Written: May 29, 2006 at 2:58AM EST
Over the last few days, I had my confidence broken for an extremely stupid reason. And with that, I ended up deleting the entire site and started over. I wrote my entry about “Jim Jones” and originally called it ‘My First “REAL” post’ and to be quite honest, thats a load of shit. Why i listened to a stupid person on what blog content should be, I will never know. Infact according to Wordpress.org a blog is
“Blog” is an abbreviated version of “weblog,” which is a term used to describe web sites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information. A blog is a frequently updated, personal website featuring diary-type commentary and links to articles or other Web sites. Blogs range from the personal to the political, and can focus on one narrow subject or a whole range of subjects.
Many blogs focus on a particular topic, such as web design, politics, sports, or mobile technology. Some are more eclectic, presenting links to all manner of other sites. And others are more like personal journals, presenting the author’s daily life and thoughts.
With that being said, the blog is MINE and its my decision what I write in it. At this point, I could care less whether or not I get thousands of visitors, or even if my coding is “up to standards.” I have always seen it as if it works in “most” browsers, I’m doing somthing right. I do the blogging and web design in my FREE TIME as a HOBBY. And to be honest I do have a life and I do not plan to spend every waking moment for the rest of my life trying to have perfect coding and reach thousands of visitors a day. Don’t like it? Go screw yourself.
And now for my braces :yuc1:
For the last couple days the wire of my braces has been moving to the right, like it normally does. But for the last few weeks the wire has moved really far over. Infact it looked somthing like this.
So because there is so much wire on the one side, it keeps stabbing the side of my mouth and it SUCKS. So i decided to cut it (and succeeded I might add 
) You’d be suprised at how hard it is to cut brace wire. Oh well. 
Written:
School is finally winding down, you wouldn’t believe how glad I am. Anyways, for English class the divided the final into four parts
I. Research Paper. 3-5 pages typed. (Not bad)
II. Speech based on Research Paper. (I hate speeches)
III. Listening with Essay. (Not too bad, but definitly not fun.)
IV. Critical Lens Essay (I HATE THOSE!)
Anyways, on Wed. we started the Research Paper, the topic of which was
. . . choose one person in history (from the given list) and then using your research, determine whether the person was a great leader, a great tyrant, or both.
now it wasn’t really a bad topic, compared to some they have given out in past years. Out of the twenty somthing kids in the class, almost everyone wanted to choose Hitler. Then of course the teacher decides to do a “Pick your topic from a hat.” Everyone eager to get Hitler as their topic ran up and choose their person. A majority of the kids recieved people they knew were tyrants. From Hitler to Mussolini, and Stalin, then others recieved somewhat different topics, like Queen Elizabeth the I and Ghandi. In an attempt to avoid the crowd, I stayed back until they finished choosing. I went up and I recieved Jim Jones as my topic. At first I thought to myself, “Jim Jones? Who the hell is he?” I figured, there you go, you wait and you get stuck with a crappy topic, but after about 20 minutes of research, I learned that Jim Jones was a really messed up man.
According to the Encylopedia of Occultism and Parasychology,
Jim Jones, born on May 31, 1931 became the leader of the Peoples Temple 900. In 1978, he had convinced 914, men, women, children to commit suicude, by drinking Fla-Vor-Aid laced with cyanide.
The second I read that, I was amazed. How could one person convince almost 1000 people to willingly commit suicide? After reading that, I was compelled to learn more. Four encylopedia/reference book articles and a book later, I had learned a lot about the man who had founded one of the worlds most well know suicidal cults.
He founded the Peoples Temple in a rented store in Indianopolis, Indiana in 1953. He (at the time 17) and his wife (21) were married later that year after their first son was born. Shortly after, in an attempt to impress his black parishoners adopted 1 black child and 2 asian children, and created what he called “His Rainbow Family.” After a few years of normal congragation, he had convinced his followers that he could predict the future. At one meeting he said that a Nuclear War was upon them and only two places would be spared, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and Ukaih, California. He then convinced nearly 100 people to move from Indianapolis to Ukriah with him. There he founded the New Peoples Church, and in a fit of power, forced everyone to refer to him as Father or Dad whenever the spoke or referred to him.
