I wasn't going to post to uguardian again, but I forgot to mention something that probably could use mentioning.

While the blog is now off of LiveJournal, the posts can still be read and commented to from your friend's list. When I wrote the code for the blog, I also added a nifty script to generate RSS information for it. Thus there's a syndicated account for the convenience of LiveJournal users.

It's uguardian_rss.

This is last post in this LJ. My daily tripe and the related remarks will be found at UGuardian.us from here on out.

Simply put, I do not feel that LiveJournal is trustworthy as a business anymore. They simply are not fit for their job since they suspended unrelated accounts along with the guilty accounts, and now they will not clearly state their policies and dodge the question when pressed. The closest thing to an answer we've been given is that the suspended journals had no place on the site they wish LiveJournal to be. Note that's the site THEY want it to become, not the site that the users want it to be!

To be very blunt, I do not like that answer at all. First they came for Harry Potter. Will they come for Furries next? Some people online claim Furry is all about animal and child molestation -- will these incorrect trolls be regarded as fact in the next crystal night?

I'm not sticking around to find out.

Granted I'm still going to be reading and randomly commenting on other people's journals -- I will just stop updating this one.

Thingy has been launched!

It can be viewed here.

It's just lunchtime and I've completed my primary goal for the day. What can I say? If you want to accomplish stuff, aim low.

The last dream I had before I woke up today was fairly simple: an ex-classmate asked why I halted my education at the end of High School and I pretty much just unloaded. I was seriously thinking of posting that semi-poetic rant on this journal but decided that I should attempt to practice what I preached in my dreams -- namely, stop wasting time and get some work done!

Thus I spent the day getting stuff done. I spent most of the day working with the PC Project. I've restructured it slightly and I've decided to redo the software I'd developed for it. When I wrote that software months ago I had a different plan in mind, thus I need to redo it so that form follows function. The redo shouldn't take long since I can still use most of the code I've written.

I also wanted to better a function, so I spent time coding a filter of sorts from the ground up. This filter takes a true color image and produces a 16 color image by guessing which of the 16 default colors is closest to the color from the image. It's quite effective, though MS Paint preserves more detail during that downgrade. I may tinker with that filter more tomorrow.

I tinkered a bit with FnF, though all I really did was ready a few templates and familiarize myself with the project.

Thingy is ready to launch, so I plan on doing that tomorrow sometime. I wonder if anyone has a guess as to what it is or why I started work on it.

Today was the first home-cooked meal at this apartment. Meat, corn and potatoes has been a staple for years, but since we moved we haven't had time or ability to cook. As a result we've been subsisting on chips and hot dogs. Mom's meatloaf meant that this was the first day in over a week where I stayed on the diet.

And for perfect symmetry, I ended the day by calling a college student an idiot. But I did not label her because she was a college student; I labeled her thus because her story lacks a grip on reality and contains the typical ego-centric attitude seen in people my age. Far warning: the Real World bites -- do not put your hands inside the bars.

Cynical remarks aside, I leave today with a banjo playing penguin and a puppy playing with a kitten.

Today's major project was hanging up pictures and some other stuff. My Native American shield is now hanging over my desk, my wolf pictures are here and there, and my various awards are hanging on another wall. One of them, the certificate for reaching 10,000 points on the WCG will soon be obsolete. I'm only a week or so from the next milestone: 50,000 points.

Also on the wall now is the cross I bought from the principal of the middle school I went to. He did woodcarving and had a table at one of the craft shows we attended many years ago. I bought this cross there. It's a rather neat cross, and it's spent the past decade hanging over my bed (which is where it now hangs). The cross is unique because it's made out of two words:

  ♠
JESUS
  A
  V
  E
  S

We made a run to Wal*Mart earlier to get some random things. I had a little bit left out of my allowance and used it to nab Movie Ratchet.

I popped another nosebleed earlier; a sharp reminder that I haven't paid much (if any) attention to my diet in this past week or so. I need to get back on that bandwagon.

I also need to stop swearing all the f*cking time. I don't quite know why this is, but my vocabulary has been in the sewer lately!

I did attempt to write out the post about the move, but I ended up drawing a blank. I'm simply worn out from stuff happening in real life.

Instead, here's a simple post about the status of the many projects I have going.

Project	Complete
Thingy	90%
Fur and Faith	40%
PC Project	30%
BrickVM	10%
KuiperHack	10%

The errands done, today seems to have been the first over the hump day. Things are almost back to normal.

I see HTML 5 is being developed, which is a shame since there were enough standard to ignore already. I looked over the sites I typically visit and made a note of what XML variant was used on them.

12 of the sites use XHTML 1.0;
3 of the sites use XHTML 1.1;
6 sites use HTML 4.01 (the current HTML version);
1 site uses HTML 4.0 and 1 site still uses HTML 3.0 .

However, 8 sites have no DOCTYPE and are thus default to HTML 4.01 "quirks mode".

