complich8’s journal

My music drive is dying.
Sucks, huh? Read errors, system hangs, all sorts of badness happening.
So I’m copying all the data off of it. So far, I’ve recovered 48ish of the 107GB on it. Some copies are just totally failing, which sucks. Some cause the drive to grind for a while. [...]

Well, I was going to go to this “distinguished lecturer series” lecture today, but instead opted for sleeping some more, because I felt like total crap.
In my second round of sleep, I had two distinct and strange dreams.
The first one involved Chris Cornell and one of the members of Audioslave (I’m not entirely sure why). [...]

The only thing I can say about the compilers exam is this:
BOOYAH!!!

Yep. I got 5 “prescreened” credit card offers in the mail today.
5 of them!
What the fuck. One or two a week is fine, I am getting 5 of them in a single day??
So, I went ahead, opened them all up, and confirmed that indeed, they all have the same TransUnion opt-out number.
So, I [...]

Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language”, written in 1946.
This is the sort of mastery of my language that I so crave.
Notable statements include:
A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus:

What am I trying to say?
What words will express it?
What image or idiom will [...]