“Sweet People”
So I just found this amongst a heap of papers sitting on my kitchen counter. I must have been like 10 when I did this … I pray I wasn’t any older than that… lol …
Sometimes Hello’s and Good-Bye’s aren’t easy
Even so far this poem is pretty cheesy
I love my mom more than anything in the state
And this is not up for debate!She is the main one in my life
And I don’t know what is the meaning of strife
She is a computer wizard
And I’m not in a blizzard
When she’s sick I feel as though I want to cry
And sometimes I kill myself just as I try
I don’t because it would hurt her even more
So if I want to cry I will go strait through the door!Last but not least,
She’s as careful with me as you have to be with yeast
And another thing I wish I could copy her to a 3.5 floppy disk
So I can copy all her love with out the risk of missing her love!
I wish that was less lame and made more sense than it did. I got a little laugh out of reading and trying to figure out what in the world possessed me to not only write this, but type it and keep it for 10 years …
Well, I guess it’s good that I can laugh at myself … a lot. 
(now you can too … and probably will 
)
Back to studying 
What A Mess
Iterating Integrals (the integral of an integral of an integral of …), finding the volume / area of specific sections of an object in 3D, and determining the center of mass of an object all via a multitude of integrals, polar coordinates, and trig! What a fun week!
Sadly, the applications of all that crap are fairly useful (especially as far as Engineering goes … and physics). Which means more (and even harder variations) of this to come! Yippee!
I had to skip going to a concert with Elaine on Thursday because I had to study for a Calc III test :’( . Talk about oober lame. I’d much rather have spent the night enjoying myself than cursing at my book for not making sense.
Summer classes are almost over. About two weeks left, which means finals are almost here … sigh. Differentials Equations seems really easy compared to Calc III for some reason. I suppose the most evident is working in three dimensions, which can get a little hairy sometimes, at least conceptually (which is a lot of what we’re doing). We also discuss the existence of the fourth dimension … and the contours of a shape in the fourth dimension … assuming it actually exists. That was an interesting lecture. “So, yeah, this is how you find the contour lines of a what this function would like like in the 4th dimension, assuming there is a 4th dimension … *cough*” That’s a conundrum if I’ve ever heard one. (I didn’t think my math theory classes were at least until next semester … lol.)
I’ve been having a fight with SVN, Trac, and Apache lately. On the one hand, I can easily install Trac and Apache on my desktop and route a sub-domain to my computer, but I can’t get Apache to correctly identify / authorize users (aka me; 401 & 403 errors FTW!). On the other hand, I can (even easier) setup SVN on dreamhost (our host) and attempt to manually install Trac to go along with it. The second part of the fails miserably. Which is really annoying. I’d prefer to run it on my host, mainly because I can’t rely on my desktop being on all the time or even have the same IP. Trac (or a derivative) isn’t necessary, but it’s nice to have something manage tickets / timelines / milestones / etc visually regardless of what client a user decides to use to manage their local copy. I’ve been hunting for something like Trac that isn’t a total bitch to install on a shared server with software that’s at least 2 years old (which is pretty much the same with any [shared] host). At one point, I had Trac running on our host. The sad part is running it from my desktop and accessing it elsewhere was about a dozen times faster because of the way it had to be setup on our host :(. Talk about lame. (now, for the life of me, I can’t even get it running at all anymore).
So yeah … good times.
Found a new artist thanks to Last.FM last night while trying to not get completely bored and wigged out while studying. The Afters - Never Going Back to Ok.
Here’s one of my favorites on it (so far)
And, although I refuse to use MySpace, this is another cool song by them.
Yay, Kitty Porn!
I’d like to thank Guy for his interesting ideas and titles for the comics. We get all sorts of hits from people searching for “Math is Fun”, “Daddy’s Little Girl MySpace Comments”, “Ninjaed”, and most importantly, “porn”.
the ads on the right sidebar (not viewable) are slightly NSFW, full of lawl
Oh to Be Free
I can’t remember the last time I woke up eager to face the day. Without running through thousands of scenarios of how the day could / will go wrong. That’s not even to say that the situations I’m in or the things I’m doing really call for such thoughts, it’s just everyday stuff. It’s getting there, it’s getting out of the house, it’s the deviating from solidarity … allowing myself to ignore the arguments in my head (schizophrenia anyone?) and simply have a good time. The severity of it all is in no way consistent or even related to much of anything besides just being entirely random. Certain people and/or situations seem to be a slight remedy, at least to some extent. It seems the only times (at least lately) that it’s not a concern of mine is when I find myself unable to think (which turns out to be rare). Even in slumber my brain runs a thousand miles a minute, and thankfully to my grand subconscious provides lovely dreams (*cough* sarcasm).
Creating a pseudo Grading Program from scratch isn’t quite as thrilling as one my think (wait, no one thinks that it would be … hmm).