#include <turbopunk.h>
#include <Friends.h>
#include <Calendar.h>
#include <Memories.h>
#define PREVIOUS "20 entries"
void Tear fall on my keyboard() {
CDate curTimeStamp = CDate( 2009, 07, 09, 09, 18, 00 );
Like I said last night, I broke another drum pedal last night. This lead me to go looking for replacement parts. That's when I stumbled upon this :
Roadie Pro Upgrade Double Bass Kit for ION Rocker Drum Set
It made me cry. I need basement cat so I can barter my soul . . .
We need to have a benefit Rock Band / Guitar Hero marathon so I can fund raise . . .
*still dreaming . . . keep dreaming*
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void Damnit...() {
CDate curTimeStamp = CDate( 2009, 07, 08, 23, 18, 00 );
Well, shit. I broke another drum pedal...
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}
void Testing() {
CDate curTimeStamp = CDate( 2009, 06, 28, 11, 20, 00 );
I just got a new LJ app for my Android phone. I am just testing to see how well it works.
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}
void Brain Bend() {
CDate curTimeStamp = CDate( 2009, 06, 15, 16, 13, 00 );
I finally passed the last test. I have now achieved the Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Database Design certification.
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}
void Nintendo : WTF / FTW() {
CDate curTimeStamp = CDate( 2009, 06, 03, 08, 44, 00 );
I cannot stress how perfectly this comic expresses my exact feelings from watching the Nintendo Press Conference from E3.
Click on me, NOW!
Yes, both things mentioned on the strip were actual products announced during the press conference.
You should do what the link tells you . . .
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}
void My Broken Ass() {
CDate curTimeStamp = CDate( 2009, 06, 02, 07, 58, 00 );
What do you call 6 hours in the emergency room? If you said a fun way to spend last night, then I am going to find you and beat you.
I can here you asking "Mr. tp, why were you in the emergency room last night?" The answer is simple. When you have large amounts of blood and pus suddenly erupt from your ass like Mt. Vesuvius, you decide that a quick trip to the ER is not such a bad idea.
We get there at about 9PM. I sign in, and proceed to sit and wait for roughly 3 hours. Can you spot the contradiction in that last sentence? I show up to the hospital with a broken ass, and the hospital put me squarely on it for 3 hours . . .
I finally get out of the waiting and shuffled into a room. I don the mandatory gown. I wait for another hour.
When the doctor finally showed up, he was able to quickly fix the problem in a personable manner. I guess it's natural to want to joke when you're cleaning pus out of some guy's ass. He informs me that the technical problem was an Anal Abscess.
The final part of the procedure involved, basically, shoving a piece of gauze in the rupture to catch the remaining drainage. This will have to be removed in 2 days. He then says that a nurse will show up soon to dress the wound and send me on my merry way.
After another hour, the nurse finally arrives. She puts 37 tons of gauze on my ass and tells me to "try to keep that clean and dry." She then hands me my prescriptions and sends me to discharge.
So, what do I get for all this. Two prescriptions for antibiotics to take for the next 10 days, and a prescription for Lorcet for pain, and 3 days of excused no work. Of course, we all know how that "don't work" thing will go.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go pick up my narcotics.
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void Items For Sale() {
CDate curTimeStamp = CDate( 2009, 05, 26, 10, 43, 00 );
Hello, good peoples. I have a few items that are going up on eBay sometime this evening. I figured I'd give the good people here a chance to make me a reasonable offer and avoid shipping charges first.
EDIT: There are currently offers on the Blackjack and the Zune. No money has changed hands, so I'm not striking them out, yet. However, I just wanted to give a fair heads up on those items.
1) AT&T HTC Fuze (Black) - This item is brand spanking new. The only reason the seal on the box is even broken was so I could verify the box contents.
2) AT&T Samsung Propel Pro (Silver) - This item has been slightly and lovingly used. I was part of an AT&T scavenger hunt that used the phone. I used the phone for about 2 hours, and won the exact phone that I used as the prize. As such, I can personally attest the the phone works well.
3) AT&T Blackjack II (Red) - This item is somewhere in that weird area of unused, but not new. I was standing in the right place at the right time when the AT&T rep released that they couldn't sell the demo units, so she gave it to me. It was plugged in and manhandled for a week, but it's never been owned or used.
4) 30GB Microsoft Zune (Black) - I love this device. I'm only selling it because I recently upgraded to one of the new 120GB models. I have babied this thing for 2 years now, and can assure you that it is in mint condition. If you ask nicely, I may even forget to wipe the full hard drive of un-drm'ed music from the drive . . .
