right. we're getting in gear to move.. hopefully i'll beable to overnight the money order to interserver within the week. then its just a matter of time before the domain snaps. anyways. i'm on the tail end of things i have to do this summer.. i get to take my summerschool exams on thursday, hopefully i'll be sending the money order off that day, too.. so then skizzers will be put on the forefront, and that'll be fully operational by next week. as for bobby's site, that was finished yesterday. so by this time next week i'll only have a couple things that i have to do. mm. actually, i think the only stuff that i *really* have to do at that point is respond to the assorted peoples who start sending in applications, possibly do some prep work for when i take the sat later in the year, and hopefully pin down a topic for my extended essay..

this'll open up time for me to do the stuff i *want* to do. namely: sleep, play diablo ii, work on my site, make a few more fonts, sort out and salvage whats left of my social life, watch the rest of neon genesis evangelion, read the rest of the enders game series, etc etc.. theres just so much stuff that i want to do this summer.. just have to get through this week, so i can actually do it. right. well. i'm headed off.. still need to find a damned order form.. but hey! the new version of editpad is so swanky, i can now date my rants by just hittin f5! see! [07.04.00@15:17]

ok, i have to know. are my cousins and i the only people who wasted an entire summer beating super mario world in every way imaginable, resulting in a perfect scored game? as of late, i've found that a very high number of people just didnt do stuff that wasnt essential to beating the game.

the best example of this is star road. star road was fun. 's where ye got the 800 different wacky flavours of yoshi. the only one i ever found useful was the blue one. he ruled. see, but most people i guess just went through the normal star road setup, and just casually ignored that there was the special place with all of the wonnerful dated names. see. in level 5 of star road, there was thish place above the level that was boxed off if you got all of the switch-blocks by that point.. urm.. strike that.. it isnt really blocked off, just more difficult to get with the blue yoshi. see, if you get up there, theres a key and keyhole like all the others. that takes you to the sixth star, which warps you to "special". special consists of 8 wacky levels, linked in two lines, connected off-screen. why does it exist? well. the end-product is really odd. after beating all 8 levels, the entire game changes. first off, all of the levels change colour. from a basically "spring" looking season, where everything is greenish.. to autumn, where you've got.. well.. autumn.. and all of the leaves in the forest are falling 'n such. it also changes quite a few of the enemies.. all of the normal koopa tr00ps are now mario kl0n3s. and all of the pirrana flowers are evil pumpkin things...

and.. well.. thats about it.. but.. it just annoys the hell out of me that i'm the only person around here whose actually seen any of this.. so.. yeah.. i think i just ran out. anni dun know whut else it was i was going to ramble about. i was prolly gunna ramble on about my views on flash animation, but most everyone around here should know my stance on flash animation.. or anything by macromedia actually..

mm. fireworks. in the middle of a rainstorm. how fitting that the first time in a few years that fireworks are actually legal, it rains like hell. [07.04.00@21:54]

i've forgotten how desolate this place can get at 0100 and beyond. i mean, theres only one person on my floating list, and thass just dave.. i'd kinnah expect dustoff to be about, or possibly even sebastian.. but no.. no one but dave and a handful of my older friends. only one of which i feel like talking to. course, thats only because he's prolly the only one of them who remembers me. its all ok, tho. because i have more anime now. damn i'm sad. oh well. this isnt going anywhere. i'm not sure if i really expected it to. i hate knowing that a phone call i'm not sure i want to make could end part of my suffering. i mean, i can make the phone call, and have it be over. in one way or the other. but i'm just not sure of either. limbo is somewhat comforting. its like when i curl up into a ball and make the world go away. but its easier. because all it takes is to stop remembering. to stop thinking about what exactly is going on whilst i sit here and try my best to not want to care. its like this is the only situation where i dont end up aching. sure, it isnt the most overall logical, but to some extent it feels the best, nay, the least worst, given my current situation. which i'm still not quite sure of. [07.09.00@00:36]

blehh.. theres a lot that needs to be done here. but so little is truly lined up to be done right now. the main problem with getting the site set up right now is the cash. right now, i have 14 hours of work logged in getting mr grace's site set up. but a few things make the actual attaining of money difficult. first off, he's over in st. pete. so my dad would have to make a trip over there to pick up the check, and as of late my dad really hasnt been in that great of a shape..so just getting the actual check may take awhile. i may, however, beable to get my dad to advance me the money, since its the check is going to him first anyways.. this possiblity is kinna slim because of the extra $100 that got added due to the extra server stuff. $200 was pushing it, so $300 may be out of the question.. i figure the best way to do it, is to send off the bill, and then ask him to front the cash. since the money at that point would essentially be his, and all it'd take would be a trip over to st pete to get the check.

