SIM CITY 5

Dear Blog Readers aka My Fellow Fans

Have you heard of SimCity 5?  SimCity is a game where you are the mayor and you can create your own city.  SimCity is a game about endless choices.  We can focus on growing your population, increasing your wealth or making a city that looks like your home town.  If you want to look up more about SimCity you can go to www.simcity.com where you can find out everything about SimCity and   In fact, update 7 has been just released.  You have more choices.  You can put down churches in city specializations and you can raise and lower roads with a new road tools.  You can make giant suspension bridges or deep subway tunnels.  You can even put trees on sides of roads and in parks in the nature section.

Here are some of the things you can do in a normal city.  You can draw roads, zone for commercial, residential and industrial.  Plop down a power plant to provide your city with power, plop down a water tower to supply your city with life sustaining water and even plop down a sewage outflow pipe where you dump your poo.  But you need to put this in a location where the Sims will not get sick.  Sims are the people in SimCity which make your city possible.  For money, you have simolians.  Simolians is the money in SimCity and you need enough to buy the stuff you need.   You can also plop a garbage dump or a recycling plant as long as you have a town hall you can plop other expansions, like the department of transportation or department of Safety.  The department of transportation allows your Sims to go to and from work or home.  You can do a street car station so they can travel by boat, plane, train or bus.  You can plop down a hospital, police force and have a fire brigade.  You also have to be very careful where you build your stuff.  If you put a sewage outflow pipe inside your residential zone, you would make all the Sims sick and you would have to make more hospitals to treat them, which you don't want.  Then Sims would be in lower value  which would lead to the Sims moving out.  Causing abandoned buildings and building fires which would make you increase your fire brigade which would be a big handful.  You can even put down parks to increase your land value and so much more.

You can also do great works where the city's work together to build one giant great work.  You can do a space center, do archaeology where more Sims can live which creates more money, students, tourists and workers.  You can plop a solar farm where you can supply power for your whole region.  A space launch center is great for launching satellites into orbit so people can watch TV.  It also supply's workers, education and lots of places for the students to work at and also it gives tourists a place to go. An international airport for city's to trade tourists to your city and trade their goods.

Here are some of the specializations that you can do; you can become an oil tycoon, become a mining master.  Be a man of technology in electronics.  Plop down culture for your tourist city and be a gambling maximizer.  You can trade in the city specialization.  You can trade things on the global market in SimCity (not the real global market or black market) to increase your simolians.

Did you hear about the new expansion pack called City's of Tomorrow?  It will launch on November 12 of this year!  In order for the SimCity to work, you need to have an 8 gigabyte computer.  I don't have SimCity yet, but I will for Christmas.  Tell me if you have SimCity!

I'll write another blog eventually.

PERPETUAL MOTION MOTOR

Ladies and Gentlemen of Science,

You will be happy to know that I believe that I have found the key to making the first perpetual motion motor.  What is a perpetual motion motor you may ask?  Simply, it is a motor that once started, produces enough energy to power itself and therefore would run forever because it would never run out of fuel.  It keeps itself powered up because it is running.  This is a mystery that has been around for hundreds of years.  A perpetual motion motor will solve the carbon dioxide emission problem.  Though this contraption has yet to be built, I have made the design of what I believe it will look like.

Here are some reasons why we should make this and use it around the world.  One, it does not produce CO2 emissions, thus no more global warming.  Two, this will solve the problem of cheap or free energy.  Three, there would be clean air to breathe and no more pollution.  Four, the technology will make the inventor (me) a lot of money!  And finally, it will make global happiness because the inventor (me) will share the technology around the world.

These are really great reasons to make this machine, but here are some of the downsides.  One, starting the motor when the motor is not in motion by using wind, solar, steam or geothermal.  This would be a problem because the motor will not be able to run by itself.  It would need a jump start.  Two, the build up of friction could stop the motor from working.  It would stop any rotating or moving parts.  Though we can oil the pieces, it would be a problem to keep it oiled.  Three, the build up of heat would cause the motor to overheat and stop.  The motor will produce its own heat and if that happens, the magnets will heat up causing the iron ions that create the magnetic field to come out of their straight lines.  This would cause the magnetic field to stop working.

Four, the wear and tear of the motor over time could cause the motor to stop working.  The motor overheating, the boiler cracking, the wires short circuiting, the heater overheating itself, the turbine gears coming loose and the pipe that carries the steam to the turbine could come off.  But if we found out that these problems happened, we would have to replace the parts and start all over, beginning with problem number 1, starting up the motor.  We could replace the motor but it would cost a lot of money to get the new motor fixed.  Finally, we would need quite a bit of start up money to even build this machine.  We would also need money to keep it working and replace any parts that wear out.

