Who wants a Free Shirt?

I do.

[Insert Witty Amalgam of Catchy Phrases Here]

MUSIC:
Sarah Brightman





Hey guys, it's been a while hasn't it? Well, I'm posting to both let you know that I am still alive, and to open up new opportunities to those of you who are interested in computer art. That's right, soon I will be hosting an open invitation collaborative art-party in a digital format.

How, you ask? Through a program called warPaint. It's an openCanvas tweak that allows up to four people at a time to work together on a single image. The possibilities are tremendous! It's like science has conspired to make my life pretty awesome.

You can find it here. http://www.warpaint.se/?s=download

(In case you can't figure it out, download the installer.)

It's a little difficult to figure out how to find a server at first, so I'm going to walk you though the process.

-First, you may need to open ports: Portforward.com has an excellent guide. http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/routerindex.htm Find your router and follow the GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS to open port 9001.

-Now run openCanvas. (It should be under warpaint in your startmenu.)

-When in the program press Alt+N then N again. (Network->Show NetworkWindow for you lame clicky-people)

-Go under the client tab and Connect to my IP. (127.0.0.1 at the time of my writing this.)

-If I'm running the server, VIOLA! You're in!

(Note: If you run into issues with any of these steps, you can gTalk me at Lancen833@gmail.com)

I can't wait to have some fun with you guys. I hope at least one of you follows through. I'm going to be hosting the first OC night Tomorrow (Sunday) at 7:00 PM. Be there or be square.


In other news, I'm still banned from competitive gaming, and it doesn't look like that's going to change until I go off to college in a year or so. I really hope that I don't lose my edge. It's not quite so bad right now, considering that it is still the summer, but I imagine that I will really be hurting when it gets to be school time. Ah well, at least I'll have time to do other stuff now. :(

Oh, my birthday is this monday! I'm going to be turning 18 and boy am I ready to rush out, and buy some porn, lottery tickets and cigarettes. Woooooooooo. Maybe I'll even hire a stripper and buy Shane a dildo at the adult store. :D

I think that's about it for my update this week, I might update my blog again sometime in the near future, all things abiding.

Peace nuggies!

Hoisted By My Own Petard

This week it is time for some TRANCE.


These songs are some of the more recent episodes of a weekly radio show hosted by one of the best Trance artists in the world, Armin Van Buuren. His show is called A State of Trance, and I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone who has any interest in the genre. It is possibly one of the greatest musical finds out there.
But let's get down to brass tacks here. This past week has been... hectic to say the least. And the upcoming week looks to be even worse. On Saturday I had the double whammy of the SAT and then my Junior Prom. I was so tired that night, I wanted to crawl into my bed and DIE. On an interesting note, the teacher whose room we tested in had Natalie Dee posters all over the place. I know I'm not the only one on the internet aware of her, but it was neat to see it from a different perspective. I have AP tests this week and I fully intend to pass them. Even if it means sacrificing my eternal soul. >_> That's just about it for my periodical, so I'm going to dedicate the rest of the blog to Haikus that I wrote. Sorry for cheating you guys out of news!

storm out the window
thunder and lightning flashes
the ground starts to quake.


soft notes fill the air
the endless chorus of summer
true music of life.


swaying of the trees
driven by a playful breeze
reaching for the sun.


an old, dirt road lays
stretching over grassy hills
sighing, it slumbers.


beautiful blossoms
they were presented shyly
breathe in true love's smell.


a lone, white fence stands
framed against the setting sun
who will it keep out?


falling forever
but supported by the grass
a mind can wander.


basking in its dreams
a pond sits without ripples
till kids come to play.


a golden shimmer
the reflection of the moon
grants beauty tonight.


caught fast by branches
who hold me tight and tender
I fly forever.


fields waving slyly
heeding travelers closer
beckoning softly.


two thunderstruck youths
lovers caught by headlight's glare
soon to be parted.


dark and sultry brown
the chocolate safely sits
waiting for fingers.


leafy green and such
parts of a healthy salad
let's douse them in ranch.

pristine mirrored lake
dragonflies flit through the reeds
the hum of freedom.


a sleeping willow
dreaming of summer and spring
past winter's cold grip.


cricket-song filled air
one remembers by-gone days
a night serenade.


stars break though the night
splintered by tremulous tears
delicate snowflakes.


