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                <title>We're alive.</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:35:20 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ In all of my thoughts these last few weeks, this is all I know to be true.<br /><br />Everything else...I couldn't say. <br /><br />How are you, friends? I miss the style.<br /><br />This is one of those things that happens where you wake up and find you've written something. I vaguely remember typing it all out on my cell phone, and it's been saved as a draft since. I was wondering if it's Deviation worthy..<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Finger oils and Rubbing lamps<br />Acrid lies and Lepers dance<br /><br />If we may retake the time <br />Â Â from our forgotten land<br />or fall from there <br />Â until the apples turn to ash<br />Â Â Â around us<br /><br />It's not fair! They cried.<br />Â Â Â Â Â But they don't know<br />Â you or me. Who's to say<br />we're still alive?<br /><br /><br />And is this all for real?<br />I will turn away, and don't<br />Â Â be there when I look back.<br /><br /><br />The clock has changed<br />Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â No, that was hope.<br /><br />Â Â Â Â She laughs once more.<br />That echo never ceases.<br /><br /><br />I'm weary from an old man's<br />Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â wheezing, rambling<br />Don't learn my lesson the hard way, <br />Â Â Â and do not stop writing<br /><br />It's trivial to me,<br />but you have a life and<br />Â Â Â Â Â Â I will haunt you<br /><br />I smile weakly<br />Â Â Â Â Â at the door<br />Do you trust me?<br /><br />I should hope not<br /><br />The moths have found <br />Â Â me and my home<br />I'll never be free<br />Â Â Â Â Â Â but listen longer<br /><br />I told you I would fail,<br />Â Â yet you replied<br />in turn<br /><br />Wolven ears perk up.<br /><br />Whose side are you on,<br />Â Â Â Â Â Â after all of this?<br /><br />Â Hear me now, I call<br />from beside myself<br /><br />Live, and <br />Let me<br />Die.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>ITT: Who vs Whom (+ a tag) [Postponed]</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:20:18 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <div class="contenttop"><br /><br /><a href="http://www.poverty.com">CLICK HERE: Poverty: An issue so serious, it has its own website named after it.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.poverty.com/letters/united_states.html">CLICK HERE: My friends, click here, print this page! Send it!</a><br /><br />            <a href="http://www.freerice.com"><img src="http://freerice.com/banners/234_60_Banner2.jpg" alt="Free Rice" /></a> </div><br /><br />Alright, this week's journal is going to be postponed. I'm not feeling well tonight. But it's likely I'll do it tomorrow for you, since I have a good topic (check the journal title <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/letters/=p.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":P" title=":P (Lick)" />). I'm out for the night, bye.<br /><br /><code>while ( sick = 'y' )<br />{<br />Â Â Â  postponement++;<br />}<br /></code><br />(As typical of me, that's an infinite loop. Procrastination at it's finest.)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The rules for Book Tag are as follows:<br /><br />1. Grab the nearest book to you (not the most intellectual or your favorite. From where you're sitting, get the nearest one!).<br /><br />2. Open the book to page 56.<br /><br />3. Post the text of the first two-five sentences.<br /><br /><strike>4. Tag five people to do the same.</strike><br /><br />-<br /><b>What you'll learn:</b><br /><ul><br /><li>You will develop descriptions of accelerated motion</li><br /><li>You will use graphs and equations to solve problems involving moving objects</li><br /><li>You will describe the motion of objects in free fall</li><br /></ul><br />-<br />Huh. Weird. Bonus points for whoever knows the source.<br /><br />===============================================<br /><br />Trust me, it was worth it.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nerdtests.com/nt2ref.html"><br /><img src="http://www.nerdtests.com/images/badge/nt2/e8f3d575299f0896.jpg" alt="NerdTests.com says I'm a Highly Dorky Nerd King.  What are you?  Click here!"><br /></img></a> ]]></description>
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                <title>ITT: Stasis</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:14:38 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <div class="contenttop"><a>CLICK HERE: Make me awesome.</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.poverty.com">CLICK HERE: Poverty: An issue so serious, it has its own website named after it.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.poverty.com/letters/united_states.html">CLICK HERE: My friends, click here, print this page! Send it!</a><br /><br />            <a href="http://www.freerice.com"><img src="http://freerice.com/banners/234_60_Banner2.jpg" alt="Free Rice" /></a> </div><br /><br />staâsis<br />[stey-sis, stas-is]Ânoun, <br />plural staâses â<br />[stey-seez, stas-eez].<br />1. 	the state of equilibrium or inactivity caused by opposing equal forces.<br />2. 	Pathology. stagnation in the flow of any of the fluids of the body, as of the blood in an inflamed area or the intestinal contents proximal to an obstruction.<br /><br /><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stasis">[link]</a> - [Dictionary<sub><sub><sup>dot</sup></sub></sub>com]<br /><br />Here's a word with a hell of a lot of connotative meaning compared to a surprisingly short definition. Only two (abridged) denotations, or dictionary definitions. I won't talk about the medical half tonight. It is somewhat irrelevant, but nevertheless noteworthy. It shows that this word is useful, and used; but only to an extent.