Hatkirby on July 22nd, 2009 at 2:21:06pmSo, as I've said a ton, I'm totally at camp. Yes. But like, I have like totally a lot of free time! And, well, while looking around for something to do, I noticed that this computer has Adobe Flash installed, and more importantly, activated. I have a copy of Flash on my computer but I sadly lost the activation key (WHYYYYYY!?!?!?!??!?!), so I took this as a happy opportunity. :)
So, I gathered my parodying skills and wrote a script of a short video that would be a parody of Kirby, I Wanna Be The Guy, the song Umbrella by Rihanna and Saturday Night Live's "Dear Sister" sketch (I'm OBSESSED with the song in it). So like totally, using my trusty friends Visual Boy Advance, CamStudio, Audacity and Flash, I made a video!
I totally uploaded it onto YouTube. WATCH IT NOW OR DIIEEEE. jk :) But, watch it! Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVWRGPUSPUI Fav it, rate it, comment it, hug me, whatever, but watch it! It was fun to make and I think it's pretty funny, so watch.
Sorry about the bad quality, by the way. The original SWF looks better, but Flash wasn't going to let me convert it to a YouTube supported format without a fight. The QuickTime one went all red halfway through so I ended up exporting to a multi-gigabyte AVI file which was then converted to a 10 megabyte WMV file. Odd. I probably will upload the original SWF to Four Island Other when I get back from camp so you can watch the video in all it's glory.
I totally hope to make more videos because this one was fun to make, and I REALLY hope that Adobe has some sort of "I lost my activation key" service because I need that program. :)
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Hatkirby on June 23rd, 2009 at 3:32:36pmLol, time for another short randomness. Today, I was thinking about how Makefiles didn't have to be used for compiling programs, that they could be used as a recipe for anything. Then I thought, "I know! Let's make a cake using a Makefile!" :)
all: cake topping  $(COMBINE) cake topping topping: butter milk brown_sugar salt  $(ADD) butter 115g  $(ADD) milk 60ml  $(ADD) brown_sugar 220g  $(ADD) salt pinch  $(BOIL) 3m cake: wet_mix dry_mix  $(COMBINE) wet_mix dry_mix  $(BAKE) 350F 75m  $(COOL) 10m wet_mix: eggs sugar vegetable_oil vanilla  $(BEAT) eggs eggs eggs  $(ADD) sugar 400g  $(ADD) vegetable_oil 355ml  $(ADD) vanilla 10ml dry_mix: flour salt baking_soda  $(ADD) flour 375g  $(ADD) salt 6g  $(ADD) baking_soda 5gThe recipe described is the Caramel Coffee Cake from Wikibooks. Let it assemble before using the linker. Enjoy. Lol :)
A SIDENOTE: When writing this post, I was trying to indent the command lines in the Makefile so that it looked right, but I was tricked by my own code: My pre BBCode no longer preformatted the text, &nsbp; was converted into text, and the
indent trick messed up the formatting. I tried adding a BBCode that preformatted the text, but I was unable to commit as, on my development computer, I'm currently working on the new layout for Four Island. Finally, I thought of making a transparent image and putting it on Four Island Other. It workded. :)
Hatkirby on June 21st, 2009 at 12:31:42pmI haven't posted in a while, and I was feeling rather insane, so I wrote a list of ten people you don't want to receive a call from. In order from worst to best. Best being relative, because you don't want a call from them. Obviously. :) Anyway, it's a comedy. Weird. :)
- Samara Morgan
- Ellie Layton
- Your mother's ex-husband's son who thinks you're hot
- The washing machine repair guy
- Your toaster
- Charlie the Unicorn
- GlassCo, the leading company of making glasses of water
- Skype Test Call
- Mary Poppins
- Your ex-boyfriend who's now going out with your sister
Whew, that felt good. I'm way too formal on my blog, I have to let go sometimes with random posts like this. :)
EDIT: Btw, I found out what was wrong with the POTW. When I did the Facebook poll, I must've pressed submit like three times because there were three records from that poll in the table, so everything got offset and ick. I deleted the naughty records and realigned the others, so the POTW should be healthy again. :)
Hatkirby on June 14th, 2009 at 7:57:28pmRight, this is a short post to demonstrate my insane obsession with the fourth episode of the second season of the new Doctor Who, The Girl In The Fireplace. I was playing with Nonsense and it randomly generated this:
#853 + (763) - [X] Tamasys: I am talking to Pyro in a fireplace.Omg! TimTam's The Doctor and Pyro's the Madame du Pompadour! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?
