Dan

moving on

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:33:02 GMT

I'm moving. Time to have a private (and in this case handwritten) journal, and a public outlet, rather than muddling the two.

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:09:24 GMT

Last week, I ate roughly 9lbs of mandarin oranges in about ten hours, then finished the 11lb pair of boxes off the next day.

Today I woke up and had two chocolate chip oatmeal cookies and chocolate soy milk for breakfast. Went to SUS, where I moved their stuff to the new Ladha centre and ate chocolate truffles for snacks, with some chocolate covereled almonds and a bit of cheese for 'lunch.' A friend I were studying and had some ice cream which had chocolate fudge dinosaurs (no kidding!) and chocolate cookie dough in it, followed by hot chocolate. Dinner has been chocolate chip oatmeal cookies, most of a dark chocolate bar, and some lindt dark creamy chocolate balls.

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 17:24:11 GMT

Huh. I'm the one in yellow helping save le ball: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NBCykKAdwQ.

Thanks, Doug!

Update: seems like the ball is being auctioned off for Child's Play. Huzzah!

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:38:35 GMT

"Tribal House is mostly a west coast thing, where we still have trees out here for hippies to hang out in and throw free parties in the forests during the summer (when the weather cooperates)." -Ishkur

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 20:21:24 GMT

How to stop the Canadian DMCA.

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:25:59 GMT

In the last 72 hours I:
-slept 10 hours
-played 7 hours of ultimate
-drank 8.8 pounds of caffeinated carbonated liquid
-ate two 2.2-pound sandwiches
-went to safeway twice
-didn't shower
-coded a lot.

That's about everything.

Go, deadlines.

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 03:14:19 GMT

So, I'm back from Burning Man. I will be going next year; no matter who you are or what you're doing in life, I would recommend that you find an art project to be involved with or a theme camp to help run and go next year. And for the whole week. The last two days don't count.

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 00:05:04 GMT

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 08:11:56 GMT

I'm going to burning man after I go to Seattle, so I'll see's ya when I see's ya.

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:16:40 GMT

If you've heard me rambling about the spider I've been working on... here is one of the coolest videos you'll see all day. IT LIVES! And note that this was with the engine power turned pretty far down!

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 22:04:10 GMT

Final mark received in Math 215: 83%. Didn't make 85, sadly. Ah, well.

Oh, and my birthday was good (Emily made me chocolate cake! Joce sung to me over the internet! Fireworks went bang!), and it finally feels like my summer has begun. Of course, now it's going to whip by insanely fast, but such is life.

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:53:39 GMT

Julie put a pic of me jumping at a tree in a sarong on the internet. Don't ask me why.

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:51:30 GMT

From today's penny-arcade:

G: Oh, I set up a secret question alright. I set up some zen shit.

G: What is delicious.

T: What is delicious? It's a valid avenue of inquiry.

T: What does it mean to be delicious? Can something untastable posess some flavor that is metatastual? Could, then, an idea be delicious?

T: Maybe I've been reading it all wrong. What if it's not a question at all? What if it were a statement. Perhaps what is, itself, delicious. Inquiry. Which is to say...

G: Oh, I remember. It's candy. Candy is delicious.

Bursts of genius like this are why I still bother to read webcomics.

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:02:06 GMT

(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

✓ I miss somebody right now.	✓ I don't watch much TV these days.	✓ I own lots of books.
× I wear glasses or contact lenses.	✓ I love to play video games. (Do nongraphical ones count?)	✓ I've tried marijuana.
✓ I've watched porn movies.	× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.	✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy.
✓ I curse sometimes.	✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.	✓ I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me. (Thanks, Tinka!)