Man is most frightened
when all he hears is silence
he fears the unknown.


although gently formed
they shine with their own luster
light through pearls of dew.


her soft voice whispers
barely heard above my heart
pulled to where she lies.


wanting to belong
the book sidles to the front
pages to be read.


three heart-shaped petals
bowed beneath the great downpour
weeping silently.


fur standing on end
its eyes aglow with mischief
the cat starts to hunt.


words drift lazily
reaching into my daydream
clinging to substance.


I'm forever lost
no one will read my message
a bottle at sea.


turbulent gray waves
crashing over forlorn shores
a lighthouse keeps watch.


darkness enfolds earth
into her loving embrace
seductive and warm.


pots waiting for me
dully gleaming in the sun
it's time to polish.


flaxen blades of grass
stand limp in the summer heat
and thus the sky weeps.


a fortress of mine
constructed of gray pillows
impenetrable.


dawn quietly singing
the birds take flight and begin
a bright sonata.


a weathered red box
floral patterns on its sides
slowly turns to dust.


fiery-breasted
the mighty cardinal sits
lord of his domain.


waggling in the wind
the flowers put on a show
such benign dancing!

Bananananananananananananana.

This week in Music, some instrumental rock:






Hey guys, how's it shaking down?

Oh, well then, I guess I'll just talk about myself for a while.


I see a lot of people that put their inner feelings on their blogs. I'm not going to bash that, but I don't necessarily think that a blog is the equivalent to a diary. To me, a blog is more of a periodical, where I can put my thoughts and goals down, and look back at them later. For other people, it may serve as a springboard for understanding what is currently driving me. However, putting personal information on a blog is something I can't see myself doing. It's just that the internet is a big place, and they don't really need to know how I FEEL. (It's a complacent mellow all the time, by the way.) So, if anyone was wondering, there, I said it.

There is a phenomenon that I would like to associate with my life. The cosmic coincidence theory. (Ooo... Doesn't that just sound badass?) I am going to have good luck whenever I slack, all day if I have good luck for the first part of the day. However, if the day starts off bad, OH DEAR GOD, I am going to be taking it up the pooper for the next 12 hours. Many people have expressed the belief that they can't even imagine what it would be like to try to live in this way. I don't know, it seems like it works out ok for me. >_>

I'm thinking about subdividing my blog into sections where I talk about different things. Whoops. I decided not to. It's just gonna be one long ramble-fest. Muhahah.

In case you guys are curious, this is a picture of the inside of a Dell. I just added labels for my friend who wanted to change out some of his equipment. (I advocated building a new rig, but he says he has way less chance of getting it stolen this way.)

So, I have always been adamantly trying to get more people to play this game that I am into, (http://www.Forumwarz.com) but no one even bothers to give it a try. I guarantee fun, and they SPIT IN MY FACE. It's like the internet has a conspiracy against me. Well, in any case, I have a lot of fun playing it, and the community is AWESOME, as I tell anyone who will listen. It's like they combined the funniest people in the world into one place. There can be no other explanation.

On the topic of games, just let me say that getting into the money league was actually pretty easy. I'm still playing for free, because I am loathe to give up cash while I scout out the competition, but it will be very easy to take the next step. I'm won the games that I played, although, admittedly, it was GHIII and not DotA. >_>

I watched Cloverfield finally. It was actually really decent. Curse you for lying to me again, INTERNETS!!! I'm really curious as to what exactly happened in the movie, in fact, I may start wiki-ing it as soon as I finish writing this paragraph. Yup. Too late.

