...until my armies are rebuilt. Construct additional pylons, etc.

I bought a new computer yesterday. It should be here today. I am pleased. My old one is seventybillion years old and can not run anything and is unable to be upgraded any further.

What makes this fun for me is my new one...is in pieces. After waiting all this time, i finally get to make my own computer. Of course, it's easy as balls nowadays and all i have to do is plug&play™ but being able to say i have means a lot. Of course, I'm expecting to get it all and realize i screwed up and don't have any thermal paste or hard drive screws or got the wrong size case for my board or got an amd board with an intel chip or something. ffffff.

well, my plan is to document it all and post it for anyone who cares to see...

That way when I do screw up, i can simply delete it and pretend it never happened.

"So i don't know about all this jquery stuff, why wouldn't i just write it mysel--

I AM TWELVE AND WHAT IS THIS TOGGLECLASS HOLY SHIT I HAVE TAKEN TEN LINES OF CODE AND MADE IT INTO ONE THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME

OH MY GOD I'M CODING LIKE THE MOTHERFUCKING FIST OF THE NORTH STAR JESUS CHRIST

FUCK YES! YOU ARE THE BEST JAVASCRIPT LIBRARY EVER!"

Edit: So I don't forget in two days -

$ mplayer -af karaoke SAKURA KISS.mp3 =========>>>>>>>>>>>> Vocal dampening.

Dead Space looks amazing. I believe i will pick this up when I get a chance.

Likewise, Demon Souls looks amazing. The most anti-casual game of recent memory, otherwise known as LOL U DIED LOL U DIED LOL U DIED LOL U DIED LOL U DIED LOL U DIED LOL U DIED. Another I will pick up, when it comes down in price.

(I started watching people stream video games, so i can at least judge the gameplay a bit better than lopsided reviews and two minute videos.)

So, starting work on the karaoke database again... but it's using songbird instead of itunes(only one file edited!). First thing that means, i can run the database on linux. Second thing it means is that we can run it on any os that supports songbird(Read: windows, linux, and OSX) and still have it use itunes on a mac if we want. it's not a quick plug and play thing yet, you would still need to set up the mysql database in advance as well as have an updated version of apache and php running on the computer, but it's a pretty good step forward compared to the initial problems with the idea...still more prudent to use a single booting os.

an update to state my alivedness. i don't feel too alive but i'm still alive. all is well. have been staying away from the computer as best i can. noone will follow me up on applications. when i do log on and try to get simple coding jobs bots undercut me ffffff. spending a lot more time with my family and helping out my mom, watching tv and trying to get better at blazblue when i get too blah. i started working on putting together a backend for a website so i could in theory sell it to someone who needed it. like that's going to happen but i've seen a lot of desire for backends like that so i might as well do it, if for no other reason than to learn how to do it myself. Also started working on the karaoke database site, basically planning to condense everything that's been added as part of 2.5, 3, and my additions, swapping out some of my hand-coded stuff with a code package to handle some of the ajax calls in a different way so we can in theory use the server as lyric display as well, and trying to think of tons of other ways to handle what we want done(though doing anything about it will be dealt with after the site is finished)...but even that's just a side project to me currently.

yeah. don't know what else to say. nothing to say. just an update.

I haven't posted on lj since before ax. wait, is that before fanime? i don't even know. I suppose since people actually check my old posts to get updates on what i'm up to, i might as well fill in some gaps. nothing real in depth i guess.

Did fanime. was amazingfun amirite?
Went to san francisco with my family DIRECTLY AFTER DRIVING BACK HOME. it was crazy like patrick swayze. More fun was had.
Got a bit of downtime.
Visited tommy's for the "omfg they scrapped princess and now we have all these leftovers" trip. tried to die. didn't.
AX. yeah. mmhmm.
Got back home, slept a lot, couple more freelance jobs, put off doing things i should be doing, I CAN ACTUALLY PLAY MY WII AGAIN OMFG THANKS SCOTT.

