Parts of my mind in various lengths and forms being thrown onto a website for you to read
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BIG NEWS!!!!! I have slightly modified The Taycat Gradient. The stops at 0 and 100 are actually exactly the same but I added a darker stop at 50 to turn it into something I like a bit more
The Taycat Gradient
The old version of The Taycat Gradient, for reference
If you want to recreate The Taycat Gradient, the stops are, from top left to bottom right, 0 - Catppuccin Mocha Sky, 50 - Catppuccin Mocha Blue, 100 - Catppuccin Mocha Mauve
there are many taycats out there. some of them talk to each other sometimes
The reason Edmodo shut down is because I asked them if they would come out with a Windows Phone app and they said no. I knew after that that it was only downhill from there
Website happenings are happening!
Making a more detailed background for my site and adjusting the content accordingly because I feel like trying that
Everyone around is me is so alive, and after some thinking I have begun to realize I serve as a good example of what it’s like to not have that experience of being alive
Elaboration: I look at other people’s really cool personal websites that show off as much as possible with lots of colors and animations and designs, a real being them as much as possible, and I initially look at that and get like “Wooooow, I want to do that” and then I think about it more and I realize “Wait… I don’t want that! That’s not me to do that!”
My website basically tries to be a bit of a blank slate that I decorated a little bit
I really have to start my experiment sometime in the next 10 trillion years
There is so so so much out there in the world that I really want to say something about but I have an idea about the people out there in the world and how they would respond. This makes me understand that if I want to put myself into that battle then I should REALLY be sure I consider everything before putting myself in the ring. However before I can even start to try to do that another one of those opportunities rises up, and another, and another, and eventually I decide it’s better to just not involve myself with it at all because dealing with it all would take too much of my energy, as much as I don’t like that I’m taking that path
god i have never wanted a rice cake as badly as i do right now
unfortunately when i went to go get one it had ants in the packaging so that is my plans foiled
i have got to go to the store and buy some
actually as I write this I am realizing how much I CRAVE a good crunch when I eat food, whenever I really want a snack late at night it has to be something crunchy, I gotta get more crunchy food I can snack on
popcorn, baby carrots, a whole cucumber, rice cakes, whatever man
we don’t even know the name of the first goomba in world 1-1 of super mario bros
Okay so imagine that you bought a multi-pack of screen protectors for a device you’re using.
Despite your best attempts to follow the instructions carefully, you end up with a lot of annoying air bubbles and dust that’s stuck onto the adhesive side of the screen protector. You attempt to fix it by taking it out and daring to put something onto the adhesive to get it out, but this ends up to a very dusty adhesive and so many more air bubbles
My question to anyone reading is do you still keep going, or do you get rid of it and move on, trying the next screen protector in the pack?
And yes I did ask this because I went through this just now (I went for the moving on path)
Backed up today and the app I use to back up said my previous backup was 112 days ago #Awkward #LivingOnTheEdge
They don’t tell you this but… I know the real reason Windows Phone failed… it’s because it didn’t have a stopwatch or timer by default
I was in science class in middle school, being the only kid who had a Windows Phone, specifically my Nokia Lumia 521, and the teacher wanted a kid to time someone walking from one end of the hall to another for something, and when I tried to volunteer, I noticed the Clock app didn’t have any timer or stopwatch, meaning if I wanted one I’d have to install one from the Windows Store which would’ve taken too darn long on the LTE connection so someone else had to step up
This experience was so embarrassing that I spent hours looking for a way to email Microsoft and then eventually I emailed Microsoft, but from some country that I do not remember, chances are it was not Microsoft at all and I emailed some imposter company, but I sent an email begging them to add a timer and stopwatch default app. I got a response of sorts but don’t remember anything about it, but I believe it indicated they don’t care.
And then years later Windows Phone lost market share and eventually got discontinued, and people keep wondering why…
Rule 7: There are rules here that you must somewhere, some day, realize you should not follow. You must figure out what that somewhere and some day is.
Or something like that, this rulebook has lost its seriousness long ago ahaha
I went to a marching band competition the other day. Specifically, I went to the UIL Area E 6A competition which had two rounds, prelims and finals. It’s a real exciting competition because it determines who gets to go to the UIL State Marching Band Competition, and with how seriously Texas high schools are with its marching bands many people are curious to find out who gets to make it that far.
It was my first time attending anything band-related since 2020, when I was a senior in high school. I really did miss being there for it in person a lot. I’d been keeping up with my high school’s marching band these past few months and noticed how much they had just been getting better these last few years. I decided I really wanted to go out and show my support so I decided to head out.
