supreme internet goodness

For those of you who are yet to taste the awesomeness:

Homestar Runner

and I particularly recommend the sbemail section.

I've been checkin' this out so much I'm starting to think like these guys talk!

Also of note, if you can get past the initial boringness*, is:

Weebl and Bob

which will grow on you as you watch more of it. Check out the Wikipedia entry on Weebl and Bob to find out how the creator creates the voices of Weebl and Bob, and then practice it amongst your friends :o)

*boringness is dramatically increased proportional to age and slowness of computer. if you think it's going way way way too slow instead of way too slow, try closing some programs. worked for me.

cardgame

What do you do when you lose The Game when nobody else is around?

edit: i'm thinking about ditching my fixation with incorporating the word "cardboard" into all of my post titles. it's just too hard.

cardboard comes from trees

I can't wait until I have the space, time and money to create a garden. It's just one of those things that you start longing to do as you get older, I think. It's been spurred on a little by the Council giving out free plants at a few events I've been to recently, but I think in my case it's genetic - my Grandad's a farmer, my Nan's an avid gardener, and my Pop is a great gardener too and always wanted to get a farm. I would like to have a place where I can plant trees that will grow big and shady, and I'd like to be there long enough to enjoy that shade once they've grown. I really like trees.

I have a little Salvia that has bright red flowers. It's copped a massive beating from a healthy-looking green caterpillar which is now somewhere out my window, but it's still alive with a few leaves intact, and I hope it'll make a full recovery. It's had to survive my bad watering habits, and many's the times I've had to give it water as it's been far too wilted. Poor thing.

I also have a little Venus Fly Trap. Many of its traps have turned black and dead, but there are some healthy ones too. I think maybe they die once they've been used, or they just get sunburnt really easily when they have water on them. I need to get a dish for it to sit in so it doesn't dry out and so I don't have to water it from the top.

I also have a little cactus. It's furry with massive long spikes. It seems to take care of itself, but I think I'll start watering it more cos it hasn't grown at all since I got it. In all fairness, it was just sitting on my floor for the entire year, completely neglected. It could be dead, except I think it's still green and that would be weird.

I've just moved house, for those who didn't know. It's much quieter here, but at the moment I can't unpack any of my stuff so I don't really feel as though I've moved in. I don't like feeling in-between-places. There's a few things I'd like to fix but I haven't been brave enough yet coz it's a rental place. The cold tap in the bathroom doesn't work, but that should be relatively easy to fix. The kitchen light switch doesn't work either though, and that would be much harder. I might just leave that one be.

I got a job at the beginning of the holidays. I started working two weeks later, by which time it was the week before Christmas. I had four shifts that week. I haven't worked since. I'm a little bored. If anyone who is good at organising social thingies would like to organise one, I give you permission. Yes, I can still delegate stuff.

I may yet blog again today... haven't got much else to do! And that is a bad thing. I can only take so much Strong Bad in one sitting.

new name

So yeah, new name for my blog... I think this one's probably more consistently accurate than "truth"!

cardboard is a Christian geek!

Two things which I think are pretty neat:

www.faithbrowser.com - there's a nifty little tool here for displaying a bible verse just below your address bar, but only if you use Firefox, which is better anyway.

www.whatwouldjesusdownload.com - a whole stack of resources for Christian geeks, including Christian web hosting, Linux for Christians and a Christian blog comic. It's run by a Catholic guy I think, but is very usable to all Christians.

Questions for commenting: Is creating resources specifically for Christians a good and helpful thing to do, or is it trying to shield ourselves too much from the world we live in? Is it making it easier for us to live in purity and righteousness, or is it just making it easier for us to ignore our broken and needy world?

lostboard

eBay can be annoying sometimes... :oP

Happy Christmas to you all!

Glory be to the Lord Jesus Christ!

cardboard keeps busy

I don't really, but I stole the line from Alias (more or less).

I'm just sitting at my girl's place right now, typing this post while watching episodes from Alias season 1. It's good, but I've already seen season 3 so it's kinda just filling in the details for what I've already seen. It's good though, coz although it's slightly more amateur than the others, it's got some really good cinematography, and of course it's a great show.

Do you like the changes I've made to my blog? I'm using the new version of Blogger, and it's much more customisable than the old one. I like it :o)

I'm still thinking about how to better use my other blog, since it's pretty much unused right now. Any ideas? Anyone want to help me?

the philosophy of cardboard

The other day, Darv told me that the opposite of love wasn't hate, but apathy.

I reckon that both hate and apathy are opposite to love, but in different ways. Hate is the opposite of love in that the feelings described by the word are negative rather than positive, but a relatively similar amount of passion are evident in both hate and love. Apathy, on the other hand, could be considered to be the absence of any passion, thus making it the opposite of both love and hate.

If you think about it long enough, you end up with a triangular system like this:

And so each of love, hate and apathy has two opposites. You might call this a "trichotomic system" perhaps, as opposed to the more familiar love/hate dichotomy...?

