The Darkest Evil

I knew that I kept iMovie HD for a reason and with SpyMac Leapfrog out, I decided to do a piece of karaoke for everyone. So, now - I will botch oldies songs that I heard as a child and THINK I know the lyrics to. In fact, today, you can listen and watch me botch “In a Big Country” by Big Country. But I am just glad that I didn’t delete it considering that I was looking for a free application to make movies with my Apple iSight. And I did. ^_^

UPDATE: You can find my karaoke attempt at “In a Big Country” on SpyMac Leapfrog.

Yes, I want to write a book. I have wanted to be an author for several years but when I got into computers, my aspirations to be an author kinda fizzled out. In fact, I became for focused on the visual arts and my aspirations in the literary arts fell to the way side. I am sure you can understand, seeing as when we focus our energies on a trade, we abandon some of our broken dreams. It has happened to all of us, be it at the age of 11 of whenever that has happened in our life. It was also a dream of mine to relocate to California from Texas and it has been that way until I was 17, going on 18. Then I realized that California had two vital flaws. First, the rent on Californian apartments are too expensive for those with no real world experience. The prices for Californian apartments are within the 4 digit amount. In fact, here are the apartment listings from SF Bay Craigslist.

Blogging has rekindled that part of me. I love reading and I most certainly love writing. In fact, I am working on a couple of books and I seriously want to get them published. However, I am confronted with a couple of concerns, seeing as I would love to do this a certain way. I want my publisher and representation to be located OUTSIDE of the United States. However, I know that the bigger publishers and imprints are located in the United States. So, I will have to bite my tongue on this. (more…)

Okay, so far, I have not been able to find a .torrent for the subbed/raw version but I do like what I have been seeing on numerous fora. So far, I hear that it does go a bit too fast, as if we knew all the circumstances prior to it. Well, hell’s fire, this isn’t Bleach! It isn’t THAT simple! And besides, the only thing I know about Getsumen To Heiki Mina is that it was based off of a fictional anime from Densha Otoko and you can only find figurines from it in Akihabara. Trust me, I know. I found several varieties in Akihabara that you can’t simply find on eBay. (more…)

Okay, so I got burned by another girl. Yeah, this was NOT cool. But the cool thing was that she was a little less rotten than other girls that I have talked to online. I am just so tired of this and I would just like to find someone that I can hold and embrace. Someone that I can walk life’s path with. Someone that will accept and appreciate me for everything that I am. Someone that will love me with an agape love that I will love them with. You see, I have never been loved by another human being. Not my family, no girlfriends and no reliable friends in this world. I am not very popular because I refuse to conform to other people’s standards.

I am not in the mood to talk to many people. And if you do wish to talk to me, you had better be able to withstand many minutes, if not hours, of ranting about how hard it is to find someone of the opposite sex that will love you. About how everyone with a loving family or close, reliable friends is blessed. I am not in a mood to pretend to be happy. Forgive me if I refuse to respond to your private messages or what not, I would not be in a good mood anyways. I am also writing a whole number of posts for four days (8 posts) so I don’t have to respond to comments. It’s evil, I know, but I am not in the mood to play comment police.

To my faithful clients: You will receive everything you ordered. Plus, I will remember this when you want another project so you will very likely save money on your next project. However, when life continuously shits on you, it does not allow you to focus on your work. It’s only two days more in many cases and I apologise for the additional time required. I just need time to centre myself.

While working on Blackthorne, I was wondering how to do the header images. I have decided to use both Onegai Teacher and Onegai Twins screen captures (Does anyone know of a better screen capture tool than CaptureMe for OS X? I mean, one that works while DVD Player is running.) for the header images and other art on the site that isn’t my own. I just hope it works out as well as I imagine. I am pretty certain on what fonts I will be using for Blackthorne, but I still consider Trebuchet, Helvetica and Verdana at times. The Blackthorne style does NOT work with sans-serif or semi-serif fonts. Right now, the hardest task I see would be slicing it and coding it in CSS. I have not done a full CSS layout before and I would like to get much better at this. Plus, I would like to update this homepage and make it look much better. Thus, I will be working a lot more in CSSEdit than Photoshop in the next few days.

But one thing concerned me. Blackthorne was looking WAY too much like the original Aries Project. In fact, Blackthorne started getting too close to it for my own comfort. I had to do a few modifications to the design so that it was a complete derivation from what it was supposed to be. But the important thing is that Blackthorne is supposed to be something that is mine and mine alone. Is that selfish? Possibly. But hell, this is something that I am going to be working hard on and I want it to be mine and mine alone. Plus, I want something that is purely mine and not reminiscent of Bryan Veloso’s Avalonstar. Sool, I will show you a preview of the .psd I have so far and hopefully, you will get a vision of what I am looking forward to.

Before I go to sleep tonight in an attempt to reprogramme my biological clock, I want to let you know that I don’t just get my inspiration from other people for this blog. A lot of my inspiration comes from random events that happen to me on a daily basis. I am going to tell you the story of how I got completely lost trying to turn some cans and bottles in to the recycling centre in Crowfoot. You see, I needed $2.25 for the bus fare and I needed it before tomorrow because tomorrow is the day that Mrs. Dypvik-Galts cuts the cheques for students that still have a balance on their accounts.

