Fun weekend

Yep, didn't do too much. But I saw Undergrowth and Subnatural, and some other rap group too. Anyways, that's all there is to say, cause it's bedtime and I have to be up in 7 hours.

Zomby zombies!

Yep, it's times like this where I sit and think to myself, "Wow, is this entire world just created soley for me to enjoy, and no one else?" Because uh, what are the odds of there being a guide for what to do during a zombie outbreak in Austin? Well, here it is.
http://www.fvza.org/interactived1.html

This ethics class sucks

Man, my damn teacher doesn't give us assignments we turn in physically, but instead gives us assignments to do on blackboard. Blackboard is the fancy name for the online portion of some ACC classes. So this teacher's giving us quizzes to do on blackboard, and assignments to turn in on blackboard. That wouldn't be too bad, except the deadlines for the assignments suck.

See, the class only meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but we have to check this blackboard shit all the time, because assignments aren't due the day of the class. Nope. It's bullshit, let me tell you what's due this next week. Monday, due at noon, is a survey we have to take. Tuesday, due at noon, is a quiz we have to take. And due on Saturday at noon, is the first critical reflection essay. Now, this class meets around 5:30pm, which is a little past noon. And the way this shit is due, it fucks with the way I normally plan out my studying for classes.

In a normal class, the survey would be turned in in class on Tuesday, and the first quiz would take up the first 10 minutes of class on Tuesday. This "Critical Reflection Essay", would be due the following Tuesday, allowing a whole damn weekend plus a Friday and Monday to work on the thing.

So normally, it would be Monday night, and I'd do the survey to turn in the next day, and study for the quiz in class. Then it would be Monday night again a week later, and I'd write up that essay. But now, I'm going to have to get the survey done before I go to bed on Sunday, and then I'm going to have to get the quiz done before I go to bed on Monday, and I'll have to also get the essay done before I go to bed on Friday. Earlier deadlines means less time to put things off. I like to get fucked up Thursday nights because they're the last day of school for the week, and I like to get fucked up Friday nights too, because I still have Saturday to recover from a bad hangover if I happen to have one, and be fit as hell and ready to do some serious schoolwork by Sunday.

What's worse is, I get next Monday off from school. It's one of the only two days I get off this entire semester. The other day being Thanksgiving Thursday. And I have to have a fuckin survey turned in by noon that day? God damn it, I wanted to be completely trashed all the way till Monday.

Yeah, I know, you're thinking "Survey? Don't you just respond to questions?", yeah, you do kind of. I'm not sure how this second survey is going to be, but the first one presented you with 3 different dilemmas, and you had to say what decision you would have made in each dilemma, and then why. Then later, for the last two questions, you had to talk about how your belief system factored in with your decision making, and then secondly what made the decision making difficult. So, I guess we get graded for thoroughness, as in answering all parts of the question.

Oh well, overall it won't be too bad. Besides the big reliance on blackboard, the professor's a pretty cool person, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to enjoy the course. I mean, it's Ethics after all, getting to talk about what's ok and what's not ok for a whole 16 weeks, sounds like fun to me, cause I talk about shit like that all the time anyway. It's just I don't cope well with these odd deadline requirements. I'm used to the whole "Turn it in by this classdate or else" kind of thing.

I forgot, I think that the majority of handouts will also be given out over blackboard. There's not a textbook for the course, so those handouts/readings are what we read. I have a hard time reading something more than a page off of a PDF document, so I'd have to print it out. The only options are to either print at the school for free, up to 15 pages, or print at home and probably use a whole ink cartridge. Though a $20 ink cartridge always beats out a $100 text book.

Take a puke at Parmer & Lamar!

Yeah yeah, bad day and all because school started up. Didn't get enough time off like usual. I hope it wont be too bad, I mean, I don't see why it would be. I'm only going 3 days a week. It's just, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I have to be there at 3:50pm. Man, that means I need to wake up at 2. Sure, sounds late for everyone else in the world, but god damn, that is fucking early as hell for me. Just think of whenever you always wake up, now think about what if you had to start waking up 3 or 4 hours earlier than usual. Yeah, sucks, doesn't it? Over the summer, my classes started at 7:30 in the morning. Think about something where you have to wake up 12 hours earlier than normal, you'd just stay up all day instead wouldn't you? Well, that's what I did this whole fucking summer. Woke up around 10 at night, and went to bed around noon, every day. Hated it, I like to wake up around 4 to 6 at night, not at 10, and not at 2 in the afternoon either.

