Oct 30
well I finally finished my paper. kind of. I still have 2 and a half hours I could use to get one more page. I only have 8 and it’s supposed to be 9-10. but oh well, it’s only supposed to be a rough draft anyway, and I’m sick of it.
now I’m gonna do some work reed gave me to do and make 50 or 100 bucks.
wooo hooo my 52×32x52 cd burner has been delivered. I’m all about some of that. I’ll go to class and get my paper critiqued, pick up my burner and install it, then meet with rusty, then go to bed.
I finished my 2 liter of pepsi vanilla in record time last night. I just got done loading weeks worth of dishes and making my 5 cups of coffee. anyway, I’m gonna get to work. IM me and volunteer to read my paper for me!
Oct 29
I want this week to be over. and next week. I haven’t slept in my bed in days, when I sleep it’s right here in front of my computer for 30 minutes or an hour or 3. I’m averaging about a pot of coffee and a 2 liter of coke a day. the worst part is that most of the time has been wasted because I couldn’t get anything typed. it just wasn’t working somehow. it’s going ok now, though.
I sure love cadillac blindside.
I was at kroger stocking up on cokes (yeah I like pepsi vanilla better but hey for 20% less I’ll drink vanilla coke) and was thinking how idiotic these stupid white (or black) people are that know nothing about asian cultures or languages and whatnot and get retarded tattoos with chinese symbols and crap. how stupid is that. not to mention the fact that if the tattoo artist doesn’t read the language there’s almost no way that what you get put on you means what you think it means. and if they did get an asian tattoo artist (is that possible?) I’m sure they would purposefully write something that means “hi I’m an idiot” instead of “peace love beauty” or whatever they think they’re getting on them.
just had to let off a little bit.
Oct 26
…but that was because I used my down comforter.
but I had this crazy dream…I was like looking through this catalog for like flea market things, or something. and I accidently ordered a salamander…actually two of them, somehow. so they were sitting in my room almost immediately. they were about 8 inches long and had legs. they were walking around and found each other, and made these crazy noises. I can’t remember the noises now, but it wasn’t really like anything I’d ever heard before. I was running around trying to catch them. this was happening in my bedroom at my old house. at some point I found them in like a pringles can on its side and they had had babies! except they were like full grown or almost full grown already. so I was chasing lizards everywhere. aren’t salamanders kinda slimy and amphibious? these guys were more like lizards, I suppose. anyway so I was chasing them around my room and trying to find them (my room was messy in my dream, which is realistic). at some point I chased one into my parents room at my old house and was looking for him in their bathroom. I remember like every detail about that house, I lived there for like 14 years. you know I think I like it better…but our new house is bigger and in a nice neighborhood….ok anyway. so I got them in my room and I realized I had hamster cages and maybe a terrarium / aquarium in my closet (3). so I was trying to get them in these cages. oh yeah, they were also making lizard poop piles everywhere, which, if you’ve never owned a large lizard, are white liquidy places with a black center. man…I shoulda taken care of chuck better. my mom ended up doing it all the time. what a rotten kid I was…anyway back to my dream. I had most of the brood in some kind of container and I left a small opening to get in and out. I sat there and watched the dad lizard open is mouth wide in front of the opening and a smaller lizard ran right out into his mouth and it was gone. that kinda freaked me out. anyway that’s pretty much all of my dream, I didn’t get them into the cages before waking up.
emily’s out eating indian food with my friends in chattanooga. I won’t touch the stuff so they went while I’m here at home. neato.
I found some pictures that have been sitting around for a good while and put them in the gallery.
if you run windows (ugh) go to apple.com and get itunes. you can thank me later.
anyway I better get to work on my paper, I hate writing papers.
Oct 24
ok so I came to a computer lab to print out my prob/stats homework, my test is at 11. I walked to the computer I almost always use, and moved the mouse, only to see that somebody had the display locked. grrr. that makes me so mad. and then I noticed the username was mine. and I was like what the crap. turns out that when I was printing my homework at 3pm on October 7th (17 days ago) I locked the display instead of logging out, got up and grabbed my homework and left. anyway it made me laugh a lot. when people leave displays locked I always reboot the machine. anyway. gotta print this out, go to physics, then go to my test. it shall be horrible. and no, I don’t know what anything in that homework means.
Oct 22
this week: ui design homework, 2 physics homeworks, prob/stats homework, prob/stats test, ui program starting, weekend: 10 page term paper
next week: physics test, 3 physics homeworks, term paper due, ui program at every free moment weekend: finish term paper for final copy due tues, finish ui prog
following monday: ui program due, tues: first out of two tests for telecom
I’m on my last 2 liter of pepsi vanilla, I have no food, time, or money…I miss my friends terribly, at least those that haven’t started hating me because they feel neglected….which is most. I am sick of school, disgusted by it. I thought yeah ok this semester will be hard and terrible, but at least UI design won’t be hard and it’ll be fun. NO IT’S HORRIBLE AND SOOO MUCH WORK AND OUR GRADE IS NOT GOOD AT ALL. prob/stats is next to impossible and I will be doing that for probably 6 hours like last time to eke out a passing grade. anyway, I shouldn’t be whining. at least I have my sanity and health, right? blah, enough time wasted typing this.
Oct 08
ok so I finally figured out how to make AIM encryption certs, to be used in AIM >= 5.2. wow aren’t I fancy. Anyway, you have to have openssl installed.
on gentoo, in the directory /etc/ssl/misc there is a file called CA.sh. This file is also in the openssl source in the /apps/ directory.
go into a directory that you can write to, and do the following:
/etc/ssl/misc/CA.sh -newca
hit enter when it asks for a filename
enter a password when it asks for one (twice), I recommend making all your passwords the same through this process.
put in a country, state, city, and some kind of name (I put progoth.com for organization). Don’t need to put anything in for organizational unit, put in your name and then put in your email address.
/etc/ssl/misc/CA.sh -newreq
put in a password (twice), a country, a state, a city. put in your screenname for organization, hit enter on organizational unit name, put in your screenname for common name, and then put in your email address. hit enter for challenge password and company name.
/etc/ssl/misc/CA.sh -signreq
put in your password from earlier, answer ‘y’ for the next 2 questions.
openssl pkcs12 -export -in newcert.pem -inkey newreq.pem -certfile demoCA/cacert.pem -name screenname -out screenname.p12
put in your password from earlier (3 times)
now you have a .p12 file. open up aim, and go to Edit Options -> Edit Preferences -> Security (I’m doing this in aim 5.5). Click Advanced..., click Import..., and select your .p12 file. Put in your password a few times, click ok a few times and you should now have a nice lock beside your name.
Oct 06
ok anyway I don’t have much to say I don’t guess.
amanda came over and I finally got to see her, it was good.
I got a jacket from 1984 from the thrift store.
I wanted the book Desperation, I found it at the used book store in hardback in perfect condition with beautiful cover art for ONE DOLLAR. yes.
I found 2 aquabats cds at the used book store they make me chuckle.
I have a test tonight.
oh, if you haven’t noticed there’s a subscribe link above. be notified when I post! yay! or something.
I finally got my amazon order from august. anger.
I’m tired.
I met emily’s family this weekend, that was an adventure. it was good, her mom loves me. maybe. I love her anyway.
I’m starving.
new matchbook romance is disappointing. to me. they even managed to make the greatest fall a little bit not as good. it’s on maes/maes2.
