MegaHAL: A sword is an animal related to the muzzle of a firearm.
User: A sword can bite your face.
MegaHAL: My dick is a sword with a keyboard and bellows.
User: Musical, user-accesible, and a tool for self-defense. You must be
User: pleased.

I have always thought, and I still do, that all English teachers are absofuckinglutely insane. I don't know if it's because you have to be crazy to want to do the job, or if the job makes you crazy, but they all have problems. Their main offense seems to be a proclivity towards overanalyzing things. I don't mean thinking about somebody's speech for ten minutes too long, I mean reading a play, and then spending 20 minutes of class time discussing why the author named the town the play takes place in what he named it. Because that's exactly what my teacher did yesterday.
We are reading the play Inherit the Wind in class. The town the play takes place in is called Hillsboro. Why might the author have named the town this? Well, maybe he likes the name. Maybe he picked it at random. If there was some reasoning behind it maybe he picked it because it gives a general impression of smallness. If he's a silly goose and he spends entirely too much thinking about stupid shit he named it that because the inhabitants of the town are kind of ignorant and silly, like hillbillies. And lot's of towns end with boro. Or, maybe he added boro because the longer version would be borough which means small. And it's a small town. Right... Anyway even if that's why he named it that there's no reason for us to spend 20 retarded minutes talking about it.
Then there's today. Our teacher told us that the most important part of a play was the stage notes. Then proceeded to mention that was of course not including dialog or characters. So what exactly is it including other than stage notes? But that's beside the point. She split us up into 2 person groups and gave each group a character from the play. Our assignment was to read only the stage notes and then fill out these three categories on our character: Physical, Personality, and Beliefs. Now explain to me how I'm supposed to glean a man's beliefs from (shrugs). WTF.
So we get to work and after about 15 or 20 minutes she asks for a volunteer to go first and say what they found. Before the volunteer even starts my teacher goes ahead and reads and interprets the first large section of stage directions concerning Rachel, which is the volunteer's character. This section contains all of the information about Rachel's physical appearance so the volunteer has to just skip that section. On to personality. The volunteer claims that Rachel is shy. My teacher questions this. She asks the volunteer to defend herself. Apparently said volunteer did not understand the assignment as she tries to use little snippets of speech in her explanation. So my teacher explains the assignment to her again. Volunteer now searches for something proving Rachel is shy. What does she come up with? (Rachel sits down on a stiff wooden chair in the office) Obviously this has nothing to do with being shy, volunteer just is being rushed and doesn't know what to say. So my teacher looks for a hidden meaning in this direction anyway. She begins talking about the position she would be likely to assume in the chair and if that has anything to do with shyness. It doesn't. She brings up the fact that Rachel is a preacher's daughter. Then her eyes light up. She asks the class where else are there stiff wooden seats? I groan and raise my hand, "Church..." She says, "Yes Church!" So somehow comes to the conclusion that what the author is trying to say is that Rachel is very used to sitting on stiff wooden pews in church and so when she is uncomfortable, i.e. nervous because she is shy, she seeks out a stiff wooden chair as comfort.
WTF!? My interpretation? The chairs in the office are stiff and wooden. She sits down. Period. All the chairs in the office are made of stiff wood, it's fucking hot outside, she is tired and wants to sit down, any fucking chair she sits her ass down in is going to be stiff and wooden! It has no hidden meaning!! Thusly, English teachers are crazy and I pray for the day when colleges stop requiring four years of English in high school.

Okay, I've heard this guy's name mentioned a couple times now like I'm supposed to know who he is. I think I better find out.

MegaHAL: Because this method of communication is so often.
User: Stupid? Repetitive? Sucky? Silly? Funny? Markedly holding the
User: attributes of suckitude while still maintaining it's mysterious
User: ability to exude pumpitude? What?

MegaHAL: Alexander graham bell was a rat bastard.
User: No shit, Edison invented the telephone.
MegaHAL: Thomas alva edison was an american scientist. He invented the
MegaHAL: telephone.
User: Right.

I seem to have forgot to post a MegaHAL quote for saturday...or monday...so. I'll get right on that.

Sometimes this school network internet gets sooooooo slow.

Dave Mirra got 6th in the BMX Park championship at the X-Games. He's recieved the gold for the last five years. Too bad.

MegaHAL: Hal is a sticky substance.
User: i got your sticky substance right here...
MegaHAL: My dick is a sticky substance.
User: it shouldn't BE a sticky substance

MegaHAL: I wish that i could tell you, but you are not a computer
MegaHAL: program like the rest of them.
User: The rest of who?
MegaHAL: The rest of them.
User: WHo is them?
MegaHAL: Galileo was an american statesman and scientist.
User: Okay, who else?

We were watching rugby on tv today. Rugby is awesome. I wanna play Rugby. I bet it would have been even more awesome if we knew what in God's name was going on. I think we figured out how they score though...

MegaHAL: A bayonet is a tree native to australia where it is a question
MegaHAL: designed to test ingenuity or give amusement.
User: shut up
MegaHAL: Shut your hole.
User: shut up
MegaHAL: Because your mother decided to have a nice warm glass of shut
MegaHAL: the hell up.
User: shut up
MegaHAL: Shut up or i'll kill you and your own worst enemy share.
User: i'll kill your puppy

Okay. So today I got the second issue of PSM since the last one I paid for. It's their "50th Issue Spectacular". Contained within it's pages is a horrible atrocity called "The PSone All-Time Top 50". I'm afraid for their souls.
Here's the top 10:

1)	Metal Gear Solid
	I've never played it but I hear it's a great game. Whatever.
2)	Ape Escape
	WTF! I played this game when it was new. It was one of the first playstation games I had ever played. Most of my previous video game experience was with an NES. I hated this smoking pile of dung. I played it for like 5 minutes and then I went, "This is the most retarded thing I have ever played. Why am I still doing this?" At that point I stopped. How the hell did this get #2? Sure it was innovative in it's use of the analog sticks, but they stated right at the begining of the article, "We based our picks purely on game quality, not nostalgia or how innovative the game was when it first came out." WTF.
3)	Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
	Like Metal Gear Solid I have never played this game, but I hear it is good. However. I don't hear it's that good. Certainly not #3 good, especially as #2 and #1 are both also action titles.
4)	Resident Evil 2
	There are 3 Resident Evil games on the list, and 3 more other survival horror games. It's my personal opinion these games blow ass of the highest order, so I don't really have much to say about whether they should be on the list or not, as a lot of people seem to like them. I do however say that these games are all entirely too similar to each other for there to be 6 of the fuckers.
5)	Gran Turismo 2
	This game stank like rotting donkey crap compared to Gran Turismo. At least that's what Scott says. And Scott can play a racing game like nobody's business. That boy loves his racing games, he's spent over an hour at Loco Joe's playing only one game before I believe: one of the Test Drive: Off Road titles. If he says it's a bad racing game, I believe him. Besides, this game only received 4.5(out of 5). There's a whole lot more games that scored better than that. Such as...hey, Gran Turismo.
6)	Final Fantasy IX
	Finally something worthwhile. Too bad it's Final Fantasy IX. I'll have more to say on this later.
7)	Street Fighter Alpha 3
	A fighting game. A 2D fighting game. A 2D fighting game that I've heard multiple disparaging remarks about. A 2D fighting game that I've heard multiple disparaging remarks about that somehow got to be #7.
8)	Ridge Racer Type 4
	Racing. I don't have much to say. I don't think it should be in the top 10, but I'm not exactly fiery about it.
9)	Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
	9! Where do they get off dropping THPS2 all the way down at 9. Jeez. I'm with GameInformer. They gave this game a perfect 10. Not something they do often. It's certainly a hell of a lot better than "Gran Turismo 2".
10)	Crash Bandicoot: Warped
	And, finally, another stupid action/platform title. I feel like I'm gonna be sick.

