Warning! Nanos!

Posted on by scott

Those of you who’ve read Specials may remember a certain scene involving extremely dangerous nano-scale weapons (also known as “nanos”). Although weaponized nanos don’t exist yet, nanotech is real, and the potential for dangerous nanos abounds.

In this context, “nanotechnology” means any widget that’s between 1 to 100 nanometers across. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter, so we’re talking down at the level of molecules and even atoms. At present, most nanos are used in fairly boring ways: sunscreen, paint, varnish. But in the near future, nanotech will no doubt be used in computing, mechanical design, and (because it’s what we upright monkeys are best at) killing each other.

Luckily, the good people at Etc Group have started a competition for a Nano Warning symbol, like the biohazard trefoil or other hazard symbols. So when anyone stumble across a defunct nano weapon like Shay and Tally did in Specials, they’ll know not to mess with it.

Here are my three faves so far:

nanohazard.jpg

I like the spider-y one, because it plays on atavistic fears of small crawly things. The broken hexagon refers to the carbon structures that most nanos use. The magnifying glass with a ! will probably look quaint 300 hundred years from now, but it amuses me.

Click here to see the rest and vote for your favorites. The molecular structure you save may be your own.

(Via BoingBoing)

187 thoughts on “Warning! Nanos!”

  1. This contest is so cool!!
    How come I never heard of it before?

    Anyway, My favorite one is the one with the hexagon. At least it tries to be science related. some of the others are totally off the wall! I mean what is up with the whole triangle thing?

    I loves the nanobots in the book too. Although I would probably freak out royally if I thought they got loose!!

  2. My boyfriend recently got me into watching Stargate:SG1 and there is an episode in season one that used nanos to control people! There were nanos in their blood and their aging was controlled by radio transmitters, causing them to age one year for every day they lived! Talk about creepy!

    Anyways, when I heard the word nano I thought of the Uglies series and since it was mentioned here I thought I would comment.

    🙂

  3. ^.^ i like the third one.
    there should be one of a half eaten brain like Zanes XD
    anywayyss.. there was somthing else i had to say i’m suree.. err..
    oh, yes. i can’t wait till.. like repair nano’s are invented, we could do all sorts of crazy stuff and not worry about breaking bones becaue they could be fixed in half an hour XD

  7. i like the middle one.
    because it haz lightning.
    and lightning is awesome.
    it pwns ur face while on fire.
    also, i love nanos. especially all the nano jokes in extras. they was funny.

  8. I’m in love with the first one.
    BTW, everyone, join my new forum (a substitute for Westerboard while it’s down)
    SASHEEE-WA! I SEE YOU! NOW JOIN!
    I’m hauntedpretty on Westerboard, just by the way.

  9. They are very cool. I think the third’s my favorite and the middle one has a kind of midnighters vibe.

    (hey hauntedpretty I finally know you your real name, so it’s not just my computer it’s the whole system…that’s comforting. What’s the web address of your new forum?)

    (RIP “!” It will always be P!ATD in my mind)

  10. Wow. These are awesome!!! I think my favorite is the one with the lightning bolt. They’re all so cool though!!!

  11. hehe maybe they should make one w/ a pic of shay on it. hehe. i dont think everyone will get it though. well to bad for those people (will be dead soon, or taking over the world soon people)

  16. i voted for the spider one. hmm.. am i comment 15 if so ha! i haven’t been this close to the top for awhile. hehe.

    this is the boring story of my day:
    i have sooo sooo much homework…my book bag weights about 15 lbs. & today was like super boring b/c it was 1st day of the new semester and like the teachers had to go over syllabses, rules, and crap. Spanish was fun though…we chose names and i picked Mercedes but then this other chick who i vehemently despise picked it so i had to switch and then i chose the name Carmen and another chick picked it but she let me keep it cuz shes a nice person and is full of awesomeness. my spanish teachers pretty awesome as well she showed us a video of when she went bunji jumping…(i don’t know if i spelled bunji right and i don’t care.) well anyways….i guess i should go do my h/w…bleh.. bye.

