idw:xvii
february 1999

nooooooooooo!!!! its my arch nemesisssssss!!! make it stopppppppppppppp!!!! alright, things with rachel are getting 'interesting', like how tomorrow is either one week, or almost one month... in other news, i found the evil christina's page. why is she the evil christina? i think its the kinda thing that takes 10 years to understand... ofcourse, after i found the site, i had to call k'vn, to find out if he had any insight as to why it existed, why it had good design, etc.. i should have known better. im convinced that k'vn took a few too many meds again today.. he swears all he took was benadryl, im pretty sure that it takes more than benadryll to see 'pretty rainbows in the kitchen' and 'nice shiney pentium people w-with highlighters'. anyways, after that, he told me to go to some site that i remember seeing him go to, but that [he's now commenting about how 'everythings shaking, and that it rules.. and how its all going to break down into disco mood. i wish my room looked like that'] now he wanted me to tell him how it was. i had to remind him that ['whoa! look! russian scientists!'] he actually went there last friday when we were marooned at tawa's house, with a frosh and vague computer access.. that was the day i was out of it.. moving on..

after browsing thru the evil christina's site for awhile, i found the javascript we had been talking about during the fcat ['little silver balls, that they put on cakes, and tell you not to eat! thats it!'] thingie... it was more evil than i expected... and my head hurts.. ['this isnt war, this is a scientific experiment that shows that population can be controlled thru atmospheric means'].. anyways, ['eureeka! its a calendar!'], i think this is exactly what i needed.. a good trippy rant.. and screaming.. lots of screaming.. k'vn ['but i have only one suit! i cant go down there! you will die. oh no! the hippie just got back in the pentium people disco suit again.'] can account for this. {ins. maniacal laughter} ['but there was, sir! it was there!']. {ins. more maniacal laughter}

['the place of darkness, is really a disco'] anyways, i should have some interesting things to say about tomorrow. tomorrow is the cpu ['why do they have neon lime jackets? oh no! theyre dancing now! i cant take anymore!'] club meeting. i need to talk to k'vn more when i start to run out of ideas for rants.. ['all that for five bea? oh no! he has karate moves now, and hand motions. but hes not stupid enough to try an axe kick. deeeeeu-deeeeeu-deeeeeeu-deeeeeu'] and its not just the cpu club meeting, its also game day! yaaaaaay! game day! that means we get to overthrow one of the computer labs that no one talks about, and play countless computer games! half of us will be playing starcraft, while the other half will be playing yisroel's discworld multiplayer ['what do they think theyre going to investigate!?'] pud.. yes, k'vn is offically going to be the bursar. i get to be the silver horde. theyre 7 undeads with 500 hit points a piece.. yisroel gets to be chubby. we all must phear chubby.

speaking of chubby ['hold on a second. yaaay!'], his little friend, the evil cheshire cat, now has a name.. it was dubbed spigot, ['have you got your skymask?'] by none other than rachel.

anyways, thats enough for now. thus, the rant drought ['i dont want to go back! this is fun!'] has ended. the once and future ['my sister would like to be like ice cream. like a chocolate swirl'] king of the losers has returned triumphantly ['aaaaaaah!']{yes, all the stuff in braaaaaaaaaaaakets was from k'vn} [02.03.99@20:02]

i live in interesting times, we've all determined that. i think its time to find out just how interesting. pretty much, its getting to the point of interesting that i think im the only one who'll care..

oh, hey.. i just remembered.. things are going to get *rather* interesting over here within a few months... due to a conversation i had with isaac during trig on friday, i may have access to a static ip.. and if i have access to a static ip, that means.....

anyways, my goal is to have everything set by april. depending on how much work i get done (and how much billing i get done [no, not *that* bill])

in other news, yesterday was another test to show that the small world theory is still intact. ended up [literally] running into 2 people at the movies, one of which i havent seen for 2 years now.. aaaanyways.. dont ask me how the movie was, cause well, i simply dont know.. i was kinda busy..

