So, having proclaimed to the world my aims of mad science and supervillainy, I've begun the C++ for Haiku OS tutorials. Of course, I started them while waiting for the melatonin to kick in, so as soon as the compiler was giving me shit (I think I may have to take a longer approach to this particular problem, but I wasn't willing to try at 6 am) I went to sleep.
I really wanna help with Haiku, but I have a feeling it's going to take a long time. On their development page, they specify how they want developers to work, and while I fully understand the need for a standardized form, it feels confining. Shiny, C++-only code, with lots of notes as to what you did and why and blah blah blah, lots of white space and extra typing. Makes me wonder what people would do if they just dipped into Perl, Python, or Ruby.
I think I just have four more weeks of classes for this semester. And thank God for that. Gotta bit more to do than usual, though. Short essay due this week, rewrite of an old one due next week, then our biggest paper due the week after, for English. Japanese, I gotta make up a test I missed in addition to this unit's test. Psych is Psych, there's nothing unusual happening there. The short essay for English would be exciting if I knew what to do. We have to write a review for a film or album, but it has to be something we haven't seen or heard before, and deciding what to review is proving difficult. Japanese is gonna be rough, just because I now need to review two separate units, but I should be okay, I think.
Since my mom asked me if I was going to Eastern this fall, I've been thinking about it a lot. I'm not going this fall, but I do I want to go sooner than Fall '11, so I'm planning for January. Mom is in the loop, and I'm gonna start scouting for apartments in the summer, because that's how far ahead apartment leases free up and also disappear. It's pretty exciting.
The only downside is that Jon is one of those people who can't say "no." He spoke with his friend Ted, who is finishing up a bachelor's, and told him about Eastern's grad programs, and Ted has decided to come up this way, under the assumption that he and Jon were going to live together. Now, because Jon has no spine, they will, but Jon is also naive, and thinks the three of us are going to find an apartment. I told him we weren't going to find a three-bedroom apartment in Ypsilanti, but he retains the thought (ludicrous hope) that we'll just "find something." I'm looking for apartments alone at this point, because that's the realistic situation. Even if we did manage to find some miraculously cheap three-bed place, there would need to be at least two bathrooms, because three guys to one bathroom is not an acceptable ratio outside of a college dorm (although in that case, I wish I could say it wasn't, because it's horrible).
There's one reason I want to get back to EMU for that is academic. I want to take linguistics classes already! I should technically be done with all this liberal arts stuff before I get back out to Ypsi, but part of me fears that I'll have to redo something. But if I can go out there and just get started on the things I WANT, that'd be great. I know I won't have to take math again, so that's awesome. English, maybe, depending on the exact bits. The exact science of transfer credits escapes me, but I have an appointment with a counselor on Friday, so I will hopefully have answers.
As for the loan situation, I'm stuck paying out of pocket. Again. The funniest thing that has happened on this front is getting my FAFSA info back-- Eastern sent me a letter telling exactly which loans and how much they were willing to give me. I didn't even ask them for any of that information. I did not hear anything from OCC. One more reason I'm ready to go back.
Sean
Monday, March 29, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Another case of "trying to post and then I don't."
Health care reform was passed in the house a little while ago. It's not perfect, because we had to drop the "dreaded" public option, and then we punched holes through what was left, and the funny part is that is was to appease moderate and conservative Democrats-- the Republican platform of "ALWAYS NO" made reaching out to them entirely pointless. One Republican guy called a PRO-LIFE Democrat (our very own Representative Bart Stupak) a "baby killer" in the middle of some speech that was -denouncing- the pro-choice measures in the bill, or maybe the fact that they were passing it without the Stupak/pro-life Amendment. Every moment of this ignorance and insanity is recorded; Jon made us watch CSPAN as it was happening (it was not fun).
The only thing that bothers me is that only the Democrats had dissenting members, and not because they voted against something that will help people, but because of the relentless uniformity of the Republican party. Democrats have liberal, moderate, and yes, even conservative members. Republicans have True Conservatives and those they brand RINO's. I find it very unsettling that the party proclaiming freedom and democracy marches so lockstep. Maybe a little funny, too.
I'm about to get all four seasons of Batman: The Animated Series. It's a fantastic cartoon. Started up in 1992, right after the Burton/Keaton Batman movies. It won a couple of Emmy's in its day, and it created what I feel are closest to the ideal versions of each character that could actually exist. I've been thinking about Batman and the Joker a lot recently, and I realized I needed to get reacquainted, since the most recent thing I'd seen or read was The Dark Knight a couple years ago, and all I left is whatever I happened to remember over years of reading and watching-- totally reliable, that ole grey matter, am I right? I've been pretty annoyed, ever since The Dark Knight came out, with how many Heath Ledger fans wormed their way into Batman and claimed Ledger's performance as THE BEST JOKER EVER. This is not true, but again, it's been forever since I've witnessed a good contender, so, Batman: The Animated Series. Dunno which comics I need to scrounge up, but a good rule of thumb for sizing up any character in comics is to 1) get a whole bunch, and 2) average it all out. I feel, though, that a lot of writers try to write the Joker as too dark. I'll show them.
Heading out to Ypsi again, not sure how much sleep I'll get. Nabbed some melatonin the past couple of nights, but ended up sleeping for 11-12 hours each day, so... Not doing that, need to be up.
Sean
Health care reform was passed in the house a little while ago. It's not perfect, because we had to drop the "dreaded" public option, and then we punched holes through what was left, and the funny part is that is was to appease moderate and conservative Democrats-- the Republican platform of "ALWAYS NO" made reaching out to them entirely pointless. One Republican guy called a PRO-LIFE Democrat (our very own Representative Bart Stupak) a "baby killer" in the middle of some speech that was -denouncing- the pro-choice measures in the bill, or maybe the fact that they were passing it without the Stupak/pro-life Amendment. Every moment of this ignorance and insanity is recorded; Jon made us watch CSPAN as it was happening (it was not fun).
The only thing that bothers me is that only the Democrats had dissenting members, and not because they voted against something that will help people, but because of the relentless uniformity of the Republican party. Democrats have liberal, moderate, and yes, even conservative members. Republicans have True Conservatives and those they brand RINO's. I find it very unsettling that the party proclaiming freedom and democracy marches so lockstep. Maybe a little funny, too.
I'm about to get all four seasons of Batman: The Animated Series. It's a fantastic cartoon. Started up in 1992, right after the Burton/Keaton Batman movies. It won a couple of Emmy's in its day, and it created what I feel are closest to the ideal versions of each character that could actually exist. I've been thinking about Batman and the Joker a lot recently, and I realized I needed to get reacquainted, since the most recent thing I'd seen or read was The Dark Knight a couple years ago, and all I left is whatever I happened to remember over years of reading and watching-- totally reliable, that ole grey matter, am I right? I've been pretty annoyed, ever since The Dark Knight came out, with how many Heath Ledger fans wormed their way into Batman and claimed Ledger's performance as THE BEST JOKER EVER. This is not true, but again, it's been forever since I've witnessed a good contender, so, Batman: The Animated Series. Dunno which comics I need to scrounge up, but a good rule of thumb for sizing up any character in comics is to 1) get a whole bunch, and 2) average it all out. I feel, though, that a lot of writers try to write the Joker as too dark. I'll show them.
Heading out to Ypsi again, not sure how much sleep I'll get. Nabbed some melatonin the past couple of nights, but ended up sleeping for 11-12 hours each day, so... Not doing that, need to be up.
Sean
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