Another interface to play with
April 29, 2000
This took me all afternoon to make but I think it was worth the effort. It has similarities with yesterday’s little gadget but this one looks a lot better. Go see it now! This one is getting to what I want in the next version.
I need a lot of feedback on it so please, tell me what you think of it and also what I can add or subtract.
Testing a design
April 28, 2000
Just made a test interface for the new webpage. This is NOT going to be how it looks – I made it to see if it would work and it seems to. So have a look. I’m having some problems getting the look of my idea onto photoshop but it is only a matter of time.
Ex-mascot Dragon has made a statement on Sinned’s Realm. We at JVision have no comment on the subject spoken by Mr. Dragon at this moment in time.
Goodbye Art, it has been a helluva ride
April 27, 2000
a href=”http://www.artbell.com”>Art Bell, one of the greatest radio personalities of all time ends his career tonight. His last show and he will leave the public eye. A well deserved rest for him might I add. Farewell sir. This pic is his last ever webcam pic done during his show. Damn. I never met the guy but I’ll miss him. The new guy they got to replace him is pretty good, but will never compare to him. Damn. All the good things in life always end the quickest. (Don’t try to read into that sentence too much)
Mission complete [02:24]
I hate updating during the first few hours of a day when I’m writing about the previous day. Yeah so this update is about the 26th. So it was that my final final(Dennis coined that) ended yesterday. So it was decreed that I need not study until August (summer course). So it was declared that I get until next next week to relax and make up for all that lost time studying.
I start work in 2 weeks with four days of training. I have to get certified again in first aid training and I remember how stupid it was to breathe into those dummies. Work will hopefully be fun.
These couple of days have been unstable with some "events" occurring between our "group". I use these terms loosely. I don’t know what our group is now. Doesn’t matter. I have other things (1945 Strikers, Quake3, alcohol, and my training). Speaking of my martial arts training, I’ve been neglecting it a lot during this month so I plan to get back on pace.
Also gonna get some groundwork done on the new design soon. Jesse has Jerry Syndrome as he so affectionately calls ~ meaning he’s in the midst of design. Bah. His case doesn’t seem serious enough to warrant that name. His case probably isn’t chronic like mine. I think Dennis is still working on his page – leave those cool looking sissy fonts on!
Someone else also just started his/her webpage. I was sworn not to tell anyone about it so I won’t. But I look forward to reading his/her webpage. Heh heh heh.
I get to spend today cleaning up and catching up on my relaxation. I guess this means more updates more frequently now. And so, I leave this update for some previous sleep. Huzzah.
JVision Subsidiary
April 25, 2000
JVision proudly presents the opening of a subsidiary independently operated by J_ICQ-Manager. It’s the JVision : ICQ page. It’s a cheesy creation and there is nothing you will miss by not visiting it. If you’re bored and you deleted Freecell, then you might want to go there to play around with all those neat ICQ toys.
Gonna sleep now. I’ll bitch about my life really soon. I promise.
I’d like to welcome a new member into JV… DIZZYMON
April 23, 2000
Yes Dizzymon will reside on this page to the left as our NEW mascot! (Sorry Dragon but you’re fired). Dizzymon is a crazy Chinpoko Mon from the land of Dizney. He has travelled many a mile to come to JV and his office is atop my tower right beside Y2K Bug’s seat.
Dizzymon’s passage to my dwelling was made possible by two awesome people: Shannon and Dennis! As you may recall, I mentioned that Shannon carries a Dizzymon of her own and yesterday I discovered that it can turn inside out and become a Pokemon Ball.
Anyway, Dennis calls today and says that they have something for me. Beats? A railshot right between the eye? Who knew. Then they arrived and bestowed upon me a great gift… my very own Dizzymon. Many thank you’s go to them and rest assurred Dizzymon will forever make me dizzy as I stare into his magic dizzying body. (Is that his mouth?)
Be sure to keep an eye out on Dizzymon because I’m sure he’ll come out with wacky adventures once in awhile.
Click on Dizzymon to get a better view of what he looks like.
My Day (referring to yesterday)
Spent the afternoon and some of the evening studying. I’m very behind schedule but will probably catch up tomorrow.
Took some pretty snazzy Sparkle Pictures just now as a celebration of Dizzymon’s arrival – those will be up as soon as Dennis develops the pics and scans them.
Today I will study and maybe eat. I hope I get to eat, I like eating.
My god it’s saturday already
April 22, 2000
Time sure flies when you’re a pathetic loser. Today will yet again be a study saturday – the fourth this year in a long running tradition in aprils. Stats. Statistics. Bullshit. Still, it’s a requirement and I HAVE to do well in it. I have 13 chapters to learn in 4 days. That’s only about 4 chapters a day (I need a day of review too).
Yesternight, we had some fun eating and pooling with Justin. Got one group pic – it’ll be up later. Oh yeah, Dave wasn’t back two days ago so my "welcome back" was premature. He is however, supposed to be back today, so, "welcome back dave". I’m really bad at these things. Ah well.
Let’s see. Ah yes, very important news because it affects YOU as well. I was visiting I-Mockery and I stumbled onto this page. I looked at the design, it was very simple, yet looked neat. In my mind, that design floated around and I envisioned what it would look like if I made something like that. The end result (in my head) looked kinda cool so now I have an idea for the next webpage. It does look a lot different from that page so don’t worry, it won’t have ugly polar bears sitting around or whatever. Remember, this was supposed to be temporary. This looks really boring compared to The Idea (which is the prototype’s codename right now).