So that's pretty much where i stand up to a few days ago. Last weekend was le birthday. initial plan was my sister and i to go to disneyland since it was cheap as free. Asked mom if she wanted to go, and she proceeded to book a hotel down there for 3days. hokay. so tooled around there, did some fun stuff, went on the walk in walt's footsteps tour, rode the staples(mansion/pirates/matterhorn/big thunder. no time for space dr. jones) and yeah. Every cast member that wished me a happy birthday, i said "40TH BIRTHDAY OF THE FIRST LUNAR LANDING!" ...lol. funny point of night was tommy calling directly in the middle of it's a small world. i answered, and without saying a word i put it on speaker and just let it run.

Sad part of the night was waiting in line for it. There was basically two things i wanted for my birthday, and only one i asked for: limited ed of blazblue. told my sister well in advance multiple times, informed her how she could get it("lol go to gamestop site and buy it ffs") and thought i made it clear it was all i really wanted. Of course i always get yelled at for buying things that people bought me in advance for holidays, so i passed on my chance to get the set at ax with the fancy bag and all the other stuff for a real steal of a price on day4. So yeah, while waiting in line for small world, my sis looks at me and goes "By the way i didn't get you anything. You started talking to me about that game and i just completely tuned you out." THIS IS FUNNY BECAUSE SHE LIKES GUILTY GEAR AND IS IN NO WAY UNFAMILIAR WITH THIS STUFF. So, after i get home, i scramble to find a copy of it anywhere. Noone online had it(of course) nor did any shop close to me. The most helpful thing i got was some guy at gamestop who was like "O YA I TOLD EVERONE THIS GAME WULD B GOOD AND NW ITS ALL SOLD OUT AND PPL WALK IN OFF TEH STREET AND ASK FOR IT." then proceeded to tell me the closest copies of the game were in vista, ca. then someplace in MI. i was like FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU--

Thank goodness for ebay right? got for a good price too. now just have to wait for the guy to mail it off...unless he dicks around with me(it's almost been 3 days since payment confirmation)

Other bright side, since i got the game, i broke down and finally bought myself a right and proper arcade stick. got a hrap3 and i am in lurrrve. since i can't play bb yet, i fired up melty blood and was just like OHHHHHHHHHHH DAMN SON. It's funny because i had alot of problems playing on the keyboard. on the stick, they all disappeared. (Now i have completely new problems...fuck.)

So that's where i stand now. Enamored and impatient. herp derp. we'll see what happens from here. Sorry for the boring post!

[Edit]: Also the tour guide was incredibly cuteNevermind.

I

Back in 1790, when our nation was still trying to distance itself from England much in the same way an embryo distances itself from being associated with a mass of cells, there was a dispute among two women over a young child. Both claimed to be the mother, which was certainly odd as there was no mention of a husband from any related parties. Having claim to the boy was of course a very tricky thing back in those days, and all that could be depended on was the town hall meetings would be little more than book club meetings compared to our legal system now. However, there was one supreme code of the land issued by the wisest of its members. To retire this frivolous debate and determine who had such a child out of wedlock, they ventured to the newest of yorks, and upon reaching Federal Hill, sought an audience with President Washington himself.

It was a grand struggle to gain his attention, as many came from across the americas to ask him his sagely advice on many different subjects: finances, governing, morality, civility, and anything else that could be put into words. He would hear abbreviated versions of these requests through his staff, and could immediately spot the cases worthy of his attention. Finally, it came to the women's plight, and after hearing only the words "the son of two women" he immediately ordered them in, finding them in need of his special attention. Outside of his chamber, the women nervously waited for their turn. An assistant to Washington stood closeby, holding the young child in his arms, so as to keep the neutrality of the decision. As the doors to the chamber are flung open, they are amazed to see the mighty washington, sitting casually in his chair, as if cast by a greek sculptor. They slowly entered, with the assistant close behind. Suddenly, and without warning, Washington leaped up from his chair, raced towards the women, unsheating his battle sword, and in what seemed like an instant, the shortest amount of time that could possibly be allowed by the universe, ran past them to his assistant, and chopped the boy in half.

