It’s 9:15AM, and I have Eleanor Rigby stuck in my head, and it’s the only thing keeping me going.
I got 1 (one) hour of sleep last night. One as in singular, solitary, alone. It burns my eyes to keep them this wide. The fruits of my insomnia are a mere project. I wish more had come of it. I’ve spent my time unwisely. Scripting, cleaning, coding, so tired.
Nonsense I will write if nothing else comes to mind. I am tickled with this and intend to abuse it in the future. Who knows what for. I got the Beatles discography, and have been enjoying it. I really think I would have loved to live in that time era. I know I’m a bit of a technology whore, but I would have enjoyed it nonetheless.
I wish I had some extra cash for all the crap that keeps cropping up. Meh.
…I don’t know why I opened this window. I’d best stop this before I go off the deep end.
Tricia arrived safe and sound Saturday evening when her flight landed a few minutes earlier than scheduled. I picked her up from the airport as soon as she landed, and we went to Taco Mac for burgers and beers and slept soundly that night.
Giving a slight synopsis here, the weekend was pretty pleasant, what with visiting Augusta for my grandmother’s birthday, but there was a slight hiccup with my car that delayed our return Monday and cost quite a few bills to fix. =/ Such is life.
Last night was pretty… awful. After a relatively okay day, I got home to work on a paper that never seemed to end. Then I got the news that an old friend from TaeKwonDo, Conor Waters, a man who was a mere 7 years older than myself and whom I sparred with consistently back in the day, had… somehow passed away. It struck me pretty solidly – I had only spoken with him last about mid-summer when I ran into him at his job at the PeachMac Store in Augusta, and only Monday afternoon did I run across his business card in my wallet and I said “I should give that guy a call and see if we can play on Xbox Live”. I wish I had called, now. I’ll never get to do that. It’s a sobering, depressing thought. RIP, Conor, you’ll be sorely missed.
It could be that or because I am running off of 4 hours sleep (hardly enough), but I just feel strange and awful. I do not want anything to do with my next classes at all. I want to go home, sleep, play some Animal Crossing, and I don’t want to go to the Phi Kap meeting later tonight. Yuck.
Speaking of Animal Crossing, if anyone appreciates a very dark yet comedic satire based on Animal Crossing, you need to read The Terrible Secret of Animal Crossing. This is a dark, chilling tale. I. Love. It.
I don’t have much more to say right now. I feel pretty listless. Perhaps I’ll have more later. I’m looking forward to listening to some Beatles later and following the news of Apple’s “It’s Only Rock and Roll” Media Event today. Anyway, toodles.
And here’s the post where I just media whore myself out, because I have many videos and thoughts and happiness to share. ;D
Let’s see. I suggest if you want an idea of what the eff I’m enjoying, go subscribe to my favorites on YouTube.
First off – I wanted to share that Amazon is celebrating one million followers to their Amazon MP3 Twitter account by giving away $1.29 for use towards any MP3 in the Amazon MP3 store. I just downloaded Black Eyed Peas “Boom Boom Pow” for free because I couldn’t bring myself to spend money on it otherwise. XD Good song, though. To get it, just follow this link: http://snurl.com/firstmil, and there’s instructions on Amazon to redeem the value for the MP3.
Along the same lines, I am really, really enjoying the music video (and the song of course, too) for Lady GaGa’s “LoveGame”, which is just a catchy song. I don’t get it, man. Just… watch it here and tell me what you think. o.o Another great song, though completely different, is Owl City’s “Fireflies”, which you need to watch now. I would embed this one specifically but embedding is disabled for this video. Blah.
Now for funny crap. I enjoyed this video of the cast from Spongebob Squarepants dubbing over scenes from classic films:
Watching Half Life: Full Life Consequences NEVER gets old for me. This is the sequel, which is better than the first, hence why I’m embedding it, but you can find the first here to watch and make sense (as much as you can, at least) of this nonsense. :P
William Shatner “singing”. I wish I could go to Dragon*Con this weekend and meet him, but alas. Check it:
And, finally, “Inappropriate Soundtracks” is a fantastic series on YouTube, posted by the user “Boonehams“, and these videos are created under the premise of taking a scene from a film, an identifiable scene, and replacing the music with something that is ironic or amusing, yet wholly inappropriate. XD For instance, The Matrix: (also, here is a link to all of these on YouTube – don’t forget to check out the Banned Edition which has links outside of YouTube for ones that were removed from YouTube)
Okay, enough YouTubes for nows.
