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| Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 | | 2:27 pm |
"You're with us or you're against us"
This gay rights meme thing really could've sold itself better.
I don't participate in LJ crap. You are not changing the world by making an LJ post. This is not a forum where great minds congregate to discuss matters of crucial importance to the future of humanity.
Ergo, making posts demanding that if you don't participate in a particular LJ repost, you are a de facto mean and bigoted person, is not only counterproductive, it's downright silly.
Being a supporter of gay rights, please excuse me if I don't bow to the threat of the label "bigot" by refusing to repost something that is not going to stop a single gay person from being stoned to death, prevent the execution of gays abroad, or allow gay people to get married in the U.S. | | Monday, March 24th, 2008 | | 9:56 pm |
Mixed messages.
Livejournal is for kvetching, right? It's not like I'm obligated to write anything substantive.
I spent the weekend with James and Rob, had a great time. Always glad to hang out with friends and especially happy to relax with the end of spring break.
This morning, one of the springs on the garage door came loose from the bolt, and the door hit me on the way down. (I have my computer system in the garage since there's not enough room in the house, which in turn means that I spend a lot of time in there.) I pulled a muscle in my right foot and in my left side, and have since strained both my arms lifting the damn thing every time I need to open it. On the up side, the landlord says it'll be fixed tomorrow. Still, very annoying. Painful, too.
Now, off to do math homework. | | Monday, March 10th, 2008 | | 11:21 pm |
Dear Spitzer
Please resign already. I don't really care about the hookers, but you held a high office and decided to spend taxpayer money breaking the law for your own entertainment. Get the hell out. Thanks muchly.
Love,
A dirty hippie | | Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 | | 10:17 am |
No More Years! It would seem that GenCon is done for: Lucasfilm sues GenConEnd of a gamer experience. Will this mean that Origins is now the big fish? | | Monday, February 18th, 2008 | | 11:47 pm |
Two down . . . Yep, finished two of my current Scion writing contracts. Now diving into the third. Unlike ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) innocent_man, I don't know the code names for these books, so it's just "Scion contract number three." | | Monday, February 4th, 2008 | | 1:24 am |
The Exorcist IV: The Spectre of War! Cut for the squeamish! It's horror, after all. | | Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 | | 1:12 am |
Flash Flood warning: DK cancelled
I was going to have a Dying Kingdoms event today (Sunday Feb. 3), but the county has posted flash flood warnings. Can't play on account of weather. I hope everyone who was going to drive out gets the message. I don't want people coming from Ontario or Orange County and then discovering that we aren't available. | | Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 | | 9:57 am |
Start again!
Strangely, I've been writing a lot recently. I mean, a HECK of a lot. It's not something I set out to do as a "New Year's Plan," either. Just been crackin' out the word count - on Dying Kingdoms, for Scion, and some Star Trek stuff, too.
I did manage to pass all of my classes from last term, although it was close in one case. Still, that means I get to move on to all the upper-division badness for spring. If I pass all of THAT, as well as two classes in summer, then . . . done. At last.
For those who follow Camarilla business, I've been picked as ARST-Requiem for the southwest region. So, I get to read and approve your various apps.
For those who follow Dying Kingdoms business, I learned of a new good location, so that game is getting off the ground again, too.
Weird. So many projects moving forward, and I barely even noticed the new year.
Current Mood: cryptic | | Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 | | 2:12 pm |
Sing! Just returned from Sweeney Todd. 'twas a treat. | | Monday, November 19th, 2007 | | 1:23 pm |
Semi-betters!
The cold is mostly gone. Still the occasional bit of niggling cough, but at least I don't have blinding headaches and lack of energy any more. Now it's Liz's turn, sadly . . . but she took a bunch of Airborne and some orange juice as soon as she started to feel the first pangs, so maybe she'll avoid the worst brunt of it.
Now I have to play catch-up on my school work. Only a few weeks left and I have to finish a couple of programming projects, a paper, and the usual tons and tons of statistics homework. Then I get to see if there's any winter term lab sciences available, so that I can crunch in a two-week course. Yikes! | | Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 | | 12:30 pm |
So Sick Right Now!
