| Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 |
| 10:11 pm |
Poor old Saint Nicholas
Well, it seems that PETA finally had their way. They must have stripped Santa of his beloved reindeer because he was driving the bus I rode to college this morning. Freaking PETArds! They loved doing what they did, and now the deer are stuck in the wild, will probably wander south to Alaska, and get shot by Palin! Y'know, now I know why I always identified with Scrooge... |
| Monday, December 7th, 2009 |
| 10:39 pm |
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| Sunday, December 6th, 2009 |
| 2:11 pm |
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| Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 |
| 9:37 pm |
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| Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 |
| 1:59 pm |
Gotta love New Zealand
You ever get that feeling like you're living in the wrong part of the world? Well, sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't spend much more time in New Zealand. Literally half of the CDs I sent out from my recent little post about CDs went to that country. Therefore, I am more popular in New Zealand than any other country in the world! |
| Sunday, November 29th, 2009 |
| 9:50 pm |
Registrations Disabled Part 2:
So, within 2 days of disabling registrations, I already have made an exception to the rule. The way I did it was in IRC, I opened up the doors for user registration, waited for the user to register, then as soon as he had, I closed the doors again. Granted, its a real hit-or-miss deal. So, I'm getting ready to draft a change to how forum registration goes now - because if I have folks contact me via email, that's great. I don't have time for the forums to get overrun by bots (like they have been in the past), not to mention that some email domains no longer accept emails from the domain, counting it as spam. So, as a stop-gap, I think I'll put invitations every now and again, and if someone wants to join, they just need to contact me asking to join, and I'll reply to their comment or message and let them know as soon as I've opened up registration. However, once registration is done, I will go through each new user account and delete any users who didn't request to join (by name). Its not that its a private club or a private group - its easier to square away this way. What do you think? |
| Friday, November 27th, 2009 |
| 8:19 pm |
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| Thursday, November 26th, 2009 |
| 6:17 am |
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| Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 |
| 9:38 pm |
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| Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 |
| 10:46 pm |
College Update
So, I talk about college taking up a lot of my time. Its partly due to taking a 16 credit load. If I don't find employment, I'll do it again next term (and keep it between 13-16 credits). At least, while the classes are 'easy'. - I start the week with Microeconomics. For me, its by far the easiest class, and even when I procrastinate, I'm somewhere in the 86%-100% range on any measures of performance with zero effort. - Then, I'm in English Composition. Here, its usually a bit of reading here or there, and a bit of essay writing. However, in the essays, I'm in the A- or B+ range on average. Even when I pull out all the stops and hire out my homework. :P - Chemistry is fun. I figured I'd knock out my labs in the beginning, as fast as I can, even if more involved courses would be available after I get my math skills back to where they used to be. Its pretty much an effortless A in Chemistry with the exception that my computer and the college computers don't like the homework website (provided by the textbook publisher) that's very stingy in its requirements to run right (which is saying it doesn't). - Mathematics is what I finish out the week in. It used to be my strongest suit. Right now I'd say I have a B in the course, at least basing it off of quiz and test scores. I score 100% on the quizzes (all of 'em so far), but my tests are rather different. A 69 and a 96 (evening out to an 82.5 avg). For the most part, I re-learned how to do some of the test-taking stuff, skills I'd left buried for over a decade. If I start writing formal essays in this journal, its because my writing style is horrific, and all these comma-separated sentence fragments are a result of undisciplined blogging. I had Ramen for the first time in over a decade. I am now a bona-fide college student! |
| Sunday, November 15th, 2009 |
| 10:27 pm |
One way out of the shitstorm
This isn't an immediate solution; but one of the movies I invested in (of a total of two), now has a director. His name is Michael Blake. He is known muchly for his various awards, and I knew his name from "Dances with Wolves." *does a happy dance* Sure, I still might not see a dime for several years yet, but at least things are moving along... and for the reasons behind the story, I can't think of a crew more deserving of a director like Blake. |
| Thursday, November 12th, 2009 |
| 7:35 pm |
Dumbing down...
Tragically, it was not Glenn Beck who became so dumbed down... but instead it was me. |
| Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 |
| 12:21 pm |
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| Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 |
| 6:44 pm |
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| Friday, October 30th, 2009 |
| 5:57 am |
Drafts and fun things will just have to wait.
Amazingly, the new version of Ubuntu (9.10) seems to not work so well on this laptop; the person who was responsible for upgrading it now gets to do a wipe and 'try again from scratch' approach. There is no excuse for switching tabs in Firefox to take seven long, agonous seconds (to and from simple pages that have already loaded). Right now I'm typing faster than the laptop can respond, something I thought you could only do on a Windows machine. Needless to say, we'll be trying again with Ubuntu 9.10, and/or trying to figure out what went wrong while 'upgrading' the OS. As a last resort, might reinstall 9.04 just to have something that works. Anywho, off to class. This PSA is so that you don't wonder what happened to me if I don't post any time soon. I'll be back when I'm back. Cya! |
| Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 |
| 9:31 pm |
Deep Thought (not Deep Throat!)
Since starting to write college-level essays this term, I've understand now that my brain works in different ways. If I write everything out on pen and paper (no pencils!), I am meticulous in everything from applying forethought to ensuring my handwriting is legible. Conrast that to the verbal or written vomitus I, among others, spew all across the Internet. With a backspace key I can fix my aimless mental wanderings, but what I write on the Internet would only constitute 'free-writing' in the world of actually writing book(s). Same thing applies to music. When I wrote An Open Mind, I thought deeply about what I was doing. Since I returned to the Internet (I had a break from it between 1996 and 2003), returning my mind to thinking more.... deeply - not being instantly gratified or instantly publishing my thoughts - music or written - has left me not more shallow or superficial... but not as timelessly expressive (which I think was the singular best compliment I ever heard as a musician). What do you think? |
| Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 |
| 9:46 pm |
Wannabe Concerts
All right. I'm that broke. Again. So, I'm going to start figuring out my schedule for playing Wannabe Symphony concerts in downtown Portland. The goal? $20/hr. I'll be doing it mostly on the weekends, and finding spots with lots of foot traffic and at least some protection from the elements. |
| Sunday, October 18th, 2009 |
| 8:11 pm |
Yay Depression!
The downside: lack of motivation and lots of other stuff. The upside: My writer's block (about music) is gone! I've been writing again! |
| Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 |
| 1:43 am |
Oi.
So. I'm re-vamping my budget, again. You can't squeeze blood out of a turnip, but I guess that's what I'm doing. I got turned down for food stamps... I really am living the broke college student / gamer life. Whee! |
| Friday, October 9th, 2009 |
| 4:29 pm |
The phone is cancelled...
Well, good news. For some. My phone is cancelled (it will actually no longer be good Oct 15th). Next item on the list: food stamps. Oh, balancing the budget was never quite this interactive, or creative before! |
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