Alex: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/11/the-acta-internet-provisions-dmca-goes-worldwide.ars
Alex: NOWHERE IS SAFE ANYMORE
Alex: BRB LEAVING EARTH

Alex: THIS COMMUNICATION IS PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION INTENDED FOR THE USE OF THE ADDRESSEE(S) LISTED ABOVE. DISCLOSURE, COPYING, OR DISTRIBUTION BY UNAUTHORIZED PARTIES IS PROHIBITED
Alex: *forwards a copy to everyone*

Lol, I found a bunch of avatars I had hidden in a back folder of my archive drive. Many of these are funny.

Mr. Dorman’s Interlude:

Mr. Dorman: http://kotaku.com/5399409/visually-impaired-gamer-sues-sony
Mr. Dorman: my comment should be at the top if you have all threads visible

I’ve got at least 3 quotes from Dorman about sony, lol.

More photoshopped images! This time about the blog. Sort of.

Mr. Dorman’s Interlude:

Alkaline Earth Man has changed his/her status to Online
Mr. Dorman: !!!!!!!
Mr. Dorman: http://www.iamadtaylor.com/helvetical/
Mr. Dorman is now Offline

In one of the forums I visit, i use the name Alkaline Earth Man. The symbol below is borrowed from the element Mg, an alkaline earth metal, in this site. The first one was from when i was trying to build spin off of my original avatar, which can be seen in this sites icon, and in any of my comments on the page.

“Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.”
-George Santayana

Figure 1, Dude: IT’S FUCKING ON NOW, CHAPS

EDIT: Seriously, word butchered this image so eye boggling badly that I have to close it behind a link.

Seriously, just testing how Microsoft Word does blogging, my copy of Windows Live Writer is failing, miserably.

Damnatio memoriae is the Latin phrase literally meaning "damnation of memory" in the sense of removal from remembrance. It was a form of dishonor that could be passed by the Roman Senate upon traitors or others who brought discredit to the Roman State.

Yay for wikipedia.

Anyways, life is pretty boring right now.

"He did not exist; he never existed"

I need to read Dune again… It was a brilliant book. I probably should read the books i have, too, but i don’t ever seem to have time to.

Now, time to go back to homework.

I’m doing a speech on The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Dorman’s Interlude:

Alex: I could potentially make an epic sandwich right now
zMOGus: make a sandvich
Alex: ^__________^
Alex: 3 kinds of cheese, 3 kinds of meat

I seriously doubt I can take Swine Flu, or rather, H1N1 seriously. It’s just a mildly more contagious flu. One of the kids in my calculus class keeps referring to the flu with what i’ve placed in the title of this post.

I had a calculus test today. It was mildly easier than I had expected, but still was tough.

Mr Dorman’s Corner:

Alex: http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/9803/406734384212998.png
Alex: HURRRR
zMOGus: WTF?
Alex: AD FREE ADS

Had an Achievement run with Dorman today in TF2. Even due to the fact that I was the only one “dominating” he ended up always with more kills.

And then we went into a normal game. I unintentionally started to pick him off. Though I had about half the amount of kills by the time i left, almost half of my 30 kills were him. I ran around as a scout for most of the game, taking pot shots at people, and using the close range abilities of the scout shotgun to get a few kills. After that, I went spy. Spies are fun, in that pretty much a direct hit from any class will kill you. Dorman was a sniper or heavy for most of the game, and i would sneak up, most of the time disguised under his name, and kill him. It was brilliant. No-one thinks to double check a sniper running up to the sniper spot. I’d clear out the sniper roost for a minute, leave for a while, and then come back to a full nest of juicy backs to stab.

Also, the new American McGee’s Alice game looks epic.

Dorman’s Interlude:

Mr. Dorman: I’m starting one from within the game. see if it shows up under the friends tab
Mr. Dorman: password is poop

Roar!

The small netbook here is mine. The large one is Semper Verus’ gaming laptop. I’m running XP, and he’s running Ubuntu with a heavily modified skin.

Next month, in November, I’m going to be participating in National Blog Posting Month, where I have to post every day for the month. It’ll be slightly annoying, but I think I can do it.

