Well, James left some pages not friends only. Nothing important on them, just a few polls. I felt like I hadda do something, so I did the polls myself. First one:
25.9.05
24.9.05
Innapropriate Sexuality
Matt left for the weekend. Accordingly, I'm spending the weekend in the buff till he comes back. No one is affected by this. Have a nice day.
I just watched a scene of Enterprise in which two characters had a heated discussion. It was really important about what was going on and all, I suppose, but the thing is that it was between the vulcan chick and the southern engineer guy (names are unimportant for this), while they were being decontaminated from an away mission. Aparently, being decontaminated at this early pre-Kirk stage of space flight involves rubbing oily gel over your body. And of course, no one can rub their own back, so you gotta get the other guy (or girl) to rub you down, while you're both in your undies. It makes for an entirely tittilating scene for no apparent reason. Stupid UPN Star Trek. OH! AND A STROBE LIGHT BATTLE! HOW HIGH TECH!
Sigh. It's been a bad week/weekend so far. I've got a pretty resiliant cold. I need to be drinking fluids and chicken soup. Where can I get some chicken soup on campus? And why isn't my Sin City DVD working anymore? U_U
I just watched a scene of Enterprise in which two characters had a heated discussion. It was really important about what was going on and all, I suppose, but the thing is that it was between the vulcan chick and the southern engineer guy (names are unimportant for this), while they were being decontaminated from an away mission. Aparently, being decontaminated at this early pre-Kirk stage of space flight involves rubbing oily gel over your body. And of course, no one can rub their own back, so you gotta get the other guy (or girl) to rub you down, while you're both in your undies. It makes for an entirely tittilating scene for no apparent reason. Stupid UPN Star Trek. OH! AND A STROBE LIGHT BATTLE! HOW HIGH TECH!
Sigh. It's been a bad week/weekend so far. I've got a pretty resiliant cold. I need to be drinking fluids and chicken soup. Where can I get some chicken soup on campus? And why isn't my Sin City DVD working anymore? U_U
23.9.05
Inconsistantancies
Hurricane Rita is about to hit. For those of you who may be worried about me, don't be. I'm in north Texas. The coast is at least a day's drive from here. From what I hear, people as far as Austin may get winds up to 70mph. My mom, who grew up in Amarillo, calls that "a slight gust", so they should be fine too. So don't worry about me, or anything. I'm hurricane proof, unless one forms in Tulsa. O_O
Lessee... Big day today. I've got a calculus test in about 15 minutes. Wish me luck. Then I gotta get to work on a C++ assignment. Shouldn't be too hard, now that I've actually downloaded the right compiler. *Sigh.* I hate Microsoft's compilers. I learned on a Borland C++ compiler. Lemme use one of those.
If that isn't enough, I have an exam in C++ on Monday, and a major programming assignment due soon, too. This wouldn't be so bad, but he's given us a lot of our notes in the form of downloaded PowerPoint files. Whee. I get to study from my desk at home. Problem is, I don't have PowerPoint at home. I'm using OpenOffice, not Microsoft Office. Damn Microsoft and their incompatibility. They continue to smite me and my open source devotion.
Okay, 10 minutes to the test. I guess I'd better head that way. Later folks.
Lessee... Big day today. I've got a calculus test in about 15 minutes. Wish me luck. Then I gotta get to work on a C++ assignment. Shouldn't be too hard, now that I've actually downloaded the right compiler. *Sigh.* I hate Microsoft's compilers. I learned on a Borland C++ compiler. Lemme use one of those.
If that isn't enough, I have an exam in C++ on Monday, and a major programming assignment due soon, too. This wouldn't be so bad, but he's given us a lot of our notes in the form of downloaded PowerPoint files. Whee. I get to study from my desk at home. Problem is, I don't have PowerPoint at home. I'm using OpenOffice, not Microsoft Office. Damn Microsoft and their incompatibility. They continue to smite me and my open source devotion.
Okay, 10 minutes to the test. I guess I'd better head that way. Later folks.
22.9.05
OMG ITS TEH PLAGUE!
Look! The Britts have news!
But yeah, holy shit. This is hilarious. The traveling plague going across the world. Azeroth is infected. Is Vana'diel next? O_o! Perhaps it will be carried by an insect of some sort.
Without bothering to write another post, I had to point out that the release dates for Kingdom Hearts 2 stateside seem to have been grossly overestimated. Rawr.
But yeah, holy shit. This is hilarious. The traveling plague going across the world. Azeroth is infected. Is Vana'diel next? O_o! Perhaps it will be carried by an insect of some sort.
Without bothering to write another post, I had to point out that the release dates for Kingdom Hearts 2 stateside seem to have been grossly overestimated. Rawr.
Changing Gears
Wow. I think this situation would be simply surreal. Cool though. And also creepy.
Sigh, I can't get James outta my head. Maybe I AM some kinda creepy stalker. What's my problem? Seriously, why can't I just ignore this situation? I don't want to spend all day focusing on him. I have real work to do. And it's not getting me anywhere anyway, he just went back into full ignore mode again. Anway, I have real work to do.
Oh yeah, I think this belt looks cute.
One more thing: Microwaved foil Magic cards spark and smoke. It's cool!
Sigh, I can't get James outta my head. Maybe I AM some kinda creepy stalker. What's my problem? Seriously, why can't I just ignore this situation? I don't want to spend all day focusing on him. I have real work to do. And it's not getting me anywhere anyway, he just went back into full ignore mode again. Anway, I have real work to do.
Oh yeah, I think this belt looks cute.
One more thing: Microwaved foil Magic cards spark and smoke. It's cool!
James: Epilogue
I have too many friends in common with James to ignore him. I tried ignoring him, and not leaving posts on his blog or what have you, giving him time to chill out about it. No good. James is very good at being sedintary. He's almost as stubborn as I am. Almost.
I left a reply to him on Kaylee's Journal, which I wish I hadn't, in retrospect. I almost thought I was making progress. Oh, and just for completion, the deleted comments James left are available here and here only, thanks to Gmail. The first one, in responce to my "What do you expect me to say?" post actually got two replies, first looking like this:
I left a reply to him on Kaylee's Journal, which I wish I hadn't, in retrospect. I almost thought I was making progress. Oh, and just for completion, the deleted comments James left are available here and here only, thanks to Gmail. The first one, in responce to my "What do you expect me to say?" post actually got two replies, first looking like this:
You see? You can never agree with anyone on anything. Everyone else who comments on my journal is supportive, that's really the reason why I keep my journal, and also one of the reasons you were banned. You don't have to say you will change things for me, just agree like a normal person would when someone talks about something thats stressing them. It's called lying, Greg. Sometimes it's good to lie if it makes someone feel better. Sometimes it's better to say "sorry to hear that" or "I know how you feel" instead of "too bad" or "its not my problem".. Then, he deleted that and replaced it with this:
I don't want to see another argumentative post from you on my journal or on any threads I make. You need to learn to be nice.
You see? You can never agree with anyone on anything. Everyone else who comments on my journal is supportive, that's really the reason why I keep my journal, and also one of the reasons you were banned. You don't have to say you will change things for me, just agree like a normal person would when someone talks about something thats stressing them. It's called lying, Greg. Sometimes it's good to lie if it makes someone feel better. Sometimes it's better to say "sorry to hear that" or "I know how you feel" instead of "too bad" or "its not my problem".*Sighs*. The last thing he sent is just depressing. I know it's bullshit, but if I call him on it, it'll just make him angry. Ah well, I'll make him angry. He's angry half the time anyway, through no fault of my own. And I know I'm right here. He always tells me I never admit when I was wrong. That's not true. I'll admit it when you prove me wrong, but James, you've yet to prove me wrong.
A debate happens when both people agree to have one. If I don't want to debate, then you're starting a fight. You want to fight? Let's fuckin fight greg. Let's see where that goes. Why do I seem more prepared for life than you do? I may not be able to handle a lot of stress but at least I know when to shut my fuckin mouth.
I don't want to see another argumentative post from you on my journal or on any threads I make. You need to learn to be nice. That means the answer is "okay" and "I'm sorry". You started a fight by being completely insensative, and now I expect an apology. You don't want to accept you're wrong? Fine. Defend every mistake you make to you death, and know that not once in your life did a positive sentence come out of your mouth.
21.9.05
Rediculous
A while back, I mentioned on here that I was saying the word "rediculous" a lot. I like it. Its nifty. The funny thing is, though, I never specified that I was using a word that was not "ridiculous". Notice the difference? Rediculous is now my word. I claim it, retroactively, if possible. Ridiculous is something that is able to be ridiculed. Something rediculous is just awesome, like Bill Brasky. Why, just look at what this man has accompished with his life:
And thus, Rediculous is not a typo, it is a word that means hilariously awesome, and it is my word. You can continue to use ridiculous to point out things in need of ridicule, though.
"Bill Brasky is a son of a bitch!"You cannot ridicule those accomplishments. They are not ridiculous. But they are REDICULOUS.
"Bill Brasky is the father of every kid in this town!"
"Bill Brasky once showed me a video of him making love to my wife, and it was the most beautiful thing I ever saw!"
"One time I was with Brasky in the back of a pickup truck, along with a live deer. Brasky goes up to the deer and says, 'I'm Bill Brasky! SAY IT!' Then he manipulates the deer's lips in such a way as to make it say, 'Billbrasky'... It wasn't exactly like it, but it was pretty good for a deer!'"
"He'd eat a homeless person if you dared him!"
"His poop is used as currency in Argentina."
"He sweats Gatorade"
"He once breast fed a flamingo back to health."
"He hated Mexicans! And he was half Mexican! .......And he hated irony!"
"I once saw him scissor kick Angela Landsbury."
"He sheds his skin once a year."
"He did 3 tours in 'Nam...... I was in Corpus Christi on business a month ago. I had this eight foot tall Asian waiter, which made me curious. I asked him his name. Sure enough it's Ho Tran Brasky!"
"I once saw him eat a whole live chicken."
"His favorite movie is 'One on One' with Robby Benson."
"He sleeps eight hours a night! ........ well, he was pretty normal when it came to that."
"Bill Brasky was a two ton man-mountain who could palm a medicine ball!"
"Did I ever tell you about the time Brasky took me out to go get a drink with him? We go off looking for a bar and we can't find one. Finally Brasky takes me to a vacant lot and says, 'Here we are.' We sat there for a year and a half and, sure enough, someone constructs a bar around us. The day they opened we ordered a shot, drank it, and then burned the place to the ground. Brasky yelled over the roar of the flames, 'Always leave things the way you found 'em!'"
"Bill Brasky had a four day heart attack...a day for each chamber. At the autopsy, they said his heart looked like a basketball filled with ricotta cheese."
"He once punched a hole in a cow just to see who was coming up the road."
"He taught me how to make love to a woman, and how to scold a child."
"They found $60 in change in his stomach."
"He did all the makeup on The Planet of the Apes movie."
"He grew a 3rd arm and kept it in a vault."
"Brasky drank a full glass of liquid LSD with his eggs. Then he slept for 8 months straight. When he woke he rubbed his eyes and said, 'All in all, I prefer gin.'"
"They say Gene Roddenbery got the idea for Star Trek from listening to Brasky talk in his sleep."
"He date raped David Bowie."
"He once inhaled a seagull."
"The Pope told him it was ok to have a mistress."
"It was the sight of Brasky's naked body that drove Brian Wilson insane."
"He once had sex with a cigarette machine."
"He killed Wolfman Jack with a trident."
"He uses the Shroud of Turin as a golf towel."
"He once ate the Bible while water skiing."
"He drives an ice cream truck covered in human skulls."
"He sired a baseball team.. an orchestra if you count the bastards!"
"You know, he would shoot whiskey into his neck with a syringe!"
"He has dandruff the size of mice!"
"He jogged with a fridge on his back!"
"Bill Brasky was a 10 foot monster who slept with all our wives! And punched us all in the face! And we loved him for it!"
"His first name is Bill! ....... I'm drunk."
"He's a ten foot tall beastman who showers in vodka and feeds his baby shrimp scampi."
"He orchestrated the merger between Unicef and Smith & Wesson."
"He went public with his own buttocks and made $7 million."
"Did I ever tell you about the time Brasky went hunting? Brasky decides he's going to hunt down all four of the Banana Splits. He stalks and kills every one of them with a machete. They all begged for their lives...except Fleagle."
"We once had a bachelor party for Brasky. He ate the entire cake before we could tell him there was a stripper in it."
"Brasky once hosted the Grammys and gave every award to Corey Hart."
"He has a toenail on the end of his penis."
"Brasky once got his wife pregnant and gave birth to a delicious 16 ounce steak. The after birth was sauteed mushrooms."
"Brasky's family crest is a picture of a baracuda eating Neil Armstrong."
"Brasky ranked 18th in the AP College Football Poll."
