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Math

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
Is there a point to learning new things? Every time i learn something new i forget what we just learned before hand. This gets much more confusing in calculus where everything i ever forgot comes back to bite me in the ass.

Musical

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​.......... I truly am at a loss for words, I ran out of stories i wanted to talk about a few weeks back and these posts are getting harder for me............. Also today was interesting. 
title only happens to be musical because i'm listening to music at the moment.

Capstone

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​It's been established that my artists won't be able to draw what I originally intended by the deadline. So i'm gonna finish out my script till the end of the first arc and make a presentation for that and the pages that are already done (and those that will be done by that point.

Crazy Lady

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​Crazy is in the eye of the beholder and isn't something I normally say with seriousness. There is a woman however who I see on the trolley almost every day in the same spot. To many of the people who take the 34 she is well known. She talks to herself asks for quarters and rambles about many things including but not limited to race,religion,hats,dogs,robins, and shoes.

Portalness

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​Por0   0tal 2 will be mine today. I'm excited, I got all my homework done in advance and my artist will be there so he can continue work on the comic drawings (i'm paying him with food)  Life is good my friends, life is good.

Dread

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​I have a feeling of dread and I can't figure out the cause. I feel like i'm forgetting something extremely but for the life of me can't discern what it is. It's slowly driving me insane. I want to lay down and stop thinking about things that matter but the nagging in the back at my head at this unknown problem is consuming.

Radio

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​Fake radio to be precise, i've taken to loading recordings of talk radio from the gta series because on a level it's fairly entertaining to listen to it while doing other things. The events that take place on these programs is much more... unrealistic then what would happen in reality.

I am bad at being quiet

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​I'm in the day of silence thing (draw attention to bullying of LGBT) Last year i  didn't do it and this year i figured i'll try. I haven't broken yet but soon i shall scream, maybe after leave the building. I'm not gay/bi/tran and that doesn't matter. No one should be bullied for being a different race or a different gender or for having different beliefs or for being gay. We're all human after all and to each their own.

Calc Quiz

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​For once I don't think i bombed a math quiz, it's an awesome feeling. On top of that and on an unrelated note I get to go on a trip up the mountains tomorrow and that should be awesome too. I need to use the word awesome some more, I MUST FIND MORE AWSOME THINGS!!!

Mountains

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​I'm going on a trip up the mountains with friends over spring break. It is going to be awesome. Speaking of which, if  I for some reason don't come back and my fear of nature turns out to be my undoing, I love you all.



(it's just so damn quiet at night, it's unsettling).

Night Run

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
We made a quick run to Cvs tonight, i'm in a strange and hyper place that may or may not be medicine or lack there of related. annnnyway I ended up sprinting past patricia at break neck speeds (did i say that right?) and she caught up with me later.

Freshman

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
There is a nameless freshman that annoys the living hell out of me and I have to grit my teeth because there is no malice or ill will behind any of his extremely annoying actions, he doesn't take hints to stop and any sort of sarcasm seems to bounce off. I wish i was evil, it would make life so much easier. 

Dreaming.

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​What i can assume was monday night I had the type of dream where you keep waking up inside the dream. I woke up about 50 times and went through at least three school days within this time. Many strange things happened and it was one of the worst nights of sleep i've had in a while. Also for about a day i was convinced i was still dreaming.... might still be dreaming.

Story Update/call for volunteers (the ones who already said they would help/anyone new)

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
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Behold the face of Ryan Prescot. This is his facebook picture and it will most likely remain his facebook picture for the duration of the story. First real event happens tonight, for anyone who said they would help me either be online tonight or (find ryandepantelones@aol.com and send a friend request/ between 6:30 tonight and 6:00  tomorrow i need you to go on his wall and congragulate him for catching the game winning ball in the football game that totally happened at 6:00 pm.) (you go to Blackwood high in Blackwood P.A) (no this place is not real) (don't put yourself in New Jersy's Blackwood high by mistake.)

Afraid of the Dark.

