So...he was behind you, then? No, dude, I was in front of him!

Finals 1

Tue, 02 May 2006 20:21:28 GMT

Ok, my group did our presentation today on our MATLAB program. The whole time, I felt like a third-grader could have written the program, but whatever. Our presentation was horrible - one of the guys only made it to one of the team meetings, but we had to have him talk just was much as the rest of us to make it seem like everyone did their fair share of the work.

The File-I/O was a joke, all we did was pass-out a 10-char. array and bring it back in for the purpose of displaying. All of the formatting for displaying the .dat file was included in the main function - we serioulsy passed a single 10-char array to a .dat file just to call it back - that's all we did for File-I/O, but it technically met our quota for the project.

..and even with as simple as our project was, there was an error - assumably with aligning variables. Durring our demonstration, our "vending machine" sold a grape soda to the guy we picked from the audience, but when we read our passed array, the program retuned that we has sold one orange soda and nothing else. ...but nobody noticed except for me and one other group member and we sure as hell didn't announce it.

The whole program was rediculously simple, we should be ashamed of ourselves - G'ah - it's CRAP!

...looking for some support here.

I NEED YOUR OPINION!

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:43:28 GMT

Go HERE AND VOTE ON THE FATE OF MY SUMMER

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Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:08:01 GMT

The very day after I install Fedora 5 on my desktop, WinXP lets me down hardcore on my laptop - how the f* am I supposed to finnish this program now? It's due at 6pm and I have another class @ 4:30.

Mother f* %$*I&^%&$&*(HBJHLP(BO^&V %*(P89045890&*()R(B ^&8nwv348t erg98pnui eujoiU*IU 89PY 89(%$*(*%(&%)($%@#$%#$%^$yu 89p 9u9yt87&T*()%*%$Rf$&*$*()!@#$%^&*()_+_)(*&^%$#@!!@#$%^&*()_)(*&^%$#@!@#$%^&*()_

*BANGS HEAD ON KEYBOARD

*POUNDS KEYBOARD WITH FIST

*CURSES INSESSANTLY

*ACTUALLY CRIES

It's Alive

Tue, 18 Apr 2006 03:36:42 GMT

Fedora 5 is up and running. It took about 3 hours to install using the cd-package. I would highly reccomend using the DVD if you can. This is SOOO much better than Fedora 3.

Anyway, I'm tired now - goodnight!

Linux

Tue, 18 Apr 2006 01:13:14 GMT

Fedora Core 5 has arrived - guess what I'm doing tonight...

I bet it would be more fun to watch paint dry.

Simple version of the story

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 20:29:21 GMT

She cheated on me. I told her I forgive her and I just wanted to forget about it and move on, let us be us. She said no, she'd rather be with the other guy.

corn

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:04:13 GMT

So I was standing in the kitchen today thinking ... yesterday for lunch, I had a couple of cornbread muffins. For dinner last night, I made myself some hominy grits. For breakfast today, I made corncakes and for lunch today I had canned corn. It was while I was having lunch that I came to this realization. "I've had corn for my last four meals." Maybe it's because I'm from Indiana?

...strange.

Beware the Ides of March!

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:01:27 GMT

Boy do I miss living at home and going to school. My little sister doesn't, though, she's still there. I can't immagine what it's like for her to be living there and dealing face-to-face with the things I hear about via telephone and experience for myself only occasionally.

It kills me still, though, to remain away - unable to help, as opposed to being there yet still unable to help. Will it all fall apart? Who knows?; my best guess is 'probably'.

In the mean time, I will get back to work - preparing for tomorrow's chem lab, reading chapter after chapter about capacitors, transistors and other such bunk. Asside from those, I must write a C program involving 9 complex functions, though the description makes it seem as if this one should be relatively easy to impliment in code.

Wish me luck!

My new favorite song:

"I remember the summer I turned sixteen and that old jalopy daddy gave to me. It had holes in the floor and just a 305, but I didn't care 'cause I could finally drive. There wasn't much to do in my home town, so every weekend night we would all go down...

