Oh yah I got a couple questions recently, I answered the first already and, I'll get to the other one later, so check out the Inquiry section

New Look, New Name

Yep, This site is no longer "Yanni: The nExt", now just simply "TheYanni.Net". I liked the site before, the general look. But I just felt I needed to change. Its been about 3 years now since i started this site. The basic look never changed, just got more refined. I started with just knowledge of HTML, then I took classes and learned CSS and some advanced HTML and as I learned I applied it to this site, from doing a journal by hand, to using a blog, to have to change every site, to have to change one file. The look never changed, the code got cleaner and cleaner but no one could even tell but me. And I wanted to do something new but never had the oportunity, time, or initiative. But after taking some PHP and failing that class miserably, I got some ideas going, which finally became this.

I finally have a profesional looking website. Just about all the things that bothered me before that I couldn't fix about my code have been fixed, by the sheer nature of how different this site is from the previous. A mix of some powerful CSS properties which I just found, and a little PHP. I've wanted to be a webdesigner, and now I have something to show someone and be proud of. Just got a few little things to work on namely the Archive, and a few files that Needed to be converted to the new style 2 years ago, which I plan to finally get to.

I'm just really happy that this works, and didn't have any major faults or annoyances that I always seem to have had in the past. Yay. I just need to find a new place to hide all of my secrets...

Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades

Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the fucking vanguard of shaving in this country. The Gillette Mach3 was the razor to own. Then the other guy came out with a three-blade razor. Were we scared? Hell, no. Because we hit back with a little thing called the Mach3Turbo. That's three blades and an aloe strip. For moisture. But you know what happened next? Shut up, I'm telling you what happened-the bastards went to four blades. Now we're standing around with our cocks in our hands, selling three blades and a strip. Moisture or no, suddenly we're the chumps. Well, fuck it. We're going to five blades.

Sure, we could go to four blades next, like the competition. That seems like the logical thing to do. After all, three worked out pretty well, and four is the next number after three. So let's play it safe. Let's make a thicker aloe strip and call it the Mach3SuperTurbo. Why innovate when we can follow? Oh, I know why: Because we're a business, that's why!

You think it's crazy? It is crazy. But I don't give a shit. From now on, we're the ones who have the edge in the multi-blade game. Are they the best a man can get? Fuck, no. Gillette is the best a man can get.

What part of this don't you understand? If two blades is good, and three blades is better, obviously five blades would make us the best fucking razor that ever existed. Comprende? We didn't claw our way to the top of the razor game by clinging to the two-blade industry standard. We got here by taking chances. Well, five blades is the biggest chance of all.

Here's the report from Engineering. Someone put it in the bathroom: I want to wipe my ass with it. They don't tell me what to invent-I tell them. And I'm telling them to stick two more blades in there. I don't care how. Make the blades so thin they're invisible. Put some on the handle. I don't care if they have to cram the fifth blade in perpendicular to the other four, just do it!

You're taking the "safety" part of "safety razor" too literally, grandma. Cut the strings and soar. Let's hit it. Let's roll. This is our chance to make razor history. Let's dream big. All you have to do is say that five blades can happen, and it will happen. If you aren't on board, then fuck you. And if you're on the board, then fuck you and your father. Hey, if I'm the only one who'll take risks, I'm sure as hell happy to hog all the glory when the five-blade razor becomes the shaving tool for the U.S. of "this is how we shave now" A.

People said we couldn't go to three. It'll cost a fortune to manufacture, they said. Well, we did it. Now some egghead in a lab is screaming "Five's crazy?" Well, perhaps he'd be more comfortable in the labs at Norelco, working on fucking electrics. Rotary blades, my white ass!

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe we should just ride in Bic's wake and make pens. Ha! Not on your fucking life! The day I shadow a penny-ante outfit like Bic is the day I leave the razor game for good, and that won't happen until the day I die!

