I don't think they even heard me.

 

Not in this place, at least...

The Internet is too vast for a place like this to get attention. The blog of a simple high school student will probably never be noticed, but its nice to just have it here in case it somehow does get noticed.

My "act" has ended by becoming an integral part of my nature, I told myself. It's no longer an act. My knowledge that I am masquerading as a normal person has even corroded whatever of normality I originally possessed, ending by making me tell myself over and over again that it too was nothing but a pretense of normality. To say it another way, I'm becoming the sort of person who can't believe in anything except the counterfeit. ~Yukio Mishima

The counterfeit, that is what most of the internet is. We must continue with the laughing, because it is now part of our nature. Real life is starting to feel like just a masquerade.

My last Digital media project was this poster over here. The project was to make a design out of just black and white text. I traced a picture of a TF2 Engineer flying on one of his buildings. Its really cool what you can do with the letter J.

The trailer for the new watchmen movie looks absolutely epic.

Insanity of Web

First off,

YOU CANT FOOL OWLS.

Second, I was shown this, while quite bored.

Third, Toontown.

For the reason why I tried this, check out this link.

Unfortunately, it didn't work, so I changed the name to Stonewall Riots, the name "The Homosexual Agenda" was changed to after the admins caught him. Three panel soul is a great webcomic. Since custom names need to be reviewed, my name was set as "Maroon Duck"...

In Response to Alex's Desktop, I shall post mine, Behold, my custom wallpaper of greatness. It's still a work in progress, but it looks good already. The icons are all Amora.

I'm pretty

 

XP is great for customizing visual styles since it's been around for so long.

Here's what I used to create my look.

 

D-Color XP for changing the icons

StartKiller for removing the start button

TenerVS visual style

Orion1-0 winamp skin

We All Live on a Steam Submarine

I was playing a free mmo called Neo-Steam, and I used a Steam Submarine to travel between the areas... Which reminded me of this song, which I just now modified to suit me.

In the town where I was born,
Lived a man who sailed to sea,
And he told us of his life,
In the land of submarines,

So we sailed on to the sun,
Till we found the sea of green,
And we lived beneath the waves,
In our Steam submarine,

We all live in a Steam submarine,
Steam submarine, Steam submarine,
We all live in a Steam submarine,
Steam submarine, Steam submarine.

All our friends are all aboard,
Many more of them live next door,
And the band begins to play.

(Trumpets play)

We all live in a Steam submarine,
Steam submarine, Steam submarine,
We all live a Steam submarine,
Steam submarine, Steam submarine.

(Full speed ahead, Mr. Parker, full speed ahead!
Full speed over here, sir!
Action station! Action station!
Aye, aye, sir, fire!
Captin! Captin!)

As we live a life of ease
Every one of us is all we need,
Sky of blue, and sea of green,
in our Steam submarine. ( Hahaha! )

We all live in a Steam submarine,
Steam submarine, Steam submarine,
We all live in a Steam submarine,
Steam submarine, Steam submarine.

(fading)

We all live in a Steam submarine,
Steam submarine, Steam submarine,
We all live in a Steam submarine,
Steam submarine, Steam submarine.

I poked a jellyfish

Money can't buy life.

Apparently, it can. I did this review for my school website. Its not perfect, but its my first story done for the website. I am actually a semi-decent writer, but I make a lot of mistakes.

Spore: Build A Species Workshop

Spore, a relatively new game released by MAXIS, is both a technological achievement, and a fun game. Though it isn't as good as was expected, it still manages to create a game that will provide many hours of entertainment and should be at least tried by most gamers.

The game doesn't center on any sort of game genre, but attempts to bring in many types of games into one. The player starts out controlling a cell, and slowly evolves until the player gets their creature to blast off into space. This is done by using 5 different types of gameplay, from a flOw-like cell stage to a Real Time Strategy civilization stage.

The game allows you to create your own creatures using an in-game editor, and then it uses procedural generation to make those creatures move and live, no matter how weird you create them. There is also a procedural music creator that generates the background music based on the parts you put on your creature. A national anthem generator allows you to make your own music once you get to the civilization stage of the game.

The game sells for about $50 to $80, depending on whether you get the original or the special edition, named the "Galactic Edition." Also, there is a DS version called "spore creatures" and a cell-phone/iPhone version called "Spore Origins." The former being a stylized version of the creature stage, and the latter being a copy as the cell stage.

Reviews are greatly mixed. It got 2,567 one star reviews on amazon.com, (Mainly for digital rights management issues with the game.) but pulled off a decent 85 out of 100 on Metacritic.com.

Personally, I love this game. I like how open ended the space stage of the game is, and the creation of creatures is quite fun.

But how the devil do you think this could harm me?.

I have had this uncovered fan going in my room for a few months now. Every once in a while, I will get to staring at it, and want to stick my hand in it...

Well, today, I ended up doing just that...

I was vacuuming my room, as it was dirty. I passed the vacuum too close to the fan, and the fan went into my hand like a saw... Gashed it up real good.

I went downstairs to go get some Band-Aids, and after talking to my mom, I fainted from the shock of the fan hitting the bone of my hand. I remember starting to turn around to go upstars... When I woke up, there was screaming, and a huge hole in the wall behind me, and I couldn't feel any pain left.

I am really starting to wonder what my pain tolerance actually is. I don't think it was the pain that I fainted from, but the sight of the gash, or the feeling of vibrating bone...

On a totally unrelated note, I transferred over a good amount of the music to my desktop, which now has nothing but Chrome, a single indie game, and 7 gigs of music. I think I'm just going to use it like a big stationary iPod, with a subwoofer.  ^_^

Bah.

I keep starting blogs, but I never actually can get around to finish them. I've got a nice juicy spore review I did for school, I am going to post it once I get it to this computer.

For today's lulz, I have posted a picture of a bunch of TF2 characters rocking out. I'll have to find the start wars one that this was probably based on.

Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.

This sickness, probably no more than a common cold, plagues me with annoyance. I was not able to go to school, as I was shooed home by both my girlfriend, and my teacher...

Spending a day at home, with a horrible cough, and a slightly spinning head is no fun...

I ended up playing a space rpg/shooter game for most of the time... I need to find a good game that doesn't get old quickly... or... an alternative to the computer that I can actually stick to...

Digital Media Project

For Digital Media, we had to make a project consisting of three layers. A shadow layer, a background layer, and a layer of 18 1"x1" squares, colorized to a palate of our choosing. I originally just chose colors from a picture of the Joker, but eventually, I felt I had to have him in the picture. The Joker was by far the best character in the new batman movie.

There is a Facebook group dedicated to the late Heath Ledger.

PS: Should I add any sort of text to the image I made? If so, what should I add?

Test Post

Downloaded Windows Live Writer, testing it out.