Monday, May 22, 2006

WHEE!

I messed with my background for my PC again. Now it has a disppearing control center! :O OMG now it can go away! All I have to do is either click the space where the control center should be to make it appear, or the label in it to make it leave. All courtesy of the "visibility: hidden;" property in CSS and the "z-index: NUMBER;" property as well. (two divs activate and hide)

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Who has heard the theOtaku PodCast? I listened to it just a while ago. I was thinking that it was going to be, like totally serious and all that, but instead it was HILARIOUS! The hosts were so weird and entertaining that it was almost distracting. But I say almost... I know almost everything that one could do to distract, and very few of those things existed in it. Those that did include: 1)Distracting Voices, 2)Off topic things!, 3)WEIRD PEOPLE!!!.

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Well, now I'm bored, and perhaps I should work on doing something productive and/or useful...

Seeya!

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EDIT:
I had a quiz-a-thon tonight. Take a wild guess at what the tag I searched on Quizilla was. Whatever. I had fun with it. I managed to burn hours doing it, so it's all good. However, why is wasting the little bit of time I am awake taking quizzes considered good? I guess it's "good" because I'm not getting into stuff I shouldn't be, be it fire to old documents or food in the fridge that I'm not supposed to notice (There's no hiding food from me in this house! I'll find it! And sometimes, eat it too! xD)

So I shall now go shower myself with soap and water and be off to bed. It's almost 4, and waking up before 10:00 is considered good. I only really need 5 or so hours of sleep, 'cause that's all I ever got during school.

Whatever, Another one of there.

Seeya! (again!)

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EDIT (AGAIN): I forgot why I edited this post... heheheheh...

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Saturday, May 20, 2006

Add to the list...

Now there's a complete list of things I want but can't afford. New additons: Adobe CreativeSuite 2, Adobe/Macromedia Studio 8; OR Photoshop CS2, Flash.

I even made a nifty Excel spreadsheet that calculates the price of the item based on quantity and unit price and shipping charges. How cool is that? I know, not very.

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I now have a discussions board on my "MAIN" machine. It is a simple sort of message board thing. It's more like a bulletin board, but it's a little more advanced. Now I just need to start writing those things by myself instead of copying it from the disk that came with the book. I mean, I know PHP rather well, and I don't claim to know everything, but I just am not well aquainted with PHP 5, which I installed on the "MAIN" machine.

I may be having a variable dual, with quad capability, monitor setup soon. I say variable because the one monitor is still needed for the "MAIN" machine. But the graphics card I just saw has three outputs, and each can be used independently of the others. So I can have a TV, and three monitors hooked up (if either one has a DVI hookup or I can get an adapter, if they exist), and have seperate stuff on each. The most I could have at the moment anyways is two, because the IBM's monitor is dying out because of age. But it will be cool being able to watch DVD's on one monitor and still be able to use MSN messenger in the other. And the good part is, I can actually afford the graphics chip! Wait a minute... those are AGP chips! NOOOO! I nned a PCI-E board! ACK! They're all in the $70-100 range... that stinks.

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It seems all I ever post about is computers... that proves a couple of things:
A) I have no life
B) I know way too much about computers

Who agrees? Better yet, who disagrees?

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Well, I should hurry up looking at those graphics chips so I can seal up the side of my machine again!

Seeya!

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Thursday, May 18, 2006

Losers: Priceless

Here's some hilarious idiocity from some IRC logs someone posted on the internet. They're better in context, but I can't list it all here for length issues. They were located on a forum I'm a member of.

I think I broke him.
Looks like.
you dont
I don't what?
//Insert someodd hundred lines here
That or your mind was so open your brain fell out.

Such idiots there are in the world!

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I don't exactly know what I want to post here now... I covered the excitement of the day, save that it was the last day of school. I don't know what to do with myself for the next five hours of time I have! :O Perhaps games? XD

P.S. I posted some more poetry on "teh hidden site".

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006

I Just Realized...

I'm in a dead end job! In three years, I'm going to get fired from school, and they'll give me a piece of paper they call a "diploma" as my unemployment benefit. Wow. How short I'll be working for them before they fire me! :O How could they?!?

Sorry, brain on "weirder" setting tonight, so a commercial can trigger some odd things... Also on paranoid!

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Well, anyone who visited before 8:30-ish tonight had the chance to see the secret. After that time, I chickened/freaked out and went and edited it out. So :P to anyone who doesn't know but wants to.

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I haven't been doing much better with drawing. Last night, I drew something of an odd kitty, the ladder on my bunk bed (badly) and I can't remember. And to help me get over "white canvas syndrome," I write "PRACTICE" in big, red letters in the margins of the paper with a sharpie. I seriously need to look at like the books aimed at the 5-year-old kids that want to draw, because my artistic competence is something around there. I guess my issue is I try to hard for what I can do. Hopefully I'm learning something from this one essay I've been reading before each practice session... It's titled "You Can Draw" and it compares learning to draw as going to Idaho... Quite an odd comparison, but it's cool. As soon as I retype it, I'm going to put it on my site where the drawings are going to be put up when they get gooder... I already have permission from the author, so It's all cool with her.

