The New Order

I will not delude myself in thinking that anyone reads this blog. Therefore, if you perchance happen to see this on facebook, my advice is to ignore it. That disclaimer in place, I can now relieve myself of the shackles of coherency and keeping interest. This is more an exercise in fluency and willpower.

It seems all of my posts begin with, "It has been so long, etc. I've been busy, etc." When I haven't been doing anything particularly interesting, "creating," I tend to neglect writing. It is so much more natural to speak for me. I guess that is why I've never been able to keep a journal for any extended period of time. The last time I did, it was for the express purpose of giving it to someone dear to me at the time. Fairly doubious act, to be honest. If something important happens to me, I tell friends in order to have something to talk about. After a while, the "news" fail to be fresh and interesting, and it is demoted to my memory, to be forgotten eventually. Sad.

Looking over my old posts from various "start and stop" blogs I've had makes me smile. I guess the mood I've been in is what others call "maturity" or "growing up." I remember the things that I cared about and am very amused, at the same time more or less apathetic. Is this what maturity entails? Apathy?

I'm changing. I've always wanted this change to be for the better, an evolutionary process upward. Looking back, I feel like I'm losing something of myself. I guess this is the reason for this newest burst of lyricism, a desire to preserve. At least I'll know this is what Anton, age 19, was worried about in 2008.

What does all of this mean? Well, it means I will try to write more often, eventually fill in the gaps in the last few months of my life. Also, that I have succumbed to the annoying and uninteresting tendency of writing about myself. Hopefully if I put it in writing, I'll be able to commit to writing regularly. As I have been told that I am a fairly private person, this should also provide an opportunity to get a first approximation to the inner workings of my brain, for those interested. Finally, you (... um me? ...) should see things I have found on the internet that may be of interest to others.

-Anton, Commander of Pants

Hm... Yeah.

So, clearly I haven't been updating very often. I have to say a lot has changed in my thinking and doing. But I'm too lazy to write about it just yet. So, I offer some random things I've found on the internet! :)

* Hackety.org - A blog about random hackish things by _why. Specifically, about various interesting languages, art, geekish things, all in strange convoluted prose. Always interesting. Especially cause _why always hacks interesting stuff together.
* Processing - A programming language based on Java that is specifically designed for artists and designers. Seems to be very popular for creating digital artish thingies. Good thing to learn.
* GeneratorX.no - An event that explores computational art. "Art from Code". Pretty cool stuff to watch.
* Conspiracy.hu - a demoscene group with some valuable articles about coding, etc. If you are not familiar with the demoscene, I'd recommend checking out:
* Scene.org - a collection of downloadable demos by various groups from release parties. You will a really fast graphics card to render them. But the amount of stuff you can pack in 64K is AMAZING!

This goes with my current trend with a dash of Bohemia. My friends and I have been writing songs about tits and mustaches and apple sauce. Yes, it is amazing. Anyway, moving on.

* RlsLog.net - a blog about current scene releases. Yeah, nuff said.

Well, that's about all I've wanted to share, I guess.

The track of the day will be Adiemus (Radio Mix) by Enya via youtube.

Oh and this one. The chorus is catchy. VengaBoys - Boom Boom Boom.

Till next time.

Over

So in a the fall of my relationship with Angie the story of which would make a great Emo song, I've been wondering...

What keeps people together?
How long is long enough to get over it?
If it slows you down, why does it feel so good and safe?
Why does a relationship cause you to stop thinking?
Where is a good bridge to jump off of in Chandler, AZ?

Oh well. Screw it all.

I never did take you on a date...

Back!

So I haven't posted in a while. Well, here's what's been up in roughly chronological order.

I finally got my driver's license! It took me a year (my permit expired). Test was pretty easy, and I passed with 3 or 4 checks (for speeding - going 31 MPH in 25 mph zone...). Now, I still can't drive anywhere due to lack of insurance! Blast!

Lesse, I have gotten back to my cubing hobby for a week. I finally learned to do my 5x5 professor's cube. Of course it takes me like 40 min. I stopped because I had dreams where I would analyze rotations, and I've stopped paying attention in class. But it is done now! Yes!

Munchkin takes up my lunch periods at school now. My girlfriend thinks I make up the rules so she finds it annoying and doesn't like to play. Oh well. I've already bought an expansion for it (the unnatural axe).

The ability to pay for stuff has been provided by my tutoring people. I now tutor two people. Still no "real" job, but tutoring pays well.

My hard drive started making strange clicking noises and died. This has been the 2nd one this month. Something is really up. My dad blames Linux, of course. Actually, linux is the only thing that runs and doesn't do horrible things to my hardware...

Yesterday, Angie and I went to the Coronation Dance and shook our groove thangs. It was pretty fun. I'll post pictures as soon as I get some (pictures).

Today is my mom's birthday! Yay! I made salad.


And with today's aimless browsing, here's what I found online:

* Tea Mushroom (or Kombucha as it is called here) is a tangy drink made of fermented tea. You can make some with instructions here, here (via instructables.com), and here (via Wikipedia). I know it looks gross, but actually it is very good. I used to love it as a kid. Would come over to our neighbors and drink it a bunch. Yeah. I'll start making it when I actually complete some of the other stuff I do... and stop being lazy.

* Here is a pretty cool website about tesla coils and other high voltage stuff. I wish I actually understood the physics I was taught this summer. That's it. I'm going to read that stuff again.

* Here is an instructable on making an "Ikea" dj table. Pretty cool. Too expensive though :o)

* This guy makes a "portable" xbox 360 laptop. I still think real laptops are better. Pretty cool anyway...

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