I have prices in mind for the auction reserve and buy it now prices for eBay. However, I'm not listing them here because I'll take just about any reasonable offer if it mean I don't have to deal with eBay . . .
Cross posted to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif)
huntsville, uah and personal journal.
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void Self Check-up() {
CDate curTimeStamp = CDate( 2009, 04, 07, 17, 37, 00 );
Sniffles . . . Check
Sneezing . . . Check
Fatigue . . . Check
FUCK, I may be getting a cold . . .
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void Fucking UAH() {
CDate curTimeStamp = CDate( 2009, 04, 06, 08, 43, 00 );
It's sooooooo nice to know that, after I spend several hours pouring over the classes being offered over the summer to create a schedule, all the originally posted times got changed. This, of course, forces me to change my schedule at the last minute.
Fortunately, the two classes I have to take over the summer didn't conflict. Also, the first half of the summer managed to get a little easier for me. However, the second half now has to possibility to suck slightly more than before.
Now, I have Algebraic Structures for the whole summer, Ancient Philosophy for the 1st half, and Early British Lit and Speech for the second half.
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void Halloween in the Spring() {
CDate curTimeStamp = CDate( 2009, 03, 30, 07, 52, 00 );
Hello good peoples of the internet.
I will be DJing a party to benefit the UAH Art Club this Saturday at Lowe Mill. The admission fee will be $5 for this 18+, BYOB event.
I know there will be oodles of things going on this weekend. I will be there from 8PM until roughly 2AM. I'm sure you can find some time to swing by and show some support during that time.
( Flyer behind the cut )
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void SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEE() {
CDate curTimeStamp = CDate( 2009, 03, 25, 12, 55, 00 );
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks for the Nintendo DS.
'nuff said
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void This is going to suck() {
CDate curTimeStamp = CDate( 2009, 03, 11, 17, 09, 00 );
It appears my schedule for graduation has changed. I still need the same classes, but I was advised to take the classes in a much different order. This is going to cause me to be absolutely, ape fucking shit insane over the summer.
I figured if I was going to have to be insane for one semester, it might as well be the 10 week semester.
Here is my new road to graduation :
Summer 09 :
PHL 301 ( Ancient Philosophy ) - First 5Wk
MA 442 ( Algebraic Structures ) - 10Wk
EH 301 ( Technical Writing ) - 10Wk
MU 100 ( Music Appreciation ) - Second 5Wk
Fall 09 :
PHL 395 ( Philosophy Seminar )
MA 452 ( Real Analysis )
CM 113 ( Speech )
Spring 10 :
EH 205 ( Early Western Lit )
MA 433 ( Geometry )
MA 450 ( Combinatorial Enumeration )
The good news is that the (Associate) Dean of Science finally signed my Bachelor's of Science Program of Study. This means that I can force the Math Department to offer whatever I need in the spring.
The bad news is that I MUST take PHL 395 in the fall, no matter what time it is offered. If it's offered at the same time as MA 452, then I'll have to switch MA 452 with EH 205. That will make the spring suck, albeit not as much as this summer.
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void How to program in JavaScript() {
CDate curTimeStamp = CDate( 2009, 02, 17, 17, 16, 00 );
Step 1: Attempt to program something in JavaScript
Step 2: *headdesk*
Step 3: Return to Step 1
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void Rock Band Ion Drum Rocker Early Impressions() {
CDate curTimeStamp = CDate( 2009, 01, 28, 08, 18, 00 );
I don't have much time before I need to go to class, but I wanted to get up a few of my initial impressions of the Rock Band Ion Drum Rocker kit. If you are not familiar with that name / product, the Drum Rocker is a full electronic drum kit that comes with a custom drum "brain" that acts like an Xbox 360 controller.
Let me start out by saying, first and foremost, that the kit is awesome. It plays well. It is very responsive. It's quieter than my old Rock Band 1, standard issue drum kit.
One very nice, and completely unexpected feature, of the custom brain is that it knows what you are hitting. The game give you a standard note chart of four colors. This causes a few of the colors to have split identities. For example, the green note represents both a floor tom and and crash cymbal. When you are playing an actual song in the game, it doesn't matter whether you hit the green pad or the green cymbal. You get credit for the hit, and the right note is played. However, during drum fills, fuck off time before and after a song and in the freestyle mode of the drum trainer, the game knows the difference between the two hits and plays the correct sound.