The market? Listen, we make the market. All we have to do is put her out there with a little jingle. It's as easy as, "Hey, shaving with anything less than five blades is like scraping your beard off with a dull hatchet." Or "You'll be so smooth, I could snort lines off of your chin." Try "Your neck is going to be so friggin' soft, someone's gonna walk up and tie a goddamn Cub Scout kerchief under it."

I know what you're thinking now: What'll people say? Mew mew mew. Oh, no, what will people say?! Grow the fuck up. When you're on top, people talk. That's the price you pay for being on top. Which Gillette is, always has been, and forever shall be, Amen, five blades, sweet Jesus in heaven.

Stop. I just had a stroke of genius. Are you ready? Open your mouth, baby birds, cause Mama's about to drop you one sweet, fat nightcrawler. Here she comes: Put another aloe strip on that fucker, too. That's right. Five blades, two strips, and make the second one lather. You heard me-the second strip lathers. It's a whole new way to think about shaving. Don't question it. Don't say a word. Just key the music, and call the chorus girls, because we're on the edge-the razor's edge-and I feel like dancing.
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taken from the Onion, of course....
I just had to share this with the world.

You know what I have the biggest urge to do?

build a fort out of pillows and plankets

the pillows command me!

Let's see the most current update of me is Valintine's Day was great, sadly i got sick at the very end of it. You can see Catherin's Blog is you really want to know the details. All I will say about it is, it was a lot of fun, we ate very heartilly. And because my parents gave me gas money and her mom gave us some extra cash, our gift certificates to the 99 and the movies and the movie concession stand, we spent not a dime of our own money, which is hot. In fact I made 4 bucks because I got change back from our $10 gift certificate that I used for soda. But yeah a great night with my favorite lady.

But yeah then I've been sick, I still don't know how my nose can produce so much mucus. Where in my face has it keeping it all? It truely is one of life's greatest mysteries. In the meantime while being sick, I convinced Cat to watch Clerks with me, which she seemed not to hate. We just layed around for a while on Sunday, we just layed on my bed in the dark and we had just one of those really good conversations, it was cool, one of those times where its just like you know what...we're awesome :-P.

I'm taking Micro-Economics and we're supposed to have quizzes online, and they are supposedly set up by now, and the first like 4 have to be done by Friday...so I got off my ass tonight and went to Blackboard, and of coursethere are no links to the quizzes. I look in every section, nothing, but at least I found out one cool thing, class is cancelled tomorrow. So I can sleep for an extra hour.

Bah, tomorrow my kind of "deadline" for my review of the 99 for "The Hudsonian". I havn't written anything for it yet, why I don't even know how I'm supposed to write a food review. I suppose I'll find one in a local paper and kind of model it after that. I missed the Assignment meeting yesterday, cause I was sick and really didn't want to go anywhere yesterday.

I've decided to start watching Buffy, and try to watch the Seasons of Angel I missed. Cat's a big Buffy/Angel fan, I've been watching Angel this season, its good. Its an interesting universe so I looked online and found when the FX channel would start Buffy from the beginning again. I was gonna download them with BitTorrent but that'd take forever since their not new torrents and their like 5 Gigs big.

Warning: Entering Political Mode

Oh man, this is great. I'm laughing my ass of here. I think you all know how I feel about the Bush and the Democratic Nominees. I like Bush, and the Democratic race has been a joke. I loved the Dean yelling thing, that was sound byte heaven, it was funny on its own, and then everyone added commentary or music that made it hillarious. And now we have this new news. Which you might not have heard yet because none of the news stations want to be the first person to carry it, because you know the liberal bias and all. John F. Kerry, the front runner, is now under inventigation about an intern scandal. But thats not half the fun, thats in how it was released. The following reports are from http://www.drudgereport.com/ .

-In an off-the-record conversation with a dozen reporters earlier this week, General Wesley Clark plainly stated: "Kerry will implode over an intern issue." [Three reporters in attendance confirm Clark made the startling comments.]