"Did I ever tell you about the time Brasky was in a production of The King and I? On opening night, Brasky chloroforms the entire cast and slowly eats them in front of the audience for two hours. The production got pretty good reviews."
"He breastfeeds John Madden."
"Brasky named the group Sha Na Na. They did NOT want to be called that."
"If you drop a phonograph needle on Brasky's nipple, it plays the Beach Boys' 'Pet Sounds.'"
"They use Brasky's foreskin as a tarp when it rains at Yankee Stadium."
"Brasky directed that commercial where the women play basketball in high heels."
"All the Yes album covers are Brasky family photos."
"He wears a live rattlesnake as a condom."
"Did I ever tell you about the time he taught his son how to drive? He did it by entering him in the Indy 500. The kid wrecked and died. Brasky said it would've happened sometime."
"Brasky's semen can form into a liquid human - like the guy from Terminator 2"
"Brasky still believes in Santa Claus, and he wants to put him in porno films."
"He thinks that Iron Man is gay."
"He framed Roger Rabbit."
"The character of Johnny Appleseed was based on Brasky - except for the apple tree planting and not raping men."
"He gave a handjob to a manta ray."
"He uses Old Spice aftershave as nasal spray."
"He fashions graven images from frozen seawater."
"He brushes his teeth with a meat cleaver and rock salt."
"This one time, Brasky burned a CD with nothing but the sounds of his bowel movements and the screams of his manservants. It went triple platinum within the month."
"He owns the PAX network."
"He thought The Princess Diaries was both charming and sweet depiction of one girl's emergence from youth into womanhood."
"He made Styx BITE IT!"
"They say he bleeds peppermint vodka."
"Did I ever tell ya about the time that Brasky and I took a hot air balloon trip over Los Angeles? Brasky brings an atomic bomb and drops it on the city! Then, he looks at me and says, "It would have happened sooner or later."
"The movie Deliverance was based on Brasky's experiences as a kindergarden teacher."
"His memoirs are tattooed on Ruth Buzzi."
"He's producing Battlefield Earth 2"
"He recieves radio messages from Mars on his scrotum."
"His big toe is holding up Australia."
"He took The Blair Witch to his senior prom."
"He makes N'Sync keep Chris."
"He invented the Cleveland Steamer."
"Most people don't know this, but Bill Brasky has children! This one time, he was banging a hooker and wouldn't ya know it, his semen shoots straight through her tailbone, up through the ceiling and into the sky where it hit a plane! Nine months later, every woman on that plane had Brasky's children! When they tried to get child support... he paid it every month."
"His pubic hair was woven into the Sri Lankan flag."
"His favorite actor is Greg Kinnear."
"His middle name is Julian."
"He uses live elk for toilet paper."
"His cover version of Limp Bizkit's My Way appeared on the soundtrack for Titanic. The pope himself thought the song crackled with energy but he didn't like the sound of burning preschoolers in the background."
"Did I ever tell you boys about the time that Bill Brasky wanted a World Series ring? Wouldn't ya know it, but Brasky kills the entire starting lineup of the 1998 New York Yankees! All except Clay Bellinger. They beat the Atlanta Braves in four games. Brasky was the MVP."
"He pisses farm fresh orange juice."
"He makes his grandchildren call him "The Anal Astrologist"."
"His favorite contestant on Survivor is Teresa."
And thus, Rediculous is not a typo, it is a word that means hilariously awesome, and it is my word. You can continue to use ridiculous to point out things in need of ridicule, though.
My Genius Knows No Bounds.
I've been talking to my mom lately:
Speaking of, I showed you all my essay, version 1.2, cuz I thought it was good, but even I never guessed it was THIS good:
On the same vein, here's a snippet from my writing review, where I respond to such critiques.
Also, just to not let the edit I made because I messed HTML up go to waste: Matt didn't know what a tarp was, then balked when I couldn't describe one off the top of my head. How do you describe a tarp? Its just... A tarp!
See?
Greg: ive gone to all my XL classesYay, my mommy thinks I'm a genius.
Greg: it turns out I use my left and right brains about equally
Mom : I knew that already
Mom : its a sign of genius
Greg: oh cool
Mom : you just have to be willing to put in the work
Mom : so other people know your a genius too
Speaking of, I showed you all my essay, version 1.2, cuz I thought it was good, but even I never guessed it was THIS good:
Comment:And I got a 95% on that. ^_^
Not only do you write a brilliant essay here with one of the most engaging personal written-voices I've read, but you do so largely within the limitations the criteria for the essay sets, which is a very difficult thing to do sometimes.
As far as criteria is concerned, the narration of your personal experience ties in well to the question you ask in the essay. In fact, it is the the kid-at-the-fountain's statement, the validity of his voice itself as either a cultural statement about a lack of barriers or the wishful thinking of a bully, which becomes your question of whether and to what extent social barriers exist and acts as the ghost of the narration echoing on throughout your reflections. Again, criteria aside, this is brilliant.
Reflecting on criteria again, the significant question you ask is "Can I be a superhero?" By the time you ask this question, you have already explained how the question is significant to children and parents living in our social system, and the reader already has a clear sense, intuitively, that the question you are asking is one of barriers. However, instead of asking this question directly in the stale way which is almost required, you again refer to the echo of the child's voice and write the same thing except with the substituting metaphor of 'superhero' for 'astronaut' or 'dictator.'
Your thesis statement for this draft seems to be "Through no fault of the anyone, barriers are in place to keep children from reaching any goal they dream of." With respect to criteria, this is effective for 1.2, but for 1.3 you will need to make sure that the statement summarizes your entire essay (ie, both viewpoints. For instance you might begin it with "Although there are great liberties and toned down barriers in our country, but..." in order to reconcile both viewpoints).
Also, and alas we are back at criteria, be sure to include more sources. Here you do include several relevant sources of a nonconventional nature such as a television commercial (in the citation you should give the commercial name and date), a Halloween costume (give the store and serial code I guess??) and a Batman reference (DC^tm), but for 1.3 you will need to research opinions in books and articles as well.
Therefore, although there are two minor lapses in criteria, it is my belief that your writing style and what you have written largely makes up for them, and so, although although grades do not always reflect excellent writing, I am going to give you a high one and hope that the second reader agrees. If not, then you only have my thanks for this essay and an essay you can be proud of regardless.
On the same vein, here's a snippet from my writing review, where I respond to such critiques.
This is the first time I've gotten a paper back with a list of grammar errors, which is helpful. The other ones told me “1-3 grammar errors.” To which I thought... “Where?” Having them all listed out gives me an idea on what to work on. Interestingly, it seems the only way to learn how to fix my punctuation errors is to make more of them. Do I get extra credit for pointing out irony within the English program?And then a snippet from the critique for that essay:
Your writing review has only 1 - 3 errors, typos, or instances of careless editing in the text.O_o?
Also, just to not let the edit I made because I messed HTML up go to waste: Matt didn't know what a tarp was, then balked when I couldn't describe one off the top of my head. How do you describe a tarp? Its just... A tarp!
See?
20.9.05
My Chemistry Class Is Retarded
I know that when you get a lot of people in the same room, half are automatically below average intelligence, but you'd expect that average to still be pretty high in a university class. Of course, it is "Intro to Chemistry." My chem teacher just sent this out to the class:
Hello class,Now, I'm pretty sure I got this all right, but I think I'll stop in during office hours or something this week and doublecheck my stuff. o_o
You might find this amusing or it might make you slightly ill. Since I spent the last hour playing with the clicker registration file, I felt obliged to share my experience with you.
I think I emphasized in lecture, on the syllabus and by mass e-mailings that clicker registration was to include your PERSONAL TEST NUMBER that you get by LOGGING IN TO TECHSIS. If you still do not know your PERSONAL TEST NUMBER, please get it and learn it.
In the spot for personal test numbers, we had the following types of entries.
Social security numbers: 23 students
Names or nicknames: 13 students
15 digit ID card numbers: 19 students
Other/blank 5 students
There were also 4 people who entered their last name for their first name and visa/versa.
I think we have a lot of room for improvement. Let’s keep working hard at following directions so by the end of the term you will be third degree black belt direction followers. I’d appreciate it.
Thanks,
Dr. Blake
Alphabetics
Okay, I just got back from English class, and for once I'm enjoying it. I'm getting my papers in on time, I have an A in the class (89.6 at last check), and the class itself is somewhat enjoyable. I get to contribute a lot, which I like. I can't contribute in the sciences, but thats okay because I understand those, and get them easily. The only class I don't like is history and social studies, because they leave very little room for discussion. Things happened that way. There's no alternatives to consider, really. Just learn the dates and names. X_X I hate dates and names.
But back to English. Today was fun. The teacher asked the class for ideas on how to organize our paper's paragraphs. Thematically and by source were suggested, and he continued to ask for more. When no one else had any suggestions, I thought, well, this isn't a good way, but I'll suggest it anyway. "Chronologically." We went through a long discussion about the good and bad points of chronologically organizing your paper could be. And he asked for still more. No responce from the class, so I decided to go with an even worse method. "Alphabetically." That got a good laugh from the class, but the teacher discounted it. "Argumentatively" was what he wanted. I was close, I got the first and last letters right.
Anyway, I'm going to organize my paper Alphabetically. Just to spite the teacher. He's probably not going to grade it, but I'll print it out, just to show him. HAHAHA.
No, I'm not going out of my way to base each paragraph on a letter of the alphabet, but I'll try and make every paragraph begin with the next letter of the alphabet. You'll see what I mean. *Nods.* You'll all see!!!
But back to English. Today was fun. The teacher asked the class for ideas on how to organize our paper's paragraphs. Thematically and by source were suggested, and he continued to ask for more. When no one else had any suggestions, I thought, well, this isn't a good way, but I'll suggest it anyway. "Chronologically." We went through a long discussion about the good and bad points of chronologically organizing your paper could be. And he asked for still more. No responce from the class, so I decided to go with an even worse method. "Alphabetically." That got a good laugh from the class, but the teacher discounted it. "Argumentatively" was what he wanted. I was close, I got the first and last letters right.
Anyway, I'm going to organize my paper Alphabetically. Just to spite the teacher. He's probably not going to grade it, but I'll print it out, just to show him. HAHAHA.
No, I'm not going out of my way to base each paragraph on a letter of the alphabet, but I'll try and make every paragraph begin with the next letter of the alphabet. You'll see what I mean. *Nods.* You'll all see!!!
19.9.05
I'm A Terrible Person
I've seen this too many times to not link it.
Anyway, I went to Subway for my semi-regular sandwich. First off, today was not Tuesday (yet), so I couldn't get the two-for-Tueday special, but I was hungry and in a hurry to get back and talk to Jackie before Matt got in. As luck would have it, Matt just got in. But yeah, I got my cold cut combo, not double-meat though (I'm trying to cut back and budget somewhat). While I was there, I noticed that the girl who was running the register was NOT the one who made my sandwich. Out of pure evilness, I decided to see if I could fool her into thinking my sandwich was the cheapest one on the menu.
"I don't suppose you'd believe that this is a 6" veggie delight, would you?"
She gave me an incredulous look, and I told her, no, its really a foot-long cold cut combo. I think she only heard the foot long part though, and rang up a 12" veggie sandwich. Thats when the evil sandwich-maker caught me. I feel bad.
Also, I added a few items to my todo list.
That's right, I will conquer Earth. Btw, that last one is a joke, but I really do need to set up an appointment with a pediatrician. I'll leave why up to your imagination, though. ^_^
I'm a terrible person.
Anyway, I went to Subway for my semi-regular sandwich. First off, today was not Tuesday (yet), so I couldn't get the two-for-Tueday special, but I was hungry and in a hurry to get back and talk to Jackie before Matt got in. As luck would have it, Matt just got in. But yeah, I got my cold cut combo, not double-meat though (I'm trying to cut back and budget somewhat). While I was there, I noticed that the girl who was running the register was NOT the one who made my sandwich. Out of pure evilness, I decided to see if I could fool her into thinking my sandwich was the cheapest one on the menu.
"I don't suppose you'd believe that this is a 6" veggie delight, would you?"
She gave me an incredulous look, and I told her, no, its really a foot-long cold cut combo. I think she only heard the foot long part though, and rang up a 12" veggie sandwich. Thats when the evil sandwich-maker caught me. I feel bad.
Also, I added a few items to my todo list.
That's right, I will conquer Earth. Btw, that last one is a joke, but I really do need to set up an appointment with a pediatrician. I'll leave why up to your imagination, though. ^_^
I'm a terrible person.
Learning Is Fun
I found an article about the Three Laws of Robotics on Wikipedia. If you've never seen this, you really should. Not just the laws, though they are interesting, and contain the following quote:
Seriously, I just found 111 rules for Wedding Crashing (from the movie). This is one of the best online resources ever. Between this, dictionary.com, and good old Google and it's little add-ons, there is no fact I cannot find. I'm only waiting till bandwidth and storage allow me access to any television clip I need. Then I can be like Wade from Kim Possible. I would rock at that job.