Hatkirby on May 27th, 2009 at 8:10:41pmUm.... yeah, this post was meant to be posted months ago.... so.... okay. :) And thanks to Drifty for nagging me to post something, because my blog was dying.
Continuing on with my new trend of laughing at the messed up things I did when I was younger, I give you "The Mystery of the Ancient Fountain of Dreams", an RM2K3 game I made. Yes, the title is longer than the legal limit. Anyway, I was looking through it the other day because that was just the thing I was doing and I found some pretty stupid things in it that really made me LOL.
Warning: This game is based around the Kirby universe and contains aspects from certain Kirby games. If you have an aversion to Kirby coughDriftycough, you may not be interested. But then again, you may be.
The game starts out by asking you what you'd like your name to be. Don't know why it does this as during the entire game, you are referred to as "Kirby Star." A short movie then plays which was terribly made and consists of only 5 frames that last about a minute each. Weird. Plus, it makes a incredibly bad ASOUE-reference in the fourth frame by trying to relate two completely unrelated things.
You then wake up on a mountain cliff. What the negative? What's worse is that the mountain cliff is called the "Drian of Peace." I must have been on drugs. There's a soldier-guy standing there and if you walk by him, he tells you (after you call him "handsome") that the "Sultina of Drivsalkanty" wants to see you. Wowwwwwww. I was really bad with names, apparently. And "Sultina"? Is it just me or does that sound like a rasin? Plus, if you talk to that soldier from the side instead of walking in front of him, he says "OLA AMIGO."
The Sultina looks like a nun. But the conversation follows very casually, from Kirby's "Doy, I do!" response to a question to the Sultina's todo list for Kirby: "Find the Fountain. Defeat Nightmare. BOOM. Dreamland saved." Weird. Also funny is this short snippet: Kirby asks "Oh my gosh, are you serious?" and the "Sultina" says "Does this face look unserious to you?" Besides that not actually being a word, the face next to the text doesn't actually look that serious.
The Sultina also gives you a sticker which she says will make the King of "Drinia" trust you. Wow. A sticker. If you walk a mile northwards of her house, you can find the King guarded by one stupid guard. Actually, you can only see the King's mustache and below. He's too high up on the screen so most of his face got cut off. The King then will sell you stuff. He's a King, but he's selling you stuff. Weiiiird.
Next, there's a pyramid to the west with "Nightmare" in it. You have to battle him. He's pretty hard. After you beat him, he screams "Nooo!!!! How could you beat me? I will be back! Yes! Very very soon!" He vanishes and these random Kirbies appear, to which Kirby tells them that falling asleep on a mountain cliff made him want to take a vacation at a resort. WTN.
Two weeks later, Kirby's lounging around at Rainbow Resort and weird stuff happens. Kirby goes to bed and starts talking to someone who's not there. Suddenly, the walls freak out and Kirby gathers his imaginary friends to go do battle with Meta Knight. They appear in this random (carpeted) outdoor area that is full of petrified fountains, barrels of who-knows-what and beds (like in Superhero Movie :) lul). Not only that, but there are also spastic boulders and strings of rocks moving southward like snakes. Kirby then stands on a random square and gets shot by Meta Knight. Therefore, he is not in any of the ship scenes.
