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The death of the blogging “A-list”?

Gary King — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 03:59:38 +0000

Hugh over at gapingvoid talks about the death of the blogging “A-list”. It’s an interesting read.

Do you use Twitter?

Gary King — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:20:23 +0000

If you do use Twitter, then feel free to add me. My username is garyking

Moving in to the University of Waterloo

Gary King — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 17:15:36 +0000

I’ve moved in about half of my stuff to Waterloo so far. I’ve gone back home to get my other half; I had to finish a few things first during Sunday evening, anyways. While there, though, I saw some high school friends, including Andrew, and Wendy (twice, and in the same spot!) too.

UPDATE: I’m not doing two trips because I have a lot of things. I just have some stuff to take care of, so that’s why I have to return Sunday night.

Went up to rural country

Gary King — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 16:57:21 +0000

I went up to Sundridge, Ontario yesterday to a friend’s farm. There were fireworks, camping, and a great big feast
Photos to follow!

UPDATE: I also want to mention, that during the fireworks, one of the dogs there (there were 4) ran up to the fireworks and almost picked one up with its mouth. Someone managed to ran up to the dog in time, while it was within 5 meters of the fireworks, to drag it away.

I got home immediately before the terrorist threat

Gary King — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:24:11 +0000

I arrived home just in time to miss the ‘airline terrorist plot‘, which greatly delayed a lot of flights - especially to and from London and England, which was where my airplane was going to and leaving from (Heathrow airport in London.) Thank goodness for that, although for some of my friends that I met in Europe, it won’t be as easy, because some are leaving to go to home sometime today.

I’ve chosen my university elective courses

Gary King — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 04:13:40 +0000

I’m taking English and philosophy as my two elective courses. My schedule looks somewhat hideous; huge gaps here and there. On Tuesday, for instance, I don’t have any classes between 10 am and 4:30 pm. On Thursday, I don’t have any classes between 2:30 pm and 7 pm, and then my last class ends at 10 pm. And then on Friday, school ends at 3:30 pm - thankfully!

I need to start biking again

Gary King — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:21:33 +0000

I haven’t biked in years! My current bike is probably 10 years old by now; I’m sure I could travel with it, but it’d be very, very uncomfortable. A lot of my friends have apparently again picked up the activity of biking, just for the sake of biking, so I suppose I might as well do so, too. I haven’t biked in years, but I guess as they say, once you learn to bike, you never forgot!

My dreams are getting boring

Gary King — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:29:36 +0000

Usually when I dream while sleeping, I dream about things that have never happened, but would be nice if they happened. Like becoming a billionaire. Being a world dictator loved by all. Or getting my university degree. But last night, I didn’t dream about any of these things. Instead, I dreamt about my prom that passed about a month ago. How boring is that? I think I’ve gotten so bored that my mind is just recycling old memories and playing those as dreams instead of thinking of new things. Dammit!

Update: I remember some more details now. During the prom, I forgot to bring my suit so I was wearing jeans and a blue t-shirt. I didn’t enjoy the prom as much this time, and so it sucked this second time around.

My grad photos are in!

Gary King — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 03:46:43 +0000

My grad photos that I ordered arrived today. I’ve got a few wallet-sized ones, for those who’ve been asking for them continuously. Get them while they’re hot!
Update: I ordered them AFTER school ended, since people bugged me for my wallet-sized photos during the yearbook-signing period.

Woke up at 4:30 pm today

Gary King — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:32:10 +0000

I just woke up at 4:30 pm today, because I’m so tired from yesterday’s ACI BBQ/party. I had a great time, and went to sleep at about 5:30 am after I got home.

Watched the movie ‘Alien’

Gary King — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:10:53 +0000

I just saw ‘Alien‘ for the first time. Fun stuff, but I guess knowing a lot of the famous scenes in it ruined it a bit. But still, it’s interesting to see how well the special effects for this horror/action movie is, when it was made back in 1979 (about same time as Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back.) I have the DVDs for the entire quadrilogy (a word coined by the Alien series; the proper term is actually ‘tetralogy’), and so I’ll probably watch at least Aliens, since I heard it was good, but the last two weren’t nearly as good.

I have 2 ‘new’ blogs

Gary King — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:43:11 +0000

Okay, they’re more like 2 other blogs that link to this one. One is hosted at Friendster and the other is hosted at Xanga. I’m posting my entries at these blogs, because a lot of my friends use them and so now they will ping back to here.

School’s over. Summer starts now.

Gary King — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:10:26 +0000

I returned home from high school for the very last time, just a few minutes ago. Exams and school are finally over now! I have 74 days of freedom, until university orientation day. At least 10 of these days will be spent in a country other than Canada. Hopefully I’ll be able to visit every European country before I graduate from university!

Staring at my geometry study notes

Gary King — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:14:51 +0000

I’m just staring into space right now, instead of paying attention to the study notes for my geometry exam, that’s right in front of me. All of my scribbles on it now appear so foreign to me (although I probably didn’t understand them that much back when I wrote them, in the first place, anyways.) So, I haven’t been as productive with studying for my exam as I’d like to be.

