I have to do a web site for semester finals in Web Design. We get to pick our topics. Being the overambitious fool that I am I picked Squaresoft RPGs. Whoops. I think I've found out about all of them... maybe... I have found over 20... I hope that's all of them...

In any case, whether that's all of them or not, that's all I'm gonna do. I've designed the front page and I have a color and type scheme set up. So now I need to make a related page design for the interior pages and generate some content.
Content. Hoo boy. I've played a fair amount of the games, and Brad has played a few that I haven't, but that still is not nearly all of them. I'm gonna have to go snoopin into other sites for reviews... maybe just link to them so I don't have credits problems...

Oh well, I'm a little ahead of schedule for once, so I'm just gonna go to bed now so I can see Liz in the morning.

Dude. Brad brought over his fancy new Playstation 2 and his shiny new Final Fantasy X. That is one awesome freaking game. I have almost no complaints so far and with a little work I think blitzball could be developed into a whole game on its own. However. There is one glaring error in the game. Why, in god's name, is the main character such a girly man? Brad and I watched, and more importantly listened to the first scene and heard the first dialogue of the game, and we both broke out laughing. I sincerely hope that whoever does Tidus's voice doesn't talk like that all the time. I ended up naming him Lithp. Lithen to my thory. It's not just his voice either. The guy makes these little girly whimpers and he can't even lift the sword when he's given it. Then there's his run. It's like he's just barely restraining himself from skipping all the time. How come square always has to make it's main character as girly as possible without outfitting him in pink spandex (Oh yeah, Tidus's clothes are a whole nother hour worth of laughs) and then centers the story around a romantic relationship between him and a beautiful girl. It's like that Bloodhound Gang song, I Wish I Was Gay So I Could Get Chicks.
Of course looks can be deceiving, after all, he did stare at Lulu's gratuitous cleavage through a pair of binoculars...

I believe I've probably mentioned this on this page, and I'm fairly certain I mentioned it in my 'bio' on the Etc page, although I'm too lazy to check, but I'll re-explain anyways. You see, my eyes don't have a determined color. I list them as variable whenever I have to fill in an eye color, and something else, usually hazel, when I have limited options. Here's a little picture in which I've put the colors I eyedropper'd from three different photos of me I happen to have on the computer. Notice how different they are. The one on the left, the sort of blue-green, is typical. It seems especially frequent when I'm happy, although I have no idea as to whether that is just coincedence or whether my mood actually affects my eyes in some way. I don't remember seeing the middle the light red sort of one before, maybe I'm in between colors in that picture. The one on the right is pretty much brown, but it does have a reddish tint for some reason, maybe it's the lighting.

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Darby: No, let's not, I haven't been in an argument all day.
David: Sure you have.
Darby: No I haven't.
David: (blinks slowly)
Darby: ...dammit.

It's been out for four days, and it's still #1 on IMDb's top 250. Not only that, but it's risen a tenth of a point (9.1 to 9.2 on a 10 point scale) since I last checked, 4000 votes ago.

It may seem like my life has become insanely boring recently or something, but hey, I'm not the one reading about some stranger's boring life.

No, really though, I've just been doing stuff that doesn't translate too well to blog recently. Like having friends spend the night. That can be quite fun, as can be playing Tales of Destiny or X-Com, but none of these are real entertaining to hear about.
Oh well. I'll try and talk more.

I was cruising the IMDb and I found out that they keep records of video games too. So of course I searched out some games I liked. Final Fantasy Tactics, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, and Vagrant Story to name a few. I found that not a single one of them had yet achieved the magical 5 vote number needed for the average rating to show up. So I voted. Not there yet. Oh well.

Then I searched out Baldur's Gate. And lo, what I found will astound you. The man who does Minsc's voice is named Jim Cummings. This man has over 100 other entries, all of which are voice parts. Some of them will shock and amaze you. Remember Mr. Bumpy from Bump in the Night? Jim Cummings. Or how about Darkwing Duck? Jim Cummings. Pete from Goof Troop and both Goofy Movies? Jim Cummings. Winny the fucking Pooh? Jim Cummings since 1991. Fuzzy Lumpkins? Jim Cummings! This man is everywhere! He was even the voice of Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for a time.

Returning to where this started, Baldur's Gate, he also did Gorion, Mulahey, and Tazok's voice. Simply incredible.

