Some years ago [I don't remember when] I used an online application to answer some survey questions [and other clauses that required response]. I didn't answer them all in a single sitting; I answered a bunch, then answerd more later on later days. I like the questions [etc.] and looking back, I like my answers to them and am interested to see how differently or similarly I'd answer today.

Random Online Survey(then)
How tall are you?
5'8" - 7'12"

Do you like bananas?
Ohhh yeah!

What do you do on fridays?
sleeep

If you could have one super human power what would you choose?
the power to have as many powers as I want, duh

What is your favorite place?
the dream world

Do you read harry potter books?
no.

What is your favorite food?
hot wings w/ xtra hot sauce

Do you shower every single day?
sometimes

Kill the spider or let it out?
let it out. then kill it.

Do you eat cold cereal at night?
I would if I had some cereal.

Define yourself in 3 words...
esoteric eclectic novelty

Favorite fruit?
... pineapples... bananas... mangos... and grapes...

Juice and crackers or milk and cookies?
yes, please.

What was your last thought?
"What was your last thought?" was my last thought

Why did the chicken cross the road?
'cuz my gramma was gonna chopp his neck off.

Your favorite Disney Films?
The Lion King, Toy Story

What is your favorite clothing brand?
I hate clothing brands

Favorite Place to Eat?
my friggin kitchen

Would you rather be hot or cold?
hot

What size shoe do you wear?
11 - 12

When do you plan on getting married?
whenever the time is right

Do you own any pets, and if so what do you have?
Snicker the chow

What 3 words would your best friend use to describe you?
(")I don't know.(")

What do you do for fun?
video games, streetball, tennis, basketball, weight-lifting, comedy, music, draw, experiment w/ many many things

Do you believe that the cup is half empty or half full?
If the cup is half empty, then it is obviously half full.

If you could time travel to the past to correct any mistakes you feel youve made would you?
Traveling into the past would be a mistake

What makes you laugh?
laughter, coughs, loud/ rediculous sneezes, random explosions, clanging metal, certain objects being dropped, stupid stuff, retarded stuff, hyperbolic stuff, that punching sound effect in movies and cartoons

What makes you cry?
sorrow, of myself or of others, though I haven't cried in years

What is your favourite word?
pants; {in English and in Spanish}

If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?
my house

If you could be successful at any job in the world, what would that job be?
being a dunking coach

Describe your perfect Sunday morning?
Why is this in the form of a question?

Aliens have landed and selected you to visit their home planet. Do you go with them?
I've done that at least four times.

What attracts you most?
{to people} inner beauty, sweetness, randomness, humor, athleticism, coolnessness

do you plan in advance
yes and no

left handed or right handed?
left handed with the knife. otherwise almost always right handed

What is your favorite color?
that hue somewhere between turquoise and blue

What came first, the chicken or the egg?
frikkin chicken

Do you believe a good life is attainable? or is it something that is out of our control ie subject to luck etc.
luck ain't real

Which religion do you choose to follow?
I choose not to simply follow religion.

Sour or sweet candy?
I do not like candy.

Chocolate or other candy?
I do like chocolate.

How many kids (or any at all) would you want to have?
that depends on the preference of my spouse

Are you in love?
heh heh heh heh hehhhh

Whats your favorite sport?
skateboarding

Desktop or Laptop?
I hate computers. Especially laptops.

What language would you like to speak fluently?
日本語

Favorite Rapper
hmmm..... I don't have a single favorite right now, but Canibus is the coldest.

How many people are in your family?
4 in my nuclear fam

What is your natural hair color?
blak

What colour are your eyes?
dark brown

Do you believe in heaven and hell?
Yes.

what do you think they eat in heaven?
I don't think they eat in Heaven

Do you like thunderstorms?
yalp

Favorite perfume?
pretty-smelling perfume

If you look at the color blue, what does it make you think of?
the color blue

Do you have to go to the bathroom?
I went yesterday. I'm fine now.

