April 2011
L.O. And Behold!
First date with girl who’s really great tomorrow, was going to make this a poem, can’t think of word that rhymes with tomorrow, though, could be one of those non-rhyming poems I guess, do I (or we or he or she) need to use-punctuation in an unconventional (manner)… ? I think those poems always end up a mess, It’s not my place...
March 2011
The more I think about grad school the more I just want to kill a man and get sent to prison instead. If you break it down there are actually no faults in this plan. It’s all pros, the only con would be me:
Get to kill someone I hate
Nice cell, no smaller than any apartment I’d be able to afford anyway
No rent
3 meals a day, more than I’d eat if I went to grad school
Get to...
Let's Talk About Teenage Things! Love and Stuff,...
So yeah… I think (think think think think think) that I may be on the verge of starting a new relationship, but I’ve been wrong before and could be now.
The girl and I have been “talking” as the kids say (or “mackin’ on each other’s asses” as I like to say) for a while now, and it seems that finally we both have the same thing on our minds.
For a...
First Catiline Oration Part One
translatingclassics:
My main goal of this blog is to translate Greek and Latin and explain my translation and the mechanics of the language. Today, I start with the First Catiline Oration given by Marcus TulliusCicero against Lucius Sergius Catilina.
quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?
The first sentence of the Catiline orations, Cicero is speaking directly to Catiline,...
Do any of you guys use a Dvorak keyboard?
robot-heart:
If yes, why do you use it? When did you start using it/did you ever use QWERTY? Do you switch back and forth between QWERTY and Dvorak? Do you have any problems that result from using a Dvorak keyboard?
I use a dvorak keyboard. I started about 2 years ago. The keyboard I have has the keys physically positioned in the dvorak layout, but of course I can’t change the ones at...
Professor Badass
The professor from my last post has canceled class for the next two weeks because he “has to go do some NATO thing” (assassinate Gaddafi).
Due Praise
Something weird is happening where all my professors are telling me how smart I am. This sort of thing has never happened before.
Yesterday I went to my Attitudes professor’s office because I knew she entered my grade wrong. There was no way I earned a 94 on that test. We had to write 3 long response questions and I took so long on the first one that I only had 2 minutes on the last two. I...
WatchNobody on earth will agree with me, but I consider Outsourced one of the best shows on TV right now. I honestly care more about the characters on this show and their development than any other.
State of the Blog Address
I’ve just made some major design changes to the public face of this blog. I think it looks a lot cleaner and less cluttered. I’ve also added a page with some info about me.
Late night.
People who try to force other people into loving them are always crazy stalkers aren’t they? And they always do something crazy like kidnap the person or sleep under their bed without the person knowing.
You never see like a classy bank-heist type attempt at getting someone to love you. I want someone with a bandana and a revolver to come into my house and be like “Ok, stick ‘em...
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Rebecca Black
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andrewfutral:
I don’t know why I care but I started thinking about the lyrics to “Friday” and realized this song is really intense. What got me started thinking that there is a deeper meaning to “Friday” was the line “seeing everything” in the first verse. It’s just stuck in the middle of 2 separate ideas. She is talking about getting ready for school and then after she says it...
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Note.
When I said that I thought the blonde girl from Glee was hot, I didn’t realize there is more than one blonde girl on that show. What I meant to say is that I think the less attractive blonde girl from Glee is hot. Not the main attractive blonde girl.
Oh no.
Just got my second test grade back from my Attitudes class, and it’s not good. Actually, it is an A. But some kind of mistake has been made because I don’t deserve it. Attitudes is my weakest class, and during 3–4pm I’m always out of it and don’t really pay attention.
For some reason my Genius never comes to take my test for me in that class. Yes, that’s right, I...
Where The Lead May Lead.
There is a girl who sits next to me (a lot of my stories begin that way, but what can I do? A lot of girls sit next to me), and on the first test day she asked to borrow a pencil. I sighed because I knew that the only two pencils I had were a CalCedar Palomino and a Palomino Blackwing, both a little too precious to lend willy-nilly, especially since I only carry two pencils on me at any one time...
Optional
The quest to get into graduate school is ravaging my body and mind. I almost can’t even take it anymore.
