I’m at Tres’
Tim is a chattybitch.
There’s a bonfire tomorrow. Be there or don’t. But Tres and Fire together, in close proximity…. well, lets just say, I want to see the light show.
Lots of stuff has happened. I (along with Lance, Tim, and Tres) went to ComicCon. Got me a cardboard tube, signed by the Penny-Arcade gang. And a Wang Fu Master t-shirt. And a Certificate.
In other news, 3.5 Edition of DND sucks.
Going to see mom in a couple weeks. Kidnapping Kerry for a little while.
All for now.
g0d` I wish I could wear flip flops to work. Shit, I don’t even have flip flops. I’ll have to get a pair.
Oh, Amber called. Hi Amber!
Interesting turn of events.
So I got two tickets, right? Well, the first ticket had to be taken care of by June 17th. Thats today. The second ticket I never even checked the date on it, I figured it was after the first. I was, apparently, mistaken. It was due June 4th. Normally, this would have been a very bad thing, and there would in fact be a warrant out for my arrest. But when I went to the courthouse yesterday, the clerk told me there was never any ticket filed. Officers have up to a year to file a ticket, but generally if they don’t do it in the first month or two, they don’t bother, she says.
So….. I may or may not have to pay the 2nd ticket. But either way, its out of my hands at this point. The other one I got a continuation on until July 17th. So if I go to traffic school for that one, neither will appear on my record. So thats nice. Gotta go to work now, later.
Angela. Totally need to talk to you. I thought you had a website at one point? Anyway, call me…
Had killer day/night. Tres’ Grad Party at Green Valley Falls, then Denny’s with Angela, Kerry, Tres, Tim, Tom, Mollie, and a bit later, Chris.
Didn’t go to GG’s for tco night. Felt kinda bad, but totally had more fun doing what I did. I’ll make it up to them another time.
Met a non-cousin I’d apparently met before. Crazy.
Anyway, Tres n Tim are over, and I think we’re all ready for bed, so gnite
Bill
“Carrot Cake Soup is like the taste of watching girls make out.” – Tycho
Penny Arcade fscking 0wnz j00 4ll.
‘nuf said.
Ever have a dream where you get so mad at someone for something they did in the dream, and then you wake up, and you’re still all pissed off at them cuz of what they did, only, over the course of the morning, you realize that they didn’t really do it, its not their fault?
Uhh.. yeah, me neither.
Wow. So whats this shit about the servers being overloaded all about? Somebodies software isn’t scaling properly…. All the more reason I should get DSL! Well, except not right now, cuz we may be moving in a couple months, and DSL contracts typically last a year… Which sucks though, cuz DSL around here is spec-fucking-tacular. We’re talking orgasmic. And if I had DSL, I could host my own little webblog dealie.
So anyways. Here we are. *bloggity bloggity*.
Whats that? Where have I been? Oh. Well, you know. Here and there. There was that week I had SARS, followed shortly by the week that Mollie had SARS and actually wound up in the hospital twice… All this before school was even over, so we can go ahead and add last minute school crap to that.
Meh.
So my dad told me the other day that he wants to set up a Linux box. Says he’s gonna learn perl. Interesting. Wonder what distro he’ll choose.
Oh yeah. If you ever have to take an english class, don’t hestitate to take it with Leanne Maunu. Best English Teacher I’ve had since ‘the Frogg’. Totally let me turn in my paper 3 weeks after it was due (not to mention 5 days after finals). Too bad she’s not teaching anything I’m taking next semester. Oh yeah, bombed the shit outta Calc 2 final. Probably failed that class bigtime.
Apartment is looking nice. I guess thats why we’re moving. Where have I seen this pattern before……. hmm…..
Oh! Big news! We got a new kitten! Well, we got him like three weeks ago, but he’s still kinda new. He’s like Tyler! Accept he doesn’t look anything like him. Really, he just sorta acts like Tyler. Accept Tyler doesn’t act like Tyler much anymore. He calmed down a lot when we got little Kal’El here. Maybe he’s trying to set a good example.