in other news, i finally got around to cleaning some stuff up around here.. first off, i changed around how the lines are... they look better now. theyre hand drawn.. now everything on my site is either hand drawn, or verdana.. second, i got some other stuff kickin over here.. like a negative version of my site, and those fonts.. those fonts are gonna end up being cool.. i mean, really... k'vns is gonna be flat out cryptic.. i also got around to adding some css tags that i've been meaning to put up.. like font{text-transform:lowercase}.. i like that tag. because of it you must phear me. i also added another 10 logos, 2 of which are fortune cookie fortunes that fielle [i'll humor you, so you might humor me] got, the others are pretty much random..

allrighty then.. this week will end up being strange, as most others are.. i get to go to merlins! yay!..now if i could just get my nextdoor neighbors to stop going *whirrrrrrrrrr* *thump* [02.07.99@16:08]

i coulda sworn i really had something to say.. argh, guess its just my 'condition' added to starting to get sick. im gonna fight it this time. really. im suckin down as much orange juice as possible, and on more meds than any one person really needs.

oh yeah, k'vn.. forgot abooot him.. he's off doing some other thing im exempt from.. anyways, for the past week or two he's been off crutches, and just been the limping wonder. then yesterday he had to go to the doctor to find out how its doing.. basicly, they told him 'every time you bend your knee, you tear this muscle. that muscle is kinda important. to keep you from doing this, you get a cast.' and of course, he had to pick a color.. his choices were sky blue, purple, neon orange, lime green, and black. he chose black, so i guess now i wont have to worry about him trying to wear all white again, like on saturday.

that reminds me.. some interesting things came up after the movie on saturday. basicly, me and k'vn kept making tawa laugh insanely. then tawa's tummy started to hurt, in a way which made her think it was a swolen spleen. she'd had a swolen spleen late last year, and remembered that it occured because she had mono. this led her to the conclusion that she may have mono(again). now, if tawa has mono, then k'vn has mono; because k'vn finished off tawa's drink on friday. this all boils down to one thing, theres a high possibility that k'vn got mono from his g/f's best friend. i think my curse is wearing off on them all...

and heeeey, i've got a new font! yay! its called 'sweet oblivion', and its modeled after rachel's handwriting. i'll upload it over at the typography place sometime tonight..

hrm, what else happened today.. oh yeah, i got to use the weirdness test on people.. like mr p! mr p got an insanely high score, as expected; and enjoyed the question about cthulhu . he also liked the one about finding 3000 nigerian dollars hidden inside a cat. anyways, mr p got a score somewhat near mine.. rachel on the other hand, shes far too normal. she got a 55%. thats just about as normal as you can get, without losing interest. anyways, i think k'vn should be done by now, so its time for me to close this up. [02.09.99@14:45]

allllrighty then few more things that i forgot to mention last night.. first off, i got a new guestbook. since i cant remember the address to the sign section, i'll just direct you all to the contact section.

second thing on the agenda, is the explanation for why the good mood daily tracker kicked from 11 to 31.. thats cause after discussing things with rachel, we decided to go with the beginning of the quasi relationship as the official start.

speaking of rachel, things have occured that possessed her to conspire against me to create an i.f.w with the evil christina. i warn you all, stay away from this place. it has yet to hit the internet, but when it does, stay away. trust me, ive seen the prelim of it.. its *disturbing*. and it'll probably require having the rachel font [sweet oblivion] for it to look right..

this leads us to whats happening with everyone's favorite digital enigma's arch nemesisisisissss.. she may just try to destroy the universe again. our only hope is that she doesnt find her way onto usenet. if she finds her way onto usenet, she'll end up reading a.r.k... and if that happens, all hell will break loose, again.. with that warning said, i think i'll close for the day. the bell will be ringing soon.. [02.10.99@13:21]

*yawn*. whoa, hey, its valentines day, isnt it?.. mlah.. for the first time in a seeming eternity, im in a good mood on valentines day.. this is rather frightening...