So I’m listening to As One right now (a korean pop group composing of 2 girls), waiting for mother to bring back some lunch, then I’m off to good ole campus to hit the books hard. I’ll keep The Idea around and maybe doodle in my notes later today.
My agenda tonight will be much the same as any other study saturdays – study and then quake maybe? – and listen to the awesome ghost stories thing on AM1470. No party tonight… maybe… nah.
Haha I always wondered what it would look like if I littered my news with links. Now I know. Don’t worry it won’t happen too often – it’s a pain in the ass to make all those links.
Dilemna II
I told my "dilemna" to a friend and then he surprised me by telling me of the same dilemna (more or less) that happened to him not too long ago. This made me reconsider my position and I think this dilemna is no longer. I’m taking the easy road out and that’s the end of that chapter. So yay. Yay for me.
Take that you ugly swine
April 20, 2000
My afternoon of basketball was pretty fun. I’m not as unfit as I thought I would be, considering I haven’t played in 1.5 months. There was this guy who was playing pickup on our court and he was really ugly. He was skinnier than me, had slanty shanty eyes, and ugly hair. I don’t know him but I hated him on the spot. I hate people who I hate on the spot. (haha that made sense).
He was a hotdog which means he’s all show and no game. He’s quick, I’ll give him that, but his fancy crossovers and twirly wirlies don’t do shit. I checked him and I didn’t even have to run cuz I just shoot out and he loses the ball. It was so funny to see him trying to hard. Even funnier when he thought he was really cool and stared at me when he had the ball. He did a left crossover and then turned right and I knew I wasn’t gonna get him cuz I slipped… so: I chopped him in the neck with my arm. Haha. Officially, it was an accident. Off the records: TAKE THAT SKILL-LESS BOY! HAHAHAHA I LAUGH AT YOUR PATHETIC ATTEMPT TO IMPRESS PEOPLE.
We still lost that game 8-6 cuz we just sucked but that guy who came on thinking of schooling us, had to think twice before checking me again. Hahah.
In conclusion, it’s not speed, nor the number of continuous crossovers, nor the spin-a-ramas you can do that count in basketball – it’s skill BABY.
Welcome back Justin and Dave
It’s been confirmed that Justin is back (mom told me). Dunno about Dave. Seeya guys soon I hope.
There aren’t too many constants left in my life [12:03]
but sleep is one of them. And what a nice sleep that was. You know how I love dreams and I had another cool dream: I dreamed I was with this really pretty girl who I knew not long ago and it was cool. I do not know why my mind suddenly brought her back into my unconscious because I haven’t seen her in so long. Oh well. Maybe it’s a sign…
I’m off to play some basketball with Benny who can kick my ass. I’ll start studying tomorrow and I vow it. Otherwise, this is going to be a normal boring Thursday.
Oh yeah, this marks the one year anniversary of the Columbine shooting. Schools all over the continent have police monitoring because they think some more morons might repeat last year’s thing. I doubt it.
Good Luck Dennis!!!
Yes. Dennis has 2 finals today. Good luck on that. Then he’s going to Shannon (his girlfriend who totes around this egg pokemon that I call Eggmon and this other weird pokemon that I call Dizzymon (because looking at it makes me dizzy). Good luck on that too. Haha why good luck? I don’t know. I guess had I gone to a prom of someone else’s (and I have) and I didn’t know anyone (other than my date, my cousin, and his two friends), I wouldn’t have too much fun (thank god they had a smoking room there hahah). Well hope they’ll have fun. Proms suck. Why are they called proms anyway? Someone tell me.
Coming Soon
I was working on a write about morality after reading Dennis’ counter but I’m way too lazy to finish it. Still, don’t think that the matter is dead… far from it.
Second, after having conversations with Sunny about various matters (dilemnas, bitching about stuff and people, etc), there’s going to be a rant on relationships. Funny. I never had a good, lasting relationship yet it seems I have a lot of things to say about it. So look for that.
I told you there was more stuff later (now)
April 19, 2000
So I ended up wasting my whole day yesterday. It was so good. First day of these few days where I didn’t do anything studying. I love it. Worked out a bit, quaked a bit, tv’d a bit. Dinner’d a bit. You know, the usual.
Then I played quake again with Dennis and Vince just now and it was fun. We instagib’d and of course, I owned them (3 of 3 games were all mine. Muhahaha.) Vince is surprisingly not bad with the rail – except he likes standing around and aiming. But he got both me and Dennis good a few times.
That was my day and it was cool. Oh yeah, Freeza is dead for now – he got blasted by Gokou while floating around without legs. It’s so funny to see a one-armed torso floating around with a red stump where legs should go.
What else is new… Oh yeah, Happy 20th Birthday to Joyce, well, actually it was yesterday. Ah well, I don’t think she visits my site anyways. Well, Happy bday all the same and see you in uh… about three weeks.
And see Justin in uh 1 day. You probably won’t come out on Thurs right? In the meantime, there’s a course I need to learn entirely before the 26th. Doh. I hope I start my little summer job soon, I’m getting quite bored… and broke.