* * *

Man we sure did learn a lot in that Wal-Mart parking lot"

I, however, turned 16 (as did I turn every age) in the fall and I had to work my ass of and buy myself my first car.

void

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 00:44:33 GMT

I've hit my goal weight :-(. I stepped on the digital scale today and it read 219.5 According to this, I am down 60.5 pounds ...but I feel like I still have a long way to go. Maybe I'll put up some before and after pictures (if I can find some good before pictures) and see what you guys think.

I'm hating my A/C circuitry analysis class more and more every day. We just took a test - yeah. There were four sections, the first was short answer and the next three involved drawing a schematic based on a description and analyzing the schematic that we had drawn.

None of the heavily-focused-upon parts of the schematic-related sections were covered on the study guide, and some of the material is from the chapter that we will be starting the week after next (next = spring break). WTF^?

-MATLAB programming is f* boring

-Chemistry is as boring and easy for me as it was in High School.

...and finally, Programming in C is getting to be more and more fun...as it gets more and more difficult.

Let's try this, an experiment.
__________________________________________________________________
int school = 0;
char brandonHawkins = 20; // ...because I'm a real character :-)
double myAnnualIncome = 0; //large number

// Begin

school = over; //const.
brandonHawkins = graduatedMarriedRichWorkingAndHappy; //const.
myAnnualIncome = valueOfMicrosoftCorp; //const.

printf("Congratulations!\nYou are really somebody!");
__________________________________________________________________

yeah, it'd be nice if life were that simple.

In the mean time, I have to get back to my MATLAB homework.

As they say here in the Fort "Holla."

--- I miss PoDunk, Indiana

February Update

Tue, 28 Feb 2006 04:34:15 GMT

*Trying to be short this time

-Glad spring break is coming, school's tough, work sucks.

-Bought another car (#9) '96 Contour, not sure if I'm keeping my truck.

-Learning to love porgramming in C

-Going to Tell city for the first two days of Spring break

-Miss Crystal, she's amazing.

-Broke

-Tired

-Stressed

-Did catch the final episode of the Bachelor - Travis made the right descision, Moana whined too much.

Home, Crystal, School, Taxes

Tue, 31 Jan 2006 04:20:24 GMT

So, this weekend was awesome but WAYYYYY too short. I was home for just about 36 hours and I spent more than 1/2 of that time with Crystal - I would've been home for an even SHORTER period of time, but I didn't feel like falling asleep at the wheel Sunday night so I just spent the night at home.

I just got home from school, too and it's after 11 now - that's sad. You guys should see the circuit I built tonight, though - it's pretty cool. ...now if only there were someone there at 10:30pm who could verify it's operation so that I wouldn't've had to tear it apart just to rebuild it later for verification. Eh, shit happens.

I finally got my last W2, I'm thinking about doing my taxes tonight, even though I am incredibly tired. It usually doesn't take me that long - ...idk, maybe I'll just wait 'till tomorrow after my first class.

ANYway, that's all for now - a refreshingly short entry, I know!

...goodnight

Chuck Norris - migrated from my blog.

Sun, 22 Jan 2006 00:02:31 GMT

"Fuckin' Chuck Norris"

I STOLE THIS, IT'S FUNNY! OFFENSIVE AT TIMES, BUT FUNNY!

Top 30 Chuck Norris Facts.

1. Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried.

2. When Chuck Norris plays Oregon Trail his family does not die from cholera or dysentery, but rather roundhouse kicks to the face. He also requires no wagon, since he carries the oxen, axels, and buffalo meat on his back. He always makes it to Oregon before you.

3. Rather than being birthed like a normal child, Chuck Norris instead decided to punch his way out of his mother's womb. Shortly thereafter he grew a beard.

4. Chuck Norris recently had the idea to sell his urine as a canned beverage. We know this beverage as Red Bull.

5. Chuck Norris built a time machine and went back in time to stop the JFK assassination. As Oswald shot, Chuck met all three bullets with his beard, deflecting them. JFK's head exploded out of sheer amazement.

6. Chuck Norris's girlfriend once asked him how much wood a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. He then shouted, "HOW DARE YOU RHYME IN THE PRESENCE OF CHUCK NORRIS!" and ripped out her throat. Holding his girlfriend's bloody throat in his hand he bellowed, "Don't fuck with Chuck!" Two years and five months later he realized the irony of this statement and laughed so hard that anyone within a hundred mile radius of the blast went deaf.