now for a few random things that've been bouncing around in the vast void that is my brain... first off, the local 'hard rock'[essentially lots of classic stuff, mixed with new stuff, with some hair bands thrown in to mix] has gotten interesting... theyve recently started doing live broadcasts from a local nightclub.. now, theyve done remotes from the club scene for a long time now, but untill two weeks ago they havent changed their playlist because of such.. see, a few weeks ago, they started playing dance/quasi-alterna-pop[im the one that coined this. you heard it here first] music from 23-4.. like on the mp3 stream im addicted to.. so far no fatboy slim. that reminds me, i need to get that cd. some of the <title> tags around here make refrences to lyrics.. its the kind of cd that you can just throw on, set on repeat all, and let go..

speaking of cd's, i'm currently in possession of k'vns third eye blind cd.. the cd is actually rather good.. first half is all the released songs, and after that it goes into even more drug based, partially acoustic songs.. on the topic of third eye blind, ive picked semicharmed life to be the first song i learn to play on the guitar.. why? several reasons. first, cause its a freekin easy song. 3 whole chords. g-g-d-d-c-c-c-c-c-c then rinse and repeat. second, cause i already have the lyrics memorized, again, its not that tough of a song. five[three, sir!]- uhm, three, cause theyre all normal chords, see #1. four, because its challenging, yet attainable. five cause it sounds good on the acoustic 6-string ive got. and six, there is no number six.

back to cd's i need to get. i need to get my own copy of third eye blind. that, or rip all the tracks to mp3's.. i also need to get the fatboy slim cd. i, at first, had hoped rachel would get it for me, but i instead got a kickass artoo keychain and a stoned out greatfull dead bear[pictures will come later]. i really cant wait to get that cd.. from there, i need to get the beastie boys cd, and depending on when i have time, i'll go annoy the people at blockbuster music or the local cd exchange place to let me listen to this pushmonkey cd.. cause that cd *may* have potential.. all i know is that one of their songs got stuck in my head, but it was so uninteligible that it got annoying.. we all know that i *have* gotten a cd in the past simply because part of one track got stuck in my head *glares at mc900ft jesus cd*[i need to rip that track to an mp3.. so you people can suffer the hell that i got for 2.7 months].. this may happen again..

this all hinges on if mr grace would get around to paying me for the 200 bucks worth of work ive done to his site.. an occurance which is rather sketchy, considering that whenever i feel like calling he ends up being off in california..

in other news, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz whoa, sorry.. keep drifting off.. its only 2:30 here.. oh yeah, i got a new k-spiff app from dustoff.. i gotta say, this is by far one of the coolest little proggies ive ever seen.. its a thing called genius 2.0 [find it on download.com], and its essentially a ton of internet utillities crammed into one concise space.. i mean, really, its got a ton of stuff... all sorts of port watchers for us paranoid peoples, finger servers/clients, traceroutes, name lookups, etc etc etc.. its like everything i'd ever need to do a background check on someone.. its fun, and so far its prevented me from asking one stupid question. yay! its also got things like a mailbox cleaner.. so you can quickly purge an entire box instantly... i know some people who this may prove usefull for *evil grin*..and hey! its got stuff so i can pick people's ip addresses by sending them a message thru icq! even if their address is masked thru icq...mm.. i like this.. i feel like a terrorist again.. *evil grin*..mad props to dustoff for finding this thing first...

alrighty then, whilst i was busy getting sidetracked by playing with telnet, i managed to scan a picture of darkstar, the stoned-out grateful dead bear..he rocks..basicly, he was the guilt gift rachel got since she knew a keychain wasnt going to be enough to compensate for the 50 some bucks i spent on her... anyways, he does rock.. cause he looks really stoned out.. that brings us to what happened on friday during spanish, my only semi-real class on day one... me and danielle got bored so we looked up phrases for being intoxicated.. then asked mr packard for some nice mexican slang.. we ended up with 'ido'[gone] and 'para ariba'[state of being high].. so yeah, now darkstar gets to hang over my monitor along with spigot and chubby..cause hes cool, and cause he helped me win that game of risk on friday..

