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Just got a Mario Shirt…

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010 at 11:29 pm

…so I decided to do this.


All of my mario/nintendo mints…
Wait, the Yoshi is a toy….

http://www.toywiz.com/mariocandy.html tells me there’s a star mint and a blue mushroom i’m missing….and a wii controller…

He’s alive…He’s aliiiiiiive…..well, sorta.

Thursday, October 7th, 2010 at 12:19 am

I’ve got too much time on my hands.

So I was using the newtwitter, seeing how the search worked and I typed in Naruto. I came across an animated gif…and I was like O_O can we put animated gifs as our avatar!?

So I made this:

Snorlax Wave

Original

Snorlax

I’m about to test it out in twitter…if it gets annoying, i’ll remove it. I’m praying it doesn’t, especially cuz Snorlax is breathing so slowly, he looks likely to have a heart attack very soon. It’s like looking at a future me. If I were a pokemon and in better shape. Yikes, there’s a scary thought.

Edit: Wah, doesn’t look like it works!? I saw another guy’s tho…maybe they can’t resize animated gifs? I dunno…

Edit 2: Well, that sucks. When I upload the gif, it automatically adds “_normal” to the end, so “snorlax_wave.gif” turns into “snorlax_wave_normal.gif” w/o me doing anything. It means the image, while uploaded as snorlax_wave.gif, is effectively useless because twitter is linking to snorlax_wave_normal.gif. FAIL.

GAH! I tried uploading my old Snorlax image and it doesn’t the same thing. I’m now custom AVATAR-LESS…
F U TWITTER, LIFE AND WORLD.

/overreact

My Saturday is average.

Saturday, September 18th, 2010 at 8:53 pm

I slept last night at around 11pm….It was weird, I came home from a bar and left, my skin very warm and with a headache. Except this time I didn’t drink. -_-; It’s unexplainable! Maybe it’s the bar atmosphere O_O

So last night, I thought it’d be funny if I took some mutual funds papers to bed and fall asleep while reading them. So that when Z found me, she’d think it were funny that I couldn’t stay awake reading it. For some reason, I thought this would be funny…I don’t know why. I was drunk (actually, no I wasn’t…). Anyways, I fell asleep, as planned…and then kept sleeping…until 2pm today. Let me tell you, it was an awesome sleep :D I had at least 4 separate dreams…one was a Futurama episode o_o.

Went out to some dim sum restaurant that Z wanted to go to…had some very good eats. Then walked around Eaton Centre a bit. I got a $30 tripod at Best Buy for a camera that I’m currently borrowing. The lack of a steady hand and a good camera & macro lens go together pretty poorly.

EDIT: Here’s a pic of my new “studio”. Looks good with a tripod…also, taking pictures on the couch didn’t seem to work….too low…my back couldn’t take it.

Photo Studio

EDIT: I also got some Mario mints at Best Buy:

Mario Mints

I went to the Disney Store and pre-ordered a Blu Ray Beauty and the Beast. Got this pretty lithograph for pre-ordering.

Beauty and the Beast Litho
note: this is a picture of MY lithograph, not a picture off the internet…

We also got 2 stuffed animals, a Hamm and a Doug. Zena and I really liked the Hamm (he was very soft!) and the Doug might prove useful later.

Hamm

Doug

The plan is to get some Disney Blu Rays, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdins, The Lion King, etc. Toy Story 3 Blu Ray available from pre-order in early Oct FYI. I personally cannot wait for the Toy Story Blu ray box set trilogy. I was in line at the Disney store, running through Toy Story 3 in my head, especially the ending, and finding myself zoning out into the emotional aspect of it. Hard to describe. Toy Story 3 really was one of the best movies I’ve seen all year, if not the best. I can’t wait to rewatch an HQ version of it.

Zena also purchased Starcraft II for herself. I pray that I don’t start it…

After that, I went to Indigo to look for some CSS books. As I started looking at the selection of books, I felt a big overwhelmed at the number of different books and different topics. HTML5 books, ASP.NET C# 4.0 books…jQuery. I felt uneasy and wanted to go home…to do work. But then I started blogging… :S

You know, I just realized that when I opened and removed the tripod from the box, I completely discarded the instructions. When I buy a Transformer, I’d never look at the instructions on how to transform it. “Instructions are for little girls” I would say. Except I don’t use “little girls”, I say something slightly more vulgar. But aren’t simple instructions the basis of learning fundamentals? Maybe I’m not the type that can instinctively learns from fundamentals, I’m the type and dives in head first and then drowns? or more accurately, dives in head first, learns how to swim enough to get by, but probably not make any records.

I leave you with a Flash plushie I got a couple of months ago. He sports a jagged lightning belt meaning he’s Barry Allen, not Wally West (boourns). He’s still cute though.

The Flash

Blogging about Blogging Part 5: Bots and content stealing websites >:(

Sunday, August 1st, 2010 at 6:22 pm

I wouldn’t have much to say about “Blogging about Blogging” this month except I fell behind on my usual # of posts this month. It’s okay…I couldn’t keep up that pace forever.

For some reason in Part 4, I said I’d discuss Bots and content stealing websites. I don’t quite remember why. But I’ll discuss them now anyways as I have nothing else to write about:

Bots >:(
So…my analytics tell me that some bot came to my page and viewed:
/default.php?amp;cpage=1&p=138%20And%20char(124)%2b(Select%20Cast(Count(1)%20as%20varchar(8000))%2Bchar(124)%20From%20[sysobjects]%20Where%201=1)>0
Figuring that out, they’re looking at the comment section of page 138 (bit.ly) and…well, it gets a bit complicated from there
the %20 is a space ” “, %2b is a “+”, chart(124) = “|”…I think
Taking those into consideration,
/default.php?amp;cpage=1&p=138 And | + (Select Cast(Count(1) as varchar(8000)) + | From [sysobjects] Where 1=1)>0

What is that? It’s a SQL query. What are they trying to do? SQL Injection attack. I don’t know too much about that stuff but see the end, where it says “Where 1=1″….that statement provides = “true” and…well, I dunno, it’s supposed to get your info. I suggest learning more about it @ the link above…where stuff is written…yknow, better.

The point is:
Wordpress 1, Bot 0

Content Stealing Sites >:(
Uh oh. I can’t find the examples that I thought I’d have. The point is that…after I make posts and blog and stuff, bots come, parse my content, and put it on their site! >:( Grrr…why is my well written, beautiful…uh…writing going on other, non good sites?! It makes me so angry! Well…kinda…I think it bothered me more when I found out about it…it’s not so bad anymore.

/to be continued in “Blogging about Blogging Part 6: I have nothing more to write about”. Exciting…

BTW: I updated my peas image. Better quality…no black line on the right….flicker remains :(

Peas in a pod

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 at 10:40 pm


Okay, the plush for this toy is like, $50 on eBay! WTF! I want one :'(

My first attempt at an animated gif where the screen is captured off of the Disney site with CamStudio. Then imported into Adobe Premiere and Exported as an animated gif.
I don’t know why there’s a black line on the right and a flicker! it’s really annoying :( the video in Premiere doesn’t have that at all! Anyways, I don’t want to spend more time on this…just yet.