Easily download Youtube videos to your iPod with Tooble

Tooble is a new program for Mac OS X which aims to make it extremely easy to download and convert any Youtube video into a format compatible with iTunes, Video iPods, iPhones or Apple TVs. I am the lead programmer for this project, and am very proud with how far its come. I hope you all enjoy it!

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You can see more info, and download Tooble at Tooble.TV.

Mooninites invade Boston!

Apparently the whole of the city of Boston was shut down over a bomb scare encited by a Lite-Brite Mooinite.
Yea. Those Lite-Brites are pretty scary huh. So brightm they might blind the general public or something.
Now, as a longterm Aqua Teen Hunger Force fan, I recognized the familiar glare of all our friend Ignignokt. ATHF may not be that popular, but I find it hard to believe one could honestly mistake a pixelated cartoon character for a terrorist.
Ten other cities have had these friendly renditions of all our favorited Moon-creatues spread across them all over the US as part of marketing campaign for the new ATHF movie, but only Boston seems to find them that threatening. These things have been floating around across all of Boston, New York and Los Angeles for the past few weeks, and only now does anyone in Boston notice? So, of course, Lite Brite displays of cartoon characters that have been hanging off telephone poles for a few weeks are really bombs, and could explode any second! Hide the children!
Of course, all bombs are marked with bright lights, for the bomb squads to find. Always in open areas too. Anything to help the police. Its not like bombs are supposed to be concealed or anything. The terrorists are never that smart..



Credit to the Soap for this one. This video sums up the whole event perfectly:

Emergency Parking Only

Emergency Parking Only, originally uploaded by Jakk6.

This is about the best picture I've ever taken.

Enjoy!

New Blog

This is here exclusively to promote my new technology blog over at SpectoriS.beengoinpostal.com. All of the tech posts will be going there now, so hopefully all the people who come here for tecnology-centric news and stuff will too.

That is all.

Google co-creates Myspace competitor

Ok, I know this is old news, but I think its pretty significant.
Google has teamed up with Nike to create Joga.com, a community site for players of soccer that allows users to

Create your own personalized page to add your favorite pictures, videos and blogs, and view what your fellow fans have added. Members can keep current with Friend Requests, Alerts, and Messages too.

This, along with an interesting take on community events and soccer games (thats seems errily similer to Myspace' Events) and a few ties to the official soccer games (such as players profiles) provided by Nike should make for a very interesting experiment.
Although previously closed to anyone save by invitation, Joga has just opened up to anyone with a Google account.

Overall, it looks like it might have seriosu potential. The entire site as a very nice layout and features like a built-in photo cropper/editor beat myspace into the dust. Where myspace had sick, nasty looking rugged edges and degraded terribly with miserably incomplient code and other numerous issues I wont get into, joga seems to succeed, so far. We'll see how it comes out, but google's first real true step into the social networking market, a definite winner in years to come, has gone fairly well so far.


The Google Blog Post

Alex's Gophers

//Just something I found on my school network drive
//Wrote this a while back when I was bored
//Please, just dont ask..


Gophers. are fun. They are small and dumb and make great footballs. Because of their overpowering and awesome brainpower it is easy to convince them to participate in your ‘sport’. I advise sedating them first so they’re not fully out, but still sorta too loopy to resist. Unfortunately, the whole gohping thing really is a serious issue and is considered a medical condition these days, so its best on one sees you. If you’re caught, just claim that you’re going through withdrawal and have to go play every once in a while, but are trying to quit. Unless, that is, the observer happens to be a dirty arsonist. In this case, I advise you to fill all your socks with Freon and try to get away as fast as you can, because I still have that machete in the basement and will try to eat the pickles of SATAN if you do not first reach the Valley of the Silver Cows and speak to their leader, Mo’roN. Good ‘ol Mo will probably try to eat your kidney first, but make sure you can get the sensor array out of his stomach without using the space ship and you’ll be fine. After that, you should continue your journey to the Moon in a hot-air balloon. Unless, that is, you happen to see another of those pesky pterodactyls. In that case, you should begin your decent back to earth in your body. However fun it may be, you MUST resist the urge to land on the Giant Lilly pad, or the evil mutant salamander lords will come and try to use you as a bridge into across the Great Lake of FireLlamamazz. Now the only way to defeat the terrible beasts is to call them names like “FuzzleFace” or “Lord and Master’, and they should be quivering in terror in no time. At this point you should defiantly take out your handy magical duct tape horse reigns and fly away to the nearest cloud before the evil Algebra Books from the endless burning pit next th the

Google releases another app refresh::

Thats right, Google has released a new version of one of their products. The Gmail notifier this time. Well, actually only the gmail mac notifier, but its still pretty darned sleek.

