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Recap

2008-01-26T16:32:00.000-08:00

Wow, I haven't posted anything here for almost 5 months.

Anyway, here's what's happened

August: Did absolutely nothing
September 1-16: Did absolutely nothing
September 17: Packed to go to college
September 18: Moved in to diminutive Stanford dorm room
September 19: Ate at Quizno's for birthday
September 20-29: Why do people at Stanford suck so much?
September 30: Obtained Nintendo DS
October 1-31: I can't hear you, I'm playing Phoenix Wright (october 10: NOOOOOOOOOOOO, you can't delay my Smash Bros!)
November 1-30: 96 on midterm (yes, only one)
December 1-18: Instead of studying for finals, more Phoenix Wright
December 19-31: Home is somehow better than college despite the fact that I'm alone for 50% of the time. Maybe it's because 75% of my family aren't jerks and the ones who aren't jerks I see more than 2 times a week, as opposed to Stanford, where 75% of the undergraduate population are massive unintellectual grade-mongering partiers who will all go on to make more money than me as MDs as well as gain more respect from the community due to their sensitive work, while I struggle to feed myself while working on electronics or something whilst being criticized for selling out to industry, and the majority of the other 25% don't live on West Campus.
Jan 1-7: Dreading going back.
Jan 8-26: More of the same. (Jan 15: NOOOOOOOOOOO, stop delaying SSBB!)

So as you can see, I've been pretty busy over the last 5 months forming biased opinions about people, getting angry over nothing, and playing video games.

A funny web development story

2007-08-28T02:32:00.000-07:00

I had a page with IE, FF and Opera open, and IE showed the page wrong. I guessed that IE was stupid and FF and Opera were right (it was IE6, afterall), but upon further inspection of the code, IE was actually right! I had put in a div tag with a center align, but expected the upcoming element to be aligned to the left... To think that Opera and Firefox both rendered the page incorrectly (but still the way I wanted it) ... I won't be using IE anytime soon, but thankfully there are multiple web browsers out there (at least for debugging purposes)

update

2007-08-26T00:53:00.000-07:00

Wow it's been forever. Anyway Ubuntu + Xampp is pretty much the best thing ever. Beryl, Avant Window Navigator, OS X icons = Mac OS (except for support for mac apps).

More randomness

2007-05-15T12:32:00.000-07:00

MIT sucks

2007-04-27T16:43:00.000-07:00

I usually try to avoid getting angry at stuff, but the fact that the dean of admissions at MIT lied to get her job (she pretended to have a college degree), and then goes on to finalize the rejection of my application which I worked on for weeks kind of makes me feel strange. Oh well. Now I can finally question the legitimacy of the large envelopes some people who I know received

somebody CAN stop the worm

2007-04-18T11:54:00.000-07:00

Worm 2: Revenge of Stick Man

another one

2007-04-18T11:32:00.000-07:00

don't make no sense

College

2007-03-30T15:32:00.000-07:00

Here is my final list of colleges:

University of Chicago - Accepted, not sure of scholarships
UC Davis - Accepted, Regents scholarship
MIT - Rejected
Caltech - Rejected
UC San Diego - Accepted, Regents scholarship
Harvey Mudd College - Accepted, Harvey S. Mudd Scholarship
Haverford College - Accepted
UCLA - Accepted, Regents Scholarship
UC Berkeley - Accepted
Stanford - accepted

Tiny people doing stupid things part one

2007-02-16T11:39:00.000-08:00

No comment

Crime Film

2007-02-09T20:47:00.000-08:00

The perfect crime. Boy, these animations have taken over my life - 2 in the same day.

Bisecting a plane

2007-02-09T11:44:00.000-08:00

I've made 3 of these animations over the last 4 days. It's so boring in school these days.

Da werm

2007-02-08T15:33:00.000-08:00

It's unstoppable!!!! OMG !1! Click to animate.

I missed a deadline, this happened

2007-02-06T12:45:00.000-08:00

My most epic animation to date (click to animate if not already so)

Accepted!

