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Brett Gilpin
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You just claimed Spongebob to be an educational tool? You have now climbed the ladder of awesomeness (in my mind) to an all-new level!
While there are a lot of good things about the reefs to talk about and analyze in a much greater depth, I will only talk about those in a few short sentences. In truth, most of this stuff we learned about with the reefs themselves, I learned when we…
Absolutely amazing!
Yeah, I agree with you on the whole nuclear bombs topic. The destruction of an atoll is just too bad to be accepted as an overall good thing for testing nuclear weapons.
As for the lagoon part, I must say, that is exactly what I had pictured it as.…
Personally, I don't like that they did it at all. There was no point to bombing the Enewatak (sp?), and the things that they did before they blew it up could have been discovered without that.
What happened to my reply? When you click on Zones & Trophic levels and then go to the last page, you don't see mine at all, but if you go over to the Latest Activity and hit the "replied" link, you can see it.
During class, we began to talk about seaweed. When Mr. Nash asked if we knew what it felt like, I hadn't, because I'd never really seen seaweed in real life. I've been to an ocean and all, but never been to a spot that wasn't a beach where tons of p…
The thing that he meant about it not existing, is that it only looks like it is inverted, but in reality, is not. This is because when you would go to the coral reef, the first thing you see, is a TON of fish, and nothing else around. Usually fish a…
I found that the tide pools were cool too. I especially liked the giant ones that made the mortar and pestle. It was cool to think of how those were naturally occuring and the water used the rocks to destroy the sides and make the areas bigger over…
I take my comment about the baby smooth lumpsucker being the most awesome thing ever. This is the coolest thing ever by far.
This has got to be the coolest thing ever.
In my opinion, this is kind of cool. Yes, it is disgusting, but has an awe factor. It is strange about, why does it go for the tongue first? And that is a huge parasite for how big the fish is.
Profile Information
- High School:
- Lafayette
- The last three CD's I purchased/downloaded were:
- Flobots-Fight With Tools
3OH!3-Want
The Lonely Island-Incredibad
- My favorite subject during the regular school day is:
- DC Calc
- Extracurricular activities I am involved in at school:
- Football
Weightlifting
- My interests (other than school) are:
- Video Games
I'm Just Throwing Stuff Up Here
Favorite Movie of All Time:
In Bruges
Its Trailer
Here are a few sites I like:
Pastel Games
Pastel Forum
MS Paint Adventures
FMLs
My Life Is Average: Life Is Pretty Normal Today
Youtube Videos That I Like:
Llamas with Hats Charlie the Unicorn Charlie the Unicorn 2 Charlie the Unicorn 3 Charlie the Unicorn-Youtube Live Youtube Live Promo: Charlie The Unicorn Kiwi! Biotech Rap- Transformation Feat. Notorious GFP Prep Unit- Tea Partay Le Grand Content St. Joe set to This Town by Rehab
"Tales of Mere Existence" Channel
Nandrews (Awesome Videos in my opinion) Channel
Remi Gaillard's Channel
Oh yeah: I'm On A Boat!
They're Watching You
Creepy Knowing That, Huh?
In Bruges
Its Trailer
Here are a few sites I like:
Pastel Games
Pastel Forum
MS Paint Adventures
FMLs
My Life Is Average: Life Is Pretty Normal Today
Youtube Videos That I Like:
Llamas with Hats Charlie the Unicorn Charlie the Unicorn 2 Charlie the Unicorn 3 Charlie the Unicorn-Youtube Live Youtube Live Promo: Charlie The Unicorn Kiwi! Biotech Rap- Transformation Feat. Notorious GFP Prep Unit- Tea Partay Le Grand Content St. Joe set to This Town by Rehab
"Tales of Mere Existence" Channel
Nandrews (Awesome Videos in my opinion) Channel
Remi Gaillard's Channel
Oh yeah: I'm On A Boat!
They're Watching YouCreepy Knowing That, Huh?
Brett Gilpin's Blog
The Enraptured Weaving
I don’t want you to think that all I’m going to do is complain, but one thing I have to say is that as I read this, I couldn’t help but space off. It was full of thousands of facts that just bore me out of my mind at points. To me, this seemed strange, because I’m the kind of person who loves to learn things. The more I learn, the more intrigued I get, or at least that’s how it normally is.
Maybe, it’s that I really have no connection to this book yet, other than the fact that I am in a Marine… Continue
Maybe, it’s that I really have no connection to this book yet, other than the fact that I am in a Marine… Continue
Posted on August 16, 2009 at 5:00pm — 8 Comments
Slideshow
I just recently finished up my slideshow on my computer and it's pretty beastly . . . no lie, but I just realized upon uploading it to slideshare.net that Slideshare doesn't do any of the click for the next group or timing effects. This is bothering me, because one of the reasons my slide is so beastly is because of a huge timing related thing that took me forever to do. Warning: It's also kind of nerdy, but I like it, thereby making me a nerd.
