The Death Of A SONY Camcorder

Today was a great day for me; apart from the chances of getting in royal amounts of trouble. It all started during first period Video Productions. Our iconic “teacher” made a huge mistake; he told us to take a broken camera in order to mask our shenanigans. Normally this would not be a bad thing. Much more this would be quite awesome that a teacher would allow a group of delinquents to leave class early, with no intentions of coming back. Knowing that we have had a past of vandalism of the classroom (such as changing the computer’s desktop backgrounds to the Time Walker ‘mumalien’ or pinning up poorly drawn pictures of said “teacher”), he should have seen the following acts coming.

Off to the computer lab we were. We really didn’t need the camera to get there, as none of the other school staff would have stopped and asked why we were walking around the campus (which happened to be day where a bunch of big-shots from the state were visiting; seeing how good the school was). Not too long after our arrival, the Computer Tech. class next door got wind of this broken SONY camera and took it from us. We had no problem giving it away. Now here is where the story gets good.

We go back to the class as I conveniently left my backpack in the classroom. Upon entering, our “teacher” inquired about the camera, and why we didn’t have it. None of us really knew what to say, and simply told him “We’ll go get it.” Well, we did go get it, but it sure wasn’t in the same condition. In the short amount of time it took us to walk to the classroom and back to the lab, they already had the camera completely apart. Every single piece, laying on the table. We told them that the “teacher” wanted it back. We all laughed. And we laughed some more. You would have laughed too if you were there. It was truly and amazing sight.

The teacher in the Computer Tech. class grabbed a box and we quickly put all the pieces into it. We took the box to the school office and told our story to a woman, who will remain nameless, and gave her the box. She told us that she would give it to our “teacher.” And she did give it back to him. And angry was he. But there was nothing he could do from that point. We had saved him the trouble of calling the office to report us. I also prevented myself from getting into massive trouble.

This come Monday after Spring Break, I am going to bring in a cake for our teacher. For those of you who don’t remember, this was the same teacher who kicked me out for not talking.

Happy π(Pi) Day!

It’s 3.14 2007, and what a day to celebrate. It’s nice and warm out.

Just thought I would wish everyone a happy Pi Day. And now I leave you with a slice of pi.

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Come Play Flash Flash Revolution

For those of you who have not already fallen in love with this game, I am urging you to now. The FFR staff is adding so many new things it’s hard to follow. If you like DDR, then FFR will be perfect for you. Sounds easy using the keyboard and all? HAH! I laugh at you for even thinking that.

Hell, maybe we can set up a multi-player session. Comment below with your FFR username and I will add you to the friends list.

Top 8 – 12th Grade Essay Excerpts

My English teacher was talking to the class about the “senior project” with is nothing more than writing an overly fluffed out analysis of some poetry that one does not read until the weeks before the project is due. To get right to the point, my teacher handed out a paper with the top eight excerpts. The following are in their raw format. Nothing has been altered.

1. Palamon and Arcite are losing who faught together in battle they both were taken as prisoners of war. While in jail in Thebes found Emily in the garden.
2. The way that Aristotle sees youth is that the young are more calm and the older are more made and get all up tight about more things then the usual.
3. “It is truly said , age has a great advantage: in age there is both wisdom and practice,” This is important because Saturn is noticing that “one may outrun the old and still not supass them in council” , this I believe is true because he is trying to explain that although and young person like himself can out run an older man literally but, an older man can be bigger, faster, and smarter in the head, because a man in his prime has had more experience with situations in life and can make more of the right decisions than a young man who is blind to many situations.
4. The reason he choose to do a romance is for several reasons. One reason is because fantasy is more exiting than fiction.
5. Aristotle says, “sexual by which they are most swayed and in which they show absence of self-control (The Retoric. Book II, Ch. 12).”
6. The two kights who want to fight for a girls hand.
7. Aristotle calls them “Prime Adults” , this people are in their 30’s or 40’s. “Its truly said, age has a great advantage ; in age there is both wisdom and practice ….” (The Knights tale, 1589-1590).
8. He thought for a lack of a better word that he was the shit.

I really feel sorry for my English teacher. I thought I had English problems! Sure makes one feel better after reading this.

Windows Vista Is Here

I just got the mail, and what would you know? My copy of Vista arrived. To make matters better, it came right from Microsoft and it was 100% free. This would be the second item Microsoft has given to me for free. The first would be a 399 dollar copy of Visual Studio 2005. In the picture to the right, you can see the folder Vista came in, and the plastic cd box that Visual Studio came in.

Thanks Microsoft! You have made me love you long time. Speaking of, who needs to pirate Vista now?

To All DeviantART Members: Special Round Table Chat

Tonight, the twenty-first of January, will mark the first ever dawnerd round table chat. Come tonight around 8PM to the #dawnerd room. We will not have a set topic, so anything goes.

Hope to see you all there!

Should I Open Source The ‘Poke Stats’ Script?

I am contemplating making the poke logging script free to download. There is a downside to this however, not many people would be able to use it simply because they do not have a server to install it on.

I could take the time and make a site where people can register to have the stats logged under their account. The plus side to this would be that I can integrate many features such as graphs etc.

So what do you think?

Facebook Poke Stats Live!

I decided to write an auto poke script for Facebook. This script will not only poke a person back within a few seconds of them poking me, but it will also update my server so I can keep track of how many pokes I have.

You can view the stats here: http://poke.dawnerd.com/index.php

Just refresh for an update. Once pokes start coming in, you will notice that there are a select many who poke me a lot. Happy Poking!

EDIT: This script is no longer maintained. Instead go here: http://apps.facebook.com/pokestats

My New Year’s Resolutions

Well, it is now 2007 and I thought it would be cool to map out my goals for this year. So, for the amusement for everyone, I present the list:

• Finish OjaiCMS and ready it for distribution.
• Launch Marching Band!
• Transfer this blog over to the new site.
• Find an apartment to live in.
• Become more socially active.
• Get a job as a computer support person.
• Find “the one.”
• Produce a full length student film.
• Contribute more to Wikipedia.
• Stop going to digg.com so much.

Well, that’s not everything, but I don’t want to bore you any further. I would love to hear your new year’s resolutions!

Major Blog Changes Coming

This blog will be taken over by the new blog over the next few days. I have grown past the point of needing to rely on wordpress.com to host my blog, and would like to host it myself. Not only will this allow me to have an awesome layout, it will let me do many more things that wordpress just can’t do.

There will also be other changes but those will be seen later.