Being obsessed with a) mezzacotta, the randomly generated webcomic that's (retroactively) been around since 9999999999999 BC, and b) nerdy math-related stuff, I thought of an idea for a LJ/DW meme that incorporates both! Back in July or so. Why didn't I post it until now? For that matter, I'm surprised I didn't think of this meme before July 2017.
2) Look at the strip(s) from the day you joined LJ and/or DW and/or any other blogging site you use regularly - if you don't know when that is, you can go to your profile and find out (at least for LJ and DW): http://mezzacotta.net/archive.php?… (LJ) http://mezzacotta.net/archive.php?… (DW)
3) Optionally, also look at the strip(s) from any other dates that are significant to you! I'll skip this step, though - while there are many other dates that are significant to me for whatever reason, I think I'll just use my birthdate and the dates I joined LJ/DW for this.
6) Now take the dates from steps 1-3 and replace the year with your LJ and/or DW (and/or other blogging site) user ID! On LJ and DW at least, that's also on your profile. (Any time I say to replace the year with a number that isn't a year like your user ID, do this for both BC and AD if the AD version exists [i.e. the number is between 1 and the current year]. If it doesn't - which it won't 99.9% of the time - then just use BC.) http://mezzacotta.net/archive.php?… http://mezzacotta.net/archive.php?… (I'd say that's changing focus more than just "a bit". :P ) http://mezzacotta.net/archive.php?… (Yes, I even combined my LJ user ID with the date I joined DW and vice versa. Because that makes a lot more sense than the strip I got by doing so!) http://mezzacotta.net/archive.php?… http://mezzacotta.net/archive.php?… http://mezzacotta.net/archive.php?… (The first panel of this one is the best part.)
If any of these methods gives you an invalid date: Year with leading zeroes - remove the leading zeroes. Year is 0 - use 9999999999999 BC (13 nines), 1 BC, and/or 1 AD instead. Or, if this happens in step 5, replacing it with 100 BC/AD makes sense too. February 29 in a year that doesn't have one - use February 28 and/or March 1 of that year instead.
This has been kind of a disappointing April Fools' Day because:
1) Homestar Runner didn't update at all today, even though they did for April Fools' Day 2014, 2015, and 2016, and April Fools and Halloween are almost the only times they ever update nowadays. 2) I don't think many people noticed my April Fools prank at all.
For reference, my April Fools prank was this entry; however, when I first posted it (on March 31 in my time zone, but late enough that it was April 1 already for some of you), it was an exact copy of my first entry. Then I waited a few minutes or so and changed it to a copy of a different past entry in the same way... then changed it to another after a few more minutes, and so on - basically, if I was at my computer, I'd change the entry anywhere from once an hour to once every few minutes. (At first. I gradually updated it less and less often because it seemed like no one was noticing...)
By "exact copy", that means including the subject line, repost button, userpic, tags, mood, music, location... basically, everything except the timestamp, the comments, and friends-only status [though, of course, the only friends-only entries I used were ones that probably would've been fine being public]. And anything that I intended to change each time but accidentally forgot sometimes. Though if I used an entry I'd posted in _dreams_, autism, or asperger, I added a notice saying that it was cross-posted (even though I don't think copying a community entry to my own journal years later for April Fools' Day actually counts as cross-posting).
I chose the entries semi-randomly, sometimes by going to my Calendar for random years and months and picking a random entry I'd feel comfortable posting again, and sometimes by just putting in notable entries that I remember and wanted to include in this prank at some point. Some entries were used more than once.
And just to mess with your heads even more, I thought it might be fun to come up with a hypothetical FUTURE entry and add it into the mix! That's what the 2023 year in review is for. It ended up being my favorite thing about this prank, so I left that one up significantly longer than any other single entry.
Now that April Fools' Day is over, all the entries I ended up using are listed below for posterity. (Don't expect the repost buttons to work correctly, though...)
Snippets of Mario, Kid Icarus, SSB, BtVS, Enya, Dido, Céline Dion, Sarah McLachlan, Moya Brennan, Matchbox 20, Rascal Flatts, & Savage Garden music thrown together randomly in Audacity
As I've mentioned a while back, I plan on replacing some of my userpics with more legible versions. (even though I've procrastinated that for probably at least a year now...)
Since I knew that doing that will cause me to lose track of what order I added my userpics, I kept a list of my userpics in my profile in order added - but I'm starting to run out of room on my profile now, so I moved it here and reformatted it into a table that hopefully looks better than the old layout.
