My Top 20 Favorite Godzilla Films

Before we go on to this list, I would just like to say that birds are my favorite animals in the world. And Godzilla is my favorite fictional character in the world. Now moving on to the list. 20. Godzilla Raids Again (1955). Not nearly as good as the original, but still a very entertaining film. 19. King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962). A battle between two of the worlds most famous monsters must be good, which it is. 18. Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964). This movie is one of the best showa movies I've ever seen. I especially love the monster parts. This movie is very entertaining and funny. 17. Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster (1964). Why is it so good? Because it's funny, entertaining, introduces Rodan into the Godzilla series, and introduces King Ghidorah! 16. Destroy All Monsters (1968). How can a film when a bunch of monsters are being controlled and destroying cities and then break free of their controll and have an all-out battle with a three-headed dragon not be awesome? 15. Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974). Godzilla battles a mechanical version of himself created by alien-ape things that is even more powerful than him, and he takes it's head off. Literaly. HOW CAN THAT NOT BE COMPLETELY AWESOME PEOPLE??!! It also introduces King Ceasar, and the monster battles are EXTREMELY entertaining. 14. Godzilla vs. Mothra: Battle for the Earth (1992). Not exactly one of the best heisei films, but still very awesome and entertaining. It even gives Godzilla a roar similar to his showa roar! 13. Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975). Possibly THE BEST showa film. Why? It is FULL OF ACTION, it introduces Titanosaurus(which I kind of wsh was in GFW), it has an improved Mechagodzilla, and the more explosions the better, right? 12. Godzilla vs. Spacegodzilla (1994). One of the best heisei movies(in my opinion), and extremely entertaining, with awesome monster fight near the end. You know the one with Moguera and Godzilla and they try to blow up Spacegodzilla's crystals? 11. Godzilla Tokyo SOS (2003). Simply one of the best and most action packed Godzilla films I've ever seen. 10. The Return of Godzilla (1984). It's the start of the heisei series, and it gives Godzilla a design similar to the original design, which I really like. Also, Godzilla goes back to his old ways of destroying civilization, like a proper movie monster. And it even has my favorite version of the Godzilla roar! 9. Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989). I have once again never seen this film, but I've heard this ones also very good. And I can tell the fight between Biollante(a.k.a Godzilla's sister) and Godzilla is pretty awesome. 8. Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000). I actually don't have much to say about this film, but all I can say is that my favorite part was the battle at the end. 7. Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993). It was one of the most awesome, action packed, and entertaining films in the heisei series. It has my favorite Rodan design, it's the start of Godzilla's meltdown, and it introduces the new version of Godzilla's son! 6. Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991). It was one of the first Godzilla films I ever watched, it is extremely action packed and entertaining, it introduces Mecha-King Ghidorah, and it explains Godzilla's origins. 5. Godzilla (1954). Come on, you gotta love the original. 4. Godzilla vs. DESTOROYAH!!!!!(1995). One of the best Godzilla films I've ever seen. It's extremely action packed and entertaining, focuses more on Godzilla and his son than the humans, and introduces DESTOROYAH!!!!! It's also a great way to end the heisei series. This movie is just completely AWESOME!! 3. Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999). A great start to the millenium series. It has my favorite Godzilla design, which is the first Godzilla design I ever saw, it introduces Orga, who is technically Godzilla's brother because he was made out of Godzilla DNA, and it is once again very entertaining to watch. 2. Godzilla Final Wars (2004). It was completely AWESOME. It was basically all fighting, extremely action packed and entertaining, and introduces one of Godzilla's greatest foes yet, Montser X/Keizer Ghidorah. I have so much things to say about this film, but for now I'll just say that this is one of the best Godzilla films until the 2014 one. 1. Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001). THE BEST Godzilla film in general. It is once again extremely action packed and entertaining, once again focuses more on Godzilla and the other monsters, has one of the most menacing and evil Godzilla designs ever, has spectacular special effects, and Godzilla basically just completely obliterates everyone from the face of the earth. It's awesome. Three more reasons I love this movie. 1, I was born in 2001, 2, 2001 was a very important year, and 3, the movie is just completely freakin' awesome. And it also has human characters that I actually care about. This is THE BEST Godzilla film until the 2014 film comes out. So, those where my favorite Godzilla films. Hope you liked the list! By the way, I am also looking forward to the new Godzilla 2014 film that's coming out. I'm pretty sure it will be awesome. When it comes out, I'll be there to see it.

