Sketch Up and Stuff

Okay so I am in IT class again, working with a cool thing called Google Sketch Up. I really like, and I might even start to use it at home to make a dream house or something - good practice for if I decide to become an architect or something along those lines. Anyways, so today in sketchup, I watched a video about building stairs. It was made by a group called "school" or something, very well made I think. The website WonderHowTo gave it a B+, but I thought it was like an A+. Anyways, so it was like step by step, and..... (continue next class)

(continued in the morning before school a few days later)
and... and... um.... okay so the video was very helpful. Thy guy explained everything well, and showed how stuff works, and told how to do little special tricks. For example, I learned how to hold down shift to select more than one item at a time, how to make components, and how holding down ctrl makes copies when moving at item. The tutorial also showed me how to use the rotate tool, and I finally understand how the concepts of the different planes of axis work, and how I use them properly. =] Okay so anyways, the video was about building stairs, and there was a second one about building a spiral staircase, and so I watched that one too. In the end I opted to build the spiral staircase, because it looks cooler and harder, and in the end I like a challenge. And so in the end, I followed the tutorial and did all the steps, and my stairs looked superb! =D Then I wanted to add handrails, and spent like a whole 3/4 of a class trying to perfect them, since there wasn't a tutorial for handrails on the spiral stairs (there was for the regular stairs, but they didn't really work for their spiral friends =/ ). Alright (I just said "alright" because I was listening to a song and it said "alright") so then I finished building the stairs, and then learned that we could change the look of them. And so I changed the materials/colour of them, and now they are done, and look fantasmagical. Alright, that is the end of this blog - I just noticed how much I wrote... and how random it is. Oh well, peace.

First!

Heeeyy, this is Jeffrey Boschman, AKA JTBaallin. I got this nickname from a volunteer camp a few years ago, and just remembered it now and want to use it.

This is my first post in my new blog thing for IT 11. I just accidentaly just typed in TI 11, as in the rapper, and then corrected it. That's weird, because whenever I try to text the word "to", it autocorrects to "TI". I just thought that was interesting, and I should mention it. That is what Blogging is, right? Random thoughts and things that happened in my life??

Anyways, this post is supposed to be what I learned about internet safety yesterday in IT (information technology, not TI) class. Well, we went to a website for 6 to 8 year olds or something, and it told us not to give out our name and information to strangers online. This seems like common sense, but in the "game", there were these 3 pig kids who told a hungry wolf their address... Kinda dumb, right? They also told some random website how much income their mother gets in a year, which seems like a stupid question, that wouldn't be on any legit website. Then the pig kids got spammed a lot in their email. Well, although this alleged game might help little grade 1ers or something, it seemed very juveniele to me, and I did not learn anything new.

Now I am going to change my background and stuff for my blog and make it look more fancy. "See you 'round the zoo, kangaroo!"