Tags: memory

vs. giant enya fan

Back to the... present

Well, August is over, so that means Matt1993 Nostalgia Month is over - so I changed my LJ and DW styles and userpics back to what they usually look like. (If you met me during Matt1993 Nostalgia Month and therefore don't know what I'm talking about, see this entry, or see it on DreamWidth, and then maybe see a few entries after it.)

If you do know what I'm talking about, you're probably thinking: "Waaait a minute, there's still something here that looks different from what I remember... Sure, the background went back to yellow or other yellow and Anya, Noma, Ricky, and blushy guy went back to not being as badly-drawn, but something is-- Wait, are these MY thoughts that are showing up in this entry?! Is this dork's journal reading my mind?!? I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 100. It's 47. Okay, that's just scary. I'd better not start thinking about my darkest secret..."

And to all that, I say:

1) Um, the "blushy guy" is me. And the other three are Enya, Roma, and Nicky - it says so right there on the userpic. Speaking of which...

2) Yes, remember how I asked whether or not some of my userpics are legible enough and then tried to make more legible versions of some of them? But never got around to uploading those as userpics?

No, of course you don't remember, because that was years before I met at least half of you, and it's been so long that those of you who were around for it probably forgot all about it. So to refresh your memory:

one
two
three
four


Anyway... I finally got around to that - or at least, I hope I updated all the ones I meant to! Four or three years later. I still haven't even updated my sticky "list of userpics in order added" post to include these updated versions OR the 2009-style versions (retroactive or not) - or any versions of my userpics besides "what they normally looked like from late 2009 to the first half of 2017". And due to a glitch on LJ, now not even those will show up in that entry again until I edit all of the image URLs to have "https://" instead of "http://" :( *

I guess that makes me the Enya of userpic updating... But hey, I finally finished one thing I started, at least! :)

3) Don't worry, your darkest secret is safe with me. I make no guarantees about your second-darkest secret though! :P


Now to go edit every entry and comment I ever made to fix all the userpics that are broken now. :(


*They need to call HTTPS something different - I keep wanting to use that as the plural of "http". "I need to change all the https to https!" ;)
conga of the apocalypse

I don't WANT to leave LJ!

Now that I know a lot of people are leaving LJ and moving to DreamWidth now, I feel the need to make a probably incoherent ramble about how I really don't want to have to move to DreamWidth, or even create a backup journal on DreamWidth just because everyone else is. (Unless there's a way to transfer ALL of my old entries and ALL of the comments on them there, because I'm a nostalgic guy who likes having a LJ because I get to look back at old entries and comments from several years ago and DO NOT want to lose that, especially not while I'm still not done with my trip through memory lane / catching up on things I'd went on a hiatus from checking) So if you're moving to DreamWidth or another site, PLEASE don't leave LJ entirely, okay?

This is making me so sad... In 2015 or so, LJ was already a lot less active than it used to be - now it feels like everyone who hasn't already left is leaving! :(


hypercube

When did the distant future officially begin?

Since certain past years and dates (especially starting with 2015) sometimes still sound futuristic to me when I think about them, I thought I'd make a poll about it.

Poll #2062591 Forwards to the Future

What is the earliest year that you have, at some point in your life, thought of as the distant future?

1983 or earlier
1(25.0%)
1984
0(0.0%)
1985
0(0.0%)
1986
0(0.0%)
1987
0(0.0%)
1988
0(0.0%)
1989
0(0.0%)
1990
0(0.0%)
1991
0(0.0%)
1992
0(0.0%)
1993
0(0.0%)
1994
0(0.0%)
1995
0(0.0%)
1996
0(0.0%)
1997
0(0.0%)
1998
0(0.0%)
1999
0(0.0%)
2000
1(25.0%)
2001
0(0.0%)
2002
0(0.0%)
2003
0(0.0%)
2004
1(25.0%)
2005
0(0.0%)
2006
0(0.0%)
2007
1(25.0%)
2008
0(0.0%)
2009
0(0.0%)
2010
0(0.0%)
2011
0(0.0%)
2012
0(0.0%)
2013
0(0.0%)
2014
0(0.0%)
2015
0(0.0%)
2016
0(0.0%)
2017
0(0.0%)
2018
0(0.0%)
2019
0(0.0%)
2020
0(0.0%)
2021 or later
0(0.0%)

What is the earliest year that you still sometimes think of as being in the distant future?

