life as i remember it
been absent for a while. after the craziness that follows the end of the semester i went on vacay for a while. well, not anywhere physically, i just didn’t do anything.
but now, back to work, and back to internet lifes. boo.
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Posted in fun stuff.
since purchasing persona 4 back in december, it has not been taken out of my ps2. in fact, i decided on getting a ps2 when persona 3: fes came out, and that was the only game that stayed in there until persona 4 came out…even though i had purchased TWELVE other ps2 games that i had been meaning to play.
but back to persona 4. when i moved, before all of my other stuff moved with me, i played quite a bit of persona 4. once the moving/baby happened and shortly thereafter, the beginning of spring semester, my game playing time dwindled down to almost nothing. but in the last few weeks, i’ve been picking up an hour here and there. last night i played for a couple hours and thoroughly enjoyed myself (and was slightly mortified by kanji tatsumi’s dungeon in the tv). tonight, when i turned on the ps2, the persona 4 disc wouldn’t read. i thought perhaps the laser FINALLY died.
the ps2 actually didn’t read any discs when i got it (from some douche on craigslist i traded my gba + games for) but it turns out i just had to adjust the power going to the laser. so, in anticipation of it actually dying i went ahead and bought another laser….which i haven’t had to use yet. ok…so no big deal. but before i decided to take everything apart, i put in another game to test. works fine…another game…works fine…FOUR GAMES LATER, i realize there is nothing wrong with the ps2 but the persona 4 disc itself. FUCKING BUMMER.
so tomorrow, i will go out and get another copy. but god damn it…this sucks.
Posted in bitch n moan, games.
at some point, some time ago, i was rooting around the internets for info on the watchmen movie. a couple of weeks ago i got a phone call from brian at gofobo.com telling me i had won a prize in the watchmen sweepstakes and that he had sent me an email. i vaguely remembered entering this sweepstakes and i searched around on the internet until i finally found it. turns out i won the fifth prize package which includes ALL of this stuff:
granted most of it will probably sit somewhere on the shelf unused and whatever…but hey, free crap is FREE crap right?
so thanks gofobo.com for sending me all of this stuff. i might wear the ladies tee, and i will most likely read through the film companion. 
all the other stuff…who knows. but i appreciate you picking me to win.
on sunday i went to the denver public library to do some research on autonomous robots. i rolled up around 11 or so and then discovered it didn’t actually open until 1 p.m. boo. so then i listened to the seventh (and last) harry potter audiobook and waited for a bit.
once the library opened i rushed to the online catalog and began perusing the robot building/programming shelves and plucked six or seven (large) books and waddled back to a desk by the window. it was a gorgeous day out and i wanted to pretend i could enjoy it like everyone else on the other side of the glass. once i had settled in with my laptop out to take notes and started flipping through the books, a voice came over the intercom system in the library letting all the dpl patrons know the denver gay men’s chorus would be doing their annual singing-dealie. i thought, how fun! little did i know they would be singing in the space RIGHT BELOW where i sat. and since i had so much crap everywhere already, i didn’t really want to move. and i didn’t think the concert would be long anyway…it was about an hour, but it was really hard to concentrate during that hour. :\
today i went to the jefferson county library out in lakewood. i used to live over in the area, which is how i found it, and it is one of my favorites. i figured since i would be in golden a little earlier in the day i could stop off at the library to finish up one of my electronics projects and be on my merry way. i found a nice little cube in the back (which, btw, was really big and wide with it’s own set of electrical outlets) and i settled in. once again, little did i know that on the other side of my cube (and sharing one of three walls) was a woman using a typewriter. yeah, a god damn fucking typewriter. so as i tried to run the calculations for my current source project, all i could hear was…clack, clack, click, clak, whhzzzzzzt, ding! i was at the library for a couple of hours and the typewriter did not stop the entire time. i wonder if the woman was working out chapter 5-12 of her god damn memoir. >:\ so irritating. finally, after debating with myself for twenty minutes i decided to give up and as i was packing the woman got all of her things and walked away. *facepalm*grumble*grumble*
what the eff, eh? so my goal is to finish reading stranger in a strange land tonight, and i’m getting close…if not tonight then definitely by tomorrow. i also finished the last harry potter book today *sob* so i figured i should pick up another book. even though i have a dozen or so that i’ve been ‘meaning to read’ but since i was at the library already, what they hell.
