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Jul. 4th, 2008 @ 06:40 pm
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I am, according to my dad, the grandson of a 32nd degree mason. |
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Jul. 4th, 2008 @ 05:05 pm
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this fourth of july, celebrate by playing Operation Secret Storm for NES. you play as (I kid you not) "George B." (keep in mind this is 1992), fighting iraqis (and a bald eagle for some reason?) and of course, saddam hussein. |
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Jul. 4th, 2008 @ 05:01 pm
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enthrallingx: youre nuts and its cool.
torprot: i know8-) |
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Cereal
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Jul. 4th, 2008 @ 03:06 am
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Jul. 3rd, 2008 @ 06:36 pm
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slight cracks in this mask
allowed the scars on my cheek
to scare small children
who can count to one and two
become sixes and sevens |
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Zappos uses robots bigtime
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Jul. 3rd, 2008 @ 02:08 pm
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What do I do with this coffee?
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Jul. 3rd, 2008 @ 01:05 pm
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I drink a lot of coffee these days. Working at Starbucks has done that to me. I've always been a caffeine addict, but lately I've taken it to whole new levels. When I'm at work, I drink espresso beverages for free, but at home I stick to coffee. I love it. What else can I say?
Recently, I've noticed that after a while my coffee gets to be room temperature! Oh noes! It has always saddened me... particularly when I know I have no hot coffee with which to refresh my delicious beverage. That is, until today. "What does Greg do with his coffee once it's no longer hot enough to drink," you might be asking yourself. Well, let me tell you!
I take my cup of coffee to the kitchen, where I keep all of my food and dishes, and I set it down on the counter. Then I get a tall clear glass and fill it half-way with ice. Next, I pour the coffee over ice. Voila! Iced coffee! Then (yes, it gets better), I fill the glass the rest of the way with milk.
No longer let your cooled coffee go to waste... join me in drinking delicious iced coffee with milk. |
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Moar updates!
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Jul. 3rd, 2008 @ 12:45 pm
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I've opened a ticket with LJ support to have the feed URL for ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) binary_snobbery changed from index.rdf to index.xml, so that feed will start working again soon. Hooray for web stats reports and access to logs.
I've made a few changes to the site again.. Fixed the links in my feed so that they use the new URL style.. so if you've subscribed, I apologize for making all your posts unread. I also added a favicon! :D No srs web comic is srs without a favicon.ico. It's my little stick-figure man with the flower on his head. I'm keeping the flower. I really like it. I also took the time to fix the SQL injection vulnerability in the script I use to post new entries. Huzzah for PHP (mysql_real_escape_strings()). I even made the script check for the existence of a file before it's uploaded. *grin* Next on the list for that is an error box that allows me to overwrite comics. I'm trying to do as little comic editing from the shell as possible. It makes me feel better about life, plus I'd be using PHP to insert data into the MySQL db anyway. *shrugs*
In other news, I'm declaring a major in Computer Science next week. After careful, arduous consideration over the past five months (since being let go at Reflex due to downsizing), I realized it's high time I get real about my priorities. I made a list. Music was much, much lower on the list than I'd expected it ever would be. Truth be told, it's just a hobby. It's always been that... albeit my favoritest of hobbies. I'm pretty damn serious about classical music.
I met with an adviser in the CS department who said I'd have a pretty light classload next year -- there are a couple of bottle-neck courses (Java 1 and C# 1) that I have to get through, before I can take everything else. So I'll be taking those, hopefully concurrently, in the fall. I must also start brushing up on math again. I've been reviewing pre-calc, and need to start reviewing trig too. I'm sure I can find some good places to do that on the internets. I'm going to audit a trig class this fall, and I may actually continue with my music studies. There's no point in dropping the major if I don't have to. Woot for double majors. It'll mean an extra year in school, but I'm hoping to get an IT job there that will make me feel a bit better about things.
Next up in the comic:
Defined characters -- this is going to take some time, but I think I've just about got the art down for flowerguy. Submit your entries for the naming contest via comments. That's right.. I'm having a naming contest for my characters (A la ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mcmlxxiv's recent fish naming contest.)
Additional characters -- I'd like to introduce another character soon. I'll be naming this one myself based on the name you give me for flowerguy. I like flowerguy, but I don't want to call him that.. but it would be kinda funny to have flowerguy and then just make that the motif: funny things on their heads. Hmm... *ponders*
That's today's ridiculously huge update. *hugs* |
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New show with Reign Supreme
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Jul. 3rd, 2008 @ 07:37 am
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Sweet action
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Jul. 2nd, 2008 @ 04:51 pm
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Alright.. almost all of my TODO's are finished on the comics site.
I now have an RSS Feed. It's still in testing.. It should work alright, though. I've also started to use mod_rewrite so there are no more pesky .php links. Huzzah.
Now I'm off to fix my updater script, which is currently vulnerable to SQL injection. :o Yikes! |
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Probably only funny to me, but...
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Jul. 2nd, 2008 @ 02:43 pm
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// a comic assumes it is neither the first or last comic. determining that is outside
// the scope of the Comic object
Object-orientizationing my comics site has been great fun. |
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July 12 in Brooklyn - Iron Age/Trash Talk
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Jul. 2nd, 2008 @ 01:49 pm
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my favicon works
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Jul. 2nd, 2008 @ 01:46 pm
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I made a little icon for my website and it actually works
http://matthewmelnick.com/
up in the url/address bar of your browser - yellow with two MM's |
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How to..
