Below are the 16 most recent journal entries recorded in deodorant's LiveJournal:

Sunday, July 29th, 2007
2:11 am	NEW DIK-DIK WITH ROOTBEER ON THE INSIDE! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dik-dik tASTES LIKE CHEWING ON A chRISTMAS TREE. wITH ROOT BEER ON THE INSIDE! (Comment on this)
Thursday, September 29th, 2005
6:56 pm	the kittencam this will be an automagic reloading page of its own soon enough, but for now, you can refresh this post every thirty seconds for live kitten action. (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, August 30th, 2004
10:02 pm	California, Here I Come... Again... Here comes the ole "I guess I should say some things" post... Counting on both hands, I'd say we went out and did something with a friend we made in Oregon about zero times. Every night since we've gotten back we've hung out with old friends, made new friends, and basically have had a great time. I can't even believe we've been here a week. It's been a blur of unpacking, getting situated, visiting historical landmarks with friends, playing six player games of Family Feud on SNES9X (or is ZSNES Dusty?), and just forgetting about life's problems for awhile. I don't like to bash Oregon. It will forever be a part of my life, and I'll still miss it. But for six months, there was nothing but loneliness, working jobs I despised, not wanting to leave the house, and feeling those butterflies of impending monetary doom. Of course, some of that stuff is still there. The magic pixie dust of California didn't whisk it all away, but once again I remember why I love being alive. I love my job, I love how the area is so alive, I love how I can make a homoerotic remark in jest and not have people telling me not to ever say anything like that around them again. So it's mostly the people that I'm here for. These people function on my wavelength. They're open to any and all forms of mind expansion. There are certainly suits that sit around thinking about how they're going to pad their already substantial bank account with another ten thousand. But I don't see those people, so they don't bother me. All I see is a million unique faces that, for better or worse, all have something unexpected to say. I can't say the same for Oregon. Jessica got her job back and I can think a little less about money now. But then the main whatever belt snapped on my car, the day before I needed to have it smogged and registered. Why didn't I take care of this a long time ago? Because I was in another state. But being here has given me the benefit of an extra vehicle at my disposal. So as I fight off the feelings that I've just richly fucked myself over and wasted my time these past several months, I remember that I learned so much from my stay in Oregon. I learned to be more self-sufficient in dealing with usual crises that life throws at you, I learned to live a healthier lifestyle, I learned I need to get my ass back into school, lest I end up like so many of the close-minded hicks that spend all their food stamp money on junk food. In closing, I want to more or less close the book on the whole Oregon thing. It was a choice I made, and something I can't undo. Not that I would want to. I lost a lot in the deal, and I gained a lot. C'est la vie. I want to thank Brandon and Sophie for all the things I've learned from them, like to stop eating crap made out of other artificial crap. I didn't want things to work out this way. I just can't bear to live a life where I pray for every day to end so I can go to sleep and not think about how unhappy I am. (18 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 22nd, 2004
9:42 pm	We're Here We are currently located in Mountain View, California. I don't really have the energy to get into any more detail. Maybe Jessica will say something later. (11 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 28th, 2004
12:51 pm	Jessica is initiated into the world of Squarepusher Like most people, Jess ain't a big fan of Squarepusher. She likes a few songs all right, such as My Red Hot Car, but mostly it's blips, blops, and eardrum-exploding squeals. I can relate. I feel that way about some of the new Autechre stuff. We all have an abstractness (it's a word) threshold when it comes to music. Last night, as she was sitting in front of the computer updating her website, I made her listen to Ultravisitor, the song, not the whole album. I sat on the ground right behind the computer chair, facing away, closed my eyes and played a music video for the song in my head. Jessica went from listening to it in the background while messing about on the internet, to stopping what she was doing to fully focus on the song, to being in tears at the end of the nine minute journey. I could be completely wrong, but I have a theory. In general, people listen to music passively. Mainstream music is simple and doesn't need a lot of attention to be appreciated. People never really try to get inside the song and understand how every piece works together, because it's not worth it. The music doesn't have that level of depth. When they hear IDM or other experimental types of music they get overwhelmed and lost. The music loses its musical