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  1. Planetperson
    Wednesday, September 13, 2006
    Ever had a day that you just wished would end and then it wouldn't?

    Sooo tired today . I had way too little sleep last night and had two tests today. I tell ya, it's just been the week of the tests. I think I've had...what, five tests so far? And I still have two more tomorrow. Anyway, to fit the mood properly, the weather for the last three days has just been rain, rain, rain. Cold, depressing days of endless overcast skies with stinging, rainy mist in the wind.

    Remember this entry a while back? About all of our neighbors moving in and out? Well, as neighbors leave their homes, more must take their place. And WE HAVE THE RESULTS! Our neighborhood...I tell ya. Both the home to our east and the home east of that have been or are about to be vacated. I'm not sure who exactly reads this blog, so I don't know how many people will connect to what I say here. The house immediately to our east has a male couple moving in with their little boy. The house after that now has a female couple moving in with a little boy of their own. Aside from this...amusing coincidence (my mom says 'It's just like Will & Grace! '), this is not what I would have guessed my new neighbors to be. It's one of those things you never see coming.

    Something I must be driven by every morning are those stupid, stupid Snickers billboards. You know: SATISFECTELLENT (sounds like a bug spray); HUNGERECTOMY; SUBSTANTIALICIOUS. Seriously, how could Snickers sink so low? I guess the ads are working though, because people are talking about it -- I'M talking about it -- even if it's in a negative light.

    So, has your week been as much fun?
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    Saturday

    By Planetperson,

    Saturday, July 15, 2006
    Nothing to do today. Just the way I like it. I got my Brickmaster set in the mail today. It's an X-Pod, the blue/white robot one. My little brother already bought that set, and that was months ago, so it's not exactly a brand new set. Not doing much. Maybe working on MOCs, reading the Da Vinci Code, TV, etc. Maybe I should get out of here and see if any friends share my boredom.
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    Oh, That Song

    By Planetperson,

    Friday, September 8, 2006
    My school's stupid radio program lost it's airing time during class hours on the loudspeakers this year due a shift in the schedule. We've all loved it. Unfortunately, they're apparently going to air every Friday at the end of school. At the end of every week, they are now going to play a song at a student's suggestion. This week's song was none other than the All American Reject's Move Along. That caused Bionicle to surface in my mind as I was heading through the halls for my bus . I guess that the Free the Band promotion is...working?

    This evening I started a personal writing progect on the entire history of the Bionicle storyline. It's a pretty massive undertaking, and I honestly seem to want to do it just for the heck of it. So far I actually seem to be doing a good job of writing it . If I ever finish it or something, I'm not sure how I'd share it with any other Bionicle fans...I'll probably post it here, right? Anyway, I finished the "Creation of the Universe" chapter and have begun the "Founding of Metru Nui." I certainly hope that I would be able to follow through on a project like this. What do you think? Good? No good?
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    Off For A Week

    By Planetperson,

    Friday, June 22, 2007 Im on WiFi in a hotel halfway between home and New York state. I always dislike these long road trips. The hours spent in our sedan can become incredibly uncomfortable. The rest stops in Ohio are horrid. Ironically, our destination has many acres of space to run through. Anyway, to whom it may concern, Im slipping off the edge of the earth until I come back a little over a week from now, probably Sunday. See ya later.
  6. Planetperson
    Sunday, April 29, 2007
    It's time to save the world. One more day... until the next episode of Heroes! I'm definitely hooked on the show. That last episode kicked [hiney]. Every episode is like that, in fact. And the next one is tomorrow! I can't believe Isaac's dead, and then Sylar's still out there. Then Hiro and Ando are in the future, where they meet -- future Hiro! It'll be a cool one.
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    Hardball

    By Planetperson,

    Tuesday, August 26, 2008
    I see you on my users viewing list and I will click on your profile, and I will show up whining "why has no one commenteeeeeeeed? =[ "

    Hee hee.
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    Grades!

