Around last week, one of my computer's two monitors broke down, right after one of my external hard drives broke down the previous week. I didn't think much of it and continued to use my computer with the remaining monitor. It worked fine, albeit limiting myself to half the screen space that I was used to was suffocating. This morning, however, the other monitor died like its twin, meaning that I'm now stuck with a computer, with no monitor.

As a result of this, I won't be able to update my blog regularly, as I promised in my last post, until I have this situation ironed out. At the moment, I'm typing up this entry on my dad's computer, which is very slow and not sufficient enough to watch anime with.

What's even worse is that I was in the process of preparing a new layout for this blog, due to a few slip-ups that I've made, including, but not limited to, incompatibility with Internet Explorer and non-compliance with W3C standards. I've been looking forward to finally scrapping this layout, but I guess it won't be happening any time soon.

Hopefully, I'll be able to take care of these setbacks soon, so I can get back to blogging.

Also, this entry may or may not be "pessimistic" to a certain friend of mine, who shall be unnamed, so here's some kawaii biribiri, just in case:

I'll be turning 18. Looking back at my life so far, I haven't accomplished anything spectacular, besides being able to read and write English on a level that's somewhat higher than most others, that are around my age, in my country, which is America, sadly. These skills are wasted on someone like me, though. I can code, somewhat, maybe. I don't know, because I haven't been doing much of that for a while.

I'll soon be graduating from high school, in a few months. Actually, I don't even know if I will be graduating at all, because I've developed a terrible habit of falling asleep in most my classes. Even if I do graduate, though, I have no idea what I'm going to do with my life. I've been provisionally accepted to one college(still waiting on a few others), but I still don't know what I really want to do.

My life has been characterized by mediocrity, impatience, and half-assedness. I've tried picking up several different hobbies, like music and web development, hoping to refine them into real, practical skills, but, ultimately, laziness kicked in. In fact, I opened up this blog on Christmas Day, 2005, fully intending to actively update it with substantial posts about my life, which never happened. Later, I intended to convert it into a gaming blog, until I realized that I don't play video games as much as I thought I did, and even if I did, I wouldn't have much to say about any of them.

By May 21, 2007, most of my posts have been about my brand new forum signature or how I whipped up some terrible website layout after fiddling with various filters in Photoshop, because I couldn't bring myself to write anything substantial. Frustrated by the lack of effort I put into my posts, I scrapped whatever posts I made, and relaunched my blog on Oct 24, 2007. I had some good momentum going on for a bit, despite writing about frivolous and menial subjects. Eventually, though, I'd fall back on the formula of posting anime screenshots that seem amusing when taken out of context.

Over the last year or so, I've discovered several anime blogs that I've started reading: Continuing World, We Remember Love, 2-D Teleidoscope, Animanachronism, and many others. They always had something interesting to say, to accompany their amusing screenshots. They'd take miniscule, almost frivolous, items in these cartoons, analyze them, and make them look interesting. No; they made them interesting. I've felted determined to make my blog posts be as interesting and lengthy as theirs, but when it came down to actually writing them, my enthusiasm would wane, and I would always fall back to the same old formula of posting screenshots.

This time, though, I'll actually try to write, instead of half-assing my writing, and maybe, through this, learn to stop half-assing everything else in my life. It'll be a birthday present to myself.

Apr 25, 2010 update: A friend of mine has pointed out to me that this post is depressing as hell. To rectify this, here's another LO/Accelerator picture:

I don't care about your cheap WoW gold, replica watches, free credit reports, or viagra. Please, fuck off. :|

MISAKA says, "Happy New Year's!", too. :3

I have officially become a twit. Expect me to type brief, incoherent phrases from my cell phone, from now on.

Spilling ice cream is a waste and a very bad thing to do!

I've decided that I'll make a topic about myself and my preferences, for once. I like ice cream. I only eat it like once every two months, but it's still good. My favorite flavor is mint chocolate, even though a lot of people say that it tastes like crap. ...And that's pretty much it. Can't expect a blog post about ice cream to be too detailed, right?

Also, protip: That's not ice cream in the picture. Protip #2: That's not a girl, either.

Just went to church today. Christians are the masters of bad analogies.

That is all.

Apparently, a freshman from my school opened up a "Burn Book" on Myspace, inspired by the movie, Mean Girls. A few of my friends(and they exist), at school, were talking about it, so I decided to look around for it. ...And I found it! Unfortunately, the entries weren't written in intelligible English. Fortunately, I'm fluent in 27 dialects of retard and, in my grace, have translated the contents of the "burn book" for your leisure(the pictures were withheld):

DAT PUTA SiN BARR0 Up DERE, HER NAME iS eeLANA EVERyB0Dy BE SAyiN QUE ESTA UN CHOLA y SHiT BUT HELL NAH! DAT PUTA AiNT SHiT! DAT's WHy DEy KALL HER CHOLA #2! LMFA0! KUz SHE AiNT DEE #1! FUK DAt PUTA UP DERE!

Translation: This whore is named Eelana. Everybody calls her the #1 gangster, but in reality, she isn't! Therefore, we address her as the number #2 gangster, because she can't possibly be #1! I'd advise all others to assault her whenever possible.

THAT GiRL UP DERE, SE LLAMA JENiFER. i HARDLEy KNOW HER, PERO ES PENDEJA! SHE iS UGLY! FAT! y SHE CHASES GUyS! CAUSE DA NONE 0F DEM CHASE HER! SE MiRA MUyy CHUNTi!

