http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:TheSodaKnight&section=today deviantART RSS for by:TheSodaKnight en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:41:05 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/26793097/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/26793097/ Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:08:00 PDT DERP DERP DERP DERP!!!
I rise from the jurassic era to deliver a message of utmost flatulence, like a burp in the seabed revealing a hidden text.

SHIT i haven't been on here in a while... Here's why:

I'M GRADUATING IN SEPTEMBER!!!

Can't stay long, still got to finish TONS of shit before TOMORROW.
Then i'll post stuff.
Then i'll have a website up sometime. In theory.

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]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/22922365/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/22922365/ Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:55:38 PST
Got Diablo 2 working again on my machine. Awesome. Crazy awesome game. 8 years old or some shit but still amazing. Funky.

I got a freakin Asthetic's paper due in 3 days. Fuck this shit, i say, but i cannot in good spirit for it is not something i should be forsaking. Oh, it means reading Plato and other long-winded speech dialog testimonies poetry and whathaveyou. Truly the internet forum of the old, literary works of history. As you can imagine, i am thoroughly enamored with this scarf and its wonderful shoddy fabric than i am with reading all that. I blah. Yup.

EUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/22306125/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/22306125/ Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:32:55 PST
Well, WELL... Well i will be returning to philly in 2 days, i'll be doing some late gift drawings and my goal is to have SOMETHING posted within the first week of January.

Hope the hollidays were fun for you guys!

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/22110419/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/22110419/ Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:25:31 PST
Fun. Stuff.

You dont want to know.

blugh...

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/22011162/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/22011162/ Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:51:52 PST
Today is it for me. For tomorro, i shall be done with school for the year. This has been bar none the hardest quarter for me. I'll be glad to squeese this one out, wipe off my brow and flush the stress away. Poop joke. Haha. Still got it.

The sock puppets have claimed me this time. But the war is far from over.

I must whip myself into gear and get my finals done for tomorro.

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/21802250/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/21802250/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:54:00 PST
in any case, my project this week is just that, weak. Again. I have a good design sense, i really do, but not ever when i need it. Its to the point that every Wensday i wake up anxious and nauseated until around noon, then fine till 4:30 when i start feeling the ceaseless "beating of the drums" within my chest. I'd relax.. but you know. I relax when i am able to enjoy myself.

Adapting the stance of... oh fuck it i just want my final assignment before i shoot myself. Hes making us sit in silence untill... Ok... were designing the intro to our dvd's we will be burning for our portfolio for our finals. >.> ... <.< ... Im going to destroy shit.

Brb, i need to make awesome.

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/21545797/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/21545797/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:46:50 PST must have left it in the computer lab after failing to get the audio files i needed from the computer there before it crashed on me. I could have sworn i had it in my hands before i left the computer lab...

THATS ALWAYS FUN.

Plastered flyers all over the school the other day. Oh yay i needed this. Needed it like i needed a 73 ton brick of hobo excrement.

The good side is that 98% of my schoolwork was backed up on my desktop.. but i still have to redo my Audio work again. Which isnt hard... its just a pain.

Spent $114 on a new hard drive for school, 250G. Not too shabby, but i formatted it wrong and i cant write to it on a mac, which RAGES me so much.

god dam i need a break before i go plop and loose all abilities except for [Make Drool]

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/21345125/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/21345125/ Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:14:32 PST i FUCKING hate colds! I haven't gotten sick this many times in a year since i was liek 14. All this school stress is DESTROYING MY INSIDES WITH THEIR HATEBLADES!
Its like glass has been gammed in my ears and down my throat followed by a truck of salt and citris juices accompanied by hot searing knives tearing at my joints while whips crack at my back and my feet until the world goes fuzzy and my eyes roll into the back of my skull as i plumet to the dirt!

Ok im done exadurating. Also Fuck speeling. And grammar. Fuck grammar AND speeling since i just kjfhglkfjghlsk jghkj w/e

Tired, in class, wishing i was in a brick of ice, my head feels hot.

There was an election of some kind. I know which one. Obama won, thats pretty sweet. Im not going to go screaming naked in the steet like a raving lunatic.

----40 minutes later

ok im stuffed with pizza and feeling better, still got a cold tho, still in class..

this week its a "visual essay" on Mayan Mythology for me.

Got till 2 weeks. Time to fucking take a fucking break. THANK YOU GOD THANKSGIVING!

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/21116868/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/21116868/ Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:47:20 PDT LOL not intentional. The spelling. Just nao. I'm truly that dam special.

Well, It must be the home sickness or the overwheming amounts of unessesary stress caused by mountains of deadlines and no real hope for a "real" weekend save Thanksgiving and, well, the end of the world. Did i say world? i meant year.

also, i seem to have lost my ability to endure the elements. I swear in one week my room was unbearibly hot while it being freezing outside. (we leave the window open ALL DAY TOO. Its like the heat doesnt want to leave). What doesnt help the situation, im sure, are the our two computers running constantly and that 6/7 days a week there's 3 people in the room regularly.

My head is hurting alot too. I think i shall pass out entirely tonight.

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/20976650/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/20976650/ Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:55:21 PDT
Aside from me bitching about the heat, my bestest fwend Jay came down last weekend and palled around with me. We grouped around philly for the whole weekend, checkin out the liberty bell and the Museum of Art and the fountains at them places the fountans are at. Got some real ramen from a noodle soup shop place. Awesome. Ate at Goodburger too. Double Awesome. Oh and the Thinker statue and the Gates of Hell we saw at the Ronin Museum. Or was it Rodin... Fuck i cant remember, my brain hurts

But as soon as he left i crashed something fierce. I havent walked that much since ever. 2 days of just walking all over the city. my feet were wasted when i got back.

This quarters in week 2 and i feel like my head is going to implode on itself already. I have that big pain in the ass class this quarter that requires me to complete a 15-30 second visual effect thing every week...balls are being shat. Well fine, this is going to be harder than the other classes combined, but i also have life drawing, which for whatever reason i really dont like. Yah, i imprive my drawing skill which is something i should take, but, its more work than i can handle i think... i have 3 morning classes... and i hate drawing in that situation cause it makes me feel like i've hit the ceiling cap and i cant push past it, like some huge weight thud's down on my mind preventing me from pushing past it and understanding what im trying to be taught.

Ive been feeling liek that with alot of classes lately too.. I feel tired and burnt out. I feel like i cant breathe sometimes, and dispite the little voice in my head telling me i'll be fine if i space out my time right, i can never get myself modivated enough to do anything. Its as if i've fallen off my self-esteem ladder to the bottom ring and i cant climb back up on it. my final for last quarter's bitch-class made my teacher piss himself with how awesome it was, the fact i can bang out something like that is good but how i'll be able to do that time and time again is up in the air as far as i'm concerned. Was it a fluke? Did i just roll a few 20's in a row and got lucky? Or did i have a moment of sheer brilliance and pulled off soemthing i knew how to do deep down inside and now i just need to look for the right moment or trigger to get it under my command?

I'm hoping this quarter helps me get my shit together.

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DND RELATED::
So i've made a monk with Vow of Poverty for Jack's story. Bad. Ass. I need a name for him though. something amazing and unique. any suggestions are appreciated. He's a human monk, male, age 22, blond hair, hazel eyes, 5'11", has a walking stick and works with Aaron's wizzard Korrin. They run a monster-slaying/odd job/merc's for hire type shop. Half the proceeds go to Korrin for his studies and the other half my guy distributes to anything that helps people, like a robin hood only without the tights and the constant need for attention.

My soulknife is becoming badass. His dex is 22 now at lvl 6, he hits for 1d6+1d4+2 with his mindblade, +1d8 if his psychic strike is ready. My bard can sing and give everyone +1d6 fire damage to their melee weapons too which is awesome.

My Wilder, lvl 20 wilder, lvl 1 MindMaster (a custom prestige class for my wilder) crit with one of two energy rays (fire) against a Deepcrow. A Maximized Twinned Fire energy ray for 133 each, one crit for x2 so thats 133x3 = 399 damage in one round. All time high score. Diz is in a heated competition with Aaron's 21 Ranger, who can almost top him in Damage. I'm currently in the lead. Ha. Fuck yeah.

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/20805263/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/20805263/ Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:11:22 PDT Here's a little rundown of what happened the past two weeks since the last post:

-Finished all my finals
-made my teacher shit himself over the majesty of my final that i spent all fucking night on
-imeediately went home to the hudson valley, beautifull train ride, the hudson river this time of year
-played dnd (Pete's game w/ guest star Aaron. My DragonShaman + his Marshal = Aura Bonuses up the ass)
-hung out with my mom, off to florida for a week she was
-hung out with bob
-hung out with jason n mikey, taco bell
-hung out with bob again
-hung out with jason mikey and Ed, at the planet fitness at the crack of dawn (holy barfing bananas batman/2-hit combo!)
-hung out with aaron and bob
-played a wee bit of Zelda, Windwaker
-Lego's had a huge war in my room
-hung out with bob again
-spent a day with the phone off so i could hear the sound of silence in my mind
-DnD, My Plasterphynoise game, crack o dawn at my place, and kicked ppl out at 3 to clean for my mother's return back from her trip to florida
-DnD again, Bob's game, terribly akward and tiring day
-grumbled cause my other friends i wanted to see were either sick, working, or i had no time to see due to poor planning
-picked up and wisked back to philly
-played Tales of Vesperia
-played Tales of Vesperia, turned in old games for cash
-played Tales of Vesperia, used said cash to buy new Sonic RPG for the DS
-played Tales of Vesperia (many many many hours)
-played Tales of Vesperia, played some Sonic and more Pokemon (sighs)
-not looking foward to the next week of school
-played Tales of Vesperia some more
-went to see some fasion show thing at the moore school with alison and the friends i have there who were in the show/made something in the show
-passed out for large quantities of time, believed its called "sleep"
-typing this now. Need to shave n brush my teeth.

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/20546034/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/20546034/ Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:53:46 PDT
Yeah im gunna be up all night. WEeeeeeee!
Least this project is lookin pretty sweet. Lots of hand drawn stuff here. Getting better at coloring and shading i am.




cant wait till 7:30 today! Im gunna be a pirate! i mean, im gunna be done! Yaaaaaaaaaay!

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/20495492/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/20495492/ Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:02:14 PDT
Well, i have been doing some work over the weekend... not nearly what i had in mind to stay sane... fucking procrastination. Repeat insanity. Sweet.

We'll see how well im feeling tomorro.

If i can keep my mind in the mindset of 'thursday it will be all over' then maybe i'll be ok.

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/20310954/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/20310954/ Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:14:49 PDT

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So once upon a time there was a man. And he was, as they say in present times as "hungry". The dusty path he walked refuesed to relinquish a nice place to eat along its horizon, and the man hated it. It was a rather mean thing to do. You understand.

Finally, in the distance there was a thing. And that thing turned into a more elaborite thing, a siluet. Silouet. Sill-oo-et. Not sure how to spell that. Whatever it is, it was there and thats all that matters now.