properties and becomes just a collection of sounds. Then those sounds get on your nerves. Jessica listens to conventionally structured music generally. Creativity with pop sensibility. Somewhat related: I really think Kim Deal has a shitload of writing talent and the Breeders were a damn good pop band. Jessica had never given enough attention to the more complex music to get anything out of it. I really can't say enough about the song. It just blows me away every time I listen to it and invokes such incredible imagery in my head that came from who knows where. I wish my head had component out. The rest of the album of the same name has some ups and downs, but for the most part is... screw adjetives. It's just really good. I like it. (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 8th, 2004
11:58 pm	This is the subject, natch. I hate the word "natch". I hope it discontinues its frequent appearrances in hip magazines. By the way Spin, do another list issue. I need to hear some pointless list of Thom Yorke lyrics tied together by some vague theme and pretend it's some intellectual underground crap that only us in-the-know people get. And stop with the artist recap issues. You already covered the band back in their heyday. We don't need another twenty page spread. Let it go. Find some new content. You still suck less than Rolling Stone though. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 9th, 2004
12:33 pm	Violence Art I made Jessica a website. It is entitled Violence Art and it contains her artwork. Visit it. Love it. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, May 8th, 2004
5:29 pm	Outlet Insanity I had one question for anyone who can answer it. Why do they make extension cords and outlet splitters that have those two short strips where the prongs go in instead of the short one and the longer one? Does this save money to make one four millimeters shorter? Is it all a conspiracy to piss me off? I'm sorry I don't just have a bunch of tiny alarm clocks to plug in. And put a damn ground hole in there, even if it doesn't do anything. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 6th, 2004
12:18 pm	Video Games and Slashdot Mods Gone Wild So Sony announces its EyeToy: Chat software which will allow users to use their EyeToy essentially as a video phone and play harmless games like checkers and chess at the same time against other people. If you're not picturing a grainy dick encompassing all of your opponent's camera output, you should be, because that's what's gonna happen. Sony promises to prevent that sort of thing, probably using the video recognition technology that stops all those terrorists at the airport. I don't see any hope for controlling this kind of stuff except some kind of warning level system as seen in AIM. So expect some housewife to walk in her eight year old child playing strip checkers with a plumber from Tennessee, and don't say I didn't warn you. Penis everywhere. To the Slashdot moderators portion. Idiots. Proof: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=106368&cid=9055648 So, I merely mention that the post is a duplicate from a month ago, and I get modded down. I guess I should've seen that coming though. My controversial thoughts on duplicate news stories are a lightning rod for flames. Didn't you see how I got flamed into oblivion there? How the hell would you flame that post? So now to the actual content of the post. Maybe I'm insane, but I thought perhaps it just might be worth mentioning that a discussion on this topic had already taken place. I thought maybe some people might be interested in further discussion on the topic, like maybe the people reading my fucking post contained in the discussion of the topic. Just a thought. I even included a humorous quote from a humorous movie to indicate that my humor about this matter was... good. The guy who posted the story responded in a manner indicating he might have expected my post to have a negative vibe about it. This is not unreasonable since people usually piss and moan about dupes. So he gets modded up even though his post has nothing informative about because moderators think the Slashdot editors will know who moderated their post up and their wet dream will come true when they wake up to an email from simoniker17@hotmail.com that says "lez be friends *giggles*". So I follow up explaining that I was merely pointing out the fact that I wasn't complaining. I also decided to throw in an aside about Slashdot mods being stupid. I thought any sane person would see that in this case they were idiots. Not only that, I make a formatting error (my fault) and the post loses meaning completely. So I correct it and it gets marked down as "redundant". It's not redundant when it becomes a completely different post. The most pathetic part about the whole ordeal was that one or more people decided to go into a completely dead discussion that no one was posting to anymore, choose the most unimportant, non-controversial thread in the discussion and go on to moderate my posts into oblivion. They went out of their way, took time out of their lives, took the Slashdot editor's dick out of their mouth and modded me down. Congratulations losers. You've ruined my life. I know this isn't a big deal, even though multiple people with a sheep mentality I guess actually thought my benign posts were worth modding down. I guess I just hope that they're reading this, so I can tell them that they're idiots. You're idiots. Leave me alone. (Comment on this)