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​When I was younger we lived in the suburbs (not a good neighborhood but we had a yard). When it came time to take the trash out i was always terrified. The lack of noise and the total lack of light made going to get the trash cans from the side of the house terrifying. I tell you this story so i can tell you another one. My grandpa leaves tools around my house all the time because he works in the city and needed somewhere nearby to store the bigger things. While i was getting the trash one night by grandpa grabbed my shoulder and I panicked. i elbowed my grandpa in the rib and sprinted into the house. My dad went out after I came running in and walked in a few minutes later with my grandpa, my dad found it funny.

Ryan Prescot

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​He now has an account on Facebook and i'm in the progress of populating his wall with many friends. he plays Mafia Wars a lot. My sister made an account for this and enrolled herself in a real Blackwood High school group, she currently has friends from the real Blackwood.

Revelation

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
I've figured out that I can actually accomplish the math benchmark. I don't have to run away to an undisclosed island in the ocean now o happy days........... I really do need to find my pills in all seriousness though.

Age Of writing

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​I've recently started convincing people to play Age of Empires 2. this is problematic because i'm doing it during times (where i told myself earlier in attempts to rationalize goofing off) i'm supposed to be working. Also I won't be in english today because of a dentist appointment, someone tell Mr.Chase

Unsure

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​I've noticed a distinct lack of confidence in anything presented. Regardless of the audience or the field i always seem to feel un prepared and or dis heartened with the feeling that my work is somehow sub par to the other work being presented. I need to work on that.

A Character

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
To an author, a character is real. Their life their story their actions are as real as what anyone else does, the only diffrence is that what they do doesn't physically act on our world. It works in a diffrent world that again is just as real as ours.

Regret

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
storytelling today dredged up memories, memories of my one true regret. I'm not in a good enough place to talk about it now that it has just been brought up again but by the time I come up in story slam i should be.

Winning

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​Unfortunately I must bring up the train wreck that is Charlie Sheen. It astounds me how much money he has made spouting complete nonsense. If i can get radio access maybe i should randomly shout crazy things for profit.

Indignation

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​Is the emotion i got for the English story. From what Chase told me about my story it seems i developed the Narrators personality much more then i did the actual character. Now in my attempts to infuse his sarcastic comments into Ryan's boring life it's reminded me why i hate writing about people with boring perfect lives, it's harder to pick at them.

Progress

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​We are making progress on my capstone now which is great news. I have the first 6 pages of the script done and the artists have started drawing the actual pages. I have character sketches I can upload here. I can't show the finished pages because they are getting scanned and I don't have access to them.


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Hard Gets easy.

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​The more you do something the easier it gets, that being said playing the game I was playing on Insanity is now getting easier. I develop strategies now, do less stupid things, and work with the allies more effectively. I'm no longer crying in frustration.

Insanity

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​Gaming is an odd thing. You use a product for entertainment that gives ridiculous amounts of frustration. I've recently started playing a fairly good game on the hardest difficulty. I've been keeping track of how many times i've died in the game since starting. 79 deaths later and i'm still playing with no intention of quitting, regardless of how many times I have to replay the same god damn fight. 

Students Run

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​First practice in a new season. Some new people ran today and I will admit not running since November has taken it's toll. It was fun though and Beth came too, her experience was different from mine, see Beth's post for details.

A good book... sort of

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​Last night I went on a binge of a 1479 page long webcomic. i read the story from start to finish andIi throughly enjoyed it. for being a story taking place in medieval europe not one main character died, not even the villains, and the entire thing took place within wars.

Recruitment

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
I've spent the last few days trying to get people to join Student's run Philly style as we are starting up and we like to start with a large amount of people. I've got a freshman so far and i'm fairly sure i can get more people. on another note STUDENT'S RUN PHILLY STYLE free hoodies,free running shoes (running shoes are 80$ you get them for free) free shirts, shiny medals, the ability to say you ran x amount of miles. Starts monday. 

The Zachary Disease

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​When I was in elementary school I was mercilessly bullied by a student for reasons I couldn't understand. The Zachary disease was equivalent to what would be considered cooties, except it was spread by touch and I was the exclusive carrier of it. Fortunately i didn't realize that was meant to bully me till much much later down the road. I could never understand why Eric was so angry at me when I touched people and said you got the Zachary disease now, it was his game after all.

