wild caged birds cannot sing

If a caged bird does not know there is anything outside of his cage he will be fine. If he is curious to find out what is outside of his cage he will live in sadness. If the caged bird knows what is outside of his cage and loves the outside he will live in madness. If the bird has forgotten the taste the bliss outside he will still sing as a wild one does.

Left-Handed Dvorak Keyboards

I used to play pranks on people by switching their keyboard layout to left handed dvorak and watching them try to type something. Dvorak is a very efficient keyboard layout created by August Dvorak during World War II. The layout never became mainstream because people could not break the very old tradition of the QWERTY keyboard which was originally made to insure old typewriters wouldn't jam. Since keyboards don't jam like old typewriters did the Dvorak layout is actually better on your hands and easier to type fast with. I figured it would be very difficult to learn but after trying to type using a Dvorak layout for two minutes I was already learning many of the common key positions. QWERTY is impossibly hard to learn compared to Dvorak and I'm going to try learning Dvorak a bit to see if I can type fast with it and know two keyboard layouts in case it ever comes in handy... which I doubt.

NyQuil

I've been sick for two days but I am definately getting better. I wish they had NyQuil flavored DayQuil. I've had nothing to do for a while and I accidentily made a short poem this morning in my head and had to write it down. I haven't done that in a while. I like going back and reading them sometimes. I found that I like a 5a-5a-6b poem style. I'm not sure how you denote that with actualy poet terminology. All I know is the first two lines rhyme at the end and have five syllables each. The last line has six syllabels and does not rhyme with the first two lines. I wouldn't normall express a poem but I think I will just to see what happens. Keep in mind that I didn't try to make a certain number of syllabels or try to rhyme, it just kind of fit together and I realized why afterwards. I was trying to think of a part of some song that might not even exist and ended up getting the theme of "do you desire". I don't like the fact that I'm using the word heart because emotions are from the brain but heart is more poetic and that was what I thought of first so that it is.

do you desire
to split the pliers
that tore your heart apart
do you desire
to set afire
the world with which you aren't

I swear there is a song about that or something. Maybe I'm just dreaming, which I have been doing lately. I do in fact still dream, I just usually forget more quickly than I used to I guess.

Shake the Monkey, Shock the Tree

The dark puddles in my face widen when I'm looking through you. The emptiness broadens and time has no meaning. Everybody has something to hide. Except for maybe the monkey. Although maybe the monkey does have something up his sleeve but only time shall tell, as the trees fall. The purple trees grow as the red ones go and soil becomes one with the stem. The one introduced him to the monkey, but he would not let the one introduce the monkey to him. The fool on the hill keeps his little jar closed. He says only that it is nonsense.

The Show That Never Ends

I saw Rocky Horror Picture show at a theatre last night. Why did I just spell theatre the British way? I was up till early, stayed at the Muffin Man's house (the walrus), ate a gourmet breakfast, went home, then went to Blogger Man's birthday today. We started playing miniature golf but didn't really finish and I ended up getting inside of one of the little wooden houses that the ball goes in to come out down below and looking for a ball that might have bounced up inside it somehow. It was dark in there and bigger than I thought it would be but it was still small. Rocky was interesting. It was a nice break from the norm. I still see patterns... which many of you don't understand.

Dazed and Confused (Art is Smart)

I want to compose music. Maybe I will. AP Music Theory here I come. I've always loved creating art. I used to write poems, stories, and even draw. I got out of all that. I became logical and interested in things that were set in stone. I am once again interested in art and chaos very much. I love music and I am now realizing that I like poetry and visual art. I am interested in Langston Hughes and such. I realized I like the books Crime and Punishment, Catcher in the Rye, and the play Waiting for Godot. Waiting for Godot lets one think of their own purpose and reasoning behind the vague story. My take on it is that two atheists are waiting for God (I capitalized it.. wow) in purgatory but they don't know who they are waiting for or why. I don't have time to keep writing about this so I summarized it and didn't italisize any titles .. sorry.. I have to sleep.

Goodbye Ruby Tuesday

Mick Jagger is the man.. why do I describe everyone as the man, whether they be good or bad. "The man" is good but "the man" is bad depending on context. I found out more songs were by CCR than I thought and I finally heard Starry Starry Night. I need to memorize the lyrics for many Led Zeppelin songs and for American Pie (I've forgotten from lack of hearing it). I am so easily quotable it is "horriblific". After the movie yesterday I've started greeting people over AIM by staring with some modern "gangster" slang, mixing in some nonsence every once in a while. Wow.. I just turned on the radio and under pressure was on.. scared me.

I noticed in AP Comp Sci class today that our teacher does like I do in casual writing and puts grammatical symbols outside of the quotes as I did above. I've become to used to the programmer method of quoting strings that I have grown to like it very much. It make more sense. I can't speak english, have no vocab, yet I correct people on grammer and often know what I'm talking about some how. I've found I like mixing languages for some reason but I can't speak Espan~a (I was too lazy to look up the ampersand markup for enya) Spanish. If I went to Spain they would probably hate me for speaking improperly and sounding like a Mexicano.

I've found I like the style of music that the Stones, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, and many others often use where the instrumental is slightly overpowering compared to the singing. There must be singing but the instrumental has to be emphasized so one can sing to it and still hear it. Mr. Roboto is such a geeky song and the Styx version is the best. Dream On is the song... and Jim Morrison is the man... not that they are related at all.

