August 29, 2005
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There is good news out there.
Ok, so neither the Butterfly nor Dragonfly situation went remotely amicable. Ok, fine. I have no intention of getting involved with Grasshopper either.
I would tell of a story that takes place in the mall which happened earlier today, but I digress. Suffice it to say that when temptation comes, all I have to do is remind myself of the one great universal truth: WOMEN ARE EVIL.
So the Arte is the English department’s magazine in which they prominently display the artwork and writings of those in the Liberal Arts department. (Actually, it’s open to all students, but seemingly no one seems to care. Again, I digress.)
The person who was doing their layout cut them deal with a publishing house about 45 in Arab. Needless to say, this company either doesn’t know what the hell they’re doing or they quoted the layout editor the screw price. Either way, the demo copy came back and was missing fonts, etc.
What does all this have to do with me? Well, if everything goes as planned, I will layout the Arte for last year (since they had issues with the way it was laid out) as well as do it for this school year. Each year should pay $400. Knock on wood, I would see the money from this past year before Christmas, so it looks like I don’t have to rely strictly on Blue Portal or working 20 hour days. Maybe.
//In the style of Amy, end good news flash amidst news of pending hurricane.
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#include
main()
{
cout << “Goodbye Cruel World!”;
return 0;
}
World’s Shortest Fairy Tale
Once upon a time, a guy asked a girl “Will you marry me?”
The girl said “No.”
And the guy lived happily ever after and went fishing and hunting and drank beer whenever he wanted…….
The End
That was beautiful….
I am deeply offended to find myself blacklisted from Sweet Amy’s Xanga site.
This is clearly a travesty of justice and should not stand.
Ask yourselves, What Would The jesus Do?
Blocking you, is, perhaps, the most sensible thing I think I’ve seen her do, to date. Besides, you’re not offended, remember? I quote you from earlier, “wouldn’t delete a post because one or two people in the audience might find it questionable because the threshold of objectionable content of those few is not representative of the same threshold of the audience as a whole.” Apparently, you’re argment is strong enough to support that you don’t belong anywhere near her readership! I admire your forsight in explaining it to me with much clairity. Think of it as you standing up for your own agruments. Damn that’s forward looking. I want to be with you.
The offense is taken at the presumption that I can’t or won’t make the distinction between the two readerships and post accordingly.
Presumption? Presumption? Dude, read your own posts. She’s not presuming anything! She’s using discernment. It’s brilliant, really.
The H is O.
Have you ever heard the stand up comedy of Bob Sagat? His act is one of the more vulgar and crude acts I’ve ever heard… right up there with Bobby Slayton and Andrew Dice Clay… Do you see that aspect of his comedy when he’s doing Full House or America’s Funniest Home Videos? No. He’s clearly able to make the distinction between the proper and improper forum in choosing how he expresses himself, and the presumption comes in her assuming that I can’t make that distinction.
Who pissed in Tony’s cheerios this morning??
Tony did. Does he have to drink his own urine? Probably not. But its sterile and he likes the taste!
How do I make my font bigger here? Does this thing support html tags?
JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED!
I’m going to host a sit-in on Tom’s blog until this is made right.
If I would remember not to leave eprops on entries I didn’t care for, then maybe it would mean more that I’m giving them for this entry. At any rate, glad to see you’re finally looking a little more optimistic about life.
And I am as ignorant as ever about C++ or Java as I ever have been. Just because I have a programming friend who uses // to end certain thought types and I’ve picked up on his unusual habit means very little.
All of that is aimed at Tomas in regards to his post. It would appear I owe an explanation on other matters, which will appear in my next comment.
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All parties who have ever posted on Tomas’ site were blocked from my site as a precautionary measure some time ago. I wasn’t sure how you all would respond to various remarks I have left here and I didn’t want to take the chance of those carrying over to my readership.