now, how early could i do this? probably sometime this week. i've got a meeting with a prospective client on wednesday.. and nothing to do tomorrow.. so i'll prolly go in and call bobby tomorrow so things can be wrapped up there. possibly launch his site tomorrow, and e-mail a bill tomorrow afternoon. since theres the meeting wednesday, and its about 30 seconds away from the post office where i'd have to go to mail off the money order to interserver. so i could do the following. tuesday - email and call mr. grace till i get the site launched. when thats done, write up a quick bill and email it. tuesday evening - tell my dad that this has all been done, and that i'd like a cash advance on the bill so i can get the new server kicking. then on wednesday morning, i'd set up the account online on the interserver site, and then at about 1400-1500 i'd have him drive me by the post office so i can overnight the cash there. the cash should reach interserver during the day on thursday, and if i work solid from as soon as the account gets activated, i could conceivably have the site running by friday morning. sure, it wouldnt have the domain yet, but that would come in the next week or so. anyways. thats what the plan is. you can all start placing bets as to if i'll actually follow thru now. [07.10.00@21:35]

well, this'll prolly be the last thing i upload to an addr account. we're running one day behind what had previously been determined as a plan. the money order should be in hand at interserver by tomorrow at noon. so i should beable to wake up, and start kickin before 1600EST when i check out of here for a bit. with that said, my e-mail will prolly be going down for a bit whilst this is all getting transferred, so.. yeah.. i'm available on icq as always, and will be available at inpheaux@tampabay.rr.com. nowthen, on to tonight's rant.

last night i went in after posting the skizzers news to catch the 0100 showing of undressed. i was rather pissed to find out that it was shifted around so a tom green rerun could be played. this pissed me off on a couple levels, mainly because i hate it when the one show i can actually watch in awe of its stupidity was replaced by a show thats stupid to the point that it's not even a deal where i can make fun of it. undressed is stupid-funny, because it tries too hard. tom green on the other hand, is stupid-annoying, but for the same reason - he tries too hard. i dont know, i guess i dont like his "comedy" because i've had to deal with it in person. see, for about the first 13 years of my life, my best friend was essentially someone with the mindset of tom green, but wasnt being paid for it. so yeah, i was dissapointed by that. so i watched a bit of conan, realized that it was a new episode, and turned it off. i cant bear to watch conan without andy.. andy was too much of a key part of the show...

before turning things off for the night, i ran across another one of the bloody stupid pepsi challenge commercials..<--attn pepsico: this wasnt a good idea in the early 90's, why bring it back?--> i cant stand these at all. in this case, its because the people they bring in are absolute dipshits. the people i've seen so far are both pretty much on the same level of stupidity. they're both essentially "yeah! i've been drinking coke with my family for SIXTEEN YEARS! i'll tell you which is better!" [picks pepsi] "whoa! i'm an idiot! i picked pepsi!". now really. how stupid do you have to be to not beable to know which one is the one you've been drinking for over a decade? how can you have an un-biased taste test with something thats this clear-cut? i mean, taste tests regarding pizza or other assorted foods is understandable, but when its something that you should be accustomed to, thats just not right.. furthermore, i cant stand their horribly trite responses after being told that they're dumbasses.. usually something along the lines of "well! i guess i'll have to TAKE THE HALF-FULL STYROFOAM CUP OF PEPSI HOME!! [laughs]". ugh. where do they find these people? [07.13.00@21:45]

