LIFE OF A HAPPY IDIOT - 12/05/2002 www.geocities.com/hk_112 I was originally going to write this as a biography of my life. But I ran into 3 problems: 1)Nobody cares about my life. 2)I have no life. 3)It'll hurt my autobiography's sales in the future. I was also originally going to post this on the site. But frickin PageBuilder doesn't allow me to copy/paste and I don't know HTML. Too bad. ===== So instead, I'll tell you a little bit about me. If you're reading this, you're either incredibly bored or trying to dig up dirt on me (don't feel bad, you'd be surprised how much data gathering I do on people I meet. Beats assuming I know everything about them.). If you're looking for my name, age, birthdate, and stuff like a list dumb junk I like, head back to the datumplane. If you want to take a trip inside my mind (very short, there's not much there...), then by all means read on. Or visit my ujournal. Link on the main page. ===== Anyways, hopefully by now you've figured out my name. Daniel. I also go by a bunch of different names online. OOM-9 being the most popular one by far. For a running list, check out the datumplane. I'm around 15 now, and I used to be tall. But I've stopped growing for now, being just slightly taller than average. I don't look all that great, but er.... I have a lot of inner beauty? Wait a second, that's just something ugly people say to make themselves feel better. Oh well. I got to Mission San Jose High in the town of Fremont, California. If you're in the area and want to drop by and visit me either go to P-5 at the end of a school day before I walk home, or e-mail me for my house address. I basically have an open house policy, so as long as you don't aggravate the others that visit and insult or harass them, you can come over. I live with my dad, although I visit my mom once in a while. I have an X-Box, four controllers, and Halo in case you're wondering what to do when you come over. Halo by far seems to be the most popular game choice for the leeches...friends...yes...friends... that visit. ===== I have plenty of friends, though none are in what you would call the 'popular' crowd. IF I had to group them up into 'cliques' the I'd say I hang out with the following groups in the following order (followed by favorite pasttime). Call it mass generalization if you will, but it gives the general idea without me having to name anybody, not to mention I enjoy categorizing things 0.o: Intellectual freaks - debating the political/economic systems in the world, firing mechanisms of weapons, turning points in history, battlefield tactics, and in general, shit no one gives a flying fuck about (except us! muahahahahaha). Dumbass Freaks - I don't know why I hang out with them. They argue about the same things as the 'Intellectual's, except their debates usually collapse into shouting arguments of "nuke 'em all!" "Japs suck!" "I r0x0r u". Tragic. Ghetto Azns - The morons who run around yelling 'Azn Pryde' and couldn't use spell check if their lives depended on it. However, underneath the fact that most of them are considered 'popular' is the even more surprising fact that a few of them are very skilled in computer skills, and some in even higher subjects (one guy who has very excellent theories on time travel and other science things no one cares about). F.O.B.s - Most of the 'Intellectual freaks' spawn from here. Not to mention many of them are math and logic whizzes. God bless overbearing, cruel, parental discipline eh? 1337 Gamers - They don't know much about computer programming and such, but they play computer games a LOT, so they're always good for small talk. Not to mention, their reclusive natures mixed with social activity results in an interesting hybrid of hyperactive outlandishness. Family - My older sister. The friend that can't run away from me. [insert evil laugh] There's another group I'm currently hanging out with. I'm not sure exactly how to classify them yet. I guess scary freaks? I don't really want to say that as it'd probablly insult them. But hey, this is the art of schoolyard clique classification. People that utilize this system are generally ignorant dumbasses that assume to much. Me, I'm doing it because it's interesting. Anyways, this group is people that are generall intelligent about random off-school topics, similar to the intellectual freaks. Most have a cynical disdain for life, hating most other people. Some do drugs, which is not really too good, but I can put up with that for now. There's no dinosaur nut group. Too bad. All the dino nuts live in the mid-west. What group do "I" fit in? I actually have no idea what my personality is. It switches around depnding how cynical I am at the moment and who I've been hanging around. I'm currently transitioning between groups right now, mostly just staying quiet and switching to observation mode. ===== So what