May 2004 Archives

Well, I missed a Science project. Well, I thought it was due tomorrow, but it was really due Friday. Yeah, we had school Friday because we lost that day during the winter due to snow. So anyway, now it's done, so I can blog.

Happy Memorial Day!! Yay! It's Memorial day, so I have no school. Well, I slept until 1:30 this morning. Then, I worked on the pedigree project that was due friday, and now I'm here. Later, I'll play GameCube, and go to bed. Wow, I have a life (not).

Well, this never got published. I'll just do it now...

I'm really sorry for not blogging lately. It's because of my Dad turning off my internet at 10. You see, I usually do my homework before I blog, but lately I haven't had enough time to get my homework done before 10, since my computer gets for some reason when the internet turns off, and most of my homework requires my computer. Anyway, the reason I didn't blog was because when I'm done with my homwork, it's usually after 10. If I blog first, then I don't have enough time to do my homework because of dinner and crap. Anyway, on weekends my internet stays on, so I'm safe tonight :).

Another small fight in Gym class. Well, I'm not sure if I blogged about the first time, but a long time ago I got into a fight with Billy, that annoying kid in gym. Today, some idiot named Jeff decided to punch me in the face in order to get the ball (we were playing european handball). Anyway, I decided to let him know that he can't just punch me and get away with it, so I grabbed him and flipped/threw him onto the floor. Then, he started chasing me. I stopped because I didn't want to hurt him, and he was going to grab me, but I threw him onto the floor again. This time, he grabbed me while falling and I ended up in a headlock. Now, this kid is a weakling, but he acts all tough. Anyway, he's not too smart, so I could have easily punched him in the stomach. I decided against it because the gym teacher came, and if I punched him at that point, I would have gotten in trouble.

Hey! Right now I'm at a family friend's house! Well, I'm sitting here on this pathetic windows computer with an 800x600 resolution. I don't know why it's set so low, but whatever. Anyhow, I twesked the layout a bit. From the 800x600 res, it doesn't have horizontal scrollbars anymore, but that means that it's a bit thinner. Now, I don't know how this looks in 1024x768, but I hope it looks good.

I might get another computer! It'll be a really pathetic one, probably a pentium. I'm planning on installing slackware on it and using it as a streamripper. I can ssh to it in order to access it, and it won't need a gui, since I won't be using it to work on. You see, the person who's house I'm over has a lot of extra old omputers. I figure I might use one for something. :)

Ok, I got the computer. It's a whopping 100 mhz. Wow. What the hell am I going to do with that. Well, one can always have an extra paperweight. Nah, I figure I'll install slackware and fool around a bit.

Well, that's it. I'm done for tonight, so.... I guess I'll see you tomorrow if I have time :)

There's not enough time to blog. Chippy the chipmonk (Fantasia) won american idol. heh. Chippy. I don't really like the way she sings.

Well, I finally did something I've been meaning to do. I integrated a WYSIWYG xhtml editor into WordPress. I've tried and tried, but now I used a mod, and modded it (a modded mod?). So anyway, my version of this mod has extra buttons for my site and crap like that. So far, it's been working great, but I may take it out because I like to be able to see the HTML. Then again, I can just go into HTML mode and I'll see it :). Another problem is that it uses span tags instead of regular formatting tags.

OK, I decided to take it out although it looks a lot cooler. It slows down my posting time sooo much and it's harder to post my images. I just wanted to see if I could do it anyway.

Damn, I have SO MANY DBQ'S. I hate them. I'm currently halfway into my first one out of two. It seems like it's taking FOREVER. They were due a while ago, but I kinda... forgot about them. I also have t-shirts to make, which'll also take me a while, so I'm not going to finish this post until about 8 or 9 pm. Maybe I won't even get to it, since my internet goes off at 10.

Why do your parents shut off your internet at 10? Well, JD asked me this question in one of his comments yesterday. Well, it's because they're idiots and think that I'm not getting my schoolwork done. I mean, here I am sitting here writing 2 DBQs, and I'm not getting my work done? Yeah. Right.