Speaking of jobs: I've been told by the same person that I would be good as both a clown and a priest. First off, I'm not a clown, I'm a fool. Secondly, I'm not religious. You'd need to give me a LOT of alter boys to convince me to take up the cloth. [/Joking] But yeah, I dunno, I like being a fool. I enjoy making other people happy. I'm good at it. I'm not good at being religious though. I know just enough about God to be dangerous, then damned to Hell for all eternity. I like the fool carreer path better, thank you very much.
A couple of other entries I was looking at today:
List of Portmanteaus
RoboCop
I saw that movie the other night (RoboCop, not Portmanteaus - though when that comes out, I wanna be first in line). It's so awesomely cheesy and everything. If it was a novel, it would be required reading for all K-12 students, simply out of awesomeness. Or if movies were assigned instead of books. Something like that. It's great if only for the cheesyness.
Speaking of great things we should force all schoolchildren to read - The Hitchhikkers Guide To The Galaxy. I found out one of my friends loved the movie but had made no moves to read any of the books. This is inexcusable. Every American, nay, every English speaker on the planet, and any of those other languages it's been translated into, needs to read these books. At least the first one, I guess. But yeah. Read it. H2G2. Now.
And remember: "Rule #21 - Definitely make sure she's 18."
"Three Laws of Rowboatics":No, I wanna get you guys hooked on Wikipedia. It is quite possibly the most useful thing on the Internet. Seriously, people always ask me to look things up for them. I can always give them a semi-quick answer thanks to Wikipedia. It's all part of my mind-enriching new diet.
1. A Rowboat may not immerse a human being or, through lack of flotation, allow a human to come to harm.
2. A Rowboat must obey all commands and steering input given by its human Rower, except where such input would conflict with the First Law.
3. A Rowboat must preserve its own flotation as long as such preservation does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Seriously, I just found 111 rules for Wedding Crashing (from the movie). This is one of the best online resources ever. Between this, dictionary.com, and good old Google and it's little add-ons, there is no fact I cannot find. I'm only waiting till bandwidth and storage allow me access to any television clip I need. Then I can be like Wade from Kim Possible. I would rock at that job.
Speaking of jobs: I've been told by the same person that I would be good as both a clown and a priest. First off, I'm not a clown, I'm a fool. Secondly, I'm not religious. You'd need to give me a LOT of alter boys to convince me to take up the cloth. [/Joking] But yeah, I dunno, I like being a fool. I enjoy making other people happy. I'm good at it. I'm not good at being religious though. I know just enough about God to be dangerous, then damned to Hell for all eternity. I like the fool carreer path better, thank you very much.
A couple of other entries I was looking at today:
List of Portmanteaus
RoboCop
I saw that movie the other night (RoboCop, not Portmanteaus - though when that comes out, I wanna be first in line). It's so awesomely cheesy and everything. If it was a novel, it would be required reading for all K-12 students, simply out of awesomeness. Or if movies were assigned instead of books. Something like that. It's great if only for the cheesyness.
Speaking of great things we should force all schoolchildren to read - The Hitchhikkers Guide To The Galaxy. I found out one of my friends loved the movie but had made no moves to read any of the books. This is inexcusable. Every American, nay, every English speaker on the planet, and any of those other languages it's been translated into, needs to read these books. At least the first one, I guess. But yeah. Read it. H2G2. Now.
And remember: "Rule #21 - Definitely make sure she's 18."
Old Glory Robot Insurance
Because they're made of metal, and robots are strong. You needa watch this. Or else.
In other news, I've begun writing out the survivors story I've been sitting on for a while. Nothing worth publishing yet, but I'll let you know.
Nothing else to report. Oh well. I suppose sooner or later I'll make some more Magic cards for ya. ^_^
In other news, I've begun writing out the survivors story I've been sitting on for a while. Nothing worth publishing yet, but I'll let you know.
Nothing else to report. Oh well. I suppose sooner or later I'll make some more Magic cards for ya. ^_^
18.9.05
Keeping Busy
It's been a long boring weekend. X_X. Good news is I found a nifty way to occupy me. I found a Magic card editor. Believe it or not, I enjoy designing random Magic cards. Of course, I'm not creative enough to design a whole set for myself. What I've ended up doing, instead, is taking the pictures I have, and designing cards around them. It creates an interesting challenge, because most of my pictures center around people, and less on actions. Therefore, I end up with a lot more creatures and artifacts than others. Anyway, I thought I'd find a good selection of my cards to show you what I was up to. Enjoy:
Yup. It turns all your creatures into Nazi's. And if it leaves play, well, you get slapped with a war crimes trial. It's a pretty basic example of a card drawn from its illustration.
This is your example of the white race, as it were. Most of my pictures are of women, but I had enough cute boys running around to be worth their own army. I mean, who wouldn't be scared of an army of adorable halfnaked boys? (I think I've said too much.)
Blue got a new ablity recently - the ability to take creatures power away. It's basically all blue has in terms of combat tricks. I took that a little further and gave blue this. It's the ability to turn any creature into a wall. And I decided, what better way to make a creature into a stationary, non-aggressive being? Give it huge tits. Voila.
Blue always has really good utility creautres, but they suck at actual combat, so I decided to fix that. The blue race in my set, or whatever it is, takes captives. I'm only hoping that the discarding cost mechanic is made up for by blues superior card drawing.
Mass removal for black. Reusable. Black gets a race of Witches, pretty much. A lot of utility creatures, but that actually do things.
That's why I gave them a few vampires, too. Nothing too amazing, but they needed something on the beefy end.
Look! A LEGEND! When I come across a picture of someone who is really unique (and recognizable as such) I make them into a Legend. Sooner or later I'll make her hammer, too.
I'm making a cycle of these guys. I couldn't decide whether to make them equipment or enchantments, so I decided to do neither. Or both. Or something. But yeah, so far I have this one and a blue one, but I'll bet I can find one for the other colors too.
IT'S A KITTY! He needed a card. *Nods.* Green also has a race of "elves" though I don't really have any pictures of elves. Just take my word for it, yeah?
I hadda do something with this carrot. It's nifty. Though why a cat would like a carrot, or a beast or an elemental, I'm not sure. But yeah, the gist is that since all "civilized" races (and goblins - no, there are no goblins in my set) have two types, species and class, the ones with just one type are dumb animals.
The thing tells me that gold cards come before artifacts, so here's one. I basically decided to make a cycle of each of the 5 enemy pairing, which are supposed to be basically traitors. They all have some ability or another that makes them switch controllers.
BOOBIES! Yeah, gues what, a lot of my pictures are "NSFW." This one is one of the safer ones, actually. But yeah, another case where the picture and the mechanics converged.
It's Chi. Or Chii. I dunno. I call her Chi. I suppse both mean the same thing. But yeah, this version difers from an older version I did of her, where she could only be played from the graveyard, and was able to kill other persocoms, trying to replicate her weird security measures, like how she took out all the other PCs that tried to scan her (which didn't help, cuz I never really made any others). This one focuses on her wanting to be the one and only for you. "Dakishimetainoni" means "I want to hold only you." She's jealous.
This one, the last one, leads me into another find point. I'll do Magic card commissions. If you know about the game, or don't even but think these things were neat, send me a picture, and any idea on what you wanted (color, ability, p/t) and I'll churn out a card. This one I was just given the picture by Mike, but I think it turned out rather well. I like the idea of a 'tarp trap.'
So yeah, I'm accepting commissions. Once I've finished with the entirity of my collection, I'll move on to development, I guess, and start balancing out the set. I'm also hoping to change the names. I have a lot of cards that say "Averan Something" or "Rendarian Whatever." I think that gets kinda boring after a while. Anyway, that's for my future. Laters folks.
Yup. It turns all your creatures into Nazi's. And if it leaves play, well, you get slapped with a war crimes trial. It's a pretty basic example of a card drawn from its illustration.
This is your example of the white race, as it were. Most of my pictures are of women, but I had enough cute boys running around to be worth their own army. I mean, who wouldn't be scared of an army of adorable halfnaked boys? (I think I've said too much.)
Blue got a new ablity recently - the ability to take creatures power away. It's basically all blue has in terms of combat tricks. I took that a little further and gave blue this. It's the ability to turn any creature into a wall. And I decided, what better way to make a creature into a stationary, non-aggressive being? Give it huge tits. Voila.
Blue always has really good utility creautres, but they suck at actual combat, so I decided to fix that. The blue race in my set, or whatever it is, takes captives. I'm only hoping that the discarding cost mechanic is made up for by blues superior card drawing.
Mass removal for black. Reusable. Black gets a race of Witches, pretty much. A lot of utility creatures, but that actually do things.
That's why I gave them a few vampires, too. Nothing too amazing, but they needed something on the beefy end.
Look! A LEGEND! When I come across a picture of someone who is really unique (and recognizable as such) I make them into a Legend. Sooner or later I'll make her hammer, too.
I'm making a cycle of these guys. I couldn't decide whether to make them equipment or enchantments, so I decided to do neither. Or both. Or something. But yeah, so far I have this one and a blue one, but I'll bet I can find one for the other colors too.
IT'S A KITTY! He needed a card. *Nods.* Green also has a race of "elves" though I don't really have any pictures of elves. Just take my word for it, yeah?
I hadda do something with this carrot. It's nifty. Though why a cat would like a carrot, or a beast or an elemental, I'm not sure. But yeah, the gist is that since all "civilized" races (and goblins - no, there are no goblins in my set) have two types, species and class, the ones with just one type are dumb animals.
The thing tells me that gold cards come before artifacts, so here's one. I basically decided to make a cycle of each of the 5 enemy pairing, which are supposed to be basically traitors. They all have some ability or another that makes them switch controllers.
BOOBIES! Yeah, gues what, a lot of my pictures are "NSFW." This one is one of the safer ones, actually. But yeah, another case where the picture and the mechanics converged.
It's Chi. Or Chii. I dunno. I call her Chi. I suppse both mean the same thing. But yeah, this version difers from an older version I did of her, where she could only be played from the graveyard, and was able to kill other persocoms, trying to replicate her weird security measures, like how she took out all the other PCs that tried to scan her (which didn't help, cuz I never really made any others). This one focuses on her wanting to be the one and only for you. "Dakishimetainoni" means "I want to hold only you." She's jealous.
This one, the last one, leads me into another find point. I'll do Magic card commissions. If you know about the game, or don't even but think these things were neat, send me a picture, and any idea on what you wanted (color, ability, p/t) and I'll churn out a card. This one I was just given the picture by Mike, but I think it turned out rather well. I like the idea of a 'tarp trap.'
So yeah, I'm accepting commissions. Once I've finished with the entirity of my collection, I'll move on to development, I guess, and start balancing out the set. I'm also hoping to change the names. I have a lot of cards that say "Averan Something" or "Rendarian Whatever." I think that gets kinda boring after a while. Anyway, that's for my future. Laters folks.
17.9.05
16.9.05
2/365 tomorrows
Just the thing to take your mind off of feeling crummy - deep scifi writing.
Deo’s Hole
This World's Not Built For Lovers
Of course, I encourage you to look through the whole archives yourself, but those two jumped out at me. And I'm gonna nap now.
Deo’s Hole
This World's Not Built For Lovers
Of course, I encourage you to look through the whole archives yourself, but those two jumped out at me. And I'm gonna nap now.
Sleepyness
I don't know why I'm writing this. My brain is screaming at me to go to sleep. Or at least get in bed and close my eyes and see what comes of it. I'm probably going to shortly, but I just had to get this feeling off my chest. I'm so utterly tired, you can't even know it. And I have been for a while now. I've been going to all my classes, and I feel really awesome for it, because I have litterally sat through classes where I felt so bad I couldn't look at the chalkboard without my head feeling ready to pop. X_X It seems to come and go. I'll feel really good one moment, and then just UGH the next. I need to get more sleep, I guess, and that's all there is too it. Here goes!
IT'S A MAGIC WAND!!!!
Bibbity bobbity boo. Or Boo.
Or something. Anyway, Nintendo's new controller is going to be able to tell where it is and how you're holding it and such. Largo, among other people, may have trouble with this system.
Seriously, I think I linked to an article I read a while back about this kinda thing, but I'm not sure, and I'm not linking it now in either case. The gist of the article was that Nintendo's attempts at "revolutionizing" the games industry only serve to make 3rd party developers frustrated by having to adapt to a radically different control scheme. For instance, there's an upcoming Transformers movie, which I'm sure I've mentioned. It's going to be marketed in the same way that other superhero movies have been. Batman, Spiderman, Superman, etc, they all had merchandizing up the wazoo.