is my intellectual and physical status? Science - Depends what I'm interested in. Paleontology used to be one of my most favorite subjects, but the bloody school doesn't have a single half-assed class on it, so my knowledge has died. I'm pretty much don't care about any of the school courses at all, although I learn the material decently enough to pass. Foreign Languages - Fuck. If I want to know a foreign language I'll take the time to fucking learn it myself instead of dealing with the damned teachers. Not to mention they don't teach any language I give a shit about. Music - I don't mind playing around with instruments. It's when I'm forced to practice it for hours with hundreds of dollars invested that it starts to lose some of its charm. I'd choose a damned kazoo over the stuff I used to go through and I watch my sister go through. Art - I love to draw. Most of it's self-taught, though I did take about 2 years of one-day-a-week classes with a VERY nice teacher that actually taught us (me, my sister, my friend, and his sister) how to draw what WE wanted to draw. This is how to teach people. The word 'fun' is actually in this guy's vocabulary. Not to mention it really helped me, especially on drawing people and faces. Nowadays I usually draw concept art. Only thing is I can't find anything to work on right now. No ambition. Physical stuff - What a pathetic specimin of the human race am I. 'Nuff said. Math - WHy do we have to go through all this algebra and shit? It's nothing but trivia. Memorizing equations and formulas. And I have to bloody learn all of it before I can actually learn things I would actually find useful, like how to make my own bloody formulas. Now we're learning geometry. Easy enough. I'd rather learn something like a logic course or something like that. Social Sciences/history - I enjoy learning about society and history. But only when there's actually discussion involved. Textbook history blows. English - I'm lucky. My English teacher is a cool guy, cynical, mocks students that are assholes, and knows what he's talking about. What's not to like? My writing style is kind of shaky (due to the fact that I write like I'm talking, which even then is horrible) and my ideas are demented at best, it's still one helluva class. Other stuff I'm good at - I'm what I call an 'intellectual freak'. I'm a genius, I just waste it on the stupidist things. Other stuff I suck at - I try not to think of this. Social interaction- Beats me. You judge for yourself. Past history shows that I suck. ===== I enjoy things such as Halo, Star Wars, Command & Conquer, Fallout, or Aliens. Things with so much (fictional) history behind them the line blurs from reality to fiction (although Star Wars is just getting stupid as of late). I'm interested in military tactics and technology, as well as the personal side of war. I enjoy thinking up tactics and designs for armour and materiel, although most of it's for a pseudo-realistic universe that I'm trying to create in my own mind (though it's proving harder then I thought it would be >.<). I don't condone war any more than a naturalist condones violence in nature (and don't give me that crap about how animals are all nice and perfect, with their circle of life and balance shit. Stop living in a fantasy world, or at least if you're going to create bullshit, make it GOOD bullshit.). I'm also always in for a good laugh or two from comedy things like Simpsons or Hitchiker's Guide or Invader Zim, although I never did like horror much for some reason. Suspense from something like Alien, sure, but some chainsaw wielding psycho? Leave me out. Please. The Alien is actually cool. Some knife wielding maniac is just reveling in violence, with no interesting backstory. I have this thing for animated movies. Guess it's partially for the wonderful art. Plus animation allows the creation of fantasy worlds easily and beautifully. I tend to prefer american animation, even though the subject matter is a bit young for me (unless you go by my sister's predictions of my mental age). Maybe I just yearn for innocence lost or some weird psychological thing. I don't know. I like some Japanes Anime mainly for their sci-fi military worlds. However, their art is generally more static and less fluid, not to mention their worlds sometimes just get plain fucking weird, instead of keeping some degree of captivating pseudo-realism like Fallout or Aliens. So far I've only found less then an hour's worth of Anime that I actually like. Final Fantasy Spirits Within was good, but that's japanese 3d CGI. But the designs were so cool. Most Jap concepts suck shit. FF:SW actually had some cool designs. Love that armor. Music I listen to? Either something with a catchy beat or wordless soundtracks. In general, mainly stuff that's been in movies or games. I usually use music to form some kind of visual