<br /><br />To be honest, stasis is one of my favorite words (which just goes to show that the most complex or unique things aren't always better). It's one of those words that sounds just like the way it means. I cannot explain this experience, but it's part of how I determine the worth of a particular word. Each and every word has an emotional value, if you examine it. More on that another time, perhaps.<br /><br />Now then, let's take a look at the first denotation of the word. "...Opposing equal forces" sounds kind of like something right out of a physics textbook. Boring. Almost bothersome. When in the world have there ever been two forces which are actually (INTERMISSION: <a href="http://www.supernovatube.com/play.php?viewkey=5b9673366fae7f6dddde">[link]</a> Enjoy. Now then, back on track..) balanced and nullifying eachother? There's always a constant war going on. And the way I see it, wars are more akin to tides. That is to say: one side seems to be ahead, then the other. The tide doesn't just sit at one place, static; it's always changing. <br /><br />CHANGE. It's what we voted into office, isn't it? We stopped the stasis in office. McCain had a nickname, McSame. See how easy it is to shine a light of bad connotations on a word? (Just add politics!) <br /><br />Tangents aside, we don't see much stasis in our world. Too many variables and fluctuations. Stasis. On a worldly scale, change is always needed. Nature won't stay the same, so we must always be learning to adapt to it. A static environment tends to just rot. A pond of stagnant water will almost inevitably breed mosquitoes. And nobody likes mosquitoes.<br /><br />Now then, let us take a different perspective. I favor stasis in day to day life. "No surprises" is how I'd love to live my life. Just settling into a cute little daily routine. Write down a single schedule and KEEP IT THAT WAY. No worries on the idealism, though. I'm doing what I can to get to a reasonable level of it. I've got this game going Wednesday nights (though this week's ran late) and a host of other weekly/daily activities. Unfortunately, I can't possibly keep track of what happens on a given day between 4 and 9 PM. On school-days, those hours are like the only time that I would hope to have my own standard of organization. But no. I can't possibly. It's hectic and chaotic. Yet I still hold the idealism of a static system. Of a peaceful one, even.<br /><br />My final point: Equilibrium. A perfect balance. You take everything you can, and pack it into a system. At the end, you come out alive, wholesome, and centered. That's equilibrium, in my mind. It's all I strive for in life. "Now I've got friends that ride into the storm and ride out of the storm with nothing they rode into the storm with" (Counting Airplanes - Train, one of my favorite songs) To be honest, that song sums up a lot of what I would say in this paragraph. Go listen.<br /><br />Stasis: How I'd love to find it.<br /><br />===============================================<br /><br />Trust me, it was worth it.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nerdtests.com/nt2ref.html"><br /><img src="http://www.nerdtests.com/images/badge/nt2/e8f3d575299f0896.jpg" alt="NerdTests.com says I'm a Highly Dorky Nerd King.  What are you?  Click here!"><br /></img></a> ]]></description>
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                <title>ITT: Obligation</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:20:27 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <div class="contenttop"><a>CLICK HERE: Make me awesome.</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.poverty.com">CLICK HERE: Poverty: An issue so serious, it has its own website named after it.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.poverty.com/letters/united_states.html">CLICK HERE: My friends, click here, print this page! Send it!</a><br /><br />            <a href="http://www.freerice.com"><img src="http://freerice.com/banners/234_60_Banner2.jpg" alt="Free Rice" /></a> </div><br /><br />obâliâgaâtion<br />[ob-li-gey-shuhn]Ânoun<br /><br />1. something by which a person is bound or obliged to do certain things, and which arises out of a sense of duty or results from custom, law, etc.<br /><br />2. something that is done or is to be done for such reasons: to fulfill one's obligations.<br />3. a binding promise, contract, sense of duty, etc.<br /><br />4. the act of binding or obliging oneself by a promise, contract, etc.<br /><br /><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/obligation">[link]</a> - [Dictionary<sub><sub><sup>dot</sup></sub></sub>com]<br /><br />I'll start with some context. I just now watched the movie W. It's about George W. Bush, of course. Throughout the movie, I was thinking of a great word to start this series with. And so I started thinking about the theme of the movie. Well, simply enough: I settled on the word Obligation. W swears a number of times that he'll never be outdone by an opponent. <i>"I'll never be out-Texaned or out-Christianed"</i> <- No joke. Anyway, I'm here to say - well, type - that obligation is the driving force behind all of us. One who shirks an obligation cannot well be respected. <br /><br />I admit it: I hate this about myself. I honestly don't trust or respect myself for (among other things) the fact that I just watch deadlines go by like they're trains. "Huh. Wonder how fast that one's going.." I'm fixing it, slowly. I guess. I still haven't opened my Physics or Pre-calculus textbooks in over a month. And yet, I promised so many people that I would have a 4.0 this year. Yeah, not happening. Huh, oh well. Keep trying; keep learning. I often slowly slip off of the topic.