Sunflower & Grass
I really love the life you see in these pictures. You have ladybugs, ants, and other bugs just going about life.
These ground/grass pictures actually look pretty nice together as wallpapers on my dual monitor set up.
closing down the gallery! aHH!
Alright, I’m really starting to hate the gallery script that I chose for the site. I talked myself into being okay with how it wont have the same site layout as the main site, and also that the users and posts will be completely separated from the main site, and all that good stuff. But I can’t get over the fact that it only allows people to see small images. I suppose I could make them larger, but they wont fit in the silly layout the gallery has.
I don’t see the point of posting my photography and pictures, and such on there if people aren’t able to see the full high definition quality of some the pictures. Most of the pictures no longer look good when they are resized.
So I think I’m back to posting the pictures on the main site here until I find another gallery script that is decent, and possible can integrate with WordPress.
I think I might just try to create a decent template for a gallery section here on the worldpress. Shouldn’t be too hard to do. So some links in the gallery might be down while I remove it, and start reuploading the images to the main site here.
if anyone has any suggestions on a decent gallery script or plugin for wordpress, or in general please contact me, or leave it here in the comment section. I want it to be flash free, and the visitors need to be able to comment on each individual photo (a feature I cant find on any of the gallery scripts).
Once again…
Once again I’ve been neglecting this site. I really need to stop using the sites that I loathe such as facebook. I just find that its easier to post simple crap there, and be done with it. When I post here I feel I need to write some article, and I’ve been so brain dead lately that I cant really think anything to write. I know that I need to start doing so though.
I’ve really just been messing around, not doing much at all. I’m desperately waiting for Battlefield 3 to be released, ha can’t wait. The game looks so awesome.
I’ve also been doing some minor work on Xello.com, but since I’m so brain dead anymore I can’t ever think of a site subject. I really just want to keep the forum alive, but meh. I’ll think of something. But if you do like to chat, hang out, and have fun on forums… Xello is a great place! 
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I’ve downloaded the Windows 8 developer release, and I must say its SUPER HORRIBLE. Man the Metro UI is so ugly. I don’t know what Microsoft is thinking. It’s like a 20 year step back in UI graphical development. I think it may be cool on a tablet or a phone, but it really doesn’t work as a desktop OS/UI, it’s hard to use, and just meh! Nothing intuitive about it. I’m actually scared about the future of computing. I like sitting at a real computer with a keyboard and a mouse, using a real operating system. Sure tablets and phones are okay for being mobile, and doing minor stuff, but they aren’t REAL computers, and you can’t do real work on them. I really hope Microsoft changes their mind about all that.
They should’ve made two versions: One that keeps the traditional Windows UI for use on desktops and real computers, and the other for Mobile devices. Not screw over their core base for some future post-pc era and users that hasn’t happened yet. Maybe Ipad’s do sell a lot, but so do PC’s. and people still want a real computer. but blah!
I bet Windows 8 will have the reputation that Windows ME and Vista had if not worse.
But I guess its all cool. I need to stop being on the computer so much anyways. Something needs to change to put me back out into the real world again. ha. In all honestly, computing has been so boring the past few years anyways.
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In a couple of weeks the new season of House starts! I really can’t wait! Will be interesting to see how he does in Prison 
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In the mean time I’ve been catching up on all the past episodes. It’s fun to watch all the episodes consecutively.
I’m excited about the new seasons of Dirty Jobs, Mythbusters, and Dexter as well.
I think Mythbusters will probably end or be cancelled soon, or at least it needs to be. The myths they test now are just silly, and they do a lot of revisits of myths they’ve already tested. It’s just not all that interesting anymore, and you can tell that everyone on screen is bored of the show now by how scripted their chats seem to be now. but the crew is still awesome and they should do another show together.
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I’ve been messing around taking more random pictures again So here they are:
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I’ll try to write on here more! by the way, sign my guestbook so I know you came
Random Dust Storm
I was going to write about this yesterday, but my webhost was having some server problems that prevented me from adding anything to the site.
We had a weird random wind/dust storm here yesterday. It was sunny mostly, and I was sitting in my room working on the computer and noticed the house shaking. I looked out the window and it was SUPER windy. I really thought there was a tornado or something going on. I looked in the distance over the trees and seen huge clouds of dust in the air moving quickly. At first I thought it was some sort of huge dirt devil, but then noticed that there was a lot more dirt, an dirt every where, and it was moving quickly and not spinning.
I almost instinctively grabbed my camera and went outside, I went down the road some to catch the dirt clouds, but by the time I got there it was mostly cleared, but you could still see more in the distance.
It looked clear around me, but in reality it was much more dusty. The car kept filling with dirt, and I kept getting dirty in my mouth and eyes, was horrible but such a cool experience.
I’m not sure what caused this. There was a storm to the south as you can see in some of the pictures, so maybe some time of low draft or something. Not sure how fast the wind was going, but it was going super fast which you can see in the video.
