So, it's the end of the school year, and I'm wrapping up final projects, getting ready for finals, giving presentations, all that good stuff. And there's still the icing on the cake.
Basically, every time I go through an experience like the one I'm going through now, it's like rewriting the whole damn book. But, that's part of what makes it fun. I said to one of my friends earlier that 'the best and worst thing about interactions with other people is that you have at most 50% of the input'. It's true. It makes it fun and surprising, and then also makes it maddening. Never in my life have I more desired to be psychic.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Monday, April 28, 2008
Kiss Me Deadly
I went to a party last saturday night,
I didnt get laid I got in a fight
uh huh, it aint no big thing (really?)
late for my job and the traffic was bad
had to borrow ten bucks from tavis's dad
uh huh, it aint no big thing
I went to a party last saturday night,
I told you that story and I'll be allright
uh huh, it aint no big thing
but I know what I like
I know I like dancin with you
And I know what you like,
I know you like dancin with me
kiss me once, kiss me twice
come on pretty baby kiss me deadly
kiss me once, kiss me twice
come on pretty baby kiss me deadly
had a few beers, gettin high
sittin, watchin the time go by
uh huh, it aint no big thing
nothin to eat and no tv
lookin in the mirror dont do it for me
uh huh, it aint to big thing
but I know what I like
I know I like dancin with you
and I know what you like
I know you like dancin with me
(dance with me!)
kiss me once
kiss me twice
come on pretty baby kiss me deadly
kiss me once
kiss me twice
come on pretty baby kiss me deadly
(well I know you like dancin with me)
kiss me once, kiss me twice
come on pretty baby kiss me deadly
kiss me once
kiss me twice
come on pretty baby kiss me
come on pretty baby kiss me
come on pretty baby kiss me deadly
kiss me deadly
went to a party last night
I didnt get laid
I didnt get laid I got in a fight
uh huh, it aint no big thing (really?)
late for my job and the traffic was bad
had to borrow ten bucks from tavis's dad
uh huh, it aint no big thing
I went to a party last saturday night,
I told you that story and I'll be allright
uh huh, it aint no big thing
but I know what I like
I know I like dancin with you
And I know what you like,
I know you like dancin with me
kiss me once, kiss me twice
come on pretty baby kiss me deadly
kiss me once, kiss me twice
come on pretty baby kiss me deadly
had a few beers, gettin high
sittin, watchin the time go by
uh huh, it aint no big thing
nothin to eat and no tv
lookin in the mirror dont do it for me
uh huh, it aint to big thing
but I know what I like
I know I like dancin with you
and I know what you like
I know you like dancin with me
(dance with me!)
kiss me once
kiss me twice
come on pretty baby kiss me deadly
kiss me once
kiss me twice
come on pretty baby kiss me deadly
(well I know you like dancin with me)
kiss me once, kiss me twice
come on pretty baby kiss me deadly
kiss me once
kiss me twice
come on pretty baby kiss me
come on pretty baby kiss me
come on pretty baby kiss me deadly
kiss me deadly
went to a party last night
I didnt get laid
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Scary Things
So, I said something scary to someone today. Well, scary for me.
"After this semester, I don't have anything left to learn in MechE."
I mean, not literally, but it is pretty true. I have a project course and a lab left, meaning no more brand new course material for MechE.
I'm getting really close, and it's scary.
Speaking of getting really close...
My last relationship ended by kind of fizzling. At some point, you're no longer, well, attracted to the other person, for lack of a better term. It happens. I've been in a funk before, and it happened a bit again, where I was thinking 'do you ever meet a person you don't grow tired of?'
The answer is unequivocally yes.
That being said, everything happens for a reason. It's foolhardy to expect that whatever reason you had before is just going to disappear. I'm thinking I should tread slower, and lighter.
Gaming kind of on hiatus while I finish out the semester. Don't know exactly what I'll do over the summer, I had an idea, I'm still playing around with doing something different. Still planning to run Ebmist next year, but I know I won't have the time or motivation to finish writing until summer.
In so many areas of life, I'm not going to commit to anything just yet.
"After this semester, I don't have anything left to learn in MechE."
I mean, not literally, but it is pretty true. I have a project course and a lab left, meaning no more brand new course material for MechE.
I'm getting really close, and it's scary.
Speaking of getting really close...
My last relationship ended by kind of fizzling. At some point, you're no longer, well, attracted to the other person, for lack of a better term. It happens. I've been in a funk before, and it happened a bit again, where I was thinking 'do you ever meet a person you don't grow tired of?'