Not everything is perfect, though. My first complaint is that the kick pedal that comes with the set is horrible. I tried to use it for about 30 minutes. After that time, I gave up and used some patch cables to go back to my original Rock Band kit pedals. For those that know about electronic drum kits, the problem is that that kit comes with a pedal that is meant to be the pedal for a hi hat. Most drummers that use electronic drum kits use standard analog kick pedals that hit pads. Even the website for the product admits that you'd want to replace the pedal with a real pedal for use as a drum kit.
Next, the cymbal I current am using for the hi hat doesn't seem responsive enough. I'm not going to spend too much time on this fact, due to the fact that the crash cymbal is fine. I may just have a bad cymbal. After I swap around some things, I'll mention in the full review if the problem persists.
My final issue is one of personal preference. One of the great selling features for the product is the fact that you can reconfigure the pads and cymbals to any positioning that you find comfortable. Granted, in the 6 hours I played around with the thing last night, I think every single piece of that kit moved at least onces until I found my "sweet spots." However, I have not found a way to put the hi hat and crash cymbals exactly where I'd like. I would like to put them in the one place you can't put something; I'd like to put them exactly where the vertical poles for the stand are located. I'm sure I can find a way to get them to these positions, but it's not possible to do "out of the box."
Overall, I'm really looking forward to going in depth with this product. After my session last night, it's clear that I will have to reteach myself how to play the game. Fortunately, with a piece of equipment as solid as the Drum Rocker, I look forward to the challenge.
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void You guys are letting me down() {
CDate curTimeStamp = CDate( 2009, 01, 20, 10, 59, 00 );
Alright, you guys. It inauguration stared 30 minutes ago. By now, I expected at least 100 different "Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead" posts. All you caddy fucking bitches have been counting down this moment for over 4 years . . .
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void Happy Thought for the Day() {
CDate curTimeStamp = CDate( 2009, 01, 13, 09, 05, 00 );
I have now officially completed all the random set lists in Rock Band 2.
This makes me very happy. Now, I can copy all the REALLY fucked up, downloaded songs back onto my hard drive and play them.
That is all for now. Just making a personal, happy note for myself.
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void First Post of the New Year() {
CDate curTimeStamp = CDate( 2009, 01, 06, 09, 04, 00 );
Yes, sir. It's a new year, alright. That means I get to spend the next three months trying to remember to write 2009 after the month. Other than that, nothing much has changed.
Since everyone else felt like being losers on New Year's Eve, I decided to be a sheep and do the same. I ended up playing Left 4 Dead on Xbox Live with my brother all night. Neither of us really notice when the clock struck midnight.
The holidays were mostly uneventful. All in all, that probably means it was the greatest holiday season ever.
I have a leak in my roof. Said leak is exactly over my head where I sleep. A company came out yesterday to fix it, and it is now worse than before they arrived. I must call them when I'm done with this.
I am now back at work and school. I still do not have a good feel on this semester at school, but work is work.
I did manage to beat some games over the break. I finished the main plot line to Etrian Odyssey on the DS. I was going to continue to play a few out a few of the side quests afterwards, but the problem with only having one save file finally bit me in the ass. Still, I enjoyed the game well enough to track down the sequel. First, however, I'm running through Crono Trigger on my DS. I also beat Mirror's Edge and Dead Space. Mirror's Edge was ok. Dead Space was outstanding.
Of course, there was also my rigorous regiment of Rock Band 2. I'm now somewhere around 3500 on the leader boards, and I'm steadily climbing. I finally managed to beat "The Perfect Drug," "YYZ," and a handful of the Megadeth songs on expert, although none of the performances was what I would call pretty. I'm starting to become less reliant on the second drum pedal. I am basically only using it where the original drummer was obviously using two pedals. This is actually impressive, because it means I can now hear the difference between the usages in the songs. I still REALLY want an Ion kit.
I'm sure there is more for me to talk about, considering I have put up a new post in over two months. However, nothing else is immediately coming to mind. So, with that, I will bid you all a fair ado.
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void Why I Weep For My Country() {
CDate curTimeStamp = CDate( 2008, 11, 05, 10, 41, 00 );
This collection of my thoughts will be very difficult to write. I would like to begin by congratulating President Elect Obama. The citizen of the United States of America spoke loud and clear. Yesterday, almost 120 million people voted. Almost 63 million people came together to completely change the face of capitol, the country, and the world.