That’s it, I have nothing more interesting to say at this moment. Huzzah.
Wow – 2000!
April 18, 2000
Damn. I wasn’t here when the counter hit 2k, but yeah it did. Yeah. Thanks to all who contributed. Haha.
I was working on a piece to counter Dennis’ counter to a counter I did to his counter of my original piece. Still working on it.
And one more final now. Yeah some more! More stuff later.
Hello kiddies, I’m back from the dead [00:00]
One of these days my body will explode spontaneously in the middle of a study session. I was kind of hoping it would happen during these past days of study bursts for accounting (final is in 12 hours). It didn’t happen since I’m still updating. Much to my dissappointment, there were no eye candy to look at during my library study session last night. I did however see the girl I call Linda on the way there but I decided to not position too closely to her or else I’ll get no studying done whatsoever. Luckily, the spot I chose was barren of everything – there weren’t even interesting colors since everything was white or a pale grey. The drabness must’ve increased my interest in accounting because I got through the past exams quickly and picked up quite a bit.
I took a washroom break and saw this sem-decent looking girl on my way there. Again there was that awkward eye contact moment and I could’ve sworn I felt her laughing at my appearance inside her mind. You see I was dressed in my unimpressive but comfortable t-shirt and tear-offs ensemble. Oh well, she wasn’t that great.
Not much has been happening lately, I’ve been feeling extremely "blah" – definition on the right. Quake has been ok – sucks with lag though. If I wanted to play with lag, I wouldn’t have gotten my ADSL connection.
Freeza is still not fucking dead yet. But he is in pieces after his own disc attack sliced him in half from the torso and took off his left arm. Haha. It’s so weird to see him squirming around like that. I gather from the preview that tomorrow, he will be blown away by an energy attack from Gokou and finally end the fucking saga.
A rant that was not based on religion has bred some interesting replies by Dennis and Jesse – go see them. They have really polarized views. I do have something to add though. First, they have really negative views about religion and specifically, the Catholic Church (let’s include Christianity in here for simplicity’s sake). Well, Christianity has its roots as the minority religion during the Holy Moly Roman Empire. Christian’s were being persecuted for their beliefs and yada yada yada. So it’s been a couple thousands of years and now they are more or less the biggest religion in the world. And if history repeats itself (and it does), isn’t there a remote chance that today’s oddball beliefs (the New Age crud) and "lesser" religions could be the mainstream of the future?
I hear so much bashing and there are good points that justify it but the intent of religion was to let people have morals and good upbringing (it’s not forced upon people). Don’t mix up religion with the people who guide the religion to its corrupt ways now. I personally do not have a religion but I do see goodness in them – as opposed to the zero-good views of Dennis.
Not all religions are so rigid in their beliefs. Sure, we see before us many morons who take religion to the next step and become fanatical but they don’t represent the majority of religious people.
I don’t support nor condone religion. I feel it’s a good source of morality for anyone. The Holy Bible read without religious intent is a book of morals. But if you feel you don’t need religion to have morals, then let it be. Let the lunatic religion freaks rant and rave their extremist views. I guess tolerance is a moral principle too but let’s not get into that.
The main point: people need morals otherwise we’d all do whatever we want to and the world would be in more chaos than it already is. Religion is a source of morals but is not the only source. Other sources: vicarious learning from others (friends, family, etc), charismatic leaders (good or bad), books (religious or not – Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is filled with morals), and a lot more.
My first attempt at wallpapers
April 15, 2000
It’s mid April and I’m still kicking [18:37]
Yesternight: a huge quake battle between me, Dennis, Jesse, Jesse’s brother, Vince, and Andrew took place. First it was a free for all death match. I came in way late but still ended up 4th (hahaha). The next battle – a screwed up CTF resulted in a team deathmatch with me, Dennis, and Vince, versus the others. We annihilated them by a large margin – even Vince outscored each and every one of our opponents. Our third venue: finally, capture the flag. With the same teams and good momentum, we won 8-1 with 7 captures from myself, 1 from Vince, and ultimate defense from Sinned. They never knew what hit them. Our fourth and final match – another CTF with slightly different teams; me, Andrew, and Vince, versus the rest. Result: we won 8-2 (I think). We hit them hard, hit them fast. I attacked for the first half then defended the latter half. With full support from Andrew and Vince, the other team tried in vain to bypass our superb defense. The highlight of the game (for me) was when flag carriers – me and Dennis – duked it out while our other teammates were no were to be seen. It ended as a draw as Dennis retreated from my base, leaving me with a meager 1 hit point. A very good match.
Today: nothing as exciting as yesterday, I watched With Honors starring Danny de Vito and Brendan Fraser. It’s a pretty good movie. Then I studied on campus for a couple of hours and headed back.
Tonight: I plan to study some more, then hopefully get some more quake in, and then listen to those awesome ghost tales on AM1470 – 23:00 to 01:00. If fortune shines upon me, I’ll have yet another poutine to enjoy tonight.
You
Michelle has the honor of the very first entry in the You page. This was in reply of a rant on the previous webpage. Thanks Michelle! You too can have a spot on my webpage, just read a rant, think about what I said, then tell me what you think. You can scream at my view, agree with me, show me another view, whatever. Draw a picture! Paint a fingerpainting! Make a sculpture. Anything!
