Today was pretty great

I discussed my idea for taking over the world and uniting it in peace with Patrick. He pointed out where my idea was weak, and where it was strong, and we modified it a bunch. Also we made more specific plans of action and came up with a bunch of ideas that could actually work. Basically, awesome. I'll detail exactly what our plan is later, but I'll wait until we have a more developed one. But we have some great ideas for specifically how a world government would work, and all kinds of things like that. Obviously, the hard part is getting there, but I mean, that's not a reason not to do it. Just a reason to be wary and not get our hopes up. Anyway, yeah, I'll detail plans later.

AWESOME POST

THAT IS SO TRUE THAT THIS IS THE MOST AWESOME POST THAT WILL BE MADE THIS MONTH. Akshaya moved in yesterday and I saw him today, and then I saw him again, and then I gave him all his stuff and helped him pimp out his room and then we ate dinner. Also I went to help out at the Yard Sale for a few hours. There actually wasn't much to do there. Weird.

My RA put up all the name signs on the doors, and they have MONSTER TRUCKs on them. Anyway, I don't think I'm going to get a better ending line than that, so ciao, chochichuelos!

Risk!

The only expansion that I have not incorporated into my game right now is the Mars expansion. It would be cool if I could get that, and then also get a second board. That way, a completely epic game of Risk could happen, starting on Earth, and expanding into Mars. It seems to me that this could be really awesome, or really horrible. Either way, it's something to be in the mood for. I have already thought of a pretty awesome way that Mars could be incorporated, but I don't think a single person who has even played the game reads this. So I'll spare you. Goodbye.

I hate everything and everyone right now!

Not really. This post is a lie, actually.

My phone works!

That's right, chochichuelos! You can now call my phone! 565.7870. My answering machine will pick it up instead of voice mail, my voice mailbox is no longer locked, AND they are going to come by to fix my phone (the numbers 6 and 3 do not work on it). GREAT

Friend! Friend!

I guess I'm friends with my RA now? I just ate dinner with him. His name is Ryan and he is an industrial engineer. He is, well, he's the kind of a guy that I would be friends with, so he'll probably be a good RA too.

Zoombinis!

I just bought this online. I will never regret this decision.

Also the Move-in-maker meeting happened. It was basically what you would expect a mass meeting to be like. I talked to a couple people I didn't know. One of them was named Lauren, and the other was named, er, I forgot her name. I'll ask her later. I never really know how to act in this kind of situation. It's not that I don't know how to act around people I don't know. I'm actually really good at that. It's how to act around people I don't know that I am supposed to become friends with. That's the one. Peers, in other words, I guess. Yeah, when I'm in a room full of adults I don't know, it's really easy to be what everyone wants me to be. All I do is listen to everybody's story, and everybody thinks I am great. But when I'm among people that I will see again, I am expected to have things to say, and I rarely do have anything of substance.

So I either come off as quiet and boring, or loud and boring. Yet I somehow manage to make friends eventually. I just hate this part. I have to go. Bye.

Night!

My dorm room is now clean. Not "tidy," but I'll get on that tomorrow. At this point, everything is in its place, and that's good enough to go to bed. Tomorrow I will make it look neat. Night.

I am in my room right now.

I am unpacking. I do not have much more to say. I will probably go and get something to eat later. Because, I mean, come on.

grrrphhgglump

My brother is listening to a rap song that goes something like "FUCK THE WORLD AND LET THEM DIE"

Good news folks! I found my earplugs! Also I move in tomorrow.

A big hello!

A big hello to everyone who reads my blog! I hope you have a very good day!

Daaaaamn

I just found a bunch of my England friends on facebook. Also my brother ended up with a 114% in his online civics course. What a weird day!

Sandals / Tech Commander

I've taken to running in my sandals a lot, and now my feet are hardcore. I mean, not as hardcore as walking around barefoot, but the tops of my feet are also hardcore. It is a kind of middle ground where all of my feet is hardcore to a lesser extent.

Also the Tech Commander went up to $50 already, and the auction ends Saturday. Shiiiiit.