So there's the top 10. A joke already. Now let me tell you about all the RPGs they felt they should include:

6)	Final Fantasy IX
	This is a nice game and all...but 6? I and others felt that this game was basically a rip of FF7. It was..let's say "strikingly"..familiar to 7. The main thing that seemed to be missing was what was probably FF7's greatest aspect. The materia system. I think this was a bad choice, and would like to know what the boys at PSM are smoking.
12)	Final Fantasy VII
	I think that FF7 probably should have switched spots with 9. It was a great game that I've beat multiple times for the sheer joy of it. Plus the battles are fun and don't make you feel like your fighters are moving so slow they should have walkers.
13)	Suikoden II
	Haven't played it. Heard it's cool. I've planned on buying it before but couldn't find it. Probably where it belongs.
19)	Final Fantasy Tactics
	Say hello to Mr. Number One. This game tops them all. Nothing comes close in fun, awe, wonder, great changes to the classic RPG battle system, amazing plot, battle system, replayability, fun little secrets, battle system, rockin' job class fun, and the BATTLE SYSTEM. Not to mention the wondrously eye-pleasing graphics and the music that is worth listening to without the game. This game is the king of them all and should be a huge 18 spaces higher.
20)	Xenogears
	I hear this game is awesome. Almost as awesome as FFT. Brad thinks it rocks. Everyone else thinks it rocks. Apparently PSM doesn't think it rocks quite as much as the rest of us.
21)	Final Fantasy VIII
	Sure whatever.
31)	Grandia
	Wasn't this a Genesis game? Oh well, whatever. I've heard people say this is the greatest RPG ever, so I'm sure it should be on the list. Maybe it should even be higher, I don't know.
33)	Chrono Cross
	This game was awesome according to most people. Probably more than #30 awesome, but maybe not. It doesn't sound particularly appealing to me compared to some of my other choices anyways.
35	Breathe of Fire IV
	This is about right.
40)	Legend of Dragoon
	Everyone seems to think this game sucks. I can't even find a listing of PSM reviewing it. How'd it get where it is? I haven't played it, so maybe I need to ask the PSM staff.

Now I know what you're all thinking. I'm thinking it too....where the hell is Vagrant Story!? It's really not on the list. I checked three times. When I saw they were doing a top 50 I assumed I would be seeing Vagrant Story without even really thinking it, actually my second thought(after I wonder where these bastards put Tactics?) was "I wonder where these bastards put Vagrant Story?" I didn't see it on the first page with the bottom 25, but I wasn't really bothered. I didn't see it on the next page which goes up to 11, and I was a little surprised, I turned to the next page which goes up to 4 and I went "Uh Oh. It wouldn't be in the top 3 would it?" I turned the page and saw 2 and 3 and I said, "Holy Fuck, what's going on?" I immediately flipped to the last one and saw MGS staring at me and I yelled, "What the hell?" So, now I have another reason to continue not paying for a new subscription to PSM and wondering why they keep sending me issues.

Davmandu spouted this nonsense at 16:38

I'm on a different computer than usual, this is the one at school. For some reason every once and a while the Y!G thing pops up a little right of where it needs to be so there is a little horizontal scroll. Yet, other times it pops up in the right spot and everything is dandy once I reload. It seems to me that Y!G needs a kick in the pants for installing that thing, especially since it drops the word evaluation of my html by an online evaluator all by itself. Fair my ass. Sigh.

Alright, I figured out what was wrong with the lists page. When I switched formats I copied and pasted the content and I ended up forgetting to close not only the table that the last entry was in, but the row and the cell. Geez. Once I closed those everything started working fine. Now, for possibly the first time ever, my site is doing just what it is supposed to be doing. <Noisemakers and other assorted new years sounds> yay! </Noisemakers and other assorted new years sounds>

MegaHAL: My dick is a japanese sword used by samurai.
User: Are these samurai men?
MegaHAL: I never make mistakes! Syntax error in line 10. Redo from
MegaHAL: start.
User: I'll take that as a yes.
MegaHAL: No no no... Yes!
User: That's just disgusting.

I'm up to track 8 in Lateralus. Pumping right along. Started school today. Blah. I also 'started' web design class. Because it is in the Central Campus part of the building, not the Central Academy part, they don't assume everyone is smart enough to read and understand rules by themselves so we had to sit through the teacher reading and explaining the entire set of rules for Central Campus and the rules for her classroom and stories that were examples of these rules and emergency sheets and letters to our parents and on and on for TWO HOURS! Holy Crap. My other classes went fine I suppose. Of course I can't ever remember my backpack being heavier than it was today. I handed it to Liz and all she could was make it a controlled descent, much less pick it up. Lunch was also kind of silly. There were posters all over the walls proudly proclaiming that our lunch numbers (I don't know about you but in our district we have these little punch button code thingies that we enter numbers in to access our lunch account. anyway) were different than last year. They failed to mention how we were supposed to find out our new ones. Thankfully the large crowds of people around tables with teachers at them were a good clue. I managed to get my number only to find a huge line for the al a carte. Damn. I waited for about 5 minutes then went and convinced somebody to give me their big cookie and a bag and a half of teddy grahams. It turned out that the wait in that line was over half an hour. Geez.

I'm feeding my MegaHAL random bits of info including excerpts from the Matrix script and Alex Chiu's nonsense. Yay!

MegaHAL: Hal is a light, portable screen usually circular and supported
MegaHAL: on a central stick.
User: Umbrella.
MegaHAL: An umbrella is a small portable musical instrument with a
MegaHAL: keyboard and bellows.
User: Accordian.
MegaHAL: Leonardo da vinci was an american pioneer of the relationship
MegaHAL: between an organism and its environment.
User: Italian.
MegaHAL: Orville wright was an italian scientist. He invented the
MegaHAL: telephone whilst working at a school for teachers of the
MegaHAL: alimentary canal is the outer layer of an idiot it's not funny!
User: Alexander Graham Bell
MegaHAL: Alexander graham bell was a great ancient greek mathematician.
User: Euclid
MegaHAL: Euclid was a greek mathematician. His book the elements of
MegaHAL: geometry set down how geometry was to be obsessed with that!
User: Holy Shit. You're right.

My pirate name is apparently Mad Davy Kidd. Here's my little description:Every pirate is a little bit crazy. You, though, are more than just a little bit. Even though you're not always the traditional swaggering gallant, your steadiness and planning make you a fine, reliable pirate. Arr!

Oh boy.

