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Her laugh broke the silence. After the expected time in which Erika Amanai should have died, she giggled frenetically in my face. Yes, I wrote Erika's name in my Death Note, but she did not die after the forty seconds. At that moment, I assumed that she had given me a fake name. I also considered that the fact that my Shinigami (Death God) Karemu laughed, was because she knew that it was a fake name. The supposed to be called Erika was smiling as she thought I was cooperating with her in the Kira (Killer) case. After spelling her name, I had written that the cause of death was a heart attack, I would take her away so no one could find her lying on the floor.

After a few minutes of having pressure on myself, because she was getting closer to find out I was Kira, she said she had to leave to the headquarters. I could not allow this, if she went there, it would be revealed that I was suspected of being Kira, and there was enough evidence for me to be confirmed as Kira. She started to walk away, and I realized I only had five minutes until she got there. I had to kill her before she got there, but how? An idea crawled into my brain, a brilliant one. I told her not to leave, that I had to tell her something else, something of vital importance. I told her I was part of the Kira investigation headquarters. She was surprised, and she got excited to hear such good news. I offered her a spot to work with us, but of course, I was not involved with the headquarters, it was a bluff. She said that she would completely join the case, and that she wanted to take revenge over his husband, no matter what she had to do.

It was all going as planned, she fell for my bluff. I told her that to get into the headquarters, I just needed an I.D, so I could register her information. She gave me a drivers license and confessed that she had given me a fake name before. Bingo. I told her it was okay, that it was all to protect herself from Kira. I didn't know why everyone was protecting themselves from me, even if they didn't know me. I only killed bad guys, and everyone knew it. I would never kill an innocent civilian, but she was about to reveal my true identity, and I could not allow that. I looked closely at the I.D. Misa Haruno was her real name, according to the drivers license. Carefully I introduced the name into my death note, but she thought I was only registering her information. I looked closely at my watch as the forty seconds were now in the process of murdering Misa. She then asked with a tone of voice I will never forget, "Why are you looking so closely at your watch?''. I answered with a simple "Oh, this? Well it's because... I'm Kira". Shock covered her face and body, it was success. She collapsed onto the floor after the needed forty seconds had passed. I took her away with the help of Karemu. The fact that I was Kira was fully unknown, I was suspected of being Kira, but there was no physical evidence, since I just needed a name and a face to kill. At least, I was not discovered yet...

8th Grade Rotoball

8th Grade RotoBall from mistermark on Vimeo.

We were working on a roto ball video on the last few weeks. The videos needed to be creative and at least fifteen seconds long. You could not have any kind of violence in it, especially murder and blood. A problem I encountered during the creation of my flash project was the background. I tried a few but some just went directly into the imaginary trash can. Finally, I found a cool but simple one, which ended being the one I used in the final project. Other than this everything was pretty easy and fast, I finished the whole thing in three days. I edited and put all of the classroom's videos together, found a couple songs, and introduced them into the video. I also made the slides, but those were pretty easy. I had some problems in finding the music that would be the best for the final project. I thought about millions of songs that I like, but I couldn't think like that. I had to pick something that would interest everyone in the class, something cool, but something neutral. I finally picked A Cause Des Garcons, and Boogie Wonderland. I think they are pretty great, and don't get out of the normal tune. These were my main problems with the flash project, it wasn't really that problematic. See you next time!

Rotoball Video

The video was great, but some things could be changed for the best. Some backgrounds are either too funky our just look bad. This can be easily fixed in a few minutes and will make the video look completely different, better. Also, some of the videos have kind of a stiff character, they could add at least some flexibility in the knees. Not all need that flexibility, since some are just people standing. Lets take Thomas' video for example, he is supposedly surfing, but he does not move at all. Perhaps if he extended his arms and bent his knees it would look a lot better. Other than these small flaws, the video was quite good, I hope you think so too.

I give myself credit for putting the videos together, selecting and inserting the music, and creating the video slides.

Rotoball Idea

I had many Roto ball ideas, but one stands out. I am planning on receiving the ball and transform it into a skateboard. I will do some sort of trick on the skateboard, I will think of something realistic. Then I am going to pop the board, and catch it as a ball. I am then going to pass it to whichever side with my booty. It's going to be fun, skateboards are over used in videos, but it's still creative. This is the main thought my head has right now. I will perhaps think of something else on Thursday, but I am pretty sure that's what interests me. Thank you for your time!

Rodrigo Flater's

Growing Up Online

4. Identity Play

Things you post can go to other people that your friends. Of course all of the things I post are directly meant to reach my friends. I never post innappropiate things, and I never post personal information like my address or phone number. The problem is when people do post that kind of material. People out there can easily get into your Facebook, they have ways of doing it. If you have personal information, they could catch you, and you might get into a BIG problem. Just don't post important info in your profile, that's it. Don't put your original last names, and/or use nicknames. This is what I think about identity play.

3. Social Networking - Keeping in touch

I think that social networking is not such a big deal as people think it is. Social networking such as Facebook, Myspace, etc. are good in certain ways. Having these sites can help you contact someone you haven't seen in a while. They can also entertain with the games they contain, or simply to talk and socialize with your current friends. It can also help for business. People think that it is only for talking, but you can download blogs and pictures or videos to Facebook, educational blogs. Of course, there is online bulling and that is not okay at all. People should really stop that, it doesn't matter what the case is, people commit suicide because of this. These are the reasons of why I think that Social Networking is not bad at all. Yes, it might contain innappropiate stuff, but you can choose whether to see that stuff or not.

5. Parenting - Privacy and Control

People exagerate about privacy and control. These programs that they refer to like ''Catch a Predator'' just grow fear in adults without need. Yes, it is true that something bad might happen because of online blogging, but you can stop it. If you don't post important and personal information into your blog, they will not catch you. Just think about it, don't tell them who you are, and do not tell them where they can find you, that will just bring trouble into your life. Parents are really overreacting about this. I think they should stop those warnings, they are UNNECESSARY. This is the way I feel about the privacy and control of parents with blogs.

Dude that uses spark notes! Should he feel guilty?

I think that this guy should feel guilty for the following reasons. This kid should feel guilty about looking up spark notes on the internet to get his homework done, instead of reading an actual book. By using spark notes and not reading, kids today are losing that quality that people used to have thirty years ago. If people keep doing this, our economy will decrease, since people nowadays are even lazy to read a simple book. But it's not as simple as him feeling guilty for doing that, he has to stop doing that so he can make a real change in our society, everyone should stop it. I personally had never used spark notes to hand in a book report, and I don't think many people here do it, but it's apparently popular over there in the United States. This is why I think that he is, and should feel guilty for using spark notes online.

Modern Internet

Modern internet is completely different than it used to be before. Teenagers these days use the computer mostly to use Facebook or Myspace or any social sites really. Maybe it wouldn't be as bad if they only used those sites a few minutes a day, and just one or two days a week, but it's not that way anymore. Now, teenagers use those sites sometimes up to 8 hours a day, and seven days of the week, not exactly 24/7, but you could say that because of how much they use it nowadays. I'm not going to lie, I also use it a few hours the seven days of the week, but still, I know it's really bad, and it disappoints me how everyone does it, I disappoint myself. These are the changes in the Internet nowadays. Hope you think the same as me.

Things that will tell why the computer is different from television, videogames, stereo/radio, magazines and books.

Computer is different from televisions because televisions transmit scheduled programs that don't necessarily have unappropriate content, of course, they could. The computer is different from videogames because video games are more parental controlled, and the internet is more out there for everyone. The computer is different from radio, magazines, and books, because all of those are government controlled issues, and do not content inappropriate content for people who are not 18 years old.