picture. Ever watch Fantasia? My mind's like that when I'm listning to music. Only with tanks rolling through fields, and uhm...big lizards and spacecraft and shit. Yeah. Maybe some droning music to get my mind to stop thinking. Thinking is bad. What type of car would I like? Something with a 20mm rotary cannon on top so I can show those punks who drive around with their windows down and their bass at 512% just what I think about their musical choices. Clothing? I wear mostly free T-Shirts from computer companies. Or as my friend put it, I'm a "Walking Billboard". w00t. I've begun running around in military BDUs all day. I do a lot of stuff on the computer, although I know very little about hardware. I know some basic stuff about games, but nothing advanced. I fix computers by kicking them. What's that tell you? (I crashed my hard drive that way once) My friend says I'm cynical. I'd say, ridiculously sarcastic, might be a better term for it. In general though, it all depends on how my day is going. I say that I'm actually just putting on a big show when I start ranting and raving like a maniac or getting all serious or getting ridiculously hyper and happy. I don't really like who I am too much, so I generally try to just stay quiet and follow orders. ===== My favorite animal(s) would have to be raptors. No, not birds of prey. Dromeasaurs (?spelling?). Those fast buggers you see in the Jurassic Park movies. I actually took the time to take part in several role-playing groups that imagine what life would be like as one of these magnificent creatures. Mostly started from reading the book Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker. Though my role-playing record has been rather shaky, and our representation of raptors would often make any self respecting paleontologist publically berate us, it's still been some of the funnest and greatest times in my life. I started off when the Krul Raptor Clan was still pretty young, being mostly a small group of veteran Free Form Role Players. I signed up as Akilae, and met a lot of interesting, unique, great people, the most notable (considering I still think of him as a good friend despite the fact that I haven't seen him for almost two years) being a guy name Red Fang. This guy kept a great plot going, controlling 3-4 different people at the same time. After his plot finished, I suffered a case of amnesia or some damn thing and managed to go on hiatus for a long long time.... I got back into FFRP-ing for a short while later on, using a character named Sargas (as well as several other characters in RPGs that either died off quickly, or I didn't notice had activated my char). Anyways, this is when I joined the Raptor Clan, one of the older RP groups out there. But, moving issues got in the way of my schedule, so I had to drop out. Anyways, I got back into FFRP-ing again (the fact that I finally rediscovered the RC's site helped a little). I went back playing with a character name Kwennoir. Except I think the RC closed down again. If Raptors and Free Form Roleplaying sound like your thing, there's a link at the main page. Let me know if you're interested. I might rejoin again. Probablly would have to join Krul or that other clan (forgot it's name). Oh well. Fantasy beats real life. And these people are actually very nice. And that concludes my little infomercial. ====== I WAS working on a kick-ass Star Wars Total Conversion Mod, named ImpSiege. But we closed it down. Went on with our lives. Here's a bried summary of it's history. I'm leaving it up for nostalgia: A long long time ago, in front of various computers across the globe... A puppet dictator (*drum roll*) OOM-9 led a hostile military takeover of the Red Alert 2 => Star Wars Total Conversion. (okay fine, so the original founder Modda quit. Same thing.) In time Sgt. Skeyle sold enough Girl Scout cookies to become second in command and handle *.ini coding and Beta management. The Lucifer decided that none of this dastardly 'taking over the world' business would be going on without him, so he 'volunteered' himself to be placed into a sweatshop, manufacturing tiny 3d model representations of buildings for a mere 5 cents an hour, shattering Disney's record of 6 cents an hour. In an attempt to break free, Lucifer enlisted the help of his pet penguin Stukov. Stukov is now working in a sweatshop making webpages in exchange for cookies. Mr. Muk and Haydn, the esteemed weapons and vehicle designers, were up for hire to the highest bidder. Unfortunately they forgot to pay for their ads in the classified section and are now working for the newly named "Imperial Siege" mod. A strange being named 'MinusHuman' also appeared, his trained rock 'Wraith' in tow, and they were drafted immediately. As for what they do, (Something about 'A.I.' and 'Concept Design') I'll be damned if I know. I'm still trying to