After a break, it would seem that my creative batteries are back in full. I sat down two nights ago and sketched a drawing of Piro based on this comic from Megatokyo, my favorite webcomic. It’s hardly a professional sketch, but for someone who has never been able to draw, it’s not too bad.
Monthly Archive for January, 2004
I haven’t posted to my weblog in almost 3 days. The calendar tells it otherwise, but I haven’t written since Monday night (or 2:16am Tuesday morning). It’s mainly because I’ve needed a rest. Lately I have helped to design so many weblogs, plus constantly designing my own, plus writing my story, I’ve just needed a rest. In fact, apart from writing this weblog entry, I don’t plan on touching the computer today. I just need some time away to recharge my creative batteries and return a better writer / designer.
Judy Jetson is hot. Period.
Man, I nearly died in the early hours of this morning when I went to the Lord of the Rings movie marathon. It was really terrific and I enjoyed it, but by about half way through RotK I was so insanely sick and I decided to leave. I think the fact that I had eaten to much candy and drank to much soda, combined with the fact I was running on only a few hours sleep, equated to making me very sick. It was a shame to miss the end of RotK, but there was little to be done about it.
Well I think I am going to have a computer free day. I may play some Nintendo or Xbox or something, but no coding or weblogging, or anything that takes too much mind power. I need a rest day for once.
Woo hoo baby, tonights the night. I am going to go see the Lord of the Rings trilogy marathon. The movie starts at 9:00pm, but I am going to get down there early (7:30pm, in fact) so that we get some good seats. Last time I only made it one hour early and I still ended up with crap seats. It’s a 10 hour movie marathon and boy I can’t wait.
My picnic pack:
- Redbulls
- [V] energy drinks
- Coke
- Sandwiches
- Big Red gum
Big Red Gum, heh, very American of me, yes? Well when I lived at college we had an American exchange student, Katie, and she got me hooked on the stuff.
Well I am going to go get ready for the movie marathon. Bye!
About a week ago I decided to keep a dream journal in the hopes of better understanding my dreams. I also bought a cheap book to try and learn a little about dreaming. The journal has been kinda helpful and I just posted a strange dream that I thought I would share with my weblog.
It is 1:21am and I just dreamed that I was thrown into gaol (jail) with my brother. We went to visit the gaol (jail) and parked outside. We walked to it’s gates and they were taking in inmates, somehow one of them grabbed us and took us with them. We tried to explain to the guards that we weren’t supposed to be there and we got bashed and sent into the hole – a dungeon where they make you work very hard 24 hours a day.
I finally got to see my brother again after a month and we were both heaps different. We were both angry and full of hatred towards the guards, the inmates and everyone. It was us against the world. We had to make various friends with horrible people in order to survive and make it. One of the guys who lived there was called “blue” and he was retarded. He scared us and always found syringes and threatened to stab us with them. He also tried to escape and got killed, then the guards bought his body back and showed us.
The dream felt like it went forever and after we got out, my parents took us on a holiday. We finally convinced the guards to check our records and we were released. When we went on holidays with my family, I can only remember two things.
First, we went on a parachuting course and I had a really boring time. We were jumping off this tree that was only a few meters high. Everyone else enjoyed it except me and everyone was mad at me because I didn’t enjoy it.
Second, I was losing my teeth at one stage and I kept telling everyone that there were new ones growing in their place, but when everyone checked they said there wasn’t. I lost over half of of my teeth before I woke up.
At the risk of an official from one of the sites seeing this and getting pissed off, I downloaded all the comics from Megatokyo and Ctrl-Alt-Del. I have been laughing my butt off for about the last 12 hours since I got them all, I honestly love Megatokyo, they are the best comics ever.
This morning Kevin had his MSN icon set to a picture of Astro Boy and in a fit of nostalgia I decided to download a few video clips and stuff. Good fun.
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Oohhhhhhh. (devilish laugh). It’s that time again, baby! It’s Friday Report time!
Well in my last report, I said that this report (and future reports) would be a little hard to write. It’s never easy to find new and interesting stuff, but I have tried my best.
Guinness World Records – Personally I think the best way to view this site, as with any records site, is to look for the “I can’t believe someone is THAT bored that they would do THAT just to get a world record” records. Those ones are hilarious!
