Other Places

When you're bored...

Which I'm sure most of you are, due to the fact that you are reading my blog...

I have a few sites that you might want to check out.

This is my friend Moriah's blog. Yes, she is the "sports fan" in the comic. She is, most obviously, in love with sports. So, her blog (about sports) is here.

Okay, this is my vampire-obsessed friend's blog, about music. She doesn't really update it much, but I feel obligated to include the link. Her blog is here.

If you are feeling in the mood for some poetry, and some VERY good writing skills, check out this person's blog here.

And if you like history, and want to read a lot of stuff until you get to the point of the story, check out this blog, here. It's good writing, trust me.

And, if you need some laughs and hate inspirational quotes, check out one of my favorite sites, here.

So...

I'll probably post more in the future.

But there's some boredom busters, there.

My New Playlist

Okay, since I am on a quest to inform and educate the world in real, decent music, I have made a playlist for my blog.

This playlist has songs that you need to know. I don't care that they are old, or that they are by people that are old or dead. I don't care that your parents probably know and love all these songs.

THESE ARE GOOD SONGS!!!!

So listen to them. I'll probably add more as time goes on, because you can never get enough music!

HAPPY!!!

Status Update

*cue the suspenseful music*

*silence*

*cues again*

*still silence*

*stage manager rushes across stage, dragging a large plastic bag*

*music starts playing*

*music stops*

ANYWAY, I just wanted to inform you guys of the status of Hammurabi's Rain.

Right now, I have a lot of projects for school, but in between I hope to final draft Episode 8 for you guys, scan in Episode 7, and write and final draft Episode 9. It will be a lot of work, but I think I might be able to manage. Hopefully this will all be done before we go back to school. So.

That's all.

Oh, and also, the contest for Hammurabi's second cousin has been canceled. I don't think any of you actually care.

Hurray!

HAMMURABI RAINS!!!!!!

Oh, and a sneak peek into Episode 9 and 10: JIMMY FALLS IN LOVE!!!

(I think).

Updates!

As you may have noticed, I updated my blog! Now, all Episodes through Episode 6 are on the site, and you can quickly access them by clicking the links in the sidebar! Hurray!!

Episode 7 and 8 are done, but I have to scan in some edits on 7, and I haven't Final Drafted Episode 8. So, yeah.

Hopefully, Episode 9 will be done when I return from Thanksgiving Break, and all will be well. Happy day!

Hurray!!!!!

Episode 6

This is Episode 6, guys! Hope you like it!

Click on the pictures to make them bigger!

Episode 5

Episode 5!!!!! Yayayayayay!!!!

Click on the pictures to make them bigger...

Episode 4

Here's Episode 4 guys!!! Enjoy! Remember, to make the images bigger, just click on them!!!

Episode 3

Hey guys! Here's Episode 3!!! I've been procrastinating it...hehe...

Halloween!!!

Hammurabi has yet to decide what he should be for Halloween!

He needs your help!

Send in your suggestions to me!!! (I'll need an illustration, please. Even if you stink at drawing. I do too. Remember. I draw stick people.)


And....most probably the Halloween Episode--Episode 9--will be out by Halloween!!!

So be excited!!!

And if you haven't read Episode 8, then...too bad!!!

Ask Hammurabi

Dear Hammurabi,
I get bored a lot, and so now I have nothing better to do with my life than read your comic! And design a bunch of people who could possibly be your third cousin! What should I do? And how can I get your creator to post the rest of the episodes? Help!

New Hammurabi fan


Dear New Hammurabi Fan,

Well, I see your dilemma. I AM incredibly amazing. And I appreciate your enthusiasm.

But we all know that there are better things to do with your life.

So the main problem is, what are those better things?

Well, first I would suggest making a list of some things/goals that you would like to achieve. My Creator tells me that she thought you were writing a book, so maybe that that would be worthy of pursuing. Other things to put on your list might be reading a book that you really want to read, inviting a friend over, or working on a math project that's due on Wednesday. *cough, says my creator*.

Anna also says that she apologizes for not posting episodes, and says that she will soon.

My main point is, GO FIND SOMETHING BETTER TO DO WITH YOUR LIFE!!!

No pressure.


Hammurabi

P.S. That wasn't the best advice I've ever given. Sorry.

The Invention of Zero

Hey, guys, I had to do this for a Language Arts project-thingy. It's about how zero was invented and its importance in our world today...hurray and all that.


