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09:00 pm
glowing_pixel
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Gnarf.
http://blog.glowingpixel.com/?p=1408 Edit: Ummm, I have a lot of complaining to do but I should probably lock it somehow. So right now it’s only over on my never-used livejournal.
http://floatingpoints.livejournal.com/2740.html
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02:52 pm
recklessnova
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Work is more of the same.
I'm looking forward to getting back to school. I was looking at my schedule a while back and realized that some of my classes actually sound kind of fun. I bought stuff for my apartment and have taken care of all financial aid. I'm basically set. In another six weeks or so, I'll quit work and move back up to Mt. Pleasant for another year at CMU. I love college. I really, really do.
Things that still need doing:
-Go to the waterpark
-Go to the zoo
-Have wisdom teeth out (it's in the works)
-Get my scraggly hair cut
...ohhh, and call Sarah Drews.
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02:44 pm
tsaxguy89
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today is not that day
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05:32 am
glowing_pixel
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Goodbye Blogosphere
http://blog.glowingpixel.com/?p=1400 Now for another Enthusiastic observation that is sixteen years too late!™
Holy crap, Commander Keen 5: Goodbye Galaxy was way too short!
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David Cooper’s 21st birthday is coming up in a few days and I’m probably going down to Royal Oak for it. He tells me he’s going to drink until his liver fails. (this is funny because, if you know him, you know he has yet to drink ever) Apparently his dad’s going to be there to tape it. Oh man, that’s going to be funny.
I’m going down to East Lansing tomorrow to cover a shift at work. I should be able to get a lot of good reading done and work on the site. Yay!
Alright the rest of this post is MORE web development stuff, because that’s all that has been on my mind lately. I don’t expect you to read beyond this point. In fact, I would encourage you not to!
Ok! The Telecasters site is hosted on the CAS server. A couple months ago, when the department launched the new crappy site, they moved everything over to a new server. Of course this caused problems, like I could no longer log in for a couple weeks until they “fixed” it and gave me FTP access, but no SSH, which is what I use almost exclusively.
Well anyway, while working on this new alumni site, I noticed that some of the data I was writing to the MySQL database was showing up with backslashes in front of quotation marks.
Now in every script I’ve written ever that writes to a MySQL database, I’ve always wrapped any variables in mysql_real_escape_string() while stitching them into the SQL query. You’d be pretty dumb not to, because when you don’t, that’s when xkcd happens. mysql_real_escape_string() adds backslashes in front of any special characters (thereby “escaping” them) to say “this isn’t a control character, I actually want to store this.” Kinda.
Anyhoo so it seemed my escapes were being escaped! Indeed, after running a couple experiments, it appears strings are now automatically escaped before (or during?) running the query. And let me tell you, I have a lot of scripts running Telecasters that write to the database. Sure enough, backslashes were popping up all over the Telecasters site.
So while it’s a pain any way you look at it, I could fix the problem by opening a secure shell to the server and running a couple greps piped to a regular expression. But oh wait, they took away my SSH capabilities. So I have to FTP in and manually change everrrry file to work with this new dumb hand-holding parser.
EFF THAT, my friends.
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05:29 pm
glowing_pixel
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Ticklish Testgum
http://blog.glowingpixel.com/?p=1397 i has a question! Okay. Does anyone know where the Adult Swim OnDemand menu is located in Charter OnDemand? We have the “moxi” box and when I do a “Find and Record” thing for a show such as Aqua Teen Hunger Force or Robot Chicken, the available OnDemand episodes show up in the results, but I can’t find how I would normally get to those episodes without having to search!
I would like to see what other immaturely hilarious shows are available for my unhealthy consumption!
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12:01 am
ccthetruthiscc
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I would read this from the bottom up.
So that was the highlight of my week.
I quit Cedar Point and now work at an animal shelter.
Confused about college.
Nothing really new.
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I understand, and I thank you for your response.
----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Friend
Date: Jun 30, 2008 1:54 AM
Kayla...I read it. The overtones of patronization weren't subtle. Now, I understand your circumstance; friends who betray each other are the one of the worst kinds of evil. However, if you don't address these people directly, and instead try and parade their shortcomings for all to see, you are no better. You are, then, in fact, hypocritical. You are upset with their willingness to slash their brethen's name, and so you turn and do the same to their's. Is there no lesson learned.