The thing i cant spell got closer as the man continued on his current path. His eyes widened, sturring from their previous occupation of glaring hungrily at the mean dirt road. Thoughts of wonderous pastries and magical sandwiches with extra meat, lettus and not too much mayo danced in his mind.

The thing cast aside its cloak of shadow, revealing the hidden truth that it was a burrito. The man gasped once, then twice. The second gasp was caused by the realization that the burito was in fact moving.

Halting in mid-stride, the man gathered his wits and wiped away the dust in his eyes. "What? What is it, burrito? Did I not fill out the proper forms?" he asked.

The burrito bellowed in a deep, gurling wave of beans and extra cheese. "No, I have brought you that dish washer you needed. I left it on the couch. That will be $13.75, cash. I dont accept cards anymore."

"..Oh," replied the man. "I see." Turning to his left, a flying bookshelf with jet engines for feet and turtle shell wings had jazzed his way up to him. "This is getting pretty wierd," the bookshelf said with that kind of tone that suggested he had collaborated a crack team consisting of 19 of the worlds finest scientists and logical theory specialists to point that fact out and you should recognize the greatness and seriousness of his remarkable resourcefulness, but you don't.

"I don't want to admit it, but you are very much correct," the man replied to the floating abbarition of wood and titanium. Titanium because it has jet engines on its feet. You remembered that right? What? you dont? Well, theres nothing left to talk about anyway; the man ate the both the burrito AND the bookshelf while you were too busy forgetting stuff.

There, Done.

Fin.

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/20226079/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/20226079/ Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:46:09 PDT

It's the typical mid-to-late quarter blues, followed shortly by the Finals week freakout. And in this case, they're overlapping.

The past two weeks saw alot of emotions and a wide range of activity. My birthday weekend was well recieved and i got a wee bit of relaxation at the cost of modivation to do any real work that i already had begun to pile up upon myself, as if i was making some kind of a fort with it. But all in all i though the oncoming tidal wave of work would be acompanied with a sence of enthusiasm. Well, maybe not a sence of overwhelming glee that i'd be working by balls off, but at least some kind of sence that if i got it done it would be over with.

Well no such feeling came and i got so deep in self wallowing and general incopetence from the constant second-guessing of my concept/ideas/knolege (or lack thereof) that nothing ever got done. I litteraly sat there and whimpered instead of doing the bloody work and i couldnt muster up any ounce of dedication to it untill the very night before it was due. It feels like ive gone fucking looney and backtracked to the age of 12 when i would cry when i had to do a 1 page paper on anything. So the most i had to show was a few solid visual props and a general idea of how i was gunna make them dance.

Whatever it is i cant seem to shake this uncanny sence of impending falure with this dam thing when i havent even seen it yet. I know i could do something real awesome with it, but that doesnt seem to agree with the rest of me. My desire to work is minimal at best, and my interest in this work is fading quickly. I'm even begining to cringe when i see clever visual effects in tv commercials. So all this compounds on itself, leaving me in the fetal position on the floor hoping that it'll all go away.

Around the appartment, reality has decided to take a nice soggy pretentious crap in the livingroom and make all of us wander over and gawk at it for a few hours before shoving our faces in it.

With the recent passing of his grandmother, poor Aaron had to miss an entire week of school. This did privide a momentary reprive for me as for that week i had the room all to myself. This would sound like a good thing, and it was, but after the first 2 hours i found myself pacing back and forth and then cleaning. Aside from the general lonelyness from boredom, Alison unable to visit and me not willing to go out in public or be social, i ended up spending most of that week just cleaning up the appartment. That felt far more appealing than the other real project (As mentioned above) which really needed my attention.

In addition, Zach has taken ill the past two weeks due to some kind of inner-ear-infection-fever combination super flu. It's a terrible situation, having a sick roomate. Yah the poor guy is nearly bed-ridden and is as miserable as a lost puppy with two broken legs and a cone around his neck to prevent him from chewing them off, but that doesnt make it any easyer living with the guy when he doesnt clean up after himself. He can stay a mess all he wants when he's pent up in his room, but when he comes out into the living room i feel like i need to sit there with a can of lysol so that he doesnt get the rest of us sick.

I've already got some kind of ear/throat thing thats not a real big deal but it feels like its waiting for the right moment (finals week) to kick me squarely in the gonads and rot me from the inside out. And surely i dont need the rest of us living there to catch the plauge as well or better yet our guests. Normally i wouldnt pick on a freind of mine when theyre sick, but holy fuck man you gotta clean up after yourself when your in the living room! I understand your sick and bored, but make an effort to contain the biohazard risk you present to the rest of us!

Phhew...

Anyway, after dealing with the project and its lack of completion on the day its due i got a small extention and decided to head home for the weekend to attempt to unwind. The train ride was okay. I had a rather heartbreaking moment the instant i had bought my ticket and went to sit and wait for the train. It was then i realized i had forgotten my DS on my desk in my room, all fully charged and suited for the trip... I even have my DS handbag with all my games in it ready for a weekend to unwind... Now, i COULD have gone back and picked it up.. its a 35-40 minute walk round trip from the station and the appartment, and there was a second train 30 minutes after the one i was gunning for.... but that would mean missing every other train down the line that i need to transfer to, and that 40 minute detour would have cost me 2 hours in travel time. Did not want.

Getting home was cool, Jason came and got me... ]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/19983257/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/19983257/ Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:21:17 PDT OH yah.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
WIFFLE MANDO HASPERDANDIE...
Garndo Manlandor Cinderbottom...
Pukky Uninbarl Fizzlestarter...

Random names for potential DnD characters.
Why? Why the hell not its my birthday i can do whatever i want. XD

Going to Dave & Busters tonite with people. It'll be awesome.
Got a muffin plushy from my awesome girlfriend. Its A MUFFIN! WITH BLUEBERRIES!!!!

Aaaaaaaaaaand today before we has the party were going to check out the comic book store and the videogame store for AWESOME THINGS!
because they are, as you might have cleverly guessed, quite AWESOME.

Well, im off to being awesome for a while. XD

Firends UNITE TO FORM AWESOMEBOT THE INVINCIBLE!

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/19904838/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/19904838/ Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:55:54 PDT Whats 6512 + 3488?
My pageviews.
(10,000)+
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Today's Jurnal, Dialectized (cockney)
(Because accents give an automatic +10 to charisma!) [link]
(You try too)

So i finally got the new D&D mats in, theyre arright i guess... not as wonderfull as i 'ad 'opped they would be, right, mainly because the wet erase markers i bought for it dont seem ter write too well on it (ffo they erase off not so bad). So now i 'ave ter get meself gahn on the chuffin' search for the proper markers. Cor blimey guv! Staples didn't 'ave them, sooooo... yeah.

The new miniatures came in, gotta slaffer some base paint on them and cop krakken.

Finally got Bioshock and KOTOR ter work again, wich is oresome and terrible at the same time, right, cause it will be a most considerable drain on me precous time resource for school work. Me and me oresomeness far. XD

YEAH! Oi! So guess wot, then, eh, guv? Me birffday's this saterday. HUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!! Blimey! Dave & Buster Tiem! Honest guv! FUCK YAH, yah hear?! Zach and Aaron boff want ter get me smashed and then wotch me play the tank and plane simulator. It'll be an... interestin' experience.

An experience at least. Or a bit of projectile vomitin'.

On top of all this i've gotten an urge ter dror fings recently, in this sickenin' spat i've been 'avin' in me notebooks. I right gotta keep me sketchbook 'andy for such occasions.

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/19814351/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/19814351/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:33:46 PDT
I'll be up all night doing this Spam Sketch project cause im awesome and didnt do shit earlyer.

Just wanted someone to know that im suffering due to my own general incompetence. i probibly spelled incompetence wrong too. Woot.

Mainly this is to remind muyself to DO SHIT when i have the chance to.

DnD figures ive painted are up, the best i could do with that camera. I'll take more later.

Im not sleeping tonite XD

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/19766826/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/19766826/ Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:33:06 PDT Spam Spam Spam Spam
Spam Spam Spam Spam
Lovely Spam, it's Wonderful Spaaaam!
Lovely Spam, it's Wonderful Spaaaam!

Allow me to explain. As per our first Portfolio quality project for Production studio 1, we needed to create a real-time text based visual thing using the dialog of ... anything. I chose the Spam sketch like the retarted little monkey i am.
Retarted cause most projects are about 30-45 seconds long, mines 2.4 minutes.

Anywhoozle, i plan to come home in.... 3 or so weeks. Depending on shit my VFX teacher John throws on us. This would be the second quarter i've had John for 2 of my classes.

WARNING, DND SHIT!
SO! i've taken up the art of miniature painting. Thanks alot Aaron. I've got 4 miniatures finished so far, 2 of them were test subjects to get me into the swing of it. I believe theyre chaos soulders. the other two are Rodimus and Arcath, my soulknife and bard in aaron's campaign.
I've ordered a model to be Zenithos, but... it just wasnt badass enough when i finally got it. So i ordered a NEW one, and, suffice to say, its going to be truly epic.

Since i find Zenithos so wonderfully awesome (he's possibly the most in-depth character i've run) i'm going to paint him as if he's already lvl 30. I cant wait till the thing arives, i must paint him posthaste in time for my trip back home. Oh shit, how am i going to carry them without breaking? .... i need to make a case....

People! bid me farewell for im off to subjugate the next several days to friggen work.

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/19760852/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/19760852/ Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:04:31 PDT i mightve miscounted

Level 1
(X) said LOL out loud
(X) forgotten your own age
(X) tried to lick your elbow


Level 2
( ) said the wrong name in bed
( ) had unprotected sex
( ) hurt yourself sexing
( ) sexed yourself hurting
lol.