Kirby's friends somehow get onto Meta Knight's ship and one is making faces into a camera. Wait a minute, that's not a camera, IT'S A CANNON. :) The scene changes to a diliapitated room where a hostage conversation takes place, but there is no one there. Plus, there is a random boat that looks like it's in water but it's actually on the floor and the floor is messed up with random tiles. And at the end of the conversation, fog fills the room. Plasma Kirby then battles this random thing that I cannot identify (though my siblings insist on calling it "Yogi Bear")
Scene cuts to the main deck where Dark Matter shouts "Release the main weapon!" after which it starts snowing. Dark Matter and Nightmare merge to form "Dark Nightmare", which, for some reason, looks like a hybrid of a dragon and a clown (in chipset). In battle, it looks like.... I don't know. Really weird. After you defeat him, he shouts "NO! YOU CANNOT DEFEAT ME!" Meta Knight then fuses with the thing to form "Meta Knightmare" which looks like the Grim Reaper (in chipset).
Then the scene cuts to a random Kirby running in place in the carpeted Sleepy's commercial from above. Then it cuts back to the ship. Random. There is a battle and stuff. After the battle, the scene cuts to a random building that looks like it's in the middle of a desert. The Kirbies are all in it, talking. Most of them are in a row except for one who's looking at them all and one who's randomly standing in the bottom-right corner. I like to call him "Time-Out" Kirby, because he looks like he's having a time out. lol.
There's some strange scenes after that and then Kirby returns to the "Ancient Fountain of Dreams" to re-battle Nightmare and then the game goes into OMG Destiny! After that, there's battle, and then the "credits". I always had this thing about making the Credits of my games a big deal. This.... wasn't my best effort. Especially considering the extremely high number of copyright mistakes I made. I'm pretty sure I didn't create Kirby and Nightmare :). There's a lot of lawsuit-factor in there :).
Anyway, yes, it's really random and quite funny at times. I thought that if anyone was interested in playing, I'll put it up for download. Because it's RM2K3-based, it requires Windows. However, there's a walkaround! If you are running Linux (preferably Ubuntu), this game has been tested with
wineand it works fine. The only problems are a) the background music doesn't work and b) the video at the beginning of the game causes WINE to crash. To get around this, you can load Save File 1 which puts you right after the video has ended. :)Anyway, download TMOTAFOD here! You know that was an abbreviation, riiight? :) Also, because this game has a lot of battling in it (I don't like the battling), I added a little cheaty. When you go to the "Sultina"'s house, talk to her bookcase and you'll automatically grow to level 99. That way, you can skip the battles with little difficulty and focus on the (probably unintended at the time) comedy aspect of the game.
EDIT: Several people (read: two people) reported recieving an error when trying to download the game and I had no clue what the problem was until.... I realized I had mispelled TMOTAFOD. I put a T a the end instead of a D. Sorreh! I've updated the link now so you should be able to download. Thanks! :)
Hatkirby on January 30th, 2009 at 12:44:12pmSince the Fourth layout was released, my admin panel has had the sentence "Welcome to the ubiquitous administration panel!" at the top. I haven't a clue what that word means and I don't know why I put it there. So, I finally decided to get a dictionary and find what it means.
**u.biq.ui.tous** (yoo bik`we tes) ***adj.*** present, or seeming to be present, everywhere at the same time; omnipresentEverybody bow down to the all-seeing admin panel! Lih, that was weird. I have to be more careful when choosing words that I don't know. :)
Hatkirby on January 29th, 2009 at 12:30:38pm
Remember back when I was being nostalgic about old layouts when the 6th layout was released? Remember I was pining for a supposedly non-existent screenshot of the elusive Layout 1? Well guess what. I have found one.