I'm not going to argue with you any longer with it. I'm beginning to realize that this habit of mine in the end does nothing to help. I just have always felt a riposte towards someone blithering sanctimoniously is a testiment to justice, but I'm sure my tone will be perceived as just as condescending. More and more, I've began to act in accordance with the principle of Blake:
Let the fool persist in his folly so that he will become wise.
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From: Kayla
Date: Jun 30, 2008 12:24 AM
You bring up a very good point.
These people to whom I have made references are not my friends anymore.
I will agree with you that everyone under deep enough scrutiny has flaws, and that in perspective to his/her own life, they are equaled when compared to others.
However, I, and most people, associate and befriend people to whom our flaws compliment.
To suddenly realize not only have my flaws been criticized, but my former friends have spurned my entire character was heinous.
I, and doubtless few, have the tolerance to deal with these people ( friends/acquaintances ) . Therefore I simply wrote an abbreviated opinion about their lifestyles. Not "ego-talk".
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From: Friend
Date: Jun 29, 2008 7:30 PM
Don't you consider having friends that you have no respect towards being not a friendship at all, and in addition, an illustration of your insincerity?
Regardless, this is just another arbitrary construct you've found to justify looking down on other people. Everyone, under deep enough scrutinization/observation, has an equal amount of flaws and attributes; it's just the natural equilibrium of life. What you're doing is just partaking in ego-talk (or more bluntly, talking out of your ass).
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From: Kayla
Date: Jun 29, 2008 2:27 PM
Yes, this is addressed to only some of my friends, seeing as how only my "friends" on MySpace can read this.
The condescension is partly caused by some realizations I have come to about some of my friends. Some call it scrutinization, while I call it observation. It's root was forethought.
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From: Friend
Date: Jun 29, 2008 4:21 PM
So, is this, then, only addressed to some of your friends?
Why all the condescension?
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From: Kayla
Date: Jun 29, 2008 7:12 AM
I really wanted to believe that the people I was friends with in high school weren't immature jerks, who, after graduating, had nothing going for them in life.
Apparently, my hopes were too farfetched. Most of the people I know from Heritage are blithering idiots who are going no further in life than my spit.
It's ironic, isn't? That these adolescents who went through such vigorous secondary-schooling, who had numerous opportunities laid out before them, will do no better than the second-rate high school I came from. In fact, after being babied and cuddled all of their lives without an inch of motivation, they're probably still going to be living with their relatives five years from now.
My parents always said I was always attracted to the scum of the Earth; that I always wanted to bring them up, and have them realize what they're doing to themselves. Well, they were right. Here I am working my ass off, and I come back to Saginaw only to discover these lazy morons are doing the same shit.
No goals.
No aspirations.
Just partying with other low-lifes.
Well, maybe twenty years from now you'll realize what a steady job is, what a retirement plan is, and what responsibility is.
Grow up, you ass-wipes.
Disclaimer: Not everyone I know from Heritage is a blithering idiot. Just implied persons.
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06:41 am
glowing_pixel
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dun 4 2nite
http://blog.glowingpixel.com/?p=1395 I’m sorry but this is too funny.
(You know what? I’m not sorry.)
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10:07 pm
glowing_pixel
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Oh My(SQL)
http://blog.glowingpixel.com/?p=1393 Aaaah I’ve been trying to get this account thing done today and I can’t think anymore aaarggghH!
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06:35 am
glowing_pixel
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Modular Dystrophy
http://blog.glowingpixel.com/?p=1387 I had a meeting the other day with some Telecasters people, some people from the dean’s office, and some Telecasters alumni to plan The Show’s 20-year extravaganza where we’re trying to get all the alumni to come back and (donate money) have fun, sort of a reunion thing.
They asked me about using evite.com, if that works well, etc. Of course I had to be an idiot and say, “Hey! Why use Evite when I can write our OWN invitation software! In fact, I won’t stop there, let’s have this entire thing where you invite the people, then they can create an account on our website and get in touch with each other via a Facebook-esque wall-type thing, and they can upload old photos and videos, have a profile, and just have a merry old time!”
Oh man, that means so much work for me now and it’s all my fault. And they’d like to have “something to see” by Wednesday, instead of, you know, the few months and high salaries it would take to develop something like it in the real world.