Friday, April 30th, 2004
12:58 pm	The RSS Feed Is Here! Your prayers have been answered. SQUAREHAPPY is finally syndicated in RSS form. Okay, it's not actually a big deal at all. Hell, I wouldn't syndicate my site. But that's not the point. This site is a testing grounds, and so test I will. This site is the glass Arizona desert and you are its irradiated inhabitants. Damn right. So if you're curious you can see the feed in raw XML form at the following URL: http://sh.illusioned.net/rss.xml The next step is probably to syndicate my own feed just so I can learn how to do that. For those not familiar with RSS syndication, it's basically the same as television syndication, but on the internet. Sort of. People can put my headlines on their site. It's the cool thing now. (Comment on this)
1:47 am	Faster Nudity It seems LJ won't allow Javascript, so you'll have to go to my site to see the functioning INCREMENT and DECREMENT links. We all know the suffering of viewing sites with various images on a page, all with the same file name, except a number appended to the end that is incremented for each image. We tend to view these pages by going through each image in order, occasionally skipping one if the thumbnail is unappealling. There are two common methods for doing this as efficiently as one believes possible. The first is the laziest. You view the image, then hit the browser's Back button to return to the image index. Then you click the next image's thumbnail. This is cumbersome, especially with limited limbs. It also removes the suspense of what the next image will contain. Viewing the thumbnail ruins the surprise of the full image to come. The other method is to manually edit the URL in the location bar, incrementing the number in the image file name by one. This can also be a hassle when one or more hands are unavailable. You typically have to click the location bar twice, once to highlight the URL, and one more time to select the specific position in the URL. Then you must type in the next number using the backspace key and then all the way back to the number pad. This is also not ideal. There is one true solution. It is the following links: INCREMENT DECREMENT One finds the last number in the URL, and increases it by one. The other decreases it. And it will turn 09 into 10 and vice versa. Now you can click one button and move directly to the next image. It is also even more useful if you use Mozilla Firefox, where you can put the links in the Personal Toolbar Folder, and they will be accessible directly from the main Firefox interface. You don't have open any Favorites menu like you would in IE. There's one flaw, and that's if the images are not numerically incremented by one. But this is not usually the case. And so I highly recommend the above links, as you will find them very useful as you view various images with varying content. I cannot take credit for the Javascript here, but I can't recall where to give it to. But you can karmically give them your appreciation somehow. Be well and prosper. (Comment on this)
Monday, April 26th, 2004
2:44 pm	Borders Nostalgia There's something to be said for walking around a huge store like you own the place, because you do. That's how I felt at Borders Books. That place was more mine than anyone's, except the general manager perhaps. But she wasn't in the shit like I was. I traversed the corridors of that store more than anyone. I knew the ins and outs, the little random things that didn't quite follow specification, and which sections to just start looking from the beginning, because there was no order to be had. Relative to the average employee at Borders. I had carte blanche. I could do pretty much whatever I wanted, no questions asked, because I was trusted. I did my job well, and I was recognized for that. I don't need the recognition, but the freedom it lead to was a godsend. If there's one thing I hate, it's explaining myself. That's when I drop into muttering mode, when I don't feel like making the effort to speak because I don't think it's worth making that effort. When other employees asked for the key to all the doors, it was not without an interrogation. I was just given the key so I could get on with what I was working on. I could also rearrange schedules to achieve a common good for all the employees if I thought improvements could be made. I could just call the manager and say I'm switching these shifts around and they wouldn't check to make sure that that would be okay. At Borders, I did pretty much everything job in the store that someone in my position was allowed to do. I got to work at the main information desk, cashier, process inventory, make espresso drinks, set up the live sound system, program the overhead music, build shelves, work on overnight projects, travel to other stores, and all kinds of other crazy adventures. There wasn't a skill at the