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Did you know? ...the loudest rock concert ever occurred at the Charlton Athletic Grounds expending 76,000 watts at a deafening 120 decibels. The band? It was The Who. ...the capital of Djibouti is Djibouti. ...if you kick an unstable old land mine, it will, as a matter of fact, explode. ...the principal export of the tiny tropical island of Nauru is bird droppings. ...Jimi Hendrix asphyxiated on his own vomit induced by alcohol. ...stupid people suck. Build Your Very Own Hovercraft! ... Here's how. Quoth The Raven ...Quotes from your favorite people. LokiHavok '00 is upon us. Prepare yourselves. ..."LokiHavok" you say? What is it? I don't know. I just made it up to take up some space in this lonely right column.  This site made possible by:  and  |
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Saturday, March 12, 2000 - 23:56
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Now that I've fully recuperated from last week, I think I'm back to the weekly thing with this site. Check out my smooth newly updated logo type thingy. I had drawn the old one in MS Paint, which was a huge pain, but I finally got around to half-assedly artisticize it with Photoshop. Man, with the competition between Intel and AMD, chip prices are dropping, while processor speeds increase like mad. In the past 6 months, I think we've gone from like 500 mHz to 1 gHz CPU's. And Intel, in order to keep up with AMD, went from 800 mHz straight to 1 gHz, so there are no Intel chips available between those two. At this rate, We'll be at 1.5+ gHz by the end of the year. = good stuff. I completely forgot to tell you, but back in February, Moller finally began producing their Skycar, essentially a flying car.   Skycar M-400 Skycar M-150 They are currently producing about 500 cars a year at an average cost of $400,000. Once they start mass-producing them in about 1.5 years, the production costs will be greatly reduced, and the Skycar should run at an estimated $40,000 - $60,000.
Hell week
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Thursday, March 3, 2000 - 22:32
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Relief! This horrible horrible week is over! Two tests and an essay on Tuesday, and two more tests and a huge test-like quiz today does not make Austin a happy kid. Today, I was raped by z-substitution on the calculus test and DIDLS on the english quiz. I was too much in a daze from the calc test to remember how I did on the economics test. On Tuesday, physics raped me from every orifice imaginable (but the effects were only temporary - score:70%) and the economics essay test raped me with equal intensity. Then came the english essay: no good, econ drained my brain and the numbness hindered my ability to write an essay. I wrote about 3/4 of a page in big writing. I even turned the paper upside-down and started to write upside-down since I had no idea what to write. Then, for 20 minutes, the back of my hand occupied my interest: I started mindlessly drawing all over it. Analyzing stuff and writing about it is not my thing. Massive rapeage occurred this week; I'm not alone though, many people experienced this plague of rape, I believe... Well, I've just finished my Jennifer Love Hewitt picture page. About 20 or so pics reside there. Then I fixed some weird anomaly were when you clicked on an internal link on my site map page, it would take you to a completely different link. That's about it. The 2000 Consumer Electronics Show was held in January and featured over 2,000 electronics manufacturers from around the world. It had a bunch of cool car audio stuff, such as Clarion who improved upon the "world's first in-dash personal assistant powered by Microsoft Windows CE," known simply as the AutoPC, with the addition of DVD, MP3, Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound, and XM (satellite-based) radio support. All these features and more are powered by IBM's new generation of mini hard drives (I believe the drive has a 1.5"-2" platter). For the rest of the car audio area, the big news seemed to be class D 1000+ watt amps. Class D amps are extremely popular for their high output and low cost despite their relatively low efficiency. Peep this phat ride:  It's a 2000 Ford Expedition with a custom paint job, lovely ground effects, tight rims, and an amazing audio-visual system. It has a video screen on the backs of the headrests of the seats, steering wheels directly below the screens to play Sega Dreamcast games, (2) 20" LCD screens in the cargo area (for no particular reason facing out), (2) 6" flip down LCD screens for the driver and front passenger, and a sound system that must be just as amazing (but I don't all the details of the setup). Also, if you look closely on the lower part of the front bumper where a license plate should go, you will see a small LCD screen; how pointlessly odd. Anyway, if I had the cash, this would be the way to go.
