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About John L

I am a homeschooled boy living in New York City.

Richmond Park

Today I went to Richmond Park. 

It was really nice! I saw wild deer. Deer roam freely around the park and I have some great pictures of them. To get there, I took a l o n g bus ride to Robin Hood Lane and then I started to walk north. I saw lots of deer on the south side of the park. Here is a picture of myself by one of the ponds:

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I walked to the north section of the park, where I got lunch. DO NOT go to the Pembroke Lodge Cafe. They sell soup but they don’t have spoons. “Here’s a straw!” they said. Then I went to see the view of London. You can see St. Pauls and The Shard. Then I walked to Richmond bus station and got a bus home. I walked 4 miles in total! You should go to Richmond Park if you haven’t. And here’s a tip: always bring a camera!

By | September 8th, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments

My Favorite Youtube Channels

One of my favorite channels is musicalbasics. Lionel (I’ve talked about him before) makes music. He also sells some of his songs as sheet music. I also like Numberphile and Computerphile. Vi Hart  is also worth a look if you like math. I love Sick Science (one of Steve Spangler’s youtube channels). ElectryDragonite makes cool LEGO creations (like candy machines that take money). Those are my favorite channels.

By | September 2nd, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Random Facts and Ideas

Did you know..

  • Marylebone station on the London Underground used to be called Grand Central.
  • Hampstead station used to be called Heath Street.
  • Warren Street used to be called Euston Road.

 

The difference between pseudo-random and random is this: Pseudo-random works like this: You take any random number and perform a sequence, (like taking the number, squaring it, take the middle, and repeat the process over and over.), and keep going until you hit a totally random number.

This binary code is hard to decrypt: 01100111 01100101 01101110 01101001 01110101 01110011 . And use that as your key for this Vigenere Cipher: hroidgn.

This is the new piano song I’m working on:

By | August 28th, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments

What’s Currently On My Mind

I’m making these short posts so you can see what’s on my mind.

 

 

I was working when my sister started to play some music that I hate (One Direction, Rihanna)  and it started to make me think about modern music.I hate everything by Katy Perry, One Direction, Ellie Goulding, Carrie Underwood, and Rihanna.I like Billy Joel, Pharrell Williams, and Van Halen. I like older music better than contemporary music. Thank God we have people like Weird Al Yankovic  to make funny songs. I don’t get how artists are so famous. People like Lionel Yuzzy should get more attention. Here is one of his videos:

 

Yes, he made all of those songs himself! Who do you think deserves more attention? Katy Perry or Lionel? Thinking about Lionel’s videos reminds me of Google’s new safety mode that is ridiculous, because it blocks some of Lionel’s videos. I have watched his videos lots of times and I see nothing that is inappropriate. Safety is ridiculous these days. In the US, some kid told me that I couldn’t ride my bike because I didn’t have a helmet on. He said it’s a law that you have to wear a helmet on a bike. What time of law is that?! When I played baseball, the pitcher has to wear this big pad in front of his chest. You don’t need that! You have ribs and a chest! In fact, I gave up trying to play organised sports. I think it’s a lot more fun to get some random kids and a ball and play. I like playing with city kids more than I like playing with suburb kids. Kids in London will play with you even if they have never seen you before. I basically go to the park everyday with ball, and stay for an hour.

By | August 22nd, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments

My Trip To Scotland

 

I went to Scotland on the 7th of August. It was really fun! On the first day, I took a l o n g train ride from King’s Cross to Edinburgh Waverley. Then I took a cab to my hotel. Then I walked to the Grassmarket which was a square that had street performers (I came during the Fringe Festival, so it was a good time to come. The Fringe is where there are lots of shows.) . Then I saw the castle but didn’t go inside. I walked down the Royal Mile and then went to my hotel. The next day I took a bus tour  and went a loop before getting off at Arthur’s Seat. Arthur’s Seat is this big mountain that I climbed.

 

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Then it started to rain, so I went to the Edinburgh Dungeon. It was  REALLY SCARY. Much scarier than the York one. There was this boat ride in the caves of Galloway in hunt for the cannibal Bean family. Thankfully I sat on the right in the front. Everyone knows that the front is the safest, and before the ride started, the woman told us that cannibals always attack on left. I think the girl behind me literally pooped her pants. Afterwards I went back to the hotel. On the next day I went on a tour bus. Not one that just did Edinburgh but one that went to The Isle of Skye, Loch Ness, and northern Scotland. It took three days. When I got back to Edinburgh I went to this Camera Obscura place and then the Museum of Scotland. Then I got my luggage and went back to King’s Cross.

 

 

By | August 16th, 2014|vacation, vacations|0 Comments

My Trip to York

And now I’ll tell you a little bit about these places..

