Uh...

Screw that plan, I just completely bailed.

But it's ok, because no one even reads this.

I don't even anything.

Sketches, Markers and nice Students

Well, it's been ANOTHER long while, as I sort of aforementioned in my previous post.
So, yeah...
...
Uh...
Yeah, so, I have a new YouTube channel started, called OgdenFace, where (hopefully) I shall be posting my sketches and stuff to. Just random little doodles, spur of the moment type of things. I currently have one video up, though that should change quite shortly.
Speaking of doodles, my room is at the moment being subjected to much, much promarkering of random mathematical equations and the suchlike, like the equation for the graph of a loop-de-loop, and the fact that ¹⁶/₆₄ = ¹/₄ when you cancel the 6s, because, y'know, that's how fractions work.

Now, the main event of this summer for myself and fellow students around both Ireland, and across the world, is going to be CTYI.
This three week long course is one of the big highlights of a CTYIzen's life, the meeting up of old friends, the making of new, the exciting and interesting learning experience...
And spar.
But it all goes so quickly, so fast!
So I've decided to try to make a blog post every day of this marvelous adventure.
I probably won't actually make another blog post until the course starts, being over a week away.
So until then, I bit you a good... Uh... Week.

Adieu.

Poetry Whaaaat?

*Sigh* It is the bane of a blogger's/vlogger's life to have to constantly tell their audience that they are sorry that it's been so long since their last post/video, and that they'll make more soon in the future.

But really, most of the time, they have no intention of ACTUALLY following through with this.

So instead, I'm just going to pretend that you missed me, but that you understand that someone as HUGELY important as me has little time to spend with such INSIGNIFICANT PETTY lives.


I'm sure you understand.


Besides, I have a present for you :D That's right, kids! Poetry!

"Yaaay!"
"Woohoo!"
"Alright!"
"This sucks"
"Awesome!"
"Sweet"

Hey! Who said that? About this sucking?

**Tumbleweed**

Hmm... Was it you?

"Dude, I'm a blog"

Huh. Right you are. Hmm... Still though, was it you?

"... It... Might have been..."

Come now, was it you?

"... Maybe."

Hmm... I suppose that's the best I'm going to get...
Sigh.

Anyway. Here it is; My super awesome special scoopily-skiddiedizzletastic Poetry :D
(You're welcome)

**Clears throat**

Untitled

Based on John Donne's "The Flea"

Written by Ogden

John Donne had no time-frame for his poems, Miss;

He could weave his working hour around that and this.

For instance, how long it took him “The Flea” to write,

I bet you it took him longer than one night.

It seems it would have been quite ridiculous to him,

He probably would have thought us incredulously dim,

For a three stanza poem in one night to complete,

For a few arbitrary points to compete,

Surely it would take a poetic elite?

Maybe one more day isn't too much for to ask?

Then our lack of homework, we would not have to mask.

I mean, the rhyming scheme alone is difficult to fit;

One must work slowly at it, bit by bit.

The difficulty then increases with the line count,

Of which I know Donne was able, I don’t doubt;

But no one in this English class is John Donne,

He may have found writing such literature fun,

But our class are not bothered lest points are to be won.

Alas, the poem must be more complex still,

For the requirements of this assignment to fill;

Once the poem is written, the argument conceived,

One more idea from your head must be retrieved.

A name, a title for this long p-...

Adieu.

The Computer, silly!

Well, my friend told me to write a blog post on "The computer, silly!". So, I decided to...

...

As I was saying, Brian is a silly silly person. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shepherd's delight.

But seriously, I've always loved old phrases like that;
Red sky at night, shepherd's delight; red sky at morning, shepherd's delight.
Find a penny, pick it up, and all day long you won't give a... luck.
Early to bed and early to rise | makes a man pretty well rested.

Also, change in goodbye. The old one just wasn't working.

Adieu.

Keeping up appearances

So for those of you who actually follow my blog (ie. Two people) you may have noticed that I haven't posted in ages. Well, since January 14th at least. So I decided to type up a quick post, make sure you know that I'm still alive. Oh; that was weird. My iPod, on shuffle, just started playing "Still Alive" :o Weird.
Anyway. America; New York, Boston, etc. They're damn epic. Totally worth a re-visit. Specially New York. So much to see! Ahh!
If anyone out there is still interested in it, my music still exists, in the far reaches of bandcamp. Right here. You know, if you're bothered. Or something like that.

Bleh.

Disputatio tibi posterius.

Human Calculators?