I found it while traversing Wikipinia one lazy day. I found, in my User hierarchy, an old list of websites I hosted, with other information about them such as launch date. Upon opening Four Island's page, I gasped in amazement as I saw, staring at me, the long-sought after screenshot of Layout 1. :)
I can't believe how much Four Island has changed since that. Does this site even slightly resemble the one in that screenshot? Plus, back then, I knew a lot less about blogs. I even remember thinking that posting once a day is too much. Now I'm concerned about posting too little. :)
You may notice a discrepancy in that screenshot. As you know, The Fourm wasn't released until March 30th 2008. However, the third layout was enacted December 3rd 2007 and there's a link in that screenshot entitled "Fourms". Well, Four Island did have a fourm before Layout 3. It ran miniBB fourm software (which was a mistake because that resulted Four Island being blocked from a certain place for a long time) that wasn't that good. It was removed October 22nd 2007.
I haven't updated my Wikipinia user pages since forever, but there's a lot of interesting information in there. For instance, the original release date of Color Pencils was April 27th 2008, even though everyone thinks it's May 5th 2008. Weird. :)
Hatkirby on January 3rd, 2009 at 12:31:48pmI wanted to start this post off by saying that I had come down with a case of writer's block, a severe condition in which authors and bloggers simply stare at their text editors, unable to write or think and that I'd saved this post in my reserves just in case I came down with this terrible condition, but then I realized that I was copying too much from Humorix. So, instead, I'll start like this:
Recently, I've been reading Humorix again. It's so good! I love it! I so badly want them to continue doing to because it's so funny and good, but sadly, it is not to be.
It is becoming clear that I am obsessed with Humorix. During Four Island's extended downtime, I started a Wordpress blog called "False", which was pretty much a parody of Humorix. However, instead of containing Linux humor, it contained Four Island humor, including all of Four Island's regulars.
For instance, the first story run was about Four Island switching to Wordpress. There was mass hysteria, cats and dogs living together and I had recieved the title of "clinically insane". :)
The next thing was an article on Smiley actually updating his website. Then, akin to Humorix's ''Crashback'' feature, the next post was about the fact that he actually did update his website. However, I then pointed out that Atmos hasn't updated for years.
There was a big series going on in it about Gryphic and the Color Pencils War. It started with Gryphic posting American English on her blog, which people found suspicious. Next post, she posted on her blog an admittance that she was not actually Gryphic, a robot dispatched from the "American English Agency" had locked her in her closet after she posted "Colour 4eva" [sic] and had been writing posts for her ever since. I do not remember why the robot finally cracked, but I do remember paramedics carrying a half-dead Gryphic out of her closet on a stretcher. She was fine by the next post, though, thankfully. :) I think she then sued American English Agency over her blog, a.k.a., she wrote the lawsuit as a blog post. There was a further conspiracy about Gryphic and Color Pencils that I cannot quite remember. It was good, though, and I miss it a lot.
There was this thing about TimTam going insane after being interviewed for something and running out into the desert, but I was probably on cupcakes by then. :) I think it had something to do with this Humorix story, like TimTam was accused of doing that to Apple and then he went insane. I don't know, it was funny.
Sadly, I cannot post the actual posts or the hilarity I miss. There was a problem with the posts, I do not remember what it was. Something, perhaps, with the emoticons, or perhaps the declarations. However, I wrote a PHP script to automatically change all of the posts so the problem was fixed.
Oops. I made a mistake in my script, I forgot the "WHERE" clause in the "UPDATE" command. Stupid me. Every single post was replaced with the contents of the last post written, which had something to do with JAL making a website about saving the children.
That annoys me greatly because I remember LOLing at some of those stories, and I enjoyed the entire Color Pencils fiasco. I liked writing deliberately false news stories, but I wouldn't have the drive to support an entirely separate blog full of it. It would be fun, though.
Perhaps it could be a collaborative project, everyone writes a false news stories, series can build upon others and more fun. That would be fun. And then, there'd be a false news site other than dead ol' Humorix for me to read. And that'd be yay. :)
Hatkirby on December 31st, 2008 at 12:31:22pmWoo-hoo! Today's the last night of the year 2008. Tonight Four Island shall shed its red calendars and instead don the blue ones. It will look very strange as we've been looking at red calendars for an entire year. But, change is good. Sometimes. Not really. To some people. I guess. :)
Other websites, apparently, like to predict what will happen in the year to come. These predictions seldom come true unless they are highly cynical, so let's get started!