2007-01-16T16:47:00.000-08:00

It cost that guy some cash, though. This pic only had one part edited, the first part of the sentence, for obvious reasons.
This is not intended as an attack on any institution and is certainly not true

done with college applications

2007-01-15T21:59:00.000-08:00

The never-ending cycle of applications (pictured below, click to animate if not already animated) has finally ended at approximately 10:00 PM, January 15, 2007

I got in

2006-12-18T23:00:00.000-08:00

I got in to some random Chicago University. They spy on their students.

gif 2

2006-12-18T11:35:00.000-08:00

Another piece of animated googdness (Click to animate if it is not moving)

gif

2006-12-15T11:38:00.000-08:00

I made this (click to animate)

Another random music post

2006-11-12T23:28:00.000-08:00

About a week ago, I was listening to Drone Zone (from SomaFM) on my PPC and heard an interesting song. I was half asleep at the time and didn't remember what it was.
Just now, I turned on Drone Zone, and voila! I remembered how it sounded enough to realize it was the same song - "Stone in focus" by Aphex Twin! I'm now sure that I can remember any sound - just not any word - I can NEVER remember the word "Surrogate".

11/19: It's only on the LP for SAW II. So much for that.

the failure

2006-09-05T19:46:00.000-07:00

I totally failed at this thing. I almost got through the easy problem, but didn't realize you had to do both in the allotted hour. I probably can attribute this failure to my computer science teacher (although I self-taught myself everything...)

writely rules

2006-08-22T21:37:00.000-07:00

Writely is just the tool I have been looking for. Instead of downloading a paper during a class, changing it up, and emailing it back to myself, only to repeat the same process during the next class, now I can edit online and instantly save thanks to WEB 2.0 (and AJAX). Basically you can edit stuff online and save it, kind of like other free web hosts, except it is designed for editing documents. Only problems: Only spell-checks in english, and formatting options are a bit sparse.

Obligatory monthly post

2006-08-14T16:40:00.000-07:00

After visiting 4 ivy league schools (well, 3 ivies and 1 MIT) I can safely say that I've had enough jokes about AP classes and Antarctica to last me the next year. I think every year the admissions people at every college come together to make more stupid jokes.

context:
The weather was really bad (warm, humid) everywhere, so every info session made mention of their foreign study program that "goes to every continent except Antarctica, which doesn't seem like such a bad idea after last week's weather". Another humorless comment was that you should take AP classes instead of regular ones and get A's anyway. Sorry, Harvard, I'm still not subjecting myself to AP lit.

Berkeley Math PhD

2006-07-12T16:40:00.000-07:00

It's kind of surprising that you have to know Russian, French, or German (two of them) in order to get a math PhD at UCB

Please

2006-07-05T18:28:00.000-07:00

Dear Associated Press
Please fire Darlene Superville.
Have a nice day
Ben Olson

Just doing my part

2006-06-14T23:37:00.000-07:00

2006-05-31T07:47:00.000-07:00

Math IIC: 800
US History: 730
French: 680

Overall, better than I expected (especially French, that test made me feel like in 4 years of french, I had learned next to nothing)

maplestupid

2006-05-14T18:31:00.000-07:00

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2006-05-10T19:36:00.000-07:00

Google trends is like Google's way of telling Googlefight to GTFO

The human brain is useless

2006-04-20T23:06:00.000-07:00

In like november last year I hear this song (Nils - Pacific Coast Highway, guitar jazz) and don't catch its title - it was pretty good. Then just out of nowhere Amazon puts the CD on my "front page" and I sample the first song on the disk - guess what it is? After 6 months, I still remembered the tune and recognized it immediately. Meanwhile, I can't remember anything about chemistry that I did one month ago. What a strange world

More PB

2006-04-17T12:31:00.000-07:00

Kevin went to "pbfashion.com" so I created "pbfascism.com"

Help Kevin

2006-04-05T12:01:00.000-07:00

This post is for my dawg Kevin. His Paint-Ball team needs back players (not necessarily black, as the caption would suggest). And he also needs new smart ions and boom sticks. So donate to him. His address is 1864 St. Paul Ave., Orinda, CA. Email: aznpballer@yahoo.com

College

2006-04-02T22:25:00.000-07:00

I'm pretty confident about college now. A lot of people got into Berkeley at my school (I mean, some people who I'd expect to, but some that I'd be skeptical of). No one really got into Harvard, Yale, etc., but I still may have a chance at Stanford (heh, affirmative action). The great thing about that - it will be free (my family is hella poor). Aw yeah.