Boding aside, all the pages are pretty much fine. 'Cept for the lists page. The lists page has a problem. The lists page thinks it's special. It believes that somehow the rules don't apply to it. Obviously it is mistaken. This site is one of the top web sites I've ever made because every single page understands that they are a part of a whole. Thus, if a page has a problem, the site has a problem. The time has come to make a choice, lists page. Either you choose to be at your desk taking up the proper amount of space from this day forth, or you choose to find yourself another job. Do I make myself clear?

That went smoothly. Now time for format switching. Wish me lick..er, luck. This doesn't bode well...

By the way. The Salival lyrics are up and I'm updating all the other ones to account for corrections I've made.

Geez. I think I have room for like three letters left. Oh well. It fit, that's what's important. I'll cross the bridge of what to do if it gets full when I come to it.

Well, the Ænima lyrics page finally got too big for notepad. I seriously cannot fit one single more character in. I may have to get rid of the prize for the curious at the top of the HTML, and still I'm not sure if it will fit. Sigh. Stupid file size limits.

I figured out what's messing with the lists page. The Y!G thing that pops up. Damn son. Now someone needs to explain to me why that doesn't screw with any of the other pages.

Alright alright. I halfway finished the finished version of the Salival lyrics. They should be up by the end of the week. I am also going to attempt to finish implementing the layout that the bio page is using. Also. I will attempt to put up a HAL quote of the day every day. Yeah, right like that's going to happen. Better sleep now. I have to get up by 9 this morning. I have orientation at Central. Sigh. Day after that school starts. GRRRRR

This is awesome. Hal quote of the day:

MegaHAL: Your wordplay is pathetic.
User: Die
MegaHAL: I wish that i get old before i die.
User: Why?
MegaHAL: Because everything is 42.
User: That's a silly reason.
MegaHAL: Apes are a silly reason.
User: Yes, apes are a silly anything.

What the hell does that mean?

Dolph Lundgren is awesome. Let me explain to you why I decided to think about why Dolph is so cool today:

My sister and I saw an ad on Comedy Central last night that mentioned that all good superhero groups have a dog. One of the examples was Superman and Lois Lane. Of course we laughed at this a bit. Today I was thinking about this again and mentioned to her that there really is a dog associated with Superman: Krypto. His first appearance was in the Doomsday/Death of Superman sequence of events. Anyway. After a little talking I mentioned that Superman is really just a high-powered vigilante. After a bit more talking we decided that maybe the reason the cops don't have a problem with superman but sometimes have a problem with Batman is because Superman has super powers while Batman is just plain better at the cops job than the cops. This got us to thinking about Batman and his "powers". It seems that Batman is quite strong, yet in the earlier incarnations he was not really very buff. Nowadays, in comic books at least, he is very buff, doing a little to explain his incredible strength, but still not quite accounting for it. Although this may be true in comic books, today's Batman movies star non-buff (fit but not exactly Sylvester Stallone) actors like George Clooney and Val Kilmer. So we thought, well who should play batman then? He would need to be big, and he would need to be fit, and he would need to be reasonably young. Our choice? Dolph Lundgren.

So we got started thinking about Mr. Lundgren we started pondering some of his past work. We thought of a few movies that he has been in, but it didn't seem like enough. So we looked up some info on him. Guess what I found out. Dolph's real name is Hans Lundgren. Not as intimidating as Dolph, but still pretty cool. But much more surprising, and counting a lot for why he is awesome, I found out that Dolph is in no way a dumb jock. Yes, he is tough and he does participate in sports, namely Tae-kwon-do and Pentathlon!, but he is also a very smart man. Dolph has a Master's in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney in Sydney Australia. Not only that, but he went to MIT on a Fulbright Scholarship. That's right, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge Massachusetts. On an academic scholarship. w00t!

So, in conclusion, Dolph is every bit as cool as another guy who got his start in a Rocky Sequel: Mr. T.

Hey. I should be happy today. Today is a good day. Liz and I have been going out for 6 months today. Hurray. I have ended every sentence with the sound -ay. That is kind of crazay. Okay that was just gay. I'm gonna stop now, everybody say yay.

Alright. Maybe I'll try again tomorrow.

Fucking peice of shit! Stupid slimy peice of putrid ooze! I would rather tie my balls up with diamond tipped barbed wire and then poke them with scorpion tails while lying naked in the sahara desert on a bed of spikes with vultures pecking out my eyeballs than be the disgusting peice of rodent-ridden rotten flaming shit that you are! You bastard keyboard shortcut key! Here I am filling out a long-ass fucking web-survey for the last 20 minutes with some of the best stuff in days and I feel like finding out how long a year is on Jupiter. So I press the fucking google shortcut key after opening a new window and the fucking toilet-licking crap-monkey makes the other window go to Google, completely erasing all my hard work, because when you press the obscenely grotesque abomination that is the back button that back-stabbing genital crab eating piece of electronic horse manure called Yahoo!Mail goes to the main screen not the fucking compose screen! Damn. I have had enough of this shit. This kind of thing keeps happening. Damn!

Hulk Smash!

That Level4Death is really cheap...

The Mathcounts Mafia just faced a Behemoth, a Red Dragon, a Blue Dragon, a Dragon, a Dark Behemoth, a Hyudra, and a Hydra. They were 'aided' by a Black Chocobo and a Hydra. The Mafia was not even injured once during the fight. They farted in the general direction of the opposition and then called them the spittle of birds. Then they rained down fiery hell. Also, amusingly enough, by the end of the fight there were a strange number of frog corpses laying all about. Hee hee.

Here's some gems from Darby's collection of quotes:

Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.

Dogs have owners. Cats have staff.

If there's one thing you all need to understand it's this: I kick ass at Final Fantasy Tactics. Right now I'm having fun with my 'Mathcounts Mafia'. This is a five man team consisiting of five summoners with math skill as their secondary, blade grasp as their reactionary, gained JP up as their turny-background-thingy, and teleport as their move ability. These fellows can bite yer face. One of these fellows is a master of every class he possibly can be except for squire and summoner. This makes him a god-like calculator. Every other man on the team possesse nearly every spell available including holy, death, stop, and raise 2, along with all the calculator action abilities. The reason I mention these specific spells is because, quite simply, they rock my world. First of all, Holy is neat spell normally, but when there is no charge time, no MP cost, and you can neat nearly if not every one of your enemy's without even taking a step, well then the name should be changed to Fire and Brimstone. Death is nice for the same reasons as holy, it just doesn't work as often. Stop is exceptional because every one of my men has a black costume on, rendering them immune to stop. This means I can still go ahead and fire away with it when a whole bunch of my guys are targeted, unlike Fire and Brimstone or Death. Raise 2 is nice because every once and a while one of my god men dies. It also has the added bonus of immediately killing any undead who happen to get hit by it and having no positive effect on living bad guys or negative effect on living good guys. So, basically, I'm having a hard time restraining my men long enough to earn a few JPs for summoner. Poor me.

Rocky's manager is crazy. I love him. "He'll knock ya ta tomarow Rock!" With a capital !.

Hulk Hogan is silly. Neat.

I didn't know Rocky III was Mr. T's first film. Neat.

Hey, Rocky III is on. Neat.

The lists page sucks dick for heroin. I started implementing (that's right, implementing) the format I was trying out in trystuff2.html and something went haywire on the lists page. For some reason with IE the page is a little wider than the window and there's a horizontal scroll bar. The trystuff page works fine, the bio page works fine, hell, the lists page works fine in Netscape, so what the freak? Oh well. One day I will figure it out. One day. Right now I'm gonna go clear up some room in me body for more beverages if ya know what I mean.