The answer is unequivocally yes.
That being said, everything happens for a reason. It's foolhardy to expect that whatever reason you had before is just going to disappear. I'm thinking I should tread slower, and lighter.
Gaming kind of on hiatus while I finish out the semester. Don't know exactly what I'll do over the summer, I had an idea, I'm still playing around with doing something different. Still planning to run Ebmist next year, but I know I won't have the time or motivation to finish writing until summer.
In so many areas of life, I'm not going to commit to anything just yet.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Best Error Message EVER
My roommate recently got hit with this doozy. It's nothing severe, so I have no guilt about posting it.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
It needs to be said
http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2008/04/obama-bitterness-meet-press-and-old.html
I was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, 61 years ago. My father sold $1.98 cotton blouses to blue-collar women and women whose husbands worked in factories. Years later, I was secretary of labor of the United States, and I tried the best I could – which wasn’t nearly good enough – to help reverse one of the most troublesome trends America has faced: The stagnation of middle-class wages and the expansion of povety. Male hourly wages began to drop in the early 1970s, adjusted for inflation. The average man in his 30s is earning less than his father did thirty years ago. Yet America is far richer. Where did the money go? To the top.
Are Americans who have been left behind frustrated? Of course. And their frustrations, their anger and, yes, sometimes their bitterness, have been used since then -- by demagogues, by nationalists and xenophobes, by radical conservatives, by political nuts and fanatical fruitcakes – to blame immigrants and foreign traders, to blame blacks and the poor, to blame "liberal elites," to blame anyone and anything.
Rather than counter all this, the American media have wallowed in it. Some, like Fox News and talk radio, have given the haters and blamers their very own megaphones. The rest have merely "reported on" it. Instead of focusing on how to get Americans good jobs again; instead of admitting too many of our schools are failing and our kids are falling behind their contemporaries in Europe, Japan, and even China; instead of showing why we need a more progressive tax system to finance better schools and access to health care, and green technologies that might create new manufacturing jobs, our national discussion has been mired in the old politics.
Listen to this morning’s “Meet the Press” if you want an example. Tim Russert, one of the smartest guys on television, interviewed four political consultants – Carville and Matalin, Bob Schrum, and Michael Murphy. Political consultants are paid huge sums to help politicians spin words and avoid real talk. They’re part of the problem. And what do Russert and these four consultants talk about? The potential damage to Barack Obama from saying that lots of people in Pennsylvania are bitter that the economy has left them behind; about HRC’s spin on Obama’s words (he’s an “elitist,” she said); and John McCain’s similarly puerile attack.
Does Russert really believe he’s doing the nation a service for this parade of spin doctors talking about potential spins and the spin-offs from the words Obama used to state what everyone knows is true? Or is Russert merely in the business of selling TV airtime for a network that doesn’t give a hoot about its supposed commitment to the public interest but wants to up its ratings by pandering to the nation’s ongoing desire for gladiator entertainment instead of real talk about real problems.
We’re heading into the worst economic crisis in a half century or more. Many of the Americans who have been getting nowhere for decades are in even deeper trouble. Large numbers of people in Pennsylvania and across the nation are losing their homes and losing their jobs, and the situation is likely to grow worse. Consumers are at the end of their ropes, fuel and food costs are skyrocketing, they can’t go deeper into debt, they can’t pay their bills. They aren’t buying, which means every business from the auto industry to housing to even giant GE is hurting. Which means they’ll begin laying off more people, and as they do, we will experience an even more dangerous downward spiral.
Bitter? You ain’t seen nothing yet. And as much as people like Russert, Carville, Matalin, Schrum, and Murphy want to divert our attention from what’s really happening; as much as HRC and McCain seek to make political hay out of choices of words that can be spun cynically by the mindless spinners of the old politics; as much as demagogues on the right and left continue to try to channel the cumulative frustrations of Americans into a politics of resentment – all these attempts will, I hope, prove futile. Eighty percent of Americans know the nation is on the wrong track. The old politics, and the old media that feeds it, are irrelevant now.
- Robert Reich
9 days til the Pennsylvania primary. I know who I'm voting for. Do you? This country deserves better than a youth who are still disenfranchised enough to believe their voice doesn't count. We need to show everyone we know how to call bullshit, and that our economic livelihood cannot be dictated by the demands and greed of others.
