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[02 Oct 2007|12:25am] |
New Livejournal at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) disargeria.
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Halloween Horror Nights, October 6th. Anyone interested?
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[24 Sep 2007|11:37am] |
- WHOOOOOOOO GO UCF!!!
- Why does AIM have to "Negotiate" when signing on? (AIM corporate headquarters: "Hey, it looks like 'owndotexe' wants to sign on again." "Alright, this time let's bargain for his social security number. Last time we traded a connection for his credit card, and soon we can negotiate for his soul.") I always wonder when it takes an abnormally long time to "negotiate".
- I am kind of fed up with stupidity. I mean, really.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070509/015742.shtml
Interesting article on something that I've been noticing happen a lot. It's actually happened to me. What happens is, someone has a problem. Let's say... their all in one printer has an error, and it displays a strange code. They hop over to Google and type it in. Well, guess what? For around 2 years, typing "0xf0af8005" into Google leads you to my entry over here
http://owndotexe.livejournal.com/84336.html
where I attempt to take on tech support to solve my printer woes. People just seem to comment on whatever the first search result is, never bothering to read the entire post. Such is the problem Techdirt is having, but somehow people are confusing it with Amazon.com. It's just... STUPID.
-Also, this: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/19/cohost-of-the-view-d.html
A TV show host DOESN'T KNOW WHETHER THE WORLD IS FLAT OR NOT. The world is screwed. These people can vote and effect MY LIFE with their lack of basic reasoning abilities. Like, what about global warming?
Rawr, I am angry. Also, I think I'm gonna make a new LJ. And AIM screenname. And maybe a new Myspace. I looked back on my older entries and I don't like what I see (Although I have found some really funny stuff). I don't think I really like this entry, either. It all seems too... not me? I'll think of a new username over the next week. Any suggestions?
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[19 Sep 2007|08:59am] |
I hate it. I hate... this. Excuse me while I type real fast.
A lot of people have been talking about relationships. Far more than normal. Or maybe I'm noticing it more? It's too much, and it's everywhere. From a kind of strange trombone player talking about being friends with benefits with some flute player, and a cute trombone girl who I thought was pretty innocent admit she'd done the same thing to Nicole talking about how she thinks all guys think she's ugly to poor Vivian's Sean woes to Gabi talking about how she hasn't met any nice guys who like her to... whatever, there's more. Tip of the iceberg, here. That's just this week. It's really starting to add up and take its toll. I'm lonely. I want to find someone I can connect with. Someone who actually likes me. And, you know, actually wants to go out with me. And has time. I want it to work out for once. Actually, I just want to stop caring. I want to be happy wasting my time playing video games. I want to wake up and say "YES! I'm Denver! Whoo-hoo!" on a regular basis.
And I still haven't made any good friends. Sure, some random people here and there that I can talk to, but... I'm not on hugging terms? Haha, I love that analogy. But I miss Paul and Sean and all of the crazy things we'd think of and do.
I have yet to do any homework for any of my classes. Calculus is one big review, I've already done everything he's teaching. Humanistic traditions just has some papers due later, but no homework. Engineering is all in-class stuff, and Psychology is only some tests. I think it's a bad start to college, since everyone else is working hard.
In the world of good news, my lil' druid has made it to level 42 and finally has a mount. Pretty exciting for those who play World of Warcraft. But alas, in the real world, it means I've played it a little too much.
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| Let's face it, Facebook... No. |
[08 Sep 2007|06:12pm] |
Facebook is great. You can keep track of all your friends, manage your privacy, organize a billion pictures of your friends, and meet new people and such. Facebook doesn't really have any noticeable ads like say... Myspace. They do have applications and stuff that are sponsored. However, they're usually uninteresting or such. That being said, I was a bit surprised to find this when I logged in.
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UCF won!!! How amazing! I can't wait for next Saturday. I know it'll be a blast.
Also, Superbad was probably the worst movie ever. The entire thing was about drugs, sex, and alcohol.
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I wish I knew what I wanted to say. I know I want to say a lot, but what? I don’t know where to start. There’s so much going on these days. So much on my mind and nowhere sort it out. I guess that’s what LJ is for. But that doesn’t tell me where to start. I guess I’ll just go and see where my mind takes me.