Biggest turnoff in the oppisite sex?
eeeeeevil !

what is love?
every height of human life

Favorite NFL team?
I don't like "foot""ball"

Favorite hard liqour?
I don't drink liqour. I don't even know what that is.

Musical instrument I play?
I experiment w/ keyboard, piano, & guitar

Two sports I played in middle school?
basketball & streetball

Sex before marriage or after marriage??
sex during marriage

What are you looking forward to this summer?
sleeep

Have you ever been on vacation outside the U.S.?
yup, to Jamaica

What countries have you been to other than you home country?
People who make applications should practice good grammar.

Death Metal or rap?
both have their highs & lows

Is/are your animal(s) spayed/neutered?
yaalp

What are you wearing right now?
pants

What is your ideal pizza?
spicy

Last film seen
I can't think back that far

What do you want?
to be done with school

What is your favorite kind of cheese?
cheese is good

how many licks DOES it take to get the center of a tootsie pop???
it's over NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAAAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you like to go online everyday?
no, but unfortunately it's a necessary part of life

If you could make any junk food super-nutritious, which one would you pick?
chips

Mc Donalds or Burger King??
neither have porkchop sandwiches, so what's the point?

How do you tell if you are in love or just in lust?
the same way I tell if I'm in anger or in sorrow

Describe your evil twin.
She's eeeeeeevil.

What is your favorite Shakespearean play
Romeo and Juliet

If you had to make a movie about your life what would it be called?
"Mario: Out of His Mind"
cuz it has a double meaning

What would be the soundtrack to the movie about your life?
all music.

least favorite song in the world?
'laffy taffy' ties w/ 'money in da bank'

What kind of drugs have you tried?
the ones I've been instructed to take to take by doctors or nurses

What was your favorite high school subject?
PE ties 2D Art

Gold or Silver?
I like silver. Don't care for gold.

Do you sing in the shower?
no sir

whos your favorite celebrity???
I pay them no mind.

OLD SKOOL MUSIC OR NEW SKOOL?
old skoool !

What do you love?
love itself

What is the funniest movie ever?
Repos



Random Online Survey (now)
How tall are you?
Average height.

Do you like bananas?
Yes!

What do you do on fridays?
Ssleeep.

If you could have one super human power what would you choose?
The power to have as many powers as I want, duh.

What is your favorite place?
The universe in my head.

Do you read harry potter books?
No.

What is your favorite food?
Hot wings w/ xtra hot sauce!

Do you shower every single day?
Sometimes.

Kill the spider or let it out?
Let it out after torture.

Do you eat cold cereal at night?
I probably would if I had some cereal. Haven't had any in about ten years. And I definitely did not cook that cereal.

Define yourself in 3 words...
One Unusual Futhermucker.


{…And some forty-some-odd minutes later, I realize that that phrase's acronym is a simple anagram of the acronym UFO… …}

Favorite fruit?
… pineapples & bananas…

Juice and crackers or milk and cookies?
I never have cookies with my milk. Or milk with my cookies.
… And neither juice with my crackers nor crackers with my juice.

What was your last thought?
"What was your last thought?" was my last thought.

Why did the chicken cross the road?
{It probably took me over twelve years to actually hear the answer to and understand that joke.}

Your favorite Disney Films?
The Lion King
Enchanted
Toy Story

What is your favorite clothing brand?
I hate clothing brands.

Favorite Place to Eat?
Right at home.

Would you rather be hot or cold?
Definitely freakin' hot.

What size shoe do you wear?
11 - 12

When do you plan on getting married?
Whenever the time is perfect.

Do you own any pets, and if so what do you have?
Domino, an alleged chow-shepherd mix, who I'm convinced has psychotic OCD, perhaps as a result of some dosage of crackcocaine sometime before we adopted him. We got him [probably less than a week] after Snicker died [from a large tumor, after some urine-scented hemorrhaging].