  18. I like the spider and the hexagon-thingy…. I think I’ll pick the spider one because it represents special-Tally the best.

  30. I, personally, like the broken hexagon thing. Fawesomeness.

    Wow, i have spent the last hour and 1/2 reading. Im almost done with he book. I started it yesterday. Its called:
    How To Take the Ex Out of Ex-Boyfriend by Janette Rallison
    Its good book, u no, if you like that kind of thing.

    Uh, school totally sucks!

  34. i likess them
    lol
    i just dont really get them are they just for fun based off the nanoes from tally’s world? or are they really something in our world?

  35. Urg, me day bad. I have been very……put down these last couple of days.

    My friend tells me i look funny when i run to play soccer. Uh, hello, you dont tell your friends that. Especially then i was all embarrassed.

    Then of course what happened the other day when my guy friend said he thought i was annoying. and that made me mad and all worried and i haven’t been able to get it out of my mind all day.

    the guy i like got a major haircut and i hate it. just thought id throw that in.

    I totally wish i was in the cooler crowd instead of having to sit with lame people who i don’t enjoy at all.

    This girl who is like totally my bffel (best friend for eternal life, dont laugh, we made it up when we were little) thinks i should just be myself, well its not working.

    Im afraid to go to high school and be a total dork and i dont want to be the girl who doesnt go to dances, or the girl who was never had a bf or the girl who doesnt get asked to prom or the girl who has never dated.

    Urg, life is complicated.

  36. in high school u’ll find more people like u and u can start over. it’s pretty cool except for the two tons of hw and stuff.

  37. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!!! By the time I get to highschool, I’ll be in a wheelchair cuz of my 500 pound backpack!Just thought I’d say that. HeHeHe.But it’s true my backpack’s really heavy.
    See Ya!

  38. FINALLY! done printing uber-long story, so now i rave.

    see, don’t get all hung up about the cooler crowd vs. lame people. in my experience, the cooler crowd…sucks.
    if you don’t like the people you’re sitting with, that’s one thing. but if you don’t like them because they aren’t popular….well, no offense, but that’s dumb.
    popularity is fleeting. very, very fleeting.
    as in, it’s like walking a tight rope the entire time. and you won’t be yourself, chances are, you’ll have to fake it even more, instead of being yourself.
    just because they’re “cooler” doesn’t mean they’re better.
    in my experience, it’s the opposite.
    hang out with the people you like being around, and just tell the people you don’t like off. life’s too short.
    and don’t be all afraid. there’s about 80 million things worse in life than being the girl who “doesnt go to dances, or the girl who was never had a bf or the girl who doesnt get asked to prom or the girl who has never dated”
    i’m, pretty much that girl. freshman and i skip school dances because honestly, they’re no fun anyway. no boyfriend, because my school is full of a tiny, alcohol-soaked gene pool.
    the chances of me getting asked to prom and it not being a joke are, like, galactically low.
    and i’m okay with that.
    because i’m completely beyond judging myself by other people’s standards. because those standards are way fickle, and i’ve seen them totally trash a lot of my closest friends.
    so i’m at the point where i just want to be me, and screw anyone who doesn’t like that.
    i also recognize that this is useless advice. if you really care, well, you’re in trouble, and i don’t know what to say about that. but here’s my advice to keep from going crazy. not very healthy, but keeps the self-loathing far, far away.
    say it with me
    “it’s not me with the problems, it’s all of you”
    worst part is, it’s true.
    at least, in a lot of my experience it is.

    however, what’s really not trival here is the HAIRCUT! i know! hot guys getting haircuts is DEVESTATING. no joke. i am 100% with you on that one.

    and honestly, high school isn’t that different at all, except the grades mingle more, everyone doesn’t know each other as much, and there’s a million times more work. though that might just be my honors track.
    don’t make a big deal about it.
    high school isn’t life.
    i take most of my high school philosophy from Melissa.
    “high school wasn’t a trial by fire or a torment to be endured. it was all a big JOKE. suckers.”
    —Blue Noon. and quote may be wrong, b/c my friend stole my prettyful new covered Blue Noon to read it herself.

