Fanboys are Lulz

Holy shit, what is this!?! Like four updates in less than two weeks? OMGOMGOMGOMG.

Microeconomics test (possibly) mentioned earlier was head-assploding. But that is not the topic of this entry.

The true meaning of this post is to show everyone who stumbles upon this place F@NB0Y$, quite possibly one of the best webcomics in recent memory (the other is Sinfest, which I’m nowhere near caught up with). I have spent nearly the entire afternoon perusing the comic archive of said site. It’s a relatively new webcomic (April 2006), and only has 261 strips up, but it’s really well done. Too bad the author is currently on “break” (he’s not releasing another entry until sometime in March, from what I gather [damn you, writer’s strike… oh wait, wrong medium. Move along.])

But either way, you should read the comic. GOGOGO. Srsly.

Busy Week

Blarg. Today was a really bad day for me. I woke up, felt like shit, and almost fell asleep in every one of my classes.

If that was the end of it, that would be a regular Monday / Wednesday / Friday for me. As I’m sure you’ve guessed by now, that’s not all. First, I learned that a project in my “Desktop Decisions Support Technology” class (which roughly translates to English as “How to use Microsoft Excel and Access”) that I thought was due next week is actually due on Wednesday. It’s not that bad (actually, it probably only took me about an hour to get to where I am now, which is one step from completing it; however, to complete that step, I have to wait for someone to message me back on Facebook to tell me how to do that, because our instructor is a douchebag who is shit at explaining things), but I wish I had known about that before this morning (I should have, but I never really looked at the syllabus :|).

Secondly, in my Microeconomics class, I learned our next test is on Friday, which I also though wasn’t until much later. This also means that a ton of homework is going to be due on Aplia (an online homework thing). Looking now, there’s five problem sets due. Last time, I had three due, and it took me about 4 hours. >_< I also have the regular homework that I have to do for Accounting this week, as well. In other news, I'm going to be really busy this week. =/

More Change is a Comin’

I suppose it was inevitable, really. Once I got away from all teh overhead that is Drupal, it was only a short time before I came back to the de-facto blog software out on the internets, Word Press. The reason is simple, really. Textpattern (the software I used for maybe a month) was just too… labyrinthine. To write a post, I had to open two pages, and refresh one of them at least once to get it right. Though, this wasn’t the only reason. I found out that Word Press has a nifty Importer from Textpattern, which made the switch rather tempting.

I did have to do some “hacking” to get it to work. First, I had to start out with an older version of Word Press because the default importer is rather borked. So, I found a blog post detailing how to correctly import the old DB. The reason that I had to have an old version (2.1, to be exact), is because the import mechanism changed between 2.1.x and 2.2.x. So, I got the old version, imported the database, and then installed the newest version and updated the schema. Not too hard.

I picked out a theme (I think it’s pretty sweet), and installed a few plugins, and I’m on my way to making posts and stuff on a new “medium.” Hope you guys enjoy the new stuff. Maybe this will give me a reason to actually update every once in a while now. :P

Vice City

So, a little while ago, I got un-lazy and made it where that my iTunes would hold all of the music I have on my hard drive, and still automatically update my iPod with the music I want (through some Playlist Magick and other stuff).

Now, after doing so, I’ve been listening to the music I recently re-added, and I have to say, the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City soundtrack is quite possibly the best soundtrack ever compiled for a Video Game (that’s saying music licensed from mainstream artists, not original works).

Agree? No? Why?

Brand New Software

If you were trying to access the site roughly 20 minutes prior to this post, you most certainly would have noticed that the site was down for upgrades on the software.

However, this time, it’s not an upgrade on the software, but instead, a complete changeover to a new one. Previously, I was using Drupal, which is certainly a fine software product. The problem that I found with Drupal, however was that for the purpose I was using it for (a personal blog), it was both too encumbering and had too few features specific to a blog (I had to install about 10 modules to the base Drupal install to get it how I wanted it, and how it appeared before I took it down.)