    By Planetperson,

    Friday, November 3, 2006
    I got my quarter grades the other day. I'm doing way better than I was last year at this time! School has been really, really hard this year and has consumed most of my time (clearly the reason why I don't post as much as I did a couple months ago). But it looks like all of that time that I've spent has paid off. Look:

    English -- 98
    Science -- 92
    Greek -- 99
    Orchestra -- 100
    Religion -- 98
    Math -- 92

    Go me!
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    Late Night

    By Planetperson,

    Tuesday, November 7, 2006 Notice how I'm posting this entry at 2:41 AM. It's a late night . I'm up this late because I had to study for a bio test tomorrow. I only started my homework at around 10:45 PM, and that's because I had a three hour nap. And I had to lie down because when I first tried doing my literature homeowrk around 7:30 PM, it put me to sleep.
     
    Man, this school year is brutal .
  10. Planetperson
    Thursday, September 7, 2006
    Ah, today my local Home Depot was on fire. At school I heard an announcement of some cocurricular being cancelled due to a fire near their meeting site. I found exactly what was on fire when I was driven by one of our favored stores. The usual -- columns of smoke dissipating into the blue sky, not a lot of flames, water gushing from huge fire hoses suspended on cranes.

    I remember in fourth grade that our teacher once asked us to write about the first time we had seen a fire. I remember that I had to tell her that I had never actually seen a fire (unintentional) before. Now I can say I've been at least 300 feet within a real fire. That was my day. How about yours?

    BS01 is finally, finally back up! Everyone be happy.
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    O.o

    By Planetperson,

    Sunday, July 30, 2006
    Something rather curious happened today. It happened completely at random, out of nowhere. It was the middle of the day when I was just sitting in my room, and I heard this huge engine noise. Sure, I live on a busy street; and people drive by in noisy cars all the time. But this couldn't be ignored. It was incredible. So, I looked out my window. I could barely believe what I saw! Easily over a hundred motorcycles were driving down the street, revving their engines (stop sign near my house), honking their horns, waving . It looked like just anyone who owned a motorcycle had decided to hop on and ride down the road with this huge crowd. A steady stream of dozen after dozen of motorcyclists lasted over a full minute. I've never seen this kind of organization on the road! There were a few more spurts of riders afterwards, people who obviously had seen the initial group drive by and decided to follow them. But the whole thing was hilarious!

    I saw Pirates of the Carribbean 2 today. Neh. No good plot. Just action. Not much to say. Really high-quality special effects, though. The music was annoying, too :annoyed2: .
  12. Planetperson
    Tuesday, September 25, 2007 Before I get to talk about my favorite TV show, I'd like to start off by wishing everyone a happy Master-Chiefocalypse. Yeah, you know what I mean.
     
    And I don't have an XBox 360 yet...
     
    Last night, I didn't care if I had two papers to write or five tests the next day -- I was going to watch the season premier of Heroes. I have to say that I was very impressed by last night. I was afraid that it wouldn't be very good, that the writers wouldn't have been able to take the plot any further after what happened in the season finale. But they sure as heck pulled it off. I liked how they made the elapsed time in the story real-time (four months) since last year's plot resolution. And I also liked the fact that Peter Petrelli survived... since he's only the most awesomely powerful person in the show.
     
    If you don't stick with any primetime TV shows, start watching Heroes.
  13. Planetperson
    Wednesday, December 27, 2006
    As I type, dozens and dozens of Quicktime movie files are being converted to iPod-acceptable .mpeg files through iTunes. For them, this is near the end of a long journey, a voyage from their original urls to my video iPod. The only problem is, however, that this near-final step will most likely take a few more hours to complete.

    Ah, everyone loves the old quicktime movies that LEGO employs the European animation company Ghost A/S to produce every year. The movies add a unique richness to the BIONICLE experience by giving life to the brand's colorful toys. Wouldn't it be great if one could simply pull them out of his pocket to watch them whenever he wanted?