I drove for around forty minutes to make it here and see this in person. I think it was very worth it!
Marching band competitions usually take place on weekends, but due to inclement weather, the competiton had to be moved to Monday. Something like that never happened to me so I can only imagine how difficult it must’ve been to deal with getting around school that was happening that day, having missing assignments, it must’ve been more to worry about than was ideal. Despite the Mondayness of it all, a lot of people did show up to watch and it was a great time. I cheered a lot when my school’s band performed and I think they did really great.
Seeing all the drum majors and all the members in the stands is such a beautiful sight
Although I was mainly there for my band, there were lots of great groups that day whose shows I really enjoyed watching, and as you can see from the picture with all the drum majors, there were so many bands performing that day (the first band performed at 9 AM and the last one performed at 5 PM!) and I thought so many of them sounded great, so I could tell the compeititon was going to be fierce that day.
Unfortunately, despite all of my hopes, the band I was rooting for could not repeat their previous success and failed to make finals this year. It was disappointing to learn that, yes, but I am still very glad to have made a long trip all by myself and shown my support that day. I really do believe my band is moving up and just getting better, and I’m definitely going to return again in the future to show my support
By the way someone put this pin on my shirt at the competition
One of these days thinking 21 is funny will be associated with being an old person
just won $1 from the lottery
UPDATE 2025-10-10 12:53 AM: okay everyone i must come clean… i did not actually win $1 from the lottery. I actually only won a ticket for the next lottery drawing… which is valued at $1 so that’s why I said I won $1 there but I technically did not actually win that. I am sorry if you feel betrayed
i wonder how other parts of the world feel when people happen to refer to them when they say something like “it’s 5 o’clock somewhere”
guy who writes book reviews not by the actual contents of the books but instead by the quality of the materials used to make the book
This keyboard is as basic as I am and that’s why I like it so much
Specs:
Zuoya GMK87 Keyboard Kit
Outemu Silent Peach Switches
idk whatever cheap WOB keycaps I could find on AliExpress
So I went to a restaurant today with my family and I got a Coke Zero bottle. I looked at the ingredients out of boredom and I noticed that the last ingredient in the ingredients label was Stevia Extract, which I had never seen in a Coke Zero before
After we went to the restaurant, we stopped at a local Walmart so someone could make a return, and I was also invited to go in and get something for myself too, so I took that as an opportunity to check the ingredients of the Coke Zero products there as well
The regular Coke Zero was the same one I got in the restaurant, in the exact same order too
The Coke Zero Orange Cream had Acesulfate Potassium ahead of Aspartame and also decided to use Sucralose too, which is lower than the other two. I also noticed it uses Sodium Citrate instead of Potassium Citrate
The Coke Zero Cherry looks like it’s the same as regular Coke Zero but the Potassium Citrate and Acesulfate Potassium switched places
And because it’s the same company I checked out Sprite Zero label too, and while the sweeteners usually were high up for all the Coke drinks, both the Aspartame and Acesulfate Potassium were the bottom two ingredients
Only regular Coke Zero had stevia by the way, none of the other ones had it
Note to Self: When doing stuff bad, make it a complete bad rather than a partial bad
I had a dream I went to Sam’s Club and they were selling some burger beef balls. They were near a really big and wide meat section, and the meat section was really big and was kind of like a deli section actually, it had a lot of somewhat shiny metal, it might be like the one from the Sam’s Club I go to actually, but yeah the beef ball section was an aisle away from that if you turn around. There were free samples of burgers made with the meat, and they were smashburgers of course. The balls themselves also seemed to be composed of like freshly ground beef that’s shaped into the ball carefully which showed signs of still looking like it was recently ground beef, the beef that came in a rectangular container rather than a roll that cookie dough comes in. They were also way bigger than any bigger I had ever seen. Anyway I tried a sample which was a small container filled with tiny burger bun, very green lettuce, tomato, and burger, and I thought that was simply the greatest burger I had ever tried. I also saw after this that apparently this burger came from a struggling burger company that Sam’s Club and made their own Member’s Mark brand (but the branding was missing throughout, the balls were just sold in the beef balls out in the counter and you just grabbed them)
What’s interesting is I have dreamt about Sam’s Club having these beef balls before, and the store even looked the same too
OH MY GOD I JUST REALIZED!!!!!
SUFFICE = SUFFIX
PREFACE = PREFIX
Yes I did only now realize this at 22 years old
There are genres to furry
YOU SHOULD KNOW YOU CAN JUST STOP THINKING STUFF SOMETIMES