mlah. i had, leik, all sorts of stuff to write here. leik, a big messy rant about how i've been abusing my poor sims.. anna rant aboot megaman x3 who's now taunting me with his X-BUSTER. but, yeah. i just havent had time. at all. which is really pissing me off. things are just taking too much time. ontop of that, things are being really messy at sk00l. and elsewhere.. luckily, tho, i'll be getting some time off shortly, in-between roadtrips and assorted ap exams.. but yeah, we've hit the home-stretch with my junior year. after that we hit the *real* home stretch, of my final year in this hell-hole of ib. hopefully, it wont be all that bad.. things seem to be falling into place rather nicely.. leik being able to have misser p for a teacher again. makes nice end-cap dealies on my ib career. 'ave him as my first history prof, and my last. mmm.. anyways.. i'm gunna go wander over here to do some work for spanish, so i can have backup for when my back possibly doesnt go out tomorrow. but i know it probably will.
or i just get to wake up by coughing up blood [05.01.00@19:58]
alright, i've officially decided that addr just isnt gunna cut it come august. not gunna cut it at all. i decided some time last year that i was going to upgrade the skizzers.org server when my prepaid account ran-out in august. i had previously planned to just upgrade from the platinum account at addr to the gold account, which offered other shiny things and an extra 50 megs of space. that would've doubled our space. well.. earlier today dave an' feather kinna knocked us over the top of our 50 megs. so this got me thinking, we may need to upgrade the server sooner than before..
so i went over to addr.com to see if they had upgraded their gold plan any more [previously, they had upgraded plans without telling us. how nice of them]. well.. they didnt. the gold plan now graciously offers 70 megs of space. and extra 20 megs isnt gunna cut it. not at all. so i went server hunting. server hunting is always fun, ye get to look around and see who's beating the crap out of who.. muh.. and i think i found the end-all..
shiny little place called jumpworld or interserver.. i dont think they've quite made up their minds yet.. hell, i dont care, they've got the best plan i could find. 450 megs, 12 gigs of traffic, 100 pop3 e-mail accounts, 90 ftp accounts [plus one r00t and one anonymous]..
whoa. ok. i think i ended that rant in the middle for no apparent reason. i was probably doing something, like trying very hard not to writhe when i was on the floor, as to not injure myself all that much extra. basicly, yeah, we've got a new server lined up. i've got the cash lined up too. and we're going full-on for phase two. and now, for a brief explanation of phase two. phase two is when we open up the doors of skizzers.org, and say "hey people, leik, if ye wanna get hosted here, sure.. just drop us a form, and we'll see about it." its my reincarnation of the old swankarmy.net. most people dont remember swankarmy.net. it was a wacky-fun place. so much good design in one small place. but then it was killed off never to be heard from again, except for in my inane ramblings. see, cause i just saw that as such a bloody good idea. but one that was just so.. wasted..
ok, so this is really just cause i felt left-out of a cool place. but that doesnt matter. what matters is that i'm doing the same thing. i'm opening the doors of skizzers.org some time in june. possibly late may. it really all depends on how long it takes for the domain to be transferred. so, say, by this time next month, i'll be letting people in. the quick explanation of how it'll work is like thus:
you go to a page here, you fill out a form. i get the contents, and post it for all the other current members [it'll be on a password-protected page]. after a day or two, one of us will decide to pick ye, and from there we'll get you a page. before you launch the page, that person will help you out if you've got any problems or questions. when you've got your site ready to launch, i fire up your e-mail account [hell, i've got a 100 of 'em, might as well make use of 'em..] of whatever-ye-damn-well-please@skizzers.org, and give ye your link on the mainpage. from there, you just have to give me a brief blurb about your site/self/whatever, and you're done. all i end up asking is that ye link back to skizzers.org somewhere on your site, preferably not somewhere hidden in the back.
