Posted July 28th, 2008 by Chris Clarke
Filled under: Memes
Stolen from Darkthorn.
[1] Type in “[your name] needs” in the Google search
“Christopher needs to be eliminated.”
Haha, suffer.
[2] Type in “[your name] looks like” in Google search:
“Christopher looks like he’s melting into his expensive gray pinstripe suit. When he talks, he’s barely audible. How did this man get so powerful?”
[3] Type in “[your name] goes” or “..has gone” in Google search:
“Christopher Goes Partying”
[4] Type in “[your name] loves” in Google search:
“Christopher loves to play the piano!”
Yeah, its fun :p
5: Type in “[your name] eats” in Google search:
“Christopher eats a pickle”
Eww.
6: Type in “[your name] has” in Google search:
“Christopher has a dream”
7: Type in “[your name] will” in Google search:
“Christopher will be available for healing sessions”
8:Type in “[your name] died” in Google Search:
“Christopher died in 1920”
Lovely.
Posted July 18th, 2008 by Chris Clarke
Filled under: Life
Yesterday, my mother came down to my room asking if I wanted a kitten. I’ve been asking for awhile since my previous kitty had to be put down due to illness, and the answer has constantly been no but finally they have allowed me to get one, and so yesterday, Mother rang up one of the advertisements in the newspaper and the person giving them away had 4 left, 2 male, 2 female.
So we drive over to the house which has the kittens and I fall absolutely in love with a cute ginger with a tad of white kitten. They were 8 weeks, so ready to take home and so several minutes later, I’m holding my new kitty in the car while Mum buys cat food and such. We go home, and the kitten seems to be adapting nicely.
Now, my sister and friends were all smuthering the poor kitty and at one stage someone is holding the door open, and in the confusing poor kitty goes missing. I end up searching everywhere I could think of, I even ran around the block fearing the ktity had got out, and I end up coming home empty handed. But a few minutes later, good news! Dad has found the kitty behind the couch. This is surprising as I already looked there, but I’m relieved and happy to have kitty safe and sound.
Did I mention the kitty was really cute?
Assignment results came back yesterday. I’m quite happy with the results. They are as follows:
13 / 15 for YouTube Case Study Assignment for Internet Media Business.
14 / 20 for CSS Zen Garden Design for Internet Design: Advanced.
I’m quite happy with the results. I honestly thought I was going to go terrible.
I’ve been watching Eureka Seven, it started out slow, but I’m getting into it now. Its not the greatest story ever, but I want to find out what happens between Renton and Eureka. Code Geass R2: Lelouch of the Rebellion remains awesome, but R.I.P. Shirley.
And I got my hair cut about a week ago as I had an engagement party to go to on Saturday, a picture can be found on my about page which has been updated to reflect this. The engagement party was ok, but since the music was loud and I couldn’t hear what people were saying, combined with my shyness, I didn’t really socialise. It was nice seeing everyone though even if I couldn’t understand a word anyone said.
I guess thats all.
I’ll try to organise pictures of kitty soon. 
Posted July 13th, 2008 by Chris Clarke
Filled under: Life
1. WHAT CURSE WORD DO YOU USE THE MOST?
Probably F-U-C-K. I try not to swear though.
2. DO YOU OWN AN IPOD?
Nope, would like one though.
3. WHAT PERSON ON YOUR FLIST DO YOU TALK TO THE MOST?
I assume this means on LiveJournal, probably Ebi-kun.
If in general friend-listness? most definitely Darkthorn.
4. WHAT TIME IS YOUR ALARM CLOCK SET TO?
7AM.
5. DO YOU STILL REMEMBER THE FIRST PERSON YOU KISSED?
No.
6. DO YOU REMEMBER WHERE YOU WERE ON 9/11/01?
In bed.
7. WOULD YOU RATHER TAKE THE PICTURE OR BE IN THE PICTURE?
Definitely take the picture.
8. WHAT WAS THE LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED?
I have no idea.