<br /><br />Obligation: A sense of duty, right? To take the words of GladOS from the game Portal: "We do what we must because we can": People aren't always bound by a sense of obligation or duty or righteousness. There's always a bit of fudging the rules. It's often this little fudging that bothers me about people. Rules are rules, right? Why can't we follow them. But, of course, I don't either. No wonder why I don't like myself. But hey, we all have the opportunity to grow. So, <i>use it!</i><br /><br />--<br /><br />And now for a few extra things:<br />1) <a href="http://darknightclaws.deviantart.com/journal/21219757/">[link]</a> Do it. This is Chris Chu. Good guy. He's doing a small political survey for AP Stat. Help him out. <br /><br />2) Something Entirely different: (stuff subbed to cram in, spacewise)<br /><br />â Pick your birth month.<br />â Strike out anything that doesn't apply to you.<br />â Bold the best that apply to you.<br />â Copy to your own journal, with all twelve months<br />â <sub><sub>Tag some people.</sub></sub><br /><br />NOVEMBER:<br /><b>Has a lot of ideas. Difficult to fathom. Thinks forward. Unique and</b> brilliant. Extraordinary ideas. Sharp thinking. Fine and strong clairvoyance. <strike>Can become good doctors</strike>. <b>Dynamic in personality. Secretive. Inquisitive. Knows how to dig secrets. Always thinking. Less talkative but amiable. Brave and</b> generous. Patient. <b>Stubborn and hard-hearted.</b> If there is a will, there is a way. Determined. Never give up. Hardly becomes angry unless provoked. <b>Loves to be alone.Thinks differently from others. Sharp-minded. </b> <strike>Motivates oneself.</strike> Does not appreciate praises. High-spirited. <strike>Well-built and tough</strike> (Meet my knee, everybody).<b> Deep love and emotions. Romantic. Uncertain in relationships. Homely. </b>Hardworking. High abilities. Trustworthy. Honest and keeps secrets.<b> Is able to control emotions. Unpredictable.</b><br /><br />(Pretty close! Good stuff.)<br /><br />The other Months:<br /><sub><sub><br />JANUARY:<br />Stubborn and hard-hearted. Ambitious and serious. Loves to teachand be taught. Always looking at people's flaws and weaknesses. Likes to criticize. Hardworking and productive. Smart, neat and organized. Sensitive and has deep thoughts. Knows how to make others happy.Quiet unless excited or tensed.Rather reserved.Highly attentive. Resistant to illnesses but prone to colds. Romantic but has difficulties expressing love. Loves children. Loyal. Has great social abilities yet easily jealous. Very stubborn and money cautious.<br /><br />FEBRUARY:<br />Abstract thoughts. Loves reality and abstract. Intelligent and clever. Changing personality. Attractive. Sexy.Temperamental. Quiet, shy and humble. Honest and loyal. Determined to reach goals. L... ]]></description>
                <author>~Meiresthai</author>
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                <title>ITT</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:44:10 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <div class="contenttop"><a>CLICK HERE: Make me awesome.</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.poverty.com">CLICK HERE: Poverty: An issue so serious, it has its own website named after it.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.poverty.com/letters/united_states.html">CLICK HERE: My friends, click here, print this page! Send it!</a><br /><br />            <a href="http://www.freerice.com"><img src="http://freerice.com/banners/234_60_Banner2.jpg" alt="Free Rice" /></a> </div><br /><br />(In this Thread)<br /><br />I've decided, for a number of reasons, that I'm going to be doing a weekly journal update. It'll be like a weekly column, in which I respond to a random word or short phrase of my choosing (unless I get some good suggestions). It'll be fun. You'll get to know me better, <i>I'll</i> get to know me better. My writing will be improved over time. All sorts of great reasons. Tentatively, updates will be on Wednesday. Every other day seems to be filled with nonsense, for me. <br /><br />Also, I have a longcat CSS saved somewhere. Should I use that instead of this one?<br /><br />===============================================<br /><br />Trust me, it was worth it.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nerdtests.com/nt2ref.html"><br /><img src="http://www.nerdtests.com/images/badge/nt2/e8f3d575299f0896.jpg" alt="NerdTests.com says I'm a Highly Dorky Nerd King.  What are you?  Click here!"><br /></img></a> ]]></description>
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                <title>Crap-Tagstick</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:49:04 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <div class="contenttop"><a>CLICK HERE: Make me awesome.</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.poverty.com">CLICK HERE: Poverty: An issue so serious, it has its own website named after it.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.poverty.com/letters/united_states.html">CLICK HERE: My friends, click here, print this page! Send it!</a><br /><br />            <a href="http://www.freerice.com"><img src="http://freerice.com/banners/234_60_Banner2.jpg" alt="Free Rice" /></a> </div><br /><br />What's up, kids? Since I've been tagged, I'm just copy/pasting 75% of the journal this came from. Any annotations within the lines is not mine. Only the answers are from me.