Level 3
(X) Licked your toe
(X) Licked a frozen pole
( ) Licked a dog bone
(X) Licked a dog


Level 4
(X) drank old milk
( ) drank milk right from a cow
(X) ever thought chocolate milk came from brown cows
( ) drank Qwik right from the brown cow
( ) pushed a cow over


Level 5
(x) Eaten bugs
(x) Eaten garbage
(x) Eaten food off the floor after 5 seconds
(x) Eaten a booger

Level 6
(x) Been in a 5 seater Car with more than 7 people
(x) Been in a 7 seater van with over 12 people
(x) Driven in a 7 seater van by yourself
(X) Driven a tricycle past the age of 3
(x) Driven yourself home to the wrong house


Level 7
(x) Put dirty dishes in the fridge
(x) Put bowls of food in the dishwasher
( ) Put a full glass of juice in the cupboard
( ) Put salt in your coffee
(x) Dropped the cap into the glass your drinking from


Level 8
( ) Jumped over a car
(x) Jumped out of a moving car
(x) Jumped into a thorny bush on purpose
( ) Jumped off a bridge
(x) Jumped off your house


Level 10
(x) Forgot where you live
( ) Forgot your own birthday
(x) Forgot to zip up in the morning


Level 11
(X) Walked into a Pole
(x) Walked into a Wall
(X) Walked into someone
(X) Walked into a parked car

Level 12
( ) Won A Burping contest
( ) Burped the alphabet
(x) Burped just to break the silence
(x) Burped too hard and threw up


Level 13
(x) Eaten a whole bag of chips (and the salt on the bottom.)
(x) Eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
( ) Eaten a whole pizza so no one else could have a slice


Level 14
(x) Caught picking your nose (i do it with pride)
( ) Caught going to the bathroom outside
( ) Caught with your pants down
( ) Caught having sex
( ) Caught sexing yourself

Level 15
(X) Shoved something up your nose
(x) Picked your nose and studied what came out (I used a tissue!!!)
(x) Picked your nose till it bled
( ) Let your nose bleed to see the awesome blood all over you
(X) Blew your nose so goddamm hard your whole body hurt


Level 16
(x) Told a lie
(x) Been caught in a lie
(x) Lied to cover a lie
(x) Lied to cover your ass
( ) Lied to an undercover hooker cop

Level 17
(x) Laughed at someone in pain
(x) Laughed too loud and embarrassed yourself
( ) Laughed at a funeral
(x) Laughed so hard you pissed yourself


Level 18
(x) Written A Letter To Santa Claus
( ) Believed in Santa past the age of 8
(x) Believed your folks that a bunny laid chocolate eggs in the house.
(X) Believed you were NEVER too old for trick or treating


Level 19
(x) Threw a party for yourself
(X) Threw a ball at yourself (bounced off wall and hit me.)
(x) Threw up on yourself
(x) Threw a ball at a wall that returned directly to your crotch.
(x) Threw a superball in the house and took it right in the face


Level 20
(x) Pretended to know what you are doing (welcome to my life.)
(x) Pretended you were hot shit
(X) Pretended you weren’t listening
(X) Pretended you were Spiderman


Level 22
(x) Fell on the sidewalk
(x) Fell down the stairs
(x) Fell UP the stairs
(x) Went Sledding down the stairs


Level 23
( ) Tried to do a real cool back flip
( ) and busted your ass
( ) Tried to do a real cool cartwheel
( ) and didn’t lift your feet, retard (>_>


Level 24
(X) Ate food that you just kind of found
( ) Ate the mystery food in the back of the fridge
( ) Ate something nasty to get a laugh
( ) Cried when no one laughed


Level 25
(x) Cried when you hurt yourself
(x) Cried when you didn’t get your way
(X) Cried over spilled milk
( ) Cried after sex


Level 26
( ) Gone swimming naked
( ) Gone swimming in a strangers pool
(x) Gone swimming with a hose in the yard
(x) Gone swimming in a stank ass pond
(x) Gone swimming in the bathtub like a champ


Level 27
(x) rode a Pony
(x) rode a Donkey
(x) rode a lawnmower pretending it was an awesome racecar
(x) rode a shovel pretending it was an awesome spaceship
( ) rode the dog
~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/19003104/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/19003104/ Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:07:35 PDT Plus its not like i got anything better to do.
AAaaaaand everyone else was dooin it.

Leave a comment and I will:

a) tell you why I friended you,
b) associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a
photo, etc.,
c) tell you something I like about you,
d) tell you a memory I have of you,
e) ask something I've always wanted to know about you,
f) tell you my favorite user pic of yours,
g) in return, you must post this in your journal.



Also, little tidbit of awesome (i guess) with my Vampire in my friend James's masquerade game. He's Gallant in nature, which makes him a bit of a show off. He has Concentration, which negates penalties caused by distractions, so he constantly has headphones on blaring loud music. He's got Movement of the mind 5, which means he gan "grab" 1000 punds of anything with his mind and control it (mainly hurl it) for so many rounds. It became obvious when i used movement of the mind to hurl a zombie into my sword, and again when i lifted up a tombstone to crush another one. and again when i kept chucking and throwing zombies on top of other zombies.

I slap my hand to my forhead at the end of the chapter; My vamp Gabriel is an unintentonal Nero rip off. Ah well, least my guys' not a crybaby. (yah i saw that cutscene nero, you cant deny it)

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/18909577/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/18909577/ Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:46:39 PDT possibilities!

I could play some Age of Conan, maybe some WoW...
Or some halflife for a change of pace...
maybe reinstall Warcraft III...
maybe install and play that Battle for Middle Earth game Aaron got me into, where you can COUSTOM BUILD UR OWN HEROS!
Maybe i'll sit here and watch a butload of movies?

GOD DAM I LOVE SUMMER BREAK!
i got home 5 days ago, and after the first night i discovered that i was a mass of sores. All that tension and stress i had pent up from finals burnt me out more than i imagined.

XD then i spent the past 2 days cleaning up after the two huge storms we had. the first one was just bad weather, the second one had reports of friggen tornados! like right down the street too! fuck!
There were trees down everywhere. We lost a large upper chunk of the one tree by our pool (luckly it didnt hit anything) and one of the tree's in the back yard along the yardline (one of the bigger ones two) is leaning against a smaller one. Its base is split down the middle. Pretty nuts. We were sitting outside durring the windyness yesterday afternoon watchign it to see when it would fall over (and where).

But yah, terees were down EVERYWHERE here. Me Mikey and Matt all went to get some good ol' chineese foods at the local awesome buffet when like a bat out of hell it stared pouring with Dime-Sized hail. When we were heading back, we had to be detoured from the main road (after passing like 7 downed branches) and we saw some really huge trees down across some houses.

So yah! NOW FOR DND!
JAMES FINALLY COVERED SOME OF ZENS PLOT!!!! Its been forever (mainly cause im away in philly all the time) but finally Zen got to do some heirloom searching. His family has this really kickass blade passed down the generations, causing equal amounts greatness and destruction. Zens worried that when he gets the dam thing he'll go the ways of the dark jedi and fuck everything up, but thats becoming less and less the case as he travels with this group of interesting characters.

next game is with the wonderfully lovable DIZ!!!! YAAAAAY! i still need to level him up. i've been saying that for a few months now. i need to actually doo it. XD

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/18816144/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/18816144/ Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:03:42 PDT
But, however, be that as it may, a horrible series of unfortunate events (they should write a book about that), in the end i am still done and in the clear. Hopefully.

I still gotta grab the last of the renders, hope to God they all work (i'm winging it here), and put them all together to form a whole, complete-ish final. Then i gotta burn everything to a disk and turn it in.

Then you'll find me running like a mad man down the city streets, as if unleashed by some dark ritual. Nothing can stop me, except busses. If they want to make a right on red you'd better hope to God you're not in their way.

Traditions traditions! End of Quarter means 5-Guys! WHICH MEANS AWESOME BURGERS AND FRIES proceeded an hour later by a lengthy visit to the restroom. Its worth it i tell you!

I'm looking foward to this break! I'll be doing DnD, my gf will more than likely visit me at home-home, i'll be bringing my awesome-tastic computer with me to occupy my time in the off-D&D hours, HOLY FUCK ITS GOING TO BE GRAND!!! Of course, the downside is that dont have a car avalable to me anymore, so i'll have to resort to people coming over my place and/or buming rides.

I'll be home for a long while, so there's no excuses for you guise (unless ur in another state), so come see me! PLZ! It'll be awesome!

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/18770733/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/18770733/ Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:55:33 PDT
I honestly cannot believe i am SERIOUSLY REDOING all the work i JUST lost. I hate this place.

When i finish this dam piece of filth i'll call a final for the sake of turning something in, i'm going to bury my head in a bucket of ice water. Thanks to the wonderfull heatwave, not only have i not slept in the past 3 days, but i've had the wonderous oppertunity to watch air litterally die. Its pretty neat! Cold air comes out of the AC, gets about 3 feet before it gets obliterated by the heat of the room. Its like watching a small stream of straggly nerds charging valiantly into an oncoming army of Spartans, only there's 2 billion of them instead of just 300.

Finals for the other classes? Dont get me started... I dont wanna think about it.

As i'm struggling to get shit back on track, i'm realizing that all i really care about at this point is surviving untill Friday, when this will be all over. And with that on Saturday, accompanied by a tremendus burst of energy and a flash of light, I will arive back in newburgh. Deal with it. I'm staying for a while. I need, NEED to get out of this place.


I want to sleeeeeep

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/18522968/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/18522968/ Tue, 27 May 2008 07:14:17 PDT .> .... .... SO yah... after a whole 6 months of being clean, i've re-activated my Warcraft account. And Right before finals! I am AWESOME SMART!

If that wasnt the only problem, i also aquired Age of Conan, the latest MMO on the scene. And i have to say, its pretty friggen sweet. Absolutely beautifull. The only downside is that the game itself eats up a whopping 35G of space. Not like that means anything to me now with my 700G+ of space, but find it a little disconcerning when in less than 2 weeks i've aquired more than 250G of stuff.

You level up relatively fast, i've only been playing for a few hours and im lvl 13 now. I dout i'll be able to continue playing it tho, with my limited funds and copious amounts of school.. plus WoW, which i did promise my best friend i'd return to and pal around with him.
One thing Conan has done is really make me miss WoW something fierce.
I havent even been on in forever, yet, like instinct, the first thing i do is check the auction house.

Probibly not the smartest thing i've done, starting up two mmo's durring the last two weeks of school, but it'll be okay. I've decided not to stress at all over my other classes, cause as midterm taught me, its simply not worth it. I'll get my stuff done either way.

~----------------------------~
Anyway, I hope to get a ride home this break, seeing that i get 4 weeks off. Since my mother got a new car, i wont be able to drive anywere, which means lots of time stuck at home. I'd hope this way i can at least bring my computer home with me, so i dont go insane in the time before and after friends. Plus i can goof off on WoW and Conan like i should be. Otherwise, it means i'm only staying home for around 2 weeks as upposed to the whole dang thing, due to the fact my parents want me to look for a job up here.

The whole job thing is annoying, since the best bet is for me to get a job as a lab monitor, that way i can work on homework and get paid for it. But that requires the school to be open and it still means i'll be unemployed durring this 4 week break.

The alternitive is that i ask back at my old job if they'll let me work for the break. I can easly pick up 30-40 hours that way, but i still need Fri-sat off for DND, and that will be a butload of pain to aquire. in the end tho, i dout that will be a good idea since they have a hard time of understanding the fact that i cannot work after a certain point, due to me being in another state for school.

The OTHER alternitive is that i get a job elsewhere up here. The only problem being i would have to have a wonky work scheduel and i wouldnt be able to come home on random weekends whenever i wanted. If i can find some place that would be willing to overlook those traits, i'll be in business.

Bah, i should do work now. XD school poop!

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/18325836/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/18325836/ Wed, 14 May 2008 18:25:12 PDT
IT FUCKING WORKS!!! ITS WORKING!!!! I'M TYPING THIS ON MY BRAND NEW SUPER COMPUTER!!!!

Its only been like, what, 5 months? Whatever. It works now. I'm on it as we speak, installing all manner of drivers and programs and other assorted shit. Oh, i need to transfer all my music and photos too at some point.. Oooooooh, so little time and so much to do!