So I said I was going to write about my time in Ithaca, and I didn't do it. Well, now I'm doing it, so let's get started. So the bus ride to Ithaca was awesome, and I got some amazing pictures of the scenery. I even saw what I think were Bald Eagles at points. I'll post those pictures later though. I loved the birds there. I think Ithaca got me even more into birds because know I've decided that for my future I'm gonna live in the Ithaca Ecovillage and work at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. In fact, the first time I went there, the first bird I saw was a Bald Eagle! That was really exciting. At one point, when I was chatting with someone about birds, we both saw two Great Blue Herons flying right over our heads! And at another point, I got lucky and saw something very exciting at the pond. A Pied Kingfisher! Those are all the way from Africa! I'm so glad I didn't have to travel there to see that. One morning I went birdwathcing with the person we were staying with and we saw a Northern Mockingbird and a Great Blue Heron! I'm definitely going to make a list of the birds I saw at the Ithaca Ecovillage. It's a great place and I really do recommend going there. And now for an Ithaca picture collection.

So today, I saw a non-breeding Double-crested Cormorant at Morningside Park, NY. Here's a picture I took: For some reason, some guy with a parrot on his shoulder was calling it a Japanese Duck, even though it's not a duck at all and it's not from Japan, either. It's actually from around the hudson. Here's a picture of the parrot:

My Ideas for a stop-motion animation about Prehistoric Life

For my stop-motion animation documentary on prehistoric life on earth, I will need clay, an iPad, a big wooden table, some models of skeletons, and I’ll need to research some things about the dinosaurs and other creatures that are going to be on my show.

My ideas for this show are that I’ll study the movement of some creatures, study their weapons for survival, and most of all, study their lives. This show will be based on the great shows known as, Walking with Monsters, Walking with Dinosaurs, Chased by Dinosaurs, Sea Monsters, Walking with Prehistoric Beasts, and all the other walking with shows. It will also be based on shows like Dinosaur Revolution, Jurassic Fight Club, and Planet Dinosaur.

T-rex must have been a slow, heavy creature that couldn’t really run that well or chase down its prey, which meant it was probably an ambush hunter. T-rex also had a massive head full of banana-sized teeth that could crush bone, and would have been very useful for killing dinosaurs like Edmontosaurus, Parasaurolophus and Triceratops. Tyrannosaurus Rex was truly the king of the dinosaurs, and it might have had feathers. Well, not real feathers anyway, just fuzz that blended in with the skin, called protofeathers.

The giant synapsid Dimetrodon must have been a very dangerous creature. It had mammal-like teeth that were made for eating meat, and we humans have evolved a smaller version of these kinds of teeth. The main prey for Dimetrodon was one of the world’s first giant herbivorous reptiles, called Edaphosaurus. One amazing thing about Dimetrodon was that it evolved into one of the most feared and biggest predators on earth until the dinosaurs. That predator was the giant synapsid, Gorgonopsid. Gorgonopsids main prey was a giant reptile called Scutosaurus. Scutosaurus usually traveled in herds to find food. By the time Gorgonopsid and Scutosaurus appeared, the world’s continents had come together to create one harsh place called Pangaea. Pangaea was nothing but a big desert with very little water or food. One prey that would’ve been easy to catch for Gorgonopsid was a little reptile called Diictodon. Diictodon had little holes for themselves, so Gorgonopsid couldn’t really catch them easily.


Diictodon also evolved into a not to big but big reptile called Lystrosaurus. Lystrosaurus lasted until the Middle Triassic with a little reptile that would bring the age of the dinosaurs, called Euparkeria. Euparkeria barley resembles a dinosaur, but in fact was one of the dinosaurs closest ancestors. Euparkeria might have also walked upright at certain points, which might have been the reason why theropod dinosaurs could walk upright. So even though Euparkeria does not resemble a dinosaur, it was the one to bring forth the great age of the Dinosaurs.

My Day

Today, I had a new social class. It was fun. I played Jenga with a girl from one of Leo's classes. Afterwards, I got to play with LEGO's. Then my mom and I went and ate some Pizza. After that, we went to NY Penn Station. I also caught an Amtrak coupling sequence on camera. Must be my lucky day. Then we went back home.

New York Times Report "How the US Lost Out on iPhone Work" Part 2

Here is the second part of the NY Times Report. Hope you enjoy!