Some people in my Composition class have requested that I post a link to my experience paper. If you want a copy, I suggest firing me off an email at lancen833@gmail.com Seriously, it may just be worth it. Then again, it may not be. Who knows?

I don't know exactly how much more I want to blog about right now. This doesn't seem very long, but it also isn't quite short. Geez...

What's About a Foot Long and Rhymes With Rock?

THIS WEEK IN MUSIC:
AIR










This week has been an exercise in patience. Patience and the ability to sleep with my eyes open. (Which I don't have.) To start off, I had the ACT, which I believe that I performed admirably in, and, indeed, may have bested my previous score with a possible 36. Immediately afterwards, I went to this chess tournament that my school was hosting and beat down some small children. Fun stuff. Fun like ice cream.

However, this week was not all sugarplums and sweaty hams. No, there were tense moments as well. I had to spend an inordinate amount of time getting ready for a presentation on Monday in BIO. (Not as much as you, Sam! :( ) I also needed to practically pull an all-nighter to study for the test we had on Friday, which I feel extremely confident about. So, to counteract the massive amount of tired that I should be carry-over feeling, I have decided to go to bed really early tonight. With luck, the sheer amount of energy I have will allow me to TRANSCEND REALITY!!!

I watched Juno with Jenny on Friday. It was ok, I guess. It could have been a lot shorter, and maybe a little less weird at times, but I am just going to say that it got its point across: Being preggo is easy peasy and there are no negative ramifications. It will not impact your life at all. Also, fingernails are gross.

I got to play Brawl for a brief and shining moment. What do I think about it? Well, hmm... The items are really freaking annoying, especially the assist ones, because they mess with the way the gameplay works significantly. Instagib is never ok. Also, that fucking Pokemon who just sits out 30 feet above the stage and makes it so you can't see what's going on is really a bitch. Argghh. I hate him.

It looks like that Peach nerf that I talked about last time definitely hit harder than I thought it would. On the forums they were talking about how she stayed roughly the same in power, but her playstyle is totally different. Her turnips go nowhere, seem to have WAY less chance of a good pull, and her KO power is sub-par. In all honesty, I wasn't impressed. However, I was VERY happy with the way that Lucario turned out, and I may pick him as my new main in the future. He has a great aerial game, (Ala old Peach) and he is completely and totally dominant with his damage aura. Also, he has some great KOs and a bitchin' Final Smash. I am a major fan.



Inhouses haven't been going very well for me in DotA recently. It seems that everyone has switched to letting Nyxwulf (Doug) host, and for some inexplicable reason I lag to him. I have a great ping, but when I play it's laggy as all get out. Of course, they just tell me to stop whining and play, but I may need to find a solution soon, or risk jeopardizing my rank and scores.

On the Guitar Hero front, I finally picked up the controller again, (My new, wired one.) and played. It seems my problem was INDEED the faulty yellow button, as I beat a song that had vexed me eternally on the first try and then went on to play in several online matches where I completely stomped. I got someone to leave halfway though a song in rage. ^_^

I don't remember if I mentioned that I got an N64 Emu running on my compy, but it is pretty ballin'. I get a lot of good use out of it and I love playing through the old games. Oh wait. Yeah, I did, I mentioned it. ...Damn.

Hmm. I think that might be it for now. I leave you on a happy note. KITTIES AND LULZ!

(BTW, THE ANSWER IS ONE OF MY SOCKS. GET YOUR MINDS OUT OF THE GUTTER.)

But no one READS blogs!

It's time for some EPIC MUSIC!












Let's define irony for a minute here. The grande old Dictionary.com defines it as:

1.	the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend.

2.

Literature. a. a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated. b. (esp. in contemporary writing) a manner of organizing a work so as to give full expression to contradictory or complementary impulses, attitudes, etc., esp. as a means of indicating detachment from a subject, theme, or emotion.