7. Chuck Norris sold his soul to the devil for his rugged good looks and unparalleled martial arts ability. Shortly after the transaction was finalized, Chuck roundhouse kicked the devil in the face and took his soul back. The devil, who appreciates irony, couldn't stay mad and admitted he should have seen it coming. They now play poker every second Wednesday of the month.

8. To prove it isn't that big of a deal to beat cancer. Chuck Norris smoked 15 cartons of cigarettes a day for 2 years and aquired 7 different kinds of cancer only to rid them from his body by flexing for 30 minutes. Beat that, Lance Armstrong.

9. The original theme song to the Transformers was actually "Chuck Norris--more than meets the eye, Chuck Norris--robot in disguise," and starred Chuck Norris as a Texas Ranger who defended the earth from drug-dealing Decepticons and could turn into a pick-up. This was far too much awesome for a single show, however, so it was divided.

10. Chuck Norris was the fourth Wiseman. He brought baby Jesus the gift of "beard". Jesus wore it proudly to his dying day. The other Wisemen, jealous of Jesus' obvious gift favoritism, used their combined influence to have Chuck omitted from the Bible. Shortly after all three died of roundhouse kick related deaths.

11. Chuck Norris lives by only one rule: No fat Chicks.

12. When Chuck Norris's wife burned the turkey one Thanksgiving, Chuck said, "Don't worry about it honey," and went into his backyard. He came back five minutes later with a live turkey, ate it whole, and when he threw it up a few seconds later it was fully cooked and came with cranberry sauce. When his wife asked him how he had done it, he gave her a roundhouse kick to the face and said, "Never question Chuck Norris."

13. Chuck Norris once shot a German plane down with his finger, by yelling, "Bang!"

14. A man once asked Chuck Norris if his real name is "Charles". Chuck Norris did not respond, he simply stared at him until he exploded.

15. Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.

16. Chuck Norris can make a woman climax by simply pointing at her and saying "booya".

17. Chuck Norris once went to a frat party, and proceeded to roundhouse every popped collar in sight. He then drank three kegs and shit on their floor, just because he's Chuck Norris.

18. Before each filming of Walker: Texas Ranger, Chuck Norris is injected with five times the lethal dose of elephant tranquilzer. This is, of course, to limit his strength and mobility, in an attempt to lower the fatality rate of the actors he fights.

19. Chuck Norris took my virginity, and he will sure as hell take yours. If you're thinking to yourself, "That's impossible, I already lost my virginity.", then you are dead wrong.

20. Chuck Norris found out about Conan O'Brien's lever that shows clips from "Walker: Texas Ranger" and is working on a way to make it show clips of Norris having sex with Conan's wife.

21. The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.

22. Chuck Norris doesn't have normal white blood cells like you and I. His have a small black ring around them. This signifies that they are black belts in every form of martial arts and they roundhouse kick the shit out of viruses. That's why Chuck Norris never gets ill.

23. Chuck Norris frequently signs up for beginner karate classes, just so he can "accidentally" beat the shit out of little kids.

24. Chuck Norris once tried to sue Burger King after they refused to put razor wire in his Whopper Jr., insisting that that actually is "his" way.

25. One of the greatest cover-ups of the last century was the fact that Hitler did not commit suicide in his bunker, but was in fact tea-bagged to death by Chuck Norris.

26. Chuck Norris punched a woman in the vagina when she didn't give him exact change.

27. Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs.

28. After much debate, President Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima rather than the alternative of sending Chuck Norris. His reasoning? It was more "humane".

29. If you can see Chuck Norris, he can see you. If you can't see Chuck Norris you may be only seconds away from death.

30. Chuck Norris ruins the endings of Harry Potter books for children who just bought one for the hell of it. When they start crying Chuck Norris calmly says, "I'll give you something to cry about," and roundhouse kicks them in the face

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There are two kinds of people in this world: people who suck, and Chuck Norris.

In the movie "Back to the Future" they used Chuck Norris' Delorean to go back into time and into the future. When they gave it back to him with a scratch on it he was angry and roundhouse kicked Michael J. Fox, which years later was the cause of his Parkinson's disease.

Chuck Norris spends his Saturdays climbing mountains and meditating in peaceful solitude. Sundays are for oral sex, KFC and Tequila.

