Monday, March 2, 2009
⌈New Avatar and Studying⌋
Anyways, studying: I have too much of it that needs to be done. T_T That's all there is to it. This includes homework-type stuff like essays as well. Can't wait to be done with this semester!
Twitter is awesome, I love it. If you don't use it, you should start... like now. Seriously, go do it now, start using it every day, and Follow me, and I'll Follow you.
Also, I just want to reiterate that Songbird is awesome. They have the first full release out, Version 1, which uses the icon I have in my avatar. From the way their blog's been going, it looks like Version 1.1 will be released pretty soon, too.
One more thing: the people at Trillian have been working on Astra since 2001! Focus on the bugs, get the thing stable, release a public beta, and then add more stuff! Don't add buggy crap on top of more buggy, unstable crap! [/rant]
.:.::This is my stop::.:.
6:01 PM
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
⌈Chewing gum addiction... among other things⌋
Anyway, I am now officially addicted to chewing gum. Not just any chewing gum, mind you. It's gotta be the Winterblue Stride. Love. that. stuff... yeah. Just today, I'm pretty sure I chewed at least six pieces. That's like... two after every meal!
School-wise, I've started back to classes (obviously, it being February now and all), and they're pretty dern tough. Especially that British Lit course I ended up taking to get away from Professor "NATURE!!!1!!11!1!11one!1one!". Crazy b-... basket. We're having to read about 10-30 pages every night, which wouldn't be so bad, but it's OLD POETRY. Which also wouldn't be so bad, but we have to understand it before we get in there in case she decides we're going to write a response about it. I actually like most of the material, though. So that's a plus. Now, in addition to William Butler Yeats, I also like William Blake and William Wordsworth... wait, they're all "William". Apparently, I like all poets whose first name is William... weird. Oh, and by the way: I HATE ACCOUNTING!
With music, I've taken a liking to stuff by The Killers (especially Somebody Told Me and Sam's Town [Abbey Road Version]). I also got the new Franz Ferdinand album, but it's not all that great compared to their other stuff. To... mellow I guess? The rhythms and whatnot that made me like their first two just aren't in this one. What's with all the bands I like going soft!? (i.e. PATD's Pretty.Odd.)
And finally, anime! Soul Eater is still my current favorite, but I'm also re-watching Death Note, cuz it's so awesome. And, although it was great at first, I halted my watch of NANA, since after the half-way point, everything bad that could happen, happens. It's just really literally way too depressing to watch now. They completely ruined it by doing that. It's not even "wow this was great cuz it pulled at my emotions" kinda thing, it's just sad!
.:.::This is my stop::.:.
10:14 PM
Friday, October 31, 2008
⌈Birthday⌋
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5:29 PM
Saturday, October 25, 2008
⌈Painful Comparisons⌋
After this - after everything like this - I'm even more convinced to go ahead with my plan. I become more determined to actually do it every time I think about it. Of course there are some reasons that I don't want to, but I keep thinking that it will be worth it - it must be.
I once heard a preacher say something along the lines of: things are made difficult for us where we are to prepare us to leave it and move on, or to make us want to leave it, or something along those lines.
.:.::This is my stop::.:.
1:03 AM
Saturday, October 18, 2008
⌈The International Festival⌋
Apparently I'm going to the fair this week! :D :\ I don't like most of those rides. It looks like they're all about ready to fall apart, and they're not even trying to hide it! Ugh.. Maybe I'm just paranoid about them but whatever. =P I'm not that big on most fair rides anyway... a few of them are ok, but none of the rollercoasters or anything. Oh well, it should still be fun, or at least interesting.
Things otherwise... if you've got a Wii, get World of Goo. It rocks, 'nuff said.
Edit: Oh, and I was able to fix the oopsie (see previous post).
.:.::This is my stop::.:.
9:22 PM
Thursday, October 16, 2008
⌈Ubuntu and an Oopsie⌋
Now for Ubuntu! I finally got around to trying out a Linux OS! Yay me! What caused me to finally try it? Our computer was bombed with malware again! :D *mumble mumble; complain complain* My family always comes to me, demanding that I fix the computer that they blew up doing who knows what. WhatTheTech, who I always use to help me fix the PC, decided that I'm a pirate because there was a file called "new windows.zip" in one of the scan logs. Yeah, uhm... that's from when I was messing with our themes and junk. We've never had a reason to need a pirated copy of Windows... all our OS's are genuine. ...assholes... They won't listen to anything. The moron who was helping me just keeps going "Maybe you should read the rules!" And I have... and they simply state that they will ASK that I REMOVE the so-called "pirated" files / software from my PC before they will HELP ME. Pretty sure that's not what they were doing...
Anyway... I was trying to burn / run a Live CD to demo Ubuntu, but the stupid thing wouldn't work. I found this WUBI (?) thing that's like a program version of the OS... sorta? So its kinda like having a dual-boot Windows / Ubuntu, but it doesn't modify the Windows OS or need a separate partition (just a chunk of GB to save / act on). Whenever it tries to access some stuff, like the resolution, though, it kinda... freezes... yeah, not good. So if I end up liking Ubuntu, I'll be looking into how to dual-boot it with Windows. From what I've skimmed over, it looks like I'll have to format the hard drive disk thing to partition it though. So I'll have to backup everything we need to keep. Good thing I ordered that 8 GB flash drive. -_-;
So far it's pretty nice. Much better style and look compared to XP (except in programs.. since I can't use stuff like Office 2007 anymore, but OpenOffice works nice). I'll look into some kind of emulator... or VM... or WINE eventually though.
As for other things going on... we've almost finished decorating the house, so I should be able to get some nice pics up soon. I'm taking my little sister to the International Festival at my college this weekend. She has to write some kind of report about it for her class. Should be fun.
.:.::This is my stop::.:.
11:38 PM
Saturday, October 11, 2008
⌈More Stuff⌋
You may have noticed, but I recently changed my avatar from the Orca thing to a soul... thing. I was gonna change my usernames and stuff to Soul something or another, but couldn't ever think of anything good. So I decided to just keep Orca239 and go by Jag or Soul, depending on when people met me. Still sorta wish I could think of a good username. Eh, anyways...
I went and bought like... an entire new wardrobe or w/e basically last Monday. Seems pretty different from the basic stuff I used to wear. Except for the loss of all that money, I'm really happy with the new stuff. I feel better and more comfortable wearing these clothes. =) Got my hair cut by a different person too, and it seems... better. Good enough at least... I guess, lol.
.:.::This is my stop::.:.
11:50 PM
1080.FM * The Planet - New Rock Alternative