  40. and the dance thing go with your friends its a lot more fun cuz then you can kinda float around from people you know and your not stuck with the same guy all night. & the bf thing a bunch of people i know have never had one and some of there parents won’t even allow them to.

  41. hhhmmm…yeah. scool sucks all rite. expecially when you take PE with a bunch of sixth graders that think your a sixth grader…when your not…i have not purposely injured anyone. it was my unconcious mind…and that was totally the ball that hit that kid! not my foot!!! hehe. seriously…i had nothing to do with it.

    i do my homework during TAing, math, and other math…nobody notices. i have worked hard in building up my good kid record within the last 13 years. so now nobody suspects me. MUAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😈

  42. Serafina Zane that made so much sense that it was scary.
    (in a good way though)It was so funny at school today!
    Okay one of my friends likes this guy and her and one of my other friends were being totally brain-missing and were joking around so they took his pen and put a note on his desk that said: If you ever want to see your pen again call this number …..(her cell number)
    P.S. Great hair
    And then the next day(which is today)he shows up to school with a really horrible haircut and just smiles and waves to her.Can you believe it? I was cracking up laughing and I couldn’t breathe, and my friends mouth dropped open and she was all”What the heck?!?!”and I couldn’t answer her cause I couldn’t breathe.
    Yeah so it’s all her fault and the sad thing is that he had really fawesome hair.(By the way I told her it was a stupid idea and had nothing to do with it.And I wasn’t necessarily laughing at him, I was laughing at my friends like dead expression.)All in all it was a very giggly school day.
    See Ya!

  47. Okay, i shall clear up my last comment.

    The people i sit with are not so much lame but boring but i dont like them because they are lame but because they are completely weird. Let me give an example. Any person who can carry on a conversation without realizing that no one has a clue what your saying (if there listening, for that matter) then you obviously weird. Still don’t understand? Just think about it. You. dont. No. How. It. Feels. And in case Adi reads this im not talking about u!

    Ah, i am self-conscious.

  49. ooh, didn’t even notice anti-darklingness.

    i do often scare myself. with sense-making or lack thereof.

    omg Tally+Zane, that is hilarious. the sort of thing that would happen with my friends.
    and it’s true. haircuts almost always ruin hot guys. just a fact.

    school dances, in my experience, are just generally no fun. but they’re not really my sort of thing anyway.

  51. Sorry Bran-la I don’t know what it feels like to sit with boring people.I don’t sit with the “popular”people(they can go dig themselves a ditch and jump in)But I have never met anyone more funny than any of my bffafad’s.
    (Best friends forever and for always Duh)
    We made that up a couple years ago.
    Team Edward/Zane/Jonathon
    See Ya!

  53. One more thing.My Mom is so lucky, she could hecka be a Midnighter!The wierd thing, though is that she was born on Febuary 29th on a leap year at exactly midnight but what would the rules be for that, cause technically that day doesn’t exist most years, so is it like Jess only existing in midnight?
    So many questions!!!
    See Ya!

  54. Heh, cool. I like the one with the lightining bolt. Reminds me of Blue Noon when Jess sticks her hand in it.

    Team Edward/Jonathan/Zane 😀

  56. I like the spidery one! I think it would be an awsome one even though I’m kinda arachniphobic and it reminds me of darklings…. hmm anyways I’m gonna go read bacause I need to finnish my book so I can start Peeps which I got for christmas but forgot to pack when I was on vacation, thus my reading some other book…. 🙂

  58. Ooh, now I could. Anyway, the website link is:

    westerfeldforums.lumak.net

    Everyone please join! (That means you, Maddy-chan.)