Semper Verus; Semper Nefas:

"I don’t windows very often, but when I do, I windows 7."
I linux ubuntu. I linux ubuntu because it’s actually very user friendly, the community is incredibly helpful and friendly even when you don’t actually talk to them (for instance, my case). They’ll tell you what you need to know generally, and almost always you get a response. Ubuntu itself is sleek and clean, has 25,000+ free pieces of software built into a program that will get them off the internet and install them for you (a la "Add/Remove" or my favorite "Synaptic Package Manager"). It’s clean, safe (all operating systems can get viruses, but it is FAR less likely on ubuntu or linux in general), and productive when you need it to be.

Semper Verus is one of my old friends, now reawakened from a long chronic Mike Jones Syndrome. Anyways, Mr. Dorman is no doubt passed out at a Halloween party right now. His quoteing may have to wait for a while.

I love my new netbook!

So fun, so tiny, so cute. This is a brilliant computer. I can type ALMOST like normal on it, but it takes a slightly different hand position than I’m used to.
The touchpad is incredibly annoying, so much so that I’m going to have to get a wireless mouse to bring with it.
I’ve got most of the bloatware uninstalled already, which is nice.

I had my dad charge it last night, so I’d be able to use it for the car ride home, they wouldn’t bring the car that I’m on the insurance on, because my sister has it… >_>

It came with Google desktop installed. Google desktop is fun, but in a netbook, it probably isn’t a good idea. Bloatware is bloatware. I don’t want to tax my 1 gig of ram too much.

I’m uninstalling the 60 day free trial of office right now… I absolutely hate free trials, and office 2007 takes up too much power for a netbook.

Anyways, this netbook came pre-installed with Microsoft works. I didn’t know they still made that, since office is the main product.

Dorman’s Interlude:

Mr. Dorman says:
<_<
Stargate SG-1: The Alliance, (abbreviated as SG:TA), was to be a first-person shooter based on Season 8 of Stargate SG-1 using a modified version of the Unreal Engine. Development was cancelled in 2006.
D:
Alkaline Earth Man says:
lol
Mr. Dorman says:
they should not have cancled it

Anyways, I’ll make sure to get a picture of this thing against my old laptop tomorrow. The difference between a large 17in screen and this 10in screen is enormous.

  Post name from the first image.

Dorman’s Interlude:

Mr. Dorman says:
*o_O
*pseudo blag post
*http://alexdorman.wordpress.com/

Pictured below are photos taken during TWO jumps. They do look like they’re from the same jump, except for the colour of the sky.

Thinking I would make a photo post today, I fished through my drawer trying to find my SD card reader. I don’t actually have it with me… >__> I left it at home with my mom, so she could use her camera. I have to use my laptop, and its safely away in my backpack right now, as I don’t have wifi in here.

I’ll make a photo post tomorrow, maybe.

I’ve been playing the Discworld Mud, as I have been a lot lately.

So, the game uses a bunch of random programming within itself. You can script and code your own aliases to make life easier, and even put simple variables into your description.

When I wear a mask, or whatnot, my character description shows the following, with the item name of whatever it is I’m wearing showing through.

Tiny gnome eyes peer at you through a black and white harlequin mask.

When I’m not wearing the mask, it shows the following instead.

In the spot where his face would be, there is a hole containing a small gnome sitting in an ornate dark purple chair.

Wallpaper Corner!

Definitely not made by me. Also, don’t ask me why they’re both Harley Quinn wallpapers… I do not know why I grabbed them.

Yesterday, I spent a good few hours on deviantArt, browsing the People and Portraits section.

Today, I’m going to do something which i terribly dislike, and make you click a link to read my post. I’m doing this mainly because I’m posting about something that not everyone wants to see. You can read the title of the article to figure out what I mean.

While browsing this section, though it wasn’t my original intention, I ended up running into many many nudes. Nudity doesn’t bother me, of either sex, at least not by itself. Its really the composition of the image that gives it meaning, good or bad.

Artistic nudity is beautiful, nudity for just pornographic sake is ugly. One image i found in particular, though barely containing nudity, was pornographic, and had no artistic value. There was no flow in the image, it wasn’t clean enough or even grunge enough to fit into a niche, and the girl was chained up while being molested by another girl… Why the hell do people make images like this? WHY? (On another note, this image has been deleted from deviantArt.)

