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... is this mike still on? seriously, I have never seen a half price bookstore with such a semi-decent collection of manga. just sitting there. half price. it just boggles the mind. I found out about the "what if?" books from discover magazine. original price was 24 bucks. selling price was 8 plus the 20% off deal. and the hard drive... I had to decide between that and a new cd drive to replace the crappy matSHITa combo drive that gives me a 50% success rate for burning cds, refuses to recognize the new cd-r's I just burned with the stupid thing, and chokes when trying to play my burned "someday's dreamers" ost (among other things, like the installation cd for my exteral hard drive). I'm praying that all this is a drive issue. I'm gonna run knoppix and see if I have luck with that. heck, I'm backing up my stuff in preparation for a linux install. yes, ANOTHER linux install. I WILL make the switch. now for the issue you've all been wondering. yes, I am still alive. yes, this is a blog update. yes, I haven't touched this at all during the school semester. why? hmm. I would say that andi's entry influenced me to go out and start living my life instead of writing about it. ironically enough, that wasn't her last entry - heck, she's still going at it. more to the point, I can't use that excuse because I haven't been doing that all the time. I am doing that more this time around, though. I also started this blog not out of necessity, but out of something I wanted to do. this was supposed to be a place where I can unload my thoughts and catalog the stuff that's important to me. perhaps it's my fear of not saying anything important. I don't like making one-line entries or e-mails because it just doesn't seem worthwhile. if I have to say something, I want it to be something significant. it's something I started after allison pointed out my habit of making random amusing yet meaningless noises all the time in high school. sadly, as my lack of updates as shown, this can sometimes lead to me not saying anything at all. during arugments and discussions, two things can happen to me. sometimes I'll come up with an interesting point but think about it too much. by the time I get everything sorted out, the topic has already changed. other times, I'll come up with something long after the topic has passed. I apologize for the rambling. I'm not sure if the last two paragraphs were coherent. this school semester has turned out fairly well. A's in diff eq and philosophy, and B's in comp sci, logic, and psychology. differential equations with beckner wasn't hard at all for the first two-thirds of the course. mainly about recognizing certian types of equations and learning how to solve them, with some of the techniques being as simple as finding roots of polynomials. the last third got ugly, with higher powers and partial derivatives. I must thank the TA, michael carleglio, for his awesomeness. if it wasn't for him, most of the class probably would have failed (including me). his "don't tell beckner" rule for one of the extra credit problems (which was erased on the scanned version) still brings a smile to my face. philosophy was omg. words cannot adequately describe the unorthodox teachings of seung, the husband of my piano teacher. if you view him the wrong way, you might say he's racist and abusive, both mentally and physically. heck, even if you view him the right way, he's still like that. but he has no malicious intent whatsoever... although he seems to get a kick out of bashing christianity. plus he won't listen to your opinions 90% of the time. you can try arguing, but it probably won't get you anywhere. even arguing with him is an ordeal - if you're not persistent about it, he'll just move on. he's nowhere near as arrogant as schaack was, though. and he really does a good job connecting philosophy to the real world. I won't even talk about the story that he made taylor share to the class. yay for quirky plan II teachers. comp sci with downing was all right. he had a decent lecturing style... although sometimes I would still doze off. the homework puzzlers were annoying. for stuff that only counts for 1% of your grade, some of the puzzler weren't worth doing. and the project... I will never understand how keith and I did so well on those. we usually slack off and play magic until the last minute. as keith stated, "saturday is too early for comp sci." keep in mind that the projects were 2 weeks long and were due at the end of Mondays. we would turn in our projects at the last minute - sometimes later, since the inaccurate time stamp gave us some leeway. and we would usually end get the 3rd highest grade in the class. the moral of this story, kids? >_> psychology with domjan was a fun class to go to, mainly because of the anecdotes. I stopped reading the book altogether when I realized it was easier to take notes in class. that might be why I got a B. oh well. logic with causey sucked. period. one time, I tried to stay awake during the entire lecture. it was a miracle. the guy next to me was out cold for most of the class. I think the only exciting thing that happened was the guest speaker we had. I don't remember his name, but I think he was the chairman of the comp sci department. he worked with a partner on LISP and helped logically verify one of AMD's microprocessors after IBM's pentium chip was recalled for division miscalculations. I love logic. in fact, I kept the plan II logic textbook because it was easy to understand. causey's presentation was just so dull, convoluted, and uninspiring. this post has gone on long enough. yet another reason why I should sit my ass down and update on a more regular basis. I'll throw up another entry soon. I just finished watching Da Capo, a series that continues the strange trend of hgame-based anime turning out really, really good. and I am drowning myself in the first half of the 2nd OST because IT IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL DEPRESSING STUFF I HAVE EVER HEARD BUT THEN I SAY THAT ABOUT A BUNCH OF OTHER THINGS AND I MUST STOP typing in caps. right. off to finish my coffee and learn "sakura to junichi no yakusoku" and "fuan" on the piano. Post a comment in response: |
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