RISK!

I discovered that there were expansions made for Risk 2210 (which is a version of Risk that I like a lot). There were five expansions made in total, and none of them are, or ever were, available for purchase (they were used in tournaments hosted by the game, and given out as prizes). Two are expansions I can make easily myself, and the rest I can probably make myself but would do a bad job. Here is a list of them and my opinions of them (if you don't know how to play Risk 2210, reading this entry will only confuse you—it is pretty different from regular Risk):

First: Five new cards; one for each commander. Basically they are just good cards. However, since the game comes with blank cards, it would be easy to write the cards down on the spares. Not as pretty, but I'm not going to go planet hunting for 5 cards that look prettier.

Second: Mars. And its two moons. You do this instead of Earth. The Martian board reminds me of the Lord Of The Rings version of the game, where every territory seems to border 6-8 other territories, making paths of attack unpredictable. I don't think I would use this very much if I had it. Unless I had two sets of pieces, in which I would play with Mars instead of the Moon. Or maybe have all three moons as well. That could be awesome, if rather confusing. Point is, I'm not in a hurry to find this one.

Third: Tech Commander. I WANT THIS ONE. All it is is a sixth commander called the Tech Commander, along with his set of cards. But they are awesome cards, and, I, really want this. I found it on ebay. Right now it's at $20, but it may go up to $50-$75, looking at past auctions. However, my brother said he would chip in, so I am tempted to do this. I probably will.

Fourth: Factions. This makes the game more similar to diplomacy, in that everyone has a national, well, not national, but perhaps political identity. Also each faction has advantages and disadvantages, and start with different commanders and cards etc. This would be very easy to do myself, because the only physical thing to copy is a place-mat that everyone gets, showing what their faction does and everything. I mean, I could make them in InDesign and print them off. In fact, I'm going to do that when I finish writing this.

Fifth: Invasion of the Giant Amoebas! Aliens are attacking during the game. Basically at the beginning of every turn, the player turns over an amoeba invasion card, which can do a number of things. Usually, amoebas attack a random territory. They all roll 8-sided dice. Other cards do things like doubling the number of amoebas in every territory, etc. This is something I'd like, but it isn't something I'd use every game, like the factions and tech commander (and special cards). I want this much more than, say, Mars though.

My order of wanting these would be: Third, Fifth, Fourth, Second, First. Matt OUT.

Decemberists

As I said to Gynelle, I think I am my only friend who does not care about the Decemberists. Not that I don't like them, I've just never listened to them, and everybody is all "OMG DECEMBERISTS" and I am all "what."

Goodnight everybody!

Third post in a few hours

I decided that I am not going to buy the Optimus Keyboard when it comes out. I have a couple problems with it, and, cool as it is, it isn't worth it to me for these reasons.

First of all, it's not a very dust-proof or cleanable design. That is also one of the reasons that I dislike Apple's keyboard (I heard they fixed this problem recently?); after a while it gets disgusting. I think that for a keyboard that is this beautiful, they should ensure that it will stay beautiful.

Second, I don't like OLED technology. As far as I know, anyway. OLED is faster than e-paper, but I still would rather it use e-paper because of longevity. OLED pixels can be on for about 5000 hours, which is apparently a couple years of regular use. Some people might like getting a new keyboard every couple of years, but when I get things, I plan on having them for 5 or 10 years if possible. Electronic Paper, on the other hand, seems to last basically forever. Plus it has a memory, so it will display things even while off.

It seems like the OLED/e-paper trade-off is between animations and longevity. I can see how a lot of people would want animations, and I can see how that would be a better starting place, but I would rather hold out for the latter. I mean, if you want to market this new awesome idea, I can see that animations are the best thing ever. That way people go WOW and take out their wallets. A changing keyboard is great, but not great enough for a first idea.

I'm hoping that after the shock wears off and Optimus gets off the ground, they will come out with the improvements I named. I don't really want an animating keyboard. It would be really cool the day I got it, and would be awesome to show people, but for me the excitement would be temporary, and I'd rather the keyboard not be temporary as well. If I want animating keys, I'll buy the Mini-3.

