Enter Wonderland

Again with the long disappearances. What’s everyone doing? How’s everyone been? Did you know that I’ve been away, and back?

That’s right! I went to Indiana. Took a buncha pictures, but not many of people. (sillllllly meeeee)

Oh well. I’m back now. waiting for summer to be over, hopefully soon.

~Lexi

(PS. Sorry for the short post.)

Oh, hello title. I have been doing things. off and around the world.

Haven’t really been updating.

Next month is april, you know.

Do you know what April means? April means ScriptFrenzy. (why is that I only blog when it’s time for some kind of writing challenge, or programming weirdness. It’s like, all I can think of.)

So, I don’t know how long this is going to last, my blog. I should find a new home for it, but I doubt I’ll be able to. ): Oh well. If it dies, I’m sorry.

ohright. blogging. sorry. The news caught my attention. I GUESS. I’m going to upload my participant icon and put it < over there somewhere. or over > there.

Missa x Luvva

-L

From the beginning!

If you guys are anything like me, you like to learn a lot of things. One of the things that has been on my list of things to learn has been perl. It’s useful in many things, and a pretty extraordinary.

Dispite the fact that I have a basic understanding perl, I’ve decided to start all the way back at the beginning and bring you all on my journey. A journey that will take time, and patience.

First things first. If you don’t have Moose and REPL installed, get it. I demand it. They’re the most useful things in the world.
Here, I’ll even tell you how to do it with ubuntu.

sudo apt-get install libdevel-repl-perl libmoose-perl

Or

cpan Moose

Devel::REPL

So, the reason for all of this? We’re starting at the very beginning, Boolean Algebra.

Boolean Algebra is the logical calculas that programming is based on. (From my understanding. I’m sure everyone has a different discription. Feel free to share them, in the comments.)

Actually, if you want to learn more in-depth about the boolean logic processes, wikipedia has a very wonderful article. you can just look it up.

To start, we’ll need to learn a few operators.

We’ll start with the easiest || (or) and && (and)

So, pop open a terminal and install moose and repl (If you haven’t already.) While you’re waiting, here is some stuff that i tried and a few of the results that I’ve discovered. (This assumes you know something about input. If you don’t, just follow along, It’ll make more sense as you go one.)

$ if( 1 || 0 ) { return “Truths” } else { return “Falsehoods!” }
Truths
$ if( 0 || 0 ) { return “Truths” } else { return “Falsehoods!” }
Falsehoods!

So, now that you’ve got that installed, and I’ve got some good examples up there. Well start with the first.

if( 1 || 0 )

this says, if one or zero. if true or false. Both could be correct. I’m not exactly sure, yet.

Mostly, you’ll want to play with it a lot.
Tell y’what. I’ll meet you back here in a few days, and post another lesson!

Things I learned this time; operators || (or), && (and), ! (not), != (not equal to), == (is equal to), < (less than), <= (Less than, or equal to), >= (greater than or equal to), > (greater than), + (plus), - (minus), * (multiplied), / (divided), ** (exponental)

$ if( 1 + 0 >= 0 ) { return “Truths” } else { return “Falsehoods!” }
Truths

Simple steps. Play around with all the different operators. You’ll find yourself wanting to more and more. I know I did!

Hopefully I’ve not been too confusing.

-L

Uhm, well. Circumstances beyond my control mean that I am the proud owner of the Wonderland domain. If you didn’t know me, I’m Simon, and I am a dear friend of Miss Lexie. She was kind enough to grant me access so I may post here from time to time. A big thank you to her for this, and for trusting me with access to the domain.

Miss Lexie has an awesome new theme, if you havent noticed. I like green, too!

It’s weird how things change. Things happen that you REALLY don’t expect. At work, my employer has changed and my role is soon changing with it. The pluses are that I get to stop doing so much cleaning work, do more management stuff and get out on the tools, fix stuff and do some painting and decorating. A welcome change from doing the same thing for 5 years. I honestly thought though, that I was gonna be stuck doing the same thing forever. Luckily I have a good boss and he finally got round to reviewing my job.

Facebook: I hated it, now I’m on it every day >_<

IRC: Spend the occasional time on it. Am now spread out even further due to a change in the management of one of the major networks I was part of. It was a change that I never saw coming, and shocked the hell out of me. But still, in many ways it’s good.

Miss Lexie: I never skyped with her before. And now I haz. Awesome :D. <3 her.

In love with Jenni, as always.

Peace.

Simon.

I’ll busy next month.

I’m in a weird mood. I’m sorry that I upset you earlier. I didn’t want you to try and guess, I knew this would get out of hand. And I wasn’t ready to deal with this.
You only have to deal with a hundred billion emotional things. I have to deal with that AND all the physical strains. My family is upset, wants me to do the /right/ thing. But is it the right thing for me or just them? How can I know? I cry at the smallest things, by the way. I have the worst insomnia ever. Headaches that were bad before are worse now. I’m fucking afraid, in case you were curious. I hate how /everything/ seems to feel wrong. Scared out of my wits.

Also, I changed the theme on my blog today.
Pink makes me feel happy.