9. DO ANY OF YOUR FRIENDS HAVE CHILDREN?
Not yet. One is expecting though.
10. HAS ANYONE EVER CALLED YOU LAZY?
Yes.
11. DO YOU EVER TAKE MEDICATION TO HELP YOU FALL ASLEEP?
Nope.
12. WHAT CD IS CURRENTLY IN YOUR CD PLAYER?
I don’t own a standalone CD player and I have no idea whats in the DVD player.
13. DO YOU PREFER REGULAR OR CHOCOLATE MILK?
Chocolate.
14. HAS ANYONE TOLD YOU A SECRET THIS WEEK?
No.
15. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU HAD STARBUCKS?
Never.
16. CAN YOU WHISTLE?
Almost.
17. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX?
I don’t care.
18. WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO?
Nothing.
19. DID YOU WATCH CARTOONS AS A CHILD?
Yes. Lots of cartoons but later I wised up and found anime and non-American in general animation (most of it sucks - the US cartoons), and haven’t really looked back.
23. DO YOU OWN ANY BAND T-SHIRTS?
Not really.
24. WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING IN ONE HOUR?
Nothing
25. IS ANYONE IN LOVE WITH YOU?
Nope.
26. WHAT WAS THE LAST SONG YOU HEARD?
I don’t know.
27. LAST TIME YOU CRIED?
Umm.
28. ARE YOU ON A DESKTOP COMPUTER OR A LAP TOP?
Desktop.
29. ARE YOU CURRENTLY WANTING ANY PIERCINGS OR TATTOOS?
Nope
30. WHAT’S THE WEATHER LIKE?
11 Celsius
31. WOULD YOU EVER DATE A GIRL/GUY COVERED IN TATTOOS?
Nope. I don’t like tattoos.
32. WHAT DID YOU DO BEFORE THIS?
Talked with Prue.
33. WHEN IS THE LAST TIME YOU SLEPT ON THE FLOOR?
Never to my memory. I think thats inaccurate.
34. HOW MANY HOURS OF SLEEP DO YOU NEED TO FUNCTION?
I manage with 4.
35. DO YOU EAT BREAKFAST DAILY?
No.
36. ARE YOUR DAYS FAST-PACED?
Depends.
37. WHAT DID YOU DO LAST NIGHT?
Engagement party
38. DO YOU USE SARCASM?
Yes.
39. HOW OLD WILL YOU BE TURNING ON YOUR NEXT BIRTHDAY?
19.
40. ARE YOU PICKY ABOUT SPELLING AND GRAMMAR?
I am, but I mess up way to much with it myself to complain unless I’m sure I haven’t made a mistake in a conversation with that person. 
41. DO YOU GET ALONG BETTER WITH THE SAME SEX OR THE OPPOSITE SEX?
Slightly better with Girls.
42. DO YOU LIKE MUSTARD?
Nope.
43. DO YOU SLEEP ON YOUR SIDE?
Yes.
44. DO YOU WATCH THE NEWS?
Yes!
45. WHAT IS THE LAST THING YOU PURCHASED?
Chips about a week ago.
Tags: lj meme ebikun questions quiz
Posted July 6th, 2008 by Chris Clarke
Filled under: Life
You won’t regret it.
I went outside earlier. Yeah, I spend way to much time indoors and when I do go out its usually very brief, mainly the time it takes to get between doors. Which lets face it, is not great. Anyway, I went outside. Best decision in awhile.
Anyway, I didn’t do much but I managed twenty something minutes. I spent most of that jumping on the trapoline and about 4 minutes on the swing. The swing is way to low for me, and I’m a bit worried its going to tip if I actually try to swing like I would when I was younger. I’m not as short as I once was. But then, I’ve never been short either. Jumping on the trapoline is fun and all, but it sure makes your legs feel wierd when you haven’t been on one in umm 4 years. Yeah, that long. I was going to shoot the basketball into the neglected basketball ring I never use, but alas I could not find a basketball. I used to go out there, and there would be at least 3. Not even 1 today.
