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Life : School and Life and Software
Posted by Compubomb On Mar 06, 2006 @ 2:32 am | Visited ( 211 )
It's been a month or so since I last updated so I think I owe it to those who read my site to offer
a summary as to what I've been up to. I've I posted a while back that I'm calculus and I recently
took my calculus test and unfortunately failed it out of shear nervousness. Life still goes on and I
still presume to be ultimately a procrastinator when it comes to working on new projects.
I've learned something new about myself when it comes to Projects. To put the term
project into perspective, when I say the word project, it usually means that I've attempted to work
on some kind of web utility such as a content management system, be it in PHP / C# / [Python / Ruby
(I haven't gained enough knowledge yet to do anything useful)]. However, there is still hope; I've
recently completed a flashcard quiz system for my brother that uses xml as the base of the test. My
hopes are that it helped him accomplish a decent great in his psychology course. EasyQuiz
Life : The New Year has passed
Posted by Compubomb On Jan 03, 2006 @ 2:35 am | Visited ( 207 )
The year is over, it's January 3rd, 2006 and it's been quite the learning experience. I've survived
2 semesters of school and lived to tell about it. *smiles* As a general rule thought, I would say to
a large degree it was just another year like any other--minus the catastrophes which plagued this
earth: Tsunami in the West Indies, New Orleans Levy breaking, and the earthquake in Kashmir; all
events causing huge loss of life. I'm just trying to make my first post of the year so bare with me.
Anyways.. late.
Life : Damned Computer
Posted by Compubomb On Oct 21, 2005 @ 4:50 am | Visited ( 189 )
Yesterday, I'm watching an episode of NCSI, and suddenly, about 3 quarters into it it suddenly
freezes up--picture and sound. I hit the number key to see what type of crash this is, whether or
not it is fatal--the number key flashes, i say to myself, just hit ctrl-alt-del and kill the
process, I do, the dialog to get to the task manager comes up, but the task manager never officially
shows it's purdy face. I hit ctrl-alt-del again and again, suddenly, a full blown lockup. I think to
myself, this is rather unusual, i hit number lock again, this time nothing. I go to turn off
computer, it shuts off. I turn power supply back on, i hit power button and nothing, but i notice
while my case is open that my LED on my built in Ethernet card is lit up, which is rather specular.
Now i start to worry, I test computer with a separate working power supply unit, and it goes down
hill from here. cries
Life : Update on Life
Posted by Compubomb On Jul 26, 2005 @ 6:19 am | Visited ( 229 )
Summer Break
Summer break has almost exhausted itself for me; I've had
this supposedly long break and yet I feel as though it's only just started. School begins August
15th and yet I feel as though I've accomplished nothing. The objective was to take a one or two
courses during summer; that didn't happen. Summer was and is just a time to vegetate for the
learning process for the next 2 semesters. Another objective which has since lost its optimal work
time was my Content Management System. I wanted to work on it, yet I could not bring myself to work
on a part of it which I did not enjoy. It is like all these things I wanted to do have just zoomed
passed me and now my time is up. Why can't time last forever. I mean, I saw in the show 4400 where
the primary investigator guy lives in this ladies mind for 8 years; 8 years pass and he learns to
love this woman and life is grand; only problem is only 1 hour has actually passed. Essentially, he
went into a second dimension and lived 8 years in 1 hour. I wish I could do that; I would be able to
learn so much about myself that I do not know. I would be able to try things several times before I
actually had to do it in real life.
One of those weeks
During the course of 3 weeks, our car has broken; essentially one of the axels in the turning
mechanism on the stirring column of the car seems to not be working anymore. So, the stirring wheel
barely turns; so, now my dad is driving a rental, the first rental broke down on us, the battery
burnt up--due to the weather-he had it exchanged for another car; so then the refrigerator breaks,
when your fridge breaks, your in many respects kind of screwed--you be without meat for a while. We
now still have not purchased a new refrigerator because my dad has not been paid his residual check.
Life in many respects right now sucks, I'm sure it will pick up, but why can't it pick up now! heh
Life : Tired and Irritable
Posted by Compubomb On May 23, 2005 @ 10:22 pm | Visited ( 207 )
Right now, I've been up approximately since 8:00 am and now which is 10:03 pm and I only got 2 hours
of sleep. I'm thinking of how much time I put into studying for my Appreciation of Dance History
final and it really wasn't much, yet I feel so drained. Every time I don't get enough sleep, I feel
depressed. Ugh, why can't I just take a happy pill and let the bad men go away (chuckles). It's just
sometimes; I guess I'm not suited for going to school in the same environment that I'm currently in.