Anyways, on the drive to school today, there was this lady puking next to me. Here's where it happened. Yep, one of those awkward moments. This passenger in the car to my left had her door open and her head sticking out, puking. It was pretty funny though, cause when I pulled up to the light, there was this guy in an older SAAB to my right, looking over to the left where the puking action was going on before I got there, and when I pulled up and blocked his view, he gave me this funny weirded out look. Heh, but I just smiled right back, cause hey, those older SAABs from the 80's, they're ugly as hell. They look like a deformed egg with some wheels attached onto them. Oh yeah, forgot to mention this particular SAAB was white, just like an egg.

Really, how many beautiful cars came out of the 80s that weren't supercars? The Llamborghinis and Ferraris look nice, the Porsches look nice, but what else was there? The 280zx's or whatever weren't too bad. It's like these damn car designers were too coked out to give a shit about there designs. Everything was either a box, an egg, or a boat.

So, am I a bastard for sitting at the light, hoping that none of the puke would get on my car? I was all thinking "Damn it, I don't want some pink shit on my car, but I'm going to wash it this weekend anyway, I wonder if it sticks as bad as bird shit does?". Good old human thought process.

Bored

Well, didn't do too much today. I picked up the new TV today. It must have some kind of digital antenna built into it, because I get a few HD channels over the airwaves. It's too bad with TV specs, every manufacturer has their own word for everything, and things aren't very standardized with TV's. For instance, if I wanted to do some wireless networking, you've got your choice of 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g cards, switches, and routers that all fit the bill. For TV's, the only real standard thing there seems to be are all of the different resolutions, you know, like 1080p and what not. But all this other shit is unique to each manufacturer. This set has this built in TV Guide system, similar to the channel guides that come with most digital cable services. It's weird though, I guess it works for TV Guide because it is ad supported. But they had this thing called a "G-Link cable" that you're supposed to hook up from your cable box to your TV if you have a cable box. Then there's also this whole feature on the TV to be able to hook it up into your home network. Honestly, I was pretty surprised it didn't just have 802.11b built into the damn thing. It wouldn't be more than a $5 part for the manufacturer. Instead, they expect you to have a damn rj-45 outlet in your living room.

The network feature doesn't seem very useful at all either. All it can do, is view JPEG's and play MP3's off of networked computers. That's it. Can't play any other sound formats, can't view any other picture formats. Can't stream video, read text files, check email, or browse the internet. No instant messaging, no nothing. The other feature of the network capability, is that you can send emails to your TV to tell it to record certain shows. Sounds good in practice, but I read through the instructions to it, and it seems way out of reach of the average person. It was real technical, and I almost think it'd be easier for me to setup my own recording system than to use the one built into the TV. It's not even a record system in the TV, they expect you to hook up a vcr to the TV, and to use that little g-link cable to tell the vcr to record. The g-link cable has an IR-sender on the end of the cable, and you're supposed to basically tape the IR-sender infront of the IR-receiver on the vcr. That's neat and all, but I don't think you can tell the TV to record just new episodes, or entire seasons of shows. I'd imagine it would fail as a TiVo alternative, or even a PC based PVR alternative.

Good night

Man, tonight was pretty cool. First off I started out by playing that new Point of Existence 2 mod for Battlefield 2. It's a pretty good mod. It's fun as hell, that's for sure.

Then I went out and saw the Flametrick Subs. It was a pretty damn good show as usual. They do some neat stuff. They have those satans cheerleaders up there dancing the whole time, and the guy playing the bass is missing a hand too. Doesn't get much neater than that.

After that I went over to Elysium for a little bit, then went to some afterparty. Yeah, I banged the hell out of this one chick from Houston. She had these weird contacts in. I don't know what it is about those goth girls and fucking loving guys with mohawks, but it sure as hell kicks ass for me.

Full House

Well, didn't do too much today. Just woke up, ate some pizza, and that was about it. Oh yeah, finally finished Full House, Season Four. It sucks. All it is, is Michelle saying "You got it dude!" and "You're in big trouble mister!". That's it. That's all there is to that stupid show. It's funny though cause every episode something bad happens, and it all gets fixed 10 minutes later.