General Discussion => Introduce Yourself! => Topic started by: pokemonrules9 on October 24, 2011, 05:16:30 pm
Title: Haven't gotten around to introducing myself!
Post by: pokemonrules9 on October 24, 2011, 05:16:30 pm
Hey guys! I've been on the forums for quite some time, but I've never really posted. As you can see I joined in May of 2010, which is quite some time ago. So basically, here's my story!
My name is Nick, I am 16 years old, and I am a junior in high school. I go to an advanced school that only allows 72 students to get in per year, while about 500 try to get in. They require TI-Nspires for freshmen, which is what got me started. Every previous year required TI-84's, so I was happy about getting a cool new calculator. My sister (who owned a TI-84) said that people in her class had Pokemon on their calculators. My Nspire arrived in the mail and all I thought about was games. I looked online and did not seem to have much luck. I made an account here and tried ndless, but now I know it didn't work because I had a newer OS. The next year I saw that a new ndless had came out, and started to piece it all together. One night I got everything working, and played Pokemon and Mario at school the next day, and was the coolest kid in school! 8)
I started to learn more and more about calculators and programming in general. I had a java class and did very well in it. I started to feel like I wanted to get into calculator programming! I started working on some basic programs in lua for the 3.0 OS and would test them out on some of my friends CXs. About 1/3 of my class bought a CX (their parents that is), even though I explained they weren't really different from our Nspires. For my birthday a few months ago, I received a Casio Prizm from my parents! I have been learning Casio-Basic recently, and made a few games. I've been really impressed by it so far, and have been trying to convince my friends and teachers to abandon TI. Unfortunately, my teachers all completely praise TI, and my attempts have not succeeded. I hope to eventually learn some new programming languages, and hope to be a software engineer someday! :D
More about me:
I am a professional juggler and i train about 3 hours a day to try and be the best. Juggling leaves me with little time to do just about anything else :P I have competed in places such as Las Vegas and Springfield, Illinois, and I hope to one day be the best juggler in the world. Ask any questions you would like about that! As you can tell from my username, I am a huge Pokemon fan. I battle competitively and spend just about all of my free time that I'm not juggling doing that. I don't have many friends in case you couldn't tell :P So yeah. That's about it. Well, I also play chess, piano, and solve rubik's cubes for fun. Juggling has made me pretty athletic, so I'm pretty good at just about any sport, my favorite being baseball.
Title: Re: Haven't gotten around to introducing myself!
Post by: Xeda112358 on October 24, 2011, 05:53:11 pm
Well howdy :D I am sure you will enjoy Omnimaga! You say you battle competitively... is that with cards or video games? (Or real pokémon O.O)
Title: Re: Haven't gotten around to introducing myself!
Post by: pokemonrules9 on October 24, 2011, 05:59:39 pm
Haha, just video games :P I never really got into the card games, even though I have a few thousand of them...
Title: Re: Haven't gotten around to introducing myself!
Post by: Xeda112358 on October 24, 2011, 06:02:18 pm
Aww, I love the card game! But I do play the video games enough that I know what I am doing. I usually try to beat the elite four in 9 hours or less and I know how to train Pokémon :D I had a Rayquaza with 423 attack >.>/me EV trains and looks for pokemon with specific IVs...
Title: Re: Haven't gotten around to introducing myself!
Post by: flyingfisch on October 24, 2011, 06:12:30 pm
Well, I can't understand why you haven't gotten peanuts yet :O so:
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Post by: ztrumpet on October 24, 2011, 06:24:04 pm
Welcome to Omnimaga, pokemonrules. I hope you have a wonderful time here. :)
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Post by: parserp on October 24, 2011, 07:15:08 pm
ooh now there's veggies too O.O here's some regular peanuts... !peanuts
Title: Re: Haven't gotten around to introducing myself!
Post by: flyingfisch on October 24, 2011, 07:17:18 pm
yeah, veggies. who wants to get in a fight with his mom? (and who knows, she might be a health freak :O )
Title: Re: Haven't gotten around to introducing myself!
Post by: Scipi on October 24, 2011, 07:34:22 pm
Hello pokemonrules. I actually saw you before in the members list and saw you joined a while ago. :D
Oh, and I've got a question
Spoiler For Spoiler:
How do you juggle? :P
That's pretty impressive! O_O
Hope to see you around the forums :D
Title: Re: Haven't gotten around to introducing myself!
Post by: Juju on October 24, 2011, 08:02:11 pm
Welcome on Omnimaga! :D
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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 24, 2011, 11:03:48 pm
Welcome on the forums and great initiative you got by trying to convince teachers to switch to Casio calcs. Sorry to hear that it didn't work, though.
Title: Re: Haven't gotten around to introducing myself!
Post by: z80man on October 25, 2011, 01:06:34 am
Welcome to omni. I had tried last year to convince my math department to switch to Casio but ran into several difficulties even though all the faculty loved the Prizm. -the teachers are not yet trained on how to use Casio calcs -the students who already have difficulty with their 84's will be confused by the Prizm -parents do not want to buy a new calculator -the math department has some alliance with TI that is difficult to break
and yet the administration announced that starting next year all textbooks will be replaced with $800 ipad 2's :P
Title: Re: Haven't gotten around to introducing myself!
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on October 25, 2011, 03:58:55 am
Hey there. Abandon Ti? Quite some math books are fully working wih z80 calcs. Also the 68k calc is actually the BEST calc for ti-basic and just games IMO. If you see what the nspire programers have accomplished it's quite something. About the prism i don't know very much but this one calc isn't worth to get rid of all those Good calcs made by Ti IMO.
Also, do you juggle with calcs too? :P
Title: Re: Haven't gotten around to introducing myself!
Post by: Yeong on October 25, 2011, 07:24:50 am