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I'm Rogue
What X-Men Character are You?
Well Ah do declare, Sugah! Looks like you're everyone's favourite Southern Belle: Rogue. You're beautiful, charming and tough as nails, but you've got a romantic streak as wide as the white in your hair. Yup, it appears you've got it all, except for the fact that you have to keep people at arm's length all the time and then angst about it incessantly.
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I just had dinner. Beef Chilli with beans. It was nice and spicy, but I could hardly taste it. I seem to be coming down with a flu, which would also explain why I feel really tired now.
I'm listening to Marissa's "The Beach" CD again now, with the volume turned well up. Track 6 - Sugar Ray - Spinning Away, is really good, it has a nice ambience to the background instruments, with some good guitar and violin finger.
I'm really tired, so I am only going to see about doing my postings for HTTC, and then going to bed. I will have to do the business critqué, the 6 images for NMI, and the math homework tommorow. I wanted to see Marissa, but I just have too much dang work.
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My left foot has been sore for a long time now, and I still can't figure out why. It's mainly when I step on the front ball of the foot that it really hurts, like somebody is steppping on my foot, from underneath.
I'm eating seafoam candy. What is that you ask? It's the stuff they put in Crunchies. I'm going to make a start on my large pile of homework now.
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Alignment:
Neutral Good characters believe in the power of good above all else. They will work to make the world a better place, and will do whatever is necessary to bring that about, whether it goes for or against whatever is considered 'normal'.
Race:
Elves are the eldest of all races, although they are generally a bit smaller than humans. They are generally well-cultured, artistic, easy-going, and because of their long lives, unconcerned with day-to-day activities that other races frequently ccern themselves with. Elves are, effectively, immortal, although they can be killed. After a thousand years or so, they simply pass on to the next plane of existance.
Primary Class:
Rangers are the defenders of nature and the elements. They are in tune with the Earth, and work to keep it safe and healthy.
Secondary Class:
Druids are a special variety of Cleric who serves the Earth, and can call upon the power in the earth to accomplish their goals. They tend to be somewhat fanatical about defending natural settings.
Find out What D&D Character Are You?, courtesy of NeppyMan!
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I had the usual trudge on transit this morning, but today, I was going down Holdom towards the stop on lougheed, and I see a bus go past, so I run to the stop. I manage to get there, and knock on his window, but he just pulls off, and I get to wait 10 minutes. The next bus came, I got to brentwood, and took the 123 down to new west to catch the skytrain.
On the way down, I listened to most of The Beach soundtrack, and I've been listening to the Run Lola Run soundtrack this morning.
Oh yah, I've been typing all this up on my laptop, using a wireless lan connection, sitting in the middle of the room 8-)
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I had an interesting day. Woke up early around 8am, couldn't get back to sleep because of my brother. Got up at 8.30am, tried to call SkyTrain lost property to see about my star wars touque and my ActiveState umbrella. I get a busy signal, repeatedly.
Wandered around the web, did some email. Went out around 11.30am to meet up with Yvonne. We had planned to eat lunch at the new indian place on Hastings and willingdon, 'Mother India'. But the place was deserted today, even tho they said they would be open. Carried on downtown on the next bus.
Yvonne needed to move some money between her accounts, to make sure there was money on her credit card. On the way to the bank, she saw a sign for a japanese lingerie store. At the bank, Sixpence None The Richer - Kiss Me was playing, w00t! After we went to the bank, we swung back to the store for her to have a look. They only sell clothes, no toys, and only one hello kitty item in the store.
Grabbed the skytrain to go to stadium, to see the skytrain lost property people. No sign of either my star wars touque which was purchased in Montreal as part of my first winter gear when I moved here to Canada, OR my ActiveState golf umbrella, which I won in a business card draw at a business party.
I shall have to see if they have more umbrellas! I don't want to fork out the money for another big golf umbrella.
After that, we were wandering around downtown, looking for the place that I had shwarmas at before, but I couldn't find the place, so we ended up eating a vegetarian meal at Urban Monk. I had a burger and salad, and Yvonne had angel hair pasta with a tofu marinara sauce. Both meals were really really good. I could barely tell the difference in the burger's taste, but the texture needs a bit of work still. The green tea and apple Sobe I had to drink was also really nice, I hadn't had any Sobe before.
We skytrained back to Metro, and parted ways, as she needed to shop for somebody's belated birthday gift.
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In between doing homework, Jon came to visit me, and got 3D Studio MAX R4 from me, in return for Visual Studio .NET. He also brought me his old Volcano 7 fan since he replaced it, I'm going to try it out on my system in a bit, and if it's quieter and cooler than my current one, then I'll buy it from him.
My father offered to buy me a new chair to use at the computer, and a floor mat at the same time, so I went out to get the stuff around 5.30pm. He went to several liquor stores first, looking for lemon cello, but there seems to be none to be had in the lower mainland. Went to staples, only to find they closed early today for some reason. Went to the Office Depot Jon works at instead, bought 60"x46" chairmat and a new chair. I've cut the chairmat in half, my father has half, and I have the other half. Works really well that way. my new chair is really comfortable.