Resheating his sword that seemed to refuse and reject the idea of sullying itself with the unclean blood of another, he slowly walked back to his chair with a purposeful stroll, showing only his back to the women. A broad and powerful back, one that kept the women calm and yet so terrified at the action that they could not even think about witnessing. He returned to his seat, and resumed the posture that he was so comfortable with, the casual lean that the women had witnessed on their entrance. He gave a slightly comforting smile to the ladies, and said..."Good Afternoon. Am I to understand you have a problem?"

It took a whole two minutes for the women to respond. It took two hours for the women to stop screeching. It took seventeen years for the animals to stop barking and hissing and crying from the sound the women made.

A man who was wise beyond his years, with more forethought than even he knew, and with the american spark that causes the proper action before the word, He wastes no time with solving problems in the most fair and impartial way.

WITH NO EXCEPTIONS.

quote from January 3, 2009:
"Goal for the new year: Improve my financial situation using my own talents. Whether it be only $100 or a steady job, I need to be able to make my own way by doing what i am good at. Granted, i'm not good at very much, but that's what makes this goal difficult - It's not to simply get any kind of job and get paid for it, it's to actually make more than $10 doing something i like to do. Something I am good at doing. Something that isn't something the general public can do, but at least something specialized that the general public could do if they took the time and effort to learn how."

Status: -Complete-
I made $15[technically 20, but i got hosed with a a project fee], which is more than $10, and i liked doing it. guy wanted a php script to grab the picture and description of the day from national geographic, resize, save to his own server, archive the old, and to run every day at 4am. To what end, i have no clue, but it worked and it didn't explode his server. i didn't know how much image manipulation php could do before this, nor did i know how overpowered copy() is.

if i didn't feel like absolute ass, i would jump up and down or something.

HOLY CHRIST
I BETTER GET PAID
$5.00 FOR A $20.00 JOB
THAT'S 25%
HIGHWAY FUCKING ROBBERY
I GOTS TO GET PAID SON

I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS WORKS
PHP IS BROKEN
OVERPOWERED POS
NERF COPY();

WHY AM I LISTENING TO DDR SONGS FSA(UFJSANFAS IT WAS A MISTAKE TO ADD THIS (back) TO MY LIBRARY

So i think i'm done with the code for the scrolling lyrics, in addition to rewriting part of the wiimote code to be more condusive to a scrolling/wiimoting split, as well as cleaning up and optimizing(read: shitting all over) some of the previous stuff i did. Seems javascript commands don't like when xhr calls take more than seventythousand hours. Anyway, base code is done, but probably want to change the css and some of the animation to make it look fancier. god i'm bad at graphical stuff.

So here's what it does now: Still using the ruby wiimote/jssh combo from before, but just for intercepting the wiimote keypresses and redirecting them to firefox. from there, the user movement is translated to javascript commands that fire off the functions to control lyric display. Better than the old grab lyrics, save to file, and read in parts of that file from localhost to the browser. This way ruby is only concerned with its little portion, and lets the webpage do the rest. This also means that it can transition smoothly from wiimote scrolling to automatic scrolling when the song allows for it.

More about autoscroll: Basically have a setup i snagged from http://dttvb.com/html5karaoke.html and hacked up to suit our needs. The most useful part is that he included a file called make.html, which is like a pretty simple karaoke lyric maker. You put in lyrics to the page, place | in between words or phrases to accentuate held notes, then start listening to the song, tapping a button as the lyrics get to that point. It's not perfect since it depends on your personal sense of timing to the song, but it's pretty good all things considered. As you do it, it converts the |'s to timecodes such as [12000], showing when it should be passing over that section in milliseconds. If you screw up, you pause, rewind, change the [12000] back to a |, and play again. When you're done, you can save it as a .dl3 file...well, that's if you were doing it the original way. Once you're done, you need to copy and paste what you just did...then you can just upload it straight to the database just like you would normal lyrics. Just put @@ at the very beginning of the file, and the server will recognize it when its time to display those lyrics. OH GOD WHY DID I DO THAT FOR SAKURA KISS FUASJIFSAFOSAHNF

But let's say that doesn't work out. There's a problem during use, or whatever. well, we can still display unformatted lyrics with a simple "?noscroll=true" passed through. (I'll probably also make it possible to convert the autoscrolling back to a normal wiimote scroll)

If you haven't given it a try yet, go to http://71.9.94.3/kara/make.html?codemonkey to test, and http://71.9.94.3/kara/index.html to see the results. other options are index.html?promise, ?sakurakiss, and ?ttewi. As for doing it for songs already in the database, we'll probably only end up doing like the top 20 most popular songs or something to start.