Got NAMM?
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Saturday, February 26, 2000 - 20:26
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Sawasdee. I've added a few header titles to some pages, and fixed the site map. As we all know (or don't know), the Winter 2000 NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) Show occurred in California earlier this month on February 4th. Much overall amazingness, such as the 15 string guitar by Warrior:  5 sets of 3 strings...amazing harmonics and incredibly full sound, I'd imagine. Then there's the almighty Sitarla by the Japan-based company Open Natural G:  The neck of this guitar/sitar hybrid is extra wide for the super bends characteristic of the sitar. The next item of interest - Microtone's 62 tone just intonation neck:  This neck allows musicians to freely express themselves without being restricted to the traditional 12 tones per octave scale of naturals, flats, and sharps. The fret placement allows the player to play 62 tones in a single octave. On the other end of an elecric guitar's structure sits the pickup(s). LightWave Systems has introduced a new type of pick up that uses no magnetism at all.  It uses a light and light sensor to translate the string's oscillations into a sound wave. Without the pull of the magnetic field of electromagnetic pickups, the strings are allowed to vibrate more freely thereby increasing sustain and amplifying harmonics. Over at Harmony Central, they have awards for the best of the best at the Winter 2000 NAMM Show. Click here for the best basses, and here for the best guitars. He he he...A French author has written a book that alleges that NASA has experimented with weighless copulation. "It appears the classical approach, the so-called missionary position, is an easy position only on Earth, when gravity keeps you pinned down, and that would be ruled out in space," says Pierre Kohler in a new book, The Final Mission.His source claims that NASA scientists listed 10 positions that were to be tested in space; the results of the supposed test conclude that sex is a much harder (no pun intended) task in space than on Earth. NASA, of course, denies these allegations.
Grammy Breakdown
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Thursday, February 24, 2000 - 23:28
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The Grammy Awards was amazing. Well, not the show itself, just, um, the general attire. Especially Jennifer Lopez:   A simple, yet elegant, scarf joined just below the navel with a large brooch. Here's another pic. Missy Elliot is an idiot. She wore a purple jacket with razor blades sewn on. In an interview, she was saying how she had to be careful how she turned her head so she didn't commit suicide. Here's an idea... don't wear razor blades! I want one of those cool robot-type puppet things from Britney Spears' performance. Those things were b a d - a s s. Kid Rock's set was cool. Joe C returns! (You know, that pimp little midget.) Santana's set was also equally awesome, until MediaOne decided to blank out the screen for a few minutes for an "emergency test". Stupid punk bastards.
The joys of.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2000 - 22:18
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Hey hey. It's me again. Third day in a row. New record, I think. Well, actually, it's technically still the same day as the last update, but I consider that yesterday because a new day for me begins when I wake up. Anyway, not much going on right now. Oh, I was watching for the first time the N Sync video "Bye Bye Bye" (I know, shoot me now! I was really really really really bored and nothing was on) and, without a doubt, I think the girl in the video is none other than Kim Smith. I couldn't really tell, they only showed her face for like a second at a time; it could be anybody. Any ideas? (Update: That is her. A confirmation. Check it out.) Well then. I guess I'll tell you all about my new experience with guitars. I thought I'd take stab at classical guitar, so I slapped some nylon strings on one of my crappier acoustics and started from there. Right now, I'm learning songs I already know how to play on piano, so I can sort of transpose. It's really hard going from a picking style to fingerpicking (if you don't know, don't ask), especially since my acoustic is not a classical guitar and the fingerboard is quite narrow. The narrowness doesn't allow quite enough room for my fingerpicking, so my playing sounds choppy and much too staccato at times. Did anyone catch that MTV movie "2ge+her"? It was hilariously stupid. Chris Farley was reincarnated as his brother. Man, I had that "you + me = us" song stuck in my head for the whole day. I was miserable, cuz I know my calculus. I reopened the gash on my toe (from the other day) today. It sort of stings. Oh my goodness! The stock market crashed! I mean, no, it...uh, ... The SEC has ordered a conversion in the stock market system from fractions to decimals. Yes, a big debate. A simple mathematical conversion that could have dire effects. Possibly. The stock market is going to crash!! In light of the concern of cell phones and pagers expressed by school officials at Walton High, I bring you this article: Way over in South Africa, a woman was held in contempt of court because, of all reasons, her cellular phone rang in the court room after the judge asked all cells to be turned off. That'll teach you a lesson. I just learned something new: organic molecules can store more information than a silicone chip. Blows my mind in a way that it doesn't. Some dudes over at Princeton did some kind of research with a RNA based computer to analyze chess move problem that had 43 correct answers out of a possible 1024. This computer reportedly found 44 answers, all 43 possible correct answers, with a single incorrect answer. Missed one. Ouch, that hurts.