The road to Crowfoot was not too long and certainly not arduous. In fact, the Ranchlands are not too far from the Crowfoot Crossing. I walked there, prepared my bottles for recycling and then did that and got about $2.55 for my empty bottles. W00t! But the road back was arduous, because I went the wrong way to get back. At first, I thought that I was going the right way and I thought I recognized some of the houses. But when I saw the sign that said “Citadel”, I knew there was a problem. There was an Esso gas station so I walked in and asked for directions back to the Ranchlands. He told me to go down Nose Hill road and it’ll run into John Laurie Blvd. Of course, I know that John Laurie Blvd. crosses with Ranchlands Blvd. and thus, will get me home.

So I trudged along Nose Hill road until I got to Sarcee Trail. I was getting tired and thirsty. I was wanting a nice cool glass of water to drink so I could replenish my resources. I came across an old man and I asked him for some help. He said that I can take a shortcut by going down Sarcee Trail. The hitch is that there are no sidewalks. I thought that this would not be a problem so I took it. Boy was I wrong! I kept stumbling and I nearly fell flat on my face. However, I noticed that if I climbed to the top of the slope, I would have a much easier trip to John Laurie. So I made the climb up and for a time I was right. However, there were a couple of patches of soft ground that almost made me fall off the slope and into incoming traffic. (more…)

I hate the idea that people make resolutions that they have no intention of keeping only when the earth’s odometre rolls over. It seems that it is enough to make people believe that they have a new lease on life. Personally, I believe the route of change should happen throughout the new year, especially when one realizes it is needed the most. However, I have reviewed what I want out of life and this is what I have come up with:

1. Gain a bit more notoriety on the web/in my new home - I would like to be as big as Bryan Veloso, Mr. Fab or Shaun Inman. My weblog has been getting a bit more activity since I have been writing more often and using traffic services like BlogMad, but that is not enough. I need to do more to get my name out there. I would also like to be recognized in Calgary for my blog so I am also going to write replying to more local news.
2. Finish up Blackthorne - Blackthorne (for the uninitiated) is a themeset that I have been working on for the past month. I am confident that I can get it done and coded before February 14th, especially since I cannot afford the bus pass for this month so my mobility is going to be dramatically hindered. Doesn’t mean that I can’t go to crowfoot and cash in my bottles to buy bus fare to get to the college to return some books. I should probably do that on Wednesday though, it will save time and money in the long run.
3. Get into a serious relationship - I would like to get into a serious relationship. Need I say more?
4. Fully convert to Buddhism - I would like to convert to Buddhism and seek a path of reason and truth. Right now, I could still be considered a Christian that just doesn’t go to church. I would like to be so much more than that and I would love to convert to Buddhism so I can clean my mind of my past practises and strive toward a brighter future.
5. Get my work permit - Nicholi, if you are reading this, please submit your company to Alberta Registries. Now.

Those are my five new years resolutions. This is what is truly important to me right now and I would personally like to thank you for reading through my sappy drivel but hey, it was enough to spice up my life.

Okay, so I decided against my better judgement to give myself a haircut with my electric shaver. That did NOT go well. After about a hour and a half, I gave up and left the task for later. My hair was short enough so who would give a shit? I went to the closet, got the broom and worked on sweeping up the remaining hair that had fallen on the floor. I was DONE until I could get a pair of scissors. If I could have gotten scissors, I would have been able to do a much better job. Here is a picture of me from today with my new ‘do.

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My image and name are copyrighted/trademarked for certain security reasons and personally. This is mainly to protect me if I try to apply for a job and a person Googles my name. I allow free usage of it under the following licence:

1. It is used alongside content that is not libellous, harmful, obscene, harassing, threatening or infringes on the property rights of others.
2. It is used with attribution to thedarkestevil.com
3. All other purposes must be preapproved by Kyle Korleski.

The reasoning behind this? Well, the reason is that I am new in Canada and I cannot have people soiling my record when my employer Googles my name. Now, Nicholi is a very gracious person but I can’t take any chances if people are going to abuse my image like this. Besides, what of Citizenship and Immigration Canada? What if a CIC visa officer abroad or in Canada came across libellous content that I did not write and assumed that I was somehow associated with it? That would probably raise a few questions to the visa officer and I would probably be asked to attend an interview at a consulate abroad.

Therefore, I decided to file for a trademark at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office and I hold a copyright to my own name. I would highly recommend that any expatriate that is being harassed like I am to do the same. I am not liable for content that I do not write myself.

Okay, today I read this interesting post on iPods in vending machines and thought to myself, would I really want to buy an iPod FROM A VENDING MACHINE?!? The answer is absolutely not. First off, what colour would I get? It would really suck if I got pink for myself. The reason being is that DRM would very likely make it so there is no music on the iPod from the very start and of course, I have two options from this point.

The first option would be to hook it up to my MacBook Pro and sync it with iTunes and download the latest iPod software (assuming I can even get an Internet connection). The benefit from this is that all my music would already be on the iPod and I can play it when I get on the plane. The problem is that I will be draining my MacBook’s battery life and I kinda like to work while I am on a flight. Normally, with flights across Canada, this wouldn’t be a serious issue, but if my flight has to connect somewhere (it’s inevitable), I am probably going to need a bigger battery - especially while waiting in airports where most of the people in departures speak French and only French (like Montreal). (more…)