A Weak week.

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​I missed three days of a three day week because I was sick. Good news is i'm better now... just in time for it to be the weekend. The childish side of me rejoices while the side of me that recognizes I desperately need to go to school to make up standards is crying.

Sick

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​"This just in! we are getting a news update from the studio, being sick sucks." There is nothing cool about it, when you miss school your too sick to enjoy your day off anyway, and you feel horrible the entire day. I bring this up because I spent yesterday and a good portion of today in bed crying, and coughing there was much coughing. 

5 picture story Alex's Escape

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
The primitive robot clicked and whirred as it went through it routines. It's a bit amazing how a class actually managed to build an antonymous system to run most of the actions in the school. It managed the clocks and actually kept them on time as well as throwing any alarms at the hint of danger. odd though despite the awards its won and the numerous safety tests it went through something was wrong. the system was clicking more sporadically then normal, slower, less  then what would be considered good. 

When Alex woke up this morning he went through the normal routines and headed off to school. about halfway through the day is when something he would never forget happened. The fire alarms started flashing and the noise was deafening. As Alex exited his classroom random parts of the hallway started collapsing in fire. Alex ducked into a stairwell and started to decent but as he got farther down he found the fire blocked one of the final sets of stairs. Alex took a deep breathe stepped over the edge and paused. The jump was risky, he knew this. Alex wasn't the most coordinated of kids and he had never done anything like this before, hell he tripped walking down the hallway normally. Unfortunately Alex didn't have to make much of a decision. Fire began racing down the stairs behind him and Alex decided it was now or never. He jumped and for a moment he saw his life flash before his eyes before he hit the stairs hard and rolled down, Alex's world went black. 

When he woke up a girl he had never met before was dragging him away from the stairs. As he gazed around dizzily he saw a sign he thought he would never see, an exit sign! Alex alerted the girl that he was okay and she helped him to his feet, he stumbled for a second but the girl caught him and they ran out of the building. In the aftermath of the fire it was learned that a student who had a lot of money and didn't get into the school based on wealth alone sabotaged the alarm system and started the fires on multiple floors. He was caught and after a lengthy and expensive trial he was tried as an adult and got life in prison for the pain suffering destruction he caused. many students were injured in the chaos and a few other students did not make it out. Alex and the girl eventually grew to be good friends and then something more the friends. Events such as this cause a unique relationship type to grow, they were friends forged in fire.

Box Wall

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
While imaging computers for the freshman in junior year me and the other people imaging built a wall out of cardboard boxes and took turns crashing through it. In hindsight it was a stupid and painful idea but it was probably one of the most fun things I have ever done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43g6UpTFSxI
 for your amusement i offer video footage of said stupidity.

Gatos Bed

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​The  Cats. when my sister got her first cat it eventually got out, then came back pregnant. when it had it's kittens it moved them on the back of our dog and to under my bed. I discovered this when I woke up in the middle of the night and her meowing. unfortunately I still wasn't allowed to touch her kittens without her permission  so i just had glaring contests with tabby every morning.

Falling Ice

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​During a walk home from school in freshman year i was walking with Perry and like the weird person i am i decided to grab perry and remind her that she's a person, also to say hi. during this grab a ridiculously oversized icicle fell down and landed where Perry would've been if she continued to walk. We just kind of stared at it for a while  before it sunk in. My random bouts of insanity actually saved someone's life, or at least someone from serious pain.

Biting Humor

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​In 9th grade I ended up staying over a friend's house really late working on a benchmark. When April fools rolled around my parents decided to use this in a prank on my grandma. My dad was in the bedroom playing a board game with my sister and my mom was cooking dinner. Grandma was sitting on the couch when my dad called my phone from the bed room. When I answered I began saying the type of lines my parents told me to say.. which were lines along the lines of "are you sure it's mine?" after about 10 minutes of this I hung up the phone and put on the most sullen look I could muster. My mom asked me what was wrong on cue (my grandma's face was unique by this point) and I said I got a girl pregnant. I started crying and when my grandma came over to hug me i whispered april fools in her ear mid hug..... she bit me on my shoulder.