-The Kerry commotion is why Howard Dean has turned increasingly aggressive against Kerry in recent days, and is the key reason why Dean reversed his decision not to drop out of the race after Wisconsin.

"Intrigue surrounds a woman who recently fled the country, reportedly at the prodding of Kerry."

"A serious investigation of the woman and the nature of her relationship with Sen. John Kerry has been underway at TIME magazine, ABC NEWS, the WASHINGTON POST, THE HILL and the ASSOCIATED PRESS, where the woman in question once worked."

I'm sorry this is just so hillarious, but one funny thing is that this news broken by General Wesley Clark, a candidate hand picked by former president Bill Clinton.
And now reports of General Wesley Clark yelling at reporters saying " I said it was off the record!!"
I mean seriously how was this not planned, he essentially tells a bunch of reporters some big juicy story, and then says "but don't tell anybody". The only way to keep a secret is to not tell anybody, certainly its not by trusting a bunch of reporters to keep a secret. And if this is true Kerry's pretty much done. Now the only question remains how the heck did Clark find out? And the fact he said this right before he dropped out. But seriously this is priceless.

Hooha, the Stick Figure section is up and running under a wonderful PHP script, its Based on Walrus with a few tweaks on my own. Its up and running but I will be attempting to make it look a bit nicer. Also I altered the second strip so it wasn't so wide on the page, and it looks much nicer.

Can I say thank god for teachers who use the same stuff every semester. I'm taking a programming class over again, I took it with this teacher 2 semesters ago, he's doing all the same labs, assigning all the same programs, its great. He just mentions what the program does, I find it in my directory, and then procede do to something more worth while.

Be Seeing You.

Well yesterday I ended up doing the yearly remake all the buttons for the side bar, which if you've been coming here for a while, some are slightly different, and I've added a new one. The Stick Figures section which will be home to my new webcomic. I should have the section up by tomorrow at the latest.

Oh man yesterday I must have had the biggest headache ever. I went all morning at school, having me in pain. It made me even more pleasent during classes. I came home and and took some Acetaminenophin and I was good for a while. Then I decided to goto the meeting for "The Hudsonian" the school newspaper, and for my first job, I guess I'm doing a review of the 99' Restaurant on Wolf Rd. to start off. But my headache came back later that night. I took some more medicine. Then just laied down on the top of the bed, put an episode of The Prisoner on the comp, and then I woke up in the morning under the covers. I totally blacked out, or was just out of it last night. I got so much sleep it must be illegal. I feel a lot better today, thats for sure. I just walked in and told my dad, "I don't remember last night", and he filled me in. My dad came in and "woke me up" and I got under the covers and went to sleep, I was sleepwalking that part. I havn't done that in a long time. Its wacky. Especially since I just saw Butterfly Effect, ooooh.

Be Seeing You.

Y'know with all this new webserver stuff and changing from .com to .net I forgot to actually configure the e-mail here. But I took care of that, I got askyanni@theyanni.net and a catch-all to grab anything with @theyanni.net on the end. which i never even had at the old site. And I think I know where to put these comics I'm doing. But i have to make a new section on the side bar, and remember exactly how I made the buttons again, although I might have made a template, which would be helpful.

Just saw American Splendor, thats a pretty good flick.

I'm going away for most of the weekend, off to see some World's Strongest Man Competition with Catherine, its her thing. She came with me to Genericon, so I figure I owe her this. Plus I get a free meal or 2 out of it, :-P

Be Seeing You.

Finally found something I wanted to download and watch. A show I've been searching for for a while now. Called The Prisoner, its from 1968, and was probably ahead of its time, its 17 episodes long.

A man who resigns from a top secret position and is then abducted from his London home. He finds himself in The Village, where everything is bright and cheerful - the people, their clothes, the buildings, the flowers. But despite this rosey exterior, the village serves a sinister purpose. People are forcibly brought there in order to have their valuable knowledge protected or extracted. Village residents are assigned a number - the Prisoner is Number Six. Chief interrogator and administrator is Number Two. But who is Number One?