So, Artemy Lebedev, in case you happen to read this, I will buy your product if you do those two things.

Bummer. That's a bummer.

I doubt I'm the only person this happens to, but more often than not, when I read a blog that talks about something sad that happened to the author or that the author is really depressed or some other form of bad news, I get the urge to comment with "bummer, man." The urge doesn't make me bad, I know. But would it make me bad if I followed through?

Also, I have Pennies In Heaven stuck in my head FOR NO REASON.

DHTML

The HTML I did yesterday made me want to try something. I hope it works.

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PS on the previous post

P.S. I just finished cutting my hair. If you see me without knowing that I cut my hair, you probably won't notice that I cut my hair. I need a mirror that I can hold in my hand, because right now I cannot see the back of my head when I cut my hair. If you haven't read the post I made a little while before this, there is a post that I made just before this, you should read it. Goodbye. -Matt

And my saga continues

Last night I got 14 hours of sleep from 10 to 12. I can only assume that my body is making up for my lack of sleep the night before (which is healthy—see my previous post on this subject). Although I apparently did get one hour of sleep the night before. That makes 15 hours of sleep in two nights. After keeping track for a while, I am pretty sure I need 7-8 hours of sleep per night, so that sounds right.

Yesterday I could not get the scanner to work and my brother needed to scan something. So I rode my bike to the fishbowl to scan it. I also went to Stadium Hardware to get a couple things I needed to fix my chair, to that market (Arbor Farms?) by Panorama to get shampoo and soap (I ran out of shampoo a couple days ago and have been using my parents'), and to Big Ten Burrito to get dinner for my brother and myself. I decided that would be a good celebration dinner and he agreed (he finished his class yesterday). Before you ask, yes, I did jump on the James bandwagon and I am now using Pine Tar shampoo and soap. It smells really nice. No, nice isn't the right word. Strong. It smells strong.

The fad right now seems to be using Vox, and particularly using some book feature incorporated within it. I am going to use the HTML knowledge incorporated in my memory to do the same thing:

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

I've been getting back into Gödel, Escher, Bach again. It has made me tempted to buy:

Bach: Die Kunst Der Fuge; Musikalisches Opfer

Whether I get it or not rather depends on an email I will receive from Anneka.

Anneka Goss: This is a link to her blog

HUGE MONITER

I am at the fishbowl doing something for my brother on a G5 with a 1920x1200 moniter. It is ridiculous, and awesome, and that is all I have to say.

Good times

I don't feel like posting but I probably should. Last night I went to stand in line for the Ditty Bops at 6:30. I expected that probably I would be standing alone for a half hour or so, but instead I was second in line, and the line formed behind me pretty quick. My asshole friends decided that they would not come to stand with me until 7:15 or so. Anneka rode her bike past me and waved a little before that though. Anyway, we got seats right up next to the stage in the centre, and it was, well, I don't need to tell you that it was really great. The opening band was the Ginn Sisters (hard 'G', by the way), and they were good. If I hadn't discovered the Ditty Bops as an opening band, I probably would have been really impressed by the Ginn Sisters. But I was already expecting them to be good, and they were.

I got my CD's signed, also a bicycle bikini calendar, and a tour poster. The tour posted is awesome. I mean, you just have to look at it.

We ate at the Fleetwood, and I ate French Toast. Then I went to Gynelle's house, ended up with Risk 2210 somehow, didn't play it, and I don't think I ever got to sleep. I hope I didn't make too much of a prat of myself.

This morning at 11:00 we saw the first showing of Snakes on a Plane. It was pretty much what the title suggests it to be. Basically there are snakes and Samuel Jackson on a plane. Time well spent, I think. I'm home now, I'm too tired to do anything, and too awake to sleep (also it is light out). I don't really want to be posting here right now. I kind of have to take a massive dump. Goodbye.

