I follow tutorials. I got this one from PSDtuts.com, one of the best tutorial sites out there. I’m no where near a professional and I don’t even take classes, so I rely on tutorials like these. Just wanted to let you know where I stand. Here’s the latest I’ve done:

I plan on doing a major overhaul on the site after I get settled back into college. Also keep an eye out on the Webcam page, because it will go into full effect fairly soon.
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This would be a cartoon if I had extra time.
Rick Astley- Hey guys, did you hear about the new villain for the next Batman movie?
Friends- What‽
Rick Astley- Yeah, it was on Digg last night. A whole sneak preview trailer devoted to revealing the new bad guy.
Friends- Well shit. I’m getting on my laptop to look it up.
Rick Astley- Don’t bother. Warner Bros took it down because it was leaked before it was supposed to. I can give you the play by play though.
Friends- Alright I guess….
Rick Astley- Well Batman is kind of a bad-guy now right? So he’s actually sorta the bad guy at first, but then it shows a politician by the name of Edward Nigma.
Friends- THE RIDDLER! *drools*
Rick Astley- Yeah, I know! So the end of the trailer shows Batman and Edward Nigma battling on live t.v. because they’re in City Hall! Riddler slips away but leaves a riddle on how to find him.
Friends- Dude! What’s it say? I bet it’s a clue at how to find the viral marketing website! Tighhhhhht!
Rick Astley- Well the camera zooms in and Morgan Freeman starts to narrate and it goes “Never gonna give you up! Never gonna let you down!”
Friends- You bastard. That’s the third time this month. F*cking one-hit wonder.

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Oh the things I happen to find on the internet… Today I came across the interrobang, which incidentally is not an interrogation with a sexy conclusion as you may have originally thought. An interrobang is basically the grammar-friendly English punctuation for ‘?!?!?!?!?!’ Albeit very obscure; I wouldn’t recommend using it in an English paper. So spread this on ‘mainstream news nation-wide’, as Mitch Hedburg would put it.
Found the word on Digg:

Proper uses include:
-”You were inappropriately touched by whom‽”
-”You did what to get your tuition money‽”
-”You actually enjoyed Legally Blonde 2‽”

Don’t expect to find these marks in any novels or magazines, but feel free to confuse your friends when IMing. The proper way to achieve an interrobang is by pressing ALT+8253.
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As a forewarning, this is in no way some strange pre-suicide cry for help. It’s pure speculation. The past month or so I began wondering about the following scenario. Ahem, so okay. You’re a messed up angst-y teen or an adult with a long history of adverse mental health and you just lost your job and you’ve decided you kill yourself. You get a gun and hold it to your temple. You pull the trigger and obviously you die, but before you die, do you hear the sound of the gun? A ha, bet you didn’t know where I was going with that. It’s pretty puzzling but I did some research and I think I came up with an answer. Alright, as any physics student can tell you, the speed of sound is roughly 340 meters per second at sea level, but the speed of a bullet fired from a handgun isn’t exactly common knowledge so I started with google and ended up finding out that the average speed of a bullet leaving a .9 handgun is about 425 meters per second.

Considering the circumstance that the transfer of energy is instantaneous it seems that our troubled suicide-r won’t hear the sound caused by his own bullet pushing its way through the air. Don’t believe me? I don’t exactly recommend finding out for yourself. Comments? What do you think?

I wanted to do a generic “OMG OMG OMG DARK KNIGHT IS AWESOME” review, but I’d rather explore this ingenious character. The Joker is a nameless and identity-less evil archetype which stands for everything chaotic. He is the cowlick that ruins a picture, the disease that will kill a nun, and the raw power of the ocean, as it slowly degrades a tiny sand castle. This guy, devoid of guilt, is the poster-boy of nihilism. [Belief that life is extremely pointless] The slightly more surprising trait he carries is seizing the day; unfortunately “Careless Carpe-Diem Man” never caught on.

Joker is selfless. His entire goal in life, if you could call it a goal, is to show people that the world is not how they want it to be. He enjoys living on the edge, so why not enlighten the masses? To force them to kill or be killed; to live like they could die 5 minutes ago. Most of all he just wants people to know that anyone, even the White Knight in Shining Armor, can be corrupted and be made to kill. If someone people find so much better than themselves can commit atrocities, isn’t it even more likely they can?

When I try to sum up what the Joker stands for two quotes come to mind. One, by the Joker himself, states that “I’m just a dog chasing a car. I don’t know what I’m going to do with a big car when I catch it. I’m just enjoying the ride.” Bravo nameless writer. You just summed it up. The second quote comes from the movie Fight Club about Marla. “Marla’s philosophy of life is that she might die at any moment. The tragedy, she said, was that she didn’t.” Joker doesn’t have a plan for his “car” and he knows he could die at any moment. Sometimes it seems like he’s asking to die. “Hit me. Just hit me!” Joker mutters as Batman speeds toward him at 80 miles an hour. Knowing he could die at any moment Joker lives every moment like it’s his last minutes alive on earth. Who needs money if you’re going to die in 2 minutes? Why not laugh as Batman beats the living hell out of you?; Why die without a smile? If you’re falling out of a building, why not enjoy it? Some people PAY to be dropped out of a plane, so might as well enjoy a long fall.

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