I’m bored out of my fucking mind
April 14, 2000
I spent all day doing nothing. Well, my accomplishment was finishing the tax returns for me and my sister. Played some quake. Wrote in the Choose Your Own Adventure. Watched the stocks die. Oh yeah, got frustrated that Freeza is NOT dead yet – hopefully next episode. You know, it’s been about 6 half hour episodes and the time gone by in the show is supposedly only 5 minutes. You figure out what’s wrong with that. Anyway, he’s gonna die really soon and we can finally get onto the next saga.
Jesse is the second person ever to respond to a rant, his view is up on his site. Michelle was the first ever, she wrote an email in response to a rant on the previous version of this webpage and one of these days, i promise i’ll read it.
In response to Jesse’s 1 line email that the 0.7% increase in the US CPI is one month, not one year, you’re right it is. But that’s not the point. The inflation fear sparked the mass selling which is normal ~ all inflation announcements usually follow selling. The point is, the NASDAQ has been overpriced since I guess… fall of last year, when the whole index was all bull for so long. Companies that weren’t putting out numbers were being overhyped and this whole drop seems more like a market correction rather than a crash.
As for the Dow, it could be that some big tech stocks dragged it down (it ended the day abou 5% off). And the well diversified S&P500, they were about 5% off or so too. Compare that to the almost 10% drop the NAS took. Ouch.
On the happy side, oil is down.
And the lucky winner is…
Wow thanks to all of you who entered the raffle draw… all 2 of you (thanks Andrew and Michelle) BUT the raffle was rigged because well it was rigged. I ended up sharing my little ordeal with none other than Dennis – who I always tell me ordeals too. Sorry people! The outcome: no change in perception. The dilemna still exists, but Dennis just pointed out the things that I knew deep inside but just ignored. It’ll eventually work out, just in the meantime, I’ll have to deal with the nuisance of certain thoughts popping up in my mind.
// More News [12:24]
The US CPI was 0.7% which was higher than expected and fears that rising interest rates affected the market. All the North American markets took hits and even international markets went down – NIKKEI, HANSENG, all down a tiny bit. Gold and bonds are up because people are pulling out of the stock market and going into those. The CDN dollar took a beating. The CDN CPI is to be released on Monday and I doubt it’s any different than the US. I wonder why an inflation of 0.7% is so scary? I thought inflation of ~1% was healthy.
// Ouch that hurts [11:51]
Dow 10421.80 -501.75 (-4.59%) Nasdaq 3392.16 -284.62 (-7.74%). That’s what I wake up to. That hurts. The NASDAQ fell about 1000 points THIS week. Actually people should’ve have seen it coming a long time ago. Practically the whole index is overrated. People are buying tech names and dot.coms left and right because EVERYONE is buying them.
Let’s use some finance learned this year. Stock prices are dictated by most part the expected dividends the company is going to give. Sure, capital gains make up a portion, but any analyst will tell you that the expected dividends make up a good chunk of a stock price.
For the last year now, tech stocks have been inflated way over their prices from impulse buyers looking for the quick million. Take all those Super IPOs. They are way too hyped. How can people boost the price of a stock up 200, 300% when the company is in its infancy and doesn’t even have enough information to tell about its expected earnings and such? Again it’s all part of the big quick change. You buy in on a company, expecting that since it’s a dot.com or tech company, it’ll skyrocket in the two or three days it’s sold to the secondary, and you sell it off, keeping that nice 100+% profit. Sure there are many of those around… but get rid of those risky stocks quickly. Most IPOs drop in price or even get withdrawn. When they hit a nice high, don’t hang on to them hoping for even more gains. Cash in early.
I really hope anyone who has stocks right now diversified well enough so that their portfolio isn’t comprised of ONLY tech (there are a lot of portfolios like that). I don’t have a portfolio but on my stock game, I’m down 6% because 40% of my money is in bluechips and utilities – which are more or less market indepedent. The biggest hits I took were from the big name techs – Intel, Cisco, etc. The rest took slight dips because they get dragged by the market. Even the NASDAQ 100 TRUST (AMEX:QQQ), which should copy the index didn’t do as badly as the tech’s. It’s only down 6% compared to the rest of the market 7.7%.
I don’t have the necessary education to tell if this low is just a trading lull, or if this is the equilibrium level. What I guess is that tomorrow, many people will pick up super cheap stocks and the index will pop up to 3500 or so (which is my guess what the equilibrium level is). So pick up some cheap stocks (if you still have cash left hehe) and don’t just buy those dot.coms.
[i'm not liable for any financial loss or gain resulting from following my advice. Hell i'm just some second year commerce guy. I don't trust myself sometimes.]
Hey cool. Gold is up a teenie bit.
Quote I just picked up [01:30]
The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them - Mark Twain
I hate dilemnas [00:56]
Just came back from a little outing to lessen the stress built up all week. First pool – I got rocked today, my shots were all screwed up. Then we went to bk for a long deserved poutine… yum. After we filled ourselves with crud food, we then went to Jack’s Loft for crud bubble tea. I guess I would’ve had more fun if the company was slightly different (just slightly) and if I didn’t have a little dilemna that’s been bugging me for a week or so.
I wish I could write it all out on my lovely little webpage, but if you know me well enough, you’ll know I always keep my problems bottled up. Repression is my specialty. It’s not a big deal. I won’t die. I never die from external problems – it’s not worth it.
