"I have often preached that the proper antidote to fear is anger, and I see no reason to change my opinion on this. However, there is another mental condition that serves as well or possibly better, and that is concentration. I have discussed this matter at great length with people who are in a position to know, and I am not without experience of ( Read more... )

"Some complain that e-mail is impersonal -- that your contact with me, during the e-mail phase of our relationship, was mediated by wires and screens and cables. Some would say that's not as good as conversing face-to-face. And yet our seeing of things is always mediated by corneas, retinas, optic nerves, and some neural machinery that takes the ( Read more... )

The good news is, I figured out what was making my laptop bluescreen: it was BlackICE, of all things. Won't be using that anymore ( Read more... )

Mid-terms -> radio silence 'til Friday. Anyone who sees me online before then is encouraged to hector me to get back to work.

". . . I prefer to discuss events before they take place, not after . . ."
-- Nassim Taleb

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I'm already heavily leaning toward moving out of here at the end of this coming summer. Had an extremely pointless argument on Sunday which I'm now too apathetic about to recount but which was pretty irritating at the time. Bottom line: this woman ( Read more... )

I've been sleeping better and seem to have fixed my laptop using the tried and true method of "nuke and pave."

I just found out that my intro to CS prof is "involved in an ongoing project to determine information relating to edit-metric codes. These codes are designed to correct not only substitution errors, but also insertion and deletion errors ( Read more... )

Something's wrong. Last night was the second in a row that I spent tossing and turning without ever falling completely asleep. It's not an anxiety thing or anything, I just can't seem to get the brain to stop flitting around and just go to sleep. Gonna start trying warm milk before bedtime or something ( Read more... )

So, thanks to my dad's negligence in actually remembering to PAY MY TUITION, last week I was dropped from all my classes. I've sorted the financial issues out now and have submitted the necessary forms to be re-added to all my classes, but my access to the course materials on the web hasn't been restored yet. As a result I can't complete & submit ( Read more... )

Wasn't aware there was a name for it. Suspected the light had something to do with it -- my baseline mood is definitely more positive and energetic when the sun is out -- and now I know: baseline seratonin levels approximately track the amount of exposure to natural light, and I'm probably slightly more sensitive to it than the average. This also ( Read more... )

Chance is better than fate, feeling wanted is better than feeling needed, and a freely-given gift is better than an extorted prize. The common thread between these things is that knowing that things could be otherwise* makes you appreciate what you get much, much more than if they couldn't have been.

* No metaphysics today, please.