Yup, I'm all at home.
Today, Skip, the Max and I went out on a canoe. It was rather fun-just did a lap around the lake really, nothing too crazy. You can probably read more about it on the skip blog.
This post is really to point out other blogs of note and such. Mind you this is not a totally inclusive listing of noteworthy blogs. The skip blog was mentioned above-good for generally skippy news. The Lt. Nerd blog is a good place to find gaming related info lately-he is in a series of bringing video game type stories, which he is doing rather well and is making me consider starting a series of some kind. Rumbelow is an interesting, often deep blog.
After getting to watch the olympics-I do love to watch the olympics-I think I'm going to have to take up watching handball. It's an exciting sport and I'm hopping that I can catch a bunch of the games online. I'll find a video for you later, but for now here is a reference on the sport.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Friday, August 15, 2008
Disturbing News
Well I think it's official now, most Democrats either support Communism actively or are tricked in doing so. On the other side fair less members of the GOP support the idea of making a socialist society then handing complete control to our government.
This all comes from a recent story on slashdot that informs me that about 30% of Democrats support a fairness (read censorship) doctrine and Democrats oppose government fiddling with internet content to a much less extent. Now mind you only 61% of Republicans oppose government censorship of the internet-which is far far too low.
I know that these are small little things, but this is America. We are capitalist. That's how we were started, that's how we succeeded, that's how we need to stay. I really don't like this growing trend toward socialism and communist controls. The government doesn't need to be showing up around here and telling me what to do. The federal governments exists purely to defend me against foreign attack, make the states play nice with one another, and maintain the infrastructure in the way that I as a tax paying voting America tell them too. All these "lets make life better for the average person" sort of things end up alienating those who aren't average. There also make you wonder just how far the feds will take there power.
Now don't get this all wrong and peg me as a nut job building up my personal arsenal waiting for the days that the feds show up at my door so I can start a week long standoff. Rather I am a college student-the sort of person that is supposed to be especially liberal. I like the federal government-I just think we need to remember why they exist and stop expecting the feds to take care of all of us individually while not spending negative money. If we want America to prosper we need to give the federal government a job that it can actually do then we the people need to pick up the rest and actually take care of ourselves.
This all comes from a recent story on slashdot that informs me that about 30% of Democrats support a fairness (read censorship) doctrine and Democrats oppose government fiddling with internet content to a much less extent. Now mind you only 61% of Republicans oppose government censorship of the internet-which is far far too low.
I know that these are small little things, but this is America. We are capitalist. That's how we were started, that's how we succeeded, that's how we need to stay. I really don't like this growing trend toward socialism and communist controls. The government doesn't need to be showing up around here and telling me what to do. The federal governments exists purely to defend me against foreign attack, make the states play nice with one another, and maintain the infrastructure in the way that I as a tax paying voting America tell them too. All these "lets make life better for the average person" sort of things end up alienating those who aren't average. There also make you wonder just how far the feds will take there power.
Now don't get this all wrong and peg me as a nut job building up my personal arsenal waiting for the days that the feds show up at my door so I can start a week long standoff. Rather I am a college student-the sort of person that is supposed to be especially liberal. I like the federal government-I just think we need to remember why they exist and stop expecting the feds to take care of all of us individually while not spending negative money. If we want America to prosper we need to give the federal government a job that it can actually do then we the people need to pick up the rest and actually take care of ourselves.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
8.5 hours
Ok, so I know I'm not supposed to work more than 10 hours per week but today I worked for eight and half hours. I was building towed arrays for testing that is supposed to happen this Friday-but I don't know if the software will be done in time for all that.
It's nice to have a job in my field I feel like I'm learning so much, but at the same time I feel like I don't really know much of anything.
I will definitely have to upgrade the blue box and install gentoo on it before school if I possibly can because gentoo has tools that will be very very useful for the programing class that I will be taking this semester.
I know I'm a little all over the place right now, but my head hurts a little-I think not enough fluids.
I'm making ham with pineapples, it smells so very good-I'm hoping it gets done soon.
It's nice to have a job in my field I feel like I'm learning so much, but at the same time I feel like I don't really know much of anything.
I will definitely have to upgrade the blue box and install gentoo on it before school if I possibly can because gentoo has tools that will be very very useful for the programing class that I will be taking this semester.