Thoughts?
Can anyone think of any other trichotomic systems?

cardboard tears

What do you do
when the road you walk
is the way you know
and of which you talk
incessantly as
such a wearisome path,
devoid of peace
in the aftermath
of fantasy and
of ideation,
while iron cuffs
of your own creation -
that have a key
somewhere around,
if only it
was to be found -
embrace your wrists
with cold hard grip
and lead you on
where you will slip
and fall...

So yeah, I'm feeling a bit down now, and I'm tired which is why I'm writing about it in a place where the world can find out. I'm unhappy without good reason. If only life was simpler, free of confusion, angst and everything else that is stopping me from being where I should be right now. Some say that pain gives life its richness. Well, too much richness and you feel sick. And when you feel sick, your mind just doesn't work properly.

The old ways just keep coming back...

The old ways must die.

maths is fun, cardboard is funner

Oh maths, how I love thee with the fire of a thousand smouldering cigarette butts...

I'm learning so much as I study... things I should have learned in first year but never did. It's amazing how much of the stuff they teach you, they actually expect you to know.

Better get back to it...

Feel free to distract me in any way possible. Actually, that's a lie - I'm enjoying it. But I'll still welcome a momentary distraction.

cardboard up late

Why am I up this late... again?

I'm a little tired of it.

cardboardus nullius

I really don't have much to say - I'm just posting because procrastination is my most proficient skill. I'm almost finished my composition portfolio, and I think I'll hand that in today, then probably waste the rest of the day and start studying for Maths tomorrow. Mmm it's so hard to work now that there's no more class... anyone else get that feeling?

In other news... nope, there's no other news that I can think of. I mean, there's probably lots going on, I just can't think of it.

sifting gently through the hand
time leaves no trace
when no trace you leave in time

cardbored

Hello, world.

The above sentence was apparently the output string of the first computer programs that programming students were taught how to write, or something like that.

That has no relevance to anything.

I'm thoroughly bored.

I'm sitting in a computer lab, just filling in time before my maths lecture, and then I'm going to skip Equip and go home to get some work done. Getting work done in the hours between 4 and 8 is very hard for me, but it needs to be done - I've got a heck of a lot to do. I might actually need to plan it.

[plans afternoon and evening]

Gosh, when you put everything in half-hour blocks, it really makes you wonder how you waste so much time normally.

I'm so tired that even though each of my subjects is great, I don't feel like doing any of them. That's no reason not to though. Dammit.

cardboard likes a biff

A friend of mine (no really, I have a wonderful girlfriend, so I'm really not talking about myself here) is having a relationship dilemma. I felt like blogging something controversial, so I'm going to talk to the big wide world about it.

My friend says, and I quote:

Girls rarely make any moves. The ones who do end up happy; the ones that don't end up whining.

Now, since my girl made the first move, and she's happy, I tend to agree with him.

Also, my friend's a quality guy, who's very godly and strives for holiness - and I'd like to reference an earlier post on "Internet Footprints" (see link to Emma & Katie's blog) which says that godliness is attractive.* He's bolder than me in making moves, and he's done so... but why, when he's put himself out there on the Western Front, is he not seeing any action?

Here's my theory - none of the girls he's interested in have the courage to say anything about it, even if he's said something to them. Now sure, conversations like that can be awkward, particularly if they're not interested, but he's got a number of people who he suspects are interested in him and they just don't say anything. Even when he says something, they don't.

To quote Peter Griffin of Family Guy, "This grinds my gears."

Shape up girls, or I'm going to have to put on my Mr Bite-me face again and steal all of your chocolate. All you little Miss Angsts, you have no excuse.


*It's since been made aware to me that this post and the following comments were deliberate acts of spading in a very specific situation, but I believe that the principle still holds universally.

cardboard solves problems

I just finished my maths assignment before 8:30! That represents less than 3hrs work on the assignment as a whole, 2hrs yesterday afternoon and less than an hour this morning. I like that! It's so much better than any physics assignment could ever be, unless it was a first year Mechanics assignment. I like maths.

I woke up very early, c. 6:00, and dozed for about half an hour before succumbing to the inevitable forces of awakedness, but managed to cram another hour of solid warmth in before finally braving the... warmth... of the morning. It looks like it's going to be a stunning day, and I'm looking forward to doing a fat lot of nothing much in it. I think I need a hit of Vitamin D. The uni life doesn't cater for such necessities if you're a Science student or EUer or both.

I wish I could say that I'm sorry to see the EU Science mission over, but I'm not. Hopefully we reached some people for Christ, even though the tide of apathy that is encroaching the heart of our culture is so hard to swim against. But for me, I'm just glad for some time off right now, time where I don't have to act like someone I'm not, time where I can take the back seat without throwing someone else in the deep end up front, time where I can battle my emotions instead of repressing them to battle something else.

Another thing I like is a limerick...

There once was a man they call Farge,
Whose head in circumf'rence was large,
In truth he was snappy,
Though outwardly happy,
When folk thought his head was a barge.

End poetry lesson for today.