Yay! Last night was fun too. Mr. & Mrs. Smith turned out better than I thought. Brad Pitt is still a jerk.
The report card was, as usual, stunningly crappy. 89% (first term), 100% (second term), and 100% (third term) happen to add up to 93% as my final mark. This was for physics too. Damn cheap government computers can’t count.
Visited my elementary school the day before. Saw some kids that I haven’t seen in a couple of years. My grade 7 teachers are all being pulled out of the school. So is the principal. This school is going nowhere.
Exactly 7 days till my flight to China for a month. Don’t know if there are pubs there. Hopefully it won’t be as hot as the weather report says it is. It’s said that if you put a raw pig into your sink (yes, inside a room), it’ll become sausages within 10 minutes. Mmm.. free bacon.
On a side note, someone replied to one of my posts as me. Yes I track your IP =). But putting that in a moderation list doesn’t prevent other people from doing this. So I put my own name in the moderation list so whenever a comment is made with my name, it goes into the bin first before I approve it. It is annoying approving your own comments though.
I saw some guy that looks incredibly like Morpheus at the swimming pool today (although I don’t think Morpheus swims). I swear, if I didn’t take a closer second look, I would have tried to ask for an autograph or something. And amazingly, this guy is Chinese. I know, it’s difficult to imagine two people of difference race looking the same. But this dude just had me.
That huge black thing on his head was hair. At first I thought it was the hat thing that swimmers wear, but it looked shiny. Then later I thought it might have been a wig cause it looked really flimsy. But then that could just have been his age. He had all the stand-out features that Fishburne has. Huge eyes that stick out of the eye sockets. A really huge but flat nose. Huge lips (oh boy did I get some nasty results searching for this one). And a sliver of empty space between the two front teeth. Holy crap was it scary to see a guy so much like another guy.
Damn I suck at photoshopping. The photoshopped Fishburne looks like he’s Ethiopian or something. Anyone good at image manipulating? Try photoshopping the first photograph into a Chinese guy.
Bored on a Saturday afternoon, I found the official website for the Michael Smith Science Challenge. This is a contest organized by UBC professors, made for highschool kids.
May I Say Pwnt?
Top in Provinces
BC:
Morgan McLean, Mulgrave
Oliver Zheng, Transition
Damn smart kids have to win their $500 and leave me penniless.
I’ve found something common with all browsers (Internet Explorer 6, Firefox, Opera on Windows). If the onFocus event handler attached to an anchor link calls a Javascript function that changes the window.location.href, the browser will first call that function and then go to the link in that anchor.
For example,
<script language="JavaScript">
function gotoSite(url) {
window.location.href = this.url;
return true;
}
</script>
<a href="http://mtsix.com"
onFocus="return gotoSite('http://google.com');">Free Water</a>
That would make the browser first make an HTTP request to Google, and then to mtsix.com. What this means is that you could deliberately plant a tracking device for every out going link. Although it means the sacrafice of a non-valid XHTML page because of the event handler, it can be very useful.
I have implimented this method in the new banner of this site. If you don’t see the Media Temple logo on the top right corner, please refresh this page. Then click that logo. There is now an outgoing tracker that I’ve set on that link. For every referer to (mt), the counter attached to that Javascript will increase. Take a look at the code if interested.
In conclusion, the advantages to this are
- Being able to notify yourself when an outgoing link is clicked
- Looking and working normally even if Javascript isn’t enabled
- And being search engine friendly. The crawlers will still visit the link (unless rel="nofollow"), but not necessarily the requested page by Javascript
To every solution there are always disadvantages:
- It’s Javascript – it will only work if the viewer’s browser has Javascript enabled
It will mess up a nicely coded XHTML page with the insertion of the onFocus event handler – Not if the function is assigned inside the Javascript.
It’s always possible to make a script that redirect outgoing links, such as outgoing.php?link=http://google.com. Personally, I’ve never liked those. I don’t know what the script is actually doing (maybe I’m just paranoid). Some of them may actually be outgoing.php?linkID=4, which always puts me in doubt where I’m redirected to. It’s also bad for the stats of the redirected page. In the example above, Google would be unable to track which exact page the viewer came from, but only the outgoing.php, which isn’t very helpful for either parties.
I like monkeys.
The pet store was selling them for five cents a piece. I thought that
odd since they were normally a couple thousand each. I decided not to
look a gift horse in the mouth. I bought 200. I like monkeys.
I took my 200 monkeys home. I have a big car. I let one drive. His
name was Sigmund. He was retarded. In fact, none of them were really
bright. They kept punching themselves in their genitals. I laughed.
Then they punched my genitals. I stopped laughing.
I herded them into my room. They didn’t adapt very well to their new
environment. They would screech, hurl themselves off of the couch at
high speeds and slam into the wall. Although humorous at first, the
spectacle lost its novelty halfway into its third hour.
Two hours later I found out why all the monkeys were so inexpensive:
they all died. No apparent reason. They all just sorta’ dropped dead.
Kinda’ like when you buy a goldfish and it dies five hours later. Damn
cheap monkeys.
