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New Orleans!
I haven't updated this thing in aaaaages, but i am traveling with Sandra, and it wouldn't be a Sandra trip without a live journal post :-). Anyway, right now I'm hanging out in the botanical gardens in the nola city park, and holy crap, what an amazing park! For one thing it has free WiFi, which is how i am able to post to LiveJournal from the ( Read more... ) -
Graduation!
I finished school. I'm free! Time for some much needed vacation time, and then I'll be starting work in January. Looking forward to both vacation and work ( Read more... ) -
Approaching the end of college
As most of you already know, I haven't especially enjoyed my time at RIT. I never found any particularly close friends. The classes had a heavy workload, yet somehow I never really learned very much. Every girl I met there that I would have been interested in turned out to either be in a relationship, or turned out to be a lesbian ( Read more... ) -
Identity, part 2
Every once in a while I stumble across an idea that I've always intuitively felt and agreed with, but that I'd never quite been able to put into words before. This essay describes one such idea: Keep Your Identity SmallIt's written by a guy named Paul Graham. I've read a fair amount of stuff by him, and he's generally got some very interesting ( Read more... ) -
Banana vs Computer
Today I really wanted to bring a banana to work for lunch, but all our bananas were still a little green around the edges. Well, I heard fruit ripens faster if it's in a warm place; so, when I got to work, I booted up my computer, opened up the side of the case, stuck the banana inside, and closed it back up again ( Read more... ) -
Identity
There's something that's been bothering me a lot lately, and it has to do with the idea of having an identity. Now, barring the rare case of dissociative identity disorder, everyone thinks of themselves as a single cohesive person. That is, there's only one conscious entity per brain, no more and certainly no less. It's very uncomfortable to think ( Read more... ) -
scary dream
I've been having a lot of really vivid, random dreams lately. Anyway, I had this terrifying dream last night where there was a huge spider in my room, only this (apparently infamous) spider was named Scuttling Cuddly.
So...yeah, it was actually really funny in retrospect. Where does my brain come up with this stuff? -
Drawings
Two weeks ago, I drew what was probably the best picture I'd ever drawn, at least up until that point. Last week I drew an even better one. However, this week I drew the most egregiously bad drawing I have ever drawn, and possibly one of the ugliest I've ever seen. I'm still not quite sure what possessed me to instantiate such a powerfully bad work ( Read more... ) -
Errant Pillowcase
I woke up this morning, and I noticed that my pillow was not on my bed anymore. Okay so this in itself wasn't that odd, but the funny thing was that the pillowcase had been taken off and thrown across the room as well. I have absolutely no memory of how this happened, but it made me laugh a lot ( Read more... ) -
a short essay on bananas
This morning I was eating a banana and feeling contemplative, and I started thinking about the expression "_____ doesn't grow on trees!" Well sure, many things don't, but FOOD DOES! Wow, how great is that? We live in a world where food not only grows on trees, but it comes prepackaged in a biodegradable wrapper ( Read more... )