  59. Oh, sorry to offend you Serafina. I guess that type of th8ing annoys me. At least my friends make it very annoying.

  63. WHICH MAKES ME SAD, BECAUSE IM NEVER SURE IF U CLICKED MY NAME (THE FAN FIC DESERVES TO B READ BRAN LA AND UNLESS U SAY U READ IT ON MY BLOG IN A COMMENT, ILL NEVER NO LIKE I DOUBT ILL EVER NO WAT HAPPENS IN NETTA LAS FAN FIC BECAUSE I THINK SHE KILLED HER SISTER WHO WAS STEALING IT AND PUTTING IT ON HER BLOG, IF U WANT 2 SEE IT GO 2 MY NAME CLICK AND SHES FIRST ON MY LINKS. OR JUST GO TO SONGBIRDBECCA.WORDPRESS.COM)

  65. hmm, depressing that we’re already creating warnings for dangerous weapons that don’t exist yet

  70. I’m gonna go and watch American Idol.While doing so whatever’s left of my brain will probably melt out my ears.(G.U.)Oh yeah, i’m trying something new cuz I’m really bored of lol so G.U. stands for giggles uncontrollably.HaHaHa!!!
    See ya!

  73. Whoa!

    That video is awsome tali-wa!
    I just got back on and I must say, these posts are totally crazy

    PLEASE TELL ME EVERYONE DID NOT WATCH THAT HORRIBLE MIND SCRAMBLEING SORRY EXCUSE FOR POP CULTURE!!
    (American Idol)

    Oh, and another thing ,why does no one use capital letters when they’re necessary?
    My friends and I are totaly in a club like SHIFT in So yesterday and we love it

    I used to type 50 words a minute and now I’m up to 72! Amazing , especially since I use proper grammer!!

  74. I admit it, I did watch American Idol. I watch it every year because it’s funny.(Ha, I use proper grammar and capitalization, and I’m like still asleep right now.LoL)
    See Ya!

  78. i have to read more Romeo and Juliet.
    does listening to I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor about eighty times count?
    “Oh there int no love no, Montague’s or Capulets
    Just banging tunes in DJ sets and
    Dirty dancefloors and dreams of naughtiness”
    i guess not.
    it should.

    or, i could write my bio paper due tommorrow.
    or, i could…not.

  79. have u read it b4. i read it wen i was like 7 along with the oddesy. and hamlet. (ok so i might have cheated on hamlet) but i no who lasts till the end who dies how they die. and who did wat and that its a tragedy. i need 2 read the taming of the shrew and a midsummer nights dream, and the tempest, just to get a feel on some of his works other than tragedys

  83. courtney-wa u read it when u were 7???? seriously?… thats like impossible. inless you were some little genius kid. i read Romeo and Julliet and the Oddesy this year…as a freshman..cuz it’s required.

    anyways…my book bag is overflowing with homework…in every single subject!! ahhhh!! when will it end..???? torturous teachers with there massive piles of nonsense homework that makes us all want to cry inside. (ok so maybe im a little dramatic….but still!!!!!!) i have to do a bunch of math problems then write a freaking biography of this stupid artists life for art then translate about 50 phrases from spanish to english then after all that i have to write a 2 page script for this stupid presentation we have to give tomorrow where we pretend we are channel 7 news and we have just heard about this terrible crisis that happened in history. grrrrrrrrrrrrr…..school sucks!!!!!

    but we’re suppose to have 5-6 in. of snow tonight…i’m hoping 8. i’m gonna call my friend later and beg her to beg her dad for a snowday cuz her dad is incharge of that stuff. …i don’t know if he’ll give it to us though b/c last time he called it at 10 o’clock that night and there ended up being like almost no snow on the ground…so we got a free day for nothing. 😀

  84. yeah i’m a freshman reading it as the first time because school is making me. arrrg.

    supposed to snow here tommorrow.

    homework sucks. i’m supposed to be writing a bio paper right now. and for some reason my internet isn’t letting me on LJ. which is not nice. it’s almost like it *wants* me to discuss the ethics of cloning or something.

