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Thursday, January 30, 2003 Now Entering, The Void. I want to cry. I somehow rejuvenated my interest in wikis and content management and then I just started scribbling stuff... I'm being sucked in. Someone, help me. I... Can't let go. It's too interesting. Hey j00. Gong hey, fat boy! (Uhh, kinda like the saying gung hey fat choi, which is how I was taught to say good luck during the Chinese New Year or whatever) posted by Mark Canlas | 10:34 | 0 commentsMr. Spock's Dilemma. (smack dab in CIS 144H) Is anybody a Star Trek fan? (no response) Is anybody not a Star Trek fan? (hands go up) You all fail. (in that semi-serious geeky kinda tone... so momentarily funny) posted by Mark Canlas | 09:52 | 0 commentsGame Time. C'mon guys, let's play a game. This one is called Ignorance. It's where I shut my mouth and do my work and pretend like nothing bothers me. Ah, can't fool me. I don't know because I'm ignorant. Yeah, buddy... posted by Mark Canlas | 01:15 | 0 commentsDear False Promises. Dear False Promises and Empty Dreams. Your downfall, your downfall, your downfall. Wednesday, January 29, 2003 Truth Dragon. Yo, I'm all about Gimme The Truth Hardcore. And you know what? The truth hurts like a fuckin' knife. It just goes through you. Blaw, like that. Cut's you open, makes that flesh wound. Ha, now you know what truth is. Taken Away. I really don't understand me or the world sometimes... It's like... If I talk about something, it'll just evaporate or be wrong. So I can't do that. I can't talk. I just can't. It got me in trouble the first time, so let's try listening. And then I pout and I listen and I cry and I laugh, all in the hopes that someone would notice me. To read me through and through so that I don't have to do any of the talking. And then it comes, just like I wanted to. And then I have to hear something. But it's not what I wanted to hear. Or maybe it is, but it makes me feel uneasy, hearing what I wanted. It's like... I kept reaching and struggling... Now the struggle is coming at ease and that makes me nervous. What, I'm supposed to just grab your hand now? Give up my struggle just like that? Do you have any idea what mental pains I've brought upon myself by this? Apparently not... Tossing around the idea of the way things are and could be. I feel like I'm being tossed around again. I feel like I'm being used. But isn't that what I wanted all this time? But maybe I'm not listening. I'm not being used, I'm being helped. I dunno, this is just the way I feel. And people don't feel for no reason. So why is this? If the truth is that there are people out in the world to help me, then why do I have to cry help and then refuse it when it comes. Why. Why do I gotta be all difficult like that. It's like an asymptote. Some things just can't be, even though they want to. I want to. And then I don't. Tuesday, January 28, 2003 Be Calm, John Spartan. I have to remember that it is indeed possible to live a stable life... Cuz, you know, sometimes ya just get carried away with things... Like when people, your friends, are too hot for their own good... And then they seduce you... I Oughta. Here, I'm gonna have some fun harping on something somone blurted out... I poked fun and then this person retorted back with a conditional threat. But what concerns me is that he said "when" instead of "if". And from shoddy MTV soaps, we know that a drunken mouth speaks a sober mind. So... When. Not if. When? Am I to have faith in this when? Am I supposed to fulfill this when? Can I revel in the pleasure (or massive unpleasure) I would receive in contradicting this when statement? I dunno. I don't know. posted by Mark Canlas | 00:37 | 0 commentsMonday, January 27, 2003 Beat the Faith Roll. I dunno... I heard an "I don't care"-ish kind of attitude today... Not good. Not good at all actually. Maybe I should do my job as an annoying little punk and replace that negativity with something positive. Harp harp harp on the academics. As we should be doing. But uhh... Yeah. I'm slipping. I have my weeks all mapped out and such... The work's right in front of me, but I've yet to dive in. Let's see... How are my tactics holding up... Well, I've got allies. Or something. People sucking up my time and attention. And then all this other environmental garbage like people asking me to do stuff or suck up more time. But no. I must be steadfast. There are only three threats this semester, and they will be handled elegantly, gracefully, and masterfully, if that's a word. I dunno... A threat is a lot to think about. But sometimes... I feel... I dunno. Recently I just had this flash. A rational flash... What if I was to remove a threat from the field... It would certainly make the battle easier... But it would make life so much more boring. And I do mean that. I know what it is to have and have not. Is it worth continuing on a road with no time-sucker worthy of my attention... Certainly worthy. Many times over worthy. Heartbeat worthy. But is that the most rational thing to do now? Is it the most tactical? Three threats. Two threats and a permanent damper on my Brave. Three threats. I dunno, I guess I'll take it all one day at a time, because that's what I promised myself. posted by Mark Canlas | 23:07 | 0 commentsRandomnity. posted by Mark Canlas | 09:37 | 0 commentsSchrodinger's Semester. I'm not really sure this is the healthiest way to live out the semester... But I think that's the best way to describe how I feel about