People are Strange

"No one remembers your name, when you're strange." My blog is getting more like a ranting board. Here goes. Today was going to be Yes day because John Anderson (Yes man) was on The Planet (radio station) last night but Yes was too quite so it was Sabbath/Hendrix/Doors day. I have updated my wishlist to include more bands I want music from. I have found that all people are strange but some of the most normal people are the crazy ones that people fear (hackers, freaks, and maybe anarchits). Oh.. and I hear very old voices in my head.. by that I mean I get music stuck in my head that I haven't heard in a long time, sometimes many years. I had Starry Starry Night stuck in my head which I hadn't heard in forever and I realized I knew the beginning of Sweet Child of Mine very well but I hadn't put it on a CD or listened to it regularly (until about a week ago when I started on Guns and Roses again) for about two years. Some songs seem to capture you emotionally in such a way that they stick with you until something triggers them. For example, the song Money by Pink Floyd started playing (in my head of course) during math class after the teacher wrote "U Substitution" on the board... how are those related? It is like deja vu music style. I still need to figure out that one song that starts playing in my head every once in a while that I can hear the voice but I can't hear the lyrics... they are just beyond grasp. Also the potato man needs to help me remember that word that triggered music one day last month and the muffin man needs to do his usual. I am extremely random today and there are easter eggs in this message, they just arn't in my usual hidden sense.

Name change

I've changed my name.. I mean my blogs name. blogg vorbis is a play on words referencing ogg vorbis (.ogg files) which is a type of music format that my iRiver supports. I don't think I have to explain what the words blog means. To make the music lovers, Led Zeppelin lovers, and rambling lovers (not many of those) I've added the string RAMBLE ON to my blog profile.

Time for some rambling
Bohemian Rhapsody is currently playing on the radio! "life had just begun, but now I've gone and thrown it all away." Queen is the man... although the non-irish potato may disagree. I now have 30 away messages in gaim all of which are quotes from songs. Can you guess that song? Did you know Mr. Roboto was by Styx... it sounds awesome. Also, what is up with everyone, #2600, canadians, and me? The whole #2600 canadian thing was weird but now it's everywhere.. no offense to the ones that read this but there is some kind of canadian loving/hating conspiracy or something.

Karn Evil 9. It turns out almost all of the symptoms aforementioned are due to high blood pressure which is probably caused by a slower than normal oxygen flow which may be caused by me not breathing as deeply as I should. More later maybe but my pupils are dialted.. lol

I'm Messed Up

I think I might have Pheochromocytoma (1, 2, 3). I noticed my eyes were dialated this morning and I was told they were dialated last night. They've been on and off like this for at least a year or two. I also noticed my hands shaking more often when it is cold and when I take my hands off the keyboard right now I notice my fingers shaking very slightly. Also my heartbeat has always seemed to be higher than is normal for most humans. Those are the main things that frightened me before. Also every month or so I'll have a pain in my chest if I breathe for five seconds to a minute and then it'll go away. I've had that since I was ten I think, but it was always very infrequent and still is so I don't know if it is even relevant, though chest pain is a symptom.

Looking at the other symptoms it is possible I have some of them but many are not very probable so I still don't know what's up with me, I got to ask one of the doctors I know. I may have sweating, anxiety, nervousness, cold skin, paresthesia (not quite sure) and headaches. I say headaches because I always have a little bit of an "allergy" to some unknown substance that seems to be everywhere and I used to be slightly sick for long period of time. One thing I had a lot last year was sinus headaches which suck during the water polo season. However, on the positive side I don't faint, vomit, have diabetes, panic, have impared vision (its perfect I think), or flush.

Sweeet Emotion

I've realized recently that my blog is almost emotionless. It doesn't express my inner thoughts but rather my online thoughts. That is fine with me though because I doubt Canadians, New Yorkers, and generally anyone that doesn't know me personally would find these other thoughts of any use. I do however express some crazy thoughts that are truely me like my crazy finger counting and my love for music. I use other people's xangas to touch on subjects which only come out via an echo... now that sentence was more like myself I think. Nonsence is the only thing that actually makes sense. The phonies are so funny because they think they know what they are talking about, but instead use nonsense seriously. Also, no offense to everyone who has philosophical ideals (I do too) but philosophy is phony also...

All Music is Good

AllMusic.com is awesome. They are like the Internet Movie Database for music. I just looked up the fact that Bob Dylan was the composer of the song "It Ain't Me Babe" which I had heard played only by the Rolling Stones. Is it just me or does it seem like Bob Dylan write songs and other people make them popular? He doesn't have much of a voice but somehow he can still sing and it works out so well. Ozzy is almost the same way except that it doesn't work as well because he doesn't improvise as well as Dylan does. Also, it is too bad Hendrix is dead. I am convinced that he would have moved into the blues realm more in his later years if he had lived. Just think of all the songs he didn't write. I've had music on the mind the whole day... that was a relief. "Shine, the weather's fine."

"Real world" hackers

Hackers have been thought of in recent times as people who manipulate electronics. Hackers do not only hack things eletronically but also physically. For example, social engineering is a type of hacking involving human interaction.

Some hackers simply hack fountains in the middle of a shopping center. (1180461)

Comic Pirates

I tried finding Dilbert archives in xMule unsuccesfully. I decided to make COMICGET. At the moment it only seems to work with Dilbert. It is a Perl script that sees what comics you are missing for the month, accesses United Media's website to find out what the Dilbert comics filenames that you are missing, downloads the comics and saves them in the archive. I set it up so the script runs at startup so I'll always have my fill of Dilbert. Now if only my iRiver would allow me to zoom on images so I could read Dilbert on it. I have adblock on in Mozilla so United Media isn't losing any money from me not clicking on advertisements.

Notes about the script: Requires perl, lynx, date, and wget. Test in Slackware 10 with Perl 5.8.4.

COMICGET 0.2