Best night of my life

I am about to walk downtown to watch the Ditty Bops / eat at the Fleetwood / spend the night at Gynelle's / watch Snakes On A Plane. BEST NIGHT EVER

Guys' Movie Night

Last night we watched Re-Animator. It is the kind of movie that could be very interesting but was instead very boring. However, it did have zombies, a naked girl, blood, and blood. We also rented Spectreman Verses The Cyborg Rat but we ended up not watching that movie. You can understand how something like this would happen.

The camera I have did not work, so instead of taking pictures, we found pictures of ourselves on the internet and made it into a pretty basic photo album on facebook. The camera started working for no reason when it was too late.

I think Kevin and I managed to spend an entire hour at bestthing.info. Otherwise, we ate chicken, played poker, listened to manly music, didn't sleep, made nachos, burnt some potatoes, and cleaned up some vomit.

Anyway, I slept from about 8:00 to 2:30. AAAAAAAAAAaA+++++++ WOULD SLEEP AGAIN

My feelings could be described by this emoticon— :|

I am pretty neutral right now. Last night Shoshana had a no-notice party and it was fun. We played games and had just the happiest time. Toward the end it got kind of stretched and I probably should have left earlier, but I actually had fun. I also lost one of my sandals, but after about 20 minutes of me looking for it, Alex Houser found it. Thank you Alex Houser. Thank you to everyone else who helped with as much success as I had. I'm like, "Daaaaang!"

Anyway, I think I now have more than 5 friends who maintain more than one blog. This upsets me. So I am going to only read one blog per person. Message to said people: If one of your multitude of blogs is "better" than the others, please tell me which it is. If you don't, I will probably be picking a random one. I mean, that is definitely what I will do. Also, while I have your ear, might I suggest that you use only one blog? I mean, this would make things easier for you, and me, and everyone who reads your blog(s). Basically everybody wins. Consider this.

I guess that was kind of a rant, but more polite. Well this is the end of today's rant. I'll probably make a post later today if I am bored. If not, I will not make a post later today.

Monster X

I hate it when I am fighting Monster X with three health and I get it down to about a centimetre of health left and then one of those green wormy missile things hits me and I die. I mean, that's only happened to me once so far, but it sucked.

Diplomacy

Well I pretty much got the same feeling I always get now. That being the feeling that I don't really have anything to say and nobody has anything to say to me. It really does take the fun out of, well, living, honestly. It's kind of like the opposite of studying for me. When it comes to studying, I am perfectly happy not doing it, and I don't really want to do it, but when I do, I like it a lot. Whereas when I hang out with any number of people, I really don't like not doing it, I really want to do it, and when I do, I hate it. I wonder if there's a solution to this problem. I mean, it'd be cool if someone had some insights or something. Obviously this is a problem with me, not with the entire world, and it's hard to see things in yourself. (By the way, if you are one of the cool people that does not give advice unless it is asked for, I am asking for it if you have any.)

To be honest, I'm definitely thinking about this too much. But then again, what am I supposed to do? Ignore it? I mean, I keep trying that. Man I really don't like this kind of depression. The kind I used to have was all right—I could wallow in it anyway. This kind is just, well, depressing. I guess I'm depressed for a reason instead of just depressed. I'd say I liked it better how I was, but I don't. I just want to, you know, have fun. I haven't done that for a really fucking long time.

Cave Story

I decided to start over with my three-life run in Cave Story. I love this game, and I really didn't like losing my place in Hell, but my skills have waned and the first two rooms of Hell are not the place to get them back. I just stopped in front of Omega in the Sand Zone. The only thing that I think will really make me regret this decision is when I have to go up against Monster X. Also the Core. And also the Undead Core. But mostly, well, the Core. I hate the Core.

The art of making nachos

There are times when a person will make some nachos, and they may think to themselves, "I wonder how I could make the perfect nachos." If you have been in this position, you are about to hear a secret that probably a lot of people know already or if you didn't know it you will look at me and say "well duh." It isn't really a secret at all. But it's rarely done.