Not only is it universal now, (having native support for both intel and PPC Macs), but also has a new icon! (which is much shinier, might I add :)
And here comes the "why should I care?" part: well, they fixed the multi-user issue!
Ever since its release, the notifer seemed to simply lack support for multiple users. When envoked on any account other than the one it was first used, it would just quit. Strange, but I
ve had this issue on all three macs I tested it on and the exact same thing happened

And now its fixed, prettier and universal

Cheers, google!




Get it here.

Illegal Wiretapping

If you have no idea what this is about, Mr. Bush 'authorized' breaking the rules of the US constiturion (the only document that keeps the nation together) on citizens' privacy because he thought we wouldn't mind. Or notice. Or care.

The most depressing part is that most people haven't.

Apperently, we dont need our privacy. Its not like any of us are using it, anyway.

This alone is grounds for arrest, and if he was anyone but the president he would already be behind bars.

I think that if he can tap the phone of anyone he feels like without a warrent, we should be able to listen in on all *his* calls as well.
Its not like he needs his privacy either, I mean, he could be plotting with terrorists!



..

Pisses me off, thats all.

Google Blogger Widget

As some of you may know, Google just released a few dashboard widgets for OS X 10.4.

OK, you say, why do I care? I can already access my gmail and my blog via the web browser.
Well I thought so too, until I actually tried them. The gmail widget I could do without, the gmail notifier for Mac does all that for me already. Maybe not as pretty, but I believe function should take precedence over eyecandy.
The blogger widget, on the other hand, is quite nice. Extremely useful for posting without having to go through Bloggers log in>pick a blog>new post system. Just type in your post and click publish.
Very handy.

As you can see in the screenshot below, the interface is simple (doesn't bother with any extra options that most people don't use anyway) yet not too limiting.
You can close the dashboard, then reopen it and have what you've composed of your post still there.
Overall, I like it. A lot. One of the reasons I havent posted here very often recently was because I didnt like having to go through Blogger's strange interface. It is pretty well done, and yes it does follow some UI guidelines, but I just dont like it.
After finding this, expect many more posts here in times to come...

First Contact?

Some of you may have heard about the "red rain" that fell in india not that long ago. However, some may not, and I intend to fix that.

I believe the issue had been given no where near the attention it deserves by almost every news network in existence. If confirmed, this could forever alter out perception of the very origin of life itself.

OK, hype (well-deserved hype, mind you;) aside, back in 2004 there was a rain of a strange, red substance in certain sections of India. This 'rain' seemed to be little more than red-dyed water, however it soon proved much more complex.

The falling of the rain corresponded with the landing of an asteroid in that very region, and a very widely-heard sonic boom as it exploded in atmosphere.

A lone scientist went out to investigate the event, and obtained a few samples of the liquid. Under the microscope, the 'rain' looks pretty organic, yet is of no living species or family of life we can identify (plant, animal, protist, etc.).

OK, so I'm judging it myself here. But take a look, to the untrained eye they appear to be cells. To my untrained eye, at least.












Although all of it has yet to be confirmed by anyone, as long as this isn’t some kind of massive seriously-unfunny hoax, we could have just made first contact with an alien species.
And barely anyone knows.
--yet everyone knows about the latest antics of hollywoods favorite celebrities.


Does anyone else see a problem here?

One More thing..

Just for you who were wondering who/what the first "FACE" picture was modeled after..

picture


















drawing

See the resemblance?

The AutoFace™

You know what?

I had a hidden agenda from the start.

The PS3

Sorry I havent bothered to post here in a while, been really quite busy recently.
This is just my take on the whole "next-generation" gaming consoles war. Have fun.



