Blarg the Blog

Hello peoples

2011-06-22T17:09:00.002-10:00

Who knows if anyone even gets updates for this anymore...
First year of college was good. It went fairly smoothly. Like high school but I lived there.
I'll elaborate more later but really I just wanted to say "hello :)" And "I miss you all."

Four Years in Review

2010-04-30T18:08:00.003-10:00

Good evening, Blarg.

Graduation will soon be upon us---that lengthy summary up at the top of our page will have to be changed, as we will no longer be high school students.

We should change it to reflect that we are terrible bloggers. We are not, in any sense, bad writers when we do write, but we do write too infrequently to be considered real bloggers. And that makes us terrible, and not "terrible" as in "impressive" but "terrible" as in "pathetic."

That is fine by me. I, for one, enjoy our sleep deprived or overly caffeinated ramblings.
All of this has been said before, so I will move on to more important things: four years in review.

Year One

We were but freshmen, some dressed as missionaries, when we all came together. We decided to pretend to be lawyers and witnesses, and we were not great---at first. Some of us were in plays, and the rest of us enjoyed watching. We liked ducks and Monty Python. We liked a great many other things, and licked a great many things, and found that a great many things were not for licking, but we were undeterred.

Year Two

Some of us formulated the theory that Sarah and Sarah are 2Sarah, not Sarah^2. Some of us disagreed, and were ignored. Along the way we became 4/3rds of a treasurer, and ended up pretending to be lawyers and witnesses again. Teachers were terrified to see the three faces together. We dressed up as various Greeks and killed each other and ourselves with spoons.

Year Three

We said painful goodbyes; we said hello via internet and postcards, which we do less frequently than to be desired. Some of us went to Italy and mocked the UN and continued to act, while the remaining 3/3rds of the treasurer went on to harass fake lawyers and real judges in Georgia. We put ducks in the mail and the post office didn't seem bothered. A lot of other stuff happened too, but there was still a lot of liking of ducks and Monty Python and Reduced Shakespeare.

Year Four

Some of us got a job, and the others continued to mooch off their parents. We continued to be actresses and pretend lawyers and witnesses. Mostly, we worried about applying to colleges and scholarships. There were quite a few trips here and there, but no reunions---those should be forthcoming. And now graduation is upon us.

It is indeed a frightening event. Soon we will all be old enough for our parents to legally kick us out on our butts, and that means we are old indeed. My summary of the past four years is inadequate, but there is only so much a single blarg can contain. May we have many more blargs together, wherever we are.

Travesty.

2010-02-17T14:29:00.001-10:00

Hi Blarg, this is a little mini-blarg, I'll post something real later but this:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100217/ap_on_re_eu/eu_italy_cat_stew

...is a travesty. That man needs to be arrested. And chastised. And then clawed.

Ciao

2010-02-13T04:40:00.003-10:00

So. We barely post on this at all anymore. Which is lame. Because Blarg is awesome.
Homework and directing JB is taking over my life...but HEY WE ARE 2nd SEMESTER SEN10RS :)
We have been waiting for this :)
And now it's here.
All that drama. All those lunch tables. All those "I'm ditching you" songs. All the homework. All of those silly online tests. All the flour bombs. All the Monty Python :)
Now we get to have AWESOME TIME
So...
#1. Share the awesomeness
#2. Be insane at all school sporting events
#3. Be insane at any event

The other day I went to Nero's wife's villa. We drove to it in 15 minutes, but it took an hour to get 20 feet with all the silly one way streets and small corners. Once we found it we decided it was worth it. Lots of pretty old frescoes...just sitting there in the open. Amazing. We got our caps and gowns in. Waiting on the senior hoodies. During Terra Nova testing week we get to do all sorts of cool stuff off campus... I'm working on scholarships...I want to be able to go anywhere, but silly Florida makes it so easy to go there for free...so FSU is looking better and better... How about ya'll?

To Thy Country Be True, My Pet

2009-11-15T10:32:00.001-10:00

“Philip, what’s it mean to be a citizen?”

The last droplets of rain plopped down onto the roof with an audible splatter. Phillip and Max sat on their back porch, looking out over the wet lawn. “I don’t know, Max.”

“Do you think I’m a good citizen, Phil?” Max looked up at Phil, and Philip looked down at Max. “I don’t think much at all about you,” said Philip, shaking his head and resting it on the porch railing, “I don’t see the use in it.” Max looked down at his feet, small and grey, wondering what his companion meant. “I think good citizens look out for each other, and try to be nice, and follow the rules, and do something called ‘taxes.’” His angular face now stared out at the lawn, glistening in the morning sun. “I think good citizens do those things. I do those things.” Philip scoffed, as was his way, and said “You don’t do taxes, you don’t even know what they are.” The larger, surlier companion rolled over onto his other side. Max turned around to look at him. “What are taxes, then, Phil?”

“They’re sort of like tricks. Very annoying tricks, and if you don’t do them everyone gets mad.” Max’s large green eyes widened. “Would they arrest me, for being a bad citizen? Or—or would they do something worse? Send me somewhere else? What’s that word called…”

“Deportation. But don’t worry, the government would never deport you,” said Philip, “you’re a cat.”

Guess who is managing the Tennis team...

2009-09-30T07:12:00.003-10:00

And playing on it, and choreographing for Musicals, Hosting a Halloween show, dying in AP Calc and Physics, and coloring in her government class, all the while applying for COLLEGE!? Me! Woot!
I am doing SO much this year it is insane. Crazy. Treasurer for NHS and VP for Thespians and some officer or another for Environmental Club.....crazy. Its fun though. :)
What is everyone else up to?

Awesome weekend...

2009-08-23T11:12:00.001-10:00

So Friday we had rehearsal with the set, which was long but fun to see the show finally coming together. During lunch I found the lighting board hiding in a classroom and triumphantly returned with it to the cafeteria. I had gotten the "Most" award for two days and so had gotten to see 2 parts of my costume before anyone else which was....pretty cool.

But ANYWAY, that night I got the casting call for Spook and Walk on Broadway. Mikaela and I will be hosting Spook, choreographing the opening, and performing the finale. For Broadway we are choreographing "Hard Knock Life" and "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" as well as performing in the Opening Number (Seasons of Love) and Closing Number (One). In addition, I am performing the part of Elphaba in "What is this Feeling" and singing in "Cell Block Tango" and "I Can Cook". I have TONS to do, but I am exited.

The next day was "Princess and the Pea" showday! We got to the school, got our costumes, ran through the show, put makeup on while Kyle and I alternately lead the game of "Find the Leader" then it was showtime. We did the show, took pictures, redid makeup, played Egyptians Something or Other, played BS, and then got back in our costumes (that we took off because we were SO HOT) and did the show again. Then we took pictures and turned our stuff in. Jeremiah took my information down so I could be nominated for the Summer Camp Missoula Runs in Montana, so who knows, maybe I will do that next summer. Then I got home and packed really fast to go to Meghan's house.

At Meghan's house we ate pizza bianca on the roof while the sun went down before setting up mosquito nets and roasting marshmallows and then sleeping. We talked in between :)
We fell asleep on the roof and woke up when the sun got too bright. After we decided to get up we watched "Recess" and then proceeded to make waffles with syrup, bananas, and whipped cream (yum). Later we made some eggs. Everything was awesome, then we talk-talk-talked some more and I went home.

At home we got ready for the Quad Party, when it started though the sky opened up and the wind started blowing and the hail came down. It was pretty bad. But it all went away eventually and we had our party. We traveled over to the ruins to aid a scavenger hunt, retrieving Mikaela on the way. Then I ended up digging a note out of a flooded tomb before heading over to the pool.

When we got to the pool Mikaela and I went in, Steph and Brittany were ahead, and dove off the diving board with Dilsa, Caitlyn, and Kyle and then played volleyball and swam. 'Twas awesome. Then we had cake, took pictures and walked home to a winding down quad party (with kids running in the non-potable sprinklers) with only a few complications. It was a good weekend.

This is quite epic

2009-08-09T19:54:00.000-10:00

Please, watch and enjoy:

So, how was it?

2009-08-05T19:47:00.001-10:00

Hello Blarg,
It's been quite a while, hasn't it? I'm sorry about that. I've been gone all summer with limited internet connection, and last spring was absolutely insane. Anyway, now that I'm a Senior, I'm going to try to take a lot more time to blarg. I hope I can make things a little more interesting, and I'll be documenting the college application process as well as the craziness that is Senior year of High School. That said, let's begin:

It's the first week of school. I've gotten my schedule fairly squared out. I was supposed to have free period at the end of the day, but I'm not allowed to get it until I'm actually employed, so I'm TAing for now. I'm only in three APs this year, so that shouldn't be that bad. But I'm already lacking on sleep. Being tired after only three days is not a good thing. But I'll work on it. I got my first scholarship application today! I gotta get started on that ASAP. I also have to register for SAT II, ACT, and possible SAT I. I've already taken the second two, but I want to see if I can improve my score. Anyway, that's it for now.
Jake out.

They're kidding, really.

2009-07-24T21:00:00.002-10:00

I said to myself, SNish, there's got to be a group of Nidoking-worshipers around here.
Nidoking is a pretty cool guy, he's one of the original 151 Pokemon, and he doesn't afraid of anything.*

And lo, did Facebook deliver:

And to think, I had begun to lose faith.

*"Pretty Cool Guy" is a meme. The format goes:
"i think [noun] is a pretty cool guy. eh [verbs] [nouns] and doesnt afraid of anything."
Bad spelling and usage of incorrect nouns adds to the hilarity, as in the original:
"i think halo is a pretty cool guy. eh fights aleins and doesnt afraid of anything."
The more you know.

Guess that quote!

2009-07-23T11:08:00.001-10:00

New game, Blarg.

I post a quote, you guess where it's from.

NO GOOGLEING. Google is for cheating cheaters.

Quote 1:
"Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter."

Re: Harry Potter

2009-07-16T15:39:00.001-10:00

I now realize the Harry Potter movies are not movies at all...
They are chapters of the book strung together and put on the screen...which is all good with me...it means that things are usually done right, but that was just a thought.
I enjoy watching the Harry Potter movies...it's like visiting friends....
I am slightly saddened they arent going to end the year I graduate though....I was kinda looking forward to that....

Harry Pptter Quickie

2009-07-14T19:48:00.001-10:00

So, I know I haven't posted on here in an embarrasingly long time, but
I felt that I should say this:

I'm seeing Harry Potter 6!!!!!

Jacob out.

P.S.
Sent from my iPhone :P

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey.

2009-07-08T11:25:00.002-10:00

So, I'm the first to post in...a month or two (or three?)

Today is 7-8-09 day, which is neat.
My mom is leaving to go on a trip, and I'm playing the "I'm not paying any attention to you" game with my homework.

