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| 04:46pm 14/09/2006 |
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Hey folks.
So, I come home on Sunday for six days. If you're interested in coming out to see that, go log in as yourself (if you're on my friends list) and read the message above this one. That'll get you in touch with me.
Moo!
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| Moocows. |
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| 08:03pm 26/08/2006 |
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Hello friends.
I'm still alive here. It's almost time for me to come back to Columbus too, so you better all get your freetime lined up because I'm going to take it left and right before heading over to the desert.
For some strange reason, I'm looking forward to the desert; at least there I'll be able to use my IMer. Communal computers suck!
Yeah. 17th. Be there.
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| 08:54pm 09/08/2006 |
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Hewro.
I've spent a ton of money in the past few days. I bought a 0.25 terrabyte external hard drive, 3 FMA DVDs, 4 Paranoia Agent DVDs, a portable DVD player, and steaks of various sizes and shapes. It was a pretty good week.
I get to go see 3 Doors Down and Staind in concert on Saturday. For $30. Hooray. Makes you want to put on a uniform, right? Feh.
In other news, despite begging for letters, I've yet to send out more than, say, three. Sucks. I'll work on that pretty soon. Until then though... Busy! Argh, so freaking busy. I hate waking up early... and I hate going to bed even more than that. But, I'll survive.
I had a dream about Vegas last night -- moreover, it was a dream about hiding from some woman in Vegas. I think I owed her money. Dreams are strange.
I have more stories for that, but this box isn't large enough to contain them. Oh well. Goodbye folks! |
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| 09:17pm 01/08/2006 |
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Hey folks,
so, it's been a really freaking busy month for me. The busy times are just about over, I hope. I've done pretty much all they've asked me to do and now it's time to just sit back and...yeah right.
But! I did get many lovely letters and cards. Thank you (in order of letters received) Leslie, Tiffany, Erin, Christine, and Ashley!
Now, for the rest of you, shame.
Further, you all should make arrangements to come see me in September. I have about five or six days to do all the debauchary one man can do in a lifetime. So, I might need a designated driver. On the plus side, I've got a ton of spare cash to do it with.
Anyway, sorry I can't go into more detail. I need sleep badly. Plus, I have to be able to at least try to stay on top of you peoples' lives. That's not going to happen in 15 minutes, but I can try. |
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| 01:08pm 14/07/2006 |
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Hi again.
So, I'm still in Wisconsin. It still sucks here, except that the temperatures are finally reaching three digits. It rocks! ...the only thing that could make it any better would be if the air conditioning didn't work in the barracks -- wait, there is none! Hooray!
...my teeth are healing up nicely. I haven't taken much meds and haven't so much as touched the vicodin since the operation. But, I'm back to work and that grinding sound is the remaining teeth rubbing together in sheer boredom. At least I only have another three or four months of this crap.. Then I can go play in a huge sandbox instead!
But seriously though. I'm coming back to Columbus in a few months for a little less than a week. Oh man, what a week it will be. If you'd like to be a part of it, feel free to give me a call and we'll set something up.
In other news, there is no other news. Viva la Quebec! |
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| Teeth! |
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| 08:31pm 10/07/2006 |
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So, I had four wisdom teeth taken out today. It's not so bad right now; I'm pretty numb and slightly lucent, so I went where everyone knows my (first) name. And, I'm fairly sure they're all pretty glad I came.
And yes, if you're following the old theme song to Cheers, I do indeed want my husband to be a girl.
Anyway, I get a day off due to the surgery and then it's back to the grind. However, the doctor gave me about a week's supply of vicodin. There's no policy in the Army against training on vicodin. It's bound to be an interesting week.
Fire in the freaking hole!
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| 08:35pm 30/06/2006 |
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Yea, still here. It's hot as hell. Our commander says to imagine the 90s-ish heat, add about 35-40 pounds of body armor, and then we'll have Kuwait or Iraq or Afghanistan or wherever the hell we're going.
Does anyone else see the inverse relation between my internet time and my postings?
Feh. I'm going back to the barracks. It's friday night, so it must be mystery meat night at the DFAC. Hooray! |
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| 09:28pm 23/06/2006 |
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Hey folks. I finally got back to an internet connection after about three weeks of being over in beautiful Wisconsin. Believe it or not, it's freaking hot, especially in all that body armor. "Acclimation" they say. Feh.
So, the question remains, why haven't you folks written me? Some of your circumstances I can understand, but get cracking! ...gets really boring here, especially without beautiful letters, pictures, and drawings to keep me company.