Flash Animation

2006-03-25T22:29:00.000-08:00

My brother's animation

OK, now it's personal

2006-03-22T21:54:00.000-08:00

The UN sucks. (thanks LGF)

TYPED??

2006-03-17T16:08:00.000-08:00

We had a french quiz on impressionists today and it was TYPED. ON A COMPUTER. My french teacher never has typed anything before except for the "Welcome to french _" we get every year. It's a technological miracle.

Apollo - Atmospheres and Soundtracks

2006-03-07T00:19:00.000-08:00

I got this CD from Borders on 3/5. At first, it seemed a little dry, but like pretty much every ambient album, it really grows. The first half (side 1 on the original vinyl) is traditional ambient (think Steve Roach) and the second half incorporates Daniel Lanois' steel guitar. The second half (except for track 12) sounds more rock (Sigur Ros, maybe) than ambient, which is actually kind of a nice contrast with the spacey atmospheres on the first half. Overall, highly recommended.

Iran

2006-03-06T12:04:00.000-08:00

umm, ok

lol, AAA

2006-02-17T18:54:00.000-08:00

The African version of the KKK
(just kidding)

Another boring day at journalism

2006-02-16T11:43:00.000-08:00

I really should be working on my homework...

Boycott the College Board

2006-02-15T20:15:00.000-08:00

It's time. It's been long enough since the jerks at the "college board" have complete control over college entry. They charge $41.50 for a freaking SAT reasoning test, and over $80 for an AP test! How much does a scantron and a 16-page mass-produces SAT or AP booklet cost? Why do they still sell racial performance statistics to any organization that wants them even though they are making a killing (almost literally) off of tests? This is why you always see black people on SAT review books. Because Kaplan and The Princeton Review are seeing African American and/or Hispanic students doing worse than Asian students they have to find a way to sell their stupid review books to those who aren't already buying them. So in essence, the College Board is racist, a monopoly, and everything else everyone hates about huge corporations.

Wow - 1300 sinks!

2006-02-03T07:12:00.000-08:00

OMG

2006-01-30T23:07:00.000-08:00

DID YOU KNOW ELMO WAS A BROTHER?!?!?!eleven!!!onehundredeleven!1!!11!

Google can't spel

2006-01-22T22:44:00.000-08:00

LOL

LOFL

2006-01-22T14:39:00.000-08:00

I think internet slang is becoming more and more rude/swear-'y', so I still can't tell why LOFL is not in common use. I mean, if OMG, or SU can adopt another F, why not LOL? In fact, the F is so ubiquitous (I hate that word, it's like Asia's favorite word), we could in theory have something along the lines of ROFFFLMFAO without any real changing of the meaning. Or BRFB. And British Internet slang would have a B for 'Bloody', like LOBL or ROBFBLMBAO, although STBU wouldn't work (unless shut the blood up is actually a real term).

sbnlskdb:mlskfb.

Pack it

2006-01-12T20:51:00.000-08:00

Going away FTW! (4DWE)

We have found the perp

2006-01-01T00:55:00.000-08:00

While their site does not acknoledge their amazing feat "Hard Drive is the New Bling" featuring lyrics such as "In the nation of Bling/I'm the first lady" and created using the "DJ" mode of the Yamaha PSR-280 (which costs around $150 and I happen to own), they admit making "Get Perpendicular", an equally amazing amazement of educational fun. The site:T_^

Happy Nu Yr!

2006-01-01T00:05:00.000-08:00

$5 to whoever can identify this guy in the comments.

I found the secret Vatican archives!