Here, have some American ego, courtesy of Passive Aggressive Notes Dot Com, who got it from some anonymous college student.

Oh, room 013, you're always good for a laugh.

Atlanta

2009-05-07T07:10:00.001-10:00

So, we're in Atlanta for the National High School Mock Trial
Competition. We've been here since Tuesday morning - extremely early -
and have been practicing intensely ever since. Not to say we haven't
been having fun. Everyone is great, and we're having a great time. We
went out to a fancy dinner last night and it was amazing. The food was
phenominal, the company was better. We just had a great time.
After that though, some of us went out to see Atlanta. We had so much
fun, it was unbelievable. We ended up going to Metro Cafe - an old
fashioned diner slash karaoke lounge where we ate breakfast on Tuesday
morning - and got three huge slices of delicious cake (red velvet,
strawberry shortcake, and white chocolate rasberry mousse cake) to
share between seven of us. It was an amizing time listening to a team
that had just scrimmaged us sing fairly horribly and eating delicious
cake with friends.
Our noses are back to the grindstone today, as we have several
scrimmages and lots of practice.
Oh yeah, did I mention that we were sever cake by Jesus? He was pretty
cool.

Packing

2009-05-01T21:26:00.000-10:00

So, I've started packing for the Mock Trial trip to Atlanta on Monday. It's kinda fun trying to figure out what to pack and such. But I can't do a lot of it because I need to buy stuff and get my dad's suits. But my dad doesn't come home until tomorrow, so...
Anyway, I haven't posted in a while, and I thought I would. And I'll be blarging all through the Atlanta trip, as well as the Augusta trip for Science Olympiad next next week.

Pretty Cool Weekend

2009-04-19T14:38:00.002-10:00

My weekend was absolutely amazing, and I'll share it with you once homework is done.
For now, in my brief break, I would like to share the following with you: the Skullcandy Limited Lifetime Warranty. I got some of their earbuds for my iPod for my birthday.

"If the product is damaged by aggressive music listeners sliding a rail, sliding down the emergency ramp of your aircraft, slammed in your locker, slammed in your car door, run over by a car, running into a wall, getting run out of town, mountain biking, road biking, sky diving, beating your boyfriend unmercifully, getting beat down by the man, blown up in an accidental experimentation with flammable substances, or damaged in any other every day experience, it means you are living your life the way we want our product used!...Love, Skullcandy."

Yeah, pretty darn good. I'm going to use the stencil eventually, probably that third suggestion there.

Sporks.

2009-04-13T20:12:00.003-10:00

Doing it wrong:

Doing it weird:

Rant cont.

2009-04-11T00:56:00.001-10:00

I mean, really, what would happen if I simply said, "Screw all of this. I refuse to do it."

Maybe I will do just that. :P

Needless to say...

2009-04-11T00:50:00.002-10:00

I'm really bad at posting on a regular basis.
There just isn't enough time anymore...Thesis papers, stupid history packets I can't understand, rehearsal...I would be happy just to be able to sleep over 7 hours a night. Is it too much to ask that students be treated as workers? They say being a student is our job and we need to concentrate on it, but do they even allow us the time we need to do our job properly? We spend 7 hours a day in school and alot of the time out of school on Homework. When are we ever supposed to stop!? Angry rant over. Time to go back to my English paper on censorship in schools, if anyone would like to comment on the negative effects of cutting off our moral decisions and supporting ignorance by banning books and blocking the internet, please feel free. :)

Here's a Question

2009-04-10T19:55:00.003-10:00

Why is the Count from Sesame Street Jewish? He has a huge nose and a stereotypical Eastern European accent. This in and of itself is horrible. Not all Jews have large noses nor are they all Eastern European. I am neither. People seem to think the the term Jewish is synonymous with the term Eastern European. Eastern European is an ethnicity, Jewish is a religion. Jews are all over the world. There are Jews from Europe, Israel, America, Canada, Asia, Africa (in fact there are quite a few Jews in Ethiopia - at least there were before Israel evacuated them from the oppressive government there), and every other area in the world! So please, next time you mean to say Eastern European, say it. Not Jewish.

Anyway, that's not the point. Why is the Count Jewish (or at least made to seem so)? Is it that all Jews love to count? That all Jews are accountants? Because, I can assure you, I hate math. I would never ever want to become an accountant. I can't speak for all Jews, but I'm just going to go out on a limb here and say that the vast majority of Jews would never have wanted to go into a career involving counting other people's money.

To me, it's like Sesame Street might have just as well put in an Asian character who runs a laundry. Or an Indian cab driver. Hell, even a Canadian, draft-dodging, pot-smoking hippie! The point is that stereotypes are wrong. And we wonder why people are bound by them? Because they are being forced into childrens' heads in Saturday morning cartoons!

I think this needs to stop. I'm not saying that everything ever published needs to be censored so as to make sure it doesn't insult anyone, just that kid's shouldn't be force-fed stereotypes and racism.

So, it's been a while...

2009-04-10T19:40:00.000-10:00

And, I found this really beautiful video on YouTube. Do you know that chain email that you've gotten several times about the nine-year-old terminal cancer patient? That beautiful poem about slowing down and taking more time for life? Yeah, well, I really like it, so I went online to see if I could find a good narration. This video is, I think, the best one. I could have done without the beginning narration, it's kind of unnecessary. The middle part - the actual poem - is what I liked. But it's beautiful animation if anything.

So, how was it? Again, the beginning athiest guy was not what I particularly desired, but I really liked the poem narration.

iTunes on Windows Still Makes Me Angry

2009-04-07T19:32:00.003-10:00

This is a rant. I just want everyone to know that right now, so that if they do not want a rant, they can stop reading.

I have not used iTunes on OSX very extensively, but I hear nothing bad about it.
Apple, however, does not seem to be able to write a decent version of iTunes for Windows XP or Vista.
Don't tell me that the problem is Microsoft--I don't want to hear it. Microsoft gets blamed when Word for Macs doesn't work, and that's fair. Apple should be blamed when iTunes for Windows doesn't work.

All of my ire for iTunes comes from the fact that it's the second slowest program on my computer. It takes a full minute to load sometimes, and I barely have 8 Gb of music! The only program slower than that is Photoshop--and it's pretty darn slow.

Furthermore, iTunes keeps trying to get me to download MobileMe and Safari!
I DON'T NEED MOBILEME OR SAFARI. If I did, I'd visit the Apple website and get them there. Apple, the all-knowing whatever-the-hell-it-is has decided that I really, really need those two things, and makes them show up in Apple Software Updater every time a new version of iTunes rolls out.

And you know what? The little box that says I want to download them is checked by default. I have to look every time I update iTunes to make sure that Apple isn't slipping something in under my nose. They told us that they would uncheck the boxes--they lied.

That upsets me.

I would write more, but apparently iTunes for Windows is so inefficient that I now have to restart my computer before its updates kick in. Let's hope it infuriates me less.

EPIC MOCK TRIAL VICTORY

2009-03-14T20:23:00.004-10:00

This was a triumph.

Let's all make a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.

I hate suspense, so I'll just say it:

Mililani High School won the Mock Trial State Championship today.

It was so epic. Words cannot describe how cool it was.

We played two matches, both as the Defense team.

The first was against Hilo High School, and the second was against Kauai High School. Now that we're going on to nationals, we should be getting our case around the end of the month, but... Rebecca and I looked at the rules and we can only have 8 team members! (9, counting timekeeper)

I would write more, but I can't think because I'm still in shock and there are these bugs at my house that are making an annoying buzzing sound. It's really loud.

I also have this weird rash. It's like I'm itchy all over. I don't get it.

Also, I really hate Chrome, because it has no spell chekc. I think I might get Opera soon to see how that is.

Also, I was watching this while de-stressing tonight:

I think I died a little

2009-03-01T18:38:00.002-10:00

Also, I'm supposed to be getting my tux vest and tie soon, and I have no clue what color to get...help?

Aptly Named

2009-02-20T19:49:00.001-10:00

This video is called Bohemian Acid, and it is 100% pure crack. Enjoy:

Did you like it? I thought so...

Happy Valentine's Day!

2009-02-14T06:37:00.002-10:00

What is up, mah fellow Blargers?
I am currently in Hilo on the Big Island.

Yesterday we looked at UH Hilo, and it's pretty nice. They really spent a lot of time talking to us--especially the Dean of Admissions!

After we looked around, we ate and went shopping. I bought a necklace made out of Honey Jade. It's very pretty. It's my Valentine's Day present to me~

Anywho, happy V-Day Blarg!

Neglect...

2009-02-08T20:13:00.008-10:00

Oh blarg, how I have neglected you. Please forgive me. Anyway, this is one of the most amazing Youtube videos ever. Please watch, and please enjoy. Just remember to wear headphones as usual ;)

Did you like it??

MiniBlarg: Passwords

2009-02-07T11:42:00.003-10:00

This is a list of 100 really bad passwords.

Be advised that a lot of them are pretty foul, but given the nature of the internet, I'm not really surprised.

Anywho, I perfer long passwords--10-20 characters long--made up of words or references that I think are funny. It helps me remember them better. I don't really have a theme with my passwords except for "hilarious, but only to me."

Also, if anyone has noticed that my spellings are awful today, that is because I am posting this using Google Chrome, and Chrome has no spellcheck because it is in perpetual beta, like the rest of Google. I would be using Firefox, but it still doesn't approve of my blogging habits.

Long time no see...

2009-02-02T20:06:00.006-10:00

You know, that sentence never really made sense to me.

Grammatically, "long time no see" makes little sense, but when have I ever cared about grammar?

Anyway, my family got a Wii. It's pretty cool.

At first my inner hardcore was all like "ew gimmicks" but then I was all like "aw snap, son. this is pretty fun."

Package Inspector Cat approved of the box, even though he didn't get to sit in it.

And as you can see, Nintendo thought it would be a good idea to put little pictures of whatever is supposed to go in the little trays inside the box. Note that there is no picture of a cat on tray "1" or tray "2," therefore, cats do not belong in this particular box/tray arrangement.

In other news, I've been working on Mock Trial and homework and my icky National History Day paper, and my cat likes to live in our kitchen cupboards:

Wow

2009-01-14T21:42:00.000-10:00

So, while doing my English homework researching satiric headlines, I wasted an hour reading pretty much everything on the Onion. And I found this video. Watch it. It is pretty much hilarious.

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

So yeah. Funny, no?

Comment Problems

2009-01-12T15:56:00.006-10:00

This post is exactly 800 words and one picture long, so be prepared.

