Whatever Matt Feels Like Posting

(music tag should be: Snippets of Mario, Kid Icarus, SSB, BtVS, Enya, Dido, Céline Dion, Sarah McLachlan, Moya Brennan, Matchbox 20, Rascal Flatts, & Savage Garden music thrown together randomly in Audacity)

This has been kind of a disappointing April Fools' Day because:

1) Homestar Runner didn't update at all today, even though they did for April Fools' Day 2014, 2015, and 2016, and April Fools and Halloween are almost the only times they ever update nowadays.
2) I don't think many people noticed my April Fools prank at all.

For reference, my April Fools prank was this entry; however, when I first posted it (on March 31 in my time zone, but late enough that it was April 1 already for some of you), it was an exact copy of my first entry. Then I waited a few minutes or so and changed it to a copy of a different past entry in the same way... then changed it to another after a few more minutes, and so on - basically, if I was at my computer, I'd change the entry anywhere from once an hour to once every few minutes. (At first. I gradually updated it less and less often because it seemed like no one was noticing...)

By "exact copy", that means including the subject line, repost button, userpic, tags, mood, music, location... basically, everything except the timestamp, the comments, and friends-only status [though, of course, the only friends-only entries I used were ones that probably would've been fine being public]. And anything that I intended to change each time but accidentally forgot sometimes. Though if I used an entry I'd posted in _dreams_, autism, or asperger, I added a notice saying that it was cross-posted (even though I don't think copying a community entry to my own journal years later for April Fools' Day actually counts as cross-posting).

I chose the entries semi-randomly, sometimes by going to my Calendar for random years and months and picking a random entry I'd feel comfortable posting again, and sometimes by just putting in notable entries that I remember and wanted to include in this prank at some point. Some entries were used more than once.

And just to mess with your heads even more, I thought it might be fun to come up with a hypothetical FUTURE entry and add it into the mix! That's what the 2023 year in review is for. It ended up being my favorite thing about this prank, so I left that one up significantly longer than any other single entry.


Now that April Fools' Day is over, all the entries I ended up using are listed below for posterity. (Don't expect the repost buttons to work correctly, though...)


( The entries that you could've sworn that you'd seen already and/or that they said something completely different a few minutes ago, in order of their first use in this prank )

I only waited until five days after the 7th anniversary of my LJ this time - and since the actual 7th anniversary was on the day I packed everything for college and the day after that was when I moved back into the dorm, I actually had a legitimate reason for putting it off two of those days! Go me!

(Though right now I am too lazy to tag this entry, link to the 2013 results, or edit that entry to link to this one. And the delay does mean that pickleboot and I are credited with one more comment each than we would have if I'd done this on the actual anniversary)

← 2013 2015 →

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Top Commenters on matt1993's LiveJournal
(Anonymous comments excluded from rankings)

1	matt1993	2142
2	pathvain_aelien	1195
3	glowing_dragon	419
4	rovanda	178
5	irish_ileana	134
6	adawnrae	112
7	awehla	100
8	penelopexxx	96
9	cactus_rs	54
10	eccentricrabbit	44

( 11-85 )
Total Commenters: 85
Total Comments: 4873
Report generated 8/24/2014 2:38:39 PM by scrapdog's LJ Comment Stats Wizard 1.7

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Repost 5 days later than you intend to

Here they are finally :)

I also manually added information to make it easier to compare to last year's results. The colors aren't coordinated to the amount of ranks you've went up or down, but rather to (1/y-1/x), where y is your rank this year and x is your rank last year. This means that a jump from, say, 5th to 4th is better than a jump from 23rd to 21st.

Ties, at least for the purposes of how many ranks people went up or down and the colors, are handled by ( I worded this in a weird and kind of cringey way, so I'm retroactively LJ-cutting it in 2018 ) If you weren't on last year's list, you're considered to have been tied for 48th through (how many LJ users there were, are, or will be)th place that year, since there were 47 total commenters.

