I Should Be Doing English Work Now, But Meh

I guess I suck for not posting here in a while. School has been such a bitch to my free time, so I'll take some of my English work time to post. It's simple poetry analysis anyway.

I've recently been learning Japanese on my own, with the inspiration of it coming from my friend Mei, who is half Japanese and is always doodling Kanji on her arm (hope she doesn't find this :P).

I realized in speech class how nervous I get in front of ~30 people. I seem to always make pauses.

EDIT ON 5/1: I know I said brb when writing the post, but then after my dinner, I started working on my English homework, which took the rest of the night (not really, I just kept getting distracted).

School today was boring as usual, though I finally got back my results from my persuasive speech in Speech calss. I ended up with an B+, which was a lot better than I expected to do.

Got KSSU, Pokemon Platinum, and Sonic Chronicles last weekend. Haven't gotten a chance to play SC, but I must say, I'm impressed by Platinum. I'm the kind that didn't see any reason to buy Pokemon games after Crystal came out around 2000 (though I got Leaf Green for my 11th birthday, I never played it much). The only thing that actually motivated me to buy Platinum was that it was available at Luna Video Games when I went in, and there was nothing else there to buy, so I got that.

Anyway, I'll probably update this blog more, and give it a less depressing layout :P

Happy New Year, etc.

Merry new year to everyone! There are just a couple things I wanted to jump into

I'm finally back to my good ol' laptop. The charger for it went out, and I was suck with an older laptop, which I had luckily installed Xubuntu onto the day before the problem started.

Clear Channel, the radio giant, cut 9% of its workforce this week, and San Diego was deeply hurt by it.

The Clear Channel building lost around 50 people from its staff.

Xtra Sports 1360 has 1 person left on its staff
Many other stations lost staff.
Rock 105.3 got hurt pretty bad by it. Jay, the producer, was cut. Boy Blunder/Producer Rick was cut from the station, who had been there since around 2004. The Mikey Show lost 2 of its on-air crew, Sean and Zeth, which really sucks, because I'm a big fan of the show.

Install A Font in Ubuntu Using Terminal

Just a quick tip to those wanting to install fonts in ubuntu, here's a quick how-to.

1. Open Terminal

2. type sudo cp (path to font, ex. /home/bzm64/desktop/triforce.ttf) /usr/share/fonts/truetype/custom

3. Terminal will prompt for your password. Type it in, and hit enter

4. You're done. Go check to make sure that the font is install at the path you installed it in.

Fox Sucks, Ubuntu switchover, etc.

To any of those who are eagerly awaiting updates to my blog: get outside a little more.

Completely forgot what I was going to post at first, because I found out that Fox has decided to cancel King of the Hill after 13 grand seasons, to make room for bullshit animated shows: ex. The Cleveland Show.
gg Fox, you lost a lot of viewers.

Also I got tired of using Vista, so I switched over Ubuntu 8.10, which is pure awesome.

[url=http://i34.tinypic.com/ok8rxy.png]Here's a screenshot of my desktop[/url]

I guess I'll try to update this thing a bit more (when was the last post, September?)

ExGFX + Custom Block = SMB1 #-# Screen

About a few days ago, I went through some of the old rom hacks I did for Super Mario World. One of them was a SMB1 remake with SMW GFX. Then an idea popped into my head: "Why not try to make the preview screen before a level like in SMB1?" I worked on it the past few days and, as the picure above shows, was actually quite successful. Pressing any button brings you to a remake of 1-4, including a block that when you touch it, the boss music starts (bet you know where that goes in the level ;) ). I'm not looking for this to be the epic remake of the year, since the last good SMB1 remake for SMW was SMBDX by peter_ac.

3 Years, Really?

As some of you may know, today is August 29th, and is the 3 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall in Louisiana. In the free time I had today, I looked back at the past three years to see how much has changed. Many businesses I remembered (Canal Blvd. Super Market is my most memorable) are now gone, with no chances of coming back. People I knew have moved to places such as Texas or Baton Rouge. And most importantly, [i]I[/i] have moved, from New Orleans to San Diego.

I'll post later about Gustov and such, but I have to get to sleep. The LSU game tomorrow has been moved to 8:00 A.M. PST, and I don't want to mis that ;).

I'm Bored

So, I moved in about a week ago. I didn't get a chance to post until now because I was at Disneyland. Just a tip, NEVER try to keep your head forward on California Screamin', you WILL regret it D:. I've unpacked all of my game systems (about 20 systems), and I decided to see how many games I had. I have...150 video games, worth a little more than $7,000. I was completely shocked it was worth that much. I'm wondering how much E.T. for the Atari 2600 added to it.

Link to Gamespot account with names of games I have:

http://www.gamespot.com/users/BetaZeldaman/games_table?mode=own