As always, let us begin with teh released ps3 statxorz::




CPU

Cell Processor
PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
1 VMX vector unit per core
512KB L2 cache
7 x SPE @3.2GHz
7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
* 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy
total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS
GPU
RSX @550MHz
1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance
Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines
Sound
Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell- base processing)
Memory
256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz 256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz
System Bandwidth
Main RAM 25.6GB/s
VRAM 22.4GB/s
RSX 20GB/s (write) + 15GB/s (read)
SB< 2.5GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (read)
System Floating Point Performance
2 TFLOPS
Storage
Detachable 2.5" HDD slot x 1
I/O
USB Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0)
Memory Stick standard/Duo, PRO x 1
SD standard/mini x 1
CompactFlash (Type I, II) x 1
Communication
Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x 3 (input x 1 + output x 2)
Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)
Controller
Bluetooth (up to 7)
USB 2.0 (wired)
Wi-Fi (PSP)
Network (over IP)
AV Output
Screen size: 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
HDMI: HDMI out x 2
Analog: AV MULTI OUT x 1
Digital audio: DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1
Disc Media
CD PlayStation CD-ROM, PlayStation 2 CD-ROM, CD-DA, CD-DA (ROM), CD-R, CD-RW, SACD, SACD Hybrid (CD layer), SACD HD, DualDisc, DualDisc (audio side), DualDisc (DVD side)
DVD: PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM, PlayStation 3 DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW
Blu-ray Disc: PlayStation 3 BD-ROM, BD-Video, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE





Specs are important, however understanding them is twice as valuable.

The official PS3 specs have YET TO BE RELEASED meaning that, despite some of the press releases, we still have only a rough idea of what'll be in it. The specifications previously posted are just sony's way of appeasing the public, giving us a minimum idea of what might be in the ps3.

The Cell processor is not like any other processor ever made. Although we've had multi-core chips before (see the dual-core intels, or tri-core 360, or quad-core G5) there can never be too many of them or it'd take a whole processor itself to correctly divide the jobs and achieve maximum performance out of all the units. So thats what IBM did in the creation of the Cell.

Instead of having one, two or three units in the chip, theres more like 5. About four (or more) slave chips, then one PPC master processor to divide jobs between them. IBM's Power line of microprocessors come in separate generations, the PPC74xx (32-bit) leading into the PPC750 (64 bit, multi core, used in power mac computers and higher end ibm eservers) to cell (64 bit, at least 5 cores). The 360 was released with a modified (specialized) PPC 750, whereas the ps3 will instead use the Cell. So, technically speaking, the 360 is exactly one generation behind.

Even then, the processor used in the 360 was specialized to the extreme. Although they upped the clockspeed to 3.2 GHz, they still lagged some in l2 and bus speed when contrasted with its equivalent PPC750 (the lower-end apple powermac g5s), and achieve disappointing real-world benchmarks against others of its type. This doesnt mean that it isnt a wonderful system at an almost unbeatable price, just that it still isnt comparable to higher end systems, the way an affordable game system (or 'multimedia center' or whatever its being hyped as this week) should be.

Sony, on the other hand, does not intend to market the ps3 as an affordable gaming system. Far from it, the ps3 will have cutting edge technology that hasnt even made it into the personal computer (or even server) realm yet. It may cost more, but with very good reason. It will boast technology that will remain cutting-edge for years to come.

With up to eight controllers and dual-head HDMI HD video output, I think most gamers will enjoy the extra power, even if it does cost $100 more. I know I will.The 360 is a very nice system, yes. And yes, it does blow away the original xbox, gc and ps2. But its only the first so-called 'next generation' console out, and shouldnt make judgments about other consoles that simply arent out yet.

In conclusion, the ps3 will OWN the 360.

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There are fish jumping in my back yard. Don't ask me how that works, it just does. Might have something to do with the two and a half feet of water that just so happens to be there as well, but one can never be so sure...

Its been raining non stop for about nine days now. It may stop sometimes, but never for more than a half an hour. Then back to pouring. I think the Flying Spaghetti Monster is punishing me for not making enough converts, but we may never know..



Hello again, all! First I would like to thank the .725 readers I have left in your continued support of this rapidlay declining blog. Your loyalty really means something to me, and is currently the only reason I'm still updating.

