Jan 23 2006

I originally forgot to name this one (now without annoying extra code)

Well, I’m having a rough time cutting 6 months down into a readable entry, but in the meantime, I’ve devised this list of stuff that sort of explains me to the new readers here.

  • My middle name is Grant — how awesome is that?
  • Sometimes I stay up really late.
  • I’m too cool to edit entries in the normal Wordpress(blogging software) way, or maybe I just hate the fact that it adds extra code in a quantity that approaches certain Microsoft products, so I use the HTML editor.
  • My breath is minty-fresh.
  • I really can speak German, and can pretend to speak a lot of other languages if you want me to.
  • I am a sucker for culture. If you want to kidnap me, just tell me that you’re keeping a small family of Tibetan refugees in the back of your van — I’ll be all yours.
  • I read stuff that most people (myself included) consider painfully dry, just so I can say that I’ve read it and gotten something out of it.
  • When I’m not reading stuff like that I read Harry Potter and the classics that people actually like.
  • I’m one of the proud few people who are in college to learn and become a more well-rounded person.
  • I play the guitar and sing. You might like the way it sounds, I don’t know. That’s for you to tell me.
  • If I had a digital camera, I’d bombard you when you came to this site with artsy-fartsy photographs mixed in with terrible ones I’ve shot of like, me acting like a fool. I hope that becomes a reality someday (all parts mentioned).
  • Speaking of art, I really like it as long as it’s actually an expression of something.
  • Sometimes on weekends I drag my friends to watch foreign movies that I know they will yell at me for upon the credits reel, at least that’s what happens most of the time.
  • I’m actually a pretty decent cook.
  • I stare at the sky way too much.
  • I think that my purpose in life is to help others, but my definition of ‘help’ is still sort of blurry.
  • I’m a huge geek who gets excited at overused buzzwords and acronyms (oooh baby especially the acronyms).
  • That last one was sarcastic, except for the geeky part. I do get excited over geeky/nerdy concepts though.
  • I really like to play Ultimate Frisbee.
  • I listen to music that’s really angry, and then later I listen to music that’s really soothing. You can tell because I either look like >:| or =].
  • Once in a political spectrum test in high-school, I was ranked near the Dalai Lama, Ghandi, and Nelson Mandela.
  • If I were president, well, it would take forever to explain it, but yeah I’d be a kickass president. Chances are people would still hate my guts though, I think that’s part of the job.
  • I have nose-witnesses that claim I smell really good. The best part is, that I don’t wear cologne and it’s just my laundry detergent and deoderant.
  • I don’t take very good care of myself sometimes, and sometimes my body doesn’t want to let me go to sleep, so it keeps me up making stupid lists like these until I feel tired enough to actually sleep.

    There you have it. Factoids about me, some/most of them admittedly stupid. But this should do until I think of a good way to do the past semester.

    • One last thing — if you want to add something about me, or affirm/argue anything that I’ve put up, slam it in the comments section!

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    Jan 15 2006

    Hello world!

    Welcome back everyone. It feels good to be blogging again. As you can see, some things are different. I’ve switched off of MovableType (my old software) because they now force you to pay no less than like $70 for a license. I was a little pissed at this at first, I mean, I think they used to be under GPL and Creative Commons (don’t really remember, don’t care to look), and now they’ve gone and done something absolutely idiotic like this. Anyways, I’ve switched over to Wordpress, which I’m pleased with so far. It runs the same as before, but has a few AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And Xml) features that took awhile for me to get used to. I felt so cratchety before installing, mumbling about how I didn’t need any of this newfangled overrated coding structure. Meh, oh well, turns out that the features are nice enough, (mainly aesthetically) and this blog will get the job done for now.

    Well, that being said, I really want to thank those of you who are reading this. I got such an amazing response from people when I wrote, and a large response when I stopped writing. I’m amazed that everyone seemed to like it so much, so it’s my pleasure to bring the blog back. I’ll be really happy when the comments start to come back: You’ve all been with me for so much, during the good times and the bad, always with something to say, and to me that says you care. Cheesy as it may be, I am really touched that you’d care enough to read a whole entry, and leave some insight to keep into contact. I really hope this will be a bridge between those I have lost touch with, as well as a place for my new friends to come and enjoy themselves.

    So to kick this off, I’ve gone and grabbed my first post from Digital Requital 1.0, which you’ll find below.

    Okay… Let’s consider this post humble beginnings. My name is Tim. I’m an average student with a few quirks and a lot of irritation to shake off. I go to a school in western Pennsylvania. Let me address this now, the site you’re viewing is not your run-of-the-mill blog. I’m not going to get on here every day and tell you every menial little thing that happened to me that day, in extensive detail. You’re not going to come here and find out that “I went to the store today and I saw so-and-so and she said hello so i stopped and chatted for awhile LOL it was so funny she told me the funniest joke. heres a quiz that tells you that my personality is…” I hate those. The purpose of this website is not to tell you about my life, but rather my opinions, backed with incidents that happened recently to further prove my point. I might occaisionally mention my progress on a long project, or something along those lines, but for the most part, this is my own little haven to rant and rave however I want to. If you come back and read more, good for you. If you think I’m a total idiot. I don’t care. Come back for more updates once I’ve lived a little.

    Mmm Spicy!! I had quite the ‘tude back then. That was in April of 2004. Since then you’ve seen me rant about a whole lot, go to Governor’s school, fix my highschool life, meet an absolutely amazing girl, lose a ton of weight, go to college, and plenty more. (I kept the archives of DR1.0 in case of the rare chance that one of you need something from it). But now I’m settled in the college life, and I think my mission statement needs a little revision.

    Okay, let’s consider this post my humble step back into the world of writing. My name is still Tim, and I’m now a student at an incredibly large university (40,000 plus here alone) in central Pennsylvania. It’s not easy to establish yourself as an individual in a sea of people that large, but I’ve got to try or go insane trying. I’ve still got my quirks, most of them hopefully lovable. This site that you’re viewing right now will definately not be your run-of-the-mill blog. You’ll never hear the menial tasks I go through every day. I’ve always thought that you shouldn’t read unless you can take something away from it, so that’s my goal. I want you to be entertained, to gain insight, learn, and to keep in good contact with me. If other blogs are like balloons, I want mine to be a water-balloon that you get extra enjoyment out of by throwing at your little sibling (as opposed to watching it float loftily and pointlessly). My life really isn’t very interesting, but I’m sure as hell going to try to make it such. Happy reading =D

    Well, that’s all I’m going to post right this minute. My next few posts will be pretty much what I have been up to for the past six months. It should be a pretty good read once it’s all done. In the meantime, I’ll be playing around with the rest of TimKnapton.com, trying to get things running the way I want them to.

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