Sadly, im using Vista, but whatever... Its just getting used to it that's my biggest concern. If its too much of an issue, i can always re-format to XP. Either way, im still going to have to pick up a 64 bit version at some point.

I've named it the Neo-Jesus, as it is an awesome name. Yup.
And then tomorro afternoon i get to play on it for a few hours before heading home the day after.

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/18301214/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/18301214/ Tue, 13 May 2008 07:28:50 PDT +10 to hit with my mindblade, doing 1d6+2. +1d8 with my psychic strike i can recharge as a move action (unless im getting 3 attacks of oppertunity on me, then fuck it).

Thanks to my +5 dex modifier, i got a bunch of other shit with it like an aditional +1 to inititive and ac, plus my tumble skill is 12 at the moment. super awesome.

So yah, NEXT level i get the ability to shape my mindblade into a longsword, bastardsword, or two identical (albet -1) shortswords. The latter the only decent option, since i'd be able to hit more with them than with the others since my strengh modifier is only +1. Also i get Speed of Thought at lvl 5, giving me +10 to movement speed as long as im psyonicly focused.

In addition i get my next level of Burst ability, granting me +20 compitence bonus to my move for 3 rounds. Awesome. a land speed of 60 for 3 rounds is Orgazmic. and it'll only get better from there.


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On the computer front, ... bluuughghghg..... I've gone through shorted out hardware and evil screws and waiting upon waiting for this dam thing to work. Its had more plot twists than a horribly written soap opera. Hopefully this one will be the last:

As It Turns Out, for the -nth time: The processor and the motherboard are incompatible. meaning the motherboard i ordered in the first place could never and would never work with the processor i had put in it. Wow. Awesome. Something simple and stupid that could have been avoided, that i TRIED to avoid, was the cause for months of agonizing computer trauma. A new motherboard that CAN handle and work PROPERLY has been ordered and should be here within the next day or so, and THEORETICALLY i should have an operational computer by thursday.

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/18179539/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/18179539/ Mon, 05 May 2008 11:49:45 PDT 20, +5) and my mindblade becoming a +1.

The next few feats i'm gunna pick up will prolly be the one that allows me to use my racial Burst ability to give me an extra attack at my highest attack bonus on the next round if i make a full round attack. Then i can take the other Xeph racial feat at 9 that allows me to get more bursts per day, or the one which allows me to recharge my psychic strike when i kill things. That would be ideal.

XD also, in order to maintain the ideal that im a xeph palling around with mostly human people (theres one gnome and one Elan, but the elan looks human anyway) i've decided to rollplay him with a Russian accent. Its HYSTERICAL. He has so much more character depth now that i've been doing this. He sounds interesting, and it makes people want to interact more with him. It also helps me out because it forces me to really think about what to say and how to say it, making it easier for me to rollplay with other characters. I also say less stupid stuff this way.

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In the GTA homefront, ive unlocked a number of achievements in the 360 version that i thought was pretty crazy. I got one for loosing a 4 star wanted level by driving away, which was a sheer accedent, but pretty funny nonetheless. Also got one for riding in a taxi across two islands without skipping. Best bathroom break ever.

The game is absolutely beautiful, takes a while tho to get used to the 360's control scheme. There's no loading times that i've noticed, everything is blended in seamlesly. It takes a second to get used to the free-aim mode but its wonderfull. Feels like im playing gears of war or something.

This is also where i got the idea to rollplay my soulknife with a russian accent; from playing way too much GTA4.

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In other news, i finally had a bit of a break this weekend, as you can tell. i still gotta go in and do some work on stuff, but i can do that tomorro. I've got time to breathe, at least for a little bit.

The new Penny-Arcade game is coming out real soon. Its gunna be orgazmic. I cannot wait for that! That and the Force Unleashed. That game is coming out for the Wii! The wiimote is ur friggen lightsaber!!! and the nunchuck is ur force powers!!!! BRAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWL
I fucking love Brawl. Its the greatest game ever. Im playing it right now. Yup.

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/18097757/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/18097757/ Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:23:09 PDT
This is Teh Epic Joke Of The Quarter in amazing 2D text!

SO i have all of One clip done right? Rendered it out in my half finished key (key looked good, needed to roto out the orange dots). Showed him. Woo. Told me what i had to do to fix it. Yay.

AS IT TURNS OUT, after all was said and done, he told us that he never expected to see any finished projects. He figured that if he made us make a 5 shot project, at least one would have been keyed and tracked perfectly. I've been killing myself for practice.

So he wants us to take one of these shots and make it move perfectly for week 7.

I'm going back to bed.
Yay for practice, tho.

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/18090516/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/18090516/ Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:36:29 PDT Nope, it aint gettin done tonight. this lab closes at 9:40, and i still need to camera map 2 more clips. Then render, then composit.

Its not like i slacked off either, i really tried to do this. But apparently you cant save any kind of camera mapping data when you're still in the middle of mapping it. There's no way. It crashes the program, so that explains why all my tracks died when i got them finished. There goes a weeks worth of work. Then the other corrupted files, i.e. my room model i need for this thing.

But i vented about that yesterday.

I'm not the only one with issues, majority of the class is pretty much along side me in terms of completing it. The thing is most of them can work at home, i cant. Then theres the fact i'm still not getting it all down right. It's a terrible shame too, what i have got completed looks really cool and makes me happy... I just wish we had another week...

I'm so stressed that i'm starting to feel sick. And its not going to let up, i gotta finish this thing, do homework for 3 other classes due thurs and friday, work on midterms for 2 others by next thursday/friday, and then i'll be able to go home work the weekend. I dont even think im going to show up for friday's class next week so i can rest and get the fuck out of this city. It feels like im dying on the inside. I sent a letter to my teacher depicting all the issues i've been experiencing... we'll see what happens.

In an exausted stupor last night (right about after i vented 2 months of frustration to my friend Jack and after i've accepted that i wasnt getting this done this week) i played WarioWare for a grand 15 minutes. And what a magical and wonderous 15 minutes was. I felt feelings again. Happy feelings. Thank you, Nintendo, for that blissful window of tranquility in my already fucked up work sheduel.

In other news... .. um... i pooped. for the first time in a week. Yah, im that stressed. And yah, you really did need to know that. I hope i dont develope an ulcer from all this crap... i feel shitty enough as is.

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/18072446/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/18072446/ Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:53:32 PDT
This time was different too, I did every step like i was supposed to, when it was due, and here i am, struggling to get it all done on time. Murphy is gunna get stabbed for those laws of his.

My 3D model i finished 2 weeks ago, which was perfect and done, is corrupted.
Good thing i backed it up right? Yup. Oh wait, those got corrupted too? All 4 of them?! Well, Fuck.
The 3D program works well too, if by well i mean crashes every 5 fucking minutes.
Matchmoving a camera in Maya is a lot like trying to get a bum a job. No matter how much you clean it up it's not going to work unless it's smart enough to know what it's doing. (Maya, according to our teacher, is the 2nd worst program for camera mapping, but we can try to download cracks for better programs if ur clever.)

Another thing, Maya can't render out animations on 90% of the computers in this school due to some retarted form of batch render problem. Finding one that works a stroke of luck, getting Maya to not crash long enough to render something out would be like winning the fucking lottery. Even if i do get all this cameramapping done right, im still not positive i can render it out thanks to this school's lack of reliable machinery.

Its not like i have a computer at home to do this on.

It feels like im swimming in a sea of fail. My head hurts so much from all this unfortunate shit that i cant really do anything about. Here i am, 2 days before this fucking VFX midterm is due and im remaking the goddam 3D for it!

Complaining about the computer issues here are commonplace; Everyone's doing it. Its just not really getting done. My tuition at work, gentlemen. All things considered, this school does have amazing stuff in it, but this little shit like the program not being able to batch render seems kind of stupid to me. Fix the dam thing so i can continue to pass my classes!

I'm so tired. This has been grinding into me for the longest time now. ARGH OMFG IF I HAD MY FUCKING COMPUTER MY LIFE WOULDNT SUCK SO MUCH RIGHT NOW. Every FUCKING time its been "File corrupted" this and "program unexpectedly crashed" that. Why cant shit just work for me?! WORK DAM YOU! DO YOUR JOB SO I CAN DO MINE!

Drowning Kev is drowning.

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/18018318/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/18018318/ Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:39:44 PDT
SO this explains that Mighty Normal Planet picture i posted. This is what occupied my attention for the better half of the beginning of class. Its a shame, there's more stuff on the other side, but Maya saves all pictures as .iffs by default, and apparently i keep forgetting to change that to .jpegs, otherwise the black gets turned to an alpha channel. and since PC's think that .iff's are winamp files (at least on Zach's comp), i cant view half the stuff i saved XD

That is until i get back on a mac.

In addition, im gunna try to render out some screenshots of the 3D modeling i've been doing for the midterm and post that up, since i cant do much else atm.

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/17981129/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/17981129/ Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:20:45 PDT
Update on this VFX project:
~Keying out the green and stuff----------- 18% (one clip is 95% done, the other 4 are not even touched)
~3d Modeling the room-------------------- 70%
~Camera mapping------------------------- 0%
~Level of patience left with this class------ -9,773%

Thats in the negatives. I'm so tired of this class. I'm about ready to drop it. I'm that tired of this stuff.
i swear, im going to go to class tomorro, show him my stuff, and if he rips it up, im gunna cry. right there, in class.

thats worst case senario of course, but im just so tired at this point it doesnt matter what happens, i'll turn in what i have done. I tried. I'm trying. Its alot of work for only 4 weeks timespan. its more complex and has more new shit in it than the final in the previous class, in less time, for a midterm. Yah, i know its school and its supposed to be challenging me, but please, i got 4 other classes to pass as well. As it stands, all of my time is going into this one project.