My apologies if this offends anyone or if it was a misjudgement on my part. My presence on xanga is an unstable one anyways, balanced on the whim of a parent, who considers it a waste of time and a detriment to my spiritual well-being…as little water as that excuse will hold in the eyes of most people, it is the reason I tend towards caution on who I allow to comment (if there’s something I can do about it). I wouldn’t want to be forced to shut my site down entirely.
Eric was unblocked last week sometime, when I felt there was no threat from that quarter. I intended to unblock Tony this week sometime, but just hadn’t gotten to it yet. It’s a typical Monday and the insurance business doesn’t stop for me to deal with personal business (besides, I wouldn’t be practicing what I preach, if I took company time to do it).
You are officially unblocked, Tony.
Hurrah! Justice has been served!
*hugs*
On livejournal, you have the option to preview a post prior to allowing it to be posted. Reason 472 why LJ rox0rs harder.
I totally respect your caution and as a show of good faith will unblock you from my livejournal site.
I hereby propose that everyone reading this perform a mass migration to livejournal, which does, as Mer Howton suggests, rock harder. And um, I’ll unblock everyone too. Not that I had anyone blocked, but uh, whatever.
Ok, I didn’t have anyone blocked either. Of course my blog is mostly about unix. Downright boring compared to Tom’s revalations about who his visualizes during his recently admitted proclivities. I mean, DAMN TOM!
Speaking of, I’ve got a new address: http://blog.drax0r.org
Creative, huh?
Please to forgive the shameless self-promotion, Tom.
My sole remaining running server is here http://quark.xirr.com and on it is a link to my livejournal account. ‘Friends’ under LJ accesses a unix community, drax0r, and danzig-deep-fat-fried. The Gallery Server also contains a quick-link to Tom’s site. The Gallery itself is an indepth pictoral journey of the exploits of Tony and I as we try our hand at our own business, the hopes, dreams and fears which follow, as well as every single picture of my children I can fit on there. I also host “The Score Station Gallery” which contains the only known photographic evidence of Tom. If you would like a place to store your pictures to share with your friends online, I would gladly create you an account. Once your pictures are online, apparently, if you have a paid xanga account, they let you do things you can do on a free livejounral account – things like, post pictures! Live long, and prosper.
While you all migrate to LJ, I’ll happily stay here. I have one of those also and get more interaction on xanga. Some of us are just shallow enough to thrive on popularity.
Independant Xanga vs. LJ users study:
There’s a whole lot of information there. For example, the majority of xanga users are Asian, where the majority of lj users are caucasion. More responses to posts come via xanga (as was pointed out above) but a higher intelligence of people use lj. From the entire study done, by far my favorite excerpt has to be this one:
Here is one example of a Xanga posting:
y does senior year hafta be so STRESSFUL?
i gueSS this wEEk in particular sEEms a bit fast paced w/the concert being this wEEkend, the AP exam & the UH placement test. got home from dreSS rehearsal not 2 long ago…ugh. and im sure u could say that other things have bEEn on my mind… costumes…riBBon…skOOl…useleSS high skOOl DRAMA…world lit…how 2 say “no”…him…MOM…bLah! im about 2 xplode here. but i must admit that im preTTy stoked 4 the concert. i beTTer sEE aLL of you there…erick…you…and my name on your chests aLL right, that’s aLL 4 now friends, gOOd nite, & take care ok?
Which, IMHO, speaks entirely for itself.
Ha, ha, ha… You have a point, Eric, in that a large percentage of xanga users are melodramatic teens who find it entertaining to share their feelings on life with the world. I guess I’m part of a rare clique of bloggers who attempt to be a step above that, and show a slight interest in mastering English through their writings. It helps that there are over 60 of us who went to school together last year and formed a comraderie during those months.
On a side note, I see you’ve done some visiting on my site…reading back a few pages. Do I have tendencies towards the “xanga stereotype?” I’ve always wondered.
Of course not.
That’s good to know.
More responses to posts come via xanga
Actually, I did have that one thread that hit 45 comments as well, but as I recall, that was pretty much just a flame war between Eric, Danzig, and I.