I’m looking entirely forward to some new video games coming out, but mostly for Brutal Legend and Grand Theft Auto 4’s latest expansion pack, The Ballad of Gay Tony. Mostly the GTA, but I cannot deny the fun of a hack n’ slash starring Jack Black. :P I’ve been playing so much of GTA’s last expansion, The Lost and Damned, to the point where I have 100% completion and a ton of weapons and vehicle to create carnage and mayhem. Worth it. :D
And then there are Blu-rays coming out! How I Met Your Mother Season 4 on blu-ray (a first for the series), Wizard of Oz (!!!), Snatch, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Transformers 2, Monsters Inc, UP, Star Trek, Fight Club…. I’m going to go so broke. :(
…I think that’s enough media whoring for now. Toodles!
Fish here, writing for the first time in forever ago. Reason being is that school has started, and I was a busy fellow running and coordinating Rush for my fraternity, beginning classes, juggling a budding social life, rising from the ashes of said social life’s death last spring when I left for the summer. I am pleased to be back in Atlanta, even if it means dealing with some of the difficulties (traffic, homeless, idiots, etc). It’s good to be back.
Another thing one may notice is that I’ve replaced the blog. I had to update my Wordpress installation, which borked itself and I had to restart from scratch. I’m surprised and amazed I remembered HOW to even do it. As a result, though, things may take a bit of tweaking for a few days, but I’m overall very pleased with the new Wordpress (I upgraded from 2.5.1 to the current 2.8.4, so there was a LOT of newness in here for me).
I’m currently sitting in my Shakespeare course watching Morpheus Laurence Fishburne play Othello on the DVD my professor is showing. These stories are always so tragic. =/ This is just one of several classes I’m rather enjoying this semester – I’m taking a course in Interactive Narrative and Fiction, another in Constructing the Moving Image, another in User Interface Design, and another in Ethics in Computing. Very good semester, and all things I’m interested in. :)
My apartment is quite nice and comfortable, but needs a bit more decoration and furniture. I guess that’s why Tricia’s moving in (TOMORROW!) to take care of that sort of thing for me. ;D She’ll enjoy it, and I’m looking so forward to finally having her here – words cannot do my feelings justice.
So I can’t remember if I actually wrote about my new Macbook Pro that I love so very very much. Everything about this magnificent machine is to my exact desires – a 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4GBs of DDR3 RAM, and a 320GB HDD for starters. I JUST purchased Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard for only a mere $29 a week ago today, and I’ve seen some significant improvements in the realm of how this computer runs and handles itself. I’m quite pleased overall. I’m now waiting for two dates for Apple-related excitement: September 9th is Apple’s standard media event for the refresh of their iPod line (here is where they typically release a new version of iTunes, hoping for some sweet improvements… maybe 64-bit?), and September 25th, when AT&T finally stopstries to stop failing so fucking hard and grants iPhone owners the ability to MMS-text message pictures for those not in the know. I have some sweet programs for my Mac now too – Things for Mac (and subsequently, Things for iPhone) have made task management and keeping up with things so. much. easier. for me. I’m kinda in love with being able to take a quick glance and see everything that’s due of me. ^_^ I’ve also obtained Adobe’s CS4 Master Collection, which is fantastic for the programs and talents expected of me in my major here at Georgia Tech. Photoshop and Flash will more than likely prove to be far more useful than anything else I can possibly have. I’ve also installed Aperture 2 for my Mac, in preparation for the DSLR I plan to get – Aperture 2 is a photo management and RAW image handler developed and sold by Apple, and it should work wonderfully for my needs. :)
But yes! A DSLR – specifically, the Canon EOS 500D (otherwise known as the Digital Rebel T1i), a fantastic 15 megapixel DSLR camera that also does HD video and has Live View, two neat knick-knacks for a DSLR. Every review I’ve read says this camera is best in its price class and seems perfect for my desires and hobbies. I can’t wait to purchase this camera and develop my photography skills, but I want to sell my current camera before I run off and buy this thing… and I need to find a buyer. Anyone who is interested and reading this, hit me up, PLEASE. :P
I wanted to say more than simply facts or… almost sales-pitchy things in this post, but I suppose I have to get all that out of the way before I go on with other things. I guess those thoughts will come later today though – class is almost over and I should wrap this up. :P So, until later…!
So after toying with software, I've come up with some win. Chatroulette + "The Brave Little Toaster" = epic nostalgia reactions. Hell yes.03:54:31 AM March 11, 2010from web
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