Archive for September, 2003

I have to disagree with
the notion that we learn
something new every day.

I think I’ve had several
days in a row where I haven’t
learned anything and even
forgotten some things.

I’m study-cramming tonight
for a world myth exam tomorrow
I sure hope I do well =o)

Jee wiz! It’s been, what, 2 days since my last writing here? Can you believe it?! Actually, it’s because I’ve been very busy. I’ve been actively engaged in beneficial activities that will help my future and help me grow as a person. (mainly along the lines of watching anime and playing yahoo pool). I need to get back to my old blogwriting style baby! I used to have a blast writing these things a year or two ago. They were fun to write and even more fun to read. Throw in some humor, irony, and stupidity – and bang! I then made them serious because certain [idiots] put too much into the words I spoke and distorted my words to mean thigns that just… grr… it’s in the past.

I think I might comment on an issue I get a lot of questions and comments about. Everyone who spends more than 30 seconds on my site seems to have their own opinions on the subject. So, I figure I’d come on out and clear it up for you. Just what is this topic everyone wonders about? It’s about the reproductive cycle of algae. Laugh dangit! That was a joke! Actually, I’m talking about Asian women. Someone came up to me today (on IM anyway) and was like “Scott, why don’t you post something on your site other than pictures of asian women!” The funny thing was, I didn’t even realize I did that until he said it. I loaded up my site, scrolled down, and in shock I suddenly realized he was right! How could I not have noticed?!? What is up w/ that? I don’t want to ramble on thing I’ve already ranted about, but in a nutshell it’s nothing ’serious’, I just think the eyes are cool. I’ve been watching lots of Asian movies lately, which is where most of the images come from I use on this blog. I joke a lot about Asian women and stuff but really there’s not much there. If you want details, I think I wrote about it in the “about scott” area. So, I hope that’s cleared up.

My mom and both sisters are in Vermont this week. Why? dunno. They just wanted a vacation or somethin’ like that. Anyhow, I’m here alone a lot. I don’t notice it much though, because even while they’re here I do most of my work in my room. This week, I’m working on a project for work. It’s a side-project the company wants to work on, and I’m (at the moment) the only software writer for it. It’s using microsoft .net programming, so every time I get off of the comptuer I feel like I need to wash my hands or something. Anyway, it’s what I’m going to try to work on for the next few days. Genearal deadline is 2 weeks, so I’ll see what I can do. I got a computer for the project too! I brought it home since I do a lot of work from here and my mom took my laptop on her trip. It’s working out nicely! I now have a decent windows computer to work with. I forsee myself lugging it back and forth to and from work for the next few days.

Yes! I’m still working on this site! But work is slow. There are so many things on higher priority in my life at the moment. I’ll be added sections here and there and I have plans for redesigning the start page (so it’s not a big blog when you first go to the site). It’s all in my mind now, and it’ll probably stay there for a while. Once it’s tumbled around and smoothed nicely, I’ll put my thoughts into actions and plans into work. As I change things, comments are welcome. I like to know what people think about my stuff!

And with that, I’d best be off. Oh yeah, the picture is random. Really. I google image searched for the word “random” and that popped up. It’s not a picture of an asian woman, so there! =op

bua ha ha ha ha ha! I’m writing this through links through a ssh tunnel over my lan through a [x] connection I’ve made to my router using a [x] program from a school computer that has all execs and downloads blocked and java disabled. bua ha ha ha ha! Office XP is installed – and it’s so insecure XD Well, if nothing else, I have ssh access to my entire lan from school, I’ll be able to work on stuff over lunch! Ok, I’m out – got it working just in time to write this – now I’m off to my next class.

note: no, I dont REALLY think of hacking a school computer as ‘a really big thing’ I’m just relieved

It’s now 11:45pm. I’ll be 18 in 15 minutes. /throws confetti/

I remember being young thinking “how will I feel when I turn 18?”

Well, I’m very happy =o)

Misia remembered my birthday ^_^

(wow, I’m pretty bold, saying her name and using her old pic)

/ducks/

yeah, I know, I never thought I’d be posting a picture of anybody actually running on my website, but it’s hard not to with the second post of today. Few of the things I write about can be expressed in an image, so to add color to a site with images, there is little more you can choose from than the movies you have. This shot is from a movie I saw today entitled “Run Lola Run” (english translated title anyway). The movie was German, filmed in Germany, and spoken in German. No, this is not an Asian film ghasp Yes, that woman has some crazy red hair.