2005-12-30T23:33:00.000-08:00

We found the leaker

2005-12-30T23:14:00.000-08:00

"My daddy's famous, my mommy's a secret spy," declared the 5-year-old of his parents, former diplomat Joe Wilson and retired CIA operative Valerie Plame.

Maybe it WASN'T Rove

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2005-12-29T20:35:00.000-08:00

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Hmmmm...

2005-12-26T22:27:00.000-08:00

I didn't know it was illegal to use Adobe® Photoshop® as a verb

T'Island

2005-12-24T20:24:00.000-08:00

Google Hates on Yahoo! Hates Bush

2005-12-21T19:15:00.001-08:00

Yahoo! hates on Bush.

2005-12-21T19:14:00.000-08:00

Yahoo Avatars Begins

2005-12-21T19:12:00.000-08:00

Yahoo! avatars are no longer racist

2005-12-21T18:47:00.000-08:00

Yahoo! Avatars are still racist

2005-12-21T18:39:00.000-08:00

Yahoo! avatars are racist

2005-12-21T18:31:00.000-08:00

you BROKE my 4.0

2005-12-12T23:42:00.000-08:00

Do me a favore

Call Peggy Carlock
Tell her to go to the main office
And change my grade to an "A"
I'm soo sorry <3

Math is pwned

2005-12-07T08:16:00.000-08:00

ROFLMSO

2005-12-06T22:49:00.000-08:00

Rolling on the floor laughing my something off:T_T
Here is the funniest one so far: Michael Moore is an anime character
Shut up, emo!

Big Brother is Watching You at AHS

2005-11-22T09:01:00.000-08:00

I sure hope that our school technology administrator is watching me type this. That would be funny

Mitanic

2005-11-21T00:34:00.000-08:00

Mitanic - 1. adj. Having ridiculous standards
2. n. Alternate spelling of Maidenak, a Nazi extermination camp.

Aren't teachers names great indicators of their behavior?

The Great Escape

2005-11-15T20:29:00.000-08:00

It was the 8:00est of all 8:00. We move bed. For grejustatice.
Open your MIND!
And your WALLET!
And a new credit card acount which will end up costing you ... your MOM!

Good times

2005-11-08T21:09:00.000-08:00

I finally recovered from depression again and got some good test grades (math - 95%, french - 100% [unheard of], chemistry - 99.3%) after some uncertainty over my performance. I probably have straight A's again. Lovely. Whenever my grades start slipping I'll drop out and get rich somehow and everyone will envy me because I am rich and they spent all their time trying to get a 4.8 gpa. hahaha.

What's worse than school?

2005-10-21T07:20:00.000-07:00

The holocaust
:rimshot:

$#(%ing spam posters:

2005-10-02T22:02:00.000-07:00

Whoever wrote this stuff:
Alot of interesting comments on this blog, I was searching for some doctor related info and some how cam across this site. I found it pretty cool, so I bookmarked. I'll really liked the second post on the front page, that got my attention.

My site is in a bit different area, but just as useful. I have a penile extenders related site focusing on penile extenders and mens health related topics.

Learn more about blogs by looking at one up-close-and-personal
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Hey, you have an excellent blog here! Great job. I have a billiard pool table site. It pretty much covers billiard pool table related stuff.
Come and check it out when you get time :-)

The IWJ Interviews Author Richard Cox
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Yesterday I decided to read some blogs and found yours. Nice blog. I am trying to get ideas on the direction I should go and what it should look like
I have a wedding music site/blog. It pretty much covers wedding music and related stuff. Come and check it out if you get time

For those who don't comprehend Korean
RSS OhmyNews International Talk Back Board Subject : For those who don't comprehend Korean Name : Stevo Date : 2005-10-03 00:09 View : 5 : 0 : 0 and yet have enormous interest in Korean politics.
Yo, brother, cool blog, I like what you write about ! Keep it up dude!
In the meantime check out this site, it deals with horse race handicapping stuff---horse race handicapping
Cheers.

Ok guys, I'm not going to think a comment with a link in it is valid. So don't link to your google-adwords-riddled fake sites. Second, my penis needs no extension. I really hate that thing on blogger's frontpage that's all like: "Blogs updated at 10:00 pm: " then it names a bunch of blogs morons like these can post on. I want mine hidden from that list, but still on my profile.

