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yeah... I don't have any sort of thing I really wanted to post... just felt like letting everyone know i'm not dead. I watched "Wild Hogs" yesterday. the preview was pretty accurate as far as the level of humor goes. But considering the idiotic premise and puerile sense of humor, it really wasn't so bad. The feeling seemed to really fit the topic. I rank it as the best terrible movie i've seen recently.
hey. sorry it's been a while since i posted. I have put a semi-ban on the internet for myself. It's been a fairly eventful week. First, last weekend, my computer basically broke down and wouldn't conect to the internet. so i had to back up everything, reinstall windows, and restore all my files. This weekend, we took down my loft bed because i was getting really sick of having to climb down every time i was thirsty. This ended up making my room look a lot better, in my opinion. Finally, my computer's monitor started glazing over frequently. I think there's a bad connection because closing and reopening it makes a difference. I set it up so that it's connected to an old monitor that i have laying around, and it stopped, so it's not a problem with the graphics card.
It's been very cold here the past few weeks. This is a shot of a branch outside our house. I realized after taking it that you can't tell that it was attached to the tree, and it sort of looks like I was holding it there. I wasn't, it was still attached to the tree. Anyway, whether by popular demand or my own desires, i changed the template. I didn't get any negative feedback, only three people who thought it was better. I also like it better, because it is brighter. I'm not really a dark person. I'm not sure i like the intensity of the blue, but it certainly is better than the black. this is likely the last time i'll change the template for a while, unless someone would like a change in sidebar-size or color or similar. Well, i guess that's it for today!
Happy Valentine's day, everybody! Yeah. I ate a whole box of chocolate today. I was planning to give someone a valentine, but we didn't have school today because of ice (ummmm, sort of), and my plans were foiled. The upsides were, of course, we didn't have to go to school and i got to sleep until 1:00 P.M. (not joking about this, either).
Hey. You may have noticed, although probably not, that in the sidebar there is a link to a flickr site. it is mine, and if you are viewing this in some medium other than the regular blogspot page, the link points to http://flickr.com/photos/spiritfox. The second thing is, that i have created, half by accident, a new layout for my blog, but unless people like it more, i don't want to go to the trouble of changing it. the new template can be found here: http://spiritfox12.googlepages.com/index.html (yes, the "index.html" is actually neccessary because of the way google pages works.) If i were to change the template, the sidebar would include the section about what i'm reading, my albums of the week, etc.
and the third thing..... uuuhhhh....
Oh yeah. from now on, i will try to post once a week, each post with the best photo I've taken that week. Partially because a.I have recently noticed that most of the thousands of pictures i've taken are crap, and b. I want to have something to blog about that isn't really boring. a is based on the expression "practice makes perfect."
if you have a comment and can't say it in a comment-thingy for some strange reason, chances are you can't use the sidebar chat thingy i just installed. but it's still pretty cool, right? right? oh yeah, i forgot no one ever sees these messages. of course, if you can disagree with me, then i guess i'm wrong, so there's no point in arguing. i realize that this post is totally pointless and useless recently, but i'm feeling lazy enough that i don't want to press the backspace button.
Me and tmforeignguy made a cafepress shop. you can get it at http://www.cafepress.com/spiritscafe
at this time, there are two shirts up, which are both my creation, although i don't consider myself as artistic as tmforeignguy. the window to the soul shirt is my favorite of the two.
go here:
Tenth Amendment Center » REAL ID: Real Resistance
If only Virginia would do the same...
for that matter, if only congress would do the same!
hey. forgot:
why does bush, who very recently admitted to being "no expert on military matters," have the power to go against nearly every bit of advice on the planet and deploy 20,000 more troops to Iraq? that just confuses me.
oh, and does anyone know how to get a visa to Canada?
"Economically, we just had no choice in Iraq. The country swims in a sea of oil." --Paul Wolfowitz, commenting on the difference between the situation in Iraq and North Korea.
just watched two movies that i haven't seen, even though they've both been out a while. one was woody allen's newest movie, scoop. it was pretty cool. i think it'd be a better theatrical production than a movie, though. the other was MI:III, which i haven't seen yet. it was okay... not great, but okay, which for me is better than most action movies.
hey. as you may have noticed, i have recently had a strong urge to blog but very, very little to blog about. to remedy this, i have gotten, or rather created, an (or is it a? i'm never sure about h) hipster PDA. you can see more about it here. i will write random crap in it whenever it strikes me, and i may or may not post that random crap here. in other words, if you don't understand a post, it came to me on the bus at 6:30 a.m.
edit: i did not mean that the hipster pda was my idea. i meant i found a cool idea from that site at 43folders and created a hipster pda. so no more confusion.