Hooray! Yep, apparently, those idiots at Microsoft got hacked by OutLaw, whoever that is... But anyway, they should have done more... like make all the links point to porn sites or something. I would have made all of the windows links say winblows and make all the pages say "USE LINUX", but I guess "Owned by OutLaw Group" works too :)

Hooray! Now I don't have to ping a whole bunch of sites anymore! Ping-o-matic now has an rpc interface up and running, according to WordPress's Development Blog. So now, all I have to do is ping http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ and I'll be listed on a whole bunch of sites!

To grandma's house I go! Well, there's not going to be much of a blog today. I'm going to grandma's house because it's their 50th anniversary, and by the time I get back, my internet'll probably be off, so I'll blog about it tomorrow.

Well, it's not off.. and that's a good thing. My cousins acted like complete idiots. Vinnie snuck up behind me and scared the hell out of me (up to the point where I almost had him strangled, then I realised who it was and let him go). Well, Vinnie's 12 years old, but he looks (and acts) like he's 10.

WE GOT ATTACKED BY LITTLE KIDS!! Yeah, we got attacked by a mob of about 12 kids ranging from 5-7 years old. The reason? Because they wanted to steal Vinnie's hat. The reason they wanted to steal Vinnie's hat? Because I was yelling at this kid for calling a little girl a "shitty butt". The reason I'm telling you all of this? I have no clue whatsoever. Anyway, what the hell is wrong with these kids. The kid's like 5 years old and he's saying words like "shit"? He also called this girl a "bitch". Wow, I wonder where he's learning this...

That's it for today! Just for the sake of including a site-of-the-day, here it is:
Zeldman.com.

Oh yeah, and watch this movie: Tax Man

Newspapers are stupid. There's an article about George Bush falling off his bike. Well, according to them, he's fine, but they couldn't find anything else to write about? I mean, tons of people are dying in Iraq, and they'd rather write about our president falling off his bike? I mean, look at this and what about this. In fact, there are 316 articles, incuding The New York Times (which I read) and Xinhua, which is some chinese news thing. Oooh wow, I fell of my bike too! Write an article about me! In fact... I think I will.

Louis C, at the age of 7, fell off his bike. Ok, so I made it up, but chances are, I did fall off my bike when I was 7...

As I posted earlier, Wordpress 1.2 is out!! It's about time!! The CVS releases that I used were always a bit buggy, so I'm glad it's finally out. If any of my posts don't look right or anything, e-mail me using the contact form. I'm sure my layout'll be a little buggy.

Well, today's upgrade to my blog was to Wordpress 1.2. Well, I upgrade EVERY day to the latest CVS, but today they released the stable release of 1.2. So anyway, that was just if you were interested.

I'm going to have to post earlier now... You see, my dad made a new rule, that my internet goes off at 10:00. Yeah, it's the freakin' router that does it, so I'm swapping my homework time with my blogging time, so I will blog when I get home from school, then do my homework at 10:00, since I don't need the internet for it. Luckily, it will stay on tonight, which means a longer blog.

So anyway, I'm still at school. Yeah, I know it's weird, but I'm at "Website Club". Everybody has the most idiotic websties ever. Pre-made layouts plus no content! Hoorah!

So, Nick has a site about cars. It's hosted by angelfire, and has text copied from other sites to make up the content. Isn't there a law against that? What's it called again? Plaigerism, isn't it. Now, that's one of the better sites, and it has no layout at all. Can you imagine what the other sites are like?

Dude, are you still working on that anime crap? Yeah, iWars is still under construction. I'm currently learning how to draw anime and how to actually animate it so it looks like a real anime cartoon. Yeah, it's really hard.

Dude, I went to bestbuy! Well, I went originally for my dad to get an mp3 player, but then I wanted to get something. That's when I remembered that they sell CDs there, so I went to the section and looked around a bit. Well, I ended up getting "Fallen" by Evanescence. In case you didn't know, I happen to really like them, so I'm pleased with myself. Normally, I'd just download the songs (like I did with a bunch of their early songs that I can't find the CD for), but I figured that they deserved the money since they're so good. Anyhow, did you know that there's a 12th track? There are only 11 labeled tracks, but the 12th is "My Immortal-Band Version". It's also on the website, but you need to have the CD to download it. I'm guessing that they didn't put it on the first release of "Fallen" so when the second release with the 12th track came out, they put it on the site for anyone who has the first release.

Well, that's it. Yep, that's it for today's post. I hope I have the time to post again tomorrow.

