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hey, folks. you've stumbled upon YET ANOTHER blog by AJ JOHNSON.
rules: don't break anything, don't steal anything, don't hack anything, and... oh yeah... don't get mad if i say or do something that you don't like.
capice?
good.
No, it wasn't a shrunken head.
It was... my [very] old Kid Pix Deluxe 3 CD that was meant to work on Windows 95, 98 and NT and OS 8 and (I think) 9. In other words, it was the Kid Pix where you got to blow everything up when you wanted to erase it.
Did it work?
No.
I knew it wouldn't work on my MacBook Pro because it's too old. It didn't work on the family Windows computer, either. So, my nostalgia fest was kind of murdered.
It was kind of resurrected when I started to play Software Mackiev's Kid Pix Deluxe 3X, an enhanced version of Kid Pix Deluxe 3 for Mac OS X.
I made this:
Modern Life á la AJ (2010)It was fun to make.
Today was the day I realized how much I really miss Kid Pix.
I really, really, really, really miss it.
Not just the original Kid Pix Deluxe 3.
I seriously miss Kid Pix Studio Deluxe, the Kid Pix that I was introduced to, with the Paint Zone and Moopies and Stampimator and Digital Puppets and the Wacky TV.
I remember using that program when I was a wee bairn in elementary school on the Apple iMacs with the fruity colors on them. That was all we used to make computer art. That, and Art Dabbler, which I don't really remember or care about.
That version of Kid Pix was, and still is my favorite. Sadly, I don't have my CD anymore.
If I did have it, I don't think it would work anyway because Apple Computers can't run Classic anymore, and Kid Pix Studio Deluxe is a Classic program.
>.< If Kid Pix Studio Deluxe could still work on MacBook Pros, I'd make something like this:
:-)
When compared to Kid Pix Studio Deluxe and Kid Pix Deluxe 3, Software MacKiev's Kid Pix Deluxe 3X doesn't really cut it.
I know, they've enhanced it, given most things a new look, integrated iLife into it, and made it easier for younger kids to use (in my opinion), but they did one thing I really didn't like.
They've taken away the dynamite eraser.
That was in the original Kid Pix Deluxe 3.
That was in the original Kid Pix.
That was Kid Pix's defining feature.
When you wanted to erase your picture, you could throw a stick of dynamite at it, and it'd be gone.
They've now replaced it. With a WATER. HOSE.
Because washing away pictures solves. everything.
You can tell I'm bitter about this.
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But still. Kid Pix Deluxe 3X doesn't really match up to previous efforts because I'm too hung up on the past. If I were introduced to Kid Pix later in my life and I ended up starting with this version, maybe I'd like it more because I wouldn't have known any different.
I know.
I'm a nostalgia freak.
Enough about this, though.
I'm going to bed now, because my astigmatic eyes are getting very droopy and I'm beginning to yawn. And my fingers hurt. And I'm probably going to end up with bags under my eyes. And it's the weeee hours in the morning and somebody's going to be in here asking me why I'm not sleeping yet.
And so, because I'm avoiding all of that hullabaloo, I say to all of you, adieu.
A.J. JOHNSON
biography: My name is A.J. JOHNSON, I'm 15.5 years old and I'm the one they warned you about. You can usually find me among a humbly-sized group of friends, singing/acting onstage, in a classroom, on my 13'' MacBook Pro (with the pink cover!!), or drawing something. You can also find me on facebook, youtube, formspring and on the twitter. I live in Wherever You're Not, USA, with my grandma, grandpa, mother and great aunt. Oh yes, and I have a cat. Her name is Shadow. I don't have rhythm. I like to think that I'm really an alien from Mars who hatched out of an egg with multi-colored stars on its shell, I can laugh at my own jokes (so nobody else has to), I try to be 100% perfect 100% of the time, I'm single and I don't really care for mingling (you can get sick that way), I dream in color (true story!), I have a morbid fascination with diseases and viruses, my mood changes with the weather, I don't like pepper on my eggs, and... I tend to bump into things. That's all.
i am: tenacious, independent, a little clumsy, boisterous (when appropriate), anemic (true story), artistic, kitschy, campy, just plain strange, sweet (without being saccharine), multi-faceted, poetic, thoughtful, tomboyish, taciturn (when appropriate), smart, a little mysterious, a little bubbly, a little bit flamboyant, an avid reader, an avid writer, an avid singer, an avid actress, an avid gamer, fluffy, bouncy, chaotic, not easily pleased, easily amused, easily angered, many other things you'd have to dig deeper to find, etc.
i like (in no particular order): science, art, theatre, random words, animals, going green (I try), jazz, electroclash, folk, bossa nova, J-Pop, picopop, classical, early animated films (1919-1940), stop-motion animation, urban legends, viruses, bacteria, fungi, thanatology, eschatology, physiology, claymation, surrealism, Dadaism, pop art, doodling, Maruchan Yakisoba, Nissin Chow Mein, singing, anime, manga, classic Nickelodeon, classic Cartoon Network, classic Disney Channel, Vans, Converse, craft stores, learning new things/ideas/concepts, cupcakes, lip gloss, scented highlighters, scented markers, watercolors, cheesecakes, electronics, decomposition (esp. the black putrefaction stage), non sequitur, slant rhyme, Pokémon, graphic tees, rainbow things, when my hair is a mess, juice boxes, onomatopoeia, linguistics, semantics, Moog synthesizers, theremins, macabre, black comedy, silent films, ice-cold sodas, Girl Scout cookies, sugary cereals, retro video games (1981-1999), pink, purple, teal, mulberry, chartreuse, those iMacs with the fruity colors on the backs of them, HTML, konpeito, Pocky, Hello Panda, [adult swim], IFC, alliteration, chocolate, strawberries, pineapples, peaches, green grapes, hanging out with friends, The Maury Show, the academic part of school, mittens, gloves, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, doughnuts, miniatures, Takara Barbies, Licca-chan, Blythes, Kewpies, circuit bending (even if I don't know how), screaming, Sanrio, Charuca, Tokidoki, Morning Glory, wind-up toys, cheesy talk shows about the morally depraved, pointy things, etc.
i don't like (in no particular order): long walks on the beach, teen magazines, tabloids, things with aspartame/sucralose/cyclamate (weird, because this blog is called artificial sweetener), hearing people tell me that I snore, romance, annoying girls, pop music, R&B music (esp. old school R&B, it's like they should play that stuff in torture cells), rap/hip hop music, floral prints, intravenous drips, mall rats, not being able to fit under the bed anymore so I can tell the dust bunnies secrets, the idea that I'm too old to believe in the bogeyman (I do), not being able to order off of a kids' menu anymore, being sick, when people type LiKe DiSsS!!!111 and think they're cool while doing it, when sodas go flat, when sodas get warm, when sodas explode when you try to open them, The Olsen Twins, crying, not doing something perfectly the first time, being caught off guard, not knowing what I'm doing, those crazy dreams where you're in public and what's worse--you're naked, social events, racism, intolerance, txtspeak, 1337-sp33k, dancing, school dances, when kids make fart noises in class (you know who you are!), the Twilight series and all of its merchandise, baked goods that were in the oven for too long, overpriced items, long lines at the grocery store, people who yell at you with megaphones even though you're right in front of them, when you can't beat your friends at Pokémon, Kraft Cheese, vampire fever, Bieber fever, when people don't read expiration dates on foods, sour milk, Radio Disney, KIIS-FM, etc.
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