I'm sure everyone knows by now, but I've been having problems with commenting.
Just me.
Everybody else solved their problems.
I'm the only one who can't do it now, or rather, I'm the only one who can't do it in Firefox. I commented once using Internet Explorer, I'm going to try it again using Chrome, but...I hate using both of those browsers. :(

I have decided that I am now going to post a lengthy (and probably wildly inaccurate) piece about why each browser is cool, and why each browser sucks, and then have a lengthy rant about what my problem with commenting is, and cry desperately for help.

Here we go:

Firefox

Cool:

- It works with pretty much every webpage evar.

- It's got a bunch of cool add-ons that do neat things.

- It updates frequently enough to take care of problems.

- Nice layout and tab browsing.

- Only occasionally breaks.

Sucks:

- Add-ons are not super strictly regulated by Mozilla, so if they break something in Firefox nobody knows about it and/or fixes it for a while. I have two add-ons: NoScript (selectively disables Java) and McAfee Site Advisor (shows which sites are bad and evil). One of these two add-ons (or Firefox itself) has broken the Blarg's comment system for me (screenshots and in-depth rant on that farther down).

- Tabssss. I can never, ever remember the keyboard shortcut for switching tabs.

- When Firefox occasionally breaks, its pretty darn hard to tell why, so you can't visit the site that broke it for a bajillion years because you don't know when/if someone is going to fix the error.

Summary: Uber useful, until it breaks, and then you're hosed.

Internet Explorer

Cool:

- Has some special file-veiwing features not present in other browsers.

- Pre-installed on Windows, so you always have a browser.

- Integrated into Windows for faster load time.

Sucks:

- Has some special file-veiwing features not present in other browsers because those special files it can veiw are Microsoft's proprietary file formats that NOBODY ELSE USES.

- Integrated into Windows, so you can nevar evar delete it. Also, Windows Help gets confused if it tries to open a website and IE is not your primary browser, but nobody cares about Windows Help because it's slow.

- Integrated into the Microsoft website, so that if you want to download certain things you have to use it.

Summary: If all else fails, use IE. It will probably maybe be O.K.

Chrome

Cool:

- It's from Google, so it's totally not evil.

- It imports your settings/bookmarks from other browsers.

- It's pretty fast, although Firefox 3 is giving it a run for its money.

Sucks:

- It's from Google, so it will never be out of Beta testing.

- It's in Beta testing, so a lot of plugins don't work. I mean, really, really don't work.

- Importing bookmarks is a pain, because if you do it more than once you have to rearrange them manually.

- tehre is noo speelchekar.

- Rarely, if ever, updates. And if it does update, it doesn't tell you.

Summary: Nice little browser. Incredible potential, but it just doesn't do a whole lot yet besides basic site/flash viewing. Not even Java works all the time. That may be because some sites just aren't optimized for anything but IE or Firefox, but it's crippling Chrome.

So that's my rant on browsers. I would do Safari (lame) or Opera (lol wut?) but I've never actually used either of them on a PC. Safari belongs on Macs, and I don't really know what Opera belongs on, but I've never used either long enough to develop a rant on them.

Moving on to my commenting problem:

- I can't preview comments (not that I really need to), but it's kind of annoying.

- I can't leave a comment using Firefox because the word verification box looks like this:

You see that word verification picture?

No, no you don't.

Even if I log in with my Email or even directly to the Blogger site, I can't post a comment because I somehow get logged out as soon as I hit the Blarg's main page. To edit a post, I have to go into the Blogger Dashboard, hit "edit posts" and pick the post I want, rather than just hitting the pencil icon directly on the post page.

I don't get it. I'm just so confused.

IE and Chrome don't automatically log me out; only Firefox is doing it. On top of that, I have to go to school tomorrow. :/

School is unavoidable, I can accept going to school, but this commenting problem is...infuriating.

...Any ideas, Blargers and Blarg-readers?

Furniture Blogging!

2009-01-11T17:15:00.008-10:00

'Sup Blarg?

My family bought a new piece of furniture today.
It's a chair this time, see?

Also, my cat threw up twice today.

This is the cat that threw up twice today.

Also also, I found my prom dress today.
For srs.

It's pretty, and it was on sale and it fit perfectly and we weren't even looking for a prom dress today because we don't even know what day prom is, but we found it and bought it because it was pretty and it fit well and we thought it was pretty much fate that we found that dress.

The dress is blue, by the way.
And no pictures. I don't have my shoes/accessories/makeup yet.

I would comment...

2009-01-10T13:06:00.002-10:00

But I felt it needed to post about how I felt about that particular humanitarian effort...although it is very important and should be recognized, I also feel that this one is much more worthy of our time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbPDKHXWlLQ (because I am too lazy to make a hyperlink that fits in)... :)

Comment system still broken.

2009-01-10T12:19:00.002-10:00

At least, for me its broken.

I really don't know why. At first, I thought it was because I have NoScript installed, but that wouldn't have affected Blogger because it's on my list of approved sites...

I don't know, I think that either Blogger or Firefox is broken.

Anyway, I wanted to show my support for Jake's humanitarian aid project!
Additional materials about it can be found here.

Fire Alarm

2009-01-10T08:43:00.000-10:00

   So, I've come to the conclusion that I don't like fire alarms. I was sleeping in this morning, because it's Saturday and I'm on vacation, but the hotel fire alarm wouldn't have that. So, at the ungodly hour of 8:00 in the morning, the fire alarm blasted out it's call that everyone in the building must evacuate. So, groggily, I sat up and pulled on my clothes so that I wouldn't freeze to death when I got outside. As soon as I put on my shoes and sweatshirt, the alarm stopped. No more urgent fire coming to kill us all. Damn alarm. Anyway, now that I was awake, I couldn't go back to sleep, so I went to the lobby and ate breakfast. Now I'm about to go out and have uber-loads of fun.
   I love vacation. And this one is no exception. I like spending time with my family, and I like not having much to do. In fact, the only homework I have to complete this entire trip is a couple of practice tests and my questions for mock trial. But, we took the train up and down the West Coast, and that was unbelievably amazing. Like, it was so much fun! And, I got to see all of my Jew Camp friends, but only for three days, and I miss them terribly. I went to the University of Washington on Wednesday and Thursday for various tours and meetings with counselors and such. But even that was fun. Because I'm on vacation and I love it.
   But, with the campus tours and such, comes the mad search for scholarships. So, I enrolled in this thing called fastweb.com which is a free service that matches my interests and plans for college and all that to scholarships that I'm eligible for. I think it's pretty cool. Anyway, It's already matched me with 70 scholarships, and I've already decided that I'm gonna try for a couple of them, and I still have like 60 more to go through! So, that's pretty cool. Anyway, I'm stressed, and that's not good, but I'm gonna spend my last day of vacation not being stressed. So, bye now.
   Oh, and please visit this website for me. It's a very serious humanitarian aid project that I think everyone should at least read about. Just do it, please. Thanks!

Commenting...

2008-12-28T11:12:00.003-10:00

Hahaha! Snish that was funny...

And oh so true.

:)

Grah.

2008-12-27T19:47:00.003-10:00

So, I was going to post this as a comment on the post just before mine:
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA--

Wait, wut?"

Simple, right?
Simple and pointless, right?

Not so, apparently.

For some reason, I can log in to Blogger but am immediately logged out when I go to view my own blog. Now, normally that's fine. It's no big deal.
However, that means if I want to post a comment I have to log in and do that "word verification" thing to reassure Blogger that I'm human.

Again, no big deal, except for the fact that the picture of the word I'm supposed to verify no longer appears. :/
Most mysterious.

I'm certain it's something I'm doing wrong, or some program that I've installed or something...but it bugs me.

I mean, I don't really see the benefit of using that word verification *hint, hint*.

On another note, we had a HUEG power outage last night, and didn't get electricity until this afternoon. That seriously messed with my gaming schedule because I wanted to finish Starcraft again for the umpteenth time. Oh well.

From the Frankenlabs...

2008-12-27T18:13:00.000-10:00

...is the newest abomination. I think it's funny. I wrote it on my
iPhone with shivering fingers at Union Square in San Francisco. And
it's mainly cuz I haven't posted in what seems like forever.

Christmanzakah

2008-12-18T20:01:00.002-10:00

So the Christmanzakah (Christmas+Kwanzaa+Hanukkah) Party was pretty sweet.

I totally lied about posting pictures. We were too busy eating and playing Lego Star Wars to take any pictures.

Here's a brief recreation of our lunch conversation:

OMG! School sux! OM NOM NOM.

While playing Star Wars, the conversation sounded a lot like this:

OMG! You killed my dude! RAWR.

FISSION MAILED

2008-12-18T09:40:00.004-10:00

I'm going to have two B's on my report card this quarter.
Hrrrg.
I know that's not a big deal for most people, but I was doing so awesome for a while...

Obligatory cat picture:

[Obligatory remark about dumb thing cat is doing.]

Having a Christmas party soon. Will post pictures.

Lolz

2008-12-08T18:59:00.000-10:00

Haha. This picture is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Yeah...

2008-11-30T00:36:00.006-10:00

So I've been editing the video like craaazy. Almost done, which is good since it's due Monday. Funny thing is, it's only supposed to be 5 to 8 minutes long. Ours is....about 15 minutes long. I don't think Heeyeong will mind, though. She'll be more amused than anything. Here, have the opening to our romantic comedy Korean drama "episode":

Hopefully you weren't expecting much. I'm not amazing when it comes to editing video (and WMM isn't the best program for video editing, anyways). And here's the quick drawing I did for the beginning of the opening. From left to right: Jessica, Sasha, me, and Jorden.

Huzzah!

Thanksgiving = Awesome.

2008-11-29T20:20:00.003-10:00

'Nuff said. Ate a lot of food, saw the family. Yeah. It was cool.

Bitchin', even.

My cat did interesting things, too.
Like this:

He's eating a cookie. The cookie was decoration, of course, but he climbed up the tree to eat it.
Luckily, that's a fake tree, so it's made of metal. The regular wood trees probably wouldn't be able to support his colossal weight.

Oh, I found a new machinima. Don't ask me what that word means. We have Google for that now. (Of course, you could just go here, but that ~~may not~~ will not help.)

Anywho I present to you: Civil Protection. I know this is a clip about Halloween. It's still funny.

(FYI: Don't listen to Dave. ~~Only listen to Dave when~~ Never listen to Dave. I probably should have told you that earlier.)