I keep having all these things I mean to blog, but I'm always far away from my computer, and by the time I get home I forget what they were. In any case, I saw Fellowship of the Ring last night. That movie was awesome. It's been some years since I read the book, so I can't really elaborate on differences between the two and why they were good or bad, but there obviously wasn't anything toooo bad. Nothing like Starship Troopers versus the book or anything like that. Most of the stuff I saw that I could remember looked very close, even the monsters were similar (including the balrog).

One complaint I have heard was that they left too much out, but hey, c'mon people, stop being bitches about it. You have to realize that these things cost money to make, and that you have to make that money back or you can't make more. I for one would have been happy to sit through a six hour movie, but many people who either didn't read the books or didn't love them wouldn't. So not only would the company that made the movie get less income, they'd have to spend more to make the movies. Be realistic.

Also, reading through some negative reviews of the movie I keep seeing a recurring complaint. That being that some of the things, like the way gimli looked, or the way the elves acted, or how darn near anything else looked, was too "derivitive" from other works, like D&D.
Ummmmm.... people? I can understand how some newbies might not understand this, but I would think those that have read the trilogy twenty times would know that all of our fantasy archetypes today are based on The Lord of the Rings. The standard dwarf, elf, ranger, what have you are based on Gimli, Legolas, Strider, and everything else. This series is fantasy.
What were you expecting?

There goes another half-hour.
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I designed a new T-Shirt though.

More like "crap I don't want to write". I have to write poems for English class. Three of them. By tomorrow. One has to be funny, one has to be serious, and one has to be a story poem. I sent Scott home over an hour ago so I could do my homework and I've spent the whole time putting it off. Good job me.

I'm going to leave the pics section out of the new layout, making 5 pages. In the layout after that I may introduce an images section with drawings and possibly some pictures though. This should make my job easier, and get rid of that half developed looking craphole that is the pics page.

Friday I went to Minneapolis on a field trip, my sister's class also went. The charter bus left at 6:00 in the morning. Ouch. So I woke up at about 1 AM (while someone else was still up, just to make sure) and stayed up for a while, then worked on getting my sister up around 4:45. We got ready in a flurry... or at least I did. We didn't leave until 5:50 because of her. We were supposed to be there at 5:45. In any case we made it on the bus scant seconds after my teacher, so I don't think anyone can criticize us.
We then spent 4 hours on the bus. In this time we watched Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail (courtesy of me) and Mallrats. Unfortunately I fell asleep for about a half an hour of the Holy Grail and I missed the best part, the rabbit to the arrest at the end. No matter I've seen it many a time. Then, also unfortunately, the sound cut out halfway through Mallrats and we watched about a half hour of the movie with no audio until it kicked back on for no reason.
When we got to Minneapolis we went to the Walker art museum and looked at the 'art.' I say 'art' because one example of the pieces was three 5' by 5' boards nailed together at right angles forming a white corner. It sat in the corner. It almost blended in with the wall. I could build it in 10 minutes by myself with about 12 nails and a hammer.
After we went to the museum we were going to go visit an ad agency... but they never called us back. We called them and set up some preliminary plans... then never nailed them down. Apparently the teacher for my sister's class called every day for a week and a half without a response.big.
A single one of the parking garages is twice as big as any mall in my state.
So we walked around there for 4 hours, bought some stuff, gawked, and then Vedran and I went to the 4th floor to try and find an arcade. We found one. Unfortunately when we tried to play the air hockey game we found there was no slot for either tokens or quarters. There was a slot for a plastic card. This was surprising. We found that to play a game you had to get a card, a $1 activation fee, then pay some money to get the card charged. $1 gets you 600 points. $5 gets you 3,000. $10 gets you 7,000. The air hockey was 1150 points That's nearly two dollars. So, we promptly made our way out of there and looked for another one. Luckily there happened to be a second arcade nearby, and this one used the familiar token system... or so it seemed. You get 3 tokens for a dollar. Not 4. You get 18 tokens for $5. Not 20. You get 40 tokens for $10, which is right... but it's not proportional to the $1 or $5 increments. We didn't have a ten, but we did have a five, and we didn't really have time for 40 tokens anyways, so we said what the hell and got us some tokens. We then found that Area 51 costs 2 tokens. That's 56 cents. Area 51 costs at most a quarter around here. Unfortunately we had no other real options so we went ahead and played and I proceeded to lay down the law on his ass.
Then, on the ride home we watched the Matrix, no sound, and Jurassic Park 3, unfortunately with sound.
So, all in all it probably wasn't a particularly well spent $35 to go, or a particularly spent 'the rest of the money I brought with me', but oh well, I didn't have to go to school that day.