Back to the non-boring junk, its been so long and I have so much to blog about now that I think I might just be too lazy to write any of it.
Or maybe not.

First and foremost, SERENITY CAME OUT!!! My life is now complete :-D
It was amazing. Simply amazing. I'm not gonna give anything away; save for that it is a very powerful; left me speechless and that doesn't happen.
See it, just do it even if you never watched have even heard of Firefly,, I promise you that you will not regret it.
YOu can watch the first 9 minutes of it online too, but I would advise against it. Just ruins everything when theres the movie to be seen, and doesn't contribute a penny to those who deserve it most in greating such a fabulous film.

A storms coming
Many of you might have noticed; in this last hurricaine season we've experienced was particurally nasty. Then (in NE anyway) we experiences almost a week and a half on nonstop rain. If I recall correctly, we had no less than 23 snowfalls last Winter. Is anyone else noticing this nasty-looking trend, or is it really just me? It seems we've experienced some of the worst weather in recent (10, 15 years) all in the past year or so. Correct me if I'm wrong on this one, but I expect the next year or so to be pretty interesting.

"Define interesting"
"Oh god oh god we're all gonna die?"


Also, on a slightly off-key and extremely irritating note, I've noticed that Mark's blog now shows up as the first google result, and pops up when the 'I'm feeling lucky' button is used. Yeah, rub it in while you can, Google. You can't take the Sky from me.

BTW Mark still hasn't noticed that I stole his dream for my last post. SSh, no one tell and lets see how long it'll take him to notice...


And now I will leave you with this.
That is all.

marks retarded dream of d00m from hell that is _VERY_ special

OK this was something my friend Mark said after waking up in the mountains on the Moab trip that was just so retarded I thought it must deserve a place here. Used without permission.


"I dreamed that Jesse, Alex and I went to this fossil shop in Moab. Alex bought this retarded that was like deformed, then Jesse and I went to get one of those things that do stuff and started climbing up a shelf. Suddenly a huge jaw came flying down out of nowhere and impaled accross the chest. He then, bleeding profusely, walked up to the cash register pointed to the piece of bone embedded in his chest and said "How much"?
I then woke up with a piece of duct tape on my face and Jesse sitting nervously next to me with the roll."



That is all.

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

May all be touched by his noodly appendage.

Go here.
Now.


That is all.



//Yes I do know I said I wouldn't post anymore...,
//But I lied.
//Get used to it.

The Year in Review: A history (and maybe farewell) to my blog.

I'm drenched in sweat, my face is burnt red, legs covered with dirt, arms all torn up, ankles ache terribly one still bleeding from some gash I didn't notice hours ago, and every single muscle in my entire body aches.

But, God, I haven't felt this good ages.


'Twas almost exactly a year ago when I began mobility lessons with the good 'ol dinky aluminum crutches, and now here I am running around for hours on end. A year back I had nothing to do, save for mess around with my cruddy old Celeron and worship-worthy Red Hat 9 installation. This became my fixation for the course of the summer, as I consistently silently begged for that revered and sacred last week of August to come again just a little sooner.
In this time, I had very, very little do do. Most of my day consisted of waking up (12:45), dragging myself over to the kitchen to raid it of anything worth eating, messing around on the computer (1:00-11:00), watching TV [ATHF] (11:00-2:30) and then sleeping again (3:00-12:45).
Pretty dull existence, huh.
It was in this time that I actually bothered to start this blog as little more than a place to record my zealotic anti-Micro$oft feelings of the time. That and make retarded little threads like "You know you're a nerd if..." and "Semi-Witty M$ Attacks", both of which still get roughly 20 google/yahoo/MSN search hits a week, I might add.
But all in all, this seclusion time brought me to a state of serenity with the world at large, and quelled much of my desire to skish those puny human meatbags en mass. This was probably a good thing, because if I hadn't ended up this way I would probably have been kicked out of my new school in an instant, but it didn't come without a price.
My precious feet were bound, and were to stay that way for a whole year.