Religion. I align myself with Christianity. I believe that somehow, this universe got here, as it has been proven that something cannot appear from nothing. But then organized religion comes along. The more I study any kind of religion, the more I realize that people are pretty much making crap up as they go. So many religions apply human characteristics to their god/gods and that just doesn’t make any sense. Why would something that transcends all reality be limited to human-like ambitions and qualities? How can someone say that their god tells us something, then years later change it and say their god says something else? When it comes to religion, there should be no contradictions. There is no room for error in divinity, and any mistakes are made only by humans. And where did all these rules come from? Why the heck do Baptists think it’s wrong to dance? Why are there even different denominations of Christianity? Why do Muslims think that they have to kill other people because they aren’t Muslim, even if they’re still following the same god? Why do multiple creation stories have the gods rest? Why are they resting? Infinite power and they’re TIRED?
Anyways, all these questions really make me wonder what it is that I really believe in.
Rules. I’m such a rule breaker. Always searching for loopholes, even if I agree with the rule. I just can’t stand unreasonable or pointless rules. It’s like, I just gotta tear them down, gotta break free. It’s a bad habit, I think. At least I don’t get into trouble.
I found out that I don’t have Bright Futures at the moment. Quite a shock to find out, considering the money for classes is due FRIDAY. It turns out my guidance counselor (Mooneyhan, no less) didn’t enter my social security number, so I didn’t show up on the database. And I found out she lied, and that I didn’t qualify for 100% like I had thought. She failed to mention that my core classes GPA was lower than the 3.5 required for 100%, and had told me that my 3.6 weighted overall was fine. What a jerk. So now, I don’t know if the money will be here on Friday, so I’ll probably have to take out a loan, and I still have to pay for 25% of everything, which SUCKS.
And it’s pretty lonely up here. I don’t know very many people here, and I haven’t made any friends I can talk to, let alone randomly hang out with. I don’t know anyone in my classes, so I mostly just sit there and feel awkward. I also have huge breaks between classes where I can’t do anything except sit around and wait for the next one. It’s really boring. I wish I lived on campus, so I could at least go back to my dorm and take a nap or something. And maybe make some dorm buddies and go to parties and all that.
Marching band is pretty much the best thing ever. I haven’t really made many friends outside the trombone/baritone section, but they’re still cool. It’s completely unlike high school marching, which is good, because it’s WAY more fun. We get cool music where we get to play REAL notes, instead of whole note cords, and we get to let it all out on the loud notes. Nothing is out of the question. Our warm up is fun. We get to sing the spider pig song while doing the slide block and shout random things like “Welcome to Moe’s!” before we play. We also get 15 minute water breaks every half hour or so. It’s pretty awesome, but it IS hot as balls outside at 5pm.
And there are a lot of hot girls around here. I mean, it’s really noticeable. And normally, I guess that’d be pretty awesome, but it’s depressing. I’m really not good at girls, and my cumulative experience tells me to stay away or get hurt. I miss that happy feeling.
Classes are interesting. My humanities teacher is pretty awesome. He’s really funny and reminds me of Jim Carrey. He’s even got some of the same facial expressions. Psychology is one of those huge 460 person classes, but it’s still cool. The teacher is laid back and pretty funny. Engineering is cool, too. We don’t really seem to do anything except break into our computers. We turned in papers with our names on them for a grade. Calculus is… terrible. It’s SO boring and the teacher just makes it twice as much so. I’ve fallen asleep EVERY SINGLE DAY in that class. I’ve already taken the class, and I got a 4 on the exam, but I decided to take it again before jumping into calculus 2 so I didn’t get in too deep. In fact, this class is so boring I’m typing this in the middle of it. That’s another cool thing. NONE of the professors care. And the whole campus is covered with Wifi. Too bad it occasionally drops me without reason.
I could use one of those RCSK8 boards they had at Boone that one day. It’s a motorized skateboard, and you use this remote control to control how fast you go. I think it’d be useful for campus travel. Small and quick and such. Too bad they’re $300-$700. Maybe I can get a couple thousand dollars in scholarships to pay for all the stuff I could use. My brother IS paying to fix my computer, and his version of fixing means replacing and upgrading all the key parts. I think he’s leaving the power supply, case, and the hard drives. Can’t complain about that.
I guess that covers the surface. Thanks for listening. Any thoughts?
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[28 Aug 2007|04:05pm] |
I gather rich mines of information
For such is my lifelong love and avocation
The result of a higher education
And, might I add, a practical grasp of the situation.
- found written on a bench
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Hello, my LJ fanclubgroupfriendslistpeople! I am alive, which may suit well with all or perhaps most of you. I've been a very busy person as of late. I mean, since summer started, I have yet to stop breathing or even pumping blood throughout my body! I know, I know. It IS most impressive. I'm going for the record. My last update wasn't very informative (but still entertaining! Check it out.), and the one before that wasn't much better. I don't think I've really written anything profound in a long time. I HAVE been reading all ya'lls journals, so you can't say I don't care. Because I do. Anyways, as it is my policy to keep everyone updated on all Denver-y things, here it goes!
