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Harry went shopping

Dammit. I finally finish my Harry Potter scarf... only to find out that they changed scarves in Prisoner Of Azkaban.

Oh well, I still love my scarf.

And then he said "That's not the Quaker Oats man... that's my wife!"

Apparently I'm emo.

take the emo quiz created by jessi

So... I'm emo? That doesn't make sense... nothing does... nothing ever does. That makes me sad. again. Now, please excuse me while I hide in my room listening to weezer & looking for my left converse.

I hate English Teachers. They's so snooty and... where's my thesaurus?

Rachel just told me that her English Teacher spent a whole class period picking apart the summer issue of Spark and finished up with "If you want to know how to write well, do what Spark is not doing."

Sometimes I feel stabby.

I could begin with the fact that a newspaper isn't a collection of essays that have sanitized and reworked hundreds of times for grades. No one (and by that I mean faculty or staff members) reads over our work before we go to press.

I've heard of several teachers who spend their time picking our work apart. Are your lives so devoid of meaning, your lesson plans so devoid of actual content that you have to pick on students?

You know what I think about?

If I want to use comma splices, if I want to spell everything fonetikally, if I just want to write everything in a encoded mirrored Prussian... I damn well will.

Of course, our boxes say 'Free. Take One." for a reason. You're only supposed to take one, so if that teacher took 30+ copies for each class... then she owes me for the additional copies.

People need to learn there's a difference between criticism and constructive criticism.

But what should I expect from someone who apparently is named after cheap candy.

now for a little something different...

been working on a new layout for malbela the last few days, but no where near done yet.

So here's a little style change to keep things interesting.

addiction.

I think I've become addicted to watermelon bubble gum and the Scissor Sisters.

Why couldn't I become addicted to something nice... something that gave me $20 bills with each use?

sigh.

Comments

If you haven't noticed, I've set the comments to be approved before posting. This has nothing to do with the vast majority of people who leave me comments... even if I don't agree with you on some things, I like hearing what you think.

What I don't like is the 50 spam comments I'm getting a day. I swear they've gotten worse since I've gone to MovableType 3.0. For right now, since I haven't been able to keep an eye on the comments, I've set them to be approved. They'll switch back to regular posting soon since the spamming appears to have tapered off some.

My Milkshake Bringeth...

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OSXP (Or how a Windows User became a Mac Evangelist)

further proof of my whoredom.

So... it was bound to happen. I must officially out myself as a wannabe mac user.

Really, it was bound to happen one day.

It all started that day I walked into the office at the paper and there was that larger blue thing sitting on the desk. Much like the apes in 2001, I felt the need to throw things at this bizarre strangely colored object sitting in my way.

Little did I know what would happen.

The Apple IIe. Big. Beige. Able to pick up WBTV if you had rabbit ears.

The last time I'd used an Apple product, it'd been an Apple IIe. Strangely enough, the thing I used the IIe for was to play games made by Microsoft. Does anyone else remember them? They had a huge collections of what amounted to a Game magazine. Plastic cases with a couple of 5 inch discs of games with glorious 4 color graphics (Heavy on Magenta & Cyan of course). It would have helped of course if we'd had more monitors that weren't monochromatic.

The game strangely fails to mention underage transexual hookers in the Bangkok portion of the game.

The IIe (not the IIe Platinum in the grey case mind you, the BEIGE case) took me through my Elementary & Junior High years. Number Munchers, Carmen Sandiego, and Oregon Trail. These were all we needed. Who cared about actually using a computer to do anything. Databases? Word Processing? No.

It was all about the games.

Wow... not much has changed since then.

During High School I started to learn the other uses for computers, but this was strangely when the Apples started to disappear. Relegated to the Typing class, no one ever saw them anymore, though the Windows revolution hadn't quite started yet. There was a single Mac though.

A little monochrome, one piece thing that sat on the desk in the office of the classroom my journalism class was in. Computers were the wave of the future and we were supposed to be learning to use them. We propped books against it and kept right on putting the paper together with exacto-knifes & lots of glue.