I'm proud to come from a family of very politically informed individuals. I have heard a lot in the way of complete ignorance when it comes to politics, and studying policy has attuned me even further to this. Well, I'm sick of it. I may not know everything about policy, but I know enough, and I know people who know much more than I.
You know how I can say we're in trouble? Because I am attending a university with combined costs of around 150,000 dollars, and I will enter the workforce only slightly above the median income. The fact is, financial security only comes in the form of a good education nowadays, and that is very expensive. Our economy needs help if the vast majority of people working under it are not guaranteed even what's considered 'average' in this country.
OK, rant over. But yeah, what was I saying? Oh, yes. Go out and vote.
I was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, 61 years ago. My father sold $1.98 cotton blouses to blue-collar women and women whose husbands worked in factories. Years later, I was secretary of labor of the United States, and I tried the best I could – which wasn’t nearly good enough – to help reverse one of the most troublesome trends America has faced: The stagnation of middle-class wages and the expansion of povety. Male hourly wages began to drop in the early 1970s, adjusted for inflation. The average man in his 30s is earning less than his father did thirty years ago. Yet America is far richer. Where did the money go? To the top.
Are Americans who have been left behind frustrated? Of course. And their frustrations, their anger and, yes, sometimes their bitterness, have been used since then -- by demagogues, by nationalists and xenophobes, by radical conservatives, by political nuts and fanatical fruitcakes – to blame immigrants and foreign traders, to blame blacks and the poor, to blame "liberal elites," to blame anyone and anything.
Rather than counter all this, the American media have wallowed in it. Some, like Fox News and talk radio, have given the haters and blamers their very own megaphones. The rest have merely "reported on" it. Instead of focusing on how to get Americans good jobs again; instead of admitting too many of our schools are failing and our kids are falling behind their contemporaries in Europe, Japan, and even China; instead of showing why we need a more progressive tax system to finance better schools and access to health care, and green technologies that might create new manufacturing jobs, our national discussion has been mired in the old politics.
Listen to this morning’s “Meet the Press” if you want an example. Tim Russert, one of the smartest guys on television, interviewed four political consultants – Carville and Matalin, Bob Schrum, and Michael Murphy. Political consultants are paid huge sums to help politicians spin words and avoid real talk. They’re part of the problem. And what do Russert and these four consultants talk about? The potential damage to Barack Obama from saying that lots of people in Pennsylvania are bitter that the economy has left them behind; about HRC’s spin on Obama’s words (he’s an “elitist,” she said); and John McCain’s similarly puerile attack.
Does Russert really believe he’s doing the nation a service for this parade of spin doctors talking about potential spins and the spin-offs from the words Obama used to state what everyone knows is true? Or is Russert merely in the business of selling TV airtime for a network that doesn’t give a hoot about its supposed commitment to the public interest but wants to up its ratings by pandering to the nation’s ongoing desire for gladiator entertainment instead of real talk about real problems.
We’re heading into the worst economic crisis in a half century or more. Many of the Americans who have been getting nowhere for decades are in even deeper trouble. Large numbers of people in Pennsylvania and across the nation are losing their homes and losing their jobs, and the situation is likely to grow worse. Consumers are at the end of their ropes, fuel and food costs are skyrocketing, they can’t go deeper into debt, they can’t pay their bills. They aren’t buying, which means every business from the auto industry to housing to even giant GE is hurting. Which means they’ll begin laying off more people, and as they do, we will experience an even more dangerous downward spiral.
Bitter? You ain’t seen nothing yet. And as much as people like Russert, Carville, Matalin, Schrum, and Murphy want to divert our attention from what’s really happening; as much as HRC and McCain seek to make political hay out of choices of words that can be spun cynically by the mindless spinners of the old politics; as much as demagogues on the right and left continue to try to channel the cumulative frustrations of Americans into a politics of resentment – all these attempts will, I hope, prove futile. Eighty percent of Americans know the nation is on the wrong track. The old politics, and the old media that feeds it, are irrelevant now.
- Robert Reich
9 days til the Pennsylvania primary. I know who I'm voting for. Do you? This country deserves better than a youth who are still disenfranchised enough to believe their voice doesn't count. We need to show everyone we know how to call bullshit, and that our economic livelihood cannot be dictated by the demands and greed of others.
I'm proud to come from a family of very politically informed individuals. I have heard a lot in the way of complete ignorance when it comes to politics, and studying policy has attuned me even further to this. Well, I'm sick of it. I may not know everything about policy, but I know enough, and I know people who know much more than I.