Many of these photographers post multiple images in sets. They use the same model or backdrop and change small things every time. One of these photographers that I noticed last night was posting a set of a lanky girl, with orange stripes painted on her. Because I was browsing from the newest on, I passed over most of the set while browsing. The largest of the three images I’ve added below caught my attention. This image has style. It has flow, it has emotion. The image has artistic value.

The rest of the set… I couldn’t dislike more. The image on the left, and the one in the middle, they don’t really have anything going for them artistically… They’re just soft-core porn…

The below images are from a german woman who really knows how to use nudity artistically. She’s got a good 10 pages of nude images, and yet none of them are sexual at all. Seriously, in browsing her gallery, the image of her with the camear I’ve got linked below exudes more sex than any of her nudes.

Dorman’s Interlude:

Mr. Dorman says: … >_> GET OFF MY LAWN
Mr. Dorman says: did I tell you poloroid is bringing back their instant film?

Mr. Dorman says: http://toontwins.deviantart.com/art/Horsin-Around-on-Hall oween-140699139
Mr. Dorman says: what
Mr. Dorman says: the  fuck

I may be an art critic…

Overall, his deviations received 138 comments and were added to deviants’ favourites 60 times, while he commented 843 times, making about 1.08 comments per day since he joined DA. This means that he gave 61 comments for every 10 that he received.

(Hopefully, in linking these images back to their original posts, I’ve appeased the god of copyright. THESE ARE NOT MY IMAGES.)

First Off, I have to say, my browser skin is epic.

Second off, the article shown in the screenshot is perfectly right, except for the part about multitasking. I multitask extensively. I’ve always got multiple tabs open in firefox, and many many windows else open. I’ve got music playing, a game playing, firefox open with 7 tabs, chrome open with 3 tabs, 3 msn windows, notepad, photo viewer, and two explorer windows open now.

I need to get a quad core processor… >_> My pentium 4 works, but just isn’t good enough for me to multitask the way I want to. I need at least twice as many windows open as I’ve got to feel satisfied.

Dorman’s interlude:

Mr. Dorman says:
well, now that this computer is essentially worthless with a gpu that can’t be pushed I might as well install linux ( ‘-’)

Today, I had to interview one of the members of the Civil Engineering staff. I WAS supposed to do it with a group of 2 other people, but one of them had a class during every one of our faculties office hours, and the other one just forgot.

We didn’t have to go to our CIV 101 class today because of the interviews this week. So I’ve got just speech today.

Speech is a very weird class.

The major thing I got out of speech today was that professionals have to stereotype to speak.

Dorman’s Interlude:

Mr. Dorman says:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc
thisthisthis
Best thing ever
ever
@_______@

Anyways, somehow i missed the steel bridge competition meeting today… I can’t believe i missed it, as I really wanted to be a part of that program. I’m really spacing club activities for some reason.

(I’m not attempting to use this image as my own, I’m just putting it here for the lulz)

I have no problem with Monday, it’s actually a relief to have a schedule after a boring weekend. But Wednesday… Now there’s a terrible day. I’ve got my chemistry lab at 6 o’ clock in the evening.

Dorman’s Interlude:

Mr. Dorman says:
http://kruchone.wordpress.com/

Today, my lab class was overshadowed with DISCRIMINATION!

People have no friendliness for those using linux. They have no idea of how the programs are different. I got marked down because my computer didn’t have MICROSOFT FLIPPIN OFFICE, and used open office instead.

Open office math has no options for setting the x-axis of a graph to scale, and just evenly spaces the given data. Its kind of annoying, but on my laptop, I have ubuntu. Silly silly ubuntu.

Um, do it.

In my speech class today, we had to make poems. Crappy poems, but poems none the less. We had to choose a word, and then its opposite. Then we had to list 20 words for each word that those words made us think about. I chose fire before I knew the teacher was going to make us pick the opposite. So I ended up with fire and ice.

Then, we had to make a poem using 30ish, I don’t remember the exact number of the 42 words, and nothing but those 30 words.

