I was half sleep while I was typing it, which is why it might not make sense to anyone who reads it (sure, I had a rant, but what was I thinking?!).

I’ll be posting something better in a few.

Which would account for the long period since the last post on here, don’t you think?

Well, not much to update you all on. Switched back to Windows after Ubuntu half-crashed on me (dunno what happened to it, and have decided to put going back to it off for the time being). Furthermore, I’ve found out that LiveCDs don’t do jack shit for persuading a dude to switch to Linux. I tried with both KNOPPIX and Gentoo, and both didn’t even load right (Gentoo didn’t load at ALL).

So, not dealing with those for the time being. Maybe its something wrong with my hard drive…but, anyway, I’ll try out LiveDVDs from now on.

Also, some good news: DivX has just released the beta of their browser plugin, so I’m suspecting that otaku will be having a heyday over this.

Also, I read about such amazing things as Mac OS X on x86, Peercasting, Ben Franklin’s 300th b-day, and the community which has grown around Google Talk.

But, digitally, I’ve dwelt in deafening silence for the past month or so.

I’ve finally reconciled with Bittorrent as far as anime archives are concerned; however, I owe such primarily to uTorrent, a lightweight app that, while not having been open-sourced (as of yet, according to the developer), does serve as a Bittorrent solution which needs no installation in order to make it work: just click the icon, run the executable, and raise it/lower it to the botom right of the taskbar. I’ve wondered if this could be a viable idea for Debian-based Linux distros who want to create and run apps with little to no problems without having to install them directly into the bedrock of a Debian-based system. I dunno…

Y’know, I guess that it would be a good idea to hold off on updates to this blog until the spring or something, since the winter is when things close up, die, hibernate, go quiet, slow down, and so forth. I mean, honestly, I don’t feel like updating this blog for the time being. Even in Warner Robins (how’re the folks in Atlanta doing?), we’ve had alot of hail and rain (both of them in sequence yesterday, along with a tornado watch for Central Georgia), among other things. So, I’ll return back to the sabbatical that I’ve been taking from blogging, IM, and other general pursuits until February/March or somewhere around that time.

And speaking of which, lordsathien, the possibility for FWA is still standing, although the clouds are kinda bleak…Mom’s still fretting over college payments, although I’ve decided to seek a job of some kind at Cox, who’s now our ISP (yay). If it goes through with them (I’ll be asking them when I come back on the 16th), then FWA’s a go-go.

So, this Winter Solistice season, we can only hope, pray, and wait for things to happen.

Hell, I don’t even know what I’m blogging about right now. This blog is on ice until February/March.

Peace until then. You know where you can find me (if you have Google Talk, of course).

“….Without a dough beat to step to.”

Squawk. Just passing through to update this a bit.

Well, after long last, I finally have moved permanently to Ubuntu Linux. Far more reconcilable screen resolution this time around (including the option of 1024×768), although, again, while it is intelligible, it still seems a bit…..off. Well, like I said back a few months before at the Ubuntu community, this x-conf tweak that someone at DA showed me should do the trick (lets just hope that it doesn’t fuck up the monitor).

Also, I smoked a suprising amount of sticky-icky this past Wednesday. And of course, I tried astral travel again. While it wasn’t as enjoyable as as the first time, this session held a couple of surprises for me. Here’s a rundown for ya’ll:

1) The first session from a month back was different…in fact, milder….from this most recent one. It was as if, in Session 1, the “travelling” that I was doing was primarily an extended eyesight rather than something that was full-fledged. The one from last Wednesday, in comparison, showed me just how limited I was in terms of just “getting off the ground”.

2) OK, so I laid perfectly still in bed, as is the rule. As soon as I relaxed as deeply as possible, even to the point where I, for a few seconds, held my breath subconsciously, I immediately felt this *deadening* feeling, as if the area from my head to my torso had simply stopped functioning regularly….of course, as soon as I laid a minutely conscious thought on it (it was concerning the fact that I had stopped breathing, at which point I breathed deeply), the feeling in my uppers quietly came back as “suddenly” as they came back. However, the immediate aftermath of such an occurrence had felt as if this had happened within a few seconds’ time; indeed, when I reflected on it, the feeling of the conscious activity pausing for a few seconds had felt like I had “gotten up” and then laid back down; I could compare the visualization that I have of it to someone in the hospital whose heart has stopped for a short time, and the immediate reaction that is given by the patient when an electric shock is passed through the body (y’know…”3, 2, 1 – CLEAR!” [pounds reverberators onto the chest area, at which point the patient’s torso area jumps up in reaction]).