As one might assume, not being able to walk, run, jump, or do any thing of which one is accustomed to doing on a daily basis has its tolls (and trolls). However, one most likely will not predict the effect of this.
Over the past year I have been crippled. Unable to compete in any sports, carry my own bags, and at some times not even walk at all. This has understandedly lead to my not wanting to use my legs at all, as I've grown to assosiate them with the searing pain that would shoot throughout my ankles whenever I attemped to walk. This became a fear, embedded deep within me for many a month past after my first operation in August.
My second operation came and went fairly well. This time I had blogged a lot of it, and getting it out helped somewhat. I was realy quite suprised when I began to get little letters of concern and 'good luck' comments from people who I've never even known, but who I came to notice were really frequent readers of mine who had never bothered to speak up and actually comment before. This really inspired me to work on creating better content to post here, and so I did. This change promped a new name, url, and content rules for my 'new' blog. As thetechnologynews.blogspot.com kinda implied everything pertaining to its contents and all, I decided to change it to SpectoriS, as no one ever knows what that means anyway and I felt it was appropriate.
At this time the popularity of this blog simply exploded. At its peak I would get roughly 25 hits a day, not counting duplicates. I suddenly appeared on searches from Google, Yahoo, MSN, and others I hadn't previously even heard of. People began to beg me to link to their blogs, and link to me without really asking at all.
Thats when things got kinda sticky.
As summer slowly approached, I started to think about all the things that I intended to accomplish before it did, and my interest in keeping my ever-so-holy blog up to date faded.

Now I barely get 10 or so hits a day. Depressing, but true. I believe this blog has run its course, served its purpose and then some. Not only resonating my views about tech crap, politics, movies, music, TV shows, waffles, dirtee emuxorz and the all-important SHOE music that I accidently came accross, and ==>other<==(click[t]herenow) really bizarre flash animations, but also helped me vent some pretty powerful emotions in time of need.
In short, this blog has really meant a lot to me in the year I've maintained it, really did help me publish some of my work to the world more easily that I previously thought possible. Venting such speeches, rants, short stories, news reports, and so on and actually getting feedback has been invaluable to me. Ending this really pains me, but I believe I've finally moved on.
Ye Olde Archives will remain in defiantly on blogger until I finally bother to buy another domain name and static IP and the like to serve it myself.

In conclusion, this blog is as of now unmaintained. I believe its served its purpose in the time It may stay this way, it may not, but don't wait up. You can still poke around in Ye Olde Archives on the right, I could promise you that you won't regret it.
But I'll just let you decide that for yourself.


-Jesse AKA Jack Merridew AKA Cryp AKA Blood or whatever my name is this week

THIS IS ANOTHER POST!!!!@#$@GVWFRFRAK

I HAVE MORE TO POST ABOUT THIS TIME!!!
WELL, NO, I DON'T, BUT I'M GOING TO PRETEND I DID UNTIL I DO!
BUT YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT, SO I MAY JUST HAVE TO SHOOT YOU NOW~!

Here I am, sitting in front of a tiny 15-inch screen on a perfectly fabulous day with the humidity of the Amazon and a rapidly amassing horde of starving mosquitos waiting to suck me dry the moment I open the door.

Yeah. It's Summer.
I want winter back.



The summer's been kinda really terribly slow. As always. Not much new crap to report here.
I think I'll just leave it at that until I really can think of something.



BSG's second season begins in exacty 26 hours, 30 mins. grr... not soon enough...

//^#6 is so menacing ;)

THIS IS A POST~!!@#$%^&*I[H(yay)

GREETINGS LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF PLANET EARTH!!!
YOU'VE ARRIVED JUST IN TIME FOR THE EVENING ENTERTAINMENT!
PLEASE, DO NOT RESIST AND (hopefully) YOU SHALL NOT BE HARMED!
NO PROMISES, THOUGH.


ANYway, I know I haven't posted for like ages. Finals and such had me hung up there for a while. This whole 'work' thing is still so foreign to me....
A LOT of crap has happened since the last time I bothered to mention any of it here.
This whole 'social interaction' thing just keeps getting in the way (...puny human meatbags)

PHEERST AYND PHOREMOST, Star Wars. Rocked. The best one since The Empire Strikes Back
I was more than prepared to hate this film (film hahahaha film hahahahaha). I really was. The moment I walked into the theater I was ready to come home wishing the prequel trilogy was never made. But....
I didn't.
I actually liked this movie, and only a pheew people know how extraordinarily abnormal that is.
I'm not going to give ANYTHING away, all I'm going to say is to go see it.
Now.