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Jul. 2nd, 2008 @ 11:24 am
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Staten Island Man Is Mauled by Neighbor’s Pit Bulls
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Jul. 2nd, 2008 @ 12:16 am
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Beware: graphic description of horror
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/nyregion/02mauling.html?ref=nyregion
"The authorities were considering whether to charge the dogs’ owner"
WHAT?? The owner should get life in prison. Read this and tell me what you think. I love dogs but this is outrageous. |
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I was going to wait, but...
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Jul. 1st, 2008 @ 09:39 pm
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I was going to wait until I got my RSS feed up, but here it is...
The new...
the improved...
the web comic...
http://binary-snobbery.com/
I'm only up to 8 comics at the moment, but I'm still going. There's an RSS feed in the works (I'm in the middle of rewriting the little engine that blogs -- once that's done, it's on to RSS land).
Yes.. I realize that there are other comics that also draw stick figures (I'm a big fan of xkcd and toothpaste for dinner).. but i'm neither of those guys. :) and i can't draw, but always wanted a web comic. well.. i have the power. |
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wow -
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Jul. 1st, 2008 @ 02:39 pm
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( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )Current Mood:  refreshed Current Music: the best years of our lives - 1946 |
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Jul. 1st, 2008 @ 01:20 pm
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another big month in gaming:
first, is a small flash game called You Have to Burn the Rope. I highly recommend everyone play this at least for a couple minutes, especially if you have never beaten a video game before.
next up are the third entries of a couple of longstanding video game franchises
first is Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse for the NES. this one plagued me for a while, and i never got around to beating it, but it now sits nicely in my list of completed castlevania games as number 11.
the other is Final Fantasy III, originally for the famicom, but i played the updated version for DS. including spinoffs, this is the 15th FF title i've beaten. the list comprises I, II, III, IV, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XII, Legend, Tactics, Tactics Advance, Mystic Quest, and Fables: Chocob Tales.
after a few months, i finally finished this puzzle game Pic Pic on my DS, which means completing a total of 1200 puzzles.
and the most eccentric of this months games is Virtual Boy Wario Land. i borrowed my friend's virtual boy, and i think this may be the only game i ever finish on the console. after playing for ten minutes, i would get a headache. luckily this game only takes about an hour total to finish. the 3d is cool, though |
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Interview with Jim Root from yesterday
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Jul. 1st, 2008 @ 11:54 am
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Kerrang! joins Slipknot guitarist Jim Root on the set of their video for their single Psychosocial.
And all the new masks |
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a few words about my biggest fear.
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Jul. 1st, 2008 @ 08:21 am
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They Live, We Sleep
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Jul. 1st, 2008 @ 08:26 am
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"Our Impulses are being re-directed."
"We are living in an artificially induced state of consciousness that resembles sleep. The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are nonexistent.
They have created a repressive society and we are their unwitting accomplices ...their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness.
We have been lulled into a trance.
They have made us indifferent, to ourselves, to others, we are focused only on our own gain. They are safe as long as they are not discovered ...that is their primary method of survival. Keep us asleep, keep us selfish, keep us sedated...they are dismantling the sleeping middle class.
More and more people are becoming poor. We are their cattle. We are being bred for slavery." |
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Monkeys and Dogs know what we're thinking
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Jun. 30th, 2008 @ 06:20 pm
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Watermelon - #1 for lovin'
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Jun. 30th, 2008 @ 06:05 pm
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What do you fear?
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Jun. 30th, 2008 @ 12:14 pm
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Mick Thomson's new mask
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Jun. 30th, 2008 @ 03:21 pm
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 Current Mood:  cold Current Music: sound of fans in the server room |
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Cockpit photos
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Jun. 30th, 2008 @ 03:02 pm
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magnigraph
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Jun. 30th, 2008 @ 03:01 pm
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Make some cool art and waste time
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McSame's flipflops
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Jun. 30th, 2008 @ 01:41 pm
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And I don't mean whats on his feet
http://www.therxforum.com/showthread.php?t=593495
It's actually too much for me to even absorb right now, but just glancing at it boggles.
My two new favorite sites
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/
http://www.crooksandliars.com/ |
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The cuteness
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Jun. 30th, 2008 @ 01:12 pm
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My woman rules. |
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DEVO sues McDonalds
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Jun. 30th, 2008 @ 12:33 pm
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Jun. 29th, 2008 @ 09:45 pm
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I knew everything
from the beginning to end
always believing
in you, no reservations
then you stole my hotel room
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i am concerned about my cat...
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Jun. 29th, 2008 @ 02:37 pm
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Good Lord!
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Jun. 29th, 2008 @ 08:34 am
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You're still here? Actually, KIRKWOOD BALLERS CLUB is about to start back up. With the actual TIGHT BROS NETWORK support, etc.
Anyway, i'm cooking some bangers right now. Fyi, they look like dolphin dicks. Hopefully they taste a little better than that.
Yeah!
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Mips |
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Jun. 28th, 2008 @ 11:16 pm
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I just forgot about how I dated Joy for three seconds and she broke up with me after the three seconds ended. And then I get this email from Sarah talking about how I was just entertainment for her. It was kind of depressing but it was definitely good closure, which is what I was wanting this entire time. |
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Jun. 28th, 2008 @ 11:09 pm
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I am pretty popular and influential for an insane person. Oh, who am I kidding? Hopefully everyone. |
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Slipknot reveals their new masks July 1
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Jun. 28th, 2008 @ 08:03 pm
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Jun. 28th, 2008 @ 12:40 am
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This medicine situation won't last. A miracle will happen. |
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Jun. 27th, 2008 @ 10:36 pm
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This medication is now working the same way marijuana does. |
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Obama action figure
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Jun. 27th, 2008 @ 05:59 pm
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2 flyers for the August 31st show we have
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Jun. 27th, 2008 @ 05:55 pm
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vacation-y!
excited
worried
