tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37242628526069374112024-03-13T20:34:39.603-04:00Reader BombAwesomeBen Xxxxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11280785491703176817noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3724262852606937411.post-91412108104876742652013-05-06T20:18:00.001-04:002013-05-06T20:18:40.194-04:00Piontless Lists<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I have made a new website called <a href="http://piontlesslists.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Pointless Lists</a>. It's not much… Yet. </span>Ben Xxxxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11280785491703176817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3724262852606937411.post-78225534243206466012013-04-21T11:18:00.001-04:002013-04-21T11:18:12.108-04:00RaskashismLast night I had a sleepover with one of my friends. We stayed up past midnight. I'm really tired. We were coming up with our own 'religion'. It's called Raskashism.<br />
Soon I'll tell you a little more about it.Ben Xxxxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11280785491703176817noreply@blogger.com0Dummerston Dummerston42.955275 -72.559618tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3724262852606937411.post-61150421036588362012013-04-20T13:30:00.004-04:002013-04-20T13:32:36.102-04:00BONE<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There is a really cool graphic novel series called <u>Bone</u>. It's really good. There are eleven books. Two of the books aren't exactly in the series, <u>Rose</u> and <u>The Bone Handbook</u>. They are all done by Jeff Smith. One of my friend's has met him. He says Jeff is really nice. The last <u>Bone</u> book came out a few years ago. He is starting to make a new series called <u>Quest For The Spark</u>. It isn't a graphic novel but a novel. Jeff Smith is illustrating it and it's written by Tom Sniegoski. I've read all the <u>Bone</u>'s and I just got the first <u>Quest For The Spark</u> book and it's really good.</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">If you like magic and fantasy this is the book for you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I also like their slender build, and especially how their wings fold up. Most birds I can identify right away, like the Brown Headed Cowbird, or the American Robin, but their will always some mystery bird that I don't have the time to identify so I let it slide. I have noticed this bird that has often been flying around in our field that I haven't gotten a good enough look at so I don't know what it is. I think it lives in tree close to the field. It's really nagging me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> I have three birding guides. 'The Peterson Field Guide To Birds Of North America', 'Florida birds' (I don't live in Florida, so I don't use this one so much.), and 'Vermont Birds'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The Peterson one has all the birds that have ever been seen in North America. The Florida birds one has all the most common birds in Florida and the Vermont one has all the most common birds in Vermont. Right now I'm using the Vermont Birds book the most because if I use the Peterson one, I constantly have to be flipping pages, whereas with the vermont birds one there are no pages. But some times I still have to use the Peters. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Ex: today I was looking out my window and a saw a strange bird. I looked in my Vermont Birds and I saw it was a Brown Headed Cowbird. Next to it I saw another bird that looked like a Sparrow of some sort, or was it? Another second and I thought "thats no Sparrow!". I automatically went for the Peterson guide and figured out it was only a female Brown Headed Cowbird. You can always depend on </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The Peterson Field Guide To Birds Of North America.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Just for the record, he told me to write this. He is very handsome guy. I know you think this is weird, but bear with me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">P.P.S. I just turned ten on april twelfth. Oh Ya. I got a GoPro (<a href="http://parts.bmwmotorcyclesofcountryside.com/item.wws?sku=424254&itempk=&mfr=OWN&weight=1" target="_blank">GoPro</a>), a double bass peddle (for drums [<a href="http://www.musiciansfriend.com/drums-percussion/sound-percussion-double-bass-pedal?src=3WWRWXGP" target="_blank">double bass</a>]), art supplies, a subscription to the stone soup magazine (<a href="http://www.stonesoup.com/" target="_blank">Stone Soup</a>),</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> a journal, a $50 gift card to Amazon (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/" target="_blank">Amazon</a>), a $25 dollar gift card to Barnes&Noble (<a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/" target="_blank">B&N</a>)</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">, a Hat Trick (also for drums [<a href="http://www.zzounds.com/item--RHTRT7400" target="_blank">Hat Trick</a>]), and rollerblades.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">-Tofu</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I also highly recommend two great songs too:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">-Wonderwall by Oasis</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I hope you like how I'm posting more frequently.</span>Ben Xxxxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11280785491703176817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3724262852606937411.post-36813571540577838662013-03-19T10:54:00.001-04:002013-03-19T10:56:50.910-04:00Sorry Etc.<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Dear readers, </span><br />
