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've been meaning to post some more quiz results for a while now. They're really starting to build up in the text file I'm saving them in :)

Another one I first took over seven years ago and am revisiting now:

Old result:

Originally posted by matt1993 at For once, Quiz Galaxy gave me an answer I expected

I'm so ashamed of some of my wording back then... :(

Anyway, my new result is:



Now for two quizzes I haven't taken before:

No, that subject line wasn't me having road rage. I was just describing what the quiz results I'm posting today are about. :)

( Look, I remembered to LJ-cut these BEFORE I posted it this time! )

Repost on red

Thought this was really funny:

http://www.inspiremore.com/the-play-that-goes-wrong/

And here are some quizzes I took today:

( Cut'd )

Try to make it look like you reposted this

This actually is less fitting than last time - originally, I got messenger.

Repoſte to thy iovrnal againe

Considering that glowing_dragon took this quiz one day before I first read the Forbidden Comment Threads, the last part seems almost ironic, but I do tend to undertake projects that seem impossible :)

Color me reposted with a hint
of probably-reused joke

Over the past week or so, my depression about the Forbidden Comment Threads, my ability to focus, my common sense, and my ability to speak without stumbling over words have all steadily gotten worse.

You know I've said how if I end up with too many creative vortexes stuck in my head at once, I might end up regressing? I think it's actually happening now, except most likely because of the Forbidden Comment Threads instead. I probably don't have much time left...

On some more positive notes:

( - SIX new quizzes!! )

- This is my 900th entry!!! At least it is if you include my glossary. If you don't, then my next entry (whatever it happens to be) will be the 900th.

- I changed the "# comments" and "Post a comment" text in my journal to say "I glued # blenders to my face" and "Is it Saturday night already?!" (both of which are a Garfield reference or - perhaps more famously - a Square Root of Minus Garfield reference). I've been considering changing that text ever since I took Ours Will You 1-Up down and thus made "I'm #-Up"/"Will me 1-Up" stand out as oddly-phrased. (Actually, it probably stood out like that even while OWY1U was up.) And now I finally did! I also changed the current mood text to "This mood coming through", another Garfield/SROMG reference.

Glue this entry to your journal! (well, probably not all, but maybe part of it)

Countdown to Super Mario 3D Land

Countdown to Mario Kart 7

Countdown to end of semester

You Have Your Attitude to Smile About

Things may or may not be going well in your life, but you always take time to smile a little. You know it's important to keep looking up and looking toward the future. Optimism always wins out. You're the one person always eager to see a silver lining in dark clouds. It's important that you feel hopeful. No matter whether you're having a good day or bad day, you keep smiling. A smile makes everything better!

You Are Proud of Who You Are

You see yourself as a creative and expressive person. You're very artistic. You think other people see you as friendly, happy, and charming. You tend to get along well with everyone. You want to see yourself as stable and responsible. You'd like to follow through on your promises. You identify as a compassionate and accepting person. You pride yourself on being forgiving.

You Are Unique

People find you more interesting than you find them. You are a naturally fascinating person. You're friendly and amicable enough to get yourself out of a jam. You are a smooth talker. You just want to get out there and experience the world. You don't want to be tied down at this point in your life. You refuse to let any bad luck get you down. In fact, you believe that you make your own luck.

Every repost button has a silver lining

Even though I still have yet to play Angry Birds, I went ahead and took this quiz:

You Are the White Bird

You are lovable, endearing, and affectionate. People gravitate toward your positive spirit. You are warm-hearted, witty, and even irreverent. You have an outrageous sense of humor that gets people laughing. You are very liable and charming. People simply enjoy being around you. You are an amazing friend. You are always there for the people you care about.

I also took these two:

You Are the Car

You live your life in top gear. You aren't afraid to go fast, and you actually do best at high speeds. You act on instinct, and you make decisions in a split second. Your first reaction is usually right. You are impulsive and bold. You love to make risky moves, and you never turn down a chance to roll the dice. You get impatient easily, and you're often waiting on those around you. You hate to be slowed down by anyone!

"Your first reaction is usually right." Um, no, not for me it isn't.

You Are a Bishop

You are limited in what kind of moves you make, but that only encourages you to be wilier. If you sit back and think carefully, you can be just as deadly as any of the other players on the board. It's all about using your head. While it does get annoying to be underestimated all the type, you can use that to your advantage. You can attack and retreat quickly, without anyone hardly noticing. As far as skills go, that's an excellent one to have!

"While it does get annoying to be underestimated all the type"? Your grammar is underestimated all the type. :P

Entry to journal E6