11/30/04, 3:30PM
Song: The Beatles - Octopus's Garden

This is really lame, but it made me laugh, you've been warned.

Morpheus: Microsoft is our enemy, Firefox, but when you're on the internet, you look around. What do you see? Business men, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still IE users. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to switch to a browser that doesn't come included on their desktop when they bring their computers home from Best Buy and pop in the "2000 Free Hours!" AOL CD. And many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on Microsoft that they will fight to protect it. Were you listening to me Firefox, or were you looking at the woman surfing the hot lesbo porn?
Firefox: I was...
Morpheus: Look again.
Woman has turned into Bill Gates, introducing new "standard" to break non-IE browsers.
Morpheus: Freeze it!
Firefox: What is it?
Morpheus: IE-only standards. That means that anyone we haven't converted over is potential audience for crappy sites who only QA against IE. On the internet, you see this everywhere. We have survived by being standards-based, by working to be compatible. But these false "standards" are the gatekeepers.
Firefox: Whoa.
Morpheus: I won't lie to you, Firefox. Every single company or product that has stood their ground, everyone who was fought Microsoft has been crushed or aquired. But where they have failed, you will succeed.
Firefox: Why?
Morpheus: I saw Microsoft crush Netscape's market share. Men have come up with fantastic innovations only to find them incompatible or MS copies already included in the next version of Windows. Yet their programs are still based on factory-style programming and decisions made by pointy-hairs. Because of that, they will never be as secure or as functional as you can be.
Firefox: What are you trying to tell me, that I can block pop-ups?
Morpheus: I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.


11/29/04, 11:10PM
Song: Dream Theater - The Great Debate

I haven't updated in a few days, oh well. Not much has been going on. During the break went to Eric's and Penni's, had fun at both. I really owned up on one game of CoD. Got some new music too like Richard Cheese and Blind Guardian. Went shopping with my dad which wasn't much fun, but it had to be done I suppose. Two other things to note; the Taco Bell in Sand Springs should be avoided completely and the band The Mars Volta is pretty cool, I suggest checking them out if you can. And a new link has been added on the left side, it says the "official" rule for calling Shotgun when riding in a car, I don't reccommend reading throught amendments.


11/25/04, 7:20PM; Thanksgiving Day
Song: Ayreon - Day 8: School

I realized something while riding with my sister back to my mom's house a while ago. Everything is a competition, well just about everything. School is, work is, eating, sports (duh), the list could go on. Just think about it, when you have a conversation with someone what do you say? You probably try to make it sound like your day was harder than theirs, easier than theirs, better than, worse than, more fun, right? I know I do, online especially. Complaing about essays or classes, then the person I'm talking to says something about what they have to do like it's a competition (I do too when people talk to me). Friendly competition is needed though, without it people wouldn't have to give that little extra bit to one-up someone. The whole Amercain way of life is based on this.

Ok, this post was pointless, I'll go now.


11/24/04, 1:15AM
Song: The Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar

Sean: so did you beat hl2 already
Tyler: no
Tyler: i've been stuck a few times
Tyler: and my essay was getting in the way
Tyler: i'm on the last "Chapter"
Sean: haha
Sean: your essay was getting in the way of half life 2
Tyler: yup
Sean: priorities are in order8-)
Tyler: they really are


11/23/04, 2:40AM
Song: Rush - Jacob's Ladder

I just finished my 5-page essay that is due in... 8 hours, yay. Only two more days of class even more yay.


11/21/04, 2:00PM
Song: The Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be

Quick explianation of the above window, I couldn't host the file directly from geocities, so I had to do an iframe to tripod.


11/20/04, 5:20PM
Song: Led Zeppelin - Kashmir

This will be a fun entry.

This is just a list of some of my favorite groups that I have been introduced to by people. For each one I'm pretty thankful for knowing. I didn't include the many I've found out by myself like the many side projects, Porcupine Tree, Spock's Beard, Gentle Giant, nor did I include the one's that I only partly like such as LTE, John Lennon, and Metallica. Which though good if I went through each artist this would be a long list. Again, thanks.


11/20/04, 12:10AM
Song: Steve Vai - The Boy/Girl Song

This is one of those songs that just makes me happy for reason, I probably associate it with something lost in my memory. Oh well, it's still a good song to sing along wtih.

In time people will end up having the same ways to treat one another, becoming almost the same person. People, in general, try to please everyone they can, sometimes at the inconveince of themselves. It's kind of a cycle, trying to please one person who at the same time is trying to please you trying to please them. This is why I think people will start being pretty much the same person if we keep trying to please everyone all the time. I'm not a big fan of this thinking, but it's life, as a person I want to be accepted and appreciated so I try to help/please whoever I can. This is why society sucks, it "forces" us to be who we don't want to be.

I need to start making tracklists for Christmas CDs.


11/19/04, 12:30AM
Song: Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

Still playing Half-Life 2. I'm offically out of honors for next semester and I've very pleased with my decision about dropping it. College is hard enough as it is, why make it harder? I've enrolled in most my classes for next semester and I'll be really busy in the mornings, but afternoons are looking to be pretty open which is nice.

Tomorrow if I remember and think about I'll type of my philosophy on life as of now. But my contacts hurt, so I'll go take them out.