<br /><br />----------------------------<br />I've been tagged dammit... so I have to do this crap. Not that I don't find it fun, it's just... I don't enjoy tagging people back :/<br /><br />rules:<br />~name 10 random friends here on DA without looking at the questions. then answer the questions honestly using the beginning phrase: what would you do if:<br /><br />~tag five people<br /><br />~notify people on their DevPage if they have been tagged<br /><br />1: ~<a class="u" href="http://ohkanon.deviantart.com/">ohkanon</a><br />2: ~<a class="u" href="http://seventwofour.deviantart.com/">seventwofour</a><br />3: ~<a class="u" href="http://hogwartsdweller.deviantart.com/">hogwartsdweller</a><br />4: *<a class="u" href="http://bobastra.deviantart.com/">bobastra</a><br />5: ~<a class="u" href="http://maiessincere.deviantart.com/">maiessincere</a><br />6: ~<a class="u" href="http://ry-die-swaai.deviantart.com/">Ry-Die-Swaai</a><br />7: =<a class="u" href="http://spinningflag.deviantart.com/">spinningflag</a><br />8: ~<a class="u" href="http://bits-ghost.deviantart.com/">Bits-ghost</a><br />9: ~<a class="u" href="http://darknightclaws.deviantart.com/">darknightclaws</a><br />0: ~<a class="u" href="http://scs.deviantart.com/">SCS</a><br /><br /><br />1) number 5 royally pissed you off?<br />Yeah. Um, yeah. When I first met him, I stabbed him on the bus. And then we became friends. Awesome story, actually. If he did it again, I'd probably get over it.<br /><br />2) number 10 said they were in love with you?<br />Weird. Cool. Weird. She lives down the street <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/e/eyes.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":eyes:" title="Eyes" /><br />3) number 3 came out of the closet?<br />Didn't she already?<br /><br />4) number 6 was turned into a cat?<br />I could see her as a cat. "Any one want a cat?"<br /><br />5) number 2 stole your favorite plushie?<br /><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/n/noes.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":noes:" title="Noes!" /> NO U DIDNT<br /><br />6) number 1 ran over your cat?<br />I would vow never to introduce him to a blond girl ever.<br /><br />7) number 4 proved to you that he/she had psychic powers?<br />*blink, blink* <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/shrug.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":shrug:" title="Shrug" /><br /><br />8) number 7 snorted a popcorn kernel?<br />O.o Attempt to convince her to do two of them.<br /><br />9) number 8 ate a live spider?<br />Sit back and wonder why he ate it instead of force-feeding it to the closest person to him.<br /><br />10) number 9 kissed you?<br />Shit, I dunno. He probably would do it. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/p/paranoid.gif" width="23" height="15" alt=":paranoid:" title="They're all out to get me..." /> I might just throw up on his faec.<br /><br />11) number 5 gave you a rose?<br />Give him one back.<br /><br />12) number 10 tore your favorite shirt?<br />Force-feed it to #8.<br />Then buy another shirt.<br /><br />13) if you found out number 3 was a mermaid?<br />To be honest, I really wouldn't be surprised by this. <br /><br />14) if you found out number 6 was an undercover FBI agent?<br />Wow, again, not very surprising. I might have to do absolutely nothing about it.<br /><br />15) if number 2 proved to you that Death Note was real?<br />#2...Death Note. #2...Death Note. Yeah, I'm not seeing it happen anyway. If she did, I probably would have nothing to say about it. Since Death Note is set in Japan.<br /><br />16) if number 1 tried to sell you on a street corner?<br />Sell him on the same corner at the same time.<br /><br />17) if number 4 came on to you?<br />Politely decline?<br />Back away slowly?<br /><br />18) if number 7 fed you cat food and told you it was "pate"?<br />Simply tell her that I know about pate cat food, since it's what my cats eat. <br /><br />19) if you were stranded with number 8?<br />Seriously, we might survive. For a while we'd try to kill eachother. "When running from a bear, you only need to outrun your friend and not the bear itself."<br /><br />20) if number 9 flushed your pet fish?<br />Expensive/exotic fish: Monetary compensation<br />Goldfish/From the fair: I'll live.<br /><br />NOW... I TAG... UHM...<br />--------------------------<br /><br /><br />1: ~<a class="u" href="http:/... ]]></description>
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                <title>The Listings</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:45:16 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <div class="contenttop"><a>CLICK HERE: Make me awesome.</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.poverty.com">CLICK HERE: Poverty: An issue so serious, it has its own website named after it.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.poverty.com/letters/united_states.html">CLICK HERE: My friends, click here, print this page! Send it!</a><br /><br />            <a href="http://www.freerice.com"><img src="http://freerice.com/banners/234_60_Banner2.jpg" alt="Free Rice" /></a> </div><br /><br />It's good to have lists. They keep you <i>alive</i>. Without lists, there's nothing to do; there's nothing to care about. When I started making fractals, they were one at a time. There was a gap of time between each. But now, I've got multiple things to do lined up in front of me. This journal is to organize it for myself, and to let you know where I am.<br /><br />At the moment, I've got two lists: <br />Books (which people keep trying to pile onto)<br />Art (fractals etc)<br /><br /><u>I will be updating the Art list based on percentages. Check back every so often to see how I'm doing. </u><br /><br />BOOKS:<br /><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletgreen.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletgreen:" title="Bullet; Green" /> Sourcery, Terry Pratchett<br /><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletgreen.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletgreen:" title="Bullet; Green" /> Neuromancer, William Gibson<br /><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletgreen.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletgreen:" title="Bullet; Green" /> Terminal Cafe, Ian McDonald<br /><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletgreen.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletgreen:" title="Bullet; Green" /> All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Remarque (fer school)<br /><br />ARTS:<br />(95%) <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletblue.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletblue:" title="Bullet; Blue" /> Finish imitation fractal of: <a href="http://f--l--a--r--k.deviantart.com/art/Wall-O-Cube-58005354">[link]</a> <br /><strike>(100%) <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletblue.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletblue:" title="Bullet; Blue" /> Rewrite =<a class="u" href="http://f--l--a--r--k.deviantart.com/">f--l--A--r--k</a>'s cube tutorial<br /><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletblue.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletblue:" title="Bullet; Blue" /> Coincidental tutorial for =<a class="u" href="http://nfotm.deviantart.com/">NFotM</a> ^^^^^^^ </strike><br />(5%) <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletblue.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletblue:" title="Bullet; Blue" /> Learn to use Terragen, make something for `<a class="u" href="http://cmptrwhz.deviantart.com/">cmptrwhz</a><br />(0%) <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletblue.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletblue:" title="Bullet; Blue" /> Stained glass fractal for Sarah (not =<a class="u" href="http://seventwofour.deviantart.com/">seventwofour</a>)<br />(//%)<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletblue.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletblue:" title="Bullet; Blue" /> Anythine else that gets tacked on here.<br /><br />===============================================<br /><br />Trust me, it was worth it.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nerdtests.com/nt2ref.html"><br /><img src="http://www.nerdtests.com/images/badge/nt2/e8f3d575299f0896.jpg" alt="NerdTests.com says I'm a Highly Dorky Nerd King.  What are you?  Click here!"><br /></img></a> ]]></description>
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                <title>December 27/28, End of Year update(EDIT)</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:34:35 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <div class="contenttop"><a href="http://www.poverty.com">Poverty: An issue so serious, it has its own website named after it.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.poverty.com/letters/united_states.html">My friends, click here, print this page! Send it!</a><br /><br />            <a href="http://www.freerice.com"><img src="http://freerice.com/banners/234_60_Banner2.jpg" alt="Free Rice" /></a> </div><br /><br /><div class="contenttop">Three things or so to talk about tonight. This'll go casually. I'm just going to type it out. <br /><br />First off: Christmas just passed. There's this thing about divorced parents that really screws up the holiday. On one hand, you 'get twice the stuff'. Twice the time, twice the Christmas, twice the gifts. Yay? I guess. It's not what it sounds. Conflicts arise, disagreements between the two parties of parents over time, gifts, money and the like. Still, I ended up much better off at the end of the year. My dad decided to do a 'Family present' of redoing the entire family room entertainment system. Brand new TV, shelves, etc. And at my mom's, I ended up with A freaking amazing laptop of my own. I had a rough time choosing it over a Canon Rebel, but I ended up with a gift that I payed $230 of. I ended up with a damn good laptop. It's actually almost twice as good as my old desktop. Weighing in at 2GB of RAM, 200GB hard drive, Intel Centrino duo processor, and running Vista, this off-the-floor model of HP Pavilion dv6000 is now my best friend. <br /></div><br /><br /><div class="content"><p><br />Second on the list to talk about, I made a very interesting discovery recently. I was attempting to recreate a Plastic fractal, namely <a href="http://meiresthai.deviantart.com/art/When-Harmony-Clashes-Sarah-72918732">When Harmony Clashes</a>. Halfway through, I got fed up with the blur and started deviating from the normal Plastic fractal method. That's when I came upon these specific parameters which are incredibly intriguing. Everything you'll need to know is below.<br /><br />NEEDED: <br />--Apophysis 2.07<br />--Plugins (Scry, at least)<br /><br />INSTRUCTIONS: First off, you open up the parameters in Apophysis (2.07+plugins), and you see that it's pretty much blank. Lame, I know. Go to the transform editor; you'll notice that transform 1 is blank. How weird, right? Well, that's where you come in. You put in whatever you want there, and almost any variation will give you a different result. That's only the first step. From there, you can move transform 2 (in very small amounts) to obtain radical differences. The parameters are basically a plastic fractal, with some space left for you to fill in.