3.	Socratic irony.

4.	dramatic irony.

5.	an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.

6.	the incongruity of this.

7.	an objectively sardonic style of speech or writing.

8.	an objectively or humorously sardonic utterance, disposition, quality, etc.

Why am I talking about this? Because, although my blog is called Johnny Saturday's, I rarely update on Saturdays. Just an interesting little thing that I was musing about.

So, let's see here. Some news for you guys. Hmm... Well, as some of you may know, the 3rd quarter ended on Friday. That means that I have entered the final stretch, that holy place where all knowledge and pain reside. This is the point where my instructors will be going all out to put as much pain into my poor life as they can. That's ok, that's their job, no hard feelings.

I never quite talk about all the games that I play in this blog. I may allude to some DotA rounds, or perhaps a particular song in GHIII that happens to be kicking my ass, but I never truly express how much these things have an effect on my life. At this point, I'm seriously considering doing JUST THAT. *What now face.* What now, punk? What NOW?!!?


Just to start things off, let's talk about DotA. Out of every game I play, it is probably the one that I have put the most time into and is the one that I am the best at. I'm not quite at the level of, say, Team Pandemic or MYM, but I am trying to work my way into money leagues. That's right. Soon, I hope to step myself up from Amateur to Semi-pro. Will my winnings be in the thousands like the guys above? No, but hey, it's just a game, right? I don't know how many of you out there have any idea what I'm talking about, but if you have a copy of Warcraft III and you wouldn't mind downloading the official DotA map from here, (http://getdota.com/) I'll show the replays from last night's clan inhouse.

Here is the first one. Pay no attention to my poor early game. Slow it down at around 37 minutes. http://www.dota-allstars.com/replay/36649/index.html And here's the second one. http://www.dota-allstars.com/replay/36650/index.html My name is Lancen833[herd] and I play on Lordaeron. (US West) Drop me a line.

I don't know about you guys, but I am SUPER PSYCHED to play SSBB. It looks like it is going to be every bit as good as the first two. Although, I hear that they nerfed my favorite character, Peach, quite a bit. -_- Somehow, come hell or high-water, I will end up playing this game. I have waited FAR TOO LONG.

While on the topic of Super Smash Brothers, I recently downloaded an emulator for the old school N64 games onto my computer. It's a little funky playing them with keyboard controls, but I play on buying a wired Xbox 360 controller, which I need anyways, and using that. Oh, and the nostalgia I'm getting from beating Ocarina of Time and Starfox again is priceless.

Enough about games though, huh? It's time to talk about the other things in life. Things like Jeeps. Yesterday we took the top off of Tucker's Jeep. It is soooooooooo much easier to get into now. However, it had the unintended consequence of being COMPLETELY AWESOME. I hope it doesn't rain or anything, because that would suck for him. Like, REALLY SUCK. Heh.

Golf season started up last week, and I am looking fine. I have a decent swing all of the sudden. (Why?) I've even already won a bet with Ryan. (8 bucks I'll never get...) Hopefully all of my skill on the driving range carries over to the course and I can finally play a good round of golf. (And possible win another 20 bucks from Brandon) Who knows?

I think that might about just wrap things up for the chronicles of my life for this week. Until next time my classic bloggers, until next time.

A Liar is Me.

Some piano.





AND SOME J-ROCK! RAWRAWRAWRAWRAWRAWRAWRAWRAWR!







And maybe some Chillout music...









AHHHAHAHAHA!!! How many of you poor saps fell for that? I just totally had you!

But seriously, it's been a very rough week and I need some time to recoup and to get my life back in order. Perhaps, I will go so far as to chronicle the recent events in my life for posterity, assuming that some day intellectual property will be saleable and that my early words will be worth thousand of dollars. (Or Euros, as recent economic trends may suggest) However, right now you suckers are getting a free ride and, what's that? This roller coaster has started moving!

