Brian's World

Leave your conscience at the tone

Well its another Sunday night, time to write a blog. Lots of cover, my mind will get sidetracked as it always does.

At the moment I’m drinking some tea I made, my throat isn’t feeling 100% for some reason.. I think sore throat coming on. Maybe some tea will help beat it off. It sure it cold enough out here… brr. Unfortunately I’m drinking this cup so fast I’m not sure if it will last the entire blog. If the teabag wasn’t in the trash I might consider making another cup.

Some interesting happens I should update everyone on. The idea that I propose will make me famous (see http://www.brispace.net for more) is still on the crock pot. I say crock pot because its cooking very slowly, most likely will not be done anytime soon, and will be difficult to chew on. In preparation I might be making a few changes to the blog here, as well as any other mysql driven site I maintain. I’m looking into a distributed database model, not because I have the need to distribute data, but because I need some way of testing the concept, and if I use every website I run I might just get a few hits. The trick of course will be in tricking the paid host into working. Hrm.

Back to the basics, I explained the idea in as much non-technical detail as I could to Katie. It wasn’t just an idea I explained, it was the entire life plan effected by the idea. I’m stuck on the foundation of the idea, there are several potential starting places to code. Unfortunately they are all very different. If I had a team of coders I would task each starting point to each coder or small team, then they would all meet in the middle, in the part I call the “integrator”. Well since the team of coders I have is my left and my right hand I think we’ll all have to work on the same entrance.

I’ve also figured out how I would debut the thing, of course it requires a music deal or two but if I get some backing from a large company I see no problem with it being possible. I’ve figured the operation would be run out of 4 places, in this order. New York, London, Boston, California. Each location has its own logistical nightmares, but New York is the best. Thats were the things I need are happening.. well not happening, but thats where everyone comes together.

I’m excited about it. I want to make it happen, but what I want and what happens are two different things. Unfortunately CS2 will help me 0 with it… a good course in web programming or more linux would be helpful. I guess I’ll stick to prof. Google for this one.

Umm yea.. I lost track again.. My tea is done… time to go do something else…

Starting again

Yawn. I’m back at RPI sitting in CS 2. The professor is more understandable, but the material is still boring. I’m hoping this is simply because its a review day but who knows. The first lab certainly looks easy as well. Too bad the courses I’m actually interested in taking have a ton of prerequisetes and I won’t be able to take them until junior or senior year. At the point I’ll learn something I enjoy working with and am actually interested in.

For me I found coming back to school after the Holiday break to be harder than coming here in the Fall. Most would suspect the transition to be easier, already knowing all the fundamentals like how to work a meal plan, do laundry, find most classes, etc. For me, I agree… those aspects are definately easier, but without having to worry about the small things, I’m very much likely to loose my mind. If I can worry about small things, easy things, routine things, I can avoid issues that I really don’t want to address, feeling of sadness, seperation, discontent.

Its not that I dislike RPI, I’m just very frustrated at it. Call me in the storming stage if you must. I would really like to work on projects that I’m interested, take a course that I’d enjoy. I feel that some of these courses really aren’t helping me at all, I’d like to learn more about PHP, Mysql, Web Programming, CSS, AJAX, Python, etc. But I feel like I have to spend a few semesters in acoma, doing things that I could do in High School just to prove that I know it.

Another factor is the projects I have in my mind that are driving me crazy. I have a few good ideas floating around, but they’re difficult to implement in my “spare time”. Unfortunately I’m not skilled enough to make them fully work at the current time, but I know that with some resources they are very viable. Of course there is a 0% chance any large company will notice me and my ideas and give me a call. Even more frustrating is that someone who has the money has just started developing a core component of my idea and placing it out for beta. I’m signed up so I can ridicule it. See, another company could have had this idea and extended it further and cooler but nooo.. who would find me.

See, I just want to be doing things that aren’t DiffEq or Discrete Structures…

Then again, I just completely lost my train of thought.

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