<br /><br />Now then, I'm going to share some parameters with you all. I trust that putting them out on a journal isn't going to be a problem because you are all creative enough to use them to the extent that the work becomes your own, and not just a simple change to the parameters (Which does, admittedly, make quite a difference in the output). Be forewarned, these parameters, by themselves, look like junk, but they are very powerful. Things change very quickly. And without further suspense: <br /></p></div>Copy this into a text document, then take the ; out from the "palette count"<br /><sub><sub><br /><flame name="Potential" version="Apophysis 2.07 beta" size="512 384" center="-0.186 6.216" scale="40.96" oversample="1" filter="0.2" quality="5" background="0 0 0" brightness="6.3" gamma="2.83" ><br />   <xform weight="1" color="0" coefs="1 0 0 1 0 0" /><br />   <xform weight="50" color="1" symmetry="0.95" linear="0.9" sinusoidal="0.338" spherical="0.1" scry="0.309" coefs="-0.002831 0.000155 0.000153 0.002864 -0.004594 0.000434" /><br />   &lt<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/w/winkrazz.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=";p" title="Wink/Razz" />alette count="256" format="RGB"><br />      9A54A19952A0974EA0944BA09348A09044A08F41A08C3EA0<br />      8B3AA08A379F87339F86309F842D9F83299F80269F7B239A<br />      762195731F906E1D8B691B8765198261177E5C1679581475<br />      54137150126D4E10694A0F65450E62430E5E400D5B400B5C<br />      3A0A5637095234094F31084C2E08492D08482C0947270941<br />      25093E230A3C210A3A1F0B381C0C361A0D34190D33190E32<br />      1D0E381E0E3B200E3E220D41250D45260D46270E482A0E4E<br />      2C0E512E0E542F0E57310F5A320E5B340E5D360E61370F64<br />      3B0E6A3C0E6D3E0F70400F73430F76440F77450F7948117E<br />      4A11804C12834D13854E14874F148850148A52168C54168E<br />      571892581A935A1C955C1D965E1F985E20995E219A62249D<br />      63269E65289F662AA0672CA1672DA1682EA26A30A36B33A4<br />      6E37A56F3AA6703DA7713EA7723FA77342A77345A8764AA9<br />      774CA9794FAA7A51AA7B54AB7B55AB7C57AB7C5AAC7E5DAC<br />      8062AD8065AD8068AE8069AE816AAF826CAF846FAF8473B0<br />      8475B08477B08477B08578B0817AB0837BB0837BAF857CAF<br />      837EAE887DAD8D7DAC8E7DAB8F7DAB8E7DAA927CA99C7AA7<br />      9E79A6A078A5A177A4A377A3A275A2A2729AA1719AA06E96<br />      9D68919C678F9C668E9B638C995F8B985B86... ]]></description>
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                <title>Ahah, CSS!</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:02:51 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <div class="contenttop">So, it's not that I really have anything interesting to say, but I did want to test out this CSS I found. Thanks to *<a class="u" href="http://ginkgografix.deviantart.com/">ginkgografix</a> for having it out for free. Pretty cool stuff, huh? If you're looking for CSS, that's the place to go, seriously.<br />
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Also, I actually found me some stamps. I'd been putting it off before, but I just decided to do it.<br />
</div><br /><br /><div class="content"><p><span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/57385219/"><img src="http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs18/f/2007/162/a/f/Myspace_Stamp_by_Winry_R.jpg" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span> <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/44439638/"><img src="http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs9/f/2006/343/5/4/Stamp_by_wolf_wisper.png" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span> <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/70060859/"><img src="http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs23/f/2007/321/c/8/Stamp_by_XInsanity_VictimX.jpg" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span> <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/56427314/"><img src="http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs16/f/2007/149/8/f/Stamp____First_Gen_Pokemon_Fan_by_AtomicStoney.gif" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span> <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/28833204/"><img src="http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs9/i/2006/039/3/d/Down_With_myspace_Stamp_by_gemstones.gif" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span> <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/38394835/"><img src="http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs11/i/2006/233/e/b/stamp_by_helly7307.png" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span> <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/43669698/"><img src="http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs12/f/2006/329/d/2/Will_Eat_For_Food_stamp_by_Inspirized.jpg" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span> <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/37995508/"><img src="http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs11/i/2006/226/0/1/Retro_Gamer_Stamp_by_Sora05.gif" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span> <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/62390826/"><img src="http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs19/f/2007/227/1/0/Omnivore_Stamp_by_nestly.gif" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span> <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/48718394/"><img src="http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs15/f/2007/044/d/d/Atheist_stamp_by_lystig.gif" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span> <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/63442304/"><img src="http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs19/f/2007/239/5/0/Encyclopedia_Dramatica_Stamp_by_AnyaNeon.png" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span> <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/59166130/"><img src="http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs17/f/2007/186/e/e/I_Talk_to_Myself_Stamp_by_Latias_Flyer.gif" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span></p></div> ]]></description>