Okay, so before I start in on how zero was invented, I kind of have to go over how people got along WITHOUT it. Seriously, imagine not knowing the concept of zero. Think about it....

You are some MESOPOTAMIAN (hurray, Hammurabi!) person who is sitting around in your moose skins and pondering over this big stone rock thing your friend sent you. It's supposed to be your birthday present. Your friend is telling you that it is a cheque. He tells you to go deposit it at your local bank. So you do. EXCEPT...

The cheque has the number 23 on it. So your bank gives you 23....whatever those weird Mesopotamian people paid with. So you walk home all happy with your money, hurray....

UNTIL YOUR FRIEND ASKS YOU HOW YOU SPENT YOUR 2300 Mesopotamian objects that you pay with!

"What the heck?!" you say. "I only got 23 Mesopotamian currency items!"

And your friend just shrugs and says, "Too bad zero hasn't been invented yet." Because your friend is PSYCHIC and knows that zero will be invented in AD 650!!!! AAAAAAAH!!! So you sue your bank and you get ALL their money and they go bankrupt and everyone has to keep their money under their mattresses and then someone's goat comes along and eats all the money because he's hungry. And then we all blame Bush! (My psychiatrist is telling me to take deep breaths.)

Well, that was certainly an odd story. So you see why not having a zero to hold something's place could be a bit of an issue. I guess you could say people got along fine without it, as long as they paid attention to the context in which the number was used.

Zero as a number (you know, the number between -1 and 1) was also ignored until AD 650. (Technically, the empty place-holder was invented before, but now they were used as the same concept, which really ties them together.)

So now we'll talk about the actual invention, instead of me going off on random rants.

As I said (kind of) before, AD 650 was when zero as a number and zero as an empty placeholder were recognized as sort of the same thing.

After the Indians did that in 65o, there were some IMPORTANT CHANGES!!! HURRAY!!!!

Communication was better. Instead of misinterpretations/confusions of numbers like 45 and 405, people didn't face that problem! They could just write a little circle! CIRCLES ARE FUN! And, by the way, the zero symbol of the Indians in 650 looked very close to our symbol. Very close. Very. Close. Ooooh...scary.

Education was better I guess... so now teachers could teach with big huge numbers like 780,000,000,000,000 and not have their students accidentally writing 78. And failing and ending up working at McHammurabi's or dying early or whatever uneducated people did. Another one of my rants. I apologize. All I'm really trying to say is that now mathematicians and teachers and students could work on math problems. Take Quadratic equations, for instance. Without zero, the only way to find x-intercepts would be to graph the number EVERY SINGLE TIME! Fun.

Government changed: The government could now number laws differently and more efficiently. It also allowed for generalization numbers, like death tolls or polls or people who are for Obama. For instance, now we could say that over 1,000,000 people think that the writer of this blog is an amazing person, instead of just guessing. Because you can't really have that many tally marks. Seriously. You'd get carpal tunnel.


And now we FINALLY move on to zero today.

When was the new millenium? When?

Who knows?

Anyone?

Anyone?

Have you all fallen asleep on me?

Okay, you.

January 1, 2000?

Really?

NO!

It was actually January 1, 2001. Because we never had a zero year. Because when we established this calendar, zero wasn't even invented yet!!!

SO YOU WERE WRONG!!! AND SO WERE ALL THOSE MANUFACTURERS THAT MADE THOSE LITTLE GLASS THINGYS THAT ALL THOSE PEOPLE BOUGHT AND PUT IN THEIR CHINA CABINETS!!!! AAAAAAAAAH!


And that concludes my amazingly long post about the importance of zero.

Well, it wasn't THAT long, but oh, well. Too bad you lost all your money to that goat. Better hurry and get to the stock market before the goat.

NOTE!!! THIS CITATION IS NOT QUITE CORRECT BECAUSE BLOGGER WON'T UNDERLINE! OR DO THE HANGING INDENT!!!! I'm turning in a hard copy that is correct.



Works Cited

Durough, Bob. "My Hero, Zero." Perf. Bob Durough. Schoolhouse Rock, 1973.

“History of Zero, A.” MacTutor History of Mathematics. 2000. 30 Sept 2008.

Johnson, George. "Before & After; Order of Magnitude: The Toll and the Technology." New York Times (16 Sep. 2001): 3. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. 8 Oct. 2008 .

Prasad, T.K. “Vedic Mathematics: Positional Number System.” WSU College of Engineering and Computer Science. 5 Oct 2008.

