I hope 2010 brings you joy, happiness, and a sense of peace and contentment.

Raise your glass to another year gone by and let's toast to the year to come!

Cheers!

Happy New Year everyone!

"How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Thou know'st we work by wit, and not by witchcraft;
And wit depends on dilatory time."

Othello (II, iii, 376-379)

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Good things come to those who wait, right? Well, I shall be waiting then... until it's my turn.

Come and let us live my Deare,
Let us love and never feare,
What the sourest Fathers say;
Brightest Sol that dyes to day
Lives againe as blith to morrow,
But if we darke sons of sorrow
Set; O then how long a Night
Shuts the Eyes of our short light!
Then let amorous kisses dwell
On our lips, begin and tell
A thousand, and a Hundred score
A hundred, and a Thousand more,
Till another Thousand smother
That, and wipe off another.
Thus at last when we have numbered
Many a thousand, many a Hundred;
We'll confound the reckoning quite,
And lose our selves in wild delight;
While our joys so multiply,
As shall mock the envious eye.
~Gaius Valerius Catullus

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I graduate in less than a month! It's so exciting!

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1. The "go kill yourself" review. and any variation thereof. --- I don't think I need to explain why this one is a pet peeve of mine. It's completely inappropriate and unnecessary.

2. The "the medals don't work so I'm leaving a low score." --- Games are not posted solely for you to get medals. If they are, for some reason or another, broken, and you feel the need to tell someone about it, I suggest using the PM system.

3. The "I'm going to leave a low score on a really high class flash by someone well-known because I'm badass and want to look hardcore." ---This one irks me because if the submission was by any other person they'd be drooling over it. But since they have to be badass they give the "you could have done better" or "this was not your best work" sort of reviews. Stop being an arrogant asshole and leave a review according to the quality of the submission, not what you think the quality should be.

4. The "I'm going to review a spam submission with a string of curses and insults." ---Do I really need to point out the absolute futility of reviewing spam submissions at all, let alone with abuse? You're giving them the negative attention they are looking for and making a complete fool of yourself in the process. Just vote 0 and move on.

5. The "I'm going to repost this review even after M-bot deleted it because I think what have to I say MUST be read." ---First of all, M-bot doesn't delete anything, obviously (and neither does the author for goodness sake). Secondly, whatever review was posted was deleted for a reason and simply reposting it with "don't delete this" doesn't fix whatever problem there was with it. It just annoys the mods that we have to remove it again.

6. The "I like this game/movie so much I'm going to leave a thousand 0s to signify I'd give it a zillion out of ten if I could." ---Ok, everyone can see that they enjoy the game. Spamming a million zeros doesn't prove you like the game more, it just proves that you're obnoxious.

7. The "I can't figure this game out so I'm going to leave a 0." ---Typically they didn't actually take the time to go through any needed tutorials or even bother reading a walkthrough. They have just decided since the one minute they spent on the game wasn't enough to beat it, it must have some sort of problem. Don't blame the game for being an idiot.

8. The "there was a glitch so I'm leaving a 0." ---Glitches happen, they are hard to avoid from what I understand. If you felt it ruined the game, PM the author so they can try to fix it. Leaving a review about it won't solve it and just make you look mean.

9. The "I love this band/game/computer/book/singer/whateve r that you're making fun of, so I'm going to leave you a 0... totally disregarding the quality of the flash." ---Who cares if someone makes fun of something, that's almost what NG has been built on. Get over it, I doubt a flash poking fun at Sonic is not going to effect either you love of Sonic or the success of Sonic overall. Grow up.

10. The "I'm giving this a 0 because it takes too long to load." --- Get a better computer then. Or only bother loading smaller flashes. Do not blame the submission for your computer being crap.

I'm sure there are more I'll think of later. This about sums up some of the main irksome reviews for me, though.

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I'd imagine it has happened to everyone; you hear a song somewhere and suddenly you can't seem to stop thinking about it. It begins a sort of compulsion to know more about the song, about the singer, about the lyrics.

It's a weird feeling and I cannot honestly say it has happened to me all that often. But when it does I find myself suddenly thinking with a soundtrack of the music playing in the background.

Such a thing has happened to me recently. I'll not got into details about the song or anything of that sort, (and I actually ask that you disregard the details if you think they'll affect your judgement of the song) but I just wanted to share it.

His voice has a rough, emotional quality that I find myself addicted to. The whole composition is different than mainstream and recalls a sort of essence of past music styles.

So... what do you think?

I'm trying to find something poetic to say, but there's nothing there but sadness.

The death of someone close tears your heart to pieces and leaves little left for eloquence.

I love you, rest in peace.

Although it arrived a while ago, I am now unveiling it in all its glory!
Behold the mighty Pink Castle Crasher!

For those who don't know, I won it in a contest hosted by Luis. See the results of the contest here. It was great fun, and some of the entries were fantastic! Some were... well, some were absolute crap, but they were good for a laugh.

Congrats to the other two that won, and thank you Luis for choosing mine. :)

It makes me want to sing Freebird.

Joe, being the best, most loving, fantastic, brilliant, wonderful in bed, person in the whole wide world has bought me a new laptop!!!!!

I almost can't believe it! I've been using this little ibook G4 for about 5+ years now, and it has served me well and I will not hear a word against it. The main problem is now that I've moved the power adapter I have for it just can't handle the computer actually doing anything and overheats... the whole thing just shuts down since the battery doesn't hold power anymore. I haven't been able to watch flash movies or youtube videos since I moved.

SO he bought me a new one for my upcoming birthday!!! I wasn't supposed to know, but he's awful at keeping surprise secrets like that and he told me!!!!

OMG NEW LAPTOP!!!

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH JOE

It's a HP 6735s with a bunch of bells and whistles. YAY

is a cite-able research source for essays.

I was just informed by one of my professors that teachers like to go into wiki articles and change information to catch out people trying to get away with writing their papers using Wikipedia. These editions are not caught since they are done by people quite capable of disguising what they make up, lacing it with truth.

It's absolutely brilliant.

i don't really have anything interesting to say, I just wanted to make a new newspost.