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April 22, 2001 - No Sex Please, We're Jewish
No new programs today, but I do have an announcement. I have finally made a webpage all about me. if any of you want to see more examples of my mad webpage making skillz, or you just want to see what goes on inside my twisted little head, bop on over to http://blake.prohosting.com/~m15. I just got back from my cousin's bar mitzvah in NYC, and here's an overview of how that went. The following text is from my webpage. ah, it's good to be home. i just got back from a weekend excursion in the big apple, a.k.a. new york city. purpose of visit: second-cousin's bar mitzvah. we got up there on friday and met up with my uncle, aunt, and cousins who flew in from california, and then we rendezvoused with my uncle and went to chinatown for dinner. i brought the camera and i took lots of video. saturday morning we went to central park, past the forty-deuce (times square), and the mtv studios. unfortunately, i don't think they were filming anything. saturday night was the party, from 7pm to 1:30am. i'll tell ya, that was the craziest, most jacked up party i've ever been to. there was so much fuckin stuff there it wasn't even funny. video games, cameras on the dance floor hooked up to huge screens, dancers, a kickass band, and a number of screaming pre-teens that clearly exceeds the recommended limit. the whole time i was either dancing my ass off or hanging with my cousins noah and josh and making fun of our cousin (the one getting bar mitzvah'd). it was damn funny though. he looked like he was mentally retarded, his eyes bulged out and his mouth hung open, expressionless. what was even better was that he disappeared for a good portion of the party (probably playing crazy taxi or top skater in the videogame tent). noah, josh, and i tried to crash some of the other parties going on, but someone saw us and told us to go back to our own party. apparently a good number of the giggling seventh-grade girls thought i was hot, and a screaming seventh-grade boy tried to play matchmaker with me and them ("would you hook up with her?"). nothing happened, but the newly-pubescent girls wanted to have their picture taken with me. i thought it mean to refuse, so i went over there and they all put there arms around me and sat on me. it was cute. jailbait.

April 22, 2001 - No Sex Please, We're Jewish

No new programs today, but I do have an announcement. I have finally made a webpage all about me. if any of you want to see more examples of my mad webpage making skillz, or you just want to see what goes on inside my twisted little head, bop on over to http://blake.prohosting.com/~m15.

I just got back from my cousin's bar mitzvah in NYC, and here's an overview of how that went. The following text is from my webpage.

ah, it's good to be home. i just got back from a weekend excursion in the big apple, a.k.a. new york city. purpose of visit: second-cousin's bar mitzvah. we got up there on friday and met up with my uncle, aunt, and cousins who flew in from california, and then we rendezvoused with my uncle and went to chinatown for dinner. i brought the camera and i took lots of video. saturday morning we went to central park, past the forty-deuce (times square), and the mtv studios. unfortunately, i don't think they were filming anything.

saturday night was the party, from 7pm to 1:30am. i'll tell ya, that was the craziest, most jacked up party i've ever been to. there was so much fuckin stuff there it wasn't even funny. video games, cameras on the dance floor hooked up to huge screens, dancers, a kickass band, and a number of screaming pre-teens that clearly exceeds the recommended limit. the whole time i was either dancing my ass off or hanging with my cousins noah and josh and making fun of our cousin (the one getting bar mitzvah'd). it was damn funny though. he looked like he was mentally retarded, his eyes bulged out and his mouth hung open, expressionless. what was even better was that he disappeared for a good portion of the party (probably playing crazy taxi or top skater in the videogame tent). noah, josh, and i tried to crash some of the other parties going on, but someone saw us and told us to go back to our own party.

apparently a good number of the giggling seventh-grade girls thought i was hot, and a screaming seventh-grade boy tried to play matchmaker with me and them ("would you hook up with her?"). nothing happened, but the newly-pubescent girls wanted to have their picture taken with me. i thought it mean to refuse, so i went over there and they all put there arms around me and sat on me. it was cute.

jailbait.

April 17, 2001 - Close Encounters of the Third Power
Guess what, everyone? New programs today! Yay! Today we have for you some very special programs dealing with all things cubic. We have a cubic equation finder, where you put in the x-intercepts and a point on the line and the program spits out the equation in the form y=a(x-p)(x-q)(x-r). We also have a cubic equation solver, in which you input the coefficients of the equation and the program goes through the long steps of finding factors, synthetic substitution, and solving the quadratic formula and spits out the solutions. That one's a real timesaver! Oh, and did I mention the cubic equation finder shows ALL the work? Nice! The solver doesn't show any work (dammit!) but it might in a future version. Nab these tasty morsels at the Programs section.

April 17, 2001 - Close Encounters of the Third Power

Guess what, everyone? New programs today! Yay! Today we have for you some very special programs dealing with all things cubic. We have a cubic equation finder, where you put in the x-intercepts and a point on the line and the program spits out the equation in the form y=a(x-p)(x-q)(x-r). We also have a cubic equation solver, in which you input the coefficients of the equation and the program goes through the long steps of finding factors, synthetic substitution, and solving the quadratic formula and spits out the solutions. That one's a real timesaver! Oh, and did I mention the cubic equation finder shows ALL the work? Nice! The solver doesn't show any work (dammit!) but it might in a future version.

Nab these tasty morsels at the Programs section.