The York Dungeon is a place where they tell you about the scary bits of York’s history and scare you while they’re at it. It was fun, kind of scary, but you should go. It’s not as scary as people say it is. The National Rail Museum is the place to go if you like trains. There is a lot of trains to look at (you can go in some of them), you can see a model of the world’s fastest train that is life-sized. It’s next to the train station, so you can see the rail station from there. They show how signalling works and stuff like that. It was good. I didn’t get to stay that long, so I could have enjoyed it more. York’s Sweet Story is the chocolate factory of York. It tells you about chocolate’s history and how chocolate is made. Then you get to make your own chocolate bar! You must go there! The Jorvik Viking Center is a museum that tells you about vikings that lived in York. But it has smells from the times of the vikings, too. It’s ter-whiff-ic! You should go there. The York Castle Museum tells you all about the history of York. It has a recreated Victorian street. It is fun. Go there sometime. Clifford’s tower is a tower on a hill. You can see the entire city! It’s fun. I will be telling you about our next vacation soon.

By | July 24th, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments

My Trip to Sicily


On the first day (June 26), I took a Gatwick Express train to the train station. Then I took a shuttle to Gatwick North Terminal. Then after a while I got on the British Airways plane to Sicily. Then I had a long taxi ride to a ferry pier, and then I took a ferry to Lipari. There was another cab to our hotel, and when we got there we went to dinner and then to bed. The next day I just stayed at the hotel and took a taxi tour around Lipari.

The next day we went to Vulcano. It was amazing! There was the smell of sulfur, a huge volcano, and hot springs! We climbed the volcano,then went to the beach, which had black sand and hot springs down on the east side of the beach. It was so much fun!!☻☻☻ After a while we went home.

The next day we took a tour around the Aeolian islands. We saw Panarea (which was a nice place) and Stromboli. Stromboli had this huge volcano that was spurting out fire all the time. It was so cool!☻ The next day we went to mainland Sicily. We went to Toarmina. On this day we went to our pool and relaxed.

On the next day we went to the beach and took a funicula (cable car) back up. The next day we went to the beach but this time we took a boat tour. We saw a grotto that we could go in to! We went to a nice restaurant in Castelmola that night. On the next day we left. After a while we got home, took a shuttle, a train, and a tube home.

By | July 9th, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Website Update

siteeI finally got the Avada theme for my site. Here are a couple of things I’ve learned along the way: for FTP, don’t get Filezilla. It installs Speeddial and Norton on your computer. Use WinSCP. You also can’t send a theme over from another computer. Each time I did it from my dad’s computer, it broke my site. Finally, when I got it to my site, I FTPed it to my WP-Themes folder. Then I made an entirely new front page (image at top) with a slider, content boxes, and recent posts. The fusion slider is really easy to use, so I would start with that. Favicon and logo making is easy, use these sites: for Favicon and for Logo Making.

By | June 23rd, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments

My Trip to Italy

My Trip to Italy

I went to Italy last Saturday with my Mum, Dad, and my sister. I woke up at 4:00 am and took a cab to Gatwick airport. As we were driving, we went by the place where I used to go ice skating in Streatham. When we got there, we went through customs, security, and finally got on the plane. One hour later, we arrived at Milan Malpensa airport and took a cab to Bellagio (a small little town close to Lake Como).

After going swimming, we watched some of the World Cup then went to bed. On the next day we took a ferry to Verenna and climbed a mountain with a castle on top.

Then we went back to our hotel and watched more of the World Cup and went to bed. Then tomorrow we took a train to Milan and got into our hotel there. Then we went to a park and went back to our hotel and watched (yawn) more of the World Cup. Then tomorrow we went to the Castle Sforzesco.

Then we went back to our hotel. The next day we took a cab to Malpensa Airport and left for home. When we took a cab back, we went near Chessington World of Adventures.

Then we got home.

By | June 19th, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments

My New Website

My New Website

I have new website, domain, hosting, and the Avada theme. It is called Homeschool Son.
This is my logo:

I will have a favicon like that. Unfortunately, I won’t be on this site as much. When I get Homeschool Son into full speed, I will not use this site anymore. You can join my website once I figure out how you can join it. My new website will have stuff even better this one. I have had 36736 hits on this website in 4 years.

By | June 10th, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Musescore Review

Musescore Review

I just downloaded Musescore yesterday. It is really good! You can do lots of things with it, even stuff I didn’t know you do on a piano! It has every thing from Glissandos to Tremolos, from Triplets to Nontuplets! It is awesome compared to the stuff that costs £700 like Sibelius or Finale. I am working on a song called Ice Kingdom. It is going along very quickly. Some times it crashes (like when you try to do lots of quick notes), but it doesn’t lose much data. I definitely recomend that you would buy it.

By | May 14th, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Evolution, The Big Bang Theory, and Other “Scientific” Nonsense Busted


Evolution, The Big Bang Theory, and Other “Scientific” Nonsense Busted

Warning: This might be too complicated for some people.

The Big Bang Theory

The reason this is wrong is because the First Law of Thermodynamics says that no energy or matter can be created or destroyed. The two random molecules could not have come from nothing. And all the energy that came from could not have come from nothing.

Evolution

Evolutionists say that the world started off as chaos, and got better and better. But the Law of Entropy says that everything gets less and less orderly. Darwin says that every living thing came from a puddle of goop, and plants and animals cames from mud and evolved for 6000 years. But why aren’t there new species every day? Clearly, evolution is impossible.

The World Is Running Out of Fossil Fuels

Wrong. Oil and other fossil fuels are made out of dead plants and animals, and scientists can make oil and coal just with dead plants and animals.

