While I didn't know her personally, today is the birthday of a girl that goes to my school, whom I passed in the hall every day, whose face I knew, someone that was always smiling and cheerful. She passed last month. R.I.P. Bri, you will be missed.
I have uploaded the short, Passwords and Counter Signs, to the blog. It comes in now as chapter 11, and tells the tale of a Jekotian spy within an Imperial intelligence agency.
I moved over the weekend, from an apartment to a house. Not fun. But I have a nice room. But I have no internet or TV at home D: Those might take a while to get the cable lines installed :( Old house is old.
As promised, here is my humorous, Zero Punctuation-style short essay.
“The King of Beasts” Journal Response
Based on my own knowledge, and the story, I think that man is indeed destined to be, if not already, the deadliest predator. By nature, man is among the weaker creatures on the planet, but intelligence and technological developments have more than made up for that. Mankind stands as the most destructive sentient force on the planet. The human race can be accredited for the extinction of the dodo which was hunted mainly BECAUSE IT WAS CONSIDERED STUPID (it was unaccustomed to humans so it would normally walk towards them out of curiosity before being killed); the meat tasted awful and there were many other species on the island so there was no reason to hunt it for food. Wow. We killed a harmless bird BECAUSE IT DIDNT KNOW WHAT A HUMAN WAS. The American Bison were on the brink of extinction, because large portions of the human race WERE TOO LAZY TO USE, PREPARE AND EAT THE ENTIRE THING, deciding to KILL MORE SO THERE WAS LESS CLEANING AND PREPARING, before ranchers in the southern USA started breeding purebred bison. There was countless other species likely forgotten, that have been DRIVEN TO EXTINCTION BY THE IGNORANCE OF THE HUMAN RACE. And then there’s religion. People that think with their god instead of their BRAIN, making it their life goal to destroy a nation or group of people BECAUSE AN ANCIENT BLOODY BOOK THAT NO ONE ALIVE CAN PROPERLY TRANSLATE SAYS SO. Just because your books say the eagle is a symbol of evil DOESN’T MEAN YOU SHOULD KILL THOUSANDS OF INNOCENTS. Sorry, am I shouting too much? This topic, essentially the incompetence of the human race, makes me as sarcastic and angry as Jonathan Yahtzee*. In a matter of minutes, a decision could be passed THAT RESULTS IN THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF AN ENTIRE CONTINENT. Thankfully we haven’t reached global thermonuclear war. Yet. It’s only a matter of time before the religious fanatics START BUILDING NUKES, or piss off the USA enough for an ‘accidental’ nuclear launch. Here’s an interesting fact: the USA has 14 submarines EACH ARMED WITH 24 NUCLEAR MISSILES, PATROLLING NEARLY THE ENTIRE WORLD. That’s around HALF of the USA’s nuclear arsenal READY TO LAUNCH AT A MOMENTS NOTICE. And to think they complain when Iran GETS A STICK OF URANIUM. So, onto the other rant!
At this point, the only way for the human race to stop being highly destructive pricks, short of mass suicide, would be to get every weapon on Earth and use an intergalactic cruise missile to send it all flying into the sun. Sadly this isn’t likely because every person with a weapon, or that wants one, is going to start complaining about rights violations. And then there’s the fuel consumption of such a missile. Like that won’t drive gas prices even higher. At this point I don’t think even an ICE AGE could stop us. Alternatively we could just sit down, talk, AND LEARN TO GET ALONG. Unfortunately, I don’t think that is likely to happen either, due to most people’s INTOLLERENCE OF DIFFERENCE. The only real shred of hope is that a contained nuclear war occurs and only the nations obsessed with killing us all actually get nuked. On second thought, THAT WON’T WORK, because the Russians are just itching to exercise their nuclear trigger fingers on the USA. Yea, we’re screwed. If we’re lucky, global warming will kill us first. Hell of a lot better than radiation poisoning.
*http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation Pick one, any one, you’ll see what I mean soon enough.
“The King of Beasts” Journal Response
Based on my own knowledge, and the story, I think that man is indeed destined to be, if not already, the deadliest predator. By nature, man is among the weaker creatures on the planet, but intelligence and technological developments have more than made up for that. Mankind stands as the most destructive sentient force on the planet. The human race can be accredited for the extinction of the dodo which was hunted mainly BECAUSE IT WAS CONSIDERED STUPID (it was unaccustomed to humans so it would normally walk towards them out of curiosity before being killed); the meat tasted awful and there were many other species on the island so there was no reason to hunt it for food. Wow. We killed a harmless bird BECAUSE IT DIDNT KNOW WHAT A HUMAN WAS. The American Bison were on the brink of extinction, because large portions of the human race WERE TOO LAZY TO USE, PREPARE AND EAT THE ENTIRE THING, deciding to KILL MORE SO THERE WAS LESS CLEANING AND PREPARING, before ranchers in the southern USA started breeding purebred bison. There was countless other species likely forgotten, that have been DRIVEN TO EXTINCTION BY THE IGNORANCE OF THE HUMAN RACE. And then there’s religion. People that think with their god instead of their BRAIN, making it their life goal to destroy a nation or group of people BECAUSE AN ANCIENT BLOODY BOOK THAT NO ONE ALIVE CAN PROPERLY TRANSLATE SAYS SO. Just because your books say the eagle is a symbol of evil DOESN’T MEAN YOU SHOULD KILL THOUSANDS OF INNOCENTS. Sorry, am I shouting too much? This topic, essentially the incompetence of the human race, makes me as sarcastic and angry as Jonathan Yahtzee*. In a matter of minutes, a decision could be passed THAT RESULTS IN THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF AN ENTIRE CONTINENT. Thankfully we haven’t reached global thermonuclear war. Yet. It’s only a matter of time before the religious fanatics START BUILDING NUKES, or piss off the USA enough for an ‘accidental’ nuclear launch. Here’s an interesting fact: the USA has 14 submarines EACH ARMED WITH 24 NUCLEAR MISSILES, PATROLLING NEARLY THE ENTIRE WORLD. That’s around HALF of the USA’s nuclear arsenal READY TO LAUNCH AT A MOMENTS NOTICE. And to think they complain when Iran GETS A STICK OF URANIUM. So, onto the other rant!