see, cause after my one quasi-real class on friday, i had ja.. 2 hours of nap time.. i was actually consious that period.. i had to go over some chemistry.. junk about gasses and moles.. i cant stand moles.. then two random seniors showed up and asked if i'd like to go down the hall to play risk.. i, of course, had to take them up on the offer.. with the hand i got i was able to take africa, austraila, and most of southeast asia in one turn.. since it was a 3 player game they ended up double teaming me, and cutting off my supply line to africa, and then started chipping away at asia.. then the bell for break rung, and grey had to check out[players were grey, black, and green. i was green]. then another random senior showed up to take over for grey, and eventually half of period 31 physicsHL ended up watching... so grey was under new ownership. in *one* turn, grey went from having all of southamerica, some of north america, and some of africa; to having s.a., n.a., africa, and most of asia.. i was squished back to deep southeast asia.. luckily, this left grey open for a giant attack... i, by that time had enough risk cards to cash in, and got 15 troops, plus my basic 5, plus my 2 from austrailia.. so 22 troops.. from there i made a pact with black to push back grey to southamerica and to give black africa.. again, in one turn, i swept from s.e. asia to argentina.. took all of northamerica in the process.. i left grey 6 troops in iceland, 4 in brazil, and 5 randomly in africa... next up was grey again... didnt get the chance to cash in more cards.. had to pass.. next turn, inphy had evacuated africa the turn before, so black took africa... back to me, i took iceland, and then bolstered al surrounding countries, since grey was off the board.. thats when the bell rung. had i extra time, i would have cashed in risc cards and taken out black, making me the winner...

yeah, so i like risk.. i got this idea a few weeks ago at the last pit meeting about how next year we could get a giant yearlong game of risk going...just have people sign up and end up being in teams of 3 or so...see, then it could be a team of me, k'vn, and yisorel.. we'd be blue or silver...just have it up on a board somewhere in mr p's room... it could work, really.. just watch..

ohhh.. what else was i going to rant about tonight...ah yes, ive had to deal with idiots on usenet all freekin week.. i mean, really.. i dont think ive seen this many at once... first the multitude of people on alt.fan.starwars... geeze, where do these people come from.. lately, we've had people coming in saying 'STARWARS IS GREAT111!!!!!11!1!! I LUV STARWARS.COM11!!1!1! ITS THE BEST SIGHT IVE EVER BEN TO!!1!' the sad thing about this dude, is that i cant tell if its a terminally clueless newbie, or if its a troll.. then theres the idiot who keeps posting messages about how theforce.net stole the design of countingdown.com...im sorry, but there is *zero* resemblance...then over at alt.games.jedi-knight im having to deal with someone who 'KEEPS AXING FOR COOL H4X0RZ' to tell him how to cheat.. and who answeres level questions with 'WHY DONT YOU JUST TYPPE ON THE FLY KODE! THEN YOU CAN FLY OVER THE ACCID!! LIK ACID!'.... and then the guy who thinks hes going to make a bot this week, even tho as of thismorning someone had to tell him how to work the cogs for the ai..

one last thing.. this cartoon. its too good... oh well, my big-ass ranttm is done. thats all i can get out.. if i tried to squeeze more out i may colapse... [02.14.99@03:23]

so i've been slacking off lately.. yeah yeah yeah.. i've just been busy doing other stuff.. like having a life and so on... for instance, ive only had, oh, 20 or so minutes over the past 3 days to myself..

heh, friday was interesting... first off, it was a 'slide day' at school, where they keeps us there for 4 hours, and cut all our classes down to about 20 minutes a piece.. so after having a whole 40 minutes of trig, i got to run off to drivers ed! yay! we got to watch a video! it was about *mechanized death*. it was from the 60s.. aside from the 60's being flat out worrying, they had some odd ideas about emergencys.. like if someone gets in a bloody car accident, they tend to leave the bodies out on the road untill the film crews get there.. then they wait untill the film crews get enough carnage on film, and then they put the nice bodies in trash bags, and throw them in the back of a truck...

