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Cleaning

October 24th, 2006 Posted in Life | 1 Comment »

Tonight I cleaned out my black portfolio thing. Its version 2.0, the first one I had was made of plastic and fell apart, this new leather one works very well. Its worn (going on 3 years now) but it provides a small sense of comfort. Whether that be knowing I can knock someone upside the head with it, take down notes, or read some messages. Over the past years, specifically past year I’ve kept some of my favorite pages in them, glueing them onto a new yellow-pad every time. Looking through I found some more notable pages.

Gossips Statistics, in his school I calculated who, out of people I dealt with, was most likely to be associated with a leak or distribution of information, and the probably a certain piece of information would be associated with them.

I found a very cute heart drawn in craypas or something that smudges, so now I have two copies of it.

I found a page saying Billy Ray can sing at my funerual

I found a page where I wrote down people’s reaction to my new sweater. Did you know Andy Barry and Craig Lavine called it suicide? Jon advised I return it. Aimee Harper thought the world was ending. Katie loved it.

I found things I had forgotten, statistics for error calculations that I wanted to forget… passwords to things that don’t exist anymore.

What I loved finding the most was the little notes from my girlfriend Katie. She would write a little note on the corner of a page for me to read later, or write something down instead of telling me if other people would here. They make me very happy, and sad at the same point that my notebook no longer gets written in as such.

I found a few things I had chosen to forget, well.. I lied.. I didn’t forget, I put them out of sight. I have three blogs I handwrote that are pretty much some of the craziest and bluntest things I’ve ever written. One I wrote at 2:00am, the other two were written while sitting next to a Citronella Candle. In those blogs I divulge thoughts that I activly supress, emotions I’m afraid of, moral guidance in an attempt of achieveing some divine clue.

I re-read them and contemplate putting them online. I decided not to, the content is too deep, too near to my heart to be posted anytime soon.

I’ll leave you with a line from one of them.

I’ve tried and still are trying, hoping, searching for a star to wish on. But none exist in the cloudy sky.

Ok, I made up the wording but it was like that. It has a both figurative and literal meaning.

Easy Tuesday

October 24th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Tuesdays are by far my easiest day here at RPI. One class in the morning, and then RPI TV stuff in the afternoon/evening. The class is a breeze, for some reason my TA hates silence so she starts to freak out if we don’t say anything to her. Of course in my confusion this morning I forgot my keys… since I couldn’t get in (Sully and the RA and RD were out) I decided to head to the library where I would do some scanning.. I spent an hour in there and it got working.

After making it back into my room I have come to the conclusion it is winter here. Fall was very short.. the weather is now rather cold here and windy. It feels like snow. Being from MA the cold isn’t what bothers me.. its the speed at which it came that does. I never go to fully get into my fall clothes and now I have to go into winter.. I always like the season where you can wear just a long sleeve shirt.. no need for a turtle neck or sweater or vest. But I can’t change the weather.

Anyone who reads this involved with Project Six Flags should bundle up.

The Tiger Times portal is progressing… slowly… I’m going to chat with someone who actually knows what they’re doing which is good. Maybe I can learn a few things here at RPI.. and by things I’m talking about useful things… not how to calculate a truss or address infinite series.

On the servers note… NSB1 is dead at the moment, there is a plan to revive it.. but its a little bit of a time away. In the mean time I plan to force it into functioning… once NSB1 is remote desktopable.

For another secret project I’m trying to find a Rackmounted 1U server to be donated. I might try hitting up some vendors like Dell and HP… but then I might try to attack websites like tigerdirect, newegg, or idk where. Acquring hardware has never been my specialty, but I’ve got a mission and a due date.

Umm yea… this weekend I went to Six Flags and made it through the park alive.. it doesn’t seem as scarry this year, I dunno why.

Well, I should go back to work on something… talk to y’all later!

the Only reason

October 18th, 2006 Posted in Life | No Comments »

Its fitting to provide an update, its been a little while so I decided to share with you whats going on.

Family Weekend went, I wish they had a Family/Friends weekend so my beautiful girlfriend could have arrived, but I guess RPI just doesn’t know what they should do to really make people come. I saw a magician, Mike Super. He was pretty good, I’ve always wanted to be a magician. When I was a young child I was fascinated by magic, I had a staff and could talk to Merlin. We were tight back in the day doing our magic stuff.

I really with I could do a cool magic trick, but I’ve never learned how to do any cool ones. I can stop my pulse in my arm to play dead.. if thats a good one?

In other news, I’m in a writing mood. Please submit articles you’d like me to write.. the topic is “How to…” and you finish the rest. I write for wiki.ehow.com and one of my articles has been nominated for inclusion in the one for all laptop project. That would be neat, to have your article available to tons of kids to read and have fun with. Makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.. and makes me want to write more.

There are some other things going on for me that I can post updates about.

CS grades are very slow to be posted, this angers me

IEA test went bad, I didn’t remember physics until I had a half hour left.

The Tiger Times portal is getting close to done. I’m debating the best way to setup the “positions” table. People have the ability to have an unknown number of positions for any given period of time. In past I would send it in as comma-delimated but I feel there must be another way. Hrm… I might go with csv style if nothing comes to mind or is shared with me.

I’ve also been working on co-ordinating a shoot at Six Flags New England for Tiger Times. The park is onboard and seems enthused about the plan, the members are on board and ready to go… there is no advisor yet so blah.. the tricky part is getting the equiptment onboard. I know exactly what I want, creating 2 issues. I can’t be there to pick it out. There is no way I know of that would get me to Mass before 3:30 on Friday the 27th. The second is the manager. While the message board conflicts are over for now, I’m not sure what terms I am on with him. Will he be coooperative like he has in the past or will be official and hold me strictly to the rules. I’m not sure. I’m asking for the equipment that generally doesn’t leave the studio because, well.. its hard to mount a teleprompter on a small camera… its just that simple. Who knows what I will get? Not me! I think.. no, know.. it will be a last minute editing session or something. I’m worried…

Umm, I might try to go to bed. Class at 11am tomorrow, but I need to work on my email to the manager and equipment lists and all. I just hope it works out. I would feel bad if I failed the TT or something, because yea.. I know the only reason is because I’m so far away. So we shall see won’t we.

Night