Chuck Norris always has sex on the first date. Always. The only time he didn't was in 1941, otherwise known as the beginning of the Holocaust.

Chuck Norris can enter up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Select, Start using only his erection.

Crop circles are Chuck Norris's way of telling the world that sometimes corn needs to lie the f*ck down.

There is no theory of evolution, just a list of creatures Chuck Norris allows to live.

When Chuck Norris goes to donate blood, he declines the syringe, and instead requests a hand gun and a bucket.

Chuck Norris once walked down the street with a massive erection. There were no survivors.

In an average living room there are 1,242 objects Chuck Norris could use to kill you, including the room itself.

Chuck Norris has two speeds: walk and kill.

Chuck Norris is the only man to ever defeat a brick wall in a game of tennis.

When Chuck Norris was born, the nurse said, "Holy crap! That's Chuck Norris!" Then she had had sex with him. At that point, she was the third girl he had slept with.

Chuck Norris can set ants on fire with a magnifying glass. At night.

It takes Chuck Norris 20 minutes to watch 60 Minutes.

Chuck Norris is not lactose intolerant, he just refuses to put up with lactose's shit.

Chuck Norris can divide by zero.

When Chuck Norris does a pushup, he isn't lifting himself up, he's pushing the Earth down.

There is no chin behind Chuck Norris's beard. Just another fist

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Then, finally, I stole this one from Emily Wigley

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Cars were invented to have a faster way of fleeing from Chuck Norris. Not to be outdone, Chuck Norris invented the car accident.

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AND NOW MORE:

The Dinosaurs looked at Chuck Norris the wrong way once. ONCE.

Chuck Norris invented time zones in order to more efficiently schedule world wide ass kickings.

Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.

Chuck Norris does not hunt because the word hunting infers the probability of failure. Chuck Norris goes killing.

Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right arms.

Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice.

Chuck Norris once bowled a 400 game.

Chuck Norris sold his soul to the devil for his rugged good looks and unparalleled martial arts ability. Shortly after the transaction was finalized, Chuck roundhouse kicked the devil in the face and took his soul back. The devil, who appreciates irony, couldn't stay mad and admitted he should have seen it coming. They now play poker every second Wednesday of the month.

When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.

If you can see Chuck Norris, he can see you. If you can't see Chuck Norris you may be only seconds away from death.

The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.

Chuck Norris doesn't need to digest his food because he scares the crap out of himself.

Chuck Norris built a time machine and went back in time to stop the JFK assassination. As Oswald shot, Chuck met all three bullets with his beard, deflecting them. JFK's head exploded out of sheer amazement.

Chuck Norris has already been to Mars; that's why there are no signs of life there.

When Chuck Norris sends in his taxes, he sends blank forms and includes only a picture of himself, crouched and ready to attack. Chuck Norris has not had to pay taxes ever.

Chuck Norris is like a dog, not only because he can smell fear, but because he can piss on whatever the fuck he wants.

Chuck Norris is the only person alive to have successfully outwitted Sccoby Doo and the Mystery Machine.

Chuck Norris sleeps with a night light. Not because Chuck Norris is afraid of the dark, but the dark is afraid of Chuck Norris

If Chuck Norris is late, time better slow the fuck down.

As a teen Chuck Norris impregnated every nun in a convent tucked away in the hills of Tuscany. Nine months later the nuns gave birth to the 1972 Miami Dolphins, the only undefeated and untied team in professional football history.

To keep is his mind sharp Chuck Norris plays Tic-Tac-Toe versus himself. He wins every time.

Chuck Norris is not hung like a horse... horses are hung like Chuck Norris

Chuck Norris rode in to town on Friday, stayed 3 days and left on Friday. His horse was named Justice, and he can control the spin of the earth.

A blind man once stepped on Chuck Norris' shoe. Chuck replied, "Don't you know who I am? I'm Chuck Norris!" The mere mention of his name cured this man blindness. Sadly the first, last, and only thing this man ever saw, was a fatal roundhouse delivered by Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris fought the law, and the law never fought back.

Superman owns a pair of Chuck Norris pajamas.

Chuck Norris doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.