Also, insert all previous rants about my computer and it not working and how that couldve spared me some of this aggravation.

~~~~~
Intro to Audio is awesome. I really want to have time to play around with some of that stuff.
As is 3D Effects! Particle engines FTW!!!
Lighting is meh, Broadcast graphix is led by the same teacher as VFX and its played the way VFX should have been: with less work and more time to play with stuff so it can at least look decent


ok im done ranting

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/17909187/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/17909187/ Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:24:31 PDT
This is week 3 for me, (winding down since today is friday) and i think im going mad.

BUT THATS GOOD! All according to plan. If you remember one of the previous episodes of SodaKnight's jurnal i mentioned my master plan of going mad this quarter. However, this kind of mad wasn't entirely what i had in mind.

As my roomate Aaron puts it, week 3 and 7 are the acceptible skip weeks, since... well... those weeks sit between the begining, midterm, and end of the quarter. I guess. Break time.

All this week i've had an almost uncontrollable desire to do absolutely nothing. Working made me sleepy, class made me sleepy, sleeping made me sleepy, Thinking in general made me sleepy. And nothing could be done about it. No matter how much i told myself i needed to get started on shit, my brain gave me the blue screen of death.

"Hay, Kev's brain! I need you to think now! We got some problem solving that needs to be done and possibly some wierd, ass-backward math, and some planning."
To which my brain would responded between sips of its ice cold umbrella'd beverage "hmmm.... mmmm... Nah, thats not happening."

Then It would shut down all basic cognitive skills for an hour to emphasize its seriousness. Not pretty when you need these skills to not get mowed down by traffic on your way back home.

Oh yah, I got my first death threat while walking to class with Zach earlyer on last week. THAT was fun. Its pretty sad when a bum gets that pissed off at their own situation that they need to follow people for half a block, shouting obsenities and threats in the middle of the afternoon on a crouded street cause he's hungry. Not my fault, not my problem. Sorry your life sucks buddy, but i've got nothin for you, especially now that you've made me afrade for my life. Thankfully, he realized we werent gunna tolerate him and his shit, and he backed off. I miss the bums who tell jokes.

On a lighter note, ive gotten a bit more sleep the past two days, and its seemed to rectify my brain problem. Sorta. I still got alot of shit to do this week:
1) finish rendering the 3D enviornment for VFX
2) shoot fottage for VFX
3) key footage for VFX
4) begin planning for matchmoving for VFX
5) work on the other 4 classes i have.

No rest for the weary

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/17747518/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/17747518/ Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:39:37 PDT **WARNING: Nerd Alert!!! somewhere down the page**
my god, it is. My VFX teacher wants midterm boards by tomorro, and i need to start cranking out a 3d enviornment.

And, of course, my computer is still nothing more than a pretty night-light fan. That is, untill Zach orderes me a new Processor. Which should be.... soon? very soon. I swear to God i hope this is the last thing i need to fix on this forsaken piece of hardware.

In any case, i'll be using the School brand computers in the meantime.
Its not really that big a deal, i just have no clue as to what i want to do for this midterm piece. i need at least 5 shots, and they all have to be moving camera shots, which means animation in Maya! which means HOURS OF RENDERING!!! WEEEEE! For the love of deep fried chicken fingers everywhere, i hope that i'll have my machine working before midterm week.

That and i've encountered a problem with one of my simple, crap doodle pictures. Its gotten WAY OUT OF HAND. It started off as a simple, mouse drawn portrate of Zenithos, my WoW mage/DnD Duskblade (same model for both XD). So i did it with the intention to keep it a simple stupid picture. Then i colored it with solid colors and threw in a simple background. Then i decided, out of nowhere, to shade it a bit.

Then i decided, right then, to play with the opacity filter on the brush. The shading looked amazing, but needed something, so i used the smudge tool. Perfect, only it took me about 3 hours to complete one thing of hair.

(ive been working on this intermixed with my VFX classes, so at most ive done about 4 hours of work on it every ... other week? i forget the math, but its taken a long to get it to where it is now. I've probibly done nothing this.. i wanna say realistic, for me, since i tend to stick with big outlines and simple facial discripters. This pic here is the most i've ever attempted in terms of shading a face.. and im trying to get it right. trying.
When its done its going up. You'll see, im gone insane.

OH YAH, in other news, i've decided to go mad this quarter. Not stark raving mad, but along the lines. I plan on doing alot of wierd things to keep myself in a constant state of panic and randomness, since i get the best ideas for projects that way. THATS IT!!! MY MIDTERM PROJECT WILL BE ABOUT ME CHASING SOME CHEESE!!! ITS BRILLIANT!!!! now whare should it take place... hmmm..... mmmmmm.... HMMMM... Simply amazing... Maybe a ROMAN TEMPLE TO ZEUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMFG I AM A GENIUS!!! NO, WAIT, SCRATCH ZEUS, i need to come up with a different kind of temple. Maybe a temple to ... to uh.. ... NATHANS!! no.. .. platypuses? ... kittens?... cows? COWS?! OH SHIT THEYRE GUNNA GET ME!!!

*****ALSO, this is gunna be the NERD SECTION OF MY JURNAL!!!! I shall note this at the begining of my jurnal. WEVE GONE AND DONE IT! DND AT THE APPARTMENT!!! SWEET BABY CUPCAKES!!! Xephs are pretty neet, they get +2 Dex, -2 Str, darkvision, they get a burst of speed 3/day that starts off at +10ft for 3 rounds, then goes to +20 ft, then 30 ft at higher lvls. I'm rolling a Xeph Soulknife with the worst strength score ever XD (which sucks cause were factoring in the weight of all our shit as well) but my dex score makes up for it.at least when i hit lvl 3 and can pick up Weapon finesse. untill then its me throwing darts for more damage than i can hit with my mindblade XD. Aaron is taking turns with me in DMing the adventures. He's rolling a human Healer. JAck made a very delicate and dandy Elan Psyon, Zach is rolling a terribly racist, albeit sarcastic Gnome Bard, and LAura is playing a human Swashbuckler. So far we are the champions of nothing quite paticular, but have agreed to help investigate the cause of this one town's burning plague. (Aaron found a bunch of stories online to run us through, at least untill he feels confortible enough to start us into his own)

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/17620182/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/17620182/ Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:24:12 PDT
I guess that would explain the icons, what with them all being mudkips.
i'll edit this according to what happens to me today.

SO YAH im totally running a Bard in WoW once my comp works.
plus TAUREN MARINES IN STARCRAFT2!!!! FUCK YEAH

Im attempting to put together my computer myself... its taking a bit but i think i know what im doing.

**EDIT**
Epic fail.
So it still doesnt work, which means i either hooked a wire up the rong way (which i might, but i dout thats the reason) or the processor is fucked. Im gunna take the dam thing to a place and have them look at it. again. honestly, i just dont know what to feel anymore. This computer has killed my inner child.

On the bright side, it does make for a real pretty $1000 nightlight fan.

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/17547062/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/17547062/ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:49:20 PDT
I go back home in two days. Doesnt even feel like its been a week anymore, it feels like its been just one day.

Bah, my sence of time is all fudged up. Seems like the days just slip by.

Today was cool, got to hang with J and play some Magic the Nerdening with LEEEEROOOOOOYYYYYYYYYY!!!! i gotta say hi to the 3 ppl i miss from my old job, i havent seen them in ages.

tomorro is the D&D game, we get to do our friend Pete's game that night, its gunna be awesome with my Dragon Shaman trying to impress the ladies by making wood carvings for them. Its gunna be so much fun! Were still around lvl 4-6, so its the start of an adventurein Pete's world. I have a long list of Crack art i need to get done for D&D night; its unreal. Gotta get started on that. Liek... nao...

I got a 15 credit quarter comin up. i swear to God, if i still dont have a computer by the end of next week i will simply explode. i NEED this machine to do my work Properly and without stupid needless delays. I swear, shit like this makes me wish i was an animation or illustration major instead.

see, nothin real special here. nothin to do at 9:30pm at my house aside from basic cable + the same 5 dvd's, and the game cube. Ive been playing this game called Dark Alliance, Baulders Gate. Its D&D on the cube, not the greatest thing ever but still its pretty neet!. Plays just like DDO, sorta, more like Diablo 2 than anything, but with the D&D system.
I really dont want to play it now, tho. Maybe i'll just go to bed.

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/17455645/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/17455645/ Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:59:44 PDT
NAO THAT HES TEH EPICS I CAN GIVE HIM TEH EPICS FEATS!!!!! He's SO getting Expanded Psyonic Focus, allowing him to use 2 metapsyonic feats in one go as upposed to only one. Also, i gotta get Power Knoledge, a feat that lets me pick up an additional 2 spells known from within my class+disiplin tree up to the max i can cast. That means i can pick up spells like Assimilate and Reality Revision!

SONOFABITCH!!!! Ok, i did some math, and i sound like a complete nerd but DEAL WITH IT! If i picked up expanded psyonic focus at my current level of 21, i can do this: Wildsurge up to 6th, so i have an effective caster level of 27, and then cast a maximized/twined tornado blast. assuming i make all the range touch attacks and the target fails the reflex saves, i'm doing a total of (17d6+8d6)x2 Maxed = 25d6x2=50d6=300 damage straight up. I can do this every round. I use my move-action to become psyonicly focused, so i cant really go anywhere, but i can do this a total of 23 times in a row if i so wished. Again, asuming the target doesnt pass the saves n stuff, over all those rounds im doing 6900 damage. Rediculous.

Of course, nothing could live past the first ...3 and get away with it if they got hit by the full force of this thing. There is no spell resist to it, so fuck you guys with spell resist, it wont help you. then again, a reflex would half the damage of the 17d6 part, and i need to hit with the touch attack to deal the extra 8d6. by the way, this thing's a 40 foot wide blast of vortexy death that streaches 400ftx40 per lvl in length.

SO FUCKING EPIC!!!! So, now i gotta level him up. Should i go for more powers nao, or go for UBER MAXIMIZED-TWINING EPICNESS FTW?!?!?!

In addition to the game we had yesterday, Valen, our resident bad ass pally ended up taking all the fighting on himself, while we were stuck floating around for 5 rounds watching a tsunami coming at us. Diz got to steal a bit of the spotlight, when he was able to find and catch the last of these legendary elemental crystals in the tsunami, and proceed to make the tsunami dissapear. Everyone else got to watch pretty much.
Oh, and Kai went all skitzo, but it turns out its cause she's got a FRIGGEN CELESTIAL SOUL stuck inside her!!! Big green emu for the win. (had to be there, sorry).... i need to draw that.....
ALSO Richard became a Lich!! A NEUTRAL LICH!!! HOLY BARFING BANANAS BATMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our pally and Cleric almost made cheese sticks out of him, but then we noticed his allignment did not = evil and then this plot was then capped off with the realization that KAI HAS A FUCKING CILESTIAL SOUL INSIDE HER



Ack! Squak! Quoth the raven, "nevermore." So yah. Now i gotta work on my dragon shammy in pete's game and a gnome tinkerer in jason's game and my duskblade in james's game and and and *passes out*

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/17307491/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/17307491/ Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:41:47 PDT
SONICS HIS NAME SPEEDS HIS GAME!!!

I FUCKING LOVE SONIC THE HEDGEHOG!!!! FINAL SMASH SUPER SONIC FOR THE EPIC WTF OMG WIN!!!!!!!!
IKE FOR HIS OMGWTF FIREY OMNISLASH OF OWNAGE!!!!!! PIT IS AWESOME!!!


hey guys! Guess what game i've been playing instead of working on finals?! THATS RIGHT! Sonic is just omg im so happy he's in this game. I am swimming in my own mess here. And the story mode! SO GOOD! BUILD UR OWN STAGES!!!

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMGGOGMOMGMOGMOGMGOMGOMGMOGMGOG
The music in this game is simply top notch. The only way they could have made this better is by including MegaMan in it.
maybe next time.

Im running on no sleep. I kept myself up all last night finishing a 5 page paper for Logic, so i can come home on Tuesday of this comming week as opposed to that wensday. And i did it so i get one more day to hang out with my gf before she has to head back to her "retarded-illustration-teacher" infested school. But no sleep isnt that bad, once i got over the two finals i had today i suddently stopped feeling like crap. My stomach hurts like hell, the rest of my body feels all out of whack, i guess i just need to sleep. I'll head to bed in a little bit.

Then tomorro i get to go and start working on my VFX final. The way things worked out this quarter, if i do alot of work tomorro and friday i might be able to get everything done ON TIME! Holy shit the concept of getting stuff done on time is crazy.

omg i keep thinking that i am seeing smash balls floating in front of me and i have an irrisistible urge to smash it and fly away as super sonic

WOOOOOOOOO SONICS MY NAME SPEEDS MY GAME!!!!!!!


Nope, still no computer.

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/17134578/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/17134578/ Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:53:32 PST EDIT AT BOTTOM

Truly, this has been a complete waste of a thousand dollars. Clearly. Its been 8 heartbreaking weeks of complete and utter failure with this thing. It should have been working! I should be on my own machine! I should not have to be writing this on the bloody media machine! BUT NOOO!!

The god dam power supply they sent back as the replacement has the EXACT same problem as the last one, but Fuck it. I decided to use the one that came with the tower i bought, its enough power to do the job. HOWEVER, the MOTHERBOARD STILL WONT BOOT UP!!! Is this place handling these things with magnets or something? I cant figure it out! ITS THE FUCKING BRAND NEW REPLACEMENT AND IT DOESNT WORK!