I am not compiling this collection of thoughts as a means to belittle this victory or any of the great accomplishments that it entails. The race brought out record voter turnout. There is an estimated 305 million people living in this country. Once you take out people whom are not eligible to vote, you end up with a staggering percentage of the population. These record numbers voted for the first African-American president that will preside over this great nation.
I could continue with this train of thought, pouring over facts and statistics, for pages. In many ways, yesterday was truly a great day for our country. It was a day that will surely be recorded into the history of our country and, perhaps, the world. However, in the great din created by the presidential election, a potential and great evil has befallen upon our land.
George Washington spoke of the evils of political parties in his Farewell Address:
I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.
This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.
Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind, (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight,) the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.
There is an opinion, that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the Government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of Liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in Governments of a Monarchical cast, Patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And, there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.
If the peoples of America are to take part in this truly democratic society, then each citizen should keep themselves informed of the issues that affect this nation. These people should address each issue, evaluate the issues that are the most important to them and vote for a candidate that they feel with personally address these issues. An individual is given the opportunity to elect a local official every two years, a national executor every four year, and one of two distinct statewide officials every six years. This allows the citizens to continually reevaluate their needs for the government and ensure that their specific needs are represented in federal affairs.
One reason that President Washington warned against political parties is that it can collapse this ideal. We have evolved this personal, representational form of government into a war between two clashing factions. A large majority of the nation will claim to fall into one of the two current political camps. The majority of the 435 congressmen, 100 senators, and the president falls into one of these two categories. Due to pressures from the party leadership, PACs, lobbyists, etc, these 536 people fall into a test of strength between two.
In the past, the nation has managed to divide these powers evenly. In most circumstances, one party would rule the executive branch while the other would rule the legislative branch. While this did not provide the true sense of checks and balances that the Constitution intended, it did balance the power from falling into the hands of one specific subset of the people.
The power of mob mentality is a powerful and frightening thing. A person can easily and unknowingly be swayed to do something that is completely against their personal nature if that person is surrounded by enough people that are all focused on a particular goal. It this situation, a person loses their identity and becomes part of the group identity. Their issues no longer matter. The issues of the group become the issues of the individual.
Last night, two groups, acting as individuals, came together to fight for the leadership of this country. The power of the Democrats came through, and took over the presidency, at least 56 of the 100 seats in the Senate, and at least 253 of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives. In the course of one day, the mighty Democrat came forth and took control of the United States of America.
Yesterday, I watch as a single "person" known as Democrat seized power over the country. I watched over 200 years of democracy get thrown out the window as we handed control of the country over to a monarch. I watched the United States of America truly unite and form the Democratic States of America.
This is why I weep for my county. I weep for the country the same way I have wept for a love one whom has pasted on from us. I do this because that is what I witnessed last night. I witnessed the death of our country and democratic way of life.
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void Test Time() {
CDate curTimeStamp = CDate( 2008, 11, 05, 07, 33, 00 );
I have to go take a test in Calculus, so I don't have time for a full post right now. Expect a post entitled "Why I Weep For My Country" shortly after I return. However, I did want to get a few other, non-political things out.
I finally managed to beat Panic Attack (by Dream Theater) on expert last night. This gave me the A-NI-MAL!!!! achievement. Of course, I still need to beat Peace Sells ... But Who's Buying and 2 other Harmonix songs. Man, I love that game.
School is going well. As mentioned above, I have a Calculus test today. Then, a Physics test on Friday, and a Differential Equations test on next Friday. That will pretty much lead me right into finals.
Yesterday, I bought and reserved a bunch of games. I Picked up Dead Space (just in time for Halloween to be over,) and I reserved Animal Crossing: City Folk, Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of a new World, and Mirror's Edge. Considering the fact the the 3 I reserved all come out within the next 2 weeks, you might get a break from me talking about Rock Band 2.
Well, I have to leave for class.
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void Job Opening() {
CDate curTimeStamp = CDate( 2008, 11, 04, 10, 25, 00 );
Hey guys. We're looking for a graphic designer to fill an immediate opening in our company. At a minimum, you need to be a good graphic designer. Other bonuses or perks could be added it you're good at web design and producing the design ( but not necessarily the actual code / working guts ) in html. The only caveat is that you MUST be able to pass a drug test on the spot. While not required, the ability to obtain a security clearance, if necessary, would be nice.
If you, or someone you know, is interested, then just give me a quick shout. Thanks.
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}