Just For The Record

Today, I

which took, as expected, 100 days. This means I started 100 days ago, which was, by the way, the second day of school.

Also, today I received The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behaviour, and was told by it, in no uncertain terms, that birds are reptiles. Ah, well. I was bound to come around sometimes.

I Swear I Did This One Already

I distinctly remember posting this thing about dreams. Huh. Well, to paraphrase myself from that alternate timeline, I've made five different dream journals to date:

jetpack level, finished on December 25th, 2014
Escaping a castle, finished July 5th, 2015
I had a cool dream so, finished February 20th, 2016
On a boat, finished April 18th, 2016
In a fantasy world, finished at 7:00 today, November 25th, 2016

Yay, a list! It's been a while since I've done a list. I need to write other things now, though. Bye!

Wait, one more thing. Jetpack level was 43 pages, Escaping a castle was 35 pages, I had a cool dream so was 42, On a boat 19, and In a fantasy world 32. I just wanted to say that because the old, now-nonexistent post had that information. Bye for real now!

Just For The Record

I finished the series Firefly, and watched the movie, on Monday.
I started watching One Punch Man with my dad on Tuesday.
I went to the tent rocks yesterday (and got some cool pamphlets).
Today, I started and finished Thinger Strangs with my family.
Today, I manned up and did the algebra of the general formula for Lucas Sequences (as I now know they are called). The old formula, in case you couldn't read it, was

which looks kinda ugly and needlessly complicated. So, with just a bit of algebra, it becomes

which is much better.

Brady numbers. Brady numbers. The title is acting strange. Help me, friend.

I found the general formula for the Brady numbers. It's Bn = 1571.964902Φ^n + 381.0350976(-Φ)^-n.

I know, potoo friend. I was surprised, too.
Here's the series on the Brady numbers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8ntDpBm6Ok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTWKKvlZB08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeUbRXnbmms
One thing I like about the general formula is that it's clear to see why every series which increases fibonaccily is connected to the golden ratio, because when a term is divided by the previous term it is:
[(a constant)Φ^n + (a constant)(-Φ)^-n] / [(the first constant)Φ^(n-1) + (the second constant)(-Φ)^-(n-1)]
And, because (-Φ)^-n gets closer and closer to zero as n gets bigger, it can be simplified to:
[(a constant)Φ^n] / [(that same constant)Φ^(n-1)]
And then, because [(a constant)Φ^(n-1)] / [(that constant)Φ^(n-1) = 1, this becomes
Φ^(n-(n-1)) = Φ^1 = Φ
YAY!

Two announcements

I did two amazing things yesterday. First, I found a general formula for every fibonacci-like series in which each term is the sum of the two previous terms, given the two initial terms.

The Fibonacci sequence occurs when A0 = 0 and A1 = 1. The Lucas numbers occur when A0 = 2 and A1 = 1. I'm sure someone else has found this formula, but I haven't seen it on the internet. It was a pretty easy generalization to make, after seeing the Fibonacci series done in Elliptic Tales, and then doing the Lucas numbers as a trial run. Learn more about these series here.

Second I did this word search.

I am very proud.

Three distinguishing or admirable qualities

Okay, let me preface this by saying that the last post actually helped a lot, even just in the act of writing it. Okay so between that sentence and this one my mom confronted me about said post and we agreed that is was fine, because it is. I think largely because of just writing all that down. Anyways, here's what I ended up saying:

I have a very… distinct sense of humour. I like dumb jokes, and visual gags, and terrible puns. You might have noticed that I’ve made a few joking comments in these responses. I’ll leave it up to you to decide if they are funny. A quality that I find admirable is my open-mindedness. I enjoy trying and learning new things, and aim to never dismiss anything just out of hand. Again, you might have picked up on that elsewhere in my responses, what with all the learning and the exploring. Third, I have the best hair. It is black and curly and the swirls go in different directions depending on what side they are on. My hair is also noticeably long, going a little past my shoulders. I should probably cut it, to be honest. Anyways, I would say those are my three most distinguishing and admirable qualities.

And I meant every word of that.

I am the worst person

No, really. I am my least favorite out of all the people I know. I never do anything. I never go anywhere. I can't even bring myself to make any interesting descriptions of myself. I have tried and failed at more things than I have tried and succeeded at. My life is the easiest of any I've heard of, and I still manage to only barely stumble through it. None of my friends are dead. None of my relatives have recently died. I get good grades. There is no logical reason for me to be sad. But I am. I'm just worthless.

I'm applying to colleges this year. It's not fun. It's not fun for anyone, though. I'm not special. Anyways, I am looking into everywhere I'm applying to and they all want people with direction and creativity and smarts and tenacity and perseverance and uniqueness and other things that are not me and I don't know what to do. One of the questions for me was, "List your three most distinguishing or most admirable qualities." I couldn't think of any. I still can't. I am the most bland, useless pile of nothing ever to disgrace the earth.

Yesterday I met a guy named Amos. My dad and I gave him a ride home from a choir concert. He is the least me person I can think of. He is in basketball and football and wrestling. He hopes to compete in the NFL and I think he can do it. In his free time, he plays Call of Duty. He has a YouTube channel onto which he uploads footage of him playing CoD and also original songs that he's made. He has two first names, but I've forgotten the second one. He is interesting and nice and humble and fit and he knows what he's doing in his life. He does things. I don't.

In conclusion, I do not, in fact, think you should let me into your college, or even into your state. Although, if I was there, you still probably wouldn't notice. Gotta look on the bright side. At least nobody cares.

Thank you, voiceless imaginary reader. Thank you for letting me vent. I need to go pretend to have three distinguishing or admirable qualities now. Bye.