I don't see HTML 5 taking over since the previous version is well respected. Well, that and it's not a Microsoft invention so Exploder will just ignore it.

Tomorrow looks to be a free, quiet day. I'll see about getting some of my thoughts on the move organized then.

That is, I'm going to try. Thanks to hollyannvix I have this stuck in my head. I don't even like bananas!

Aside from this morning's episode, the move went pretty smoothly. I still have to move some shelves into place, but that's about it furniture wise. All of my crap is out of boxes and more or less put away. Speaking of which, you don't want to know where my hand ended up.

There's a ton left to say about the move, but it's getting late and I'll need some charts to cover as much as possible.

Midnight's in a pissy mood, but that's fairly typical.

Obviously we got the internet connection this morning. I haven't spent much time online (a 3 hour nap takes up time you see) but I'm roughly caught up with what I missed. In fact, I found an amusing link already: Mysterious Ticking Noise.

Tomorrow involves errands and less Jalapeño chips.

The move went fairly well, with only a few problems.

The most immediate problem is that I woke up this morning and promptly started throwing up. In retrospect eating an entire "Family Size" bag of Jalapeño potato chips in a single go yesterday evening wasn't the best of ideas. On the plus side, nausea and vomiting is the only side effect so far.

I'll post more detailed information later; I'm going back to bed for a bit.

Only one more sleep until things go bonkers.

Today began with errands. A lot of the remainder of the day was spent off of the computer dealing with stuff regarding the approaching craziness.

I spent part of the evening fussing over FnF. The end result was that I ended up stopping in the middle of things. I need to correct these things and finish adding the feature I was working on.

I tweaked the code for the game in progress too. That was nothing much; it was just a very quick ~6 lines of code to remove one of the more annoying bugs.

Tomorrow is going to be extremely busy. Effectively it's the first wave of Crazy. The second wave hits Friday morning and will be even crazier. I'll be amazed if I spend much time on the computer.

Man, stuff is really starting to climax around here. Today seemed to focus on three things: planning ahead, eating Moose Tracks ice cream by the pint and eating mom's homemade mac and cheese. In a way it's probably similar to anticipation of astronauts suiting up for the launch or bookstores bracing themselves for the sale of the last Potter book.

Speaking of the Potter series, with all of the characters dying off I'm guessing that necrophilia will become more popular among the Potter slash communities (if the ghosts didn't present an opportunity already). In any event, the series lost the magic after the first book I think -- the magic of a glimpse into a fantasy world is lost once the fantasy is the status quo.

I spent a good part of the day working with FnF. Thingy is now integrated with it, so that feature is completed. Assuming I have the chance tomorrow I want to get the Media stuff going, and possibly the misc pages (such as About) done.

Later in the evening I started work on the fancier version of one of the game prototypes. It's not much at the moment, and it's more bug laden than Microsoft's offerings, but the basics of the game's mechanics work as expected.

Lastly, a couple of things online were worth a laugh. XKCD explained what makes him swear, a person selling religious books under a clear blue sky was hit by lightning, Longcat is rather long and this is just freaky.

I spent a lot of today working with Thingy. Mostly I was aiming to get it ready for debut despite the fact that it may not be launched until August. Tomorrow's goal will be to get the revision of FnF further under way. Assuming I end up having enough free time tomorrow I'll start the serious version of the first game prototype and/or the other prototypes too.

I found some pretty extreme stuff online today.

First there's this horrific example of an 80 year old taking Driver's Ed. that brown_wolf found.

Then there's this video about a Trojan Horse. The question is whether or not people today would allow a Trojan Horse through their gate. Judging by the number of computers infected by "Please open attachment KTHX" viruses, I'd say that Trojans get through just fine. Of course, I could reference Ronald McDonald's weekend gig, but that was too much of a given.

The last link is fairly sad. Child neglect is never pretty, but normally the it doesn't happen because the adults were too busy playing video games to tend to the children. THAT is just perverse.

Today had an unexpected twist. We needed to get somethings from the not-so-local Rite Aid so mom and I went up there. Per usual I picked up some junk, but I remarked that the last time we shopped at this Rite Aid we were getting supplies for a three person pizza party. Mom decided that was a great idea, and so we picked up several kinds of chips and then drove to the local grocers for pop and pizza.

To be very frank, I think the pop and the candy bar were the healthiest things I ate today.

I really piled it away too: today I ate one 14" 4-cheese pizza, most of 3 bags of chips, a pint of chocolate milk, the aforementioned candy bar and 20 oz Mountain Dew, and a Hostess frosted honey bun.

All I was originally going to get at the Rite Aid was the milk; none of the other places we normally go have that particular brand.

In other news I found that I'd miscalculated the count down I've been running in the subject line, so the absence of T-5 was intentional.

I spent most of the evening in a satisfied, bloated stupor. As a result I didn't do very much about very much. I did get some code done for Kuiperhack however.

