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[10 Jul 2009|03:00pm] |
Though I'll miss seeing my friends and family, there's a part of me that really can't wait to get back to Chico.
I've driven past the LA river so many times in the last week. It's just a good symbol of how much Southern California sucks when it comes to nature.
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[05 Jul 2009|12:43am] |
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With this netbook, I can update this livejournal from the toilet.
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[11 Jun 2009|12:04pm] |
I'm twenty nine years old and I'm playing video games at my parents' house.
Fucking. Sweet.
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[10 Jun 2009|04:23pm] |
It's been really nice being back here for the last few weeks, though all the things I'd planned on keeping me busy aren't, so I'm pretty bored a lot of the days.
( Video Games )
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[25 May 2009|12:40am] |
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I swear I've gotten 10 times more busy since finals ended. Moving sucks. I need to finish packing tonight but I'm just so fucking tired I feel like I'll fall asleep in 20 minutes.
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[08 May 2009|09:35pm] |
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Fuck the unsatisfiable nerds who can't be happy with anything. Star Trek was frickin' sweet.
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[25 Apr 2009|09:18pm] |
In an effort to get my mind off of some things and maybe adjust my brain/body chemistry to something more agreeable, I decided to start running again. It'd been about 6 or 7 months since I'd ran and I only made it a little over half as far as my daily run used to be before feeling like I was going to throw up, but that's okay. I'll get back in shape. When I got home I was greeted by a lost kitty who walked up to me and purred loudly when I scratched its head. I really have a soft spot for cats. The cat was very skinny and probably desperate if it's walking up to strange people. Or it hasn't been lost long enough to know not to trust humans. There had been a lost cat flyer posted on the corner a couple weeks ago, and from what I remember of the picture, this might be the cat in question, but when I checked the flyer wasn't there anymore. When I went to my door to come in, the cat sat by my feet, obviously wanting to come in, but I could not let it since I've already got two cats, one of which was a stray I took in in October.
I gave it a handful of cat food, said "That'll keep you going for another day or so" and gave it one last head scratch. I posted a found cat ad on craigslist, but I don't know if that'll do any good. It was too dark to get a picture, and if the owner does see the ad and contact me, there's no guarantee that the cat will still be hanging around.
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[18 Apr 2009|07:01am] |
Why did I wake up before 6 on a Saturday?
Hey I registered for classes for next semester and none of the ones I wanted were full, and no scheduling conflicts. Score.
In case anybody cares, I am taking Electricity and Magnetism, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations and Computer Architecture. So I'll be doing a shitload of math. After that I'll be done with physics! And I'll only need two more math classes, those being statistics and numerical analysis. Then I'll just have 11 comp sci classes to complete, my theme classes, and I need to get around to taking elementary chemistry. That'll be kind of a joke after finishing three semesters of Calculus-based physics.
So maybe I'll graduate before I'm 32?
Welp, hope you enjoyed school-chat. See ya next time.
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[15 Apr 2009|05:19pm] |
If I remember right, people were still blaming economic problems on Clinton even two years into Bush's first term.
I mean shit, there are people actively blaming Obama for shit that started in 2007.
I know I shouldn't be surprised by this. But it's just so dumb. Anyway, there's plenty of legitimate shit to talk about Obama, what with the wiretapping, appointing more RIAA lawyers to the DOJ, this here... There's more.
But I guess you can't get Fox News viewers riled up about anything except their own money.
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[15 Apr 2009|04:21pm] |
Jesus Christ.
After a lifetime of working, paying taxes and raising three children on her own, Wilder is struggling. She said she retired on disability from M&T Bank three years ago after undergoing knee replacement and back surgeries. She lives on her Social Security and disability benefits. Last year, she petitioned the bankruptcy court for protection from creditors. She said she did not have to pay federal income taxes last year because her income was too low. "I don't want to see this country turn into a welfare, nanny state, where we stand in line for groceries, and we're in welfare lines, and in socialized medicine lines," Wilder said.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
I couldn't make this shit up.
I went to the post office to mail off my taxes (last minute, yep). A bunch of these people were out there with signs about how much Obama sucks and taxes taxes DON'T TAKE MY HARD EARNED MONEY YOU FUCKING SOCIALISTS.
They chose today to protest because it's tax day.
For 2008.
Which fell under Bush's tax policies.
I was going to go walk among them and try to bait some of them into spewing hateful racist shit because I'm a terrible person, but by the time I got out of the post office, they were done singing "Proud to be an American" and were dispersing. It's probably for the best.
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[15 Apr 2009|10:38am] |
Republicans are seriously the dumbest fucks and I can't get enough of cable news networks making really lame jokes about dicks and testicles.
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[12 Apr 2009|11:50am] |
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Wow it's a beautiful day. Perfect for riding my bike around the park. But I'm spending the whole day doing a coding project which I had five weeks to do but waited until yesterday to start because I am irresponsible and have the discipline of a five year old.
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[08 Apr 2009|12:48pm] |
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Watching advertisements for hours and then a four hour documentary about advertisements, staying up until 4 AM to do so, will give you some fucked up dreams, let me tell you.