I’ve been getting a weiird thing lately I’m unsure what to do about it at the moment. It’s people. Now, if I’ve met you, and if I’ve seen you before, this really doesn’t apply to you. However, so many people come up to me completely out of the blue and expect me to do things for them. Make a layout for their website, teach them how to use photoshop, tell them where they can download 3dsmax, or write them a tutorial about how to do something. They could just go to google and type in their question and get an answer, but they find some sort of sick comfort in asking ME. They dont want to spend 30 seconds researching. They’d ratehr spend 20 minutes trying to get me to explain it -_- I’m going to start completely ignoring people I don’t know in person (with few exceptions) The total strangers that stumble upon my site can be really bad at this, they’ll im me, small talk for 20 or 30 seconds, then ask me to teach them something. grr. It’s nice when once in a blue moon I’ll get a stranger come up and, I dont know, say something nice to me with NO INTENTION OF USING ME!! ok, i’m getting out of hand. New paragraph.

Like I said, if I know you, think twice before bugging me about something if it’s really easy to figure out, but if you have a genuine question, feel free to ask. If you’re a stranger, IM me while you can, because shortly I’m going to put my IM list on the “block everyone not on your buddy list” section. I’m not saying I dont want to talk to you, I’m just saying send me an email so I can add you to my list, and be good, because it’ll be easy to snip snip you out of it.

I went to work today. I was up fairly late last night. “That guy” ended up sleeping here since it was so late when the movies were over. Around 2:30ish I went to sleep, but I woke up around 4 and couldn’t go back to sleep for an hour or so. Then I woke up at 6:30 to start getting ready so we could be out the door by 7. Had to take Kelly (sister, 15) to a cross country practice -_- Then it was off to school pictures /shrug/ Who’d have thought homeschoolers take school pictures for a homeschool yearbook. I’m going to laugh when it comes. I”ll open it up, find myself, say “what a horrible picture”, look at everyone else in the book, and not have ever seen but 2 or 3 of them ^_^; I got to work around 9:45 (I normally get there around 8:30 or 9). I didn’t mention why I was later than normal, I always feel like when I walk in there I sound like I have some lame excuse for why I was late or didn’t show up the previous workday /shrug/ It’s a little harder now, I go in to work only a couple days a week. It feels distant and sluggish, very hard to get things done. My “long-term project” was handed to someone else who’s there full time (quite understandably) and I really dont want to try to even keep up with it because by the time I catch up on all the things I’ve missed the last 4 days, it’s already time to go home. Ehh, it’s weird. At the moment I’m “tending the website”, which is pretty interesting, since I wrote it to need zero tending ^_^;

Oh yeah! The movie. You know how a movie will have a fast paced part in it that raises your heart beat and makes you sweat? This movie was 2 hours of nothing but that. I got done with it and literally I had a ring of sweat around my neck. (the hot room also has something to do with it) Anyway, it was a good movie, I really enjoyed it, though I wouldn’t suggest it to people who don’t like redundancy in movies. (1/2 the movie is repeated scenes, on purpose, it’s part of the plot)

Well I’m being called. Screamed. Yelled. In the most polite way of course. I have many things to do. I write between these things, and I enjoy it. I sometimes talk on IM between these things, but people who try to take advantage of me through it… no i will not make a layout! no I will not download your mp3. No I will not tell you how to use anything other than kazaa. GO AWAY! grr, dont get me started.

heh, I’m in a bad mood at the time of this writing, can you tell?!? jeez. Tomorrow should be better, I go to school tomorrow. Class seems to put the slight distance between myself and my home that makes everything seem less severe.

note: top image is from Run Lola Run, the second is something I found google imagesearching for the word ‘weird’

Wow, now there’s a good movie! I watched “Ring” and “Ring 2″, the Japanese movies that were copied (some parts scene by scene) by the Americans to make a movie with the creative title “THE Ring” But first, I have to back up a sec.

Yes, that’s right. I didn’t post for a few days. Yes, for all of you who send me email, I’m still alive. I went on a last-minute (to me) trip to my grandparents house 4 hours away. I got back yesterday but didn’t find time to write. At the moment, I’m having my “lunch break” at work, about to start again in a few minutes, so I’ll make it speedy.

A guy came over yesterday to watch Ring and Ring 2. He’s seen the American “The Ring” (I have not) so I was curious as to his reaction. The first movie was familiar and predictable, since he practically already saw it. So we made jokes and stuff to lighten the mood. The second one was when it got serious. No talking, lights out, fan on low, surround sound on, woo! It’s hard to tell what people think about movies. I think he may have liked it. I liked it much more the second time. If you haven’t seen it, you should check out the Japanese one. It’s cool, because Ring 2 isn’t planned to come out in America. Ring 2 is a lot better than Ring 1, and it also makes Ring 1 better by building upon it. It’s cool, slick, nice, creepy, and enjoyable (afterwords). You should check it out. Ok, back to work