Oxymoron List – ‘Nuff said, really. Everyone loves a good oxymoron. Unless you don’t know what an oxymoron is, then you are almost totally dumb.
Create Bands dot Com – This is really cool for those times when you have 5 minutes to kill.
Dancing Bush – Pretty Funny, make ol’ Gee Dubblya dance around like a goose. Always humorous.
Maximum Exposure – Watch real life videos of accidents, stupid stunts, motorcycle jumps, explosions, skateboarding, car crashes, animal bites, rescues, sky dives, police chases, bungee jumps, *INSERT DEEP BREATH SOUND* extreme sports, fights, and more…
Virtual Bubble Wrap – This is especially useful for when you are moving house and your annoying sister/girlfriend won’t stop popping the bubble wrap on you. I know thats a sexist comment, but it really does seem to me that girls like to pop the bubble wrap more than guys.
Lemonade Game – Make your own online lemonade stand and see how much lemonade you can sell. Based on the weather forcast for each day, you decide how much to charge per cup and how much inventory to buy.
Well that’s more than enough to last you all until next Friday. Until then, keep smiling and don’t take life too seriously.
I am up late, wrapped in my Kimiko Blanket from Thinkgeek that I mentioned in the last Friday Report. It’s not cold at all, but I am sitting approximately 30″ from the air conditioning vent at 1:34am, so it’s cold where I am sitting. I know I am babbling on, but I just found this cool picture of my blanket and wanted to share it with the world.
It’s really storming hard outside. Has been for about an hour. The rain is soaking the air conditioning unit and the smell is wafting into the house via the ducts. It smells so fresh and sweet; I just love the smell of rain. Thunder cracks every few moments and lightning fills the sky, I am honestly in heaven. I really love being inside on a nice stormy night, it’s beautiful.
I just wrote this weeks Friday Report and now I have lit some lavender incense. It’s sweet smell is filling the air in the hopes of relaxing me for a decent nights sleep. I didn’t get to sleep last night until about 4:30am and I woke up this morning at about 11:00am. I have been running on 5½ hours sleep (or less) for about a month now and it is killing me. I lay in bed and I just can’t sleep. I should be so tired right now, but I’m not at all.
Well, this months Atomic Magazine arrived in the mail today, so I am off to have a read. Until next time, stay cool and eat your greens!
MxPx titles make Mitch smile. :-P
For the last few days I wander around, going about my business, with the “I’m blogging this” in the back of my mind. I make notes of what to write in my weblog, I remember times and numbers and funny comments to write. Then, I get home, I sit at OpenOffice and think to myself, ‘why in f**k can’t I think of anything to write about?’ It is really frustrating, especially for someone who likes to think of himself somewhat as an amateur writer.
Tonight I went and saw Along Came Polly at the cinema. It wasn’t too bad of a movie, but had way to many cliché moments where everyone in the audience screams, “PLEASE! AVOID TAKING A CRAP AT YOUR GIRLFRIENDS PLACE, IT ALWAYS ENDS UGLY!” Also found out that the Lord of the Rings trilogy will be at a marathon this sunday and I honestly cannot wait.
Strong Bad E-mail is down. I know, it’s devastating news. However! Salvation is at hand! I have located the latest email for all the geeks out there, so rest assured that Mitch is on your side. It’s a really good one. So go! Go now!
Okay, so I was hell bored and went to google in the hopes of finding a photo of a pair or shoes I wore when I was a kid. When I was about 8 years old, I begged my mother to buy me a pair of “Reebok Rads” from Grace Bros. She got them, because I am her favorite (you hear that Josh?!), and here is what they looked like. Hideous, absolutely hideous.
Well last night was a nightmare. I really killed movabletype – it was my own fault – and I had to re-make *all* of the weblogs. What a night it was, I didn’t get to bed until 3:15AM and I am still tired today. I hope none of the guys have any problems with their sites.
[FINGERS CROSSED]
I tried to copy a file to my “Media” drive this morning and the doggarn drive was full. I have managed to fill an 80GB Hard Drive with Music, Pr0n and the odd DivX? Goodness. So today I am going to put ALL of my DivX’s onto CDs and no longer have them on my hard drive. This won’t be fun, but it is necessary. I did delete 2 full DVD backups and it made a little space, but here is the state of my two drives. On the left is my C-Drive which contains Windows and stuff, on the right is my D-Drive where I save all my files and make all my backups.