I'm absolutely miserable, with a headache, sore throat, runny nose, the whole nine yards. No energy at all. Naturally, I have a midterm today, and I didn't even know about it because I missed class last week due to being too depressed to leave the house. | | Monday, October 29th, 2007 | | 2:31 pm |
Stupid statistics.
Failed today's statistics exam. I couldn't remember how to compute the standard deviation for a sample given a flat probability range (instead of a normal distribution). Naturally, this meant that every question on the exam - was that.
Chance of Jesse being an idiot: 100%! | | Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 | | 1:20 pm |
Fire. Lots of it.
I have several aunts, uncles, and cousins in east San Diego county. Several have evacuated; they don't know if they will still have homes or not when this wildfire is through. At this point, there's no telling how far the fires will get; San Diego could find itself in a total devastation scenario. Sad for the city where I grew up. Sad for my relatives as well. Here's hoping they all pull through, and that things will settle down soon. | | Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 | | 7:48 pm |
Damn it. Again.
I just got out of my Comp 450 - Computers, Ethics, and Society - midterm. I was able to answer exactly one question out of twenty-five on the test.
Retaking this class means that I have to spend an entire additional term at the college, because I already have five upper-division courses next term and two over summer. I may not have enough money to do so.
Damn it. | | Monday, October 8th, 2007 | | 6:25 pm |
[Camstuff] The ol' MC equation. Time for another LJ entry regarding the role-playing-game continuum. Unlike robin_d_laws or whisper_jeff or princeofcairo, I'm not exactly a super-genius when it comes to elements of clever game design and motivation. Nevertheless, I must sometimes sally forth and take my stab at the fray, like Ajax the Lesser in the Trojan war without any divine heritage to back him up. Ok, I suppose I can do better than to be a quarrelsome rapist . . . | | 6:07 pm |
Break time!
I just finished two mid-terms and a frappucino! Time for a break.
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Ok, back to software engineering now. | | Thursday, October 4th, 2007 | | 6:09 pm |
Part Way There!
After my jaunt to the eastern Sierras (see prior entry), I flew back to Burbank and immediately hopped in the car and buzzed off to class - statistics, in specific. This week's been the run-up to midterms, even though it's only about a third of the way through the semester. Apparently, giving two "mid" terms at the 1/3 and 2/3 point is now the norm. Baffling and annoying - almost as annoying as working with C pointers in my operating systems class.
Now that the weekend has arrived - since I don't have class on Friday - it's time to turn to regular errands: Laundry, cleaning house, and of course, homework. While I'm normally swamped with statistics, apparently the "gift" for being at midterm is that there's no homework this weekend for that class. Instead, I'm marooned in a sea of operating system material.
Saturday night I hope to hook up with Rob and perhaps get in some game time - thinking I may go to Los Angeles and play "Camarilla: A Storytelling Game of Beating Up Other People With Your Cheesy Twink Powers and Avoiding the Personal Horror of Story or Character Development."
Sunday it's Knott's Scary Farm time. One of these Sundays I need to run Dark Sun, but nobody is ever available when I have a free day and vice versa.
So, short form, business as usual, another ten weeks or so of classes to go this term, then a short break before the murder of five 400-level CS classes at once. | | Sunday, September 30th, 2007 | | 11:30 pm |
| | Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 | | 1:45 am |
Requiem: The Man and the Beast. For no reason that I can fathom, I've been motivated to write a ton of stuff for Vampire: The Requiem recently. No, not for White Wolf - just for grins. My most recent one was dashed off in a text-entry box over on RPG.net, that hallowed bastion of questionable taste and cultural awkwardness. Obviously, such a format is not conducive to a clean, complete text, but it's an interesting idea, no? Current Mood: whimsical | | Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 | | 10:49 pm |
Coding like my life depends on it. This term will see me writing a lot of computer code, primarily for the operating systems class but also for software engineering. (Apparently, the abstract languages course is mostly thinking about languages.) I did some fiddling around with Unix and gcc earlier today. Fortunately, I still seem to have some coding ability; I say fortunately because I have lost any ability I had to write creatively. I just have no inspiration to write anything for Huoxing, or any sort of freelance, or anything. Frustrating. Programmers make a better living than writers, though . . . Current Mood:  annoyed |
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