Well, tomorrow is Caitlin's Birthday! I think I'll do something extra special on my blog tomorrow for it. Anyway, I have her present all ready for her. All I need to do is find something to put it in.

I'm not going to blog much today. I have too much to do, so this is going to be fairly short. I guess I should start now. I did a lot today, so expect a lot more tomorrow.

I went to the city today. Instead of normal school, we had a band field trip. Basicly, we went to the city and played some pieces (badly). Yeah, it was really bad because we couldn't really hear each other, and since the "concert" was outdoors, the wind was blowing the music everywhere.

The Suppliers 2 is... RELEASED!!!! Hoorah! From now on, May 18th is known as "TS2 day". Anyway, TS2 can be found at TheSuppliers2.tk. Anyway, go there, look around, post on the forums, and have fun!

My theory on Piracy... Well, I have a theory about Piracy on the web. Basicly, Pirate stuff a lot. If you like it, you should buy it, just to give the maker money to keep making stuff. If you don't like it, well... then the maker doesn't really deserve the money. Microsoft is a different story. They just rip stuff off everyone else, so they never deserve anything.

Dude, I was so sick this weekend! Yeah, I know it's (weird, wierd... hmm... ) strange (there we go) that I got sick, because it never happens. I mean, I never get sick. In fact, last time I got sick was last year. Anyhow, that's why I didn't blog. You see, it was a stomach virus or food poisoning, and I could NOT stand or sick. All I could do is lay down in a certain position. So, that means that I also got nothing done on The Suppliers 2, which I don't think I told you about yet.

The Suppliers 2? Wassat? Well, a while ago, Bobby (false-hopes), Dirk, and I made a site for Buddy4u help. It was called The Suppliers. Well, now I decided to redo it with Bobby, Dirk, Ally, and maybe some other people I know on the web. When I'm done with it, I'll tell you guys and post a link. I'll hopefully be done with it tomorrow.

What the hell happened to iWars? Don't worry, I'm still working at it. I've finally determined that I should learn how to draw anime, this way the cartoon will look more professional. On top of that, I'm hopeing to learn Japanese, this way I can watch untranslated anime, and look cool :). I also want to understand the ending song on InuYasha.

Now what are the odds of this... Ok, as you probobly know, my layout is based on a theme for Wordpress, because I was too lazy to make one from scratch again. Don't worry, my IE layout was made from scratch, but this one wasn't. So anyway, the guy who made the theme used my contact form to contact me. What do you think he said? Well, he said that I did a great job modding his theme, and that it was a "darned cool" version.

Once again, I was thinking. Yeah, that's pretty unusual for me, but I think I figured out another way how religion connects to science. Now, if you don't want to read this, you don't have to, but I suggest you do, because it all makes sence. Now, in the bible (or torah, whatever you use), it says something about god taking part, or a rib from the man, Adam, and making Eve out of that. Now I'm going to get all scientific: The thing that makes men, is that we are missing part of the second "x" chromosome, which makes it into a "y". So we are "xy" and women are "xx". What if that's what god made Eve out of. What if the "rib" was just a metaphor for that part of the chromosome. Hey, it's possible.

Here's another little thing... You all know about Pangea, the super-continent that existed millions of years ago. You also know about the Tower of Babel. Now, in the bible, it says that God scattered all the people and made them speak different languages. Pangea also split up, to form the seven continents we have today. What if THAT's how God scattered them? By splitting up the continent that they lived on. Remember, God has been around forever, so a year to him is like a second, or less.

A bit of philosophy here.... Has everything happened before? I mean, how do we know if humans didn't exist way before the dinosaurs, and then died out. They could have lived exactly how we live now. With an internet and everything. How do we know that everything doesn't go in a cycle. I mean, isn't it said that history repeats itself? What if it REALLY does? If it does, maybe this is going to be the last time, or maybe it might happen again and again. Who knows?

So here I am in a chatroom. I'm with a few friends, and some other people who refuse to tell me who they are. Some of them threatened to hack me, and dissed my screenname. So I'll finish posting this when I erm.. "finish" with them.

OK, it's 9:18, and I finally have a chance to finish this post. You see, my dad took away my internet until my math homework was done (it took 3 minutes), but I decided to watch the hour of "That 70's Show" and Seinfeld right before it. Well, enough about that. I'll start talking about the umm... slightly less boring stuff now.

