Intro to Programming in Alice 3 (1 of 7): Adding Objects

Alice 3

Alice is a freeware object-based programming educational programming language with an integrated development environment. Alice allows you to create your own personal world by using cartoons and animated characters. You can use different animated animals and props to create the scene that you want. You can make the characters talk and move to look like an actual scene from a game or movie. Alice 3 is a fun learning tool that helps master computer technology.

Elder game

The elder game was developed by a big time game designer named Eric Heimburg. He started out as an engineer for massive networked simulation software. After many years of engineering experience, he applied to Turbine Entertainment, where he spent the next five years. He began there as an engineer, but after a while he was asked to be the effective Producer for the Asheron’s Call 2 post-ship team. The AC2 live team was small, so he got to do everything, from production planning to coding to design. Here he found a real love of game systems design and balancing. He took the role of lead systems designer for the  AC2 expansion, “AC2: Legions”, which was very well received by players. Since then, Eric has been an engineer and designer on projects both large and small. Most recently he has been creating games for the casual market, but his true passion remains in massive gaming. A game created by the Elder game is called project Gorgon. Project Gorgon is a new approach to MMO's(massively multiplayer online game), it's not just a game, but a virtual world. This game is a game about exploration and it rewards players who try new things but it also has story lines that you can follow. The Gorgon project is a very realistic looking game but it is a mythical type of game.

How to Break in a Baseball Glove | The Art of Manliness

How to break in a baseball glove

On the website artofmanliness.com, it demonstrates many examples of what you need to be a real man and how to be a real man. One example that caught my eye was how to break in a baseball glove. Their first step was to put hot water in the pocket of the baseball glove. When the glove is still wet, pound it with a baseball to form the pocket. Next they say to put the baseball where you want the pocket to be formed and tie it with a belt and leave it for a few hours in a warm, dry area. When the glove is still damp, do some more pounding and also play lots of catch. Some things you shouldn't do to break in the glove is put it in the oven, run over it with a car, or put too much oil on it. The way I like to break in my glove is to just play a lot of catch. I don't like using those other techniques because it doesn't usually break in my glove the way I want it to.

Google interns' first week

Google

Google is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software. Most of its profits are from AdWords, an online advertising service that places advertising near the list of search results.Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares but control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. Its mission  was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."

Jeep Company

Jeep is a brand of American automobiles that is a division of FCA US LLC (formerly Chrysler Group, LLC), an entirely  owned subsidiary of Fiat Chrysler Automobile. The former Chrysler Corporation acquired the Jeep brand, along with the remaining assets of its owner American Motors, in 1987. Jeep's current product range consists solely of sport utility vehicles and off-road vehicles, but has also included pickup trucks in the past.

 The original Jeep was the prototype Bantam BRC. Jeeps went into production in 1941 specifically for the military, arguably making them the oldest four-wheel drive mass-production vehicles now known as SUVs. The Jeep became the primary light 4-wheel-drive vehicle of the United States Army and the Allies during World War II, as well as the postwar period. The most popular Jeeps sold today are the Grand Cherokee, Wrangler, and Cherokee.

2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee, Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, Jeep Cherokee

My Weekend

On Friday i left school early because i was not feeling too good. I went home and took a nap for three hours and when i woke up i was feeling fine. At about five o'clock me, my brother and my two friends went down to the street hockey rink with pucks and plexi glass. We shot pucks for about an hour and a half and then we headed to D' Angelo's to get some grub. On Saturday, I woke up watched some TV and played some video games. In the afternoon i went to Sullies to get some food with my family. Later that night, me and my friends hoped on the train and headed downtown to see the movie Get Hard at Loews Theater. We saw the 8 o'clock movie and it wasn't as funny as i expected it to be but all in all it was a fun night.
 

St. Patrick's Day parade in Southie

The parade begins at the Broadway 'T' Station and ends at Andrew Square, South Boston. Your best bet for viewing the parade is to stake out anywhere along Broadway. Marchers continue to Telegraph St to Dorchester St ending at Andrew Square.Parade starts at 1:00 pm. and will feature marching bands and pipe bands from throughout North America. The parade travels through South Boston  which is Boston's most Irish neighborhood.Since 1901 this parade has become a prominent part of South Boston's history.

American Sniper

American Sniper

American Sniper is a movie directed by Clint Eastwood that plays in theaters everywhere January 16, 2015. It is about the most decorated sniper in American history: Chris Kyle.Christopher Scott "Chris" Kyle (April 8, 1974 – February 2, 2013) was a United States Navy SEAL, and the self-proclaimed most lethal sniper in U.S. military history. No sniper has a higher kill count. Chris Kyle has 160 confirmed kills out of 255 probable kills. These claims are based on individual shooter logs, filled out at the end of a mission, and reported by higher command. U.S. Special Operations Command treats sniper kill counts as unofficial.

Kyle served four tours in the Iraq War and was awarded several commendations for acts of heroism and service in combat. He received two Silver Star Medals, five Bronze Star Medals, one Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, and two Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals. Kyle claimed that Iraqi insurgents called him the "Devil of Ramadi" and placed a bounty on his head. He was wounded twice and involved in six IED attacks.

Kyle was honorably discharged from the US Navy in 2009. He remained in the spotlight after leaving the Navy and wrote a bestselling autobiography, American Sniper. Kyle was shot and killed at a shooting range on February 2, 2013, near Chalk Mountain, Texas, along with friend Chad Littlefield. The man accused of killing them is awaiting trial for murder.