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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

i really hope you feel better

i really hope you feel better

get well #2

If knowing that someone cares
helps the healing process...
...then you should be
feeling better already.

Get Well Soon

get well soon #1

Warning:
The Surgeon General
has determined...
that illness
is bad for your health!

Get Well Soon

Monday, May 24, 2010

pissed

ok so now im on this laptop trying to do my homework and my dad is starting to act like a(n) a** for no reason!!! he signed me off of blogger for i dont know what reason and then he comes in here and im signing back on and he said and i quote *u kno wat? sign me off, do whatever* and for wat?
he actually thought i was on zwinky!!! really? do i look that immature???

Saturday, May 22, 2010

information about china and gun powder and thingys.

Like the idea of zero, gunpowder developed gradually over time. In 142 AD, during the Han Dynasty, a man named Wei Boyang was the first to write anything about gunpowder. He wrote about a mixture of three powders that would "fly and dance" violently. We aren't sure that he meant gunpowder, but that's the only explosive that uses three ingredients that we know of. He may have been a Taoist trying to find a potion to let you live forever.

By 300 AD, a Chin dynasty scientist named Ge Hong had certainly written down the ingredients of gunpowder and described the explosion. Scientists made gunpowder by mixing sulfur, charcoal, and saltpeter, or potassium nitrate. You get sulphur by mining it out of the ground, where it exists naturally as a yellowish rock. You can make potassium nitrate, or saltpeter, by taking animal manure and letting it sit around for a while and decay. Then potassium nitrate crystals formed in the manure, and you could drain them off by washing water through the manure pile. You mix the three powders together, using about fifteen parts of saltpeter to three parts of charcoal and two parts of sulphur. The reason gunpowder explodes is that it burns very fast, and when it burns it releases gases that are bigger in volume than the original powder (just the way steam is bigger than water is).

But it was under the rule of the T'ang Dynasty, about 700 AD, that people really began to use gunpowder. T'ang Dynasty emperors used gunpowder to put on great fireworks displays. By 904 AD, Chinese inventors saw that you could also use gunpowder for a powerful weapon. First the army used gunpowder in the form of rockets. They put small stone cannonballs inside bamboo tubes and shot the cannonballs out by lighting gunpowder at one end. This is the same idea that makes guns and cannons work today.

The Chinese emperors tried to keep their discovery secret, but by the 1100's AD their secret had gotten out, and people in the Islamic Empire and then the Roman Empire began to understand how to use gunpowder for weapons. After that, it wasn't long before people in Europe also learned how to use gunpowder. We aren't sure exactly how they found out, but it might have something to do with the Third Crusade. By 1216 AD, a monk named Roger Bacon in England described gunpowder as a weapon. He thought of it as something that came from foreign places.

Friday, May 21, 2010

i dont love you

Well, when you go,
So never think I'll make you turn to stay.
And maybe when you get back,
I'll be off to find another way.

When after all this time that you still owe,
You're still the good-for-nothin', I don't know.
So take your gloves and get up,
Baby, get up
While you can!

When you go,
Would you even turn to say,

"I don't love you
Like I did
Yesterday!"?

Sometimes I'll cry so hard from pleading,
So sick and sad of all the needless beating.
But baby, when they knock you
Down and out,
It's where you oughta stay.

And after all the blood that you still owe
Another dollar's just another blow.
So fix your eyes and get up,
Baby, get up
While you can!

Whoa, who-o-oaha-ha!
When you go,
Would you even turn to say,

"I don't love you
Like I did
Yesterday!"?

Well, come on, come on!

When you go,
Would you have the guts to say,

"I don't love you
Like I loved you
Yesterday-hay-hay!"? Oh-oh!

"I don't love you
Like I loved you
Yesterday-hay-hay!"

"I don't love you
Like I loved you
Yesterday!"