Congratulations! You're Faramir!
Which Lord of the Rings character and personality problem are you?
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Wow, that's very complimentary.
</David> <!--12:11 AM-->
<David> I am in the process of moving my blog to The Shadow Council page. With Ardith's help that should be done within a week or so. Thus, I will probably stop posting to this site, and once I get things transferred, I will make this site forward to that one. At least, that's the idea. Right now, you need to go to that site and comment on how cool it is. Hmm, guess I ought to get the template figured out and make it orange, as it ought to be.
</David> <!--4:45 PM-->
<David> My possible papers:
The Female Seducing The Proletariat: C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves and Culture
C. S. Lewis Unlocking Pathology: The Four Loves and the Tolerance of Feminism
C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves, and The Oppressed: Troubling Homosocial Re-vision
Exploited Supplement and the Epistemology of Monologic Womanhood in C. S. Lewis's The Four Loves
I think I'll redo my Inklings paper... </David> <!--11:43 PM-->
<David> Today was a good day.
I got to work on a nice laptop, and then I got nifty things for my laptop. And then...
I got to make DVD's!
It is very fun to take a blue bottomed DVD and make it purple by writing to all of it. It's a very satisfying feeling. To write all one's ISO's onto one disc, ahhh, so enjoyable. Yeah, so that's what I've been doing. And playing a little bit of games. Hmmm, so good.
Now were was I? I'm not sure. Oh well, bye everyone. </David> <!--11:36 PM-->
<David> Often as I write this blog I save the text I have just written to the clipboard before hitting post. Thus, if the connection should, for some reason, go awry, I have not lost my investment of time. If, however, I type ctrl+a, ctrl+v, the text is lost and gone forever.
'Doh.
Thus you will not have the pleasure of reading the enchanting post I have just created. It was overwritten with the blank contents of the clip board.
Henceforth be admonished.
CTRL+C - Copy currently selected text to the clipboard.
CTRL+V - Replace currently selected text with the contents of the clipboard
Learn and obey, and great shall be your rewards. Fail in these things and yours shall be everlasting LeTourneau. Amen. </David> <!--8:57 AM-->
<David> I was browsing about, waiting for Half-Life to download. I drifted to the Bittorrent Download page, via Google, and discovered it is written by a single person. He appears to be, at first glance, a math and problem loving hacker. I browsed his blog and he writes on logic and physics problems. He even discussed ways in which Ebay can be exploited and how they could fix it. If you have some time and like interesting mathematical ideas, its a good read. I also ran across Click Mazes, a collection of online mazes and maze games. I spent a very deep half hour going through the swamp and plank mazes. I miss the logic games I used to get out of books. If you run across The Chicken from Minsk be sure to page through it. It assumes an ideal environment for all the physics based problems, and explains things like lack of friction as the "fruit of comradeship." Oh, and for you fps junkies out there...
Half-Life is now free, and can be downloaded legally. Valve decided to build anticipation with this move, I guess. Also, I ran across an amazing Half-Life mod, The Specialists, that combines standard fps action with matrix style rolls, dives, and flips. A massive array of weapons combined with bullet-time powerups contribute to a truly amazing multi-player experience. Just imagine diving through a window, hitting bullet-time, rolling over in the air and placing three neat holes in your opponents head. Then you land and slide down the stairs. Its great fun for the whole family. </David> <!--1:06 AM-->
<David> Monday afternoon I sat up suddenly in my bed. I had just experienced a little piece of heaven. I had fallen asleep sometime after midnight, and I had not set my alarm clock. I had slept, uninterrupted, for nearly twelve hours. Moreover, I knew where a cup of blueberry yogurt was waiting for me. Additionally, I had a bin of chocolate chip cookies under my bed. Life was good.
So good, in fact, that I was fairly convince it couldn't get any better. I was wrong. Tuesday morning I worked at HCJB, my Dad's primary location of occupation. I sorted surface mount capacitors, resistors, inductors, and IC's. I was feeling down. Surely this boring day would never compare the the food-filled joy of Monday. But, in my darkest moment, my Dad and I went to Taco Bell. I ate a Grilled Stuffed Burrito of the "Fajita" variety. It was good, but not quite up to normal Burrito quality. This rising point was soon followed by the greatest moment of that day (aside from a phone-call that night.) We went to O's. Now Oh is a nice guy. In fact, he's so nice that he sold me a beautiful laptop, a 21" monitor, and a like-new black 15" monitor, all dirt cheap. When I entered the shop that wonderful day I saw Oh standing there, smiling at me like an angel sent from God. Behind lay a table spread with pure computer goodness. PCI and AGP cards spilled over the edges, each sending shimmering glimmers of heavenly green light from the PCB. My jaw dropped, and Oh smiled and stepped aside, my ready butler. "This way, sir, to the four dollar assorted cards table," he said (or words to that effect). I began to sort through the green goodness, each card caressed my hand like a silken handkerchief.
I'll cut the repertoire and give you the juicy details.
The Haul:
1 3Com 3C595-TX (PCI version of 509, 10/100)
4 3Com 3C905-B (Industry standard, PCI, 10/100) These cards work in every OS ever made
1 ATI All-In-Wonder with a TV-tuner (PCI, 16mb I think)
Each card, only four dollars!
Lalalala, (I'm dancing).
Now I can have a triple monitor system!!!
Lalalalala!
Needless to say, I'm quite happy.
(Oh, and to Ardith, HA. You can keep your for all I care!) </David> <!--11:07 PM-->
<David> I want a fun, exciting job. Sorting and ordering surface mount electrical components just isn't my idea of a good break. Maybe I should look into the 'shroom growing business. </David> <!--10:40 PM-->
<David> In my wanderings, I happened across a jive translator. Now we all know that Paul, the apostle, was a fisherman. Thus he would fit in very well with today's back-alley hoods. Then King James Version, however, hardly does justice to Paul's certainly... localized speech. I have restored his words to their original format.
Here are some brief excerpts,
"While Paul wuz waitin' fo them in Athens, he wuz great-like distressed t' spot dat da damn hood wuz full o' idols."
"In da past da damn Lord overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all sucka's everywhere t' repent"
It gets better in context, read on!
The Jive Yo!
</David> <!--12:22 AM-->
<David> By popular demand, I am now reposting the link to my ever-popular...
Why is the Rum Gone? Quiz.
Oh, and go ahead and bypass the blocking. They don't care. Really.
</David> <!--12:15 AM-->
<David>
Congratulations! You're Faramir!
Which Lord of the Rings character and personality problem are you?
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Wow, that's very complimentary.
</David> <!--12:11 AM-->
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(Or should I say Muses)
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Singular Human
Randomness Master
Food Maker
PA Extraordinaire
Wench I stole
a Hankerchief from
Brother Enoch,
Alaskan Explorer
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Damian The Blessed,
Bringer of Trigun
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