/dialectp.cgi?dialect=jive&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tayloritablog.blogspot.com%2F
Funny stuff. Haha.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Gates of Fire and the Taco Song?!
This is for Livy :P
Ok, while we were reading Gates of Fire, we saw the quote on page 322: "No horses or beaters, just two dogs per man." And we both started LAUGHING. It reminded us of our inside joke called the Taco Song :)
Literature is awesome :D.....especially when it makes you laugh!
This is also to introduce the Taco Song and its awesomeness :D
Ok, while we were reading Gates of Fire, we saw the quote on page 322: "No horses or beaters, just two dogs per man." And we both started LAUGHING. It reminded us of our inside joke called the Taco Song :)
Literature is awesome :D.....especially when it makes you laugh!
This is also to introduce the Taco Song and its awesomeness :D
Dialectic Journals for books 7 and 8
Book 7
Page 318: "Leonidas offered the parties wine from his personal store and poured the libations from his own plain cup. He addressed each man , squires not included, not by his name, but by his nickname, and even the diminutive of that. He called Doreion "Little Hare", the Knights play name from childhood. Dekton he addressed not as Rooster, but "Roo," and touched him with tendermess upon the shoulder."
I remember when Charlotte was talking about this moment in class. It's a small paragraph, but it has a lot of meaning. Like Charlotte said, King Leonidas knows so much about his men, that he knows there childhood names. Not only that, but he refers to them by their childhood names. Now how cool is that! If Leonidas knows there childhood names, it means that he obviously has the means trust and cares for them. He doesn't act superior among them, instead he blends in with them. Leonidas is probably a role for the spartan warriors. I personally would like to be called my childhood name by my teachers or friends. It shows they know me.
Page 333: "The opposite of fear," Dienekes said, "is love."
When I read this, I had no clue what they meant. I personally thought that the opposite of fear is courage, bravery, or fearlessness. I thought about that quote and how it related to the story. What I determined is that their love for fighting for Sparta over powered their fear and that's what lead to there incredible patriotism. That's why they were so strong against an army that was much much larger than theirs.
It might also be one of those "love conquers all" things. I'm not really sure, but I will stick with my first statement.
I remember when Charlotte was talking about this moment in class. It's a small paragraph, but it has a lot of meaning. Like Charlotte said, King Leonidas knows so much about his men, that he knows there childhood names. Not only that, but he refers to them by their childhood names. Now how cool is that! If Leonidas knows there childhood names, it means that he obviously has the means trust and cares for them. He doesn't act superior among them, instead he blends in with them. Leonidas is probably a role for the spartan warriors. I personally would like to be called my childhood name by my teachers or friends. It shows they know me.
Page 333: "The opposite of fear," Dienekes said, "is love."
When I read this, I had no clue what they meant. I personally thought that the opposite of fear is courage, bravery, or fearlessness. I thought about that quote and how it related to the story. What I determined is that their love for fighting for Sparta over powered their fear and that's what lead to there incredible patriotism. That's why they were so strong against an army that was much much larger than theirs.
It might also be one of those "love conquers all" things. I'm not really sure, but I will stick with my first statement.
Book 8
Page 360: "In the final moments before the actual commencement of people, when the lines of the Persians and Medes and Sacae, the Bactrians and Illyrians, Egyptians and Macedonians, lay so close across from the defenders that their individual faces could be seen, Leonidas moved along the Spartan than Thespian foreranks, speaking with each platoon commander individually. When he stopped beside Dienekes, I was close enough to hear his words.
'Do you hate them, Dienekes?' the king asked in the tone of a comrade, unhurried, conversational, gesturing to those captains and officers of the Persians proximately visible across the oudenos chorion, the no-mans-land.
Dienekes answered at once that he did not. 'I see faces of gentle and noble bearing. More than a few, I think, whom one would welcome with a clap and a laugh to any table of friends.'"
Oh my goodness. That was an intense moment. Dienekes is probably getting that horrible feeling of killing innocent people who are great friends and great men. Knowing that good men are fighting and you could possibly murder them is a stab in the guts. This part of the book just spoke to me. Either kill people you know are good men? or fight for your civilization? It's one of those decisions that no matter what you will feel bad about it in the end possibly. But, this also shows that the Spartans aren't ruthless killers. They were intelligent people who had feelings and dedication. Sparta rules :)
Page 364-365: "The ear could hear His Majesty bawling orders, so near at hand ranged he upon his chariot. Was he calling in his foreign tongue for his men to cease fire, to capture the final defenders alive? Were those to whom he cried the marines of Egypt, under their captain, Ptammitechus, who spurned their monarchs order and rushed in t0 gift what Spartans and Thespaians they could reach with the final boon of death? It was impossible to see or hear within the tumult. "
You can imagine by these few sentences what is going on. It's a turmoil, a large stream of clashes. Later on page 365 it says: "...overwhelmed by the insuperable onslaught of heaven."
Ok, it's official. Gates of Fire was very INTENSE. This should be called the Gates of Intensiveness. It describes the madness going on. I really like the onslaught of heaven. Two words that stand out. Heaven, a place of peace. Onslaught, brutal attacks. Oxymoron!
This event reminds me of the black Friday riots. The screams and voices of desperate shoppers roared the malls, and someone was killed from their stampede.
'Do you hate them, Dienekes?' the king asked in the tone of a comrade, unhurried, conversational, gesturing to those captains and officers of the Persians proximately visible across the oudenos chorion, the no-mans-land.
Dienekes answered at once that he did not. 'I see faces of gentle and noble bearing. More than a few, I think, whom one would welcome with a clap and a laugh to any table of friends.'"
Oh my goodness. That was an intense moment. Dienekes is probably getting that horrible feeling of killing innocent people who are great friends and great men. Knowing that good men are fighting and you could possibly murder them is a stab in the guts. This part of the book just spoke to me. Either kill people you know are good men? or fight for your civilization? It's one of those decisions that no matter what you will feel bad about it in the end possibly. But, this also shows that the Spartans aren't ruthless killers. They were intelligent people who had feelings and dedication. Sparta rules :)
Page 364-365: "The ear could hear His Majesty bawling orders, so near at hand ranged he upon his chariot. Was he calling in his foreign tongue for his men to cease fire, to capture the final defenders alive? Were those to whom he cried the marines of Egypt, under their captain, Ptammitechus, who spurned their monarchs order and rushed in t0 gift what Spartans and Thespaians they could reach with the final boon of death? It was impossible to see or hear within the tumult. "
You can imagine by these few sentences what is going on. It's a turmoil, a large stream of clashes. Later on page 365 it says: "...overwhelmed by the insuperable onslaught of heaven."
Ok, it's official. Gates of Fire was very INTENSE. This should be called the Gates of Intensiveness. It describes the madness going on. I really like the onslaught of heaven. Two words that stand out. Heaven, a place of peace. Onslaught, brutal attacks. Oxymoron!
This event reminds me of the black Friday riots. The screams and voices of desperate shoppers roared the malls, and someone was killed from their stampede.
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