Blog Update 3.1 p2

Hmm, quick checklist.

- Categorise all blog posts.  Done.
- Change the colour scheme.  Done.
- Change the widgets to ones more appropriate of my current social networking state.  Done.
- Space out the widgets.  Done. (By adding a text widget between each widget with the text “——————”)
- Make the Yearchievements page readable.  Done.
- Delete the About page.  Done.
- Work out what other pages are needed.  Pending.
- Create other pages.  Pending.

I think that’s all that’s left to do, working out pages and creating them.

Hmm, what pages are required though.. Clearly an About page, but I’d have to update it a bit more frequently.  The old About page still said I was 17 and my favourite pizza topping was pepperoni, quite clearly insane and out of date.

So basically, I hereby declare MINDEZ’S BLOG VERSION 3.1 to be officially OPEN iff (if and only if) you see an About page at the top.  If the About page isn’t there, then version 3.1 isn’t out yet.  It hardly seems worthwhile to make another blog post to announce that it’s open.  Tomorrow, COMP10042 revision notes.

In other news, the ant problem has been cleared up.  A bottle of RAID has seen to that.  Every possible entry and exit point is now shielded in a layer of poisonous material.  Mwahahahahahah.  I’m sure no crawling insects do anything at all for the environment anyway.  Of course there’s still the possibility of them getting in in other ways, attached to someone or something that comes safely into the room…. how could I get around that… some kind of airport style security at the door to ensure that no insects are being transported in?  I’ll have to look into the costs of that.

I sure hope none of this poisonous sprayed material in a confined poorly ventilated space has had any effects on me.

Splurgh.

Well Thought Out Title

Greeting.

Status update, interspersed with off topic rambling.

Rant about how Internet Explorer sucks.

Rant about how Internet Explorer sucks (cont’d).

Rant about how Internet Explorer sucks (cont’d) (cont’d).

Witty comments about Internet Explorer, interspersed with poorly researched and badly worded statements.

Paragraph to show my lack of things to say.

Final witty comment about Internet Explorer sucking.

-Mindez

EDIT: Afterthought, possibly a disclaimer that the above is poorly researched and badly worded.

Drumroll

To blog, or not to blog: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to update the posts and comments of outrageous boredom.

As I say, I’m not sure. To blog and feel stifled by the.. feeling that people I know from home are reading it, or to drop everything and just be able to forge a new identity.

In fact, I would prefer the latter. I want to generally be more open about who/what I am and just be.. different. To a point that well, I want to be more naturally who I am, and contact with people from home will remind me that it’s not who I am. Or at least, who I’ve been.

This isn’t making much sense. Basically, I just don’t want to be tied down by what people think of me at the moment, and who I am at the moment.

In fact, I may as well come out with what I’m going to say because I know I’m not going to say it in any other way. I’ve been told by many people many times that I’ll know when the time’s right and blah blah it’ll just happen, but it never happened and I’m sure the last 3 days have been the right time to say it.

So here it comes. I’m gay. There. It’s out. Happy now? And yes it’s not a phase.

That feels better. I know my dad reads this, it’s just a matter of time now.

I’m going to sleep.

Remember remember, 13th of November

I’m happy right now. I have tickets to see the greatest comedian on Earth [at the moment, in my head, anyway], on Tuesday November 13th at 8 pm in the MEN Arena. Bill Bailey’s tour, Tinselworm.
“To my delight. Three tickets paid for and in the post. Stop striking! Deliver! Carry on striking! My birthday gift is Bill Bailey live at the Arena.” – Loup’s Blog
Wheeeee! I’M GOING TO SEE BILL BAILEY I’M GOING TO SEE BILL BAILEY! This is, strangely enough, the first time I’ve ever seen any famous person with my own eyes, without leering at a television. Quite an important occasion. And one that I can’t wait for. Bill Bailey is fantastic. Spent the last couple of days watching his other shows, Part Troll, Bewilderness, and Cosmic Jam. And every episode of Black Books. Youtube for the win.