The Usual

2008-11-27T22:26:00.004-10:00

So yeah, I'm gonna, once again, forgo the usual disclaimer of how I'm so busy and that's why I've been neglecting everything evar. I'm sure you've heard it too often. Anyway, despite my busy-ness, I've been having an ok week. Except for Tuesday. I had an AP Calculus midterm (we have 3 of them and one final in a semester) and I was freaking out all day. Sorry to anyone I may have pissed off in the process. But I think I did okay on it, so I'm crossing my fingers. This quarter is almost over, and that's pretty awesome. Except that I don't know my grades for several of my classes. And I have an 89.5 % in AP Calc, not including the horrible midterm of doom. So I really need an "A" to keep my grade. But yeah, I also have to do all of my NHD this weekend. I have three days, and not much else going on, so it should be fine, but, in that time, I must finish writing my paper, alphabetize 100 sources, and annotate all of them. So, yeah, that should be fun.

Anyway, I had an amazing day today. I helped

my parents cook all day, and it was incredibly fun. I made the pie crusts and they turned out fairly amazing, if I may say so myself. Dinner was huge, as is usual of Thanksgiving, but it was also hilarious. We were eating pie, and, of course, we have whipped cream on this pie. We're all talking when all of the sudden, we hear a loud smack. I looked over to the source of the commotion and i found a piece of my dad's pumpkin pie on the ground next to his chair, and some of the whipped cream on the arm of the chair. Sorry that the picture is so blurry, but I was laughing too hard to take a good picture. So yeah, I'd say it's safe to say that I had an amazing day.

Also, expect to begin finding random pictured being posted to blarg randomly at random. You have been warned.

2008-11-27T22:09:00.003-10:00

Just so you guys know, I finally got the video to work and converted it and everything. I'm gonna edit tomorrow. I reeealllydlygsl don't wanna mess with it anymore at the moment, haha. But yes! Much love to Jake, Sarah, and Eleanor for helping out. Ilu guys.

I hope everyone had an awesome Thanksgiving! I know I did. We ate at our neighbor's and Kim and Wimpy always make an insane amount of food. But then again like...30 other people came over, too. We had turkey, roast beef, ham, stir fried shrimp, stuffing, mashed potatoes, yams, rice, kimchi, some Philipino noodle thingy, potato salad, lots and LOTS of different kinds of pie, and cream puffs. I only had to eat once today, hahaha.

Here, have another random art piece thing of my robot character (that's my name in Korean in the corner~)

Camp Green, November 23rd, 2008.

2008-11-23T15:35:00.003-10:00

To my esteemed peers at Camp Blarg;
I have received your inquiry regarding the status of my free time.
It is currently unclear when, or how, I will be able to leave Camp Green to return to Blarg Company. I do, however, see this battle coming within a measurable distance of its end.

If it will end in my victory, I cannot say, but all I can do for now is pray.
If I am to fail, I assure you that I will not disgrace our beloved Blarg.

General Wrangle has been to visit me to-day, and made his presence known by his usual way.
I made known my intentions to relocate him and his F-Division "Jumpers" to the Southern expanse.
He is commonly a quiet fellow, as you know, but he made it clear that he had no intention of abandoning his post here at Camp Green. He was perfectly respectful, as we have come to expect of him, but I have acquiesced to his requests. His company proved to be most beneficial in the battle to-day.

Indeed, the good Genl. W has proven to be a far more capable fighter than I initially gave him credit for. I do foresee his promotion to commander of the 1st Corps, provided his attitude does not interfere with his ability. I think, perhaps, the only way to break him of his fiery nature would be to install him as Admiral of the Gulf of Bathtub. That would, however, rob him of the aggressiveness that I do so require of him on the field of battle.

I digress, however. The situation here at Camp Green is stable, but tension is mounting as the enemy draws near. I look forward to your next corrispondence. Ever your obidient servant,

Genl. Snish III

Now go back to the top and read it in your head with a Southern accent.
Do it.

Halp!

2008-11-21T12:06:00.002-10:00

I am stuck in school. D:

It won't be long before they find me, so I'll have to be quick:

The key is with the monkey.

Tell the security guard that the device has been modified.

I wish I could tell you more but--

Ack, they're coming for me...

I've got to go but remember:

You must never, ever push the

Hilarious Translation Screw-Up

2008-11-15T21:16:00.001-10:00

Need I say more?

CAT DEFEATS BATHTUB, VIDEO AT 11

2008-11-15T13:12:00.003-10:00

I'm kidding. The video is a lie.

My cat escaped from the house today, and as punishment I attempted to wash his paws in the bathtub.
Not only was I reminded of teh kitteh's natural haet of water, but I realized the futility of trying to clean cats in general:
They lick their own butts. I'm fairly certain they can take care of dirty paws.

While ruminating on that particular piece of folly, I also started thinking about the pointlessness of SAT words. Verily, large vocabularies are important to education, but how many of those SAT words are actually used in everyday communication? Who, aside from literature enthusiasts and other writers, actually employs SAT words on a day to day basis?

It seems silly to me that someone who was going to major in a math or science would have to memorize a bunch of words just to get into college. I understand the importance of well-rounded individuals, but... I forget where I was going with that.

I think the only reason I brought this whole thing up is the fact that I'm working on flashcards for my AP Language and Composition class. Flashcards of rhetorical devices. Flashcards of rhetorical devices that we should have started working on in first quarter so that we could start using said rhetorical devices in the barrage of essays and speeches that our teacher has assigned and only arbitrarily graded. And by "arbitrarily graded," I mean that he grades our papers using a very definite rubric, but does not tell anyone how he grades them so that it appears to be an arbitrarily assigned percentage grade, and the only way we can possibly improve our writing is by following his 1-2 word instructions at the end of our work.
/rant

Gawsh. I'm really starting to hate school. If I could redo my schedule for this year, it would look very, very different.

I has lots of art

2008-11-14T12:05:00.007-10:00

First off: Sarah, I lost the drawing of that bobcat I drew for you but I'll just be drawing it on my computer. So I may end up coloring it and everything, haha.

College, as always, is taking a lot of my time. I have a huuuuge paper to write for my oceanography lab. I'm doing it about beach erosion. I feel so freaking dorky because I LOVE oceanography. I find crap like water salinity and plate tectonics to be so interesting, haha. I mean it's good because it means I'm in the right field, but I just feel lame because I'm all O: all the time about everything. Oh, and then for my Korean class we have to write a 5 page script, all in Korean, and make a video. So my group and I are going to make a spoof Korean drama episode. It will be full of lulz. On a random note: Today in ocean. lecture my professor showed us a picture of Michael Jackson while talking about evolution.

Bora's moved back in, too. On Monday. Stuff's been going on with her that I don't want to openly share to the internet, but it's been pretty hard on her so she's had to move back in. Which is awesome (until we start getting in our huge fights again). Adds a lot more spontaneousness to my life. Like on Wednesday we randomly went to Hanauma Bay. It was for one of my field trips I've gotta do for oceanography, but still. She was just chillin' on my bed and was like "Let's go to Hanauma Bay for your class thing." And so we did.

And now for lots of random doodles. The wolf, deer, and bear are more pet concepts for that one site. The lioness and the girl with the eye patch are from a game I was in where you drew for the person above you on this forum for said pet site that I'm drawing for. The robot head is my own little Transformers character in the 2007 movie style whom I'm redesigning(I'm a dork D8), and then the cyborg chick is for this girl I met online who liked my art and asked if I could draw one of her characters for her. She loves her design so much that she's now commissioned me to draw a pin-up girl style tattoo for her. She's paying me $75 freakin' bucks for it! And MY ART is going to be tattooed on her body FOREVER. Awesome.

Guess what?

2008-11-13T17:35:00.005-10:00

~~Chicken butt!~~ I suck at trigonometry!

Yeah. I mean, I really suck. I've already messed up any chance I ever had of getting an A this quarter, but I suck at trig, so...

Anyway, ~~I paid the~~ my parents paid the deposit for my class ring today.
Some people don't understand the attraction of having a high school ring.
While it is true that certain people just aren't attracted to shiny objects the way ~~birds are~~ I am, there are other reasons for having a school ring, besides adding to your bling collection.

1) ~~Class rings are shiny~~ Class rings symbolize four (or more) years of hard work. I've busted my bum in high school. I really have. All my friends and family know the angst that I have suffered and made them share. I want a shiny thing to remind me that yes, I pwned high school and no, I'm not ever going back there. Ever.

2) ~~Everyone needs moar bling~~ My ring might be an heirloom one day. Or, even better, part of a museum 9001 years from now in an exhibit entitled: "Things Primitive Humans Wore On Their Hands For No Reason." Because, you know, in the future all sentences will be run-on sentences as humanity reverts back to the good ol' verbose days of like, the Victorian era or something.

~~3) ????~~

~~4) Profit!~~

And now for something completely different:

Hey, Blarg, do you know anything about Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw?

He's pretty much my favorite critic of anything ever. Sure, he is a bit obscene is his angry, Austrailian-British way, but that's just ~~because he has no friends~~ what makes his reviews interesting: he's cynical.

He'll tell you everything that's wrong with a game, then the one or two good things, and then leave the viewer decide on their own if they're willing to play the game and live with the consequences.
I'm a biter, so I was thinking about making a review of...something... just for fun, using his style but not so many of his swear-words. Naturally I'll put my own spin on it and give him proper credit for all his hard work, but I seriously think the dude is a genius and I think I wanna give it a go.

...But what should I do, Blarg?
What is there for me to be appropriately cynical about?
Don't say school. Everyone picks school.

On a completely different note:
I think ~~I've been abusing the strikethrough~~ I love the strikethrough font.
And yes, I am aware that I am not "leet" just because I know how to use one or two html tags.

...You're all ~~noobs~~ wonderful people...

Look at all the purty blogs...

2008-11-13T05:50:00.002-10:00

I think you guys started a blogging revolution.... I was randomly looking at blogs and found Eleanors and Farahs...then I found Dericks...so many pictures of Mililani... GO MHS! And so my school my school wont be offended *sigh* GO NAHS.

In the Doghouse

2008-11-12T21:47:00.000-10:00

I know it's not the most meaningful post when I haven't posted in too long of a time, but I just saw this video and had to share. I had to watch it twice to make sure it was real. Hope it helps make you laugh. My whole family thought I was psychotic.

私　は　大きい　ねこです。

2008-11-01T15:53:00.003-10:00

For those of you who can't read Japanese, the title says: "I am a large cat."

Why is it in Japanese? I don't know.

Why are these cats so fat?
Again, I don't know.

This cat on the left here, he...

Well, he depresses me.

He looks like someone I know, and while that someone isn't quite so fat, the resemblance is...depressing.

Cats are majestic creatures. Even when they weigh more than you do, they still manage to look at you with contempt and can shamelessly ask for more food at all hours of the day.

I guess that's why I like them, though. They're all so comfortable in their own skins (furs? Hmmm...).

Anywho, I'm totally out of any actually interesting topics to Blarg about, so be prepared to see a bunch of random things instead of content that might actually be relevant to whatever it is the Blarg is supposed to be about.