so things are currently out of my hands. i got everything done to the point i could. i really should've called addr earlier, though. i *really* didnt want to cut things close to ye olde line regarding the server. but of course, i did. the addr server dies on friday, and i seriously hope that the domain gets transferred by then. course, this means i have 4 full buisness days before it goes down. if i did things right, then the dns update should start tomorrow, and then filter through over the next 3 days. back when we started skizzers, i remember it occured on a weekend, and the domain wasnt there for a good few days. it was really freaky.. but then it didnt matter, cause we didnt absolutely have to have the server kicking then. now we do. now we need it because without it the ftp accounts dont really work. furthermore, we need it because our old server is *real* close to sputtering and dying.. and if this domain takes its sweet fukkin time to get set up, and ends up being off on friday, we're screwed. luckily, though, its already well into the queue. since i set it up on saturday, it'll be about halfway down on their queue that accumulated over the weekend. so hopefully that means it'll be processed during the day tomorrow, and go into effect from there. and the whole week is ahead of it, so it *really* should get switched fine.. only thing is, i'm *really* nervous about this.. and i know i'm going to be a fukkin wreck next week.. cause there is barely anything for me to do around here.. i mean, i'll have all week to panic.. i got through the weekend by sleeping a lot, and playing tfc. i went with tfc over d2 because tfc is more action oriented. in tfc theres no time to doze off because you're doing the same thing over and over again. furthermore, in tfc there isnt time to stop thinking about what you're doing, and start dwelling on whatever things your brane thinks ye should be panicing about.

thats why i still have halflife installed. sure, it takes up about 700 megs, but its 700 megs that can make my higher brane functions go away. and thats *good*. ver' good. oddly, i've decided that i do my best in tfc when i'm trying not to think about things. this phenomena can be very easily shown by contrasting a few recent games. back on saturday, when i was *very* convinced i had just utterly fukked up the skizzers domain registration for good, i ran to hide in tfc. 4 hours later i had played through a full server rotation of about 8 maps, and had won every game including maps i had never played before, like epicenter.. i really dont like epicenter.. almost as much as i dont like rock2 .. i really hate that level because theres just no easy way to do things.. to get a score you not only have to run across the center of enemy territory with a bloody spotlight on you, but then you have to make it into a very small area. and if you do score, you put all of your teammates in danger by releasing the gas.

one of the new maps that was on the rotation that i quite liked was one that uses a gameplay style much like the domination gameplay in unreal tournament. 's called it consists of a mirrored level with 5 command points. layout of one side is ye have a command point in the centre of your base, a command point just inside your base, and a command point in the centre, and the same thing on the other side of the map. it plays much like the original map canalzone 2 but more refined.. also doesnt involve the ultra-sucky task of running in slow-mo across half the map to score the last cap.. best part of this map, was that you could run back to the enemy starting zone [which was within their base, but not a respawn point] as a spy, switch team colours, and sit there till your team caps the 4 easy points, and when they do, go swipe the last one. this is kinnah nice because ye keep your disguise untill you run over the command point.. and the round ends when you run over the command point.. so if you pull off the last one, you're free.. being a spy is also useful for the inner-base one.. cause it'll get ye past most of the sgs that may be set up.

this rather intense set of games also gave me time to refine my strategies on other maps, especially crossover 2.. that level is pretty damn hard to defend.. theres just no easy way out of the base.. i mean, almost all other maps have an easy way out of the base, a hard way out of the base, and a quick and lame way out of the base. example: 2fort. theres two easy ways out. run up stairs, dodge through their main room, jump off the battlements. or run up the stairs, turn the corner to the right real fast, drop down, and run out of the base. the hard way would be trekking back through all 3 of their main rooms, and then surviving the journey across the main open area of the level.. the cheap way would be to in either of these cases dive into the water, or more simply, dive into the water before even leaving the enemy base. other levels have cheaper things, like how in well i can swipe the flag, and dive into the water right there. from the water, the only time i surface where they can hit me is when i get out of the water in the rather well guarded middle area. and from there they have a fraction of a second to snipe my sorry ass, and they have to time it perfectly. but they dont have any way to gague when i'm going to be popping up in the happy little window. sure, they can trap me in the tubes at any time, but i've never had this happen to me.

i also picked up on just sad little fun things to do. like in well, be something that has rather decent firepower, and then sit up in their attic, tossing stuff down for them to play with occasionally.. its *the* perfect camping spot. i could sit up there all day with any class except the spy or the scout.. with a hwguy you just fire at 'em or toss the mirvs down whenever ye feel like it, and mow down the snipers if ye get bored.. with an engineer ye toss emp's down occasionally.. i really need to try it with either a sniper or a dmeoguy.. cause with a demoguy i could prolly get pipe bombs into their spawn point.. and that'd just be *wrong*.. with a sniper i could take down whatever they've got just as it comes out of a spawn point..

