Life's too important to be taken seriously

Hey - this is still here, huh?

I'm pretty much done with the whole livejournal scene, apparently. Anything interesting I have to say in blog-form will now be made over at DocileWalnut.com.

But don't worry. I still read my friends list every day. And lurk as I tend to do.


Cheers!


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Fuckin' Sweet!


Also: omfg new job si teh awesome asdasjklafhsjchsjklfgsdklfjsdf

So you probably all remember me linking what is quite possibly the best music video ever, A Million Ways by OkGO. It's from their newest album, and was made all by them and is them dancing in the lead singer's backyard.

Anyways, it totally gets better by a factor of about ten billion in their newest video, which has TREADMILLS. I can't put it into words. You simply need to watch. So here it is, Here It Goes Again. Dew it, and dew it hardcore.

EDIT: And remember, not breathing causes you to die.

HOLY SHIT.

HOLY SHIT!

HOLY MOTHERFUCKING SHIT!

I'm writing this entry mainly as a reminder for myself tomorrow.

To self: if you're reading this and can't remember any of yesterday, it's because the A/C at work was off, it was 25 degrees with almost 80% humidity, and they were sheilacing or something in the work room near your office. You spent a pretty good portion of the day completely out of your noggin. It's perfectly normal that upon waking this morning, you have a strange, metallic aftertaste in your mouth and can see only the colors grey and yellow. That will pass.


Also, to people who aren't me, in case you don't already know, I've moved.

... to my basement. Details later? Maybe!

As usual, my updating has been rather sparse. But this time, I have an excuse! I've been rather busy with:
- Full-time work at The Little Dollhouse Company
- Freelance/Contract work for mine and running_forhome's upstart studio Light Language Media
- Miscellaneous freelance work
- Work for Sticks + Stones Films

Naturally, my instinct at this point is "how do I spend even more time?". Thank the Wikimedia Corporation for an answer. It seems that wikipedia has a lot of sister projects - one of which being WikiBooks. The basic idea behind that is to create free, open-source, readily changeable books on basically everything that has ever existed. Now this idea on it's own is dangerous for me; for a while I've had the itch to write a book on web design, learning HTML, things like that. I've been teaching it, writing tutorials, and tutoring on it for years, so it would be a natural thing to do. Plus I've always wanted to design a book, so it would be fun.

But the really perilous issue here is with a little sub-project called Wikiversity. The idea? University courses in which anyone can enroll for free, read the wikibooks as course material, and learn over the internet.

The part for me that I need to watch out for (and the part that is potentially totally awesome) is that if you prep the course, get the material together, create the curriculum, do all the marking, make the lectures, yadah yadah yadah, then you can sign up to be a professor, too.

Uh, holy shit.

So basically, if I disappear for a couple days/months, chances are I've become a fucking professor.

You remember the Smooth Criminal video where Michael Jackson leans forward and it looks like he's gonna fall over but he doesn't? Yeah, well, he took out a patent for it in 1993. Check out the images.

Also, learn how Microsoft loses millions of dollars because of eight pixels. Nice, guys. Real nice.

And in other more pressing matters, I came to work today and my desk was covered in poo.

...I don't know. I just don't know anymore.

My system is loaded down with spyware. Spybot, HijackThis, Adaware, Windows Defender, and a ream of others have been completely incapable of ridding my system. So I set about on the long, arduous task of backing-up all my files to reformat. Naturally, I placed them on my other hard drive for my big reformat tonight.

I pop in the windows installer disc.

It says "reformat drive C?" and I think "sure! Drive C is my (now empty) drive with windows on it! reformat c!" and it replies "okay! reformatted c!".

Now somewhere in that exchange it decided that instead of C it would just go ahead and reformat my other fucking hard drive.

All my movies for Sticks and Stones, and the footage. The play DVDs I've been working on for over a year. All my fonts. My downloads. My programs. Work for my current clients. Gone.

FUCKING. GONE.

I am having a huge glass of scotch and going to bed. Good fucking night.

A few quick links for everybody, mostly centered on inflating my ego.

