It's 70 fucking degrees here, in November. On the bright side it made lunch very pleasant; but this is crazy. To be honest, I'm excited for the winter; I really love the melancholy of cold weather and sunsets at 4:30. Right now is a time of change, a time where I'd like to be more reflective and that's why some good old cold weather doesn't ( Read more... )

Yet another test messed up because of anxiety. Nothing I didn't understand, nothing I found difficult; I just lost the ability to keep focused as I got more and more worked up over my careless mistakes.

This has to stop. I haven't spent the last two years pushing myself hard just so I could fuck up a test that should have been child's play.

I'm quite tired right now. It's only 11, but I've been sick the past couple of days, so it feels much later than it should. This would help explain why it's been taking me forever to get this paper done and why I still haven't finished it. After that I have an econ problem set to do ( Read more... )

It's strange how "high culture" and "low culture" can sometimes mix up.

I didn't realize it until now, but I actually do think that "Changes" by Tupac is a beautiful song. And I mean that in total seriousness.

I've been bashing my head against a wall with regards to minor theoretical problems again and again and again when it's hit me. The number one rule of game design.

Make a prototype when the idea is 20% complete and keep playing it and working on it from there. You can't use theoretical thinking to predict how it will turn out.Now I know where to ( Read more... )

What if Derrida is just the Zeno of our time and 100 years from now, some extremely bizarre discovery (perhaps in physics) disproves him?

Carnivicus is a meat-eater at Old Barrows, a dining co-operative. Veganicus also goes to Old Barrows. Veganicus believes that meat should never be served at Old Barrows, despite the fact that many at Old Barrows eat meat and that Old Barrows has traditionally had an easygoing food policy ( Read more... )

I really don't know how music from a video game, especially one that I never was particularly fond of, can stir up such emotion in me. You'll all probably think its weird, but there's something about this song that keeps striking a chord with me.

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If all Derrida is trying to say is that discourse can't be reduced to anything else (is all that exists), then I'm a bit disappointed.

I never really listened to or cared for classical music as a teenager-didn't really listen to any at all until sophomore year of college when I started listening to Shostakovich. It seemed for a while that I really only liked 20th century classical, listening to a lot of Steve Reich and John Cage. Recently though I've been listening to a lot of ( Read more... )