April 16, 2001 - One Step Closer
If you've been checking out things on the TI scene lately, you may have heard about ticalc.org's CD project. If you haven't, here's the deal. ticalc.org, in conjunction with TI, has decided to compile a CD with various programs from their archives and bundle it with TI calculator products, specifically the Graphlink cables. For more information, click on the blue underlined text above (also called a hyperlink) to go to ticalc's CD project page. Anyway, a program by yours truly has been selected for inclusion in the CD (probably along with everyone else's). That came as a huge shock to me, as I don't even have any programs in ticalc's archive. Then I found out that I did. I tried uploading Draw 2000 back in November, and I thought that the upload screwed up. Alack, that was not true. It is alive and well in the archives. And now, if this whole thing goes through, MJS2000 will be a household name to any sucker geek who purchases a Graphlink. To check out what all the fuss is about, go to the Programs section. I like to think of it as one step closer to world domination. Today, a bunch of overpriced RS-232 cables, tomorrow, the world!!!!! HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!<choke> <struggling to lift himself up onto his chair> If you don't own it already, get Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys. Classic CD.

April 16, 2001 - One Step Closer

If you've been checking out things on the TI scene lately, you may have heard about ticalc.org's CD project. If you haven't, here's the deal. ticalc.org, in conjunction with TI, has decided to compile a CD with various programs from their archives and bundle it with TI calculator products, specifically the Graphlink cables. For more information, click on the blue underlined text above (also called a hyperlink) to go to ticalc's CD project page.

Anyway, a program by yours truly has been selected for inclusion in the CD (probably along with everyone else's). That came as a huge shock to me, as I don't even have any programs in ticalc's archive. Then I found out that I did. I tried uploading Draw 2000 back in November, and I thought that the upload screwed up. Alack, that was not true. It is alive and well in the archives. And now, if this whole thing goes through, MJS2000 will be a household name to any sucker geek who purchases a Graphlink. To check out what all the fuss is about, go to the Programs section.

I like to think of it as one step closer to world domination. Today, a bunch of overpriced RS-232 cables, tomorrow, the world!!!!! HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!<choke>

<struggling to lift himself up onto his chair> If you don't own it already, get Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys. Classic CD.

April 15, 2001 - Anyone Can Play Guitar
Phew, that one was close. Last night I almost had a total computer meltdown. Windows wouldn't boot normally. I had a choice of two ways of how I could run my computer: in Windows' safe mode or in DOS. Of course, everyone here's a big fan of DOS, right? Mmm...text-based operating system... Anyway, the kind and knowledgable people at Dell tech support were able to help me fix my problem. Thank God they're open 7 days a week (especially today, isn't today easter sunday?). After countless experiments, I have finally found the ideal graphics layout. I even made some nifty sub-menus (click on Tutorials, Programs, or TI Calc Info for an example). In other news, I decided to try and establish communications with an old friend today. I met her (note the gender of the previous word) at a party about 2 years ago, then we started talking online back in September or so, and I haven't talked to her since October or something. I sent her an e-mail. A response is yet to come. Just when you thought this damn news article couldn't get any longer, guess what? Matt's Random and Seemingly Meaningless Quote Of The Day: And if the world does turn And if London burns I'll be standing on the beach With my guitar I wanna be in a band When I get to heaven Anyone can play guitar, and they won't Be anything anymore. -Radiohead ("Anyone Can Play Guitar")

April 15, 2001 - Anyone Can Play Guitar

Phew, that one was close. Last night I almost had a total computer meltdown. Windows wouldn't boot normally. I had a choice of two ways of how I could run my computer: in Windows' safe mode or in DOS. Of course, everyone here's a big fan of DOS, right? Mmm...text-based operating system...

Anyway, the kind and knowledgable people at Dell tech support were able to help me fix my problem. Thank God they're open 7 days a week (especially today, isn't today easter sunday?).

After countless experiments, I have finally found the ideal graphics layout. I even made some nifty sub-menus (click on Tutorials, Programs, or TI Calc Info for an example).

In other news, I decided to try and establish communications with an old friend today. I met her (note the gender of the previous word) at a party about 2 years ago, then we started talking online back in September or so, and I haven't talked to her since October or something. I sent her an e-mail. A response is yet to come.

Just when you thought this damn news article couldn't get any longer, guess what?

Matt's Random and Seemingly Meaningless Quote Of The Day:
And if the world does turn
And if London burns
I'll be standing on the beach
With my guitar
I wanna be in a band
When I get to heaven
Anyone can play guitar, and they won't
Be anything anymore.
-Radiohead ("Anyone Can Play Guitar")

April 8, 2001 - Graphical Updates
If you ask me, it's about time I've changed the graphics around. I made a new logo, and some new sidebar buttons. I've also added to the background, and made the site more friendly for those of you viewing us in 640x480. This update is in no way complete. Hope you like the nifty background music. It's the theme song from Duke Nukem 3D. "It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I'm all outta gum."

April 8, 2001 - Graphical Updates

If you ask me, it's about time I've changed the graphics around. I made a new logo, and some new sidebar buttons. I've also added to the background, and made the site more friendly for those of you viewing us in 640x480. This update is in no way complete.

Hope you like the nifty background music. It's the theme song from Duke Nukem 3D.

"It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I'm all outta gum."

April 1, 2001 - Achtung!
Happy April Fools Day, everyone. No new progs today, but I do have some good news. I have found a new joy. Its name: Wolfenstein 3-D. Yes, that's right. You can stop laughing now. Anyway, for those of you who don't know, Wolf3D is the granddaddy of all first-person shooter games, even before Doom. This game is 9 years old, from the grand old days of shareware. If you haven't experienced this masterpiece then by all means do so now.

April 1, 2001 - Achtung!

Happy April Fools Day, everyone.

No new progs today, but I do have some good news. I have found a new joy. Its name: Wolfenstein 3-D. Yes, that's right. You can stop laughing now. Anyway, for those of you who don't know, Wolf3D is the granddaddy of all first-person shooter games, even before Doom. This game is 9 years old, from the grand old days of shareware. If you haven't experienced this masterpiece then by all means do so now.