I wanted to make a nice video of it, but what I took to capture video was my old droid, ha, and I hadn’t used it in a while and kept covering the lens with my finger, so I had to edit the video and ended up with only a small amount of footage.
Again, it was much crazier in person. Video or pictures don’t do it any justice. I wish I had gotten out with the film with the dirt was still thick though, but it was starting to clear up once I got out side.
Video :
Dusty
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As you can see, it started to clear up where I was, but still very dusty. Even dustier in the distance.
This is after I drove down to the area that was still very dusty in the above images. It doesn’t look like it, but it was pretty thick, but did clear up some.
this is looking back at where I originally stood taking pictures.
These are after most of dust cleared (blew away), was still super windy. I thought this view was beautiful. I’m actually thinking about uploading these in high res because it was such a beautiful site and picture. I know the gallery I use limits the size 
, but you still get the idea. Check back for larger full sized versions 
oh meh
I haven’t written in a while. Not much going on to talk about. But it’s been over a month that I’ve written something on here and I gotta add something fresh to the site, so what to talk about…?
This is an okay song by Blue October. It’s been in my head a lot lately. Was even in my dream the other night which was weird.
Blue October–Sound Of Pulling Heaven Down
I need to quit doing anything on facebook. Takes me away from this site. I actually never really use facebook, I just get on sometimes to see what people are doing. I never played any games or anything on there.
Speaking of Facebook, I’ve been messing with Google+. To be honest I think it’s a huge boring let down. A lot of people I don’t know some how can add me. The site over all is just confusing. they say its facebook+twitter, but I don’t see it. Maybe the way it lets you follow certain people by putting them in groups? I always thought the facebook activity wall was already like twitter, but again, I rarely ever used twitter. Sometimes I’d randomly go to the site to read someone’s twitter wall thing, and had no idea what I was looking at. was always random like “@fishlover yes I like cheetos, but gold fish snacks r way better!” like what the hell?
I’ve been selling most of my sites again. I got rid of the MJHQ site for the final time. this time I’ve only sold the domain. I bought it back last year so I’d have legit use of the forum database, which I merged with Xello, so that’s all cool.
I’m trying to see some other domains if anyone is interested. I’m really not into the entire website making thing right now. I like messing with my own site here and there, but I dunno, I guess I’m just getting really old.
Domains I have that I’d be willing to sell are: ThenYouDie.com, rejx.com, wow I thought I had more than that. I have own probably 6 domains in total now, which isnt too much. I used to own much more. Mostly just bought and resold them though.
I need to start blogging about issues and stuff, ha but I hate forcing my opinion out there. But that’s the point of blogging. Then again I didn’t make this site to blog about what I think. I just created this site for the hell of it, but the point of the site is about me, so I dunno why I’m so weird. There isn’t a point to having a site if you aren’t going to write up stuff that people will read. So I dunno what I’m doing, but blah!
Here is a recent random picture of me I took and edited a lil bit.
Bored…
Ditched last.fm, Zune Software is awesome!
I’ve been debating whether or not to ditch my last.fm account or keep it. It’s cool to track all the music you listen to, and share it with others, But I found myself not listening to some music so others wouldn’t see it, or over playing to a certain song or artist just so that it would show higher in my ratings. Which makes the information on there pretty much useless and false due to me forcing spamming it. Also I ended up being weird and obsessed with scrobbing the music I listened. So I didn’t want to listen to any song if it couldn’t be logged on my account, which was kinda weird.
I also love the native iPod app on my iPhone, which doesn’t scrobble to last.fm. There are third party apps that you can download that do it, but they aren’t as cool, and have huge ugly ads.
I found the software I use to play my media on the computer to be limited. I LOVE the Zune software. I think it’s the best and most visually appealing media player for the computer. But there is not a plugin for it that lets you scrob to last.fm. There are tweaks and hacks that you can get that’ll do it, but its not seamless, and very buggy.
Yesterday morning I decided to just hit the delete button on my last.fm, and erase it all. Over 13k plays erased! But I’m happy. I feel free and liberated, ha.
I suppose I looked at last.fm the wrong way. Maybe it’s just a tool to find better music, I don’t know, but I got tired of my obsession.
Now I’m using the Zune Software full time and LOVE it! I find new things the more and more I use it. No I don’t own a Zune player or an Windows Phone 7 which most people have to use Zune player for (I am happy iPhone user, but i’m force to use the dreadful and horrible iTunes crapware to sync to it 
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Even without the a Zune device, the software is still a stand alone media player, and it is so beautiful and visually stunning. It also plays back all my media without a hiccup.
I’m not writing a review, just giving everyone a heads up to this awesome piece of work.