note: picture is of a boy in Ring and Ring2

Well, actually it is. Today I was captivated by the heartwarming story of a lonesome turd trying to find it’s place in the world. This korean claymation film’s title translates “doggy poo”. It’s about 45 minutes of breathtaking scenery and claymation combined with mild comptuer animated particle systems (for snow and leaves). Subtitles make it easy to know what’s going on, since the movie is in Korean. It’s interesting how lots of Korean films are sad. A line from My Sassy Girl mentions that “Koreans like sad stories” (all because of ’shower’). Well, this movie about doggie poo is very sad. 90% of the movie is crying. I cried. Well ok no I didn’t. It’s a very interesting movie though.
For those of you who’re thinking of nagging me about it – no – I am not serious. The movie is completely for comedic value, and I do not think it is lovely, touching, graceful, or any of those other girls words.
I watched a cool movie tonight. “Ring” It’s the 1998 Japanese movie that America copied (big time) and called “The Ring”. I haven’t seen the American one yet, but I’m told the Japanese one is 10 times worse. I find that hard to imagine because that Japanese one wasn’t THAT bad… I played it up too ^_^ I turned all the lights off, put the fan on low, and watched it in my room at night alone with surround sound on my tv. It was pretty scary, but not as bad as I expected. I’m going to try to get “Ring 2″. It’s already out. I started the download a few minutes ago. I’m not sure if it’s going to be re-made in America though, if someone knows, pleast let me know, mmk?
Well, no school until Tuesday. I have work tomorrow morning, I’d best be off. Thanks to everyone who added to my record-setting 27 comments on a single post! I’m outta here.

ps: to those of you who told me to change the way I write my blog to make it more interesting to other people, leave me alone.

Well this is a first. I’m writing my post in the morning instead of late at night. This is because today, I will be cleaning my room, and my main workstation will be unplugged for today and possibly still tomorrow. I have a rat’s nest of wires below my desks, and it’s starting to make it difficult to get things done. Plus, cleaning my own things, for me, is somewhat therapeutic and relaxing. It also brings that sense of accomplishment in actually getting something done. One thing I haven’t decided yet, is what to do with my bed. I’m timped to put it in my closet, since I haven’t used it in a few weeks (other than to pile things up on).
Well last night I watched another movie. However it wasn’t the one I was expecting to watch. I was expecting to watch “the last present”. As I sat down, I realized I forgot to download the subtitles. I put in a search/download for them. I knew it might take a little time to get them, so I decided to watch another movie in my evergrowing stack.
This movie was very interesting. I’d give it a 5 out of 10 though. It was fairly long and slow. It had to be to make the plot work, but for the casual viewer, it had little action, little emotion, little humor, little everything, and appeared somewhat empty. It had a plot that was very interesting though. It was another movie from Korea (I have a list of Korean movies a friend told me I should see). It’s a lot like the movie Frequency. 2 people communicating through time (3 years apart). However instead of a ham radio, this is a mailbox. And instead of father/son, it’s a single man and a single woman, separated by time. The plot only had one big twist near the end, and it led into the perfect ending. It was a pretty good movie, but I don’t know how many people I’m going to be sharing it with =o)
Today, I have to do some homework -_- I have that little string of exams tomorrow, and i need to finish up my reviewing! I think most of ‘em will be pretty straightforward. My US govornment test feels like the hardest. (probably because history is by far and away my least favorite and worst subject) Well, I’d best be off!

Today seemed to flow awkwardly . Things that took minutes seemed so long, things that I spent so much time on seemed to take minutes. I’m not sure as to why yet, however I know it has something to do with a lack of order in the things I do. I seemed to work randomly today. I went to a computer store to get parts to fix a lady’s (lighting-fried) computer…

Ugg it was a mess. Luckily, only the power supply and motherboard were fried. I got it home and started replacing the motherboard. I then realized “crap, she has DIMM ram” and I thought she had DDR… After a lot of thought, I decided to switch it with my own personal workstation motherboard. It has both DIMM and DDR ram support. I kinda got jipped though. The motherboard I gave up had 5 pci slots, an agp slot, an isa slot, and support for both DDR and DIMM ram. The one I bought today only had 3 pci slots, an agp slot, no isa slots, and DDR-only ram slots. However, I do have onboard surround sound, onboard usb and usb2, onboard video, and onboard lan that the one I gave up doesn’t. All in all, I gave up 2 pci slots and saved 3 from having those things onboard. I’d say it was a good trade at this point.