We got more fish, too. Tanks lookin pretty nice. In a few weeks I’m gonna get a pair of glass tops for the 50 gallon and two pair of clownfish. One pair will be two false percula clowns (A. Ocellaris). And the others will be two black false percula clowns (A. Ocellaris). The black ones are a lot more rare, but not really much more expensive. Mollie has talked me out of Live Rock until we move. I dunno… something about 100 lbs of rock covered in living thigns being hard to move down a flight of stairs and across town…
On the phone, now. Bye.
Better make that two speeding tickets.
*sigh*
w00t.
Found out I was *not* accepted into San Marcos because I got a C- in my fscking Oral Comm class (thank you again, you fat fucking bitch for tearing apart my speech. ugh, I hated that teacher/class)
And then, on the way home from hanging out with Bri at a bar, I got pulled over and ticketed for speeding. Note: I hope it would go without saying that I had not had anything to drink all night, as I was driving.
Fuckin eh. What a shitty night.
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So much to say, so much to say, so much to say.
I was bored and so…..
Top Ten Most Frequently Asked PetCo Aquatics Questions That Make You Groan:
And the most commonly asked question guaranteed to make any Aquatics worker groan:
Nirvana’s Heart Shaped Box. Thats one fscked up music video.
Oh! Last night, I was installing this program, id3v2. It’s a nifty little command line utility that can change the id3 tags of mp3’s. Comes in handy when I want to delete all the id3 tags from all my mp3’s (death to id3!) without clicking on each freakin 1400+ one. So anyways, I’m compiling this program from source code, and it gives two errors. Whoa. Very few programs actually have compile-time (as opposed to run-time) errors. So I took a look at the errors. Oh. Hey, I know what its saying. Pop open the (C++) source code, edit two lines, and boom, it compiles. Sweet! I just debugged and hacked a program I got off the internet. So I e-mail the author with the code I changed. Total buzz. So yeah, I was a bit pleased with myself. I didn’t even do anything really. But it was a nifty feeling.
What else. Oh… installed the nVidia 3D drivers for my GeForce4. Nice. I installed NWN for linux, too, but its still in Beta, so it didn’t quite work. Oh well. I did get bzflag running though! w00t! bzflag! Next on my mission? I’m going to download the Quake II source code and compile that, then play some OpenGL Super Heroes! Oh, and I’m going to have to look for an NES Emulator, too, since I just found all my old ROMs. Heh, its a good thing its now Spring Break at Palomar.
Oh, so wanna hear how SDSU almost screwed me? But for once, SDSU wasn’t at fault? Yeah. So I checked San Marcos’ website the other night, to see about my admission status. Turns out, they haven’t recieved my transcript from SDSU! WTF?! I took care of that back in December! FSCKING SDSU!? Yeah. So I call SDSU up and ask (politely, of course) what the dillie yo? “We sent it December 3rd” they tell me. Hmmm. Ok, call San Marcos. Yeah. A lady by the name of Sheila answers.
Sheila: “So, how long ago did you send the transcript?”
Me: “December 3rd.”
Sheila: “Oh my God!”
Me: “Yeah.”
Sheila: “I’ll go look for it right now, whats your Soc?”
… So she goes and looks for it. Sure enough:
Sheila: “I found it. It just hasn’t been processed. I’m sorry it took so long, but since you’ve been waiting, I’ll have them do it today, and I’ll have you moved to the front of the line.”
Me: “Wow. Thanks.”
So I never expected it was San Marcos’s fault. But I’d never imagine SDSU would ever do anything even close to that.
Ok, so maybe those aren’t ordered how everyone else would order them. Or maybe some of em don’t make sense. I thought it was funny.
Oh yeah. So in Math. We’re doing this really cool thing. We’ve been dealing with infinite series and stuff, and its kinda neat. But what’s really cool, is that we’re learning how to approximate a number, using an infinite series.