What 3 words would your best friend use to describe you?
My friends would probably use more than three words to describe me.

What do you do for fun?
I play video games, streetball, tennis, basketball, lift weights, watch something funny or make people laugh, listen to or play music, create digital or analog art, educate myself, or experiment with any of many many things.

Do you believe that the cup is half empty or half full?
Yes!

If you could time travel to the past to correct any mistakes you feel youve made would you?
Traveling into the past would simply lead to what has already happened happening again.

What makes you laugh?
Laughter, coughs, loud/ riddiculous sneezes, random explosions [and/ or their sound(s), the sound of clanging metal, certain objects being dropped [and/ or their sound(s)], stupid stuff, retarded stuff, hyperbolic stuff, that punching sound effect in movies and cartoons, cursing & vulgar language [if done right], hearing someone say the word pants, pantalones, two, or fish, a number of inappropriate things, and a number of things that aren't even slightly funny.

What makes you cry?
Fierce sorrow, of myself or of others.

What is your favourite word?
pants {in English and in Spanish {I really don't have any favorite words.)}

If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?
My house. I live (t)here now.

If you could be successful at any job in the world, what would that job be?
A full-time coach for dunkers, full-time game designer tester & developer, and part-time tutor.

Describe your perfect Sunday morning?
One without any fatigue?

Aliens have landed and selected you to visit their home planet. Do you go with them?
No they haven't, and no I don't.

What attracts you most?
{to people} Inner beauty, sweetness, randomness, humor, athleticism, coolnessness.

do you plan in advance
Usually if I do, I didn't plan to have done so.

left handed or right handed?
Left-handed with the knife. Otherwise almost always right-handed.

What is your favorite color?
I don't have any.

What came first, the chicken or the egg?
I don't think you're asking what you're really asking.

Do you believe a good life is attainable? or is it something that is out of our control ie subject to luck etc.
Luck ain't real.

Which religion do you choose to follow?
I choose not to simply follow religion.

Sour or sweet candy?
I do not like candy.

Chocolate or other candy?
I do like chocolate.

How many kids (or any at all) would you want to have?
That depends on the preference of my spouse. As of now, I personally prefer to not have kids, but if she wants kids, then I want twin daughters.

Are you in love?
Love is in me.

Whats your favorite sport?
Skateboarding is my favorite sport to watch. Tennis and freestyle basketball are my favorite to play, and I love to watch and play volleyball as well. [But not beach volleyball.]

Desktop or Laptop?
I hate computers. Especially laptops.

What language would you like to speak fluently?
All of them, especially Japanese, Greek, Latin, Spanish, and English.

Favorite Rapper
Probably Canibus.

How many people are in your family?
Four in my nuclear fam.

What is your natural hair color?
Dark black.

What colour are your eyes?
Dark brown.

Do you believe in heaven and hell?
Yes!

what do you think they eat in heaven?
I don't know if they eat in Heaven.

Do you like thunderstorms?
I like the heightened level of excitement thunderstorms give me. And I like to see the sky change colors.

Favorite perfume?
Been a long time since I wore some perfume.

If you look at the color blue, what does it make you think of?
The color blue.

Do you have to go to the bathroom?
I wish!

Biggest turnoff in the oppisite sex?
Haughtiness, bad language, dishonesty, polyamorous-ness, and ghetto-ness [among other things].

what is love?
Ildefined and definitely not undefined.

Favorite NFL team?
What? I do not like ""foot""ball""

Favorite hard liqour?
I like water.

Musical instrument I play?
I don't know what instruments you play.

Two sports I played in middle school?
basketball & volleyball

Sex before marriage or after marriage??
I condone sex during marriage. No, not during the actual wedding.

What are you looking forward to this summer?
Free time.

Have you ever been on vacation outside the U.S.?
Of course.

What countries have you been to other than you home country?
Jamaica.

Death Metal or rap?
Both have their highs & lows.