The Tale of Bob

Something I wrote when I was...you guessed it...bored!

There once was this dude named Bob.
One day he ate some corn on the cob.
While he was reading his book
About Captain Hook
He was attacked by an angry mob.

Later that day he was tired,
So he went for a walk in the mire.
He fell in a hole--
In which lived a mole,
Who was cooking soup over a fire.

The mole gasped in horror at him,
Who's current condition was grim.
The big angry mob
Had done its job,
And left bruises all over Bob's skin.

But now here came the mole's wife,
And in her hand she held a knife.
She saw the visitor
And, quite the inquisitor,
Asked, "How is your life?"

Bob eyed the knife that was gleaming.
"Well, not that great it is seeming.
First there's the mob
And the corn on the cob
And, last night, I woke up screaming!"

"Oh, dear," the wife said,"That's bad!
You really must be so sad.
With the mob and
The corn on the cob
And the screaming," she said. "Egad!"

"I think that it's time I must go,
My wife will make quite a show,"
Said Bob, as he
Finished his tea
And headed up from the moles below.

"Bye," said the moles as Bob went
To his house that he'd put up for rent
"We'll see you sometime
And bring a dime
If you want to buy our old tent!"

Bob smiled as he heard their cries.
He really liked meeting those guys.
They were nice.
And had good advice,
Even if they attracted flies.

3 hours of boredom yields....

This!

Look closely at the lettering, you can click on it and see it closer.

Hammurabi's Theme Song!

Well, once my Hammurabi animation begins, the first thing I want to create is a Hammurabi theme song.

As in, a theme song that everyone must know!!!

So start composing, people!!!


P.S. The contest for Hammurabi's Third Cousin is still happening, all you un-artistically inspired people. Hammurabi would really like to have a third cousin...but if he doesn't, you are the only ones to blame. For those of you who haven't heard, if you draw a picture of Hammurabi's third cousin and submit him in the contest, then you could win a number of Hammurabi prizes, and the character will be included in an upcoming Episode. (Most probably Episode 9, 10, or 1 in Series 2.)

The Hammurabi Party!

Some of you may have heard, but Hammurabi is planning to hold a party at the end of Series 1 of his comic!

This, of course, means that there will be a series 2.

Right now, though, Hammurabi is just starting to plan. He wants your ideas on his party!!

Any ideas?

Bobby and the Park

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0_flaRfiaw

A video I had to do for a math project...

Well, I didn't HAVE to....

Bobby will appear in Episode 8.

That's me on the piano in the background.

I tried to put on this post but IT WOULDN'T WORK!!

Episode 7 Rough Draft COMPLETE!

I finished episode 7 and hope to make the final draft tonight! For those of you who like to look at the old comics, I am bringing the binder of all of the comics tomorrow. So find me if you want to read something!

Hooray! EPISODE 7!!!

I'm only three episodes away from the end of the series, guys. So be prepared for a dramatic ending.

Also, at the end of the series, if I have enough readers... I might have some sort of celebration, perhaps. PERHAPS. No guarantees.

What do you guys think of Hammurabi trivia? Board game? Any ideas? Leave comments!

Insanity Test

Alright, all of you MUST check out this link. It's called the insanity test. Just so you know, I failed. IT IS SO FUNNY!!!

http://www.ratedo.com/articles/insanitytest/

FINISHED!!!

I JUST FINISHED COPYING EVERYTHING!!!

Now I just hve to scan them in as a backup, and I'll be good. Yay!!

Everyone will be able to read Episode Six tomorrow!!!

Yay!!!

OVER STRESSED

I'm sorry to disappoint you people...

But I just can't copy twenty-five more pages of Hammurabi. So, only Episode 3 is done.

I'll try to get it done over the weekend.

Ask Hammurabi

Dear Mr. Freakishly Weird Funny Raincloud Hammurabi Dude,
I have not had enough summer...i only have a day left, and i have to stay inside the whole day cuz my stupid mom won't let me leave the dogs in the house all day..>=P...what should i do to enable that i make sure next summer[or this summer] is longer?

Signed,
Crazy Blonde Chick=D

Dear Crazy Blonde Chick,

I see your dilemma. Having failed every class in school at least ten times, I know how you feel. Summers are never quite long enough.

Here are some tips to make your summer longer...