Unknown User
There is no user hisgirl84 at LiveJournal.com.
That would be because I’m under a different name. Try username missamy84.
Sorry, user missamy84 does not list you as a friend, and they’ve set the “friends only” option for who can reply to their journal.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Do you want to be added as a friend? Or maybe I’ll just go back in and make it public again. Don’t remember why I had it set up on friends only in the first place.
Public is nice, but otherwise, the ability to post by whatever means is desirable.
As you can see, I made it public. Though there isn’t anything worth shouting about over there. I rarely use it for anything but an occasional mirror post from my xanga. Maybe if I had an interested audience, I’d try to be more creative.
Well you now have an interested audience.
Or at least an interesting audience…
Hmm…guess we’ll have to see what comes of it then.
I added you as a ‘friend’ so I can more easily keep tabs on your updates!
Amy, surely you wern’t referring to me when you wrote this:
a large percentage of xanga users are melodramatic teens who find it entertaining to share their feelings on life with the world.
Hmmm, sounds like you Tom.
Do you THINK I was, Tom? If the shoe fits….
I didn’t think that Amy was refering to Tom when she wrote that, but I must admit that my first thought was of Tom when I read it.
It’s like xanga was created for Tom.
Is Tom an asian teenager seeking to confirm his identity by expressing his feelings and having them validatad by his peers as might be gleaned by the above referenced study?
No, but he’s young and struggling with his feelings and using a public forum as a sounding board. The trademark of xanga outside of being a nearly illiterate Asian teen on crack.
Aah, the Chibo Mato demographic.
hey Tony,
When I first read it, I didn’t think she had me in mind, but I was the first person that I thought of too.
LOL!
Yeah. If I had written it, it would have been a subtle shot at you, that’s for sure.
How ironic…it wasn’t written with him in mind, but he’s the first one that comes to everyone’s mind.
If it looks like a duck, and smells like a duck, then it must be a duck.
What do ducks smell like exactly, Tony?
Dude, if you’ve never smelled a duck, you’re missing out.
Let me take you out to the Chinese place just down the street before you go, they make an awesome Peking duck.
Earlier in this thread, ehowton wrote:
On livejournal, you have the option to preview a post prior to allowing it to be posted.
While this is technically true, I submit that this is a fairly extreme measure to take as it disrupts the free flow of information and should be used very sparingly so as to not restrict the lines of communication.
I just thought I’d mention it…
hey Tony,
Wouldn’t that code read something more along the lines of this:
#include < iostream >
using namespace std;
int main()
{
cout << “Goodbye cruel world” << endl;
return 0;
}
As you can see, there were several errors that you made.
First, you didn’t include anything. This will of course create a compiler error as well as not give you anything to link to. Further errors will result from this mistake when you reach the cout line since cout would technically not be defined.
For what it’s worth, unless you are using the old libraries, cout is wrapped in a namespace. Thus, your code would have issued another error, unless you had done an old style include.
I know that the shell scripting crap Howton passes off for programming dulls one’s mind when it comes to the ability to write graceful, correct code, but such is the way of SysAdmins.
Tony, was that a hint that I should change my previewing option?
Tom,
Yes, I actually never played with C++ at all, I just coppied someone else’s Hello, World and changed the output text. Then the html parser ate my include anyway. I’m not overly concerned with it, I only mentioned it because you were making comments about Amy’s C++ style comments.
Amy,
I always knew you were a smart girl.
My life holds new meaning. Tony thinks I’m smart.
And he thinks your sarcastic, as well.
You don’t say?
No, I did, just above your last comment. See? Look up, right next to the big purple dude.
If this were LiveJournal, I would be able to direct-link to the comment. Just sayin’…
I’ve seen that done on xanga too…I just don’t know how to do it.
I live and breathe sarcasm. Which is why I either have really good friends or I have really bad enemies.
Living and breathing too much sarcasm is known by the state of California to cause cancer in lab rats.
Hrm, maybe that’s Saccharin, nevermind.