← 2011 2013 →

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Top Commenters on matt1993's LiveJournal
(Anonymous comments excluded from rankings)

1	matt1993	1731 (same rank as last year)
2	pathvain_aelien	979 (same rank as last year)
3	glowing_dragon	285 (same rank as last year)
4	rovanda	151 (same rank as last year)
5	irish_ileana	134 (same rank as last year)
6	awehla	100 (up one rank)
7	penelopexxx	96 (down one rank)
8	adawnrae	84 (first appearance, thus up anywhere from 40-∞ ranks)
9	eccentricrabbit	44 (shown as same rank as last year, but now tied with xlormplover, so down 0 or 1 rank(s))
10	xlormplover	44 (down 1 or 2 ranks)

( 11-74 )
Total Commenters: 74
Total Comments: 3932
Report generated 8/20/2012 1:20:36 PM by scrapdog's LJ Comment Stats Wizard 1.7

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I think it's interesting how last year there were 47 total commenters and this year there were 74 total commenters :D

Well, after 32 days, I finally finished everyone's MS Paint meme drawings!!

...Oh, did I say everyone's MS Paint meme drawings? I meant just bender_927's, based on her interests of "mario" and "near death experiences". Yes, it took me 32 days just to finish this drawing that's only almost worth the time it took.

Oh well, at least I finished one! Here it is :)



(I'm doing these first come, first serve. Considering how long it takes, it doesn't seem like a good way to do this meme, but it's better than any other way...)

Oh, and while it does make sense to use the Super Mario World font for this since it's Mario-related and all, I actually used it solely because I've been planning to use it in PrtSc Land if I ever remake it again. I'm even planning to use it in Lightning Made of Owls so I can practice my planned speech bubble style some more. (Which is also why I bothered trying to draw really well in Paint - I need practice before I start drawing anything for either of those. After all, it normally doesn't matter how well you draw in this meme.)

This entry does not get a repost button because the entry where I originally posted this meme should be reposted (and edited) instead.

These unique interactive clocks have been distracting me all day today, so I thought I'd post an entry about them so that at least the idea for this entry won't distract me...

http://thecolourclock.co.uk/ - Takes the hour, minute, and second, divides them by 23, 59, and 59 (respectively), multiplies them by 255, and changes the red, green, and blue values (respectively) of the background color to those numbers. The effect can be pretty relaxing! Currently it is blue in my time zone, since it's just after midnight.

http://www.ruinsofmorning.net/flash/hexclock.php - Hexadecimal clock with 16 hours in a day, 256 minutes in an hour, and 16 seconds in a minute. Currently reads 0:32.D.

http://www.alphabetclock.com/ - Uses letters instead of numbers, with A=0, B=1, ..., Z=25. 26 seconds in a minute, 26 minutes in an hour, 26 hours in a day, 26 days in a month, 26 months in a year, 26 years in a century, and 26 centuries in a millenium. Since it's synchronized to UTC, it currently reads FJSYD:STM even though it's just after midnight right now. (FJSYD: is the date and :STM is the time; the first few letters of the date can be omitted depending on how specific you want to be, like how you might abbreviate 2011 to '11, say "October 24" with no year, or say "the 24th" with no month or year) Also includes a time and date converter.

Interesting finding - :ENYA is 11:11:11 AM in my time zone...

http://www.purplemassgroup.com/upload/wtf/index.html - Custom version of the previous clock that shows two more digits of the time and includes a calendar.

It's reposting time! Not really - :REPOST was a couple of hours ago

Not only is there no longer any chance of getting Ours Will You 1-Up back up on its first anniversary, if it's not back in 27 hours and 32 minutes it may never be back before the apocalypse. I better get to work!

On a note that I'd say is completely unrelated, but that doesn't go far enough, school has been REALLY hard lately. Too many things I have to be creative to do in one week.

Repost creatively