Bahamut, Leviathan, Kittens!
Blue Baloons Tantrum,
Dwarves Would Catsplosion,
Carp, Dragons, Red Water
Bomb Books, Explosion
Planes Ice Atlantis
3rings Crashes
Fire Liberty
Fire Freedom
Yellow Life Raft
Red Rivers
Ice Statues
Ice Nukes’

Today, I blog while typing in dvorak.

I dunno why I tried this, but it is quite an interesting experience.
I set my keyboard layout to dvorak when installing ubuntu.
Also, after typing 8 lines, I’m getting somewhat proficient. I already
recognize where most keys are, but the less common ones are a terrible
pain. I’ve got my background set as a dvorak keyboard, and not looking
at it is hard.

My chem teacher got the swine flu today. Yay.

I’ve got less than half an hour to perfect typing like this before
class. I’m graduating from the keyboard on the desktop now. Its
surprisingly easy to learn something when you put your mind to it.

I should be leaving now…

Lolol posting from android app because I can.

^_^

Under my own rules, I’m not obligated to post today.

But i shall!

Also, notice no Day: in today’s post.

Dorman’s Interlude:

Mr. Dorman says:
*still waiting for that code u_u
*it’s been two hours already!
*I hope it isn’t because they take weekends off >____>

Wallpaper Corner:

Vertical Wallpapers: They’re weird, but quite cool if you can use them.

As I said before, my speech class for yesterday was canceled. It turns out that my writing class today was also canceled, I wrote it down, but forgot to remember.

Printing here at OIT is a nightmare. If you’re at a normal fixed computer, you have to use the browser to access the printer list, and then find the printer closest to you, download the driver, and only then can you print.

In the library, they use a secure printing method, so you can print without having to go through the above method, but you have to go to the printer, and input a password directly to the printer to get it to push out your paper.

I miss having my own printer, but the last one I had corrupted it’s inks too quickly. I also miss the built in scanner. I want to get one of those small scanners that move the paper rather than the scanbar. Also, it would be epic to have a laptop with a built in printer. You wouldn’t need anything bulky for a black and white printer that only does a single piece of paper at a time.

Chemistry is too easy. Metrics are too easy. They also are so easy, I remember their conversions, but don’t remember that I remember. I kept fretting during my quiz that I had them wrong, but afterwards checked a conversion chart, and had put them down pefectly. u(mu) is x10^-6, n is x10^-9 and p is x10^-12.

Dorman’s Interlude:

Mr. Dorman says:
squeeee, jazz versions of the beatles

Wallpaper Corner!

Today, I bring offering of some random  wallpapers I have on my laptops hard drive. I did not make these, so I cannot take credit.

If you’ve been reading my twitter, which is shown at the bottom of the sidebar, you’ll see that I managed to get only one class today.

My Speech teacher told us last class that she was going to be gone, and gave us a few youtube videos to watch while we didn’t have class.

Also, I got a bowl of ice-cream for dessert for only 25 cents. ^_^ Cahiers’ mistake. Not going to argue. 

Dorman’s Interlude:

Mr. Dorman says:
lol @ sony for making a $30 demo game

Somehow, SOMEHOW, I got assigned a night class…

My chemistry lab is from 6 to 9 at night.

It’s a little too late for my tastes.

Dorman’s Interlude

Mr. Dorman says:
AHAHAHAH
Sony has a $1300 netbook
asdfg

Also, free food is fun. I got a free breakfast today in the library, I went in there to print a paper, and ended up getting invited to a free breakfast.

Using a laptop during class is fun, I just wish I had more than 45 minutes of battery life. I need to get a netbook…

Nothing much happened today. I woke up early, went to class, ate lunch, went to class again, visited one of the afterschool activities, played video games, did homework, ate dinner, played more video games.

YAY!

Dorman’s Interlude

Mr. Dorman says:
*My 0 key has a m0ind 0of 0its 0own…… WHAT IS GOING ON??
Steam Soldier: Desktop Edition says:
*lol
Mr. Dorman says:
*wtf?
Steam Soldier: Desktop Edition says:
*Hehehehehe
*you has a virus

~

Mr. Dorman says:
*00WHAT
*ITS HAPPENING AGAIN
Steam Soldier: Desktop Edition says:
*AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Mr. Dorman says:
*brb restart
Steam Soldier: Desktop Edition says:
*pop out your 0 key
Mr. Dorman says:
*it feels physically fine
*HOLY SHIT
Steam Soldier: Desktop Edition says:
*HOLY SHIT?
Mr. Dorman says:
*now I know what was wrong
Steam Soldier: Desktop Edition says:
*what
Mr. Dorman says:
*I had a book leaning against the 0 key
*o_q

I’ve decided that I’m going to be skipping the weekends for posting. It may not make perfect sense, but it allows me to go away and do stuff on the weekends without worrying about posting my blog.