And if you want to try making your own, go to http://71.9.94.3/kara/upload.php and follow the directions.
Be kind, rewind.

just took a peek and realized i must have deleted my restore partition on my laptop. (even though all the information is still there. i'm looking at it right now.) even still, i can't restore from it.

That's what RESTORE DISKS FROM DELL ARE FORCOPIES OF RESTORE DISKS FROM DELL ARE FOR! Oh, poor me, my laptop has vista, but all i have is an xp install cd. Whatever will i do? lol ya rite my laptop hasn't died yet i was just messing around and discovered it is a harlot. nothing more or less.

I hate how when you're learning to do things, the best option is the most obvious(and sloppiest.) I guess that's what revisions are for.

I forgot to make a post about lesbo-waiting in line con 2009. I probably won't at this rate(Wait, i just did technically.) TWENTY EIGHT MEN OUT OF A THOUSAND. WHAT THE SHIT.

I was about to go to sleep when I got these really terrible ideas. The saddest part is, i think they might work, on some level, if enough effort is put into them...

i need $5. I am so poor right now i do not even have five dollars.

I have been hyperfocusing my efforts on very specific things, but even then i get distracted too easily. it just feels like there's not enough time to do it all.

I kind of liked being on a normal schedule for once. sad i'm back on this one. heh, it takes me two months to get back on track, before i'm forced to change it up again.

I miss listening to music, i mean really listening. lately it's all been single songs on loop for testing or other purposes. i miss all the random touhou songs in my random touhou playlist.

I think i'll listen to a block of the vandals, and stop here.

Just a post to say
PETTAN
PETTAN
TSURUPETTAN

It's not asynchronous if it freezes up firefox and prevents me from taking any other actions.

Unless you count "Force Quit" an action.

[Edit]:Why am i updating my livejournal from inside songbird?

BECAUSE I CAN.

My main monitor has a cool color temperature. my tiny lcd monitor has a hot one. This is mainly because the cool scheme looks like complete shit on it, especially when compared to the hd-inspiring mammoth. Doing so makes most things even out to some extent...Except firefox. i swear things change colors immensely swapping between the two monitors.

On the main screen, things looks blue and white. I move it over and everything's grey and red.

DEOS NAWT COMPUET

What makes them inferior to the pre-seven ones??

GIANT.
FUCKING.
CHOCOBO.

It disappeared, and with it the credibility of the series.

GAH I FORGOT THEY WERE IN 7 OR 9(lol 9 at least was more than a summon; that makes it more of a final fantasy than the rest! HEAR THAT? 9 WAS BETTERRRRR)

But did they have the music? THE MUSIC?!? That's what made a fat chocobo fat!

Why oh why do i have 6 sitting in front of me, but all i want to play is 4?...at least if i do play, i can hear the auction house music. but then, if i'm going to be wasting my time, why not do it with re5? leblah.

As you can tell, i still have internet. hooray! Or, more accurately, i have cataloged how to get internet on my computer well enough that i can add it again quite quickly. In celebration of internet, let's talk about my whore of a computer.

I have now "officially" officially installed osx on my computer. Before was a much smaller victory compared to this one, almost making me feel like the past was a lie, and this was the grand achievement. Sure, i had some small fleeting happiness, but I know now it was empty dreams. Now I know true misery, and through it, joy.

After the ethernet fiasco, i ended up very quickly having to erase and start over to begin work on a proper setup for graphics. Sure, i had 1280x1024@60hz and a mirrored setup, but it wasn't working for me. That's when i realized it was the default graphics options, which meant no acceleration. When you would scroll down in a text editor, nothing would update but the last line. Websites worked the same way, as things just weren't being redrawn correctly. As such, i dedicated myself to finding the correct combination of kexts and hex data to call my own.

