Geeky Mom

Today in my social studies class, we enter the 1880s with imperialism. It’s a very strange idea and concept, and personally, the separation from poor and rich, making them very far apart. Anyways here is how it went down.

Imperialism, for those of you who don’t know, is one nation controlling another for five different reasons.

Economy: Of course making money. We’ll do anything to get some moneys. Sweat shops, cheap labor, whatever.

Exploration: Some people wanted to explore these uncharted areas. I think this is really a lame coverup reason of some of the other things.

Political: Power! That power hungry white folk of the European countries ate up all them countries. All of Africa was controlled by Europe except Etheopia and Liberia.

The last two are Religious and Idealogical, but they are basically the same. Ideology back in the day that white people were superior and primitive. To save these people they bring them Christianity, all in the mean time, white dudes are taking everything they own.

Now I write this to show you what I have been learning, but I would like to hear what your learning experience was, whether it was in the 90s or 20s.

Now as you probably already don’t know, I am an avid Runescape player, and have been studying it for quite some time. I would like to bring you into my realm of my studies.

Well to start off with, they made a majority of trade between players not actaully be face to face. Like, you would want to buy this item, and you set your price(there is a range for each item) and you would either have your offer in, waiting for someone to sell, or buy it from another player without interaction. This little device is called the Grand Exchange, which looks and sounds surprisingly like the stock exchange, and pretty much is.

Now, prices rise and fall depending on the average price the item was purchased that day. Say at item has a limit of 5 and 12. The “market price” would be 8 or 9. If a lot of an item is bought at more than 9 coins, the market price will rise the next day. The limit will now be 9 and 15, and the market price will be 11 or 12.

Unfortunately, this system is fairly easy to abuse, and a group of rich players can all buy one of an item at the maximum price for a few weeks, and it will rise dramatically then fall dramatically. I call this an unnatural rise.

Example of a rise
Example of a rise and fall

This is horrible. And hear me out. When an item is being “bought out”, it makes the item impossible to buy for a few days or even a week or more. And when it is sold or “dumped” it’s impossible to sell for several days.

Now this is my job. When the game updates its content, which it does fairly often, I like to find the connection to an item and prepare for it to rise or fall. Recently they changed the herblore(making potions) skill, so that there are new higher level potions to be made. The potions require and herb to make, and which can be farmed. Of course people want to level as fast as possible so I bought seeds that make the herbs and also the herbs themselves. Investment I am still holding on to .

Now some items like these herbs and seeds rise on their own or a natural rise.

Here is an example
And Another

It’s very fun to how these things work and its sometimes hard to find that connection from the update to the item.

Hope you enjoyed.

Hello and welcome to the 2nd entry of Geekboy’s posting on Tuesdays. If you are not used to this by now, I recommend you get used to it.

Today I’d like to bring you into my daily life. I think you’ll like it.

0000 – 0559 Sleep
0600 – 0610 Shower
0611 – 0630 More Sleep
0631 – 0635 Getting Dressed
0636 – 0645 Getting some Breakfast
0646 – 0700 Touching up
0701 – 0709 Scrambling Around
0710 – 0720 Carpooling
0721 – 0730 Waiting Around
0731 – 0955 Western Civilization
0956 – 1015 Home room
1016 – 1148 Creative Writing
1149 – 1231 Study Hall
1232 – 1305 Lunch
1305 – 1354 Study Hall
1355 – 1422 English
1423 – 1440 Trying to Get Home
1441 – 1850 Eating, Playing, Napping, Bothering Geekymom
1851 – 1940 Dinner
1941 – 2130 Ayche Dub (Code, if you break it, you get a prize)
2131 – 2399 Sleep

Rinse and Repeat.

Now that you know a little bit about me, you can now say hi to me on the street and be like “Heyyyyy I know you!” and I’ll be like “Yeah I get that a lot.” And then we’ll be good acquaintances

Now I was overloaded with questions this week so I will only answer one to make things fair.

How do I feel about limiting screen time during the school year?

Now very simply I like the phrase, everything in moderation. There should be a limit on screen time during the school year, because if there wasn’t, I wouldn’t get my work done. Neither would Geekymom or Geekygirl or Geekymom or Geekycat. We’d all be Fat ‘n Lazy, a Family Company.

All in all, there should be a limit on screen time during the school year, but you should also make sure you leave time for any form of entertainment. I think kids ages like 8 – 18 should all be allowed the same amount of time. It’s important to have fun. An hour a day keeps the stress away.

I’ll leave this spot open for more questions

Hello. I think we are all well aware of why we are gathered here today. It is posting time. For those of you who don’t know what posting time is, I recommend you learn immediately. I have received requests of what to post about, but like on facebook, requests are really codes for demands. Oh you have a new demand to be this person’s friend. What are you gonna do? Say no? No your not that mean and you can’t say no. As far as I’m concerned, demands are something you can’t say no to. I could do less with these mean demands and I’m just going to do my own thing. I like to talk about me so here are a few things about me.

Blood Type: O (no you can’t have my kidneys)
Favorite flavor of ice cream: Bacon
Special Talent: Sneezing with eyes open
Least Favorite Book: Where the Wild Things Are 2: College Party too Wild for Even the Wild Things

Now that those are out of my way, I can continue walking on the sidewalk. About three thousand people wanted to know what books I read. Its more like a genre as I don’t read many series. I really won’t read anything that isn’t an action adventure. If someone doesn’t get stabbed in the Achilles tendon within the first 50 pages, it is clearly not my book. There is a small exception to my strict category with George Carlin. He is a nice guy. Someday, I’ll have to bring it a quote or two.

I don’t like writing in big paragraphs as I think this is easier to read so I’m going to put my series that I read down here. Now, some of you that are aged 14 to about, 14, may have heard of the series Ranger’s Apprentice. It’s a wonderful story of a tactical archer that saves the day. If you like a good medieval action adventure this is your book. Unfortunately, only some of the books have come out in America while the others are only found in Australia. If you want to pay more in shipping than you do for the actual book, you are truly a action adventure fan.

I think this is enough for one day. I need to save some ideas for next Tuesday. That’s posting day.