Benign Thoughts

So, something truly epic happened this week… If you read reddit, you know what I’m talking about. Yes, the epic thread. It truly is epic. Read it and see if you can make it to the end. When I first came across it, I was on the floor laughing.

Speaking of reddit. I took Digg off my speed dial. Yep, it’s about damn time. All of you should know by now that I am an avid Opera user, and therefore have the nifty speed dial feature. Right now my speed dial sites are: Facebook, What.cd, Last.fm, Benign Thoughts, Netvibes, Reddit, Netflix, Google Reader, and Benign Thoughts Mail (branded gmail. Google manages my Benign Thoughts email. It’s nice). Usually I typed Benign Thoughts in my address bar, but since I now exclusively visit Reddit (it gets all news like four days before digg anyway), I replaced Digg with BT. Maybe it’ll force me to post more often, I dunno.

So my site was not XHTML 1.1 for a little bit. Yeah, it was invalid. Some pages around are still invalid, simply because they’re old. I just kind of realized this, but I’ve had this site since November 2002. It’s moved domains and blog software for quite a while (earlier posts had no titles, and that drives my title image plugin insane). I was actually *just* looking on my Quotes page (which is still around, believe it or not) and reading old AIM and IRC and Yahoo! convos I once had. It’s amazing that i still keep in contact with Bobby and some other people after all these years. Pretty insane.

But yeah, about XHTML 1.1. Turns out my WoW script that turns links that link to WoWhead stuff different colors isn’t compatible by default. I had to modify the plugin a bit to fix it. Oh well, no big deal. Still, though, something broke the mime type, not sure what. Opera’s detecting it fine, but the W3 validator isn’t. Go figure. Also, quick site change. I never actually agnowledged the ads. They’re a futile attempt to make some money back from the site. I also changed the search bar to a google sitesearch. It’s nice because it shows me what people are interested in from BT and makes me money too. Plus it’s nicer than Wordpress’s search. Site integration sucks though, maybe I’ll fix it, but it doesn’t really bother me so yeah.

Speaking of Opera, Opera 9.5 has been out for a week. Go get it. It blows Firefox 3 out of the water and isn’t even a major release. Opera 10, here we come (:

So uh, I’m done. It’s 04:30, and therefore time for me to sleep. Goodnight all. Well, good morning.

So I’m in school right now and really bored. It is the last day of school, so I have a bit to say. However, I have senioritis and only 15 minutes to write this entry, so I’ll make it quick.

I quit World of Warcraft. Yep, I did it last month, actually, shortly after I got some T6. See, I have a girlfriend now and I’m about to go to college, and they stopped taking me raiding so I really don’t have the time anymore to sit there for hours and wait for a raid spot. That’s all I’d do for hours every night, wait from 6 until around 7:30 for a raid invite, then get disappointed when I don’t get one. It happened for two straight weeks, so I just quit.

Yeah I have a girlfriend. It’s Caitlin and I’m going to prom with her. If you’ve read my really old stuff from 2004 you’d know her. She’s awesome, and this feels right. However, I’m going upstate to Binghamton to college and won’t be seeing her for a bit. Still, I have Skype and my webcam and the phone and long weekends and breaks, so I’ll see her pretty often. Just not often enough >_< .

K, done for now. Toodles.

Happy mother’s day! My family went to the NY Botanical Garden today, but I personally find it boring, so I stayed home. Hoorah. So anyway, I’m sitting here playing World of Warcraft waiting for my raid to start, if we even raid tonight because it’s mother’s day.

I got my first piece of Tier 6 in WoW the other day It was Gloves of the Tempest. They’re replacing my Spellfire Gloves, finally breaking my spellfire set. Now, because I’m breaking the spellfire set, it’s a downgrade, but properly enchanted and gemmed, it’s just as good. I had to break the set eventually, so yeah. I’m pleased.

I may post another update later after the raid or when the raid is cancelled. For now, though, goodbye :).

Hey guys, I’m here again! Jesus, I’m just kind of forcing myself to blog, even though I have nothing really to talk about that I can. Big news is coming soon, but I can’t tell you about it for another few weeks at least.

I’m addicted to twitter now, but I have no followers. I just kind of post updates to absolutely nobody. I suppose I’m not that interesting, but still. It’d be nice to have some people to respond to me. Check it out, it’s pretty neat.