I'm tired of this shit. So i took the dam thing to the Geek Squad at the best buy. Yah, i know what some of you are thinking, but at this point, i honestly stopped caring. If somone could guarantee the fixing of this thing i'd gladly drop $100 bucks at this point. I just want the fucking thing to actually WORK. Even if they just tell me what the fuck is wrong with it and help me get on my way. I'm tired of guessing and not knowing.

$60 bucks down the toilet, it'll take 5-7 days for them to play with it. Again, whatever it takes. I pray to God they figure out whats wrong and fix it. Otherwise i'm going to have to make a trip to Home Depot and buy a wonderful new sledge hammer.

I wouldnt have to do this if i was home. I should have hired my friends Jason or Mikey or Ricky to do all this for me. They know what they're doing. They'd have the dam thing working and kicking the shit out of stuff by 7 weeks ago.

Now, i gotta repack that useless power supply and throw it in the box, back to the dam supplyer, this time for a refund. I want my $200 bucks back. I'm not gunna stand for this kind of aggravation.

*sigh* you have no idea how depressing this is for me. That computer was my life. Yeah i backed everything up, its the fact that i used it every day. The whole point of this upgrade was so i could do my homework at home now, not at the dam school.. but i guess im still stuck for another... week... again... still.....

Would you have been patient for 8 weeks?

Zach here has been overly optimistic about the whole dam thing. "Don't worry! In 5-7 days you'll have a badass machine and you'll be able to own the itnernetz with it!" thats what he said the last week and the week before, and so on. Good for him. Me? i dont know. there's no guarentee that they'll fix it, and personally, i am pretty sure theyre gunna tell me the motherboard is bad, along with the ram maybe. my reasoning is because i cant send the ram back at this point and the motherboard's doin the same thing it did the last time: not wanting to boot up. Ugh, I'm done ranting for now.

EDIT****
Turns out that the reason for the distruction of two motherboards and an assload of my time and patience was one little screw. It was stuck behind the motherboard, causing it to short out, and it possibly fried the processor too. Now i got to replace the dam thing yet again.

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/16927327/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/16927327/ Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:11:02 PST
SO! No uber computer untill those parts get sent back and replaced by HOPEFULLY working parts. Man this rubbs my muffins the wrong way. >.
So because of this stupid computer thing ive been well in a funk for the better part of the past week. not a groovy funk, a rather dank and smelly funk. like the kind of funk you find in a highschool locker with a month old lunch tucked away underneath the jurrasic layer of the locker floor.

In any case, new parts should be here in about a week. and i hope they work. hope hope.

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/16656332/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/16656332/ Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:39:38 PST
BUT! like the firey pheonix it shall RISE AGAIN from its ashes (or pieces) into my new monster of a computer! MUAHAHAHAHA

As my friend Zack puts it, i could power a moon base with my computer's power supply (which is 1000volt max or something). So once the world goes to shit i can fly away and live on the moon within my new computer! He's also a bit jealous, since this machine im making cost me around $1k, his machine (which looks like a jet engine and runs like a dream) cost him 700 more and only has a duel-core processor, in contrast to the Quad core i posses. In terms of cost and processing power i beat him out, but he still has 250Gigs more harddrive space than i and a slightly better video card.

I cant wait, its taken FAR too long for this blasted Graphix card to get here.... but it will be here, tomorro, or i will have to go vorpal on someone.

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/16613809/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/16613809/ Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:08:27 PST

BLAAARGH updating from the school's comp lab. Mac. *shudder* I dont mind the mac's. They got a good look goin for them. I just hate Shake. And the other VFX programs i gotta use...

I did a sky replacement. Its so cool to be able to fuck with video's and shit but omg if only my teacher would teach us in a manner that we could understand! His teaching methud is as follows:

1) start a task being learned in class
2) follow along untill you get lost
3) if u get lost, thats okay, take notes on me saying "Then do this and link that to this and then ajust this........"
4) if you're completely confused by the end of class, thats good! Now, have this project done using this exact methud PERFECTLY OR YOU WILL FAIL!!!!!

*Spazzes on the floor in some kind of spaz-rage type deal. I dunno*

Well, its finished at least. Well, its not nearly perfect, but better than ... not crap? Bah. Class starts in 30 minutes and he's gunna pick on every detail wrong with it. Fuck me. I gotta scan that picture i drew about my feelings on Shake and this class.

I was much happyer in my 2d animation class.. maybe i should look into that. That was an ASSLOAD of work tho... but work i kinda enjoyed. I can draw things the way i want on paper. I cannot, however, remove a very fine white outline from my video without horribly failing. Shake is a picky program. Its got nodes and stuff and u need to be able to know where to plug things in and with what nodes...

Pssshhhh ok im done venting. LOL im so tired. >.<
Midterms next week! DO NOT FUCKING WANT!
AND MY GRAPHIX CARD IS STILL NOT HERE!! same day delivery my ass.

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/16487885/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/16487885/ Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:01:49 PST ITS THE HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY SONG!!!!

So yah, was home for the weekend. home home. Fuck YES!!!!
and i got to go back tomorro. crap. FUCKING HELLZ! EVERY TIME I COME HOME I GOTTA GO BACK!!! WHY GOD WHYEEE!!!!?!??!?!??!??!?!?!?!? !(draaaamaaa LOL)

So yah, had to get out of the city. Also needed to swing by and visit my friend who's been goin through alot.

Was able to do alot this weekend, which is suprizing. Heh, everytime i come home i find myself more pressed for time than in philly. SO MANY PPLS TO SEE!!!! OMG! All the dorks at my old work still miss me, which is awesome. Unfortunately for me i havent ran into Mikey in some time, hopefully i'll be able to hang out and crack some jokes with him. Him and his stupid night shifts. you know what mikey... god DAMIT mikey! COME ON!!

LOLZ so yah, got to see my gf for the 2 days before she left for the HORRORS OF ART SCHOOL!!!! XD no horrors, just homework.... which are the same thing.... oh SHIIIIII--- LOL! it'll be a whiles till we get a chance to hang out again, unless we find a weekend when were both so unbeleieveably bored with no work and a little cash. (which, btw, for us art students is about as possible as us developing latent psychic powers and going on quests to save the otters from losing their hopes and dreams, which has only happened twice) XD im not worried

And we had the dnd game, which was awesome! I got to play my dragon shammy and my friend Aaron actually came and sat in with us!

Then me and J went to a magic the nerdening draft with the Walden twins. That was cool! Jay is my bestest fwend and he helped front me some cash for the turney So we had 2 traft turneys, in the first one i lost every single match, LOL and it sucked. The second one i won them all! which is very WTF? lol my luck is always extremes, very bad or very good XD MAN BEAR PIG FTW!!! XD i was the only one who didnt get a plainswalker. but thats otay. we had found 4 of the 5. were still missing the Red one. but we got the broken blue one, the one which makes u discard the top 20 fucking cards of your deck!!! OH SHIT!!!! SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!
Oblivion ring is the shit, i had that used on me too often. D'OH!!

SO, here's the deal. i have an ASSLOAD of work i really, REALLY need to scan, but i havent had my wonderfull scanner since i went to AiPH. HOWEVERZ!!! im gunna see if i cant smuggle it with me so i can put up all of my little black sketchbook pics and some other art as well. Aaron's got me doing a graphic novel about a robot assassin, and ive gotten the robot's design down pat (after about 7 or 8 tries lol), so once he starts writing stuff out for me i'll start making the pannels. Wow, holy fuck.. actuall work!? ME, WORKING?! the world is DOOMED!!!
Oh, and i have an amazing pdf in the works of what would happen if my Omega and Chaos Avenger forms fused together. Oh yah, this will be worse than that time mikey got peanut butter in his toothpaste! Worse than the time me and j rolled 20's and broke the game!

In the meantime, if ur bored, check out my musicshake tracks. :[link]
Thats the link to the list of tracks i've submitted, which updates if i post a new one.

Hey, when you look this good, details dont matter!

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/16364636/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/16364636/ Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:53:01 PST
Serious note. One of my close friends from back home lost his mother very recently. Its been a very hard time for him and for all of us who were close. All i can do is give him my support and hope for the best.. my thoughts and prayers go out to him + his family.

Secondly, i find myself falling for a very good friend of mine back home. Ive known this girl for almost 2 years now, so litterally she's been hiding under my nose the whole time. Figures, lol. And she actually likes me back! What are the odds?! Epic win, my friends, EPIC WIN.

THEN THERE'S SCHOOL!!!
GREAT ODIN'S TRIDENT OF RACIAL INJUSTICE!!... it's gunna be a BITCH of a quarter. SO MUCH BOOK READING!!! Fucking LOGIC DEBATES and friggen BUSINESS LAW?!?!? WTF?!?!?! XD gotta take it i guess... Whatever, its Advanced VFX im mostly worried about. My teacher there is the kind who threatens to drop your grade every second something is late, and for shit quality, and for every other fault you could have in his class, but when actually comes down to it, he's like "oh its ok, just get it in by tomorro". Fucking hell... This quarter im just going to take it easy and do the work well in advance so i dont get stressed.

I ordered new parts for a new computer. I need Premium shit to do my schoolwork, and to have a nice system to game on. Game ON!!! Shit its going to be hot. This machine i've had for 4 years, and it has served me well... but its time to upgrade.

Also, what comes out this year? That Pixar movie Wall-E, DO WANT!!! i must see that movie. And a few others, like "Be kind, please rewind". Smash brothers Brawl! and, also, DMC4 (i wonder how i know that?) and other stuff! Woo, Stuff! OH YAH!

Just in case you think "Hey Soda, sure shit's happened the first week of January of 08, but that doesnt mean the rest of the year will be fucked up too". To those ppl i must remind you of one thing. We have a Prez Election in mid year. For a new Presedent. Of the united states. HERE. Normally it wouldnt be any different from the other insane election years recently past, but were talking about the end of Bush, and the begining of something NEW. Anything could happen! It doesnt matter who gets voted in, Shit's gunna go down any way you look at it.

Are you scared? im scared. For all we know, I'll end up gaining telekinetic powers, my friend finding a hole in reality and learn to bend it to their will, my roomates discovering ancient ruins in the closet leading to the lost temple of Junk Mail God's, meanwhile we'll all recieve letters from ourselves from the future warining us about how fucked up the year's gunna be. Also, i like muffins.

Do you like muffins?

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/16269575/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/16269575/ Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:52:01 PST .> yah it is the cornerstone of my major but god dammit... its cool but the most tedious thing on the planet.

At least i have a 4 day weekend every week. WOOT!

I hope this class isnt as much of a bitch as the last one was. THIS time im not gunna be a coward and not let my teacher intimidate me with his wierdness.... Seriously..

Also, the hunt for new premium shit for my computer is going nowhere, since i cant honestly be sertain all the stuff will fit together in the end. I have no fucking clue what the first and last 14 abbriviations stand for. All i get are key words like "hard drive" and "CPU". The rest of the SFA GF 9001 CPU OHSHIT could very well stand for Super Fucking Awesome Giga-Fail (and some numbers) of really "Oh Shit!" quality, on a scale of crap to orgazmic.

BLAAAARGGGG!!! RAAAANT!!!!

*WARNING! D&D RELATED*
My gnome is a machine of death, so of course, everyone has to stand right in front of him. I wanted to blow something up real bad, but i got stuck on tactical support. I had to distroy the second of 2 huge ice walls blocking our party's advance and free our lightining finatic fightermage so he could rape the litch. He did manage to one hit KO the fucker, so it was well spent at least. I did manage to get in one uber mass aoe blast in the begining, but i was being sapped of my overall casting power, so i couldnt fuck everytihing up as bad as i normally coulld. He did find these nifty specks, these bad ASS looking glasses that belonged to an epic psionic gnome a thousand years past.

it is fucking COLD in here! I dunno what happened, but i've been feeling SO WEIRD so far this year. Going beyond hyper and out into ... space. What up with dat?
(honestly i know what it is, im just not ready to admit it)

So its 2008. Yah. So. What will be the first to get fucked over this year? What will survive? WHAT I ASK YOU!! NOTHING IS SAFE!!!

All in all, i had a wonderfull break. i got to see mah fwends, i got to do more d&D than i thought possible, and i was able to relax. I need to come home again soon, im really gunna miss ppl here.

Who thinks they can keep up with me?!

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/16015021/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/16015021/ Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:35:53 PST
School's been quite the bitch lately, i just got on my winter break. Finals nearly defeated me but noo i is teh leet. Sorta. Lol!

Ive been drawing, just with no means to scan or anything.
I recently made a burfdai/x-mas animated card for my friend mikey, but its got way too many inside jokes to be funny to all yall.

I've gotten into this music makin program called Musicshake. Its pretty simple and straightfoward, but fun as all hell. [link]

Also, heres the link to the list of song's i've made and submitted. Check em out if u like, theyre all pretty good :3 [link]

In other news, i mannaged to beat "through the fire and flames" on hard in GH3. My hands hurt now.

Ive been playng alot of D&D recently. Nerdgazm.

Thats about it. My lazy ass is as it always is, Lazy. Im home home till january something. i like home. Food and no stress. Hizzah!

"Take about 5 dozen eggs, start putting them in a bowl, mix the FUCK out of em, and what do you get?"