or something like that

anyways, it was interesting.. i sat there laughing while everyone else was sedated.. then it was time for lunch. lunch had more problems than usual.. k'vn and jeanne were off in their own little world, whilst rachel and i had to deal with sata-er, i mean fielle.. fielle ended up stealing quite a few things from rachel, including but not limited to: a box of altoids, a nail, a sliver of metal, her soul, etc etc.. i tried to warn her, but nooo.. no one listens to inphy.. anyways, after that ordeal, we all ran off to k'vns house..

after watching k'vn play final fantasy tactics and try to get clod in his team, while also fighting off silly wannabe-moogles [which also seem to have serious mental problems.. cause thats a given. if you *want* to be a moogle, you are seriously screwed up in the head], and looking at the dead mexicans funny.. poor dead mexicans.. they tried to cast things, but did bad jobs..

after all of that fun, we had mr.pickle order a few pizzas to appease the gods.. one cheeze, one pinapple [the pinapple pizza was actually rather good]... since we didnt feel like having them deliver it, we had tawa and k'vn make a run to the pizza place.. whilst they were gonne, i threw esb:se in the vcr.. i had to argue with mr.pickle about if both chewie, threepio, and artoo were gay.. i was saying that they werent, while mr.pickle was arguing that they were all gay, and had fun in the corridor in the falcon while no one was looking...

so back to why we were watching this.. it was mainly to frighten rachel.. she hadnt seen esb yet, and i was destined to change that.. the half-day was a perfect time... so i was there quoting the movie half the time, and making rachel not want to know me.. it was interesting..

then k'vn and tawa got back.. just about at the time when chewie is putting threepio back together and threepio starts saying how 'that feels wonderful, yes right there'.. this kinda changed my mind about mr.pickel's comments earlier.. it didnt sound right, and i didnt want to hear it.. so then we all choked down some pizza, and tried to convince rachel to try some of the pinapple pizza, but failed.. hey, at least i tried... then we got to the nice duel in the movie.. k'vn and i were very tempted to go run into the abys^H^H^H the wannabe tard^H^H^H^H his closet and find his two lightsabres, so we could act it out.. but since k'vns still a bit gimpy, he was easily subdued.. and im not stupid enough to go in there alone.. never know who/what might jump outta there..

see, then people started going away, and we started getting calls from people that were standing in the driveway.. so we then started watching tv, and giving literary analysis of music videos... see, thats what happens when you get 3 ib [and one x-ib {this is a sign of even higher intelligence, knowing when to get out}] students in the same place in a non-school setting... then everyone else went away, including me.. then i went to sleep.. sleep is good..

anyways, that was friday. saturday was slightly interesting... there was the average saturday morning ritual of cold cereal and cartoons... from there, i spent some time running the computer & bookstore circuit, got to go to the mall as well.. the mall was fun.. i got to yell at people.. and flip thru the sw:insider #42.. after making my way thru those, i dropped by the local cd exchange, where i *finally* got a fatboy slim cd.. got the second one, cause it seemed better... of course, it wasnt the one i wanted.. i'll be getting the first one later this week... the thing that surprised me the most, was how easy it was to find... i mean, since fatboy slim isnt exactly any one genre, i figured it'd be in 'other' or somethin, but no.. in all three places i went by, they had it in pop-rock.. corse, at those places, they also had puff daddy in 'pop rock' [not to be confuzzled with pop rocks.. those are different]. anyways, when i got home i ripped quite a few more tracks for my local mp3 archive.. got 4 off of the fatboy slim cd, and 4 off of the third eye blind cd..

speaking of third eye blind, thats what i did today.. i got bored with having semicharmed life, over and over.. so i figured i needed a new song to play... flipped thru the tracks, and found that track 2, narcolepsy, has a whole two chords in it.. so in a whopping 10 minutes, i perfected the song.. so now ive got two songs, and i'll probably record one of them to and mp3 tomorrow afternoon.. then all of you can listen to how pathetic i can be..

anyways, tomorrow is going to be a nice dejavu day.. cause friday was a day two, and tomorrow is a day two. so im not going to have much to do.. since its a day 2, it means yet another last period report from the media center... [02.21.99@21:06]