Yannow Amy,
Your comment about maledramatic youths also fits you, seeing as you are always hungry for comments. Did you read the study that Eric posted?
Not the way you spelled it, it doesn’t. “maledramatic”–I read it to only apply to you and your kind.
And just because I thrive on popularity does not immediately place me in the same category as the rest of the drama kings and queens of xanga. I work to gain my audience through creative writing, sarcastic humor and an occasional picture or two to keep them coming back. AND I spend literal hours a week commenting on their sites, so they don’t feel it’s a one-way friendship. I try to give them something worth reading that will either make them think or relieve a stressful day through laughs.
That’s at least 10 times more thought than the “average” poster will ever give to his/her blog.
Charlton Heston won 2nd place Golden Laurel award for best Male Dramaic performance for Ben Hur in 1960.
Perhaps that’s what Tom was refering to?
And that’s a word?
Not that I know of, but you’re the one well versed in deciphering unknown dialects.
All right. Just checking to make sure my vocabulary wasn’t short a word and that the dictionary wasn’t lying to me.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say that I am qualified to be the final authority on the validity of either your vocabulary or your dictionary, but sometimes Tom will say something that requires snozzlegozzling just to make sure.
yannow, we could do Java if it is more suited to your pallate
import javax.swing.*;
public class GoodByeCruelWorld{
public static void main(String[] args) {
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, “Goodbye Cruel World!”, “MESSAGE FROM ME TO THE WORLD”, JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);
System.exit(0);
}
}
For as much crap as you give shell scripting, I must say your java and C++ sure do look overly complex and ugly.
Bourne shell:
echo ‘Goodbye Cruel World!’
The lightbulb just came on as to why there are so many Asian chicks on Xanga. Rock on. Xanga r0x3r$
what about Perl?
#! /usr/bin/perl
print “Goodbye Cruel World”;
Thanks for sharing.
Yeah, perl pwnz
you’re much welcome
say, let’s try LISP next
(princ “Hello, world!”)
sweetness! eGayProps to you.
I also noticed that you have hung around Howton too long and your optimistic side is showing. No more “Goodbye Cold Cruel World?”
The whole Goodbye Cruel World thing was becoming a bit of a downer. I thought I would try to brighten the place up a bit…
wow! May I reccommend you take some Prozac. This is too much of a change at once. But we do thank you for the offer.
I’ll stick with my otherwise perscribed cocktail, thank you. It’s working wonders.
Can I have a martini instead?
Instead my ass, in addition to is my prefered method.
I do stand corrected, and how nice of a gentleman to do so in a genteel way.
More of one leads to less of the other.
Tis true, but that’s what friends are for. To get drunk with. And pick up chicks and…oh for God’s sake, let’s just get drunk.
Sounds like a plan. I’ll get the bourbon.
Did we say if we were bringing chicks to the party? Surely my friend Jack is invited.
Wait, I’m confused. Is your friend Jack a chick?
Anyway, given that we’re seperated by thousands of miles of hurricane swept countryside, I’m thinking that this will have to be a virtual party and we’ll have to provide our own individual guests RL…
I was talking about my friend Jack Daniels. Perhaps we should invite Amy, what do you think? *devilish grin*
First of all, I’m impressed with the fact that you’re one of the few people I know that hasn’t confused Jack Danials with bourbon. Despite their similarities in almost every regard, JD is TN whisky and bourbon, by law, can only be made in KY.
Secondly, and this is only a guess, but geography aside, I’m thinking this party wouldn’t exactly be Amy’s scene.
Yes, I am well versed in the fact that Jack is whisky. and I do believe that you are right in that Amy probably won’t feel at home in our little virtual party, but by the same tolken I won’t be unsocialble.
So back to the chick question.
The point was that Jack is whisky but not bourbon. Bourbon is also whisky.
I would certainly be the best possible host I could be as well, but I suspect the environment wouldn’t be… comfortable.
As to the chick question, perhaps this would be a good oppertunity to contact one of your budding insect collection?
