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August 15th, 2007

04:18 am - Computers and screwing with people's heads My sister has been bugging me when I've seen her about her computer, always when it's not there, usually when I'm about to do something else. And she said tried to call a single time, after saying she would each time. Ignoring the annoyance of that, I had it done for a while, she had to pick it up. So she did yesterday. It'd been working fine for about 2 weeks. So I hear from her, and it's not working. So I go down and look at it. The hard drive failed. More specifically, it developed unreadable sectors very close to the front of the disk, so it's close to unusable. (And generally, a bad sign for how long it'll last after that even if you bypass those sectors.) And the drives that were at the location, were also unusable. (In the case of one, a LALALALALA sound, and a picture of a BIOS with hands over it's ears appeared, and in the other, a picture of my sister's kitten, on photocopy paper.*) So I'm now having to clear off one of my hard drives, so she can use it. Fortunately, I bought a half-'terabyte' hard drive a while ago for cheap. And it appears that something went wrong with another computer. It appears my chaos field is weakening. *More specifically: Bios wouldn't see it, and the other drive also had unreadable sectors. Current Mood: aggravated Tags: computers, hard drive

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August 9th, 2007

02:15 am - Different ways of looking at people. I had lunch with my mother, and she remarked as a person was leaving that his head was out of proportion. I didn't see the person, so I don't know. She went on to say that someone is about 7 heads high, and I remarked that usually the leg bones were used to estimate that. She looked at me for a minute then realized why I'd thought and said it. Her experience comes from being an artist, mine mostly from anthropology classes. (I have drawn a bit, but not much recently, and my proportions are fairly off.) Of course, not even leg bones are hugely accurate, but they seem to be the majority standard, as while other standards exist, such as Fully's technique which measures most bones involved in stature (heel, leg bones, parts of the hip, spine, and part of the cranium) then attempts to correct for soft tissue in between them. However, that's thrown off, if parts of the skeleton are missing. Hmmm, I need to organize all the pdfs of papers I've downloaded. Current Mood: geeky Tags: anthropology, art, randomness

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June 15th, 2007

03:37 pm - Life Yesterday, My sister and I buried Calie. (or Callee, the spelling really doesn't matter to those of us who loved her). Her name comes from me, as a kid, mispronouncing Calico, as Cadico, and it somehow changed to Calie eventually. She lived in our neighborhood and had kittens. However, she got shut into a garage for two weeks when one of our neighbors went on vacation. We took her in and took care of her. Nursing her back to health, and to a bit more than skin & bones, though she was always skinny after that, sometimes worryingly so. She lived with us, and was regarded as my sister's cat, but she loved all of us and was equally loved. She was one of the nicest cats I've known. She was meticulous about being clean, and she'd clean up other kitties, if they didn't meet her standards. On June 13, 1997, My sister was away at girl scout camp. I had fortunately fallen asleep upstairs, because there was a flood, and a jet of water the size of a basement window flew over my bunkbed, Dropping only about a foot. While I got upstairs after doors literally blew out at me. Calie didn't. We couldn't find her before we had to retreat due to the water. We heard her crying, as the flood both outside, and inside the basement came within a few millimeters of the main floor. Unfortunately, we couldn't get to her, and she stopped crying. We didn't hear her again that night. In the morning, the water had drained a batch from the basement. We went downstairs, to see about everything, and to try & pick up the pieces. We looked around, but were afraid she was lost in the debris that had been the basement. However, after a while, I think it was early afternoon, we see her where she could have gotten above the ceiling. She is the most bedraggled, soaked, grungy, shivering mass of cat, you've ever seen. We wrapped her in a towel, and tried to dry her off, and eventually had to go back home, and help. We went to my grandmothers after we got done, and she'd managed to completely clean herself off, and was as beautiful as if the past 24 hours hadn't happened. That was 10 years ago yesterday. Current Mood: lonely Current Music: These Are the Days of Our Lives These Are the Days of Our Lives - Queen Tags: calie, callee, cat, cats

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November 24th, 2006

07:20 pm - Eh I haven't looked at LJ much... so a quick rap up: School, friends, games, and projects. Project I'm currently working on is a linux on USB key, where you can boot it up, then just save the whole thing to the disk, and then go to another computer, plug it in, boot, and the exact same stuff is up. If you are familiar with, suspend, suspend-to-disk, hibernate, etc, this is essentially what I'm working on, only you can move the whole system between computers. I really should be working on other things, but I just had a really nifty idea on it. Current Mood: geeky Tags: computers, restorable

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November 9th, 2006

05:25 pm - Supreme commander HELL YES and SHIT Current Mood: giddy

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October 17th, 2006

08:39 pm - GRAR! Feel my impotent wraith universe! That headache that I had yesterday I still have. Or at least, I now have a sinus headache. (It was either a sinus headache in the back of my head, or it's a sinus headache that decided to move in. Oh happy day!) Went back and checked on my friends page, posted several comments. Hopefully I'll be forgiven for my inode comment. Current Mood: grumpy

