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Two days after I finally threw away my PS2 to USB adapter, my wireless keyboard pooped out.  And my only other keyboard?  PS2.

Poop.

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Nerd tiem!  So I'm in the very very early processes of designing the final admin panel for the blog.  I'm writing the stylesheet in CSS3, which hasn't even really come out yet so browsers don't really know how to interpret a lot of it yet.

Anyway, I'm pretty impressed with CSS3.  Here's what I have started so far.  Big deal.  But guess what: NO IMAGES ARE USED.  The gradients in the headers, the shadows, the semitransparent text—all CSS rendered in the browser.

Normally I would need to make separate images for the shadow on the side, bottom, and curvy edges, then figure out a way to put them together so they expand and contract with its contacts, and ugh.  It would be a situation.

So I'm really excited for CSS 3 to be finalized, man.  It's going to make a lot of things way easier.

I'm getting a 16mm movie camera for Christmas!!  Yay film!  It was extra super-duper cheap on eBay.

First I got to test it out to make sure it works, so I shot a little short film thing.  It's awesome, but I'm kind of concerned about the lenses.  Three came with it, and two are the same for some reason.  And those two are 12.5mm f/1.3 prime lenses for security cameras.  Oy!  They're only three-blade irises so the bokeh is going to look weird.  The other lens is a really nice cine lens that I would have to say is about the equivalent of a 180mm f/2.5 prime in the 35mm world.  It has an eight-blade iris(!) and focuses up to a couple inches from the glass, which is awesome.

I'm in the final round of review for a full-time web programming position for the College of Education at MSU.  It's not really ideal at all, but if I get it maybe I'll make enough money to move out to NY, which is the whole point I guess.

So I don't know.  That's it.  What's up with you guys?  Nobody's updating anything. :(  Shruti touched boobies!  That's all I know.

One morning before breakfast, Beth came to her mother all embarrassed. "I was getting ready for church," Beth said, "and I needed help tying my shoes so I went to get Father to help me. But when I found him in the bedroom, he was naked! Am I going to get in trouble for seeing him naked?"
Beth's mother frowned down at the sausage links she was frying. "The Bible has something to say about that, Dear One," she said. And this is the story she told as she finished making breakfast:

One day, Noah was making his living breeding animals and taking care of a vineyard. He drank wine and got so drunk that he lay down in his tent without any clothes on.
Noah's son Ham walked into his father's tent and saw him naked. Then he went to tell his brothers, Shem and Japheth. Shem and Japheth got some clothing and held it between them and walked backwards into their father's tent, so that they could cover him up without looking at him.
When Noah sobered up, he remembered that Ham had seen him naked. He was so mad that he cursed Ham's son, Canaan, and made him and his descendants slaves until the end of time. He blessed Shem and Japheth for their actions, and made it clear to them that Canaan was their slave forever.

"So, Beth, the Bible says that your children will be cursed because you saw your father naked," said Beth's mother.
Beth thought about this for a moment, and although the thought of her children being her brother's slaves bothered her, she smiled and hugged her mother. The story had answered all her questions.

I have a problem with people who tell their children this.
 

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Okay, alright.  After THIS website I just agreed to do (that I can't mention because Google indexes all things), I am going to have to start being a dick and charging people for services.  Telling me "a web design firm quoted us $5,000.00 for what we want, can you do it for maybe $50, pal?  If we can get any funding?  Friend?" kind of stung.

And I'm a pussy for agreeing.

I have to say, I was obscenely disappointed that Michael Jackson did not do the ultimate Thriller this past Halloween, but it's probably for the best. I say, the weather was pretty much perfect- just cool enough and an EPIC wind.

This paper is starting to take over my life. It's either 2 or 3 weeks late, I don't really know which, but Mark basically does not give two shits. Each time I've tried to write it about half-way through I realize "FUCK MY THESIS IS WRONG" and I have to go back and reword everything. Each time my argument(ation) gets stronger and stronger but HOLY SHIT I need to actually be able to finish it one of these days. I mean, this is an argumentative writing class- the goal is to have the strongest argument, right?
I started the outline on this one at the end of September and I still don't have anything resembling a final draft. Huh. The last time I had one like this was when I didn't read 5 of the 6 books it was on, and I still managed to get a B; it's not like I haven't been thinking about this one, the words just come out not the right way each time. It's frustrating.

So I'm finally eligible for a phone upgrade. Too bad T-Mobile/every carrier ever has nothing appealing for new phones. I want the same service for less but they only want to sell me slightly more service for slightly more. I'm really not feeling it, but I am tired of this Blackberry fuckery. Whenever I try to do anything useful on it like sync my calendar, or check my bank account, or figure out where the hell I am on Google Maps, you have to turn it off or pull the battery out. Then, five minutes later, you can send your request while Mister iPhone has already found it. Don't get me wrong, the iPhone does a lot of things well, I just cannot stand touch-screens, or at least not having real buttons, or stupid exclusivity agreements, or having to fuck all around just to do something that should be routine, like hack-up the software to get it to do things for free.
Fuck the subscription model.
I mean, basically every cellphone is a study in compromise, but I don't think I should have to compromise that much just for the vanity of a douche bagso it looks pretty. I don't know, some very narcissistic people I know rant and rave about how they didn't know what they did before having the internet on their phone, but I have to say, if I want to browse the internet, I need to actually be able to SEE what I'm supposed to be LOOKING AT, and a 3-1/2 inch screen doesn't cut it.

Of course, this is the person who feels claustrophobic when using only one monitor. But maybe that's just because I am a computer whore.

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Within, oh, about a month or so, I have been rear-ended twice.  Twice!  I've been driving in some capacity for about ten years, and have never been in an accident (while I was the driver) until twice last month.  And both times I was stopped for a significant amount of time before it happened, it's not like I slammed on my brakes or anything.  At least I wasn't at fault for any of them.

So anyway don't ask me for rides, you'll die.

Still no job.  I haven't even had replies to my hundreds of applications.  Fuckin' sucks.  And yesterday was one year since I found out I had an interview with Conan, so it's been like one year since I've had an interview for anything.  So that's some extra depression right there.

I'm giving it one more month.  After that I think a good method would be to shoot myself in the head as I jump off the chair to hang myself, so if one doesn't get me, the other will.

In the meantime, I've been transcribing more music!  I haven't posted anything yet on my music site, but I will soon.  I hope it will attract more traffic and I'll get more AdSense money HAY HAY HAY!

Oh also, a while ago now, the Livejournal Syndication of this blog kind of stopped working, where it was transforming everything into relative URLs, and changing the character encoding and all this weird stuff.  It was freaking me out because my feed validates, as does my site.  I actually rewrote the feed generator from scratch, and still no luck.  Turns our Livejournal's syndicator was broken, not my feed.  Oy.  (Who syndicated my site, anyway?  I don't think I ever did, you need a paid account to do that.  Anyway, thanks!)

SO!  To recap: rear-endings, unemployed, suicide, piano, nerd.