it'll be that easy. i'm just not sure if this'll work all that well. cause, well.. its not like i have any major competitors.. from my previous hunting, its damn hard to find a host as good as we'd be. so, yeah. its happening soon. so are t-shirts, but that'll be the rant for later tonight. [05.04.00@18:30]
break out the pain killers! inphie feels leik crap! yaaaaaaaay! [05.04.00@20:39]
as previously stated, ah'm really in bad shape right now. i'm sporting around 4 different [but probably related] infections, and just generally feel leik shite. i feel leik shite, and i feel like things are falling apart more than usual. i say more than usual because i am fully aware that everything around me has been slowly falling apart. things just seem to have accelerated. i'm not sure if i care, because everything about *me* is fine, its just everything around me. its kinda distressing to see everything fall apart, but its just one more year. then a new beginning. i'm not sure i'm ready for a new beginning, though.
i shouldnt be thinking about this. theres too much to do between point a and point b. only a year, but so fukkin much to do. i think its mostly going to be tieing up loose ends. bleah, that means reviving things that went away, just so i can sleep at night. i'm not sure i want to go there. thats what it all comes down to. things that i know i wont beable to live with if i dont take the current open chance to set straight. i think i'll put it off till this time next year. ok, a bit earlier than this time next year. cause, theres chances of not seeing people this time next year. people who i may need to resolve issues with. bah. but thats next year. all his life has he looked away, to the future, to the horizon. never his mind on where he was. the esb manga is horrdly annoying in parts. i mean, they fukked up some of the best scenes. some of the scenes were just *perfect* in my opinion. things that i just never thought would ever need to be changed. like when luke leaves dagobah, and theres the really spiffy engine glow on yoda as he looks up and says "no, there is another". i guess its kinna tough to recreate that scene. but what they replaced it with was just.. sad..
and then theres the whole deal with them fukkin changing the end of the scene with han and leia when they're in arguing over if leia has enough scoundrels in her life. they're supposed to get really close to kissing, and then threepio comes in. i should know, i've seen the scene well over 40 times.. in the manga, tho, threepio just doesnt show up. and the universe is *RUINED!* they didnt butcher it too badly, in fact some parts of it are just so damn good that i cant completely express the quality. the duel between luke and vader, for instance. that was done *far* too well. but because i'm mildly neurotic about things like this, it annoys me that the panels are all mirrored. i know it was done because japanese reads right to left, but.. ugh.. its just annoying to see luke's left arm get sliced off. its sad that i noticed this at the end when he's affixing his new bionic arm at the end in one tiny frame, and not in the big two-page spread of it being lobbed off.
meh, ah'm just wacky leik that, i guess. yay! my lemmings demo is finished! off i go! [05.10.00@16:53]
well, lec just released their game releases for 2000. and, well, because of this little jem, i'm just about to go finish up making some arsenic kool-aide for myself and anyone else who feels like coming along. [05.10.00@19:29]
i'm still doing too much. i should really stop. but no, i'm so close. few more hours of work and the entire site will be done. then i just have to scrape up the cash, set up everyone's accounts, and then its really all done. ah, but then is just the beginning. from there, i'll have to deal with whatever new applications we get. but hey, that shouldn't be all that bad. mm.
first, however, i have to get over this feeling of being tripped whilst walking on down the sidewalk, and landing teeth-first on cement. actually, it would probably be body first, but due to my reflexes being conditoned to believe, "if you're falling face first into something, *DON'T LOCK YOUR ARMS*!!! because two broken wrists/forearms/etc are *MUCH WORSE* than anything else", my upper torso would hit the ground first, and then my head would snap forward. i hate having this play over and over in my head. so instead of just leaving it there, i'm sharing it with everyone. [05.29.00@22:30]
beh. oh yeah, i got bored a few days ago and found this iccle proggie called "terragen". 's shiny. ah kin do trippy things wif it. examples are in the ever-growing terragen directory, refrenced o'er at the art section. [05.29.00@22:46]