First of all, always make your nachos in the oven. The microwave is only the kind of thing you use if you do not have any other kind of oven. Like if you're in a dorm room. If you are not allowed to have anything that is not a microwave, you can safely ignore the rest of this post. Otherwise, read on.

The big secret is to put the chips in the oven before you start making the nachos. This is a good idea for two reasons. First of all, it dries out your chips, so when you put all your toppings on, they will all get soaked up by the now-dry chips. This makes the chips tastier. Second, any fool can tell you that toasted chips taste better.

So, when making nachos, the first thing you want to do is set your oven for 400ºF. It usually takes my oven about 15-20 minutes to get to this point. I usually occupy this time by either finding all the potential ingredients, or playing with my dog.

Once your oven is at a neat 400º, it is time to put the chips in. Obviously, you want to put them on some kind of pan, and if you are smart, you will put foil (always shiny-side-down) on the pan (that way it is very easy to clean up). You want the chips to change in colour a little before you take them out again. Probably 10 minutes or something. Just keep looking. Anyway, this is the time to get your refried beans all heated up (a job for your microwave?!!). Also grate some cheese. Now, if you want these to be really good, you should put other things on, like peppers or onions (not whole—all cut up).

Another secret—before you put the beans on the chips, stir some of the grated cheese into the already-heated-up beans. For some reason, they pour easier when you do this. So when the chips are done, you pour the beans over them, and then you dump all the grated cheese on it along with anything else that you like. Put the thing back in the oven and it should be ready in 10 minutes or so. Make sure you turn the oven off when you are done. I do not want you to burn your house down or just waste a bunch of precious gas just because you don't think I was clear as to whether or not you should leave the oven on when you are done. You should never leave the oven on when you are done.

Anyway, when you are done, you should have some nachos with a great taste that you completely like.

Thoughts that are maybe worth writing down

Thought singular actually. Anyway, a few days back I was talking to a Christian fundamentalist. It is really hard to talk to people like that because we think of things so differently. I mean, we disagree even on the concept of black and white. Once I accused a fundamentalist of looking at the world as though it was black and white and he was ignoring all the shades of grey and the entire fucking rainbow, and he was like "but the world is black and white. It is simple. I throw something up and it comes back down." G-Money might remember that incident.

Back to the point, it is hard for me to have intelligent conversations because we completely do not relate even on a basic level (I never noticed that was a palindrome before!). Anyway, I told him that I think humans need to solve their problems themselves. He said that I was being too idealistic, and I would be waiting for something that could never happen. I asked what he was waiting for and he told me he was waiting for the coming of Christ. I said to myself: "And that's not idealistic." I said to him: "Okay, good luck with that," and went to find a new conversation with someone else.

However, it got me thinking. So, here is what I came up with. Take, as an axiom (I love using this word), the Christian Bible and philosophy to be true. In a literal sense. Most importantly the idea of revelations and the coming of Christ. Okay, so taking that as true, here is history according to me:

Time began with God taking completely care of us, as a parent takes care of children. He then booted us out of Eden to fend for ourselves, but with help. For the next thousand (?) years, we carried on with his intervention. Then he sent his son (representing humanity), and killed him. I take this to mean that he booted us out again, but for real. He was saying, "Okay, no more help from me. You take care of yourselves from here on out." Of course, he didn't actually say that. But he did leave us with a prophecy of the return of Christ.

And then 2000 years passed without so much as a squeak from heaven. That's quite a while for God to do nothing, eh? Don't you think he would have set revelations in motion by now? I think so. Unless he's waiting for something. Either a specific period of time, or a specific event. If it's a period of time, as Christians seem to believe, then I wonder why. I thought the idea was supposed to be that God was infinitely wise, not attached to units of time.

So I am assuming it is not a unit of time that God is waiting for, and it is indeed an event. And I think the event must depend on humans. It was the humans that he gave free-will to, and therefore we are the only things out of his control. Therefore, it seems logical to me that God wants us to do something. What? Well, I think he wants us to create Heaven on Earth. Bring time full-circle so that the humans return themselves to Eden. I think he decided we've had enough help from him, and that we're ready to figure it out on our own. That makes sense to me.