it. Like Schrondinger's Cat. Something can and can't be, because it just is. But please, please don't talk about it. Let's not even worry about it and just take it as it comes. It's all good and well to play psychic and postulate about the future... But let's please... And I beg of you, for my sanity and for your service, please let's not talk of anything... Let us find out together, in time. posted by Mark Canlas | 01:44 | 0 commentsSunday, January 26, 2003 Fuck the World, Jimmy! Ahh, to Arun and many a game of Monkey Ball... *sniff* Good times... Anyway, no lie, my English teacher is like, you know what the most common word in the English language is? // No, what? // Fuck! An adjective, a noun... Fuck you, you fucking fuck. // At that point, we're all like wtf is this guy smoking... Pretty cool though. posted by Mark Canlas | 14:02 | 0 commentsSaturday, January 25, 2003 Why Do You Build Me Up? I don't know, but that's the best freakin' part! posted by Mark Canlas | 10:39 | 0 commentsHypnoward. Yo I so fuckin' wanted to be hypnotized. But I can't! I have a listening problem! I don't listen enough! Heaven forbid. I actually think too much, he says! Fucker! posted by Mark Canlas | 03:23 | 0 commentsFriday, January 24, 2003 Psychic Been Played. Rich opened the door as I knocked and Frank knew I'd use his computer. "Mark I give you Golden Blaster. After a night of all that halo-halo, let's hope that the Golden Aura isn't turned into some drama-swept sack of sorrow. Be happy, just like ya said. And with that, I'm off to prepping my books to study and then help Pete with DDR. Wee... posted by Mark Canlas | 13:57 | 0 commentsSemester Blitz. Somebody's gushing out some positive energy... How annoying. I mean just in general. All that wafty, hippie crap. Yip-tee do-da for positive energy. Dork. But uhh... If that's what the Golden One says... Then I guess that's what the Golden Follower will have to do... You dork. But like I said, might as well get swept away by all the positive energies in the semester... Thursday, January 23, 2003 Semester Resolution. To learn the true meaning of trust and faith in the face of darkness, and to be caught up in the flow of positive energies. posted by Mark Canlas | 15:04 | 0 commentsThe Warmth of Darkness. Dear You. We made out. Because you said so. You wanted it. I had no idea. We could scare them away. That's what you wanted. And then I did it. To both of them. And then they're gone. And then I saw you. That's what you get for wearin' somethin' kinda skimpy... But, uhh, yeah. Now there's this burned image in my mind, and you won't go away. You seriously won't go away. That sucks. Cliff Jumping 101. Ferhat Kutlucan, PhD. So his deal is like you get five points on your final grade if you show up to every class. Sweet deal. posted by Mark Canlas | 00:14 | 0 commentsWednesday, January 22, 2003 Fight for Life. Life is a tactical game. And this semester is going to hurt bad like a motherf*cker. There are three enemies on the battlefield, and only two are in sight. It's going to be a constant battle, each and every day. Shut the Hell Up. People who make excuses on American Idol cannot sing. There are no bad days, sucka. Let's see your average talent, biatch. posted by Mark Canlas | 20:50 | 0 commentsPlaying Psychic. One vision and then I'm off to bed, because that's the thing to do. Necessary. Yup! See, even this person enjoys that part of the song. I do too. posted by Mark Canlas | 03:34 | 0 commentsTuesday, January 21, 2003 So Very Lonely. Here I am, feeling kinda empty on things to do... Of course there's lots to do, but I've lost any drive to do anything. I'm lost and lacking. And I only want one thing. It's like waiting for a glacier to melt. But inside is an oh-so-sweet reward... Time to exercise patience... posted by Mark Canlas | 22:50 | 0 commentsMemoirs. I want to play a drinking game. I want to play I Never. I never played I Never! Haha... Lust and fear makes a great mai tai cocktail. American Idol Twins. They're great! posted by Mark Canlas | 20:15 | 0 commentsCompuciety Class. Wee, I'm gonna have so much fun in 350. Mostly because the guy sounds pretty cool, even though the work is on the verge of cool work turned suck. Although no pertinance to anyone but myself, there's attendance, journaling, ethics case, and oral report, all ten percent... And then two exams and a team project worth thirty percent each. Do Well in the Skirmish. I wonder what would happen if there was an all-male cheerleading squad... Uhh... Go team, go? posted by Mark Canlas | 19:03 | 0 commentsJapanesing. Japanesing. That's when you eat hot dogs like Takeshi Kobayashi... Anyway, I randomly read somewhere that Japanese art is about the space between the material as well as the material itself. Where, like logic and regions, nothingness is a something. I want to make something very Japanese one day... It'd be black text, white background, all serifs, and Asian writing. Big. Stylish. Empty. Schway. posted by Mark Canlas | 14:41 | 0 commentsRoomie Patience. He unplugged my fridge. I was gonna snap. But it was an accident. Thank God for venting, waiting, and listening. Work with me, not against me. It's all about the flow, see? posted by Mark Canlas | 14:15 | 0 commentsThatch Adams. I fill voids in my notes with sets of three-stroke thatch patterns... One, two, three. Tilt a little, find a void. One, two, three... Socra-artic Method. I wonder what kind of class would it be if the writing teacher was like, hey kids, write