SO i'm telling you about myself.

              Foremost I spend a lot of my time on my computer. In the future I want to go to UBC and get a Bachelor of computer sciences. What job i will get after that? I do not know. I might end up getting a different degree but still one of the same subject. Such as software engineering. I am convinced that a world centered on computers in exactly what we are heading for. It is not hard to see. For years the pace at which computer technology has advanced has been at an incredible rate. The rate itself is increasing too, very quickly. Pretty much all science fiction would agree with me that computers will come to the forefront of each of our lives. That is after all the premise most of them are based on. Unless the world was destroyed by a nuclear winter or some other catastrophe in which survivors scrounge for resources like water on a radioactive wasteland filled with mutants and gangs of desperate young boys or marauding tribes which maybe have come to dominate entire regions which they call their own by the divine right of their leader Caesar which they pronounce like KAI-ZAR. Also their currency is bottle caps because that's what everyone uses on the wasteland. Anyway that is not as likely.

                My house has an amazing view of Skaha lake and to give you an idea of where is is situated, from it you can see tiny Penticton and just barely over top to see a little bit of Okanagan lake. Close by (less than a five minute walk) are the infamous diving cliffs. The highest of which are said to be 110 feet tall, but I've only jumped off the "60" as my highest. I am very uncertain as to he accuracy of any of the measurements of the jumps. They starts at 20 and raise in supposed intervals of 20 feet each until you get to the top where the last is only higher by 10. I am extremely skeptical of these measurements because the by my reckoning the difference between the 100 foot and the 110 foot is about 3 inches. -_- way to go guys. The other measurements are also obviously wrong because the 60 is probably less then 10 feet above the 40. The people who named them were probably drunk when they did it anyway. In the winter I ski a lot. I think this upcoming winter will be my 3rd or 4th seasons pass.

Would you choose to read another book with these same characters?

Yes, well I already have started but that is beside the point. The Eragon series has proven to be enthralling and extremely well written. I would recommend the books to anyone who has even the slightest interest in this sort of genre. I plan on finishing the entire long, long, long series. Even though the last book of the series, Inheritance is 1380 pages (I think). I don't even think I have the time or the dedication to get through it all but  still I will try. I have already slowed down the pace at which I was reading immensely as i moved from one book to the next as I had been reading an extreme amount in a short period of time and it starts to take it's toll after awhile. I'm pretty sure most people in the class are not done their under 300 page book while I am already finished my book which is 661 pages #notbragging. The series has so far captured my interest to continue whole heartedly and I believe it will continue to do so for the next two books. There are still many direction and diverging and converging plot lines that it is sure to keep me pulled in all the way to the end and I'm excited to get there.

Why I am glad I chose the book that I did.

        I chose to read Eldest by Christopher Paolini, the second book of the inheritance series which started with Eragon. This I have to do every day for the first fifteen minutes of English class everyday and even though many things tried to discourage me I am very happy with my choice. The first and definitely least effective discouraging factor in choosing which book to read was just how big it was. I would have preferred a smaller book. One that did not feel like it weighed 20 pounds, but I also wanted a story. A story that would last me awhile and one that was done well. Everything I had heard of the author, Christopher Paolini was very good. Everyone I knew had really enjoyed his books so I decided it would be my turn to give it a try, no matter how daunting of a task it looked. My younger brother said many more things that worried me. He said I would not understand anything that was going on in the book and that he himself had to go back and read the first book even after me and him bought and watched the movie for it together. He said he had no idea what was going on. He was wrong.

        The thing is everything he told me has proven untrue. I have always held over him that my memory far exceeds his but at risk of sounding like I'm gloating, I never really understood just how much better it was. Maybe the synopsis did all the work but when I started reading I could remember almost everything about the first book that was referred to. Even though it was years before my memory of the movie was very close to the recounting given in the synopsis and what details I needed to be told where also contained right there, in the synopsis. So far I have been very impressed with Mr. Paolini's tale of Eragon's journey to grow in magic, mind, and mettle. I am almost halfway through the book and still very excited to keep continuing. The book keeps switching to Eragon's cousin Roran who's story is almost just as enthralling at times. Sometimes I feel like I have started committing too much of my extra time to reading my book but I am enjoying it to much to truly take that into consideration.

If you could invent anything to help mankind what would it be?