I am unsure about my life right now. So many things seem so right. Yet, so many things I wish I could undo at the same time. I wish I knew what to do. I wish I had some angel whispering in my ear, helping me. Unfortunately, it hasn’t happened yet, so I don’t think it will. I have things to say, but I can’t say them yet. and No one leaves me alone when I ask them to just drop it. Want to play my Game? Well, A) You just lost /the/ game. and Second. I have given two hints, so far.

1) Metallic taste in my mouth.
2) Quail Eggs.

Some people have guessed. I don’t know or care if you do anymore, but if you do, try not to give the answer away to everyone. You know where to find me on IRC and MSN. (:

Hey! I think you were right. The blogging did help.

I started the Firefly fanfic that I was going to write, wooo. I’ll probably post it here when I’m finished with it. That’ll be cool, right?  I don’t know how many of you actually have watched Firefly and Serenity, Or just Serenity, a lot of people have only seen Serenity. Anyhow, if you haven’t seen it, I reccommend you do. q;
I’m at the doctor’s office right now, it smells funny in here, almost like.. a doctors office O.o’ anyhow, My niece is here for her ears, which are bleeding. >.< But her hearing is perfect. very weird. Right so. I did oneword again. Today’s word is Under. Wooo~

Under the bridge, she said. That’s where he was meant to meet her. Where was she? He was nervous, the drugs pressing hard against his chest. He didn’t know how to express to her that he didn’t want to be in jail again, and he didn’t know what else he could do. They didn’t have any other way to meet, though…

I just dicovered that I really like to bold certain words, which makes it amusing. like. in my fanfiction.net profile I bolded the important asl bits, so I could keep it creative and quirky. Also,  I have nothing to really say, if you hadn’t noticed. So yeah. Anyhow, let’s hop over to the HTML tab on word press here, so I can give you a link to my Fanfiction.net Profile.. which won’t let go, so I’m writing on the html tab again. Ohk, I fixed it. now I’m back on the regular tab. See how this works? I don’t really know. Oooh. I have a thing. one of those. oh. Email! Yes. Right. I should stop now, because my odd ranting is going to annoy people later when they read it. >.< anyhow. I’m going to stop writing now, I’ll be ’round the internet, if you need me, you know how to find me. (If you don’t, the chat with me tab is a good place to start)

Gaaah~~~ Yes, I have decided to do more things to do with writing, so occasionally I may post a fanfic or a page of my April project: Screenfrenzy.org Which is a partner to NanoWriMo I know. I know. I promised I wouldn’t mention it until October, but still…. This is .. well not that important. In any case, I’m writing a 100 page screen play in a month, which sounds slightly easier than a 50k novel in a month, but who am I to say so? q; Also, this post is to direct you ————>
over there. Where you will find new things, like donate buttons, which you should click on, and then click on the site. Though with MercyCorps, you actually have to donate real money, rather than just time, so the top one is better, but yeah. Other important information that I’ve got for you today.. Let’s see. I signed up at http://www.care2.org and got a new e-mail address, and I’m going to start making my friends use it, so I can e-mail them back and help. . and because I need friends on this site, so I don’t feel like such a loser for doing it. ^-^ It’s a good caaaaaaaauuse, of course! Then again, most of what I like to do online is Educational and Causation work, so I guess that’s just me. Though I don’t know if IRC is Educational or Causational, so perhaps it’s not. I wonder if Causation is even a real word. q; Oh~ It is. Neat (: So yeah, that’s how it rolllssss~~
Go play @ http://www.freerice.com It’ll make you smarter and donate rice to hungry kids at the same time.

I’ll be around, look for me on twitter or something.
Haaiii~ Now that it’s afternoon I figured I’d update this with a OneWord

Believe.

She looked at him, belief shining in her eyes. He was certain that she knew how he felt. She knew he hated it when people called him by that name, just as she couldn’t stand people calling her baby. The smallest things could set either of them off, sending both into a spree of murder and distruction.

I seem to have a lot of killing in my one words. rather macabre of me. ohwells. (: Back to my meanderings ’round the net.

Don’t laugh, first of all; it’s a very valid question. Everyone meditates. Call it something else if you have a problem with that term. Clearing your mind, focusing; Hell, it makes me feel better to call it space reduction therapy. How ever you do it, the effect is still the same, right? Myself, I find it effective to lay in a small area, turn out all the lights and build something in my mind. It doesn’t have to be complicated, and to be completely honest, if it is too complicated I feel the exercise has been in vain. Some people lay flat on their backs and compose in their mind, though I just said that in an entirely different way, didn’t I? Some turn on music and concentrate on the flow, the ebb, the rise of the sound. I will pick a part and follow just that. separate each of the pieces, instruments, from each other. All of these things, I’ve done them. It’s just a matter of finding what works best for your mind. Which brings me back to my original question: How do you meditate?

Take a moment to think about it before you start to give an answer. Sometimes you’ll meditate and not realise that you’re doing it, so we want to be sure that you know you’re doing it. Conscious thought it the first step, at least I think it is. (Pun intended, thanks.) Perhaps breathe a little, Does this all feel familiar? It’s all about the ritual of how you start. Of course, this could just be because I’m feeling rambly at 0200hrs, again.

This is what I get, of course, for meditating at 01.30hrs. But it helped me, and so I wanted to pass it on so it can help you as well.