Is/are your animal(s) spayed/neutered?
Yeah but he may be regenerating his balls.

What are you wearing right now?
No pants.

What is your ideal pizza?
Spicy.

Last film seen
I can't think back that far

What do you want?
To exist as my true self, not the self bound to the limits of the physical realm.

What is your favorite kind of cheese?
Anything other than cottage or string cheese. Is string cheese even cheese? Or string?

how many licks DOES it take to get the center of a tootsie pop???
I've never actually licked a lollipop.

Do you like to go online everyday?
Not really, but life demands it.

If you could make any junk food super-nutritious, which one would you pick?
Chips.

Mc Donalds or Burger King??
neither have porkchop sandwiches, so what's the point?

How do you tell if you are in love or just in lust?
In lust?

Describe your evil twin.
She's eeeeeeevil.

What is your favorite Shakespearean play
Romeo and Juliet, easily.

If you had to make a movie about your life what would it be called?
"Mario: Out of His Mind"
'cuz it has a double meaning.

What would be the soundtrack to the movie about your life?
Either all music or all the music I've ever heard.

least favorite song in the world?
Any song in the genre/ category of "snap music".

What kind of drugs have you tried?
Only the ones I've been instructed to take to take by doctors or nurses.

What was your favorite high school subject?
PE ties 2D Art ties athletic conditioning.

Gold or Silver?
I like silver. Don't care for gold.

Do you sing in the shower?
Nope.

whos your favorite celebrity???
Celebrities are overrated.

OLD SKOOL MUSIC OR NEW SKOOL?
Old school all day!

What do you love?
Love.

What is the funniest movie ever?
I don't know, but Repos, Pulp Fiction, and Rush Hour 3 are probably three of the ones that made me laugh the most.

What would you change about yourself?
Not a frickin' thing.

Re-Live your childhood? What would you change?
Not a frickin' thing.

{..listening to all songs starting from track 6 "Dreamscape Lucidity" ..Listening to its music and/ or lyrics while reading this journal entry may add interesting effect(s).}
For those who do not know, the Ultra Fractal image/animation software has many hundreds of parameter and formula files that can be downloaded, including fractal formula files, transformation files, and coloring algorithm files. I usually browse through the coloring files, it causes me to explore and end up with hundreds of new ideas in seconds. One of the coloring files I randomly landed on is under the tna category. It's the one called tna Direct Orbit Traps. (Before I began this journal entry, I forgot that over a year and a half ago I made an entry about it [link] .) Since 2006 or 2007, I've been working with this tna Direct Orbit Traps coloring nonstop.

If I remember correctly the way it began, I opened this coloring formula while exploring the Mandelbrot fractal, as I had on countless other occasions. As I did typically, I started to experiment with variables and sub-parameters of the algorithm (e.g. Color Density, Transfer Function, and a number of sub-parameters specific to the algorithm, such as Trap Coloring and Threshold). The most remarkable thing happened when I changed the sub-parameter Trap Color Merge to HSL Addition. Doing that just so happened to cause the outside coloring of the Mandelbrot I was exploring at the moment to appeal greatly to me. I played around with the Transfer Function and Color Density until I finally left them at Square Root and 360 respectively. The whole fractal then looked like something that would remind me of nebula, prisms, and novas, all at once. It was very spectral-looking, but with a blackish background. The areas I magnified after that all resembled scenes from deep space, so I started to export images. That was over 2 or 3 years ago. During that time, I began what would end up as over 100 images and some animation projects… Since then I've been changing almost nothing but the Color Density, each time producing monumentally amazing effects that would captivate my attention and interest for years at a time.