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/14616850/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/14616850/ Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:37:43 PDT
Moving into new apartment tomorro!
Joy! its a nice place and clean and awesome
FRUSTRATION! its been a BITCH establishing whatever paperwork i need for this place

Best part is, IM DONE this quarter. 1.5 weeks of me goofing off in the name of all that is cheesy and teriachi flavored.

So then i come home, right after i get assituated in my new place.

So yah. Fun. Home. Yay.

Then i get to do this all over again! WEEE. Minus the moving part. i pray to God i dont have to do the moving part again. i rather dislike uprooting.

Maybe NOW some of my friends will come up and visit.

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/14421841/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/14421841/ Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:19:57 PDT
God DAM i miss my computer already. This hulking monstrosity is like... Well it needs to be replaced. old computers and their wierd issues!

At least the internets work. Sorta. Sorta work. Yeah.

Baskets of kittens to all!

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/14208325/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/14208325/ Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:47:03 PDT


"And the sky will bleed muffins with his fury!"

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/14193025/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/14193025/ Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:06:01 PDT
or muffins will do just fine

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/14110992/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/14110992/ Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:23:02 PDT
Firstly, i've been dying the past 2 weeks. This cold, coughing nonsence is killing me. It prolly doesnt help the fact my roomate decided to increase his cig rations, coupled with some recent smoking in our room while i wasnt there. The room i sleep in now smells like smoke. I cant stress enough how much i hate the act of smoking, especially when its in the place i sleep. I dont need to be breathing in second-hand smoke residue from everything around me.
I'd go outside, but i'd get a face-full of smog and wonderfull exaust. Mmmmm, exaust. You can TASTE it here! good eats. Yuck.

Secondly, my friend aaron is still complaining of the same problems with the retarted people he hangs out with. I'm getting tired of hearing the same story over and over again, even if its a different time and place. Its still the same friggin' issue, no matter how u slice it.

Thirdly, i'm tired of people saying things they dont mean. I just do not want to be bothered with that kind of nonsence anymore. Its been done back in Junior high, thats where it belongs. how friggen old are some people when you really think about how they act? This ties in with the stories from the previous mention of my friend. I swear, the shit that comes out of their mouths...

==~~~==

There's a girl i've been haning out with the past few weeks. She's a really awesome person, she's got alot of the same values that i have and is an allround awesome person to hang out with. Everyone her and i know have been trying the past god knows how long to get the two of us together. It's been getting annoying tho lately; i dont want to rush into anything and she doesnt know how she feels.

she has never been in a Serious relationship before. I'd be her first if we did end up going out. She's never had feeling for anyone before, so its hard to tell what might happen. I'm not going to push anything. i like having her as a friend, and thats fine with me.

I dont even know if i'm ready for a relationship. I've pretty much accepted the fact that i will stay happy if i dont get involved with anyone. I'm still trying to pry myself away from that last bit of memories i have been clinging to so desperately all these years. I swear to god, they wont be gone unless i remove that girl from my mind entirely... its the only way. I want to move on. I really do. It's been getting easyer to just forget. Alot easyer since the last time i saw her. The more i think about it, the more i realize that nothing will ever happen, and even if it could... i dont know if its what i want anymore... I mean i say i do but... i think a fresh start is what i want now.

Its like i'm mad at myself. Thats what it feels like now. Strangest feeling ever. Its like when i was a kid, and instead of getting what i wanted, it was forced away, no hope of returning, and i knew it was never going to come back, and i just HAD to deal with it. But its me doing this to myself. I'm forcing myself onward. I need to. I want to find the happyness i once had. Its not going to come to me if i keep waiting for her.

My mind still wants to debate it, but i'm shutting it up. I'm not goign to deal with it at the moment. I'm too tired.

I just hope that if i do indeed have feelings for my friend Kris up here, its really because i love her and not because i'm lonely... I dont want to hurt her or myself because i'm just lonely.
And its not that i'm feeling very lonely, its just... im reminded of what it was liek to be that close to someone, and i miss it. I cant let myself get carried away when i need to focus on the bigger picture.

==~~~~==

I'm done ranting for now. It's been a long 2 weeks. Very annouying, frustrating, cough-filled, sicky weeks. I'm gunna take a shower.

Finally, the muffin understood. The muffin looked into the eyes of the soul for one last time. And then, for the muffin's own sake, he walked away, down the sunny path.


]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/14003967/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/14003967/ Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:56:18 PDT
One day, the muffin was picked up by someone, a lonely soul. "What is this? Oh! Its a muffin! muffins are awesome!!" said the lonely soul! "but i is teh sadness, cause i is a lonely." Exact words. I swear. Shut up.

Okay, seriously tho, the two traveled together for a long while. Over time, the muffin's general awesomeness was just too much, and it beat the everloving shit out of the lonelyness. Muffins do that. Yes they do! The muffin's mission was to make people happy with his muffinyness, as that was what was so awesome about muffins. The soul, with this muffin, realized that muffins were awesome! "I love muffins" said the Soul, happy now with the muffin.

Then one day, the soul put the muffin down. The muffin was confused. Usually people thought muffins were awesome! What was going on? In the distance there was what looked like another muffin. It was shinyer than muffins usually tended to be, being made of non shiny baked goodness. Nevertheless, the soul left the muffin behind and headed twards this new shiny one.

The soul brought the shiny muffin back and showed it to her muffin friend. "Is a muffin! " giggled the soul. The muffin looked at the shiny muffin and realized that it was just some kind of sharp, muffiny shaped rock. The muffin cried out, trying to warn the soul that the muffin it held was not really a muffin but a sharp, pointy thing. The soul shrugged. "It looks like one, and i like muffins!" said the soul as the muffin watched the soul skip off with the rock.

The muffin was sad, for the first time in his muffiny filled life of awesome. The muffin didnt know what to do, so he went and sought out his bretherin. The ovwewhelming mass of so many muffins broguht joy to all and crushed a small country.

One day, the muffin was wandering around, thinking of all his muffiny bretheren who managed to bring joy to all and crush a small country, ran into the soul, who was covered in bandaids. "I is stuck on bandaid brands cause they is teh stuck on me! Oh! Its the muffin! I remember you!" said the band-aided soul. "this muffin isnt really soft and flaky as i thought it would be, but it would be sad to get rid of it.

The muffin pointed out that it wasnt a muffin the soul was holding, but just a sharp muffin-shaped rock. Its sharp, and could hurt the soul. The soul shrugged and said o well. Then a 15 ton truck containing Spam crashed down in front of them. The muffin saw his chance. Using his infinite Muffiny Powers, he conjured a glass of juice and drank it. He was very thursty indeed. Then the sharp, muffiny-shaped rock fell to the ground, cutting the soul's hand. "Ouch! That thing was sharp, and it hurt me!" cried the band-aided soul. But then the soul saw the muffin and smiled. "I love muffins! Theyre so awesome, but wait, whats that?" Said the soul.

Down in the distance, there was another sharp, pointy, possibly painfull muffinish resembling thinger down on the horizon. "I is going to get it!" said the soul as it bounded off. The muffin sighed. Then gasped. Then farted. Then checked his email. Then made some toast. Then wondered where his pants up and went without him?

The muffin went on an adventure. He went out to a place full of baked goods and pinball machines. Everyone knows how good muffins are at pinball. He spread the lore of the muffins far and wide across the country. Training, and becomeing more awesome than ever. Muffins can do that. Really.

Later on, the muffin remembered the soul he was able to once make happy. This drove the muffin to start doing taxes, or at least look at them being done. No one knows exactly why? Untill one day.

The muffin was wandering around his home bakery, the place he was baked in a fresh oven, when passed him by came a soul. It was the same soul he had met before, the first soul he awed with his muffiny awesomeness. Something was different tho. the soul had become a lost soul, Looking everywhere for something to find it. The muffin decided it was best to stay away, since he did not want to be left behind for another sharp pointy muffin-shaped rock again, and he didnt want anymore 15 ton trucks full of Spam to fall into the street either. Its just too much spam to eat in a lifetime, truly.

The lost soul looked down and saw the muffin. "OMG!" it squealed! "Its the muffin! I has missed the muffin!"

The lost soul told the muffin about all the things that happened while the muffin was gone, as did the muffin. Altough, where the muffin's story was happy, the soul's story was full of sharp, pointy muffin-looking rocks. Wierd. The muffin... ]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/13747726/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/13747726/ Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:24:48 PDT
Back in Philly now, Home sweet shit hole dorm. lol
And i am taking a turtle to the store YAY

Spider pig, spider pig. Does whatever a spider pig does!!!
ZOMFG i cannot wait for the Simpsons movieeeeeeeeeEEEE
i am so coming home to see that wit my home french fried potaters soudn so freakin good right about now...

Its going to be the greatest movie of all time. It will. Totally. Awesome.

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/13570423/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/13570423/ Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:22:17 PDT
I go back to Philly on friday. Which is looking to be a day long ordeal according to my parents...

Rrrr..

I cant wait till i get back, but at the same time i just wish i could goof off more.
I still get this feeling i need to rest.
I feel so tired. And not because its 1:15 in the morning.

4 DAYS! shit. its really 4 then, isnt it, if i leave on friday.
Im not going to worry bout it. ]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/13557651/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/13557651/ Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:35:26 PDT
Hung out with Bobby and Jason all evening. Acutally did something other than D&D, which is a big deal if you know Bobby. We ended up talking bout highschool and all that growing up nonsence.

I often wonder what would have transpired if i lived through highschool again with everything i know now. I feel like i'd actually been able to stand up for myself in alot of situations.. and i'd have more friends, or at least.. meh. its too tough to say. Alot of assholes in my highschool. I lived in a bubble all throughout it. i dont entirely know how i did it, or how it lasted as long as it has, but i put up a barrier to all those things most people get themselves into back in highschool. Alot of things, not just the bad. I didn't have much of an after-school life. In alot of ways, i feel like Dutchess was the overdue highschool experience i missed out on, only that it was college.

Would i have done anything differently? Would i have made the same choices? Would i have made the same friends?
I'd always stick to my values. It's all i've got that prevents me from being just like the other slobs and jackasses out there..
I'm ten times as witty as i was way back then, it would have helped. Alot. Never turn down what a little wordplay can acomplish in an argument.
I'd still be my extremely happy self. That's a given.
The people i met in highschool-- Now there's the eternal conundrum. Would i have stuck around with the same people i knew back then? I could debate this alot, and it all would have to be on a personal basis for all of them. To truly turn my back on someone purly on what i know in the present would be meta-gaming. And somewhat cruel. If i never became involved with them, then i would have never left and impact on their lives and vice versa. How would i truly be able to compare the change?

Huh...
So if i did go back, i wouldnt change a thing then? would i really go through it all, knoledge in tow, just to compare what i knew now with what's happening again? I could think of a few people and a few situations i'd love to have avoided... but... Could i have turned something around back then?

Maybe, but then again, when i think about it, most everything i did insisted on the feelings of those around me. So, in a way, i'd still make the same choices, just provide different arguments.

I'm not expecting anyone to understand where i'm going with this. I know inside me exactly what i would have changed, why i would have, and still know it would do nothing. I know this because every time i think about my past, what i would change if i could, what i would ask a second chance for, was never really in my power in the first place. And it never will be, because it was never my choice.

And here i am again! Rambling about it! Its always the same thing! Every freaking time. Have i never left denial? Why does it still feel like something isnt right? Its gotta be the part of me rejecting reality. This desire to not want to like what is. I feel like a kid having a temper tantrum cause i couldn't get what i wanted, and the rest of me is acting as the parent teaching the lesson that life isnt fair and i have to accept it.

There's always been two sides to every story, and if i had my wish i'd stand by both ends of the spectrum. I'd fully back my drive to hope for the hopeless, and fully back my drive to be the reasonal, rational "learn your lesson and move on with it so you can grow" adult.

I've lost my sanity a long while ago, and my wonderfull blissfully-ignorant bubble. However, i still have the powers to pull my bubble back up, altho its purely unintentonal. It just happens when i need it.
And i need it alot.

