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'm finally done with my second semester of college! Although so far, the only courses I know for sure I passed are Computer Science (with a B) and Chemistry Lab (with I'm not sure what). I did feel more confident about Computer Architecture and Chemistry class than I did with Computer Science, though. No idea about Statistics, though :(

I used to be good at math! In first grade, while the rest of the class was taught addition and subtraction, I was taught that and multiplication, and as those of you know, I took Calculus I as a high school junior and did well in it. Whatever happened to that?

Ah well, at least I get to relax for...about 12 days, because I have to take two summer classes and one of them's English II. :( So I'm probably still not going to catch up on my friends page yet if I want to have even the slightest chance of getting done with my program to prioritize everything before I need it for my summer classes.

Happy belated birthday to krickadoodle, squidmuse, barrakuda_a, hartlyn, karla_somebody, gettingoutthere, kandigurl (I think I already wished you happy birthday on Facebook on time, but still), and darkdragoonfan! (I know, I'm too pathetic to wish any of my LJ friends a happy birthday on time...)

Some funny videos I found:



( Five more like it )

So...you'll play?

(x-posted to the_number_206)

So I was looking at the profiles of my teachers for the first semester of college, and as it turns out, the number of my English teacher's office is 206. Especially interesting is the fact that it should be my college English teacher, because so far, my high school English teacher is the only teacher that I've mentioned any of my findings involving 206 (and other numbers) to. Hmm...

Is this a coincidence? Answer with a 206-word essay.

Right now, I'm unsure of whether I should go ahead and go to college in fall 2011 like I'd planned, sit out for a semester, or sit out for a year (though if I sit out, I'll have to get a part-time job instead).

Reasons I should go ahead and go to college:
- I'd have at least 3 years and 11 months to rid my mind of creative tumors before I get a job, whereas if I wait a semester or a year and get a part-time job first, I could end up having to finish them all up today.
- I've already decided a schedule of classes, and what seems like a pretty easy schedule (for me) at that; there are 2 math classes, a computer class, freshman English, and some sort of "intro to college" class (I think it's called Campus Connect or something like that). In fact, this means that freeing my mind of creative tumors before college might not be as important as freeing my mind of them before getting a job.
- My family has already paid money for it (both for college itself and for stuff for my dorm).
- The college I plan to go to has an autism support program, and while I didn't get into it due to the waiting list, the professors are apparently used to autistic students.
- The HAS (High School Aerospace Scholars for those that are new or new-ish here) camp was the closest thing to a job that I've had so far, and I made a fool of myself there way more often than I did in high school (which, of course, is the closest thing I've had to college).

Reasons I should wait a semester or year:
- If I go to college this fall, I'll only have 2 months to get rid of all my creative tumors before college, but if I wait a semester I'll have 6 months and if I wait a year I'll have 14 months.
- Considering that I'll have an English class and that the Campus Connect class or whatever it's called <pun intended="false">has</pun> essays, my schedule might pull a HAS and turn out to have 2 difficult essays every 2 weeks or something even though I was told that the essays will be easy and infrequent.

So...

Poll #1755898 I don't know what to do with my life!

Should I go to college now, or wait a semester or a year?

Go to college now! Your inner Enya-dressed-as-Mario wants you to be more optimistic!
Don't go to college yet! Get a part-time job for a semester!
Don't go to college yet! Get a part-time job for a year!
Have a poll option that doesn't have every sentence end with an exclamation point!

Stuck between this journal and...well...your journal

Time until I leave for my graduation ceremony

Time until I arrive at the church for my graduation ceremony

Maximum time until I graduate (I'm not sure what time I graduate, but I know it's between 5:00 and 6:30, so the actual time until I graduate could be up to an hour and 30 minutes less than what this countdown shows)

Once the last countdown is down to 5400 seconds (which equals an hour and 30 minutes) or less, you can find the percent chance that I've already graduated with this formula: [(5400 - x) / 54]% where x is the number of seconds left. :)

Repost and circumstance

badass_tiger
Dear LiveJournal
How long have you been on Livejournal? What major life changes has LiveJournal witnessed?

Answer View Answers

3½ years, or 42 months, or 185 weeks, or 1,295 days, or 31,083 hours, or 1,865,008 minutes, or 111,900,500 seconds.

Not many major life changes have happened. I did start my senior year, and I participated in High School Aerospace Scholars last year, but that's about it.

What major reposted entries has LiveJournal witnessed?

avashida
Tolerance 101?
If you could create/select a new subject that had to be taught in high school, what would it be, and why?

Answer View Answers

Backwards Lyrics 101 is, of course, the answer that automatically popped into my head even though I'm not quite sure how that would work.

My more thought-out answer is a class about why doing what stereotypical teens think is "cool" is rarely (if ever) a good idea. Dunno what it would be called, though, since Why Doing What Stereotypical Teens Think Is "Cool" Is Rarely (If Ever) A Good Idea 101 is too long of a course name.

Enroll

Nobody understands me. I suck. I might as well divide by zero. Goodbye cruel world.[/whatiassumeanemonerdwouldsay]

On a side note, how is being a nerd is a bad thing? I'm mad at Quiz Galaxy now. :(

Find the zeros