                <author>~Meiresthai</author>
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                <title>Aaaaand We're Back!</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:44:28 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Wee, I'm an = once more. Makes me feel good. Thumbnails are the best things to happen to a guy ever. And I even passed on Julie's favor of the 3-month subscription to *<a class="u" href="http://frank-murdock.deviantart.com/">Frank-Murdock</a>. Enjoy it, my friend. <br />
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By the way, I'm 16. Now I've got to go change that detail. Why, oh why can't dA's programmers decide that if we input a birthday that it'd be cool to automatically update age. Ah, well..<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>Awwww, it's so SAD..</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:16:54 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ My subscription just ran out. And I'm not going to be able to get a new one for two weeks from today. It's just...sad. Now I've got to do all the stupid stuff that non-subscribers have to do, such as ad-dodge...But it was a good experience. Thanks again, Julie. I'm just going to have to get used to this again...<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>PLATINUS AND HIS WEIRD CONTEST, yay.</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:00:22 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o47/LostRighteousness94/Horizon400x100.jpg"></img><br /><br /><a href="http://platinus.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/p/l/platinus.jpg" width="50" height="50" alt=":iconplatinus:" title="platinus"/></a>`<a class="u" href="http://platinus.deviantart.com/">Platinus</a> is the only (other) nutter I know who uses the word asshat and means it. He's currently holding a contest in which he gives out points, but he won't tell anyone how to get points. And I have joined. And  <a href="http://platinus.deviantart.com/journal/14295349/">you should too!</a> <br />
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It lasts until the end of the year. And hope nobody notices he's the one I copied the 1x4" header image from.<br />
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And below are the stamps which may give me points!<br /><br /><span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/63191292/"><img src="http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs19/f/2007/236/b/b/Platinus_Contest_Stamp_by_wdwparksgal.gif" width="97" height="54" /></a></span></span> <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/63094989/"><img src="http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs21/f/2007/235/c/3/Weird_Contest_by_Platinus.jpg" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span> <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/63121948/"><img src="http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs19/f/2007/235/8/9/Platinus___Points_by_Ard_Choille.png" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span> <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/63212554/"><img src="http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs21/f/2007/237/b/5/Contestaholic_by_justravelin.png" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span> <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/63228127/"><img src="http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs19/f/2007/237/9/7/Got_Points_by_justravelin.gif" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span> <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/64773928/"><img src="http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs19/f/2007/255/3/d/Platinus_Contest_Stamp_by_Meiresthai.jpg" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span> ]]></description>
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                <title>This is weird..</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:32:39 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o47/LostRighteousness94/Horizon400x100.jpg"></img><br /><br />Most of you know, I don't post journals unless I really have something to say, but..nothing's coming. I really want to type. I've got plenty to say. I was tagged, and everything, but...I don't know what it is. <br />
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I'm falling backwards. More and more things remind me of the past. Of what I had, didn't have. Never thought I was worth getting. And..now, I don't know if I can handle remembering all of that.<br />
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So, two things for now:<br />
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First, the goodish news. This is one of the moods in which I can actually draw. It's not the best for getting things proportionally correct, but I can still draw. My hand is now steady; my lines straighter and more defined. Maybe I'll do enough to put up here. Maybe not. We'll see. I just drew some sushi to piss of my Japanese teacher (if that's possible). --to <i>bother</i> my Japanese teacher. I'm getting 20/20 on this project, though.<br />
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Secondly, news of little to no disposition..I don't like what I know. I don't like who I am. A little bit of infective happiness could've reached me. I thought I was past that whole bit, but now I couldn't tell you. Now, I'm just typing to put out my thoughts to where I can digest them. I might not actually post this. I don't know. I just..want to tell someone everything, but I've got nobody to confide in anymore, if I ever did. There are a lot of things I've never told anyone. A lot of things I don't want to put on someone else. It's weird, everything's gotten heavy these past few days. I don't know why.<br />