Well I had to go to the doctors the other night about my eyes, because it felt like there was something stuck in them. There was nothing and it’s being cause by allergies, so he gave me some medication for them. Boring, boring, boring. After he prescribed me medication he also gave me some kick ass eye drops for when my eyes are being strained (i.e. Playing video games or coding). w00t!
These drops are so nice. You keep them in the fridge and unleash them whenever your eyes feel irritated from watching the television or monitor for too long. What a sweet idea. So not only do we geeks have caffeine to enhance out coding prowess, we now have sweet little eye drops.
It is disgraceful how long it has been since I’ve written a Friday Report. Today I decided to get back into the barrel of monkeys and find some cool stuff on the net and share it. I spend, at least, a few hours a day surfing the net, so there is really no excuse for me not to post a few interesting sites every week. So without any further ado, I give you; More Fun Than a Barrel O’ Monkeys V4.011…
Rubik’s Online – This page rawks! \m/ Personally I am huge on puzzles, not those crappy ones where you make a picture of a dolphin or something like that, I am talking about real puzzles, like the Rubik’s Cube. If you haven’t got a Rubik’s Cube, go get one!
Kill Frog, wow I’m really new to this one, but the cartoons are really funny. Further exploration of this site is warrented.
How To Write Unmaintainable Code – This is especially relevant to any coders/hackers who read my weblog. This page is absolutely hilarious!
404 Research Lab – This site is full of funny 404 messages from all over the web. Definitely worth a look.
Maddox: The Best Page in the Universe – This guy is truly funny. The website is somewhat a weblog, but it is made up of Maddox just really taking the p**s out of anything he chooses. It is a really funny site, but I have to warn that some people might find him a little offensive. That said; read on!
The Terminator – This web page is very simple. Type in the name of any actor/actress who has been in a feature film and they will be related to Arnold Schwarzenegger by “degrees of separation”. Basically, I sat at the computer for hours and only managed to get 3 degrees of separation. If you get one higher I’d love to know about it.
Megatokyo – This web comic is very similar to Ctrl-Alt-Del which I posted about not so long ago in V3.0 but I think it’s really good. I bought the Kimiko Blanket from Thinkgeek about twelve months ago and it is so nice!
Drew Curtis’ Fark – Go there. ‘Nuff said!
Well that about wraps it up. I think that the next Friday Report will be very hard to write; I have almost tapped all of my favourite sites, so from now on I am really going to have to do some searching. Rock on kiddies! \m/
Okay, in what should hopefully be the last major thing I add to the website, I have gone and added an Amazon section to the right of this website. Headings include “What I’m Reading”, “What I’m Watching” and “What I’m Listining To”. I have done this for two reasons, one is because I am a complete camwhore and I love adding to my site, the other is because I am hoping it will make me read more and save the embarrassment of having the same book sit under my “What I’m Reading” heading.
I know I have added a lot to the site lately, so I really want to know what people think. I really want to know whether the few people who come here like the way my site looks now or if they think it is becoming cluttered. Is there anything in particular that you do/don’t like? Anything you think they site could do without or anything you think the site is lacking? Comments, please kids! :-)
So, for those of you who don’t know; I am a huge WWdN fan. I think he is a kick ass writer and he often inspires me when I really can’t think of anything to write here. I was looking around today and he had a link to the Planetary Photojournal. As I write this, I am downloading a 44.3MB TIFF File from that website, it’s a picture taken of the horizon that has all the mountain ranges labeled.
My Friday Report will be out this Friday. It hasn’t been a while, but it is finally happening. I have already written it, so I can absolutely guarantee that it will come out this week. From now on version numbers will be as follows
Fridays Repot will be V4.011
This is derived as…
4 = 2004
01 = January
1 = First report this month.
So therefor, if I was to write the 2nd report for November next year, it would be V5.112, get it? If not, click here.
