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i’m having a bachelor party this weekend and am a little worried about what is going to be going on at this thing.
i know we are going to be playing airsoft in the day, but after that i have no idea, and it’s a little frightening when you don’t know what people have planned for you.
probably getting super drunk, but that’s all i know.
strange, i’m usually in more control than this… so when i’m not, it’s an odd feeling.
wow. it is so crazy that i am going to be graduating in like 2 weeks. it seems so far away and yet so close. i have no idea what i am going to do after, probably go to school for it something or other and work full time when not in school, but still…
i am really hoping that i pass my current classes because it wouold be not so good if i had to go back just to take one stupid class over again and then not get my degree until after next semester.
anywho… just wanted to express my bewilderment at this point in time.
it seems like i’ve been in school forever and now it is really over…
until i start again. because i’ll miss it too much.
plur
i stated in a post back when i switched over to this blogging software that one of the best things about it was that it automagically blocks all incoming spam.
well… it’s still doing it and rocking it like nobody’s buisiness. last night i got about 15 emails letting me know there were comments waiting to be approved and not a single one of them was legitimate.
if i hadn’t switched to wordpress, i would have been sifting through my blog searching for all of the comment spam right now.
now all we need is a way to really piss them off when they try to spam us. by maybe freezing thier comp for a while everytime they try to send spam, so that if they hit the wrong place thier comp freezes for the rest of the day… yeah, that would be cool.
stupid spammers. it’s not even like they’re trying to get you to buy something cool either. i mean, really, who gets a spam and think, “ya know, i’ve been meaning to have my penis enlarged, i should give these people in that third-world country a call, i bet they could do it really well.”
nope, doesn’t happen.
guess what ?!? i solved a rubik’s cube the other day without looking at instructions or anything for the first time !! and did it several times, just to make sure that i could.
it’s crazy how easy the thing really is when you finally figure it out. when i started playing with a cube at my friend’s house, i had to look on the internet just to get the thing solved, and because i was reading instructions or using the cube explorer, i couldn’t look at the cube to see what the various moves were doing.
but then i got the first face and the first row all figured out and had troubles with the second row (but i was pretty drunk when i was trying to do it, so don’t blame me). then i got the second row and it was pretty easy as well, once i figured that out, but the final row… man that one’s tough. so i looked online at a rubik’s solution and solved a rubik’s simulator on my computer (i don’t actually own a rubik’s cube) while looking at the instructions. i solved it a few times looking at the instructions, then turned them off and tried to solve it without looking. when i got to the end, i didn’t even realize that i did it until i was sitting there looking at the cube, wondering what move to make next, then noticing that all of the sides were solid. i even turned the cube over and over to make sure i hadn’t missed somthing, it seemed so unreal. so i did it again, and again. then i met a situation i hadn’t seen before and had to consult the instructions. but i’ve done it several times since then and feel pretty confident i can solve the cube any time i want now. which is dope.
but now i need to learn how to solve the 4d magic cube. i’ve solved up to five moves, but after that it gets all messy and i have no idea where to flip the thing. it’s tough, it’s like a rubik’s cube on steriods.
but i think the ultimate rubik’s solver is the LEGO rubik’s cube solver built by j.p. brown ! man that has got to be the coolest thing on the planet ! and it actually works, too ! i’ve seen video of it working.
it brings together everything that is geek and puts it all in a nice neat package to exclaim to the world, “I AM GEEK !!”
it uses lego’s in cunjunction with computer code and function to solve a rubik’s cube, how much more geek do you need?
man, this wedding is gettin closer and closer and it seems like nothing is getting done. not for lack of trying though, it’s just there’s so much to do that you never even think of. like the centerpieces, i don’t know why, but i never even thought about those, maybe i thought they just happened. guess not. and the location and officiant. we have the location down, but now we have to figure out where at that location we are going to put all the people for the reception. it’s crazy. and we have an officiant, but she basically fell into our laps. but now we have to figure out what we want her to say and what not to say, etc. etc.
but the invites are almost done, and they look pretty good, now i just have to see them in their final, finished form and get them mailed out.
so, if your lucky, maybe soon you’ll get one…
if you don’t know what π day is, then i’m sorry, you’re just not geek enough.
anywho… here are a few fun pi links for your pi day celebration pleasure:
* the pi pages
* the pi-search page
* the ridiculously enhanced pi page
* fastest computation of pi available
* the mathematics of pi
and have a safe and happy π day
πλυρ (greek for plur)
π
now you have no excuses for not using my skin on your desktop.
the skin has a clock with the background of the clock being the current phase of the moon. the skin works on both light and dark backgrounds, and is super easy (no editing required) to install. so there ya go, no excuses.
you can still download rainmeter from rainy’s site: download
and you can get my new skin from here: download
here is a preview image of the clock
i recieved an e-mail from jer, who downloaded my moonlite skin, and he had updated the images to work on both light and dark backgrounds as well as increase the size and add a nice gloss over the front and a shadow.
when i first saw it it blew me away. it looks so good. it will be added to the zip file as soon as i get a chance, but it will be worth it.
i’ll keep you posted here.
sample image:
“mawage. mawage is what bwings us toogevah, tooday … wuv, twooo wuv…”
The Princess Bride
so my future sister-in-law got married yesterday, as part of a week long wedding fest that they’re having…
holy crap, how much more stuff can you cram into a week? we had the bachelor/bachelorette parties on saturday, then we had a dinner at RedRock on sunday, then a rehersal dinner on wednesday, the wedding yesterday, and an open house/reception tonight followed by a party at our house later on.
man, it makes me glad that my wedding is gonna be as short and sweet as possible.
don’t get me wrong, i’m having a great time, but dang, enough is enough.
the way i feel about it, it should be: do you? yes. do you? yes. YAY!! eat cake. go home.
simple.
*UPDATE:*
wow that was a lot of beer i drank at that party… i bonged like 8-9 beers and a beer’s worth of champagne, and to be honest, the champagne was really, really smooth going down.
but the whole lot was not so smooth coming back up :(
anywho, i’m swearing off alcohol… again… until the next big party.
the party was a lot of fun though.
well… wordpress 1.5 came out not too long ago, and i’ve upgraded the blog software as you may be noticing right now. the only thing that sucks is they changed the whole skinning process and started to use themes. i’m sure it’s a step in a positive direction, but now i’ve got to figure out how to skin the darn thing and get my old skin back (which was based on Human Condition by Ian Main)
so i’ll probably be working on that soon, and i hope that this new version is everything they say it is…
but it should be, the people over at wordpress are super cool and probably the best developers anywhere… keepin it real, just like it should be.
*UPDATE*:
as you can see, the theme is coming along nicely, i’m learning some cool things about wordpress and have implemented a few upgrades and plugins to make the iohelix blog experience even better.