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Ugh. I broke the first rule of hunting. I spilled my beer. I wasn't really hunting at the time, but unfortunately the beer landed on Das Keyboard. Its had a cycle through the dishwasher as I've heard to do once it started spazzing out, so I'm using a `regular' keyboard for the time being.
Classes don't seem as interesting as I thought they would be, and I'll have to learn Java (again), but at least my schedule isn't bad.
Finally figured out how to get Vista to boot with AHCI (SATA) drives. Turns out that Vista will disable drivers that aren't in use at every boot. Problem: what if we'll need those drivers to boot later? The fix involved navigating regedit. I'm still trying to figure out why Alienware shipped them set to IDE mode by default.
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(Subject pulled from some piece of spam)
Okay, there's a lot to post here, because I can't really remember the last time I actually posted something meaningful. I've been meaning to, but I just haven't. So here we go: I'm now in college, again. UNC Greensboro is once again my home, and my good friend Djak is my room mate. Awesomeness. We rock out together. We've got X-Box 360 up in here, we got speakers, we've got sub-woofers, we've got it all. Our room is a mess right now, but we've managed to free up a lot of space that with our ergonomic design. <-- I have no idea what that sentence is all about.
My awesome girl friend is coming up next Saturday. If I haven't been in contact with you, and you didn't know, I'm with someone now. Her name is Meg, but I have no real good pictures to show you with online. But she's awesome, and gonna be here soon. Fun fun, hooray! And I find it very fitting that the guy who paints his nails and carries on conversations about make up and such is now dating a cosmetologist.
Classes are going alright, nothing too hard yet, though computer science is looking to be fun, Chemistry is probably going to be that "EEEHHHH!" class, if nothing else because of the lab. French for some reason I don't care about, although I like the professor. Books are expensive, and that sucks.
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May. 11th, 2006 @ 02:32 pm
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Well, all the grades are in. A 2.80 GPA for this semester is much better than the 2.19 I got last semester. Cumulatively, I have a 2.55. Which isn't too bad. Grades are:
| Computer Science | A- |
| Communication Studies | B |
| Freshman Seminar (Darwin) | C+ |
| French 203 | B |
| Precalculus II | C |
The cool thing is that I got "at least a C" in math, meaning I get to advance, b/c a C- wouldn't cut it, and that's what I was afraid of. No more online classes next semester. I'm thinking of retaking my religion class, which I got 0 credit hours for, b/c I didn't do one assignment. Grr.
My body hurts. I worked out for the first time at TKD last night. Now I hurt. I got up at 11 to do a form, and call my mother, and then passed out again until 2. I'm supposed to give Lunchbox a ride, but he hasn't called. *sigh*The mood:  exhausted The jams: OpenBSD song 3.3 |
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I've eaten dinner three times today. Wow. Okay, I got up around 1:20 today, and went to eat lunch. Screwed around for a bit, and then went to go donate blood plasma. I'm seriously going to miss the people up here for the summer, so I'll have to visit the guys in NC who are close by when I get the chance. Charlotte in less than one week now! On the other hand, I'm glad I'm going back to Charlotte, because with a few exceptions, I've really let my relationships there languish. One week is really quick.
I'm currently typing a Communications Exam that's due tomorrow by 10:00AM, and I have two other exams to take tomorrow. Skittles party tomorrow or on Friday. Maybe. I don't know. I'm thinking about watching the movie Aladdin on Saturday. I love that movie.
Oh, last night, I went to a Frat party, and after coming back, JC and I went to Erica's room, talked for a bit, and then watched the movie RENT. How awesome is that? We sang along, and I took mostly the higher parts, b/c his voice sucked from smoking and yelling all night. But it was cool.The mood:  busy The jams: Barenaked Ladies |
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Apr. 12th, 2006 @ 09:20 am
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Today's Computer Science Lab wasn't that bad. Poor design, but the concepts it reinforced were quite exercising.
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Today, I did classes. Well, at least two out of three isn't bad. I'll have to catch up in French. Not something I'm looking forward to. Anyway, classes are going better now that I have more free time, and I've almost worked up the motivation to actually do my CST project.
I broke my CD player today. And that made me angry. Worse yet is that I wont be getting $50 this week from blood plasma donations. So poo.