I'm still awesome! On a possibly related note, band camp starts tomorrow for UCF. It's pretty exciting. I even spent a couple of minutes learning how to play the fight song. Once I heard it played, I got it down almost instantly. Without warming up. I... I haven't really played since graduation. My tone doesn't sound much different after a couple of minutes, my slide works fine (thank God!), my range is just as high (really high F comes out nice and in tune) but my lower range is taking a little while to come back. I do wonder how much better I'd be if I DID practice. Speaking of which, I want my trombone book back, Rebecca, before we both leave and never see each other ever again! Anyways, band camp is going to happen for the next week and goes right into school starting on the 20th. Speaking of school, I'm taking:
Intro to Engineering
Calculus I
Humanistic Traditions I
Marching Band
Intro to Psychology
Looks fun and easy. Hopefully I'll have time to get involved with stuff. And I hope I make a bunch of friends, because I really don't know very many people going to UCF. And hopefully I'll meet some girls who aren't jerks. Unlikely.
The world is full of problems these days. NASA, STAR tests, and something about the housing market? I spent an hour reading all about bonds and stocks and about how everything's going to hell or something, but none of it really made sense. I just hope all those people with all the money get their act together. I'm sure once they fix it, something else will get screwed over. How about the environment? Sure, let's all switch over to Ethanol. It comes from corn! Plants are abundant, so it must be a good idea. I mean, even the government is forcing farmers to produce a certain amount of corn for ethanol production. Corn isn't just used for veggies, kids. Corn is used to make a TON of stuff, so when farmers have to use a share of corn to make a really inefficient fuel, that drives the price of everything else up. Like livestock feed. Higher livestock feed means higher milk prices(for example), which I'm SURE you've noticed.
I wish I was better at solving problems then noticing them.
And that's all I have to say for the moment! Expect more later.
Any questions?
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[21 Jul 2007|04:05am] |
So, this video made me really happy.
And this pretty much made me laugh until I cried. Especially because the young girl is transformed into a 24 year old gay guy.
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[06 Jul 2007|01:05pm] |
Physics - 3
Literature - 3
Music Theory - 3
Calculus - 4
I'm quite impressed that I passed physics. I felt like I didn't really know anything, and it makes me wonder about the people who scored lower. I was hoping for a 4 on literature, since I felt really good about that one. I churned out 3 fantastic essays, but I guess everyone else did, too. I'm upset with music theory. I thought I'd be guaranteed a 4 or 5. I don't know what happened there. I felt really confident about it. I'm pleased with the calculus score. It was a really hard test. Every sentence started with an I. Maybe I'm selfish. Mememememememe.
Also, today I opened a checking account! I have the power of the CHECK now.
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[04 Jul 2007|01:11pm] |
Hey, Livejournal.
Not too much going on these days. Maybe three things.
1. If you're going to Lake Eola tonight, watch out for either a orange bear or yellow dog with the Wellcare/Healthease people. They're the same people who paid me $500 a few weeks ago. They're paying me $150 this time.
2. Things are going pretty well with Nicole Edquist. She's been pretty busy lately, but we're going to start hanging out soon.
3. I am totally addicted to World of Warcraft. I heart my little druid.
Um, I guess that's it. Summer isn't all that exciting.
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[30 May 2007|05:02pm] |
Gah, being out of school is so boring. Who knew?
I'm still waiting to hear from the job's I've applied to. How long does it take to hear back from them? One of them even said they'd call me back the next day, but they didn't.