Note that this excludes the following: - Old versions of these userpics - Alternate versions of some of these that I made to protest SOPA/PIPA/ACTA/etc. a few years ago
These unique interactive clocks have been distracting me all day today, so I thought I'd post an entry about them so that at least the idea for this entry won't distract me...
http://thecolourclock.co.uk/ - Takes the hour, minute, and second, divides them by 23, 59, and 59 (respectively), multiplies them by 255, and changes the red, green, and blue values (respectively) of the background color to those numbers. The effect can be pretty relaxing! Currently it is blue in my time zone, since it's just after midnight.
http://www.ruinsofmorning.net/flas… - Hexadecimal clock with 16 hours in a day, 256 minutes in an hour, and 16 seconds in a minute. Currently reads 0:32.D.
http://www.alphabetclock.com/ - Uses letters instead of numbers, with A=0, B=1, ..., Z=25. 26 seconds in a minute, 26 minutes in an hour, 26 hours in a day, 26 days in a month, 26 months in a year, 26 years in a century, and 26 centuries in a millenium. Since it's synchronized to UTC, it currently reads FJSYD:STM even though it's just after midnight right now. (FJSYD: is the date and :STM is the time; the first few letters of the date can be omitted depending on how specific you want to be, like how you might abbreviate 2011 to '11, say "October 24" with no year, or say "the 24th" with no month or year) Also includes a time and date converter.
Interesting finding - :ENYA is 11:11:11 AM in my time zone...
EDIT ON MAY 12, 2018: THIS IS THE OLD VERSION OF MY GLOSSARY... or at least the oldest version that was a sticky entry rather than on my profile, anyway. THE NEW GLOSSARY IS... nowhere, yet, but I'm going to FINALLY get around to updating this glossary for the first time in years after I'm done fixing all my entries on both LJ and DW.
I made this sticky entry in 2011, but then I didn't update it much after that and left it outdated for nearly SEVEN YEARS - long enough that I decide I might as well preserve the old version of the glossary, but make it no longer sticky in favor of a NEW sticky entry with the updated glossary.
Everything below this point is as the entry originally appeared, except I got rid of the lj-like buttons. The former subject line was simply "Glossary of Matt1993isms".
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I finally got around to updating this glossary and moving it to a sticky post so that it wouldn't clutter up my profile and I could have LJ-cuts to jump to certain sections!
Although the whole point of these multiple LJ-cuts is for ease of navigation (i.e. if I reference a Matt1993ism in the definition of a Matt1993ism in a different section, I'd link to the proper section), I haven't had the time to actually go through and add all these links, so stay tuned for that. I also thought about adding artwork for certain entries *cough*/crazymegavideo/*cough*, so stay tuned for that too. :)
As I said in the old glossary, if you spot a Matt1993ism I used that I haven't defined here, or if FoxReplace messes up the "pucker up because it's time for lunch" entry again, etc., please let me know :)
EDIT: Added some more Matt1993isms and tags, but still need to add the links and artwork. I'm also pretty sure there was another Matt1993ism that I still forgot to add...
Well, okay, it's not the Song Meme of the Apocalypse, but it is a song meme, and I am doing it during an apocalypse prediction.
1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter. 2. List 5 songs you love that begin with that letter. 3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.
A - Autism is annoying to have; I want mine cured B - Backwards music fanatic C - College is one year away and I definitely don't think I can make it D - Distracted by my own thoughts E - Enya is my ♯1 celebrity crush F - Fourth dimension is interesting to think about G-Grapheme→colorsynesthesiaisawesome H - Holy whole hand dealer, some of these are pretty hard to come up with! I - Internet memes are usually annoying J - Jesus freak K - Ketchup-flavored potato chips? Strange, but tasty! L - LiveJournal, where I find it much easier to make friends than in real life M - Misunderstood a lot N - Norris, Chuck jokes I only sometimes find funny O - Olimar, push the slush! (I really can't think of anything other than a backwards Enya lyric for this one) P - pathvain_aelien and ellaina02 are my sisters Q - Q qq qqq qqqq qqqqqq qq qqq qqqqqqqq qqq qqqqq qqqqq qqq'q q qqqq qqqq qqqqqq qqqqqqqq qqqqqqqq qqqq qq...qqqq, qq qqq qqqqq qqqqqqqqq'q qqqqqqq (Unqensored version: Q is the only letter of the alphabet for which there isn't a word with sexual innuendo starting with it...well, it was until witchkatt's comment) R - Random S - Six sixty-six-related dreams are a bad sign... T - Teenagers that think they're cool often aren't U - Userpic limit is too small for all 71 (as of now) of the userpic ideas I came up with :( V - Video gamer W - Won't drink alcohol, do drugs, or smoke even when I'm old enough X - Xtra sensitive sometimes Y - Yellow is my favorite color, but I don't have a real reason why (maybe it's because my synesthetic color for the first letter of my name is yellow) Z - Zzzzzzzz until noon most of the time, regardless of whether or not I wanna get up earlier (unless I have school)
What (if any) books would you ban from a high school library? Are there certain subjects that you feel are inappropriate for teenagers regardless of literary merit?
Nowadays, most teenagers find sexual innuendo in almost anything. I feel that one of these days, every letter of the alphabet except Q will be banned, because for every other letter of the alphabet, there is at least one word starting with it that has sexual connotation of some sort, and so every word containing letters other than Q can be made into an abbreviation for some sort of sexual innuendo. And what if someone comes up with sexual innuendo for a word that starts with Q?
I'm not saying we actually should ban twenty-five letters of the alphabet; just annoyed at the way most teens are.
EDOT: I hate this question now. I had to ban several people from commenting in my journal in advance because of it.
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