"I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster." - GLaDOS, Portal 2

Went to the Asahi Japanese Steakhouse last week with some friends from work to try sushi. It wasn't bad, even if using chopsticks isn't exactly my forte. Would definitely go back, and not just to see the chef do that thing where he lights the onion stack ( Read more... )

"They wish to cure us. But I say we are the cure." - Eric Lensherr, X3

"I don't have the time to maintain these regrets" - How He Loves Us

So I passed all my final classes, and got my diploma in the mail last week. Here's the website I ended up making, if anyone's interested. I'm trying to find work now that I'm mildly confident about making one ( Read more... )

"Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are." - Houssaye
Pretty good week so far. Musical was hilarious, and afterward a group of us went to the roof of a parking garage to drink wine and play board games in the back of a military Hum-V. Finishing up the website in bits and pieces now. Also growing a goatee since this is the first time I ( Read more... )

"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig." - Marcus Aurelius

"Skill to do comes of doing." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Taking my first vacation week in roughly 4 years. Final presentation in 203 is tonight, and then two online tests and the 257 project later this week. Going to go see Avenue Q ( Read more... )

"One question haunts and hurts / Too much, too much to mention:
Was I really seeking good? Or just seeking attention" - Wicked, No Good Deed

"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain." - Lord Byron
I'm not sure whether I'm more worried about passing classes or not. I feel very unprepared for what I'd do after being ( Read more... )

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." - Marie Curie

So I've more or less got my new computer up and running. It's taken since Friday, due to some annoyances of varying degree. In no particular order:

• Either the system doesn't like Ubuntu Live, or vice versa
• The auxiliary hard drive tried to take boot priority
• ( Read more... )

"He invited me to see 'Alison Wonderland.' WTF, that's not a first name / last name type of deal" - TFLN

"It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to." - Walter Linn
Found Branston Pickle in the "Foods of the World" section of Marsh. It's not terrible; the only thing I had available ( Read more... )

"I'm concerned that we're stitting here like I'm a responsible adult." - xkcd

Concert was pretty awesome last night, even if the total outing was pretty expensive and left me with a personal grudge against half the city of Chicago for their driving etiquette.

"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen." - Frank Lloyd Wright
Classes still going well. We got our requirements for the project and it seems like it won't be that bad, just a lot of paperwork. I still need to think of a website to do for 257, because he says he'd prefer ( Read more... )

"I hold it true, whate'er befall
I feel it, when I sorrow most
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all." - Alfred Tennyson

"It's all that I can hear / It's more than I can bear" - Rosi Golan, Hazy
It's becoming increasingly clear to me that I would do best to leave once I graduate. There are too many of my failures, ( Read more... )