11/18/04, 12:15AM
Song: King Crimson - 21st Century Schiziod Man

Nooooooooo! I just had a pretty good sized post but I just lost it. It was good too, I tried to get all philisophical and stuff too. And my comments on Half-Life 2 were pretty good too... oh well, maybe tomorrow.


11/17/04, 12:30AM; Half-Life 2
Song: Half-Life 2

I can't really say much bad about today, for a change. First and foremost Half-Life 2 came out. I've been waiting soooo long for it too, and it finally has. I'm not one bit disappointed in it so far; I can't stop playing. The graphics are amazing and the gameplay is awesome, I want to play it right now, but I should start heading towards bed. But before that a little story. After buying the game and installing in to my computer I had difficulty connecting to Steam (it activates the game). I finally connected but then I had to insert the CD-key. I tried this all for 2 hours. Then Moser came over affter the phys test we had and thought of something that fixed it in two minutes-- where was he when I needed him? I still have yet to try the multi-player Counter-Strike. Today was a good day for gaming.


11/14/04, 11:30PM; 2
Song: Dream Theater - Solitary Shell

I remember over the summer thinkging that college would be great. Lots of new people to meet, lots of free time to do anything I wanted, lots of time to get homework done, lots of activities to join in and be a part of, and classes that would be meaningful to a future job. For me all this was wrong. I've met very few new people, I do have time to do stuff but I choose to spend it here in my room, I procrastinate more than ever with homework, there aren't any activites I'm enterested in, and I only have a few "focused" classes. College is too much for me to handle happily. I'm not going to drop out or anything like that, but I'm not really enjoying my experience. Right now I'm really stressed about everything, I want it to just go away, but I know it won't. I can't really talk to anyone about it either, it sucks. I didn't ever want to just be sitting here day after day night after night doing nothing. I want to go to the Colvin and do something, I want to spread assignments out and not have to do a rush job on them the day before they are due, I want some alone time just listen to my music, and it's my fault I don't do any of this.

Here comes a hypocritical part, I also find it annoying that people complain all the time about stuff going on in their lives. Yes, I know that's what I was just doing, but I find it annoying I do it to myself too. If you have something you want to do- just do it, if you have something you want to say- just say it. And if you don't you have only yourself to blame (which I do daily).

Ok, I think I've typed up enough on this when I should have been writing an essay due tomorrow.


11/12/04, 12:50AM; 4
Song: Queen - Princes of the Universe

STUPID ALARM! Again it didn't wake me up. I missed my calc class and we were supposed to turn in homeowork and probably have a quiz, not to mention the whole learning thing. Also didn't do too well in phys, but ancient world wasn't too bad.

Not much has really gone today, laundry, food, and reading sparknotes for the Aeneid. I'm pretty much updateing just to change the countdown for Half-Life 2.


11/10/04, 11:45PM; 6
Song: King Crimson - Moonchild

My alarm woke me up today! Calc isn't going to be very nice to me. I tried reading in the library again today, but I made very little progress. I've decided that I'm going to have to read SparkNotes over the Aenied and read the poem itself over the part I'm going to be writing about. It's now how I would like to have it, but I must. I read for 20 minutes only reading 250-ish lines; each chapter having around 1000 lines and 12 total-- that would take me about 16 hours to read.

On a lighter note my Firefox extensions are working again. I suggest everyone at least try AdBlock, it's uber awesome. Lets you set certain domain names onto a blacklist-type thing and it won't show up again. Personally I like All-in-one-Gestures too. Just got to try things out for yourself.


11/9/04, 11:15PM; Halo 2 Release, 7
Song: The Beatles - I'm Only Sleeping

I've become so lazy here at college. I have found ways to create hotkeys for nearly everything. Just today I found I can make hotkeys for setting myself as away and back in Trillian. I've had hotkeys setup for Winamp for quite a while, and now I use them all the time. I wonder what else I can create hotkeys for...

PS: FireFox 1.0


11/7/04, 11:50PM
Song: Ayreon - Day 15: Betrayal

Maybe this update will actually be saved, the one I did on the 4th wasn't. Not much has really been going on though. Several people have been sick which is no good. I think for this update I'll just make a list of things, it's easier that way.

Yeah... not much has been happening.


11/2/04, 1:00PM; Election Day
Song: Dire Straits - Walk of Life

Today has been a pretty bad day so far. First of all they are cleaning the hall outside the dorms with the really loud cleaner, so I woke up early from that. Then of course physics was boring as ever; Xie is back from his conference. Then in History we had an essay due, I didn't even know it was due today. There's one more 5-page essay I got screwed on. I've also got to call some people today to talk about an essay due in Intro later today. Not a good start for the day, I really need out of my history class, it's going to bring my grade way down, I just know it. All we have for grades are those 5-page essays and essay tests.

Since I didn't update something yesterday that I wanted to, I'll add it here today. It's Novemeber 1, one year ago today I finally went for it. I only remember this (mostly insignificant) day because it is 11/1, oh well. I'm putting this here as a personal reminder.


11/1/04, 12:50AM; *Sigh*
Song: Metallica - The Unforgiven

I was just attacked by ninjas.