...I know you're thinking that the other 200+ Blarg posts have been pretty random, but I'm just warning you that these next few could be even randomer (more random? :/ )

......

太っている　ねこ　は　太っているです。*

*Fat cat is fat.

The Chair

2008-10-26T18:01:00.008-10:00

I got a new chair today.

It is a large, cushy chair that makes my posterior feel like it's resting upon the top of a cloud. Well, not quite a cloud. Clouds are wet and...You know what I mean. It feels nice.

We just wandered over to Office Max and I said "That one." And then they brought me the chair, and I gave them some money, and the transaction was complete...

...Until I got home and had to put the darn thing together. It was simple enough (chair technology is NOT that complicated) but my dad laughed at me because...

Let's just say I looked really silly. But that's okay because chairs are srs bzns.

Anywho, I've realized that I've been posting about furniture a lot, and that's boring, so here are some pictures of my cat instead:

Here is my cat looking at something other than me.

He does that a lot, actually.

It's kind of funny, because I'm one of the people that plays with him, but he kinda considers me furniture.

I just keep telling myself that "It's just how cats are!"

But...

When the furry little menace does look at me, his face looks like this:
Yeah, my cat loves me.

Watch. Now.

2008-10-15T20:21:00.000-10:00

You WILL NOT regret it. This is possibly one of the funniest videos in the history of the world. It involves french canadians, a rocket launcher, and FAIL.

so yes, now that you have watched it, your day should be better knowing that you are not a french canadian failure.

This Past Week

2008-10-13T19:15:00.000-10:00

This is gonna be a long one, so be prepared. All rights belong to Blarg the Blog, Inc. Please don't post on other sites. Fake disclaimer over.

Anyway, Last Saturday, I spent the entire day watching Firefly, as noted in a previous post. On Sunday, I did my usual stuff, and then downloaded and watched Serenity. I spent the whole week relaxing and watching Firefly and Serenity over and over again. In fact, up until last night, I watched Serenity ever single night of the week. On Wednesday, I made Sarah come over and we hung out and watched Firefly. This time on my HDTV with her DVD set. On Friday, I went to lunch at Chili's with Sarah and Eleanor for my Birthday. That was awesome!!
Saturday was Joel's birthday. I went to work and then we had dinner and Joel got his presents. But, here's the big selling point:
Sunday was my birthday! So yes, I am now 16 years old. This is cool. Anyway, we went to Benihana's for dinner, and it was delicious. I got a Border's gift card, an HD handheld video camera, and a pair of in-ear headphones. So yeah, that was possible. But wait, there's more.
Today, I woke up at 7 am and I . . . wait for it . . . flew an AIRPLANE!!! I flew a prop plane from Honolulu International to Kalaeloa Airport. That was absolutely amazing. I have pictures and video, but not on my comp yet. Anyway, that was my break, and it was awesome.

So I was doing homework...

2008-10-13T11:21:00.014-10:00

...And my parents come home with this piece of furniture.
(FYI: This post is longer than Longcat)
It's nice, right? It's an antique, so my mom was all like "OMG! Perfect!"

There was this crazy wine shelf stuck inside. It, too, was an antique, and therefore cost $75.

Now, we did not pay for this wine shelf. It was supposed to be removed from the cabinet before we got it home. But, you see, it was inside the cabinet, and was too big to be pulled out of it. What I mean by that is, the cabinet doors made the opening one inch too narrow to remove the shelf.

So the packing guys were all like: How do I removed shelf??
And the other packing guys were all like: ¯\(°_o)/¯

So we got the shelf for free.
All we had to do was take the doors off the cabinet, and boom! Free shelf. Awesome, huh?
It gets awesomer.

There's a built-in entertainment center in my "TV room." You know, the kind of custom-built thing, made out of indestructible oak or something. We pulled the shelves out of it because we weren't using them. Turns out, the old shelves fit perfectly inside the new cabinet.

I mean, we're talking "Dude, what the hell?!" kind of perfect.

I know this isn't really Blarg-worthy material, but it is the most random thing that's happened to me all year.

It also gave me an excuse to clean out my gaming cabinet.

Take a look: (Fullview for maximum effect.)

Yeah, so....
If anyone tells you "Blarg readers are weird," I want you to tell them "Duh."

Firefly

2008-10-06T11:27:00.000-10:00

I had seen previews for it a couple years back, but I never actually watched it. On Saturday, I finally decided to watch it. IT WAS AMAZING!!!! Seriously, it was one of the best shows I have ever watched! Why did it get cancelled?! Fox is a stupid network (which I already knew) for canceling that show. It is seriously amazing. For all of you that have never watched it, I beg of you, please do! The entire half-season (all that was aired) is on hulu.com. So please, it's free and it's on the internet and it's in great quality. Please please please watch it. That is all. Oh, and, after finishing watching every episode, I watched the movie. It was sad and great at the same time. So yeah, that's my weekend. How was yours?

Dude.

2008-10-06T02:56:00.002-10:00

If I hear another word about this one girl's, who sits behind me, relationship I do not know what I am going to do. I was clearly sympathetic the first 120 minutes... do not push my limits people. I don't care. I might care a bit more if I knew anything about the 2 guys who she was talking about. But I did not know them. And do not really care to. :P

I have a B+ in English. Nobody has an A. He is clearly insane. :) But that is one of the classes I actually like, along with math and Model UN. My math teacher is funny... he is clearly ADD...if that is an acceptable adjective. :) In our first class with him, he finished 2 monsters and started a Red Bull... ya.

We went to the mall Sunday, and we walked and got McDonalds and gelato. :D
But you guys have no idea how nice it is to go to the mall and have things priced....acceptably.
Everything here is double the price.
A DS game: 45 euro (ya, like 60 bucks)
Shoes: 50 euro or more
a small drink at McDonalds: 2 euro

Gelato was okay priced... 1,70 euro for a small....really small, but really good. so good that you might have to come and try it for yourself...(lol, or there is a place downtown over by the Army Museum)

OMFG!!!!!

2008-10-03T21:15:00.000-10:00

One of my friends just wrote this. I would like to yell at her until she simply shuts up and never speaks again. It makes no sense, and doesn't give any thought to it's future implications. It pretty much exemplifies everything that is a Democrat.

Dear Red States...

We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and

we're taking the other Blue States with us.

In case you aren't aware, that includes Hawaii , Oregon , Washington

, Minnesota , Wisconsin , Michigan , Illinois and all the

Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and

especially to the people of the new country of New California.

To sum up briefly: You get Texas , Oklahoma and all the slave

states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches.

We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood.

We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.

We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss.

We get 85 percent of America 's venture capital and entrepreneurs.

You get Alabama .

We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states

pay their fair share.

Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Christian

Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of

single moms.

Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war,

and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If

you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they're

apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, and they

don't care if you don't show pictures of their children's caskets

coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq , and hope that the WMDs

turn up, but we're not willing to spend our resources in Bush's

Quagmire.

With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent

of the country's fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple and

lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95 percent of

America's quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners)

90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most of

the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors,

all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools, plus Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cal

Tech and MIT.

With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with

88 percent of all obese Americans (and their projected health care

costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the

tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all Southern

Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh,

Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.

We get Hollywood and Yosemite , thank you.

Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was

actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred unless

we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent say that

evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was involved in 9/11

and 61 percent of you crazy b ** ***ds believe you are people with

higher morals then we lefties.

By the way, we're taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt weed

they grow in Mexico .

Peace out,

Blue States

So yeah, it's also poorly formatted. Anyway, it has too many holes and flaws for me to even attempt to refute all of them. God, it pisses me off. I am also sick. This too sucks.

Just One More

2008-10-03T20:59:00.002-10:00

To lift your spirits just a little more, a small dosage of schadenfreude is due. So, here, watch people fail epically and miserably over and over again.

It's not really that bad compared to the thumbnail. Don't worry, I wouldn't put anything like that on blarg.

Hilarious Video

2008-10-03T20:45:00.000-10:00

So this is a pretty epic video. All I'll say is that it involves a gummy bear and swedish. So please, watch, and feel all of the tension of the week depart from your body. Yeah, kinda karmatic huh?

Pretty funny? Thought so.

Asfaldkgfla.

2008-09-28T15:19:00.008-10:00

Holy crap you guys there is so much to be excited about right now.

OKAY SO this guy contacted me over on deviantART and wants me to be an artist for this pet site he's making. I'm too much of a procrastinator for that, so we agreed that I could be a concept artist for pets and stuff. So that's cool. Every concept of mine they use I get paid for.

Here's a concept I made for a deer pet:

Its antlers are inspired by tribal tattoos. This is the normal design it comes in. There's a color on the site called Celestial that I want to design the deer for. Its antlers will be based off of lace for that one.

NEXT UP is the fact that Alyxe is going to be visiting this week! I AM SO EXCITED. I miss her so much so this will be epic. She's not sure what day yet, but who caressssssss. She's going to be here yayayayayay.

I am a fox-otter.

2008-09-27T22:38:00.005-10:00

Remember when we took all those patronus quizzes...
well i found a new one and took it and i am a fox and/or otter... which is funny cause i was just talking bout otters yesterday.
if i ever find the link again i will post it...lol
its funny how what we like so often cooresponds with our personality.
my sister did a color personality project...and psychology is just amazing.
:)

and i just played piano for 2 hours straight. owned.

Sorry so much

2008-09-25T21:14:00.001-10:00

It seems that none of us has been updating in forever. truth be told, this week has been killing me. it is only thursday night, but this has been one of the longest weeks of my life. this is the first night of the week that i am not busy working on homework. i have had major amounts of work in every class, even the cruise ones. i have had literally no time to go online, and i am very sad about that. however, tonight, i had no homework, so i'm happy. but yeah, i've also been reading a lot. i love reading, and i don't get to do it often enough, but i kind of retract from the world when i'm into a good book. this is the case now. the time that i haven't been working, i have been reading. i finished one book over the weekend. it's called State of Fear by Michael Chrichton. it is an AMAZING book. i highly recommend everyone in the world read it, especially those people who are devout believers in global warming. it is highly critical of Americans, so our overseas readers should enjoy (hint hint ;D) and it has amazing factual proof. we've been working on logos, ethos, and pathos in AP Language, and i can say that, unlike most novels, it appeals to logos nearly as much as it does to pathos. It even has a bibliography and footnotes!! i personally haven't checked out every citation, but i have read reviews from people who have, and they check out. so really, i like it a lot, and you should all read it! also, i am currently reading the latest book in the Inheritance Series, Brisingr. It's pretty good. way better than Eldest. so, im happy about that. now i must go back to reading. so long and thanks for all the fish!
-macgeekjew

Weekend

2008-09-20T11:03:00.004-10:00

So, I've been having a particularly awesome weekend so far. And it's only half over. On Thursday, I slept in late. very very late. and then i met eleanor and carol at pearlridge. we watched a pretty horrible movie (the house bunny), but it was so stupid and horrible that parts of it were funny. and then we went shopping. eleanor got sunglasses and tried to find a bag. then we just went in random stores complaining about all the prices. and then we had arby's for dinner. oh! and i had hiccoughs for like ever on thursday.

on friday, i met grace and michelle on the trolley and we went to mock trial. it was pretty much awesome, cuz we just hung out and talked and ate. then i went to meet my dad for lunch. it was pretty awesome. i got ribs and fried okra. i love fried okra. but the ribs were only passable. then i came home and watched v for vendetta. AMAZING movie!! i now want to watch it again. and again. and again.

now today i am relaxing and then im gonna go and play golf this afternoon. but i still haven't touched any of my homework. and i have a lot of it. oh well. i must eat. i had no breakfast and i am hungry.

