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40 Years - Sesame Street

I remember watching this show as a kid. The cookie monster, that yellow bird I know I should remember the name of, Hermit, surely you know what I'm speaking about. :P Today they hit 40, four decades of oldskool entertainment, cheers here to another forty disappearing years peers! On a side note, seems Google.com doesn't bother creating logos for minor events like this, but Google.se does, they make time and design for Confucius, Lego, Winter, all kinds of things, and I like that feature. :)

Tazer Hectic

I did catch that cold. You'd think that with this cold I caught I wouldn't be sitting eight hours by the box each day, but no way Jose, I'm such a tough guy I'll sit even longer just because I caught this cold that drains away my energy and forces me to do things at an everly downslowing rate. I know what I -should- do. I should go to bed, I should sleep, and when I wake up I should stay in bed until I feel like getting up. When I get up I should walk until I feel like doing anything. And when I feel like doing something, I should get that shit done. Instead of sitting like a zombie in front of the screen all day thinking "I might do that", clicking links, playing games, gathering EXP, sorting old Junk that's been lying around unsorted for almost a decade now, collecting web-comic entries, doing things that no sane individual would ever even set their mind on doing.

Am I running a fever or is this just my lost personality straying away from my main motivational focus again? Whenever I leave the computer at night, I set my mind straight, but then I go to sleep, and when I wake up the next morning and rush to the power button it seems like I skipped some major part of the procedure. The part where you plan for the day, or something, instead of spending a twelve hour passage with a memory of motivation that might have been if handled correctly floating around in yer skull. About walking, it's good for you, contrary to popular belief it doesn't drain you of energy and exhaust you from doing any other important work, in the long run it lets you focus, gain inspiration and become more efficient than you ever dreamed you could be. Without practice you'll never be able to land a punch on a Shaolin monk, catch my drift?

I'm like a thumbtack. I'm sitting there on the billboard just waiting for someone to place me on a project. I have a good imagination so I have no problem imaginating a thumbtack moving to a project on it's own, but that's beyond the point of this story, thumbtacks truly don't move, so thus I'm like a thumbtack. I sit by my computer but I don't proceed with the projects. If only a hand grenade would fly through my window, and I'd throw it back, and blow up a team of terrorists and earn a great award and become leader of a SWAT team I'd know what to do. Lead the SWAT team. Is that the problem? Seems like I'm just waiting for something to happen so I can say: this happened, and thus I did that. But nothing will happen until I make it happen. I won't lead the SWAT team unless I throw a grenade at a team of terrorists, not that I would want to anyway. Life is like a cherry, it doesn't get fun until you stir it up a little... or was the quote about a Martini? Either way, I'm just babbling on here about a mental struggle I could sort out in no time if I was just my normal me. Now I'll take sick leave, a day or two, come back fresh and start a new.

Atchoooo

Sniff. I think I caught a cold. If you're looking for a good shooting game, try this, it's kept me occupied for around two hours now. Later.

Monday, The Day It All Started, Big Post

This is like a superblog. A twentyfive blogs in one blog edition. I'll clap my hands twice if you manage to read through all of it. ;)

Today is Monday. I went to bed early yesterday so I could get up early today. I did, though my long twelve hour sleeping session didn't really go as planned. I ended up waking up five times and playing two rounds of Advanced Wars 2 before I managed to drift away into the land of dreams. Studies are BOOM still incomplete. Feels refreshing... like a bath in battery acid. That's what I'll be doing all day tomorrow, not bathing in acid, I'll be studying. I have a million things I can work on to postpone the inevitable, but I think I'll postpone the postponations and work on the top priorities for a change.

Another change this week is the shape I'm in. I stopped jogging a couple of weeks back, which was a bad step after two months of good discipline, so I'm starting again, goto(goodhshape); begin!