Of course, I'm still leaning heavily towards getting a DS, but the Revolution has just de-sold itself to me. Unless I can get it for $150, in which case I will simply use it to play the old Gamecube Pokemon games. I gotta catch them all!!!
Or something. Anyway, Nintendo's new controller is going to be able to tell where it is and how you're holding it and such. Largo, among other people, may have trouble with this system.
Seriously, I think I linked to an article I read a while back about this kinda thing, but I'm not sure, and I'm not linking it now in either case. The gist of the article was that Nintendo's attempts at "revolutionizing" the games industry only serve to make 3rd party developers frustrated by having to adapt to a radically different control scheme. For instance, there's an upcoming Transformers movie, which I'm sure I've mentioned. It's going to be marketed in the same way that other superhero movies have been. Batman, Spiderman, Superman, etc, they all had merchandizing up the wazoo.
Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made. Spaceballs-the T-shirt, Spaceballs-the Coloring Book, Spaceballs-the Lunch box, Spaceballs-the Breakfast Cereal, Spaceballs-the Flame Thrower.Anyway, my point is that the Transformers video game for PS3 will be basically the same as the X-Box360 and the PSP. Even the DS will probably have something that simply overlays a map on the extra screen and sticks to simply the main control buttons. But the Revolution? How do you use a little midair joystick to control a Giant Fighting Robot? If you were a developer and had designed a game that works great with the other standard control interfaces, would you really want to have to start entirely from scratch on the Revolution port? I wouldn't.
Of course, I'm still leaning heavily towards getting a DS, but the Revolution has just de-sold itself to me. Unless I can get it for $150, in which case I will simply use it to play the old Gamecube Pokemon games. I gotta catch them all!!!
Written and Spoken Words
THIS IS AWESOME!!!!! I clicked their advertising link off of Megatokyo and was pleasantly surprised. I've subscribed to their feed, even though so far I've only read two: "Nexus" and "The Nine Billion Faces of God". They're both good, and I expect the same high quality from the rest of them.
Wow. My computer just droze up. Now its running slowly. As I typed this sentence, it finished the word "running". Sigh. Okay, there it goes.
Anyway, I've been running my computer probably too hard today. I'm getting WMP to scan my external again from scratch in the hope that it will clean up the file information on some more of my music and video files. It prolly won't, but eh, why not? I decided to go through and delete all the files iTunes realized were duplicates. Or rather, half. Or more, some were quadruplicates. Anyway, now as far as iTunes is concerned, I only have one of each file. Yay.
Let's see, it's the weekend. I want to go buy stuff, but I moreso want to wait till October when I buy my Ravnica stuff, and then go from there. Some manga is sitting out there, but I'll get it all eventually, and honestly, I still have a lot to read. I've got "The Hero With A Thousand Faces" sitting around, and a few other manga and comic titles I need to get through.
I really want to prioritize though. I'll get all this stuff done after get my homework finished. Speaking of priorities, though, I think I should leave WMP running, and I'll dig into "the Hero" while it does. Talk to you later.
Wow. My computer just droze up. Now its running slowly. As I typed this sentence, it finished the word "running". Sigh. Okay, there it goes.
Anyway, I've been running my computer probably too hard today. I'm getting WMP to scan my external again from scratch in the hope that it will clean up the file information on some more of my music and video files. It prolly won't, but eh, why not? I decided to go through and delete all the files iTunes realized were duplicates. Or rather, half. Or more, some were quadruplicates. Anyway, now as far as iTunes is concerned, I only have one of each file. Yay.
Let's see, it's the weekend. I want to go buy stuff, but I moreso want to wait till October when I buy my Ravnica stuff, and then go from there. Some manga is sitting out there, but I'll get it all eventually, and honestly, I still have a lot to read. I've got "The Hero With A Thousand Faces" sitting around, and a few other manga and comic titles I need to get through.
I really want to prioritize though. I'll get all this stuff done after get my homework finished. Speaking of priorities, though, I think I should leave WMP running, and I'll dig into "the Hero" while it does. Talk to you later.
15.9.05
I Am A Sellout
Yeah, scroll down. No, further, I'll wait. Didja see it? No? Look, just keep scrolling till you see something new, then come back here. I'll wait.
...
Done? Yeah, I got Google Ads. I expect to get about $3 a year off of this thing, max, but it's free, and I'm not LOSING anything from it, right? Besides, it's down so far that I doubt anyone will notice them. I will try and keep my blogging habits up to where they have been, though, so for those of you who only read once a week, I guess you will scroll down past the adds and such.
Adult Swim is on now. They're all re-runs as usual, but some of the ads, ironically enough, are worth watching.
I like the Axe Bodywash spot. Any chance to see chicks poledancing is worth 30 seconds of my time.
They're gonna start airing new episodes of Fullmetal Alchemist. I like that show, so I'll probably be watching the new ones. Scratch that, definitely.
The Magic Ravnica spots are nifty. Aside from showing us new card arts (MTGSalvation.com already has the whole spoiler there), it's just cool to see Magic ads on TV.
I think I'm done. *Passes out.*
*Gets up.* No wait. Tomorrow's Friday. That means weekend. I really wanna check out Hastings, though I'm not... sure... why.... X_X I may also check out the local manga store. I know I wanna get a box of Ravnica (probably off eBay) as well as a theme deck and a Fatpack. I needs those dice. Of course, that's not till next month. Sigh... So many things to buy, so little time. It would rock if I got enough money from my ad's to pay for all the stuff I want. Seriously, not having to work, and instead I just blog. Total awesome. Of course, that's a pipe dream. No one reads this crap. X_X
Aww, I made me sad. I'm going to bed.
...
Done? Yeah, I got Google Ads. I expect to get about $3 a year off of this thing, max, but it's free, and I'm not LOSING anything from it, right? Besides, it's down so far that I doubt anyone will notice them. I will try and keep my blogging habits up to where they have been, though, so for those of you who only read once a week, I guess you will scroll down past the adds and such.
Adult Swim is on now. They're all re-runs as usual, but some of the ads, ironically enough, are worth watching.
I like the Axe Bodywash spot. Any chance to see chicks poledancing is worth 30 seconds of my time.
They're gonna start airing new episodes of Fullmetal Alchemist. I like that show, so I'll probably be watching the new ones. Scratch that, definitely.
The Magic Ravnica spots are nifty. Aside from showing us new card arts (MTGSalvation.com already has the whole spoiler there), it's just cool to see Magic ads on TV.
I think I'm done. *Passes out.*
*Gets up.* No wait. Tomorrow's Friday. That means weekend. I really wanna check out Hastings, though I'm not... sure... why.... X_X I may also check out the local manga store. I know I wanna get a box of Ravnica (probably off eBay) as well as a theme deck and a Fatpack. I needs those dice. Of course, that's not till next month. Sigh... So many things to buy, so little time. It would rock if I got enough money from my ad's to pay for all the stuff I want. Seriously, not having to work, and instead I just blog. Total awesome. Of course, that's a pipe dream. No one reads this crap. X_X
Aww, I made me sad. I'm going to bed.
Minor Quibbles
As usual, the obligatory news posting. The Pledge of Allegiance is wrong. I agree with that. Why though? That's where I differ from a lot of people. This judge seems to think that "Under God" are the two worst words in the pledge, or at least that they don't belong in there. On one level, yes, the government shouldn't be supporting one religion over any other, and clearly that's whats happening. But the only religion that's really outcast here is atheists, near as I can tell. Just about every other religion (that is, all that come to my mind when I think about it) worship some sort of diety, so those kids can just say "god" with a lowercase g, and everything's alright. However, the atheists have a valid point, in that they shouldn't be forced to recognize the presence of a diety if they don't believe in.
However, there is a much broader issue out here, which is that the very concept of forcing children to recite a Pledge of Allegience to anything is wrong. Catholics have to spend years in classes going through comfirmation classes before they can make their pledge of allegience to the Catholic Church, and the same for Jews and their Bar- and Bat-Mitzvahs. But to say the American pledge, all you have to do is remember a few words and say them in a sing-songy rhythm? That's not right. How many elementary schoolers do you think actually know what the pledge means? Indivisible? What the fuck is that? You can keep "under God," just take out all the big words people don't know.
Really, though, I don't think any kid ever pays attention to the words they are saying. They get swept up in keeping the rhythm, so it's like a poem:I pledge allegience
To the flag
Of the United States
Of America
And to the republic And so on. Did you know I thought there was a period after America for the longest time? I couldn't figure out what was being done to the republic, whatever that was.
It's merely a recitation with no meaning behind it. That's wrong to expect from children. I say that, no matter what form they keep it in, they should make this pledge of allegience optional for all students. The school can still play it over speakers, but not every student has to recite it with them. That should keep everyone happy.
It was also brought up that the phrase "under God" was added in as a jab at the godless communists during the Red Scare of the 50's. What should we do now, confronted by a group of people who then believe in their god so much they are willing to die for his will?
Anyway, in personal news, Matt and I are kicking around the idea of doing a show about our lives. He showed me an Internet show called The Scene, about movie pirates (not the Johnny Depp type, the kind who gave you that copy of Batman Begins off the Internet). For a while I was convinced that it was an actual documentary, which would have been awesome. Turns out that no, its a work of fiction, but it's still a really good show I'd recomend for everyone to watch in their spare time. So far they have 12 twenty minute episodes, and it's starting to get pretty intense.
But yeah, back when I thought it was a documentary (and by the way, I would watch a video blog or documentary like that), I thought Matt and I could make a much better 20 minute show once a month. I'm sure we produce at least 20 minutes worth of awesome material a month. It's time for the rest of the world to enjoy it.
Lessee... other tidbits - I got a muffin for knowing something in chemistry! YAY ME!
Oh yeah, I decided to check out a few of the iTunes Podcast things. If anyone has any suggestions? Currently my collection includes a Transformers podcast, cuz I'm a nerd, and the Al Franken Show, cuz he's funny. Anyone else got any suggestions?
However, there is a much broader issue out here, which is that the very concept of forcing children to recite a Pledge of Allegience to anything is wrong. Catholics have to spend years in classes going through comfirmation classes before they can make their pledge of allegience to the Catholic Church, and the same for Jews and their Bar- and Bat-Mitzvahs. But to say the American pledge, all you have to do is remember a few words and say them in a sing-songy rhythm? That's not right. How many elementary schoolers do you think actually know what the pledge means? Indivisible? What the fuck is that? You can keep "under God," just take out all the big words people don't know.
Really, though, I don't think any kid ever pays attention to the words they are saying. They get swept up in keeping the rhythm, so it's like a poem:
To the flag
Of the United States
Of America
And to the republic
It's merely a recitation with no meaning behind it. That's wrong to expect from children. I say that, no matter what form they keep it in, they should make this pledge of allegience optional for all students. The school can still play it over speakers, but not every student has to recite it with them. That should keep everyone happy.
It was also brought up that the phrase "under God" was added in as a jab at the godless communists during the Red Scare of the 50's. What should we do now, confronted by a group of people who then believe in their god so much they are willing to die for his will?
Anyway, in personal news, Matt and I are kicking around the idea of doing a show about our lives. He showed me an Internet show called The Scene, about movie pirates (not the Johnny Depp type, the kind who gave you that copy of Batman Begins off the Internet). For a while I was convinced that it was an actual documentary, which would have been awesome. Turns out that no, its a work of fiction, but it's still a really good show I'd recomend for everyone to watch in their spare time. So far they have 12 twenty minute episodes, and it's starting to get pretty intense.
But yeah, back when I thought it was a documentary (and by the way, I would watch a video blog or documentary like that), I thought Matt and I could make a much better 20 minute show once a month. I'm sure we produce at least 20 minutes worth of awesome material a month. It's time for the rest of the world to enjoy it.
Lessee... other tidbits - I got a muffin for knowing something in chemistry! YAY ME!
Oh yeah, I decided to check out a few of the iTunes Podcast things. If anyone has any suggestions? Currently my collection includes a Transformers podcast, cuz I'm a nerd, and the Al Franken Show, cuz he's funny. Anyone else got any suggestions?
14.9.05
I Am So Glad I Didn't Hear About This On TV
...Though I'm sure the Daily Show will say something about this. I mean, it's too easy to make fun of.
This is why I like following the news. You get funny stories like this to talk about in your blog. I'm honestly surprise by this. Obviously, it was implemented by the school board, because no actual school, let alone a catholic school, would suggest something like this. And I can't blame them. I'm not sure I'd pay to get them to keep it off the air, though I did routinely end up with gads of pocket change before I switched to using my meal plan and debit card over physical moneys, and I might have donated that. Honestly, I'm not sure I'd be able to learn with that song stuck in my head. I've already got the song stuck in my head and I haven't heard it in God knows how long, though it obviously hasn't been long enough.