Hey. i just saw a cool movie called Driving Lessons. I thought i probably wouldn't like it (it has rupert grint, from the harry potter movies), but it turned out to have a little of the texture that i like a lot. this texture was in little miss sunshine, everything is illuminated, and a small bit of nacho libre. hey, speaking of Jack Black, can anyone tell me anything about "tenacious d and the pick of doom?" i really want to see that movie. i'm sooo tired from my first two days back at school. i want to go to sleep but i have some more homework i should probably be doing right now. well, i'll get started on that. later.
well, as you can see, this is my third post of the day. this time it's not at all related to the new year... well... i guess it sort of is... but not really. it's lyrics! yay!
Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play
Dear Prudence, greet the brand new day
The sun is up, the sky is blue
It's beautiful and so are you
Dear Prudence won't you come out to play
Dear Prudence open up your eyes
Dear Prudence see the sunny skies
The wind is low the birds will sing
that you are part of everything
Dear Prudence won't you open up your eyes?
Look around round
Look around round round
Look around
Dear Prudence let me see you smile
Dear Prudence like a little child
The clouds will be a daisy chain
So let me see you smile again
Dear Prudence won't you let me see you smile?
Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play
Dear Prudence, greet the brand new day
The sun is up, the sky is blue
It's beautiful and so are you
Dear Prudence won't you come out to play
man, i haven't listened to the beatles in a while, at least not this song. i put itunes on shuffle and it played this. i had never thought about this song before, either. it's actually really amazing to listen to a song that you've never thought about before and suddenly listen to it more intensely. it's yet another great feeling i've had within the past 24 hours.
whoops, forgot to post resolutions:
(most of these are short-term. i can't ever get long-term stuff to work out.)
I. muster some courage. in general. there are a few specifics, but i don't have the courage at present to publicize them.
II. Ace the Midterms.
III. finish all my homework by the end of the break. (one day left... still time!)
IV. care less about other peoples' opinions of me, and greaten my opinion of myself.
V. be nicer to the people who I haven't been especially great to lately... only three i can think of, but still
VI. there is no six. i probably won't be able to remember 1-5 anyway.
hey, everyone! i hope this year goes down in history as the second-to-last year of the neo-con regime. even if it doesn't, though, i hope it will at least go into the history books as a year that people started to care about the world we live in, began to show empathy for people around the world. In any case, i had a decent new year's eve. i went to Lucy's house for a party that was meant for adults, but the teens had been invited, too. the guys got locked out of everything the girls were doing, though, and it turns out Lucy had tried to get her parents not to invite us. so that wasn't so great. but it was fun, anyhow. i feel like i can make a difference, for once. i feel like it's a time for new life, almost like it's spring. i'm glad the Roman calendar puts the new year in winter, when everything's bare and the trees aren't as lush as normal. it gives the winter a warmer feeling.
i would post this at 12:00 tonight, but i won't be here. i hope you won't be here. i'll be at a party that i halfway want to go to. oh well... so... happy new year. it's sort of an odd new year, isn't it? not odd in the sense that it's strange, but in the sense that the next number isn't really a number you say very often. "hey, i'd like to order 2007 pizzas." "wow! there must be 2007 cubed inches of cake here!" yeah. you just don't. so anyway, happy new year! :)
hey. i'm BACK! w00t. i haven't slept well the past two nights, though. I can't stop thinking. it's not important thinking that will change anything. i just kind of can't get my brain to shut up. well, i got a few cool songs with my itunes gift cards, and this new PS2 game is pretty cool. it's called "singstar" and it's basically karaoke. and it only has 30 songs, but it's still okay. better designed than any other PS2 game i've ever seen before. i've been wanting a better design for this page for a while. probably a white background this time with some pointless divs that change color when the cursor is over them, using the css "a:hover" pseudo-element. i think that'd look cool. any comments on that would be helpful.
well, i now feel like elaborating on my previous message. those of you that know me know that i spend christmas in Nebraska with my grandparents. this year was awesome. i gave cool presents and got cooler ones. (for instance: a magnetic sculpture thing that you can hold pictures and things in, the who's newest album, an "SNL: best of steve martin" dvd) today we're seeing a movie, probably the pursuit of happiness. (i don't know if this is the actual movie title or not, but the Lincoln paper said that it was called "pursuit of happyness," with "happyness" spelled with a "y." i don't think that's right, but it doesn't have to be correct to be a movie title, so it might be.) and then tomorrow i might finally see the second pirates of the Caribbean movie. yay!