For all the non-math nerds (not that I’m a math nerd, its merely forced upon me) in the audience, basically it works like this:
Take a number. Square root of 61. Lets say you don’t have a calculator. Who the hell knows the Square root of 61? Not me. Well, take a graph. Look at the graph of the Square root of X. It’s a nice curve. Thats handy, cuz with a nice curve you can draw what’s called a Tangent Line. A Tangent line is basically a line that only touches one single point on another line and does so perpendicular to the point. And it’s just a straight line. Why is that so special? Well, because if we find a number we know the value of at the Square root of X, then we can approximate it using the tangent line. Straight lines are easy to calculate. Or at least easier than the Square root of X. And it just so happens we know that the Square root of 64 is 8! So if we take the tangent line at X=64, then we’ve got a line that touches our Square Root at only one point, 64. Imagine that line for a moment. If you go a little higher or lower than 64, the line doesn’t touch, but it is very very close. Thats your approximation. Using the Tangent line, you can find the value at 61, which is approximately the Square root of 61.
So that’s kinda neat. But what we’re learning right now is that there’s an even better way. If you can make a sort of Super Tangent Line that curves closely (technically, it’s not a tangent line, but the idea is similar) to your actual line, you can get an even better approximation for a certain range of numbers. If you think about it, the tangent line of X is just a straight line. So while its a decent approximation, its not the best. Really, a curve would be better. Something that’s not quite the Square root of X, but its really close. Closer than a line. This all makes a lot more sense in person, but it is fairly interesting.
Anyways. The point was that I was thinking the other day about how I could write a program that did all this. Like, you input an equation you’re looking for an approximation for and then the program spits out (after some number/equation crunching) a value, and a %error. It’d be one hell of an undertaking, but a very interesting idea nonetheless.
I definitly have reached my nerd quota for today.
Well, its definitly April now.
You all know what that means. Peeps. [1] [2]. Yeah. Those wretched things are back. *shudder*
Then of course, there was today. I woke up an hour and ten minutes before work and then realized I had to be at work in ten minutes. Accursed daylight savings time. A pox on you Benjamin Franklin, or whoever thought a measly extra hour of daylight would be that useful.
In other news, I ate entirely too much Vanilla Pudding. It could have been worse, for sure, but the amount I ate was definitly no good. Of course, Tyler had some too. *rolls eyes*.
On the positive side, I’ve officially procrastinated my english paper by another day.
Oh! Hey, that girl that works in grooming at work actually talked to me today! It was amazing! I think her name is Michelle. Or Margaret. Or… well.. it starts with an “M” and isn’t “Melinda”. She doesn’t wear a nametag – I’m pretty sure its Michelle. I seem to know a lot of those. Anyway, so I was in Fish, and I looked over and saw her coming, and thought – like I always do when I see her – about how she never talks to me. Or really, it seems, to anyone. She’s kinda cute, or at least, I could see how a guy would definitly say she’s cute. So she’s walking over. She’s got a big stack of folded towels in her arms. She looks at me, we make eye contact and she looks away. I hate that. Why do people always try to avoid eye contact? Sometimes I think its the way I look at people. I typically look them in the eye, especially if I have just met them. I guess that makes most people uncomfortable. I just like looking at people’s eyes. I think the eyes are the most attractive part of a person. But I digress. And her eyes were looking anywhere but at me. But she was still walking toward me. She wasn’t smilling, but then I’d never seen her smile, really. Some people never smile, either. That bugs me a lot too. But she was walking straight toward me. “What does she want,” I wondered. Finally she reached the counter. I looked up at her from wiping the counter. She looked at me again, and looked away. Then she left the stack of folded towels on the counter, turned around and walked the other way. “Thanks,” I called after her. “Welcome,” she mumbled without turning around.
How ’bout that, eh? /me rolls his eyes. Why do some people just make zero effort to be friendly? I don’t mean making friends, I mean being friendly As if it were so much effort.
Oh well. It’s spring time. Bunny Day is only like 13 days away. Not that I get excited much over Bunny Day, mind you. But I do love painting Easter eggs and hiding/finding them. Especially painting them. Every year I make the ugliest Easter eggs I can. It’s good times. One time I made one that actually looked like a rock. It was great.
Oh, and the other counter. It’s been approximately 34 entries of mine since Tres has updated his diary. I had no idea he was so profoundly patriotic, but this past Veterans Day must have left him truly speechless. Well, its 12:30 now (accounting for Daylight Stupid Time), so I’ll call it a night.