• Build a time machine and travel anywhere and go wherever you want, and just pop back in for school before you start to look too old.
• Make a list of stuff to do when you are completely and totally bored (I really need to do this, since in every episode I announce that I'm bored at least once. I think.)
• Plan something really cool to celebrate the end of summer, (or, you could say, ex-celebrate it). That way, you'll ALMOST kind of look forward to the summer.
• Don't sleep in TOO late every day... this really will give you more time during summer. (TOO late is sleeping past 1:00, which my creator sometimes does and then wakes up all grumpy and un-inspired.)
• Keep a diary during summer and read it at the end of your summer, then read it all during the school year to "keep the summer alive".

I am not responsible for any side effects.

Hammurabi

Ask Hammurabi

Dear Stupid Rain Cloud,
My best friend and i aren't on the same team, and we have absolutely NO classes together. In your opinion what should i do (though, i doubt your advice will be useful)?
~me


Dear Me,

Well. First I must point out how insulted I am when you say my advice won't be useful.

Now, back to the point.

In my opinion, I say that you should go buy mind-control teacher name tags. Then, while your teacher isn't looking, you should switch their name tag with the mind-control one. Then make them advise that you get a completely new schedule, with all the same classes as your best friends.

Or you could just deal with the fact that you won't be seeing your friend in class. As a really annoying parent would say, "It'll give you a chance to make new friends."
Of, course, what do your parents know. All of us teens know that they don't REALLY remember what it is like to be a middle-schooler (especially because they were teenagers in the 20th century. THAT'S A DIFFERENT MILLENNIUM!!!! By the way, if you were wondering, I remember every moment of my 1000 year life as if it was a second ago.) You're still going to see your friend at lunch, and this time they won't be able to tell all the jokes about your teachers. You'll be able to tell THEM about the ugly shoes your teacher was wearing. Hooray!!

Hammurabi

P.S. I still think mind-control is more foolproof, though.

Episode 6 is complete

Just wanted to notify all of you that...


EPISODE 6 ROUGH DRAFT IS COMPLETE!!!!!!


Now I've got a lot of final drafts to do.


I decided to keep all the comics in a binder, so now they are all together and I won't lose them.

Do you know what happened today?

TODAY I STARTED EPISODE 6!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


SCREAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Anyway, before school starts I plan to have the following done:

-final drafts of Episodes 3-5
-rough draft of Episode 6
-final draft of Episode 6 (hopefully)

T-Shirt and Sweatshirt Pictures

So...

These are some pictures of my sweatshirt and my T-shirt (Hammurabi of course).

They are amazing.

The first two are of the T-shirt (front), the last one is of the sweatshirt (back). I'm terrible at ironing, that's why they are wrinkled.

The Hammurabi Diaries

August 8, 2008

Do you know how hard it is to type without any hands? Do you? DO YOU? Well, I guess not. It's very difficult, by the way.

So, I'm starting a diary. And no I am not my creator. I am, in truth, the actual, real...

HAMMURABI!!!!!

Hooray!

Isn't this exciting? I bet everyone in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD will want to know exactly what a stupid raincloud writes about in his diary. HOORAY!!!!

Some may call me a self-absorbed ego-maniac.

Those some are COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY CORRECT!!!!

But that's not going to stop me.

La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la!!!!

You know what? It's absolutely wonderful being a raincloud. Hooray!

Hooray!

If I wasn't a raincloud, I wouldn't be able to do this!!!

[lightning bolt hits computer, creator comes running in, screaming at Hammurabi and wielding a fire extinguisher].

It's a good thing I saved this post!

Sincerely,

A very amazing raincloud.

P.S. I am now offering advice. My creator says that that is a stupid idea, but I DON'T CARE!!!!

So if you would like to write me for advice, please do. I get lonely. Really. My creator tries to get me to go play with the neighborhood kids. But they don't like me. They just run inside and get theier stupid ponchos and umbrellas and raincoats. Hmph.

Hammurabi T-Shirts and Sweatshirts

For all of you Hammurabi-crazy fans (which, admittedly, there aren't many of), I would like to notify you that the Hammurabi meet the cast group photo is now available on a T-shirt!

These T-shirts follow the same rules as the other type of T-shirt...except the photo can be either on the back of the shirt or the front (hurrah.) Please notify me if you are interested (preferrably, by email.)

Episode 2 info

Well, I assume that you read Episode 2. Anyway, I would just like to point out a few (two) things.

One: the creepy looking lady at the top of page two is Hillary Clinton.

Two: Hillary is really spelled with two L's.

Episode 2