1983 or earlier
0(0.0%)
1984
0(0.0%)
1985
0(0.0%)
1986
0(0.0%)
1987
0(0.0%)
1988
0(0.0%)
1989
0(0.0%)
1990
0(0.0%)
1991
0(0.0%)
1992
0(0.0%)
1993
0(0.0%)
1994
0(0.0%)
1995
0(0.0%)
1996
0(0.0%)
1997
0(0.0%)
1998
0(0.0%)
1999
0(0.0%)
2000
0(0.0%)
2001
0(0.0%)
2002
0(0.0%)
2003
0(0.0%)
2004
0(0.0%)
2005
0(0.0%)
2006
0(0.0%)
2007
1(25.0%)
2008
0(0.0%)
2009
0(0.0%)
2010
1(25.0%)
2011
0(0.0%)
2012
0(0.0%)
2013
0(0.0%)
2014
0(0.0%)
2015
0(0.0%)
2016
0(0.0%)
2017
1(25.0%)
2018
0(0.0%)
2019
0(0.0%)
2020
0(0.0%)
2021 or later
1(25.0%)

What is the earliest year that you still almost always think of as being in the distant future?

1983 or earlier
0(0.0%)
1984
0(0.0%)
1985
0(0.0%)
1986
0(0.0%)
1987
0(0.0%)
1988
0(0.0%)
1989
0(0.0%)
1990
0(0.0%)
1991
0(0.0%)
1992
0(0.0%)
1993
0(0.0%)
1994
0(0.0%)
1995
0(0.0%)
1996
0(0.0%)
1997
0(0.0%)
1998
0(0.0%)
1999
0(0.0%)
2000
0(0.0%)
2001
0(0.0%)
2002
0(0.0%)
2003
0(0.0%)
2004
0(0.0%)
2005
0(0.0%)
2006
0(0.0%)
2007
1(25.0%)
2008
0(0.0%)
2009
0(0.0%)
2010
0(0.0%)
2011
0(0.0%)
2012
0(0.0%)
2013
0(0.0%)
2014
0(0.0%)
2015
1(25.0%)
2016
0(0.0%)
2017
0(0.0%)
2018
0(0.0%)
2019
0(0.0%)
2020
1(25.0%)
2021 or later
1(25.0%)


I think my 1, 9, 2, and 0 keys want a break now. :)

(I say that right before I have to type all those years one more time for the tags on this entry...)

nightmare fuel i

Worries of the Week (or so): January 2, 2015

Happy New Year everyone! Though... how is it 2015 ALREADY?


And now for something completely different...


Since my Computer Science Seminar class is definitely going to remind me of the Forbidden Comment Threads (Ω or not - in fact, throughout this entry I sometimes ended up saying just "Forbidden Comment Threads" to mean both) about once every three nanoseconds, I figure I might as well start posting about some of the many other things that remind me of the Forbidden Comment Threads. And a few things besides those that I'm worried about being hated for.

Remember when I decided to eventually start posting about just a few of those things at a time instead of waiting until I'm done with the whole list first? That's exactly what I'm doing! I have a feeling that choosing to start it before a very Forbidden Comment Threads-like class begins is going to be either a very good idea or a very bad idea - I'm not sure which yet. Maybe getting some of these things off my chest right now is exactly what I need to do to feel better in general! Or maybe it will be the fifth-worst mistake I'll ever make! (I'm almost certain it won't be the worst, though)


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truth in another out there

Program that learns to play NES games (3 videos I found about a week ago that I meant to post here)

These get pretty hilarious :)







vs. giant enya fan

What I got and gave for Christmas

Happy New Year everyone!