About sixty wipes later, I learned it took about 12 minutes from start to finish to install the baseline. Boy, it would have been nice if i could have edited the kexts from command line...except it always crashed before it got there, even in safe mode. lolawesome.

Finally i stumbled upon the right combo. No graphics update for 10.5.5, Natit dual0.2, and manually editing vendor id's before kernel panics. Success!...?

LOL OH WAIT SRY U CAN ONLY UES VGA OTEPOT.

After a day of trying to figure that out and getting only that far, i decided sleep might be good. Then, after another half of a day trying to figure out that same problem, i took a break and tried to get sound to work.

...i installed one thing and it worked perfect....sheesh. easysauce.

Fast forward past finding other small fixes for problems i was having, when i finally came across the proper solution: NVCAP settings. Holy crap those actually do something?! well, yes. they do. they tell stuff what is coming out of where...such as to look for 1 dvi and one vga port, rather than 2 vga? fdsapoufdsaiofajsiflhas SUCCESS IS SWEET.

Congrats to me on wasting an approximate week worth of my life to do what could have taken 2 minutes, by just logging over to linux, or windows.

oh god, i have to set those up now too(again)...i guess it's time to face up to it and see what data i actually lost. i've been avoiding the issue since it happened. heh.

Still need a way to read ext3...

[Edit]: WHY HASN'T ANYONE CALLED ME ABOUT A JOB YET F(SAU&RSAKHDSAJK

My computer died, again. This time i actually lost stuff. Not important stuff, but stuff nonetheless. That's the bad news. Sigh.
So i decided to chronicle the process of installing osx so that if i have to do it again i know exactly what to do to get maximum results. So, after two days of casually ignoring my computer while watching it out of the corner of my eye like some hot chick i'd never have the courage to speak to, i know the following facts:

damn i hate macs.
Finding working kexts for your hardware is a bitch.
Hex editing existing kexts so they are tailor made for your hardware is AWESOME AND WHY DIDN'T I DO IT SOONER.
Graphics cards....are not as fun(Still not as fun, since i haven't fixed it yet)
There is nothing but shitty three year old solutions to issues such as "How can i READ a journaled ext3 drive?" And if you say macFUSE+ex2fs you BETTER TELL ME HOW CAUSE IT JUST AIN'T CLICKIN. I'd like to swap my hd's over to ext3 for general use so i don't have to deal with the craziness of file fragmentations or improper shutdowns of os'es leading to lost data that requires three hours of scanning to fix.
It's still not as fun to set up as linux, or as "This is retarded but at least everything works oh god why do i have seven viruses on my computer already i just installed three minutes ago" as windows.

I also learned that Resident Evil 5 is Metal Gear Solid(Original, or twin snakes, however you want to refer to it.) I mean. It has a humble "Living Legend" type who almost blindly following his mission, The partner with the nice ass who joined out of some idealized notion, it's got the somewhat superhuman bad guy that talks a lot of shit in the beginning, and keeps coming back even after he should be dead, it has the equivalent of a CYBORG FUCKING NINJA who was a fallen comrade, friend of the protagonist. I think it's just missing an Otacon. oh, and a METAL GEAR(though i'm tempted to call ouroboros the organic metal gear) Even wesker walking around reminded me of liquid. Every time he's scream out "CHRIS" i would yell back at the screen, "SNAAAKE." There was a lot of other stuff that made me think that too, but it was little. When i was in the first stages i kept getting angry that i couldn't figure out how to sneak. If i could sneak those zombie bastards, i would have.

Just because of all that nonsense, I ended up singing the theme song to snake eater during the ending credits song. It didn't match at all. I enjoyed it.

So anyway, here i sit. one os installed with severe problems and none of the solutions to the problems i had fixed fifteen days ago. I do, however, have a properly working ethernet card that reports back the right mac address and doesn't crash if it gets any kind of heavy load. If i could only fix the hard drive and graphics problems, i would be set. it gets annoying moving a window and having it not update...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXBL6bzAR4
what.

It was long.

and i'm not just talking about the dude's junk flopping around the entire movie.