First things first, I am staring to give a lot of credence to the idea that my teachers may have a personal grudge against me. Being absent for two weeks may have made them angry, but not being able to devote all of my time to any ONE of them made them furious. The very first thing that I did when I came back to school was to go into Ms. Krejcarek's room and turn in my homework while setting up testing periods for her. I KNEW that she would want everything done ASAP. So, When Ms. Good asked for all of my time, I told her that I had given it to her lover and she would have to wait for a little bit. The next day was spent trying to get as many people ready for me to come in in every odd period I could spare to do so. After school, Ms. Good informs me that she had a discussion with Ms. Krejcarek and all of the time I might have spent with her I would now be spending with Ms. Good. I thought, "Alright, that gets me off the hook for a while." Wrong. Wrong Wrong Wrong. Not only did Ms. Krejcarek expect me to keep to the same schedule for finishing things as before, she grew angrier and angrier at me for not coming in early. Of course she could have no idea that I was frantically doing Bio work during my early periods, definitely not since SHE GAVE UP THAT TIME. She grew belligerent and threatening, and even though I got an A on my Stoich test, she didn't give me a chocolate bar. That hurt the most. T_T

Now I've got other teachers breathing down my neck and the only thing that I have to show for all of this extra work is a string of very bad grades from sleep deprivation and frantic rushing. (I was lucky to get 4.5 hours of sleep a night every day of the week.) I actually kind of like Mrs. Blueul. She is pretty nice once you get over her lack of personal skills. But she has just been ripping on me EVERY math class for whatever she wants to. On Tuesday I struggled hard to do all of my homework, (At lunch!) and when she calls me up to the board, it was for the only problem we haven't done yet, the hardest one. I tell her that that was one that I missed and she was like, "Too bad, Henegar-Child!" So, I copy it into my notebook and go up to the board. Through sheer genius and MASSIVE CAJONES, I manage to solve the problem, but instead of attributing it to actual knowledge, she tells me that I need to do my homework, crosses some stuff out, (That was right, by the way.) and plays off the fact that I DID solve it as luck. I mean, like, GOD DAMN. What does she want from me? Then, as I was dozing, (4.5 hours of sleep, yo!) Sam mumbles something about homework being illegal. Like a motherfucking LASER, she homes in on me and starts bitching me out. I was woken and grumbled assent to whatever she was saying. This happens in every single class!


On Wednesday we had Wellness Day, which I certainly should have skipped. It's like they got the most inane, unrelated and unqualified people to be there to teach us either complete bullshit, or stuff that WE ALREADY KNOW. As a concluding speaker we had a woman who was both incredibly uninformed and very proud of it. She told us ridiculous things about health foods and used numerous straw-man arguments to point out things that weren't even true. I was so angry I wrote a paper on it. At least I got to dance. >_>

As a rule, I like to take a little time out every day to do something that I enjoy. Itmay not be spending an hour in a game, but it can be as simple as getting up in the morning and reading some webcomics. No matter how much homework I had I wouldn't let this get in the way of it. Now, sometimes it's hard to set aside the time I need to do this without making my other efforts, like homework, rushed. Too bad homework. Pleasure > You.
This brings me to my main point: Spring Break is going to kick so much ass I may go blind from the sheer amount of ass-kickery. And that's saying something. I assume that, as soon as the bell rings this coming Friday, I will simultaneously gain all of the super powers I have so desperately wanted and be showered in a hail of 100 dollar bills and beautiful women. This is the only possible outcome. So, until next time, keep your Colonel crunchy.

Blog Post Tomorrow, I Promise.

Hey. It seems like it's been about a month. That's pretty hardcore if you ask me. Unfortunately, Bio is kind of kicking my ass right now, so I won't have a blog post for you guys tonight. I'll see what I can't make happen for tomorrow. Least I gave you guys some tunes to listen to.

>_>

Sorry.