OH! AND YESTERDAY WAS INTERNATIONAL TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY AND IT WAS AWESOME!! I EVEN DOWNLOADED AN IPHONE APP FOR IT!! BUT YEAH, I LIEK ALL CAPS!!1!!!111!1!!

Read this NAO!!!!

2008-09-20T09:38:00.002-10:00

lol....this is an awesome book...
the Parrot's Theorem...the author is on ze other blog...but it is an awesome book which made me appreciate math *gasp!*
And I'm not even done with it yet!

Dear Blarg:

2008-09-18T08:32:00.004-10:00

Last night, I played video games for a million-bajillion hours last night.
It was really fun, and it gave me and my PS3 plenty of time to catch up, because we haven't been seeing much of each other lately.

Also, it made me realize how much I hate PS2 games. I mean, I loved the heck out of them in the pre-PS3 days, but now that I've seen the goodness of HD graphics and gameplay with a Cell Processor...I don't want to go back. Yes, the reason I was adamant about getting the 60-gigabyte PS3 was because I wanted the backwards compatibility, but that was only because good ol' PStriple didn't have any me games yet.

You know what I mean.

Me games. Those games that only you and a small group of other people ever actually liked. They weren't big enough to be mainstream, but enough people bought them that developers kept making them.

Anywho, what was I writing to you about...
Oh, yes. Today I am staying home to do homework. And I'm not going to change out of my pajamas. I've found that I'm slightly more relaxed when wearing pajamas; not because of any special pajama-technology, but merely because I feel I can look at the world and say:
"So I didn't get dressed this morning. I'm not even going to brush my hair today. Whaddayagonnadoaboutit?"

Also, my essay for English is not as good as I'd like it to be. No one else who has read it has laughed at it, but you know what? I think it's funny. Whaddayagonnadoaboutit?

It's a bird! It's a Plane!

2008-09-14T15:27:00.006-10:00

...It's YOUR MOM.

Kidding. It's actually your dad.

Anyway, I was seriously emo this weekend.
I mean, for real depressed for absolutely no reason.
Sure, I had craploads of homework, but that's normal, and I don't usually become THAT horribly sad about it. For some reason, this weekend was different.

I spent the last part of Friday asleep, wasted away in Driver's Ed on Saturday, then came home and whined and felt sorry for myself all Saturday afternoon and night. Sunday morning was kind of depressing, too, because I realized that I hadn't gotten anything done, but now at least I've partially recovered my will to do crap.

Also, I still don't have anything done, so don't expect to hear from me until, like, next year or something. XD

Kidding.

I'll probably post again tomorrow, whining some more.
Aren't you so glad you read this blog?

Anyway...The Blarg Security Guard Cat says:

Unless you don't want to. That's cool, too, I guess.

Somebody needs to post.

2008-09-13T08:27:00.002-10:00

Hi...i figured we needed a post...so here is one
:)
well...today i had rehearsal which i missed cause i went to the wrong place and then the bus didnt come for like forever.
so yes...this has been the story of my day.
:)
ur turn
TAG UR IT

HaHaHa

2008-09-08T21:35:00.003-10:00

Sarah's stupid CCC tag link thing is a "naughty" link and "much like head lice, needs to be eliminated before it spreads." Wow, srsly, epic fAiL!!!1!1!1!!!one!1! but yeah, i'll leave it up for 24 hours so people can see it's level of uber failure and laugh at it. and then i'll take it down and beat it in the alley like the useless piece of crap it is. it is located in the upper-left hand corner of the blarg. i must now leave so i can finish my APUSH notes, even though they are worthless.

Yeah, so...

2008-09-08T19:35:00.002-10:00

This past week, I've been looking at my trig book and thinking:

Needless to say, I'm lost.

Wow.

2008-09-06T20:43:00.003-10:00

I'm obviously really really bad at blarging. I'll have to work on that. Anyway, I had a pretty good day today. I woke up early, but it wasn't that bad. I discovered that if I could wake up at 7 every morning, I wouldn't be so tired. Anyway, I caught the trolley (the bus that goes around our town, for our international reader ;) at 8 with Michelle and Grace and we went to Starbucks before the Mock Trial preview.

Anyway, we got there and it was quite depressing. We had coffee, but it still wasn't all better. AP Gov is just really bad at this whole Mock Trial thing. I mean, you'd think they'd be better than us if they're older, but I guess their inexperience really kills them. But really, the whole trial made me want to cry. It was horrible. Then I took charge afterwards - Sarah wasn't there, so someone had to - and grouped our team and led a discussion on the entire trial. I'm sooooo proud of our team. They noticed almost all of the possible objections, and they noticed the issues with flow and questioning and acting (the first prosecution witness cried on the stand, so sad) and it was amazing. So that started to turn my day around.
After we finished our discussion, Titus, Noah, Michelle, Grace, Farah, and I all went to Town Center. First we went to Zippy's. We went to the sit-down side and got waters and realized that everything on the menu was too expensive. So then we decided to split a pie. But, the people that run Zippy's told us we could only order by slice, and that was expensive. But, our waiter was really nice and ordered it from the bakery counter and just let us leave to go pick it up. We left him a tip even though we didn't buy anything from him. We then got our pie and went to the other side and ate it. It was delicious, but oh-so-filling.
Anyway, after we did that, we still felt like eating real food, and not just pie. So we went to Star Market to get musubis. On the way to Star, we stopped by the place with all the Hello Kitties, and decided that we were gonna collect money from last year's GT people to get Kaneko and couple huge hello kitties. At Star, Titus and I got musubis and Noah got fried rice. Michelle, Farah, and Grace ate at Loco Moco, and we met them there.

Then Grace and I took the trolley home. I spent the rest of the day watching How I Met Your Mother online and cleaning out my room and reading old letters and postcards and looking at old pictures. It was fun. Except that I didn't get any work done and now have two essays and a whole chapter of notes to do tomorrow. Oo

There is drama in Mock Trial.

2008-09-04T17:38:00.003-10:00

I know some people are gonna look at that title and say "Duh. You argue about stuff in Mock Trial. It's SUPPOSED to be dramatic."

This is a different kind of drama. :/

It's not the fun kind, so I'm kinda sad.

I'm not going to go into the super fine details here, because I feel bad about gossipping, but this is the gist of it:

There is one lawyer (who shall not be named) who does not come to meetings, but still expects to be listened to during group discussions. This lawyer does not know what is going on, but expects everyone to drop everything and pay attention to said lawyer when said lawyer walks into the room.

It's really not fun. But, Ms. Delmundo has given us some super good advice on how to deal with it, so that's nice. :)

On an almost completely different note:

There is a yellow paper being passed around the Mock Trial group. Somebody gave the paper to Jake, who gave it to Mrs. Perruso, who gave it to Ms. Delmundo, who signed it and gave it to me.

Nobody knows what this paper is for.

It appears to be a money-collection form, but this is perplexing because Mock Trial is a club that never has any monies. We would like to has moneys, to pay for snacks and stuff (because everyone likes snacks), but the people in our club are consistently broke.

It's just a little weird.

Also, I have become aware that my spell-checker no longer works.

I should probably fix that...

...But instead I'm going to procrastinate. XD

Bekka! Send me your friend code if you're not busy!

Baaaaw.

2008-09-02T15:20:00.006-10:00

Whiney post ahead. Kind of. I don't know I haven't really planned on what I'm going to say but we'll see how it goes SO YEAH hi.

First off, Sunday was fun. BUT OHMYGOD SARAH I was so looking forward to being able to hang out with you and then you DON'T SHOW UP. You could've coooome with us to Chili's and stuff. I could have kicked Jake out of the car so there would be room for you. That is if you had COME in the first place.

Oh I also have big bruises around my ankles from the skates but it's coo'.

I know you guys probably have it harder than I do at the moment, but GUH I have a lot of work to do for school and I am so tired. I have a test tomorrow in Korean so I hafta study insanely because I haven't even memorized hangul yet or the sounds they make and what they look like and blah. So after this post I'll have to make myself some flashcards like I told myself I would before the long weekend started BUT LOOK WHERE I AM NOW. I need to stop procrastinating.

Theeeen I must study for my Oceanography Lab and Chemistry Lab tests coming up at the end of this week. And I need to do my assignments for Chemistry. I think there's something else I hafta do but I don't remember. I'm concentrating on Korean the most right now though.

OH BY THE WAY YOU GUYS for Oceanography I have to go on two field trips on my own time which means I can bring friends along so it isn't as boring. SO I want you guys to look here and tell me which two you guys would be interested in doing with me. I mean you don't have to go at all I'm just asking everyone I know because I don't wanna do them allll by myself. Look at the ones that say self-guided. The group ones are for my Oceanography Lab. Oh and I can do them anytime before December 10th.

Today while I was wandering around campus during my one and a half hour break before my next class I came across this dude giving out free planners if you filled out a form about alcohol and stuff. And so I did. It's a pretty freaking sweet planner, too. It was really ironic, though, as I stopped by the Bookstore earlier to go buy one only to bump into him. So awesome.

UM wow that wasn't as whiney as I thought it would be. I think I just forgot everything I wanted to talk about once I started typing. So...here. Have me kissing a kitten. Because everyone loves kittens.

Guuuuu~ I miss my long hair kind of sometimes ;~; Anyways, the cat's name is Genevieve. He's a dude, but Alyxe and I didn't know that when we named him. And it just sort of stuck. She tried to call him Genocide for a while but reverted back to Genevieve.

Oh and here's a cool dragon, too. Gotta make sure all my posts have one of my drawings, yeah?

JACK THOMPSON GOT PWND!

2008-09-01T12:32:00.002-10:00

This article has made my day.

With one less maniac out of the courtroom, the Gamers of America can sleep a little better tonight.

