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Stress is Killing Me!!

Tyler — Tue, 11 May 2010 00:50:55 +0000

I really don’t know how to start this, but I will do the best that I can to explain. Trust me, if what I put here makes no sense whatsoever, it makes a lot more sense in my head. Right now my life is really quite stressful. Yes I know what you are thinking, “Well, so is every other 8th grader’s”. But I do much more in the way of stressful activities then most others in my grade. I also know that high school is going to be a bitch compared to middle school, but we will get out at 1:45 compared to 3:50. By the time I get home from school right now, it is usually around 5:00. To bring this back to the main point, after a 6-7 hour day at school (which entitles usually a test, fixing multiple Windows computer problems, and dealing with getting in classwork and homework on time) I’m already stressed enough to get a few gray hairs, add in a sister who either never listens to you or talks (yells) back at you when you try to help them with something, and dealing with usually a server or network problem that is keeping me from getting my DNS lookups working properly, email server wiping out all of your gmail, the router miss-routing internet traffic (usually forwarding my VPN traffic to my proxy server, not my VPN server), or my virtual machine host going down for no apparent reason. Add that all together and that is enough stress to kill a 14 year old (not literally, just using a hyperbole to stress (no pun intended) the amount of stress that I’m under). What all this is doing is making my grades drop, and giving me almost daily headaches. You might say the easy solution is to either take away my technology, have me not do any work with technology, or both. Well yes, those would be easy immediate solutions, but not very good long term ones. After 2-3 days without an interactive device, I start to become steeply depressed as my entire life is basically on them. I am NOT however addicted to said devices or the internet. These devices are just the way I communicate with people and society. In 7 years everyone will be using such devices minutely to communicate rather than the old fashioned way of doing things. I’m on the verge of holding a part-time job as a YouTube partner and am a beta tester for multiple companies which I cannot disclose. So you see my reasoning? Back to the issue at hand, there are my reasons for being stressed. What a lot of adults don’t see is actually fragile a teenager actually is. It’s like balancing an elephant on a knife edge. We are raging with hormones and emotions. Most people see girls as the more fragile ones, but in reality both are equally fragile. Girls are just more upfront about it. Sure, everybody is different, but we all have one thing in common; our passion to understand.

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8th Grade

Tyler — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:47:33 +0000

Wow! 8th grade already! It seem like just yesterday that I was starting 6th grade, knowing no one, and now, having an interconnected web of friends between the friends that went to my elementary school, and go to a different middle school then me, and all of my friends in my middle school. I’m friends with a lot of people, from a few of the most popular girls in school, to kids on the other end of the spectrum, and everything in between. I have learned a lot about everything. From learning physical science today, to learning how to ask a girl out. I came from a school that was extremely strict. I don’t think anyone officially asked anyone out in 5th grade, now you can watch down one hallway, and you can see at least 5 relationship beginning and ending. I have learned a lot. I came into the school in 6th grade wearing glasses, no hint of designer clothes, long socks as opposed to ankle socks. If you looked up “geek” or “nerd”, it would show a picture of me. When I heard a cuss word I flinched and almost told a teacher. I have changed quite abit in about 2 1/2 years. If you have known me for all three years, you will know. I now have a girlfriend and feel wanted, instead of a nobody and am not the biggest nerd in the world… well at least I don’t show it. I think that this year is going to be the most fun year of school yet! I mean, the way it has started has been great, and I am not going to let any boring Language Arts classes stop me from having fun. I love both my electives this year, first being Spanish, and the teacher is AMAZING, and second being Drama, with my most favoritest teacher ever (she taught my 6th grade geography class and she was amazing). So as you can see, I’m going to have an amazing year, with amazing friends, and (mostly) amazing teachers.

iPhone 3Gs Reveiw

Tyler — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:00:53 +0000

Well, I got the iPhone 3Gs on Thursday morning after a week and a half of waiting. FedEx said that it would come Tuesday before 10:30 AM EDT but the customs in China held it up for a very long time. Let’s just say it shipped Thursday with priority direct shipping and didn’t get to the USA until late Tuesday evening. But enough with the griping, onto the actual phone. I would of done an unboxing video and speedtest comparison between the 3Gs and the 2G but I figured that there are enough of those already on the Internet that I don’t need to post those. If you really want to see them just goto YouTube and search for “iPhone 3GS Unboxing” and “iPhone 3GS vs. iPhone 2G or 3G”.

When I got the phone I was really excited and I opened the shipping box without scissors or a knife out of pure excitment. Inside was the iPhone 3Gs box, which looks a lot alike to the original iPhone and 3G’s boxes. I ripped the plastic wrap right off the box in no time at all. On the top was the 3Gs, never touched by uncovered human hands, then the Getting Started booklet and warentee information which also contained the “SIM removal tool” which is not a paper clip but a specialized tool for taking out the SIM card. Under that were the headphones, charging cable, and wall adapter. I was so glad to get a new pair of headphones and charging cable because my old charging cable was on it’s last wire and my old headphones were dieing.

I plugged the new phone right into my computer and called my Step-dad up so I could activate it. He gained control of my computer via LogMeIn. I then copyed over all of my music, apps and videos that I wanted on the phone. If I didn’t say so before, I got a black 16Gb iPhone. I still have 14Gb of free space. Already I had noticed it running a lot faster than my old iPhone. When the phone was syncing, the backup was made I’m guessing about 75% faster, and when it was done, I started up a game of Marble Blast Mobile, a very graphics intensive game that used to take at least 30 seconds to load the game on my old phone and takes about five to load on my new one. When I chose a level to start, the game loaded in about 2 seconds on my new phone. Once the game loaded I noticed how responsive and high frames per second it had. On my old phone it used to have about 15 fps and on my new phone it is about 30 fps. That is a 2x upgrade. That is all thanks to the 600mhz processor and 256Mb of RAM it has. To put it in perspective, it has the same power as a 8 year old IBM ThinkPad A21p laptop. Wow.

When I played a very CPU intensive game called TapDefence (a tower defence game), when I had all of the spots filled with arrow towers, the game was still very responsive. The GPS is another great feature of the 3Gs and 3G that the original iPhone didn’t have. Paired with the compass, it made a perfect pair. The compass isn’t actually an compass, but a magnometer, a digital compass. In maps, it can show you what direction you are facing and in the compass app it can give you your direction in degrees in true north and magnetic north.

The camera is an upgraded feature that was in both the original iPhone and the 3G but the 3Gs’s is a 3.0 Mpx autofocus camera that records 640×480 video at 30 fps. It also geotags your photos and video so you can remember where you took them. Here are a few example photos:

A lot of people dislike AT&T for what they say is crappy service, but I think otherwise. I get 5 bars 3G at my house which is outside of the city limits, it is a suburb with a lot of trees, and the city isn’t really that decent of a size. Also I’ve never had a dropped call anywhere and they have the most advanced GSM network in the US. They aren’t based on the outdated CDMA network that Verizon and Sprint run on.

Over all I’d give the iPhone 3Gs, the most advanced smartphone, an eleven apples out of ten; 11/10.

Oh and I wrote this entire reveiw on the iPhone 3Gs.

idk what to say

Tyler — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:54:58 +0000

I’m sorry that I haven’t posted much recently, but there really hasn’t been much to post about. Once I get my new iPhone, I’ll do a review and a speed test difference between that and the first-gen iPhone but other than that my life has been pretty boring this summer. I’ve gone to a few camps, and sen my dad once but other than that I’ve been at home doing a bit of personal server work (for any techies who are reading this I threw Windows XP Pro onto an Thinkpad A21p and put XAMPP and iTunes [for a DAAP server] and put every possible open source free CMS onto it). I also went through about a thousand different themes for my website and found a few that I liked. That took about 6 hours.

Another thing I did was design about a dozen roller-coasters in NoLimits only about 3 of which whose videos will be posted to youtube. Other than that I haven’t done much. I’m writing this post right now because I really have nothing better to do as I’m waiting for my new phone which is on the opposite side of the world right now in Shenzhen, China

Lost Finale {SPOILER WARNING}

Tyler — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:12:24 +0000

Wow! The Lost season finale was amazing. It was very unexpected. Like when Jack dropped the bomb it didn’t go off which really surprised me. And in the end when Julia was hitting the bomb and the very last minute there was a blinding flash of light. I, of course, thought it was the bomb that went off but then my teacher (who also watches Lost) said something that made me think. He said that ge just thought that the white flash of light might of been the time traveling flash of light thingy. That struck me as very possible because knowing lost, it could be that. I now am really wondering weather it was the bomb or the flah of light that happened. If it was the bomb, than everyone will be ok, back on the plane and back in their original place. If the flash of light was the time travel thingy from the energy that was released than Julia will be dead and all of the other people that were on the plane (Jack, Kate, Hurly, etc) will go to whatever time that the island decides to bring them. Also, I wonder what will happen to Ben, John because they killed Jacob. I really hate how the next season of Lost is a long time away, in January of 2010.

