Quote of the Day

“You have B on report card?! You are not supposed to get B! You are A-sian, not B-sian!!”

Just a funny little quote that one of my friends shared with me.

The Daily Shoot Assignment of the Day

Find a scene that’s dominated by one color and make a photograph of it. Use light and shadow to ac­centuate detail.

What I’m Reading

A little while ago, I finished reading a book titled Deception Point by Dan Brown.

After finishing four of Dan Brown’s other books, I knew that this book was going to be a good read. Dan Brown has built an excellent reputation in my mind, and Deception Point only solidified his standpoint. Like his other books, Dan Brown wrote Deception Point as a thriller mystery, with multiple different conflicts occurring at the same time. The chapters switch back and forth from different scenes of the plot, putting equal emphasis on the importance of each of these events. This style of writing also helps the reader understand how the events occur chronologically.

The main character in this book is Rachel Sexton, the daughter of a senator running to become the next president of the United States. As the novel begins, Sexton finds herself in the Artic Circle observing the extraction of a massive rock, supposedly identified as a meteorite from outer space. As NASA inves­tigates the meteorite, they find that there are fossils embedded in the meteorite, proving that ex­traterrestrial life exists.

Before the world has an opportunity to celebrate, Rachel Sexton and a few other civilian scientists discover some flaws with the meteorite, and begin to question its authenticity. As NASA’s discovery takes a sharp turn in the other direction, Sexton and her friends find their own lives in danger when they find out three mysterious individuals are out hunting for their lives.

In addition to being a good read, this book comes with lots of factual information interlaced in a fictional storyline, making it educational as well as entertaining. All of the technologies described in the book are real and could be used today for the same purposes as they are used in the book.

Also, this is an excellent book for the readers who don’t like finishing a book because they want the story to continue longer. When it seemed like the story was about to come to a conclusion, I checked how far I had gotten and noticed that I was only about half way through the book. With plenty of unexpected twists and turns creating new problems and magnifying old ones, this is a book that will definitely keep you alert and thinking.

Question of the Day

Today is a combination of various different questions I’m asked about my choice of drink: “What is your favorite thing to drink?”

As a direct answer to the question, I would have to say my favorite thing to drink is either lemonade or Mountain Dew. No, it does not matter if the lemonade is yellow or pink.

Some variations of the question are “this or that” questions: Coke or Pepsi? 7-Up or Sprite? Gatorade or Powerade? Honestly, although I will pick one or the other if I’m asked, I don’t really care what my two options are. I am one of those people that are able to taste distinct differences between similar products with different brand names (such as the comparisons mentioned above), but any drink is good, as long as it’s not bitter or alcoholic. Which leads me to the next two questions…

… the first one being, “What is your favorite type of coffee?” If you’re expecting a normal Parkzer answer with sugar measured down to the last milligram and cream measured down to the last quarter ounce, you’re wrong. I hate coffee. Unless I’m stranded and dying on a desert with nothing else to drink, I always pass when offered coffee.

The second is, “What’s your favorite alcoholic beverage?” First of all, I have to mention that in order to have a favorite of a particular item, one has to try various different types of the item in question and identify which type he or she favors most. Seeing as the legal drinking age in the United States of America is 21, and I have lived in the United States all my life, stating my favorite type of alcohol would essentially be a public announcement that I have broken the law. I have no desire to announce myself as a criminal on my own public blog, so the question remains unanswered.

Either way, my theory is that drinking alcohol is the equivalent of committing suicide, just that it’s a lot slower than methods such as shooting yourself in the head or shoving a folded frisbee down your throat. I have no intention to kill myself in the near future, thus, I have no intention to use alcohol anytime soon, even after I turn 21. Oh, also, I’m one of those losers that thinks they can have fun without using drugs or alcohol. Yes, I know, time to start pointing and laughing at me for being stoopid.