Don't know who Jack Thompson is?
He's one of those people that think video games make children violent.
I think bad parenting makes children violent, but that's just me...
Jack Thompson used to sue video game companies based on poorly researched "facts," supported by maybe one or two people who actually agreed with his baseless arguments.
However, the actual amount of real litigating Thompson did was minimal; most of his activism against gaming was a lot of angry speeches and intimidation.

The man's just a bad lawyer, the Florida bar is kicking him out of the courtroom 4EVAR, and nothing of value will be lost.

I'm so lame.

2008-08-31T19:18:00.003-10:00

Yeah, so, I was supposed to go ice-skating today with some really cool people.
Only, I didn't go because I had homework galore.
Before anyone says "why didn't you do it on Saturday?" I submit to you that on Saturday I was in a Driver's Ed class for five hours. When I got home, my brain was absolutely fried.
Today, before the ice-skating was supposed to occur, I went to lunch with my grandparents. When I returned, the sheer excessive-fullness in my stomach forced me to take a nap.

Which means I got nothing done. Luckily, tomorrow is a holiday, so I have one more day to work, but... :(

I'm only whining because I have no life.

On another note, post 240, FTW!

So Everything Didn't Exactly Go Wrong

2008-08-26T14:48:00.010-10:00

Okay so my first day of college was decent. Nothing mind blowing but definitely new. I was able to get to my first class by myself without having to use a map (yay!) and met some new people. It was Korean, by the way, and apparently everyday but Tuesdays in that class we cannot use English at all. Which I don't understand how that works when we haven't even really started learning anything yet. But I guess that's their way of making us study.

My second class on my first day was Oceanography. I at first thought I knew where it was, but the building I went to was in the opposite direction of where I needed to go, and I only had about four minutes left out of my ten to get there. Managed to make it at the last second and, unlike Korean which was in a small class with about 18 other people, I was in a lecture hall with over 100. It was actually a bit comforting, to tell you the truth. You may not be able to ask questions but you can always go and see your Professor during office hours to ask them. And knowing that you won't be put on the spot to answer some impossible question is helpful to know. The Professor teaching that day (as there are three different ones that'll be teaching the class) was hilarious and had a British accent. That of course gave him +50 awesome points. I hope the other two are just as cool.

After that day while I was heading across campus to the parking structure, some random guy asked me for directions to one of the libraries and I was able to tell him accurately. Which I find kind of ironic seeing as I was a freshman and that was my very first day. But then again, even though he was obviously 20-something it could have been his first day there, too. Still, I like to feel proud of myself for that.

Now TODAY was more interesting. Well, not interesting, but complicated. Unlike my first day where I was able to get a parking spot on campus, they sold out early so I went on a 40 minute adventure in the surrounding area to find myself a parking spot on the side of the road. I ended up parking about half a mile away DOWNHILL and had to walk all the way back UPHILL. I was ten minutes late for my Korean class, but I didn't get in trouble and simply slid into a seat and started taking notes. I was absolutely FLIPPING out beforehand, though, while I was driving. I almost wanted to pull over somewhere to cry.

After Korean I had a one and a half hour break before Chemistry. So I just found someplace to chill, took out Waltz, and surfed the internet and chatted online. Pretty awesome. When it WAS time for Chemistry I meandered my way into the lecture hall and managed to get myself a good seat before 200+ students filed in afterwords.

It was very interesting, to say the least. The Professor...er, Doctor, was really nice. He seems understanding and calm and is unintentionally funny, which is a plus. After going over our syllabus and him telling us the basics of Chemistry he went right into demonstrations. He had a thermos full of liquid dry ice, or whatever its real name is, and started to play with it by pouring it out into something else and then pouring out the smoke. He then took the cup and flung the contents RIGHT into the crowd but it vaporized before hitting anyone. Didn't stop the people in the front row from screaming, though. Then he set some things on fire and blew two things up.

Pretty awesome day today, if I do say so myself. Except for the whole parking fiasco. But I can overlook that.

ANYWAYS have some art.

Oh and movies at Pearl Ridge tomorrow guys?

Hey Guys

2008-08-25T19:31:00.000-10:00

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, but i've been slightly busy. School is eating me alive this year, and I've actually had to cut down on my internet time :O
but yeah, sry bout that. but, other than school, everything's going great. i'm missing my camp jews a lot, but i got to see one of them this past weekend. so that was cool. and yeah, bekka we need to hang out. rly, i haven't seen u in a rly long time. and yeah, im kinda rambling and not making any sense whatsoever, so im just gonna leave now.

Holy Crap You Guys Collegeeeee

2008-08-24T19:57:00.009-10:00

Tomorrow is my first day of college and I am so nervous. I don't know what to expect. I only have two classes, but only ten minutes between to get to the other building, so hopefully I don't get too lost and can get there in time. I get out at 11:20 AM, though. Sexy.

I wasn't able to buy a parking pass before they sold out, so I hafta leave around 7:30 AM to try and get to the parking structure before they close it to people who don't have parking passes. If I can't get a spot in there I don't really know where I can go. I don't want to park on the street because my car will be more likely to get broken into.

I got a new laptop just for college. It's a Dell Inspiron 1525 with the Sea Sky cover. It's got Windows Vista, which I hafta get used to, but for now I like it. Looooove my laptop no matter what, though. I named it Waltz.

Too nervous and full of thoughts that I can't get straight, so this entry won't be as long as it possibly could be if I could just calm down. Need to take sleeping pills tonight so that I can even wake up early enough for school. Hopefully I don't have to take them for too long before my sleeping schedule fixes itself.

Umumum I'll probably make another entry tomorrow about how my day went, if you guys care to know.

And that reminds me: you've all started school a few weeks ago, right? I always drive past the high school and can't help but feel a sense of freedom. College is so much different, and I haven't even started yet. But I know I'll like it more than I ever have liked high school.

Oh and here's a page out of my sketch book just so that all my entries in Blarg have some sort of art in it. Meet (from left to right, top row then bottom) Mountain Nose, Spiky Face, Rabid, and Anvil Head.

I also bought myself an iPod Nano to use during school when I have big gaps between classes. Like Tuesday I think I have a two hour break after my first class of the day.

Anyways, I bought a Transformers skin just for it. Optimus Fucking Prime's curb stomping Megatron on the back. Pretty freakin' awesome. I also got a waterproof case for it for when I go to the beach. I named it Jazzi. I like naming things.

My Addiction

2008-08-21T16:48:00.002-10:00

:(
I can't stop playing.

Nothing new too much...

2008-08-20T08:28:00.004-10:00

I mean. I'm in Italy but I'm not doing all that much. I have a feeling I will be very glad when I am done with school though... I love the opprotunities I am given and everything, but MUST they give so much homework... goodness. school hasn't even started yet and I already must read the Scarlet Letter and the Red Tent before Monday... and it's not like their short or anything...grr.

I hear that you guys get to be like REAL LIVE LAWYERS and rush around with half the information on this Mock Trial case... I wish you luck...
:)
HEY! what happened to the Mock Trial blog?!

2008-08-15T00:18:00.007-10:00

Oh geez hey guys.

I've been busy lately. But that's my excuse every time I come in here to post.

I start college on the 25th, and have registered for all of my classes! I'm mostly nervous about finding my way around campus, but I'm excited to start and learn and find out more about my major. Eeeeeeeeee. I'll spew more about this later perhaps but it's past midnight at the moment and sleep demands my full attention.

However that works.

Anyways I just wanted to share a sketch I juuust finished that I'm extremely happy with. Let me know what you think!

OH by the way Saraaaaaaaaah. I only work Saturdays now so lemme know when you are free so we can go and doooo somethiiiiiiing.

In transit...

2008-08-12T14:27:00.003-10:00

I am on my way to Italy... eventually.
Silly plane was delayed...
This trip went by so fast, and I saw so much...

It's amazing how the country is alike, and how different...
We went out to eat after Busch Gardens yesterday and it was almost closing time but everyone was extremely polite and friendly. And the teenagers where we got ice cream in Maryland were polite and willing and ready to help. They overheard my dad ask for something and got it for him before he even addressed them...

I guess people here are just more content. They are fine with their jobs and aren't so worried about being ahead of others. I think people should just make the choice to be happy, what good does it do to be upset constantly. Enjoy life.

There are all these challenges that people complain about. But they don't DO anything. DO something. Be part of a solution. Or at least enjoy what you do.

Updates

2008-08-11T20:57:00.004-10:00

Hello readers! All three of you, that is! I have recently made a few changes to Blarg. Not very big changes, but slightly important. First off, I have added a rating feature to all of our blarg posts. Now, as well as commenting, you can rate the post as well as the poster. Speaking of comments, instead of having to load a separate page to comment on a blarg post, you can now do so from the post page. I think it's pretty cool.

Now, since I have all this spare time to be updating the Blarg, I must have done something right with my homework. Well, I have. Indeed, I have finished my homework. Yes, finished, not procrastinated, or done half-assed, but finished. So yes, I am in a good mood. In fact, I had a macaroni and cheese (homemade, not the boxed stuff) casserole with asparagus and chunks of turkey ham, with passion fruit iced tea to drink. For desert, I had some delicious homemade mango ice cream that my dad made. It was delicious. That is all.

Babel Fish

2008-08-09T16:22:00.004-10:00

I, being a human being of most humble nature, wish to wish you a fond farewell.

I、ほとんどの控え目な性質、好きな告別を望む願いのある人間がある。

我，多数適度字符，有有請求渴望喜愛的告別的人。

I, вмеру характеры, имеет персону прощания привязанности упования запроса.

Το Ι, συγκρατημένα φύσεις, έχει το persona του αντίο της σύνδεσης της ελπίδας της απαίτησης.

I, retenus natures, il a persona adieu de la jonction de l'espoir de l'exigence.

I, 유지한 자연, 그것에는 l'의 접속점의 인물이 안녕 있다; l'의 희망; 필요조건.

I, the nature which maintains, to it l' Goodbye there is a person of justice connection point; l' Justice hope; Necessary condition.

Always remember, my dear readers: there is a person of justice connection point. It is a necessary condition.

Olympic Opening Ceremony

2008-08-09T09:36:00.002-10:00

now, this wont top snish's post, and it wont be an essay, but i'd like to reflect on the amazing performance last night.

wow.

the drums were really really cool, especially with the light-when-they-pounded thing. just really cool. and i really liked the gigantic LCD screen. and when they wrote on the paper with their hands and feet while they danced. and the little kids with the cultural dress and the school kids that drew the smiley face on the work of art. it was very cool. and the fireworks. those were absolutely amazing. i thought i had come to the conclusion that fireworks just didnt excite me as much as they did when i was a kid, but those fireworks were amazing. they ttly made me want to see fireworks again. but, just like in every olympic games, one of my favorite parts was the parade of nations. i love the parade of nations. i was very angry when they cut out to commercials during the parade of nations. i think how each country marches and what theyre wearing and the composition of their teams says so much about the country itself. i love seeing all the countries i hardly knew about, and i just really loved it. and what they wore. those long white robes from one of the african countries. loved them. i want one. and then those gold hats from another african country. those were sicktight. so yeah, i loved last night's ceremony.

just fyi, i too would like to be the dude fake-running around the gigantic jumbo-tron and lighting the torch. just wayyy cool.