well.. yeah.. that got far off topic.. but see! even now! even when i'm not playing it! it *still* gets me off of depressing topics that i dont want to think about! it's doing it's job! nowthen, time to go read more of speaker for the dead. [07.17.00@01:16]

okthen. this is actually rather good. finally got everything fixed. now all we really have to do is let everyone settle in to the new server. cause it all works now. really. also, i now have my old e-mail address back. of damn-near-anything@skizzers.org. i lost some of the e-mails, but they werent any that concerned anyone around here. so there! why? because NO ONE FUKKIN E-MAILS ME! right. anyways. its all done, and i feel rather good about it. all thats really left is to hope people actually give a shit and join on. cause i'd really feel bad if this stuff that i went to a lot of effort to get running goes belly-up cause no one cares. i mean, i know we get a steady stream of around 250-300 hits a week, but how many of them are actually want to have a site here? idunno.. i've just got this odd feeling that i've done this for absofukkinglutely nothing. oh well. i want to not care if this works or not, but deep down i really want it to go well. i mean, this is what i've wanted to do for a damn long time. and i've put enough effort into it that i deserve some followthrough. [07.21.00@00:00]

right. if that last entry sounded a bit cut-off, that'd be because it was. i ran off to go do something at that point. dont know what. just felt like it. ugh. anyways, over the past 24 hours or so, i decided to upgrade to windows98. i tried doing this awhile back, but it wouldnt let me. so i finally got around to it, sucked it all up, and formatted the drive and installed clean. right now i'm about set up. not quite there, but almost. i wont beable to upload this for a bit, because bulletproof ftp's website appears to be down at the moment. so i can go to them to get my key so i can install my copy. oww. my eyes are killin me. i'm prolly going to go take a nap for a couple hours now, cause i've been up since around noon yesterday. but hey, i didnt lose anything. which is amazing for what i went thru. only a few things left that havent been ironed out regarding 98 yet. like the keyboard thingo, and the root address for mycomputer. right. aside from that, 98 was an easy transition. and it means i get a free webcam cause davey says so. so in the middle of next week i'll have inphy-cam up and running cause now ah've got usb support. which prolly means i'll get around to buying a wacom graphire tablet in a bit. bugger. so now we're up to the following list. first $320 that comes in goes to getting the big shiny new plextor cd burner. 12 speed. yummy. $99 after that goes to picking up one of the blue graphire tablets. $300 after that goes to a playstation 2. hopefully, the burner and tablet will be purchased by the end of summer break. i've got till october for the ps2, so it may be put off to buy a urm.. something.. my brane just died. oh, paint shop pro 7. also something else, cause thats not what i was thinking of. oh well, perchance i should go take that nap now. right after i read the paper. [07.22.00@07:42]

for the first time in a while now, i actually feel like i'm being productive. its scary. i mean, i'm getting around to stuff i havent bothered with in quite a while. and why's fileplanet dead? how'm i supposed to go get the halflife update? oh well, i'll swipe it from blues news later.. as of right now, i only have a couple things left to get.. like netscape, mozilla, goldwave, and neorage. also have to install zsnes, and get all my roms moved over.. also have to get around to updating d2 and moving over my savegames. mm.. and dave says that he'll be getting my webcam sent off sometime early next week, so i should be getting it by next friday. mm. also got around to modifying the art page to have a better setup for the terragen images. it looks the same as before, but now it's set up so that it has the capacity to hold 100 images in pretty much that same space. anyways. i'm off to go finish up this stuff. possibly toss a pre-lim page together for the webcam. [07.22.00@19:33]

does anyone remember the chocolate ravioli that little caesers had in the mid 90's?

what the hell was going on there? [07.22.00@21:02]

right. everyone here knows what it means when i have trouble writing, correct? if not, rewind through the archives a bit. anyways, i really dont want to talk about that, so i'll mumble about the webcam i just set up. everyone see it over there? its in /stuff/inphie cam. 's updated every two minutes and fourty two seconds, unless i have it turned off, which i only plan on doing when i'm playing a game.. cant be arsed with it then. anyways, yeh, its up. ph33r it. and many props to dave for sending it here. right. so. urm. i'm going to go do something now. like play netbaby stuff a bit more, or perchance watch some of big brother uk. cause those people are ultra funky. [07.29.00@18:10]