Be safe.

Anyone know why a computer would take several minutes to start up (after several reboot attempts) and sometimes turns itself off out of the blue? At boot-up, seems like it can't find the primary HD. But if it's a succes after the n'th try, and I restart later on, it finds the HD right away. Almost as if something has 'warmed-up' and it detects w/ ease henceforth. Weird. If my HD was failing -- and it is an old computer so it's not out of the question -- why does it act in this manner where it works fine once I get it on. Maybe it's the motherboard or powersupply. Hmm.

.:: Indian Thriller. Best music video ever? [Video.]
.:: Cute bunny trying something daring. [Video.]
.:: Lords of Logistics. [Pics.]

Situate your classes so that you wake up early in the morning to take two of them then go to work for X amount of hours and then have a class after said work session. I have a new found respect for people with loaded agendas (going to school full-time and working full-time or even a couple part-time jobs)!

There is a backlog of notes that I'm going to attempt to thrash into. Anyone that knows me knows that I respond to every note that I get (whether it be suggestions or comical banter or the latest trends in pudding production, etc.) and over the past few months it has been difficult to upkeep.

But it's something I'm going to try and continue to do. If people are taking the time to write things, the least they deserve is a response. Though some notes I get just have me staring at the monitor in silence.

Contest is still going on! Just a reminder that you have until the 10th of October. Catch the article here

No, it's not some kind of martial arts guru trained in the skills of yearly periodic changes of weather but an Icons contest set up by `rocksicle! Fun for both Icon and Emoticon artists can be found right here. And those yummy prizes: Oh my!

Add this to the list of movies that have the word "sunshine" in them that are most enjoyable. (The other one being Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Any others?)

Go out and see it now. I'm not even going to write a mini-review. Don't watch the trailer though as I did not think it does it much justice.

HL's Rating:

Now this is just stupid.

At least 10 stingrays have been found dead and mutilated on Australia's eastern coast since "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin was killed by one of the animals last week, an official said Tuesday, prompting concerns of revenge attacks on the normally docile fish.

Come on. Steve would not have wanted that. Do you wake up the next day feeling good that you did that to a fish?

.:: Great Republic of Rough and Ready. [Wiki entry.]
.:: Myth about Homework. [Article.]
.:: Clack: a game of chain reactions. Fun to figure out! [Flash game.]

Fellow pixelist extraordinaire `gas13 has a kickass project going on that we can all sink our teeth into. PixelStamps gives you a template and you pixel your stamp on a certain them and, well, you're ready to go and contribute. Add to that the genius of having the price of the stamp increase with popularity and you have yourself a heck of a concept.

Checks the rules out here for more details.

Lets have some fun!

Another sweet movie that requires you to think. If you have not seen it already, do yourself a favor and give it a rent. But when people say it's not as good the second time around, they're right, heh, so have fun with the initial watch through!

A lot of things I'm liking. Have not done serious heavy use, however, but from what I've been tinkering with so far, you can't help but say that it was an improvement over the last and we're heading in the right direction. Kudos to all the coding monkeys and people who pulled together to make it happen as well as those working hard to fix things up and make improvements. The only place it's going now is 'better' from here.

Journal CSS is a little wonky. But I'll fix it up, and maybe I'm due for a re-do anyway.

.:: Links to 23 Penn and Teller: Bullshit episodes. [Links to vids.]
.:: Weirdest catterpillar ever. [Video.]
.:: What can YOU do with YOUR dusty car's windows? [Images.]

I'll tell you what the problem is with people "expecting" things with M. Night Shyamalan movies (and that may be just it: the "expecting" part). The Sixth Sense was sooooo good that people go into the theatres -- and this is just my theory -- and miss the point of it all thinking it's going to be another Sixth Sense. Goers probably spend the whole time watching the film attempting to figure out the "twist". Now, there's nothing wrong with this .. up to a point. When it passes the line where you are not having fun with the experience and you don't let the movie entertain you as it should, then you're thinking too much and you ruin M. Night Shyamalan's movies. (But, yeah, I understand that keeping you guessing is part of M. Night's whole thing -- but, come on! Don't kill it for yourself.)

With that said, if you saw the trailer for the film or read anything about it, you should know that it's a fairy tale -- a bedtime story, if you will. Just remember that if you plan to go see it. Because if I hear another person telling me, "Oooh! It was so fake!" -- I mean, hello? Yes, it's fake. First off, it's a movie. Second off, it's a movie about a fairy tale.



I thought it was beautiful story. The plot was sorright, it seemed to me, and one could follow along and it all somehow (somehow .. ) fit nicely toward the end (tada!). Some characters were more memorable than others. Paul Giamatti was, well, Paul Giamatti. He's a good actor.

However, still, for me: Signs, The Village, The Sixth Sense > The Lady in the Water.

See it if you have an imagination (we're a die'n breed apparently!) and if you like M. Night. Otherwise, rent it!

HL's Rating:


Give me some time? Brother got married. Had to make a speech at the last second and I wasn't drunk enough (that, and I don't drink! Oy!). And stuff moving around the house and work and etc. Sorry. I'll oil the gears back up for a quality run, I promise.

.:: Is America's $8 Billion Bottled Water Industry a Fraud. [Interesting read.]
.:: Spock sings of Bilbo. [Music video.]
.:: This announcer needs a raise. [Futbol clip.]

Thanks for the luck.

.:: Top 5 Myths About America. [List.]
.:: Zadoure Ziani: Dunk Remix. [Mixtape video.]
.:: Snakes on a Plane Early Auditions. [Language.] [Video.]

Put any good/interesting books in front of your face lately? Just want to get ready for some Summer sessions.

Thanks, `ebonred, for this alternate Halfie version.

.:: Futbol balls.
.:: Lord of the Rings voiceover. LMAO! [Video clip.]
.:: Perfect lemonade for `lemontea. [Article.]

If you didn't read the news, the winners have been announced, so please do check 'em out! They're all "A" in my book.

From my last journal entry, we've concluded that we want:

GIF, PNG, BMP, TIF, APNG (for the future?), ZIP (and the like, for various reasons)

(There will be a recommendation to primarily use GIF and PNG.)

And, I think `lemontea said something, but I have a FireFox extension that blocks everything that comes out of him, so I usually wouldn't know.



Note: this doesn't have to be final, final list. If certain types are causing trouble or there are others to be added, people are free to suggest and such and they'll be implemented/removed in the future if there's a scrumptious justification.

.:: Neo vs. Robocop. [Parody video.]
.:: Big Spanish castle illusion. Woo! [Image.]
.:: Pokemon movie. Snorlax 0wnz you. [Language.] [Video.]