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[07 Apr 2009|11:25pm] |
Throughout December and January, while I was back in Southern California, I watched a considerable amount of TV. I don't watch any TV here. Sometimes I'll watch a show on hulu, but the advertisements on that site are easily muted and ignored. Many times while I was watching TV, I got more than a little freaked out by commercials. I had forgotten how weird and offensive they are. More than once, somebody asked if I was alright because seeing commercials could significantly change my mood. Maybe I'm a little crazy, or maybe regular TV watchers are so desensitized they don't notice. Anyway, instead of a real post, here's a youtube post about commercials. Okay, the first one doesn't really count because it's more about Demon Cop-level film making at its best. But it's still a commercial.
You know what, fuck tables, I ain't even gonna cut this. If you watch them all, you might discover the hidden message. If you have better things to do than voluntarily watch advertisements for products you probably can't even buy, I'll just tell you the hidden message now: Some shit is pretty fucked up.
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[31 Mar 2009|01:14pm] |
One of the things I like about this city is the park. It's really impressive to me, coming from Ventura where the best park is Arroyo Verde. I mean I liked that park, but it just doesn't compare at all to Bidwell Park here. I wanted to take some pictures of the upper park in spring, before the summer heat comes and turns all the beautiful green into a not so beautiful, but still quite nice yellow. Only apparently my camera has been damaged, so these pictures really don't do the place justice.
( Here they are anyway )
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[30 Mar 2009|08:26pm] |
In physics, we've been talking about optics the last few weeks. Today while learning how the focal length of a lens can be determined by its shape, I thought about how you can use a magnifying glass to light matches and other things. That reminded me of when I was a kid, living in Arizona. One of my science experiments had been to make a solar oven which was basically a box covered in aluminum foil shaped so that most of the light that hit the inside got reflected to the center. It got hot enough to cook an egg, anyway. That reminded me of hearing about the crew of Hey Dude using the set lights and hot Arizona sun to bake bread on set. I then spent about five minutes trying to remember all the characters from Hey Dude. There's Mr. Ernst, of course, and Ted. I think the blonde girl's name was Melody. There was a dark haired girl, but I can't remember her name. Was there a skinny kinda nerdy dude? Salute Your Shorts had Sponge and Saved by the Bell had Shreek...Or was that Screech? I have no idea what other characters were on that show. Hm, I think the dude who played Mr. Ernst was the angry guy in the car in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I should look that up when I get home...Wait, physics? What's going on?
Staying focused has never been a strong point for me. I was really more disappointed that I could only remember three characters from that show. They say the brain starts deteriorating at 27. If that's true, I'm past my prime. Yet I feel so young...
Oh, I did look it up, and Mr. Ernst was that dude in Fear and Loathing.
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[13 Mar 2009|07:51pm] |
Annnnd I just yelled at my monitor "Those two statements are incongruous with each other."
Fuck it. I guess you got me. Good job, Glenn Beck.
I really need something better to do than immerse myself in the world's worst.
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[11 Mar 2009|10:46pm] |
Oh, here's an example.
Oh, I stayed for the whole thing. It was a slimy, anti-american-whine-fest. Compromise with human slavery (i.e. communism) was held up as an ideal worthy of sacrificing untold millions to "unite" the world in WAR (called peace in the movie) against Dr. Dangle, who was entirely innocent. Dr. Dangle's super-powers are intentionally kept in check so as to prevent more logical questions from arising - such as, Why, if he is a human god, didn't he just flit from Soviet Silo to Silo replacing the uranium/plutonium in all the Soviet missles with mud? Well, because that would make things too easy, by passing what this movie is really about - getting you to fear and loathe everything around you so much that you'll scream for change, any change, RIGHT NOW. Make "peace" with a brutal dictatorship (The Soviet Union for those of you too dense to get it) RIGHT NOW. And what would that peace entail? Would that entail sacrificing property rights? Anything for "peace" right? Would that entail nationalizing the means of production to smooth relations with our newfound ally? How about murdering those “misguided” enough to protest against any such measures? Would they be murdered for the new “peace?”
It is unfortunate that Dr. Dangle was not endowed with super-human Judgement. He seemingly buys the villian's ridiculous plan without hesitation, condemns those living under the brutal dictatorship of the CCCP to decades more of Soviet night, butchers his own friend in the most grotesque way (couldn't he just cause a brain embolism or teleport his heart into space? He had to blow his friend up!?), and then leaves happily bearing the blight on his own name - a name which is totally innocent. Also he leaves the villain standing.
It's amazing to me that the makers of this Movie can have a sociopathic rapist "Superhero" (the Comedian) whine about how the American Dream came true even while he's mowing down protestors. To blame the American Dream (which is esstentially Liberty to do whatever and live however you want as long as it doesn't aggress against or steal from your neighbor) for the way things turned out under an apparently facist american regime (under a Roosevelt-esque Nixon complete with pinnochio nose) is truly bizarre. Similar to, and connected with, blaming capitalism for economic problems when capitalism has never existed and could never have existed in such a place.
Like "V for Vendetta," the "Watchmen" is just a shiny neon fig-leaf for ancient, wrinkly, tired and discredited Socialist propaganda.
See now this is what I'm talking about. The reactions to the movie are so much more fun than the movie itself.
If only I could spend as much time studying my text books as I do studying stupid people...
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