    Achieving this goal, as I have painstakingly found out, has turned out to be a very long and frustrating pursuit. Reasons for this may be the fact that I absolutely hate the iTunes software (and, truthfully, anything with a trademark small "i" in front of it); or it may also be the fact that finding all of these movie files and gathering them from various places on the internet has been very difficult as well. Whatever factors are responsible, I can tell you that this seemingly wild goose chase has been one heck of a voya nui ("great journey," for those of you less atuned to the storyline).

    I am here to tell you that I have almost come to the end.

    The first step was finding all of the movies in the first place. There were some very decent places to visit when looking for the video files: Bionicle.com itself; the Ghost A/S gallery; the Ghost A/S LEGO BIONICLE Archive; Bioniclub.cz; some advertizing company's site that I forgot the name of and doesn't have the movie files anymore anyway; and, before it went down, Bionicle Sector 01. Ever since I discovered the "right-click, save file as..." method of downloading movie files from the web back in 2005, I have been collecting files from the web --

    Uhh...

    ...

    ...

    What's this? Okay, no joke, while I type this, a window has just opened up, reading: "iTunes has encountered an error and needs to close. We apologize for any inconvenience."

    *smacks head*

    ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!?!?!? It's taken forever to convert those files! Okay, I'm not too worried, just annoyed. I just gotta open up iTunes again to continue converting the files, and it will be just fine. I'm sure that this interruption hasn't affected the files that have already been converted so far.

    *goes off to check*

    Yes, I was right. No crisis. I just need to start the process up again to finish off the other files.

    *goes off to do that*

    Alright, I've done that. It's working again. Now, where was I? *scrolls up* Oh, right, the files.

    So yeah, I made this special folder on my desktop which held another special folder that held my collection of Bionicle movies that I had been gathering from the web ever since 2005. Here's even an example of what I discovered while tinkering with Quicktime. Anyway, I organized the special folder to my liking, but throughout the better part of 2006, my computer had this bug that made it unable to play the audio to the majority of my movie files. The picture worked fine, but I could not fix the darn sound. The funny thing is that this whole thing started not long after I bought my video iPod and downloaded the iTunes software and a more recent version of Quicktime onto my computer. Well, a month or so ago, the thing somehow fixed itself and just went away, much to my relief. Now I was once again in top-notch shape to get those videos into my pocket. Just a wee problem, though. Actually, a HUGE one. iTunes is the most finnicky software I have ever encountered IN MY LIFE. It's a nightmare -- it takes a long time to do anything; it absolutely must sort EVERYTHING alphabetically, which I don't want it to do all the time; the iPod MUST be ejected before disconnecting the USB cable, or else all of the songs on it get deleted (which I know from experience); and the iPod only accepts its fancy mp3 files -- what a wuss.

    Well, the iTunes software wouldn't allow me to import my Bionicle movie files becuase it couldn't recognize the file types (which are classified as "any file"). So, I spent a few minutes just this morning converting them into Quicktime .mov files. If it gets me that much closer to achieving my goal, I'll take the time to do it.

    Double-click, File, Save As..., Save in folder..., OK. Double-click, File, Save As..., OK. Double-click, File, Save As..., OK. That goes on several dozen times, and I have a folder full of .mov files just waiting to be imported into iTunes.

    Import them, I was able to. I even sorted them into playlists by year. I could actually play them in iTunes! I was very impressed by how the software automatically makes thumbnails for the videos. That was cool, although that does have a downside in that I can't change the darn thumbnails when it picks a bad frame.

    Then I hooked up my iPod and tried to make a simple download of the files onto it. Then I get this funny little message saying something along the lines of "Some of the files, inluding [all of them], were unable to be dowloaded because the iPod software does not recognize the file type.

    *smacks the already swollen bump on my forehead*

    Well, that's what this conversion process is all about. All of my Bionicle .mov files are being converted into .mpeg-4 files, which I will soon be able to finally download onto my iPod. I just have to see how this whole thing turns out.

    ...!

    What's this? It's done! All of the files are done!

    Well, BZPower, I'll tell you how it ends later, when I have at last ended it . See you again soon.
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