This is why I like following the news. You get funny stories like this to talk about in your blog. I'm honestly surprise by this. Obviously, it was implemented by the school board, because no actual school, let alone a catholic school, would suggest something like this. And I can't blame them. I'm not sure I'd pay to get them to keep it off the air, though I did routinely end up with gads of pocket change before I switched to using my meal plan and debit card over physical moneys, and I might have donated that. Honestly, I'm not sure I'd be able to learn with that song stuck in my head. I've already got the song stuck in my head and I haven't heard it in God knows how long, though it obviously hasn't been long enough.
Being Smart
I haven't gotten my C++ program's to compile, but that's because my compiler sucks, not me. I'll have that settled by the end of the week. And I still got decent grades on that homework all things considered. Other than that though, I think I'm really in the swing of this school year. Good grades, been to all of my classes (more on this later), turning in all the work when it's due. ^_^
I'm sure you all've enjoyed reading my english essay, and if not, too bad. I put them up there because I think they are interesting reads, and more often than not, I enjoyed writing them. Seriously, one of these days I'll get around to one of my personal projects. I will. Just as soon as.... Well, honestly, I don't have anything keeping me from working on them. Maybe you'll get something this weekend. And that's a stong maybe.
But yeah, I've been sorta sick lately. Not like life-threateningly ill, just sick enough that I wish I was sicker. I came back from CS today and crawled into bed, and I could have sworn I heard my something in my head snap. It hurt. I later realized it was the click that my computer gives when it shuts its screen off (I don't know why it does that) but at the time I was kinda worried, and also half tired, so I didn't really know what was going on. It seemed like a semi-plausible excuse to just skip math though. I didn't. I went to class. I am going for perfect attendance this semester. If I have one through Thanksgiving, I'll treat myself by bringing my PS2 up here so I'll be able to beat Kingdom Hearts on hard before I get the sequel. Speaking of, I have to decide if I want to start it here on the tiny screen, or go home and view what is sure to be a kick ass opening on the kick ass 6' screen. Hrmm... These are the issues that keep me up at night. And cause my head to snap.
Speaking of which, people always tell me that when the finally figure something out, it clicks. It's not that way for me. To me, it more like 'gels'.
I'm sure you all've enjoyed reading my english essay, and if not, too bad. I put them up there because I think they are interesting reads, and more often than not, I enjoyed writing them. Seriously, one of these days I'll get around to one of my personal projects. I will. Just as soon as.... Well, honestly, I don't have anything keeping me from working on them. Maybe you'll get something this weekend. And that's a stong maybe.
But yeah, I've been sorta sick lately. Not like life-threateningly ill, just sick enough that I wish I was sicker. I came back from CS today and crawled into bed, and I could have sworn I heard my something in my head snap. It hurt. I later realized it was the click that my computer gives when it shuts its screen off (I don't know why it does that) but at the time I was kinda worried, and also half tired, so I didn't really know what was going on. It seemed like a semi-plausible excuse to just skip math though. I didn't. I went to class. I am going for perfect attendance this semester. If I have one through Thanksgiving, I'll treat myself by bringing my PS2 up here so I'll be able to beat Kingdom Hearts on hard before I get the sequel. Speaking of, I have to decide if I want to start it here on the tiny screen, or go home and view what is sure to be a kick ass opening on the kick ass 6' screen. Hrmm... These are the issues that keep me up at night. And cause my head to snap.
Speaking of which, people always tell me that when the finally figure something out, it clicks. It's not that way for me. To me, it more like 'gels'.
13.9.05
Draft 1.2 - Director's Cut
The assignment was to expand somewhat on the previous work. However, I was limited to 800 words, +/- 50 wiggle room words. The essay I submitted was 848 words long according to OpenOffice's word count, but I'd to put up here the original version, including the 100+ words that were omitted.
CURSE MY NATURAL SHOWMANSHIP!
My dad owns a beach house near the New Jersey coast. As a kid, I used to spend many summers there with my family, swimming in the surf and playing in the sand. One year, I believe it was between the 6th and 7th grades, I went for a walk along the beach with my brothers and a few friends. We had gotten bored, hot, and thirsty, so we were looking for a water fountain. For some reason, the city planners had decided that no one would ever want running water when sitting out in the sun on a bed of dry sand in front of an ocean of salt water, and had placed the fountains much too far apart, in our minds. Eventually, we came across one, about two blocks from our towel where we had started, only to find a small boy putting his lips to the spout. “Hey, you can't do that,” we told him. “That's gross.” His reaction sounded almost rehearsed, and with a stilted voice, he told us cheerily “I can do whatever I want.” We told him that, no, he couldn't do that, and he got upset and ran to get his dad. My party decided that his dad might have been mad, so we left rather than find out.Now here's a challenge. Try and guess what I had to pull to make it fit? Btw, I'll prolly get marked off for a poor closing paragraph, but I simply had no room for anything more. Stupid limits. X_X
It was a seemingly innocuous event in the grand scheme of things, but for some reason, that kid's voice has always stuck with me. Most people might see the above scenario as a basic example of the conflict between overlapping freedoms (his to put his lips to the fountain versus ours to not drink from a gross water fountain). When I heard the kids voice though, and whenever I relive the event in my head, I hear a childish version of the echoes of a thousand parents telling their children that they have unlimited potential, and can do anything if they set their minds to it. Through my own experience, however, I have come to realize that, in fact, children do not have limitless potential. Through no fault of the anyone, barriers are in place to keep children from reaching any goal they dream of.
What sort of barriers are there for children, though? Certainly, leaps and bounds have been made in child raising and education, so that any children has the capability to know enough or have the skills to be an astronaut, or the president, a famous athlete, or whatever their heart may desire. Discrimination, though unfortunately still existent, has diminished significantly and is rarely a realistic barrier to any opportunity. But not every child can be an astronaut, or president, or a professional athlete. For instance, my youngest cousin Clara is a very smart and charismatic little girl. Granted, she's only two, but my aunt would be the first to tell you that she could be president some day. Unfortunately, though she's now as much a red blooded Texan as her parents, Clara was born in China and adopted at the age of one. She can't be president, no matter how well qualified she is, simply because of a little matter of chance. I often wonder at the ideas we fill our children with. We tell them early and often that they can reach any goal they put their minds to, and to always live the dream. We don't like to think about the things they cannot do, and often try our best to ignore these barriers. I'd like to make it clear that most of these barriers are not some sort of limits on personal freedoms. I am glad to live in a country where governmental restrictions are extremely low, and cherish these freedoms greatly. However, there are issues that cannot be legislated.
For instance, I have my own “I can do whatever I want” story. I love flying. I play flight simulators whenever I can, and even today fantasize about being able to soar in the sky and beyond. I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a child, or at the very least a pilot. Unfortunately, I was also born with a congenital heart defect. The details of it are largely irrelevant, and today I can live out a normal life. But I cannot fly. Simply having this heart defect is a guarantee that no company, private or public, will allow me to operate an airplane, let alone a spacecraft of any sort. Due to simple chance and happenstance, I am barred from reaching the childhood dreams which I was told by all my early teachers I could achieve no matter what. How many other children are in similar situations?
I've put a good deal of thought into this. I'm often caught by little things, like a recent TV commercial for an investment form that claims it will help your children reach their dreams, including one little boy who asks “Can I be a superhero?” The voice-over answers “Yes,” which is clearly false. No amount of financing, Wayne fortune or not, can turn a kid into a superhero. Of course, my mom will tell you that it's good to encourage a child's dreams, and I'd definitely agree with that. At least, I know that telling a boy “No, you can't be an astronaut, play with your Play-Doh McDonald's instead” would be a damaging thing. My friends however, also agree that it may not be the best thing to let a child believe he is capable of absolutely anything. There is a very sad reason why Superman Halloween costumes are stitched with the phrase “will not make you fly”: at least one child thought it would.
CURSE MY NATURAL SHOWMANSHIP!
Bush: 'I take responsibility'
I have been hesistant to critisize Bush directly for the terrible handling of the New Orleans situation, as I think it is clear that there was a failure at all layers of Government, but I still have to commend Bush for this. I'm a believer in the line The Buck Stops Here, as it applies to the presidency and national policy. For right or wrong, the president is the nation's foremost face, and when something affects the nation, it affects him. Ultimately, the destiny of the nation lies with him. Anyway, bottom line is, bravo Bush for not simply blaming Brown and trying to slip past the issue. Now if only you'd take credit for some other blunders your administration has wandered into (*cough*Iraq*cough*).
Weird News
Police find 8 Ohio kids locked in cages
Just another little bit of randomness for your life, as I look through the news. By the way, before you ask, it wasn't me. My cages are well hid- I mean I would never do such a thing. *Fixes his halo.* Besides, I've never been to Ohio.
I don't know why, but especially after yesterday, I've been very interested in what's going on the world. I'd really like to become more informed. I've had Google News as a home page for a while, and it's interesting, occasionally. But honestly, the Daily Show is not supposed to be a source of news. I'm glad that I am well informed; I think I get more of the jokes that way. But not all news is funny. Also, I'm a little upset at the fact that they're doing a week long special on evolution. That's gonna get old fast. X_X
I dunno if I've ever mentioned my stance on evolution before. I probably have. But now seems as good a time as any to repeat it. If you ask me, science in general, and evolution in specific, are not contrary to religion. Religion is not meant to answer how things happened. That's science's job. Conversely, science simply cannot answer the biggest question of all: Why are we here? That's a religious question. Science tells us how. Religion tells us why. Of course, I've met more than a few people who disagree with me on one or more more of those points. Feel free to let me know if you do.
Just another little bit of randomness for your life, as I look through the news. By the way, before you ask, it wasn't me. My cages are well hid- I mean I would never do such a thing. *Fixes his halo.* Besides, I've never been to Ohio.
I don't know why, but especially after yesterday, I've been very interested in what's going on the world. I'd really like to become more informed. I've had Google News as a home page for a while, and it's interesting, occasionally. But honestly, the Daily Show is not supposed to be a source of news. I'm glad that I am well informed; I think I get more of the jokes that way. But not all news is funny. Also, I'm a little upset at the fact that they're doing a week long special on evolution. That's gonna get old fast. X_X
I dunno if I've ever mentioned my stance on evolution before. I probably have. But now seems as good a time as any to repeat it. If you ask me, science in general, and evolution in specific, are not contrary to religion. Religion is not meant to answer how things happened. That's science's job. Conversely, science simply cannot answer the biggest question of all: Why are we here? That's a religious question. Science tells us how. Religion tells us why. Of course, I've met more than a few people who disagree with me on one or more more of those points. Feel free to let me know if you do.
12.9.05
How To Report A Power Outage
I dunno why I've been watching CNN so much, but it is something I can watch while listening to music (still the Kingdom Hearts playlist), and I'm glad I did today. I turned it on to see the opening of Robert's confirmation hearings, which seemed interesting, and then they broke away to Michael Brown's resignation. Then, in somewhat more urgent news, they told us about some spotted power outages in downtown L.A. That's Los Angeles, not the LA for Louisiana, who I'd think have far worse problems than a blackout. A few things struck me as odd:
While interviewing a correspondant in the L.A. office, they switched to a broader picture of the city. It was a black screen, except for the word "Live" in the upper right corner, and I thought, yes, that's what a blackout looks like.
Several times the people in the L.A. office mentioned that they, along with a hospital, had only a brief power loss, which says to me that they have back-up generators in the building. They didn't mention anything about such generators, so I wasn't sure whether they had generators or if power actually did come on.
The real thing that got on my nerves, though, was when I switched to Fox News. This was a mistake, and I only did it to try and be "fair and balanced". (Also, I watched Outfoxed yesterday, and so I wanted to see what Fox was up to.) Once there, I was treated to a somewhat more panicy voice, and definitely a large emphasis on how likely it was that terrorists had attacked. (The idea was "very"). I went back to CNN, and the biggest worry they were talking about was that the traffic lights were off, and that could be bad. And of course, CNN reported about how the Department of Water and Power is very strong about terrorism is not being considered as a cause now. Stupid Fox News and their fear-based news reporting.
Also, note to CNN - having Wolf Blitzer stand in front of those 4 linked screens while the helicoptor camera rotates around behind him makes me dizzy.
Finaly, if anyone knows how I could link 4 TV's up like that with some hardware base, that would be awesome.
While interviewing a correspondant in the L.A. office, they switched to a broader picture of the city. It was a black screen, except for the word "Live" in the upper right corner, and I thought, yes, that's what a blackout looks like.
Several times the people in the L.A. office mentioned that they, along with a hospital, had only a brief power loss, which says to me that they have back-up generators in the building. They didn't mention anything about such generators, so I wasn't sure whether they had generators or if power actually did come on.