A Handicap parking sign does not signify that this spot is for handicapped people. It is actually in fact a warning, that the spot belongs to Chuck Norris and that you will be handicapped if you park there.

Chuck Norris never showers... because he never breaks a sweat.

Chuck Norris doesn't get AIDS. AIDS gets Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris gives 95% of the women he bones multiple orgasms. He gives the rest concussions.

Chuck Norris' blood type is AK+. Ass-Kicking Positive. It is compatible only with heavy construction equipment, tanks, and fighter jets.

Chuck Norris is 1/8th Cherokee. This has nothing to do with ancestry, the man ate a fucking Indian.

In fine print on the last page of the Guinness Book of World Records it notes that all world records are held by Chuck Norris, and those listed in the book are simply the closest anyone else has ever gotten.

The Great Wall of China was originally created to keep Chuck Norris out. It failed miserably.

If you ask Chuck Norris what time it is, he always says, "Two seconds 'til." After you ask, "Two seconds 'til what?" he roundhouse kicks you in the face.

The quickest way to a man's heart is with Chuck Norris' fist.

Chuck Norris invented Kentucky Fried Chicken's famous secret recipe, with eleven herbs and spices. But nobody ever mentions the twelfth ingredient: Fear.

Chuck Norris can win a game of Connect Four in only three moves.

There is no theory of evolution, just a list of creatures Chuck Norris allows to live.

Chuck Norris once ate three 72 oz. steaks in one hour. He spent the first 45 minutes having sex with his waitress.

What was going through the minds of all of Chuck Norris' victims
before they died? His shoe.

In a fight between Batman and Darth Vader, the winner would be Chuck Norris.

Police label anyone attacking Chuck Norris as a Code 45-11.... a suicide.

Chuck Norris doesn't churn butter. He roundhouse kicks the cows and the butter comes straight out.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool Chuck Norris once and he will fuck you up.

The opening scene of the movie "Saving Private Ryan" is loosely based on games of dodgeball Chuck Norris played in second grade.

Contrary to popular belief, America is not a democracy, it is a Chucktatorship.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is based on a true story: Chuck Norris once swallowed a turtle whole, and when he crapped it out, the turtle was six feet tall and had learned karate.

Chuck Norris' favorite cereal is Kellogg's Marbles 'N' Gravel.

In an average living room there are 1,242 objects Chuck Norris could use to kill you, including the room itself.

One does not punch Chuck Norris; Chuck Norris headbutts one's fist.

Ford, realizing their mistake, recently changed their slogan to, "Built Chuck Norris tough".

Chuck Norris is what Willis is talkin' 'bout.

If you take a picture of Chuck Norris, from that day on, that camera will only develop that same picture of Chuck Norris, no matter what is in the lense's sight.

Chuck Norris roundhouse kicked Toucan Sam for giving, "Shitty directions."

Chuck Norris goes to the toilet once a month, if he needs to or not.

Chuck Norris IS the "I" in Team.

Chuck Norris is the reason you don't mess with Texas.

The movie Anaconda was filmed in Chuck Norris' pants.

There is no plural of 'Chuck Norris' because there can be only one Chuck.

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot isn’t a storm. It's where Chuck Norris puts his victims.

Once Chuck Norris fell into a snake pit. When he came out, he had a brand new pair of rattlesnake-skin boots.

Home for Long Weekend

Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:49:59 GMT

Well, I don't have classes on Friday and we have MLK Jr. Day off school, so I'm going home tonight and I will be there 'till I come back Monday night.

This is going to be great - I get to take a short break from my steady diet of canned fruit, Excedrine and Cold-Eeze. Beyond that, I get to spend some time with Crystal. The two weeks following this weekend are going to suck, however ...but I'm tough, I'll be ok.

ANYway, I'm finally settled into my classes, but I'm still waiting to recieve a couple of textbooks. I got a couple from the bookstore just so that I wouldn't have to wait for them but the other two were ungodly expensive, even used. By waiting a few days for them to be shipped, I saved over $100. +2 pts for me

ANOTHER thing... I got a notebook from the bookstore today, it had to be a special kind for Chem class - the pages had to be non-removable (like for practice - in case we ever decide to become real chemists - we have to keep close notes of what we do and we must be able to prove that our notes have not been altered in any way - ever. THE POINT is... $3.17 Three fucking dollars and seventeens cents for a fucking notebook - something that I am going to scribble in and eventually throw-away. I feel sooooo violated - dirty.