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Well, again, like last night, I must shower/draw/bed, in that order, so I avoid trouble.

Seeya!

P.S. How could I forget this?

ONE MORE DAY OF SCHOOL!

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Tuesday, May 16, 2006

This Post...

... is the post I fear the most. It is the exposure of my largest secret in the place I wanted to expose such least. Delaying it more than I already have is just delaying the inevitable. However, avoiding it is a lot easier for now than confronting it. So I will leave it for last. That way, if I regret it, I can edit it out more easily.

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The spanish final was rather easy. But I thought the game was called 20 questions, not 120 questions! The test was just LONG! I think I either did very well, or got a perfect score (doubtful).

We watched two days of Forrest Gump in history now. I don't think we have a final in it, else we would have done them already.

My rocket project for science isn't done, and we have to launch tomorrow! EEK! Maybe we can finish it while we're waiting to be called for launch. We barely have a life for the egg that's gotta land uncracked for full points.

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Now it's time for the delayed inevitable: I am a therianthrope. Now, more than likely, no one knows that word, and the simplest thing I can say that makes any sense at all is "modern real werewolf." In other words, it's all in the head/heart, not in the physical existence. My body is permanently locked in a human state of appearance, whereas my mind wanders among a wolf and human set of thought.

FAR LATE EDIT: Don't take everything I say with this as truth. I will be truthful in saying that I may subconsciously lie trying to protect myself.m

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Now I have alienated myself enough to write this in a note to my girlfriend, (at least she is for now... I have no clue how long we're going to stay together.) since she wrote me a note asking why I was acting "different" today.

Now I need to shower/draw/bed so I don't get in trouble.

seeya!

P.S. Those who think they'll like me more for this secret, I have a word of advice for you: don't. If you specifically like me because I am a therian, then I'll specifically dislike you for liking me for a reason beyond my control.
P.P.S. I'm a sad excuse for an "artist" of any sort.... :(
P.P.P.S. I chickened out and edited it after someone already saw it. :(

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Monday, May 15, 2006

Not much...

...to say about nothing!

Unless you count "los examines finales" (Finals) as nothing. =P

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Yes, finals have crawled upon me. Specifically Spanish and sooner rather than later, history and math. Then I have to get this dorky "Check-out" form signed by the librarian, all my teachers, head cook, dean (for a parking pass I don't have), and anyone who checks my locker. and most teachers won't sign it until the last day, which is also creeping up in the near future. Ugh.

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Well, I feel compulsed to do some DDR... I shall act like I can dance!

Seeya!

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Sunday, May 14, 2006

I know something...

I know something that I want even more than a new digital camera: A WACOM Cintiq!!! It's a monitor with a graphics tablet IN it! IT IS SOO AWESOME! It's probably the closest to drawing on paper i've ever seen for a computer... But it's expensive, as I would assume. It costs ~$2000 for the 21" model, but if I had it, I would be actually using it, unlike the $50 graphics tablet I have now, which is not as nice as the other Intuos3 tablet I was looking at... Mine is meant for photo-editing, not creating, which is what I try to use it for.

However, I'm gonna stick to paper and pencil until I get as good as I want to be, which will be a long time... I'm very bad at drawing things that I see in my head, 'cause I imagine things in full color and, well, 'high definiton,' if you will. It's difficult for me to smooth out the extraneous details until later, and I'm frequently known to draw the details before the entire outline is complete, which would probably be a mistake on my part. But I AM(!) going to work on my artistry, be it semi-constantly during the day, once a day for an hour, or whatever it may be. I'm also going to be trying to find any free internet resources that would help me with what I should actually be drawing before the actual "first line" is layed. I tend to completely ignore the predrawing steps, like prewriting. I see it as extra work, but if it makes it actually possible for me to draw correctly, I'll do it. So I'm going to try drawing and possibly submit it, or at least post it, granted it's good enough. ;)

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Well, less than a week of school left, and I AM ANXIOUS! I SOOOOOO want to get out of school. I would call it something else because of all the torture, but I think we all know what it would be now. For those of us who don't: The underworld, and a negative hill. It's been a long year, and I can't wait to say that I've been on here for two years. I can do that July 22nd. I can't wait.

I also haven't mentioned the stats in a while, huh? Here they are!

Username: Matt3402
Hits: 666 :O EVIL!
Popularity #: 1968 of ~45,000
Total Users: 351,997
# Submissions: 6 (Less 2 removed)

How about that? I almost had the year that Apollo 11 went down for my popularity ranking. Since I'm not well aquainted with 1968, what happened then?

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Buh... I moved speakers today. Now my subwoofer sits up on the desk by it's power adaptor, and my rear speakers are "floating" from "paddle-wire," which is really florists' wire. I did that to ballance the sound out a bit better than it was, and because I hated having the cords on the floor. Creative should have made the cords about two feet longer... Then I wouldn't have needed to move them! Now I just need to find a way to keep the center speaker out of the way of the viewing area of the monitor and still in the center! That'll be a task, since the monitor doesn't go up and down, just tilt. (and pan, to an extent) I'll think of something other than suspension...