away. And then like you slowly, and I mean freakin slowly, introduce formal writing concepts to completely uncontrolling, chaotic writing. Or any form of artistic expression... Holy shit! A random art generator! With rules and algorithms! Ugh, go me, go me... Backupload. Like why is backing up files such a tedious task? Most people don't do it. Solution? Use idle bandwidth to continually send files to a backup server... Options include ignoring system files or uploading files with a similar frequency as they are modified... Yes, your bio report is safe and accessible online. Engrish Tactics. One day, HTMLism will have site sections entitled Save Fading Life or Fight for Life. Weee... posted by Mark Canlas | 13:18 | 0 commentsReft Brain. Maybe I failed English because analytical reading and essay writing are two seperate skills... Maybe I'm kinda okay at essay writing of stuff I like? Uhh, meh, maybe not... "HSS 101 is usually taken in the fall... You probably transferred in or failed or something..." Fencing Philosophae. I wonder if the sport of fencing holds any philosophies... It's so cultured and diesel. Foil, epee, sabre. Ooo... But I'm sure all sports and all job masters develop expert mental states and great philosophies. Blog York Times. Sometimes I wonder if it's worth having a blog in the form of a newspaper... You know, where each entry is sacred, holy, and perfect. But that would detract from the whole spontaneity of the situation, I think. That and... Michaels Zeta. Here's the biggest pussy alive! // I am what I eat. posted by Mark Canlas | 01:21 | 0 commentsRandom This, Mosucka. Ugh... At the advice of my brother, I left a memo on my voicemail... Discovery? I sound just like him. Nooo... Wario Battlecry. Wasah! posted by Mark Canlas | 01:18 | 0 commentsMonday, January 20, 2003 Wield Knowledge. I'm at odds again. Always about the same thing. Whether to hang out with my peers, people who are as dumb as me, or my teachers. Teachers, people who will, no matter how good your relationship is, always have this lofty layer of seperation from you. They can bestow upon you the greatest power and embrace you with their comfort, but there will always be that thin layer... There's no fear in peers. But I guess this shows my failure to understand the existence of peers willing to be taught. People who share the same quest for knowledge as you. To acknowledge that group wholeheartedly, fearlessly, and selflessly. There's no I in team, biatch. posted by Mark Canlas | 02:46 | 0 commentsSorry, You. To a person that I thought would never encounter the dark side of my mind... I apologize. At their lack of their wanted presence, I mumbled to myself and mentally said, "Fag." That and I had a dark thought. Why is it such a big deal? Because I thought people who I admire this much shouldn't ever mix with these retarded thoughts. It just isn't right. My desire is waning and I'm becoming complacent. I'd never want me to think that way ever again. Sunday, January 19, 2003 Sleeping Like a Blog. This is my post on how blogs aren't that big of a deal. The technology has always been there. FTP. What makes blogging so special? Simplicity. Bringing the technology to the masses in some deliverable form. A package. Like Shaolin kung-fu and soccer. posted by Mark Canlas | 14:53 | 0 commentsSock Death. All of my Champion socks are falling apart at the same time. Maybe it's because they're the same age... Got new socks today. Mostly white Calvin Kleins. Haha, burned money on white clothes... posted by Mark Canlas | 03:44 | 0 commentsMultiplicative Faux Pas. A or B? // Yes. Gradient Tactics. Okay, so maybe life isn't about being right or wrong... But a massive tactical engine. There exists N many choices in the world at any given time... You're free to do any of them. But... It just kinda depends how you go about choosing which one is better. Just like Kazaa and how imperfect it is. There are many, many MP3s for [insert title of popular song here], but there's one copy that just sticks out like a sore thumb. Most of the time, it's a safe bet. Sometimes, it's a dud. Other times, it's a radio rip. Either way, in a binary world, that would have been the "right answer". But you can't exclude the fact that so many choices exist, regardless of how rare or wofty they are... 43 hits, 43 points, that's pretty weighted. Sounds like a right answer to me. But I'm just saying. That, and... Listening to people just improves your tactical points. Make a better decision. No one is forcing you to do anything. posted by Mark Canlas | 03:42 | 0 commentsPrimal Song. Two unrelated concepts... but I'll make them fit. Friday, January 17, 2003 Foresought Heights. I saw the catalyst and felt nothing. Okay, maybe not nothing, but certainly nothing to the degree of what I worried myself over in the winter. The best I can offer myself is to day this semester one day at a time, conscious of making a more-informed decision with each day and person that passes. Rockman Theory. It's really annoying how the beginning of The Juliana Theory's Liability sounds like a Mega Man song... I was all excited until the meat of the song came on. I mean, it's not a bad song. I'm just saying I was lead in the wrong direction... Punk. posted by Mark Canlas | 12:32 | 0 commentsValete, Salute. Leave as a ragtag bunch of misfits (the best misfits), come back as a well-oiled Zanarkand machina. Me? I'll be D Doctoring the weekend away. posted by Mark Canlas | 12:26 | 0 commentsThursday, January 16, 2003 