Anywho, bye for now. Call me if y'all get lonely!

Guess Who's Back!, Scale, Crystal, PWL

Sun, 08 Jan 2006 03:46:43 GMT

It's Me! I'm back in Fort Wayne. I'm still working on figuring out how to 'grow some new friends' but in the mean time I'm getting ready for school.

I stepped on the scale today dreading the thought of where the wheel would stop after better than three weeks of real home cooking, junk food and sloth. As I watched the wheel spin back and forth, zeroing in on the magic number to be, I must admit I was very nevervous ... but the wheel landed in a very unexpected area - right on 230. Fuck Yeah - I LOST weight over Christmas Break - eat that bitches! This means I am now officially down 50 pounds. True, I could have just chopped-off a limb and saved myself a bunch of time, but I'm glad I chose this approach instead - less painful.

That, however, is 'small potatoes' in contrast to the other great news I bear. I got the best Christmas present any guy could ever want - even though it was 9 days late - a brand new girlfriend. She is amazing - I've liked her for a while - we worked together over the break so tEcHnIcAlLy I wasn't supposed to fraternize with or date her until my employment there lapsed, but we talked at work and she played Poker with me and the guys and whatnot and I couldn't help myself - I fell in like with her. ...Then the day before my last day there, we made it official. L-D relationships suck ass, but she's beyond worth it. ...besides, 2 hours isn't that far and at least she's somewhere where I have to be occasionally - I'll be home every 2nd weekend, and she may drive-out here occasionally, too.

So far, I still haven't heard from my PWL advisor, I guess she's still on Christmas Break. Hopefully I'll talk to her Monday - but I have class at 9:00am Monday - this sucks.

Bison: I love you man, I mean it - I wish I could do something. Always Know I'm Here.

Spoonberries

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:50:52 GMT

So, I was at Steak N' Shake today with one of my friends and I was kind of hungry but not really - so I decided to get a shake - it ended up being something with strawberries in it. So, here I am listening to a story and sucking-down my shake when one of those damn strawberries clogged up the end of the straw.

I inturrupted my friend and I said, "You know, why do they call these "straw" berries, they don't fit..." (as I pick up a spoon) "...they should call them spoonberries instead..." (as I picked the strawberry up with a spoon and ate it).

Man, I don't think I've ever seen anyone laugh so hard in public!

Point for me ..... HI-YOooooooo

Mon, 02 Jan 2006 06:07:27 GMT

In the year 2006 I resolve to:

Grow some new friends.

Get your resolution here

Untouchables

Sat, 31 Dec 2005 05:34:06 GMT

Out of everything in the world (inclusively) that I can't ever have, I know what I want the most. Should I consider this realization a positive epiphany or a source of depression?

ALSO... still haven't heard from my PWL advisor, so I don't have my IPFW schedule hammered-out for the nearing semester. I guess college isn't for the weak-hearted. All this atop the fact that I'm not sure I'm happy with what I'm doing - I think I'll just go to bed now, I have to work in the morning.

Weird Family, Psych Minor

Mon, 26 Dec 2005 06:54:50 GMT

So, I think I am going to go for a minor in pshychology. I have been wanting to take a couple of psych. classes for...ever, but between talking to Morgan (breifly) and spending time with my family this christmas, I think my mind has been made up.

Perhapps the perfect job for me would be talking to electronics about their problems and why they don't function properly. What do y'all think?

F*

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:53:17 GMT

Well, I just took my Calc. final and I know that I didn't do as well as I'd hoped I would, but worst case: my final grade will be a C.

AND I figured I'd check my e-mail before I headed home and WHOPTDY F* D'AH! I have an e-mail from the dept. of engineering. My CPET-190 class has been canceled. IF I DON'T TAKE THIS COURSE, I WILL STILL BE A FRESHMAN AT THE END OF NEXT SEMESTER! I have been trying to take this course FOREVER and if I can't enter the co-op until a full semester after I have completed this course. NOW IT'S GETTING PERSONAL, THIS COURSE HAS HAD IT OUT FOR ME FROM THE BEGINNING AND NOW IT IS STARTING TO FUCK WITH MY LIFE!