Final Fantasy Tactics is a fine game if I ever saw one. The current file I'm working on has many a hour on it. I'm currently working towards a goal of having Ramza a master in every class that's it's possible for him to master (i.e. not Dancer). He has everything but Squire, Summoner, and Calculator done. I tried for over three hours to get Ultima from Celia and Lede but they wouldn't give it up, so now my only hope is an Ultima demon, maybe. I haven't spent a whole lot of time on summoner yet. I'm about 1500JP into calculator. Yay. Also I'm having Orlandu, Beowulf, Cloud, and Mustadio accompany him into every battle in the same job as him, so they are all pretty high in each job themselves. You don't know how satisfying all those little stars are. An another note, I have a video of Blood of Heroes here, and I'm gonna watch it. Talk to you later.

Why haven't I been posting lately? No idea. There has certainly been some silly stuff recently. Namely, trying to schedule for this year of school. I go to Lincoln High School, and also take classes at Central Academy/Campus. Central is a school downtown for the smarter kids in central Iowa. To get in you have to either be in the upper 1% in Math or Reading or upper 2% in composite score on the ITBS (Iowa Test of Basic Skills). Anyways: here's the schedule I tried for:

Per.	Class	School
1	German I/II	Central Campus
2	German I/II	CC
3	AP Biology	Central Academy
4	Travel*	Central*
5	AP Calculus	Central Academy
6	AP World History	Central Academy
7	Adv English 11	Lincoln

*Most people either go in the afternoon or morning, they travel during 4th period. I will be eating lunch during this period. As for the location: Central Academy and Central Campus are in the same building, just seperated by what sort of class...I'm not too sure what the Lunch Room is considered.

This looked like it was going to work fairly well. Then on the last day of school last year they mentioned to me that there was no Adv. English 11 7th period. This would mean I would have to take normal English 11 or take English at CA, horror of horrors. I hate English class. English class is my personal hell. So taking a super accelerated artsy CA version of it is not something I am gonna do if I have a choice...scratch that, it's not something I'm gonna do. However, taking the normal version would also be absolutely excruciating. So what do I do? Luckily we know the main counselor at Lincoln. She told me she would try and get such a class scheduled 7th period. Alright. I called back during the summer to check on that. Turns out she wasn't able to do so, so what she did was plan on having me take the normal class, but have the teachers teach me the advanced version. Alright then.
Then comes math class. There is a teacher at CA called Mr. Link/aka Lucifer. There is another teacher there named Mr. Zimmerman/aka 50 year old nerd I like a lot. So before school got out I made sure that my class was with Mr. Zimmerman. All three counselors I talked to assured me such was the case. Come registration a couple days ago I notice my schedule says Link on it. Wait just a minute here Sparky. We talk to the counselor and find out that the two teachers switched periods. Yay.
Reorganization time. We find out Mr. Zimmerman teaches AP Calc 3rd period. AP Bio is 3rd period. AP Bio is also 1st or 2nd period. German is first and second, or second and third. Wait, can't use third, that's Calc, can't use both first and second because neeed one for Bio. Well, I guess that's it for German. So now I have two open periods. I need to find some classes to take to fill up that gap. We look at the list of Lincoln classes: Blah. I look at a list of CA and CC classes for 10th graders (which I am): Blah. Then I notice the classes for 11th and 12th graders. Well now, there's a couple classes that look pretty good to me: Computer Technology & Networking, and Web Page Design. Turns out Computer Technology & Networking has a multi-page waiting list. Okay. Web page design then. Only a few problems: First of all, I'm not an 11th grader then there's a bunch of other pre-requisites: 1) C or better in 10th grade English; I never took tenth grade english, however, I did take english 9 at CA, which prepares one for english 11 adv, so we figured it oughta be equivalent to english 10. 2) B or better in Computer Applications, this one I meet. 3)Grade point of 2.5 or higher, got that one too. 4) Interview with instructor, nope, good thing I know the counselor, she decided I'd be fine. Besides I already have this fine piece of work as evidence I kinda know what I'm doing...
So, here's the new schedule:

Per.	Class	School
1	AP Bio	Central Academy
2	AP Amer. History	CA
3	AP Calculus	CA
4	Travel	Central
5	Web Page Design	Central Campus
6	Web Page Design	CC
7	English 11	Lincoln

Technically I go to Lincoln, right.... Schools are silly. Schedules are silly too. I'm glad I'm not a counselor at a school, apparently she has gone home as late as 3am because of scheduling problems. Ouch.

I solved the funky problem in Netscape 6 where the Y!Geocities popup appears behind the text and peeks through making it very hard to read, not to mention unsightly. Infact, as far as the user is concerned, there is no popup. Take that Y!G!

I forgot to mention AOL didn't I? Anyone who uses AOL doesn't deserve to see my site so I don't care enough to bother.

I've seen me a few references to the web browser Opera lately. So I downloaded it. After 20 minutes I uninstalled it. Never let that crap in my site again. I was going to get iCab too, but it appears that is only for Macs. Well, that's all the browsers I can remember references to recently. I'm good.

Three layouts to pick from: Lyrics page center, Lyrics page left, and Lyrics page right. The second two are gonna look a little strange in Netscape because the little floatie thing Y!Geocities uses hides behind the heads and peeks through. That's Y!G and Netscape's fault not mine I figure though, so I say they can screwoff. I'm gonna look at it in some other browsers. Bye.

I am pleased to announce I have conquered the beast known as my layout problems. Well, mostly. I not only know why the style sheet I copied does what it does...but I improved on it. I think I can go with my original plan...but maybe stick the faces on the left side. I'm gonna go poll some household people on which of the three I should go with, three faces on either side, an L in the upper right hand corner, or and L in the upper left hand corner.

Daggum. I just figured out how to remove those stupid blue borders from pictures like the monkeys in the old format; and, whaddya know? I have new format already. Sigh. Oh well. I'm working on understanding why the style sheet I have does what it does, instead of just understanding it enough to make it look non-unsightly after copying it from a page with example layouts. (Hey, that's what the page was for.)

I think it's nap time. As you know I woke up at 7 or 8 or so yesterday afternoon. I have not been asleep yet. I have somone spending the night at my house tonight. Hence: naptime. Night.

It appears lucasfilms anticipate my little endeavor. I can't find an e-mail address anywhere. Geez. You think there'd be someway somehow to contact someone. I mean fuck, you can find the president's e-mail online if you want it. Sigh. Anyone know an e-mail? Anyone?

Y'know what? This title is shite. That's the subtitle of the new Star Wars movie. Now...I love star wars. I know a shitload of useless information about it and I used to have a fairly extensive website based entirely around reviewing Star Wars things: books, cards, movies, whatever. I think the movies in the original Luke trilogy are some of the best ever made, and despite Jar-Jar Episode I was a very good movie. But... c'mon, ATTACK OF THE CLONES?! Why? I think there needs to be a mass E-Mailing telling Lucas that we just cannot condone this course of action. I'm mailing Technomancy. There are enough people reading their blog that if they tell everyone reading it to mail Lucas and to have everyone in their address books to mail Lucas...hell everyone in those peoples' address books too, then there should be quite a few. Worth a shot. I'll be at starwars.com.