The real thing that got on my nerves, though, was when I switched to Fox News. This was a mistake, and I only did it to try and be "fair and balanced". (Also, I watched Outfoxed yesterday, and so I wanted to see what Fox was up to.) Once there, I was treated to a somewhat more panicy voice, and definitely a large emphasis on how likely it was that terrorists had attacked. (The idea was "very"). I went back to CNN, and the biggest worry they were talking about was that the traffic lights were off, and that could be bad. And of course, CNN reported about how the Department of Water and Power is very strong about terrorism is not being considered as a cause now. Stupid Fox News and their fear-based news reporting.
Also, note to CNN - having Wolf Blitzer stand in front of those 4 linked screens while the helicoptor camera rotates around behind him makes me dizzy.
Finaly, if anyone knows how I could link 4 TV's up like that with some hardware base, that would be awesome.
AU - Some!
That's supposed to be pronounced "Awesome". It's a play on the abbreviation AU, for Astronomical Units. For those of you not in the know, an AU is defined as the average distance between Earth and Sol (aka the Sun, or "That big bright yellow thing outside")
1 AU = 149,597,870.691 kilometers - a pretty arbitrary number, right? See, this all gets back to Metric vs Standard measurements. The distance of an AU was decided in the same way that an inch or a foot was. Some guy in charge pretty much chose something he saw and decided to make it a unit of distance. But the AU isn't a very useful measurement outside of the Sol Solar System. When we colonize other systems, using a distance measurement is based off of one local standard is going to be foolish.
Okay, that rant is pointless. Moving on, I'd like to voice my displeasure with what's going on in Louisiana. I remember first hearing the reports about how the town had turned into a war zone. A war zone. In America. I was shocked. I'm not gonna point a finger. I feel that several people have dropped their respective balls here. And for once, I'm not gonna give you a buncha links. If you wanted to read news, you could find your own stuff. I AM mad specifically at Michael Brown, former head of FEMA (I heard about the resignation while writing this) for his comments that he hadn't heard many reports about the events going on in New Orleans. You should not be getting your news DURING an interview. It's one thing to admit that you don't know how bad things are until you hear it from the TV. It's another entirely to say that you simply werent paying attention at all. That is simply unacceptable. I'm glad he's resigned. And now I'm done. And horny. I'll go deal with that shortly.
Wedge - "Sithspit! What is that?!"I need to find that book and re-read it, it's good (The Starfighters of Adumar, by Aaron Allston, if you're curious).
Wes - "That's the sun boss, it's after dawn."
Wedge - "Well turn it off, it offends me."
Wes - "It's about a hundred fifty klicks up. You feeling okay, Commander?"
Wedge - "Yes, now get in your X-Wing and blow it up."
1 AU = 149,597,870.691 kilometers - a pretty arbitrary number, right? See, this all gets back to Metric vs Standard measurements. The distance of an AU was decided in the same way that an inch or a foot was. Some guy in charge pretty much chose something he saw and decided to make it a unit of distance. But the AU isn't a very useful measurement outside of the Sol Solar System. When we colonize other systems, using a distance measurement is based off of one local standard is going to be foolish.
Okay, that rant is pointless. Moving on, I'd like to voice my displeasure with what's going on in Louisiana. I remember first hearing the reports about how the town had turned into a war zone. A war zone. In America. I was shocked. I'm not gonna point a finger. I feel that several people have dropped their respective balls here. And for once, I'm not gonna give you a buncha links. If you wanted to read news, you could find your own stuff. I AM mad specifically at Michael Brown, former head of FEMA (I heard about the resignation while writing this) for his comments that he hadn't heard many reports about the events going on in New Orleans. You should not be getting your news DURING an interview. It's one thing to admit that you don't know how bad things are until you hear it from the TV. It's another entirely to say that you simply werent paying attention at all. That is simply unacceptable. I'm glad he's resigned. And now I'm done. And horny. I'll go deal with that shortly.
Early Morning Blues
I'm not posting this link for the strip (though MacHall is a great series), but rather for the news post beneath that does a lot of linking to Hurricane Katrina stuff. I'm too lazy to link it all myself, especially now. I'll go into more detail about why I'm so upset later, but now, I'm too tired. Gonna go lie down again. Whee.
10.9.05
Naruto Got A Bad Dub
I was looking forward to Naruto on Cartoon Network. Everyone was telling me what a great show it was. Of course, I wasn't ever really into the shonen style anime, where it's just random action. A villiage full of ninjas really ruins the concept of the NINJA, a solitary assasin of stealth. So I couldn't really be bothered to look into the show with subtitles or whatever. But then Cartoon Network got the licencing rights for it, and now it's on in Toonami. And it sucks. The voice acting is crappy. Its so bad I cannot watch it. The series idea is just as outlandish as I thought, and the acting / dubbing is really terrible. So there you go, all you crazy Naruto fans can feel free to tell me how wrong I am, but that's how I feel.
Lessee... I made a new blue deck. No telling how well it'll do, but I hadda make it.
James continues to haunt the back of my thoughts.
I'm ahead on homework yet again, so go me!
I need to make a Christmas list. I'll look into it asap.
I dunno, I'm spent. I'm really tired for some reason. Gonna lie down. Sweet dreams everyone.
Lessee... I made a new blue deck. No telling how well it'll do, but I hadda make it.
James continues to haunt the back of my thoughts.
I'm ahead on homework yet again, so go me!
I need to make a Christmas list. I'll look into it asap.
I dunno, I'm spent. I'm really tired for some reason. Gonna lie down. Sweet dreams everyone.
9.9.05
I'm Like Daredevil... Kinda?
I've been chatting with a friend who's been playing through Kingdom Hearts over the past week. I simply don't have the dedication for the marathon run's he seems to be doing, though I'll agree that the game was much too short. I've got the Kindgom Hearts soundtrack running in the background, along with a few other similar tracks I added to the playlist when I found them. Anyway, all that aside, I've got to admit that I've been bitten by the KH bug yet again. I was about 1/3 of the way through the game going through again on hard. I need to start Agrabah. Of course, in order to do that, I'd need to have my PS2 with me, and that was left at home (not enough room for it, and plus I really should be concentrating on school - and I AM! YAY ME!) Anyway, but yeah, if I get my grades up before Thanksgiving, which I've been trying to do anyway, I'll reward myself by bringing back my PS2 and Kingdom Hearts game, plus a few others to tinker around in on the side.
Anyway, my lust for Disney-on-Squeenix action has brought my attention to the number of Kingdom Hearts 2 fan sites and rumor mills about. The new game looks interesting. A conservative estimate puts the number of new worlds at least greater than those from the original, plus the game revisits some old worlds, too. ( This, combined with a general trend of newer RPG's to be more expansive than their predesessors, means that more than likely KH2 will be a great deal more filling than the first. And hopefully more Fulfilling as well. I already covered the "I'm sorry Sora, but your princess is in another castle" aspect of the first games ending, so I won't go into that again, but I'm looking for some conclusion here. I want Sora to get his girl. I want Donald and Goofy to find their King. I want Riku to transend into some sort of world-jumping demi-god or something. I dunno. It'll be fun, and, reguardless, I'm getting this game. It is on my most wanted list. I was stoked by the news that it's slated for a Q4 2005 release. If that's true, that means I'll get to play it at least some over Christmas break. My only dilema is whether I want to put it on my Christmas list, or if I want more to have it the DAY it releases and simply shell out my $50 at Hastings or what have you. I'll prolly go for the latter; I remember how bad I felt about getting a copy of Chain of Memories in early December after adding it to my Christmas list. I think what I'll do is put the DS on my wish list, so I can actually FINISH ChoM (stupid LR buttons), and just splurge on KH2.
Honestly, this scene justifies buying the game in and of itself.
Anyway, before we move past the dorky games topic, I wanted to add that my computer can play a game that Matt's beefed out awesome computer can't: Wolfenstein 3D. Also, it has mouse controls. This game is awesome.
My nose doesn't work. I've been pondering this thought a lot recently. It makes me miss out on things. For instance, I love popcorn. LOVE it. But I've never been able to smell what everyone tells me is an exceptionally strong and noticable smell. It gives me an unfair disadvantage when it comes to finding popcorn. Also, I'm missing the smell of Jackie. Jackie is, honestly, the first thing I've ever wished I could smell. Before I met her, I was merely inconvenienced by the lack of smell. Now though, I regret not being able to sniff her hair and get a wiff of pure joy from it. Sigh.
In any case, I'm sure this has its uses. I'm like the crappiest X-Man ever. I mean, hey, Daredevil made quite a career out of not being able to see. So, what can not being able to smell get me? Unfortunately, my vision's not much better (I need pretty strong glasses, though they're supposedly within the range that laser eye surgery), and my sense of taste, which is supposedly linked to my smell, isn't too great either, though it's not dead. My hearings "okay", I guess, but still. So, 4 out of 5 senses, and none of them really exceptional. *Shrugs.* Factor in my genetic heart defect, and I'm pretty much a big loogie thrown on Darwin's grave.
And here's the kicker folks. I love children. I plan on having many with Jackie. So hah. I'm peeing in the Gene Pool during free swim. Take that Natural Selection. Plus, my hands sweat when I use the computer!!! HAH!
Anyway, my lust for Disney-on-Squeenix action has brought my attention to the number of Kingdom Hearts 2 fan sites and rumor mills about. The new game looks interesting. A conservative estimate puts the number of new worlds at least greater than those from the original, plus the game revisits some old worlds, too. ( This, combined with a general trend of newer RPG's to be more expansive than their predesessors, means that more than likely KH2 will be a great deal more filling than the first. And hopefully more Fulfilling as well. I already covered the "I'm sorry Sora, but your princess is in another castle" aspect of the first games ending, so I won't go into that again, but I'm looking for some conclusion here. I want Sora to get his girl. I want Donald and Goofy to find their King. I want Riku to transend into some sort of world-jumping demi-god or something. I dunno. It'll be fun, and, reguardless, I'm getting this game. It is on my most wanted list. I was stoked by the news that it's slated for a Q4 2005 release. If that's true, that means I'll get to play it at least some over Christmas break. My only dilema is whether I want to put it on my Christmas list, or if I want more to have it the DAY it releases and simply shell out my $50 at Hastings or what have you. I'll prolly go for the latter; I remember how bad I felt about getting a copy of Chain of Memories in early December after adding it to my Christmas list. I think what I'll do is put the DS on my wish list, so I can actually FINISH ChoM (stupid LR buttons), and just splurge on KH2.
Honestly, this scene justifies buying the game in and of itself.
Anyway, before we move past the dorky games topic, I wanted to add that my computer can play a game that Matt's beefed out awesome computer can't: Wolfenstein 3D. Also, it has mouse controls. This game is awesome.
My nose doesn't work. I've been pondering this thought a lot recently. It makes me miss out on things. For instance, I love popcorn. LOVE it. But I've never been able to smell what everyone tells me is an exceptionally strong and noticable smell. It gives me an unfair disadvantage when it comes to finding popcorn. Also, I'm missing the smell of Jackie. Jackie is, honestly, the first thing I've ever wished I could smell. Before I met her, I was merely inconvenienced by the lack of smell. Now though, I regret not being able to sniff her hair and get a wiff of pure joy from it. Sigh.
In any case, I'm sure this has its uses. I'm like the crappiest X-Man ever. I mean, hey, Daredevil made quite a career out of not being able to see. So, what can not being able to smell get me? Unfortunately, my vision's not much better (I need pretty strong glasses, though they're supposedly within the range that laser eye surgery), and my sense of taste, which is supposedly linked to my smell, isn't too great either, though it's not dead. My hearings "okay", I guess, but still. So, 4 out of 5 senses, and none of them really exceptional. *Shrugs.* Factor in my genetic heart defect, and I'm pretty much a big loogie thrown on Darwin's grave.
And here's the kicker folks. I love children. I plan on having many with Jackie. So hah. I'm peeing in the Gene Pool during free swim. Take that Natural Selection. Plus, my hands sweat when I use the computer!!! HAH!
6.9.05
It's Times Like These...
...that I need someone to talk to. Luckily, I have Jackie.
My AIM keeps dying on me. X_X Stupid Internet. It is now the Stupidnet.
But yeah. Jackie has this thing about guys kissing other guys. She wants me to make out with a guy. Any takers?
You read right. I'm looking for a "boyfriend" of sorts. I'd like someone sweet and friendly. I don't want any emo guys. X_X No guys in makeup, either. I can barely stand it on girls, I don't want guys starting too. I'm sure I have a longer list of qualifications, but I'm not gonna list it here.
I'm tired. Been writing all day. Stupid Tuesdays. Tuesday is the hardest day of my week. Lemme sleep. Or at least rest. Not the bestest day for Greg. I wanna cuddle with Jackie and /or some sweet guy. Now.
My AIM keeps dying on me. X_X Stupid Internet. It is now the Stupidnet.
