I also thought I should present this little bit of insanity:

HappyDerm

Quoteth the Model: "My skin glows with Happiness!"

Sorta reminds you of this.

[UPDATE]: For some screwed-up reason, I now outrank l’Oréal Paris for their own product.

p.s. If you can find a way to do so, try to watch the music video Hellbent by Kenna. It uses the same award-winning stop-motion animation video as above, but take my word for it, the song and the video are much more potent together. The two are honestly made for each other. (Leave me a comment if you’re interested! :D)

[UPDATE]: I’ve also located a copy of the Hellbent music video on the internet. It’s probably copyrighted and all that, so if for some reason you are the copyright holder and you want me to take it down, please send me an email. Otherwise, enjoy it for now!

There was a special night in Montreal last night - it’s referred to as nuit blanche, which directly translates into "white night". 

No, it’s not a night of celebration of white people.

No, it’s not some teenage girl’s fantasy taken from the middle ages (sighhhh…).  That just wouldn’t make any sense.  Come on people!

Yes, the actual meaning is very complex.

Audience: "Will you shut the f*** up and get on with it already?!"

Sorry, I must be in one of my moods.  It means all-nighter.  So what the city gets up and stays up to do once a year is keep lots of places open the whole night, like exhibits and museums and lots of crap, often until 6 am.  So the idea is that you can stay up all night doing cool things!

The plan was simple - there was an exhibit at the Montreal Science Center entitled "Autopsy of a Murder", where you get to try and solve, well, a murder.  I was getting all excited, because I thought it would be really cool to go do this after a night of "socializing":

Me: "Oh, shlit!  There’s a ded blody!"  "Offlicer!  Helooooo!  I think you shloud arrest.. someone?  Don’t let’em gettaway with it!"

Hilarity would then ensue (as it always does), naturally.

Unfortunately, this fun-filled evening never came to pass.  After a second look, it appeared the science center closed down at 10 pm.  Now in MY book, this hardly qualifies as a all-nighter by any stretch of the imagination.  It didn’t even make it past midnight!  My theory is that since it is a science center, and since it must be therefore stocked with nerds as attendants, then the term all-nighter is probably quite the relative term.  If you’re used to calling it a night at around suppertime, then pushing it to 10 pm must be like partying like it’s 1999 (or 2000, for those the-new-millenium-only-comes-in-2001 purists)!

So, the night wasn’t exactly blanche for me, anyways.  It ended up being simply a nice get-together at a strange bistro-bar on St. Denis called Bistrot de Paris.  Funny thing - and I say this because its just slightly more weird than the normal - is that when we were about to enter the place, this punk-looking couple walk out and immediately proceed to ask us if we want some good meat, while holding up a grocery bag with said meat in it.  First of all, now: WHY do these people have a bag o’ meat coming out of this bar?  Second: WHY do they think that we are any more willing to hold onto this bag o’ meat in this bar we’re going in to than they were?  Third:  WHY would they think that anyone would accept meat offered to them on the street by a pair of people offering it to them?!  The act alone of offering meat would make me wary of any other goods these people may be peddling.

In any case, I get home, still meatless, at about 3 am.  So it’s not exactly an all-nighter, but its not a bad night either.  We’ll call it a grey area.  Hence the title. ;)

The craze about the trilogy may have died down a tad, but it’s still around if you look for it. Personally, I haven’t even gotten close to getting through the extended edition DVD set that I bought two months ago. 3 DVDs down, 54 to go.

Anyways, here’s a bit of stupidity (1.4 MB).

All right, whatever! Seems like everyone else has a post about this, so I may as well have one too.

I’ve been extremely jealous for a while now of all the people using cool plugins that were only supported in WP 1.3 and above, but I’m a lazy man, and couldn’t be bothered to really spend all the time necessary to install a work-in-progress version of WP on my site.

To which I now say: I’m 0.3 better (started at WP 1.2) than I was before.

There were more than a few annoyances I had to deal with - actually making my website something more than a hack job, for instance - but I guess it’s worth it to now be able to use all the new crap that they built into the new system.

Annoyances also included:
-Having to use a version of Gudyf’s otherwise-excellent AuthImage that didn’t actually work out of the box, and having to comb through around 300 comment postings to find the extra code that would make it work, and then finding out that for some reason the single quotes Gudyf used in his code aren’t "correct" or something, so I had to replace them with my own single quotes to make the variables work. In any case, the captcha image authentication should be working now for the comment system. No spam as of yet! Excellent little tool once you get it working.

My site’s now much more dynamic, as the header, body, footer, etc are all discrete, and can be jammed together when the need arises or WP decides it. Pages are also way too cool 4 u, with ways to navigate BACK and FORWARDS, two exciting new directions that are making waves in the cardinality world.

The best thing about all this is, of course, the open-source nature of the whole WordPress shebang. Modifying functions, asking for help on the forums, it’s all a very vibrant community that’s really into their software. I don’t blame them though - it has its caveats, but I can hopefully get around those with a bit of time, and you still can’t beat the free price. I thought movable type was da bomb when I was using it, then it exploded in a money-hungry catastrophe and was never the same.

Anyways, the point is that everything on my site should be cooler than evah. If you disagree, or can’t notice the freaking difference, well, then,… just stare at the pretty orange colour. It’s about as interesting as anything else that goes on here :P

Oh yes - I forgot to mention the most important link. You have to love it when the power of the internet takes one thing which is just silly and stupid, but just fun to look at, and rockets it to the top of the proverbial internet heap and gives it its 15 minutes of fame. (Sorta like this).

Anyways, all the power to the Numa Numa Dancer, lip-singer extraordinaire.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/206373