So what’s new with you people? I’m so tired from studying and so much crap all month, all year long. Screw it all.
Hmm… you know I think I just might break my discipline and tell someone about it and ask what would they do… who shall it be who shall it be… who will be the (un)lucky one? Maybe it could be you! Hey! Let’s make it fun: enter your name in the raffle draw for the chance to be the lucky one! Deadline is end of this month!
It’s the end of the world
April 13, 2000
While studying for my finance final, I listened to the Art Bell show, one of the last hosted by Art Bell himself (he retires on the 26th). The topic of the night was religion based, with prophecies of the impending doom of the world, mentions of the Third Secret of Fatima, and such.
The guest, Kathleen Keating, presents her case and claims that “It’s going to be a free for all for our souls” between God and the Antichrist who is alive right now. She gives her thought on all sorts of questions but sometimes doesn’t answer the question clearly.
For example, children of alcholics sometimes are born alcoholics themselves. Why are children, who are born pure of evil thought, sins, and such, punished for something their parents did? How can such a loving God do this to a new soul that just entered the world? Art himself questioned Kathleen about it and her answer was rather ambiguous and did not answer the question to a satisfactory degree.
Anyway, my point of this rant is that there’s so many people out there who claim the world is going to end or Armageddon is among us, Judgment Day is near, etc etc. I personally do believe in a God, but my idea of God is not typical of most religions in that God does not really give a damn whether you go to church or obey strict rules and such. I feel that if you can live your life in a good way (I know… goodness is subjective) and you can face yourself and all that you have done, God won’t send you to hell just because you don’t believe in him. I know a lot of people share my view.
Oh yeah, supposedly, on May 5th, the world is going to end. This was predicted by other people. There is scientific basis to this claim though – on May 5th, 2000, the planets align in a way that [they claim] will alter the Earth’s geomagnetic forces and wreak havoc upon the life on our hurting planet. I do believe Nostradamus also predicted the end to occur at this date and his predictions (written beautifully in quatrains might I add) have an uncanny knack of coming true.
Most people would probably fear the end of life and the possibility of eternal suffering in Hell or whatever such punishment you believe in. I don’t. I’ve done nothing wrong in my life to deserve punishment described by those of the bible. I’ve done shit, but I paid for it in some way. I don’t fear death because I believe in life after death, be it as ghosts, free wandering spirits, winged angels, or reincarnation. And even if death = death and nothing of my consciousness lives on, then you know what? Who cares? If when I die and that’s it, nothing remains of me, then I wouldn’t know it and thus would end my existence.
People fear the unknown and death is pretty much as unknown as you can get. But death is just a natural part of life, on par with birth, puberty, sickness, and aging – there’s nothing to fear in it (unless you die a terrible painful death, then maybe you’ll be a bit averse to death). Embrace the unknown, walk straight, and be brave. This is the wisdom I hope I can impart on anyone who is willing to listen to a 19 year old philosopher.
Humanity at large also tends to view our species as being superior. Perhaps we are, in that our cognitive abilities are unmatched on this planet. I’m well aware that there are some out there who seem as stupid as a common housefly. But don’t we realize that homo sapiens are just another species in evolution and nature?
When our species is eradicated by a vengeful God, hungry aliens, a big space rock, whatever, I think other things will live on. Survival of the fittest isn’t it? Cockroaches have lived past dinosaurs, wooly mammoths, and one day, humans (most likely). So many people think that when WE are extinct, the earth will also be devoid of life and be a hunk of rock floating around. Now that’s ego.
Well, that was my little thought on the matter. I would love to hear from you and hell, I’ll even post up your thought. Send them here.
Ahh fuck [17:24]
All that studying for naught (or is it nought?). Fuck I screwed up. After comparing answers with Andrew (haha I left the exam earlier again), I realized I made many stupid stupid mistakes. All the studying in the world wouldn’t have helped and as such, I’m pissed off at my performance. I demand more out of myself than stupidity, most of the time. Dammit
Anyway, it’s over so now I get a nice break tonight from studying. Then there’s two more exams and then I start work and summer course. Doh.
After the exam, me, Andrew, and Sunny went for lunch at the Flying Beaver (trust me, it’s not a lesbian restaurant or anything like that). Food was ok. Nice nice view with cool seaplanes roaming around. Oh yeah, they have these weird vehicles that tow the planes back to the hangar or drive them to the docks. Imagine a small Nissan pickup truck, now, chop off the back. Yep, chop off the trunk and you’re left with just the front half (2 wheels). Then attach a metal frame thing with wheels to the front and you have the weird vehicle. At first glance, it looked so hilarious. Haha I guess you had to be there.
I remembered about a write I did for Dennis’ About Me page at his site while driving to the exam today and I forgot to put it up here. So it’s here now.
Burning the midnight oil [02:09]
My finance studying ended at 1:45 or so this morning and I then commenced a RANT writing. It’s up. Absorb it loyal visitors. Absorb, ponder, then write back! Tell me what you think of the matter. Contrast and compare ideas. Exchange knowledge. This is the purpose of this site.
I’m tired now and I think I’m getting some hunger pangs. So I’m going to sleep now to slow my metabolism down and maybe I’ll have a cool dream again. Dreams are so cool – it’s like a holodeck you can’t control. Huzzah.
