My last entry became flooded with comments concerning the death of VortexMB.com, so I thought I’d make an official entry about the issue.

As of right now, my decision to close the message board is final. Yes, that sentence sounds hypocritical, but I hate to rule out the possibility of making a new board in the future. So please pay your last respects, if you will. The comments will beuntil my next (real) entry.

RIP VortexMB.com (July 13, 2003 - November 6, 2005)

Have you picked out your Halloween costume yet? I’m trying to narrow down the following three ideas:
1. Quail Man (from the cartoon Doug)
2. An emo kid
3. Jesus

I’m about to be one happy nerd. My dad promised to get me a new hard drive this week before I buy my new iPod. My current hard drive is old and small, and my enormous music collection has overgrown it. I can’t wait to put the rest of my CDs on my computer and transfer them onto my yet-to-be-purchased iPod.

I’m awaiting a long and strenuous weekend, working on the school newspaper. I’ll try to come up for air every now and then, maybe to get in a blog entry or two. My job will be ten times easier if the new RAM gets installed on the school laptop by Friday afternoon. After giving the wrong address to the computer company, UPS lost the package containing said RAM; consequently, I was on the phone with customer service for entirely too long. Things should be fixed now, though.

It’s amazing how boring my life has gotten. I just wrote an entire entry about computer parts. And sadly, those were the two newsworthy events of my day. Sigh…

I hate to be all dramatic about it, but I really don’t have much interest in this website anymore. Online journals aren’t worth my time, because so much of my life is not something that I want posted on the Internet. We’ll see what the future holds, but for now I’m not quite sure of this site’s status. I’ll continue to post when I feel so inclined, but don’t expect any major changes for a while.

I feel horribly insensitive for saying this, but the media frenzy over Hurricane Katrina needs to stop right now. Yes, it was arguably one of the biggest natural disasters in the history of the United States, but I’d like to know what else is going on in the world. Did anyone happen to catch that the chief justice of the Supreme Court died recently? I was lucky I saw it during the brief time it was actually covered on the news. That kind of story would normally draw a large amount of media attention, but instead all I hear is how gross the water is in New Orleans. Or how the mayor wants everyone to evacuate. Yes, we know already. I’m not saying that the media should ignore this story completely, but give some of the other news a chance to be heard. I honestly feel so uninformed about what’s going on now in all other aspects of the world, but I could tell you a book’s worth of information about the Katrina aftermath.

Edit I’m editting this just for clarification purposes, after receiving several sour comments about this entry. Yes, I know my opinion is unpopular; however, many of you who commented completely misunderstood what I wrote. Either that, or you just chose to ignore it. Anyway, all I’m saying is that I believe the media isn’t doing a very good job of delivering the rest of the news. Yes, Katrina is a very big story right now, and rightfully so, but I’d like to hear about what else is going on in the world and in my country. I’m not saying Katrina isn’t important or that I don’t feel sorry for any of the victims. Please do not put words in my mouth and make me out to be this evil, heartless person. I’m not, I promise! /Edit

And on a related note, I’m hoping that Kanye West’s 15 minutes of fame will expire soon. I’m definitely not a Bush supporter, but what he said at the NBC telethon was completely out of line and stupid. People will do anything to attack Bush, even for stuff that’s not his fault. If only people would think a little longer before they speak. They’d have such strong arguments against Bush if they just collected their thoughts before throwing around unfounded accusations.

Edit Again, to clarify for people who haven’t heard about this… Kanye West said on live television that “Bush doesn’t care about black people.” /Edit

There’s been so much happening in my life lately, most of which I can’t even condense enough to blog about. I took a trip to New York over the weekend to attend what will probably be my last US It’s been somewhat of a tradition over the years, and I’m sad to see it end now that I’ll be going off to college next year.

If I have time this weekend and decide to go through with it, I’m going to start work on my new domain. I’ve had this one for over two years now, and I think it’s time for a change. I haven’t fully decided yet, though, so we’ll see.

“This night’s a perfect shade of Dark Blue.” A new layout is up featuring Andrew McMahon and that amazing song. I love it so much.

PS: Remixx.net is now advertisement-free. Consequently, I’m now officially poor.

And now, I leave you with some quasi interesting facts that I learned while reading Fast Food Nation:
01. The McDonalds golden arches are more recognizable than the Christian cross.
02. Most of the food in fast food restaurants is automatically cooked by machines. The food arrives frozen, and shakes/sodas begin as syrup.
03. Fast food restaurants are now more attractive to armed robbers than convenience stores, gas stations, or banks.
04. McDonalds’ Chicken McNuggets are cooked in beef extract. In addition, they’re more fattening than the hamburgers.
That being said, I’m never going to eat at or work in a fast food restaurant ever again!