I just have to mention something that occurred earlier today. I'm currently working with my uncle who is in the moving-business. Today we were going to help a student move from his dorm to a proper apartment in another part of town, and his father wanted to help.

So, as I was stacking boxes and whatnot into the elevator at the ground floor of the apartment complex, the guy's father suggests that he do the stacking and I do the unloading on the second floor. I proceeded to the second floor to wait for the elevator to appear, but after waiting for around two minutes the damn thing still hadn't showed up.

I could hear muffled noises coming from downstairs and I thought that the old man had managed to get himself stuck or something, so I rushed down to help. It turns out that he had pressed the button to go to the floor he was already on and had not noticed this, so he had unloaded all the boxes onto the exact same place there were at before!

A failure of the highest calibre indeed!

Ever felt like your friends don't give a damn about you?

It happens to me all the time. I have a couple of friends who say they're my friends, but they seldom remember me if I don't call first. I'm already a background element in everyone's lives. I'm the decorative NPC. I'm the optional quest nobody's interested in.

It could be easy to say that I have nothing to give, but that's not true. I care, I'm always there, they always have my unconditional attention. Yet I don't see any of that come back. I'm always the last option, the oh-well-if-there's-nothing-better. Is it asking too much to expect the same from them?

I know that as a computer geek I shouldn't expect to have a girlfriend, but a friend or two at least? Are my expectations so unrealistic? I'm starting to think they are. Actually wanting my friends to pretend they're friends? Pfft. Who would come up with such a thing.

Example: two days ago, one of them tells me one of his (female) friends wanted to see a movie. She said "Bring a friend, I'm coming with one too". Of course, only a week later I hear of this event. He then adds, "I'm sorry, I have to confess you weren't the first one I thought of". Well, not a surprise for me anyway - I'm never the first one anyone thinks of. Sometimes, not even the last one.

Then there's my other friend, whose friendship, company, support and overall giveashitness I appreciated the most. At one point we didn't go a day without talking in one way or another. But not now. For months already she hasn't written anymore, doesn't call, doesn't text, doesn't reply to emails, doesn't get online (to, say, msn) for weeks. She insists everything is alright, but (due to all the above) I still feel that "I don't care" vibe coming from her. She did call me for my birthday, though. But that's it. Is this all a joke? I just don't understand.

Life is always teasing me. There doesn't seem to be anything in it for me.

TLDR: I'm depressed, I feel worthless and forgotten.

Made this for Urby.

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Hope this wasn't a part of a surprise or anything... :p

Have you ever considered the possibility of replacing fossil fuels with more exotic sollutions?

Dayum. Dear Esther is really starting to look bloody amazing.

If you liek StarCraft, read on.. =)

I found a thing called chaos launcher that lets me play StarCraft in a window:

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I guess this has been around for a while, but i never knew about it.
Get Chaos Launcher here!

Also found a working portable version of SC that works flawlessly in my vista 64-bit, that is about 138MB in size. PM me for the source if u interested!

I'm so mf happy!!
= D

I've been re-playing Red Alert and a few other somewhat aged games recently.
Replaying older games makes you remember the simplicity most of them had back then. Whether that's a good thing or not differs between games, but sometimes it's good just to play something that you don't need to think about as much.

I'm writing this from the Internet Cafe' I have gone to for many years now. And in doing so, I can download everything I want. So I am now downloading:

Battlefield 2
Serious Sam HD
Phyconauts
Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl

I would like to take a moment to write about a certain type of person that really bothers me.
A type of person that I, for lack of a better term that doesn't involve copious amounts of swearing, call idiots.
History has been plauged by these people; Hitler, the KKK, a suprisingly large amount of people in my school. They, suprisingly, have a thought process. It goes like this:
This person is different > I don't like this person > Since I don't like them, they're inferior > Since they're inferior, I can do whatever I want to them.
Frankly, I'm tired of dealing with them, tired of hearing about things they've done, and it has to stop.
In the event of alien contact, how will we be able to deal with it, when we can't even get along with others in our race? If someone with a different nationality, skin colour, customs, or way of thinking can't be treated with an equal amount of respect, how could we possibly do that with an entirely different species from another planet/dimension?

Yes, it's more of a sore spot for me, because I'm one of the "different people", being a computer nerd in a school populated by computer illiterate people. But it's a valid problem, and one humanity had better sort out soon, or nothing will improve for us.

Thanks for your time.

So neat bit of javascript code here.
Enter this in the toolbar, and the whole site you're on becomes "editable" to a point. It's client-side, so don't expect to change anything and save it.

"JavaScript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0"

Sorry ahead of time Rimmy.

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So,

I had my first day of Uni today. I'm studying Civil Engineering, and am already starting to stress.

My maths subject sounds impossibly difficult, and the many assignments for my other subjects will take alot of time and higher order thinking - things not required in high school.

Oral presentations are going to be prevalent - one of my weak points is public speaking, so now I'm stressing even more.

People keep mentioning MatLab, SolidWorks and PebblePad, is anyone familiar with those particular programs?

I found myself falling asleep in my 2 hour long Engineering Materials lecture, as the chemistry he was explaining turned into crazy theorems and concepts which completely lost me.

My subjects include: Mathematical Methods for Engineers 1, Sustainable Engineering Practice, Engineering Materials and Computer Techniques.

Tomorrow I'm off to get my textbooks, configure my laptop to work with the university's wireless network, and spend 3 straight hours in maths lectures and practicals. Oh joy.

Well there you have it, folks! What do you guys have to say. Anyone else completed/completing/wanting to complete an Engineering Degree? Anyone in the same or similar situation as me, or have been? Anyone got any advice?

I saw 3 bands LIVE last night. They are ROCK bands to let you know. Downtown Brown is comical rock. Seasons of Eden is almost metal. Half-Light is soft rock.

Half-Light - (heh, yeah that's their real name) they weren't too bad but they didn't play the kind of music that I really liked.

Downtown Brown - (my cousin's old band) These guys put on an amazing live show. they are fucking hilarious. The guitar player can really play good and fast. If they ever come to your area, you NEED to see them live.

Seasons of Eden - My cousin's new band. Sounds amazing, the singer was great. My cousin really slapped da bass last night. :) The guitar player also had amazing solos and everything.

Didn't get home until 5:00 AM. Now, that was a party.

Let's look at some of the challenges you'll face, as a test participant:

... yeah, what? :/

Hi Im back, thought I'd hit it alot harder than I did... anyway

Heres something I did today, so don't laugh its basically a room, I was just testing out the software. so the stuff I put into the maya file took me like 2mins to make.. lol

Step 1. Download the Unity Web Viewer (just click the link I supply)
Step 2. once plugin is installed on my site you'll be able to move around.
Controls;
wsad for movement
Spacebar to jump

remember this is only a test.. I KNOW IT SUCKS!

http://www.mikeverret.ca/test.html
oh and also remember to click the sreen first, then you can move around.. :)

Today is my 22nd birthday, if anyone cares.

Last night I had a dream in which I was Harry Potter. I was running around in a crazy maze with secret passages and stuff like that in a sort of team deathmatch HL - but with magic wands, and the teams were the Hogwarts houses. I remember thinking it was super cool and I had to make a map of that to put up here. Then I woke up and sadly, I realised it was a pretty shitty idea for a map.