Josh

Apple employs 43,000 people in the United States and 20,000 overseas, a small fraction of the over 400,000 American workers at General Motors in the 1950s, or the hundreds of thousands at General Electric in the 1980s. Many more people work for Apple’s contractors: an additional 700,000 people engineer, build and assemble iPads, iPhones and Apple’s other products. But almost none of them work in the United States. Instead, they work for foreign companies in Asia, Europe and elsewhere, at factories that almost all electronics designers rely upon to build their wares.

This means that most of the people who make the iPhones and iPads don't even work for Apple. They are contractors. The number of employees who are not contractors are a small fraction of the many workers employed at General Motors in the 1950's.

“Apple’s an example of why it’s so hard to create middle-class jobs in the U.S. now,” said Jared Bernstein, who until last year was an economic adviser to the White House.

“If it’s the pinnacle of capitalism, we should be worried.”

Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their only option. One former executive described how the company relied upon a Chinese factory to revamp to revise or reconstruct iPhone manufacturing the operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery just weeks before the device was due on shelves. Apple had redesigned the iPhone’s screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul examine or go over carefully for needed repairs. New screens began arriving at the plant near midnight.

Apple has said that overseas factories are their only option at this point in time. One thing that impressed Apple is that a Chinese factory reconstructed the iPhone just weeks before it was due in stores. Apple had decided that they wanted something different, and Apple changed the screen of the iPhone at the last minute. The Chinese factory then examined the iPhone for needed repairs. The new screens began arriving near midnight.

A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.

A foreman immediately aroused 8,000 workers from sleep in the company's dormitories. Each worker was given one biscuit and a cup of tea, led to a workstation and then within half an hour, started a 12 hour shift of fitting glass screens into frames. Within 96 hours, the plant the new iPhone screens were sent to, were producing 10,000 iPhones a day.

Stay tuned for part 3!

New York Times Report "How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work"

I am working on reporting on the "How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work" article from the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html?emc=eta1 . I am writing one page at a time. Here is my first page. My thoughts are in green. My humor, I believe, is becoming almost as good as Stephen Colbert's! Enjoy!

How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work
By CHARLES DUHIGG and KEITH BRADSHER

When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries a person who is an inspiration to others for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president.

But as Steven P. Jobs of Apple spoke, President Obama interrupted with an inquiry of his own: what would it take to make iPhones in the United States?

Not long ago, Apple boasted that its products were made in America. Today, few are. Almost all of the 70 million iPhones, 30 million iPads and 59 million other products Apple sold last year were manufactured overseas.

Why can’t that work come home? Mr. Obama asked.

Mr. Jobs’s reply was unambiguous having or exhibiting no ambiguity or uncertainty . “Those jobs aren’t coming back,” he said, according to another dinner guest.

The president’s question touched upon a central conviction at Apple. It isn’t just that workers are cheaper abroad. Rather, Apple’s executives believe the vast scale of overseas factories as well as the flexibility, diligence and industrial skills of foreign workers have so outpaced their American counterparts that “Made in the U.S.A.” is no longer a viable capable of working successfully option for most Apple products.

This means that Apple no longer makes their products in America. That is because Foreign workers are better at making things than American workers. Foreign factories make things faster than American factories. American people can no longer work on Apple products due to the better working skills of foreign workers.

Apple has become one of the best-known, most admired and most imitated companies on earth, in part through an unrelenting refusing to yield or relent; inflexible mastery of global operations. Last year, it earned over $400,000 in profit per employee, more than Goldman Sachs, Exxon Mobil or Google.

Many companies are trying to be as great as Apple, like Google and Amtrak. But, Amtrak is trying to be great in a different way. Amtrak is trying to provide a reliable service. Apple refuses to stop being successful. Last year, each person who worked for Apple earned $400,000 for Apple.

However, what has vexed annoyed, frustrated, or worried Mr. Obama as well as economists and policy makers is that Apple — and many of its high-technology peers — are not nearly as avid keen; enthusiastic in creating American jobs as other famous companies were in their heydays.

A little Jon Stewart\Stephen Colbert humor comes to mind here. Apple: Who cares if people are losing their jobs and losing their homes as well and can't feed their children and have to live on the streets in a cardboard box with nothing to do and eventually they'll get a disease and die? The important thing is, we earn 400,000 dollars and the employees get only 1 little dollar! We care more about the foreign countries that are working for us like slaves more than the Americans who are losing their jobs!

Meanwhile in the Whitehouse...