* * * * *

✓ I have broken someone's bones.	✓ I have a secret that I am ashamed to reveal.	× I hate the rain.
✓ I'm paranoid at times.	× I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free.	✓ I need/want money right now.
✓ I love sushi.	✓ I talk really, really fast.	× I have fresh breath in the morning.
× I have long hair.	× I have lost money in Las Vegas.	✓ I have at least one sibling.
✓ I was born in a country outside of the U.S.	✓ I have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past.	× I couldn't survive without Caller I.D.
✓ I like the way that I look.	✓ I have lied to a good friend in the last 6 months.	× I am usually pessimistic.
✓ I have a lot of mood swings.	✓ I think prostitution should be legalized.	✓ I slept with a roommate. (Does 'beside' count?)
✓ I have a hidden talent.	× I'm always hyper no matter how much sugar I have.	✓ I have a lot of friends.
✓ I have pecked someone of the same sex.	✓ I enjoy talking on the phone.	× I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants.
× I love to shop and/or window shop.	× I'm obsessed with my Xanga or Livejournal.	✓ I'm completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother.
× I have a mobile phone.	✓ I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months.	✓ I've rejected someone before.
✓ I currently like/love someone.	✓ I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life.	✓ I want to have children in the future.
✓ I have changed a diaper before.	× I've called the cops on a friend before.	✓ I'm not allergic to anything.
✓ I have a lot to learn.	× I am shy around the opposite sex.	✓ I'm online 24/7, even as an away message.
× I have at least 5 away messages saved.	✓ I have tried alcohol or drugs before.	× I have made a move on a friend's significant other or crush in the past.
× I own the "South Park" movie.	× I have avoided assignments at work/school to be on Xanga or Livejournal.	✓ I enjoy some country music.
✓ I would die for my best friends.	✓ I'm obsessive, and often a perfectionist.	× I have used my sexuality to advance my career.
✓ I think Halloween is awesome because you get free candy.	× I have dated a close friend's ex.	× I am happy at this moment.
✓ I'm obsessed with guys.	× Democrat.	× Republican.
✓ I don't even know what I am.	✓ I am punk rockish.	× I go for older guys/girls, not younger.
✓ I study for tests most of the time.	× I tie my shoelaces differently from anyone I've ever met.	× I can work on a car.
× I love my job(s).	✓ I am comfortable with who I am right now.	× I have more than just my ears pierced.
× I walk barefoot wherever I can.	✓ I have jumped off a bridge.	× I love sea turtles.
× I spend ridiculous amounts of money on makeup.	✓ I plan on achieving a major goal/dream.	× I am proficient on a musical instrument.
✓ I hate office jobs.	× I went to college out of state.	× I am adopted.
✓ I am a pyro.	× I have thrown up from crying too much.	✓ I have been intentionally hurt by people that I loved.
× I fall for the worst people.	✓ I adore bright colours.	✓ I usually like covers better than originals.
✓ I hate chain theme restaurants like Applebees and TGIFridays.	✓ I can pick up things with my toes.	× I can't whistle.
× I have ridden/owned a horse.	× I still have every journal I've ever written in.	× I talk in my sleep.
✓ I've often thought that I was born in the wrong century.	✓ I try to forget things by drowning them out with loads of distractions.	× I wear a toe ring.
× I have a tattoo.	× I can't stand at LEAST one person that I work with.	× I am a caffeine junkie.
× I am completely tree-huggy spiritual, and I'm not ashamed at all. (minus the spiritual part)	× If I knew I would get away with it, I would commit at least one murder.	× I will collect anything, and the more nonsensical, the better.
✓ I enjoy a nice glass of wine with dinner.	✓ I'm an artist.	✓ I am ambidextrous.
× I sleep with so many stuffed animals, I can hardly fit on my bed.	✓ If it weren't for having to see other people naked, I'd live in a nudist colony. (minus the "if it weren't" part)	✓ I have terrible teeth.
× I hate my toes.	× I did this meme even though I wasn't tagged by the person who took it before me.	× I have more friends on the internet than in real life.
× I have lived in either three different states or countries.	× I am extremely flexible.	× I love hugs more than kisses.
× I want to own my own business.	× I smoke.	✓ I spend way too much time on the computer than on anything else.
✓ Nobody has ever said I'm normal.	× Sad movies, games, and the like can cause a trickle of tears every now and then.	× I am proficient in the use of many types of firearms and combat weapons.
✓ I like the way women look in stylized men's suits.	✓ I don't like it when people are unpleased or seem unpleased with me.	✓ I have been described as a dreamer or likely to have my head up in the clouds.