Anyway, that's what's been on my mind. Thanks for reading. If someone who knows more about Christianity has an argument against mine, I'd appreciate it. I haven't actually read revelations, actually, so I don't really know anything about it except that our physical world will end and we go to heaven. I might even be wrong at that. Let me know.

I am excited and cannot sleep even though I want to

I have a really awesome idea that I've been playing with for the past month. I just told it to someone for the first time today and my excitement about it got renewed. I'd detail it here, but it is really unlikely that what I want to happen would happen, and I don't want 7 comments saying "Matt that is a stupid idea it would not work." I know that saying that would make people not say that, but I don't really want people reading it and thinking to themselves "Matt's lost it" or whatever either.

Basically it's just not the kind of thing I want on the internet. If you ask me about it like in person, I'll tell you all the details. Otherwise, you aren't really missing out. Like I said, if it fails, which it most definitely will, it will be completely worthless.

That said, if it works, then oh man. It would be huge. That is why I'm excited.

Pi Day is a propoganda sham!!

Most of you already know this, but for those of you that don't, Pi Day (March 14) is a sham! The idea is that March 14 is 3/14 or 3.14; the first three digits of pi (3.14159265...). Many people have been happy blindly celebrating this FALSE HOLIDAY. That's right. FALSE HOLIDAY. The actual Pi Day should be on 22 July. Or 22/7. Because 22/7=3.14285714...

Pi - 3.14 = 0.00159265... while 22/7 - pi = 0.00126449...

As you can clearly see, 22/7 is closer to pi by 0.00032816...

DON'T BE A FOOL DON'T CELEBRATE PI DAY IN MARCH WITH THE OTHER DRONES!!!

Cave Story

It somehow changed from "Not saving" to "Not saving with 3 health". I died in Grasstown fighting Balfrog.

I want to live in the wilderness

For a few years. Maybe after college. I hope I do it. I'd probably either become really hardcore or I'd leave or die or something. I'm kind of tired of the life I'm living right now and I want to do something really hard.

In other news most of the people I voted for won. But Woods lost to Hieftje by a landslide. 2/3 majority anyway. Pity. Not that I was expecting a different outcome.

I just noticed that the pictures part of my website displays an error when you try to look at the apache list, so I fixed the .htaccess file and now you can look at it. Pretty intense.

I was kinda looking forward to the diplomacy thing, but it is probably going to never happen ever. Just kidding. That's just what I feel like. But there will be a very manly movie night on Friday. It will be pretty great. We'll grill a chicken and play football and watch porn. You should come! Unless you have only X chromosomes. Then you are not welcome.

I'm going to practise my violin for the first time in a long time tomorrow. It's been almost a month I think.

I'm going to stop posting, and I am too awake to go to bed, so I am going to start a new cave story game and go as far as I can without saving. I'll let you know how it goes.

HOLY SHIT

The new Ditty Bops album is SO GOOD SO GOOD SO GOOD

Eee-yup.

I am wearing my first [genuine] "I Voted" sticker. It beats my old collection of "I Tried" stickers any fucking day of the week.

Also the Ditty Bops's new album came in the mail. Exciting !

By the by, I've had a Google Calendar for a while now—it's at the bottom of that column to the right. If you want to know whether I can hang out or not, this calendar will answer that question.

Well daggumn.

I've looked through a few Summer albums of people I don't know very well on facebook, and they're usually fun to look through. But just now, I started looking through a summer album basically full of my friends (the one Molly put up earlier), but with me not there. It's really brought home the fact that I haven't really hung out with anyone at all this summer. And I'm not sure how I feel about that.

Well, that's dishonest. I know exactly how I feel about that. I feel sad. Not because I was "left out" or something, but because I chose to keep to myself when I could have been with friends. But then again, I chose to avoid friends precisely because being around them makes me sad. So what the fuck am I to do? It's kind of a lose-lose situation. One reaction is that I need to make some friends in college, but that's silly. I already have a bunch of friends. (Not to say I shouldn't make a huge bunch of college friends, just that they shouldn't replace my older friends.)

