Jon Furniss

I will have at least one more post today with some sort of comment. Perhaps The Best of My Bookmarks: Part II, we’ll see!

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First:

I dare you to be more cheerful than that picture, I dare you!

But mainly:

I know, it’s awesome, be jealous.

Or maybe not, we’ll see.

First, some brand new Thoughts from Dead Stick Figures:

The Text:
Panel 1:
USED CARS
“I want a car that can fly!”
“This car can fly.”
Panel 2:
CLIFF
“I’m flying!”
Panel Three:
Bottom of CLIFF
“It couldn’t fly…”

The Text:

“Reincarnation:
A bitch to be reckoned with
Suicide is bad.”

The Text:

Panel 1:
“Gnarly! Hard core windsurfing!”
Panel 2:
IMPALED!
“In Soviet Tornado, wind surfs you…”

I just couldn’t resist the Soviet Russia joke you know? Because, well, I’m a sucker for that sort of thing…

I’ve also been haiku crazy (the official name of this is Haiku Syndrom) the last few days, with the most exciting part of this being that I learned “Mexican Baby” is five syllables long, and well, awesome.

So here’s one that I wrote this morning:

beauty is precious
trees and flowers don’t wonder
humming birds hover

So, why haven’t I been updating for real lately?

Mainly because I’m lazy. Secondarily because I’ve been doing a lot of reading. I’m rereading the Dune series. I am currently on book four out of five. This is my first time reading the sequals to Dune since about seventh or eighth grade, and I now understand how the whole thing went completely over my head. These books really are a work of genius, and the plots and idea behind the whole thing are masterful. Frank Herbert was the man.

So today was the first day back to work after my vacation. It wasn’t too bad. We were a bit busy because of the pseudo-holidy of President’s Day, but I survived. Yeah, now I’m basically aiming for cruise control towards the summer. I will go into robot mode at work and school and just deal with it. My goal is to make this be the first semester that I don’t seriously consider dropping out, and I think that I can do it! And then there’s my social life, which I intend to work on, and you know, have it be cool and fun and social. And such.

As for Lego building. I cleaned up my room on Saturday and no longer have a “massacre of Legos” on my floor, so I’m not as tempted to build awesome creations. But you know, I don’t want to completely abandon Legos, like I pretty much did the past three or four years of my life. So if anybody has any suggestion of things I should build, I am down for that.

And that’s all I’ve got today.

An important graffiti message on the way home from school yesterday:

You know who you are:

And yes… he is very, very cuddly!

Happy Valentine’s Day! =)

For serious, it wasn’t burnt and it tasted halfway decent! Go internet recipes.

The process:

(Hi I love you)

It’s true.

The finished product:

It didn’t look that blurry in real life, I swear.

Good stuff. I would’ve taken more pictures, but my hands were constantly covered with flour.

On another note, I really want someone to hang out with tonight.

Hit me up: 516-732-8970

For breakfast this morning I had a glass of chocolate milk. I’m not sure what exactly it was today, if I put the perfect amount of milk in, or the perfect amount of chocolate, or stirred it just enough, or all three, but this was probably the best glass of chocolate milk ever. It made me happy.

Then I had to go to school, and my car decided to start shaking and sputtering and scaring me to death. I hope it’s not dying, because I can neither afford to fix it or buy a new one.

What I did in Math class:

“Thoughts from Dead Stick Figures”

The text:

Frame 1:
“I don’t want to go home”
“You can’t stay for ever”
“Yes I can!”
Frame 2:
“I told you so”
“I meant alive…”

The text:

Frame 1:
“I didn’t say I wanted a beret”
Frame 2:
“I wanted a bear!”
Frame 3:
“I should’ve kept the beret.”

If anyone ever told you that I have good hand writing, or that I draw well… they lied.

Something else I discovered at school, that I figure everbody should know:

This was posted all over my school. I forgot to go get my kosher pizza at 12 though…

Awesome link of the day!  <– Awesome guitarness

So I’m making dinner for my family tonight. I’ve decided upon Stromboli, the food, not the island, as when I Wikipediad Stromboli, I discovered there’s an island named that too. A new place on my places to go list. Cool. I have to go buy dough, because if I made it, I highly doubt that it would turn out edible at all. Anyway, good luck to me in that aspect.

I haven’t been doing my meditating… =X I blame this on the inability of my mind to sit still. When I’m doing stuff my mind has absolutely no problem going completely blank. When I try to sit down and breathe deeply and think happy thoughts for fifteen minutes, it gets all angsty and whiny and convinces all my muscles to get up and run around. How lame is that. I’ll try again today though. And tomorrow. Sixteen days left this month. BTW, way to go leap year. I didn’t even realize that until like a week or two ago, even though all the usual signs are there. (There’s an olympics, my age is divisible by four, and presidential elections.)

I’ve been working on something that I think everyone, most importantly me, needs to recite to themselves every morning, right after the Litany against fear.

The Litany against fear reads as follows:

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain. 

It’s from Dune by Frank Herbert, which, if you didn’t know, is my favorite book ever.

But anyway, my litany against… acting stupid, I’ll call it, roughly goes as follows.

The world does not revolve around me.
Nobody else sees life through my eyes or my mindset.
Everyone has a reason for how they act.
I will not take other’s actions personally.
They do not care about me, I will not care about them.
I will remember that everybody else sees me as I see everybody else.
They are focused on themselves and I am focused on myself.

Or something like that. The basic idea struck me earlier, the actual text I just made up as I went along. I think it was somewhere along the way when I was driving, and wondering why everyone is such an asshole to everyone else when driving. And I realized it’s because all they see is a car, just like all I see while driving is other cars. Everyone else is seeing things through their eyes and their mindsets. Again, there’s me completely fascinated by the idea of perception. I wish I were a mindreader.

What I think: You must understand that there is something about me that I will never understand.

Sometime in the near future I am going to attempt to make a comic strip out of Legos. I think that would be fun, and once I have some ideas I’ll do it. I’m letting you know just so that I don’t let myself and everyone else down by not doing it.

Also, I’ve been getting more and more hits lately, so you new visitors, thanks for coming and making my day brighter. If you have Stumbleupon feel free to thumb me up. If you like what you see, stick around and spread the word. Thanks for being awesome!

Yeah, I went there. It’s a lot shorter than I had hoped, I really hadn’t realized how much effort/work it took to make Legos into letters and words and such.

Dig it:

The text: “I would show you everything I feel if I wasn’t absolutely sure that you would promptly run away.”

Close ups:

The rose you saw yesterday, the heart is new though, go hearts.

And another:

And the description I put of it on Flickr:
how emo of me! the heart is breakable, hooray!
and an unintended note, the top half of the heart looks like an overweight seagull trying to escape!

Damn red overweight seagulls, always trying to run off with my heart.