The joys of.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2000 - 0:42
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Wow. I've updated a lot lately. Well, my bio is updated, I've added a few quotes to the Bored? page. Yah. And I've truncated this page, so old news is now in the archive. A little news...peep this...A new type of speaker, completely unlike the typical magnet/paper cone that is so common, has been designed. It uses some sort of "smart" silicone polymer that has the unusual property of morphing in the presence of an electrical field. This design doesn't require the bulky cone of a regular speaker, so it can be manufactured as thin as 1/2 a CENTIMETER. That is awesome...I could plaster my car doors with them! As an added bonus, these speakers can also reduce extraneous noise from outside sources(using the same process as noise cancelling headphones), so driving would be a whole new experience. No more road noise, crystal clear trebles, booming bass...ahhh, the audiophile's dream (only if what they claim about the sound quality is true). Wonder what it costs? The article claims it's "cheap," but that's relative to the author's economic situation.
My toe is bleeding.
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Monday, February 21, 2000 - 02:01
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I just finished writing my essay as of 5 minutes ago. I'm so relieved. You may have noticed that odd little box just above: in those past five minutes, that box thingy is what I obtained. In case you can't read that (but you can read this), it's a countdown clock. Towards my graduation, which is a long ways away. I swiped it off of one of my friend's web page (thanks Choi!). Hope he doesn't mind. Oww. My toe is throbbing massively. I just stepped on one of the metal latches/clasps on my guitar case, and now my toe is punctured. It's kind of bleeding right now. I think I'll go sleep off the pain now. Oh, and I have school again tomorrow. Geez...when will it stop?
She has a girlfriend now...
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Saturday, February 19, 2000 - 21:14
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I'm listening to Reel Big Fish's song "She Has A Girlfriend Now." It's a great song. I'm now halfway through the first third of the semester. Will school never end? ...Hey! I've added some pics of Kim Smith, with Jennifer Love Hewitt on the way in a future update. Check it out. If you don't you'll be missing out and will regret it for the rest of your life. Twenty years down the road, you'll be like,"Man, I should have checked out those pictures on that cool webpage - what's the name of it? Oh, yes, - lordloki1.cjb.net. My life is so empty all because I didn't click on a little link. Ahh! I was fired due to 'corporate downsizing,' my wife/husband left me, I'm still in debt from college loans, and my toilet doesn't flush. Austin told me I would regret not looking at those pictures, but I didn't realize the extent of his warning. Damn the world!" Or something of that nature. Oh, and I've also added a guestbook, so please sign it. Over at cnet.com, there's an article on Intel's demonstration of an 1.5 GHz microprocessor. Have you seen that C|Net commercial? It's really funny. There's a guy with a shirt that has the C|Net logo on it and another guy with a shirt that says "YOU." The C|Net guy takes the hand of "YOU" and walks him across the room towards a plant. Behind this small plant, you can see another man kind of hunched down hiding. The C|Net coaxes him out, to reveal that his shirt says "BEST PRICES." The C|Net dude then takes the hand of "BEST PRICE" and joins it with the hand of "YOU" in his other hand. Yes. Hilarious... Anyway, this chip, called "Williamette," is supposed to be the next generation chip following Pentium III (essentially a "Pentium IV"). Intel expects to be in full production of this chip in 2001. But now, they are concentrating on 1.0 GHz PIII's in the next half of this year, before gradually introducing the Williamette. I've been working on a Winamp skin, and this is what it looks like so far:  I'm working on a transparency effect for the big black thing on the main screen (where the song title, time, spectrum analyzer, mono/stereo, and bitrate reside).
