Archive for October, 2005

Suzuka

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

I’ve been watching this new series “Suzuka” … a pretty standard issue high-school romance+complications thing (mostly because it’s made it to torrentbytes, so I see every release of it roll by twice on the rss reader).
It’s not bad, as far as the genre goes … rather than being total harem bs like Hina and Mahoroba [...]

Friday, October 28th, 2005

I ran into This Link today, and part of it was a wake-up call to me.
Polls for many years have shown that a majority of Americans are at odds with key scientific theory. For example, as CBS poll this month found that 51 percent of respondents believed humans were created in their present form [...]

Two Weeks

Monday, October 24th, 2005

It’s been two weeks, right? And some change, since I first installed gentoo as my main desktop os.
Things are going well so far, with a few complaints:
Technobabble follows

courses, introspection

Monday, October 24th, 2005

First up: Updated course plan, hot off the OpenOffice 1.1 HTML Exporter. Assuming that I pass compilers, and that I pass the other class too. I’m signing up for classes a bit earlier, to see if I can get myself wedged into phil 303.
Second up: lately I’ve been introspecting a bit, thinking about [...]

recovery

Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

recovered almost all the data off of it. There may be data that’s corrupt, but I’m not sure where, so I guess I’ll just have to pay attention to what I hear for a while.
SATA disks here on wednesday. New games here Monday. Money? What money? I don’t have money! [...]