Later today, I hacked around with the cairo library, not much useful, I guess having a firmer grasp of actually programming usefully would speed this up, but what better way to take something head on? Next semester's computer science courses will probably actually help me. Unless, of course, I learn all the information over the summer.
Hung out with Jim, Paul, and Claudia later that night. Went out to Barns and Nobles Bookstore and then Walmart. Paul saved $23 on books and now has the "Races of {the Wild, Stone, Destiny}" books. Talk about source material. Halfling Rogues get a ranged sneak attack. Fuck yeah.
Also, earlier today, I did a fuck load of laundry. I probably did around $7 or $8 in laundry, and then proceeded to clean up the whole room. Which is much cleaner now. And that's awesome. Because my side of the room is never clean.
Tonight, I just finished merging data from my phone into Evolution. And ripping more personal information from people into my address book. Because I'm a whore like that. And while it can be creepy, you never know when you might need it.The mood:  accomplished The jams: The Rasmus |
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Well, I'm not really sure what's been happening the past few days, considering how I've been dodging life, but its been cool so far. Discovered that I don't like drinking as much as I remember. Hmm. I guess that's a good thing. Stayed up until around 4:30 last night. Wow. Addiction can be a bad thing. I hope I'm not, because I would lose so much respect for myself. I'll find out in two weeks if I am.
I think I've decided to quit the ISO. Its just too much right now. I need to call my mom and tell her what my grades really are. They're not nearly as good as I thought. I think getting an extra 10 hours a week, as well as reduced stress may pull up my grades. Did FMS HW for the first time in literally a month now today. Math is hopeless, because no matter how well I do on quizes and homework, its really only tests that count :-\. Sadness. Oh well.
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Mar. 15th, 2006 @ 12:58 pm
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Last night, I didn't do more math HW, (see below) because the schedule is retarded, and it keeps fucking shifting, so I missed three assignments. ZEROs. So I go over to Erica's room, and I feel all bad because I walk in and I'm all ranty, but Djak gives me a massage, so it was a little better after that. Then I slept with Djak, and I set my phone to wake me up at 7:30, so that I would have more than enough time to get to my 8:00 class. I wake up this morning around 6, and go back to sleep, knowing I have a little more. I wake up next around 8:05, so I put my shoes on and run off to my CSC lab, and I still am one of the first ones to finish. Even though I had to start 15 minutes late. God what am I even doing in that class?
In terms of other school, well, I'm kind of angry at myself for letting it get this bad. Like, I am behind in all but one of my classes, and I know for a fact that I'm currently failing one of them, even though I've told myself time and time again that I'd pull the grade up. Like, I'm behind three assignments that (fortunately) got re-opened, but that means that I have to do 3 homeworks and a quiz by tomorrow night. Plus a communications research project, and lets throw in about three or four weeks of Freshman seminar, and lets not forget two chapters of french and a paper re-write, and you've got a stressed Adam. In addition to that, I had to call off a paper sale today, because I didn't call people in time, and I didn't know the politics well enough today to even know whatto say, let alone what to say about it.
On top of that its like for the past week I can feel myself getting more and more emo, and its not fun. Plus, every hour I sit at the computer, I feel like I'm wasting, because I should be doing something else. Like right now I should be doing that math HW.
Grr. I just got off of spring break, and rather than start clean again, I'm just picking up the pieces on where I left off with my life.The mood: emo The jams: library tapping keys |
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ISO, Precal, French, Freshman Seminar, Communications. I'm overwhelmed.
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Yesterday was full of action. I wake up a whole hour before my classes start, for one. This may seem weird, but usually if I have a class at 9:30, I'm up around 9:10 and then I go. So I pop online, and Catherine talks to me, asking if she could borrow my printer for that assignment that was due. Oh no! So she comes over, I look at what we were supposed to do, and then I type up mine in about 15 minutes -- not bad. Then I go to class, blah blah blah.