Just... Keep Jumping. Mmm... Sexy Irish dancers... posted by Mark Canlas | 19:05 | 0 commentsDecadangle. If I isolated certain parts of other people (and me too), I wouldn't like 'em. But these attributes belong to the same people I love to death. So I think... Had I not met certain people under these certain cosmic circumstances, would I not like them as the same, genuine person they are? I'm just concerned cuz I love 'em a lot. A lot. I like it a lot. posted by Mark Canlas | 18:53 | 0 commentsTank Gods Its Tursday. Me eating buffalo kickers, Cinnastix, and Go Bananas. Go Bananas's popularity is autocatalytic. People like it because other people like it. And the Cinnastix sauce? The ad should be like, Hey, it's funny. posted by Mark Canlas | 18:24 | 0 commentsIt Comes Wit a Sauce. Saucemariosep! Hahaha... posted by Mark Canlas | 14:40 | 0 commentsSofa King Soupid. So this mang at the cafe needs to get rid of two bowls of soup. One medium full, the other mostly full. Picks up the medium with the left, no probs. Since the bowls were styrofoam, the mostly was all wobbly. What does he end up doing? Putting the mostly bowl in and on top of the medium one. He was sloshing soup all the way back to the garbage. You spaz. posted by Mark Canlas | 13:41 | 0 commentsThe MacGyver. One of my many inventions to invent. The McGuyver [sic], the machine that tells you what you can make and how to do it using the parts at hand. Like... I need a support structure and all I have is marshmallows and tooth picks. Go! posted by Mark Canlas | 09:00 | 0 commentsMagical Heart. The art of seduction must be the closest thing to magic. I mean, what other universal constant is there that exists in every person? Harnessing all that raw, sexual energy for your any desire... What? I'm just saying. It's like magic. Sexual magic. It's a magic. posted by Mark Canlas | 08:47 | 0 commentsScoirish Proide. I cannae remember if bagpipes were Scottish or Irish... Either way, listening to Bag makes me wanna break out and do something Riverdanceish. And yes, Riverdance was quality even though I slept through a little bit of it. And yes, Lord of the Dance can suck my balls. And don't go around pulling that American pride shzt at the end of your show. No, American pride isn't bad. But the fact that it stuck out of nowhere did suck. [insert firework-assisted Irish pelvic thrust here] Bang! posted by Mark Canlas | 08:40 | 0 commentsDelectable. Yo soy heart the ooey gooey goodness of Cinnastix... So bad. So, so bad. posted by Mark Canlas | 08:27 | 0 commentsTrust or Assimilate. Houston, we've got a problem... (Well, two actually. I forgot my bag, with my books, in the car...) We've got a big thumbs down from the Big Brother himself... Let's see... Be a little punk and not listen? Trust in that recommendation and follow suit? Listen quietly, assimilate the opinion, and take each day as it comes... Blarg. posted by Mark Canlas | 08:05 | 0 commentsWednesday, January 15, 2003 It's Your Mess. I'm in no position to actually use this joke (hah, I think I made it up myself) but I still think it's funny. Pourne Identity. Thars porn on them thar hard drives... This guy sounds like Simon and Garfunkle... Heh. [hat tip to Slashdot for the linkomatic] posted by Mark Canlas | 20:56 | 0 commentsSinga Crack. Without American Idol and the biting commentary, I'll settle with Star Search and Lance Bass. Yup! (The necessary... Yup!) posted by Mark Canlas | 20:52 | 0 commentsSimon and Audiofunkle. There was this weird bug in Audiogalaxy that would attribute random songs to Simon and Garfunkle... Written to disk as Simon and Garfunkle, put into the database as Simon and Garfunkle. Hence, Simon and Garfunkle are attributed to every major pop song to date. posted by Mark Canlas | 19:16 | 0 commentsBug-Crushing Snug. Why does it feel like every time someone mentions security, I keep thinking the inability to do cool things...? is there such a thing as being able to do magical, convenient things while being secure at the same time? Just one of many pipe dreams, supposedly. posted by Mark Canlas | 11:59 | 0 commentsTwisty Badness. Guilty pleasure in culinary form? Fruity twist twizzlers! posted by Mark Canlas | 06:27 | 0 commentsThe Problem of Scope. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. posted by Mark Canlas | 05:59 | 0 commentsHabesne Lac? Hah, I'm so slick. Back in the day when I was actually enjoying Latin, I made a Got Milk ad featuring some random emperor. Just a map background, an enlarged head, and a cummy, I mean, white set of lips. Airbrush, of course. posted by Mark Canlas | 05:50 | 0 commentsEww. Here, Eat This. At some point in the past, I didn't know what okoy was and Ray told me to try it. Funny, I still don't know what okoy is. So much for being knowledgeable about Filipino cuisine... posted by Mark Canlas | 05:00 | 0 commentsCash One With Girlsfriends. Probably written a day when the lack of my friend's company hurt me a little... No, Not You. "i'm scared of commitment. i'm scared of the future. i'm scared of change." Don't. Be. Scurred. posted by Mark Canlas | 00:34 | 0 commentsTuesday, January 14, 2003 Call the Word. What does your phone number spell? posted by Mark Canlas | 23:41 | 0 commentsDie, Splash, Die. The memo was written a while back, but I was pretty irked when the PDA version of the New York Times sprouted a splash page. I mean, that was one unit for depth, one unit for effort, and three units for choice. That's a lot of wasted time. I know, I