January 15th I release Layout 7, much to the annoyance of Bluemonkey who wished to release his BluemonkeyBlockLand first.
January 21st I release Layout 8, because random change is fun.
Feburary 2nd I re-install my operating system for no apparent reason.
Feburary 5th Everyone decides that they hate Layout 8 and thusly I revert back to Layout 7.
Feburary 19th In a fit of temporary insanity, I switch Four Island's blogging engine to Wordpress.
March 31st I finally break through my procrastination and switch back to my homebrew blogging engine.
April 4th Someone realizes that I've removed Wordpress and people start coming on Four Island again.
April 22nd phpBB discovers a critical security hole in it's software. In honor of Tri's CIEday, I am too lazy to upgrade The Fourm and someone exploits it, sprinkling pron all over My Little Art Gallery.
May 6th I realize that I accidentally committed my password to source control again. Time to change all of my passwords....
June 7th Much to my annoyance, my defective router spontaneously combusts on my birthday.
June 17th Due to a fault in the space-time continuum, the date June 17th is skipped over, thus allowing conversations that never happened to stay that way.
June 28th I finally have enough time (and I stop procrastinating enough) to buy another router and Four Island goes up.
July 4th I celebrate Independence Day.
tonsofpron.comcelebrates "Send Spam to Starla" day.August 25th Because of Opposite Day, people decide to comment on my blog posts.
August 31st Yahoo misplaces my domain records and I lose the right to the domain "fourisland.com".
September 13th I inadvertently manage to mess up the Four Island source code at the same time as losing FourStar (my memory stick), thus leaving no backups, yet again.
September 14th I finally remember that I use a version control system and run
hg revert --all.September 22nd Finally noticing their mistake (because it's renewal day), Yahoo returns my domain to me and charges me extra for "domain transferral".
September 31st Another day, another OS. I install SLAX onto my server computer and immediately regret it.
October 5th I release Layout 9. It looks a bit like the still delayed-by-procrastination TGS site....
November 9th I will post a tutorial on my blog that people actually find interesting. Sadly for me, though, Slashdot decides to link to it. My SLAX server soon explodes from the strain.
November 31st I actually manage to acquire another server computer. I install Ubuntu Server 10.56 on it and praise the fact that I had backups.
December 12th Due to a security hole in the latest version of
beep, someone hacks my server and, much to the delight of Four Island's small group of regulars, reverts the layout back to 6.So, there we are. That's my list of things that cannot possibly happen next year. (Well, except for the layout changes.... and possibly the OS re-installations....)
I hope you got a laugh out of that. And now, please enjoy the new year.
Hatkirby on December 30th, 2008 at 12:31:50pmThere is no conspiracy. However, if there was one, the funniest would come from Humorix, a Linux humor site. Sadly, however, its editors posted their last post January 10th 2005, a long time ago.
However, it still has enough material to allow you to browse through its archives when you're bored. In fact, I used
wget -m<span style="display: none">utlilate</span>to mirror the entire humorix.org so now I can read it whenever I want, even though I'm offline most of the time now.You've probably heard of Humorix before. Previously, I posted an article about their "Nonsense" program that was mysteriously deleted. Strange.
Coincendentally, there is a lot of humorous stories. Why did they stop writing their site? I don't know. It was very good and it was going for a long time. So long, from 1998-2008. Actually, it was really only going up to 2004. After that, there were only a few articles a year.
So yes, that's Humorix. It's good.
This post was never posted. You didn't see anything. There is no UGGGLAY (Uber Good Great Group of Linux Activists Yellow) organization. There is no conspiracy. There is no spoon. This is a joke.