But, the only thing that makes me feel more left out than not being around my friends is being around my friends. Anyhow, I'm going to attempt joining in on a diplomacy party on Thursday I think. Back into the social swing of things. Maybe I'll like it this time, now I've had some time to be alone. Then again, I had plenty of time to be alone from January to April. Well, whatever.

A thought followed by brief excitement

After a conversation with Kate (who is very great by the way) I got to thinking about optimism. I am generally an optimistic person wherever possible, and I could imagine people telling me that I am foolish to be that way. So, I decided to ask myself if it is actually foolish. And if it isn't, why isn't it?

Well, I think it ultimately depends on how much you know. For example, if the weather forecast says "200% chance hurricane" it would be silly (not optimistic) to say "I BET IT IS SUNNY AND NICE ALL DAY." On the other hand, if you have no idea what the weather will be like, and have no way of finding out, then this is where grey area begins. Some people (me) might argue that since there is no way of knowing, you may as well assume it will be sunny. Others might argue that you should assume it will rain, so you won't be upset if it does. This paragraph assumes, of course, that you prefer sunshine to rain.

Now that was one example. But what about the world, or human beings, or something like that. What humans will do is completely unpredictable (that is to say, you can come up with several good predictions, but you have no way of actually knowing until after-the-fact). So, should you be pessimistic about them, or optimistic? Well do what you want. I've decided that it makes no difference. Whether you have high hopes or no expectations, you aren't more or less "prepared." Just like with rain. Just because you assume it will rain doesn't mean you have to not bring an umbrella.

So I have rationalised my optimism to myself with this: I would rather be disappointed when things go badly than be satisfied when things go badly.

Brief excitement: The Optimus Mini-Three starts shipping in a week, which means the Optimus Keyboard will be coming soon. Oh man oh man oh man oh man!

Hypothetical Stiuation:

What do you do if:

You have just finished getting ready for bed and are eyeing the bed you are about to sleep in because you are about to get in it. Suddenly the phone rings, and you abandon thoughts of bed and follow the ringing to the telephone. Upon answering, you hear "hey this is Anneka I am breaking into a house with Molly you should help. It's on Pontiac Trail. I am doing this because I want to look at the second floor."

There are several things a person can do in this situation. Guess what I did. Good night.

Day day day

Today I woke up, went to the temple for a couple hours, ran (wearing sandals that cut my feet in the process) a mile to the bus station, waited a half-hour for the bus, beat Erica and Simon and Ted at Risk 2210 (Basically Risk but way more awesome), teamed up with Erica against Ted and Simon to win two games of Euchre, played a few other games with the same people (also beat Ted in Cowboys and Indians—what a great game), and made this post.

Too Late

Went to bed. Don't call me.

I'm bored

Somebody call me

Google

I just realised—Google is amazing. I mean, it searches the entire internet. Quickly. Like, I type in "amazing" and it finds every occurrence of "amazing" on the internet in a few seconds. The internet is a big place. This is very magnificent.

Two (2) Things

1. On my LiveJournal account (I only have it so I can read some blogs) I am completely blatant about who I am. Every other person I know does not have their name on their blog. Sometimes, they place a fake name, other times, no name. But me, I have my name in big bold letters. Does this make me an idiot? You know, for so flamboyantly offering my name?

2. A conversation with my dad:

DAD: Walks into my room. "Hey! Your uncle and I are going for a 20-mile run in the morning! Want to come? We wake up at six o'clock!"
ME: Looks at clock (1:30 a.m.).
DAD: Looks at clock. "Six-thirty."

Cyanide and Happiness

This sounds like the title to a comic that is not funny. Well, that is only half-right. It is a comic, but it isn't not funny. Here's the first one. They update every day (not just weekdays) and have been for a year and a half. They're like a mix between super mega and rejected. The comic has at least three different artists. It's weird. Check it out.