Not-Trip Post #3: Percentages

Only 48 more days until we leave, just a few more soccer games (hopefully a tournament), finish up Chemistry, Finish some books and then we’re free to go SNOWBOARDING, which has somehow become the goal of our whole next year for some reason. If I had to draw list percentages of time we spent snowboarding vs National Parks vs Regular Life on the past trip and how I predict the next trip will go, I would write it like this:

 

Freejourner Trip:

Snowboarding: 30%

National Parks: 40%

Life: 25%

Partying: 5%

 

2015 Trip:

 

Snowboarding: 60%

National Parks: 20%

Life: 19%

Partying: 1%

 

I’ll see how things go anyway, and write about it sometime.

 

SHORT Narration: Brendan Voyage

I present to you my next summary- MOVIE TRAILER STYLE!

 

In a -this world, one man must risk his life all for the sake of recreating a famous voyage that probably didn’t even happen. Tim Severin stars as himself in his first ever movie narration, where he must collect random bits of leather from random people who have random people help him build the random boat. Will he make it all the way from Ireland to Newfoundland, or will the rotting smell of leather get to him first?

Watch Read in amazement, and wonder how one man could devote his life to re-creating famous voyages, and the only one I get to do a narration on is the one that no one has heard of? Why couldn’t I do a narration on his voyage recreating Jason and the Argronauts? Find out…. as soon as I figure out why…

THE BRENDAN VOYAGE, Coming May 1976, Rated PG by NAG (The Narration Association of Gabe)

 

SHORT Narration: Wonder Book of Chemistry

Ok, another short narration, gotta type fast to try and get in a 3rd narration before bed. GO ME GO!

This book is called the Wonder Book of Chemistry.

 

This book reuses the same characters of the Story Book of Science that Isaac is reading right now, and it is about Uncle Whatsisname (stressed for time, don’t want to look it up), teaching his nephews Emile and Jules about chemistry.

They learn that a lot of food is made up of part Carbon, because it can burn up to form charcoal. Basic chemistry…..

Anyway, cool book, if you want to learn about chemistry. I like it because it tells you about chemistry in a story form, instead of just presenting you the information, where you have to basically remember it, without any reminders of it, like in the book “Oh yeah, I remember that Charcoal is made of Carbon, because they did this so-and-so experiment!” instead of “Charcoal is a light black residue consisting of carbon, and any remaining ash, obtained by removing water and other volatile constituents from animal and vegetation substances” (From: Wikipedia)

 

Anyway, on to the 3rd narration!

SHORT Narration: Fallacy Detective

Ok, I have 20 minutes and I’m going to try and get out as many narrations as I can in that time. So…. 3…. 2…. 1…. One sec, I have to go tell Siri to set a timer…. Ok now.

 

Ok, first book. This book I’ve been reading (big surprise there. What? I have to keep at least one funny), and it really teaches you how to know what people are doing when they talk to you, such as if they are trying to dodge a question or say something that does not apply to the original sentence, but seems to, like some advertisers do.

That would be called a Red Herring, and here’s an example from the book, I quote “Porcupines make good pets. Studies show owning a pet makes children happy!”. See? I’ve been learning a lot about red herrings and a lot of funny example problems.

I think you should read this book because it really teaches you how to analyze someone when they’re reasoning with you, plus it’s a really simple book, you don’t have to read a LONG chapter every sitting, the chapters are really short and fun, and that’s my opinion, compared to the long, strenuous, no-fun-or-funniness-or-anything-like-that (-wow,-look-at-all-the-dashes) kind of books.

Amazon Link: The link is hidden somewhere in this post, try and find it! (Hint: It’s the first letter of the 9th word)