I read about Tony Jaa (best martial artist in the world, IMHO)'s morning workout btw, it lasts about eight hours. He gets up at 5-6, warms up, runs 10km, then meditates and does gymnastics all the way up until lunch... every day. He doesn't lift weights either. I'll be working out like my idol, 'cept I think I'll cut down those eight hours to one.. for starters.. and I think I'll skip the getting-up-at-5 routine too, I'll get up at 6 instead. The sun is way down low all the way till eight anyway, so what does it matter if I sleep or don't sleep?

October overhaul - has been evaded. I started a post on this a while back, but didn't finish everything I should have finished, so here's a massive chunk of abandoned text for you (can't just throw it away when I spent so many minutes on it :P ):

It's this time of the year .... again? I don't think it was like this - this time of the year last year - but this year it really is this kind of time. A time to get things sorted out. CyberD needs to be sorted out, CyberDB too, not Unlyrical, but I felt like sorting that out as well while I was sorting these two other sites out, so it's right in the middle of it. BobAxell needs a facelift too, infact, it hasn't been anything other than a redirect for the past five months, but I'm changing that. Having four personal websites is in my point of view a bit too much, yet I don't want to throw any of them away, and I have valid reasons for keeping each domain. CyberD is a good domain, I want it. CyberDB is the domain that comes with my hosting account, it would be such a hassle to change it. Unlyrical isn't really a problem, it's done, and there's nothing you can do about it. It's a site that sells my lyrics, so it really doesn't have anything to do with these other sites.

As for Bob Axell, that's the domain I first used for this place, but since this place is here now and is it is, I decided to turn BobAxell into a professional personal website. You know, one of those sites all the big movie stars/bands/etc have. With some personal info that isn't really personal but gives the featured character a good image, a stylish and unique layout, some goodlooking photos, a biography if there's time to make one, a shop where you can buy albums/movies/books/whatever, and maybe a gallery or section for videoflicks or things like that. So that's what I'm doing, I made an amazing layout and created: 1.) An introduction 2.) A biography 3.) A discography 4.) A bibliography 5.) A filmography 6.) A photography (more like gallery, but the word just fit so well in with the rest of them) & a contact page. That's it. The 2-5 pages are pretty empty, seeing as I haven't published any music, books or movies yet, but when I do, they will be listed there, along with a link to the shop. I also have a little fancy music player to add to the site once I get some decent music up. The Project Jenkees and Audizzity projects don't count, nor does that album I made for myself five years ago featuring homemade music (no song, except for on the last track, if you can even call it song), they're all just fun personal projects, non-commercial value. As for books, though, they're coming soon, but on to the next site of these four sites I managed to manage today.

It's CyberD! On CyberD I have tweaked the layout, as you if you are a constant visitor may notice, because it did load goddamn slow. Images have been reduced in size, code has been tweaked a bit, and some new spiffy features have been added. I've been finetuning the CSS and finishing all pages, yadadaya, and now, it's done. :) I won't have to worry about changing a thing, or completing some early under-construction features anymore... though of course in due time I will be hit with an undying urge to renew the layout. Notice the tags section, the new stylish menu, the reorganized sidebar, the lack of any "Coming Soon..." texts on various site pages. Woo.

Next, CyberDB. CyberDB was a big pile of work. I went through about half the site before leaving for summer, so now I've completed the other half of the site search and work. Going through directories, transforming old imaged lists and choppy text sections to nice clean CSS, and of course adding a few nice new features such as userbar uploading, poll in Ajax, monthly Webox site, new scripts, new translations, updated WP plugin, new graphics, finished smiley pack v2, and then some. CyberDB is done too, now awaiting future contents new, and weekly updates, maybe sometimes a few. You can read the full update info on the CDB blog.

Unlyrical? Fixed some missed domain names (I changed from .net to .com a while back), added some graphical elements, optimized it a little more for SEO & worked on the graphical interface for the Shops & Samples pages. Those two are still offline though, need a bit more work.

Bob Axell! That's me, and my site is new and functioning.

I've tuned up Axell too, updated scripts, added information & removed a few sections that were never used anyway. Saving space.