~~~
There are alot of things i simply don't wish to know. Yet, i can't help but wonder. And when i wonder, i gotta know. And when i know, it makes me want to forget. And when i forget, i forget why i didn't wish to remember in the first place.

And that makes me wonder.

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/13517290/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/13517290/ Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:35:29 PDT
The break of never-ending shananagans is STILL GOING ON!!! ZOMFG!!

Shit never stops happening! Amazing, mind-numbing, pants-soaking, muffin-flinging wholesome family and friend goodness!

Im happy to say i've nearly seen everyone on my home tour. Save for my cousins who are.. uh... hmm, where are they..? --Anyhoozle, im gunna make tomorro a day to catch those i missed, namely my friends ryan and ashley, whom i have not seen in forever. I also need to hang out at least once with my friend ricky, who has no time in the world to do anything, yet he still finds the time to goof off a good 22 hours in a day. I'm not kidding.

...preeeeety sure thats it... >.< think think think think OH!!
STORY TIME!

<---- Best Friend in the universe
I run a story involving Plasterphynoise and all that great jazz, and the story that i wish to tell is currently being told in his jurnal, so check it out.
It is EPIC!

(Lol if people are still watching me since ive gone silent with the posts)

IN ANY CASE!!! #3332 on my list of things to do involve scanning stuff and putting it on the web as well as a bunch of photo's and work i did for college. i just gotta do it. and i am lazy. Duh. Leave some modivation for me in a comment and it'll make it come faster!

Today was great, i hung out with my friend bobby all day. Swimming, Magic teh Gathering, DandD! Fun stuff. And i get to cast a spell as a free action!

On a more emotional note, i had a rather sad dream the night before. Reminded me of a girl i used to really care about. I know its bothering some small part of me on the inside and there really isnt any way i can help it. Its a combination of my nature and some "feelings" and other stoopid stuff that really does not mean anything in the end. I guess i haven't changed that much over these years.
I've accepted the way things are, but after all this time.. why does it still bear heavy on my soul? Did i really care this much? *shrug*

That last part might not nessesarily be true. I have changed, quite a bit. I'm alot more confident in myself now than i've ever been. i'm able to be myself dispite what people think of me. I've acomplished so much with my drawing skills and i've developed alot of ingenious problem solving techniques. I'm alot more comfortable about venturing out in the city on my own, which is a big deal for me. I hate being alone in unfamiliar territory, epecially when surrounded by strangers.

Plus im sure i lvled up a bit. + to awesomeness, +to charisma, + to randomness, + to spells and abilities, + to empathy, + to creativity, + to friends, + to awesoneness AGAIN!, + to all my joke slaying abilities, + to my ability to create and kill new jokes from the souls of the old pre-slain ones, + to healing spells and abilitiies, + to my ability to deviate from the task at hand, and + to muffins.

I've gone on for long enough i think. More news when i remember to write about it.
I've got till july.. right, july? Yah, the 6th of july. Thats when i head back. Back to Philly.

Would you miss me?
Liar.

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/13374138/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/13374138/ Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:40:30 PDT i am back in my lovely little in-the-middle-of-nowhere town of Newburgh!

For, and keep your pants on for this, 3 weeks.

Thats right. 21 days of nonstop head-on balls-to-the-wall CRAZY Kevin Action!
And thats just the beginning!

I will be guitar-heroing it out, rolling the dice of fate and adventure, weaving inbetween waves upon waves if incoherent randomness and utterly bizzar sub-plots within the grand story that is my "Summer" vacation!

With all theatrics aside, the last quarter's chapter in the book of my life closed relatively free of any kind of main-stream roll. Everything happened around me, indirectily affecting and being affected by my existance. which is odd... very odd...

Which leads me to concern. Normally such a riptide of drama/plot concerning me means that there's a tsunami wave of life-story with my name on it. However, this does not matter to me in the long run. i will be having a very nice break, and i hope to take this time to relax and unwind from all the crazy crap that went on around me.

I swear, the last 5 weeks have been the most trying weeks ever for being a spectator. Have you ever had people over who just rubbed you the wrong way, and you couldnt get rid of them because they would always be invited back by your best friend who hangs out with them all the time? And you simply dont want to be involved in any way, but you kindof are because being the best friend means hearing about all the crap and giving advice --Good advice mind you, non-bias 3rd party advice-- while knowing all along that the person they complain about is in fact (when it all boils down to it) non-respectful 4-year-old moochers in a 21 year old body? Too much drama. In the end tho, this whole sack of crap that happened fell on my friend here, so i had to worry, and i had to stay the most sane of the group to ballance it out.

I'm not even worried about any past drama that i had before i left for philly. i've changed so much.. altho i still think about people i should have forgotten by now i know that i wont make the same mistakes again. I know because i have seen worse things up in Philly. Seen. So i may be lying.. Seeing imply's i understand, but since i have yet to experience any real trama down there, i dont have the ability to truly comprehend.

One thing i have come to realize since i've been in Philly is that i'm becoming scared of getting in a relationship. Its been far too long and all i've experienced is heartache. Its like getting wisdom teeth pulled; i just dont want to go back to experience another failed endevor. I'm not saying i'm never going to be able to find someone, or that im lonely.. Im just worried that the reason i may have not found anyone is the fact i'm just too scared to deal with that kind of pain again...

And thats all i have for tonite. I forgot the Tomb i use as a jurnal back at the dorms, so i'm using this. MOOF!

So Join with me and we'll go on a muffin baking rampage! Just the 2 of us!

]]> ~TheSodaKnight http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/13155000/ http://TheSodaKnight.deviantart.com/journal/13155000/ Wed, 30 May 2007 18:21:30 PDT
i miss my friends back home.. This place is nice, i love the city.. but.. i just miss the people i know.

Its so funny, and saddly ironic. I'm surrounded by people, good people, cause i know who are and who's not, but at the same time i feel so alone.

I feel like i started a 2 player game, and i'm still waiting for the second player to friggen join in.

And whats worse, is i'll meet someone, get all nervous and twitchy, make a complete goof of myself and then after a week or so in the back of my head i'll hear "you dont love her, she's not what your looking for".

I wish i could send this mis-used energy into focusing on work.









Oh yeah, i just discovered Half-Life. holyh shit good

]]> ~TheSodaKnight