Ah, I can’t wait. Bill Bailey is fantastic.

I’ve also been watching Heroes a lot. I’m almost at the end of the series, and it’s the first time that I’ve ever seen Christopher Eccleston in something that isn’t Doctor Who. He’s also fantastic.

I just really came on to post about the Bill Bailey tickets.

Bill Bailey is fantastic.
P.P.S. Bill Bailey is fantastic.
-Mindez

P.S. Bill Bailey is fantastic.

I’m feeling lonely

I’m feeling particularly lonely today.  I’m not sure if it can be attributed to the sleep deprivation or the fact that I only leave the house twice a week, and haven’t seen a single person except for grandma since Monday.  Sometimes I just wish I could hook up the internet to my brain and live there, forever.  Sit in the great halls of Tamino Badwolf and chat to Who fans, and then instantly with just a thought be immersed in the world of MapleStory or something.

It’s all been a bit depressing lately.  Still, what’s there to look forward to over the next couple of weeks?

1) Well, there’s Magic tonight, and on Sunday.
… 2) …….Yeah, I’m lost.

My life lacks stability, really.  I have trouble committing to any projects, and despite the fact that I’m just sitting around the house 24 hours a day for the last 3 weeks, I’ve got absolutely nothing done.  I can’t wait to go to university.  I can go to the gaming store more regularly, I can actually have some freedom.. I can try to lose weight, finally.  That’s something that I can’t do here.  I say “I want to lose weight” and everyone laughs.

I’m hiding a lot beneath my exterior, things that I’ve not talked about on this blog.  I know that family reads this blog, so.  I hate having to be careful about what I say.

I’m going to end this blog post now.  It’s 6:10 AM, and I don’t know if something private’s going to slip out from lack of sleep or not.

-Mindez

Day 6619 in Mindez’s Body

Day 6619, in Mindez’s body.

I like to treat my readers here at my blog, and in order to do that today I offer you a unique glance into the workings of my brain, at precisely 1:16 pm.

La la la, oh, I’ll just bend down to pick up my shoe— *UBER-LOUD-CRACK*

OH HOLY CRAP, OH JEEZ, SKAFHASOIGNJJGNOISWJW£T%TOITWJEGJSDJG|IJWOT(NH£OIT~PLGETOPLM:LET:EM:@LT:ELMKVPOLNEOKJPOTMLKELNGKLEG NJKSMDGIOSMDJGEJIOTUNOMGSJKHFDJOIGJRSNEGOKXBFIUGHOJK$JTUXHRGIXJRKNTJ K:$LMYT:SK@:LHY:S@KRN:K|RGHL|@XRLMHRX@KHXKMRMLK:HMLMLGENKLSMGKLSRMKLHGSRML HRXOJHRINOHRS:OGEJKP@SIKSDNGAOIDNGOISDOKGNSDBROKENMYLEGKJASNOIGNDSOIGSDLKGNCBROKENBROKENKN
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This continued for 8 minutes. It hurt I guess I’m getting old and brittle in my old age, dislocating my knee like that.

Anyway, Day 6618, 7:34 PM. The Friday Night Magic went well; I won 100 times more matches than I thought I would. Won 2, lost 3 rounds. Got totally thrashed twice, once was against a good counter deck (First turn: “I play Mogg Fanatic!” “…OMG COUNTER” and this continued with every spell I played throughout the whole match), and once against a very annoying sliver deck (Opponent: “I attack with all my monsters, dealing 5 damage to you and healing me by 50 points”). He finished on 115 health, I’d given up when he’d got to 65 though.

Tomorrow’s tournament is sealed, so I have no excuse for doing terrible. Probably will though. I get 5 booster packs; 75 cards; and have to make a deck of 40 cards from them (Probably using 22-23 of the 75 cards I’m given, plus 17-18 lands).

Rambling? Maybe. I’m just bored. I don’t need to prepare a deck for tomorrow as it’s Sealed, so I’m a bit stuck for things to do. Must remember to ask about Dungeons And Dragons beginner learny things.