Ok, motherboards swapped, her machine powered up and started windows perfectly. I ran a ram/cpu stress test for 4+ hours on it and it performed beautifully. All is good! She’ll be happy. She even got a better motherboard than she payed for =o)

With her pc packed up and by the door, I decided I wanted to get back to my work on my computer. I put the new motherboard in, my chip in, my ram, all’s good to go. Power on. blank screen. Uhh, video must be shot. After 5 mins of playing with agp/pci video cards and onboard video, I realized it wasn’t video. The ram must be bad. I swapped out my DDR w/ other sticks I had. Uhh, ram’s good. Ram slots must be bad. But wait, both? New motherboard? After a long painful troubleshooting episode, I finally realized what the stupid problem is. The new motherboard is made for Athlon XP chips. My old one could take raw Athlon chips. My chip is a raw Athlon. well… crap! The lady’s good to go w/ her AthlonXP 2600 chip, and I’m here with my plain Athlon and it wont work with my motherboard. Oh, eww, 3v1l scott… Athlon XP 2600 clocks in at 1.4ghz. My Athlon is 1.4ghz. My chip wont work in my motherboard… but it’ll work in hers! Her chip will work in mine! So I swapped. That’s not jipping anyone, right? It’s the same speed chip, I dont know any disadvantages of the Athlon 1.4ghz vs the AthlonXP that’s 1.4ghz… I switched chips, everything’s cool. Her comp works awesome. Mine boots (that’s good for me). I don’t think I jipped her in any way, I don’t feel I got jipped (though I kinda did ^_^) but all is good and I’m happy this stupid computer is out of my life! woohoo! I hope she likes it.

I got my linux leeching downloader machine crankin’ the other night. I started downloading a list of movies. One of them is the one I watched today. It’s called “Lovers’ Concerto”. I was planning to watch a blood & guts movie, but it wasn’t finished downloading yet (that’s my escuse, retaining what masculinity I have) Anyway, it was a pretty good movie. I give it an 8. I can’t say much about it without ruining the movie for anyone who might see it. However, I will mention that lots of korean movies are sad, and this was one of them. It was a movie that had an awesome plot and a great ending. And at the end I thought to myself “was it sad? or was it happy?” It ended in a way that it was both. It was a pretty clean movie too, which was nice. I’d go so far as to say “completely family safe”, with one line of my subtitle .srt file edited slightly ^_^ Because this movie was so ‘emotional’ and had a plot that wrapped around a basic love story that twisted and turned (hence the name, “lovers’ concerto”) I think it could be referred to as a “girl movie”. Therefore, to maintain the all important social-status (I’m in denial that this post hadn’t already KILLED it) I’m going to say that this is a movie I would not recommend to my friends to see, rather it’s one I’d recommend to total strangers to see =o)

If you really want the movie, or any of the others I talk about, contact me and let me know. We’ll talk, and I’ll be more than happy to work something out. I really like sharing these hard-to-get foreign movies. People just don’t get exposed to them any other way. And, yes, the picture on this post is from the movie. And, yes, it’s the same male Korean actor that played Gyeon-woo in “My Sassy Girl”. It was interesting to watch him in this movie, he had a totally different personality and totally different facial expressions. It was a good movie. “but dont take my word for it!” da da da!

Today I found a small corner of an old hard drive that has lots of backed up information from lots of my old websties. Today and tomorrow I plan to spend some time going through it trying to recover what I can. I’d like to add a section to my site just about my old websites, and another just about old content, and one more to be a timeline of my life.

The old websites page will have screenshots of the basic layouts of as many websites as I still have. Back from my first aol-hosted page 8 years ago where I remember yahooing “how to make an image a clickable link” all the way to my most recent creations. I’d like to keep up with this project, so later, years down the road, I can look at my old creative projects =o)

The old content page will have a giant list (probably) on a single page of old news postings, writings, reviews, pretty much anything I wrote a looong time ago, i’ll put it in html form and dump it there. Not only is it a way to bring back the past, but it’s also a time capsule to preserve it for the future. I’ll have links on the top of the page for key events in time, and when clicked, they scroll down to the right posting.

The final idea I have is a timeline. I’m not quite sure how I’m going to do this, but I’d like to make a giant (vertical) timeline of my life and put key events in. It’d be cool if I could make it in a way that I could keep adding to it every few months. Start with birth, first computer, riding a bike, first built circuit (a radio, I made from a kit, in 2nd grade), then first website, first built computer, track team, misia, and all that good stuff…. misia… /pouts/

I dont intend for anyone to read thsee pages and get much enjoyment out of them ^_^; It’s mainly for me. I love bringing back these old thoughts and positive memories, and want to keep them to hold for my future. Who knows, maybe your comments about this post will last for as long as I live?

note: image on the left is Noir, a girl from a really cool anime series I saw about a year and 1/2 ago. I loved that image and used it in over 10 of my website layouts!