In the end, if we bypass all these problems, we could create world peace and stop emissions from happening.  We could replace every coal or oil power plant from ever existing and replace that with my perpetual motion motor station.

This is why I believe we should build a perpetual motion motor.

Until next time.....

Your favorite Blogger.....  Brennan!

Winter Break 2012

Hello, it's BRENNAN AGAIN!!!  It's great to be back.  Let me tell you about my Winter Break.

We had a Winter Break and it lasted all the way through January 2013.  Today was supposed to be my first day back, unfortunately I had a doctor appointment, which is good for me.  So I only have 2 days of school before the 2 days of the weekends.

Anyway, enough about school.  Let me tell you about what happened on my Winter Break.

One of the first things I did on my winter break was go to a railroad museum!  Me and my grandmother and Tammy and my brother Brody, were going on a railroad trip.  When we got there, I suddenly remembered that I had been there before.  We got on the train, and who do you think showed up?  Santa!  I told him what I wanted for Christmas.  As there is an interesting fact, the conductor told us about the highest tressel in Kentucky (but we didn't go over it)   There was a model of it in the museum, it was O scale (Lionel).  Once the train stopped, we got off a saw some of the model railroads, but they weren't working.  Anyhoo, we went into another room and it showed what railroading was like in Kentucky back in the 1800's.  My favorite part of the trip was riding on the train.  But in the gift shop in the museum, was a telegraph machine that you could really work on.  I told my grandmother to get on the other telegraph machine.  I telegraphed her a telegram that said "I love you" but she didn't understand it.  So I told her anyway.

Soon it was CHRISTMAS!!!

Here is what I got for Christmas.  I got some clothes, Ship Simulator Extremes, Train Simulator 2012 (but it actually uploaded as 2013), Diary of a Wimpy Kid Dog Days, a Lego Garage, Mining Truck, Mini figs, Helicopter Rescue and a Master Builders Set.  I also got an x-box 360.  So if you play Minecraft, let me know and maybe we can play together now.  We ate lots of good food at my grandmothers house.

You see, the greatest part about this Winter Break is when I went to Columbus Ohio where my mom was raised and we went to see the Harlem Globetrotters.  We got a VIP room, which was like First Class.  We had great food, Papa John's pizza, chicken fingers, plenty of water and soda, hamburgers, cookies, brownies, chips, anything you could imagine, and 1 GIANT pretzel!  We got the best seats in the house.  Joining us at the Harlem Globetrotters were my friends Kaley & Erich and their parents.  There was a lady there with her husband who were our hosts.

After the Harlem Gobetrotters, we went back to our hotel and Kaley & Erich came over to hang out for a while.  We watched some TV, and ate candy.  The next morning, we woke up and saw a winter wonderland in Columbus Ohio.  It was like Christmas again!  It snowed 6 inches overnight!  We ate breakfast at the hotel and we could see the Ohio Capitol building out the window.  My dad told us about the history of Ohio.

After breakfast, we went to a science museum.  It's called COSI.  It's a science museum.  It had very cool stuff in it about space, the body, and other scientific things.  A very cool thing was a giant pendulum proving that the earth rotates.  You know one of those pirate ship rides, it swings back and forth like waves on a ship, if we had that ride at the north pole and the earth was straight, but rotating, if you had dominoes around the ride and if the ride was going like a pendulum the earth would slowly rotate beneath and every time it hits a domino, the earth would be rotated to make the ride hit the domino.

After COSI, we then went to mom's old home and she showed us where she used to live.  Right behind her house where mom used to live, there is a railroad line which made her love trains.

After we saw mom's old home, we got some food at McDonald's and we stopped at a few places for shopping.  We then drove home.  The coldest temperature we saw was 26 (f) degrees!  Once we got home, we cranked up the heat and fell into a deep sleep.

Then it was the New Year of 2013!  New Year's Eve is also the day my brother was born! He is now 5 years old!  We had some friends over to celebrate with us.  We had lots of food and played.  Then we all chanted together 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!  We even lit off fireworks in the driveway.  It was a great time.  John Tyler was there.  We played tag, but mostly I played Minecraft on the Xbox.  John Tyler gave me a few tips.

In conclusion, this is about my winter break.  I wonder what Winter Break is going to be like next year.

From your best blogger, this is Brennan Ison signing off.