  85. i like the broken molecule one the best. i just read uglies yesterday in about two hours! i’m waiting to get pretties from the library. gah! the waiting takes too long…

  86. I’m gonna state the obvious.Homework is just an evil ploy to rot out our minds!Seriously I have tons and tons of homework, and this is only eighth grade, can’t wait till next year.(and yes I was being sarcastic)
    See Ya!

  88. The spider one, most definitely.
    I would stay miles and miles away from something with a spider sign.
    Nanotech sounds fantasticccccc.
    I hate the fact- hate hate hate despise passionately dislike the fact that humanity can find someway to use ANYTHING we create to destroy others.
    It’s stupid effing human nature, but it makes me hate people.
    It really truly does.
    Why must there be war?

  89. OMG! I hate homework oh so much, almost as much as I hate my teacher, I don’t have any homework today, but I do have one test tomorrow and 80 tests on Tuesday!!! (Do you captilize that?) It is so bogus.

  90. i thought eighth grade was harder then highschool but thats just me. I still have a lot of homework but less projects and stuff. plus i have off hours 🙂

  93. I have never fallen asleep in class. Im to scared. Now i have THOUGHT about falling asleep but kept flinching when a paper turned or someone coughed or breathed for that matter.

    I went to the library, again. I finisned my book and well i needed another one. My parents say they think im becomeing intelligent. (notice how they said BECOMING).

    Writing time!

  95. I tried to teach myself how to sleep with my eyes open in history class so today so I wouldn’t get in trouble,and I almost had it, but then the bell rang for lunch.(So close.HaHaHa)We’re reading this book in Language Arts class called the devil’s arithmetic and to me it’s really easy but for some reason like half the class can’t read for crud or they’re acting dumb, so the teacher has to read it aloud,which I hate.Because I read much much faster than the teacher does outloud or anyone else in the class for that matter, so I decided to just drown out my teacher’s voice and read on my own and I was on like page 85 when the class was on page 25 and then the rest of the illiterate students were complaining that she was reading too fast.I mean seriously its 8th grade not 2nd.But then I got caught reading ahead, but the teacher just let me keep reading.Today was extremely boring.
    See Ya!

  96. Uh, ,y teacher always picks the slow people to read and we had to read a page each so it was like this.

    Original line: ‘My dog likes to eat fish sticks’

    How they said it: ‘My d-d-d-d-d-d-doy, oh, dof, oh, dog likes to ate…uh….eat fishy stickers. Oh, fish sticks.’

    And when it was my turn to read i flew through the page like it was nothing. Yes, i got stuck on some words. Yes, some parts i had to reread because it didnt make since. but….No, it didnt take an hour like everyone else.

  97. Ha! thats what i do. Since they go fast and i bored i play a gmae with myself. When they start reading i start reading and i see who gets to the end first. Well, obviously i did.

  99. I like the one with the beetle and the wrench. Nanos are scary… we’re all going to turn into grey goo!!!!!!!!!!

  104. gosh i no exactally who im gonna shoot no actually im torn between my stupid reading teacher and my stupid music teacher. on one hand my readin teacher is always stupid, on the other gosh i have too learn a whole new set of lines 4 the musical now b/c of the music teachers stupidity, i hope none of the stupidness rubs off on me

  105. Okay Courtney-wa I’m just glad I’m not the one you’re gonna shoot.And gray is such a boring color.Why do we have to turn into gray goo?Why not turquoise or some other happy fun colored goo?(HaHaHa!)Gosh we got this new kid in my History class and he’s like 50 feet tall.Okay maybe that’s exagerrating, but he is really tall compared to my barely and probably less than five foot tall self.Shortness sucks, very unfawesome.
    See Ya!

