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September 26th, 2004

02:52 pm - Best. Ever. The Scary Truth About Your Friends (eddie izzard style) by Mellifera username Wants a "cup of coffee" spazmodic_diva Hides their makeup in a tree cherry_bounce Vegetarian painter wildrice13 Was on the moon with Steve mrspremise Poked a badger with a spoon oniugnip Puts babies on spikes darkgeek Can run about in heels and not fall over eponis Under house arrest darlingviolenta Carries a brick in their handbag ayemaksicur Never played Risk as a kid delamancha Ich bin ein Berlinner schnook13 Quiz created with MemeGen! Current Mood: amused Current Music: Project X - Mega Man 3 Xintro OC ReMix

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July 31st, 2004

09:27 am - Some like Romanian pie, and some like pryomania. As some know, July 11 was my 21st birthday. Go me. Ph4t l3wt included a printer (my old printer asplode) and a shirt that says "No, I will not fix your computer." My friend from Rice, eponis, happened to be at GA Tech visiting oniugnip, so I decided to visit with them. It was nice; I do so miss my Rice friends when I'm here, and so many of them have graduated anyway. I decided to go that day instead of the day before, when they had Goth night. Nothing against Gothicality in particular, and it's a good thing to be out of one's element every once in a while, but not quite what I had in mind. (Although it was tempting.) That, and I have no proper Gothy clothing. Anyway, the afternoon of the 11th, I took MARTA down to Tech, meeting up with the two of them at a bagel shop. There Esther offered to buy me a bagel; I demonstrated my boring side by getting a Completely Ordinary Bagel. Whatever; it was tasty, and they didn't have any cinnamon sugar bagels. After a while, we retreated to Alex's on-campus apartment. It has four general-use seats: the Freudian Chair, the Chair of Despair, the Couch of Platonic Nirvana, and the Make-Out Futon. More geeky discussion followed. I learned that there is a fraternity -- I think it was Psi Epsilon -- which is basically a large coalition of dorks. It pleases me that such a place exists. We didn't visit, though. Perhaps later. After a while, Esther, Alex, and I decided to go to the student center and play DDR. The games area of that building had a hanging banner with the slogan, "We're ready to play when you are." This was right in front of a locked grating which barred our path to the DDR goodness. I guess they aren't always ready to play when we are. We started moseying along, eventually settling on Moe's as the destination. The two of them ate lunch, whilst I stole chips from them. Esther insisted on buying me a margarita, but was denied by Georgia's no-Sunday-alcohol-sales laws. Silly laws, always popping up when you least expect. One trip home and birthday dinner (mmmmm scampi) later, and it was the close of a good day. The winning line for the day definitely belonged to eponis, when asked what she was doing while playing with chains, said "I'm engaging in platonic bondage ... with myself." Current Mood: iterative Current Music: Placebo - Haemoglobin

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June 15th, 2004

06:13 pm - Eddie Izzard = Rawk Which Eddie Izzard line are you? brought to you by Quizilla THE SQUIRREL JOKE! Just because youre profane doesnt mean youre not hilarious. Youre the unique kind of joke people remember for a long time. Which Eddie Izzard Joke Are You? brought to you by Quizilla Current Mood: amused Current Music: Scotty D - Drop the Bomb

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June 1st, 2004

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May 30th, 2004

10:22 pm - Tech troubles I've been putting out fires re. the family's computers for the past couple days. This includes my G4, my mother's Dell, and my brother's external hard drive. I swear, if one more computer a-splodes in the next few days, it can just stay a-sploded for all I care. Tonight's project: Having copied everything to said external hard drive, I can now reformat my hard drive. Then I will reinstall OS 9, update it to 9.2.2, reinstall OS 10.3 on top of that, and then I can use Classic to run my old programs without starting up in OS 9. It'll be fantabulous. Current Mood: exhausted Current Music: Counting Crows: A Long December

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May 28th, 2004

01:28 am As I suspected, Panther is the win. Tomorrow, I configure Mail, import my old messages, and then DROP THE HAMMER on spam with the built-in Bayesian filtering. About 95% of the e-mail I get is spam; Rice's filtering marks most of it, but a lot still makes it to my general inbox. Hopefully, that'll change. Current Mood: impressed

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May 27th, 2004

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May 24th, 2004

12:01 am - Argh. Whenever I'm at home for an extended period of time, my parents start getting on my nerves after a while; this time, it was almost exactly a week. Argh. We'll see how well I adjust to being back home. Current Mood: aggravated

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May 23rd, 2004

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May 12th, 2004

02:07 am - My Not-Quite-Triumphant Return I have strange dreams. For about the past 7-10 years, the only dreams that I've remembered have been rather odd. I never have mundane dreams (walking down the street, get something to drink, etc.) or odd-but-well-known types of dreams like falling, being chased but moving slowly, or the like. The closest I've had is dreaming about flying; not with willpower or super powers but with wings -- giant wings with either white feathers or azure fire. Sure, I've had a falling dream, but how many people have dreamed of falling from near-orbital heights? [feel the shudder from the first traces of atmosphere, look down and see half the world beneath you, bow wave stabilizes as air gets forced out of the way, everything is fire and chaos around you but you're ok, gently open your eyes but the fire all around makes you blink but who needs eyes to see because somehow "you're" watching from third person now, wide-angle view of a line blazing bright across the sky, slowed down enough for the fire to dissipate, zoom back in, notice that your whole body is an airfoil, tilt just a little up and right, glide ratio sucks but it's all right you've got miles left to go, minutes of barely controlled falling through cloud and clear later slam into the ground in one last explosion of flash-vaporized dirt graciously taking the dregs of your kinetic energy away leaving you to climb out of the crater and set about figuring out how far off your mark you were] and then wake up. Sometimes my dreams are disturbing, especially when they bring up real-world questions which I cannot answer, even merely in the context of the Story. ("I am become death, destroyer of worlds" -- Oppenheimer, after the Trinity test) Maybe I'll consult my logs and write about that one sometime. Now that I've resumed diplomatic relations with the world in general, I'll probably be updating this more often. A more detailed explanation to follow tomorrow (eponis, this is the long story I mentioned), and of course, further bulletins as events warrant. Current Mood: quintessential Current Music: Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams

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December 25th, 2003

12:48 am - Live from Atlanta All right, now I'm annoyed. I started this entry twice already with something like "I've got this LJ, might as well update, blah blah blah" only to be interrupted by the computer I'm working on crashing or suddenly closing my LJ client. I mean, what the hell? Now I'm writing this in SimpleText and hitting Command-S every ten words. If the world worked like ZAngband or ToME, I could probably hit the thing with an Identify spell and get back "A Blue G3 of l4m3n3ss (+3 to crash)." O for my l33t G4 back at Rice, which crashes much less. Semester class recap: Spock I'm not; I'm not going to take a logic class ever again. Good class, bad match. Still managed a Gloria Gaynor with the 5-hour final. Orgo: it was Orgo. Bombs & Rockets was interesting, and I wish I had gone to more of the classes. Still wish it were an engineering course. Materials Science grade probably needs the Alessi. A curse on 9 AM classes. Lab: notebook skillz need work. Otherwise, good stuff. Now that I'm at home, a semester done, I've got more time than I know what to do with. I've been re-reading random books I have in my room here. On the list for this break is finding something productive and hopefully lucrative to do over the summer. Having it be near Eileen's house would be extra-spiff. Also: secure a juicer for Eileen's Christmas present. It's so nice having a girlfriend who tells you what she wants. Saves lots of trouble trying to guess, and also the worry that she'll take one look at your gift and then look at you like you're crazy. Maybe after that's done I'll do something creative. You see, I've had this story knocking around inside of my head for about seven years now, and I've wanted to make something out of it but lacked the determination to turn it into a monstrous novel. Other problems include not wanting it to be my first novel, which might suck, and the Story changing every time I think about it, which poses very interesting problems. It's based around the personalities of people I've known, and small elements of much fiction I've encountered. But I hardly remember the people from high school I was going to use for character traits, and I'm horrible at keeping in touch with people. Really, now: pick six other people you know, and picture them and you stuck in a starship for a couple weeks at a time. How do you stay friends after the mission ends? Maybe the first was easy, sort of a long vacation with extra tension, but how about the tenth? Twentieth? Suddenly you've got a problem, and for OPSEC reasons you can't just go back to Earth and drop the offending parties off. Another problem: how can the six of you, even with help, create a spacecraft capable of standing up to much larger, older ships? Technology you aren't able to develop you have to steal, buy, trade for, or claim as a reward. It's the ultimate underdog's tale. Maybe a novel isn't best. I'll think about it. Merry Christmas, all. Gratuitous linkage and meme survey to follow. ( Linkz4r ) ( m3m3 ) Edited because when I tell LJ to link to www.whatever.com, that doesn't really mean http://www.livejournal.com/users/ayemaksicur/www.whatever.com. Bloody hell. Do what I say, not what you erroneously think I mean. Current Mood: sleepy Current Music: Linkin Park - Breaking the Habit

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September 27th, 2003

03:52 pm - Weekend Update Orgo exam update: The test wasn't at all like the hell and death one could assume based on orgo's reputation. Not that I'm complaining, of course. I'm perfectly all right with non-hell-and-death exams. I now know I screwed up a couple of things, but none of them were major or evidence of systemic not-having-a-clue. Slept until 3 pm today. It was glorious. My printer is completely refusing to print in color. Black works just fine, but none of the color inks want to show even a drop. This started when I recently replaced my color cartridge because my old one was out of yellow ink. Switching it back didn't help; neither did switching the new one back in. It's an HP DeskJet 855C, and the "C" is supposed to stand for "Color," so I'm understandably annoyed here. Especially since I want to print out more comics to put on my door, and many of them are in color. Today's plan includes: Nice long relaxing shower, quaffing a potion of Mountain Dew, going and seeing Eileen, asking her about how the dinner/ ballet went, tonight's dinner (possibly at Neko Neko's). Somewhere this weekend I've got to get MSCI 301 notes from Shane. Also, since last weekend's sushi cooking went so well, I'm going to make some salsa verde out of green chiles, serrano peppers, tomatillos, cilantro, a little red bell pepper, and maybe a little habanero too. Hopefully it too will be the tasty. And finally: Door comic! Oh yes. A pity I had to learn that lesson a couple of times. Current Mood: rejuvenated Current Music: You Spin Me Right Round - Dead or Alive

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September 24th, 2003

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12:36 am - Not everything has to start somewhere. You know, in some ways modern chemistry is a lot like alchemy. It's got atoms and all, orbitals and whatnot, but no one -- no one -- really understands it. Not all of it, anyway. The main difference is that it works, and it's (not coincidentally) much more complex. I'll have to go into my thoughts on that in more detail sometime, as I'm rather uniquely positioned to deal with it. Current Mood: smirk Current Music: Supertramp: The Logical Song

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