Coming out of class, I go back to my room, and instead of doing math HW, I decide to visit the Ubuntu forums. I make a few posts, scanning what I can for places I can help, and then I read a few planets, and I discover that the gtk-engines have been updated. So I grab the latest tarball of those, and build four packages instead of two this time, as crux has been updated to a new way of displaying things. So I test it before I give it to the world, just to make sure nothing's broken, and good thing I did -- because everything was boring and not animated. So after about 10 minutes of reading, I fix it, and give it to the world. Then I worked on some graphics to make my computer look even more gorgeous, and it does. Its rocking like a ninja, now.
Freshman Seminar went well, nothing much to say there. I've started to work on my math, and computer science, and helped someone else with their computer science homework, too, making me feel better and all helpful. But I had to do it then, because I didn't want the library to close on me, so I missed Bush's state of the union address *unhappy face*.
Went back to Claudia's room, and played some twisted metal 2 (old school), and then Erica and Ahmed came by, and we had a pretty bitchin' time. :-X
Well, today, I'm learning the pains of being an SW coordinator. Basically, it means that I organize the paper sales, where they happen, when they happen, and I'm responsible for making sure people know about them, etc. One of the biggest aspects of my branch, and I'm finally learning some leadership from it. Its going to be difficult without a central office though, this year. Due to some paperwork crap, we have no place to put our stuff on campus, making getting things from people to people really difficult. Arg. We'll work through it. Anyway, this is getting rambly, so I'll just say "peace out", and then "avoir". Je m'en vais now, or something like that.
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Okay, so I decided to work on the Ubuntu packages portion of my website. For all who don't know, its basically where I port to Breezy Badger stuff that the Ubuntu people wont backport for their various reasons. Sometimes its CVS grabs (*cough GAIM *cough*), sometimes its just newer versions of things, like Rhythmbox. Now here's where it gets interesting. I'm working on adjusting the dependencies for the libs included with Breezy instead of those with Dapper. I guess its autotools I have to thank for it building anyway, but I want to do it without yelling at me (and anyone else who may build this). So I'm tweaking "control{,.in}" and a thought occurs to me: just base it off of the rhythmbox for Breezy. Its older, but the deps should be the same. So I apt-get source it, and it fetches 0.9.2. Wow, did I miss an update?!?! So I just grab the binary backage, and it fetches 0.9.1! Its just like living in Gentoo-land again! Long story short, I didn't care and went on with my build after finishing all this crap. Check http://mighmos.org later today if you want updated Rhythmbox. And yes, it is kick ass.
In another news, I'm going to Charlotte today, with me friend Omar ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) o_mar013. So I'll be out of Greensboro for most of the weekend, but I'll be back on Sunday night, at least. Free laundry and good food for all! Yay!
Also, here's all the Chapter 11's out of my books for this semester:
Computer Science: Chapter 11: Containers and Linked Lists (not very exciting, nor funny)
French: Vivre en Ville (Hmm, that's not too great, either)
Communications: Developing your presentation (now that's like it)
Math: Sequences; Induction; The Binomial Theorem (That Binomial thing sounds interesting) Well, sorry about that. None of those are that great. Not nearly as great as last semester's business "Managing Human Resources". Oh, well. I guess you can't win all the time.
Anyway, French class is turning out well. We haven't gotten too much work yet, but I don't think it'll be terribly difficult. High School actually was worse, because my teachers wouldn't explain anything thin in English, but this Prof will. Yayness. Today was interesting, though. We were going through some stuff, and I get asked what my favorite book is. And I'm like... "Uh... un mille neuf cent quat-", "No, do you understand what I'm saying?", she asks. And I tell her that she's asking what my favorite book is. So I try again, and she doesn't seem to understand that I like 1984 by Orwell. So I finally get it out, and she's like "Oh, oui". That was interesting. Turns out its just mille-neuf cent quatre-vignt quatre. No "un mille". Whatever. That class should be good.
Also, I've decided that France is the emo country. Too depressing.
Computer Science is gonna be painful. We're "using namespace std;" for our programs, and rather than use the standard 'string' class, we're using a proprietary 'String' class provided by the book. Just in case compilers don't have string.h. "Its just as functional as the regular string class, with the exception it only works for the uses in the book". There's a head on jump into objects and object-oriented thinking, but there's poor explanation of basic variable types, and I/O. Its all kind of done at the same time. To those who don't understand, its like trying to learn how to run and walk at the same time. Can you imagine trying to explain how that "Baseball(43)" will automatically assign 43 to the player's uniform when you aren't anywhere close to going over constructors? Neither can I.