Lately I've been thinking over the various projects I have in Limbo. As the deadline for the fun in real life draws near the day I get started on everything again approaches too. I've been thinking more about Fur and Faith than any of the other projects. I've decided to be a bit more radical in the redesign than initially planned. I'm going to not only combine it with "Thingy" but also expand the focus of the planned Resources feature. Affectively the site will become something of a blend of the Furry Fandom and Catholic Answers (or similar sites). There will be no more weekly "Rants". Instead there will be more frequent posts and thoughts about religion and current affairs. There will be no weekly update: it will simply update when it's ready.

Lastly, some of the things I ran across today were rather strange. Others were simply worth looking at.

Jack Niclson plays in the pool at YTMND.
An otter dances to Outcast's "Hey Ya!"
Remember "No Smoking" zones in restaurants? Here's the next step: No screaming brat zones.

Keenspot is once again promoting Todd and Penguin. This comic is particularly noticeable for this somber storyline. This storyline is a must read in my opinion.

Speaking of comics, I read that Doug Marlette, author of a comic strip called Kudzu, died in a car accident last Tuesday. I've never read this comic, and I doubt I ever will, but since his comic appeared in more than 300 newspapers, someone will miss him.

As if things haven't been confusing enough lately, there has been an added problem. People are talking too fast to understand, and frequently more than one person is talking at the same time.

Yesterday no less than four people were talking at once. They were also carrying on more than one conversation. I have no idea how any of them were able to separate out who said what over the chatter. I couldn't; it was simply chaos.

If you want someone to understand what you're saying, slow down the yammering so that your words don't all mesh into one vocalization.

G1 Blurr was not a role model to be emulated.

Today was pretty wearing. The day began with me and the cats locked in mom's bedroom while some friends of my dad's relieved us of some unwanted furniture. Lunch was rather late (2:30 PM) because of that.

Complicating things I woke up feeling sick, and thus spent the morning nauseated. I'd had my usual breakfast (a Little Debbie snack cake) at 7:30, but I was running on fumes when lunch came around.

Part of the evening was spent fussing over Kuiperhack's details. I also learned a new trick with the compiler, but this trick is rather frustrating to pull off and ultimately useless.

I spent a lot of time playing Brickbat and thinking about things. That's about all the progress to be made today.

The only weird thing found online was this person's blog entry about how his mom knit his son an iPhone

Tomorrow *should* be quiet.

Today mom went through the house plastering the walls. As a result some parts of the house (notably my room) look like an aviary stopped by and aimed randomly.

I decided to start over with Kuiperhack. The coding I did yesterday just wasn't up to snuff. Yesterday I resumed work on the essay about my hospitalization; I'd forgotten about it until I found the file while cleaning up the desktop.

Tomorrow is going to be interesting and rather busy. I'm also going to have to get up early to help keep things orderly.


For a weird trip, see this video: Food Fight. One of the segments is a reenactment of 9/11 using hamburgers and fries. It may or may not be symbolic in some way; it looks like there's a message, but one can't be pinned down.

Happy Friday the 13th!

The person mentioned in the rant below left a note on the door since they "missed" us. This note was complete with hearts and a smiley face. She wanted to know if we'd go shopping with her (as if we aren't rather busy). Like I posted before, 40+ year old teenybopper cheerleader. If you've seen Grease, picture a 40 year old mom acting as if she was Patty Simcox.

Whoopie.

The internet was spotty at best today. This was mostly due to dad unplugging the modem. The ISP also reports service outages in this area. Since the modem was properly plugged back in it's worked without a hitch all evening.

I spent a lot of the evening coding. I had a brilliant idea with how to simplify one of the projects I'm working on. I'm ENUM-ing the frell out of everything instead of using about 60+ CONSTs. Sets will make things even easier.

I've also had a nifty idea about another project, but I'm going to take a look at that idea tomorrow when I'm actually awake. I simply distrust ideas born in the last hour I'm awake; they tend to overlook important points.

Lastly I spent very little time online. Heck, I only played Brickbat thrice today. Busy busy busy...

$Person is driving us up the wall. They seem to have difficulty understanding somethings. These things include:

1. Very few people over 17 years of age call each other every night after 8 PM. Even few try to call their friends at dinnertime or lunchtime "to be sure they catch them".

2. Most people call ahead when they are going to visit others. But $Person "just drops by" at random.

3. $Person has been informed more than once that we are quite busy at the moment, but they still stop over.

4. $Person has no internet (they "never saw the point"), so email isn't an option.

5. WE are supposed to stop what we are about to say hello and talk. (hence the irritation)

They aren't Jehovah's Witness, but the comparison is pretty close to one-to-one. They don't see that they are being a nuisance, and I honestly don't think God gave her that ability. She's a 40+ year old teenybopper cheerleader! It ain't cute to act like your high school age daughter!