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02:48 am - GRAR I think I need an industrial strength whack upside the head. As this will either knock me the hell out, or it will cause whatever is wrong with my head to surrender. Current Mood: grumpy

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October 4th, 2006

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October 2nd, 2006

01:00 am - Indecisiveness and niftyness We'd known the Rolling Stones had been coming to Wichita for a while, however, tickets were not exactly the cheapest thing. Fast forward for anyone who knows me and my dad. Deciding at the last minute, is nothing new at all. So we were at Barnes and Noble, and somehow (I think I recall the linkages, but don't feel like repeating them) my dad was talking to someone we know who had been given 15 free tickets last night and mentioned not knowing if we were going to try and go or not. So, we got free tickets. Score! The concert was pretty good. We were sitting in the far corner. (Football stadium, stage was in the south endzone area, we were in the north west portion, about 13 rows from the top.) I was impressed by the concert. The level of sound was not bad, and there was enough breeze blowing that I didn't have any major problems due to people smoking. (Until after) It took a while for the crowd to warm up. An amusing thing was that on the large screen they had, start of (song whose name escapes me) they had short videos of a naked woman. (Nothing more than a nipple showing.) The reaction of some portions of the crowd was amusing. Ah, Wichita. So, progress on things I had planned on was less than expected today. Sleep now, probably miss a class to finish up the Real Analysis which has been kicking my butt. Though I did reject the urge to go make a sign suggested by a friend that said "Hitler's mom should have had an abortion" and go stand with some anti-abortion protesters, or drive by them, and have the car stall. (Very easy to have 'happen' if the driver isn't trying to prevent it.) Right on Rock in front of them. (The problem for this situation is of course, that that car always starts right back up.) Current Mood: Bloody headaches

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September 27th, 2006

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September 15th, 2006

12:08 pm - Musings on eyesight The right earpiece on my glasses has broken, and fortunately it has not hampered teir use, aside from requiring more adjustment. In fact it seems that few people notice this immediately. Or even over the course of severall days. This has however gotten me thinking. My natural eysigh has not changed significantly since I got glasses according to my eye doctor. This would make it something on the order o fa dozen years. (There was one very minor change in my lefft eye, as I recall) No astigmatism. However, when I now take my glasses off I am challenged to percieve particulars of objects at a distance. (In fact, I am typing upon this subject purely by touch, and attempting to observe the place I am at. I seem to recall a much better ability to identify paticular people and objects from a year or more after I got my glasses, and indded up to 4 years after. However,now, while then I could read a chalkboard from accross the room, now I am challenged to percieve my laptop screen reliably. This is more interesting in the fact that with glasses on, I have gotten better and better vision. (Better than 20/15 (or 15/20 if I misremember the whay it is rated) possibly as good as 20/10. When I got my glasses I had vision of approxamately 20/20 for the first few years. If the case is that my eyes have not changed, then it occurs to me that it is likely my brain which has adapted to them. (Also interesting is the fact that I very eldom get annoyed by wavy monitors, yet flickering lights (especially florecent lights) annoy me. (Even some that other people cannot percieve the flicker in.) I'm curious if this has happened to anyone else. I may investigate it later if I have time. As of now, I've spent too much time on lunch and should be getting back to doing what I need to do today. Current Mood: curious Tags: eyes, eyesight, glasses, musings

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September 8th, 2006

06:57 pm - Meh Got tired of writing for the moment. Whee! Randomness! I could swear I'd taken this before, and gotten wildly different results. o_O My Personality Neuroticism 60 Extraversion 34 Openness To Experience 54 Agreeableness 54 Conscientiousness 31 Test Yourself Compare Yourself View Full Report MySpace Surveys, Discount Ugg Boots and MySpace Codes by Pulseware Survey Software Current Mood: tired Tags: meme

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August 28th, 2006

12:13 pm - Grumble We've got the anti-abortion protesters out in force on campus, complete with 4 or 5 meter high pictures. I don't mind the pictures. I'm tempted to ask if they like modern art, or something equally strange just to mess with them. I probably will if they are around after real analysis. Hehehehe, use my real analysis book, and have it be like a bible is supposed to be to sinners. AIIIEEEE! Math! At least, they have the niceness to put "Warning: Graphic images ahead" ... well after you start seeing their pictures. There are days that I'm sick and tired of Kansas... today is one. I think, I'll print out one of the sinfest cartoons and attach it to my laptop bag. Current Mood: annoyed

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August 26th, 2006

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August 24th, 2006

07:05 pm - Ouch... I pulled my inner thigh playing soccer. It absolutely sucks. Every time I walk it goes "Idiot, why did you not stop when you first thought it hurt." It's been many years since I've pulled something. Now, I'm hot, I'm tired, and I'm grumpy. Current Mood: aggravated Current Music: Angel-The Corrs via pandora Tags: pain, soccer

