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So I wake up at 11am. A nice and reasonable time for once :-). I spend time cleaning my room, so it's tidy now.

Then I had a long discussion via long-distance phone call with a guy at a consulting company doing a case study on Open Source Software. He was quite knowledgeable about things, showing that he had done his research properly.

After that, I had lunch (raisin bread toast with apricot jam), and came downstairs finally. The usual loads of email happening.

I have batch of homework due the next few days:

• Fri Jan 25/02 11:00pm:Peer Evaluation
• Sat Jan 26/02 11:00pm:Mid-Module Portfolio
• Sun Jan 27/02 11:00pm:First Draft of Essay
• Sun Jan 27/02 11:55pm:SWOT Analysis
• Mon Jan 28/02 9:00am:Tech 151.1 module assignment

So I had best make a start on it.

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Just hearing this song reminds me of something.

In my NMI class the other day, part of the presentation was the music video to another song by this group, "Cowgirl". That song was used in Hackers, and this one is used in Trainspotting.

The music video was nothing like anything I had ever seen before. There are very few actual camera images, it is almost entirely of psychelic strobing backgrounds with text manipulated and appearing in many ways. Most of the time, when a new scene comes up, the text displayed syncs with the words, but after a while it mutates, and something said before, or new shows up instead. Then you think you actually hear other things in the audio besides what they are saying. It is really weird. I want to get the music video of this song to see it too!

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Daria is the poster child for "teen misfit," and holds in high contempt what she sees as the shallowness and superficiality of the world around her. She is also cynical -- though she'd say she's "realistic" -- and mistrustful of authority, and doesn't hesitate to make her opinions known when she sees fit. She has a talent for writing, a sharp intellect, an even sharper tongue (her sarcasm could cut tempered steel), and a wit so dry it makes the Sahara look like a rain forest.

This was actually a really decent TV show. It showed how many of us feel.

Goo Goo Dolls - Iris

And I'd give up forever to touch you
Cause I know that you feel me somehow
You're the closest thing to heaven that I'll ever be
And I don't want to go home right now
And all I can taste is this moment
And all I can breathe is your life
Cause sooner or later it's over
I just don't want to miss you tonight
And I don't want the world to see me
Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything seems like the movies
Yeah you bleed just to know your alive
And I don't want the world to see me
Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
I don't want the world to see me
Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am