I tried the schools “cafeteria” food here, and it’s pretty decent, and cheap. I was talking with my girlfriend, who is going to UofO, and the meal plans are completely different up there. Where OIT’s plan is counted by “Points” which equal cents, the UofO “Points” are roughly dollars. As I’ve got the smallest meal plan, I’ve got about $2.50 cents a day, which will get me a main meal for EVERY meal of the day. I can get 3 servings of scrambled eggs for 45 points, a corn dog(A hell of a lot better quality corn dog than i was expecting) for 40 points, and a piece of pizza for 70 points. Giving myself about 250 points a day, that leaves me with 95 points to spend on extras for my meals. I can get a 22 ounce can of Arizona tea for 75 points, and a doughnut for 10 points.

It seems people HATE the pass between Klamath Falls and Medford with a passion. I’ve had my entire scout troop, and even my family flake out this weekend, because of a chance of snow. My parents, at least, were on the road before they turned around, so i can’t blame them. But a SCOUT TROOP being afraid of a little snow? I cannot believe that.

I brought 2 sweatshirts, a jacket, and a windbreaker with me here to OIT, knowing it gets quite cold. I’ve yet to use ANY of them. We had a little snow Sunday morning, but it wasn’t sticking, and it ended about an hour after I woke up.

I’ve been watching a lot of movies the last few days. There isn’t much to do after everyone goes home from classes, so the campus ends up being really dead. I’m getting really good at watching a 2 and a half hour movie in 10 minutes. I can get the entire gist of the movie, and sample all the acting while jumping ahead 20 seconds at a time.

Every once in a while, i land on a movie that gets interesting enough that I go back to the beginning and watch it fully. So far, I’ve only landed on a few of these movies. One of them was terrible in its own right, but it was funny enough for me to sit and watch it. That movie was “Big Bad Wolf” which was a terrible b-rate horror movie about a werewolf that jests while he kills his victims. The other ones were Juno, A lot Like Love, and Fantastic Four: Rise of the silver surfer.

Juno was by far the best of the movies that I watched in the last few days. I’m attaching a chatlog of my reactions to the movie. I lost the responses of the other people to the first half of my replies, but I’ve still got the second half. I put it into a page, right below.

Chatlog Here

Mudding Reflection:

zMOGus wisps: The episodes of stargate on Hulu are labeled SyFy

zMOGus wisps: WHY DO TEHY HAVE TO BACKWATERMARK OLD EPISODES GOD DA****

Safe to say, when I sent that, I was mad. My roommate was watching Stargate SG1, a show that I generally like, but when i saw the new watermark, I got mad. SyFy stands for NOTHING, absolutely nothing. Its about as catering to the clientele as Martha Stewart machining a flame painted motorcycle.

Dorman’s Interlude:

Alex: The Patriots did it.

zMOGus: I wants a zune hd
Alex: I’d rather get an ipood touch
Alex: apps ftw

Alex: Ridie-ohs!
Alex: Breakfast for the lulz!

Today, I’ll post some pictures I haven’t posted so far.

Today, I had to give an introductory speech in my speech class. I used procrastination to do everything in it. Yep. Procrastination.

I’m procrastinating on making a good post.

Dorman’s Interlude:

Mr. Dorman says:
the total time it took me to beat MGS4 was 19 hours
about 12 of those hours were cut scenes

Been randomly watching movies all evening.

Not up to blogging tonight… I’ll try and post something more tomorrow.

Dorman’s Interlude:

Mr. Dorman says:
HOW IS RAIDEN NOT DEAD?
Steam Soldier says:
lol
HE CANT DIE
He’s imortal, snake isn’t
Mr. Dorman says:
he isn’t immortal