Loup has gone on holiday for 7 days, so I doubt I’ll get any comments or indeed any readers for at least a week. Ah well.

Must sleep now.

-Mindez

The Drablog

I have been instructed to write a blog post of one hundred words, using at least two inset boxes.
One hundred words simply isn’t enough

One hundred words simply isn’t enough, however.
In fact, it’s clear to me that I’ve already used a great number of these one hundred in the first two sentences alone, and have now hardly any words remaining, so this is going to be a hard task.
I’ll be back tomorrow with a lengthier update.

So in fact, there’s no room to talk about yesterday’s Magic tournaments. In fact, I’m going to have to end it here, and say that I’ll be back tomorrow with a lengthier update.

-Mindez

String Theory

Missed… the… last… train… home…
Birds… pass… by… to… tell me that I’m not alone.
Well I’m pushing myself, to finish this part
I can handle a lot but one thing I’m missing
Is in your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes.

Have… you… seen… this… film…
It… re… minds… me… of walking through the avenues.
Well I’m washing my hands, of attachments, yeah.
I’ll land on the ground, but one thing I’m missing
Is in your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes.

In your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes , in your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes.

Eyes by Rogue Waves.

So, anyway. 4.5 lessons remaining until the big end of school Magic partay. Maths, Electronics, (Tutorial doesn’t count, Guitar doesn’t count), Further Maths, Further Maths, Computing.

How much work do I expect we’ll be doing? Eh, a minimum. Specially when my Further Maths homework for tomorrow is “Think up at least 10 general knowledge questions for a quiz”. Quite a change from differential equations, then. And I’ve been told to bring my poker chips in on Friday for Further Maths then for our last ever lesson with Ms Cox, so.

As for Maths tomorrow, it’ll be spent doing coursework. I just have 2 marks of the 16 total to get now, can I get those in an hour and a half? Ah, what’s it matter. Electronics… I doubt we’ll be doing anything much. Perhaps just working on our serial transmitter/receivers, or the frequency shift key. Or maybe watching a video like we did in Physics today.

Oh, speaking of which, String Theory is an extremely fascinating subject. The idea that the universe is made up of tiny vibrating strings so that the whole world is bound together in harmonics is very interesting. And the ramifications if this is true; the parallel worlds in which every single possibility is played out, like somewhere out there there’s a Mindez that’s like Ace Rimmer. That would amuse me. And if every possibility is played out, shouldn’t there be at least one reality that has discovered trans-dimensional travel? Perhaps, then, the strings that are the key to this mystery can never be discovered, and never utilised to manipulate the worlds, but they are there, the one universal constant that keeps everything together, keeps it all moving..

Of course, I don’t understand the concept. I’ve watched a 1 hour Americanised TV program about it that had Physicists talking to dogs and walking through walls. So I don’t claim any expertise. I’m just musing about the concept as I understand it. And the way that it’s so.. science fiction, and yet so real.

Well, back to working on Physics… Key Skills has to be finished by tomorrow.

…And today.

…And yesterday, to think of it.

And last week…

-Mindez

I have been to London, take 2

Hello.

Yes, as the rather garbled looking last post says, I have been to London, to look at Imperial College London.  I was not impressed.

Perhaps it was the spending 5 hours getting there, going through hell on a train for that time.  It would have taken a good university to impress me or put me in a good mood after that sleep deprived journey.   Or perhaps, as my instincts want me to believe but that probably isn’t true, that it was quite terribly disorganised.  We started, had lectures on Robot Mapping, Gesture Recognition, and Artificial Intelligence in Art.  All of which were quite interesting really. And then a “tour”.  And I say “tour” in the most sarcastic way possible.  It was a walk, just walking in circles around the college a few times without a destination or, as far as I could see, a tour guide.  Well, there was one, but her vocal range didn’t seem to be within the hearing range of humans, as far as I could tell.  Some passing dogs took quite an interest though.

Mental note: Remove ears from dog, surgically attach ears to face.  May make for quite an interesting research project.