Soon after he moved to San Francisco and there a newspaper did a report on the strange behaviors of the newly founded “People’s Temple.” Afraid of what was to come, he asked for a grant from Ghana (a newly formed Communistic Country, who at the time used it as a piece of propaganda saying people wanted to leave the capitalist America and come into socialism.) There Jones created “The Peoples Temple 900,” in his mind a utopia. But the truth was, it was far from it. Food quickly spoiled from the heat and people became sick.
After the camp was established, Jones began conducting “White Night” drills. In the drills, usually early in the morning, he would come onto the loud speakers and call everyone to the Center Pavilion. There they would drink Fla-Vor-Aid that they believed was laced with cyanide. They would spray it into the mouths of infants and small children and people would sit there. After about an hour when no one was sick, he would tell them it was just a drill and to start working. After about 40 of these drills, Jones believed Ghana was planning to attack them. He called over the loudspeaker to report to the pavilion and that this was NOT a drill. A few people, fearing the worst fled into the woods. Others went the the pavilion ready to face death. \r\n\r\nYou would think people would be in shock and be extremely frightened to commit suicide in such a manner, but they were not. In fact many of the citizens of the Peoples Temple 900 sang and danced before they drank their cyanide laced Fla-Vor-Aid.
A few weeks later, on another visit from the US, a grizzly sight was found. 914 people were lying around the camp rotting in the sun. It was awful, and then Jim Jones and his wife were found, not poisoned like the others, but shot through the head.
In my opinion, Jim Jones was a terribly distressed man, but no one questioned him. It’s amazing what some people will do for what they believe is the truth.
Written: May 24, 2006 at 10:10PM EST
:zzz: I am so tired, you wouldn’t even believe it. I have been up since about 7am yesterday and I haven’t been able to sleep since. For some reason I just can’t bring myself to lay there in the dark and do nothing. So today I went through the day with the “Are you High?!?” and “WTF is wrong with you” comments all day. Always loads of fun, especially when I start cracking up at nothing and people stare.
My fun-filled day :gloomy:
Anyways I get up and theres no rice or Chicken and Dumpling Soup for breakfast. (Yes they are my breakfast :spit:). I then went to school. In art class I did a bit more on my Charcoal (sp?, too lazy to check) self portrate, then did origami. Because I have pnumenonia, I can not participate in gym, so I had to go to the library. There I read a reviewed my php and learned a bit about flat file databases from the tutorials I printed (More about the book in the post below!). I went to spanish and I got an 84% on this amazingly dumb quiz, not the best grade, but I’m happy with it. (I think i did a lot better today!) Then was homeroom. I showed off my new design for the Raider Bulletin, and then I printed more tutorials. Today it was XML. Then on to spanish and for part of the final exam we have to do a research paper on a “Leader turned Tyrrant.” Because I was the last person to make it to the front to choose (I don’t like crowds), I was selcted to do “Jim Jones” (cult leader.) It wasn’t too bad, I got a bit done. Bus ride home, then I posted. Now off to move my bed and an attempt to get a bit of work done . . . Yeah Right! :yeahright:
Written: May 23, 2006 at 9:30PM EST
wanna hear why? Probably not, but I’m gonna tell you anyways :). Anyways, for the last few days I have been working on compiling my PHP/ASP/CSS “binder” reference. Come on, who seriously wants to buy a book when theres hundreds of tutorials out there. (To be honest I do own a few books, but its always room for more. Anyways, I have tutorials from Rons Guide, Tizag, Sillyish, Quadodo, and phpfreaks. Its getting really big, lots of content! Anyways, ive printed at least 200+ pages worth of stuff using school ink/paper. They probably won’t be to happy to see how much ink/paper was used for somthing non-school related. I also showed my friends this video i posted on YouTube, Toucan Son Of Sam. It was my favorite music video when I was little and they freaked out. Hopefully boces wasn’t watching :mf_tongue: . . .
Anyways, I am probably gonna start on a new layout soon, I like this one a lot, but its probably time for a change. Any suggestions?