At this point, the only way for the human race to stop being highly destructive pricks, short of mass suicide, would be to get every weapon on Earth and use an intergalactic cruise missile to send it all flying into the sun. Sadly this isn’t likely because every person with a weapon, or that wants one, is going to start complaining about rights violations. And then there’s the fuel consumption of such a missile. Like that won’t drive gas prices even higher. At this point I don’t think even an ICE AGE could stop us. Alternatively we could just sit down, talk, AND LEARN TO GET ALONG. Unfortunately, I don’t think that is likely to happen either, due to most people’s INTOLLERENCE OF DIFFERENCE. The only real shred of hope is that a contained nuclear war occurs and only the nations obsessed with killing us all actually get nuked. On second thought, THAT WON’T WORK, because the Russians are just itching to exercise their nuclear trigger fingers on the USA. Yea, we’re screwed. If we’re lucky, global warming will kill us first. Hell of a lot better than radiation poisoning.
*http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation Pick one, any one, you’ll see what I mean soon enough.
First off, this is a test of the WordTwit plugin I installed. This post should show up in my Twitter feed, automatically, shortly after I click Publish. May as well add some more stuff. Hmm, lets see…
My novel is coming along steadily. There has been nothing new because I have gone back to update everything for story consistency after some changes. I will post my first short, Passwords and Countersigns, in the coming week, as well as a humorous Zero Punctuation style essay I wrote last spring.
I’m helping head up this years Haunted House at BCHS. The ideas are pretty damn good for once, instead of previous years generic crap. The main issue is motivating the grade 11 portion of the class. They are lazy. Whips and tazers may come into play.
Also, today, I discovered the true idiocy of one of my classmates. Last week, I spent roughly 10 hours working on a laptop to prepare the HDD for cloning. Today, he dropped the finished drive. It’s dead. I have to start over, and now we’re down a drive. For his own safety he is banned from handling ‘master’ drives. Next time he does this I will hurt him. With a cheese grater.
I’m moving soon. To be precise, on October the 17th. And I’ll live closer to the chick I like and that likes me back \o/
To the 3 people that I like to believe read this, peace out.
It’s official, I’ve lost my photo library, AND 2 chapters for my novel. I am so pissed off at Mozy right now, it decided to backup NONE of my .doc files when I explicitly had it include them all. I hate Mozy so much now that I refuse to link to in to avoid anyone downloading that load of shit.
Extrems, out of incredible boredom, created my anti-blog. In summary, it’s a copy+paste of my blog, but he rewords some parts to make them funny.
Due to the fail mentioned in the previous post, I have lost all my photos. Don’t expect a very active photoblog since I now have no archive to go through. On the + side, I’m now running Windows 7 RC as my one and only OS on my laptop, it has the whole drive available. Removing the dualboot to Vista is what lead to everything breaking in the first place. Thank god I had an older backup made by Windows. However, I will NEVER forgive Microsoft for the shitty backup software. Within my folder selections it SELECTIVELY backed up my files. It didn’t get my no-install app collection because they were executables. It didn’t get my photos because they were archived in a RAR to save space. I even told the software to include EVERYTHING when I made the backup. Sigh, maybe some people I know have some of my pics…
That’s the sound of fail. sudo rm -r to be exact. Today I accidentially deleted almost all of my personal files. Blog be dead till I’m back up and running.
I am now running the Windows 7 RC as my primary OS. It is awesome, I love it. If it was a girl I would have sex with it. There is no one thing that makes it awesome, it is many smaller things that stack together to greatly improve things.
Update: I am now in the process of transferring my old data to my 7 partition, this is my new primary OS. Same drive transfers are so slow :(
A top-down scrolling shooter where the player controls a tank and waves of enemies come at them from the top of the screen. The core game is mostly complete, except for win/loss conditions. As such, this is an incomplete alpha.
Download Game Files (15.4mb) - Download Source Files (25.0mb)
After long last, I have restored the blog and more! I personally love the theme, comments would be appreciated! I’ve added in all my animation, code, and written work into the category system, and I plan to add a few of my humourous essays.
On a more personal note, I graduated from highschool this night. I am venturing into a co-op at theatre Aquarius, and return for a 13th year in the fall where I will take courses to meet university requirements. After that, I’m hoping to be accepted into Ryerson for Technical Theatre Production.