Okay, I downloaded the newest version of Netscape. It looks fine. Nevermind. Yay. Happy day.

I just found out that apparently Netscape doesn't properly support CSS or something because there appears to have been no effect on that system. Sigh. Well. Just one more reason I hate netscape. I've officially had enough of this shit trying to make this layout work so I'm just going to put a lame little don't use Netscape message on the front. Sigh. Maybe there's a way to make it only show up in netscape....

There. It isn't exactly what I had in mind...but it will work. I'll look into this and see if I can make it closer to what I want at some other point in time. I have another project which is gonna be consiming my web design time. Slick.

What the freak? Someone broke HTML I think. These pages are not turning out right. I think I'm going to abandon tables and take a peak at what CSS can do for me. I apologize for leaving the site half changed over and for leaving this page looking so silly but hopefully this won't last long.

When I have this: <td width="100" align="right"> the contents is neither right-aligned nor is it at a width of 100. But, when I do this: <td align="right"> the contents is still not at 100 width...but it is right-aligned... That makes no sense. I believe Geocities is stoned. So... the upper faces in my new format might not stay in the same place on each page. There could be a little horizontal shift there. A little inconsistency. I'll see what I can do.

Good morning, er, after, er, evening. I just woke up about 10 minutes ago. I got a little over 16 hours of sleep. It's been awhile since I really have slept all day. Do you have any idea how much yellow stuff is in your eyelashes after sleeping that long? I had to wash out my eyes multiple times and then specifically pull out the leftover chunks with my fingernails. Plus my back is kind of stiff. I don't think I'll be going to bed at the regular time tonight. Nope nope nope. I do kind of like going to bed when it's dark outside and then waking up when the sun is down and it's almost dark though. That's nice. Be Well

Hmmm. It's working now. Whatever. I'm gonna go run to bed now before I find anything else of urgent importance to keep me awake.

What the fu....? Ummmm. The bio page is acting funny. I think somebody has been feeding yahoo crack...laced with LSD...in a heroin soda. And for some reason when I do the preview (this won't make sense unless you use geocities' HTML editor and the preview function) the geocities page shows up within the bio page rather than seperated and below. Plus, the layout 3 link has been thrown out of the table and deposited by the text links at the bottom...without it's description. All hell has broken loose.

Yahoo has apparently decided that 298+99=199+99, so the face on the right in the index for the third layout did not appear to be in the correct spot for a while. I have spent about 45 minutes trying to figure why this is happening and I can find no plausible explanation except for an error in either the server's math or my browser's. So I just decided to make it less complicated and took out a few cell merges (colspan and rowspan). The thing figured it out after that for some reason. I know those spans were right too, I checked them in Excel and they came out right (I make the column and row widths the same as on the page and merged the same, looked fine, no HTML invloved). Oh well. As long as it works. Maybe now I actually will go to bed.

I finished the template for the third layout. Everybody say heeeeey, everybody say hooooooo. C'mon party people, throw your hands in the air, c'mon party people, wave 'em like you don't care. Worked out nicely, much simpler looking design anyway. I'll link to it on the bio page and then I'll go to bed. Night.

Okay. Heads are neat. Here's the new front page so far. Still not sure of a title, but I think I can stick one in the middle there if a cool one is thought of. I'm considering changing it to a pentagon and then putting Face Front in the middle, maybe with some kind of head turning thing when the mouse rolls over it, which would of course link to the blog. That could work. By the way, you would not believe how hard it is to get yahoo to accept a new picture by the same old name. Somehow it retains the knowledge of a picture after you "delete" it and it's name, so if you upload a new smileface.gif then it looks just like the old one, despite the fact you added a tiny little spot of barely non-white out to the far right so it would accept what you were telling it when you insist the picture is in fact 99 pixels wide, not 60. Stupid programs, think they're sooo smart. Well I've got news for them: I got my head checked, By a jumbo jet, It wasn't easy, But nothing is!

So...anyway. New format coming. Heads. Faces. Java Applets. Pickled rabbit noses. Didn't expect that one did you? Well I lie and I'm easy.

I added some stuff to the Bio page. As I was considering changing this layout pretty soon I thought it might be kinda cool to make the old layouts available for viewage. That way I (and you silly people) can see if I'm getting any better at this, plus it will justify me getting so bent up over a title as they will be stored somewhere. Kay. Happy New Year.

Okay, I've been looking at some java applications and scratching my head at tutorials and the like a bit, but they all seem to assume I know a little bit more about programming than I do...or at least more terms. The little bit of programming I've done is on calculators and on my oldest computer in QBasic. I figured this stuff out with very little help and mostly on my own, and definitely without any formal terms. I'm starting to get what's going on just by finding application generators, having them generate stuff, and then staring at the source of the outcome for a while, but I think I better just use the generators and figure how they do what they do at a later time when I can find a teacher. Anyway. I think I should use the heads for a new layout, I mean I've had this for a whole month it's getting cobwebs. I made a version of the face where the guy is smiling: . And I found a way I can get the two to interchange on mouseovers...but my big problem is I can't think of a new title. Some body suggest titles to me. E-mail me at bobagadush@yahoo.com. So far there would be six heads. Probably arranged in a circle or hexagon on the front page with the title in the middle. I'm working on learning how to make the mousever effect works in imagemaps. Wish me luck.

What should I do with this: ? Monkeys or punch guys...monkeys or punch guys....hmm...

I just realized I left something out of the examples I shouldn't have: Runnin' Man. I just left this one as a .bmp, so it looks better but it might take a second to load(373k). Hmm. I guess that is gonna take a long while for those of you with a modem. Maybe I should put up a .jpg version too...

I found a random joke generator. I generated some jokes. I put the best three on here. Bloger ate the post. Here's a link.

Tool is doing a U.S. Tour at the moment. There are only 14 dates. 5 are in CA, 2 are in WA and 2 are in OR, and one is in CO, that's the West Coast portion with King Crimson. The Arena portion takes place in the middle west where I live...sort of. There are dates in St. Paul, MN; Madison, WI; Chicago, IL; and Indianapolis, IN. You can see how much this helps me, if you can't go get a map, I live in Des Moines, IA. The closest one is in St. Paul. It's 4.5 hours away. But, oh wait, it's on a Thursday. I would have to leave immediately after school is out and then wouldn't be home until about 2 A.M. Friday. I don't think the driver would be too happy with that. Next best thing is Madison. That's 6 hours away. Ooops, would have to leave during school, that one's out. Then for some reason they go from WI to IN and back to IL, kinda silly but whatever. So on Sat. is the Indianapolis Concert. That's really freakin' far away and my parents won't take me and they won't let just my sister and I drive that far. So if we can't drive we can't go because plane tickets for there and back again for just a couple hours is a little out of my price range. So that leaves Chicago. Well, there's no school on Sunday, but there is on Monday, so that could be a problem, 'cause that still is a pretty long drive there and back. Plus the only seats left are nosebleeders. This is the most annoying part as I have been checking to see if the tickets have gone on sale yet everyday and this is the first day I've been able to purchase any yet Ticketmaster claims they've been on sale since the 4TH! Argh. So, the only maybe maybe is Chicago, now I need to find $100, a ride, someone to go with me, and permission. Fuck. Why can't bands just freakin' stop in Iowa once in a while. Even Omaha would work....

