I have a lot to blog about

Yeah. Let's start. This might be really boring so don't read it all if it is :D
Last night Mom and I went down to the beach and looked at the stars. We saw the Big Dipper and we thought we saw Venus. Then Dad came down and he said that this band going across the sky probably wasn't clouds, it was probably the Milky Way. Also he said that what we thought was Venus was probably Mars, which Mom decided was probably right.
But before Dad came down Mom and I saw a shooting star! Mom actually saw two but I only saw the first one.
Today is our last day here in Michigan. Tomorrow Dad, Sushila and I are leaving for Canada, where we'll see a bunch of our cousins, which is pretty cool. But we'll miss Mom and Charlotte.
Sushila down to the beach with the dog and I followed soon after. Then Sushila splashed me (even though I didn't want to be splashed) and all the sunscreen of one arm came off so I had to go back up. Then when I went back down I had lunch (a sandwich) with me, on a paper plate. I got all the way down the hill and onto the sand and I had to go over like one or two more dune(s) but then my sandwich fell. So I went back up again with this pile of sandy sandwich parts and did some stuff and went back down again with another half a sandwich, this time on a PLASTIC plate, only THAT fell, too. (I actually ended up just eating that and not eating the sandy part)
The water was really nice though and I basically spent most of my day in it :)
Then we went up to call the Bhiels (I dunno if I'm spelling that right that's what Mom said), who apparently have a cottage here too, and to go to this soft serve place called the Whippy Dip, only we couldn't reach them so we just had dinner, which was burritos, instead. And then I sat down with my iPod to write this post! :D
I (think I) had a good day today

Harry Potter @ amc Theatres

When I blogged about seeing the Harry Potter movie, I forgot to mention that there was a leak in the theater. We could hear it dripping.
Only here's the thing: when Voldemort pointed his wand (at Hogwarts I think) and there was a really loud noise (an explosion I think), _the ceiling of the theater caved in_. When the movie was over we all went to see the corner, where there was this rubble stuff that was the ceiling :D
Also while I'm on the topic of weather, we had really WEIRD weather that day. There was almost continuous lightning, and it was absolutely POURING. (Kinda reminds you of Seattle, eh? Wow that sounded weird)
Anyway... Mom's making us get outside, which will probably be good. So I guess I don't have time to blog anymore, at least for now.
Wait, what do I mean, _I guess_? Although I suppose that since I have time to write this, it might be justified... I should probably go and post this now.

KRADDY! 2

Recently I've been listening to a lot of Kraddy (again).
I just want to state that the Labyrinth - EP album is basically pure awesome mixed in with some total beastage.
Actually I only have Mono and No Comply... :( (my iPod won't download the other ones, mostly because of the Internet connection)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Pt. 2

After this line, I'm going to write about the movie. The reason I'm saying this is because I'll be writing it when the movie ends, which would be a little after 11. So I might not be very fluid with my language.
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OMIGODOMIGODOMIGODOMIGOD! That was seriously (one of) the best movie(s) ever (it was just as good - if not better - as Inception) and now I can't believe it's over. Plus it went way too fast... :(
But I'm looking forward to The Hunger Games too
And also Sherlock Holmes 2
And possibly some other stuff that I can't remember at the moment
Ok I'm going to post this now

Clarifications and explanations

First of all I just want to clarify that the image I posted with the Mozilla logo in the star, and which said 'hack' in a really cool font, does NOT mean hacking in the sense of breaking into computers.
It means hacking in the sense of messing around with your favorite programming language, submitting patches to a program, our downloading source code. This Wikipedia article may help to clarify.
Secondly, I want to comment on the name of this blog. Since I didn't really create it with any specific purpose in mind, I kind of categorized it as 'ramblings'. And because this is a personal blog, I came up with 'ramblings from me'. The final part, '(who knows really)' (plus the ?) came from an idea that this blog post touches upon (although that particular post was not the inspiration for it) - the idea that we, as humans, have no way of knowing if we are really ourselves. Thus, "ramblings from me? (who knows really)".

