I updated my bio. Since the first rule of web design is that it is very hard to coerce people away from a page with interesting content, I’ve included it here:

My IQ is around 140. I scored 1390 on the SAT without studying. I started programming computers when I was seven and was a proud casualty of the dot-com bust. My Academic Decathalon team placed second at state. I’m an Eagle Scout, a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and was once the 23rd nationally ranked sabre fencer in my division.

But none of this matters, to anyone. I am now a pizza transport technician, and community college student. The biggest lesson I’ve learned in life is to never show people what you’re capable of, because they’ll always expect more than you can give.

I just bought an 80 gig drive, but now I don’t know what to do with it. I thought I needed it, but maybe not.

Uh oh, I think I’ve gotten too vague. Good thing my clarity control goes all the way to eleven.

I think I’m going to start calling everyone babe. Then I’m going to pluck an eye out and learn to do gun tricks. What can I say? I’ve gotta be me.

Recently uncovered photographs from the European Space Administration’s imaging satellite, programmed to decide it’s own missions, have stirred up controversy. When asked to explain the scientific value of overhead photographs of nude beaches, Vladimir Laysky, director of the ESA, turned red and stammered, “This satellite was developed by a team of dedicated scientists working night and day. I’m sure they know what they’re doing.”

Unsatisfied with the director’s answer, this journalist will stay abreast of this issue. No matter how many hundreds of satellite images I have to pore through, no matter how long I have to go undercover on nude beaches, I vow to get to the bottom of this and lay the truth bare for all to see!

(read the real, far more boring article here)

It’s fun to buy used textbooks, because you get to see how stupid the previous owners were. In my current psychology textbook, there are short summaries in the margins, and they are all highlighted. They are the only things highlighted. What’s the point?

Scotch is good. And I like it straight, so take that Jeremy! On the rocks is too cold to taste it, and watered down. Chad, I’ll have to buy that bottle from you since you aren’t going to drink it. I used to think that “acquired taste” was a really dumb concept. If it’s not pleasurable, why keep doing it until it is pleasurable? I understand now that some things can be incredibly enjoyable, as long as you take time to get used to their complexity, and learn to detect their subtleties.

I got six power supplies literally off the street today. We have biannual junk pickups. Or is it semiannual? I always get those confused. Either way, it happens twice a year, and the guy said they work, so I grabbed them. Still have to see which ones will be useful.

Can anyone recommend any good, free, online resources for learning French? Pronunciation isn’t an issue (my wife knows the pronunciation), and I’m leaning towards reading rather than dialogue, as far as how it will be applied.

I keep worrying that I’m an alcoholic, because I want to drink often, but I can control it. I don’t drink that often, and when I do I don’t drink that much. And does drinking alone mean that you drink when you are by yourself, or when you are the only one drinking?

I want to trade in my car, but I can’t afford it. We should get it refinanced, but there are only three years left on the loan, so there isn’t much point. The warranty will likely expire in the next year though, when it hits 100,000 miles. Then I can’t really trade it in and get anything for it, so I’m in a dilemma. We’re still upside-down on it, and we can’t afford the remainder of the loan plus another one, plus a down payment. But our interest rate is insane (first time buyer). You’re right Jeremy, money sucks.

I haven’t coded anything in awhile. I haven’t taken any pictures recently. I just haven’t been inspired to do anything spectacular.

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I got a book of Raymond Carver’s stories from the library today, and I totally love it. Minimalism is my writing style, but I never knew it was “okay.” I love how he doesn’t beat you over the head with the ending, how he doesn’t hold your hand through the story. He just tells you what you need to know, and you fill in the rest. You figure out what he meant. That is so awesome, because he tells you just enough. Dylan Thomas’ stuff is a bit like that too.

Inspirado!

It is outrageous that our society allows men to be in public without their shirts while denying women the same right. I urge all women to protest this heinous tragedy openly. Take off your shirt in public. Walk, drive, bike around town topless! Bare your breasts for liberty! For only when we are free of our physical trappings can we be free of our psychological and spiritual bonds. So please, think of your daughters and their daughters. Are you willing to give them the shirt off your back?