Eve of Halloween

If someone reminds me to post something, i will. Ive been quite busy myself and im trying to have a social life and get decent grades. Geez, we all need some sleep >.<

I ought to set up a queue or something- why do i keep doing this to myself...
Should I do a post on halloween? maybe...

Anyways, Happy Hallows Eve to all!

Have you ever...

..tried to imagine how you would be if you made different choices? I will admit that I do all the time- funny how in most of them i feel happier in my deluded mind...

...Like if i shaved my face, or if i told everyone i was asexual (look it up if you don't know what that is ;-]), or if i ditched a certain project, or if i did research on stock investing would i have a source of income. 
You know, that sort of daydreaming.

maybe life would be better, maybe i would regret it later. time would have told. Maybe i still have time to do some of that stuff, but i know what is too late, which is what spurs this entrance into lala-land~

Stream of consciousness...


 stream of consciousness...

Hey, i remember this really bad movie when i was smaller, it was Sharkboy and Lavagirl. I couldn't stand the main character, but everyone else i liked. I remember the part where they floated down the stream of consciousness on a banana... yeah, the plot was a little kooky too. the story had a really good, deep moral though, and it was aimed toward the little kids, the ones who would believe it more: 
if you stick to your dreams, then they become reality.

lovely thoughts.

i am still sticking to my hopes, but i always wondered if i made a different choice, or did something else, if i would get to my lifetime goals more easily...

A few days off

im on a little vacation today, ill post later this week.

Sorry, its not my fault that its summer!

Lulzsec

BEFORE YOU READ: I am sorry to start a rant about this, but i havent found any article that vaguely relates to how I see the organization Lulzsec. Also note that if you have a logical argument against my viewpoint i will be willing to hear it.


This week one if the hackers from Lulzsec was arrested and is now being tried for hacking into various major corporations and agencies. People are screaming 'good riddance for the nuisance!'. And theyre partially right. Lulzsec IS a nuisance, but no one should be breathing a sigh of relief. Not because he was only one hacker in an entire group, but because Lulzsec could be in fact giving everybody a sign of warning with these high-profile attacks, yet the people who SHOULD be heeding to it are wishing to blot it out.

I will be blunt: Our security is crap. It only gives us a sense of safety against spammers and bots, but what about actual hackers? Once a hacker gets a hold of ANY data he finds relevant, everything linked to the internet is as open as a library full of books.

So what is the warning this should be giving us? Not that we need to eliminate the crime element in the world, because obviously we've been working on that since the B.C. eras and its still here. No, we need to improve on our security, learn from their feats so that FUTURE HACKERS do not follow suit.

In case you remember from your high school language arts classes, Lulzsec would probably be sorted underneath the satire category. Satire is 'the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing,denouncing an injustice or practice.' (taken from dictionary.com)
Lulzsec is ridiculing these large and important organizations in hopes that they change their internet security and policies, but it seems that the 'big guys' are failing to read between the lines.

Lulzsec is just as they claim to be, a benign hacker community. We should be seeing them as rogue security consultants who do their work 'for the lulz'.

found at nulldevice.de

Lulzsec are not the evil in the world. 
They are warning to prepare ourselves for those who are.

PS. When Lulzsec is gone, what is the chance that whoever takes their place will be as harmless?

Well i think its true...

Well i found this picture on one of my friend's tumblr, and i found it hilarious, and surprisingly accurate...

But its missing something,

 its missing two more pics- America as seen by Americans, and Europe as seen by Europeans. Fortunately for us, I live in America, and have gone to great lengths to create the following pic. If anyone grew up in a European country, please feel free to make your own!

SCHOOL IS OUT!

Its about time!

This week has been so tiring, even though they let school out early the last three days. All those extra hours they gave us?

I slept.

Im terribly sorry!

Anyway, now I am officially going to become a senior! Just one more year, and then 2012---

Very funny.

Oh yeah, I have a theory on how the rapture and revelation will work, but i guess ill have to keep that to myself (It would be more believable than the doomsday people i promise)

Alrighty, now that school is out, Im sure some of my friends dont mind that i actually have fun with them now that there will be absolutely nothing to do! God I wish I had a car!

You would THINK we are people watching...

Its almost over

NO i am NOT talking about the end of the world! I find people who prophesize the exact day of the apocalypse outright nutbags. If you want to contest that, ill be happy to hear your case (insert emoticon here).

What i meant was the end of school! You know what that means? Either no more pre-occupation, or extra laziness, which i will welcome both (although i prefer the first option).

The time for my first PROFESSIONAL photoshoot is coming soon, and i absolutely cant wait for that. I thank MANA STARRE for choosing me to be her little photographer! We've been best friends for the longest time, and i am very thankful that i have such a trusting and honest friend!