To study is to die
April 12, 2000
Warning – mini rant. I wasted my afternoon on campus studying in the super hot climate of D. Lam library. This time there was a cute girl again but she had nothing to do with my unstudying. The stupid library is about 10 degrees hotter than any room in Angus. I hate it. So my studying didn’t prove to be too constructive today.
So tonight, I’m staying home and probably pulling an all nighter. I’m on my first break (first of many probably). If you’re on a study break, why don’t you go take a look at the Langara pictures (so many pictures now!) which just got posted up! They’re rather weird but I guess it’s a nice break from studying. Anything is right now. I’m down to my last cigarette too. Sucks. Whoops almost forgot. I didn’t test out all the links yet so if you find any broken ones or just anything that doesn’t seem right, report it immediately.
Only… 14 hours until my final so I’m gonna hit the books and probably a bunch of other things now. I’ll update in a couple hours. Hehe.
Good morning everyone [11:50]
That was a very good ten and a half hour sleep. I had a few weird dreams again. One involved some new person moving next door and another involved me winning 5k in the slot machines but the machine jammed and wouldn’t give me my money.
Well, I’m off to campus really soon for some heavy duty studying. R = (1 + i/m)^nm -1 This calculating effective rates from nominal rates. Fine I won’t litter this page with useless equations. One more: (1+ Rc)/(1+Rus) = F[cdn/us] / S[us/cdn] This is the covered interest parity principle.
Woo woo dee dee da doo [01:38]
I fucked my psyc exam yesterday. Then went home and watched Zorro. I love that movie. Then I went to school and studied all night. Then I came home. Then I added more pictures to my page – these are from New Years. Then I wrote this. Then I decided I don’t have anything more interesting to say so goodnight people. Then I said huzzah.
Studying at the library
April 10, 2000
The nature of this rant is rather personal and as such, you may feel at times when reading this some urges to vomit and/or smash your skull against the monitor. The staff at JVision take no liability for any damages, health or property related stemming from reading online materials presented on this site. With that in mind, let’s begin.
Today’s topic: checking out girls. *snicker*
So I was at D. Lam library tonight, reading notes for my psyc final tomorrow. I’m about half an hour into studying when I look up and see someone who catches my eye, sitting two tables in front of me. This someone, is a girl who happens to be in my psyc class, I don’t know her name, nor do I really care to find out. For simplicity’s sake, let’s just call her Linda (she looks like a Linda).
Anyway, I look at Linda. She looks up and looks at me. You know that awkward feeling when 2 sets of eyes meet and when those 2 people don’t know each other? Well, that’s the feeling I got. Did I mention that Linda is really cute? Nice big eyes, a small sharp nose, a kind of natural glum look that begs people to sympathize with her and want to give her a hug. Yeah that’s Linda alright. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have any feelings for her nor do I want to, I just looked at her and admired her looks. Simple as that.
Prior to seeing Linda, I was absorbed in my notes and didn’t notice anything going on around me, but after seeing her, I totally became aware of my slobby attire, my just-got-out-of-the-shower hair, my goofy glasses, and my obnoxious character. I knew she wasn’t going to check me out, much less, even look at me, but I felt a big surge in self-monitoring (haha psyc term).
Girls can be such nuisances. I was so absorbed in studying and making good progress but once I saw Linda, my attention was divided much like bandwidth is divided in an ADSL connection. I couldn’t help but look up from reading every few pages and look at her. Just couldn’t help it. I don’t think she noticed because everytime I looked, she had her head down reading something. (Which was all the better since further eye contact would feel even weirder).
I eventually got through my studying (with two cigarette breaks mind you). I must’ve looked at Linda about six or seven times in that three hour study period. I still don’t understand why I did it. I don’t feel any happier seeing her nor do I obtain any sick pleasures from seeing her too. All I can say is maybe it’s a biological thing – she’s cute, she’s sitting there, I’m sitting there, bam – I look at her.
I think I’m all ranted out about this matter (I don’t want to piss off anyone). To Linda, I say, “God you’re cute. Don’t worry, I’m just looking at you for your looks, not your mind.” And to everyone else, I say “Huzzah.” Heh, I guess this wasn’t so much a rant as it was a blurb.
SURPRISE!!!
Since this webpage was just going to sit around, I thought I would just put it up for the time being. I didn’t want all this work to go to waste. Don’t get too attached to it, it’s going down when finals are over and my new new design is up. As usual, the old webpage is up on the archives. I think everything works on this page so far. My old writing is up too. The new pics which are available at Andrew’s site aren’t up yet. Too lazy. Officially, this is called JVision but really, it’s v2.2. Don’t worry too much about versions, I’m dropping the whole version thing since I make a new webpage every month now. Those version numbers are just getting ridiculous.
I realize how boring this day’s update is – i have an excuse
Yeah today is one of those, “Who cares” updates where I just write about crap that doesn’t mean anything. Since I had 3.5 hours of sleep last night, can you really blame me? And I just finished studying all evening. Aargh.
Let’s see… something more interesting… ok I’ll write about it. Go see it in Rant.
MIS Final
Sucked. I left after 50 minutes (of the 2.5 hours given). I guessed a LOT and bullshitted a LOT. Sucked.