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Ben Xxxxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11280785491703176817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3724262852606937411.post-87182112027924564482013-01-28T18:00:00.000-05:002013-01-28T18:00:00.336-05:00thoughts<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Here is a list of thoughts I thought today:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">WAKING UP: 'mornin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">BRUSHING TEETH: this takes forever</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">EATING BREAKFIST:yum!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">LYING BY THE FIRE: oh ya!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">GETTING IN THE CAR TO GO TO <u style="font-weight: bold;">SCHOOL</u>: Brrrrrrrr… </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">ENTERING THE SCHOOL: I'm beggining to really dislike this place.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">STARTING TO WORK: I hope fifth grade is better than this</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">DISSECTING OWL PELLETS: Awesome</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">STAYING IN FOR RESCESS: bor-ing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">AFTERNOON: same as rescess </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As I said, thoughts I thought during the day. </span>Ben Xxxxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11280785491703176817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3724262852606937411.post-29898641003194195562013-01-26T21:56:00.001-05:002013-01-26T21:58:34.027-05:00New WebsiteCheck out my new website! <a href="http://ritaramirezgal.wix.com/trunkfullobooks">Trunk Full-O-Books</a>Ben Xxxxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11280785491703176817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3724262852606937411.post-75886529336457661222013-01-26T12:14:00.000-05:002013-01-26T12:26:28.688-05:00READ THIS!!<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">At the bottom of this blog their is a link that says 'Older Posts', click on it if you want to see more post's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You may have noticed that beautiful poem a wrote yesterday? Well, that poem was completely come up with on the spot. At school we've been studying poetry so we can write a few poems for the annual poetry performance. My teacher (Dan) encouraged us to try to write a few poems over the weekend, and, as some of you know, I'm sort of a procrastinator when it comes to doing school work so I didn't really want to do it but just before the end of last fridays school day I came up with an idea: How To Build A Poem. Now that was just the idea for the poem, I didn't really have in mind what the content of the poem was, but when I got home, i immediately went to my mom's computer and wrote the poem. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">When my mom and dad read it the were completely in awe. my dad said that the poem I wrote was better than the poems he was writing in college. I hope my teacher likes it! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hawk Eye etc. Look it up! I mean seriously, who doesn't like the Hulk! Come on!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's just like BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!! Awesome right?! Right?<br /> </span>Ben Xxxxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11280785491703176817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3724262852606937411.post-61487647364588528282012-11-23T19:47:00.000-05:002012-11-24T11:39:48.528-05:00DOWNHILL SKIINGA few days ago my mom, Leo and I went to pick up my downhill skis at Burrows Specialized Sports<br />
(one of the local sports stores). I got K2 Indys! K2 Indys are a downhill ski model with twin tips.<br />
There great for you if your a 'park rat' skier. I also got a 'Transpack' ski bag that can hold your ski boots really well. I'm am really excited for ski season. At my school every year you do winter sports. In kindergarden you go skating. In first grade you can do skating or<br />
cross-country skiing. In second grade you can do skating, cross-country skiing, or downhill skiing, same in third grade. In fourth grade you can do snowboarding, downhill skiing, or cross-country skiing. Same in fifth and sixth grade. In seventh and eighth grade you can do downhill skiing or snowboarding.<br />
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This is a picture of my stats for today. This graph shows how many page views I've had so far today.<br />
By the way today is Saturday the 3rd so I can keep this straight. Feel free to comment on this. I check my comments daily.Ben Xxxxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11280785491703176817noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3724262852606937411.post-37315298782359034582012-11-03T11:20:00.000-04:002012-11-03T14:23:24.160-04:00Ganham style<span style="background-color: white;">I don't know if you've already seen this video but if you have not it is hilarious!</span><br />
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Ben Xxxxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11280785491703176817noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3724262852606937411.post-76874996998855559662012-10-28T20:08:00.001-04:002012-10-29T08:56:34.440-04:00The Eliminator.Today was Sunday. Yesterday I had a play-date with my friend. In my dad's shop we made a completely homemade crossbow. It fired at least forty feet. When my friend was here it broke two times. We also fixed it two times. The first time we called it The Eliminator. The second time we called it The Eliminator II. Once my friend left it broke two more times. The Eliminator III and The Eliminator IV came to town. I broke The Eliminator IV I finally decided it was getting too boring to keep on fixing, gluing, nailing, and hammering The Eliminator, so I stopped doing it.<br />
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<br />Ben Xxxxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11280785491703176817noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3724262852606937411.post-44466417874954659032012-10-27T22:07:00.001-04:002012-10-29T10:13:19.860-04:00LEGOS!!!!!!!!!!Saturday was the Annual LEGO Contest at the BMAC. My family and I made a drum set. Everybody in the family helped out. There were two names that we were going to call it: Ringo's Drum Set or Beatles Forever. We chose Beatles Forever. <br />