Story #5 Story time in the Hospital

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​We got to the hospital around 11ish and I signed myself in because i was a big boy. my sister got sent to my uncle's house around 11:30. After about 12:30ish we started reading Harry Potter and we continued this up until the x-rays and then while we were waiting for the results. The reason this stuck with me is because everyone in the room (there were quite a few people in the same room just barely separated by curtains) was into and enjoying the book. We were able to read a solid 2 and a half hours of the book and we got legitimate cries of disappointment when we left. At about 3:00 am we left the hospital and I am informed that i rambled inane and random questions on the way to the car about things that made no sense.  

Story #4 Not a leg to stand on.

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​Easter of whatever year Harry Potter and the goblet of fire came out.  My sister and I were playing with toy cars. It was a few hours after bedtime and it started getting cold. I didn't want to go downstairs to get my parents because they would make us go to bed so I got the "brilliant" idea to stack up two chairs, a silver case, and a pillow (for safety of course) and climbed up my poorly constructed tower to meet the fan cord. Expectedly it fell and I landed my face on the back of one of the play chairs. I cried and screamed and my sister backed out of the room. My parents came upstairs and decided after figuring out what happened that it was time for a hospital trip. (the hospital portion of this story merits another story so more tomorrow) 

Story #3 Fingers of Fire

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on
​When I was about 8 my family and I were down the sure visiting a bunch of other family members. during this time I was left upstairs alone with two slightly older cousins (age 10) while playing my game they started looking around the apartment type room we were staying in and they found and started playing with my moms lighter. Being how I was i snatched it back from them because "touching mommy's lighter is bad" while grabbing it back Tim (one of the aforementioned boys) accidentally turned the lighter on and I burnt my hand and ran to the kitchen sink. Although no serious damage was done I was pretty dramatic at the time and my mom was proud of me when she heard the story.

Story #1 Tech Support (Zachary Walls Version)

Posted by Zachary Walls in Storytelling - Chase on

(Note: this is a story that other people in this class are involved in, as such there will be two separate versions of this story each with different details and views as everyone sees and remembers things differently.)

On a Saturday Anthony was staying at my house because it was closer to his work. We stayed up until about 3a.m playing two different xboxes on two different tvs next to each other before he decided it was time for him to sleep. We got out the air mattress and found it had no batteries for the pump so Anthony decided to spend the next hour and a half trying to blow it up by hand. Still playing my xbox and ignoring his whining about the lack of batteries i didn't notice when he took out his phone and started calling people. He called Evett and shouted Tech support over and over into the phone because the pump wouldn't work. Evett got angry and hung up after she realized he was just being weird. a few minutes later Evett logged on most likely due to being unable to sleep and Anthony spammed her with requests for tech support until she either logged off or blocked him. Anthony eventually gave up and slept on his partially inflated air mattress and I had to hold his phone for him so he would stop randomly dialing people as he did manage to get a hold of and wake up one more person as well as fail to reach 4 other people before I took the phone away. It was a strange night morning.

Evolution of Intelligence

Posted by Zachary Walls in Science and Society - Best on
​Why does a species evolve to speak? What causes something evolves to the point where it can think, “hey this fruit is too high maybe I can use these rocks to get it down”.  Like with many things a credible theory for why would be evolution. If we look on our branch we will find Chimpanzees.  Chimpanzees evolved from a common ancestor and for all purposes are our sister species.  Like humans there is more to what they do then eating and mating. They have figured out how to communicate with each other, they work together to accomplish goals. They can stop and analyze a situation rather then just jumping in. they make use of tools in their surroundings to help them complete their goals. They care what other members of their species think about and fall into ranks under who has the most food or best ability to get food. And they are quite capable of using deception to gain the advantage over other members of their species. At the moment it is unknown exactly what caused us to develop the way we did and what caused our relatives to evolve the way we did. But what this does show is that intelligence is a evolutionary trait and not something we just have. It shows that something must have gone right in our branch’s past to allow us to be how we are today.

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http://www.indiana.edu/~origins/teach/A105/lectures/A105L12.html



picture provided from: Richard E. Leakey, The Making of Mankind, Michael Joseph Limited

found at http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/ee/origin-of-humans 
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