✓ I have played strip poker with someone else before. (strip cribbage, too.)	× I have had emotional problems for which I have sought professional help.	× I believe in ghosts and the paranormal.
✓ I can't stand being alone.	✓ I have at least one obsession at any given time.	× I weigh myself, pee/poo, and then weigh myself again.
× I consistently spend way too much money on obsessions-of-the-moment.	✓ I'm a judgmental asshole.	✓ I'm a HUGE drama-queen.
× I have travelled on more than one continent.	× I sometimes wish my father would just disappear.	× I need people to tell me I'm good at something in order to feel that I am.
✓ I am a Libertarian.	✓ I can speak more than one language.	× I can fall asleep even if the whole room is as noisy as it can be.
✓ I would rather read than watch TV.	× I like reading fact more than fiction.	✓ I have pulled an all-nighter on an assignment I was given a month to do.
✓ I have no piercings.	✓ I have spent the night in a train station or other public place.	× I have been so upset over my physical gender that I cried.
× I once spent Christmas completely alone because there was a miscommunication on which parent was supposed to have me that night.	✓ There have been times when I have wondered "Why was I born?" and may/may not have cried over it. (Go go highschool)	× I like most animals better than most people.
× I own a collection of retro games consoles.	× The thought of physical exercise makes me shiver.	✓ I have hit someone with a dead fish. (A dead fish with paint on it, no less.)
✓ I am compulsively honest.	× I was born with a congenital birth defect that has never been repaired.	✓ I have danced topless in front of dozens of complete strangers.
× I have gone from wishing I was a girl to revelling in being a boy to feeling like a girl again in the span of five minutes, and not cared a whit for my actual sex.	× I am unashamedly bisexual, and have different motivations for my desires for different genders.	× I sometimes won't sleep a whole night or eat a whole day because I forget to.
× I find it impossible to get to sleep without some kind of music on.	× I dislike milk.	× I obsessively wash my hands.
× I always carry something significant around with me.	✓ Sometimes I'd rather wear a wig in day-to-day life than use my own hair.	✓ I've pushed myself to become more self-aware and thereby more aware of others.
× Even though I live on my own I still cry sometimes because I miss my mother.	✓ I hand wrote all the HTML tags in this document. (As much as deadjournal would let me, at least.)	✓ I've liked something which a majority of people claimed was either bad or weird.
× I have been clinically dead for a brief period of time.	× Instead of feeling sympathy/empathy with people and their problems, I simply become annoyed.	× I participate/have participated in auto drag races and won.
× I do not 'get' most comedy acts.	✓ I don't think strippers are money-greedy or slutty for dancing.	× I don't like to chew gum.
✓ I am obsessed with history/historical things and can't wait for someone to build a time machine so I can be the first to use it. (It only it were possible.)	✓ I can never remember for the life of me where I parked the car.	✓ I had the TEEN ANGST thing going for at least 2-3 years.
✓ I wish people would be more empathic and honest with each other.	× I play Dungeons and Dragons weekly. (no longer, sadly)	✓ I love to sing.
× I want to live in my mother's basement when I grow up.	✓ I have a custom-built computer.	✓ I want to create a certain someone's babies, even though there's a 0% possiblity of ever achieving it.
× I would be in a relationship with one of my pets if they were human.	✓ I've gone skinny-dipping.	× I've performed in three plays.
✓ I enjoy burritos.	✓ I'm Irish and loving it.	✓ I have a thing for redheads.
× I am a twin!	✓ Most of the times, I'd rather do something intellectual instead of doing something generically 'fun'.	× Once I set out to finish something, I always stay at it until it is completed before I move on to something else.
✓ I wish there were a way to erase past mistakes.	× I sleep more than 12 hours a day.	✓ I wish I could be prouder of what I've accomplished, but it's never enough.
✓ I need more time to myself.	✓ I wish I was more open-minded.	× I hope that I go really prematurely grey.
✓ I download songs from the internet.	× I've just reenacted chapter 58 of Death Note with my best friend.	✓ I say random things to freak people out.
× I'm still a little mad about the ending of Death Note.	✓ I love playing Truth or Dare.	× I love listening to slow music, but I hate singing to it.
× Music helps me remember that I am not alone.	✓ Playing my favorite sport makes me temporarily forget my problems.	✓ I think this survey is particularly long.
× I prefer my LJ friends to my real-life ones.	× I can only hate someone that I love.	× I've ordered an extra two shots of espresso to an Americano at Starbucks.