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I'll feel better tomorrow, maybe. I'm out for tonight. See you all around.<br /><br /><span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/63191292/"><img src="http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs19/f/2007/236/b/b/Platinus_Contest_Stamp_by_wdwparksgal.gif" width="97" height="54" /></a></span></span> <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/63094989/"><img src="http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs21/f/2007/235/c/3/Weird_Contest_by_Platinus.jpg" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span> <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/63121948/"><img src="http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs19/f/2007/235/8/9/Platinus___Points_by_Ard_Choille.png" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span> <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/63212554/"><img src="http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs21/f/2007/237/b/5/Contestaholic_by_justravelin.png" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span> <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/63228127/"><img src="http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs19/f/2007/237/9/7/Got_Points_by_justravelin.gif" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span> ]]></description>
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                <title>Tagged, damn you all.</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:59:10 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Tagged by ~<a class="u" href="http://darknightclaws.deviantart.com/">darknightclaws</a><br />
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The rules are:<br />
1. Post these rules.<br />
2. Each person tagged must post 8 random facts about themselves.<br />
3. Tags should write a journal/ blog of these facts.<br />
4. At the end of the post 8 more people are tagged and named.<br />
5. Go to their page and leave a comment telling them they're tagged.<br />
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1. I can build barbecues and ponds.<br />
2. I thread needles better than any guy I know.<br />
3. I dislike wearing jeans, but that's almost all I have.<br />
4. I <3 the NES.<br />
6. When counting out loud (like in PE class), I count 123465798 and so forth<br />
5. It bothers me when people talk about me in third person when I can hear them.<br />
7. My username is actually a verb in Greek.<br />
8. I find Pac-man to be a better game than counterstrike.<br />
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i tag...<br />
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=<a class="u" href="http://spinningflag.deviantart.com/">spinningflag</a><br />
=<a class="u" href="http://colorguardgeek.deviantart.com/">colorguardgeek</a> (though she'll probably avoid doing this)<br />
~<a class="u" href="http://scs.deviantart.com/">SCS</a><br />
~<a class="u" href="http://squirrel23.deviantart.com/">Squirrel23</a><br />
~<a class="u" href="http://frank-murdock.deviantart.com/">Frank-Murdock</a><br />
~<a class="u" href="http://ry-die-swaai.deviantart.com/">Ry-Die-Swaai</a><br />
~<a class="u" href="http://bobastra.deviantart.com/">bobastra</a><br />
And, last and...least (Nah, kidding): *<a class="u" href="http://feverantobsession.deviantart.com/">FeverantObsession</a><br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>&amp;#12377;&amp;#12372;&amp;#12356;</title>
                <link>http://Meiresthai.deviantart.com/journal/13892502/</link>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:31:37 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Exactly how much I love the Japanese language:<br /><br />Sugoi ããããã (adj) terrible; dreadful; terrific; amazing; great; wonderful; to a great extent;<br /><br />Beautiful, isn't it? ]]></description>
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                <title>Somebody tell me why....</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:09:49 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I have a subscription now? I want to know who done it, so I can retaliate.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Meiresthai</author>
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                <title>UPDATE---8 feet and no inches more.</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:48:23 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Thank you all, especially Max who called me a fool, even after I made it.<br />
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Alright. That was some painful and exhausting fun. You try to run top speed for 56 feet and then converting lateral energy into vertical energy, and then back. Painful is when you don't make it over...and land on the bar. I got a welt on my forearm after the Monte Vista meet two weeks ago.<br />
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BUT I MADE IT! 8 Feet, damn. I'm the best JV vaulter we have right now. Its too bad Austin Haire is hurt, because he's pretty good when he doesn't have a sprained ankle. Anyway, I made 8' two or three times, then I was too tired to make it, and kept not making it. Tomorrow will be good though. You should all come to Cal High and watch us!<br />
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( Wish me luck. Tomorrow, I might be able to vault over a standard ceiling. My record is 7'6", but I know I can do better. I'm so close. )<br />
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And no, deviantART, this is not a minor edit. Duh.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Meiresthai</author>
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