Does anyone want to see Shrek the Third? I've heard there's a trombone in it, which makes anything worthwhile. ::coughcoughgoseereelbigfishjuly25thok?coughcough::
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Another dream that I can remember clearly. I was a pirate. This was exceedingly cool, but I was unaware of my own coolness. I wasn't the captain or anything, just another member of the crew. Everything was going good and piratey, until the captain burst out from his cabin and exclaimed that his key was missing. I have no idea what the key was for, but we all just understood that it was really important. We looked all over the ship. I was looking inside a room that looked like some kind of chapel (it had pews), when suddenly half the crew mutinied against the rest. It was very sudden and well organized. The mutiny-ing pirates were armed with bows and arrows, with the bows tipped with some kind of vial. I was hit with one squarely in the chest. It hurt A LOT, but it didn't penetrate very deep since the tip was designed for the delivery of the substance rather than damage. I dropped to the ground, hoping to avoid any other arrows and remove the current arrow as quickly as possible. I got it out without much of a problem, but the vial at the tip was already empty. I didn't feel any different, so I decided to lay still until the battle was over. A few minutes later, the fighting stopped. I didn't know who won, but I heard footsteps nearby and didn't want to risk revealing myself as alive. Whoever it was noticed that I didn't have an arrow in me, since I had removed it and tossed it aside. He decided I wasn't dead enough for him, so he took and arrow and jabbed it in my side. This one hurt considerably more. He walked off, so I took the next arrow out as well. The arrow, again, had the vial of liquid, but this time I had taken it out before it had depleted, revealing some kind of red substance. Another person came by before I had any time to react, saw my movement, and tried to finish the job with 3 arrows right into the back. I shouted in pain, since it REALLY hurt, but I struggled to silence myself so I could appear dead yet again. By this time, the mutineers had rounded up the survivors and brought them to the chapel. I had slowly slid myself under the pew, so I was out of the way. Now I was starting to feel woozy, probably from the effects of the red liquid. I also had a terrible headache. The lead mutineer stood at the front of the room and started delivering some kind of speech, met with cheers by the other mutineers. In my not-so-tip-top shape, I decided now would be the perfect time to do something. In their arrow-stabbing happiness, they neglected to remove my pistol. I used all my strength to rise off the ground, but I had the odd sensation of ice water running through my veins. I could barely get to a crouching position when the sheer pain prevented me from going any farther. The mutineers and the other pirates noticed my presence. The mutineers started towards me, no doubt armed with even more arrows, but it was too late. I had my gun drawn and was aiming at their leader. Everyone stopped moving, but I couldn't tell, since dizziness made it look like everyone was moving about. Despite my lack of clear vision, I managed to nail the leader, which instantly caused the tides to turn. The mutineers were without a leader and the rest of the pirates were rushing them. I fell to the ground, and things started getting dark. I felt the sweet release from pain, so I smiled. Everything went black for a minute, until a bright light startled me. And it was... The Sun! I woke up.
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[27 May 2007|09:33pm] |
Calculus: The Musical was pretty amazing, I'm not gonna lie. I got there and got my ticket, only to find out I got the very last one. Kaley, Michael C., and Paul were out of luck. I didn't want to see it all by myself, but then Katie Z. and... I forget her name showed up followed by Adam and Kat. Kaley, Michael, and Paul are all going to see it tomorrow, since there's apparently another show showing at 11. I volunteered to help in one of the songs, so I got a free copy of the music CD. The show itself was really funny. It helped to actually know calculus, but they actually summed up pretty much an entire course in 50 or so minutes.
Yay for calculus!
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[27 May 2007|12:04am] |
Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007
http://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2007/index.htm
What else is there that the media doesn't tell us about? I've been following the debate about Net Neutrality ever since it was brought to my attention, but not once have I ever seen an article even mentioning it in the newspaper or on the TV. Why is it that the future of our internet ISN'T newsworthy? A lot of the other news mentioned in this compilation I've never even heard of. Just read the headlines and tell me that these are unimportant:
Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media
Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran
Oceans of the World in Extreme Danger
Hunger and Homelessness Increasing in the US
High-Tech Genocide in Congo
Federal Whistleblower Protection in Jeopardy
US Operatives Torture Detainees to Death in Afghanistan and Iraq
Pentagon Exempt from Freedom of Information Act
The World Bank Funds Israel-Palestine Wall
Expanded Air War in Iraq Kills More Civilians
Dangers of Genetically Modified Food Confirmed
Pentagon Plans to Build New Landmines
New Evidence Establishes Dangers of Roundup
Homeland Security Contracts KBR to Build Detention Centers in the US
Chemical Industry is EPA’s Primary Research Partner
Ecuador and Mexico Defy US on International Criminal Court
Iraq Invasion Promotes OPEC Agenda
Physicist Challenges Official 9-11 Story
Destruction of Rainforests Worst Ever
Bottled Water: A Global Environmental Problem
Gold Mining Threatens Ancient Andean Glaciers
$Billions in Homeland Security Spending Undisclosed
US Oil Targets Kyoto in Europe
Cheney’s Halliburton Stock Rose Over 3000 Percent Last Year
US Military in Paraguay Threatens Region
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[21 May 2007|04:36pm] |
We're going to go see Calculus the musical on Sunday the 27th at 8:10.
You can find more information at the website, calculusthemusical.com
Respond if you're interested!
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