3) Intrigued, I tried that technique again and again over the next few days….I may try it again tonight, given that its Saturday and all). Each time that I do it, however, it always immediately feels like I crossed some line that I have no business crossing. Theory is, if I can push this a bit further, to the point that I can simply resort to short, slight breaths in the process, I’ll finally be able to, so to speak, “get up and walk”.

Note to self: always attempt without shoes or socks in bed.

Anyway, for those who may have any interest, here’s some more silliness from the US: Happy Holidays vs. Merry Christmas.

Peace out.

Eh, decided to update this journal a bit. Nothing much to say about the last few days.

Well, on Friday night, I finally experienced astral travel (yay!), which only pretty much took lying in bed, staying awake, and letting my body go numb (under covers, of course). ‘Twas nothing big, just that, with the things which were going through my head as soon as I had hit what I call “ground zero”, I was having this wierd feeling of running without moving all that much (let alone feeling anything, either). It was a *bit* like when I had first gotten stoned (when a million images were running through my head every second), just without the coughing and off-kilteredness of mental perception (my eyes were closed, lol).

Needsta do it again.

Plus, I had gotten stoned again on Thursday, btw. No mental distortion this time, however: this time, a couple of minutes after the smoke, I decided, on possible instinct, to close my eyes and let whatever was stirring to move take its course. Almost immediately, the muscles in my face and upper body started pulling in the most unusual manner, which I didn’t mind except for me knowing that my roommate was coming in from the other half of the suite, at which point, I held it off enough to turn off the screen and creep over to the bed (with the covers over me so that no one would see what was going on).

Then, not that much to my surprise, things went forward as they were meant to. I let the muscles tighten as they were intending to do, and, curiously enough, they started to contort. I curled up into a fetal position, while my face’s skin started itching to pull out (particularly at the lip part). It wasn’t painful or anything, just wierd as fuck.

During this course of events, unfortunately, I went to sleep (and I had my eyes closed as well). I woke up rather early in the morning, sober enough, and I was disappointed to have found one side of my head partly covered with a dampy-dried feeling (never a pleasant feeling, IMO).

Not that this equates with such, but this slightly reminds me of reading the part in Whitley Strieber’s The Wild where Bob had put himself in the closet and let the “slip” (a term coined by lance_foxx in this newspost from the fall of 1998 at alt.horror.werewolves) take its course.

But of course, one can only wonder….

Anyway, I’ve deleted a couple of GBs of my hard drive (nothing essential, just stuff that I know that I can do without) just to make room for some BIG-ASS torrents.

Also, I just installed Azureus, which seems like a far better BT client than Shareaza (which I’ll reinstall later, but for the time being is off the map); however, I DO take serious issue with its being a whole 6 GB+ (what the fuck?!) of the hard drive. Furthermore, I am trying to pull up this torrent that includes “Kaze the Ghost Warrior”, which, from the previews of it I’ve seen, looks like a good CGI flick. Unfortunately, this is saddled with some 285 .rar files (mostly furry/anthro art and comics such as ASB and Circles) and this “raplab” video which I simply DON’T want to see (as I’ve come across one of those during an earlier web sojourn…not pretty…), thus amounting to 9.39 GB (and thus adding a further, totally unnecessary burden to the hard drive….so screw the bastard who created this torrent in the first place).

Yep, I’ve decided to go to BT to find some shit that isn’t available on Gnutella. Unfortunately, for the anime that I’m trying to pull up (namely Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi and Blue Submarine), the active seeds aren’t being cooperative.

Maybe Gnutella2 next time, folks.

Also, if you want to make your GUI look like Vista (formerly code-named “Longhorn”; the next Windows version, coming out next year) and you can’t wait that long for the release, get either WindowBlinds or StyleXP and then DL the VistaXP skin, which should immediately open with either program (unless you just save it to the hard drive, of course).

And finally, Mozilla released the 3rd release candidate for Firefox 1.5 yesterday. So, for anyone who makes and updates extensions and themes (yes, you too, GOOGLE), get your asses in gear with updating your produce. Cool? Cool.

In closing, I’m still in a soul/computer-searching state, as you can see. So since I don’t have any major IM installed on this hard drive now, leave a comment on wherever you may find me if you have something to say.

Peace out.

PS: Did anyone see the new Family Guy? Brian’s “dance” surely defined the episode, which I saw at a friends’ dorm room.

Y’know…….THAT ONE.