The new software I am using is Textpattern. It’s amazingly light, and I love how it handles styles and presentation. So far, it’s been amazing just setting it up, so I’m ready to do some nitty-gritty writing with this bad puppy. :p

There are a few problems presented with the new software though. If you have any bookmarks from here, they will no longer work. The SEO scheme is different than it was on Drupal. The articles still exist, but the links won’t. You’ll just have to search some. :P Secondly, I didn’t import any of the comments. To do so would have taken a lot of my time, and honestly, most of the comments we’re absolutely critical to enjoy the blog. I did save the comments from the “Epic Band Lulz” post, however, as it had a lot of user input on what Bands / Albums they made. You can find the link in that post.

Other than that, not much’ll change around here. It’ll still look basically the same as before (except for new styles, obviously) and I’ll still make posts, and you guys can still comment. The only difference is the backend, which should hopefully make things a lot easier on me.

Epic Band Lulz

I saw this on a random forum, and thought it was pretty neat, so, I wanted to see how it goes here.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.

2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.

3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4. Use your graphics program of choice to throw them together, and post the result as a comment in this post. If desired, you may “mess with” the image itself.

5. http://www.livejournal.com/random.bml
Use the subtitle of the journal you go to. This will be your #1 hit single from the album. In order to view the subtitle you have to click on the “info” link, and the subtitle will be the italicized text under the title (bold text), which is under the user name. If the subtitle is in a different language and you don’t care to use it, or if its not there, you just click the link again and you’ll find one eventually.

Mine:

Band: Complete Adventurer
Album: Make This Society Work
#1 Single: “Something will Eventually Give”

EDIT: Because of the new blog engine (and my laziness), all of the comments were deleted from all of the posts. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, as most of them were spam, and the actual content ones were few and far between, unfortunately. However, this post originally did have quite a few comments, so they were archived (in plain text format) for you here.

Why…

… Am I still up right now? I honestly have no idea, but I’m not really all that tired, to be fair. (It’s nigh on 4 AM, as I write this). But I’ve discovered something: I seem to write best when I’m in a half-unconscious mindset. For sure, it might not be very coherent (this article may be gone in the morning when I’m actually awake and can see what blather I’ve posted on t3h blog), but it’s pretty well… worded?

Like earlier on IRC, I used “pantomimed” and “liquor” in the same sentence without thinking about it. I honestly don’t know of very many people who would regularly use “pantomime” (or any variations thereof) or even “liquor” (with a fakking “Q” in it) around here. Much less in the same sentence. But here I am, just conversing in a normal IRC conversation, and “SHAPOW!!” There they are, for all the world to see. I must say, I was rather impressed with my diction tonight.

Even though I am only halfway of conscious mind right now, I do realize that this article is already a bit ramble-y, so I will try to appease you all with something… less so. Tonight, I discovered something about relationships. It’s not something I can readily say at present, but let’s just say if I’m right, things will be interesting. So, yeah, that’s not any less ramble-y, and even more obscure. Good game, me.

A New Year

So, as I look at my clock, I’m officially 18 minutes into THE FUTURE, also known as 2008.

The new year seems to become “less cool” with every passing year. I barely even remember it was the new year until someone in IRC said, “Happy New Year Chicago” (And I only realized it then because everything related to computers uses Chicago as the marker for the Central Time Zone). I guess it doesn’t really help when your “celebration” for the new year’s is sitting at home playing Oblivion because all your friends are off somewhere with their family doing stuff or they’re… who knows what. Either way, I wasn’t invited, so I just get to sit here at home, doing nothing.

Bleh. Doesn’t seem like a very good start to the New Year.

Another Semester Down

So, finals were last week, which means I’ve completed yet another semester of UCA without dropping out. :P

To celebrate the end of the semester, my roommate and I went and bought Rock Band. We then had a massive Rock band marathon. We bought the game at about 4:30 PM, and continued to play until about six in the morning the next day, with only one break in between for Taco Bell. Basically, it was epic win. Über epic win.

Other than that, I haven’t really been doing much since then. Sleep (lots of it) and going to watch I Am Legend with some of my friends (it’s weird. I may or may not write up a review in the future). That’s basically it.

And in case you were wondering what grades I got, I got 4 A’s and one B (damn you, American Government and Politics!!!).