Secondly, I shall address the Updating of the Serenity post::
- According to SciFi Wire, All our favorite channel SciFi is picking up Firefly to add to their already impressive arsenal of BSG & Atlantis. SciFi's been looking up lately, attracting more viewers to programs such as BSG than ever before. As a long-term Scifi fan (I've been watching the purple planet since I was 10 - no jokes), its rather nice to see them picking up. For too long we've been forced to endure such tragedies such as Stargate SG-1. My only fear is that this will fall to th wayside of Andromeda, which began sucking the moment Scifi bought it from Fox. Andromeda was produced under Fox's wing for 4 years (2000-2004) and 88 episodes before Fox (I still haven't forgiven them - probably never will) decided to drop it to give the time slot to some lame stupid-people show. Bastards. After Fox pulled the plug on Andromeda, The SciFi channel desperately grabbed to pull it from the abyss. All the actors were saved, but the writers seemed to be lost. Without any further direction and little reason to go on despite its own fabulous reputation, it fell into ruin. In truth, I'd rather they just let it die on a good note. Season 5 is just crap beyond reason.
Yes, I do have a point behind this for the skeptical.
I just hope they don't do this to Firefly. That's all.
At this point, there isn't any mention of them creating any new episodes at all, however I have a sneaking suspicion they might.
//UPDATE:: Since Andromeda is officially dead now *sniff* They decided to auction off all the props on ebay
//The Route of Ages is defined as: “Extra super magical cube thingy which holds a tiny galaxy to power the Andromeda and save the day”

Lastlyishorisms, onto Fedora Core 4. I know this doesn't belong here at all, but the fourth installment of Red Hat's (unfortunately) unpopular experimental OS is just too awesome to ignore. Featuring bleeding-edge apps such as GCC 4.0, OpenOffice 2.0beta, KDE 3.4, GNOME 2.10, the 2.6.11 kernel, and so on. RH's done a GREAT job at patching every package in the entire distro for GCC4, becoming the very first distro out there to do so. (Yes, I know OSX/Tiger ships with GCC4, but it isn't entirely compiled with it). My benchmarks show this to be the fastest binary distro I've encountered since Mandrake 10.0. Red Hat seems to be slowly re-earning it's old slogan, 'The Open-Source Leader'


I'm sure I'll think of something else to put here later, but for now, I'm gone.

...where is up to your interpretation...

The H2G2 Movie

The major impression this movie left me with was simply:

Incredible...
It's even worse than I thought.

OK I'll give it that its a fairly good movie, but it just could never live up to the Hitchhiker's legacy. It was good, but no where near as good as the books were. In short; for anyone who's already read the books, it sucked. Anyone who hasn't, however, would probably love it.
If you havn't yet seen the movie or read the book, I would highly recommend reading it before you see it suck-ized in the theaters.

They entirely annihilated every trace of what might be mistaken for a plot in the book; basically movie-izing it. Turned out awful compared to the original, but still pretty good when contrasted with other popular movies today.

With that in mind, I cant wait for may 19th ;)

Serenity

Thats right, the happy-people offical trailer FINALLY came out today. About time. Actually looks pretty good too.

Go.
Watch.
Now.

The official trailer is here.
Or, if you have the bandwidth, here.

Firefly, for all you that don't know, was a very good series that was canned by those freaks at Fox for no reason at all after only one season.

Hopefully, Serenity will stay true to the original series, but I wouldn't be suprised if they threw in a couple new things couple things changed.

OK IM TO LAZY TO ACTUALLY FINISH THIS POST RIGHT NOW, SO YEAH. GET USED IT IT.

Links to keep you entertained:
Firefly, the first and (unfortunantly) only season
The offical Serenity (movie) web site.

siblings...