Well I am off to watch The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Special Collector’s Edition), because very sadly, I haven’t watched it yet. I know, it’s pathetic and almost worthy of revoking my geek-hood, but luckily, I’ve done plenty of coding to make up for it! :-)
I have just built a very nice and simple stardate calculator in PHP. It’s pretty simple to install really. Just make sure that you are editing a .php file and not a .html file and add the following code at the start of the file:
require(“starDate.php”);
And the following where you want the stardate to be output to:
echo starDate(time());
Too easy. I will be adding functionality for it to work with graphics and also to act as a counter for your website (i.e. You are the nth visitor since stardate XXXXX.XX). Stay cool kiddies.
Credit goes to John Voysey, who coded the original Javascript that this file was the basis of. Thanks John.
Well day 3 of the holiday was pretty boring, apart from the white water rafting, which was awesome. We all got up very early and packed the cars. The final bills were paid at the Hotel and we checked out and made our way home. We had a 12-non booking for all 8 of us to go to Penrith for an hour of white water rafting. There is an Olympic course there and it was really cool. For anyone who knows about white water rafting, it is a Type-3 river (not a simulated Type-3).
We arrived with about 15 minutes to spare and everyone got into (and out of) their clothes in preparation for the white water rafting. We finally get our gear on and are in the rafts (I will spare you the boring safety talks – lol). We push off and I am sitting next to Peter. We begin practicing scrambling from side to side to even out the boat if we get into trouble and we begin.
After about 3 laps we get to learn how to “surf” a wave. This is where you go to a spot where the white water is really curling back onto itself and you try and stay in position by moving the weight in the boat from side to side. We managed to keep our boat afloat for about 10 minutes straight until we didn’t get on the side enough and the boat flipped completely. I am told that I had a “ride ‘em cowboy” look on my face as it went down, but everyone else was in absolute panic. I thought it was really great that we were going to get wet, up until I came to the surface and saw the look on Mums face. She was panic-stricken and so worried, but not about herself, about Josh and I. She came to the surface spluttering the words, “Where’s Mitch and Josh?! Where’s Mitch and Josh?!” I giggled for a second, until I realized that she was actually putting her life in danger because she wasn’t worrying about her own safety. Well I started floating off and there wasn’t much I could do. I just put my legs up the way the guys told me to and just kicked back and enjoyed the ride. Luckily, Mum was quickly dragged out of the water and everyone was fine.
Josh, Steven, Myself and our Instructor has one last “surfing” experience, when we purposely took it into the hardest part of the course with the intent of flipping the boat. I felt my side go up fast, so to make the most I jumped and did a back flip off the side. It felt pretty cool.
Other than driving home, nothing much happened at all. Mum was *very* sick and still is, and all in all it was a pretty good holiday.
I have been home now for about 48 hours. I ate Kentucky Fried Chicken last night and got my second lot of food poisoning from them. My message to the boys and girls at KFC: I don’t care how many secret spices you have, you need to make your chick not make people barf. Anyway, I want to post a wrap-up of my holiday.
After I posted the last entry we left the beach and went back to the hotel. Things were boring so we decide to go to the Star City Casino. Dad, Peter and I all make our way there and after being rejected for entry because we were still wearing thongs, we return home to get properly dressed. Our second attempt is far more successful and we get into the casino and have a great time. We spent the whole time watching Peter winning at Pontoon and just chatting, it was great fun. I was tempted to pull out a 50, but I resisted the urge, wisely so, considering my current financial state.
We are making our way home to meet the girls for dinner. We get close to the sign that says, “cash in your chips here” or something like that. Peter turns to me with two $25 chips in his hand and smiles. “Let’s go to that $25 Blackjack table. We’ll have one bet each. If we win; we win, and if we lose; we lose.” Under normal circumstances I would *never* gamble someone else’s money, but Peter convinced me.
We sat down, side by side, and threw down our $25 chips. Peter turns to me and says, “all I need now is an Ace and I’ll be happy.” I nod in agreement as moments later we both get dealt an Ace. We both laugh and watch the rest of the cards being dealt out. Dad whispers in our ears, “all you need now are picture cards and we can get out of here rich!” Before we knew what has happened; Peter gets dealt a Queen and I get dealt a Jack. Blackjack for the both of us!
We cannot believe it. It was really a one-in-a-million thing that happened and it helped pay for all our dinner that night. We had collectively won about $150, which I think is pretty impressive considering we sat on a table with a $5 maximum for most of the day.
After that, we went and had dinner. Pretty straight forward, then a stroll on the harbor before we all went to bed ready for the final day of our holiday.
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