The World is 13.8 Billion Years Old

This time, Mr. Sun himself says that this is wrong. The sun gets hotter and hotter and time goes by. 10 billion years ago, the sun would be to cold to support life. And 10 billion years in the future, the sun would be way to hot.

By | April 30th, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments

London Transport Trivia

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London Transport Trivia

*I got this trivia from Wikipedia, TFL, Crossrail, and the sites that come up first when you Google “Tube Trivia”.*

    Tube Trivia

  • Gladstone and Dr. Barnado were the only people to ever have their coffins transported by tube.
  • Aldwych station (now closed) is featured on level 12 in the Tomb Raider game with Lara Croft killing rats.
  • Regent’s Park, Piccadilly Circus, Hyde Park Corner and Bank are some of the few stations which do not have an above ground surface building.
  • The tunnel between East Finchley and Morden (via Bank) is the Underground’s longest and the 2nd longest rail tunnel in the world, 27.8km (17.25 miles).
  • The walking time between two underground stops in central London is never more than 10 minutes, and is sometimes a lot less. In fact, the shortest distance between two adjacent stations on the underground network is only 260 metres. The tube journey between Leicester Square and Covent Garden on the the Piccadilly Line takes only about 20 seconds, but costs £4.30.
  • The phrase MIND THE GAP originated on the Northern line in 1968.
  • London’s Tube is the oldest underground railway in the world. The Metropolitan Line – opened on 10 January 1863. The first stretch measured four miles and ran between Paddington and Farringdon.
  • They are making new extensions for lines, and they making two lines called Crossrail 1 and Crossrail 2.
    The Victoria line was going to be part of the Crossrail.
  • There are trams in London, from Wimbledon to New Addington, Beckenham Junction, and Elmer’s End.
  • The Tube is the second longest city rail way in the world.
  • Five tube stations are named after pubs: Angel, Elephant & Castle, Manor House, Royal Oak and Swiss Cottage

  • Bus Trivia

  • Keep your eyes open for the silver 9 bus. It is Year of the Bus and Mayor of London Boris Johnson is bringing back the old Routemaster buses.
  • A 76 bus was driving over Tower Bridge when he realised that the bridge was opening. The driver couldn’t stop, so he accelerated. He went fast enough to jump over the gap.
  • The 9 bus was described as the “cheapest and best tour”, because it goes through lots of cool places.
  • Crossrail Trivia

  • Crossrail is Europe’s largest construction project – work started in May 2009 and there are currently over 10,000 people working across over 40 construction sites.

  • The Crossrail map looks something like this:
  • By | April 28th, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments

    In The Future

    The Future…Or What Most People Think It Will Look Like….

    What Im Going to be like when Im 20

    1. I will be the coolest person on earth.
    2. I will be
      • An entrepreneur
      • A scientist
      • A lawyer
    3. I probably will have made a time machine.
    4. I will have skied down Mt. Everest.
    5. I will live in London
    6. I will be the best in the world at dodgeball.
    7. I will also be the funniest person in the world.
    8. I will be able to play the Death Waltz by John Stump on the piano.
    9. I will be able to juggle a running chainsaw, a feather, a bowling ball, a lit torch, an anvil, and a water balloon.
    10. I will make portals to get around.
    11. I will make twenty world records.
    12. I will read every book in the world.
    13. I will know every joke in the world.
    14. I will be a superhero called Ego Man.
    15. I will fail at completing at least half of this list.

    By | April 23rd, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments

    Tube Trivia

    Tube Trivia

    The Tube is the subway of London. Here is some trivia about it.

    • There is only one Tube station name which does not have any letters of the word “mackerel” in it – St. John Wood
    • There are only 2 Tube stations which have all the vowels(not counting y)- South Ealing and Mansion House
    • There used to be a station called British Museum between Tottenham Court Road and Holborn. It closed down a while ago and hasn’t been used since.
    • Angel station has the longest escalator in Europe. Once somebody skied down it 2006 and posted the video on Youtube.
    • Out of the 287 stations, only 29 are south of the river Thames.
    • The Central line covers the most distance. From West Ruislip to Epping with out changing is 34 miles.
    • The Waterloo and City line is the shortest, covering only 2 kilometers.
    • The Tube carrys passengers over 43 million miles each day. That is almost half way to the sun.
    • Green grapes cause more accidents on the London Underground than banana skins.
    • Whitechapel is the only place on the network where the Overground runs below the Underground.
    • Stockwell is the southernmost London underground station that serves more than one line.
    • Pimlico station is the only station on the Victoria line not to have an interchange with any other tube/rail line.
    • Victoria station is the busiest in London, with over 80 million passengers a year.
    • Kensal Green station looks like a barn.
    • The only station you have to go UP steps to get to the trains/platforms is Hillingdon.
    • Brompton Road (now disused) on the Piccadilly, Line was apparently used as a control room for anti-aircraft guns.
    • There is a mosquito named after the Tube – the London Underground mosquito, which was found in the London Underground. It was notable for its assault of Londoners sleeping in the Underground during the Blitz.
    By | April 23rd, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments