Do Now 12/15

In a way, everyone has their own job to contribute towards to help the community. My job is to be educated to help me find a great job later on and help others with the money that I gain from my job, such as: mom, dad, and/or brother.

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My favorite restaurant consists of spanish and american food, located in West New York and is named Mundo Latino. The dishes that are served in Mundo Latino is a variety of spanish and american foods, mostly food for dinner such as: Steak, fish, and pork. One of the many dishes that has been one of my favorites is the skirt steak.

Mundo Latino is my favorite restaurant because ever since I was about the age of five, I used to go there for dinner. So my history with Mundo Latino goes back, along with certain employees. Most of my memories of the restaurant are good, yet there are some that I am not fond of. Though, it's also my favorite because the way the make their skirt steak can't be matched to any other so far.





If this restaurant closed down I would most likely switch over to Bazzarelli's.
 I say this because it's close by and I don't have to drive a few miles for dinner. As well as it having a take out just for pizza. Lastly, not only is it specialized for pizza but they also have a bar, take out for pizza, but it's also a restaurant.

Discussion Questions

Why did you select the sites you subscribed to? I chose these sites to subscribe to because they give me new topics to talk about in conversations and I could look at my Digg Reader for information. Was it easy to find feeds and to subscribe to them? It was pretty easy to find the feeds, all I really had to do was search for the RSS Feed icon. Which sites were your favorite? My favorite site is Engadget because it shows me what latest technology came out and how people use it for different purposes. What else can you use RSS feeds for? You can use RSS feeds to get caught up in information, follow your favorite sites, and learn about a given area. How likely are you to continue to use RSS feeds in the future? I will most likely still use it for for information about new technology and discuss further about it with others.

Tech Article 12/5

Mozilla Firefox Moving To iOS

• Recently in a tweet by Lukas Blakk announced "We need to be where our users are so we're going to get Firefox on iOS.
• As of now it was not announced when the release date would be for Firefox for iOS.
• Mozilla has long awaited the day Firefox would be released for iOS, but as of now Apple has not showed any signs of lifting the restrictions for Firefox.

Do Now 12/2

A class I would add to our curriculum if I were a teacher would be a hand-eye co-ordination class for typing. This class would be placed after a student was finished with their own algebra class. The students would practice their typing skills and speed according to what the see on the screen and race against a timer. The fastest would be treated to a slice of pizza and rest of the period off if they choose to.

Tech Article 11/21

K5 - A Microsoft Made Security Robot

• K5 is 300 lbs
• Equipped with enough cameras, sensors and alarms to replace human security patrols.
• As of now, although K5 may look like it came from Doctor Who it is not equipped with harmful weapons.
• 5 ft tall
• It can recognize license plates from cars
• Built with Wi-fi connection to connect with HQ and police stations.
• Lastly, built with a GPS and laser scanning to work it's way around areas.

Do Now 11/11

What I did over the past 4 day weekend was sleep, eat pizza, drink Pepsi, more pizza, and sleep once more. Most of this was repeated throughout the weekend besides visiting a College with my brother for after he graduates from highschool.

10/27 Do Now

What a presentation means to me is that I can show others what I am interested in while showing them new information about it. How to engage in a presentation is to start off with a question, or make eye contact with the audience. Also, to bring in a positive attitude such as being happy to the the presentation to attract or wake up the audience.

Tech Article 10/23/14

Magic Leap

• Google donates and leads $542 million to Magic Leap.
• Magic Leap is a company which is a developing a new augmented reality glasses that create digital objects in your environment.
• One of these many unique objects is an elephant or even a submarine.
• Instead of displaying these images or projecting them outward, Magic Leap decided to project it into the user eye, surprisingly, the outcome was jaw-dropping.

Tech Article 10/17/14

Steam

• Steam is a digital distribution platform developed by Valve Corporation.
• Steam distributes games made by many  well known companies and even regular everyday people.
• Not only does it help sell games made by anyone but it also sells other platforms, kits, and even software to create more games. In it of itself, its technically a self building game developer due to every player and designer just having fun and making games.
• This gives anyone a way to make money through making games from their own house.
• This all was discovered mostly by a guy named Gabe Newell or also known has Gaben who now has a networth value of about $1.3 Billion and still rising.

Tech Article 10/9/14

Oculus Rift 

• The Oculus Rift is a Virtual Reality head-wear which lets you experience the world around within a game.
• It has Ultra-Low 360 degree head tracking system which allows you seamlessly look around the virtual world as if you were the in the game itself.
• Also, it has stereoscopic 3D view which creates parallel images for each eye, so unlike 3D movies it makes the environment seem more realistic and natural.
• Lastly, the Oculus provides 100 degrees field of view which expands beyond your peripheral vision which also makes your view not limited by the box around the screen but as far as your eye can see.

Tech Article 9/26

• According to John Hewitt, the spotlight of making the paralyzed able to walk and move again are back.
• ProjectNEUWalk is a project where a group of scientists are trying to figure out ways of getting the paralyzed human bodies able to walk.
• Their first test subject is rats, their first latest breakthrough is to control the spinal cord. What makes this milestone even greater is that the rats themselves had no control over their spine.

NBA 2K15 Introduces Face-Cam Tech

NBA 2K15 Introduces Face-Cam Technology

• Developers of the interactive basketball franchise are adding a new feature.
• This feature adds in an option where they could use the PS4 camera or the Kinect camera for the Xbox to digitally graft their faces in 3D.
• This new feature opens a new gate to developers and other studios as well as leaving a new environment for gamers across the world.

Web 2.0: Multimedia Blog Posting Sem 2_Pre

So far, in Mr. Olsen's Algebra 1 class, we have been breezing through last year's math work like nothing. The first time I sat down I didn't know what we would learn, start off with, or even see what work would be held for homework. All I knew was to try my hardest and keep my grade up because I don't know what is coming up next. Up to now, what we have learned is the Properties, such as: Commutative Property, Associative Property, etc.


An interesting part of Algebra 1 is his Do Now timer, I say this because his alarm for it is "Thunderstuck" by ACDC. As far as technology goes, the only technology that is used is his own laptop and a projector to show us math equations and a Powerpoint. After each week, a new syllabus is provided by him in class, and even if you're absent there is always a copy on his website for his syllabus.

Up to now, his class has been great. Very easy, and very easy understand, everything you need to learn is in a single packet. Even your homework is on the back so it is not very hard to lose it, so no excuses to why you have lost it or how. Yet, his class is in the morning portion of school, getting lost or side tracked during his class is very common if you haven't had much sleep.