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One day I was very bored getting some fish and chips at the local Chinese shop. I went across the road to a dairy to get a red bull (I had already drunk three that day). While inside the shop I saw a rack of legal highs (Common in New Zealand but the shop has since removed them). I asked their effects and picked one out called 'hypnotic' It said on the packet that it was a relaxing yet high energy buzz. I pick my fish and chips up and went home.
8:00pm - I take 2 pills and play battle field for about an hour. No effects.
9:00pm - I take 1 more pills. No effects.
10pm - Feeling like I had been scammed out of $20 I take another pill. Then after about an hour I feel very relaxed like everything is so soft and content.
10:30pm - I feel I can do everything better! I start doing the house work. Then I feel I cannot breath I feel like I am going to die. I talk to my friend on MSN he tells me to take a walk. I try breath fresh air. It comes in waves I feel fine then like I am going to meet my death.
11:00pm - I get help from my mum tells me the same thing to relax and wont drive me to the emergency room.
2:00am - She drives me to the emergency room because I cannot walk and am crying out in pain and screaming that I am dying. I legitimately feel like I am going to die. I begin to relax in the car then I start having muscle spasms. At this point I cannot breath (We are about 5mins away from the E.R)
I am placed in a wheel car in the E.R and left in the waiting room. I feel relaxed now and safe. I begin to sober up. I am checked out and sent home at this point everything seems slow and time seems freezed. I stumble to my room and try sleep everything is spinning around slowly. I wake up about 12 times during the night feeling like I am dying. I power vomit 4 times.
For about 3 days after the experience I felt very depressed and 'odd' sort of out of place not myself. I just wanted to be with my girlfriend and loved ones I had a new outlook on life felt that I would never use drugs again ( A week later I used san pedro)
It would have had to been the worst experience of my life and left me with anxiety issues for months later.
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TITANIC (1997)
A film review by Steve Kong Copyright 1997 Steve Kong
This is the first time that I will recommend a film in the first paragraph of a review. Don't miss Titanic on the big screen. Forget all the politics and events surrounding the making of the film and just go see it. Titanic is easily the best film of 1997.
James Cameron has always been a brilliant technical director. His films featured great special effects and were technically perfect in that respect. Along with this Cameron has always populated his movies with characters that bring us into the stories (unlike Roland Emmerich who creates movies with eye popping special effects but surrounds this eye candy with fluff). What Cameron has not done though is make a movie that is full in the range of emotions that bring a technically good film up to a brilliant film. With Titanic, Cameron tries to put this range of emotions into a film and it works out very well. He shows us that he can not only make a technically perfect film, but can also make a film that makes us laugh, cry, and scream.
The Titanic was the ship that couldn't be sunk. It was the largest ship built at the time that it set sail on its maiden -- and as history tells, last -- voyage. The tragedy of it was that the builders of the ship were so confident of the design of the ship that they only outfit the ship with enough lifeboats to save half of the people on the ship. Some time in the early morning of April 15, 1912, Titanic struck an iceberg and sunk in the North Atlantic. There were 2200 people onboard the ship -- 1500 of them died.
Cameron does not hide the fact that the Titanic sinks, how could he? He uses a good way to introduce us to the story and to get us up to speed quickly. The movie opens in the present with some stunning footage of the actual Titanic underwater. As we come back up to the surface we find out that an expedition led by Brock Lovett (Bill Paxton) is trying to find the "Heart of the Ocean". The "Heart of the Ocean" is a 56 caret diamond that was lost with the sinking of the Titanic. When Lovett is unable to recover it he is disappointed. What he does find is a sketch of a beautiful young woman wearing the diamond. In a coincidence, the woman, now 101, sees the sketch during a news broadcast. The 101 year old woman, Rose DeWitt Bukater (Gloria Stuart), comes forth to tell the tale of what happened on the Titanic's final voyage.
>From here on Cameron moves the film back in time and the story is told, mainly, from young Rose's (Kate Winslet) point of view. Along with this is the point of view of a free going gambler and artist Jack Dawson ( Leonardo DiCaprio). And this portion of the film, almost two-thirds of the films running time, we watch and are engrossed by the love story that is spun between Rose and Jack on the ill-fated Titanic.
Cameron keeps the movie focused on only Jack and Rose. Rose is a rich girl marrying Cal Hockley (Billy Zane) because of his money. She finds herself in a precarious situation while trying to run away from the marriage. From this situation she meets Jack, who saves her from death. The chemistry between Jack and Rose are instantaneous and we are pulled into their story immediately.
What is surprising with Titanic is that Cameron is able to move the focus of the movie from the tedious disaster film that Titanic could have been to a character and story driven story that Titanic is. And for almost two hours we forget about the sinking of the ship and we are with Jack and Rose following what happens to them and not worrying about the iceberg that sits somewhere off in the horizon waiting to puncture the ship.