Fortunately I’ve already been writing an account system for fun. When I do work for clients, I like to be able to give them an account where they can log in and we can communicate, sharing files and stuff in a secure environment. I already do this, but I use my three-year-old Illegitimate eBusiness framework which, while effective and very functional, is really hard to add features to and whatnot, because it’s sort of spaghetti code.
So I wrote my new more-secret account system specifically with expandability in mind. I have the base account system that allows you to register, and lets you log in and makes sure you’re who you say you are. But after that I can write little mini-apps that interface very cleanly with the account system (allowing the mini-app to know who is logged in, and info about them, but letting the base account system do all the gruntwork) and it’s so much more manageable.
So I essentially have this account thing completed and working, which is good. For the Telecasters thing it’s now a matter of writing the little “Invite” and “Photos” kinds of mini-applications, but that will still take a lot of effort. PHP is soooo beautifully easy as a language, but making it do complex meaningful things can still take some work.
It’s just no longer fun though because it’s something I have to do. Sooo that’s, um, I guess the statement this entire post has been leading up to.
(Meanwhile, I’m coding all day every day, missing out on the small amount of time I have at home, and just getting fatter and more gross.)
Underpants.
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01:34 am
ilervfalloutboy
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wow, hilarious day!
today was well, hilarious! it started off kinda rought, i had an eye appt at 10 30. that came early! esperially since i was taking care of my drunk friend all night and had to drivr her car home. i ended up going back to my friend chris's appt at lik 5 in the morning after randi passed out. my eye appt went well, i get new contacts! yay! so i am going on like ehh roughly 4 hours of sleep. anyway, i had a fun day, dan is almost done fixing my car, whooooo! after that i went to hangout with ben, we had a blast. i love just being with him, hes amazing, i wanted to stay and fall asleep by him, but i just had to go home, and sleep in my own bed, you guys know how that is. Well sean had a HUGE party tonight and i wanted to stop by and make sure everything was going ok. so i did and as soon as i walked in the door everybody started offering me drinks, heres the bast part guys, i didnt take any of them! i am so over the whole drinking thing! i just dnt wanna do it anymore, im over it. i had a chance to drink with randi last night too, and i just didnt want to! its way more fun making fun of all the drunk people when they are right in front of your face! ohh man, its hilarious! ok, this is the best part of today, me, taylor, ben and nick go to get in the car to go to mrdonalds to get som food. well nick and taylor have a little girl, her name is jaylynn, shes adorable! and shes not even 2 yet. well im walking to the van with ben and jaylynn runs around the grass and picks up a stick! she starts running full forse towards taylor with the stick pointed out. she ends up running into tayor and th stick pokes her right in the crotch! omg, i havent laughed that hard in a looong time. the look on taylors face was priceless! im still laughing about it actually! holy crap, that was the highlight of my day, ok im done rambling...lol ttyl
Current Mood:  relaxed, and dorky
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09:32 pm
ccthetruthiscc
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What the fuck?
I'm going to have to get not just one, but three root canals done.
When my former dentist decided to drill out some cavities (all along the same side of my mouth), he, apparently, drilled too far into my tooth, and filled them attached to the nerves. How he did it? I don't know, I suppose he just was just drill-happy.
Now my new and improved dentist wants me to get root canals on all the teeth in the "affected region".
I pose the question again, "What the fuck?"
How am I going to practice?
For the record, I have wanted dentures since an early age.
I'm almost sure I would rather put up with gum problems, rather than 32 separate problems.
Current Mood:  aggravated
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10:43 am
chelsea_nobody
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Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey...
So, I'm just hanging out right now... Listening to some Louie Armstrong. : D He's the shit.
Good music puts me in a good mood.
I slept from about five p.m. to eight a.m. That's a lot of sleep. People kept calling me and texting me during that time. Lol, I didn't answer at all. I didn't even hear it ring half as many times as it did. Maybe I should call those people back. Sooner or later I will. Right now, I'm enjoying being alone. Thoroughly.
See you space cowboy.
Current Mood:  content
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09:25 am
oh__meghan
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plans
Worked all day yesterday, then came home and crashed. Work again today, then my parents want me to hang out with them...and I think that sounds alright. Saturday I get to spend the day/night with my beautiful sister. It's going to be a good weekend.
