Darwinism

According to weather.com: "feels like -4 degrees F".

According to my eyes: saw a dude walking around in shorts and a T-shirt.

Wake Up, Wake Up, Wake Up

It's the first of the month.

Obese

I successfully gained over a pound this weekend just by attending a party on Saturday and attending KFC on Sunday.

In my defense, many were powerless to resist the Stancato's at the party.

Also, regarding this, I switched back to XP myself. It's like putting on a well-used baseball mitt: a little rough around the edges but oh-so-worn-in. Can't say I miss Vista much.

Lord God,

Please make it stop.

Isolationism

No travel, no parties, no fireworks, no celebrations. A quiet observance of liberty by my lonesome.

Back to work tomorrow.

A Thought On Mondays

It's a well-known fact that Garfield hates Mondays.

I hate Mondays, too. I, however, work a desk job.

It occurred to me during the normal mid-morning job-ruing that, as a common house cat, Garfield has absolutely no reason to hate Mondays. A day is a day is a day - that is, an opportunity to nap, eat lasagna, and get into hijinx with his wacky owner Jon (mostly involving napping and eating). The hatred of Mondays, obviously, is Jim Davis strategically giving Garfield a character trait that lets him identify with the white-collar working force as much as the younger age bracket that would more typically be interested in the funny pages: more office personnel would then be able to buy Garfield merchandise to express their dislike of the first of the week.

I hate Garfield.

Lynx

Via Digg: If you only need to save one thing in a fire...

Windows shared drives in OS X 10.5. Look closely.

George W. Bush, tired of stepping all over the Constitution, decides to start stepping all over his own executive orders.

Also, Dungeons and Dragons is fun.

Sans Weekend

Not like there's anything to do, but it's disturbing when the weekend drops by suddenly and leaves with as much notice. Pretty much all I do is sit around and play bass, listen to music, and watch anime - I guess like a high school stoner, minus the drugs. There's probably something constructive I can do with my free time, but I suppose I have the rest of the (dauntingly long and boring) summer to take care of that.

On a wholly different note, words are cool.

Tomorrow begins the Dungeons and Dragons, so we'll see how that goes.

I Love Lifehack

Read and be merry (and hopefully contented and unstressed).

Damage Control

I'm just going to be tired all of the time, and I accept that.

Party Like It's 1998

You've never played StarCraft until you've played it like it was back in the day - on a 14" monitor with 800x600 native resolution. Let's just say it's... "crisp".

Also, I picked up a pair of black Marshmallows and they blow the stock iPod buds out of the water. They're also probably the bassiest headphones I've heard (!).

Several more days of Spring Break, then back to Hell Week.

あめがふる

ざんえんだな。

Not Quite A Darwin

BREAKING NEWS: falling hurts.

God Jul

The Darkest of Winters

[instrumental]

So, I finally found a use for my Moleskine notebook: I wrote down stuff I was going to blog about. Here they are, in no particular order:

Keeping a notebook nearby is infinitely handy. Being able to write down everything running through my head (in this case, a myriad number of events that I'd been meaning to blog about) enables me to feel relieved knowing I'm not going to forget some important detail. I plan on using my Moleskine much more often once I get a pack of sexy Pilot very fine rollerball pens.

Besides the notebook, one thing I took to using much more often is the ever-useful sticky note. Sticky notes let me remember tiny random tasks that I needed to do as well as provide a much-needed catharsis once the task was completed via tearing it down and crushing it in my fist. I plan on using them much more often next semester to help my rein in my homework and project habits and Get Things Done.

Being at home now with lots of free time enables me to reflect back on the previous semester and realize how marginally awful it was. Although it seemed to finish before it started, it feels like I did far less work this semester than before; spring semester last year I busted my ass doing Physics work and everything while this semester I ended up skipping lots of (admittedly worthless) classes and studying less. This lack of work accurately reflects my grades for this semester, which, while not awful, are certainly not representative of the work I can do. I'm absolutely positive that I can do well if I put my mind to it due to my ability to perform very well on finals that I actually study for; it seems I ended up doing best on my math final out of all the tests in the class even though it was cumulative, and the same goes for EECS 281 even though the answers weren't spoon-fed to us this time. I must say, though, I'm still jealous of people - say, in the Biochemistry department - who get to take lots of classes with either no final exam or a non-cumulative final. As far as I know, I'm going to be rocking five finals next semester.

Now that school is out, however, I can enjoy the wonderfully wintry weather in Ohio (currently consisting of an overcast sky and 40° weather - it rained yesterday) and the absence of Laura and my fellow Case undergrads. I still have a few topics to touch on, but many days of winter break left. Let's not rush it, yeah?

Postscript: Demetri Martin is hilarious.

That Last Hand Nearly Killed Me

Finals done. At home. Posts later (got a list).

For the Record

I despise humanity.

I Was Born to Go Down Fighting

So yeah.

Via the omnipresent Digg: Vista is here. Who cares?

I just finished my first class of the semester, USSY 220 Digital Storytelling. All in all, not a bad course and I wouldn't mind reccommending it to other people. It's fairly work-free as far as seminars go. Plus, you get to make goofy videos (I'll resize my group's and post it eventually). The rest of the semester's classes shall proceed to pass into the night with nary a care. All I care about now is a.) finishing the season of Heroes so far and b.) exams.

Time now for c.) sleep.

Give Thanks

Eat well, everyone.

New Vistas

I downloaded Vista 5744 and am currently trying it out on my Inspiron. All I can say is, it runs a crapton better than the first release candidate did and actually includes drivers for most of my hardware. Quake 3 won't run, though...

So, birthday. I guess I'm 20 years old now. My mom and sisters came to Case and brought some goodies as well as a present and birthday cake. The present was a pair of AKG K81DJ headphones, which are performing admirably. We then went shopping for random odds and ends (a new umbrella since my old one got shredded via wind, and new warm slippers), followed by dinner at the Cheesecake Factory. I then proceeded to have the most expensve steak I've ever eaten. Spoiler: it was delicious.

Laura got me a Digg t-shirt, which is awesome.

Now to continue doing nothing...