  106. Don’t you just hate how gray can be spelled g-r-a-y and g-r-e-y?
    Why don’t they just make up their minds on the right spelling? Then again who are THEY?The dictionary publishers?What Ev.
    See Ya!

  107. gawd… i have been out of it lately… not going online, not checking scotts site, not updateing my blog, not doing my SS project (need to do that!), and not being able to sleep. can someone help me?¿?¿?¿?¿?¿?¿?¿

  109. my fave is on page 13the one in the bottom middle
    it is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
    funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    hehehehehe
    hahahaha

  110. OMG
    i sooooooooooooo messed up the page sorry i did not know it would do that
    any way so ya hahahehehe
    who wants to know what my new fave song is
    i will tell you anyway it is

    drum roll please!!
    plprlplplplplplplplplplrplplrplplplplplplrplplplplprlplplplplrplprlplrplplplplrplrplprlplprlrprrlplplpplrrrrr

    FACE DOWN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  113. BTW THE THINGY IS NOT A BAD WORD JUST A DEMO
    ALSO

    P.S.
    TO DAY WAS EMO DAY AND TOMARROW IS GOTH DAY SOOOOOO

    HAPPY GOTH DAY ❗
    OR SHOULD I SAY ?
    HAVE A BAD GOTH DAY ❗

  119. Very interesting holidays, but now I’m going to bed or else I won’t wake up for school tomorrow.
    See Ya!

  120. You guys/girls/people are soooo wierd!
    I reread Romeo and Juliet last year and it totally sucked.
    Why do all cool people have to die in Shakespeare tragedies!!
    I started to think Mercutio was awsome(it kinda helped that the movie version we saw had him totally HOT) and then he up and dies!!

    Anyways I’m totally bored here( I’m on in the school computer lab, its the only thing left to do during exams!!)

    Anyone out there?

  121. I wonder why Scott hasn’t posted any thing.
    Its been days!!!
    Man I am so freaking BORED!!

    Hey has any one read Airborne by Kenneth Oppel?
    I started reading it last night and so far its pretty cool.

  122. Darn I forgot I was all alone out here in cyberspace.

    Where is everybody?!?!?!?!
    Maybe youre in a different time zone or something.

    Does anybody inhabit AMERICA!!
    More specifically the eastern seaboard!!!

  123. OK this is soo pathetic

    Thats it, I gonna go check out some other sites. This place is such a ghost town today!!!!!

  126. In THE BAR CODE TATOO, they use nanotechnology as a weapon. But, anyways, the nanotech in Uglie is like.. I dunno… twenty thousand times COOOOOOOLER! But those signs rock hard core. I like the spidery one!

  131. oh i read Night last year…it was soooo sad…but it was a very very good book… i need to read Dawn.

    have you read To Kill a Mockingbird? it was really really fawesome.

    o and fyi if you get a book list and are forced to pick one of them on it and East of Eden happens to be on it do not pick it….it is evil and will haunt you eternally…………..haha. jk. that just sounded fun to say. but seriously it’s not a very good book stay away from it. and it’s very inappropriate for school…which makes it nearly impossible to do a book presentation on. trust me, i’ve tried.

    Ψσ͔˥Ljÿ{Lj̕̕♠6ѪꪪΨ….wow that was fun. i just pressed a bunch of random alt-#’s…i couldn’t find the upside down ? though inless this funky sign Ψ that looks all weird kinda like the head of a pitchfork or something turns into an upside down ? once i press the submit button…hmm…lets find out.

  136. lucky you. lol we had one of those days a month or so ago. it snowed here last night and they didn’t call it…which was totally sad-making. but on the happy side tomorrows only a half day b/c some speech and debate thing.

  137. Im gonna make a book. Its going to be called:

    The Official Guide To Why Boys Totally Suck
    By All The Girls Who Have Had Problems With Guys

    That would include all. Uh, and if you want to know what happened this time (i no, im FILLED with drama) it was about my ‘friend’ again.