One morning during class in early 2008, I decided to open Ultra Fractal (which I carry with me on a flash drive). I opened one of my fractals and added the tna Direct Orbit Traps coloring to it, changed the Trap Color Merge to HSL Addition, and this time changed the Color Density to 1.3333333333333333333… (1 and 1/3) and left the Transfer Function as Linear (the default). Doing so just so happened to cause areas of the Mandelbrot that I magnified to have shapes and patterns that remind me of butterflies, fairies, and exotic plantlife and deep sea scenes. Long story short (or actually, long story not as long), I ended up starting many more projects that would eventually lead to hundreds more images and animations, some of which I still have yet to begin.

{I want to update this after I learn how to embed thumbnail links in a journal, and after I get some sleep and remember what else I was going to say.}

Here's a brief list of discoveries I've made and (technically) how I came up with them:
(Color Density: 360 Transfer Function: Sqrt) Deep Space:
[link]
[link]
[link]

(Color Density: 1.3333… Transfer Function: Linear):
Plantlife:
[link]
[link]
[link]
[link]
[link]
[link]

Fairies & Butterflies:
[link]
[link]
[link]
[link]

Deep Sea
[link]
[link]
(Color Density: 1.21789364324643)
[link]

Prisms & Diamonds & such:
light:
[link]
[link]
[link]
[link]
[link]
[link]
[link]
[link]
dark:
[link]
[link]
[link]
[link]
[link]
[link]
[link]

others (Color Density: 200 Transfer Function: CubeRoot):
[link]

Deep Space (Color Density: 16 Transfer Function: Linear):
[link]

I've hardly been here, or YouTube, or anywhere out the house lately. My gallery is frozen and I have about seven and a half hundred deviations to view by people I'm watching. I've been more or less inactive, mainly because for the last... maybe 6 or 7 months, I've been extremely tired, fatigued really, from years of never really resting or taking any breaks. I've also been having aches & pains, in my head, my stomach, and especially my neck, which I couldn't move at all until a few days ago, and it still hurts if I move it in certain directions.

I ...... forgot what I was about to say.. Well any way, I was about to type another paragra... oh yeah! I've been sleeping at weird times, going through periods of insomnia or living nocturnally. Sometimes I sleep from 8am to 8pm and sometimes I can't sleep at all. I'm just trying to get back to normal (or as normal as I get any way)- back in good physical and mental shape , back to a regular sleep diet, and back to good health.

Today!
is the anniversary of the day of my birth.

For the past several months, I've been experiencing some chronic fatigue. I'm sure it's a result of working too hard in school for the past several years- all the nonstop homework, working out, playing sports, and pulling all-nighters. Fatigue sucks. It blows. Being so tired has made it hard to keep my grades up, and I was doing wonderfully until one particular group project came up, and I hate working in groups.

In my intro digital video course, my group had to make a video for our final project. The group consisted of a guy who had hardly been seen all semester (won't mention his name), a guy who is skilled (Chris), but doesn't have a great work ethic, and me, extremely tired and busy. This was a huge project, so huge that it put me behind in all my other classes, in which I was also working on final exams & final projects, projects such as a website, a treatment for a reality show, an animatic cartoon, and a video game.

Nearly all of the recording for the video was done by just Chris & me. On the day this video was due, there was still a lot of editing to be done. I was at home working on my animatic, which was already nearly a week late, and the guy from whom we hardly ever heard was nowhere to be found, there was on;y one of us on campus putting the final product together. He was doing nicely by himself, but after he got done, it took hours to render, and even though he was done editing on time, it wasn't on a disc until late in the class and the instructor wouldn't accept it. So now I'm looking at something like a D- for that course.

As a result of taking extra time to work on that video project, I ended up not being able to turn in my animatic or video game, and I missed a final exam, all of which were in the same class, in which I would have had an A+, but instead, I just found out, got a D.

The reality show treatment was also a group project, and my part got done at the last minute. The website was done after the last minute, but I did well with it and got 93 or 95%. But now, I'll probably be losing the opportunity to graduate with honors, and at least one scholarship, but I should be able to apply for more. After all this mes, I'm trying to enjoy my summer as much as possible and get some rest. My gallery & scrapbook should see more additions as well.