Anyway, I'm tired. I think I've lost about ten pounds snice coming here, but I'm going to regain it in muscle after carrying that 50-60 pound load every day. I think the flak vest weighs at least 20 pounds in itself, but I might just be hallucinating.
Anyway, that's all the time I have. Why aren't you writing me letters yet? ...further, why are you still sending me emails? I can't check them but once every other week or so... |
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| 03:40am 08/06/2006 |
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mood: tired
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I put a "Friend's Only" post right above this one. ...just so you know. |
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| Moocows, and other things left unsaid. |
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| 01:35am 30/05/2006 |
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Hey folks.
It's about time for me to jettison out of this country; people have been extremely courteous to me especially though last week's hellishness. Yes, my laptop was stolen, my car bashed, my dreams of getting into grad school dashed, and the realization that I've less than a few weeks left in this country have all been extremely disheartening, but I do have some good friends if I would just be not paranoid enough to let some in every now and then.
So, it's almost last call for those of you who want to put in those last few hours with me. In fact, with finals week being next week, I'd say that last call is probably already up. I'd go out for drinks with the lot of you, but I'm almost broke at the moment. I'll be back sometime August or Septemberish. You can see me then if you'd like.
I've got high hopes. Those of you who want my address after I touch down in either my pre-mobilization or my post-deployment overseas, leave a message and I'll make a note to send it to you. I will have internet daily, I hear, so don't feel too pressured to write actual letters. Send them if you've got fuzzy stickers, though. Fuzzy stickers are awesome. |
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| 10:07pm 24/04/2006 |
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Hi folks.
Misha sent me an email a few weeks ago telling me to update the LJ. I kind of forgot about it until just now; but, I think it'd be an insult to Leslie to not use it since she did have to sacrifice one of her LJ IDs for me to have it.
I don't have too much to update this with. I'm learning about Minkowski convex bodies and complex analysis in school as well as the religion of George Bush. There's a lot to study, but I don't feel all too motivated to do any of it. One of my friends told me to go ahead and start telling people about my deployment that's going to happen in about a month. I'm not saying where I'm going. Just suffice it to say that it's going to be sandy and it's going to be for about two years. I work in a hospital, so I'll basically just be doing communications work, patching people into telephone and internet networks. I'm a little antsy about it; in about six or seven months, they promised to give me some R&R and to fly me anywhere in the world. So, I'm either going to tour Europe, go to Japan/China, or go to Brazil. My bets are on the first.
So, sorry if I haven't told you yet. I've told exactly five people not including my parents. I don't really feel that it's news that people should have to deal with. But, I do appreciate the nice things that some of you have said.
So, I'm going back to studying. I still have a lot of work to do and I haven't been productive in years. |
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| 02:54am 16/01/2006 |
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Veazey's update reminded me that I ought to put in a word or two about how things are happening for me.
The new year is passing a lot like the old one, except with more hookers, blackjack, and beer. I spend 50% of my waking time doing math, 20% doing CS, and the other 30% eating, walking, complaining, or lying about how I spend my time. I generally eat out three times a week, more if I'm busy. This week I've eaten out six times, four of which at Raising Caine's and one at BW3s. The other time, I generally spend with Jane doing boring things like eating, watching tv, and discussing anthropological empiricism. I also tend to try to be social, but spending all that time on math tends to give you a case of schizophrenia, so that makes being outward a little awkward.
I recently got over a very severe cold. I think I gave it to everyone else who will now fail out of my classes, thus raising my grade via curve several points. My plan is coming to fruition. Oh yes.
We have a three day weekend this week due to MLKJ-day. I spent the entirety of Saturday and Sunday working on a problem set for my first math class. That doesn't include the time I spent during the week working on it, or the time I spent reading and rereading to prepare to do the problem set. The problem set itself weighs in at 18 handwritten pages. I don't think I'll be typing it up this time around. Tomorrow is the start of my next math problem set for my second math class. After that comes CS. My life is fun.
I seriously need to put in some Arabic time, but I can't seem to find a time where I'm not doing one of the MCM classes. Granted, I do spend an excess of time at the gym, but it doesn't seem to be doing much good anymore. I've lost about 20 pounds since NYE, but I found it last week. Next goal is to shape it into something a little more pleasant than the chicken-form it came in originally.
If you got all the way down here, congratulations; I'll tell you a secret. I'm thinking about skipping out on some study time this weekend to go see the movie "Hostel." Isn't that nice?