store that I wasn't proficient at, or couldn't BS my way through based on the little training I'd had. And I was the bargain king. Anyone working at my Borders will tell you that bargains are definitely one of the hardest tasks at the store. So many books and so little space. And then too few books and so much space. Constantly rearranging all the bargain books (if bargains were their own section, they'd be the biggest one in the store) to compensate for the ever fluctuating amount of space available was no easy task. So, I miss all that. I miss helping customers and coworkers. I miss working on projects and racing the clock to get them done before I had to go home, even though I didn't necessarily have to get them done by then. It was just a trick to get myself more motivated to work. Not that I suffered from lack of motivation to do that job, I loved doing it, but like all jobs it could get dull at times. But that's not the point. The point is that now I'm at a job where I don't really know much about anything anymore and I fear that there isn't going to be much to know or figure out anyway. There's no logical conclusions to draw, there's the rules and me having to memorize them. At Borders I had the freedom to improvise, actually change how things were done in the store. So now I feel more like a cog than ever. I just want a rewarding job. They aren't out there at the moment though. I need to get my ass back to school. Then I can have an exciting desk job for the rest of my life. If you can tell by the above article and the links within it, I miss working at Borders. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, April 23rd, 2004
9:40 pm	ClearType is God So, I'm a loser. I used to have ClearType on but for some reason or another I turned it off, probably my need to needlessly tweak. Then a whole lot of months passed and I forgot it even existed. So now it's back, and while not only providing the cool drop shadow to the icon text on my desktop it has completely removed me from the world of pixelated text, and with mixed results. Sure, the text looks incredible now. It finally reaches almost a print level of smoothness and clarity. After I turned it on I looked at my site and said "Damn, I have a pretty site." So it's not really pretty. There's the blatant tiling on the article headers and the big blob of tan shit known as the New Stuff Table at the top of the main page. But the text sure looks damn sweet. Georgia is the sweetest serif font with ClearType, and Times New Roman finally doesn't look like crap. But it's bothering me a bit. Everything's too perfect. When I'm coding something or looking at code in a website article, it doesn't have that Systemy, fixed width, blocky look that draws my eye to what I expect to damn well be some code. The other thing that bothers me is it makes a lot of plain websites look like PDF documents. I expect the links to be a long-winded bibliographical resource. It just removes the web element somehow. It's not gritty enough. I guess that's the point. At least now I can make a design in Photoshop and when I make it into the website the text will almost look as good as it does in Photoshop, and since I try to use typography in design as much as possible (for no other reason but to keep bandwidth down) many a painstaking design has fallen flat on its face because of the garbage Windows default font aliasing. For non-nerds, ClearType basically makes fonts look all smooth and pretty, like a PDF document! It's available for Windows XP. I'm sure OS X and Linux have some very nice font aliasing. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
7:09 pm	I Am the LiveJournal Phoenix I wrote a little piece of code that automatically takes whatever I put on here and submits it to my LiveJournal as well. So now, I don't have to make any effort. I still have to click one extra button to submit it to LiveJournal, but I'll work that little kink out. They should post at the exact same times too. That would be neat. So if you're reading my LiveJournal, you can see it in action on my site too, or conversely, site viewers can view my LiveJournal. Yeah, it's really great. I really want to get a laptop with a wireless card so I can sit out in the living room watching TV while coding or writing. That's when all the ideas come, and then Jessica is on the computer and I can't do anything, and then I forget them. And that's why I never add anything to my site. So my LiveJournal is back. It never really died though, since that would require living. I hope this works. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, March 1st, 2004
5:06 pm	You're Ellie! You think you're a real badass and non-conformist. Which you kind of are, but at the same time, you can be a moralizing bitch about it. Try to chill out and maybe you'll smile or something. Which Degrassi: Next Generation Character Are YOU??? brought to you by Quizilla (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, January 5th, 2004
3:23 am	this is my journal i'm never going to add to this journal again, i signed up to be able to read certain private journals if you want my actual journal, go to squarehappy.com (5 Comments |Comment on this)