I know I'm a little all over the place right now, but my head hurts a little-I think not enough fluids.
I'm making ham with pineapples, it smells so very good-I'm hoping it gets done soon.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Today
Well I know that the last post I wrote kind of had a quick ending and sometimes that happens when something like sleep comes up and must be taken care of.
Today has been a productive day-I worked for 5 hours this morning and since I've got back I've been switching between cleaning up in the apartment and working on organizing my thoughts about english-both of which seem to be going well.
Work was a little crazy today-I've basically become the master of hardware in the lab so anything that has to be built goes immediately to me, basically. It's kind of nice in a way.
I wish to learn more about all the other aspects of the project though, which is definitely coming with time and such so again that is good.
I want to upgrade my blue box-a project I've been looking at for a while now and I can certainly afford it right now, but I wish to wait until I get paid and I want to be here as pieces start showing up, thus I currently haven't started ordering anything. But I probably will when I come back here for the start of classes (going home for a bit before then).
Kinda a busy day, and I haven't drank much so I feel as though I must go push some liquids. I will probably post again later on.
Today has been a productive day-I worked for 5 hours this morning and since I've got back I've been switching between cleaning up in the apartment and working on organizing my thoughts about english-both of which seem to be going well.
Work was a little crazy today-I've basically become the master of hardware in the lab so anything that has to be built goes immediately to me, basically. It's kind of nice in a way.
I wish to learn more about all the other aspects of the project though, which is definitely coming with time and such so again that is good.
I want to upgrade my blue box-a project I've been looking at for a while now and I can certainly afford it right now, but I wish to wait until I get paid and I want to be here as pieces start showing up, thus I currently haven't started ordering anything. But I probably will when I come back here for the start of classes (going home for a bit before then).
Kinda a busy day, and I haven't drank much so I feel as though I must go push some liquids. I will probably post again later on.
Monday, August 11, 2008
End of Summer II
So I have successfully finished out summer two-got an A for my course, so I am happy about that. At this point I'm spending some time at school working a bit and trying to finish up my English class (I hate English classes so very much) but hopefully I'll be done with this one soon.
I kinda figure that if I can out line each individual assignment that it'll make it a lot easier to figure out what exactly I need to do where. That's kinda the plan for today and tomorrow. Then if after that I'll be able to put pen to paper (so to speak it'll actually fingers to keys) and draft out most of the assignments I have to do. This one has been a huge pain because of all the research that I had to do for it-all stuff that I'm interested in anyway but is very tedious to go through and figure out for an English class type paper. I think too often I try to read some of this stuff once and then completely understand it and remember it for life-a little hard to do considering most of this is based on a foundation of knowledge, most of which I've never had any contact with before.
But I'm making more progress now so...
Other than that not much has really been going on. Been getting the apartment set up exactly how we want it-it's a rather iterative refining process but as time goes one we slowly approach the break point for that loop.
At this point my room is basically completely set up and I have an organizational method for a lot of things-not that everything has to be just so, just kinda of a methodology for keeping organized so it's easier to take care of the stuff that needs to get done. I feel that with a good base and method I can take care of a lot more with a lot higher quality.
-The was a pause for sleep right at this post so as I have lost the flow I shall simply post this one-
I kinda figure that if I can out line each individual assignment that it'll make it a lot easier to figure out what exactly I need to do where. That's kinda the plan for today and tomorrow. Then if after that I'll be able to put pen to paper (so to speak it'll actually fingers to keys) and draft out most of the assignments I have to do. This one has been a huge pain because of all the research that I had to do for it-all stuff that I'm interested in anyway but is very tedious to go through and figure out for an English class type paper. I think too often I try to read some of this stuff once and then completely understand it and remember it for life-a little hard to do considering most of this is based on a foundation of knowledge, most of which I've never had any contact with before.
But I'm making more progress now so...
Other than that not much has really been going on. Been getting the apartment set up exactly how we want it-it's a rather iterative refining process but as time goes one we slowly approach the break point for that loop.
At this point my room is basically completely set up and I have an organizational method for a lot of things-not that everything has to be just so, just kinda of a methodology for keeping organized so it's easier to take care of the stuff that needs to get done. I feel that with a good base and method I can take care of a lot more with a lot higher quality.
-The was a pause for sleep right at this post so as I have lost the flow I shall simply post this one-
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