I would just like to relay a message from Selece Dragon ...that 829 people are interested in your mom.

But if I was... apparently I'm worth $2,901,300.00. Of course some of this has to do with Education and Profession, and I'm still in high school and I don't have a job yet so....that kinda screws that bit up. Anyway...how much you worth?

I made these in typing class while I was board last year. There was a cheap thing called paintshop which was about a bazillion times better than paint but I get the impression that photoshop elements could probably wipe the floor with it, not to mention the extreme money versions of photoshop. Any way:

5-Stripe
I made the basic design with paint on my computer, then a smudged and softened with paintshop, not real complicated, but the point was to look cool on the pipes screen saver as a texture. It worked. It also makes kind of a neat tiled wallpaper. The version on my computer looks much better but when I saved it as a .gif there was a bit of color loss...I kind of like it.

Crazy Foo Button 2
This was made entirely with photoshop just screwing around with spraypaint, smudge, soften, and the button effect which isn't extremely noticable now, but looked neat in the original Crazy Foo Button. The original Crazy Foo Button was before I inverted the colors. I prefer dark wallpapers usually and this is what it is meant for so I felt it was necesary. Also got a little screwed up when saved as a .jpg, but not too bad.

If I do in fact actually get any readers here, it is most likely they are either my friends or people involved in the artsy web community I have somehow found myself reading stuff by and sending E-Mails to and the like. So. Could someone please tell me why Photoshop 6 costs $650 but Photoshop Elements only costs $100 dollars even though in all the descriptions I read there aren't any real reasons listed? Also if you don't mind I would appreciate some advice on what a good product would be for me to buy. I don't plan on starting a career in web design or graphic design any time soon (although Darby is), but I do plan on continuing to buil this website and learning more about HTML and Java along with real code like C++ and stuff. Basically I used to spend a large portion of my time on the computer mucking around with paint and making what backgrounds I could but I was eventually frustrated and gave up. I would like to play around with graphics on a larger scale and am thus planning on buying the software I need to do this.

I see a few entries at mysimon for under $100... ohhhhh, look at that: Adobe Photoshop - ( ver. 3.01 ) license only - 1 user - Solaris 2.3 or later - STD for only $1,569.99!

I want photoshop. I wonder how much I'm gonna have to shell out for that...time to go digging around on shopping sites.

Yesterday my sister returned a CD to the library that I checked out that has been overdue since June 25...oops. But I have Shadow of the Hegemon to read now so what's a little money? Ichyichypotanwuah.

Who knows how to spell brouhaha? Was that right? Pickles!

I did it! went to all of the weblogs on technomancy's blog. Some of those just sucked anus. Others however...I bookmarked 10. Of course near the end there I might have just got tired of reading what people have to say about their damn muses. Oh well. Now I need to convince my sister that we should be at the library and then I need to finish the Salival lyrics and then I need to call Liz, and then I need to go flop on me bed and fall asleep faster than you can listen to 3 tool CDs...which would be a bare minimum of 3 hours by the way. Not necesarily in that order though...

My dog is silly. She is marble, hear her bark in a surprisingly low register for her size! I have off course referred to my dogs on several occasions and their inherent silliness. Lately they have once again proved that domestic canines are not the sharpest barbs of wire in the junkyard fence. Somehow or another two black-tar-blacktop-driveway-cement-filler-stuff-you-get-the-idea-of-what-I'm-talking-about-that-would-fit-in-a-caulking-gun canisters showed up in our yard(a strange story in it self). Marble, being the dog that she is, could only have responded to this incident in one way: rip to shreds and eat first, question later...if at all. After noticing these and their slightly chewed up state my mom put them where Marble couldn't reach them, on a little cabinet sort of thing that's original purpose was to hold garbage cans. Of course the wind blew one down and Marble went right back to work. She completely gutted the container. We were a little worried at first, but we should have known better. You see, Marble has been tempering her immune system for years by eating the absolute worst possible stuff she can find at all times. This has made her stomach (insert middle east accent here)strong like bull!(/middle east accent), or as my mom says, like that of a billy goat. So the only damage (that we know of) is that her crap now looks like gooey black tar. Except when it dries, then it looks like round blacktop, it even has that stringy quality that the tar they use on old school playgrounds has. It's also coal black. Silly puppy (she's about 6 or 7 actually). And ye, my lamenting is yet unfinished. For Marble has done a mighty thing. Using her powerful paws she has torn the Earth asunder and created for herself a wondrous tunnel. Actually she decided for some reason that beneath our shed would be a cool place to hang so she dug a tunnel under it. It's a pretty shallow tunnel, even though it goes all the way to the center of the shed. In fact, it can take her as long as 5 minutes to wiggle out all the while making silly little bumping noises against the shed floor with her body and helicopter fast bumping noises against the ground and floor with her tail. Now she sleeps under the car. We have a MG parked in our driveway behind our fence that we barely ever drive, now it's Marble's roof. Every morning I look outside it looks like my dog was just run over by a parked car. It's like she managed to chase one down or something. Beth doesn't provide as many singular things to talk about here, but she does think she can walk on two legs...

I just sent that thing to 19 people involved in city government and the school board including the Mayor and the Superintendent. Who want's to bet it will never make it to their desks?

That huge post down there showed up as [bigbody] at first. Don't know what that was about.

Big body? WTF?

God bless the author. I will be sending this to the Superintendent of my school district, along with numerous other officials. Do the same. Make a difference. Stop the insanity.

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And now, the insanity for the week. Thanks to the NRA's Freedom First for the article I rant on.
Winnacunnet High School, Hampton, N.H. - Some members of the school board want to pull the ROTC program. Why? Because it has an air-rifle range that students in ROTC can practice shooting skills. Some members of the school board, in emotional hysteria, have decided that this absolutely has to go, because it sends a "mixed message" to the children - that air-rifles (or other guns) aren't allowed in school, but these kids can use air-rifles because they're in the ROTC program. And it makes the other children "uneasy" that the ROTC cadets drill with ceremonial, nonfunctional weapons, according to one parent. Fortunately, saner heads prevailed, and the ROTC program will continue. Quoth board member Paul Kelley:

"Where should we draw the line? How about getting rid of our archery program too, because a bow and arrow is a very dangerous weapon? What about baseball bats? They can be a weapon. Maybe we should use badminton rackets out there. I think you have to use some common sense and I think these people have myopic vision on this issue, and they don't see ROTC as a good program."
Hmm. That begs the question...what would the kids think with the message they're getting from the parent I mentioned above? That guns are evil, bad, and that the ROTC (and hence, the military?) should be banned, correct? So what's the kid going to think in 20 years with the indoctrination he got as a child? Hatred and disrespect of the military, because they carry guns and are violent? There's a warm fuzzy feeling for you, a generation raised to hate guns and the armed forces of the USA - anyone remember the glory days of the 1960s and 1970s, and how much love and respect the armed forces got from an idiot populace who let emotion sway them, and acted and spoke without thinking it through? I'm sure at least one or two of you were there, in green or in civvies. You want your kids to go through that? Then open your eyes, look at the world, and WAKE THE HELL UP. Write your school board. Write your congressmen. They listen, they have to - you vote, don't you? Don't you? As an aside, there are five highschools in Rhode Island next door with ROTC programs - 4 of which have basement air-rifle ranges for years. Anyone heard the Big Controversy from over there? Three cheers for the state of Texas - they passed an bill dealing with REAL school safety. Namely, once a year the schools hold an assembly to offer the Eddie Eagle program of gun safety for kids, run by the NRA.