know, HTMLism has a splash page. So sue me. Splash pages are evil. I'll take the front page one day. You'll see. You know, the moment I develop something useful. posted by Mark Canlas | 23:04 | 0 commentsWhere Do You Want to Go? There are four types of influences in life... Falling under the combination of goal-oriented or reactive, and positive or negative. Sometimes. Sometimes, a window just isn't a window. It's a way out. From everything. So easy... Sometimes, you really don't care where a road goes, just as long as it gets you away from where you are. Sometimes, you feel weak... And then... Life as an Array. Is life a set of achievements or catastrophes? Better to Have... Sometimes, it feels like I can just curl up into a tight little ball and say that I was right the whole time. I'm always right. But where does that put me? How much of the world can man alone lift? Is the rollercoaster ride worth going back to the same, exact place? Or worse? You're short by the cost of ticket. How many tickets can one boy afford... Tickets, penalties, demerits. Tickets, admissions, opportunities. It's only impossible if you lose sight of your priorities, or so I've heard. If it's all about the priorities, and I'm always right, then why isn't everything falling into place... Reality Comes a Callin'. Where F is for fraternity. posted by Mark Canlas | 19:45 | 0 commentsVicious Cycle. It's like walking up to a ledge every day and jumping. And then dying. And then walking up to the cliff again. Only to jump and die. I mean, some people interpret it as a nice free fall. A necessary and natural high. Me? I'm dead. Sucks. posted by Mark Canlas | 16:07 | 0 commentsGood for Nothing. Funny, the morning I start preaching about academic integrity is the same day I don't perform... Story Time's Over. Having heart for a group means having a heart for school. Based upon the institution of academics, you must remain true to those obligations. Having heart for a group also means having heart for those around you, be they mentors, peers, or otherwise. posted by Mark Canlas | 07:27 | 0 commentsSix Degrees in the Morning. It's... Almost six o'clock in the morning. Not an ounce of work done... But the fun part is I'm quite guilty of playing make it fit. I pray to God that the fun will come to play... But let's not jinx ourselves. posted by Mark Canlas | 05:57 | 0 commentsCircuit Breaker. Normally, I'd put life, my MP3s, on random, and happily invite a particular set of them to play... Revel in the joy that those songs bring me and what they mean to me. Or what they meant to me. In the past week, I've found myself irked at the fact that they were playing... To the point of making an audible noise in disgust, quickly striking the Skip key, or hunting down a way to make the songs never play again. I don't have the heart to delete them, in the same way I don't have the heart to get rid of a lot of things... But it makes me wonder. Is my love for the world waning? Am I starting to not care, again? Is time taking its toll? Was I right, in that, time heals and erases all? Why am I letting time do this to me? I halfway promised I wouldn't let it happen... Although I'm actually hoping this is just me being lazy. My attitude is merely an apparent not-care due to the lack of exposure... Once I'm exposed again, I'll care. But... I dunno. It should have already happened. That or I'll get bum rushed (hah) in a week or so... Hopefully. I invite the tide to come in and sweep me away. Monday, January 13, 2003 So Little Effort. Taking a cue from whoever is feeling happy this year, I guess I'll feel the same way... No need to be sour all the time. Just some of the time. Saturday, January 11, 2003 Moving Music. First it was an unnamed Capcom MP3 (which I knew was from Mega Man II). Then it was an Air Man remix performed a la piano. Then it was a Wood Man Remix. That brought me back to that place. Where I know that whatever I'm studying is truly good. Mega Man music 0wnZ j00. It's really good. And I'm glad that there are just so many things in this world that I love enough to not care about all the bullshit surrounding it. People are good. And so is the video game industry. Long live quality music. And quality people. posted by Mark Canlas | 16:57 | 0 commentsThey Came From. Behind! Does it mean anything that serving up web pages is still very much a centralized activity... I mean, there's the offline/online sychronization of client and server. That's great. But it's still one diesel client disseminating this thing that goes out to billions of users. Can't we link those nodes up and make something P2P out of it? Like load balancing the Slashdot effect? Yes? No? Someone, help me out... posted by Mark Canlas | 16:21 | 0 commentsWelcome, Bradders. psiuindahousesaywha? WHA? Wah? WAH? HUH? Huh? posted by Mark Canlas | 07:55 | 0 commentsThursday, January 09, 2003 Darkness Looms (And It Smells). There's this lingering fragrance (short of a smell, I guess?) and it makes me upset... That sucks. Because I read (and thus am convincing myself of) this thing that says smell, of all your senses, gives the greatest... Like, memory or flashback feeling. This... Smell. Odor. Fragrance. Aroma. It's... Upsetting. posted by Mark Canlas | 18:03 | 0 commentsMemes Don't Exist. Tell your friends. posted by Mark Canlas | 15:51 | 0 commentsWednesday, January 08, 2003 The Bergen Sound. A group that never existed, but will always keep near my heart. posted by Mark Canlas | 22:37 | 0 commentsThe Natural Log. Jon