Translation: This girl is named Jenifer(sic). I don't know who she is, but she's stupid, ugly, and fat. She also, at various points in time, desperately pursues romantic relations with other males, because they're unwilling to initiate contact with her! She's also very gaudy!

00H SHiT! D0NT EBEN GET MEH STARTED 0N DAT GiRL! SHEs BUTT UGLy! SHE HAS BLAk LiPS! WTf! BLAk! LMA0!! iTs SiCK, ALWAyS SEEN HER iN SKEWL WiD HER GUy. TRUST MEH, THATS SiCK! L0L, i W0NDER WuT HE BE THiNKn..TOUCHiN 0N HER FATnESS! i CANT BELiVE SHE RELATED TeW LAURA! KUZ LAURA iS FiNE COMPARED TEw HER SiSTAh!

Translation: Don't even get me started on this girl! She's very ugly and has black lips, which I find aesthetically displeasing. She's always in school with her boyfriend to the point that it's disgusting! One can only wonder why he'd touch someone so portly! It's also unbelievable that she's Laura's sister, whose beauty outperforms her's in several ways!

L00K AT DAT HOE STEPHANiE G! TAKiN PiCS WiD HER UNDAWEAR! WuT A W0RE! SHE iS UGLy, FAT, CHUNTi, AND i HAVE NOTHiNG TO SAy BUT DAT i REALLy DONT LyK HER! 0NE THiNG i DO KN0, DAT SHE iS EASy!

Translation: Look at that whore, Stephanie G! She takes pictures in her underwear, a very whore-like trait! She's very unattractive, obese, and brazen! I'm not quite sure what else to say about her, except that I extremely dislike her! One confirmed fact, though, is that she is easily approachable, sexually!

0kAy, WELL DAT CHiCK, i GOT L0T TEw SAy.! ARiEL, SHE MA FRiEND BUT DAT D0NT GOT TEw MEAN i LyK HER :] SHE AiNT WHO YALL THiNK SHE iS! YUP, AM SAyiNG iT ND NOT GiViNG A FUK CUZ i DONT LyK HER!!!!!! y0U THiNK SHE STRAiGHT? THiNK AGAiN!! SHE AiNT! SHE Bi! SHE ALWAyS CHECKiN GuRLS OUT, GUyS TEw! BUtt SHE FOOLiN EVERy0NE! SHE'S FUKiN WEiRD! FRUiTY ASS BiOTCH! DA FUNNy THiNG B0UT HER iS DAT SHE S00 iN LOVE WiD HER GUy ND WOULD EVEN FUK HiM ND HE D0NT EVEN LYK HER, HiS NAME iS iSAC. 0H, ND SHE CHEATiN 0N HiM WiD DiS CHiK 4RM SANTEE! SHEs A HOE! ALWAyS OVA ALL DEE GUyS iN SKEWL HER "FRiENDS?" LMFA0! N0B0DY KNOWS HER DA WAy i DO!!!!FUK HER!!

Translation: I have a lot to say about this woman! She's Ariel, my friend, but friendship doesn't require cordiality! She isn't the person who she claims to be, and I'm saying this because I, as implied above, am not cordial with her! Many people hold the misconception that she's a heterosexual when, in truth, she's bisexual. She constantly looks out for potential female mates, along with males. She's putting on a front; she's an unusual little whore! I find it hilarious that she pretends to be madly in love with her boyfriend, Isac(sic), and would even perform sexual intercourse with him, yet he's completely indifferent to her. On top of that, she's having an affair with another female, from another school, Santee. She's a whore and flirts with her male "friends". Ignore her, as none of you understands her folly as well as I do!

ok well thiz lil bitch rite here iz a wanna b she thinkz she so fuken beautiful but shez not.well ok she lykz diz one boy named erik but he dosent lyk her.she even let herself get touched only a real hoe would do that if you want da definition for a hoe just look at yaneth and youll koe straight out.

Translation: This fine young lady, here, Yaneth, is a phony and is very conceited when it comes to her non-existent beauty. She's attracted to a boy, named Erik(sic), but the love is completely one-sided. She'd even allow others upon herself, something that only a prostitute would do. If you ever forget what a prostitute is like, simply refer to her, as she epitomizes them.

THESE FOO M1GUEL, THINK HE DA SHET! HE BE CALL1NG H1MSELF A R1CH BOY JUSS BECAUSE HE GETS WATVR HE WANTS. HE TREATS H1S MOTHER L1KE SHET!HE DONT KNO HOW 2 RESPECT H1SS PARENTS!HE BE TH1NKN EVER G1RL L1KES H1M W1N REALY KNO G1RL L1KES HIM! 1M T1RED OF H1S BOS1 TALL ASS!

Translation: Miguel, here, is a charlaton! He claims to have amassed great riches, but only because his parents spoil him. Despite this, he constantly abuses his parents and shows great disdain towards them! He's very confident in his belief that masses of women have come to love him, but it's an unfounded confidence, as no woman loves him! I'm quite disgusted by him!

Enjoy! Seriously, this shit was hard as hell to translate. I tried to keep my vocabulary as varied as possible, but it was kinda hard, because, apparently, everyone is "fat" or a "hoe". Also, I may or may not be attending a dominantly-Latino school.

Update: I removed the burn book from my friends list on Myspace, so they don't find out who I am, since I used my main account. I'm preparing a few sock puppets/faux accounts so I can do it again, though.

Update(3/31): Made some changes to the post that I didn't like. I also won't be doing anymore of these, as the account was deleted due to TOS violations.

I added a section to my gallery titled "Doodles". I finally got my scanner working, so I decided that I'll upload my "art" here. I won't go into too much detail, though.

Here's a sample of what my illustrations look like.