Survived the Apocalypse

Which was unexpected... well i may have over hyped the whole thing in my head but by the time the day came around i was expecting something a little more epic. Atleast everyone else to be as excited about it as i was, but reality rarely coincides with our imagination. Still it would have been nice to see Big-foot or Cthulhu or the monster from Alien, or a Kraken or other Extra-terrestrials or Zombies or werewolves... well i suppose it's better things didn't align with my imagination. I did get my degrees in the mail after we would have died so that was a bit exciting, i have them hung up on my wall in dollar store frames, which seems silly but they look good. Even if they were designed without any desire of making them functional frames, but i got them working with folded up paper needle-nose pliars and a couple of keyrings. As rediculous as it sounds that's what it took to make them usable.. but now that they're up they do look good, possibly better in person though.





Given they are only Associate degrees but i can say that i'm fairly happy about it, i have one up next to my whiteboard as constant encouragement, now if only i could move on to the bigboy college everything would be grand. Community college is cool but i'm really at the point where i should be in a 4 year, it's just a pain getting in. Luckily with prop 31 i think it was, the schools get more money and i have a much better chance of getting in. Plus i hear the degrees should help :P ... and those required 4 classes for transfer are finally taken care of..

Beyond that i'm waiting for the next semester to start in about 8 days, still need to pick up my books, i'll be sitting at like 18 units if i get into my last class which is more then they even allow at ARC anymore but all i took last semester was Ethics, Film and Physics(Mechanics and Fluids : Calculus based) which i found to be ridiculously difficult but i hear it's one of the easier physics classes. It's truly amazing stuff, i wish i was better at it but at the same time there's a whole world of stuff i need to learn so hopefully it's something i can come back to some day. Still have another required physics class to go though and i might take a third physics class to knock out a science requirement and get an AS-T for physics which would be pointless when i'm in the 4 year so maybe not.. I'd still like to take the class though. Physics is hard, but it's really really cool.


My Nanowarimo book is still sitting at where i left it in November, i haven't forgotten about it and neither have i given up on it. I was hoping to work on it in small intervals here and there. right now it's probably closer to trash then anything, but i like it. 43k words to go. Which is totally something i'd be proud of when i meet my maker. It's just one of those journey's you take for your soul you know? I may even cheat and only work on it during the Nanwarimo's so i wouldn't really be participating so much as working on a book i want to finish but screw it, you only live once and i want to finish this book.

Beyond that i've been fairly busy, my computer died over the process of four days which got to me a bit since i was frantically reinstalling operating systems until the point that the harddrive stopped allowing me too. Luckily Linux is Boss and can be run from a Live-CD. If i didn't need Windows for half the classes i take i'd just switch over :) Anyway in the end it took me far to long to get that Situated as well as many other things breaking around me.. some months just aren't your month. Sometimes i swear i've pissed off a supernatural Deity.

Finals around the corner

Very late update, but i've gone about a year without updating before so i suppose it shouldn't be all that surprising. I'm currently drinking a glass of ice water as I continue a staring competition with my physics h/w. i have a feeling it won't turn out well for me though as it doesn't have any eyes. So i might as well get started but it's been a long day and i'm trying to slow my head down which feels like the inside of a carnival at the moment. I turned off the music which i hope helps, not that this stuff needs to be done tonight or anything but finishing it today just gives me more time to study in the long run.

The website isn't really much of a concern at the moment, although it's always something i think about. i'm sure it could be better, and i'm planning on taking a php and mysql online class next semester. Not sure if it'll be of great use but becoming a better programmer and a better person has an intrinsic value in itself. Oh and my art skills are improving, i can only go a couple of months without sketching something so i guess it's inevitable. i use 3X5 note cards, since i have plenty and it limits the scope of time i can spend on them, which is good. I've got other things to worry about on my plate :P

Anyhow, watch out doomsday, if you see Zombies walking around don't get to close! They Bite!

See you Space Cowboys

Time for Physics

Projects were Fail, i got some bug and didn't ever figure out what it was. A peculiar bug; it appears as though it should be working.. but honestly it's a side project and i don't want to dump days into it right now when no one will probably ever look at it again. LD is going on right now but once again i fail to participate, i might be able to swing together a java game or a text based C program but for "evolution" as a theme i can't imagine what i'd make.. and i'm just nervous about school can't really concentrate on some 48 hour insomniac driven game competition right now, i'm probably about 150 pages into reading these books and i have no idea what i'm supposed to be reading exactly; classes start tuesday and i'm just wracked with nervousness. Atleast i petitioned for my Associate degrees before the end of the world, they might even get here before Cthulhu arrives and kills us all :) Or whatever is supposed to happen.

I never really gave the whole "Mayan Calendar" thing a lot of thought, they wrote it on a circle so it seemed logical that they just ran out of space. People who read into these things seem to think there's something up with it though so maybe i'm underreacting, it's just hard to take the apocolypse seriously after the whole Y2K scare 12 years ago which amounted to nothing.

Summer School

It has begun a 6 week English Writing class. I don't imagine much of a problem with it but i've heard a couple times that i'm crazy for taking it over the summer, but you gotta do what you gotta do. (Atleast it's not Calc right?) I tried working on a little "adding" program i made awhile back by implementing a Doubly Linked list class i made.. last year. Sadly things aren't going so well, and i haven't really had the time to sit down and work on it, i would like to set up a day for working on it but i haven't figured out which yet. New schedule and all want to get used to it first before i start deciding when i'll do what.

Oh and the web cooking show ended up being a flop, there were certain technical difficulties and it wasn't all that organized, i'm not really "giving up" but it'll probably be a little while before i attempt it again.

Finals are no longer among us

Well it felt like Final Nightmare, or some equally cool sounding thingy... ergh something. Why do i always make log post when i'm tired? Well no matter! On i shall go! .Finals were wicked, i spent a lot of nights getting 1-3 hours of sleep which kinda sucks. I can't imagine how people do the full on 4 hours every night thing. I'd go insane.

Anyway finals are over and i created a todo list to keep me busy. Some things are website oriented and some are just life. Been drawing a bit lately too, but it's mostly copying stuff.

Finals are Among us.

Alright, it's been study study study, for the last couple weeks and somehow it looks like that's going to pick up.. yaaay, fun. But atleast i should be getting some sort of paper degree soon, not my ultimate objective but i'll keep at it.
Not much to say, i'm not entirely sure what i wanted to do to the website next but i've been thinking a tutorial section, and i'm going to start making cooking shows :P you konw, a sort of youtube thing. It'll probably suck at first but it seems like a fun thing to start making video's about. That's all i have to say for now, looks like i missed the latest Ludumdare so that kinda sucks.

ZOMBIES ARE AMONG US!!!

Ok maybe i'm a little late for the whole April fools day thing, atleast from where i'm sitting.. Time Zones and all.

Sooo.. Still in school, Psych started up and i got Calc 2 and Systems programming in unix keeping me busy :).. well it's tough. Programming class has it's neat parts though, we're currently working on a server/client program. Kinda neat, using "sockets" Sadly this is limited to just the computer, no playing with ip address stuff's but maybe some day...

In other news i wasn't able to ftp to the website for about 4 months...... this explains the loong delay between posts. I'm not working on any side projects at the moment though..I already had to cut up my spring break between my 3 classes. Not very fun might i add. Sooo Study Study Study.. I'm actually doing this very late, just trying to point out that i'm still alive and kicking, and i do try to update atleast once a month whether i have anything valuable to say or not.

Future plans: Maybe a tutorial section, and i might create some youtube video's for fun :)