Man kind has an obsession with the future and what it will bring. The thing is we will never reach the future. Ever. We have been eternally binded to the present and have no hope of escaping it's grip. Any wise man knows predicting the future is a fool's game so for 250 words I will make it my job to play the fool. This rock we call earth is doomed. We made sure of that a little bit ago when we committed to using almost every pollutant imaginable in excess. We drive cars all day, we dump tons of garbage in the ocean, we dig highly reactive metals out of the earth to power our cities which are filled with smog and sewage and other assorted waste. What we need is to not waste time trying to save this earth, oh no. Carpe Diem! live life to the fullest. What we need is to fly away, make our own world. Forget what we inherited and worry about what we create. It would be great if i could give my race the tools mold worlds but if there is one single thing we have the greatest need and the smallest progress toward it is space travel. I'm not talking about our access to our own orbit. I'm talking about our access to worlds far far away. Worlds are a rarity in our universe or planets, that is. I don't think scientists have ever found a solar system with anywhere near as many planets as our own. The thing about earth is it is located in a very special spot in relation to the sun. It sits perfectly inside this narrow orbital. This limits the amount of possible new worlds our race could potentially colonise incredibly. We already had a small pool, now we have remove any planets which are too far or too close to their sun. The closest planet which meets that criteria is an amazingly long distance away. So back to my point on what we need. Going to the closest planet to our own is a dream that is kind of far away. If i were to invent something for mankind it be something to enable them to be transported across great distances in order to create new environments worth living in.

Science fiction knows what i mean. Call it hyperspace, slip space, warp drive, mass relays, light speed or whatever. It all means the same thing. The ability to make the ship's engines take you far and away with few contextual problems. Giving this to my people would be a dream come true and solve every problem I would have envisioned us not being able to surmount. I would trust them to do a good enough job with the elimination process when looking for a suitable planet to host us and replace our forsaken old one. I would also trust them to find a way to build these ships themselves and make them able to transport millions of tons of supplies needed to fill a new world. I would trust them to strictly regulate this new world and I would trust them put my invention to use. All I need to do is give them the technology and all will be OK.

top 3 weapons list.

3. The missle - The missile is probably the most reliably destructive weapon mankind has designed ever. We have all sorts of different kinds of missles. From cheap rocket propelled grenades to nuclear explosions, you can find any sort of missle you can think of. We can design them to go 10 metres or 10,000 kilometres. Missles have become the focus of the next age of warfare. They are on every goverments mind and the goal is; make sure you have them and others don't.

2. The gun - Guns, guns, guns. Todays fights are all fought with guns and have been for a few hundred years now. From hunting in Minnesota to fire fights with the taliban in the middle east you will find a focus on guns. Never before has their been such a variety of one type of weapon. Every detail in each new gun is carefully thought out in order to reach optimal preformance in whatever the goal of the item is. If you are hunting a moose for instance you will need a larger caliber of bullet which means a larger barrel and then you have to put more consideration into how the gun will kick the operator, then when you go to hunt something (or someone) else you will have entirely different considerations put into play. The gun is a complicated balance between practicality and killing power.

1. The sword - No weapon has remained in prominence as long as the sword. It is actually still used for sport today in fencing. For thousands of years the sword was used in every army around the globe. You could go any where and find all different kinds of swords. From curved scimitars in ancient Persia to smaller falcions in rennasaince italy. We've yet to see a weapon with as long a lasting impact on culture and warfare as the sword.

The seige of Jerusalem

The siege of Jerusalem was a drawn out fight for control the city itself. In 66 A.D. Jerusalem declared independence from the Roman empire. Rome retaliated by sending three legions commanded the future emperor Titus and his future emperor son. The battle started in March and ended almost 6 months later in September. Jerusalem is a city built on multiple mountains and with many walls. Titus had to breach three different walls to get into the core of the city and the peculiar thing about this conflict was the many breaks between the fighting. The thought of the city falling silent after days of battle cries and yelling is what interests me here. To walk among the wounded soldiers confident in their faith, hopeful of the future, worried about the Romans as their ready themselves building more siege equipment to bring down the remaining walls, resting in the shade, but I would know the truth about their upcoming damnation. To see the soldiers desperate to protect the temple, yet so hopeless in the face of the Roman military machine.