First off, I got a flickr account for all the random photography I tend to take. If you're on there, leave a comment or something so I may friend you.

Second, a new version of DocileWalnut.com is in the works... only now with 100% less .com. Right now it's being hosted on Sticks and Stones until I can buy a domain name or some proper space. Check that bad boy out here.

Last, a client I've been working with for a while, Matt Stevens. He does mainly freelance guitar and jazz and I'm not really sure. But anyways, check out that site at MattStevensMusic.com. It's going through live updates, meaning the page isn't quite done. Still, feedback is as good as it gets, so let me know what you guys think. And be honest.

That's all that's fit to report. Word out.

So is it the delightful spectrum of cold medicine in my body talking, or is it snowing?

Winter is an old meme.

Whatever dudes, it's been done.

Okay, so they were larger and contained about 240 pounds more, but still.

Can't wait to see fox make a special called When Good Fanboys Go Bad.

Easily the best payment I've ever recieved from a freelance client.

( Cut for pictar. Work-safe. )

I was searching IMDB for information about the soundtrack of Vanilla Sky, and I came across a link to possibly the greatest video ever.

WARNING! SPOILERS! If you watch this, the movie Vanilla Sky will be completely ruined for you, as this is the last scene of the movie.

If you're hardcore and have already seen the movie and love it as much as I do, clicky clicky for mucho fangasm.

I attempted to learn Objective-C/Cocoa to start trying to write programs for OS X because I am a HUGE NERD. Needless to say, C is evil and Objective C is just plain confusing. A long shot - does anyone know where I can learn it without the urge to yell "WTF?".

Sticks and Stones Peoples: First Date coming along nicely, if you haven't heard any updates already. Look for that to be done in rough in the next few weeks (don't hold me to that kthx).

Apparently the ceiling outside my office is leaking again after that fiasco a while back. Here's hoping I don't drown in feces. (really, a good thing to hope for at all times)

Can I note that lately I hate my job? agemanda, I don't know what the hell is wrong with you, because all I do is data entry and it's absofuckinglutely mind-numbing. Before my bosses (bossii? bossae?) left on vacation to sunny orlando, they basically said "matt, build an inventory/shopping-cart/PHP thinger while we're gone and get all our products in the database."

Yes. All 20,000 items. I'm at 1496. Bossae back sunday.

Fuck.

don't you know I'm numb, man
no I can't feel a thing at all
'cause it's all smiles and business
these days

If you get this, there's no hope for you at all.

It's a bad sign that it made coffee come out of my nose, isn't it?

I had the chance to see Ultraviolet the other night.

( Spoilers, Duh. )

Quite simply put, it’s a movie everyone needs to go see because it is so fucking terrible in every way.

How is this even possible?
While My Ukelele Gently Weeps. Dude makes every single sound you hear with the ukelele alone. No backup tracks or second ukelele. No, motherfucker does it by himself. To be really impressed, you need to watch the whole thing.

Pardon me to be the one to "go there", as it were, but imagine this guy during sex. I'll give you a hint: orgasms.

I let my domain name expire and now it's being squatted by a company called WebContents, Inc.

Does anyone have any experience on recovering this sort of thing? Is pretty much my only option buying it from these assholes at like 10 times the price?

Edit: I love you, Chris.

In a delightful break from the norm, my boss has given me my paycheck a day early. This is in stark contrast to me usually getting them a week or so late, so I'm pretty pleased. With it, I also got my T4. agemanda, remind me to ask the father-unit about taxery.

My first full-time paycheck as well, which will look miiiighty nice sitting in my bank account. This is assuming everyone does their best to keep me away from things like this, this, or - heaven forbid - one of these. I'm counting on you guys. I'm a maniac.

misfocus, you already know what I'm going to say. Aside from the fact that I actually remembered this year. Now, here is cake.

Oh, and I just talked to my boss. Guess where I'm going to be doing photography tomorrow? Oh yes sir. You guessed it. That's fine, though. I watched The Shawshank Redemption last night, and today I'm feeling kinda like Andy Dufresne. Don't ask me to explain that, though.

I know it's wrong for this to arouse me, but golly I just can't help it.