Protected: CTY 2010!
Jul/100
I’m back!
Jul/090
Not that anyone in particular cares!
But I’m back from CTY (actually, I got back Friday but I’ve been too lazy to post) and boy do I have a story to tell. I won’t lie. It was.. one of the most unique experiences I’ve ever had. It was intensely fun, I met great people, and some awkward stuff was sprinkled in there as well.
So where do we begin? I took Cryptology, which was fascinating. Though, as Yuki will point out, It’s not digital encryption (except some rudimentary RSA/DES/SHA) so it’s not really applicable. Still, it was an introduction to cryptology (and modular arithmetic, too).
Now let’s move on the social part, which is the fun part. I made some great friends. Unsurprisingly, most of them are girls. This is where the awkward things begin. I’m not going to go into detail, for sake of people’s privacy. Basically, I met 3 people at an Origami Activity (after which we ate dinner together). I guess I’m kinda unsocial, so this group was my first of new friends at CTY.
Well, as things would have it, I made friends with a good amount of their friends as well. Said group of people hangs out for a few weeks. We come to the second to last day (Thursday of last week). Guess what, it’s the dance! The last dance. So guess what? Third to last song one of my friends confesses to me. I guess I kind of made it obvious that I liked her. We danced. Yay. Then we spent all of Friday just hanging around, talking (but we didn’t get too much time for this, sadly).
But now CTY’s over and I can’t see any of them. Boo hoo, sad for me. Well, I’ll keep in touch with people. Cell phones and emails but no IMs. What the heck? xD
And on a completely different note, I’m still working on my little gallery thing. It should be done by the end of the week. But there’s a good chance I’ll encounter adversity in my noobish scripting attempts. We’ll see where it goes.
Going Away
Jun/090
Well, I’ll be in Lancaster for CTY over the next 3 weeks. I leave tomorrow at 7 AM, so I won’t be around for a while. That means so site changes, no gallery, and most importantly, no rants. Enjoy the moderate repreive from my nonsense. I shall return with stories, ideas, and hopefully a working gallery.
For those that don’t know (that’s everyone), I’ve been working on and off for the past 2 days on a “Gallery” sort of thing in PHP. Using a combination of phpThumb() and Lightbox(javascript), it’s going to work with basic MySQL of my own design. The entire point of this isn’t actually to make a gallery, but rather to expose myself to some basic PHP. Well, that’ll fail soon enough.
A Rant on “Bullshit”
Jun/091
Warning – Language and Religion!
So Derek introduced me to the comedic genius of George Carlin. Now, I’m not a huge fan of excessive swearing, but the extent to which this guy uses them is just hilarious. Anyways, so he discusses religion, the state of the US, nihilism, and other beliefs that what we do here doesn’t matter at all. And I suppose, in a very large scale of time, he is for the most part correct.
Well, let me just skip here to the reason I’m writing this. Youtube users (though there are other repositories of bullshit across the internet) are, a lot of the time, ignorant, stupid, and bigoted. But I have never seen such assumed, malinformed, and generally mean comments. George Carlin is dead, by the way. Ooh, big and tough people, they can attack an old, dead guy, eh? I wish I was that brave.
I’ll just begin with the first comment I saw (quoted directly from the youtube comment on a video of George Carlin’s ‘It’s bad for ya’)
“dude seriously your a fagget this is how it is you believe a cancer ridden asshole like carlin look how he wasted away wow his belief in nothing really got him somewhere lol your? an asshole hes an asshole what he says about heaven is ridculous anyway i have no more to say to you i believe in God and a better place you choose to listen to a comedian thank you and good night”
Where do we begin? How about – don’t insult the dead? Nah, that’s a little weak. How about the fact that he supposedly “wasted away”. What, because some of us choose not to subscribe to your popularized, bigoted belief, we have a lesser quality of life? Someone’s beliefs are independent of their success. “his belief in nothing really got him somewhere”, eh? Yeah, actually it did. If you hadn’t noticed, he does have something of a following. People, gee, I don’t know, enjoy listening to him? No, of course not, that notion would be ridiculous!
Well, let’s move on to that “what he says about heaven is ridiculous anyway”. Well gee, I might just be a mentally-impaired child, but I’m pretty sure he’s a comedian. He makes a point of making things sound ridiculous. Why? All comedians do this! It shows us the flaws in our beliefs, and forces us to laugh at our flaws! I’m going to use one of those not-so-good phrases, but “have an open mind”! Really! Is it completely unacceptable that someone can make a joke about your belief?
Moving on to the next comment (same guy). “no when i hatched out of an egg or whatever? you atheist think we came from you moron i love how carlin an old bastard has a following lmao hes a comedian do you know what that means”
Okay, well, anybody who’s ever decided to pay attention to a biology class should have realized by now that this is a load of bull. “Hatched out of an egg or whatever you atheist think”? Learn some freaking evolution before you come back, thanks.
And that’s my short rant on how religious folks on youtube (the ones that tend to comment on atheistic videos) don’t know jack crap. Again, if you’re religious, I apologize if this offended you. Still, you have to admit, the things these people say are completely idiotic, no?
About the title – It comes from one of George Carlin’s other acts, which can be found here. R.I.P. George Carlin
Hello world!
Jun/092
Greetings, my nonexistant readers. I’m Jeffrey, the owner, developer, and creator of this website you see here. As you can probably tell, there’s not much going on here at the moment. But alas, do not fear. Soon to come are my Gallery and Projects, along with improvements to the main site.
So I’m guessing I’m supposed to put an introduction here. Well, I’m a high school student (school just ended!) and that makes me a Sophomore now. I’ve started this website/blog for as some sort of garbage dump for all my work. Expect to see stuff from my DeviantArt, my various Programming projects (typically C++ or Java), and the crazy ideas/rants floating around in my head.
I’ve never found myself to be exceptional at much of anything. Sure, web design is fun. Sure, so are programming and graphic design. But I’m not particularly good at anything. Well, I suppose I’ll get better with time. Already, since I began web design at an early age, I’ve improved from a pretty poor conceptual state to the slapped-together website you see.
Watch out for the “About” page and some rants to follow soon. By the way, I’m big on the rants. Expect to read a lot.
-Jeff