| Heartburn |
[Jun. 1st, 2009|09:35 am] |
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Well, at least I now know my heartburn is stress related. |
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| Politics!? shit |
[Sep. 12th, 2008|08:04 am] |
Let's start by saying that I come from a traditionally very republican, fairly conservative household. This election, much like the last, I have really wanted to try to come to some of my own conclusions about the candidates, and even 3rd party candidates who are vying for the presidency of our nation. As many lament, I am saddened by the state of a two party system that pigeon-holes candidates into the form of the party-line that use the same vague word-play to indicate vastly different things. I cannot trust the media to provide me with a clear image of the two leading candidates, but pieces I pull out really do make the republican party seem ignorant, petty, or simply foolish. I hear a lot of hate mongering on both sides that Obama is the anti-christ, or McCain will continue the failed policies of the Bush administration.
Locally, McCain was interviewed by Lee Goldberg of WCSH6 and was stomped.
Additional the "Lipstick on a Pig" comment by Obama has been blown out of proportion by the Republican party is also rediculous.
Here is the news report on Obama's comment:
Here is his speech leading up to the comment:
This is totally based on the issues, and nowhere does he even insinuate Palin, or the people.
I do know that I think the selection of Palin was a gimmick, that she has zero real foreign policy experience, and what she feels she does have is based on some warped perception of world politics. Our economy cannot handle the continued expence of world-wide military conflict. Some say it is a necessity, but I think we've moved beyond that and all of our efforts have done is make us not only look week on the national stage, but undermine our own economic standing. If Mccain can't see his decision as foolish, then perhaps he won't be able to make other decisions clearly and soundly.
Ugh, i get so aggravated at the crap being spewed and I can't even say that I support Obama because though he is well spoken and I find so many of the crap put on him unfounded, I do not really know his or Biden's plans for the nation.
I don't want to do it, but I have to dig through so much junk and hopefully I can come up with an intelligent and informed decision for November 3rd. |
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| To do |
[Jul. 6th, 2008|12:16 pm] |
- Clean:
Bedroom
Living Room
Dining Room
Bathroom
- Fold Laundry
- Organize Clothes
- Put suitcase in storage
- Take a nap
- Cut Dogs nails
I'm sure there is more, but I'm sleepy.
edit:
Watch Wimbledon finals..holy crap |
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| I NEVER post |
[Jul. 4th, 2008|11:25 pm] |
The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read only six and force books upon them.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (Workin' on it!)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
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| Techno babble |
[Jan. 10th, 2007|07:01 am] |
Windows Vista's crippling DRM
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
Summary:
http://newmedia.umaine.edu/feature.php?id=672
Absolutly unreal...basically any informed user will be, or should be, completely outraged. This is enough of a roadblock in the way of the progression of digital media today that it will effect all up and coming users of any age.
I'm sure that if I told my 80 year old grandmother this nice pretty system she bought won't let her play those old movies she bought because it isn't on an authorized disk, or my 60 year old aunt that she can no longer convert the CDs and audio books she purchased to MP3s for her player, they they would be angry, and what is worse is they will have no knowledge to understand why it's happening. This equate to stealing candy from children, exploiting the elderly for their credit cards, and just being a school-yard bully because they have money to buy the greedy, and everyone else by the throat. What happened to the customer is always right? Microsoft isn't the customer, and they have no right to dictate to their huge market-share what it is they and the media industries want...
"Your Potential. Our Passion. Microsoft." ~ Microsoft
...bullshit...
This is going to spark a huge fork in media, software, and hardware. If AMD was smart, and they wanted to get on board with Apple, and own the linux world, they would provide their best chips optimized for everything outside of Windows Vista. Intel will have a ton of overhead to support Vista DRM and still develop for the market that AMD will be focusing on.
I always loved working in Windows because it worked, and I knew what I was doing to make it work when it didn't, and despite whatever general restrictions there were, there was alwasy a work around to have complete control of MY computer. Why then tie the hands of creativity, and the digital age? Apple gets a huge boost again, just like Microsoft's attempt at the Zune, over-protecting the major corporations will turn people to alternatives.
Even after typing this I'm still angry...
I can't wait until my macbook comes in the mail.
Alex |
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 7th, 2006|07:58 pm] |
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sometimes I just feel so inadequate. I don't get it. |
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| Holy Skewed statements batman! |
[Nov. 12th, 2006|01:40 am] |
| You Are 20% Republican | 
If you have anything in common with the Republican party, it's by sheer chance.
You're a staunch liberal, and nothing is going to change that! |
This would be a lot better if it wasn't all blanket statement. I'm sure there were 10 statements in here that I half agreed with, but couldn't agree to what the statement was proclaiming.
Lame fucking stereotypes |
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| fyi |
[Jul. 1st, 2006|11:10 am] |
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Heather and I are engaged (-: |
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| (no subject) |
[Jun. 8th, 2006|06:37 am] |
NO MORE RAIN!! >:(
I only have my scooter right now, and I'm getting sick of having to drive in the rain :(
/sigh, time to get ready |
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| Dean's List!? |
[May. 20th, 2006|11:17 pm] |
So, all my grades have come in finally and I'm looking at a 3.47. From what I'm told, that's Dean's list material. I can't believe it. I can remember a few years ago when getting a 2.5 would've made me ecstatic, and now this. Unbelievable. I can't wait to tell my family!