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Well, I'll get to trying to draw after I stop "drooling" over the WACOM Cintiq thing! XD

Seeya!

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Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Okay...

*collects self*

I don't know if I want to link to it, but my MSN Space thing has some majorly lengthy, somewhat spicily languaged complaints on it, and the exposure of the secret as well. I chose that medium because far less people have my MSN contact list name than have my MyO name here. But I don't know if I want to link over to that site or not. I'm not even sure I wanted to expose that over there, but I'm not going to edit it out twice or more. I just hope that I can eventually bring myself to post it freely to the world and not worry about it. But whatever. If you've read my MSN Space, you now will know what the delta-theta relates to.

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Well, I watched the second InuYasha movie again. While I was watching it, my sister made a comment during it, which led to me rewinding it and take a screenshot of it. Then I submitted it and it should appear in the über cool "Portfolio" link on the left soon.

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Darn! 10:00 so soon! I didn't even get to go to the various forums I'm a member of... I'll contemplate x-posting or linking to my MSN Space. I'll "sleep on it," but I don't think writing what I need to think about on a sheet of paper and laying on it while I sleep will help, but I'll try it. =P

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I better go to avoid issues with timing...

Seeya!

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Monday, May 8, 2006

   !!!!!!!!

I WANT, no I NEED(!!) A digital camera! I've been soooo crazy about not having a real digital camera it's not crazy. I'm aiming for getting a digital SLR as soon as I can. But I haven't found any cheap enough for me to afford! I looked at a few of the SLR's on Walmart.com and they're all in the $500 to $600 range, and most have no lenses... I want to get into photography SOOO bad, but it's soo expensive!!!

Here's the cameras I've been looking at:
Pentax istDL
Nikon D50 SLR

Those two both have lenses and stuff with them. I already have media, but I Really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really badly need a camera with which I can actually take pictures, unlike my current one where it blurs soo easily and it has no optical zoom at all.

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Okay, I'm done complaining about a camera or two. I'm hoping that the zoo is still hiring people, or that I can get one of those things that people call jobs that aren't really jobs at all. I also wish I could make my money on the internet. I can do some cool things if I'm getting money for them :) Then the money form doing internet things and from whatever else I'm doing that gets me money is REALLY going to help out with $663.54 (Plus tax and S&H) to cover the camera I want (The Nikon. I'm a little more trusting of Nikon than Pentax, but both are AWESOME cameras!). I sould like a dork, don't I? I just don't seem to shut up about the camera thing.........

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I drew something called a "delta-theta" today in drafting with AutoCAD. It looks cool before it gets resized, but the resizing is necessary, because the file is too big without resizing to be useful as an avatar on the internet. A priveledged few will get to see it, because it's cool like that. :P

Eventually, though, I plan to be able to just show things like the delta-theta, but I can't seem to type the few words it takes to get the thing across. The explanantion would take years if I ever want anyone to really understand it. I may post it here eventually. But I could regret that too... I just want the secrecy to end and everyone to know, but I don't want to be regarded as more of a freak than I really am, because this secret is among the most out-there things I know about, but it actually exists. Including in my own body / head / brain / mind / wherever it is.

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I must blab about the cameras again!!!!!! THEY ARE AWESOME! The camera would be nice to have if I worked at the zoo, because when (and if) I have a chance to roam around the zoo, I could take professional quality photos and they won't blurr if I try to zoom in or if I'm moving. That'd be AWESOME! Then I could also force myself to take more photos to use the camera so I don't waste the money. I may eventually also buy a huge wide-format printer (Such as the HP DesignJet series) and sell prints of my photos ON THE INTERNET! Whee! e-Commerce and all that good stuff. A chance to prove my web-design skills and my ability to make things appear to be worth money. (one time I sold something that was literally worth a few cents for a dollar!) I don't know what I'm going to do. I want this so badly, but I can't even drive yet! I will soon enough, but I'll still have to find a job to go to when I can drive. (Which would still be with an adult in the passenger seat, since I'm getting my permit.)

I just want the camera SOOOO very badly that I want it more than the iPod I've been planning at for who knows how long. I can do far more as far as making money with a camera and photography skills than I can with an entertainment device.

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Well, I suppose I should stop blabbing about cameras and go to bed so I don't get in trouble for the time.

Seeya!

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Saturday, May 6, 2006

Fun with PSP!

I'm having some fun with Paint Shop Pro tonight. I borrowed my dad's memory card from his camera, and I have since made two "selective color photography" images. One is my niece by the gate in our den, and the other is the puppy sleeping on towels the week we got her. See links here:

Niece
Puppy

Selective coloring is very fun. The second one is better, in my opinion. I may redo the first one to make it look right, but there is it for now.

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I messed with Linux a little today. I installed it and logged in and tried to get Apache server running on it, but it keeps saying I have a line 100 error. Oh well, I'll figure it out later. Then I messed with some of the other things in Windows today. I can Remote Dektop to BOB from MAIN because BOB is actually professional with extras piled on. Very cool.

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Well, I should go to bed... It is 15 'till 3 A.M. ...

Seeya!

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