Current Music: bright eyes
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01:36 am
ccthetruthiscc
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I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden.
If I could find you now, things would get better
We could leave this town and run forever
I know someway somehow we'll be together
let your waves crash down on me and take me away.
My funny valentine, sweet comic, valentine
you make me smile, with my heart
Your looks are laughable, un-photographable
yet, you're my favorite work of art
is your figure less than Greek
is your mouth a little weak
when you open it to speak, are you smart?
Pardon the way that I stare
There's nothing else to compare
The sight of you leaves me weak
There are no words left to speak
And so the best that I can do is pray
luck be a lady tonight
luck if you've ever been a lady to begin with
please be a lady tonight
Happy we'll be beyond the sea
and never again, I'll go sailing
Heaven, I'm in Heaven,
and my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
and I seem to find the happiness I see
when we're out together dancing cheek to cheek
So many times I've tried
But I'm still caged inside
Somebody get me through this nightmare
I can't control myself!
Party in the city where the heat is on
all night oin the beach to the break of dawn
Welcome to Miami (bienvenido a Miami)
I got stay fly-y-y-y-y-y-y-y
till I die-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e
do you really want it?
YEAH!
Go go go!
Ole ole ole!
Go! GO!
Push it along, get to the top.
Nothing can hold you back if you really want it!
Do you really want it?!?!?!?!?
Here we go!
How do you want it?
How do you feel it?
Only when I stop to think about it
I hate everything about you
Why do I love you?
I hate everything about you
Why do I... love you?
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04:52 am
glowing_pixel
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Treeson
http://blog.glowingpixel.com/?p=1383 I transcribed a new song today: “Dernière” from the Tabarly soundtrack by Yann Tiersen. Here’s the sheet music PDF, the supple fruit of my work if you will. It’s extremely easy, but sounds cool. And here’s the recording I based it on. Originally I used sixteenth notes instead of grace notes, but I dunno, I feel like they just function more as ornamentals and their timing should be more open to interpretation. Anyhoo. I sent it to the guy who requested it and I’ll put it on my unkempt music site… um… sometime. Maybe never. When I feel like it.
But oh man! Today was so strange and disorienting. If this were LiveJournal I would almost certainly post this as a locked entry with an emo “mood” icon. Oh what the hey.
Current mood:  omg morose!!
After a night of not at allll sleeping, I finally started drifting off around 6:00am. Around 7 my mom woke me up enough to tell me that half of the willow tree in our backyard fell so there would be noise from a tree service.
Half as in one side of the tree split off and fell. Very strange, and as I lay in my bed I reasoned that I dreamed that.
Well I got up and sure enough they cut down our huuuuge willow tree and were working on like five other trees cutting them down!! I looove my trees! But I guess my parents were like, “eeeh we’ve got some other trees that are maybe not 100%, we might as well chop them all down.” My park-like setting! Gone!
  
Our yard is like a moonscape now. It’s extremely depressing. And lots of those trees were fine! I don’t even want to think about what must’ve happened to the wildlife in those trees as they were chopped up.
So it’s really strange now because our yard is a whole lot brighter without the shade, and it’s disorienting approaching the house as I drive home because it just looks like a different place.
Man. It’s so depressing.
  
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08:20 pm
hurleybob
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god it just feels so good.
So counting down to my trip to L.A. 29 days! so much going on. Trying to succeed at life here.
Chris and I are still going great or i would ahve probably updated sooner. Today was uplifting after yesterday me feeling down about the whole not getting into the music program at Western again. I know you may think that it's dumb to still get upset about it especially since so much good has come out of it but you know to have your dreams be torn apart...something you've been working towards your whole life...it's going to take a bit to get over.
Anyhow today i went out and put in loads of applications on miller road. They're also building an applebee's on Perison road and I went to the Miller rd. one to see if i could apply. Well i met the lady who's going to be head supervisor over there and also learned that they'll be opening a trailer on the construction sight soon after the fourth of July. So that was uplifting.
next great fun fact of life...yesterday i sent an e-mail to ck 105.5. about becoming an intern there. Well they got back with me and it looks like i'll be starting that for the fall semester since i'll be getting college credit for that. college credit that i don't ahve to pay for that will teach me a lot about a feild that i'm thinking of going to....sounds like a great deal to me.