Between then and last fall, I'd had little exposure to Macs. Sure Annie uses a mac, but so does Xplo. I thought I'd never find a reason to love a Mac. Now I do.

I love it so much that my PC looks like a Mac now.

I've got Y'z Dock, StyleXP, Rainlendar to make XP more like X. Hell, I've even got a program that emulates Stickies! I spent a half hour recreating the Firefox & Thunderbird icons so that I could use them on the dock and they not look crappy. Add iTunes on top of all that and my PC is just like a mac.

In looks at least.

I will not freak out. I will not freak out.

Ok. I'm freaking out.

Finally, an update

Today was really fun.

I got out of bed really late because my alarm clock has broken and I cannot afford a new one at the moment. I feel good because today I getting my lip pierced! Finally! Mom said I could and she's signed the forms and EVERYTHING!

I'm so happy. I just found out that I have been accepted into Harvard. And Yale. I don't know which to choose... oh, why is life so hard sometimes? Last night I had to shave my entire body. Apparently, the lice that I caught from Amanda's friend are really hard to get rid of. I look quite strange with no hair and eyebrows. I'd post pictures, but my webcam is broken.

I want to tell the world that my girlfriend Amy is the bomb! She made pizza last night, and even though I burnt my lips on the cheese, it was awesome!!!

I am really annoyed with those assholes at _are_you_hotter_than_us_?, because I am so much cuter than them, and those photos don't do me justice. They can't reject me, so I'm starting my own rating community. Click here to join (the first five applicants are automatically accepted).

Today, I got a digital camera! Yes! I'm so ugly. Don't look at my photos pleeeeeze. I want to say thanks to simon and Abbey and Dave and the other Simon for helping me on Saturday. You guys are the best. By the way, if you happen to find my wallet, keys or underwear, could you SMS me? Adrian has my number.

I went to the doctor yesterday, and he said I have bipolar disorder, which makes me different enough to be interesting, but the same as all the other cool people with bipolar disorder.

You should all do this quiz! It's amazingly accurate. You just put in your name and birthday, and it will tell you you're a moron.

That's enough for now. But I'll leave you with this thought - sharing your life with strangers on the internet is the cheapest form of therapy available. Leave a comment and tell me I'm beautiful.

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(Even you have to admit that's a cool ad, Mr. Shackelford.)

Strangely, I don't feel eygpt.

Sorry... bad pun.

You seem older than your years, like a wise sage. Your head always either buried in a book, or discussing what you have learned with others, you are Thoth. The creator of writing, and language, you are full of wisdom. When you talk, people listen, knowing they will learn something new. Which Ancient Egyptian Diety are you? brought to you by Quizilla

(btw, I had to edit that like hell to get it to not show up horribly -_-)

Apparently I'm a magician...

but I might have actually gotten an A in a certain class. I don't know how though.

Are you dead or are you sleeping?

I think I have a new favorite band.

Sorry, Mister Reverse.

mac pr0n 2: The Revenge of mac pr0n

I really want an iBook or PowerBook of my own. Hell, even an iPod would be nice!

I guess this is a little long... let's make it extended:

iPod Mini

Janet Jackson LAUNCH Artist Of The Month
Fanscape / The Distillers
IGN/WB/Smallville
Vans & Weezer (!!!=W=!!!)
Fanscape / AP
IGN & Butterfinger
Motown Number Ones

10 or 15 Gig iPod

John Mayer
Colgate
Mars Volta
Colorado Tourism

40 Gig

Eddie Bauer Details
Ben & Jerry !ETOV (also includes an iMac and a trip to the Ben & Jerry factory to be taste tester for the day!)
Edie Brickell (Engraved with 'Edie Brickell' BTW)

Mac pr0n

oh, if I only thought Jenn wouldn't kill me if I did this.

Is it just me...

Is it just me or does Pat Tillman look a little too much like Jesus in this picture?

And yes, I know he was apparently an atheist.