On a side note, at least I’ve used my time to properly tag my iTunes songs, using iEatBrainz. And I’ve been watching a few Coldplay and Linkin Park concerts on YouTube, as well.

Using my old MP3 player again

Gary King — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:24:24 +0000

I’ve revived my old MP3 player. I’m using it now as a voice recorder, since my iPod has replaced all other use for it.

It’s a Creative NOMAD IIc.

Data management exam today

Gary King — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:19:06 +0000

I did my data management exam today. It seemed easy enough; at least now, I can concentrate on my geometry exam, which is tomorrow. It’s by far my most difficult course, probably because I simply am not good enough to visually picture all of the shapes in my mind, so it’s all just numbers to me.

Watched the movie ‘Dirty Harry’

Gary King — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:05:06 +0000

I just watched Dirty Harry. It’s okay, but I was really looking forward to the scene where he says “Do you feel lucky, punk?” and then I find out that this scene is in one of the sequels. I never even knew it had sequels, because the sequels don’t include the phrase ‘Dirty Harry’ in the title. Anyways, it was an entertaining movie, but not as good as I expected.

“The Cup goes to Carolina!”

Gary King — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 03:04:28 +0000

As NHL proudly proclaims, “The Cup goes to Carolina!”. Bummer for us Canucks - the last time a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup was back in 1993, by the Montreal Canadiens.

Looking for a new cell phone

Gary King — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:46:25 +0000

I’m looking for a new cell phone. Do you guys have any recommendations? I’m basically just looking for something cheap, can make phone calls, and doesn’t look like it was time warped from the past.

My Comics Page

Gary King — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:40:28 +0000

Just FYI, if you don’t know about it already, before I started this blog I created a ‘Comics Page’ where I visit once a day to view all my daily comics there. If you want to use it, go ahead. Anyways, this is just for the people who don’t know about it yet but might be interested in it. Also, the comics there are the (main) ones that I read, and I probably won’t add anymore unless I really like the new strips.

1 exam down, 2 more to go

Gary King — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:00:53 +0000

The calculus exam that I did today was a good test to see how much information I remembered from the last 5 1/2 months of school. And apparently, the answer to that is: not that much. Anyways, I don’t think we’ll be getting our exams back; the marks are simply immediately reflected into our final marks which are then sent out for the final time to universities, I suppose. I also managed to write a few comic strips while doing my exam, and get some sleep in, as well. The comic strip was about a giant blog who was attacking a random city (probably Tokyo) and eating the citizens (probably Japanese people, because of Godzilla…) It’s very fascinating, indeed.

Procrastinating studying for my exams

Gary King — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 19:40:17 +0000

I’ve been procrastinating studying for my exams today. I’ve been organizing my clothes - they need to be organized, anyways.

Anyone want to go to Edgefest?

Gary King — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 19:34:53 +0000

Does anyone want to go to Edgefest? It’s on July 1. There are a couple of us going, but if anyone else wants to come along, then let me know.

Why I procrastinate

Gary King — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 17:23:27 +0000

I procrastinate, for things that either don’t have a deadline or one that’s far away, for things that I care little about, or for things that I don’t want to know the consequences to. But I think, primarily, I procrastinate because I try to be perfect. I always want things to be perfect, even though I know they will never be perfect. I also give myself this excuse so I don’t have to go ahead doing whatever I’m supposed to do in the first place. I need something to happen that will change my attitude with procrastination; maybe going to university is the change that will help me?

Registered at the University of Waterloo now

Gary King — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 16:55:58 +0000

I’ve registered at the University of Waterloo for my preliminary information, such as what co-op stream I’ll be taking (stream 8 was already full, so I took stream 4. But I intended on taking stream 4, anyways.) The registration all took less than 5 minutes; I thought it would’ve taken longer, but now I see that the real course selections will begin on July 17. I can’t wait!

Rails Day 2006

Gary King — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 03:50:34 +0000

I’ve decided not to go ahead with Rails Day 2006. I’m too tired to last 24 hours straight and still have energy to study for three exams the immediate next week after. There’s also about a 25% chance of winning any prize whatsoever - which is pretty damn good. Oh well, there’s always next year!

Cleaned out my IM contact list

Gary King — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 21:44:01 +0000

I just cleaned out my IM contact list, so if you’re still on it, then consider yourself lucky!

Bill Gates is leaving Microsoft completely in 2 years

Gary King — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 21:19:29 +0000

This is according to a press release from Microsoft. It seems like even he doesn’t get his life fulfilled by Microsoft anymore, and is looking for a better way for self-fulfillment. He’s going to be working at his Gates Foundation full-time after his 2 year transition away from Microsoft.

I’m awake at 4 am

Gary King — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:28:18 +0000

I woke up at 4 am this morning to clear my head a bit… I think I got two hours of sleep (2 am - 4 am.) But, the funny thing is, I feel fine. When I’m moving, anyways, otherwise I’ll fall asleep while not doing anything.

My final violin lesson

Gary King — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:33:34 +0000

Well, I had my final violin lesson just yesterday. My big, final performance comes up in two weeks, though. I have absolutely no idea if I’ll intend on pursuing violin any further, but we’ll just see if I can survive without it, first.