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December 28, 2011 Rudolph

Rudolph the red-nosed hedgehog, burrowing beneath the ground, When he comes up in your house, You know presents will be found.... Webpage

August 18, 2011 Heaven

My little sister (11) was describing what she thought heaven looked like. This is how I interpreted her words. She didn't approve of my interpretation. Webpage

August 18, 2011 Hell

This is a follow-up to my post on heaven. I asked my sister to describe hell. In light of what happened last time, she was much more specific. Still, I think I managed to subvert it pretty well without breaking the letter of her words. Webpage

June 1, 2011 Magitechnic Solutions

My sister kept trying me to figure out what our last name was before it was assigned to our grandfather's grandfather. She wanted me to just find it on the internet somehow. I thought it would be more fun to prank her than to futilely scour the internet for name-heritage trivia. So I made this website. Webpage

2011 Six and Vegetables Study

I stumbled accross the website six.pen.io, which features a series of exercises designed to make the reader think about the number six. The exercises include a series of five simple addition problems which sum to six, and a request that the reader pause 15 seconds and repeat the number 'six' to themselves as fast as they can. The website then has them scroll down, and implores them (with excessive punctuation) to think of a vegetable. The website claims that 98% of people who follow this procedure come up with "carrot".

I found this claim rather dubious, so I set out to test it. Webpage

December 23, 2010 Minecraft Checkers

I played a lot of Minecraft yesterday, and made a lot of random decorative things (a floating island, a couple temples, et cetera). Among these was a checkerboard. Why not a chessboard? Well, minecraft doesn't have enough variety of movable pieces to play chess. Apomegranite and I used powered minecarts for black pieces, and storage minecarts for brown (white? red?) pieces. We used cobblestone blocks for my kings, and wooden blocks for his kings. Webpage

December 22, 2010 Minecraft Creeper Part-ay

A few hours ago I was playing on my Minecraft server, building a simple "safe-house" outside a tunnel my friend dug. It was made of stone, three blocks high, with no roof. I put stairs on each outside and block, so that I could easily climb in. When night came, after I frolicked among the skeletons and spiders with my trusty bow and arrows, something came to my attention. Webpage

2009 Signs

My sophomore of high school I made a lot of random posters that I put up all around the school. I kept this up for a few weeks, making new posters to add to the old ones. My goal was to make people's days more interesting. Here's a selection of the first few signs I made. Webpage

2008 1001 ways to get 42

It is vitally important for your success in life to have all of these memorized. Webpage

2008 FBI Questionnaire

Things you should know if you're ever pulled over by an FBI agent (and you live in a world that makes absolutely no sense). Webpage

2007 English Test

Think you know English? Well too bad because you'll probably fail this anyway because the answers are highly unfair and arbitrary. I apologize for the comic sans, I made this a long time ago. Webpage

2007 Math Test

Think you know Math? Well too bad because you'll probably fail this anyway because the answers are highly unfair and arbitrary. I apologize for the comic sans, I made this a long time ago. Webpage

2007 Word Play

A collection of weird riddles, poems, and rhymes. Most of them are written by me, but a few I just found somewhere. I think I put this up around eight grade. Webpage

2005 by Shem - A Children's Guide to Animal Recognition

This is a javascript version of a book my dad wrote in high school. Webpage

2005 Mad Lib 1

A silly madlib thing (rife with spelling errors) I made somewhere around 7th grade. Webpage

2005 Mad Lib 2

A silly madlib thing (rife with spelling errors) I made somewhere around 7th grade. Webpage

2004 Barbies are Demons

When I was in 5th grade I decided that Barbies were demons. I made this page to convince my little sister of this fact. Webpage

2004 IQ Test

This completely legitimate (read: completely fake) test I made in 5th grade will accurately assess your IQ using a series of seemingly random questions with impossible answers. Webpage

2004 SAT Test

Note that this has absolutely nothing to do with the real SAT test. Yes, those pictures on the left are supposed to be broken. Webpage