Ok, the other day, we had a band/orchestra concert. Well, Caitlin and I had to play with the orchestra (and some other band guys) because for one of the songs they needed a full orchestra. But that's now what I'm writing about. When the orchestra teacher came into the gym (where we were before the concert) I walked up to him in my suit, and I said "Yo, sup mah homie!" and he went "Yo!" and gave me a high five and one of those ghetto style back pat things. So just imagine an italian dude in a suit who looks like a mobster (me), and an orchestra teacher doing this.

Speaking of the mafia, I did my mafia impression almost all night. It was pretty convincing too, the way I was dressed. You see, I'm probably the most italian-looking kid in the school. I have dark brown hair, gelled back, yet still somewhat spikey, and I have very tan skin. However, you have to remember that I'm 14 and am only about 5'5''. Well, now that you have a good idea of what I look like, you can stalk me down :).

Yep, it's mother's day, so you better be nice to your mom! Well, I didn't get my mom anything, so whatever. I don't know what everybody else is doing, but we're having the grandmas and grandpas over. I'm probably going to just spend my time upstairs on my computer the whole time, because they're so boring.

Ok, so they're here now... Grandpa is down stairs watching the ball game with my little sister, my mom's sitting on the rocking chair talking to grandma about quilting, dad and the other grandpa and grandma are outside. Yeah, pretty boring. Meanwhile, I'm up here, about to switch to windoze to download Lightwave.

Lightwave... what is that? Well, it's another 3D program, that's a lot cooler than the one that I currently use. It's for macs, but they have a windoze version, which I'll download and install in windoze. If this works, I'll uninstall 3DS max, and everything will be peachy.
(update: it didn't work, I'll try downloading it again in a few days)

Today should be interesting... Listen, I'm really sorry for not blogging yesterday. I was working on the cartoon and a social studies project, so I didn't get the chance. However, I did upload a stupid drawing for you guys to look at, so that should be good. People always say "A picture is worth a thousand words" so I guess last night's entry was my longest yet. :)

Yep, once again there was a computer incident. This time, however, it wasn't the teacher who blamed it on me. You see, some idiot unplugged every wire from my social studies teacher's computer that she uses for attendance and e-mails this morning when she was away at a meeting. Well, everybody (except for the actual teacher and a few kids) assumed that I was the one who did it. Well, I wasn't even anywhere near that classroom, so at least I have a good way to prove that it wasn't me in case she decides to blame it on me.

Now I know this is a highly controversial topic, but on another website that I'm on, somebody posted in the forums about abortion. Now, that isn't the point of this but I mean, the website that I'm talking about has people that are from 10-22 years old, and why would anybody that age even think about that? Are they going around having sex with random people who they like? There were even a few people who said "Yeah, I've had an abortion, but I had to" and people who didn't have one and were just going to raise the kid (which is good because I don't like the idea of killing your child). Now, these people aren't married, and in 10 years, they won't even be in contact with the person who got them pregnant in the first place. I don't know about you guys, but I don't think that is the right thing to be talking about on a forum that anybody could look at. People could see it and say, "Oh, it's OK if I do it with this guy, because I know a whole bunch of people who have done it before. Besides, if I get pregnant, I can always get an abortion." Yeah. That's not right.

OK, well I'm done for now. It's actually around 12:20 right now, but I'm setting the timestamp back so that this goes under yesterday, when I started this. Bye!

Sorry, I'm not going to blog today, However, I will post the following drawing :)

It's a test drawing. I'm practicing for the cartoon :)

Well, it's official, I'm always blamed for everything. Something happened in the computer lab yesterday and I had nothing to do with it. I'll tell you about that later, but now I need to cover the intro. Well, today was interesting. I got both of my italian project thingies done, which is good. I also got blamed for something I didn't do, and took the state tests. So, here we go.

So, what happened? Well, somebody took a piece of audio equipment from the computer lab. Well, I don't really know what it was, but I think it was the speaker cable or something. Anyway, it was taken from the computer that I was using, which means somebody walked up to the computer, and just grabbed whatever it was probably when I was talking to the teacher. Well, since I was the one using the computer, I got blamed. I also got blamed for switching around the keys on the keyboard, breaking mice, and a bunch of other crap. Now, once in a while I do play around with the school computers, but lately, no. Like, in 7th grade, I made one of the computers play a horrible sound when somebody would log in. And I'm currently trying to figure out a way to get around Deep Freeze. So far no good. So, I have a record, and therefore, they blame anything that goes wrong on me.