Wu is a Log. Who the hell is Jon Wu, you ask? Well, he's just a guy. I talk as if I know him well. But I don't. All do know is that he was in Bergen County Chorus (as well as All-State and Regionals) many a time... Ugh, now I'm getting bitter that I don't have any singing ability... Anyway, I'm really happy for the guy. Not only is he smart like MIT style, he's in the Logs, which is diesel. I guess... He's just another person to aim for. And by aim I mean admire. People who are better/smarter than me help drive me... And uhh there's nothing more stimulating (upsetting?) than seeing a peer where you want to be. So you know it's possible. Latent Psychic or Para-Psycho? Whoa I just remembered I had this totally fzcked up dream that I was hanging out at a diesel party with The People. And I just found out that my brother wants to have a dinner party with The People... Hmm... Coincidence maybe. posted by Mark Canlas | 19:40 | 0 commentsJigglypuff. Ha, I remembered one of these corny chemistry jokes... You know how life on Earth is all carbon-based? And then there's discussion about the posibility of silicon-based life on other planets since silicon is chemically similar to carbon... The punch is something like, "We don't know if there are silicon-based lifeforms on other planets, but there's certainly an abundance of silicone-based life in Hollywood." Haha, get it? Breasts? Tetas? Burrrestesis? posted by Mark Canlas | 19:08 | 0 commentsGee, a Metric Mean. I remembered that Jakob Nielson used a geometric mean to calculate one of many seemingly useless numbers in an Alertbox column. I'm still not sure what a geometric mean is for or why anyone would use it over an arithmatic mean, but it's one of the techniques that Palladio mulled over... Tuesday, January 07, 2003 Where the End Just Isn't Here. What is Final Fantasy Unlimited? Looks like an anime... I hope it doesn't suck like that Final Fantasy OVA, blow me... posted by Mark Canlas | 00:51 | 0 commentsCoulda Shoulda Didn't Rrread. Here's a list of books that I should have read for school, but never did. So much for coasting. And here I am making the false proclamation that I'll read them. Someday. Rhyme Time. A har har in the title. Rhyme Zone, an online dictionary to fill the void of, "What rhymes with...?" posted by Mark Canlas | 00:40 | 0 commentsTao Do You Do It. I once contemplated the existance of a grand theory which would encompass my two newfound ideas, one rooted in Taoism and the other in human relations. As predicted in a passing thought, the fundamentals of human relations are merely a subset of the greater idea of flow. A person is like a tide, or any being projecting an outward force. To flow against this tide would break the very core of what one is trying to achieve. To flow with the tide, for better, worse, in disagreement or strife, is the key to calming the beast. posted by Mark Canlas | 00:36 | 0 commentsSuit Loose. Kick off the Sunday shoes. Sometimes people wear these tight/baggy PJs... It looks really hot. Or girls in PJs in general. Like why would they randomly wear that to class? No one's complaining. I'm just saying. Anyway. Tight near the waist. Super baggy at the bottom. And somehow, they gracefully don't touch the floor ever. They must be super comfy... You know, made out of that thin-enough kinda cloth. Yeah... Perfect in the way it hugs the skin and accents certain, uhh, parts of the body... Rawr... posted by Mark Canlas | 00:21 | 0 commentsCascading Style Sorry. I just realized something (while being vain and looking up backward links to me... courtesy of Google, of course). Apologies to web surfers who 1. come to this site and 2. care about CSS. That's like N times M for never. Anyway, no, this site no longer is table pure. I'm using a Blogger layout. It looks pretty sharp. Come to think of it, I don't even... Oh wait, I do remember. I was going to say I don't remember what my old design was. But I do! It was blue. It rocked. It was an amalgam of different websites... Which I never gave credit to. Maybe someday. When I get things up and running again to full capacity. But that'll be never. posted by Mark Canlas | 00:07 | 0 commentsPriest. Disclaimer: This was copied from the Google cache of the Priest node at Everything2. Why? This particular article doesn't exist anymore. I was looking up a Stephen Lynch lyric. So, I figure, I'm doing the Internet a service by "upgrading" this nice person's work (as well as Mr. Lynch's) into a stable, live format. The views expressed in this song do not necessarily reflect those of the original transcriber or the owner of this page. Relax. It's funny. Laugh. Monday, January 06, 2003 Howard... Howard Who? Howard Zinn. A high school buddy of mine mentioned him to me, so I'm merely propagating that idea several months later to the Internet. I'm not one much for history and politics and all that other unmath jive... But he is. Well, he's across the board. Johan's one of those cats (hah, cat) that can do everything. Go Johan. I hope you're having fun in Deep Springs. That's that weird school that requires effort to get into. But uh, hey, weird schools yield easy access to America's best institutions. Supposedly. Regardless, Johan is the coolest (and only) Swede I know. posted by Mark Canlas | 23:45 | 0 commentsSend Packets for the Swarm. This article on swarm intelligence was really cool until it turned me off by talking about networking and rerouting... The parts I do like, however, are the stuff about ants and