Oh! Anyone who wants to come we'll be going to the whatever first showing of Wanted after 8:30 pm on Friday is at Showcase. Call me if you want details or just show up
Current Mood:  optimistic
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02:52 pm
story_chris
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another visit fromt the quote fairy
"The definiation of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results" - Benjamin Franklin
"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants" - John W. Gardner
"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark" - Victor Hugo
"Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean" - Johann Wolfgnag von Goethe
"When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you hve neither, holler" - Al Gore
just a few for now...
Current Mood:  rushed
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05:19 pm
glowing_pixel
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Singularity
http://blog.glowingpixel.com/?p=1381 Weak! You know my lame Hot & Cold audio thing I worked hard on (then got sick of writing it so I ended it quickly and padded it with way too much music to meet the duration requirement of the assignment)?
Well! My friend Drew just heard it and asked me if I had ever read Cosmicosmics. I hadn’t so I looked it up, and MOTHER EFFER! It’s the same effing concept, except forty years earlier! Eff words!
I’m having one of those “Simpsons did it!” moments where I want to kill myself because I can’t seem to come up with original ideas.
And stuff.
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08:00 am
glowing_pixel
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Tagcloud of HATE
http://blog.glowingpixel.com/?p=1379 You know what I hate?™ Web 2.0. Oh man, I had this huuuge post written about how much I hate the term “Web 2.0″ and all the lame ideas associated with it, which are in no way new ideas.
But I’ll spare you! Because reading it back, I was making myself sick. But, you guys, anyone who seriously refers to Web 2.0 is totally lame.
Anyone remember VRML? Man, that coulda been cool.
Anyway! All that insignificant writing made me think about how weird it would be without the internet. I remember the world wide web not existing when I was little, but I was like four at the time so it wouldn’t have impacted me. But these days it would be really tough. I can’t imagine having to actually spend all my time in the library to write a paper using very possibly outdated sources or relying on snail mail to contact people. Well perhaps I can imagine it, but I wouldn’t like it at all.
So I guess this brings me to the question I wanted to ask all of you, because I’m interested. Instead of reading blogs or whatever you’re doing at the moment, what do you think you would be doing right now, this second, if the internet had never existed?
(I do use the term ‘internet’ there instead of ‘world wide web’ because I’m including Usenet and all the other dial-in BBS stuff. I’m talking no interconnectedness!)
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12:37 am
ccthetruthiscc
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hahaha
On Home Improvement Tim Taylor was wearing a sweatshirt that said "Grand Valley State University"
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02:13 pm
alliemarie2006
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TICKETS
WE GOT THE TICKETS
I'M GOING TO SEE STEPHENIE MEYER!!!!!!!!!!!
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03:56 am
ccthetruthiscc
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"it cannot be. Forgive me."
You know, it takes a little Tolstoy to make me realize how lonely I am.
"There happened to him at that instant what does happen to people when they are unexpectedly caught in something very disgraceful. He did not succeed in adapting his face to the position in which he was placed towards his wife by the discovery of his fault. Instead of being hurt, denying, defending himself, begging forgiveness, instead of remaining indifferent even--anything would have been better than what he did do--his face utterly involuntarily (reflex spinal action, reflected Stepan Arkadyevitch, who was fond of physiology)--utterly involuntarily assumed its habitual, good-humored, and therefore idiotic smile."
Current Mood:  listless
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02:21 am
ccthetruthiscc
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You know what
I forgot what I was going to write on here. I got up out of my bed, and was going to put something on here, and then i get here, and i can't remember what the bloody hell it was.
It must have had something to do with careers, because that's what I was just thinking about.
Or else Tolstoy. Might've been him. Dammit. I hate sleeping pills. They don't help you sleep; they help you feel drunk and mindless minus the alcohol and dementia.
Dammit
Damn
I don't like how they've separated the "n". I think they should always be together.
Okay. incoherent. crawling away from the computer. maybe later today
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04:38 am
glowing_pixel
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Sbore
http://blog.glowingpixel.com/?p=1376 They released the Spore Creature Creator, and there are already thousands of penis monsters on YouTube. That is very satisfying. Not to mention some disturbing goatse ones as well.
Uuuummm I don’t really know what else to say? I wanted to write something.
Oh yeah and holy crap summer is already half way over and I haven’t done my schedule for next semester yet as usual. That’s pretty cool.
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