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Entry #798

I just spent my entire Friday night learning a little Javascript then importing all my livejournal entries from August 2002 - December 2005 into MovableType. The script that I found was a little messed up so that's why it took me the entire night, luckily the little javascript that I did learn today helped me figure out the problems with the script. It's funny how things just sort of come together like that.

Anyway, I somehow had over 700 entries in about 3 1/2 years of blogging in my LJ.

743 / ((365 x 3) + (4 x 30)) = .612 posts/day

Although it was tempting to just discard all these posts, it also feels a bit disingenuous as a blogger (albeit a lazy one) to hide old entries. It's also just as enjoyable to read the old entries as it is painful. I'm a poor writer as it is and I was even worse four years ago. It's like reading old papers from school, you never really realize how dumb you are except in hindsight. I hope this isn't a phenomenon that continues on through the rest of your life... the rate at which you get less dumb has to level off eventually and become almost unnoticable, right? God forbid it start to go the otherway anytime soon...

Elsewhere in life, this is what I've been up to lately: 11:45am. It's still heavily under construction but it's been a good learning experience. Working with the Google Maps API has forced me to learn Javascript which in turn is jogging memories of C++.

I've also made a difficult decision and decided not to get a surround sound system and projector for my room as much as the layout of my room is screaming out for it. It's killing me but these are the reasons I came up with:

- It's a bit of an extravagant purchase for someone with my income.
- I have memberships to lots of theaters in NYC where I could just go see movies instead.
- My circuit breakers probably can't handle it.
- My money is better spent going towards the purchase of a nice DV camera. I would probably have more fun with it and it would give me the chance to finally start making some films again.

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hey! so we are playing on september 30th, will you be able to go to that??
i hope so!
other than that all we have is the 23rd in port townsend, but unless you want to ride there with us it probably won't be the most practcial. well, maybe! ferries are fun.
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God forbid it start to go the otherway anytime soon...

I say sit back and relax, because when it reverses, you'll be so ass backwards senile that you won't even notice.

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