But yeah. Jackie has this thing about guys kissing other guys. She wants me to make out with a guy. Any takers?
You read right. I'm looking for a "boyfriend" of sorts. I'd like someone sweet and friendly. I don't want any emo guys. X_X No guys in makeup, either. I can barely stand it on girls, I don't want guys starting too. I'm sure I have a longer list of qualifications, but I'm not gonna list it here.
I'm tired. Been writing all day. Stupid Tuesdays. Tuesday is the hardest day of my week. Lemme sleep. Or at least rest. Not the bestest day for Greg. I wanna cuddle with Jackie and /or some sweet guy. Now.
James Issues, Part the Last
Background can be found in both my blog (here) and James' (here). I don't want to bore you with the details. I'm sure I already have some of you. It looks like this is the end - a final comment on James' GreaterJournal.
Anyway, to the rest of you, I hope to have this thing moved behind me, and in any case, I won't sully your noses with it any more. I just posted this one because I thought it was an important writing of mine, and I don't have much doubt in my mind that James will delete it or something soon, so now it's saved for posterity. The truth is saved. That's my greater purpose. The truth. I don't like the idea of people deleting posts that they don't agree with.
Meh, I'm sure you won't answer this, but I'm not "defending myself for the sake of debate." I'm flat out defending myself. You have said you have some problem with how I live my life. Apparently its "obvious" to you, and so you can't be bothered to explain it to me. This helps me not at all.Don't think you're off the hook, James. We have stuff hanging between us, and I seriously just want to clear it out. I'm not meaning to antagonize you. I'm simply trying to defend the insultes you've levied against me. Of course, I doubt you're reading this. It's sad, really.
"Greg, do all twenty-year-olds in your college watch the Disney channel on a regular basis? I seriously doubt it. That's something you should work on if you want to be less annoying."
Thus far that's the only 'implication' I've seen from you - I like children's things and that is bad in some way. I've brought up many times that it's not bad. In fact, I derive enjoyment from it, on both the base level it was entended for children, and on a more mature "gimp-spider" level. Adult Swim has build it's line up on being made up of "children's shows" given a mature spin. Space Ghost: Coast to Coast is hilarious. Sealab 2021 is great. Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law is excellent. All of those are based off of childrens shows. Does that make them childish? Does it make me childish for similarly enjoying the Transformers with an adult viewpoint?
I watch one show on the Disney Channel. Kim Possible. I defy you to find something better on at 12:30 on a weeknight. Granted, I think part of your problem is that you don't have Disney, and have never seen the show. You really should. If you want, I can arrange for Matt to send you some episodes he downloaded. It is a good show. Even if you don't like it, that doesn't invalidate my opinion. And really, that's all your argument is. Your opinion of my tastes.
I'm not saying you should like what I like. I've never said that. But you still have to respect my opinions. That's called living in a society. What's childish is running away from a problem. Especially when you have to deal with person on a more than passing basis, like you do with me. Even if you don't need me to drive you around (I'll believe the licence when I see it), we are still going to have to interact, and I'd rather not have this argument hanging over us.
I'll reiterate: I don't have any problem with you, or the way you live your life. And if I did, I'd have little problem telling you it, so we could deal with it, and move on. In this case, though, you are the one with the problem. You have decided there is something wrong with me, and rather than work through it like a responsible adult, you have yelled that I am wrong for no other reason than you say so, and when I refused to agree with you, you assumed I wasn't worth talking to. THAT is the aspect of your behavior that is childish, James. Children give up when something gets hard. Adults solve their issues with other people. Adults work things out. Adults accept that there are things existing outside of their own worldview which might be acceptable to others, even if it's not to themselves.
It seems like I'm alone on this because it's just you and me going back and forth on this. First of all, YOU started it when you insulted things I like on a public forum. I have every right to defend myself against your slander. Secondly, I've even though your comment board seems to have been our exclusive domain, I've been talking to mutual friends. Ask Derek. Ask Mel. Ask your girlfriend Kaylee, for crying out loud. They may not like the things I like, but they do agree with me that it's not a bad thing for me to like them.
James, the bottom line here, the final word, if you will, is that I don't have a problem with you, and I'd rather you didn't have one with me. I've done everything I can to extend the olive branch, but you've gotta meet me half way. And you HAVE to, unless you'd like to lose any support you have in the family at all. I really do like you James. I don't know why everyone hates you in the family. I've always considered you a friend. If you were some random person on the Internet, I would have dropped this from the beginning. I've kept it up because I want to keep a friend. I don't want to lose one over a stupid arguement. You KNOW it's stupid. Don't let it ruin our friendship. I don't want to be in that house without a friend any less than you do.
Anyway, to the rest of you, I hope to have this thing moved behind me, and in any case, I won't sully your noses with it any more. I just posted this one because I thought it was an important writing of mine, and I don't have much doubt in my mind that James will delete it or something soon, so now it's saved for posterity. The truth is saved. That's my greater purpose. The truth. I don't like the idea of people deleting posts that they don't agree with.
5.9.05
iTunes Quiz?
Okay, found this, gonna post it cuz it seemed interesting. Here goes.
You know the drill. Pull up iTunes and set it to random, then answer the questions with the song that comes up, and your interpretation of this answer. *I took this from Jackie, who took it from Emma! ^.^*
Post your results as a comment or in your own blog. I wanna read them ^.^
What do you think of me, iTunes/Windows Media Player? Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins
Apparently I'm dangerous?
Will I have a happy life? Sin City End Titles
"An old man dies. A young girl lives. Fair trade." X_X
What do my friends really think of me? Wake Up - Rage Against The Machine
My friends think I'm spacy I guess?
Do people secretly lust after me? Dream On - Aerosmith
Apparently not, but it's okay because they do so openly instead.
How can I make myself happy? Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Ice Attack Remix
Play video games! Duh!
What should I do with my life? Real Emotion - YRP (FFX2)
Either play video games, or devote my life to emotions and the people I love. "What can I do for you?"
Why must life be so full of pain? Guerrilla Radio - RATM
Because people are violent by nature, it seems.
Will I ever have children? Starcraft - Nuclear Launch Detected Remix
Now, some people would see this as a bad sign, but missiles are classic phallic symbols, so...
Will I die happy? Not Gonna Get Us - t.A.T.u
Yeah. They'll never catch me. Muwahaha.
Can you give me some advice? Theme from R.O.D (I love Hong Kong)
Obviously I must travel to China again.
What do you think happiness is? 1000 Words - Koda Kumi
Love is too big to describe here, obviously
What's your favorite fetish? Tetris Techtris Typez OC Remix
Apparently I've got a mecha fetish? I like puzzles? I guess that's true. Creepy.
Okay, that's that quiz. Yay that.
You know the drill. Pull up iTunes and set it to random, then answer the questions with the song that comes up, and your interpretation of this answer. *I took this from Jackie, who took it from Emma! ^.^*
Post your results as a comment or in your own blog. I wanna read them ^.^
What do you think of me, iTunes/Windows Media Player? Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins
Apparently I'm dangerous?
Will I have a happy life? Sin City End Titles
"An old man dies. A young girl lives. Fair trade." X_X
What do my friends really think of me? Wake Up - Rage Against The Machine
My friends think I'm spacy I guess?
Do people secretly lust after me? Dream On - Aerosmith
Apparently not, but it's okay because they do so openly instead.
How can I make myself happy? Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Ice Attack Remix
Play video games! Duh!
What should I do with my life? Real Emotion - YRP (FFX2)
Either play video games, or devote my life to emotions and the people I love. "What can I do for you?"
Why must life be so full of pain? Guerrilla Radio - RATM
Because people are violent by nature, it seems.
Will I ever have children? Starcraft - Nuclear Launch Detected Remix
Now, some people would see this as a bad sign, but missiles are classic phallic symbols, so...
Will I die happy? Not Gonna Get Us - t.A.T.u
Yeah. They'll never catch me. Muwahaha.
Can you give me some advice? Theme from R.O.D (I love Hong Kong)
Obviously I must travel to China again.
What do you think happiness is? 1000 Words - Koda Kumi
Love is too big to describe here, obviously
What's your favorite fetish? Tetris Techtris Typez OC Remix
Apparently I've got a mecha fetish? I like puzzles? I guess that's true. Creepy.
Okay, that's that quiz. Yay that.
2.9.05
Sitting Down
Okay, I'm trying to work on writing in this a little more often. I really am not doing anything major, and spend way too much of my time cycling through my webcomic bookmarks waiting for one to update, so I don't know why I don't blog more. It'd help me get rid of all this stress. I'm still really stressed out over James' deal. I wish I could just talk to him and resolve it with him, or something. I hate having it unresolved and just hanging out there. By the way, can someone check on his blog and tell me if he's updated past the 31st? I havent seen anything new from him in the past few days, and I'm all paranoid about it.
On less weird topics... Wait, I have none of them.
As I told you, I've been doing my homework on time. Part of my homework is doing peer reviews of other student's works. I did one of those the other day, and got a grade back for it. I wrote that the paper focused too much on himself, and not on the more interesting situation of his father... I don't want to into details here, cuz I can't retell it all here fairly, but basically, I got graded down because my review of it was too "personal". I guess I write too emotionally. *Shrugs.* Anyway, at least I'm doing it. I'm kinda glad I waited to do the 2nd one until after I got the first reviewed.
Another way I'm relieving stress (the first obviously being "insulting people's papers") is playing a lot of Starcraft. I think I've finally gotten at least AS good as the computer, if not a little better. Or maybe it's just the fact that I'm double teaming them with Jackie. I love siege tanks. Even more than my once ubiquitos nukes. So if anyone out there is interested in some 1v1 Starcraft (Jackie doesn't like fighting me, because I have been playing for a while longer than her), tell me so.
I'm back at college, which means I can't masturbate as much, which means sexual frustration. X_X
[MAGIC STUFF] What with the upcoming Extended rotation taking out everything before Invasion (the set I started on) I've decided to go ahead and try to get a competitive Extended deck. I'd been looking through my cards, and decided that a White weenie / control deck wouldn't be too bad. I've got 3 Blinding Angels I've been itching to use, and my 3 Dampening Matricies (plural of matrix) would go nice in a deck full of cards that just want to turn sideways. All of my other decks want things to do interesting things with activated abilities, but I really like the idea of shutting down all sorts of annoying effects, especially EQUIPMENT (more on this later). Anyway, then I found this thread on the MTG.com boards. I really hate to be a net-decker, but I really like the blue splash, and I'll switch it around enough to make it my own, like I did with Tooth and Nail. (Yes, that was a rogue Tooth build. I refused to use Tron over Post, and having a semi-solid red splash helped me fireball randomly.) Anyway, so that's what I'm gonna make. Expect a semi-solid list soon (and hopefully a physical deck shortly there-after. And I'm still entertaining the idea of an Enduring Ideal deck for Standard, simply because both the Ideal and Form of the Dragon are too rediculous to pass up.
[MAGIC STUFF] That's right, still not done. Now for my rant about equipment. I was at a draft last month. Betrayers only. For those of you who don't know, the "must have" card from the set is Uzemawa's Jitte. A 2 mana Legendary equipment that gains 2 counters each time its bearer deals damage, and then can use those counters to do pretty much anything it wants. If you play the game, you've heard of it. It's rediculous in draft, and any constructed deck that hopes to win through combat damage is running four. It's out of hand. This isn't the first equipment like this either. Skullclamp went into any deck that made a creature before it was banned. The Jitte isn't quite as ridiculous as the 'Clamp was, but its up there. It's defining the format. Decks running main deck artifact hate during Mirrodin block, the artifact block, made sense. But the Kamigawa block? Out of 621 cards, there are less than fifty artifacts. People are maindecking whatever artifact hate they can find to deal with the Jitte. And I think the flaw lies in the very subtype of equipment.
Back when it was introduced in Mirrodin, as tweaked local enchantments (now Auras) that were artifacts, it was okay. Yeah, they stayed around longer than enchantments, but in the artifact block, it wasn't too hard to deal with artifacts, so they weren't too broken. But outside of the controlled environment of the Mirrodin block, equipment run a much. Part of the problem is that the only way to deal with an equipment is to actually GET the equipment. Either that or kill every single creature your opponant would attach it to. It's simply overpowered by nature. Simple power ups aren't too bad, but even the lowley Bonesplitter is a beating in most decks. It's like a 2 power creature with haste for 2 mana that can't attack alone. Not too shabby when you look at it like that. Anyway, I guess equipment's here to stay, but it has pretty dramatically changed the face of the game. And Wizards has to look at the power of the equipments it's making.