I didn’t know what to do. There were 200 dead monkeys lying all over my
room, on the bed, in the dresser, hanging from my bookcase. It looked
like I had 200 throw rugs.
I tried to flush one down the toilet. It didn’t work. It got stuck.
Then I had one dead, wet monkey and 199 dead, dry monkeys.
I tried pretending that they were just stuffed animals. That worked for
a while, that is until they began to decompose. It started to smell real
bad.
I had to pee but there was a dead monkey in the toilet and I didn’t want
to call the plumber. I was embarrassed.
I tried to slow down the decomposition by freezing them. Unfortunately
there was only enough room for two monkeys at a time so I had to change
them every 30 seconds. I also had to eat all the food in the freezer so
it didn’t all go bad.
I tried burning them. Little did I know my bed was flammable. I had to
extinguish the fire.
Then I had one dead, wet monkey in my toilet, two dead, frozen monkeys in
my freezer, and 197 dead, charred monkeys in a pile on my bed. The odor
wasn’t improving.
I became agitated at my inability to dispose of my monkeys and to use the
bathroom. I severely beat one of my monkeys. I felt better.
I tried throwing them way but the garbage man said that the city wasn’t
allowed to dispose of charred primates. I told him that I had a wet
one. He couldn’t take that one either. I didn’t bother asking about the
frozen ones.
I finally arrived at a solution. I gave them out as Christmas gifts. My
friends didn’t know quite what to say. They pretended that they like
them but I could tell they were lying. Ingrates. So I punched them in
the genitals.
I like monkeys
By Charles Groom, via Jon Lech Johansen.
Or so this fellow thinks so. Some of the articles are blatantly trying to pick out bones from egg yokes. Some of them actually make some sense, come to think of it.
I’ve never been into Solitaire before. It wasn’t until this week when I became really bored and started playing boring games.
The truth is it’s not boring at all. It just gets a bit plain after the 2nd hour.
There are so many things to consider when flipping a card or putting one on another. I’ve always thought Solitaire was made for colour blinded people to practice their eyesight. But it’s not that simple actually. It gets annoying when you are left with two cards unflipped under a huge pile and you are stuck. 8810 was the highest score I got.
This personalized keyboard is pretty kool too. It’s a mouse, keyboard, touchpad, tablet and all the other jazz combined.
I came up with this theory on the way home from school today. Most movies are exciting, but vary in depth at different times of the movie. I found that most movies have this trend.
The movies of the late twentieth century and the twenty first century are mostly like this. A small climax and then right onto a bigger, huge one – most of the times without you realizing that’s the main climax until it gets serious. Is this interesting for viewers though? I would like to think that if a movie suddenly jumped up in the beginning and got me all perked up, and then have a really sloppy plot that doesn’t grow much in terms of excitingness, then I would say that movie sucks. But how would it get me perked up AND not disappointed?
That would be really interesting. But somehow I realized that won’t be possible, as you can’t go back in time and add a more exciting part to a plot. Oh wait, why can’t you? Technically, that graph should be a function (by definition having only one point on the y-axis for each point on the x-axis, but not necessarily vice versa). Ah-ha, but that’s for a 2d graph.
Movie plots seem to only have one perspective and one vision. Isn’t that too limited? I’d really like to see a movie that has a really interesting way of telling the story. I’m already sick of most of the drama movies. That’s why mystery ones are still on my list – they don’t reveal the plots.
Gonna watch Mr. & Mrs. Smith later. Hopefully it won’t be as bad as I described here.
Congratulations to the class of 2005.
This graduation ceremony seemed to mark the end of high school for me. It seemed so significant. But now that the ceremony, formal dinner, and all night party are all finished, none of it seems to be worth it. It’s probably because I didn’t get any sleep during the party. But I just don’t feel so right about graduating. Depressing as it is already with the provincial exams, there seems to be an extra layer of tension put on me. I can’t say it’s either good or bad. The end of school now seems so empty. Nothing seems to be after this, even though I won’t even have a single spare block in the first term next year.
It’s almost as if I’d go through another two years of this non-stop hassel without too much development in the mind just so I won’t have to move on. I hate growing up gah.
I finally witnessed the first and second volume of Kill Bill. It was definitely something I had not expected. A lot of the actions and lines seem so familiar. Indeed, it has an interesting plot that doesn’t reveal the causes of anything until the end of the second movie. And the second movie didn’t have as much action as the first one, which was surprisingly good considering it doesn’t make any sense at all.
You know what would look good on a tie?
This pattern by Vincent Cronin. I would definitely get a tie of that pattern if I needed one.
Want to lower your IQ?
This Flash cartoon would be the man. Incredibly catchy tune though.
We are all on some kind of forum, posting this, reading that. Everyone has a footer. What’s a good footer though? After the recent upgrade of my computer, I found that Flash footers that use an infinite loop to make particles make my CPU fan spin like hell. I just made a simple and nice text footer for kirupaForum. Yes, it was inspired by Ahem’s footer. I like his better though – original.
My current footer is less than 500 characters, the restricted limit for all footers on the forums. There are no images, no tables, and no external scripts to load. Wouldn’t it be a better world if everyone had such clean and nice footers?