Going Home

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:20:47 GMT

Well, it's finally Thursday. I'm going in to take my Calc. final in just one hour - after that I can finally go home. ...and start working full time for the next three weeks :-(.

Finals, 'Peace...", <3 Meg, Ram

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 03:59:44 GMT

Well, I have all but one final out of the way - I'm just burning right along here. Tomorrow, I wake up at 6 am and finnish studying (hopefully) for Calculus, then I go and take the test at 10:15 or 10:30 - I don't remember which - it's on my calendar; I'll probably get there early anyway.

I was driving to school earlier tonight and I saw that right by the Canterbury Green appartments, they had put up a huge...I don't even know what to call it - a huge thing in the, for lack of better word, front yard. It looks like the "Hollywood" sign but it is right down in the grass - or rather would be if the grass wasn't covered in snow. This thing spells out "PEACE ON EARTH".

Now, this got me thinking. Why is it that (as I know) they put this thing up in the middle of December and it will come down shortly after the holidays (CHRISTMAS, that is!). That is bullshit - and this is just a relatively small example. Why is it that we only encourage peacefullness among ourselves ... like, when there is snow on the ground. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love snow, but it doesn't necessarily make me feel peaceful in and of itself.

Why is it that almost all Christmas/holiday movies end with, or at least include, a sceen where somebody who is an asshole all year 'round does something nice for someone?!?! More specifically, why is it that we see this sort of thing only in Christmas movies?!?!

By the way, does anyone truly beleive that Christmas has become only a children's holiday? - I had a decent example - food for thought, but I'll leave it out.

I talked to Megan on the phone today - sort of :-). I think we were both doing something else at the time, but THE POINT IS :-) I got to talk to her - so overall, today was a good day.

For Christmas, I want 512Mb of PC2700. It's $41.99 @ TigerDirect, so if you love me and you really want to show me....

Final 1 of 3

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:18:30 GMT

Well, I took my first written final for the semester. (I had four classes, but the final for one was just a project - I finished that class with a 100%).

For today's class (Programming in vb.NET a.k.a. copying code out of a book), I just had to get a 71% or better to get an A for a final grade - done. Obviously the test hasn't been graded yet, as I just finished it about 40 minutes ago, but I assure you I did it.

Now, about my last paren-ed statement, with the way this course is structured, it is impossible to actually learn how to program in vb.NET. I picked up on a few techniques, and I now know how to make useless little programs, but the course never dives into the logical portion of the code - the computorial interpretation, if you will. ...therefore, all one CAN do is copy the code for the projects out of the book and turn them in for credit - this is what the professor tells us to do.

As for the tests, if you come on review day, you are given the test. The professor comes with a copy of the test and tells us everything we need to know - including question numbers. For some questions, he will just tell us the answer because that is easier than explaining the question. For example: for the final, he told us #3 is true, #26 is "A", #27 is "C", #29 is "A" etc. For the other questions, he will give us a the question number and then what we need to know to answer that question.

Ex: "For number 33, know what database technology Visual Basic .NET uses."

Question #33, vb.NET uses what database technology? A) B) C) D)

Ok, that's all for now, more later!

iso91, finals

Sat, 10 Dec 2005 20:06:09 GMT

Well, I finally got around to updating our website last night which hasn't been done since Oct. 22nd according to my notes. That's just sad. I tried to make it a little more public friendly - things like removing "Chicken Fucker" from the Michael Bessigano sign, and removing the picture of the iso bottle from the header. There is still, as always, a lot of work to be done. For anyone who doesn't know, the URL is iso91.com.

Finals are coming! Yay! *sarcastic smile/thumbs-down* Wish me luck with calc., my grade is right on a line, and is fully dependant upon the final.

That's it for now.

Short Sift, Traction Control, Snowblower

Fri, 09 Dec 2005 16:42:52 GMT

Alright, I woke up relatively early today and went out to start my truck and remove some of the snow from the top of it (using a broom - don't ask), then I went in to do my 4 hour shift. Well, my 4 hour shift turned in to a 1 hour and 15 minute shift because everyone is afraid to drive out here when it snows - f*'n yuppies. There were no customers, so 1/2 of us went home.

