Well, it would seem that I am at the least a very consistent person. Based on this last quiz I took, I am the Persuader, with strengths in Logic and Naturalism.


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Yay! Another meme!

Instructions:
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

Because, like jon787, I had several books equidistant ( Read more... )

So, this has been an interesting week. First, a guy down the hall got the capacitors and laptops shipped in mentioned in my previous post. Then, discussion was made in the CSLC about running a big LAN party (100 pre-registrations), then an even bigger one (possibly up to two hundred or so). A LAN of a hundred machines is a large LAN, and needs a ( Read more... )

Progress is much better for one's spirit than failure. After yesterday's post, I made a fair amount of progress on the larger looming projects on my todo list, finishing both of them in full. Today I am finishing off at least one more, if not two. Plus, I am looking around for little parts to rebuild a Fujitsu Lifebook B Series notebook a guy down ( Read more... )

Psst...want to hear an awesome way to manage your life? I will tell you, it worked for me. It is very simple, not like those other systems you may have seen before. ( Here it is: )

All I can say is "...ow ( Read more... )

So, there have been a few amazing deals recently for various bits of hardware, and I have taken advantage of them, so I now have ( new toys... )

Cory Doctorow, despite his many interesting and odd habits, is a fantastic writer. His latest work, Little Brother, takes place in San Francisco in the near future, following a terrorist attack on the city. It follows the story of several young teens who are imprisoned by DHS, and is, in my mind, one of the more interesting and thought-provoking ( Read more... )

Well, OK, just one page, but I feel rather accomplished thus far. This first page of three took me roughly an hour to do the ink overlay in The GIMP, so I figure it took around ninety minutes from blank page to upload on deviantART. This means that, if I end up doing what I would like to and make each page of the webcomic a full 8.5" X 11" page, it ( Read more... )

So, life here at college is starting to settle down to some level that may approach normal, for some value of normal ( Read more... )