Project Jenees 2 is coming soon. I couldn't get enough of recording stuff, twas so fun! Half of the album is done and ready to be uploaded. ;) Don't expect anything spectacular though, it's an even quicker project than the first one was.

Project 2009 is back up! I skipped October so I'd have something exclusive to the book release, but November is here now, so I'm back to posting. Only two months left now. I was a bit unsure if my inspiration would last this long earlier, but it seems to be endless, I've written over six hundred poetical pieces of varied quality and length already just this year. Woah...

Why I'm Vegetarian! Why? Were you wondering? Did you even know I was? Incase questions two or three apply to your common interest, here's the quick explanation. I was allergic as a kid, so my parents stopped serving me meat (@ about 2 yrs of age) and the allergies *big cascade of confetti* just disappeared! BANZAI! I grew up, and I grew wise, and I decided to not started eating meat even when I did have the choice to. It's never been a bordercase for me, I always knew I'd always be vegetarian, and I'm glad my parents decided so way back when or I'd probably never have become one. I don't like the harvesting and caging of animals, or the hunting of wild animals when we could feed upon the green fat of the land instead, all the vitamins/minerals/proteins/etc you need exist in plants, and they taste good if you cook them the right way. I'm not a vegan, I have nothing against milk or eggs as long as the animals producing them are treated right. Humans aren't superior, everyone needs a place in society and if we should be killing lower lifeforms we could be killing ourselves instead. Some say humans taste better, and there are more humans than there are specimens of any other earthly race. I like animals, I wouldn't like eating them. They are wiser than we are in many ways, don't lose respect just because they interact differently.

Minishrimp - the Simple Calculator is a small project I threw together for university a while back. If you know Swedish there will be a simple pun waiting for you along withe the calculator. If you don't, it will still provide you with a nice and simple interface to count with. It's here. I think I might have posted about this before...

Tags, Categories, Etcetera. I'm adding a couple of new categories today. One for Flash & one for Reviews. There might just be too much flash for the Design category, and that's a different category. If you have anything you'd like reviewed, hesitate to ask, but if it's something I really might be interested in I'd be happy to leave a review.

/gallery.html">The Show is my new gallery, still not complete, so this is the first link I'm posting. Have fun!

UPD: The show is not my new gallery, link changed. Blog link changed too. Project 2009 link updated. And that 'Minishrimp' thing seems to be down as well.

Story of Stuff

I stumbled upon this site yesterday, an internetal tale of the linear cycle we know as life. Did you know that 99% of material items bought within the US end up being thrown away within a year? Did you know that our material method way of life was invented? That after World War 2 the consumer strategy was devised by the government to bring the world economy back up? Victor Lebow came with the solution we have grown to accept:

Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfactions, our ego satisfactions, in consumption. The measure of social status, of social acceptance, of prestige, is now to be found in our consumptive patterns. The very meaning and significance of our lives today expressed in consumptive terms. The greater the pressures upon the individual to conform to safe and accepted social standards, the more does he tend to express his aspirations and his individuality in terms of what he wears, drives, eats- his home, his car, his pattern of food serving, his hobbies.

These commodities and services must be offered to the consumer with a special urgency. We require not only “forced draft” consumption, but “expensive” consumption as well. We need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced, and discarded at an ever increasing pace. We need to have people eat, drink, dress, ride, live, with ever more complicated and, therefore, constantly more expensive consumption. The home power tools and the whole “do-it-yourself” movement are excellent examples of “expensive” consumption.

You'll probably learn something by checking out their video, become aware of the envionrnmental chaos surrounding, get inspired, start making a difference. I'm starting by translating the script to Swedish, so if my offer is accepted you'll be seeing my name in the site credits within a not too distant future. ;) Anyhow, go watch the movie, it'll do good. Or download it below.


32-Wads-27.zip (2352 downloads )

It's 14:51 And I Can't Sleep

And that's a GOOD thing. ;)

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