Kerna project stalled a bit ,im sorry, but im going to have to wait for my neurons to de-fry themselves before i start again. BEFORE that happened, ive made some interesting drawings (perception is a little off unfortunately) as well as polished and concluded the second chapter. I cant wait to show everyone!

As for outside art/info, ive been quite a hermit because of testing, but if you havent seem EVE Online, you should at least read their stories- they're so amazing! Just remember that if you want to try the actual game, let me know so that i can give you a 3-week trial instead of the 2 weeks they would give you (7 days is a HUGE difference!)

thank you everyone once again!

Stories

                Has it ever happened to you? When a story begins with an amazing and fantastic expository that gets you lost in the mythical world, then a burst of conflict and it just ends? It leaves you think ‘what. The. Hell.’ And wonder who wrote this so you can go into their house and cram all their TP inside the toilet resovoir? It is most disappointing, no? OR what about when you DO play a game with an amazing story, and you just wish there  was a way to contribute to this fictional universe? I challenge you: MAKE your setting come true. WRITE what you wish to have the story develop into.

                What if you have the perfect setting, that you want developed into a story? Please do describe it, maybe someone will make something of it one day…

                Okay, ill start with painting a setting.

I found this image online AFTER i wrote this little piece

I stared at the rearview mirror in the car. Behind is nothing. Miles on miles of black pavement which stretches on into the arid wasteland. Funny, I came from nowhere, heading towards who-knows-where. I need hope.  Eventually I noticed the constant pinging to remind me that my door is still open, allowing the last of my comforts of air conditioning to escape forever. Trying to peer through the dust-swept windows, I do my best to trace the line of the skeletons of skyscrapers before me, but it is not how I last remembered. At last I start to get out of the car, minding not to touch the baking metal on my door. The City lays before, and the only sign of life is the withering trees lining the avenue. Looking around, there appears to be a sizeable bluff on my right, and a brown haze far off to my left; another storm cell is coming. Walking towards the former citadel of socialites, the first building you see is a letdown: a hydrogen station, and over the price marquee hung ‘out of service’. Hopefully someone left their car in a parking garage here. Hopefully someone decided to stay, just for someone like me.

This is crude, sets a mood and tone, but overall it paints a picture of where you are: in some deserted desert city on a post- apocalyptic world. Once you have a setting in your head, what you describe simply ebbs out into this magnificent setting anyone could suspend their belief and really get into. Now, we already know that the best have mastered this art: now they must overcome the next obstacle that most of them fail to deliver on- creating the story in this fantasy that we love so much! Unfortunately, I’ve only had yesterday to write this down, so no elaborate story here.…

                Anyway, this is your part- inspire yourself; Finish what was left off. Make your own story. The best artists are never paid to do their best, that’s why there’s so much potential out there; Imagination is simply itching for you to fill in the blanks, to give it a greater reason than just a whimsical thought. Someone out there is bound to appreciate what you create, what you sketch, draw and write. Already there are communities, fansites and clubs that crave and enjoy this kind of stuff! Everyone always has something to share…

Dragging it on- Japan

I am terribly sorry, but even though some people i know want the ranting about how to help Japan to stop, I do not mean to repeat what -they- say.


First off, Japan technically does not need the kind of help we might expect them to need- food, hygiene, and survival kits. They are not a developing country, and they can afford to give themselves aid, as Japan has the third largest economy in the world. They've already supplied themselves to rebuild, there's not much we can do to help.


What kind of aid would they need? Sure, many countries are now refusing to import now-irradiated Japanese goods, but be serious- economics is long term: think at least a 5-year time span. They're not going to go under, as nuclear disaster has occurred before; they KNOW how to recover. Simply give them sympathy, and respect as they do their best resume their daily lives, just like the rest of us.


For thousands of years, the Japanese time and again had earthquakes and tsunamis hit their homeland. For thousands of years, the Japanese rebuilt their homeland every time it ever became devastated. They reinforced their homes and workplaces with the best money can buy, and they encounter these natural disasters so often that they simply resume their work afterwards. The Japanese were prepared for this, and the world is thankful.


We, as citizens of the world, can learn alot more from the Japanese reactions during their time of peril. When the lights in the stores went out and goods flew off the shelves, shoppers rushed to return the products on the shelves once the worst passed. There was no reports of looting. Japanese news channels only reported anything that gave hope, and organized crime such as the Yakuza turned out to be the largest contributors to the recovery effort, delivering medical supplies and handing out uncontaminated food in spite of all of the risks the drivers and volunteers took on their lives to help their community. Imagine what a miracle it would be if there was order in a place of utter chaos. That is Japan.


Japan: the hub of Asian culture. It will never be gone forever.


~steviekun