The first two hours or so of the film moves quickly, mainly because of the good pacing and the great writing of Cameron. But, if you think that Cameron lets things slow down in the third act (and third hour) you're wrong. Cameron is actually able to pick up the pacing for the third hour and the third hour flies along well because of this. This third hour is the actual sinking of the ship. And this could have been all eye-candy, but Cameron is again able to put more into this portion of the film. And for this last hour we are constantly biting our finger nails in trying to find out if both Jack and Rose will survive the sinking of Titanic. And this shows how well done the film is. The sinking of the Titanic is visually awesome, but in all of this chaos we are still focused on Jack and Rose.
As for the Titanic itself, Cameron builds an almost scale model of the ship to shoot the film with and then sinks it. The visuals all through the film are awesome and have to be seen to be believed. There are many "how did they do it" special effect shots in this film. Cameron proves once again that he can push special effects to its limits and still maintain characters that are believable and dimensional.
DiCaprio does a good job as Jack, but the shining star of Titanic is Kate Winslet. What sets the two lead performances apart is the range of emotion that the two can achieve. And Winslet clearly has a larger range that DiCaprio. She does a great job as Rose and I hope that she wins the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Titanic.
The supporting actors and actresses also do great jobs with their roles. Worth mentioning is Billy Zane as the callous Cal, Bernard Hill as the Captain of Titanic, and David Warner as Cal's bodyguard of sorts.
The running time seems long (at three plus hours) but the movie is paced well and moves along quite quickly. This is the best film to date from James Cameron and is the best film of 1997. The studio heads save the best for last. Don't Miss Titanic on the big screen.
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Smarter Stickies was a Yahoo! Widget. I say "was" because Yahoo! terminated support for its widgets in 2012. Widgets were small decorative mini-applications that lived constantly on your desktop. You could choose from clocks, stock tickers, weather, news feeds, system monitors and many other widgets. Smarter Stickies provided reminder notes. In the course of its six year lifespan, it was downloaded about 100,000 times.
I started using widgets shortly after Yahoo bought the Konfabulator widget engine
and released it for free.
There were maybe a dozen sticky note widgets available in the Yahoo! Widget Gallery
at the time and I tried many but found them lacking.
To get a widget with the features I wanted, I'd have to write it myself.
Primarily, I wanted to be able to hide and show individual notes
while retaining their screen positions (and other attributes) across restarts.
To be effective reminders, notes should reappear
and attract your attention at the appropriate time.
Therefore the widget's slogan:
I may have spent more time developing the help for the widget than I did on its code. One early decision was to provide help as a single HTML file, offloading the effort of displaying it to the users' browsers of choice. Clicking on this image will open that file in your browser. It is the user's manual for the widget. It was intended to first educate the user and then to serve as a reference. Accordingly, when the widget is first started, it offers to display the help file and explains how to find it later.
An effective and useful help system was necessary because, while I tried to make the user interface intuitive, I was writing the widget primarily for myself and I wanted it as efficient as practical. Accordingly, some operations would be impossible without help. See the Alarm Dialog section of the help file for an example.
I submitted version 1.0 to the Yahoo! Widget Gallery in June 2006. To my dismay, early users quickly discovered a serious flaw: disappearing stickies. Yes, the notes were supposed to be able to be hidden, but not so that you couldn't show (or find, or delete) them again. Worse yet, some of them had expired alarms and were constantly beeping and the engine (version 3) offered no way to remove a widget.
This image is of a copy of Smarter Stickies' page in the Yahoo Widget Gallery taken 12 days after its initial appearance. Sadly, the copy did not capture all the elements of the page, and what's left is not properly rendered by the modern IE or Chrome. The image links to a PDF created from a Firefox rendering.
I used the widget's gallery page to provide support. Reading the comments in the PDF from the bottom up will recount the history of that first bug and its resolution. Version 1.1 patched over the problem and version 1.2 (using the undocumented constructor below) fixed it.
After those first weeks no further flaws were uncovered until the change to version 4 of the engine in 2007 broke some functionality. Versions 1.5 and 1.6 addressed the problems caused by the engine upgrade. The last version I submitted to the gallery in June 2007 was 1.7. I continued to support the widget, checking its gallery page occasionally for questions or problems not answered or solved already by other users.
I used Smarter Stickies until 2012 when I got my first smartphone (which more than replaced the widget's functionality). My public support also ended that year with the closing of the Yahoo! Widget Gallery.
Yahoo Widgets were built with XML and JavaScript.
The widget files delivered to users from the gallery were just relabeled ZIP archives
and their contents can easily be examined or extracted.
In the archive would be:
Here is the Smarter Stickies version 1.7 widget file:
The Yahoo!! Widget Engine is still available on a few web sites and, according to this Wikipedia article, will still run on Windows 10. To get the images shown here, I chose to run my own archived copy on an air-gapped virtual Windows XP instance.


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