for the better part of this decade, people keep asking me if i have read houes of leaves and when i tell them no, they sound shocked and amazed and tell me to go read it at once. i’ve resisted up to this point, but i checked to see if they had it, because most times when i check the library its always checked out, and to my surprise…there it was. i went to go check the damn book out and i am no longer in the jeffco system. i lied to the 90 year old librarian and gave him a fake address and he let me check out the book. i’ll definitely return it…but it was a bit of a pain to get it. oops. i totally felt my face flush too as i told him i lived nearby but i couldn’t remember my zip code. HAH!
the book seems really long, so i may end up buying a copy to finish at my leisure. as for audiobooks, i think i may start on american gods by neil gaiman next. i also want to see what all the fuss around twilight series is all about, but i’ll get around to that later. i have to admit, i did start watching the movie and would have probably watched the entire thing if it hadn’t been for the fact that i had to leave. 
and now, back to reading!
Posted in bitch n moan, books, school.
i’ve been told for quite some time to go see this movie. i’ve been told for quite some time how great this movie is by several people. they were all right. i should have watched this movie much sooner.
as with any movie i watch by myself it took a few days to get through. it’s always amazing to see what other people go through (even if it is only a movie) and the fact that the guy refused to give up finding his lost love and trying everything he could to be with her…totally made me cry.
some of the scenes were really tough to watch. :\ i suppose it falls in with the whole realism thing. but…everyone should watch it. seriously.
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well bsg, it’s been a wonderful four seasons. even if you left me waiting in between seasons for unreasonable amounts of time, your incredible story line and amazingly dramatic moments made it totally worth it.
i’m still not sure about how we ended last night but i will always fondly remember you…except those few episodes that sucked ass, but we can pretend they never happened.
Posted in tv.
a blogging roll that is. heh. heh. heheh.
i’m excited to announce that i will soon be working on an autonomous land vehicle. it seems that the senior design group working on it is actually composed of computer science majors, and for reasons unknown, nothing on the robot actually works. all of the old code has mysteriously disappeared and there are several hardware components that seem to be non-working. so i volunteered to help out. should be a good time.
the software they’ve decided to use only runs on linux so i’ve gone ahead and taken care of that on my laptop.
this particular blog post is coming from blogging software for linux. it’s pretty skimpy on the features side, but it gets the job done i suppose.
i’m also sitting in on an introduction to optical principles class. i think it’s close to eight hours long but i don’t know if i will sit in for the entire time period. i’ve sit in on this short course before.
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“A SECRET list of websites deemed illegal by the communications watchdog has been leaked to the public, and includes one of the most popular sites in the country.”
whaaaaat? looks like an aussie watchdog group is all about filtering out ‘illegal’ websites, which seems only natural….except some of these websites are just pervy porno sites or online gambling.
since those aren’t technically ‘illegal’ they shouldn’t be filtered out, but since they have no idea they were on a super secret not so much happy fun time list, they cant really contest it…and linking to said pervy porno pages or gambling sites could cost you up to 11 god damn fucking THOUSAND DOLLARS PER DAY.
even wikipedia got a threatening letter to remove a link from one of their pages.
of course, some mister x out there leaked a super secret list to the magical interwebs which you can download here.
Posted in bitch n moan.
i don’t think i’ve posted any stories about my public transportation experiences since i stopped riding the 15 down colfax and started riding the lightrail. :O
this morning i was waiting on the platform from the train and i saw a woman walking down the platform. this woman is probably the first person i have seen with a perma-grimace on her face. i actually stole several looks (well, i blatantly stared for a few seconds several times) to make sure she wasn’t frowning at the slightly chilly weather or having to wait for the train. each and every time she had a frownie face not unlike :[ it wasn’t a round frown but the corners of her lips just pointed downward the entire time.
to avoid being more obvious than i already was, i stopped staring after the fourth or fifth time and came to the conclusion that yes, she in fact has a perma-grimace. which then caused me to wonder on the train ride in to school whether or not she was born with super frown or if it had developed over many years of suck.
hrm….
Posted in public transport.