I noticed the clothes line had been moved aswell. Shows how little I see of our backyard.
Anyway, I enjoyed myself and I’m thinking of doing it again later. The excercise and natural light should be good for me. I’m hoping it helps my skin and makes me less pale. I’m ungodly pale at the moment.
The other day I set up a wiki for the group assignment for Internet Media Business. I used the Google Sites service that came with Google Apps for Domains. Very useful and easy to use. I like it, as does the other group members it seems.
I got to work on AnonBBS last week. I started implementing PHP templates. It’s turning out well. Don’t ask when it will be released. Assignments will get in the way. Yeah, I’m working on the CSS Zen Garden design that’s due Friday.
~ Chris <3
Posted July 3rd, 2008 by Chris Clarke
Filled under: Books
The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they’ve printed below.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own weblog / journal so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them.”
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Posted July 2nd, 2008 by Chris Clarke
Filled under: Life
People speak about being able to see things in their minds-eye in a way that seems to suggest that they can actually see it when they close their eyes. A quick chat with Darkthorn confirmed this as did a Google Search. Apparently 80% of the population can visualise, yet 20% can’t. Further still, most people who can’t seem to go through life not realising others can. Perhaps they have taken this term “visualise” to simply mean another way to describe one’s imagination? It seems that people who can visualise have a hard time grasping that others can’t as was the case with one boy who’s teacher was posting on a public forum as if something were wrong with the boy. 20% qualifies as normal in my opinion. Yes, its a minority percentage wise, but 20% is millions, perhaps billions of people thus making it normal in any sense of the word.
I bring this up as when I was going to sleep last night, I was seeing images in my head. They were fairly random, and I had little control over them, but they were clear. I was still awake at this point too. Opening my eyes brought me to an image in front of my eyes that was of myself in black and white I might add, blinking meant it was gone within milliseconds.
I’ve been trying all day and I just can’t seem to reproduce this experience. Its not that I don’t see anything when I close my eyes either. I see things. I don’t really have control, and it’s nothing clear. Just sparse white stuff - maybe like fog, in fairly random configurations at that. I’m certain I’ve done it before, but I don’t seem to able to do this while I’m awake or not going to sleep which makes any ability I have to do this - useless.
For those wondering, my dreams are completely visual. They contain realistic imagery, sound, taste, pain, fear, smell, sadness, happiness…everything you’d expect from a dream really. I can even experience lucid dreams, and I’m fairly sure I’ve experienced an out of body experience several times in the past. Even feeling the feeling of falling back into my body the other night in fact. This is something that seems to contrast with my discovery today.
It’s not that I don’t have an imagination either. In fact, I’ve been told I have a very active imagination by many. On top of this, it’s not like I’m not fairly visual either. I absolutely love art and design. My favourite past time is to sit down drawing or designing something, even if the result isn’t as great as I hoped. On top of that, I love reading, even if I don’t have a decent collection of books by any sense of the word.
Contrastingly, I have the ability to play back bits and pieces of songs in my head that I’ve heard before containing accurate reproductions of both the lyrics and background music simultaneosly. The same can be said for sound effects from video games like Zelda. The mere difference I guess is that I’m not technically hearing them in the sense of the word one would expect. Its like the same way anyone hears there thoughts. I went through a stage when I was younger of absolutely not liking music, something which has changed within the last year or so thankfully. I was certainly missing out on something.
I would happily give up this “music ability” to able to fully experience this visualisation ability. I think it would really help with my art work. Just being able to actually see what I want to draw would help immensely rather then only having thoughts of what I want to draw. I think it would also increase my enjoyment of reading.
I’m going to keep trying. It may just be that I’m forcing myself to do this. I’m not sure. If I manage, I’ll report back in a future post.
Now, I have a few questions for my readers:
- Can you visualise visually in your mind when you close your eyes, I mean actually see it?
- Anyone who can’t?
- Does anyone have any advice?
- or tips?
~ Chris <3