Written: May 20, 2006 at 10:50PM EST
I am very sorry for the downtime. If for the past few days this site has not been working for you in IE, i have figured out why. I had this tag in my header for some reason
<html style="display: none;">
which apparently hides the entire page only in IE. Go figure. Anyways, it is now working in IE again.
DNS Troubles
Mindlesstrio.com recently expired, so i renewed it. So today it finished transfering, so i changed the dns settings and its taking forever to change. By Monday at the latest everything should be working again. Thank you for your patience.
Written: May 18, 2006 at 12:56AM EST
It was brought to my attention that there was an error with the contact form. I have gone through and saw that it was an extremely stupid mistake on my part. It is fixed now, and I would like to apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused anyone.
On Another Note
I am currently adding the contests as well as some more tutorials right this minute. I promised and they are coming!
EDIT:
I have added 6 contests to the site. They can be viewed here. (Or by clicking “Visitor” and then Contests.
Written: May 17, 2006 at 5:02AM EST
Yep, I’m sick again. Pneumonia is so much fun. Anyways, went to the doctor today, and he was worried, (which makes you feel great!). So now im on tons of medecine and am out of gym until further notice, (but it doesn’t matter, I am FAILING gym due to absences now, (but mom should take care of that he he). Anyways,slept from 4pm until 10pm, so now I’m wide awake.
Sway Forum
I finally reached 500 posts at Sway Forum. It’s really not a big deal because majority of the members have over 1000 posts, but I lurk more than anything. But I didn’t even notice I made it to 500 posts, until today when i saw i had 510. So my new user title is Mindless Dictator. Also see my awesome avatar made by Makar.
As For Updates
I wrote a few more tutorials, they are simple javascript ones, but I have some more advanced ones coming, I promise. I also added a countdown, It probably doesn’t have much relevance to you, but I’ve been counting down until the end of the school year since September. We’re almost there.
New Sites
I am also working on a few new websites. Dev-Network & The Hangout <<Resurrected>>. The first is simply a forum/web design help site, not too much I can really say there. But I am really excited about The Hangout Resurrected. Think neopets, but not as cheesy (and no pets, I don’t think). The Hangout was my very first extremely bad attempt at a website. Infact thats where my username hdshngout came from. I retired it last summer, but now I want to bring it back. The ‘new’ Hangout should be opening late this summer.
And Can’t Forget about Gym Class!
This really has no revelance at all, but it was different. First we got there, and we played Line Tag. Thats where you run around the gym and tag people, but you can only stay on the lines painted on the floor, and when your tagged you had to sit on the line and create a road block. Keep in mind were 9th, 10th, and 11th graders. Below is a simplified version of the lines painted on the gym floor:
We then played this game where we had to run around in 2 circles and find your partner and do a pose, like the dev-site theres not really too much I can say here.
After that we played Red Rover, it was going fine until one kid said, “Lets link our arms in a chain.” Of course when that happens someone comes running into you and it kills. That happened to me. My friend Tom ran into my and my friends little brother, JJ, and nearly ripped our arms off. (We did manage to stop him though ;)).
After that we played Simon Says. It was quite strange. The kid who suggested it got to be Simon, but when he said “Simon Says: Pick your Friends Nose,” I quit. Come on, thats just wrong.
And finally we played Duck Duck Goose. It was strange, the kids in the class had as much fun as if they were in kindergarten. A bit strange, but it wasn’t a bad gym class at all.
Written: May 13, 2006 at 6:19AM EST
here are some pictures from my trip to Myrtle Beach. There are a lot more (yet to be developed).
More pictures are in the gallery.
View It here
Written: May 12, 2006 at 7:39AM EST
Thats right! I’m back from Myrtle Beach, rested and ready to go. I am really tired and should go to bed, but I can’t… too busy messing with my new graphics tablet! Anyways, I will be writing more tutorials and offering some new downloads in the near future. Be on the lookout!
Written: May 6, 2006 at 1:20AM EST
Thats right, I will be away for the week, and that means NO updates. I know, your heartbroken, but I seriously need the vacation. Anyways, I won’t be around to answer emails, IM’s or support for brushes or anything of the sort, until next weekend.
Also, because I am leaving tomorrow, this will probably be my last post until I get back, figured I’d share. Anyways, see ya in a week!