intelligent behavior arising out of the many dumb. Makes me wanna study ants. And then it goes on to mention autocatalytic functions of ants leaving trails for food... Ha, I know that one from SimAnt. Awesome game. I guess this just reinforces the idea of many, many simple agents doing complex things. Phatty Hizzouse. I think I want a house like Bill Gates. Something with a lot of technology in it. And a lot of organic things to contrast that. And feng shui compatibility. But mostly technology. Ooozing with wireless networking, tablet PCs, LCDnessosity and all other goodies that will probably make what I just said super outdated. Whatever's hot, I want it. posted by Mark Canlas | 21:36 | 0 commentsCulinary Macgyver. Yeah, you heard it. I wanna be the culinary Macgyver. So many times I'm trapped at home, out of all the ingredients (yeah, all two of them) that I know how to use... See, if I was the culinary Macgyver, I could just cook anything using the stuff in front of me. Kind of like that Food 911 show. But as my family pointed out, those families are stocked. I, on the other hand, am out of food. You can't make lemonade if you don't have lemons. Well fzck it. I'm saing, make mad prune sauce to put over that left over corned beef. Or whatever is there. posted by Mark Canlas | 21:16 | 0 commentsMathematica Progresso. No, it's not the geek sauce of choice... Every time I was presented with N math problems given M minutes to solve them, I'd pace myself accordingly. N/M minutes per problem. But sometimes that wasn't good enough, or my scheduling of time would demand a more complex algorithm. And here's a discussion, because I'm too lazy to actually code it. Chini Foo. Mmm... Staring at hot RAs in shorts... Err, I mean, you know, good wholesome Chinese food. posted by Mark Canlas | 16:11 | 0 commentsFAQ You. If I was being a super nice guy with a lot of time and money on my hands, I'd be concentrating on writing GameFAQs for games that are purely in demand. Why? So you could get super FAQ recognition. Hah. Pick Ross! One of the funnest games ever, even pen and pencil style, is Picross... Mmm, tasty square filling... posted by Mark Canlas | 15:30 | 0 commentsMust Wipe Drool. Must... Have... Ultraportable... It's em bare assing how people think that laptops can and will be bulky. Hell no. If I was me, and I am, I'd make a company that specializes in the lightest shzt ever. Yeah... Lazy! posted by Mark Canlas | 15:12 | 0 commentsRiothero. I never understood Riothero. Apparently he is/was some kind of web celeb.. His site is always incoherent. Never stable. And yet I keep going back. Atom Bow Mole. I had a chemistry teacher named Shrek. Great guy. Anyway, we were learning something about chemical reactions and how atoms actually go about their business... And we learned that it was more likely that two atoms would collide than three. For three seperate physical entities to strike the same spatial area with enough force and the right conditions for them to bond, that's rare. So there you have it. It only takes two. Sunday, January 05, 2003 Cleartext Revival. In my big, fat head I had a project called Textport, in which I aimed to diagram (and eventually program) the world's greatest text-only based browser. I still have time. posted by Mark Canlas | 23:12 | 0 commentsWhere Today Means Yerterday. Today I'm working on a site. It got boring real fast because I didn't know what I was doing. Neither did my mentor. We're not focused. We need to address one issue at a time, not everything. I can't design really. I just improve and rip. Ouchie yay... oochie wallie wallie, oochie bang bang. posted by Mark Canlas | 23:10 | 0 commentsMark's Research. This sucks. I read one paper, print out seven more. It just doesn't stop. posted by Mark Canlas | 22:10 | 0 commentsAin't No Webslinger. The weapons of the web I can list right now are HTML, CSS, and Javascript... When they're powers combine, they make... Captain Planet? Uhh, close. DHTML via the Document Object Model... Yay for webisms. posted by Mark Canlas | 22:08 | 0 commentsInfinite Monkeys. It's said that given an infinite number of monkeys and an infinite set of typewriters, they're eventually bang out a work or Shakespeare, or anything really. posted by Mark Canlas | 22:06 | 0 commentsTV to Watch. The HBO original series, Six Feet Under. It's pretty weird, pretty different. It's about this guy... Who's sorta gay... And he helps run a funeral... Something? Parlor? Home? I dunno. That's why it's called Six Feet Under. Something about dead people. Beacause when you're dead, you're buried six feet under the surface of the earth. Supposedly. I don't know. I don't watch it anymore. But that's only because I don't watch much TV anymore. Stupid college. posted by Mark Canlas | 14:46 | 0 commentsBlog to the Fourth. I had this idea for a four dimensional blog... More table-like than anything. Three dimensions should be text, audio, and video. The fourth bloggish dimension would be time. So, here was a table of binary codes I made, something to do with how the page would be laid out... Buddy Buddy. Is it a proper reflection of how people view others if you look at their buddy list? A buddy list, in my view so far, has two characteristics that may feed of that opinion, namely buddy alerts and categories. Cuz, you know, buddy alerts are reserved for that special someone. You don't put someone on buddy alert unless you like them. It's true though. Like, why would you need to know the precise moment someone