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August 23rd, 2006

04:36 pm - Blah! Well, I've been in all my classes so far. Real Analysis looks to be interesting. Only 5 people in the class, I know all but 1 of the people in there. It's going to be difficult, and a lot of work. Popular liturate seems to be interesting and other than reading novels, doesn't look to be much work. Interestingly, one of the people who showed up today is the now purple haired friend that went with my sister to Europe. (It took me a bit to be sure it was her. Silly people who like to have their hair be rainbow colored over time. :P) Forensic Anthropology was mostly introduction to the class last night, and looks to be interesting. (If potentially very time consuming.) Linguistics, I'm going to drop, because wow. I don't think I can recall a 300 level class where the professor is that distracted, comes in 15 minutes the first day, then spends the vast majority of the rest of the class telling stories about himself that don't relate to the class, in any way, I or the few other people I talked to can see. I just see 'trainwreck' written all over that class. I've never gotten the urge to just walk out and drop something before. Monday Evenings to Thursday morning is going to be annoying this semester. I've got history Monday evening, which is followed Tuesday morning by Real Analysis, and I'm slightly rusty on some of it. Then Forensic Anthropology in the Evening. Wendsday is a modern English class, which seems to be the easiest of the semester, and the history class (the next easiest). Then Real on Thursday, and I suspect that the assignments will be difficult. In addition to refreshing, or relearning some math, and anthropology, the other classes have a lot of readings. Wendsday is going to be the bad day, given my habit of procrastination. Last night sucked, because I didn't manage to get much sleep, which meant I took a nap in the afternoon rather than attacking the Real Analysis homework, which will have to wait until after History. Last night, being bored, I wondered if some anthropologists would flee from the Real Analysis book, as they sort of have from other math books. They don't seem to. I'm unable to explain it other than lack of familiarity. Or they think I'm crazy, which might well be true. My right hand is hurting when I try to write, or use a mouse, (but not typing for some reason) so I've been writing left-handed. (Thank goodness I decided to start practicing it a while ago. It's not as fast, but pain that I've got to expend effort to ignore, or slow writing... means I'll write slowly.) /ramblings Current Location: Home Current Mood: tired Current Music: pandora Tags: classes

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August 18th, 2006

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August 17th, 2006

07:42 pm I've been talking to someone from Linksys/Cisco for over an hour... I knew at the beginning: WEP enabled-No worky. (specifically it doesn't get an ip) WEP disabled-It works. A while ago... (paraphrased) Me: And disabling it again, the g side works. Help: That's great. Me: ? Help: That it works. Me: I already knew it did with security disabled. Finally after being disconnected, I gave up for the day. Current Mood: angry geek Tags: computers, grumpy, linksys, wep

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August 16th, 2006

02:19 am Alright, I know a lot of you are artists & photographers, so if you wouldn't mind helping me out... My current digital camera (HP Photosmart 315 or something like that) is getting so old. (2001, and it wasn't top end even then... 1.3 Megapixels... a fair number of phones have better than that now!) Not to mention I've partly melted it... Ooops. I didn't even take it on my trip, because it's also getting fussy about just plain working. So, I'm looking at getting a new digital camera, however, I'm a poor college student (So if I did get one it'd be in the 100-200$ range). So do people have suggestions, on which brands they like? I've used a Cannon Powershot A60/80 (something like that) and like it for the most part. One thing I can't stand is digital zoom though. ---- Today I got most everything squared away for school (except one anthropology class, which is currently closed, but I talked to the professor, and I can sit in until it becomes open again.) Went to the library, and apparently had a couple of things, so I dealt with it: $2.80 fine... Checked out a few books (not as helpful as I would have liked so far) on airship design. Then we went to Walmart... and in the space of getting some things for a small party. (The calc 3 students get a welcome back party, with soda, pizza, movies... and if they so chose tests! (Bwahahahahah! Yeah, right!)) I ran into two people who live at my apartment complex and are in anthropology. No overlapping classes this semester.) Then we ran into some other friends of mine, and arranged soccer and likely computer gaming for Friday and Sat (5:30pm, anyone interested send me an email/IM) Not to mention talked for quite a while. Then one of them (M) did a double take and spotted one of the Calc 3 students, who actually hadn't gotten the email, and talked to her for a while. WHAT THE HELL WAS IT WITH WALMART TODAY?! Something call out to the engineers and anthropologists to meet there? Got home and started reading through the books on airship design, alternating with looking at the internet... and hell, It's 2 am! I sleep now! Current Mood: shocked

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August 14th, 2006

08:56 pm - 10 Songs starting with O Ten songs beginning with a letter named by someone else... In this case mythos, for O If you want a letter, then reply below (A bit delayed, as this has been from listening and writing them down when they come up... Oh, and I also checked... Enya seems to be a lot of my music beginning with O.) Only Time-Enya Outlaw Blues-Pat Benatar Orinoco Flow-Enya Ophelia-The Band One Vision-Queen Once Upon a Time-The Smashing Pumpkins One by One-Enya Once you had Gold-Enya Objects in the rear view mirror-Meatloaf On my way home-Enya Current Mood: mellow Current Music: Everyday-Don McLean Tags: meme

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