:)

A word on the internet. And a birthday!

This was written yesterday but not published until today due to Internet issues. Old news, huh?
So for those of you who don't know, we get internet through the cell network here in Michigan. Which means that it's subject to the weather and just luck and it's sometimes über slow.
Also: I finally got around to sending the link to my birthday list to my relatives. I put it on Google Docs this year and I think it will have a lot of advantages. Yay!

I got a Blogger app! Again!

So I just downloaded a Blogger app for the tablet and now it'll be easier for me to blog from here, especially with the stupid Internet connection. Yay!
Edit: I forgot to say that I wrote this post on the tablet, in the car. :D

Ugh... + Bleh... = Day

 This post was written last Monday (5 days ago) but never got posted due to Internet issues.

So I'm writing this in the car in Michigan and it's like 10:29 here. So like 7:29 in Seattle. And I'm actually surprised how good I feel because usually I get sick when I read in the car.
Actually I don't feel that good to begin with, since I was flying all day and flying makes me sick to my stomach, which sucks. As I said to Dad on the plane: "I don't want to go to Michigan. I want to be there already".
Also it's possible I left my iPod touch in the plane.
BUT we have access to the Internet through Mom's tablet but since the network comes though the cell network and the cell network is kinda bad out here the network could die at any time.
Yesterday I upgraded my Ubuntu installation to 11.04 (LTS - long term support) and I was SO excited because it had this super cool new interface with a dashboard and a global menu bar and a dock thingy. But when I used it the dash doesn't work right - the search is useless cause it can't find anything, and the buttons for find files and more applications and like 2 others that I can't remember don't work. The only buttons that work are the Browse the Web button, the chat client button for Empathy and 2 others I can't remember. The only one I really care about is Firefox, which leaves whatever is in my dock and Firefox as the applications I can launch using the new interface. So while it looks cool, it actually kinda sucks. And when I used the classic interface because I didn't like the new one, a ton of panel items were missing. >:/ !

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Just in case anyone receives/sees a ; randomly in a message/buzz/chat/whatever, I want to clarify -
It's a ;) that I didn't feel like finishing.

Beach stuff!

Yay! On Monday (or maybe it's Tuesday) I'm going to Michigan!
It's near the beach, close to Stony Lake. It's in the woods with a hill leading down to the beach and it's pretty awesome. I might not be able to blog all that much (well, it won't be anything different if I don't) but I'll try to blog more than I have been recently since there might be more stuff that I actually feel like blogging about.
Oh yeah, Charlotte's coming too and she's really excited 'cause she ADORES the beach. :)

Found it!

I found my hat yesterday. It was in a bag from Great Wolf Lodge, and I'm very happy to have found it.
Yeah, I went to Great Wolf with Jackson, and I was going to blog about it but since it was about a week ago I think I'll just skip it. :)

(edit: This post was written like a week or two ago but never published. So here we go!)

xkcd - Binary Heart

Binary Heart (alt-text: i love you)

So I was a little bored and a little sad recently and I found xkcd #99 (Binary Heart) again. And since I was a little bored and sad I decided to see what the decoded binary looked like. So I translated all the 0s and 1s out of the image into text, which got me this.

011010010110110001101
111011101100110010101
111001010011110111010
101101001011011000100
111101110110011001010
111100101101111011101
010110100101101100011
011110111011001100101
011110010100111101110
101011010010110110001
001111011101100110010
101111001010011110111
010101101001011011000
110111101110110011001
010111100101101111011
101010110100101101100
010011110111011001100
101011110010110111101
110101011010010110110
001001111011101100110
010101111001010011110
111010101101001011011
000100111101110110011

 Then I ran it through a binary translator. Honestly, I thought I was going to have to post this comic:

Dream Girl (alt-text: No matter how elaborately you fool yourself.)

but it actually came out something.

iloveyOuilOveyouiloveyOuilOveyOuiloveyouilOveyouilOveyOuilOv

And I think that's pretty cool. (If you don't get it right away, just read it left to right. You'll see.)