Saturday, January 31, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Well that's new
So classes have started again and my video game, TV watching, book reading fun time has come to a close. Now something odd is happening, I think I might actually care about what my clases are trying to teach me. The text books actually feel relevent and I almost feel like I have a purpose. I don't know how long this will last but I am going to give this a shot. I am going to try for strait A's. My teachers seem reasonable, books are interesting and I feel a bit overwhelmed which surpises me. Starting today I am going to try and follow the syalabus for all my classes and read my brains out for the next 3 days. Keep my mind off people and things to maybe make something out of myself now. I feel almost renewed but it's still early. Hope springs eternal though.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
So tired...
I just got back from President Obama's inauguration and my feet are killing me. It was freezing and crazy but great. I need to shower now because even my soul feels dirty at the moment.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
If
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
By Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936).
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
By Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936).
Friday, January 16, 2009
Books- Again
Well the new school year is starting again and i am refilling my book supplies. I just bought a few from amazon and I'll borrow a few more from around. The rest i need to buy.
Stuff i already have that i need to read:
World of Warcraft: Night of the Dragon
World of Warcraft: Cycle of Hatred
Ender's Game (gotta read it again)
Mass Effect Ascention
Horselords (gotta read it again)
With the Old Breed
Speaker for the Dead
Full Metal Alchemist: The Abducted Alchemist
Signal to Noise
Lord of the Rings
The Catcher in the Rye
The Giver
Emperor: The Gods of War
Genghis: Birth of an Empire
Halo: The Cole Protocol
Catch-22
Hannibal
1776
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Ulysses
Warcraft: Legends Volume 2
Genghis: Lords of the Bow
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal
Einstein: His Life and the Universe
On top of reading all my school books i have a lot of reading to do. I am honestly going to try and read more, no more healthy pastime then to read in structured amounts. I'll work my way up to reading more quality things but i have to start somewhere.
PS: I gotta have some time to game too! I have been playing the Castlevania games, Aria of Sorrow and Dawn of Soul. I am going through Dawn of Soul to beat it fully and it is one damn great game. When i go back to school i hope to play FallOut 3, Gears of War 2 (which i am half way done with), and to beat Fable 2. I'll play some Mass Effect here and there but more importantly i hope to buy Chrono Trigger DS and Burnout Paradise. Both seem like amazing games that i should at least start trying to play. I will start casually playing World of Warcraft as well, i am going to find out when my friends play and try to play at least one day a week. It is going to be a busy semester if everything ends up going the way it seems. Odds are i will only get to play a few of the games i want, to finish only a few books that i want to read and do everything i want to do but so is life. If everything works out (as it never does) it will be a great 5 months.
Games aim:
Fable 2
Metal Gear Solid 4
Little Big Planet
Gears of War 2
Castlevania: Dawn of Soul
Chrono Trigger
Fallout 3
Burnout Paradise
World of Warcraft
Stuff i already have that i need to read:
World of Warcraft: Night of the Dragon
World of Warcraft: Cycle of Hatred
Ender's Game (gotta read it again)
Mass Effect Ascention
Horselords (gotta read it again)
With the Old Breed
Speaker for the Dead
Full Metal Alchemist: The Abducted Alchemist
Signal to Noise
Lord of the Rings
The Catcher in the Rye
The Giver
Emperor: The Gods of War
Genghis: Birth of an Empire
Halo: The Cole Protocol
Catch-22
Hannibal
1776
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Ulysses
Warcraft: Legends Volume 2
Genghis: Lords of the Bow
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal
Einstein: His Life and the Universe
On top of reading all my school books i have a lot of reading to do. I am honestly going to try and read more, no more healthy pastime then to read in structured amounts. I'll work my way up to reading more quality things but i have to start somewhere.
PS: I gotta have some time to game too! I have been playing the Castlevania games, Aria of Sorrow and Dawn of Soul. I am going through Dawn of Soul to beat it fully and it is one damn great game. When i go back to school i hope to play FallOut 3, Gears of War 2 (which i am half way done with), and to beat Fable 2. I'll play some Mass Effect here and there but more importantly i hope to buy Chrono Trigger DS and Burnout Paradise. Both seem like amazing games that i should at least start trying to play. I will start casually playing World of Warcraft as well, i am going to find out when my friends play and try to play at least one day a week. It is going to be a busy semester if everything ends up going the way it seems. Odds are i will only get to play a few of the games i want, to finish only a few books that i want to read and do everything i want to do but so is life. If everything works out (as it never does) it will be a great 5 months.
Games aim:
Fable 2
Metal Gear Solid 4
Little Big Planet
Gears of War 2
Castlevania: Dawn of Soul
Chrono Trigger
Fallout 3
Burnout Paradise
World of Warcraft
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Random Awesome Shit
A tiny watch cell phone? Sweet! I don't want it but damn is this cool.
VuNow is something much cooler and far less expensive.
VuNow™ Features
Verismo's VuNow is the only solution that provides everything a consumer wants. Access to the broadest online content, simple to use, ease of installation, and a compact size — all at an affordable price.
Watch millions of free online videos directly on your TV instead of your PC.
* A Standard Definition and a High Definition model of the VuNow PoD that can connect to any TV
* Compact size and easy to install
* Support for wired or wireless connectivity
* Navigation using a TV-friendly and intuitive User Interface
* Watch YouTube™ videos on TV by categories
* Search for videos with the powerful built-in Video Search Engine
* Choose from a large selection of movies and download from CinemaNow™ - Coming Soon!
* Download videos using BitTorrent™ protocol
* Watch videos directly from popular websites by categories
* Watch Live TV Channels from around the world
* Access to Personal Media such as video, music, and photos from the home network – stored on a PC, Networked Attached Storage device, or even on a connected USB storage device
* No subscription fees
$100 for the standard version, seems rather worth it to me. Might have to pick this up for just the random TV fun.
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