It's like I can't get anything done at home, yet I have no proper / formal means of getting around
other than a bus or via a bike. If only I had some means of consistent transportation, I would feel
somewhat more independent and confident in myself to handle stress of a different caliber. It's
like, I know I can handle school, and doing well in my classes, it's just I can never find myself
getting enough sleep or being in the right environment to succeed. I hate to sound like I'm saying
woe is me, but in all due respect to all that read this, but --woe is me and you have nothing to
assume that I can void or rid myself of my current educational / financial status unless I were to
relieve myself of any academic ambition and focus on some sort of job. It's just I haven't the will
to allow myself to go beneath a potential possibility as to me becoming employed with a job which
suites my life style as to getting into computer science and pursuing some kind of web-development
career.
Some people might laugh about the way I see things, or even say that I'm
stuck in some kind of emotional rut, yet life always seems to have its inevitable outcomes which
always seem to feel worse than they really are. I'm dealing in vague euphemisms right now, but the
truth of the matter is, the one in my family who pays the bills is my dad, and he currently is
pretty under the weather was they say, they call it uncontrollable cellular growth or otherwise
known as cancer of the colon. I'm just using this as a catalyst to put my feelings out, but a
catharsis will probably only come on the day I realize my dad will die, or tell us that he is going
into remission, or I find some means of making sure I can become independent--income wise--and move
out of this emotional crypt of an environment.
Life : Just Another Day
Posted by Compubomb On Apr 14, 2005 @ 6:27 am | Visited ( 187 )
Wow, it's been quite some time since I last updated my web log. School has been going pretty good.
Life still goes on. I have since started up a site for my brother Speakall so he can actually attempt to build an online community
of his own in writing decent anime reviews for the internet. He is a pretty damn good writer and
always seems to be able to get his point across in written form. As for me, I'm just getting used to
feeling stupid in math again. I'm still trying to figure out the style of which my professor
teaches, it just hasn't worked with me all that well. My last test was actually pretty good, I felt
somewhat normal afterwards because I actually studied for it. Hopefully I have not jinxed myself
into thinking I did well and on the flipside end up getting a horrible grade. Every time I think I'm
going good I end up getting a nasty surprise finding out just how poorly I've done in sometime in my
life no matter what the situation was. So wish my luck Yall 
Life : Living Life to the Fullest
Posted by Compubomb On Mar 19, 2005 @ 3:48 am | Visited ( 266 )
I sit at this desk, and I think of all the reasons that I could have given in order to avoid trying
some form of alcohol, but some how, I have this feeling that it holds some significance in becoming
a man; however, I have no regrets. I tried 3 types of alcohol and I found absolutely no
gratification or satisfaction out of their aroma or their tastes. The first was Bit Burger, which I
found to be rather repulsive in terms of its taste, I took a few sips and it was absolutely horrible
in my opinion. The Second beverage that I tried was Guinness, which I also thought pretty much the
same thing about the repulsive nature of its taste & aroma. Lastly, I tried something called
Balley's Irish Cream, and I had 1 total shot, which was not as horrible as the others, it was a
whisky, one with approximately 17 percent of it was liquor. So is my life complete, absolutely not,
but have I tried something new, yes, and to tell you the truth, I don't feel any better about myself
-- unfortunately. All I know now is that I think beer sucks, and that I can only really sand an
alcoholic beverage if I cannot taste it what so ever. And to all those who wanted to know if I got
drunk, not even close, I had less than a beer, and 1 shot of whisky; you be the judge and decide
whether or not I enjoyed myself. The only thing that was kind of enjoyable was the much
informational chat I had with a good friend. Social occasions are always fun and usually hold more
satisfaction than anything else.
Life : Life's encompassing normality
Posted by Compubomb On Mar 07, 2005 @ 9:01 pm | Visited ( 212 )
Well, as all would have it and same for me, I'm still alive and enthusiastic to be actively thinking
and pondering things; Like how many days before I plan to take a shower or how many days I will wear
my jeans and so on, things of this nature are entertaining to listen to or disturbing to think
about. As of late, I think my focus of genre selection has taken a new direction, but not so much
towards heavy fast paced beat electronic music, but rather has evolved into more of a smooth, deep,
Drum and Bass kind of tune. Something similar in nature to LTJ Bukem, yet I do not exclude
[chillout/ambient] music in general. I've grown fascinated with Japanese Hip-Hop DJ's because they
have the most amazing Compositions. Not so much the fact that they know how to scratch vinyl, it is
the fact that they make just heavy smooth soul encompassing beats which make you feel calm, and just
want to sit at the beach off the coast of Spain at Ibiza.
School has been in
affect for the past month and a half or so and life seems to hold a somewhat ennui mindset to it. I
don't have any animosity towards anything of any significant importance. Some of my professors I
find to be less than adequate at their professions, and some haven't a clue. Oh, I really truly must
get a job. Darn it, I need a car to get there.