Djschnenningsworth's Blog

Pre Taks

djschnenningsworth — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:41:29 +0000

Link 3 is the best because it is the most detailed, but it is still easy to understand. It has more information and a better web page.

Austin Data

djschnenningsworth — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:29:27 +0000

per capita income as of 2008: $30, 680

population: 656,562

males: 389,562

females: 368,126

median resident age: 29.6 years

TAKS Review

djschnenningsworth — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:11:30 +0000

TAKS reviews

TAKS Test Review Materials

TAKS Study Guides

The TAKS Study Guides website seems to be the most useful

Robonauts

djschnenningsworth — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:59:51 +0000

In the next couple of decades I think these Robonauts currently used by NASA will become cheaper and more advanced, and they will be sold on the market for people to buy. They would be cheaper to manufacture and build, but of course they would still be super expensive to buy. They would probably have to be sold online. They could perform functions around the house such as cleaning or reorganizing. In future decades when they become more and more common, there will either be fewer jobs for people (because the robots could be used for the service industry, banking, etc..) or there will be all sorts of new jobs having to do with the robots. People will also (probably) become lazier.

Nobel Prizes

djschnenningsworth — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:16:45 +0000

A Nobel Prize is a very big reward handed out to people who perform great achievements in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Peace, Literature, and Economics. They are named after the Swede Alfred Nobel, and are handed out once a year.

Theodore Roosevelt — Peace — “for his successful mediation to end the Russo-Japanese War and for his interest in arbitration, having provided the Hague arbitration court with its very first case” 1906

Victor Francis Hess — Physics — “for his discovery of cosmic radiation” 1935

Albert Camus — Literature — “for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times.” 1957

I could win the Nobel Prize in Literature if I write the next Great American Novel.

English Notes

djschnenningsworth — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:04:23 +0000

1. Spark Notes — This is the best of the three sites. It is the most organized and user-friendly. It is straightforward and clear.

2. Book Rags — This website is less clear and organized as Spark Notes, but more so than Monkey Notes. It has the most advertisements, however.

3. Monkey Notes — This site is poorly organized and hard to navigate.

Green Sites

djschnenningsworth — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:15:54 +0000

1. Planet Green – This website is basically, from my understanding, a guide to keeping your lifestyle healthy and eco-friendly.

2. Simple Ways to Stay Green and Cool This Summer – This site advocates the idea of planting gardens and not using the TV and Computer very much when you have free time.

3. 20 Ways to Stay Green During Your Commute – This website informs people that it is better for your health to walk every possible chance you get and to do things like using public transportation and making sure your car is as eco-friendly as possible.

Google Labs

djschnenningsworth — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:09:32 +0000

1. Building Maker — In this it makes it look like you get to build 3D building models online. Then it can be seen on Google Earth.

2. Google Mars – It’s like Google Earth, but its Mars. Pictures are provided by NASA.

3. People Hopper — Your profile image morphs into someone else’s step by step. It does not use recognition, however.

General Questions

djschnenningsworth — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:09:08 +0000

1. Central Processing Unit — main part

2. Random Access Memory — memory storage

3. Keeps the computer from overheating

4. Reads discs and cds

5. more memory storage

6. It converts alternating currents

7. The Motherboard connects all the hardware in a computer

8. The case around the computer’s hardware to protect it

9. The Monitor is the Computer Screen — Visual output

10. No

11. The keyboard is what lets you type — Input device

12. The mouse allows you to interact with the computer without just typing in commands

13. Digital Versatile Disc, or Digital Video Disc — 4.7 – 8.5 GB

14. Compact Disc — 700 MB

15. It protects your computer from voltage spikes

16. A network of several connected computers

17. wireless internet

18. family of standards for mobile telecommunications

19. special monitor that improves quality of visual output

20. Audio constantly received by, and normally presented to, an end-user while being delivered by a streaming provider

21. Visualsconstantly received by, and normally presented to, an end-user while being delivered by a streaming provider

22. No

23. No

24. No

25. No

26. Allows you to get into secured websites

27. No

28. None

29. Ask Mr. Bjerke

Carbon Footprint

djschnenningsworth — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:11:23 +0000

A carbon footprint is the amount of greenhouse gases emitted from a specific organization, product, place, or event.

I could not get the first site to work because I do not know most of the information it asks for.

The second site has my household at 83 tons of co2 emissions a year, which is below the national average. I think this shows that based off of this information, even though my household has several people, certain actions keep the co2 emission rate below average.