Ok, so the other day in maths, we were doing permutations. You know, like "How many different ways can you arrange the letters in the word 'MEDIAN'?" and stuff like that.
With these questions, the Factorial is a commonly used idea, Which looks like this:
8!
And means this:
8x7x6x5x4x3x2x1

Now, Denis, someone in my class, was sitting beside me (Slightly tautological) And he was doing a question that included factorials (Extremely tautological).

Trolls and Relationships

I'd like to start off by making a very clear point.
Nobody.
Likes.
Trolls.

Well, I mean, there may be the other few trolls that will join in for the lulz, but by the word "nobody", I was referring to "no people". Trolls aren't people when they're trolling.

This YouTube user, "godhatesproddies" (which in itself is just plain rudeness, on a religious level), decides to be trollin' on all of my videos. And it's not even good trolling. It's just plain rude. If I were to troll, I'd try to seriously piss them off with what I say. This guy/girl is pissing me off because of how bad he is at it.
I mean, really, am I so bad as to not deserve a GOOD troll? I try to be modest, but I put WORK into those videos! The least you can do is  reflect that in your efforts as a troll. Really, I am truly ashamed.


On a completely different note, however, it's looking that 2012 is gonna be a pretty good year (Happy new year and all that)!
Reasons being many.

For a start, I'm as close as ever to all teh peoples in Wexford, especially one in particular ;) (more on that later). I'm also almost finished my first chiptune/8-bit album of sorts, called THE SUN; made completely and utterly on Audacity; ain't even mad. And it'll soon be available for download, for a price. :P That being said, I'm gonna give away one or two... Maybe... It depends on how nice people are. :) Also, me and my friend Brian are gonna be making a short movie for the Fresh Films Festival. Gonna be awesome :)

Now, back to my one in particular. Well, I had known her for some time now... Well over a year, at any rate. So anyway, The question was popped into our conversation, on the second last day of 2011 (Well done at 2011 for being a good year NOT.). There was a long pause (queue nervousness, anxiety, etc) When finally the little icon of the person typing came up again...
...
...
Hurry up, goddammit...
...
...
And...
...
...
I received a very long reply (I was assuming it was one of kindness, and asking to remain friends, and the suchlike), but on reading it, it turned out... Quite the opposite.
Her search for a clever and applicable quote to the situation was fruitless, and so she just said "Hell yes".

I was sort of blown back at this stage, to be honest.
Like, REALLY blown back.
As if the computer itself had uttered a thu'um in my general direction.
But anyway, that was that, and we got to meet up the very next day :D Which was... Fun, to say the least ;)

But then there was a creepy old lady in town... **shudder**

ANYWAY.
From the looks of things, 2012 should be a good year. I mean, it's not gonna be brilliant, but then again, no year ever is. I'm just HOPING... Since it SEEMS to be starting off better... That it might be a better year than last year :)

Anyway, I should hope that I should be able to post here more often than I have been. That being said, it's still most likely be a month, if not months. Anyway.

Check out Brian's channel; I'm in his latest video, and I made the intro music!:
Gromit7573
Here's the Bandcamp page that my music will be / is on:
Plannex
And Kitty (my girlfriend)'s blog:
There's No Such Thing As Algebra

Disputatio Tibi Posterius.

Audacity is actually pretty cool!

So, the other day, I decided to try and make some music on audacity.

I started off with some sine waves. A---C-G-A---C-G- etc
Then I added some white noise, every third beat, and then later on, on every "and" on the fourth beat.
Then I added a tempo of white noise, tick, tick, tick, tick...
Then a added a "Risset drum" (?) which generates a drum sound from different frequencies of waveforms. I put this at the start of every bar.
Then I went on to the melody. I made it out of sine waves, and then started to add tremolo at different frequencies. Then came some more sine waves to add distortion to the original one, and some square tremolo, adjust the timing of all the elements coming and going, and hey presto, I just made some techno music! :D

You can check out the finished product .
Remember to like, favourite, comment and subscribe, please and thank you! ^o^

Society and Sexuality

Imagine a society where there were no scangers hanging around Dublin to annoy you because you're wearing a bathrobe. Imagine that you could wear fur ears and tails without weird looks, or have a fez without quizzical glances. This, in the eyes of many, is the ideal society. Complete and utter tolerance.

But this society does not exist. There are still people who dare show off their eccentricity, but it does not receive the right treatment. So what must one do?

Should we throw away our bowler hats and towels, and fit in so as receive the tolerance that we should receive anyway? Or should we proudly wear our strangeness, regardless of how others view us?

Personally, I would prefer to have people snickering at me if it meant I could snicker back at them with a top hat on my head and a cane in my hand.

But alas, this is not the end of our problems. If, let's say, a real proper eejit goes and makes a... Hurtful comment, what should our action be against it?