Sudoku is the best new game I have played. Heather bought a book, and I tried one of the hardest puzzles, and after 30+ minutes working on it, I made an error somewhere and screwed the whole thing up. I'm too tired to go fix it, lol. Everyone should play it though. I love logic puzzles.
I hope everyone is doing well with the start of Summer. I have some friends who have had some terrible losses. They are in my thoughts as well as a lot of my other friends whom I never see. I hope you all are doing well.
Alex
P.S. My new cell# is 207-992-6835. It's a Bangor number, and that is where I'll be this summer. |
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| FLORDIA!! |
[May. 18th, 2006|09:27 pm] |
Hey all,
I don't update a lot, but I thought I'd share my trip to Florida with my girl. Heather and I have been here since Monday, and we're heading home tomorrow. I've been using my new Digital camera to document some of what we've been up to. You can check it out here: http://www.hitotachi.org/florida2006/v/FLMay
Tomorrow will come to soon. I hope everyone has a great summer!! |
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| OMG |
[Mar. 2nd, 2006|08:30 am] |
| [ | mood |
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| | Foo Fighters - Resolve | ] |
I almost never update, but that is only because I never know what to write here, but let's hit some highlights.
School is very tiring. Spring semester is half-over, and I can't wait until it's complete.
I got a 3.2 last semester, which I know I've announced before, but I'm proud of it :p
I'm taking two summer courses here, both 3 week courses, so I should be done with them by the end of june, yippe.
I'll be living in Bangor for the summer, so if anyone up here wants to do anything, just call me :)
I'm being promoted to Help Center manager, which is the highest level student position at IT, without being staff.
ugh, i have 3 more years of college.
Jarrod Left the window open last night, so it's 2 degrees in my bedroom right now...brr
oh, I made my FINAL credit card payment on Monday. So after 3 years, my huge amount of debt is gone, well, other than student loans now.
I love Heather, and just want to see her and I happy for a long long time. I am so glad that break is about to hit, there really is too much stress with School, and spending some time away with Heather will be wonderful.
Downside to paying my credit card is I'm dirt poor until next friday...fun fun
For my 2-d Design class I had to take an artist, sketch a color painting and then blow up that sketch to double the size and paint it in black and white....I spent a little under 20 hours on my sketch, and havn't completed the painting. It was originally due yesterday, but I lucked out and don't have to present until the monday after break, woot. I'll get a pic of my drawing up eventually, if anyone cares to see it.
I am active again in KKPsi, for better or worse. I plan on running for an office for next year, something easy, as I want to be involved, but I'll be taking some hard courses, but at least they'll be in my major again, and I can feel like I'm actually progressing towards my degree.
I am taking Macroeconomics and Financial Account this semester, these are some bad grades left over from my stint as a Business Major, and as it goes I should see a nice pickup in my GPA after this semester.
I do need to spend more time studying for COS431, I have As on both my homework, and the firstpart of our major project in class, but I don't think I did well on the test. We shall see today though :) ( I have class in an hour)
well, I hope you enjoyed the update, time to get ready for the day
Ciao :) |
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| This just in... |
[Jan. 9th, 2006|10:03 pm] |
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This just in, I got a 3.12 for my first semester back at school. I'm just happy it's over, and I have a whole 18 credits to look forward to starting next week. I think I can't wait for summer already. |
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| gah |
[Dec. 11th, 2005|10:39 am] |
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| |  anxious | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Lewis Black - Comedy Central Presents Part 1 | ] |
Next week is gonna suck...
NMD102 Paper (12/15 @ 4pm)
-Hard Copy due at Velma's Office, Digital version on FC
-Presentation 12/14 6pm-9pm DPC105
COS230 Final Homework (12/15)
- Can pass in late by the end of finals (12/23)
NMD104 Final Movie (12/16)
- Prelim Grade
NMD102 Final Programming (12/19 4:00pm)
-Digital and Hard Copy due @ Velma's OFfice
COS230 Final (12/20 8am 227 NV)
- Look at take home final problems!!
I'm working on my research paper now for NMD102, and I haven't had to write a paper in over 5 years. Heather gave me some advice as to how to approach it, and I'm going to take her advice and see how well it works. I'm working today for 6 hours, so that should be a good chunk of research, and maybe I can put a dent in the writing tonight. I hate writing more than anything, mostly because I feel so inadaquet when trying. I should really get to it, so tomorrow I can tackle my movie that's due on Friday. I am soooo anxious for next week to be done. I should have a couple As, and some Bs, and maybe a C or two, depending on how I did on my last COS221 test :-/
Gah, I should get back to work.
Maybe I'll take to posting in here more often.
I hope everyone is doing well, and that you all have a great Xmas! I'll let you know how I make out! |
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 6th, 2005|04:59 pm] |
| Your Eyes Should Be Brown | 
Your eyes reflect: Depth and wisdom
What's hidden behind your eyes: A tender heart |
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