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| 09:33pm 02/01/2006 |
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I'm starting to feel a little sick and I think the only cure is more cowbell. |
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| First Christmas present! |
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| 02:03pm 12/12/2005 |
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I got the best.early.present.evar. I recently found that my friend has a whole cache all full of old DOS games to include EVERY Space Quest (old versions) EVERY King's Quest EVERY Commander Keen (to include Commander Keen Dreams) and EVERY Police Quest. Furthermore, it also has EVERY Leisure Suit Larry game. He is currently my best friend.
Now, the only trouble is... how do I get them to work with my machine? ...there's always a catch! |
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| 05:16am 02/12/2005 |
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So, I'm having trouble staying awake while finishing my final linear algebra homework of the quarter, so I've decided to sit back for a few minutes while watching a couple of speedruns of old games from the 80s. Let me tell you about the one I'm watching at this very moment.
It's a game very near and dear to my heart.
You 20-somethings will remember the game "Mickey Mousecapades" from back in the day. This game was absolute crack. I remember spending most of my time (while playing it) in the first level because it is next to impossible to get Minnie to get out of a pit if she happens to follow Mickey in. Suck!
So, let me get the story straight. Mickey and Minnie decided to go on a walk and the first place they came to was this big house with tons of cats, jumping brooms and, naturally, a wicked witch. However, when the game opens, the only way out is through a door that actually says "Door." Redundant? I think not. But, how did they get in there in the first place?
...So, soon after, Mickey finds a throwing star. Yes, Mickey is a ninja. Minnie sometimes has one in there also...but not guaranteed. Anyway, Mickey and Minnie soon begin to slaughter the cats who are just running around. Mind you, these are miniature cats (read: smaller than the two mice) and have no sense that if someone is shooting ninja stars at you, you should probably get out of there. After that, they break all the brooms and kill the witch and then just leave the door open to leave the house, probably in flames.
Man, old nintendo games do ask that you abandon normal morality, right? ...feh.
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| 10:05am 20/10/2005 |
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There is news today. Sort of.
- I received my new KMFDM shirt in the mail today with CD. All I can say, freakin Hau Ruck!. Yes.
- I have only 4 more symbols to learn to claim mastery over the standard Arabic alphabet. Next, hebrew.
- I slept through every single class today. I need a new alarm clock; I think I've grown accustomed to the one I have too much.
There aren't any more developments otherwise. So leave me alone. |
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| Some frightening thoughts.. |
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| 07:24am 18/09/2005 |
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So, while everyone else is asleep, I've been reading more and more philosophy primers. To me, Wittgenstein is a lot more frightening than any of my horror novels.. and those of you who know me know how much I love horror movies and stories.
Here. Look for yourself:
Scary! Look at those eyes! ...and again:
What about if what he says is true? What if I am actually just deceiving myself with a Formalist philosophy in mathematics? What if the whole of mathematics is only a (possibly wholly wrong) approximation to reality? ...I suppose it doesn't matter if it is or not. If the world does come to an end, it won't really matter what we study, does it?
...but I digress. The point is to make a distinction between truth and the word truth. No word is anything but a word and even that is just the message on a medium. We (or, most of us) associate math with truth because it models so rigorously the every day world. ..but what if math is, as Gödel and Russell theorize, an approximation? The Incompleteness Theorem implies that set theory cannot ever be "complete" in the respect that it can have sufficiently many axioms. Is this right? I don't even know.
Maybe math is to the real world as a derivative is to a vector. And, for some reason, that frightens me a little. Some people rely on God to hold a stable "truth" foundation on this world. Some people use logic and mathematics. Some people rely on philosophy, and I really don't envy those people. The only thing that I'm sure of anymore is that I'm never completely right. ...and that, to me at least, holds more horror than any story ever written. |
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| Damn my selfish nature |
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| 05:51pm 16/09/2005 |
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 | You scored as Satanism. Your beliefs most closely resemble those of Satanism! Before you scream, do a bit of research on it. To be a Satanist, you don't actually have to believe in Satan. Satanism generally focuses upon the spiritual advancement of the self, rather than upon submission to a deity or a set of moral codes. Do some research if you immediately think of the satanic cult stereotype. Your beliefs may also resemble those of earth-based religions such as paganism.
Satanism | | 75% | agnosticism | | 67% | Islam | | 67% | Buddhism | | 63% | Paganism | | 50% | atheism | | 50% | Hinduism | | 38% | Judaism | | 33% | Christianity | | 25% | </td>
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