figure out what I'm supposed to do. Various peddlers dropped in from time to time, giving out free samples of items wich we promptly stole. General Lee and his storyline, Govo and his 3dsVoxels, Houssam Allisa and his maps, BCFire and his news updates, and Tomo and his...I'll get back to you on that. Sensing a disturbance in the force, Kane 148 was dispatched by Kane 123 in an attempt to imprint subliminal messages into our cameos. Needless to say [Kane Lives In Death] their attempts [Peace Through Power] have been [Brotherhood. Unity. Peace.] futile. Oh, and some little stalking imp named Phantom accidently mistook some of our SHP graphics to be miniature Zhang Ziyis. We're trying to see if we can use him in a side show to generate income for the team, but for now he's slaving away with the Penguin...er...Stukov, making websites for cookies. And thus concludes the story of the Imperial Siege Modding Team. Warning: The preceding section is inappropriate for those of you who wish to retain your sanity. You must have an schizophrenia level of 18 or over in order to have read the above section. The Imperial Siege Modding Team cannot be held responsible for any insanity, space dementia, boredom, confusion, and brain tumors caused as a result of reading this pointless frivolous pile of BS. -OOM-9 ===== So what's in store for my future? Right now I'm trying to improve my real life. I miss the freedom and ease of internet life though. Especially RP-ing. But it interferes with real life too much. I'm trying to get into airsofting. At least for the military uniform. I'm hoping to get a job in a computer company as a concept designer. If that fails, I can always ship off with the marines to die in some godforsaken country. Who knows, maybe I'll meet someone who can stand me, and I'll have an actual reason to try and get a high-paying support job. We'll see. ===== Misc. FAQ Are you christian/buddhist/religious? "Religion is the opium of the masses" - Lenin. I guess you could say I'm deist in that I believe there most likely is some supreme being out there, but he doesn't give a shit about us. I prefer just saying 'humanist atheist' myself though. Slightly different, but if you're asking you should already know. I've actually posed some challenges to whatever godlike being rules above a few times, and he/she/it's actually come through to some degree. Maybe something does exist up there. But I don't plan on devoting my whole bloody life to bowing down to it. Are you communist? No. I prefer not to think much of politics outside of war scenarios. Don't be afraid of that which you can not control. I'll work with whatever cards I'm dealt. Politics is nothing but circular arguments and mindless talk. Are you crazy? Probablly. But I keep it under control most of the time, unless I had a lot of suger, adrenaline rush, or sleep deprivation (I'm suffering from the third one as I write this). There are times when it starts to get out of control, but there's always something that keeps me from completely losing it. Are you smoking something? No. I run through traffic at random intervals and mock people two times bigger then me who could crush me like I was the French military. That's enough danger for me. I figure drugs and such are bad. Not because they'll hurt me. I have no fear of that. Drugs and such impair judgement, making it more likely that I'll end up hurting someone else. Would you ever hold a school shooting? Are you violent? No. If I ever brought a gun to school, the only person I'd shoot is myself. Death is not a good thing, despite what other less informed/thoughtful people may say. There are very very few instances where I'd actually attack/kill anyone, but they do exist. But a random school shooting? Not imaginable. I could never do that and never want to. Are you making this FAQ up? Damn straight, you think anyone really gives a flying fuck about my life? I'm holding a one man conversation here. Now shut up so I can ask my invisible friend bob what his next question is-hey, where'd he go? Do you like Angelica? Are you two 'going out'? Are you a 'couple'? Are you two 'together'? And any variations thereof. What do you think? Of course I do. Love her in fact. Pretty much all that's left in my life. Now, define 'going out', 'couple', or 'together'. Yes, we know where the other lives. Yes, we have each other's contact information. Yes, I spend time with her. Then again Calvin does all that also. Couples can only exist when feelings are mutual. And I have no authority to speak on her behalf. So please, stop asking me this. Stop bugging me about this. And don't bother her about this. Or I'll kill you. Do yourself a favor, find yourself a new hobby instead of reading up on weirdo's like me. Or just e-mail/chat with me. I could use the human interaction (well, mostly human) and you might get some better answers.