    So he gives me a not in class that says “I though you were my friend”. And im going, what is tht suppose to mean. so after class im like “What are you talking about?” Hes like “Ask Deigo” so here i go, all the way down to ask Diego what he said to him. I ask Diego “What did you say him? He says we made some bet?” And he goes “I dont no what your talking about. Hes been acting weird lately.” So i turn abck around to go tell him and i say “Diego said that he doesnt no what your talking about.” and hes like “Well ask him again” By this point, i am dissing these people in my head and slamming books down against the floor. Im turning the dial rapidly on my locker and lunging it open.
    Im in a really bad mood and my friend is standing next to me as i walk to my car. Im like yelling at her, not him, her “What does he think he is, my brother? you dont no how many time shes has a proublem with what i do! i read it bothers him! i joke it bothers him! i say nothing to no one and it still bothers him! I bet me breathing bothers him! does he no im not perfect!”
    “Hey i have to-”
    “And the worst of it is that i dont even want to be his friend anymore! Im tired of him! I just ant to ignore him for the rest of my life!”
    “Hey, im leaving!” so she leaves and i mummble to myself. Yep, that was my evening.

  143. That sucks Bran-la.I hope it turns out okay. On a more jealous note: That is soooo unfair that you guys can get on here at school.I was on the computer during English class and I try to go to Scott’s sight and this thing pops up saying that it has been blocked by the school for inappropriate content. I mean seriously! They block like everything! Very unhappy-making. Anyway, I would totally read that book Bran-la.HeHeHe. Oh yeah. Me happy again, cuz tomorrow I get to leave right after lunch cuz I’m going to Winter Camp with my Church and so I get to miss Algebra, P.E., and Science.YaY!!!
    See Ya!

  145. I know seriously! Very Rude indeed!HeHeHe!!!
    I Love Exclamation Points!If I had to write an Ode to Exclamation Points it would look like this:

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    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!…
    I wonder what grade I would get for that lovely poem?
    HaHaHa!!! So fabulously random,I LOVE it!
    See Ya!

  147. i just now finshed my speech and apperently Annie Cannon was a 19th century (idc if i speeled that right) astronomere……………. i had never know that…….. but w/e

    in other news

    they blooked scotts site at my school too….. they wont even let us use google……… and ask….. we can only use wikapedia….. and that info is never true…….

    and in other other news

    i came up with an IM abreveation (they need to abbreviate { i no i can’t spell} abbreviation). here it is

    insted of IDK- i don’t know

    it is IDC- i don’t care

    and last but not least ID- i don’t _______ (add what u want in there)

    so?????????????????????

    me is bored……………..

    SoPhIe-La
    WoRd 😉

  149. See, i have been one of those several people who have got to no a lot of guys and became very good friends with them. I could name several people (all of which i usually ended up crushing on some how or another) but the problem is that sometimes having guys as your friends is not a good thing. I must now go sit and wait till he gets on AIM so i can yell at him! What fun!

    And yes, this is what i do in my spare time, get frustrated and yell at innocent friends.

  150. at my school they don’t let us use wikapedia (well mostly just advise us not to) but youtube is blocked. but they let us use mostly everything else. i don’t ever get a chance to go on here at school though.

  151. If we get on a unautherized site at my school, it sends an Email to the teacher telling her: What site, What computer, and how long they’ve been on

  152. Wow that’s tough. Yeah, I’ve had guy friends. My best guyfriend Vincent moved a couple months ago. I was sad, but now I’m not, cuz I like to be HAPPY!And thanks Lizzy-wa for the fexcellent grade!I had to do a stupid History project. I was really bored in class and I already finished my homework so I was flipping through the History book cuz I didn’t have anything to read and It’s eighth grade History so its really boring United States History, but on page 603 there’s a timeline thing in the early 1900s. What do I think of now when I see 1918? EDWARD duh! Yeah and so I was kinda dissapointed when I saw that they didn’t recognize the most fabulous person ever’s birthday.HaHaHa!!! J.K. but that really happened. HeHeHe!!!
    Here’s a new one: IDCIIC!: I Don’t Care If I’m Crazy!
    I don’t know, I think it’s too long.Oh Well!
    Team Edward/Zane/Jonathon
    See Ya!