Well, that's enough ranting. Turns out, I think I've forgotten about math HW that automatically gets dished out. Fuck. Gotta do that.The mood:  productive The jams: Amy's Ghost ~ Jumpsteady |
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Well, yesterday I went down to Taylorsville with Omar o_mar013, and we were supposed to pick up a laptop from a hardware store. Well, it wasn't there, so we just browsed around for a while, and he picked up some legacy IDE cables (without the little safety notch) for a hard drive that he recovered. Looking in the old drives bin, we found two SCSI tape drives for $1 each. So I picked up one. Now all I need is a SCSI controller... and some tapes. And this experience should be fun.
Anyway, while I was down there, I got to meet Omar's dad and his wife (so Omar's step-mom) Ruth, who were pretty hospitable, and we ate dinner there. Then we went back up to Omar's mother's house, where he had a good amount of family. There was cake and ice cream (peppermint), and it was all cool and good. And then Omar picked up some clothes and stuff (and a game of monopoly), and gave me an X-mas gift (a pair of speakers, so now I can ghetto rig surround sound with a y-splitter) and then we went home. And talked about sex. And stuff.
Classes so far haven't been bad, though my Freshman Seminar, which I though would be incredibly easy is looking like it will be my most time consuming class. French looks like it'll be all good, and Communications just looks like fun. Computer Science I haven't decided on yet, and Math I have yet to attend, though I'm guessing that it will suck just as much as last semester.
And last but not least, I finally organized and finished cleaning up my room, more so than I ever did last semester. So now life is gravy, and you know about it. Peace out, world.
UPDATE: I almost forgot! I talked with Omar about coming down to Charlotte with me for the MLK Jr. Day weekend. So that he can meet my family, and stuff. And so that's that.The mood:  indescribable The jams: Someone else's music echoing through the halls |
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Well, classes start tomorrow. Sounds like fun. A lot happened today, but I can't seem to remember much of it. I cleaned my room up a lot, and got a lot more space to put stuff. My closet now finally has room to hang clothes in! YAY! I saw Djak today, and hung out with a bunch of other Mary Fousters. Apparently almost all of them moved back in today. Omar lent me his converter so that I can hook up my DVD player to my TV. Yeah, it doesn't have a simple cable out, so I need a converter. Or a better TV. Oh, I could so use some more money. Early today (before 4PM) I was so freaking tired for *SOME* reason. Like, I couldn't focus my eyes correctly to line up the pills in Doctor Mario.
I'm not sure why I'm saying this now, because it'll probably get me into nothing but trouble, but I'm thinking of running a D&D campaign (start maybe around level ~8) once I'm very settled into classes. Maybe not. Maybe I'll just be a player and find some other DM. Who knows. I guess I need more money for books (that aren't just PDFs).
Oh, and ( I'm not sure this sends the right message )The jams: System of a Down |
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After finally resolving a bunch of crap, here's what I got:
( Schedule Next Semester )
Oh, and I discovered the Sun computers in the Bryan building. I don't know much yet, but hey, its a GUI, what's there to know? Anyway, those machines kick so much more ass than the Windows ones, because it ACTUALLY SAVES MY PREFERENCES, and maybe because its designed like a real operating system.
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Nov. 3rd, 2005 @ 04:03 pm
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Wow, I'll keep this short, because I've got to go soon. But hey, I've just finished my math homework. This is cool because A) Usually I wind up stopping around 10 or 11 at night, and B) Because I actually did 100% of it. Usually somewhere from 70% - 95%. And last time I didn't understand it, so I got around 30% (the progress monitor tells you). I didn't understand it this time either, but I figured I'd actually use this $80 book I got to help me, and it actually did kind-of work, kind of. But hey...
Anyway, yesterday, I was just hanging around with some people's playing Morton's List, and we actually got to roll off of the Chaos table. Awesome. But there were some "moral objections" to adult party games, so we re-rolled and wound up inviting people to a feast that we threw. Popcorn, chocolate, and Red vs Blue. It was pretty awesome. On the way out, Paul and I got into a discussion about music, and I was like "that's why counter-tennors are awesome", and he's all like "that's why I like the King Singers", and that sprawled a whole new conversation right there. Then I showed him my autographed "Watching the White Wheat" CD. yeah. Made him jealous.