There was a lot of math today. Today were the big state placement tests for Math. No big deal, right? Well, you're right. After spending 3 periods in a classroom (Caitlin was there too) solving math problems, we were free to go. Well, my next class was in that classroom and nothing interesting happened. However, next period was Home and Careers. We were going over the food pyramid by watching a video. Guess what the video taught us? Yep, you're right again, more math. How to calculate carbs. Next period was science (another math related subject), and then lunch, but I had a band lesson with Caitlin, so we went down to the band room. Guess what was on the board? Yep, wow, you're on a roll, it was a math problem. WHAT IS WITH ALL THE MATH!!!! Seriously, the next person who asks me a math question gets thrown right out the window.

I barely made the bus this morning. No serously. I woke up at 7:15 and my bus gets here at 7:18. I had to get dressed, brush my teeth, go to the bathroom, and do my hair at the same time in order to make it. Well, I'm sure you don't want to hear about that, but I did manage to jump on the bus when it was pulling away.

Just so you know, the non-IE version now works with IE. Yeah, the stupid mistake I made was just that: stupid. So anyway, it's fixed, so hoorah!

Now that you're bored out of your mind, it's time to get to the juicy stuff. Just kidding! I'm done now, so you can go back to your daily activities. I might blog more later, but don't count on it. C ya!

Oh, and Caitlin, you might like this: iPods in ROTK

No seriously, call him Alfonzo. That gets him REALLY pissed. Like, super pissed. The main reason why I want you to do this? HE CALLED CAITLIN A BITCH! I mean, NOBODY, NOBODY calls Caitlin a bitch. NO ONE. Anyway, I ended up pinning him up against the wall and threatened to throw him across the hallway. Then, after I let him go, he did like a spinning thing you see in cartoons. You know, like one of those things where the character spins around with his arms out like a top? Well, I ducked, and he gave up. I should have just grabbed him and thrown him across the hall, but I'm a softie. But anyway, I know his AOL password and suspended him for a while (he can sign in again in a day or two). Bwah ha ha ha. Now THAT's what I call "pwned". (later on) Well, he panicked and now he deleted his screenname for good. Smart move.

Well, now that I'm done with my ranting, it's time for my intro. Did you hear that Bobby (False-Hopes) is attempting a 10,000 word blog entry? I was talking to Scott earlier, and I said that he'd probably see something shiny, get distracted, and start playing with it. Now, later on I IMed him and asked him how it was going. He was playing with pennies. Now, how did I know?

Today was REALLY boring I mean, other than what I said before, nothing happened. It was SO incredibly boring. However, if anything else happens, I'll let you know. But for now, bye.

I'll be updating this blog post all day, so don't freak if it's really short at the moment. By the end of the day today, this should be rather long, and it might even have more than one picture in it, so just hold on tight.

So, what DID happen to the other site, Collective-Thoughts? Well, let me tell you this: we started it, we got it up and running, but lately we haven't been updating it because we're too lazy. Yes, it will come back and it's not a waste of time. Eventually though, expect a new layout and some great content.

Yard work? No, I don't do any of that. You see, at the moment I have no more socks because they were stolen by my little sister and I really don't want to go through her drawers. She has the same exact brand of socks as me, so usually, she gets all of my socks. The socks that I wore during the week are in the wash, which my mom refuses to do because she want's me to do it, but doesn't want to teach me how to do it. Meanwhile, my dad is yelling at me to help him with the yard work, and I can't because of my lack of socks. So, I wasn't allowed on my computer until HE got done with it, which took forever, so here I was sitting on the couch watching TV.

Oh, yeah. It doesn't matter if we jump in front of a truck, because God already knows when we're going to die, and if it's not our turn, we won't die, at least that's what my mom thinks. So, yesterday, Mom and my dad were having an argument about whether or not God has a set date and time when you will die. I have no clue what got them on this topic, but it was rediculous. I mean, I'm catholic, and so's my entire family, meanwhile my mom is being stupid and saying things that aren't in and never were in out religion. Now, I apoligize if you believe in this stuff, but I personally believe that God gives you choices, and those affect your life. Free will rocks!