Obama:*facepalm*

However, what has worried President Barack Obama as well as economists and policy makers and people who actually care about the fate of America is that Apple is not as enthusiastic about giving the citizens of America jobs. I mean, the founder of Apple's last name WAS Steve JOBS, wasn't it? Shouldn't he have been giving American people jobs?


Thanks for reading! Look out for the next page!

My new class

Yesterday, I went to a new class. It is an architecture class. We had to build New Amsterdam in Colonial form. I made some new friends. Because the class hadn't begun when we arrived, we decided to go to Dunkin Donuts.

When we were walking to Dunkin Donuts, some guy just walked up to me and started talking to me and I ran. I mean, I didn't even know the guy and he just started talking to me. The guy made me feel uncomfortable. He seemed weird.

At Dunkin Donuts, I ate a chocolate donut and wasted money on some Hot Cocoa that I wouldn't drink because it was too hot. So, I threw it away. Mom was concerned that I'd wasted money. Then we went to the class. Because some other people were new there, we played a game where each of us said our name and acted out what we like to do.

More Reports

Yesterday, Jon Stewart talked about the Republican debate that took place on Monday. And guess what? I think Newt Gingrich is even more racist than ever, because after a judge asked him if he understands how saying black people should clean out toilets and scrub floors is offending, Gingrich said he does not understand how it is offending. Newt Gingrich is officially a complete racist.

Next, Stephen Colbert comes on the show and talks about a super pack with which he cannot coordinate, because if you coordinate with it, you go to jail. A super pack is something organized to elect political candidates or to advance the outcome of a political issue or legislation. Then Jon Stewart talks with Liam Neeson about his new movie "The Grey".

Then on The Colbert Report, Stephen talks about how super pack ads are ruining the GOP. After that, Stephen talks about Christian Mingle, which is an online Christian dating site, and how God should not get involved with it.
Finally Stephen interviews Jennifer Granholm.

Jon Stewart last night

Last night, Jon Stewart talked about how Barack Obama got 3 votes and the other candidates got 2 or 1 in a recent poll. Then shares what's going on in the rest of the world, and finds out that Iran is enriching uranium. Next, he said maybe their people wouldn't have such a high cancer rate if they didn't spend all their waking time trying to enrich uranium. Then he had a little discussion with Iran for sentencing an American to death and making a nuclear bomb. After that, he talked about a new program CNN has where two women prank call people to wake them up. Then they accidentally prank called some poor schmuck who doesn't even speak English.

Finally, he interviewed Andrew Napolitano who is a judge.

Another Jon Stewart Post

Yesterday, Jon Stewart reported the 15th Republican debate. First, he made a joke about a silly question that yet reveals the saddening truth about being the president, that when someone asks you a question you can't think of anything to say but a lie. Jon said pretty much every candidate there would watch Real House Wives except for Ron Paul. He'd be reading an economic text book. In fact, he said the Saturday debate was so lame, there was only one thing people wanted to talk about and that was that nobody went after Mitt Romney. Then, when Newt Gingrich said Pious Bologna, Jon made a joke that his bologna's first name being Pious.

After that, he talked about Mitt Romney disenvowing and defending content of some super pack ads. Then he made a joke about what Mitt Romney's father told him and that was to never get involved in politics if you have to win the election to pay a mortgage. And then he made a joke about how Romney was happy that Tedd Kennedy had to take a mortgage out of his house to ultimately defeat him.

Next, he said that Mitt Romney does not belong in the Republican party. Then he said Gingrich was using money to buy influence. Then he said the Republicans can't just release the kraken and then when it turns on you just say he meant a pocket kraken or something.

Finally he interviewed George Lucas, who people on facebook are making fun of.

Fracking is wrong

Hello everyone! Today, I will be reporting on my dad's blog post about fracking, something that involves digging underground for oil. Some people are claiming that natural gas or oil is a fuel of the future, and a way to bridge a gap between the dirty and clean energy economy. Dirty energy is made from uranium, coal, oil, and gas, while clean energy is made from wind, sun, and water energy. But natural gas might be pointless. Fracking might be worse than coal for global warming. Some people believe that dirty energy sources are causing global warming which is causing the world to heat up faster then it normally would. That is probably why there was no snow on Christmas last year. Fracking could also be very expensive.

Fracking is a 60-year old procedure in which you have to drill through rocks to find shale. Once the drill finds the shale, it is removed. Steel casing is then placed the entire length of the well and cement is put into the casing. The point is that this process could poison our water supply and heat up the globe. You can watch a fracking animation here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN3fFgoqwH4&feature=related and here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB3FOJjpy7s&feature=related

Even if natural gas released "only" half the greenhouse gases from coal, or if fracking turns out not to be as toxic as feared, natural gas still wouldn't be a good thing to do because it could probably still cause global warming and still wouldn't be be 100% safe, and we must use energy that is safest for the environment.