Intresting thing

Tyler — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:30:17 +0000

So I guess this post would be considered kind of a journal entry except that I’m not putting everything in here that I would put in a journal entry… If you read my old blog that was hosted at blogspot, you remember I used to do periodic updates about my life, who I liked, about my friends, and other stuff like that, well I’ve decided to do that here also, since this is kind of a newer version of that blog.

Well, it is spring break here and I’m going to my dad’s house again. I can’t wait to go because I haven’t seen him and my step mom since like, I dunno, Christmas. That is a long time in between visits especially because I’m used to seeing him and her every month. I really don’t know what I’m going to do there but I think anything will be fun.

Now, on to social/school/home life. Let me get this out, I like someone new, and if the person who I used to like reads this blog I promise that I’m not lieing. This person goes to a different school then me right now but in high school we will be going to the same. If the person who I like is reading this, she might be able to figure it out herself. For all others I’m sorry, no more clues then that.

Tree Almost Hit Our House

Tyler — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:25:06 +0000

Ok, so this morning we had some trees cut down because they were dead. To be more detailed, we had two trees cut down. The first one went without incident but the second one hit our gazebo and almost our house. I was in my room working on a webpage when I heard a loud THUMP! I thought nothing of it because I had been hearing the loud THUMP!’s all morning from the trees hitting the ground. But this time was different, my mom called me to the dining room and told me to come and look. Then I saw what had happened. Since the top part of the second tree was hollow, the workmen had to cut lower than they wanted to, and so the tree went further away from where they cut than they expected. So the tree hit our gazebo, knocked off the heron wind direction thingy, and almost hit our house, getting within feet of the windows.

Update: I had first thought it was two trees but I now know it is three.

My Very Interesting Dreams

Tyler — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:25:00 +0000

For the past few nights I’ve been having very interesting dreams about different things. It has been 3 nights in a row now and I remember the earlier two night’s dreams. I’m not willing to go into full detail on the first night’s but what I can remember of the second nights I will tell fully. I think I’ve been going what is known as lucid when I dream (Lucid Dreaming > http://bit.ly/Af4kM) The first night (Friday) was pretty much one of my best friends deciding to move to Orlando (which she actually is going to at the end of the year {You know who you are if you are reading this}{Look at my luck if you know what happened last year}) early and me giving her a deal on a house and her deciding to stay. That is it in 1 sentence. The other was me inventing a machine that will let me go back in time and be the age that I was so I can reconfigure my future… For example I could go back to 5th grade, know I’m in 7th grade, reconfigure my future, then go back to 7th grade… I’ll post a new entry if I have any more interesting dreams…

I think I’ve been having these weird and interesting dreams because I’ve been listening to something that goes all the way into my REM sleep so yeah, comment and answer the new question…

Happy New Year

Tyler — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 06:26:00 +0000

Happy 2009!!!! I’m glad that 2009 is here… A fresh new year and a new start. I’m going to turn 14 this year! Yeah!! Good bye 2008!!! I had a great year (for the most part) for example as listed: A Macbook, an iPhone , a nintendo wii, guitar hero world tour, a new baby sister, among other smaller things that made up the year. Thank you all the people who made this possible. Also this year in school (yes I know it is boring) I have about 4x the amount of friends then last year. That is just perfect.

-Tyler
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Random Thought

Tyler — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:12:00 +0000

“Really, sometimes I think we aren’t in a real world, sometimes I think we are in something like the Matrix.”
-Tyler J. Doherty

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My Christmas Presents

Tyler — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:03:00 +0000

Here is a list of my Christmas presents: A Digital Soldering Station, Wii, Wii Fit, Ripiley’s Beleive it or Not: Totally Shocking, A Coke Classic Shaped as an Ornament, Wii Play, among other things. Now remember, this isn’t it for my loot, there is still the presents from my dad and step-mom.

Post 12/22/08

Tyler — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:43:00 +0000

I’m going to first start off by talking about my friends becauuse the average reader of this blog know nothing of them. Let’s just say I have a ton of friends. Since I’m a pretty nice guy to the kids who are nice to me, most people like me (as a friend). Now, as most teenagers do, I like a girl at school, and her name starts with a C. Now, any of my friends who are reading this, you may think you know who it is but it isn’t that person. Why I say that (to all of he ignorant people) is because in the begening of the school year, I liked someone whose name started with a C, then I liked somone whose name started with an L, and now I like someone new whose name starts with a C. You will get more updates on this in later postings.

In the next posting, I will list the presants that I got.

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First Posting (Intro To Blog)

Tyler — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:15:00 +0000

Alright, well, um, in my blog I will pretty much tell whatever is going on in my life, ups and downs, school, friends (but no names) and anything else pretty much. Today we are going to celebrate Christmas early because I’m going to my dad’s place around and on Christmas.

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