It's your world squirrel, I'm just tryin' to get a nut.
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Wednesday, February 16, 2000 - 23:54
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Ahhh. Post-post-Valentine's Day. Feeling good. Except that my ad-free primary host server is still down. I'm writing an essay right now. Actually, I'm taking a break. I suggest you read "Toads" by Philip Larkin. I'm sure you'll get a kick out of it. Ok, most likely not. I have to write a 4-5 page essay comparing the afore mentioned poem to Philip Larkin's "Toads Revisited," the same author's response to his own "Toads." Great fun, almost. Not quite. "Peanuts" is no more! What a bitter sweet ending it is...Charles Schultz, the creator of the famed "Peanuts" comic strip died on Saturday. Or was it Sunday? Imagine that. He planned to retire during this past weekend, only to pass away hours before his final comic went to print. What a shame. Let us have a moment of silence. You've gotta check this jazz out... Created by Constellation 3D, the Fluorescent Multi Layer Disk (FMD-ROM) looks like a plain old CD...only it's quite transparent, and can hold 140 GB of data! Yes, that says "GIGABYTES." That is HUGE. Compare that to the measly 18 GB that a DVD can hold. Look...   These images are from 3dhardware.net. This new technology supposedly has transfer speeds of up to 1 GB per second! I could essentially copy my hard drive in seconds! Yum. Since we're on the subject of technology, let's talk about turntables. A company in Japan by the name of ELP sells contactless turntables. These turntables translate the pits from the grooves of the vinyl records into an analog sound signal with a laser. Of course, the ELP Laser Turntable will only set you back a modest US$13,500 to US$20,500. Oh, I can't forget about the "excellent vacuum cleaner" that is included in the package. Apparently, the vacuum is needed to keep records impeccably clean so that dust does not interfere with the laser.
Damn server...
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Sunday, February 6, 2000 - 14:26
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Have you ever heard of a server that runs out of disk space? Well I encountered one of those for the past week trying to update. As I uploaded this main page, my connection was suddenly reset because "error writing file: no space left on device." What kind of bullsh*t is that? Update: Apparently, my web page host is doing some kind of internal restructuring...their web page isn't even accessible, but, will reopen on 2/14/00. So, I've gone with another web host temporarily. Oh no! A Simpsons character is going to be "removed" from the show! Most likely, according to the article, Maude will be the one to be "disappeared." I hope so. I don't like her. All the other characters are essential to the delicate equilibrium of hilarity and appeal. Today I read that the WWF is starting their own football league. It's to start the season later this month with 8 teams, 6 of whom have been cited a location: New Yark, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Orlando, and Washington D.C. McMahon's goal is to bring football back to it's roots, before corporations had infiltrated this classic sport, back to it's realness and raw emotion. Yep. I'll just be waiting for that powerbomb of the quarterback by a defensive lineman. Hey! Let's play with Legos instead of taking the SAT's! That's exactly what Colorado College and a few other schools are doing as an alternative to SAT scores. They allow a group of students to look individually at a Lego structure once . Then the students must work together to replicate the structure from memory. This pilot program is supposed to test applicants' leadership and team skills. Right...that would rule.
Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
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Saturday, January 29, 2000 - 00:58
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Hello kids, time for another weekly installment of news relevant to me... This week was a great school week. Monday, school was cancelled because an ice storm caused massive power outtages, I think somewhere in the neighborhood of 350,000 homes lost power. Today, actually yesterday on Friday, school was cancelled because of a supposed snow storm that never showed. It was actually a pretty nice day. I just found out that a Pentium III chip costs around $39 to produce, yet Intel is selling them for like $500-800 a piece. How great is capitalism? You know what would be weird? Britney Spears and N Sync performing at Wrestlemania. This may actually happen: both were invited to perform, but neither have signed a deal yet. I don't think a boy band will be welcomed very well by a Wrestemania crowd. What are they thinking? More weird news...Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones are getting married. And are expecting a child. Isn't there like a 100 year age gap between them? This is disappointing: she's taken now. Damn. Transmeta has revealed their new innovative technology that could allow owners of their new Crusoe chip to upgrade their processors simply by downloading it off the internet. Or so I would imagine, since part of the processing this new chip does is done by their Code Morphing Software. Yep. Right over my head. Sleepy time.
Are you ready? Presenting...
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Friday, January 21, 2000 - 23:48
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The new and improved lordloki1.cjb.net!, site of random time filler. I've got to write a poem about myself anonomously this weekend, but it can't be obvious that it's me. I have to use "metaphors" and "figurative language" to describe myself so that I hint at my characteristics. My teacher's then going to have all the other students read everyone's poems and see if they can guess who's poem is who's. How gay is that... Please enjoy my page. Definitely more to come. Lots more updates. G'night.
More Randomness
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Thursday, January 20, 2000 - 20:11
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Making graphics is fun. I've made all the other page titles now. Mmmm...smell my mom's cookin'. Starving. Eat time.
I got screwed.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2000 - 19:04
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No!, not in that way, though I wish... My new schedule for school sucks. I start out my day with AP physics. Sucks. Then comes AP calculus, followed by AP microeconomics, then AP english. Sucks. I end my day with Auto Mechanics. Worst schedule I can imagine. Sucks. I need Auto Mechanics first period so that I can gradually acclimate myself to school each day and do any homework that's due. Now I begin the day abruptly with one of my hardest classes, followed by 3 other hard classes. Sucks. I get no breaks. Bah! Worthless. Didn't do much today with this page. My english teacher gave us mad amounts of homework. I just added a site map.
This day is going by way too slow.
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Tuesday, January 18, 2000 - 18:26
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Well, here I am at work, with nothing to do but this. I've fully integrated all my old existing pages into the new stylized page, and have created two new pages: the "bored?" page, where you can find cool stuff to do to occupy your time, and the "archive," where I've placed all the old news from the old page. I've also made thumbnails of all my pics so that you, the consumer and my loyal followers, will not have to wait forever to load them. When I get home, I'm going to fix the CoTaNaSy (Cool Tab Navigation System) to incorporate the new "bored?" page. Still about a few days away from displaying this to the world. I'm going home now.
No pain, no gain.
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Monday, January 17, 2000 - 4:08
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This is taking forever. Update: I've now made cool tab thingys up at the top for stylish navigation through my site. I've also made a few subtle visual enhancements around the whole site. I'm now working on all the internal links so that they look like the main page. I guess I won't upload this whole page until I'm completely through with the new look. So...I'm typing this just to waste more of my time and to let you know what I did and stuff. Yeah. Good night...err, morning.
Tables, tabels, taybuls.
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Sunday, January 16, 2000 - 15:38
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Today is 1/16/00. Isn't that weird? The year is '00. How would you say that? And what would you call this decade? If we follow the previous pattern, the decade following the "nineties" should be the "zeroes," right? How weird is that? Then, the next decade is going to be called the "tens." Crazy. New look for the site. It got a makeover. I'm learning about writing tables in html right now. It gets quite confusing, but I tried and this is the end result...enjoy. Speaking of html tables, I just finished all my finals this week. Hallelujah. AP calculus and AP physics were bastard-like finals, but still not as hard as I expected, seeing as how I failed in an attempt to study for them. Ummm, 74% on calc final before the curve (she gave last year's classes a 50 point curve, so I expect she'll do the same this year). And 126% on my AP government final, only because he counted each of the 60 questions 3 points each. For those of you geniuses that can't multiply, that adds up to a maximum score of 180%. Pretty cool guy my gov't teacher is. Happy happy 4 day weekend...ahhhh. News Archive (9/15/99-12/23/99)...
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