i got a new phone (taken on old phone)
Parts of my mind in various lengths and forms being thrown onto a website for you to read
One thing that’s helped me get through the process of drawing is getting myself to feel like I’m working on my website
Cause I love working on my website!!! And thinking about it like I’m working on my websites has me doing things analogous to working on my website. Like looking at five hundred other people’s sites to see how they did one little thing or just looking up a quick little reference for a specific aspect of this thing, and I’m now doing that by looking at five-hundred other people’s existing drawings. More importantly than that thinking of drawing like working on my site makes me more willing to accept some totally messed up-looking things because working on my website really makes everything feel like a big experiment
Made a few updates to this little place that I hope the one (1) person who regularly browses this site will appreciate
- Added tooltips to the social links in the footer of this site
- Figured out adding stuff to your clipboard so when you click on certain icons on the footer, the tags will be added to your clipboard!
- The homepage now randomizes the image shown, and I hope to add so many of them. The hard part was not learning how to randomize the images but actually having images to put on the site
Going through old screenshots makes me realize I should take more random screenshots. They seem to help me remember things like how stuff looked like back then and who the people I talked to were
I think I’ve done a really good job of faking being really interesting
Logged into my very unused GitHub for the first time in forever and learned that I had originally decided on my first version of The Taycat Gradient on March 7th, 2024. So I’ve been using it for over two years!
I remember when I used Hyprland, a Wayland tiling compositor, and I thought the ability to set the background of your windows to a gradient instead of just a solid color was so cool. So setting the colors of my window’s borders is where the Taycat Gradient started up.
These weren’t the first colors I set for the gradient border though. They originally went from Catppuccin Mocha Red to Blue. I don’t consider that as part of the history of The Taycat Gradient, though, because I only ever used them with Hyprland, and I didn’t start using them everywhere until the border gradient was the one with Catppuccin Mocha Mauve to Sky. So yeah, two years of The Taycat Gradient.
Also it’s 04:36 right now and I just realized I’ve been working on this entry that I thought was gonna be quick took over an hour, what am I doing X_X
WHY DID 14 YEAR OLD ME MAKE SO MANY ACCOUNTS THAT I CAN’T DELETE AND WHY DID THEY HAVE TO BE ACCOUNTS FOR THE WORLD’S HARDEST TO USE WEBSITES AND WHAT IN THE WORLD HAVE I BEEN DOING ALL THIS TIME LIVING DANGEROUSLY WITH ALL THESE INSECURE PASSOWRDS BEING USED ON ACCOUNTS THAT I USE JUST ABOUT EVERY DAY
they’re all fixed now though :D
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
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
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