(5:44:06 PM) Jonathan Ho: get a weezing and two koffings
(5:44:18 PM) James: wtf?
(5:44:19 PM) Jonathan Ho: :D
(5:44:32 PM) Jonathan Ho: biker
(5:44:35 PM) Jonathan Ho: pokemon!
(5:44:43 PM) James: I have no idea what you're talking about
(5:44:45 PM) Jonathan Ho: ...
(5:44:48 PM) Jonathan Ho: pokemon red/blue
(5:44:51 PM) Jonathan Ho: the trainers
(5:44:52 PM) Jonathan Ho: bikers
(5:44:53 PM) Jonathan Ho: always have
(5:44:55 PM) Jonathan Ho: weezings and koffings
(5:44:55 PM) Jonathan Ho: you
(5:44:56 PM) Jonathan Ho: loser
(5:45:04 PM) James: ........ who is the loser now?

So it seems that I've been writing my javascript all wrong. I just found this out after reading Mozilla's js1.5 docs. Apparently, my current object declarations which looks like this:

function Object() {
    this.init = "hello";
    this.func = function ( blah ) {
       this.blah = "blah";
    }
}

is the WRONG way to do things in javascript. That code should have been more like,

function Object() {
    this.init = "hello";
}
Object.prototype.func = function () {
    this.blah = "blah";
}

I switched my animation script over to this syntax, and suddenly it's amazingly fast, even with fading. I always wondered why my animation script was slower than bigger packages... Well, now I have an answer. And now I have to go and rewrite ALL my javascript x_x

It's very annoying that the "correct" syntax is so damned UGLY. I originally saw this prototype syntax and thought, "damn that's ugly, lemme use this more elegant one". Now I have to make a bazillion prototype declarations, and they're all at the default indent. It's very very hard to maintain things like that... grah

I guess I'll use it for extremely random ramblings. Seems that I woke up today with the song, "Eyes on me" from final fantasy stuck in my head. I haven't heard the song in weeks. The brain works in mysterious ways....

It's a very pretty song though. I'm enjoying it :)

Ok, I just had a dream of the weirdest thing ever. I was in this huge mansion, playing this very strange game. This game consisted of tiny little puzzle games all spliced into each other with a time limit, and the object of this game is to basically figure out what the hell you're supposed to do within a very small time span. For example, a couple of small red and blue lights at the baseboards would light up in a pattern, with one color out of order - you had to tap the wrong color. Then a gameboy in the room starts beeping, and you have to complete this minigame. There were quite a few other small games involved, but this being a dream, I've already forgotten them...

I think I can make this into a VERY interesting game...

So I randomly decided to rewatch some episodes of Honey and Clover today. I remember back when I first finished the series, someone asked me which character I was most similar to. I remember quite clearly that I answered Takemoto-kun. What's *really* scary is just how true this has become... Especially toward the end of the first season where he's a bit doubtful of his future? It feels like watching a video trained on my life right now.

When I first answered the character similarity question, it was well before I got into biking. Now, as I'm approaching 22 (the same age as Takemoto when he went on his journey), I'm in Hopkins4k about to go riding across the United States. Obviously, I'm not quite as reckless or impulsive as the anime suggests, but... seriously, wtf? It is almost like I'm staring at a crystal ball that's looking at my future. I'll probably get rejected by all the grad schools. Then I can get even MORE depressed, go off in Hopkins4k "in search of myself". Maybe I'll meet a posse of friendly programmers along the way during Hopkins4k? Haha, wishful thinking indeed.

Obviously the parallel is broken at points. My home life isn't quite as screwed up. I *wish* I had a friend as crazy as Morita, lol. But a lot of the pressures, feelings, etc, all exactly the same. Hopefully my own problems will resolve as gracefully as fiction depicts, but when has fiction ever matched reality in the long term? x_x

On another side note, whoever wrote H&C clearly has been long-distance touring before. As absurd as the original depictions of hunger sounded, I know EXACTLY what it feels like now. Also, all the animations of bike mechanics, the panniers, equipment, are spot on. I was totally clueless the first time I watched it, and now they all look so familiar. And on yet another side note, that trip that Takemoto-kun took is seriously amazing. Some day in my life, I will bike from Tokyo to Hokkaido as well. Preferably soon :-D