So convert your footers to text-based ones! If you can have a new footer everyday, then yes it might be amusing to look at some new ones. Otherwise, be considerate of my computer fan!
This Incredible Chain Letter almost made me cry. It’s not just another one of those garbage ones.
Courtesy of Ivy, and her birthday mom.
For the past three years or so, whenever I’m using the computer, iTunes has been open, fully loaded with songs, played one after another. I have two normal sized speakers for the desktop, placed on the either side of the monitor. Lately, I’ve been sensing that listening to music on the computer is everything but good.
* It distracts me from doing other things. I always actually listen to the words, the chorus, the beat. That’s just not productive.
* Listening to it all the time (sometimes concentrating on other things or what not) makes music seem so unimportant. And it stays within me. I don’t feel like listening to the radio in the car or anything anymore. The value of music is decreasing.
* My mom yells at me for having loud music on.
* It could potentially damage my ears.
Maybe it’s just me, or does listening to music seem like something to do when you have nothing else to do? You are just supposed to lie down or just sit with your headphones on, appreciating the true meaning of it all.
That’s why I had my earbuds in my ears the whole time doing this today – A Flash Presentation on the Polish Independence Movement (Click it, and press Spacebar to proceed; press the Left arrow key to move back). Three hours had better get me an A for this.
Apparently, I have to go to some “Ivy Busters” thing at some park tomorrow, as part of school. My current stats:
* Grade 12
* Last week of school
* Busy busy, exams
* Busy busy, homework
* Provincial exams in two weeks
But oh wait, we haven’t even finished the chemistry curriculum yet. 4 out of 5 chapters finished – the fifth one not even started yet. History curriculum not finished yet – 2 more units out of 6 left. Literature curriculum not finished yet – 5 more poems to go. And that’s not including any chapter / final exams yet. Funny, I thought schools are supposed to be organized.
But tomorrow, we have to spend about 5 hours trying to cut off little buds off of plants, as part of school. I guess that can count as part of biology, which still have 3 more units until it’s finished. But what about the other subjects? Can we finish them? No. For history, we are going to do presentations, instead of actually learning the material.
I guess I shouldn’t blame the person who organized this for us. I mean, she doesn’t even teach anything, so she wouldn’t know how tight this week is. I would just not go to school, but then they’ll make a big fuss about it and call my parents, have a meeting, and waste more time. But hey, that’s all part of a coordinator’s job isn’t it? For the sake of keeping certain individual’s job, I should just skip school tomorrow.
Come to think of it, two fifths of this school year has been wasted. All Tuesdays and Fridays are spent on CAPP and other useless crap. Thank goodness I’m getting my ass out of this place. University will make me wish I was born there.
I’m wondering how many people have IQ’s below -2.5 out there. Maybe it’s just me, or are some of the smartest people out there missing a piece of the right brain?
I’m on Windows, and tried to open a DMG file. It’s Macintosh OS X Disk Copy Disk Image File. I want to get some files from inside, so okay, I need a dmg decompiler. I googled for a long time (with many results of people asking “DMG2ISO??!!?!11″ on forums), and found one with a small program that does exactly what I want. I felt like partying because all that time searching for this wasn’t wasted. But then.
It came in a zip format. This is logical, as only a Windows user would want to open a dmg file with another program because it’s not naturally supported by the system. I opened it. This file was lying inside.
Open-DMG-on-Windows.sit
I starred at that for a couple of minutes pondering what I should open that with. I then realized that I can’t because a .sit file is the compressed file format on a Mac. Seriously. How the hell is this any way helpful, smart, and not retarded? I hope all the stupid go to hell one day and make Satan hate them so he’ll make God take them and then God will finally realize how stupid people can be so finally he’ll stop making stupid people.
People think of the weirdest things.
Comment #17 of that post:
There’s more than one juicy fruit in that photo…
Oh burn!
My grad ceremony is coming up in two weeks. Last year I watched as each grad strode up the stage and received the rolled up award. This year, it won’t be me who will be watching. I’ll be up there doing my thing – listening and pretending to perceive the profound compliments the teacher will be reading out loud for me. Besides all the work I have to do at the end of the year, I see a couple of things.. wrong, or at least not so natural. It’s just another excuse for all the things that I see inexcusable.
Too big of a deal
Maybe it’s just me, but why is everyone thinking that if it was their last moment in life, it had to be grad? It’s just an end for a studying experience in a horrible building. I’m going to go walk in there, take my awards, smile, and leave. Is that going to be so crucial to what I’ll be doing in twenty years? I doubt it.
Dresses
All the girls are going to dress up. I will too, but in nothing more than just a suit. But picking out a dress and pondering over the decision of a $500 dress or a $750 dress seem to be a central part of this grad thing for girls. Dresses are more important than the actual grad. Who needs to graduate when you don’t have a dress to wear? But then again, it’s pretty common.
Okay that was only two things. I’m looking forward to it though. Grad ceremony, followed by a $100 buffet dinner, enclosed by an all night party with just the grads.
Also, A bunch of really cute puppies.