[/MAGIC STUFF]
Okay, that's outta my system. And I still have more to say. For instance, the question came into my mind. Can a man with no legs sit down? At first I thought no, because sitting down implies you started from a standing position, and the man has no legs. None. Not even stumps. He ends at the buttocks. So. This hypothetical man (we'll call him Reggie) can sit, and he can sit up, from a lying position, but I didn't think he could sit down. Then someone (two people actually) pointed out to me that Reg could stand on his arms and hands, since they now reach below the rest of him. So, from that position, I guess he could sit down. Therefore, I propose adding the following stipulation on poor Reginald. He is limbless. THIS man, therefore, cannot sit down possibly. Thoughts?
Okay, I've been writing for over an hour. Good time to stop.
On less weird topics... Wait, I have none of them.
As I told you, I've been doing my homework on time. Part of my homework is doing peer reviews of other student's works. I did one of those the other day, and got a grade back for it. I wrote that the paper focused too much on himself, and not on the more interesting situation of his father... I don't want to into details here, cuz I can't retell it all here fairly, but basically, I got graded down because my review of it was too "personal". I guess I write too emotionally. *Shrugs.* Anyway, at least I'm doing it. I'm kinda glad I waited to do the 2nd one until after I got the first reviewed.
Another way I'm relieving stress (the first obviously being "insulting people's papers") is playing a lot of Starcraft. I think I've finally gotten at least AS good as the computer, if not a little better. Or maybe it's just the fact that I'm double teaming them with Jackie. I love siege tanks. Even more than my once ubiquitos nukes. So if anyone out there is interested in some 1v1 Starcraft (Jackie doesn't like fighting me, because I have been playing for a while longer than her), tell me so.
I'm back at college, which means I can't masturbate as much, which means sexual frustration. X_X
[MAGIC STUFF] What with the upcoming Extended rotation taking out everything before Invasion (the set I started on) I've decided to go ahead and try to get a competitive Extended deck. I'd been looking through my cards, and decided that a White weenie / control deck wouldn't be too bad. I've got 3 Blinding Angels I've been itching to use, and my 3 Dampening Matricies (plural of matrix) would go nice in a deck full of cards that just want to turn sideways. All of my other decks want things to do interesting things with activated abilities, but I really like the idea of shutting down all sorts of annoying effects, especially EQUIPMENT (more on this later). Anyway, then I found this thread on the MTG.com boards. I really hate to be a net-decker, but I really like the blue splash, and I'll switch it around enough to make it my own, like I did with Tooth and Nail. (Yes, that was a rogue Tooth build. I refused to use Tron over Post, and having a semi-solid red splash helped me fireball randomly.) Anyway, so that's what I'm gonna make. Expect a semi-solid list soon (and hopefully a physical deck shortly there-after. And I'm still entertaining the idea of an Enduring Ideal deck for Standard, simply because both the Ideal and Form of the Dragon are too rediculous to pass up.
[MAGIC STUFF] That's right, still not done. Now for my rant about equipment. I was at a draft last month. Betrayers only. For those of you who don't know, the "must have" card from the set is Uzemawa's Jitte. A 2 mana Legendary equipment that gains 2 counters each time its bearer deals damage, and then can use those counters to do pretty much anything it wants. If you play the game, you've heard of it. It's rediculous in draft, and any constructed deck that hopes to win through combat damage is running four. It's out of hand. This isn't the first equipment like this either. Skullclamp went into any deck that made a creature before it was banned. The Jitte isn't quite as ridiculous as the 'Clamp was, but its up there. It's defining the format. Decks running main deck artifact hate during Mirrodin block, the artifact block, made sense. But the Kamigawa block? Out of 621 cards, there are less than fifty artifacts. People are maindecking whatever artifact hate they can find to deal with the Jitte. And I think the flaw lies in the very subtype of equipment.
Back when it was introduced in Mirrodin, as tweaked local enchantments (now Auras) that were artifacts, it was okay. Yeah, they stayed around longer than enchantments, but in the artifact block, it wasn't too hard to deal with artifacts, so they weren't too broken. But outside of the controlled environment of the Mirrodin block, equipment run a much. Part of the problem is that the only way to deal with an equipment is to actually GET the equipment. Either that or kill every single creature your opponant would attach it to. It's simply overpowered by nature. Simple power ups aren't too bad, but even the lowley Bonesplitter is a beating in most decks. It's like a 2 power creature with haste for 2 mana that can't attack alone. Not too shabby when you look at it like that. Anyway, I guess equipment's here to stay, but it has pretty dramatically changed the face of the game. And Wizards has to look at the power of the equipments it's making.
[/MAGIC STUFF]
Okay, that's outta my system. And I still have more to say. For instance, the question came into my mind. Can a man with no legs sit down? At first I thought no, because sitting down implies you started from a standing position, and the man has no legs. None. Not even stumps. He ends at the buttocks. So. This hypothetical man (we'll call him Reggie) can sit, and he can sit up, from a lying position, but I didn't think he could sit down. Then someone (two people actually) pointed out to me that Reg could stand on his arms and hands, since they now reach below the rest of him. So, from that position, I guess he could sit down. Therefore, I propose adding the following stipulation on poor Reginald. He is limbless. THIS man, therefore, cannot sit down possibly. Thoughts?
Okay, I've been writing for over an hour. Good time to stop.
1.9.05
I Am The Night!
So I've started doing my homework. Go me! Check out my random essay of 400 words. Stupid limits....
Sigh. I love that story. If you're ever talking to me, I'll give you an example of that kids voice, cuz its just such a random way to say it. Anyway, I'm all written out for now. Good news is, this HW wasn't due until Sunday, so I've got a leg up on things. Go Greg powers!
One Summer, I believe I was in 6th or 7th grade at the time, a few friends and I went for a walk along the beach, looking for a water fountain. This was before bottled water really started to take off, so water fountains were all we had. For whatever reason, the beach planners had decided that water didn't need to be all that close together, once every two blocks must have seemed fine at the time. I guess it usually is, unless you come up to the first fountain and find a kid there, putting his lips on the spout. When we told him, “Hey, that's gross, you're not supposed to do that,” he turned to us, and, in a voice I will never forget, said a phrase I guess he picked up on Sesame Street.
“I can do whatever I want.” He didn't say it with intimidation, but with the seeming joy of a kid exerting his limited authority on some older boys. It's hard to describe in text, but the lilting quality of it will stick with me for a long time yet.
Of course, we simply moved on to the next fountain, but the event stuck with me. No, I thought, you can't do whatever you want. There are obvious things like rules and laws that prohibit one's actions, and the basic laws of nature, too, but the idea is told to our children nearly every day. “You can do whatever you want. You can be whoever you choose. Your potentials are limitless.” It's a nice dream, and surely every parent wishes the universe would bend around their child's unlimited potential, but it rarely does. Children are born to families that can't support them, into situations where survival is the best goal for a person, or with conditions that limit them. The people out there who want to help sometimes seem outnumbered by those who couldn't care less.
This is of course a very pessimistic view on life. So I guess some questions I should look into about this are things like what obstacles are there for people to overcome, and what people are doing to help remove those obstacles. Also, what alternatives are out there for people who've had their dreams cut off? Is McDonalds a jumping off point for people whos dreams have stalled, or is it the dumping ground for those who've lost their dreams to chance?
Sigh. I love that story. If you're ever talking to me, I'll give you an example of that kids voice, cuz its just such a random way to say it. Anyway, I'm all written out for now. Good news is, this HW wasn't due until Sunday, so I've got a leg up on things. Go Greg powers!
31.8.05
Strange Goings-On
For whatever reason, this discussion has taken up way too much of my time and effort. It shouldn't have been that much of an issue. I quoted the Lion King, and he should have said something about the Lion King being stupid, and I would have agreed, but said that the quote still applied. He instead decided to escalate it by deleting the quote outright and insulting me for "liking Disney movies" too much and being immature. See, if you ask me, there is a time and place for maturity, and the Internet is rarely it. So yeah, I go around being immature online. Is that a crime? Is that so bad? *Sighs*
James feels that people should simply forget their childhood when they enter high school. Okay, good for him. I don't want to. He seems to feel that the world is divided into things for children, and things for adults, and past a certain age you should switch. I think that he should know better than anyone that this field is blurred far more than that, especially since he loves video games, and has a GameCube, unarguably the one system of the big three targeted to the youngest market. In any case, I need to move past this. He's right, some things are more imporant than others. Right now, for instance, a lot of things are more important than that issue. I just hope James realizes that we WILL have to interact several times over in the future, and I'm not the one with a problem. I didn't mind ferrying around someone and talking about issues like religion and politics and things, but if he's going to attack me and the things I enjoy, I simply don't want to be in the car with him if I can avoid it. And, as luck would have it, I can for the most part in this case. ^_^
Lessee, in other news, I've started school, and I think it's a good thing that I'm enjoying them all so far. I have a really kick-ass schedule, with plenty of time to hang ou- I mean get my work done. *Nods* Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoons are completely open for me, along with the weekends. I've decided to set those afternoons apart for doing my homework. Gasp! You heard right, I've scheduled time for my home work! O_O And that's not all: I'm going to be doing it EARLY if I can. Blasphemy! But yeah, this afternoon I still need to go and get my books. I waited until I'd seen all my classes and listened to what they needed, and now I know. Thankfully, I managed to get all the information my Aunt needed to her so she could get all my financial issues straightened out. I probably got more money than I'll need for my books, and as much as I'd like to keep the money for myself, I'll probably have to at least TELL her about it, and probably go to the trouble of sending it back so it can be invested. With any luck, it will be some amount that is too small to be worth returning to my college fund, but big enough that I can use it to buy food or something cool.
Anyway, that's my plan. I'll probably give an outline of all my classes or something later... And do some serious writing (or as serious as I get, anyway) to take my mind off this James thing and get some of my pent up aggression out. Yeah, that's right, I do get angry, but unlike some people, I know how to deal with it. Anyway, That's later. Calc is now. And again, James, if you're reading this, you seriously need to unblock me. I don't want to discuss things ad infinitum in your Journal any more than you do. That's something we can at least both agree on.
James feels that people should simply forget their childhood when they enter high school. Okay, good for him. I don't want to. He seems to feel that the world is divided into things for children, and things for adults, and past a certain age you should switch. I think that he should know better than anyone that this field is blurred far more than that, especially since he loves video games, and has a GameCube, unarguably the one system of the big three targeted to the youngest market. In any case, I need to move past this. He's right, some things are more imporant than others. Right now, for instance, a lot of things are more important than that issue. I just hope James realizes that we WILL have to interact several times over in the future, and I'm not the one with a problem. I didn't mind ferrying around someone and talking about issues like religion and politics and things, but if he's going to attack me and the things I enjoy, I simply don't want to be in the car with him if I can avoid it. And, as luck would have it, I can for the most part in this case. ^_^
Lessee, in other news, I've started school, and I think it's a good thing that I'm enjoying them all so far. I have a really kick-ass schedule, with plenty of time to hang ou- I mean get my work done. *Nods* Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoons are completely open for me, along with the weekends. I've decided to set those afternoons apart for doing my homework. Gasp! You heard right, I've scheduled time for my home work! O_O And that's not all: I'm going to be doing it EARLY if I can. Blasphemy! But yeah, this afternoon I still need to go and get my books. I waited until I'd seen all my classes and listened to what they needed, and now I know. Thankfully, I managed to get all the information my Aunt needed to her so she could get all my financial issues straightened out. I probably got more money than I'll need for my books, and as much as I'd like to keep the money for myself, I'll probably have to at least TELL her about it, and probably go to the trouble of sending it back so it can be invested. With any luck, it will be some amount that is too small to be worth returning to my college fund, but big enough that I can use it to buy food or something cool.
Anyway, that's my plan. I'll probably give an outline of all my classes or something later... And do some serious writing (or as serious as I get, anyway) to take my mind off this James thing and get some of my pent up aggression out. Yeah, that's right, I do get angry, but unlike some people, I know how to deal with it. Anyway, That's later. Calc is now. And again, James, if you're reading this, you seriously need to unblock me. I don't want to discuss things ad infinitum in your Journal any more than you do. That's something we can at least both agree on.
22.8.05
Tail
Random thought for the day: I'm planning on having children some day. Not myself, but through the vessel of purity that is Jackie. Anyway, this came up on TV just now, and it hit a chord with me, but if my son/daughter is born with a tail, I'm not sure I'd remove it. It might be cute or something. I dunno. No ears, of course, but still. Ah, who'm I kidding, I'd love it.
I've been bitten by the writers bug lately. When I'm in college, I'll prolly settle up and do write. And you can read it, if you're lucky. O_O
Anyway, I'm back in Austin tomorrow, for about 3 days, then Lubbock! Whee. No time for posting now, it seems. Talk again when I'm on CST.
I've been bitten by the writers bug lately. When I'm in college, I'll prolly settle up and do write. And you can read it, if you're lucky. O_O
Anyway, I'm back in Austin tomorrow, for about 3 days, then Lubbock! Whee. No time for posting now, it seems. Talk again when I'm on CST.
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