Man, the last time the snow kept me home was 1998 - you remember 1998, I know you do. THAT was bad, THIS is not. This is beautiful - I love it.

For those of you with front wheel drive cars - if you get stuck:

1)Turn-off your traction control (if you have it). If I am standing outside in the cold, willing to push your car, DO NOT SIT THERE AND ARGUE WITH ME AND TELL ME THAT THIS IS WHAT IT'S THERE FOR; NOT IT'S NOT, I KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT, BELIEVE ME, JUST FUCKING TURN IT OFF. that bitch... ANYway....

2)For a front wheel drive car, the throttle is your friend. Turn your wheels back and forth and keep your foot on the gas - not floored, but on the gas - you need to keep your wheels spinning as you turn the (steering) wheel back and forth so as to dig your way down to the pavement. Don't worry about 'polishing', this doesn't matter in a FWD car. Once you have made a little progress, THEN you can start to 'rock' your way out of wherever you are stuck. DO NOT TURN YOUR TRACTION CONTROL BACK ON until you are completely un-stuck and able to move freely.

For a rear wheel drive vehicle, just don't get stuck. Just straight-up don't do it. It's so much easier to not get stuck with RWD, but if you do, you are basically f*cked. all you can do is 'rock'. If it's a pickup, keep a shovel in the bed.

Anyway, on my way home, I stopped to help push this lady's GrandAm, which she had managed to get stuck in a drift. As I was pushing, I was standing right next to the exhaust and I could hear the motor cutting-in and -out, so I knew she had traction control and that it was on. I told her to shut it off, but she preferred to argue with me and tell me that that was what it was there for. Dumbass - no, that is NOT what it is there for. ANYway, eventually she listened to me and I was able to help her get free.

THINK: what good could traction control possibly do when you are stuck in a drift? Here you are, sitting and you have this marvelous system on your car that is designed to kill your fuel injectors whenever your tires slip. &*()U^&*&().....USELESS!!!

When that was over, I came home and fired-up the snow blower. It was not, however, as simple as it sounds. That thing has...issues. First of all, the starter wouldn't engage. It would spin, but it wouldn't engage. SO - I tried pull-starting it, it would fire once or twice, occasionally it would get really going, but it wouldn't last, it would die after a few seconds. At this, I got frustrated - I got a hammer :-). I gave the starter a few love taps and voila, it engaged - good thing, because it still took about another 5 minutes of tweaking the choke, flirting with the throttle and pumping the primer to get it to start and stay running.

Man will that thing run once the block gets warm, though. I did our driveway and the elderly neighbors'. The neighbors tried to pay me but I wouldn't take it.

A cup of coffee later, here I am, thawed-out and ready to start my day, finally. I'll probably do some studying, maybe go for a jog later, idk.

Christmas II

Fri, 09 Dec 2005 00:32:50 GMT

I've been pretty caught up in the Santa debate for the last two days. Massive Amounts of Kudos (not just quantities - amounts) to Susan for leading me to that squirrel video. I posted it in a blog for the M.A.C. and the response has been pretty positive. I've had e-mails about it all day. I can tell that people who are pro status-quo are more likely to remain reserved and msg among themselves that the pro-change people who tend to post more (it's the same with any topic). Few people are comfortable telling people who are pro-change to:

I say, it should be done. If the pro-change group can stick-up for their beliefs, then we can too. Debate is healthy ...in most cases.

If you want to check out the blog, then Click Here

Now, as for the neolithic bastards who want to buy a holiday tree and wish everyone a merry holiday, ...let 'em. I am not offended by this at all, which is kind of what they are going for. There is not really a fine line here, but more of a continuum upon which lies an area past which I will not be able to handle the radical change and ousting of the term 'Christmas' or any term related to it. We are not there yet, however.

I think that, for me, Christmas should be Christmas. ...however I also believe that every individual should be able to decide if/how they want to celebrate...whatever they tell themselves they are celebrating. If nothing else, the end of December is a great time to get together with family and friends...just to do it - just to get together with family and friends. School is out, the snow (usually) is falling (where we are, anyway) and the entire country is just...set-up for it.

That's all for now; I'll probably post more later.