I predict I will get some spam comments for this post. That is all.

Haha

2005-10-02T20:02:00.000-07:00

Xbox owners are now officially morons:

I found this on IGN, I didn't find it on some web blooper page.

Fight "the man"

2005-10-02T19:59:00.000-07:00

This is a vision I had in a dream last night:

"Hello?"
"Yeah, do you have any more antiseptic?"
"What the..." ...and I woke up.

Oh crap, I just posted when I was high again.

GarageMongers

2005-10-01T09:54:00.000-07:00

Old Asian people are GarageMongers. Today we are having a garage (ok, technically a moving) sale and we have had several old asian people come and look at our wares. That is all.

iPieceOf#$)(%

2005-09-27T12:48:00.000-07:00

Misnomer

2005-09-12T22:12:00.000-07:00

For my parents' anniversary, we went to a restaurant called "Saigon". If you are a America-hater or a liberal, this name will immediately conjure up the words "Vietnam War" in your mind. If you are a geography freak (like I was for about a month in 7th grade) then the word "Vietnam" will be the first word you think of. If you like vietnamese food, you will have realized every Pho restaurant is named something like "Pho saigon II" or "Neo-saigon Pho House", so Saigon is synonymous with "Vietnamese noodles".
But these idiots decided to call their Chinese restaurant "Saigon". wtf?

Bored again

2005-09-01T08:43:00.000-07:00

Look at me! I'm writing this at school!
I'm Special

Creep

2005-08-31T07:14:00.000-07:00

This guy is a creep, and no, he is not CB

Who would use Yahoo! Personals if creepy guys like that hang around?
Well, I'm off to school for the first day. I'm now in 11th grade. I worked harder the last night of summer than any other night last year. That really is quite ironic.

Spam is fun

2005-08-30T21:07:00.000-07:00

Writing spam is fun, especially those chain letters who have absolutely no purpose. Here is one I wrote: (so if you get it in your inbox, do not think it is real).

>>Date: 4/6/2005 5:26 am EST
>>Originally from: howmuchoismucho@yahoo.com
>Forwarded to: realrich07@yahoo.com, simple_n_crazy@hotmail.com, countcolon@daum.net, howdyoyster@gmail.com, nuclearmeltdown25@yahoo.com,
>>RE: blatentk@mail.com, tofartoreach@sbcglobal.net, freeman24@netzero.net, helpmenot@brown.net, dolphinphile@yahoo.com
>From: ardemann@schubertnet.de
>>>
>>Hello, I am poor student from Hungary. I am
>>>eat nothing for dinner but cow bone. I also
>have ugliest face in all of central Europe. I
>>have also ten tumor in my eye from seeing
>to much pr0n. I need a money to support. If
>> we get record for most chain mailed item
>then we get moneys for my plastic surgery,
>> and a new monkey.
> If you do not resend message in 5 minutes,
>>to 5 people, you have bad luck and warts for
> many year.
>>>
>>
>>Thank very much to you
>> Oscar Twijimia

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Pure Stupidity

2005-08-30T18:05:00.000-07:00

This is the most stupid thing I've seen in quite awhile:
Don't Click Me

Real GOW Reading Log #15

2005-08-29T23:32:00.000-07:00

Sorry about that bogus carp I just wrote in my last post. I must have been drunk or high or something. Here is the real one:

“‘… or maybe one fella with a million acres, while a hundred thousan’ good farmers is starvin’. An’ I been wonderin’ if all our folks got together an’ yelled, like them fellas yelled, only a few of ‘em at the Hooper ranch–’” (419). Tom is renamed Ethan to the joy of the oblivious townsfolk. Little do they know that he met with Arkum Nibleson the night before to discuss wild bee-sauce. The 15th parallel was to be undisturbed, but home got since word of it, and has been making quite a ka-doozy over the simple fact that kwuferbly is not a mansion. Nor did Partum Willisicitier-Fortnam-Window notice that Ethane is 5 carbons in a hydrocarbon with a simple reattachment mechanism, that when blue, will catch anything afire and give it imbued power of Times New Roman of the Breaking News.