On one hand, you could ignore it. Again, this is my personal preference. If someone is stupid enough to laugh at another person wearing suspenders and a shirt, then they surely don't deserve attention themselves, especially if it's what they're looking for; They deserve to be ignored, in my opinion.
But then again, giving them a piece of your own mind also has it pros. If we let these people harass the odd and different, they will continue it, some think. I don't know whether this is true or not, but it is a point to be made. And the idea is that if these people know we can retaliate, they'll be less likely to do it again. But, this is assuming the reasons behind why they do it. Personally, I believe that these people are a type of sadist, and get enjoyment out of causing us discomfort. It could also be that it's to impress other friends, or even that they want to show that they're superior to us somehow. Depending on the reason behind their actions, retaliating could do good, or do damage.
Look, I could go on. What I'm trying to say is this;
Society is stupid.

In fact, society is so ridiculously stupid, that it makes people afraid to make it public whether they like guys or girls. This, in my opinion, is completely ludicrous. Why the hell should anyone care what gender you like? At what point did people turn around and say that gays, lesbians and bisexuals weren't "cool"? It seems to me that going against what you're told is what is generally viewed as "cool". We were told from a young age that smoking is bad for you, that it will be the death of you, and yet I see 14 and 15 year olds smoke. We see that alcohol could ruin your life, yet people just don't seem to listen. But when a religion preaches for two thousand years that gays are bad, and people hold prejudice against them for centuries, arresting and killing them, does our generation go and say that "actually, being gay is no big deal, I'm cool with it"? No, it continues on this outrageous idea that gays and lesbians and bisexuals are bad people.
Now, I'm all for letting people have their own opinions, but if you really have this hatred of any sexuality other than being straight, at least keep it to yourself. And as much as I urge you to accept others for who they are, I can't force you. And as for those of you who DO accept others; you're cool.

Disputatio Tibi Posterius.

Ever heard of "Freedom of speech, thought and religion"?

The school had it's annual Beginning of Year Mass yesterday. All of the Roman Catholics in the school have to go to this, but the people of other religions are allowed to stay back in our study hall until near the end when awards are given out.
There is an official register of the religions of the students in our school. I am down as "Church of Ireland", and so am exempt from the mass. However, a friend of mine, who went to the study hall, was on this register as "Roman Catholic", though she is actually atheist; Brid.
In school today, Brid was called out to the principal's office, Ms. Threadgold. We watched her leave the classroom.
About 15 minutes later, she arrived back. Her eyes were bloodshot. She didn't say much.
After class, she told us that Ms. Threadgold ate the head off of her, saying that Brid was a "Disgrace to the school and to the Catholic church". She was then told to apologize to her form teacher, and to one of the nuns in our school, Sr. Madelaine.
In the afternoon, when school finished, and Brid had already apologized to her form teacher, she went up to Sr. Madelaine to apologize.
Sr. Madelaine was the person that told Threadgold about Brid not being at the mass. And she actually apologized to Brid, as she didn't want things to get this far out of control, saying  she never should have mentioned it.

There are a few things that bother me about this.
Firstly, as students, we are actually NOT allowed to change our religion on the official register. So basically, if your parents decide to force their religion into your life, there's not a single thing you can do to change it.
Secondly, Brid was singled out to be given out to, even though there are DOZENS of students who stayed home yesterday so that they would not have to go to mass. They have received no punishment, and have not been shouted at for quarter of an hour either. And whereas Brid was there at the end of the mass, for the awards being handed out, these other people weren't there at all.
And thirdly, the school can supposedly force you to do things depending on your religion. Which, in my opinion, in just plain wrong.

Disputatio tibi posterius.

Yay!

Over a thousand views :D
Thanks guys! Now, for the 2,000 mark...

Almost... Allmoooosstt...

As I type, the counter is at 998.

...JUST TWO MORE!!!

Awesome!

Erm... I've had this blog since May 2009. And since then, I have gotten 934 views.
But considering I've had it for about 2 years and 4 months, or 28 months, this would seem to go for about 33 posts a month (Woo windows calculator).

BUT.

Last month, I got not 33, but 132 views;
Refer back to title.

So basically, thanks! Whoever you are, reading my blog, I thank you for adding 1 to the little counter on the top right.

:D

Disputatio tibi posterius.

EDIT:


It wasn't last month I got those views; it was SO FAR THIS MONTH.
Also, it's gone up to 160 :D

Solving a mystery because it isn't.

In chemistry in school at the moment, we're doing forensic science. And as part of this module, we have to "Solve a murder". A businessman has been shot at point blank range, there is some evidence around the room he was shot it.
We were given 5 suspects:

The son, the daughter, the housemaid, the gardener, and the handyman:

Where are you coming from?