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When you load the Zune software for the very first time, it lets you choose 3 of your favorite artists. For mine i selected Michael Jackson, Marilyn Manson, and Green Day. I think this just pins them to the quick play screen as you see in the above screenshot. This helps by providing you with the latest news and music on them. I haven’t really messed with the Zune online music. I just play my local media (mp3 and such), so I’m not sure how good all that is.
As you see in the above screenshot, it shows you the latest media on your pc, this includes pictures, movies, and music. As you can see it shows also my recent history. Yes for some reason i was just listening to a 98 degrees song.
What you can also see is that the software tracks your plays to the online Zune service. Which i think others can see on your profile. This is kinda like last.fm, but I’m not really using this feature. It’s there, but I’m not thinking about it, and wont ever even mess with it.
If you don’t want to see the Quick play screen, you can tell the Zune software to open up to your collections on start up.
It also calls your 3 artist as "pins". I’m not sure if you can manually add more "pins" if you choose.
in this screenshot you can see that I searched for Manson, and am listening to him.
A cool thing about this software is that it also searched the Zune Market place, and lets you Demo songs. I personally don’t like this feature most of the time because i simply want to listen to my local music, and when i search for a song it shows both the music in my collection in one column, and then from the market place in the second. You can drag the window on the Market place results to make it smaller. So far I haven’t found a way to disable the market place.
If you want to play music while you throw a party, or do something off your pc, you make the player full screen, and it shows info related to that artist on the screen. It displays random HD pictures of the artists, text related to the artists, including facts, and track names, and some bio info. The colors are beautiful as well, and change often. As you can see in the above picture, there is a light spot at the top, which was slowly moving lighting up different areas of the screen. The text and pictures slowly scroll/float, and its really beautiful how its done.
If you want to do other stuff on your pc while you listen to music, you can switch the player to mini mode, which stays on top of all your apps, so you can easily change song without leaving the the stuff that you’re currently doing on the computer. It’s small and takes up barely any room. It looks like one of those shiny cool widgets some people get and place on their desktop.
This program is just really cool! I haven’t used it much to play movies, and other video files, so I’m not sure if it has cool special effects for those as well, and im still exploring the program. Like i said, i find new stuff with it every time that i use it.
I just wanted to give a shout out to other music lovers. and let them know about this amazing program if they haven’t used it already.
You can download the program for free from Microsoft’s Zune site.
http://www.zune.net/en-us/products/software/download/default.htm
May–June 2011 Pictures
I’ve been taking pictures, but mostly posting them on facebook, and not my site. Figured I should post them here since i like this site much more than facebook. Here they are:
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Weird… I thought that I had more photos than that. Maybe I do… if I find them I’ll edit this and upload them as well. 
Jolly-o-Time in minecraft
My friend Matt (who provides me with this great hosting, check out his site http://www.HostMist.com) has been talking about this game called MineCraft for the past year. He always suggested that I get it. I looked at the screenshots, and videos of it, and noticed how ugly the graphics were. Too blocky, so I put it off.
However recently, I discovered that its like playing with legos, which I used to love (now I’m way too lazy to get them out because I’d have to pick them all back up when I’m done), which made me wanna try the game.
I am now inlove with it. I found myself one night staying up til around 4am just mining resources, and building my house, tower, bridges, etc. Was having so much fun.
I first started working on my tower. I made it so high that it goes to the very top of the map (the highest you can build in the game), so since I couldn’t go any higher I decided to see how long of a bridge I could make. I ended up making a sky bridge that connected to another mountain, which was very long actually. I died about 50 times while making it, but it was fun.
After that I decided my tower was too big to call my house, and decided to make a house in the middle of my bridge. Only problem with that is I can’t build it upwards due to height restrictions of the game. So I had to build house from the top down, which is way complicated, and dangerous in he game. But, I was able to pull it off. Now my sky house is about 4 stories.
I even put a huge waterfall on top of my glass deck, which also works as a quickly way to get down to the ground (you can jump in the water fall and it’ll take you to the ground).
I then got bored with all that, and decided to see how big of a mine I could make. Turned out to be pretty huge, but I’m going to try to make it even deeper.
Anyways here are the screenshots.
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My Tower, Bridge, and house:
My Hole:
My Bedroom, and waterfall!
Anyways, this game is super amounts of fun!
You can check it out and buy it here:
http://www.minecraft.net/
Lost: Freddy, Jason, lil Junior
Was bored. Wanted to test video on my iPhone.
Just messing around saying random stuff.
Learning tricks and so on. so, someday maybe just maybe I’ll be able to make a cool video. 
Found vomiting dino on mars!
So there is a story going around about a guy who claims to have found some sort of space station on Mars while exploring Mars via Google Earth.
You can clearly tell that it’s a glitch in the system. The pixels don’t match the surrounding and are a complete different color, As you can clearly see in the picture I took:
So after being disappointed with his finding, I went on my own search to find my own artifact.
I ended up finding what is clearly a fossil of a vomiting dino:
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so woot! found my first artifact on Mars! See what you can find 
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