I am (sometimes)

So, I've been exposing myself to a lot of questions of destiny lately. Paradise X has all of humanity created to just be an anti-virus to protect the earth. There's a lot about destiny and free will in comics. I just watched Minority Report tonight. And being in the middle of finals, it's not my fault if I didn't do so well, is it?
Anyhoo, I'll post more when I've actually thought more than just "oh, that's a fun thing to think about." For now, I must sleep before my last final.

"A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-talking, whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceabel, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel b*tch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny'st the least syllable of thy addition." - Earl of Kent, Shakespeare's King Lear

Ha! Quote longer than post. Oops, not any more. Oh, I forgot to mention: one of the guys in the Minority Report credits was named "Patrick Kilpatrick." I can only assume that this guy is a horrible masochist, though how he was able to participate in the filming of a movie is beyond me.

So, at work they're repainting everything. Apparently the walls were pink before. I never noticed. Shows just how much good this $14,000 is doing. Anyway, it's been going on for a few weeks, and I keep wanting to complain about this guy, but am always blocking him out when I get a chance. Somehow I was reminded of him, so here goes: the main painter is a really old guy who's very disgusting. He gets winded just walking or standing there, or whatever. Anway, when he exhales, it's kinda a really heavy sigh-pant. It sounds disguesting. Kinda like a dirty old man jerking off to child porn. Yeah. That's how I feel when I hear this guy. I can't wait for them to finish and fucking get him out of the building.

There is no quote that can possibly redeem this post.

So, that girl I'd been debating about from my philosophy, Melissa, I decided against it. I couldn't bring myself to become involved with a smoker who had such different moral views as I. But we did enjoy our after-class discussions, coffee, and hanging out. So, while we both had an enjoyable time that's all it was. Friday we said our goodbyes, wished our good wishes, and parted.

Some may say I missed out on an opportuity for fun, and this may be so, but I'm not yet ready to for someone I am so unsure of to begin with. I'll keep an eye out for others, but of course, most of them won't be worth pursuing (romantically at least). Sigh. Some day.... Someday....

On a brighter note, I finished reading Paradise X. It's a Marvel series about an alternate future. Though it does also explain all of Marvel history too. It was really cool. Unfortunately, I found out too late that it is the conclusion to the earlier series Earth X and Universe X. Now I've gotta go read those too. Anyway, It was pretty nifty. And it seems to fit into normal continuity, so it's that much better too. I love the cosmic explanations that the Marvel mythos provides us. Does DC do anything similar? I know Crossgen does.

Yay for comics.

"Once a man has changed the relationship between himself and his environment, he cannot return to the blissful ignorance he left. Motion, of necessity, involves a change in perspective." - Commissioner Pravin Lal, "A Social History of Planet"

Were I more adept at such things, I would compose a haiku, but it is not so.

I spent Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights in the lab from just after dinner (around 7, 5 on Saturday) until 1.30 am. This is the longest I've spent in the labs straight. Ugh. I'm so glad that project is done. The only thing making it bearable, besides having great partners, was the half-priced coke closet. Thank you corporate sponsorship (Microsoft). We're all very greatful. It was odd though, I'd put in a dollar, grab a soda and candy bar, and then what? I had enough, but I could get twice as much! Brought stuff home. :) Anyway, the project was pretty cool. We were extending a very basic file system in Linux to have filenames as long as 1050 characters (instead of 30) and files as big as 268 KB (instead of 13KB). I spent Saturday trying to get the max file size to 17 GB, but didn't get far enough. Oh well. The extra credit would have been nice though.

But now I am free. No more labs! No more homework! Just two finals, then a summer of work. Yay!

"The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence; and this will be that of the best thing in us." - Aristotle, "Nichomachean Ethics"

So, my hard drive has been acting up lately. I checked my RAID manager software, and it reported that one of my drives (probably the three-year-old one) is going to fail. I couldn't even get a long enough period of consistency to burn something. So I unplugged my raid drives and am sitting, waiting. I really would rather not lose the 200 gb of data there, but I don't know if there's anythign I can do. I'm going to borrow Zach's spare 250gb drive, then hopefully be able to send stuff over there, maybe only a few hundred megs at a time. Ugh. I hope I don't lose everything.

"What goes up . . . better doggone well stay up!" - Morgan Gravitonics, Company Slogan