As much as you may comment as much as you like with answers, the question is rhetorical.
Looking over my stats, I noticed something... Interesting, lets say. The "Traffic Source" list's two first links were both to my friend Josie's blog, Here. So, er, thanks for that :P
And then my third source of views was from my vlog, Here, which I suppose I was half expecting.

And then I'm guessing many of you came here from facebook.

I'm not really sure this has a point.

Ok, I've had enough.

I have been waiting for MONTHS for some of the blogs I follow to update.

I waited.
And waited.
And waited.
And did they update?
Lemme check NO.

So in a fit of utter frustration, I'm going to update mine.

Summer is nearly at its end, sadly. The trees of rich green are slowly decaying and dropping their crisp brown leaves to the ground, the weather losing its summer shine... And worst of all, school. But not for another week or two.

After being in france for a week or so with my friend Macdara and his family, we traveled across the border into Spanish territory. We parked our rented car in an underground car park and surfaced, looking at the building we were under.

The Salvidor Dalí Museum.

And so we went to the main desk, got tickets, and strolled inside.

AAAAHHH.
I DON'T EVEN.

So after our near torturous visit, we left Spain, on a plane, back to Dublin airport, where we were driven home.

Two days later I arrived in DCU for a three week course of awesomeness.

CTYI was set up many years ago by Colm O'Reilly, and since its establishment, some pretty crazy things have happened in there.
Firstly, you have all the different traditions, you have all the memorable places, the discos, the trips on Saturdays and Sundays, canteen food, and the ultimate week as well. You have Tranny Tuesday, Pirate Wednesday, Dressing gown Thursday, and Formal Friday. You have the activities, you have quotes, you have all the wonderful notes at the end (Thanks to all who signed mine :P) And you have the reunions that follow.

But most importantly, you have the friends you make there, and the memories you share together, and nothing, in my opinion, can beat that.

Well, maybe Fiachra.

Disputatio Tibi Posterius.

Hey... Got any grapes?

These internet songs are all over the place at the moment!

There's The Duck Song,
Nyan Cat,
The Abridged Series Joey's remix of nyan cat, Nyeh Cat,
Etc.

They're taking over goddamnit!

But I can safely say that none of them will EVER be like the theme for "Duck Tales".
I'm not going to post a link to the theme from "Duck Tales".
Not even a little bit.
If you listen to it once, it will NEVER leave your head.
EVER.
EVER.
EVER!

So I was in Wexford today, with friends and such, and I bought a book in The Book Centre, called "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness. My friend has told me it is on par with the chaos walking trilogy, so I absolutely had to buy it.
Which I did.

I then proceeded to leave the book in the shop, forget about it, remember it, then get back to the shop as fast as possible, to get there where it's been closed for half an hour.

Well, I say "As fast as possible"...
Coughcoughkitty'sareallyslowwalkercoughcough :P

But anyway... An email was sent to them, so it should be ok...

I am so into techno at the moment! I've fallen in love with The Prodigy, and am listening to them, The Quick Brown Fox, Deadmau5, etc ALL THE TIME.

Do you know why?

Cos they're freakin epic.

NEW DR WHO EPISODE OMGOMG OOOO MMMM GGGG freaky...

Well, that's enough rambling for today.

Disputatio tibi posterius.

Winning.

Ok, so my friend introduces me to this band; Arcade Fire.
That band is WIN.
I mean, seriously, their singer's name is actually Win Butler.

WIN BUTLER.

Which is why, earlier today (saturday) I made a cover of one of their best (my opinion) songs, . You can find it , or on my youtube channel, .
Subscribe, comment, like, etc. If you please :3

I must leave you now, as I am watching Scott Pilgrim, but I just want to direct your attention to my friend . She is epic, and awesome, and stuffs etc.

You should follow her, actually...

DO IT. (Frank is watching you...)

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Disputatio Tibi Posterius.

New blogs ahoy!

This is my first post in...what, six or seven weeks?!
...
I really need to make a bigger effort with this...

But back to the why of the title.

A friend of mine, George, has started (or more restarted) his . He used to make short reviews of... stuff.

Just read them yourself. :P

But anyway, he's part of this youtube channel, . They do reviews on (yes, you guessed it!) airsoft guns! Him and co. of this channel are trying to become youtube partners, and have set a goal of 100 subs, so any help would be much appreciated :D

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Recently, I made a deadmau5 remix on youtube , which is, if I do say so myself, pretty shweet. So, you know... go check it out... or something...
Yeah...




I like .

Disputatio tibi posterius.

Vlog time!

The vlog is now out, though quite late...
Link to it here.
Don't mind the drumming in the background...