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 )

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

Four things to mention:

1) I moved into my dorm today... and it was REALLY stressful, as usual. :( And I have so much to do tomorrow... I know I said I'd move into the dorm Monday, but then I found out I'd get to wait later before I moved in.
2) Last Wednesday was the 9th anniversary of the original version of PrtSc Land, and I still don't have a USB floppy drive. So remember how I said I was planning on remaking PSL and putting it up on LiveJournal starting on the 10th or 12th or (some other nice number)th anniversary? It's probably not going to be for the 10th anniversary...
3) Lately I've been working on an Excel spreadsheet with the dates, subject lines, userpic keywords, URLs, etc. of every entry I've posted on LiveJournal - AND notes on what I hope to update in each entry eventually, like adding tags, fixing broken images, etc. so that I can keep track of it all more easily. It's far from being done (even just for entries in my own journal), but I'm hoping to get all that maintenance I've been meaning to do on my old entries finished as soon as I can!
4) Today is the 8th anniversary of my LiveJournal! And, for once, I'm doing the LJ comment stats entry on time!
Although on my computer, bar graphs have lately been looking messed up in entries like this one. Does it do that for anyone else - in this or the other LJ Comment Stats entries?

← 2014 2016 →

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

1	matt1993	2210
2	pathvain_aelien	1240
3	glowing_dragon	454
4	rovanda	180
5	irish_ileana	134
6	adawnrae	113
7	awehla	100
8	penelopexxx	96
9	cactus_rs	59
10	eccentricrabbit	46

( 11-85 )
Total Commenters: 85
Total Comments: 5032
Report generated 8/19/2015 10:46:37 PM by scrapdog's LJ Comment Stats Wizard 1.7

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Yep - I created my LJ account on August 19, 2007. Sad how the anniversary of LJ should happen to be the day after I accidentally deleted a lot of LJ-related stuff, though... in fact, I was so busy after that happened, I didn't get to finish this post until the day after the anniversary of my LJ. :(

I also wanted to include LJ comment stats (which I said I'd do every three months starting on the fourth anniversary, but ended up deciding to just do once every year), but since this post is already late, I'll post them later.

( First line of my first entry on or after the 19th of every month )

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EDIT ON MAY 12, 2018: THIS IS THE OLD VERSION OF MY GLOSSARY... or at least the oldest version that was a sticky entry rather than on my profile, anyway. THE NEW GLOSSARY IS... nowhere, yet, but I'm going to FINALLY get around to updating this glossary for the first time in years after I'm done fixing all my entries on both LJ and DW.

I made this sticky entry in 2011, but then I didn't update it much after that and left it outdated for nearly SEVEN YEARS - long enough that I decide I might as well preserve the old version of the glossary, but make it no longer sticky in favor of a NEW sticky entry with the updated glossary.

Everything below this point is as the entry originally appeared, except I got rid of the lj-like buttons. The former subject line was simply "Glossary of Matt1993isms".

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I finally got around to updating this glossary and moving it to a sticky post so that it wouldn't clutter up my profile and I could have LJ-cuts to jump to certain sections!

Although the whole point of these multiple LJ-cuts is for ease of navigation (i.e. if I reference a Matt1993ism in the definition of a Matt1993ism in a different section, I'd link to the proper section), I haven't had the time to actually go through and add all these links, so stay tuned for that. I also thought about adding artwork for certain entries *cough*/crazymegavideo/*cough*, so stay tuned for that too. :)

As I said in the old glossary, if you spot a Matt1993ism I used that I haven't defined here, or if FoxReplace messes up the "pucker up because it's time for lunch" entry again, etc., please let me know :)

EDIT: Added some more Matt1993isms and tags, but still need to add the links and artwork. I'm also pretty sure there was another Matt1993ism that I still forgot to add...

( /-7 ) ( A ) ( B ) ( Ca-Ch ) ( Co-Cr ) ( D-E ) ( F-G ) ( H ) ( I-K ) ( L-M ) ( N ) ( O ) ( Pi-Pro ) ( Prt-Pu ) ( Q-R ) ( S-T ) ( U-W ) ( Y ) ( Abbreviations )

Too bad I don't have a Matt1993ism that has to do with reposting

EDIT IN MARCH 2018: Wait. I put <unfunny> tags around the subject line when I wrote this that didn't show up because valid HTML tags actually work in the subject line, and I didn't realize they were supposed to be there until just now?

You Are Not Easily Fooled

You may have been fooled in the past, but you won't get fooled again. You're wise to the ways of the world. If something seems fishy, you stay far away from it. And if you're not sure, you investigate. You know how to protect yourself. You know how to cut through the crap and see what someone's truly about. You may come off as skeptical and doubting, but you've found that your skepticism is often warranted.

Now to get to work on my homework or something else!

This is actually the detect button...APRIL FOOLS!

It's almost my bedtime, so I'll just say this: I'm glad that the current assignment in HAS is the last one with a design to make that's guaranteed to be before the apocalypse.

I don't have time to come up with a repost button caption either (Actually I do since I'm adding them retroactively, but shh)

As if that other typo in the HAS course wasn't ironic enough, here's another one in the exact same set of requirements:

"•Saved as a .jpg of a .gif"

Wow, that's one JPEG of a GIF!

EDIT: That's supposed to be a superscript 5 in the subject line, but you kinda can't see it.

Wow, that's one JPEG of a post!

Well, I think I did good on my English exam. Tomorrow is math and Spanish - that shouldn't be a problem at all. Then I'm FREE.

Well, except for HAS. Speaking of which, I'm gonna have to work on that essay today. Blah.

And now, the obvious way to make this post slightly less generic: QUIZ!!



*cough*Imdefinitelynotorganizedorrebellious*cough*

Rebel against this journal and post this into yours

Remember that time when I wrote a 1,314-word or 1,317-word essay in five hours and calculated that I had came up with one word every 13.7 seconds? Well, now that I think about it, that statistic wasn't as pointless as I thought, because I have an idea: make a spreadsheet of how long it takes me to write various things for which I have to come up with the wording myself (so essays, definitions of history terms, and even this post would count, but math homework and backwards lyrics wouldn't), and calculate how fast I write them. Then I can figure out how long it takes me to think of the wording for different things, notice if I'm getting better or worse at wording things, and so on, and post it to LJ every now and then!

However, this means I'll finally have to find and enter the Product Key for my copy of Microsoft Office. Which came with my computer. :(

Yay! An idea you never went through with! I've gotta share this!