I want a new calculator. Yeah, right now I’m using a TI-89 Titanium, and it’s great and all, but randomly it decides it doesn’t want to shut off and drains my batteries. It’s kind of a big problem because I take it out for a chem test, and lo and behold, it’s dead. Anyway, I’m hoping to get a HP 50G. It’s amazing from what I’ve read, though it takes a long time to figure out. Steep learning curve, you see. I’ll get it eventually though, and it’ll be fantastic.

Goodnight all. I’ll be back tomorrow maybe. I don’t know yet. I have a lot to say but I can’t share all of it. We’ll see.

So this should be interesting, my blogging for the first time in a very long time. Well, a lot has changed in the last like, year of non-serious blogging, so here’s my attempt at catching everything up.

One interesting point to note is that I now use a mac. I still use linux on my desktop, but it is only a file server for downloading torrents and running overnight. I have a miniature gigabit network between my mac and my desktop so I can transfer the files very quickly, and my little setup works rather nicely. The mac, of course, is a Macbook Pro 15 inch with the 2.6 ghz processor, 4 gigs of ram, pre-2008 refresh. I got it last year shortly after leopard was released. It’s nice, but I have no multitouch trackpad :(. Oh well, it’ll do. The pros of having a macbook pro? Well, right now I’m sitting on my bed, macbook on my lap (bad idea, I know, but it won’t overheat) typing this up in TextMate, my new favorite editor for editing anything. It’s fantastic, go get it.

So, why haven’t I been here, you may ask. Well, the answer is simple. You see, I’ve been playing a timesucking game called World of Warcraft. Right now, it rules my life. Well, something else rules my life but I can’t talk about that yet at the moment, but WoW rules my life when the other thing doesn’t. Basically, I’ve been playing WoW, going to work, or having a life all this time, without blogging about it. I know, I should just put a halfhour and blog every night before going to bed, but it never happens and probably won’t happen until I get back into the swing of things.

I currently play my mage, Tasai, on the Arthas US realm, in WoW of course. Tasai is a level 70 blood elf mage in <spire>, a BT/MH raiding guild. Tonight we got a decent amount of attempts in on Illidan. We made it to phase 3 of the fight, and hope to get him down tomorrow.

I figured out what school I’m going to next year. I’ll be going to Binghamton for Math. Yeah, math. People say I’m insane, but I plan on becoming a math teacher, and well, gonna need to go to school for math for that. Some friends of mine are going (or maybe going) too, so I won’t be alone, and the dorms freakin’ rock there.

Well, that’s all. Some last minute things: Yes, I have ads on the site now. I’m hoping to make some side money from this site. My dad didn’t allow me to sign up for adsense, but now I’m 18 so I’m able to just do it myself. They’re not too intrusive, but if they start to be bothersome, I can limit them more or set some settings to make them appear less. Goodnight.

I’m going to start blogging again. For real this time. Maybe.

Don’t worry. I’m around and well, yeah. I just haven’t been blogging because I’m uncool like that. I just revamped the blog, cleaned out Wordpress a bit and upgraded. I’ll probably make a new layout soon depending on how lazy I’m feeling. I will say, though, that I will continue blogging soon enough. This will not be a full entry. I plan on writing a well-thought-out entry tomorrow with a good overview of what I haven’t blogged about. By tomorrow I, of course, mean today, the 11th of September. By “I plan on” I mean exactly that. There’s always the rather large chance that I’ll forget about it and be an ass like I usually am. Of course now that I’ve lost my main readers (all 12 of them), I have to work hard to earn them back. Plus I have to renew this domain, so the emails from AllDomains (yes, I use AllDomains) should remind me.

Today was free hug day. Well, yesterday, the tenth, was. I got a decent amount of hugs and it made me happy. I was, however, disappointed to see that I was the only person in my school with a sign, and so many people thought I was actually kidding. Who kids about free hugs? I mean, seriously. People are like, “Oh, my friend here wants a free hug.” And I reply, “Does he really want a hug or are you trying to embarass him like a douche?” Usually those people do not want hugs. See, forcing hugs on people isn’t in the spirit of free hug day. I did average about 4-5 hugs between each class, with some scattered in class and a bunch before and after school.

And now it’s time for me to write about things I’ll write about next time while I still remember:

• Class switching in my school
• College Search
• My classes this year
• World of Warcraft
• My addiction to Facebook

and whatever I feel like writing tomorrow.

Until then, goodnight.