I blogged earlier about some of the How To Get Into Grad School Made Easy! books I bought which actually just screamed at me that I’d never get in anywhere, and some recent grad school information sessions have been similar. What I really need is a How To Con Your Way Into Grad...
Fruit Rocks.
I got some trail mix the other day that has dehydrated whole strawberries. They’re awesome, but they’re like rocks. They’ve been dehydrated so much that you can’t even chew them. You have to suck on them until they get rehydrated and then eat them.
The Problem With Friendship. . .
Is that it is terribly impermanent. Now sure, every now and then we hear stories of old men, now sitting on a porch somewhere for most of the day, who have been friends for many years, but the disappointing reality is that those situations are most likely the exception rather than the rule.
Your best friend today could be a stranger a year from now. I know this because I have seen these things...
Monster.
I gave a girl some of my notes today. But she gave them back and refused to read them because she said my handwriting looked like a serial killer’s.
Best compliment ever.
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Currently
Beating the Rock, Paper, Scissors robot again. I’ve come up with a theory on why I am Humans can be so good, which relies on a few assumptions:
Humans are capable of thought.
Machines are incapable of thought.
A machine designed to defeat a human is programmed to analyze how we think and to use our patterns against us.
Humans are capable of analyzing their own thoughts.
The computer...
If it's not, I don't know what is.
Him: I don't know if you were with the group today or not, but check out the Event page for the recent (major) updates.
Her: We're grilling fish?
Him: Apparently everyone is Catholic.
Her: disgusting.
Him: If you didn't already have it, you would have just won my heart.
Let's talk about my armpits for a second.
OK so I use Degree deodorant, which I really like because the hotter it gets the stronger it works. So there’ve been times where I’m doing some crazy physical activity but I’m not sweaty at all. It’s great.
One problem.
The antiperspirant is only heat activated I guess, because sometimes when I’m in class and get embarrassed I start sweating profusely and my...
“I thought that the only difference that I expected to see between animals and...”
– B. F. Skinner
Operant Conditioning →
Anybody want to learn about Operant Conditioning? I made this .pdf file that pretty much covers everything for a friend and thought I’d share it with everyone.
Learn about Positive & Negative Reinforcement and Positive & Negative Punishment!!!
Whew! A average saved.
I was just about to flip out because one of my professors put up the grades for the second test.
On the first test, I scored a 48 out of 50, but on this one, my score is listed as “36 out of 50”. Which is ridiculous because I felt pretty confident on it.
Then I remembered that the test was only 20 questions this time, two points each. So the test is really out of 40 and the prof put...
“The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but...”
– John Buchan (1875 - 1940)
She put her hand on my chest and said that my heart was beating very fast.
“Is it?” I asked. For I have put my hand on my own chest many times, feeling for my heart and have felt nothing.
But she felt something. Is that what love is? Is that what we hope for? Someone who can feel something inside of you that you cannot even feel yourself?
Perhaps she is right. Perhaps my heart...
Two days a week, my freshmen play soccer for a few hours out on a field between two buildings. I declined to play several times, because, come on, I’m Jacob. If it involves physical activity, I don’t do it.
But lately I’ve been thinking about how little time I have left, and that soon I might leave and never see these guys again. So I’ve been motivated into at least...
EMO!
If my entire life can be equated to a long fall from great height, with my birth signifying the beginning of the fall and my death signifying the eventual impact, and friends who, like birds, can hover and dive with me on this fall, but who always have the power to fly away, then the periods of my life which I spend with you are like falling through clouds, which are soft and soothing, yet...
“Paige is the best person I know and you can quote me on that.”
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My professor in her letter of recommendation for me (via wideeyedbrowns)
A one sentence letter of recommendation is what I want all my profs to write for me. Remember that episode of Enterprise where Archer is talking to Mayweather about his father, and he says that when he was looking for...
I'm not that strong.
Girl: Did you see there was a huge gap of empty desks today in class?
Me: Yes, that was me.
Girl: Why?
Me: Let me tell you…
I went early to my class, just like I said I would, and I fashioned a makeshift row of desks out of other desks so that balance could be restored.
Girl: But the people in all those desks you took didn’t have seats and had to sit by me.
Me: I can’t save...