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A blog by Devan Overton (shadowpangolin) and Nick Jansen (dietfrizz)

10.27.2011

Productivity is as low as ever.

I cannot get a thing done. My laptop will be gone until next weekend at the earliest, and I have no clue when I'll get the monitor to fix it. Plus I can't work with my brother sitting 6 inches away from me stinking up my office (he smells soooo bad x.x) and by the time he's gone to bed, I'm too tired and it's way too late to be working.

Now, I don't usually pimp sites that are destined to fail, but a friend of mine made a Facebook clone revolving around Doctor Who. Last I checked, we had a total of 15 members. It just opened up earlier this week, so if you sign up now you won't be too out of the loop. If you're interested, head over now why don't you.

And last but not least, a couple webcomic strips from the past couple days you might find interesting: 1 2

10.24.2011

I keep forgetting about posting here. -_-

So, to start the morning off, there were some amazing strips today from some of the least amazing webcomics in the 27 I read. The one that caught my attention the most though was in fact from a more mainstream comic, and of course that would be xkcd. This strip fits me perfectly, and probably a lot of other people I know. The happiness of anyone I like in any way is not at all important compared to my own life. In fact, there's a significant gap between how important my own life is versus how important somebody else's happiness is.

And that thing I was gonna post here last week, which the last blog post referenced, was just a simple little heads-up and maybe a bit of a clue to those who are still guessing. If Hayden is anything of a good example, I'm sure pretty much anyone who's curious as to what exactly I am into has listed off numerous kinks in the hopes that I would be into one of them. Unfortunately for people like Hayden, the fetish is probably to obscure to pick-up on. But I will say a few things about stuff here.

I can get into anything, sexually, even if it isn't one of my own kinks and as long as it isn't a blatant turn off. My own kinks still take a large priority over everything else, but for some reason my "gifted" mind has developed a way to understand pretty much every kink's appeal. Though like I keep saying, it doesn't work on everything. Blatant turn-offs (scat, gore, fat, etc.) as well as inflation and probably a few other kinks I haven't yet tested just don't work in part that they tip the scale and I never seem to get anywhere.

So yeah, that's pretty much all I have to say on the matter.

Well, I have to go to school now, so bye I guess.

10.20.2011

Tired~

Yeah, I'm a bit dead from staying up 'til about 1am because of flyers and homework. All in all it wasn't that bad of a night, though. Regardless, other than maybe a small paragraph, I don't think this will be an overly regular blog post. You'll see soon enough why. :P

So the other day I got my paycheck. It was only $53.20, which was a major disappointment, since I thought it would be at least $60. Oh well. Still money. So I bought a couple of things with my PayPal thinking they'd overdraft into my bank account like last time and I could pay them off Friday when my Mom cashes the check, right? Nopenope. A little less than $15 worth of charges were charged to my Mom's credit card, and without first coming home and asking about the mysterious charges, she cancelled her charge card and had the charges reversed. So I'm hoping PayPal does it right this time and charges my bank account, otherwise I'm gonna receive many a complaint about having no money to fund my PayPal account. Not a lot of money but still worrying.

Anyway, I think I'm going to inject some more personal stuff into this blog post later. Like, on the bus via my smartphone or something. It's not too interesting, just more personal than usual, and I kinda have stuff to do right now.

Chow for now!

10.05.2011

Apples.

Apple blog post number one won't be coming until tomorrow since I'm tired (the one regarding apple slices and sugar triggering memories and stuff). However, I do have something else regarding apples. Or, more accurately, the one and only Apple.

Steve Jobs lost his fight to Cancer today and it astonished me greatly. I was kind of curious why Jobs didn't show up at the keynote, but I forgot all about his Cancer until Morgan texted me while I was packing flyers and notified me of his death by simply saying "Steve Jobs is dead." Upon glimpsing my Twitter feed, the news was confirmed.

Now, I'm not an Apple fanboy (used to be...) but I do have to say, Android OS and Windows would not be as far ahead as they are today if they did not have to compete and keep-up with Apple's iOS and OSX, respectively. It is a big loss for Apple and for the whole of the tech crowd to lose such an innovative man. May he rest in peace.

Moving right on, I watched CSI tonight and I have to say, nothing has gotten me on edge like that before. They had proper terminology - the rapist was called a predator, a murderer, and of course a rapist, but never did they blame anything on paedophilia - and the guy with the chocolate fetish...well...that was kind of humorous but also handled extremely well. For a show like CSI that is fairly mainstream and has given bad light to fetishes and sexualities in the past, it was a very good episode. I think I may begin watching it regularly...if I don't get nightmares from seeing a girl's maggot-ridden skull encased in concrete. The plot was fairly predictable but all the while exciting, and it included a wide variety of more mature topics that I love being exposed to. Shows that go in-depth about nasty things are like a guilty pleasure...the more I see, the more I know, and the more I get desensitized from.