  154. Where is everyone? Oh yes yes yes me is very impatient and talking like a 2nd grader.HeHeHe!!!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~***************************************************************************************************************************************************************^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^————————————————————————————-
    That’s what happens when you give someone who is as bored as me a keyboard.LOL x infinity!

  157. yeah, my school’s anti-Wikipedia too.
    i got into a big argument with my english teacher today about how it actually is accurate, and they’re done studies and everything.

    see, i am one of those people who’s always like, friends with guys i like. as in, i like him. we get to be friends. he never aknowledges me and i never make a move, cuz i’m like that.

  158. Yeah, I’ve done that before.I had to be careful though, cuz he was really cute, and once my friend caught me just staring at him, but thank God he didn’t notice. I haven’t talked to him in like a year though cuz we went to different schools.

  159. Been there, done that. I got to be really good friends with this one guy…we will call him a and me and a started hanging out together at this one chick…my now ex best friend b’s house and we would like play basketball and stuff and have a lot of fun and then we would just chill out and talk in a tree and yes i know that sounds weird but for some reason we were fascinated with climbing this tree in b’s yard and sitting up there and talking. so one night we’re up in the tree and b starts talking about who she likes and then suggests that we go around and say 2 peoples we like…(and b knew i liked a)…and so b starts, then it gets to me and at this point i want to shove b out of the tree cuz thats how pissed i am at her. and so i turn all red and he says o i think i know. and then i’m like uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh….yeaaahhhh….i likeeeee ummmmmmm you. and then it was his turn and he started naming a bunch of girls and then he was like “i like you and b too….i have like a huge list of girls.” it was all very awkward and scary. and to this day i still resent b for ever saying that…i mean seriously she knew i didn’t want him to know and she asked it anyway just to embarress me.

  161. Gosh Kay-wa I would’ve lied through my teeth and said that I didn’t like him.I guess that just shows how gutless I am.
    See Ya!

  164. #
    156 Tally & Zaneon 18 Jan 2008 at 1:48 pm

    ME = BORED!!!: How could you be bored when you are on Scott Westerfeld’s blog??

  169. hahah! my favorite is the one with the little ladybug and the wrench!
    i have a soft spot for ladybugs,
    since i used to collect them when i was little,
    and acidently kill them…

  171. *fondly remembers Fred, her own pet ladybug, who was an amazing gymnast, and very loyal. Zane remembers putting Fred out on the rosebush every morning, and coming home from school to find that Fred was still there to greet her. Oh, how Zane loved little Fred*

    True memory. I had that ladybug for about… 2 weeks. I could recognize her/him because he/her was an orangish color with no spots. Very easy to identify. (Don’t make fun of me! I was in 5th grade and desperate for a pet!)

  172. Hahaha! I wrote he/her instead of he/she. I am so amazing, sometimes. My skill astounds me. *bangs head on wall*

  174. you’re right Olivia-wa, it kinda does lol. i love when people talk about the ring, cuz samara’s my name and it freaks people out. samara really means guarded by god and it’s also those helicopter things that fall of the trees.

    lol i’m going on a rant about my name

  176. I would have to agree with Scott-la, the spider-y one is the best. The rest look too ……. cute? That doesn’t seem like the right word, but it needs to conjure up scary thoughts. Nanos are dangerous people, so don’t mess with them. Well some are fine, such as ones used in sunscreen, but soon enough HUNGER IN NANO FORM will come, and we will all die, all because they didn’t put a scary enough sign on it!

    Bleak…..

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