Anyway, I'm off to pick up a newspaper and go to a UE 150 international hearing in Raleigh. Whee!
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Okay, well, I'm not sure what's happened in the past few days. I've definitely lost some cool points, but I've gained some nerd points. I'm not sure if that's a fair trade, but that's the way it goes. I made up my Astronomy test, which I'm still ever so glad he let me make that up. After that, I've been up for the past few nights playing Dungeons and Dragons. I've even DMed a few campaigns. Nothing big, but hey, it was cool.
I've convinced Omar to install GNU/Linux on his laptop, which kicked ass. Actually, I'm not sure how it worked, but it didn't really take too much work, because he was kind of curious about it. So i downloaded an Ubuntu Live CD and gave that to him, and after messing around with it, he liked it, and we installed Ubuntu 5.10 onto his laptop. He likes it now (last message I got was "brb -- I'm going into linux" or something of the sort). Even though there was a small blip getting back into Windows (it got confused and sad) a quick google search fixed the problem.
Actually, Ubuntu is so nice, I'm considering abandoning Gentoo Linux for a while, and installing the Breezy Badger onto my system sometime soon.
Um, also: interesting conversation today that went something like this: Gretchen: Are you going out with Lindsay?
Me: No. I haven't really even seen her in like, the past five weeks
Gretchen: Oh. 'Cause I think she's going out with Andrew
WTF? Lynz is a pretty cool chick, but well, I'm not sure where I was going with that. But I saw her for the first time in a long while tonight, with some guy named "Andy". Told her Desmond and Omar and I are gonna bring up the underground a bit onto the rock. Pictures to come. Oh, and we're gonna get painted up. And we're gonna revive the repressed Juggalo in Omar. This should be good.
Also, I bought more nail polish at Walmart, because I left it all back in Charlotte. Cool colors, too. I think I found a red that doesn't make me look like a woman. Once again, picture to come. Its 00:51 now, so I'ma sleep.
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Okay, well, today mostly sucked. Like, only a few bad things happened, but I felt like shit. I hit snooze until 5 minutes before Business class, which has been bullshit for the past two weeks. So I make it there a little late, and we talk about class registration and shit. Yeah, in business. Fuck it.
So I can't get back to sleep, after that, so I go to eat, and even though I was starving last night, I can't eat shit. Damn damn damn. So I go to the library to do math HW, and there's two fucking assignments due TONIGHT. Grrr. I get one done, but it takes forever, because its a gawd damn computer trying to teach shit.
Astro time, and I discover that the class I missed was a test day. DAMN DAMN DAMN. The teacher was nice enough to let me make it up, but still, that sucks something fierce. Yeah, so I just hang out outside w/ Randi and Jessica, and stuff.
Discovered that I can fix my computer problem by downgrading the graphics card to a GeForce2 (a card that sucked 4 years ago). Grr. So I do need to buy new shit. And I've only got $3.54 in my account. That's not too much.
Now I've finished all the math HW I'm going to do, and have tried to start this essay on this book which I know very little about (apparently everyone has read it but the people in my class: The Once and Future King). Meaning I miss the gaming convention. Fuck. Okay.
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Hey all. I'm up at UNCG, and life is cool. My roommate's name is Jeremy, and he's pretty cool, and indifferent. Check out class schedule: Math 150 (precal) on Monday from 9 until 9:50. The rest is Internet based. At 10 I've got Business 105A (Intro to business skills development). That lasts until 10:50, and unlike Math, I've got one on Wednesday as well. Then I get a nice long break from 11 until 2, where I have Astronomy 203 (conceptual Astronomy). That class also repeats on Thursday. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I have Religion 101 (Intro to religious studies) from 9:30 until 10:50. Books for that was a book on "Islam tolerance", Marriage, and Homosexuality. What a time bomb. Then at 12:30 until 1:50 (Oh no! My lunch hour!) there's English 101 (composition). Now, I don't know if you noticed it, but I have no Friday classes. Score, no?
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