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Heat. B.O. Deodorant. Hygiene.

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 at 8:43 pm

This weather sucks. I hate the summer. It’s brutally hot. Too hot to do anything. I remember trying to study for exams in Waterloo w/o AC. I’d crash at my friends’ place in Mackenzie King rather than sleep in my own bed at V1. I always did slightly worse in spring terms…the heat just makes me…not wanna do anything.

Not much has changed at this point…I hate the summer. Specifically, I hate the heat. I like the longer hours of daylight, waking up to the sun. But heat makes me miserable. You know what also sucks? People that get hot…and don’t wear deodorant. And then they stink. You know what sucks? Walking behind someone and smelling their B.O.
Smelling a stranger’s odor. Ugh.

We nerds are known for it. Cons are full of big guys. And sometimes that’s okay. But sometimes they’re full of big guys…who are just…dirty. Their hair is long, unkept, and it looks like they haven’t showered in months. Or they’re huge, sweaty, and terribly stinky. Or they’re alright…until they open their mouths and you can smell that “morning breath”…but you know it’s not their morning breath, it’s their every day 24/7 breath.

I, and I hate to admit it, have a friend who doesn’t bathe like…ever. Or brush his teeth. Ever. I can’t sit beside him because he stinks. I can’t talk to him because his breath will melt my face. And…he wonders why he’s striking out with the opposite sex. It boggles my mind.

I’m fortunate. Besides that guy, I’ve been blessed with friends who are cool as well as intelligent. I’d hate to think what would happen to me if I grew up a social outcast. I’d be that which I despise. *shudder*

/it’s hot. but not in my condo :D life is good…

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…4 days later.

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 at 8:18 pm

Lists help. I kept coming back to my previous post to look at what I had to do…it kept me organized….
What I dislike about lists is that looking at them gives me stress…I feel this…need/urge to complete them. Good for work. Bad for home. Anyways, I’ll just summarize my last 4 days, since writing the list. After that, I’ll study some more ASP.NET….

What I did these last 4 days:
-had family lunch and dinner on Saturday
-Toronto Zoo for 5 hours on Monday
-Ontario Science Centre for 5 hours on Tuesday
-finished reading Scott Pilgrim
-cleaned Hamster cage
-studied ASP.NET
-caught up on ~~6 episodes of True Blood~~, 1 episode of Hell’s Kitchen, 2 episodes of Futurama
-laundry
-decide which of my two EPIC SITE ideas to pursue…

What I still need to do
-design new layout for warrenshea.com…like…NOW.
-contact me web form (which shouldn’t take too long)
-start planning/designing EPIC SITE…
-watch Despicable Me, Kick-Ass (again), Once, Shutter Island, Remember Me (…which only got 28~% on RT…)
-secret project (not the epic site…even more secret!)
-update To Buy list…for comic-con
-take more photographs/galleries – Yoshi, Scarlet Witch, Psylocke, Kakashi, Scheris, Cagalli, Lunamaria, Catwoman, Yuna, Full Metal Panic! characters…
-start reading One Piece manga
-start playing Zelda: Ocarina of time again
-watch Transformers DVDs I recently purchased
-watch EXTRAs to DVDs – Battlestar Galactica, Seinfeld, Friends, Transformers
-wear retainer…to fix my teeth…cuz they’re not looking so hot

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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 :(

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Life updates

Saturday, July 31st, 2010 at 1:11 am

WordPress 3.0.1 updated!
Okay…that’s not very impressive.

The problem is that with every update, I have to apply my custom code to the WordPress template.
It’s editing 8 files, 100~ lines of code. I’m trying to figure out a better way to do updates…it’d be awesome to parse the files and do auto replaces…kind of like what WordPress does. But to do that, you have to know what changes…and I don’t really…

Life…has been…off
Aimless rant incoming:
Things have been weird lately. I haven’t been blogging, updating twitter, studying, taking/editing photographs, designing, developing, watching anime, watching anything…basically, I haven’t been doing anything. My sleeping schedule has been screwed up…I’m generally sleeping at 3…waking up at 9:15 (which is pretty late…for a work day). I take 2-3-4 hour naps after work. I recently had a night of insomnia…couldn’t sleep until 5am. Pretty rare for me to do that…it’s usually not very difficult for me to fall asleep but that night, my mind just wouldn’t stop racing. I’m just generally tired…even though I’m not doing anything. My life’s been busy…going out, etc. I don’t walk to work anymore because it’s too hot. Last weekend was my first weekend of unwinding but…I’m still tired. This weekend’s kinda different…still busy though.

Tomorrow I have lunch and dinner with the family…Monday or Tuesday, I’m going to the Toronto Zoo.

The weekend after this, August 7, I’m going to see Jersey Boys. And then…there’s Comicon coming up.
I have a deluxe pass (3 days) and I’m taking the day before and after off (so..Thursday-Tuesday – 5 day weekend).

So busy. I don’t have time to do the things I want (below):

I need a…list…of….like…to do…or something….(in no particular order):
(GREEN: to complete this weekend)
-design new layout for warrenshea.com…like…NOW.
-contact me web form (which shouldn’t take too long)
-decide which of my two EPIC SITE ideas to pursue…and then
-start planning/designing EPIC SITE…
-finish reading Scott Pilgrim
-watch Despicable Me, Kick-Ass (again), Once, Shutter Island, Remember Me (…which only got 28~% on RT…)
-secret project (not the epic site…even more secret!)
-update To Buy list…for comic-con
-take more photographs/galleries – Yoshi, Scarlet Witch, Psylocke, Kakashi, Scheris, Cagalli, Lunamaria, Catwoman, Yuna, Full Metal Panic! characters…
-clean Hamster cage (tomorrow)
-study ASP.NET
-catch up on 6 episodes of True Blood, 1 episode of Hell’s Kitchen, 2 episodes of Futurama
-start reading One Piece manga
-start playing Zelda: Ocarina of time again
-laundry
-watch Transformers DVDs I recently purchased
-watch EXTRAs to DVDs – Battlestar Galactica, Seinfeld, Friends, Transformers
-wear retainer…to fix my teeth…cuz they’re not looking so hot

I need to avoid
-taking naps after work
-sleeping after 2am on weekdays
-drinking…well, enough that it ruins my night…i need to moderate it better/train my terrible alcohol genes
-playing DOTA…hours passing by like nothing…it’s just a fun & addicting game! damn, i feel like playing a game right now…….
-….wasting time on things not on the list above

/i feel so scattered lately…my focus is all over the place…need to cross some of these items off…and focus.

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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.

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