signs on unless you can't stand being away from them? That kind of attitude is a likeness thing. Hot Limit. The many faces of Hot Limit... Saturday, January 04, 2003 Watt's Knew. Well, it's not new... Pretty old actually. Pretty Canadian too. MTV's Now What is also a Canadian show, Sausage Factory... I'm like one of two people that tried watching it. Anyway, I wanted to point out the obvious and say that one of the main actors, Adam Brody, was one of the weird psychic crazy characters one Smallville. Eh, I just had to make the connection. Actually, the people I most enjoy making connections with on TV are voice actors. I wanna be a seiyuu... Dream Puff. The night of April 5th, I had a dream... I guess that day I was fretting over what would happen for our senior trip, who I would room with... None of my super cool friends were going, so I guess I had to settle. For my roommates that is, no offense. So I got an Alper, a Pete, and a Devin. Not bad. Not bad at all. But uhh, I guess I was still unsatisfied at the time... I dreamt about an ambiguously hot Asian junior with black hair... Someone that would totally chillax with me on the whole trip. And, you know, make it all worthwhile. No, it didn't happen. But that doesn't matter. The trip was fantastic. Why? Because the place sucked. And the Academy Class of 2002 > j00. Chillin' at the pool... Or just having wandering eyes... You know, all good fun. posted by Mark Canlas | 10:34 | 0 commentsLincoln Park. I'm gonna blog this because I'm back to cleaning up the old Generaltso and I like revisiting old topics... So it seems that on the date of 5:12 PM 4/1/2002, I saw what seemed to be a guy, driving down whatever road Lincoln School is on (you know, the backside, or frontside, depending on how you look at it, with the flag) getting blow job from a girl in a red shirt... Weird. Kids these days. Friday, January 03, 2003 Bob A Ram. Am I not the only person in the world that thought the Beach Boys were saying Bop A Ram and not Barbra Anne? posted by Mark Canlas | 14:46 | 0 commentsYou Are My Hero Upso. I have an MP3 here, in Korean, labeled Papaya, 12, It's Up to You. It sounds an awful lot like Hero from Dance Dance Revolution... posted by Mark Canlas | 13:11 | 0 commentsThursday, January 02, 2003 Boiled Sprat!. Mark, thank God you have a family, a set of friends, and a life to bitch, whine, and complain about. Otherwise, where would you be without them... posted by Mark Canlas | 23:58 | 0 commentsElelator Go Nowhere. Know what's kinda scary? Try going into an elevator and forgeting to push the buttons. It goes nowhere. Ooo... posted by Mark Canlas | 20:33 | 0 commentsLosing My Patience. So here I am, trying to be Super Mark and make great light of the situation. But both Finale and Sibelius, however cracked, won't cooperate with me. I swear, the only good piece of software I've used is Cakewalk, and that's not even in the right arena... My ultimate goal is to play stuff on the piano and sing just like Tori Amos's cover of Losing My Religion. I have awesome up the ass songs, I really do. Why? Because they were made by great, GREAT people. Anyway, this lack of cooperation is totally pissing me off and putting a cramp in my limited transcription abilities... I wish I had a copy of Cakewalk with me... ARGH!!! posted by Mark Canlas | 15:23 | 0 commentsGynecology. By Stephen Lynch -- I'm a rich and famous doctor. Always knew I'd be an expert in the field of gynecology. Next on my agenda, checking your pudenda. Lemme see what I can find. If ya getcha nerve up, sip [sic] inside the stirrup. Single thought it crawls my mind. I love pu... tting women's minds at rest. I love pus... hing myself to be the best. Doctor Steven's in, ugh... I've got magic fingers. Doctor of the year. There's not a lip that I can't read. A pap that I can't smear. When your legs are open I begin the gropin', but I fear I must be blunt. I would just as soon I go to your balloon-ah, think that I'll stick to your c- front. Pu.... posted by Mark Canlas | 00:01 | 0 commentsWednesday, January 01, 2003 Phase Won. I was just talking to my bradder about the physical compromise to the super power of phasing through objects. Marvel already made it so and said that Shadowcat could only phase through things for as long as she could hold her breath, because she can't breathe while phasing. Sounds good. posted by Mark Canlas | 23:38 | 0 commentsSchool of Funny Ha Ha. "I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food!!" - Anonymous Humpernickle. I'm just not running out of these toasting quotes... Toasty. Learn em, live em, love em. Funny Side Up. Here's to the land we love // and the love we land. Twenty-Five Toast. Champagne to my real friends and real pain to my sham friends. posted by Mark Canlas | 22:40 | 0 commentsMaster, You Forgot? I'm going to type something that's not necessarily reflective of what I believe... I'm just saying it's funny. Straight from the Master himself. When questioned about the phrase a second time, he forgot it was his own wisdom... "Pussy has no face." posted by Mark Canlas | 21:53 | 0 commentsStraight No Chaser. What does that mean? Apparently it's the name of an a cappella group, I mean, among many other things... posted by Mark Canlas | 16:58 | 0 commentsSave Fading Life. Should I be able to answer a question I posed to Ray... "Why do you wake up in the morning?" What is it that you live for? posted by Mark Canlas | 02:10 | 0 comments |
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