Well, August is over, so that means Matt1993 Nostalgia Month is over - so I changed my LJ and DW styles and userpics back to what they usually look like. (If you met me during Matt1993 Nostalgia Month and therefore don't know what I'm talking about, see this entry, or see it on DreamWidth, and then maybe see a few entries after it.)

If you do know what I'm talking about, you're probably thinking: "Waaait a minute, there's still something here that looks different from what I remember... Sure, the background went back to yellow or other yellow and Anya, Noma, Ricky, and blushy guy went back to not being as badly-drawn, but something is-- Wait, are these MY thoughts that are showing up in this entry?! Is this dork's journal reading my mind?!? I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 100. It's 47. Okay, that's just scary. I'd better not start thinking about my darkest secret..."

And to all that, I say:

1) Um, the "blushy guy" is me. And the other three are Enya, Roma, and Nicky - it says so right there on the userpic. Speaking of which...

2) Yes, remember how I asked whether or not some of my userpics are legible enough and then tried to make more legible versions of some of them? But never got around to uploading those as userpics?

No, of course you don't remember, because that was years before I met at least half of you, and it's been so long that those of you who were around for it probably forgot all about it. So to refresh your memory:

one
two
three
four


Anyway... I finally got around to that - or at least, I hope I updated all the ones I meant to! Four or three years later. I still haven't even updated my sticky "list of userpics in order added" post to include these updated versions OR the 2009-style versions (retroactive or not) - or any versions of my userpics besides "what they normally looked like from late 2009 to the first half of 2017". And due to a glitch on LJ, now not even those will show up in that entry again until I edit all of the image URLs to have "https://" instead of "http://" :( *

I guess that makes me the Enya of userpic updating... But hey, I finally finished one thing I started, at least! :)

3) Don't worry, your darkest secret is safe with me. I make no guarantees about your second-darkest secret though! :P


Now to go edit every entry and comment I ever made to fix all the userpics that are broken now. :(


*They need to call HTTPS something different - I keep wanting to use that as the plural of "http". "I need to change all the https to https!" ;)

Since certain past years and dates (especially starting with 2015) sometimes still sound futuristic to me when I think about them, I thought I'd make a poll about it.

Poll #2062591 Forwards to the Future

What is the earliest year that you have, at some point in your life, thought of as the distant future?

1983 or earlier
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2021 or later

What is the earliest year that you still sometimes think of as being in the distant future?

1983 or earlier
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2021 or later

What is the earliest year that you still almost always think of as being in the distant future?

1983 or earlier
1984
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2021 or later

I think my 1, 9, 2, and 0 keys want a break now. :)

(I say that right before I have to type all those years one more time for the tags on this entry...)

Time-travel to your journal

Happy New Year everyone!

I'm finally gonna post what I gave and received for Christmas even though it's still an incomplete list. I wasn't trying to make posting this around the new year and posting my New Year's memes around Christmas a tradition by doing it this way two years in a row, but I guess it happened anyway.

← 2012 2014 →

What I got:

- Super Mario 3D World (as I've mentioned) from Mom (and she also preordered Mario Kart 8)
- Wreck-It Ralph game for 3DS
- Mario Party: Island Tour (although I can't play it all the way yet because my R button broke again :( )
- Portal and Portal 2 from ellaina02 (The first two Xbox games I've ever owned. I'd realized this year that I've thought "This Xbox game looks cool, but I don't think it'd be worth getting an Xbox just for this one game" enough times that it might be worth asking for an Xbox and some of those games for Christmas. Except I eventually decided I'd rather have PC versions of them, so that's what I got. :) )
- DVD of Monsters University
- The Hyperbole and a Half book and Garfield: From the Trash Bin from pathvain_aelien
- "I ♥ Enya" T-shirt (contrary to what this userpic implies, I didn't have such a shirt until now) from Jake
- Garfield "I hate Mondays" 2014 calendar from Mom
- GameStop gift card from my roommate
- $50 from my grandparents

What I gave:

- I got Mom an Air Supply CD, a new pair of headphones, and a butterfly needlepoint
- I got Dad a subscription to a magazine I thought he'd be interested in
- I got my grandparents a turtle solar light for their garden, since they like turtles
- I got pathvain_aelien a book or two, some supplies for knitting, and I think something else
- I got Jake some supplies for painting
- I got Nace filters for his humidifier
- I got my roommate a DVD of the Mortal Instruments movie

And there was more (because I know I got ellaina02 something), but I don't remember it all now and I probably have some of these mixed up with things that I considered giving until I decided on something else to give.

Yes, I'm a bad person for not remembering what I got everyone. You don't need to remind me :(

Speaking of me being a bad person... what entry was the last straw now? Because a couple of recent entries in my journal don't have any comments at all, so I feel the need to ask again...

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National Pi Day
How many digits of pi have you memorized?

Answer View Answers

3.1415926535897932386... I don't remember beyond there.

*checks to make sure these are correct*

GAH! That last decimal place I typed shouldn't be a 6! It should be a 4, then a 6!

So, despite my grapheme→color synesthesia, I have yet to memorize pi to more than 18 decimal places (19 digits altogether). Sad. :(

I did know that the 8 before it was the beginning of a string of six nonzero even digits and that no two adjacent digits in that string are identical, though, so I guess I can say I have log(10¹⁸ × (10/3)⁵) (because there were 3 possibilities for each of the digits after the 8) = log(411,522,633,744,855,967,078.18930041152...) = 20.614393726401687813524860483724 decimal places memorized! (or 21.614393726401687813524860483724 digits altogether) Of course, that isn't much better...