I'm finally gonna post what I gave and received for Christmas even though it's still an incomplete list. I wasn't trying to make posting this around the new year and posting my New Year's memes around Christmas a tradition by doing it this way two years in a row, but I guess it happened anyway.

← 2012 2014 →

What I got:

- Super Mario 3D World (as I've mentioned) from Mom (and she also preordered Mario Kart 8)
- Wreck-It Ralph game for 3DS
- Mario Party: Island Tour (although I can't play it all the way yet because my R button broke again :( )
- Portal and Portal 2 from ellaina02 (The first two Xbox games I've ever owned. I'd realized this year that I've thought "This Xbox game looks cool, but I don't think it'd be worth getting an Xbox just for this one game" enough times that it might be worth asking for an Xbox and some of those games for Christmas. Except I eventually decided I'd rather have PC versions of them, so that's what I got. :) )
- DVD of Monsters University
- The Hyperbole and a Half book and Garfield: From the Trash Bin from pathvain_aelien
- "I ♥ Enya" T-shirt (contrary to what this userpic implies, I didn't have such a shirt until now) from Jake
- Garfield "I hate Mondays" 2014 calendar from Mom
- GameStop gift card from my roommate
- $50 from my grandparents

What I gave:

- I got Mom an Air Supply CD, a new pair of headphones, and a butterfly needlepoint
- I got Dad a subscription to a magazine I thought he'd be interested in
- I got my grandparents a turtle solar light for their garden, since they like turtles
- I got pathvain_aelien a book or two, some supplies for knitting, and I think something else
- I got Jake some supplies for painting
- I got Nace filters for his humidifier
- I got my roommate a DVD of the Mortal Instruments movie

And there was more (because I know I got ellaina02 something), but I don't remember it all now and I probably have some of these mixed up with things that I considered giving until I decided on something else to give.

Yes, I'm a bad person for not remembering what I got everyone. You don't need to remind me :(

Speaking of me being a bad person... what entry was the last straw now? Because a couple of recent entries in my journal don't have any comments at all, so I feel the need to ask again...

2010 nnwm procrastinator

Who's on first?

I can't believe it - I finished the creative vortex poll I mentioned I've been working on!!

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I hope the poll shows up...

EDIT: It did, but I accidentally put "Finish rereading" as an option when it should've been "Finish rereading therapy notes" and I can't change it now. Oh well.

truth in another out there

THE WORLD IS SAVED!! (again)

So turns out ACTA was postponed today! Yay!!

I'm gonna wait a little longer before I revert my protest userpics, so that just in case we find about another bill like SOPA/PIPA/ACTA that's somehow secretly been signed by nearly enough countries for it to pass without anyone knowing for years, I'll have slightly less work to do. Until then, I'll just use the ones I didn't get to replace. :)

To celebrate, here's another Previously on the X-Files:

←POTXF's ♯1-2 POTXF's ♯4-8 →



I wonder who glued Mulder's hand to his face? Or maybe he's just taking "talk to the hand" too literally. :)

EDIT IN 2018: Not only is the image gone now, but I don't remember what any of it said :( But at least I remember that Mulder appearing to have his hand glued to his face throughout the entire thing was the best part in my opinion. :)

celery!!

Previously, on the X-Files...

http://muldersbigadventure.com/mar…

Similar to Garkov, except instead of Garfield comics it uses X-Files transcripts and screenshots. Neat! It's a lot harder to find funny stuff with this than with Garkov or the Garfield Randomizer, though...

EDIT: Finally found an interesting one!

POTXF ♯3 →


EDIT IN 2018: It's gone now, but luckily I remember most of what it said:

SCULLY: This man's been shot.
MAN OTHER THAN MULDER (I remember assuming he was Cigarette-Smoking Man but not being sure): !!!
SCULLY: No aliens. Have you looked outside, Mulder?
MAN OTHER THAN MULDER: (with mouth agape in a bit of a smile) ...

EDIT: Another good one I wanna keep:

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homestar isp

This is hilarious!

http://www.cleverbot.com/

Talking to CleverBot is hilarious! Except when it makes enough sense to seem like I'm having a legitimate conversation. Then it's just scary.

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