Then I spent the evening studying for the psyc exam tomorrow. Psyc is stupid but studying for it is quite difficult since there’s so many terms to memorize. Sucks some more.
Quake
Dennis is working a level that is consisted entirely of traps, an idea I played with when I made a q2 map. I believe it will be rather fun to explore.
The Boiler Room
A site made by Gene. Based on the movie. Talks about stocks. A pretty good site ~ nicely designed and has some informative stuff.
Some Places To Go
DBZ: Bid for Power – q3 mod coming soon. Looks really cool
Mixture – an online community – there’s a lot of models on there for some reason. Yeah.
STOMPED – a nice gaming site with focus on fps (Q3, UT, DK, etc.)
Choose Your Own Adventure – it’s back! Last seen in the agendas of our high school days, it has evolved to an online form. Nothing much on it but hopefully it’ll get more interesting.
Smashing great taste
April 09, 2000
Bid For Power: a q3 mod based on Dragonball Z. It looks really cool. So I wake up this morning… I mean afternoon, and seeing that my parents haven’t come back yet (with my lunch hehe), I load up q3 and decide to school some newbies. As luck would have it, I get no response from master server. I hate that. That one simple message deprives me of killing people. As such, I actually played single player in that game. It’s weird, when I first got it, some of those levels, usually the 1v1′s, seemed impossible. But in the level versus Sarge, I kicked his ass 10-0. I guess camping the quad was a little cheap but who cares.
Anyway this is going to be a Study Sunday since I have a final in 19 hours AND another in 43 hours. After this week though, I can relax a bit since the last two aren’t a big worry.
Andrew’s logo is up. Located to your left. I think that is his car (how predictable) even though at first glance, I thought it was a cat. Actually a cat eye would be cool for a logo, but it wouldn’t have anything to do with my site so having one would be weird (yes I’m well aware of having a human eye doesn’t seem to have much relation with this site too). You suck.
Here’s my master plan: study, quake, study, study, maybe go blading, study, study, simpsons, study, study, sleep. Fun.
April 08, 2000
Well, I studied some more this afternoon (read half a chapter. yippee) when Me and Andrew spontaneously decided to go play some tennis. So we did. We played under an hour, then ran laps… uh… 10 laps. Yes 10. 10 because no one was there to see how many we actually did.
It was a good weekend but I just got this distressing memo sent from the corporate pigs from higher up. Here’s a copy of the statement released about ten minutes ago.
Seems like the fat cats higher up are doing some major work. Oh yeah, don’t tell anyone I released the statement! My wife and kids depend on my paycheques.
I love lazy saturday afternoons… so lazy [13:00]
Screw studying. Yesterday was fun. Pool, then eat, then we played with Andrew’s digicamera and took some abnormal pictures. They’re up on Andrew’s site right now. They will be up on mine but I’m making a story out of it so it’s gonna take a little while.
They’ll probably show up on the new site too which I think is done but I’m still contemplating whether to use the design or not. Haha.
I think I’ll study a little today. Just a little. What else??? Hmm nothing. Huzzah.
The old people driving issue
April 06, 2000
It’s on Justin and Dennis’ sites now so i’ll put my thought onto it. The elderly do tend to drive like well, grandmas. They tend to follow the rules more or less and putt putt putt along in their 1975 Chevies or Fords.
Well the issue is that an elderly lady killed some woman while driving and didn’t know it. So they took her license away. Well, I agree with Justin in that if you hit anything, be it a lady, a dog, a tree (haha sorry, had to say it), you will definitely notice. I also agree that going 50kph, ANY car is very destructive.
Dennis has good points too: these things cannot be prevented. I think it can be prevented, but at a cost of our freedom and rights. Harsher penalties for the elderly isn’t plausible since in our law system, you cannot segregrate any group and give them different punishments (minors excluded). What I suggest is that when having driver licenses renewed, there should be more tests that are more strict that would eliminate all the dangerous drivers. Fuck, if you drag a person in a car for awhile, oblivious to their screams, you definitely should not be on the road.
My thoughts: the lady should be charged to the full extent of the law regardless of her age or past record. A crime is a crime and be it an 80 something or a twenty something, the outcome should be the same. Personally, I feel most sympathy for the kids. Having a mother killed by a freak accident like this.
That reminds me of a rather heartwrenching story I heard awhile back. I heard on the radio maybe half a year ago, that a single mother died from diabetes. Her 6 or 7 year old girl didn’t know what happened and went through the night. She microwaved leftovers, watched tv, and then slept next to her mother’s body.
Authorities found out when the girl was crying in class, telling her teacher that her mom was dead. Her fucking idiot of a teacher said not to say stuff like that, that it was inappropriate.
When I heard that, my heart shuddered and I imagined what it would be like had I been that little girl. There was no one for her to turn to and I doubt she has anyone right now. This world is plagued with crimes and hatred and violence and I don’t care. But when I heard this, I cared. Death is a natural thing and usually I disregard deaths I hear on the news but for some reason, this story really got to me.
Whatever. I sincerely hope the little girl has better days and that no other child will go through what she went through.
I’ll leave now all depressed. Huzz… whatever…
New webpage update
I got home today and looked at the design and felt it was missing something. So I had to recreate the whole design. But I worked at it all afternoon and I’m back where I was last night. I have no expected day of it being up since I have 3 finals next week. Stupid finals.