Here's what it's like on Slideshare [Another warni… Continue
Here's what it's like on Slideshare [Another warni… Continue
Posted on June 14, 2009 at 10:00pm — 3 Comments
Comment Wall (13 comments)
- At 10:44pm on August 16, 2009,
Sean Nash said… - way over...... i made some messes i'm having trouble fixing.
;(
- At 10:39pm on August 16, 2009,
Sean Nash said…
- right now... and for about the past three hours.
- At 10:34pm on August 16, 2009,
Sean Nash said…
- oh...... it's nowhere NEAR finished. i am in the middle of a mess right now. not finding it easy to do anything i want it to do right now. ;(
i picked a bad time to start this redesign.
oh well.
it will be better soon.
;)
- At 6:54pm on July 19, 2009,
Lauren King said… - thanks i hate my massive tanline though...has anyone done any blogs yet?
- At 2:13pm on June 26, 2009,
Tabitha Snider said… - actually i do remember you. you're stepmom was my principal obviously lol. so you're in marine bio this year i see. you will LOVE it!
- At 4:11pm on June 6, 2009,
Lauren King said…
- yea it's a lot of fun when you can get to sleep
- At 2:20pm on June 5, 2009,
paula toalson said… - haha well i guess that makes sense then
- At 2:13pm on June 5, 2009,
Lauren King said…
- Oh, we have class in one of our computer labs. There is no place to sleep because the computers are in the way. I wish we weren't in the computer lab everyday.
- At 10:25am on June 5, 2009,
paula toalson said…
- how do you know i was asleep lol actually i was probably awake... cuz its SUMMER!!!
- At 8:48am on June 5, 2009,
Lauren King said…
- Well, I get done with my work really fast. So I get on whatever websites aren't blocked.
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...northward
tropical
water
flowing
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so slowly
...northward
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Last Monday's class cleared up how the atolls sank, the coral is not the major cause of their sinking, it is the weight of the magma that comes out of the volcano. I was confused about how the coral weighed this much, but this cleared it up for me.
One thing that really was cleared up for me last class was the fact that reefs don't cause islands to sink. It is caused by the magma moving underneath the surface of the plate. I also thought it was cool that there are more islands to Hawaii than w…
URRRRRRRGGG. Why is the hyperlink NOT working?
Awesome video. But that music drives me INSANE. I can't take it. :X Were pretty much on the same page. I had know idea the process it took to make an atoll. 300,000,000 years seems like a looooooooong time for something to form. But when you see pic…
OK, so I get the feeling EVERYONE wants to visit one. So... why don't we just all go there?
Awesome video. I forgot all about that.
;)
And yes... atolls are "rare" in terms of the total surface area of the Earth in which they cover. However, in some areas (the South pacific) they are certainly relatively more common. I too concur- I have…
Well... yes and no. A "barrier reef" certainly IS a stage of reef/atoll formation. However, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, as well as the Florida Keys/Bahamas are a different sort of "barrier reef" in many ways. You are all doing a good job of…
Yep- that's another one we will examine in tonight's session.
North End peeps will always make the connection to the "Krug Park Lagoon"... which... is obviously a different sort of thing. ;)
The type of reef we will study in the Keys is a unique type... this will come up in tonight's session!
You just claimed Spongebob to be an educational tool? You have now climbed the ladder of awesomeness (in my mind) to an all-new level!
While there are a lot of good things about the reefs to talk about and analyze in a much greater depth, I will only talk about those in a few short sentences. In truth, most of this stuff we learned about with the reefs themselves, I learned when we…
Absolutely amazing!
Hmm...I also had heard of the Great Barrier Reef, but I never knew it was a stage of formation. I think I thought it was actually just part of the name...
I'm afraid I disagree, Carsen. Spongebob is a great educational tool. (Here's the Goo Lagoon for future reference...) I definitely learned that sponges were living creatures. =D
But I also didn't know what an atoll was. Or where a lagoon was locate…
Last weeks discussion was also amazing for me. I learned so much and was totally interested. I definitely agree that bombing Enewetok was a terrible idea!
The story about the seashell is crazy! Thank you for sharing it with us. It helped me to under…
I totally had the wrong idea about lagoons as well! Whenever I hear the word “lagoon” I always think of a nasty creature crawling out of a green swampy area. Haha. I had also never heard of an atoll as well until this class. I had always thought tha…
First of all, I searched for an animation of the coral formation process and found this site. Not only does it clearly explain the formation, it also reveals a fascinating fact: "The process of atoll formation may take as long as 30,000,000 years to…
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