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From the annals of computer history,
I bring you an unusual april fools joke:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2795.html
Last night, I was going to head off to bed at 1.30am, but I ended up working on my laptop for another hour, and I have got the graphical systems up now. I'll post a screenshot of my 3072x768 desktop area soon.
Long withstanding update
Ok, so i've been really busy this week and I haven't updated much. This will be a quick rundown of things.
Wednesday: Got up early (9am), went to Jon's place to grab some anime he burnt for me, and see how loud his systems were. Went up to SFU to see Marissa, played pool a lot, cooked dinner for her (It was supposed to be teriyaki chicken and noodles, but it came out totally different, and not bad either), and we watched "The Birdcage". Went home and did more homework.
Thursday: Up early to go to school. Borrowed two wireless cards to utilize the WAP network, and explore things a bit further. Had math, just a calculus quiz. I found a bug in MathCad where it returns a 0 for symbolic evaluation instead of a real answer. Stupid program! My calculator can do the problem! Working on spitfire and b52 some, putting in the final stuff that we have from SGI now, since that is all _finally_ sorted out now. While I was doing that, Thomas was practising some clarinet in the fakespace area, because we've found it's got passable acoustics in there. I tried to see how far the wireless from TechBC goes, and it stops a few metres short of the food court :-(. Went to NMI class, and we are doing assignments that involve video in various ways. Our group is assigned the last 20 minute segment of 'Run Lola Run' as a movie to use for source. It was neat to watch it, since I've listened to the sound track a few times, as Marissa has it.
Today, I've been working on the loads of homework, and set my laptop up as a bridge device to explore wireless more. I was up at SFU this morning, taking part in a psych study with Marissa so she can get the required credit to pass the course she needs. It was on relationships, but I can't talk about it more.
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My laptop is being a nice diversion of my mind, keeping me away from thinking evil thoughts towards those at SFU that would thwart my TechBC plans. Today I hacked around with wireless ethernet from it, since there is wireless connectivity at school. The Lucent Orinoco cards seem useless, but the Cisco Aironet 340 cards work really really well. It's fun to be sitting in the middle of a classroom, with no cables going to you, and browsing the web.
Tommorow I have valentine's plans with Marissa, as well as picking up anime stuff from Jon.
Goodnight all.
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This song is really funky. Esp the chords at the start, they are really trippy. I first heard of this band, Underworld, when I was listening to the soundtracks from Hackers and TrainSpotting. I hadn't really thought more of them until early in this semester's NMI class, where we watched one the music video for their original 'CowGirl' piece, and learnt about the band.
The video could be something out of an advanced WinAMP AVS module, because of how it's done. Hardly any actual video footage, just all composted colors and words.
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News gets even bleaker for me, reading the latest on TechBC. This Surrey Leader article says it quite well:
"The two broad approaches we could take is to continue to offer quite specialized programs there or we could offer more general programs that include psychology, history, English, science and so on," Waterhouse said. "My preference is to go to the latter direction."
The Surrey campus might continue to offer some computer science programs, but the specialized high-tech courses, and their faculty, will head to Burnaby.
Argh.
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Today has been nice. Woke up around 1.30pm. And I've been hacking together new computer hardware all day. Got a new scanner too, HP Scanjet 5940. w00t! It belongs to my father's work, but he will be borrowing it often.
Amongst my stuff, I've traded my compaq laptop for a Toshiba Tecra 740CDT. Which is now running linux already. It was amazingly easy to get up compared to my last laptop, which never got linux because it wouldn't run it.
I've called the laptop 'joule' in keeping with my naming system. Specs: P166MMX, 80mb RAM, 3gb HDD, 10/100 ethercard (PCMCIA). Built-in sound etc.
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Today was my catch up on sleep day mainly. I woke up just after 12pm, so I'm making a start at a reasonable amount of sleep again. I went up the mountain to meet Marissa, and downtown to meet Tara. She looks nothing like I expected, but I didn't go and search for pictures of her online before anyway. I got the mustard that I asked her to get for me in Harrods and had it with the roast beef for dinner tonight. The mustard is great!
I went back up the mountain with Marissa, and played some pool, then came back, and i've been hacking together my new server hardware mostly. If both of the hard drives work, then I'll have 10.9gb of storage in it. But I still need to find a 3 1/4" floppy drive for the system.
I'm heading to bed now, it's late enough.
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ARGH. S**T. Sorry. I don't normally use language like that, but the Liberals are screwing those of us at TechBC over. They want to merge us with SFU. If they don't screw around with our courses that I am taking at TechBC, as well as the research side, then I might stay. Otherwise I'm leaving. Where to you ask? I'm going to go and work in industry. F**K continuing my education.
Now all of this has had me so pissed off that I forgot my umbrella on the bus coming home tonight. It was the 110 that left Metrotown at 7.10pm. It was my big ActiveState golf umbrella too, that I really liked, because it kept me properly dry.
I am listening to my music at full blast now. But I will shut down my system in a little bit, because I want to tweak some things. I should be back in 45 minutes or so.