EDIT: Thanks to the Nintendo 64, I think I finally figured out a way to remember the last two of those even digits I was talking about! :D

http://muldersbigadventure.com/markov/

Similar to Garkov, except instead of Garfield comics it uses X-Files transcripts and screenshots. Neat! It's a lot harder to find funny stuff with this than with Garkov or the Garfield Randomizer, though...

EDIT: Finally found an interesting one!

POTXF #3 →


EDIT IN 2018: It's gone now, but luckily I remember most of what it said:

SCULLY: This man's been shot.
MAN OTHER THAN MULDER (I remember assuming he was Cigarette-Smoking Man but not being sure): !!!
SCULLY: No aliens. Have you looked outside, Mulder?
MAN OTHER THAN MULDER: (with mouth agape in a bit of a smile) ...

EDIT: Another good one I wanna keep:

( LJ-cut time )

You already know the truth. I assumed that was
the address of that warehouse?

http://www.cleverbot.com/

Talking to CleverBot is hilarious! Except when it makes enough sense to seem like I'm having a legitimate conversation. Then it's just scary.

( Half of a conversation with it )

I'm not a repost button, I'm a real human!

loved4life89
Sins of c/ommission
Which do you tend to regret more: things you wish you hadn't said or done or things you wish you had?

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Definitely things I wish I hadn't said. There's so many of those that no matter what I do, there's often something about it that reminds me of one of them.

Repost to--Oh, that was SO dumb!--your journal

Hard habit to break
Do you have any bad habits that negatively impact your life? Are you trying to overcome them or have you learned to live with them? How do they affect you on a daily basis?

Answer View Answers

I'm not sure if this would count as a bad habit, but for me, it's forgetting stuff. I am VERY bad at remembering things, and it's really embarrassing when I'm reminded about them.

I've determined that I most likely won't ever overcome my forgetfulness, though if I count how many things I have to remember, it helps me know when I forget something.

Forget to repost this

I just finished spending 3 hours writing a rough draft of a rough draft of my research paper... I'm so wiped out. *passes out, just happening to hit Ctrl+V to paste the obligatory quiz and submit this post*



Rawr

Well, due to some hole in the fabric of space and time, I passed the essay portion of the COMPASS. Hole in the fabric of space and time, you and I are gonna get along just fine!

Also, since I just now found out about this survey:

TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name:	Matt Aaron
Birthday:	July 14, 1993
Birthplace:	Fort Worth
Current Location:	Fort Worth
Eye Color:	Blue
Hair Color:	Brown
Height:	5'10" last time I checked.
Right Handed or Left Handed:	Right
Your Heritage:	I don't really remember, but I think I am part German.
The Shoes You Wore Today:	Athletic Works
Your Weakness:	Essays
Your Fears:	Essays
Your Perfect Pizza:	Pepperoni. Only kind of pizza I like.
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year:	Not to say anything that I wind up regretting later in life
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger:	I don't really know what my MOST overused phrase is, but the only phrases I overuse are backwards music-related phrases.
Thoughts First Waking Up:	ANOTHER school day?!
Your Best Physical Feature:	The mustache I've been having to shave and will eventually let grow
Your Bedtime:	10:30 PM
Your Most Missed Memory:	Every summer I ever had
Pepsi or Coke:	Water
MacDonalds or Burger King:	MacDonalds. Except I spell it "McDonalds". Does that make me weird?
Single or Group Dates:	I've only been on single dates
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea:	Water
Chocolate or Vanilla:	Chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee:	Can I use a lifeline?
Do you Smoke:	Definitely no. I'm only 15 anyway.
Do you Swear:	Holy whole hand dealer no, but I use backwards music-related substitutes a whole cattle-notin' lot.
Do you Sing:	Sometimes, but not often
Do you Shower Daily:	Not daily. About 5 days a week.
Have you Been in Love:	*sigh* Yes.
Do you want to go to College:	Yes
Do you want to get Married:	Very yes
Do you belive in yourself:	No, I don't "be live" in myself
Do you get Motion Sickness:	No
Do you think you are Attractive:	I'd be more attractive if I could keep my mustache.
Are you a Health Freak:	No, but I have freaky health.
Do you get along with your Parents:	Sometimes.
Do you like Thunderstorms:	No, they remind me of the power going out, which reminds me of my computer not working, which reminds me of TORTURE!!!
Do you play an Instrument:	I used to play the piano, but I'm out of practice.
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol:	No, I'm only 15.
In the past month have you Smoked:	No, I'm only 15.
In the past month have you been on Drugs:	No, I'm-- Why do I even bother?
In the past month have you gone on a Date:	No, not in the past month.
In the past month have you gone to a Mall:	No, I rarely go to malls.
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos:	No, I don't eat the boxes.
In the past month have you eaten Sushi:	Ew no.
In the past month have you been on Stage:	I help out with Face to Face concerts, so technically yeah, sort of.
In the past month have you been Dumped:	No
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping:	Why would I go skinny dipping in the winter? I don't skinny dip anyway.
In the past month have you Stolen Anything:	No, why would I?
Ever been Drunk:	No
Ever been called a Tease:	I don't know what that would mean, so no.
Ever been Beaten up:	Yes, in second grade. And maybe other grades around that time, I don't remember.
Ever Shoplifted:	Nah.
How do you want to Die:	I want to die while listening to backwards music.
What do you want to be when you Grow Up:	A computer or a math.
What country would you most like to Visit:	I dunno. Probably England or Ireland.
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color:
Favourite Hair Color:
Short or Long Hair:
Height:
Weight:
Best Clothing Style:
Number of Drugs I have taken:
Number of CDs I own:
Number of Piercings:
Number of Tattoos:
Number of things in my Past I Regret:	10⁵⁷
CREATE YOUR OWN! - or - GET PAID TO TAKE SURVEYS!

Take This Surv-- oh wait, the survey itself already said that.