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My family and I won a $15 gift certificate to Toy City. Now I would just like to tell you that once we finished building it, we spray-panted it to give it that same color effect. Luckily we didn't get disqualified. Everybody thought it was great!! We even made the BMAC's Facebook page. When my mom found out that we were on their Facebook page she knew that we won something. Luckily she didn't tell me that until I already found out that we won. Two years ago I got runner-up for the most original award because I built this huge LEGO humanoid (about two and a half ft. tall). I won a fifteen dollar gift certificate to Baker's (the local toy store) and I got a fairly small Harry Potter LEGO set. It didn't last that long. </div>
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Today was Friday. On Thursday I had my parent teacher <b>student!</b> conference. At the school I go to, once you get into fourth grade and up you actually have to be at your own conference. You have to put together a portfolio of works that you've done to show your parents. You have to pick one work from each subject: math, cultural, language arts, and you can pick between music, p.e. or art. You can also put in one other work of your choice (optional). You have to write a two paragraph essay for each work. Then there's the conference. It's basically like digging your own grave (if you know what I mean). It's so scary. At the end of the conference I could've sworn I wet my pants at least three times. (Note my armpits were sweating like crazy). The good thing about it is that it's only a 30 minute conference and you don't actually have to really do anything except say "good" at the end of every question your parents ask you. My teacher Dan says that the word 'good' is basically a grunt with a 'D' sound on the end. I think " Good rocks!". In the end it turned out it actually wasn't that scary. <br />
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<br />Ben Xxxxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11280785491703176817noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3724262852606937411.post-43877170567637525592012-10-17T19:32:00.001-04:002012-10-19T18:02:02.745-04:00Oh Ya!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For a Christmas present I really wanted a pair of Nike Free's and my mom said I could get them as an early present. Once I customized them, my mom and I placed the order (it goes with out saying).<br />
I really wanted them because I recently started the Brattlebero x-Country Running Team. Once they came, my mom was worried that they would no longer fit me at Christmas (I'm growing a lot) so she let me have them early. A few days before that my gym teacher gave us a talk about how normal sneakers soles elevate to support your heel and how the human (Homo Sapiens) have evolved to walk from toe to heel and most peoples' shoes are made so you walk from heel to toe. I wanted these shoes because they do exactly the opposite of what I just said. They make it so that your heel and toe are at the exact same height, and the sole is really flexible so its just like running barefoot! They feel sooooo good!<br />
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Today was Monday. Monday is my least favorite day in the week because its the first day of school and its usually the first day of the work week for grown-ups. For me its kind of hard to get back into the 'swing of things', if you catch my drift. At school I got a new math assignment, I also have to finish my portfolio by taking a picture of me playing the drums on Wednesday.<br />
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At recess four square is turning into 'not get hit in the face' square, once you get people out they kind of do a really high pitched scream and/or run at you and push you. Today I said "how hard is it to just play a normal game of four square?!" but nobody said any thing. The only good thing about Monday is that the next day (Tuesday) is my drum lesson, oh-ya! I personally think that being a drummer in a band is very important because the drummer keeps the beat, if the drummer gets off the beat the whole band gets of the beat. When I was playing with my dad (who plays guitar) my dad says I'm making him a better guitarist because I'm keeping the beat so well. Do you know how some people call electric drum sets 'fake' and acoustic drum sets 'real'? (By the way, I have an electric drum set) When someone says that to me I say: "Electric drum sets are real and acoustic drum sets are also real. Nobody calls an electric guitar fake and nobody calls an acoustic drum set fake. You see what I mean?" Then they usually say "I see, I see". Sometimes it just really bothers me. But a lot of people don't know, but I don't blame them.Ben Xxxxxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11280785491703176817noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3724262852606937411.post-10476293151862801682012-10-12T19:49:00.001-04:002012-10-22T22:21:50.307-04:00Trunk Full-O-Books<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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Trunk Full-O-Books is an independent library owned and run by your average 4th grader, Benjamin B. Here is the letter I, Ben B., sent out to all my members:</div>
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Enclosed you will find your Trunk Full -O- Books membership card. With this card, you can check out an unlimited number of books for as long as two months! </div>
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We have a range of books from graphic novels, to poetry to classics by JRR Tolkien and Rudyard Kipling. Most books are for kids, but we do carry a small selection of grown-up books. </div>
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First timers at the library get a free bookmark. And remember, you can always look us up on our blog.</div>
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