Its a pretty nifty show, very psycological, very stylish in presentation and design, can be very surreal at times. Its one of those shows that nobody saw, but is always parodyed and refferenced. You watch it and think, oh so thats where that came from. Reboot did an episode that copied the idea, Simpsons have used the a bad guy from it, and there are many others that escape me right now.

But its cool :-P

Also there's that Evangelion Live Action Movie thats being produced, still in preproduction, but the WETA Workshop, the people that made the props and effects for Lord of the Rings are allready hard at work, news is they have a script confirmed, and that just about all the names will be changed, but that was expected. Its being made in conjunction with ADV and Gainax, and the concept art looks very promising and fantastic. here's a link http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/butchsvideostop/Eva%20LIVE.htm this site has tons of pictures and information on it.

Dah time for Programming, I'm off

Be Seeing You.

Just a note about the actual events depicted in this comic. We were eating lunch one day...i had a Hot pocket which was mighty tasyty(ham and chedder)...i made Michael some lunch as well a BLT some fries and some tomato bisque soup which was a new type of soup we were trying. i added some pepporoni for some extra special flavor. Well....i decided i asked to try it since it was a new kind of soup and i was quite, quite pleased with the taste! It was damn good and i quietly proclaimed "i'd make love to that soup later"....! Of course the wonderful man that he is, Michael pretended to be jealous and thus came an idea for this comic! And just for the record...i'm not some soup violater...by 'make love" i meant eat vigously and sensualy.

Ok second comic up, I'm trying a few things. And we have the introduction of Cat to the comic. I had a hard time making her pony tail not look like some odd tumor, you can see I did it 3 different ways. Came up with this during lunch with Cat last week. I'm thinking of putting this in a sidebar section just called "Sticks" and just use that as the name I suppose, :-P. And then of course the merchandising begins.

[moved to Stick Figures Section]

Oh man I don't know if I can hold out anymore. I might not have the willpower to stay away, I am truely scared. Just when I thought I wouldn't buy anymore, they have to make this batch so fantastic I can barely hold myself back. In case you havn't guessed, which you prolly havn't, I'm talking Transformers. You know back in my high school days I became a fiend for awhile, being that I really liked the Beast Wars/Machines shows. And with the return of vehicle Transformers it was a buying shmorgasbourd. It ended when the current show began, Transformers Armada. I bought one toy from that and then I went cold turkey. No problems the toys weren't as cool anymore, and they kept getting uglier. But you see then three new special TFs came out. They are like licenced vehicles created with tons of detail, and you's say wow that's a slick looking car model, and then BAM they are also kick ass Transformers, and the robot modes are modelled after characters from the original Transformers.

First we have Smokescreen, a Subaru Impreza WRC 2003, in car mode and he looks really slick with his doors and trunk that can be opened. Then he can transform in to his superfly robot mode, and here we can see him with the original toy of this character.

Then we move on to Sideswipe, a Dodge Viper SRT-10, in his candy apple red car mode, and with workable doors and hood . The he transforms to be a crazy robot warrior :-P.

Ahh but you see I've saved the best for last, for this is now considered the best transformer ever made. Yes it is an Optimus Prime figure, he's 11 inches tall (roughly), looks exactly like he did in the TV show, Movie, and even the old comics. For the first time in a toy of this accuracy and detail to the show, he is fully transformable to his truck mode, which is also perfect. For the first time in a transformable toy like this, Optimus comes complete with the autobot matrix of leadership,(seen in the movie), which can be removed and the toy can evcen hold it. This toy has so many details I can't mention them all I can do is send you to the image gallery, because its just such a cool toy.

I know I'm prolly like the only person I know who could get excited about this, but they are just soo cool. And that Optimus costs quite the pretty penny, but ahh soo cool. SO yeah if I even get money again maybe I'll have to splurge and get one of these bad boys, they'd look slick on one of my shelves. And of course I'd play with them all the time. :-D. All for now laters.