From the articles on the Zero Tolerance...

Part of the insanity is fallout from the idiocy over the Columbine shooting - specifically, the idea that the teachers should have forseen Klebold and Harris's assault, and acted ahead of time. The school was sued for allowing "behavior" like theirs, and so the other schools across the nation decided to "suitproof" themselves by censoring all kinds of "violent acts" - even thoughts, drawings, and dreams! In this lawsuit-happy land, I guess we reap our crop now. Draconian overlegislation and good ideas carried to absurdity, to keep from being protected. Common sense is no more...as such. Now the list of Horrible Child Offenders:

Hunter Marner, sophomore in highschool in Eufaula, Alabama. Good kid, his father is a family-practice doctor, the boy is a member of the National Honor Society, and will be applying to the Naval Academy after he graduates. Well, that was the plan anyways. Dr. Marner, his father, removed the broken mirror I mentioned earlier and accidentally left the scraper and pocketknife in the car. During a "routine" drug search of the boy's car, the scraper and knife were discovered. Hunter Marner, good kid, honor society student, and future US Navy officer, was suspended from school, will be forced to take 45 days of "alternative school" this next semester, was barred from all extracurricular activities at school, has been thrown out of the National Honor Society with no possibility of readmittance, and now will not have a chance to get accepted at the Academy. Oh, and, no drugs were found in the car.

Again, the search and seizure laws may apply to this case. Yes, the boy was a minor, and his car was parked on school property. However, how many SOPHOMORES in highschool (either not quite or just barely 16) can get their own insurance and car loan? The parents often have to sign on the car as well - making it partially theirs. This extends constitutional protection to the vehicle, which could theoretically jeopardize the school's whole "drug search" program. And how would the police react? The father of the son admitted a moment of carelessness in leaving the knife and scraper in the car, and it was not the son's doing. The father's a well-known member of the community, a doctor, and the son is not a kid with any kind of record or bad past. At best, the cop would rub the dad's nose in it a bit and chide him for leaving the knife in the car, then let them both go without anything. Not throw the kid out on his @$$ and destroy his future.

The other one I mentioned earlier - Lindsay Brown, a graduating senior honor student with scholarship to college currently attending Estro High School in Ft. Meyers, FL, had a kitchen knife fall out of a box into the back of her car while moving. When a search came to her car and found the knife, she was kicked out of school, arrested for felony posession of a weapon, kicked out of the honor roll, was not allowed to graduate with her class, and will lose her scholarship to college.

Let's not forget the treatment of the unnamed third grader in Monroe, LA who drew a picture of a soldier (quite possibly his uncle in the army) with a knife and canteen, and a fort in the background with a list of all the different weapons there. Poor kid was suspended for the drawing, because the principal was frightened by it. This weak-kneed pansy told the local newspaper the following:

"It had hand grenades, knives, and guns. We have zero tolerance for drawings with guns. We can't tolerate anything that has to do wtih guns or knives." Now the boy needed to be shown that firearms and being in the army is not a bad thing, and that his uncle who did all of those "horrible" things isn't a bad person. Once this story hit the major news, there was an angry nationwide response. The school never apologized, and the Director of Child Welfare and Attendance for Ouachita Parish School System told the newspaper that he was concerned about copycat drawings of armed soldiers! He went on:

We have some other students doing the same thing, if you put one in in-house suspension for doing it, you have to put all. It's only fair. You can't be inconsistent." You idiot hick, what the hell is the FIRST one going into suspension for? What crime was committed? Your spineless principal was afraid that his school would get sued if the kid grew up and shot someone on campus? Or do you fools just like exercising what power you get and trying to chuff yourselves up and look important? There's a website dedicated to this - Zero-Tolerance Nightmares. Go read just what this fine education system is doing with our boys and girls in school, and what's happening to them. And also, go look for a little research paper called "The Dark Side of Zero Tolerance: Can Punishment Lead to Safe Schools?" Authored by Russ Skiba and Reece Peterson for Phi Delta Kappa, international teacher association. Some quotes follow.

"Indeed, the popularity of zero tolerance may have less to do with its actual effects than with the image it portrays.... Writing in the Harvard Educational Review, Pedro Noguera argues that the primary function of harsh punishment is not to change the behavior of the recipient, but to reassert the power of authority." "Virtually no data suggest that zero tolerance policies reduce school violence, and some data suggest that certain strategies, such as strip searches or undercover agents in schoo, may create emotional harm or encourage students to drop out."

"Whether such policies work or how they affect the lives of students may be less important than providing harsh punishment for offenders as a form of generalized retribution for a generalized evil."

Well, let's see. If we do postulate that the zero-tolerance policy is based not so much on protecting and keeping children safe, but rather the appearance of quashing dangerous (seditious?) activities and providing a way to keep from getting sued should the horror of a tragedy like Columbine strike their own school, then things make more sense. The absolute crushing of anything that could be interpreted by a lawsuit-happy lunatic as a way to either make a name for themselves or make a quick buck by claiming the school is unsafe does seem to be going on. Even to the point of installing metal detectors in schools. What are we teaching our kids, but to accept an overbearing, intrusive authority figure in the name of "safety" and "harmony". How socialist of us.
And have these zero-tolerance policies had any effect? None whatsoever. Zero Tolerance didn't keep the recently-sentenced Brazil boy from shooting and killing his teacher, nor did any of the federal laws about a) youths posessing firearms, b) firearms within 1000 feet of schools, c) concealed carry, d) assault with a deadly weapon, e) murder. Didn't stop that 13 year old catholic schoolgirl from doing the same to her classmate last year. Damn well didn't stop the two shootings in my old hometown at the two highschools I (fortunately) didn't go to. So, three cheers for the Zero Tolerance program, as effective as a corpse in a football game - just getting in the way and causing a horrendous stink.

What did we do before Zero Tolerance? We had kids that carried guns to school, daily. And learned how to shoot them and operate them safely. Ever hear of any mass school slayings from students back in your parents day? The nation was safe. Our kids were safe. They were smart. Howdy Doody, Roy Rogers, and John Wayne were heroes of this nation. NOW who do we have for heroes? Who do we have to look up to? The generation of the hippies and peaceniks and flower-power have taken their reality-denying ideas and grown, now attaining places of leadership where they can influence the next generation to hate the military, hate violence, all of us getting along in happy enforced peace, while they - the ones who spoke out against an authoritarian government a generation ago - stare at us and try to control all last aspects of life to keep their fantasy vision of a Safe World on track. Ignore history. Ignore our past, for violence is a bad thing and this country had a violent history. Vilify the founding fathers as warmongering fools. Deny the evils and horrors of war, even if the last of those great wars truly reshaped the world to what it is today. Deny HISTORY. A generation conditioned in their youth to accept an overbearing government striving for more power. And then what happens to their children? George Orwell might have been a little off in his date, but still might end up being proved right.