Just a little something else I wrote a while back, before I had perfected any real writing style. Scary as it may seem, this one was based on actual events too. Not like roughly based either, I mean to the point where I can honestly say I didn't exaggerate any of it.
Reading this kinda brings me back to a time when I would really quite often write short narratives or little excerpts seeming from a source unknown such as this. Back to a time before I had discovered Bash...
Ariel, for all those who don't know is my little sister.

siblings... [4/21/04 8:20 PM]
"Mom got up, left the dinner table walked into the kitchen and closed the door. Ariel's face suddenly distorted into into expression you would expect to find on a constipated gopher. She then made the noise you would expect to hear from a constipated gopher, and frabbed half-chewed egg pieces all over the table. "Ooh no! Don't do that again, and NOT on me!" She started to cry as more egg pieces dripped from her open mouth. "And do NOT blame me for your chewing disabilities!" She continued to sob as the egg flew across the table. Then, she started hysterically laughing. Ooh no, this could not be good. She suddenly jumped onto her chair, her arms flailing madly, and screamed: "LOOK!!! I'M A TURTLE I CAN FLY!!! AM I FLYING YET???" She then proceeded to throw herself straight down to the floor at full force. The laughing, drooling twisted mess below the chair then stood up and repeated her last action, this time SCREAMING "I'M GONNA FLY OFF TO HAPPYLAND!!!" and throwing herself at the floor at a even higher speed. Then, she picked herself up, stood up her chair, sat down and calmly started eating again."

//July's so far away... argh...

Demented man in the doctor's office

This is a random little expert from a short, rather pointless collection of short stories I wrote about a year and a half ago. Only recently have I managed to salvage most of the book from an old hard drive, and I just felt like posting this excerpt here. Really exaggerated the dramatic changes my writing style has undergone in the past year or so. It's more than just kinda weird looking back at myself from then; my viewpoint, mood and paradigm all were different. I was different; but that was then and this is now.
Enjoy.

"Hewwo, are my a be tak'n meezz mediclatations to0dae?" The man's face was all brown with odd looking scabs and scars, his arms almost too white. He was obviously deformed at birth, both physically and mentally. One look told me that the world would be a better off without him, and that if he was left to his own devices,he would probably make the world a better place. If you know what I mean. He was, lets say, unique, special, whatever you want to call it, this guy was NOT normal. He would probably be arrested for scarring the mental health of the general public if he decided to walk out in the streets. He looked like the kinda person who could truthfully answer "purple" to every question on the IQ test. Yea, this guy had some major problems. "We're sorry about that," The little man in a doctors suit said as the demented man was brought away my some security guard who looked like he wasn't getting payed enough. "-sometimes Albert kinda escapes from his- I mean walks into the wrong cell- I mean treatment room. We're really sorry, usually we cam catch him before he gets to the other victims'- I mean oh, I-" He was pulled aside by who seemed to be his boss, who silently yelled at him before casting him aside towards the hallway door. "Sorry about him, against my will this facility has begun to cut wages so now we have to pay people off the street with little or no medical training to replace the doctors who went on strike." he paused, "So now the hospital worked by almost complete novices. What is this world coming to? Or do I even want to know?" he added with a chuckle. "Oh yes, your medication. One second please." And with that, he left.
What is this world coming to?"

Software Patents...

Ok, I know I usually dont post this kind of junk here, but this is getting dangerously close to destroying a huge chunk of all free software accross the world.
This whole issue is just complete bull, under the new proposed laws, you could even be arrested for publishing your own code.
Under the possible laws, you could patent ideas like 'clicking inside the scroll bar' so no one else could use the idea (even if they use completely different code they engineered themselves) without paying the original 'author'.
And if you ask me,
That's just plain wrong.
If this works out the way I'm starting to fear it will, thousands, maybe even million of free software apps will be annihilated and declared illigal.
Simple apps like ffmpeg could be declared illigal and taken off the market, breaking everything that depends on it.
Just to give you an idea oh how much damage this could do, if ffmpeg is trashed, XINE, Mplayer, VLC, avifile, gstreamer, totem, and almost all other free media players will break.
I cannot stress the desperation of this situation.
If something is not done NOW, the efforts of huge chunks of the entire open source/free software community will be gone, having all work so many people have done in the past 10 years destroyed.
The voices in my head could be wrong this time, but this is beginning to get really nasty.
Millions of lines of free/Open Source code will be just...
gone.


//Sign the petition. It's the least you can do...