The Olympics

2008-08-08T19:29:00.004-10:00

I don't care about the politics.
I know there are always politics involved. I know that.
But I don't care about it.

I am a hopeless romantic who desperately wants to believe that someday we will all "just get along." Being a teenager, and thus predisposed to think I know everything about everything, I believe against all naysayers that it is possible.

I took one world history course.
I was very impressed.
It seemed to me that human culture, human accomplishments were the most amazing things in the world. Yes, there were innumerable tragedies and crimes against that go beyond words, but there were good things too.

Humans are awesome, in the purest sense of the word.
The world, and its history, is an amazing thing, and the opening ceremony seemed to celebrate the whole of human creation. That is, not the fact that humans have been made, but the fact that humans can make wonderful things.

The opening ceremony was sincere. It was planned and perfectly executed, and as an American I will always fear and envy China for that. As a world citizen, I take pride in their accomplishments. I feel good about the fact that human beings, with all their faults and shortcomings, can even dream of making something so touching happen.

The ancient Olympic games were about people. The ancient Greeks set aside their differences during the Olympics even calling an unconditional truce, a thing unheard of in modern times, in order to celebrate the beautiful aspects of humanity. Nevermind their prohibition of women --that was their loss, and we learned from it. Humans are remarkable for their ability to learn. Sure, it took (some of) us a while to figure out that we didn't like dictatorships (and some of us still don't mind them) but the point is humans can learn. We can make mistakes, and we can forgive them.

Yes, China is pretty screwed up right now. I don't approve the way it treats nations it thinks it "owns." I don't approve of their treatment of free speech. I don't like their general idea of "freedom." They treat most of their people like crap. Their entire government is on my hit list. However, the rest of the world can learn from them (at least in terms of what not to do). China is the first country in the whole history of the human experience to have its kinds of problems: a huge population spread across a huge area, with many places either unsuitable to live or not easy to access. Add in the fact that there are so many unique cultures in China --I can't even begin to think of adequate examples-- all having to live and interact with one another, without smothering any of them. China is different. People in western nations (you, too, Europe) try to compare it to western places with western problems. It doesn't work that way. No other nation has had issues as severe and diverse as those that face China, and I'm not excusing their government for doing what it does, but China is different and can't be treated like other nations, because it isn't even remotely close to anything the world has ever seen. That said, it makes sense that it has so much to offer the world. However, politics once again get in the way and muck everything up, preventing people from seeing anything but uncrossable boundaries that are as permanent as sandcastles in the context of global history.

Back to the point: when I was watching that opening ceremony, I was captured by the beauty of it. That, compounded with what I know from one measly world history class, struck me as a classic example of marvelous human progress that some people just don't care about anymore. You know all that stuff that made modern life possible? Hm? Stuff like paper, gunpowder, neat things like fireworks? All that and much, much more came out of China. Perhaps not the nation China as we know it, but the historic China that the nation now represents.

That is what the Olympics should be about. Human contributions to humanity. Human innovation and skill. None of this "my ceremony is bigger than yours!" kind of mentality. The Chinese blew us all away this year, and I don't think anyone is going to be able to top that because they meant it. I, as an American, am okay with that. China felt like it had a lot to prove.
It was important to them, and they meant it.

I appreciate that.

And I wanted to be that guy running along the wall with the torch.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, it will probably be a meme on the internet soon.

The following image is equivalent to dividing by zero:

2008-07-29T18:24:00.001-10:00

My Usual Predicament

2008-07-29T14:47:00.002-10:00

Well, not so usual i guess. im here in my usual predicament of having to do my entire paper, essay, or project in one day, but not for the usual reason. i usual procrastinate. a lot. and, by a lot, i mean, a lot. but yeah, this time, my procrastination had nothing to do with my predicament. it happens to be that i was away all summer on a religious social action program (jew camp), and now have to do a project that the rest of my class had all summer to do, in two days (plus a little time in the beginning of summer). i'll break it down for u:
June 4 - last day of school.
June 5 - first day summer. start research.
June 6 - more research
June 7 - go to library and pick up books i've requested. more research.
June 8 thru 13 - do 200 notecards in 6 days.
June 14 - pack
June 15 - leave for camp, do remaining notecards on plane.
June 15 thru July 26 - at camp. no internet connection except for iPhone, which i cant do research and work on.
July 27 - Uncle's wedding, no work done
July 28 & 29 - bibliography, outline, bibliography notecards, paper.
July 30 - school starts, everything due.

OUCH! and the worst thing, camp still isn't over. i had to leave early for school. this completely royally sucks.

thank you, that is all.

I feel awful.

2008-07-27T16:28:00.002-10:00

This guy Matt called me, and we started talking about stuff, and then he got lost.

You see, he was supposed to be going to his church, but he hasn't been on island for a couple of years, and therefore doesn't remember where it is. Instead of getting directions beforehand, he just drove around hoping he'd find it. And then he got really, really lost while talking to me at the same time.

Then he mentioned something about missing his exit, an illegal u-turn, and I heard a lot of screeching tires. I think he hit something, and I think it's my fault.

I feel really, really bad.
I mean, really, really, honestly and truly, awful.

200

2008-07-26T22:16:00.002-10:00

That's right.
I just finished the last of my 200 notecards.
All of them.

Take that, bitches.

Sorry, I've been hanging out with the internet.
The internet is not always very nice.

Also, Jake is back from summer camp, and has no excuse to not update the Blarg.
I am no longer the only Blarger on duty.

I got my driver's permit!

2008-07-22T21:40:00.003-10:00

Whoooooooooo!

I got my driver's permit! :)
My dad made me drive his truck. :(
I only missed one question on the written test! :)
My signature on the card looks like crap. :(
The picture on the card is okay! :)
I have to learn to drive. :(

On another note, I totally didn't realize that the Blarg has already passed the 200 post mark! Whooo! Go Blarg!

On a completely different other note, my Grandfather is still in the hospital. I realize that the rickrolling in the previous post was probably inappropriate for the subject matter, but I had hoped it would have simulated the feelings of helplessness and irritation I felt at not being able to do anything.

Ugh.

2008-07-21T21:08:00.002-10:00

I'm trying to do my entire NHD project in a week and a half.
I just drank too much tea, and now feel like I want to throw up.
My grandfather is in the hospital.

Needless to say, today has not been fun for me.

Here's a video of me bitching about stuff.

My day has been officially made.

2008-07-11T17:57:00.002-10:00

I know this will cause Jake some pain, but...

Is it really so wrong for me to like this video so much?

Why people will never let Google disappear.

2008-07-09T20:23:00.002-10:00

As long as you agree to this:
You can do this:
'Nuff said.

WATCH THIS VIDEO.

2008-07-07T20:34:00.002-10:00

WATCH THE VIDEO NOW. DO IT. I'M SERIOUS. I WILL NOT STOP WRITING IN ALL CAPS UNTIL YOU WATCH THE ENTIRE VIDEO, FROM START TO FINISH. I MEAN IT. IF IT IS NOT THE HAPPIEST, MOST WONDERFUL VIDEO YOU HAVE EVER SEEN, I WILL CALL YOU A LIAR. WATCH THE VIDEO. CLICK THE LINK AND WATCH THE FIRST ONE THERE. THERE ARE NO EXCUSES FOR NOT WATCHING THE VIDEO.

Teh Desert: Joshua Tree National Park

2008-07-07T14:54:00.010-10:00

Segment two of the Teh Desert series will focus on the scenery and shrubbery of Joshua Tree National Park. Once again, please full-view all pictures by clicking on them because I didn't buy a 7 megapixel camera just to have people look at the thumbnails of the pictures I took.

Anywho...
I lied when I said this segment was going to be about Joshua Tree National Park.

I'm kidding, only this first picture was taken outside JTNP. It's from a big empty field out by my grandma's house. Stuff like this is what I think of when people mention deserts, so I thought this picture deserved posting.

The image to the right caused me much confusion. You see, I thought I was looking at Skull Rock. Actually, the first thing I said about it was "Hey, look! It's General Grievous!" I have always thought the General looked like a skeleton, and some argue that he actually had flesh at some point, but...nobody really cares about that.

The real Skull Rock was pretty disappointing, in my opinion.

I thought it looked like a monkey. A large, stony monkey. Or maybe one of those "Conehead" people.

We only had time for one picture because a bunch of stoned-looking hippy-people had pulled up to the area, and they looked like they were up to something.
What it is hippies get "up to" I do not know, but no one in my family wanted to find out.
Keys View, named after some guy named Keys, was amazing except for the fact that my younger cousin kept running around, climbing on crap and almost fell off the side of the mountain.

Also at Keys View: vicious caged grass!

I kid you not. Grass surrounded by chicken wire.

I don't know why they did it, but it probably had something to do with keeping the animals from eating it. Which doesn't make much sense, because it died anyway.

Barker's Dam, named after some guy named Barker, was very pretty but also very smelly. We visited the dam in the summer, when the water level drops and the algae grows, so the dam wasn't doing much of whatever it is that dams do.

However, it was a great opportunity to smell things I'd rather not smell again, and to see the watermarks on the rocks --they were quite pretty, actually.

The most beautiful thing in the desert, in my opinion, is the Yucca bloom (left).

Yucca bushes are pointy, hostile-looking things until they bloom and reveal a soft, buttered-popcorn sort of appeal.

Bee-filled buttered popcorn.

They, like the Joshua tree (right), don't bloom every year though, so it's a pretty special thing. I didn't really think of desert plants as things capable of producing flowers until I saw a Yucca in bloom.

It made me realize that the world is a strange and wonderful place.

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Guess that quote!

Re: Harry Potter

Harry Pptter Quickie

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The Usual

Camp Green, November 23rd, 2008.

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The Chair

Watch. Now.

This Past Week

So I was doing homework...

Firefly

Dude.

OMFG!!!!!

Just One More

Hilarious Video

Asfaldkgfla.

I am a fox-otter.

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It's a bird! It's a Plane!

Somebody needs to post.

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Baaaaw.

JACK THOMPSON GOT PWND!

I'm so lame.

So Everything Didn't Exactly Go Wrong

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Holy Crap You Guys Collegeeeee

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