The Grapes of Wrath - Reading log #15

2005-08-29T23:27:00.000-07:00

“‘… or maybe one fella with a million acres, while a hundred thousan’ good farmers is starvin’. An’ I been wonderin’ if all our folks got together an’ yelled, like them fellas yelled, only a few of ‘em at the Hooper ranch–’” (419). Tom has finally smoked the weed and smelled the crack. He used to be a good person with gangster sensibilities, but now he has gone the cat down and shaved the forest. The ideals of PJ Hook’um’up X were better used on the balm watchers, as they were not the ones eating the fatty Vunderbread. But now Jackson Firfur, having broken in from Tax and Rest, chapter 235, has gone the whole 46 inches to the new world of deep-fried consulting over the top right to the second strand over, underwise, to the spinning depths of the halucinatoration-charitorialicix. The final words in this book claim to John Super were all, in-fact, hot dog machines, but his faith for the cat-man race holds strong – stronger than the magnetic nucleolusis of the honored Bleukim-radical Sp3 hybridized.

Freakin' Biased school forms:

2005-08-24T22:18:00.000-07:00

Well, I was just going through my new school year forms, and found these two things (click for larger view).

Well, apparently AUSD has taken the initiative to warn parents that "Non-consent" is the way to go. Let's all protest Bush's illegal and immoral Military Recruiter Mailing List scheme by not letting them have our info! Just to clarify thatt, they underline AND bold "not" and the word "will". Note that in the first paragraph, they say they are "required to provide the names, addresses and telephone numbers of high school students to military recruiters." whereas later they say "... be provided to the military recruiters at their request" (these words are not bolded in the form). So they trick you into thinking that you will be recruited, but in fact only if the military wants to recruit you they will. They also seem to have a strange desire to bold and underline "do not want this information released".
Why is this so important? Because schools can be judged on what students do after graduating. "Military" looks bad to parents who want to come to Albany, so they will go somewhere else and poor Albany schools will not receive their federal funding for a few more students.

Then, on another form of non-consent, instead of "NON-CONSENT FORM" in large letters, we get "Release of Personal Information". There is no emphasis on anything, but some words that stand out are "Non-profit" and "Support Albany schools". Oh, the military is also a non-profit organization (they cost billions to fund), but we'll leave that out because we think they are fighting for oil and it will lose us some precious money. Even though this school district obviously just wants my money, it's all good because the money comes in through the endless solicitations of "non-profit" organisations.

So, in short, the message I read from these forms: DON'T JOIN THE MILITARY! (and we want/give us money). Isn't that all schools think about? All the freakin' commies at my school only care about money. Cold, hard cash. Pathetic. Albany, CA has supposedly some of the finest schools in the area, but they still have their own odious interests and political motives fueling their surreptitious animosity for the military portrayed in these forms. DON'T GO TO ALBANY SCHOOLS (unless you have to).

Summer HW update:

2005-08-24T13:11:00.000-07:00

Finished Math. That and chemistry and computer science. All that remains is english. w00t.
EDIT: It's 11:00 on August 30. I have 8 hours to finish another 300 page book and write another 3 page paper. Can it be done?

No Apology

2005-08-09T21:36:00.000-07:00

There once was a man who stood for his ideals. He was hated by everyone, but he continued to fight for his right to get on the front of the bus. His name was Martin Luther King. He posted his 95 theses on racism on the white house and John Kennedy, who probably got himself assassinated to boost his failing public image, got shot the next day. Earlier, Hitler rose to power in Germany, where Martin Luther was from and burned down the Reichstag. About 40 years later Mr. King got shot. I don't aprticularly want to be shot, but I do want to be famous like MLK. Therefore, I do not apologize to any neo-Nazis or neo-Baathists for claiming Hitler and Saddam Hussein, respectively are "evil". Except for the fact that you stupid neo-Baathists keep on claiming Bush is Hitler, meaning I shouldn't apologize about Hitler, but then neo-Nazis will kill me on account of calling Hitler evil. Or we could have a big Neo-Evil Fight and they could kill all of each other!

FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!

How to make electronic music:

2005-08-09T21:16:00.000-07:00

I think it's high time everyone started making electronic music. You can stop pretending to be good at guitar or piano and tell your friends who are in fact good at those respective instruments that they will someday die and it won't matter how fast they can play "Flight of the Bumblebee" backwards blindfolded in a brash and/or insipid fashion. If you die after making electronic music, it won't matter either, but at least nobody will tell you that brashly.

Anyway, first grab this then sample a beat from a rap song. Loop that about 100 times, then get a sample of someone's tb3003 going 'dododododedododododedodododedododode" and loop that too. Then for fun, get an old electric piano, set it to "Saw Lead" and play a simple tune and record it. Then if you want, get some samples from evil people like Hitler or Saddam Hussein and play them backwards really loud to the beat, and then people will be all like that's cool, but then some inquisitive guy will play it backwards for no reason and think you are a Nazi or Baathist. Wait, scratch Hussein, being a fake Baathist sounds lame. Oh, and why would anyone want anyone to think they (the former party) were Nazi? Whatever.

Extreme boredom + red balloon + sharpie = ?

2005-08-03T22:34:00.000-07:00

WELL, today I was really bored and my creepy brother was playing Maple Story or Poplar Tale or Fir Odyssey or whatever they call it, but I was totally bored so I saw a red balloon we had for my other not-creepy brother's birthday so I was all like 'hmmm' then I had a light-bulb moment and I thought about my favorite-looking CD which can be found here (nevermind the cruddy looking balloon on buy.com's page, it is printed clearly on the actual packaging) and here is my scan of the packaging:

and I was like: "a-holy crap! that looks like my red balloon! I can't spell ballon half the time! A-where is my holy sharpie©?" so then I like got it and wrote "Lemon Jelly" on it or more like
Lemon
JeLly
or whatever and this is a )(#%ing run-on. Then, I tried to take pictures by throwing up in the air, the balon that is. But failure abounds!
Exhibit 1:

Exhibit 2:

Yeah, I couldn't time the bugger right. It was too high or too low. Then creepy brother gets off of Oak Book and says "I will Throw It, Sargeant Colon!" (minus the Sargeant Colon, of course). But he fails to(o) throw The Balon To(o).

Then I am like, whatever and I put it on a sheepskin. Right now, CB gets off of Elm Novel to tell me he said that. Whatever, CB. Anyhoo:

After a bit of photoshopping:

and then....

TAD-A!

Compare with original:

. BOREDOM RULES!

Yeah, a full length post!

Check it out

2005-08-03T22:21:00.000-07:00

Check out these Weird Al videos - especially "Jurassic Park" and "Headline News"
Don't watch "Fat" if you are easily offended (or are fat). You gotta use IE, though. That's the catch (and there are some ads and crap, but ... whatever)

2005-08-02T22:57:00.000-07:00

GUNDAMS are stupid

Why does everyone hate Xanga?

2005-08-01T13:24:00.000-07:00

I have no idea why everyone hates Xanga except for the fact that it is used a lot. So, therefore:
Popular stuff is hated
Using the same law, we can deduct that:
Everyone hates Xanga, so it is popular
Brilliant

another stupid joke

2005-07-29T19:37:00.000-07:00

In soviet russia, joke laughs at you!

Stupid Usernames - Part 1

2005-07-21T10:07:00.000-07:00

Me and my creepy brother came up with these creepy usernames for online use:

EdgarAllenPoop

LordOfTheThings

FartMeister

Poop21

BoogerMan3001

LeonardoDaPoopi

SergeantRectum

CountHemorrhoid

CaptainColon

KingUrine

That's about all...

Template Changes

2005-07-20T18:41:00.000-07:00

Well, I just changed the template of the blog so now it doesn't look like ... a template as much.
Yay.

POST

2005-07-20T17:12:00.000-07:00

Hi, I just did this because I'm bored. Lets' see what happens