Here too, we can’t hide the fact that WOMEN ARE EVIL!!!
I mean, daymn! Comparing them to insects, that is low.
You’re the one who came up with insect themed codewords, I merely classified them as such as a group as per your *fly theme.
fly theme? this needs to be investigated more closely. Perhaps a Freudian slip? Any thoughts welcome.
Dragonfly, Butterfly, Grasshopperfly… duh!
Grasshopperfly? hmmmmmmmmmm
I wonder if the analogy would work better if I compared myself to a bullfrog?
Perhaps you’ve just got a Jeff Goldbloom fixation?
What does he got to do with anything other than the fact that he r0x3r3d in Jurassic Park?
Duh!
oh what an ass am I!
I’ve often wondered that myself.
were you meaing that you wonder about me or that you wonder about yourself? I’m confused
Don’t worry about it. You’re easily confused.
I see we skirted asnwering the question.
Its only because I don’t want to admit that what I really meant is that I stay up late at night wondering about what kind of ass you have. G’night.
that’s sick.
Oh well, off to the Jack. Actually, I prefer wine to whisky, but no matter.
I notice that your parting comment last night indicated that you were ‘off to the jack’ — can we presume that you were feeling devious and it was another dragonfly night?
OMSJ…
Yo E-dog,
What does your post stand for?
“Oh My Sweet (the) Jesus”
No it did not. In fact, while we were having fun playing on my blog, I was editing video which is what I will be doing for the next three hours. In fact, I stayed up till 3 editing. So there.
BTW, there will be no more insects in my career. I am through dealing with women.
Is it not better to have loved and lost than to have not loved at all?
Alas, it appears a career in entomology was not in the cards for our poor Tomas.
maybe. But I’m tired of loosing. Besides, all that they do is distract me from what’s important: my work. It’s not like I have anything really going right now, but the point is it takes time. And with gas prices continuing to go up, I can’t afford to be taking someone out to eat every other day.
I admit to the fact that I am a looser and will never have a fruitful relationship with a woman. As much as I might whine about it, it is more important for me to make a career in either film or programming, which, I might add, I’m steadily loosing intrest in the one and the other is a tough nut to crack.
Don’t you think he should master etymology first?
What’s a “looser?”
Leave it to Tom to bemoan the correlation between the price of gas and the price of ass.
You used too many sylables, Tony.
Stop being maledramatic, Eric.
eGayProps AND kudos to Tony for noting my acute, on the fly analysis.
Uh…I think he’s mocking you dude.
but who gets the last laugh?
As long as you continue bemoaning your inability to get and keep a girl, you ARE hopeless.
Oh, and while I’m thinking of it, just how low could this girl I remind you of have sunk to shock you? You used to tell me about her, so I’m just a little curious.
but who gets the last laugh?
Uh, with that attitude, pretty much anyone but you, dude.
But I’m laughing now.
Amy, I thought I told you about this
Sucking all the Nitrous Oxide out of Whipped Cream cans doesn’t count, Tom.
wher’d that come from?
Ususlly the grocery store?
I posted in my blog for a change.
You get a cookie!
I accept all the browser cookies from livejournal.
cookies are evil. No. God no. Javascript is ruinging my Windoze.
http://xanga.com/ehowton <– I AM!
Hideous being
Hiding in the shadow
Stay where you are!
Frighening man-beast
Claims a heart of gold
Stay where you are!
There is no hope for blossom
It is but a dream
Stay where you are!
Poets have said love is undying
They were all lying
Stay where you are!
Howton, don’t quit your day job.
Stay where you are!
*sigh* Xanga and LJ just both all of a sudden stopped magically producing text for me to make smartass comments to.
I’m an attention whore too, damnit!
*Tony lights a scented candle, pours a glass of wine and takes a bubble bath to smooth jazz*
I want a glass of wine. And what about a cigar too boot?
too boot?
I agree, we need more of a dress loafer feel in here.
ha ha!