This debate has been going back and forth between Democrats and Republicans. That's why I'm an Independent. I'm part of the debate but Independents might have better solutions. Thank you for caring enough about the environment to read this! I hope you learned something!

More stuff, yay

I actually have nothing to say, but mom made me type this anyway, so here I go. Today was an OK day. I sat down reading a book on my kindle for a little while, and then my mom and I had to go to some stores. I also saw an old fashioned blue car and a wrecked truck.


My brother is going to a Wii Club in Dobbs Ferry this Saturday. I once went to Mario Game Club when I was in an art class. I really enjoyed it there and didn't want to leave. Then I realized it was getting dark so Dad and I left.


I am planning what my N scale layout will look like. It will have a lot of detail and scenery, 4 or 6 tracks with 2 passenger trains and 2 freight trains or 3 passenger trains and 3 freight trains. There will also be a little bit of commuters and subways in a city. It will be so big it will look like a club layout. It will be my own custom railroad and not any of the existing railroads.


That's pretty much all I have to say. Talk to you guys next time!

Stuff

I suddenly feel like moving to Dobbs Ferry. I just like that place because its on Metro North's Hudson Line and its calm. The Metro North's on the Hudson go from Grand Central to Croton Harmon or Poughkeepsie. I have taken an M7 Metro North from Grand Central to Dobbs Ferry, and I saw Kawasaki's(the train company who made the NYC Subway not the motorcycle) factory. I also like the view of the Hudson River. I like how a winding road leads to a view of mountains at the back of the Hudson River. It's a cool view really.

I think MTA should make a NYC Subway line that goes between Grand Central Terminal and New York Penn Station. I like what MTA is doing with transportation currently. I think MTA has come a long way since they ran the LIRR(Long Island Railroad). Also, The new Mercedes-Benz Citaro buses are being tested by the MTA for the next 30 days in order to see how well they perform in NYC. If all goes well, the MTA may place orders for these accordion-style Citaro buses to replace the fleet of New Flyer buses currently in use.

I also have a new YouTube account(and I know the new youtube homepage and channel background suck) called lbpFTW1. I posted 3 animations on that channel that I did on Flash CS5 Professional. They are good animations. They are animations that I just felt like doing. The first animation is a stick figure getting chased by a dinosaur. The second animation is an animation of the internet meme, Shoop Da Whoop. The third is just Sonic the Hedgehog running.

I'm planning trips to New Haven, CT, some places in Illnois, and some places in California. I also want to see what Seattle's like. So basiclly, I'm planning trips to New Haven, Chicago, California, and Seattle, Washington.


That's all I have to say.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Stuff

I suddenly feel like moving to Dobbs Ferry. I just like that place because its on Metro North's Hudson Line and its calm. The Metro North's on the Hudson go from Grand Central to Croton Harmon or Poughkeepsie. I have taken an M7 Metro North from Grand Central to Dobbs Ferry, and I saw Kawasaki's(the train company who made the NYC Subway not the motorcycle) factory. I also like the view of the Hudson River. I like how a winding road led to a view of mountains at the back of the Hudson River. It's a cool view really.

I think MTA should make a NYC Subway line that goes between Grand Central Terminal and New York Penn Station. I like what MTA is doing with transportation currently. I think MTA has come a long way since they ran the LIRR(Long Island Railroad). Also, The new Mercedes-Benz Citaro buses are being tested by the MTA for the next 30 days in order to see how well they perform in NYC. If all goes well, the MTA may place orders for these accordion-style Citaro buses to replace the fleet of New Flyer buses currently in use.

I also have a new YouTube account(and I know the new youtube homepage and channel background suck) called lbpFTW1. I posted 3 animations on that channel that I did on Flash CS5 Professional. They are good animations. They are animations that I just felt like doing. The first animation is a stick figure getting chased by a dinosaur. The second animation is an animation of the internet meme, Shoop Da Whoop. The third is just Sonic the Hedgehog running.

I'm planning trips to New Haven, CT, some places in Illnois, and some places in California. I also want to see what Seattle's like. So basically, I'm planning trips to New Haven, Chicago, California, and Seattle, Washington.


That's all I have to say.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!