And now it's 45 minutes past my bedtime. Swell. I think I'll end this here for now. 'til we meet again...farewell.

10.04.2011

Still Alive.

Not the song. God, do I ever hate that song now...I'm talking about Fish. Fish is still alive and kicking. He looks fairly healthy. He might even last more than a week by the looks of it.

I've been attempting homework for the past little bit and have been totally failing at trying to get three separate sets of data to appear on the same scatter plot in Microsoft Office Word 2010. Having no luck after a half hour or so of trying, I ditched it and hope to move on to something productive after blogging. But I have noticed one thing: my iTunes library lacks a good homework playlist. I have barely any good upbeat songs that help me "play the game" and do my homework like a good little conformist. Everything is either sad or depressing (or some form of techno/trance shit from Newgrounds) and it all induces high levels of what society would call "negative" or "pessimistic" thinking. It's uber duber annoying...I need a taste in happy music pronto.

Speaking of taste in music. I suggest you check out these five songs I really like by Yellowcard. Lights and Sounds, the first of their songs I came to like, is in Burnout Legends for PSP. It was a great game and the soundtrack was where I picked up on Billy Talent through their song Red Flag. I would go into the soundtrack menu just to hover over each song and listen to them each on repeat for hours on end. The next, Way Away, is a song that I have actually been listening to since grade 4, 3 years before I discovered Burnout Legends, via a burned YTV Big Fun Party Mix 6 CD. I had the CD ripped onto my shitty MP3 player and everything, but I never even knew the name of the band that played the song until recently. This CD is where I picked up on Simple Plan (I'm Just A Kid), Blink-182 (I Miss You), and a couple other bands that aren't as iconic to me. Next up were I think Breathing and Ocean Avenue. Ocean Avenue's album cover was everywhere, including in the Rock Band music store, so I decided to investigate on iTunes. Seconds after previewing it I made the purchase. Breathing popped up somewhere on YouTube I think...maybe more recently. I never actually noticed until I played the game again only a few months ago, but I also noticed it in Burnout 3 Takedown (see why Yellowcard is so special to me? So many favourite games...). The Takedown, the fifth song I know and definitely my favourite, actually appeared on Guitar Hero: Van Halen, shortly after I discovered that I liked the band Yellowcard and knew them from many different places in my timeline.

So yeah. They're a good band. Go click through to some of those linked songs if you've got a moment.

Back to homework now! Just thought I'd spam the blog with another large post since I had such a long unannounced hiatus. Seeya around!

10.03.2011

FISH.

In case you didn't already know, I went to the Caledonia Fair on Saturday and won a goldfish. Since I'm so original, I named it "Fish". It probably won't last through the week, but it's cool to have a fish all the same.

Previous to that, I went to a Magic: The Gathering draft. Got a handful of interesting cards but overall sucked dick. The only win I got that night was because my would-be third opponent had to leave, so I got a free win. Woo. Still fun though. Especially the game against Scott. Honestly, that was one of the funnest card games I've ever played. I'd definitely go again if I had the chance.

Anyway, enough of that. I seem to be getting a handle on school finally. I've discovered (thanks to Morgan) that I probably suffer from Analysis Paralysis (check out Wikipedia, that's an actual thing, and it's not too great within today's society). I've got myself doing things the funnest way possible for me and I'm only doing work when I feel up to doing so, and so far it's not taking a toll on me. Sure I'm a bit behind now, but once the new routine fits in with my sleep routine and such it will make things much easier and I'll breeze right on through.

So this just means I might get back on the social train. Or not. I'm getting kinda sick of talking to people over the internet. It's just a big game of saying the right things, and you can't hear tone or see a person's reactions or share a drink with someone or even play a game with them. It's all just a screen full of emotion-dullened text. But alas, that screen of text is about as close as I can get to some people outside of school. And others refuse to arrange to get together. So if I wanna keep up good terms with some people, I gotta pretend to enjoy internet social activity. Though I do actually like Twitter. Whatever happened to emails and handwritten letters? Those were so cool back in the day. Now we're just set into a routine of throwing meaningless short sentences back and forth every night and occasionally getting information out of one another. Blogging is like an online journal for everyone to read, and Twitter is micro-blogging. It's good to get your thoughts on paper...or on a screen at least. It's not as good to exchange meaningless blubber.And it's even worse to have people not respond to your meaningless blubber.

In fear of making this another of those ranty longish blogs that I seem to produce quite often, I think I'll cut it here. Since Morgan and I just had a fairly large and interesting conversation, I think I'll spend the rest of the night reading Inkheart and maybe playing the Battlefield 3 Beta on my PS3 (which is really great by the way). Books beat games any day, but Inkheart isn't too great so far. Nearly done the first chapter...yay...

Finally done this thing. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll be off.