Anyway, I think that I value Manchester above Imperial, and as it is much easier than Imperial to get into (AAB instead of AAA), if I would choose Manchester over Imperial then… I don’t think my chances of going to Imperial are very high.  Within the millipercents, anyway.  Are there such a thing as millipercents?  There should be.  There we go, I just invented it.  A new S.I. unit; percents.  Micropercents, millipercents, centipercents…  Yes!  0.01% chance of something happening = 1 centipercent.  There, I just invented something.  To the patent office. And, if google results are anything to go by, it is a pretty new invention.  Only 2 results for “centipercents”.  4 for “centipercent” though, and 3 of them are in the context that I’ve made them up to be—

…I’m rambling now, aren’t I?

So, at the moment, set U sorted into preference order = [Manchester,Imperial].   I don’t think I have time for another open day, and certainly don’t have any money left (£100 for travel expenses, £96 spent on train fare to London.  I have £4, I may be able to go to Bolton University with that.)

That’s about all regarding London I think.  Manchester > Imperial, sums it up nicely.  Perhaps I’m just bitter because at Imperial, everyone knew more than me, and at Manchester, I knew more than everyone.  Manchester for the win.

I have pictures, but do not have the stamina to stand up and walk over to the other side of the room to pick up my camera, and then go through the long and tedious process of fiddling with the battery/SD-card release button, clicking the SD-card out of the camera, removing the SD cover from my laptop, plugging the SD-card into my laptop, clicking it in, moving my finger over My Computer, double clicking, moving the mouse cursor over the SD-card drive, double clicking again, navigating my way around the default folder structure on the SD-card in order to find the pictures, browsing through the pictures, selecting pictures that may look good, importing them into Paint, reducing the file size, re-saving it under a different file name, clicking “Start”, clicking “run”, typing in the name of my FTP server, right clicking, logging into my FTP server, navigating my FTP server to find a good location to upload the files to, accidentally uploading the wrong ones, importing them into this entry, spending half an hour scratching my head and wondering why it looks so wrong, testing with other pictures to see if they do the same thing, finally realising my mistake, laughing about it, removing my wrongly uploaded image from the FTP server, uploading the correct image to the FTP server, importing it into this entry again, posting, editting to fiddle around with it’s placement on the page and where it should go within the post, working out sensible paragraph breaks for the images to go between, and resulting in a blog entry full of images I could have just ripped off the internet in the first place.

Try saying all that without breathing, go on.  I could get up to about “removing the SD cover from my laptop” when I tried, but then, I’m ill at the moment, so my lung capacity is rather lacking.

Speaking of which, I have been at the whole “doing 5 A2 subjects” thing for about 3 weeks now, and am already doing the equivalent of whacking on the table with the flat of my palm, sobbing hysterically, and screaming “ENOUGH!  ENOUGH!  MAKE IT STOP!”.  I think I may drop Electronics after all.  It’s not, thus far, giving me the joy that I had in my AS year.  And all I can think about with regards to Electronics now is “…Urgh, I have.. massive coursework to do… in a few months… urgh”.  And I want to avoid coursework.  I will have coursework in 3 subjects (One of which will be finished by the end of next week), so would like to avoid any more.  I’m more of an exam type person, anyway.

I really am rambling now, aren’t I?  Where is the line between ‘rambling’ and ‘not rambling’?  I think I lost sight of it when I was driveling on about centipercents and cruelly butchering dogs for their ears.

Next time, on Mindez’s Blog:

Mindez: OH MY GOD, WE ONLY HAVE 10 SECONDS TO DEFUSE THE WEBSITE BEFORE THE BLOG EXPLODES!
Doctor: HYAH! *karate chop’s bomb*

Mindez: Guys… I have decided….  …….. I want to play…..  …. Magic.
Everyone: *GASP!*

Mindez: *drums on the table* …- …- …- …- …- …- …- …-

Irregular updates

Irregular updates recently.

Sleep deprived.

Been to London

Didn’t like it much

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Want sleep please. Please?

More later. Off to sleep.

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-Mindez