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The urge to write

Friday, February 26th, 2010 at 5:57 pm

Argh! I was having such a bad day today. Things just didn’t go well. To be fair, I slept at 2:30 am last night and woke up at 8…I also skipped lunch. I think that probably played a big part in my sh!tty afternoon. I felt really…uneasy. Stressed with nothing to be stressed about. It’s hard to explain.

Anyways, the thing I wanted to do most while I felt this way…was blog. I had this incredible urge to just write about anything. My mind was racing and unfocused and I just wanted to release whatever was in there. I sat in-front of this same webpage that I’m looking at now. It was just me, an old draft, what I’d written before and what I intend to write. Everything else began to fade away.

I never really…had this outlet before. I didn’t even realize how much writing seemed to relax me. I’m trying to think about what I would have done if not for this blog…I would probably have just stewed with my music and my thoughts. Maybe taken a walk to clear my head, I don’t know. Even now, as I write, I feel so focused…everything in the world doesn’t seem to exist. It’s very relaxing.

I’m listening to a song right now, the same song I’ve been listening to for over a week, both at work and at home, replaying over and over….the lyrics just caught my attention as they seem to apply right now:

“Where do you go when you’re lonely? Where do you go when you’re blue?”

Maybe my answer is here. Maybe this is where I go.

tinyURL and bit.ly

Friday, February 26th, 2010 at 2:04 am

ZOMG. I was going to save this post for tomorrow but something came up that made me really want to write this post today. So many posts today! I have no self control >_< So, I had been using tinyURL for years, since at least 2006 apparently since I have tinyURL links on this page: http://www.horderockcafe.com/version_1/bwl.aspx?content=Links

I’d been using it until I started Twitter last month and noticed that everyone was using bit.ly. I thought “meh”, I’ll just use what I’m using now. Of course, my new resolve of “trying new things out” and “embracing change” made me look into bit.ly.
Note: New me is using/doing: Twitter, Blogging, had a Corona with dinner today, Jailbreaking iPhone, TwitPic, bit.ly + other things I’m sure I just can’t remember atm).

Wow, I’m shocked at the data they keep for each bit.ly! I always didn’t like that if you put the same link into tinyURL, you get 2 different tinyURLs. Obviously, they don’t do a database check of the URL and just assign a new one. What a waste of space! bit.ly doesn’t have this issue, the URL is checked in the database of URLs and if the URL has already been bit.ly’d, bit.ly just gives you the original bit.ly URL. When I looked at some of my recent bit.ly’s

www.bit.ly/aBjCyq – Windows 7 Activation Post – bit.ly’d 1924 times
www.bit.ly/Hmuy1 – Heroes of Neworth Beta Account – bit.ly’d 917 times

The top one has been bit.ly’d almost 2000 times. That’s 2000 saved URLs and rows in a database.
Note: tinyURL does the above now, I just checked. 4 years ago, they did not as I remember testing it out before and getting disappointing results

I was looking at the tinyURL combinations and thinking that they would/should probably remove the curse words so things like:
tinyurl.com/fuck
tinyurl.com/shit
don’t work…much like they have to eliminate these types of words & acronyms on license plates.

Well, I actually gave tinyurl.com/fuck a shot and it redirects me to some random page, http://www.gfgfgf.com/

tinyurl.com/shit (and this is what made me LOL and HAVE to post this today), redirected me to http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006GSNX
It’s an Amazon page for Ratchet and Clank for the PS2. I LOL’d.

And then I wrote this post. and now I’m ridonculously tired. I will proofread this tomorrow….

Narutimate Hero 1 + Friends

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 at 10:01 pm

Note: Narutimate Hero is a VS type game, like Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat. You pick your char and fight all the other characters to beat the game.

I was talking about Naruto today and it got me thinking about this one weekend where Mark, Vince, Zena and I stayed up all night playing Narutimate Hero 1 (PS2). My parents were out of town and Mark came to Toronto to chill for the weekend. We called up Vince and just hung out at my place. I don’t remember when we started playing. There are only 13 or so characters to unlock and you have to beat the game 9+ times or so to get them all. As we unlocked 1 or 2 characters, we kept wanting to play more and get more characters unlocked. So that’s what we did….we played all night, the 4 of us, switching turns and playing through all the characters…defeating enemies over and over. Soon it became midnight…then 2…then 5…and 8…and then 10am. All 4 of us stayed up playing the same game for over 10 hours…after which we ended the night (or morning) just before noon with our trademark McDonald’s runs, just like how we used to do it in Waterloo. I popped in Narutimate Hero 3 (PS2) and Narutimate Hero Accel 2 (PS2) just now…sadly, the visuals don’t carry over to an HDTV very well, everything was very…non anti-alias (jagged).

Anyways, these Narutimate Hero games always make me remember this night and the fun I had. I know the night doesn’t sound too special…but those were good times, good friends, good memories.

Motivated Photos Special!

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 at 9:55 pm

Konohamaru. You're doing it wrong.

This one is special cuz I made it myself! It took me 2 episode tries to find the screenshot…(it’s from episode 2 by the way). I need a better sig than this ICQN thing… :S

**EDIT** 11:37PM: HQ version made, here:
http://www.warrenshea.com/images/motivated_photos_naruto_konohamaru_HQ.jpg

Welcome to Earth Prime

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 at 11:35 pm

POSSIBLE JUSTICE LEAGUE: CRISIS ON TWO EARTHS SPOILER. Not really part of the plot, more the philosophy behind the premise?

“With the coming of man came the illusion of free will and with that illusion came chaos. With every choice we make we literally create a world. History branches in 2 creating 1 Earth where we made the choice and a second one where we didn’t. That’s the secret to the universe you know. Billions of people making billions of choices creating infinite Earths.” – Owlman, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths

When I listened to this, all I could think about was the conference tool we’re building.

Will you attend this event? – Yes? No?
Would you like to stay in a Hotel? – Yes? No?
Do you require a smoking room? – Yes? No?

ABSOLUTE CHAOS. AND WE HAVE TO BUILD IT. WE ARE THE ARCHITECTS OF CHAOS. WE ARE GODS. in our own little way.

Sorry, you’re probably disappointed in this post :S
*I* found it interesting but I guess you had to be here, in my head :/