Basic college class day: Compilers and Graphics for two classes. I then watched Final Destination (anyone want to fly to Paris?), and went swing dancing at the Bluemoon ballroom. I find the bluemoon to be a great place to relax. The atmosphere is calm, safe, and light-hearted, and just a great place to shake booty after a day of screen staring and book work. Of course, that means that I would of had to open a book......... Hah.
Funny how things irk people. For me, I have found out that when people cancel with no apparent solid reason, it ticks me off. Why? No idea. I would think that at this "advanced" day in age, I could control the mind to such a finite point that emotion only plays into the equation of thought if and when I choose. It is another corollary to why I feel fear. I am incredibly afraid of the dark, yet I am reasonable sure that the dark alone is not the reason. It is the uncertainty stemming from the lack of knowledge of the objects in motion around me... In non-chris speak, I am afraid of the unknown. But then I laugh, because uncertainty is constant, I will never know everything, and what a waste of a life to be afraid of something that cannot change.... I am working on building up mental defenses to the nuances of neuron firings that make me feel small and alone. hmm.
More Random thoughts:
Chance and Choice. such quirky little things that seems harmless enough until you really think about them. Setting aside the discussion of if chance was involved in the creation of the world; chance happens every moment of every day for every person in every world. In a book called Godplayers, they explored chance in that ever decision ever made spun off a new complete universe, which led to an infinitely growing infinite number of 'verses. In the book, certain people could actually jump between these alternate universes at their discretion. While I can't do that, it helped to hone in on the idea that each person's destiny is their own choice. Most of the worlds in Godplayers was vastly different from the next, some in utter chaos, others in relative peace. Since each of these worlds stemmed from the same earth, it shows that every person embodies the potential to change the course of this planet, for better or for worse. But chance alone will do nothing. Choice must be accepted and harnessed as a tool of molding chance. That is something I don't quite understand yet. Choice can solve just about darn near everything. There is are choices, good choices, that can irradicate AIDS, solve world hunger, and allow people to just be peaceful beings. It is within the power of this multi-partisan world, if we could just stop the racist, sexist, and all other types of hatred that seems to be the easy choice for so many people. . . Until then........
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
02/06/2007
Well here I am. 20 some years old, a comp sci major, and finally got around to blogging. Does that mean I am a blogger? Or simply that I get to make odd comments about life and then read about it once my short-term memory is purged and I forgot to load the STM into my long-term? Either way, I feel this is good idea to keep a running list of my activities.
I went to physics class yesterday and realized that I am clueless to electronics. I mean utterly clueless. I am amazed that I haven't electrocuted myself more times. Our prof showed us this diagram of a circuit, and we just kind of stared at it like it was Egyptian hieroglyphs. The greatest part about the whole thing was that our prof acted like we should know how to do this. I would draw an analogy to sitting a newb down with Textpad and asking her to write a for-loop in AOC assembler code - you need a semblance of verbal guidance. After I irritated the prof by asking questions like "What is a resistor?", he told to me to read the book "There are no electrons" by Kenn Amdahl. I was throughly ticked with the whole idea of learning about electricity and how a computer works at a logic gate level. I really don't think that circuit design is in my future. After sleeping on it, I decided that though it does not directly influence how I key in a J2EE app, it would be fairly interesting to apply myself and see what happens. I bought the book he mentioned, and it is turning into a light-hearted explanation of what until recently was a subject even more confusing then the English language rules. So far I have learned about voltage, and how the concept is like the Little Greenies urge to join the party of the Rock 'N' rolling female Little Greenies. You have got to love college-level reading. ~Peace
I went to physics class yesterday and realized that I am clueless to electronics. I mean utterly clueless. I am amazed that I haven't electrocuted myself more times. Our prof showed us this diagram of a circuit, and we just kind of stared at it like it was Egyptian hieroglyphs. The greatest part about the whole thing was that our prof acted like we should know how to do this. I would draw an analogy to sitting a newb down with Textpad and asking her to write a for-loop in AOC assembler code - you need a semblance of verbal guidance. After I irritated the prof by asking questions like "What is a resistor?", he told to me to read the book "There are no electrons" by Kenn Amdahl. I was throughly ticked with the whole idea of learning about electricity and how a computer works at a logic gate level. I really don't think that circuit design is in my future. After sleeping on it, I decided that though it does not directly influence how I key in a J2EE app, it would be fairly interesting to apply myself and see what happens. I bought the book he mentioned, and it is turning into a light-hearted explanation of what until recently was a subject even more confusing then the English language rules. So far I have learned about voltage, and how the concept is like the Little Greenies urge to join the party of the Rock 'N' rolling female Little Greenies. You have got to love college-level reading. ~Peace
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