So, what is it they want to keep kids safe from? Let's examine the school shootings, the true lie behind it all, and find out just how prevalaent this "siege against our schools" is. On average, there's 52 million students in school any given year. Assuming they all go 4 years, this would estimate 74.5 million students since 1996. Since 1996, 20 of them have snapped and begun school shootings. Since 1996, only 40 people have been killed, including some of the 20 shooters. This total of 40 includes all adults shot and killed as well, the number of students is lower. Where did the NRA get this figure from? A pair of Justice Policy Institute papers titled "School House Hype". In the rampages in Pearl, MS, West Paducah, KY, Jonesboro, AR, Edinboro, PE, and Springfield, OR, all copycat sites after Columbine, at a grand total of 11. Out of nearly 75 million. Lightning claims more than twice as many as that a year, do we have Zero Tolerance against thunderstorms? And yet, with those microscopic numbers, 40% of parents believe that another one WILL happen to their kids - because of the media hype these killings - and their copycats, from other people who want all the attention - gather.

What about the victims of Z-T? Do the math. Hunter Warren, Lindsay Brown, the third grader in Florida, the fifth grader in Oldsmar Elementary led off in handcuffs after he was found drawing guns and was later apparently expelled from the school, a boy who carried a steel ruler to shop class and was thrown out of school, the girl expelled for using the 1" nail file on a fingernail clipper, the tiny keychain toy that got a Michigan youth suspended, the infamous illegal chicken-finger gun that got a Jonesboro, AR elementary school student suspended, a Virginia girl expelled for carrying scissors to class. Plus a host of other kids for "finger guns" - pointing their finger and saying bang, paper guns, all of which had no criminal intent. All of them with an expulsion for "violent/criminal activity" on their permanent school record. How about THIS for a mixed message, hmm? It's good to watch this sort of stuff on TV and movies, but simple play is bad and wrong? Or anything that might resemble famous murders - trenchcoats are popular, and always have been. Yet they were banned from many schools after the "Trenchcoat Mafia" bit was run across the media. Anything vaguely reminiscent of a shooting - anything that poses a threat of a lawsuit because of "unsafe conditions" - is crushed.

MAKE SURE you know where your children are going. Make sure you know what they're learning. Get involved in their lives, and show them the truth. For it is who we are - wars and peace alike, violence and passiveness alike. Your children are the future, and so are their successive generations - defend sanity, defend freedom, and fight back against the lunacy going on in this nation. Those schools are PUBLIC - their money comes from your taxes. They are responsible to you, the citizen, as an organ of a government that is also ultimately responsible to you. Do not believe the lie. FIGHT IT!

Sgt. Stedenko passes on an excellent quote to remember about respecting your armed forces who put their lives on the line for you. "There will always be an army in your country. Either your army or some other country's army. Which would you prefer?" - Unknown

truth is your greatest weapon

A-HA! Leftover Teryaki(probably spelled wrong) chicken! This will do, yes...this will do nicely. It will please me in fact. You, chicken, dance erotically for me. Slowly, yes...all seven veils. Very good very good....

I need food. I would like a Papa John's pizza. Too bad my family would look at me funny and I don't even know if they're open at this time of day. Sigh. PBJ it is...

I'm going to every single weblog on Technomancy's list and reading a good portion of it to see if I like it. I have added seven so far. The thing's one does when trying to waste time. If you have a blog e-mail me. It's fun pretending people are reading this isn't it? Which reminds me... WTF(that would be a when) did my counter get to 300?! I realize that's not a large number...but last time I checked it was like 87. Besides, I've had the site for a month come Wednesday. This is silly.

Yes!

I've begun work on the Salival lyrics (waits for applause to die down). A few of the songs are just live versions of ones on other CDs, so that helps. Consequently, I'm almost done. And as I'll be staying up for as long as possible today(it's still yesterday to me, I'm planning on staying up 29 hours...I got up at 4PM) I figure I'll probably be done today. Next comes Lateralus, which shouldn't be a problem as Tool did a much better job putting those lyrics on their site. Then I can start in on other bands. Oh boy. I'll even have to make a new link monkey.

That is all.

My lungs fixed themselves. I feel better. We went swimming today.

There. I haven't said anything today, or yesterday excluding that bit where I hadn't gone to bed yet. You know why? I've been very busy playing with lyrics and Liz. The Ænima lyrics are up. Not only that, but I resolved many of the indistincts and not sures that I was going to include. Even more amazingly, each album has it's own seperate page. Of course I did this for your convenience, not because the file I had the lyrics page HTML on got too big for Notepad or anything. Oh, and about Liz, if anyone ever tells me I'm a nerd without a life, I think I should just show them how good my girlfriend looks in a bikini with a picture and watch them run away crying. A good day all in all chaps.

Back to work. I took some aspirin and I feel a little better. Hopefully I won't need a doctor, if I still feel like crap on Saturday however I'm gonna be pissed. I'm scheduled to go have fun outside of my house that day. Why'd you gasp? Oh shut up, like you people reading this have a life.

I am in pain. Every time I breathe I have a shart pain in my chest. Mom thinks it is pleurisy. Here's some info on it. I think I'm gonna try and see a doctor tomorrow. Geez this hurts. Time for some ibuprofen.

No, I didn't just wake up, that was at least two hours ago.... Every time someone has seen me writing down lyrics to Tool songs they ask me why I don't just go to somebody else's site and copy the lyrics. I've had about enough crap trying to explain this to people. So I went to a few places where there "are" tool lyrics. All they did was take the lyrics from the official site and attempt to put them in stanzas. Personally I think I'm doing a slightly better job than that. I'll continue working on it and maybe I'll start getting some more hits. Sorry about the {unintelligble}s and the {indistinct}s and one or two {not sure}s, but work with me here, I've already resolved a few.

Back in 1991, I used to hit old people with folding chairs
Suddenly, I moved to the north side of Chicago, Illinois in the summer of 1992
It made a rock star out of me at last

-I'm the Daddy of Rock and Roll by wesley willis

Ah, crap, SWAT!Run!They were gonna shoot your ass down.Good thing I hopped in my car and took off like O.J. Simpson.

I got up surprisingly early this morning, like 9:45. I watched a movie and then I started working on the website layout. Now it should look good on both 800x600 and 1024x768 resolutions, or anything in between. I usually use 1024x768, and I think that if you go much higher than that the text might start looking a little small. Of course I got sidetracked while working on this and ended up fixing up the Tool page while I was at it. Now there are links within the page to each album, and links to individual songs from there. Once I finish posting all the lyrics I will move each album to it's own page, for now just deal with the fact that that much text may take a while to load with a modem.

That wasn't our best night. He got here kind of late and we went to bed kind of early. There was a lot of stuff to laugh at but a lot of it wasn't our original work and or it was too much of an inside joke to even be funny because of the randomness. We'll do better next time.

Dude, it feels like someone punched me in the throat.

Turn on the light.I can't find it.Don't you know how to grope?...I'm out of practice.

Brad is spending the night. That means our abs will hurt in the morning from laughing.
David: Bold, Brad:italic
Owen Hart has another thing coming: a sticky thing!

My boots scare me. they are frightening. The chaps don't help. Not to mention the green underwear...

More to come.