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 06:01:15 GMT

http://www.nationalreview.com/document/document073001.shtml/

Continue on your way.

And another one bites the dust.

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 07:02:56 GMT

Emily and I are no more.

Shoddy poetry and red-eyed Dan shall ensue.

Wed, 24 May 2006 03:06:58 GMT

blech:

Sun, 21 May 2006 16:23:11 GMT

It is incredibly disconcerting to wake up with one's lips unable to open and an eye that is swolled shut. Hooray for q-tips and ice!

Tue, 09 May 2006 11:05:30 GMT

God fucking damn it.

I failed Math 215 this term (one of the courses that UBC fucked me over with second term last year) and my appeal asking to have the grandfather clause not be exempted in my case failed.

So now I've got to take another goddamned course, and I won't have my degree until almost 2007.

Fuck fuck fuck.

Well, at least I don't have to pay for all the grad ceremony stuff yet.

Fuck.

go Jo!

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 19:51:10 GMT

Everyone's favorite Jo Krack is getting published again! http://www.theforeigner-japan.com/archives/200604/hospitalstay.htm

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:49:02 GMT

http://www.break.com/games/twophotos2.html

That is all.

I HATE MICROSOFT

Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:57:30 GMT

Wow, that's a nasty subject, eh?

Well, Hotmail went and changed their minimum login frequency from 30 days before suspension (60 for account deletion) to 20 before account deletion.

psycho_dan@hotmail.com had emails of mine going back to... hmm. 1996? Or so. Many were just little things, notes and ideas and quick messages with "this is my email" or "your account has been registered, here's your password" and the like. Many more of the 2k or so messages, however, were sentimental letters that are irreplaceable.

So: fuck you, Microsoft.

Also: if you only ever used that email in the past - please don't use it now. Use my gmail (replace the _ with a .). If you have a copy of any important or meaningful emails that you sent to that address, please resend them to my gmail, as they're gone gone gone.

stories

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:12:55 GMT

Oh, out of context quotes:

Next-door neighbour Monica Hayward was near tears as she mucked out her barn.

(at the bottom)

the end?

Fri, 07 Apr 2006 08:34:39 GMT

On my third to last day in Science at UBC, I did "not":
-skip my first two classes
-show up late to my third class
-go on a date that involved wrestling and naked swimming
-skip out on work entirely

On my second to last day in Science at UBC, I did "not":
-eat free food courtesy of the SUS AGM
-run the wind tunnel at gale blast and put it's motor into overload (I suspect that in such a situation one would be able to lean quite far forward into the wind and have it hold them up!)
-do the leap of faith for the second time (no snow on the trees today, though!)
-see new and exciting parts of the steam tunnels
-skinny dip in the pool at midnight

On my last day in Science at UBC... what will I "not" do?

Dr. Tran!

Sat, 11 Mar 2006 10:15:12 GMT

Since I saw it at Spike & Mike's, I've been looking for a copy of this. Well, here it is: Here Comes Dr. Tran!