Update [00:49]
The new webpage, which is officially just going to be called JVision (but is really jv2.2), is about 50% complete. Need to write some more stuff, pop some links in, and boom. Done.
MUST SEE: Pics from DF2K. Go see it at Jesse’s.
MUST SEE: This was sent to me just now.
My Last Day of Class
April 05, 2000
I technically have a class on friday but fuck it. No one goes. Last time I asked, a friend said she was there with 9 other people in that class (out of 60). I have a psych experiment thing tomorrow but that’s only for an hour and after that, I’m free.
I got home this afternoon planning to study but instead I worked on the webpage and I think I have about a third of it done and ported. Fuck I am going to fail my finals. What else is new. But I have a couple new things on it that is not as boring as this page. I can’t talk about it yet… it’s a secret.
More on the stock market. Nothing much happened today, basically some minor adjustments. Celera (CRA) made a huge ass increase: they ended the day at 115, after having a +41 3/8 increase (+56.2%). That is a good return in one day. I think Clinton said some good things about the sector (and practically that stock) and sent it soaring after it was down a couple points. I bet you tomorrow, it will take a big hit (just like PALM the day after its public opening – phew… dropped like birdshit).
I think my interest in the markets has been rekindled these couple of days after crazy trading by retarded day traders. I can’t believe they all panic sold. Man I bet so many people got rich by short selling (selling stocks you don’t own yet in hopes that it will drop in price so you re-pay that stock at a lower price and keep the difference).
I have to study tonight. My stomach turns at the thought. I just noticed that lately, things in my life have begun to improve. My marks are slightly higher than last term, I got that fun job, and I’m really settling in in school. I hope my summer will be awesome. I hope that job will be fun. I hope my summer courses will be fun. I hope that my hopes will come true.
Woo Dragonball is on! And Goku just turned super yester. Huzzah.
Musings by Jerry
April 04, 2000
You know I can’t go through a day without writing something on my page. Sigh. Don’t really have much to say. Just kidding I always have a long winded update available. Firstly, last night, Dennis wasted me in quake3. No denying it. I have no clue what went wrong. Well actually I do. I can waste him when we’re in close quarter railing. But when we’re sniping long distances, he out frags me by a lot. So he may have noticed me trying to run towards him a lot yesterday. Bastard. Ah well, he won fair and square… FOR A CHEATER. So for the time being, he is Master of the Universe and even I have to pay some respect as he struts around.
++ I was wrong with my prediction about the markets yesterday. MS dropped a little bit more and I think it’s at $88 now. The NASDAQ overall dropped some more and now stands at 4100. Dow took a hit but the Dow has been taking big hits quite often lately. My prediction still stands that the NASDAQ will reclaim ground. I think by Friday, it’ll go back up to 4300~4400. The Dow rests around its comfortable spot right now so I don’t see it making any big adjustments in the little while.
++ Andrew has got a new job doing some edp work or something (you’re really unclear about what you do). Good luck learning pagemaker by friday. Haha. Well congratulations though. And now we owe each other dinners.
++ A correction to yesterday’s update: the company is not Dennis Corp., they’re called Jumping Men Software. Dennis Corp. sounds better. Hmm what else. Ah Dennis asked about my plans for investments or something. I never really gave it any thought but I have what seems to be a pretty solid plan. Firstly, I’m starting off small with a small mutual fund portfolio – when I get steady income. Mutual funds are riskier than bonds or tbills but their returns are generally higher and steadier. On average, mutual funds gross about 10~15% growth. That’s going to be an ongoing investment. RRSPs are good but boring.
Anyway, when I grad and hopefully find a good job, then I’ll expand my portfolio. I’m guessing around 60~70% of my funds will be in stocks but it’s always good to keep some gold on hand. Gold typically reacts inversely with stock markets so I’ll hold some. The rest of the portfolio will be made of mutual funds, and t-bills. Then, later on, I hope hold some property but that’s going to be much later on.
Assuming I put in 10% of my income (say I make a shitty 30k a year forever), and assuming that it it increases by about 10% a year, and say I start at 25, then by 50, I’ll have roughly 300k. These are really rough numbers and I sincerely hope I make WAY more than 30k a year.
I think I’m done now. Huzzah fellow visitors.
I’m going to say some stuff about Mozilla now
Not to be out done by the other webpages (Dennis, Jesse, Justin), here are my words about it. I like Mozilla. It’s my favorite ice cream flavour. I really like mozilla in those gelato stands because usually it’s creamier and has a nicer flavour to it. But storebrand mozilla is good too. It’s usually not as creamy but the flavour is still in there.
People who like mozilla are usually stereotyped as being boring and unwilling to try out new things. They may be partially right but mozilla flavour has something that the other flavours can’t do – expansions. Yup you can upgrade your mozilla desert in so many ways! You can put it on pie (no one ever puts strawberry flavour on pies), put it on fruit, put chocolate syrup on it (mmm), put some whipped cream (double mmm). There’s a desert at Death By Chocolate that is several scoops of ice cream: mozilla, strawberry and chocolate, and sometimes mango ice cream too, and it’s covered by this thin toasted pastry. It’s so good. Mozilla is the king of ice cream flavours.
So on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being bad and 10 being good, I would say mozilla is an 8.
