I love the fact that I just upgraded the firmware on my router without losing my ssh connection to the host my email's on. Downtime was probably a minute or two, then ssh just figured things back out. At school I used to move my notebook between rooms, plug back in, and keep my session. That was always fun.
I just downloaded and installed a program called x2x on my two Indys. I can now pretend it's xinerama as I scroll my mouse off one screen and onto the other, controlling both from a single mouse and keyboard.
This week and next week I'm commuting down to Holland, MI, ever day to do some contract work for The Image Group. It's Intershop work, so it's not exactly fun or clean, but hey, it's work, it's money, and it's sort of Perl.
As I walked to lunch today, it was snowing. Now it's snowing harder. The ground's not that cold so I doubt any will stick, but still... Snow... And I'm wearing sandals.
I'm now back in Michigan, writing this from one of my trusty SGI Indys. These boxes are definitely not fast, but they're functional. And the internal speaker on an Indy is amazingly good.
Things are starting to take shape. I've got three good pages in which I've outlined the theories of Hobbes, Locke, and Rawls. I've still got to do Gauthier, which brings me up to four pages at the conclusion of the first part of the prompt. The second basically takes the first and interprets it, which will go much faster.
Paper's still not going all that well. I've got a little more of an idea of what I want now, but things still aren't as directed as I'd like. I'm still hopeful I'll get done before the plane leaves, but I'm not holding out too much hope for getting any sleep beforehand.
I really haven't gotten far on the paper. I don't have much inspiration for a direction to take it. I feel like I need a lot more comprehensive information on each author, yet I really only need to write a page on each. While not really writing I've packed, and prepared my paper contingency plan: my Palm III and GoType keyboard. I have no plan or desire put put this plan into effect, but hey, it's always good to be prepared.
One more paper to write, and the semester is over. This one is the final for Liberal Political Theory and the Social Contract, and basically involves summarizing everything we've talked about. 7 - 8 pages, not due until Thursday, but since I take off tomorrow morning I've got to get it done tonight. Fun fun. It's going to be a late night, and then I get to sleep on the plane.
Oh wow. If I didn't just post a song of the moment five minutes ago, this would be one. Back in the day, when I was an mp3.com junkie, I found a band called Knee Jerk Reaction. Let's define their music style by saying that they have to link to the defintions for "cooper pairs", "lepton", and "acetate" in their lyrics page. I figured they were some crazy joke, although a very good one. Now I find out they have a new cd coming out in a couple weeks, and they're playing at the El Rey on Jan 30. I'm so there. Wow.
A couple years ago I used to listen to Deena Noroian's songs Sitting on Top of the World and Story of a Girl. I was just looking her back up and found One Step Closer. Hehe... Good stuff. Yes, that is the Linkin Park song.
Done, and very happy with the result. I've put it up in verbal intercourse as Justification of Rights in Social Contract Theory, a title much more boring than the paper itself. Now I'm off to my nap before class.
I haven't really felt like writing, so I've been doing laundry and studying for my nature of scientific inquiry midterm/final tomorrow. Quantum mechanics, uncertainty, chaos theory, etc. It shouldn't be that hard.
As for the essay, I've got a page and a half that I like. It'll be done. I'm not worried about that at all.
I am now a nocturnal being. The last five nights I've gone to bed at 4:30, 4:30, 4, 4:45, and 5. Tonight will be no exception.
I finished my essay at about five this morning. It wasn't that it really took me that long to write, it was more that I was just never in a hurry to get it done. I thought it came out pretty well; it's in the verbal intercourse section as Individualism as Differing from the Norm. As you can see, I'm not good at titles.
Tonight I finish up some work on a paper for Liberal Political Theory and study for my last midterm (which might as well be a final) tomorrow in Nature of Scientific Inquiry. Not a huge night, but still a good load in front of me.
I think a shower would help me feel better about being up, so I'm off to take one. It's 11:50pm, and I'm done reading, have a thesis, and am starting to go through the book looking for support. At this point I feel good about how things are going.
Over the past few weeks I've noticed a steady stream of people searching google for "christmas cheer" or "christmas thoughts" and finding my thoughts piece entitled christmas cheer. To these people I apologize. I can only imagine how the depressing lament they click and discover is in no way what they hoped or intended to find. To them I can only say, read on. It gets better. It all comes out ok in the end; you'll see already...
Mogwai is what I listen to when I need music that just flows. Mogwai doesn't really have vocals so much as the human voice is merely another instrument they use at will. r u still in 2 it is actually one of their few songs to buck this trend; the haunting vocals are understated, yet powerful and central to the piece.
Now starts night number two... Five page paper on Abelard and Heloise, due at 9am tomorrow. I'm on page 130 of the book. Muah haha...
Granted, I did sleep 11am - 5pm, so I'm rested up for tonight.
It's now 3am, and I'm done with my handout. I would say this puts me about 40% done for the night. This puts me on pace to probably get an hour and a half nap before I go to class and present this. After presenting I go to another class, listen to a lecture, come back here and sleep from 12pm - 6pm or so, get up, finish reading The Letters of Abelard and Heloise, and start writing another paper. My sleep patterns are definitely not healthy.
One king sized Twix bar package contains 36% of your daily serving of fat, 40% of your daily serving of saturated fat.
I have a 4-6 page paper, and a handout for a presentation, due tomorrow morning at 8am. Neither are done, or even really that close to being done. This worries me, but not overly much. I have no idea how, but something will come together. What does worry me, however, is that once I finish these I have to figure out how to print them. That sounds like an easy problem, but it's really not. Especially at whatever hour of the morning I need to print. Gar. This isn't fun.
Not only did I play basketball tonight, I played basketball until 4:30am. I'm tired now. Luckily our championship intramural football game is not until 3pm tomorrow. Mmmm... Sleeping in...