You know how I can say we're in trouble? Because I am attending a university with combined costs of around 150,000 dollars, and I will enter the workforce only slightly above the median income. The fact is, financial security only comes in the form of a good education nowadays, and that is very expensive. Our economy needs help if the vast majority of people working under it are not guaranteed even what's considered 'average' in this country.
OK, rant over. But yeah, what was I saying? Oh, yes. Go out and vote.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Skindred - Alright
Know that I hit you with a full on attack
Never pulled no punches it was full contact
Now we enter the place and we no wan bring it back init?
Hit you in the heart and made a deep impact
Rock rock rock rock rock rock rock rock
I never meant to hurt you
Or do the things some people do
I know I burnt you; the scars are there for true
I know it's gunner be alright
Turn it all around and make it right
Yer I know it's gunner be all right
Get up off the ground you'll be all right
Every little thing is gunner be alright
Want you to know it hurts so much when your heart gets cracked
War in love can knock you off track
We all want revenge that's the way we react init?
It's alright we bounce back intact
Rock rock rock rock rock rock rock rock
I never meant to hurt you
Or do the things some people do
I know I burnt you; the scars are there for true
I know it's gunner be alright
Turn it all around and make it right
Yer I know it's gunner be all right
Get up off the ground you'll be all right
We all fall down and hit the concrete
Get up off the ground stand up on your feet
Nursing your bruises you know you got beat
We want surrender we want retreat
There's gorra be an end to the conflictions alright
I never meant to hurt you
Or do the things that people do
I know I burnt you; the scars are there for true
I never meant to hurt you
Or do the things that people do
I know I burnt you; the scars are sad but true
But I know it's gunner be all right
Turn it all around and make it right
Yer I know it's gunner be all right
Everything's gunner be all right
Alright alright
Important message in there. Everything will be all right. Eventually.
Never pulled no punches it was full contact
Now we enter the place and we no wan bring it back init?
Hit you in the heart and made a deep impact
Rock rock rock rock rock rock rock rock
I never meant to hurt you
Or do the things some people do
I know I burnt you; the scars are there for true
I know it's gunner be alright
Turn it all around and make it right
Yer I know it's gunner be all right
Get up off the ground you'll be all right
Every little thing is gunner be alright
Want you to know it hurts so much when your heart gets cracked
War in love can knock you off track
We all want revenge that's the way we react init?
It's alright we bounce back intact
Rock rock rock rock rock rock rock rock
I never meant to hurt you
Or do the things some people do
I know I burnt you; the scars are there for true
I know it's gunner be alright
Turn it all around and make it right
Yer I know it's gunner be all right
Get up off the ground you'll be all right
We all fall down and hit the concrete
Get up off the ground stand up on your feet
Nursing your bruises you know you got beat
We want surrender we want retreat
There's gorra be an end to the conflictions alright
I never meant to hurt you
Or do the things that people do
I know I burnt you; the scars are there for true
I never meant to hurt you
Or do the things that people do
I know I burnt you; the scars are sad but true
But I know it's gunner be all right
Turn it all around and make it right
Yer I know it's gunner be all right
Everything's gunner be all right
Alright alright
Important message in there. Everything will be all right. Eventually.
Screwing around with Avatars
So, I found a nifty little utility. Supposed to be for GaiaOnline, but it works pretty well for creating little bits of character art. So, I started making some of my old characters with it.
Rani Omer
Lars Blackpool (Cyberpunk 2020 version)
Rani Omer
Lars Blackpool (Cyberpunk 2020 version)
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Things are Coming Together
Today I got the official offer letter from ArcelorMittal. This means I know what I'm doing this summer, and am going to make a decent bit of money. Needless to say, I'm pretty excited. I may end up getting a car for the summer (I looked at the section of Chicago where I'll be, and it isn't very well covered by public transit), and am looking into that. It'll be a very limited budget, but knowing what I like, I'll be able to make that work. I'm really excited, and ready to go.
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Musical music-y music
So, I've been fooling around with another weird blogging app, muxtape. I think it's pretty cool, and now you can easily stream the strangest cross-section of my musical taste.
http://amarks.muxtape.com
But, yeah. This weekend has been filled with some weird occurrences. As unsettling as some has been, I just remember what I have to do, and how long that paper has to be. Oh well. Buggy tomorrow, Carnival soon.
http://amarks.muxtape.com
But, yeah. This weekend has been filled with some weird occurrences. As unsettling as some has been, I just remember what I have to do, and how long that paper has to be. Oh well. Buggy tomorrow, Carnival soon.
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