Davmandu spouted this nonsense at 00:10

Mr. Fitz was wearing a grinch tie today. He said his wife got it for him. He said she thinks he's kind of a scrooge. He said, "When my kids were little that was the only Christmas show I would let them watch, the Grinch. I would always turn it off right before he gave the stuff back... I always thought the Grinch was a pussy, giving up that easy."

Silly old Mr. Fitz.

Today we slaughtered a deer my dad got hunting. In the process of course we cut off the lower parts of the legs. Later we threw three of those bones to to my dog Beth and the upper part including the joint from one leg. She picked them clean and now it looks like some poor fool was in there, got his leg bit off, picked clean, and then the femur was broken into multiple pieces. And she was such a nice dog...

I'm actively working on one layout (actively being at least once a week) and experimenting with another one. Both look pretty good, probably better than this one. This one was more to have something about Argus and to do that effect at the top. I still can't decide if I should incorporate flash or not.

I wish Liz were here, because then I'd be happy. Right now I'm only mildly pleased, and that's only because I just downloaded something I have been wanting Liz to see and now she can see it and be happy. Oh well. I'll see her tomorrow.

I wrote down a couple silly things said at school today, although I missed many more.

In Biology:
Teacher: There are two forms of reproduction, asexual is one, what's the other?
Tyler: ...bisexual?
Class: (laughing)
Conner (quietly): buttsexual?

In American History, taught by Mr. Fitzgerald:

Fitzgerald's Theory of Eliminating Crime
    Take some month, say December... December's a good month anyway 'cause of the holidays... 'cause holiday's suck... anyways, you take this month and you take all the people accused of felonies, and you take their defense lawyer, and their post and pre-trial everything, and anyone and everyone else with any association with the crime in any way at all, and you take these guys, take them out behind the prison, line them up, and you shoot 'em.
    Now after 30 days of this the populace will be so scared they'll become model citizens.
    Of course humans are frail and our memories tend to slip, so after about 120 days you get the crime wave again. So you gotta do this what, 3 or 4 times a year.
    And that will take care of crime.
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... no I'm just joking.
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No, really I am.

I noticed the archives page was out of date, so I... brought it up to date. It doesn't follow any layout, I figure I'll just leave it like that for awhile, and change it seperately from the rest of the page, since It links to multiple layouts anyways.

If it is this warm much longer the deer hanging in the garage is sure to rot. This means we have to slaughter it this Saturday, no buts about it mister.

I was standing in line for lunch today, and I saw something. What to call it I do not know, I simply must describe it. The guy standing in front of me. He had this hair. This frightening frightening hair. It was a bowl cut, the lower half being about an eighth of an inch long, the upper maybe a fourth. Then, on his front hairline there were multiple strands about a foot long, which were very greasy and very wavy and slicked back over his head, reaching the back. Then, to top it all off, at the base of his skull there was a skinny mullet about 5 inches long. A very greasy mullet.
I had to look at this while waiting for my food.
I threw away my fries.

Iowa weather is known for being crackity (crackity: acting in a manner similar to the manner of one who is high on crack), but there are a couple things you can be sure of. In the summer it will go over 100 at some point and the humidity will be high enough to kill an Arizona native where they stand. In the winter, there will be snow by Thanksgiving, and you will need your winter coat long before December.

Today is December 4 and I walked home without a jacket of any sort. I was sweating when I arrived. I am frightened.

Liz and I went to a Linkin Park concert. It was fun.

I have a few other designs here at school which I'll be posting soon.

We finished emptying out our locker full of my late grandpa's stuff. We were looking through his books and found this box that had some really old books in it. There are three of Shakespeare's plays printed in the 1890s, a collection of his works printed in London that is so old it doesn't have a copyright date and some other books from the early 1900s. They are quite neat and in pretty good condition. We also found an antique battery powered flashlight made of metal with a lantern-front and a sliding knob as the switch. It's a little rusty but we can probably get it to work.

Go look at my shirts once done with my blog, because I'm spending much more time on them these days than this.

Okay, I just had one of the best nights of my life, and I want everyone to know two things. Linkin Park rocks and I love David. He can explain later if he wants to.