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Monthly Archive for September, 2004
Yahoo! News - Fox Orders Pilot Starring Barenaked Ladies - These guys went to my public school.
How can the book I want be on loan and due back January 15, 2005?
Will Hung winds up - How is it that William Hung is set to be a 21-year old millionaire?…
I have this insatiable desire to yell at things that don’t deserve yelling at. Mostly inanimate objects. It’s been building up for a while now. I dreamt about going loco a week ago, otherwise I would have freaked out by now. AhhhH! Yelling here helps.
Fall is here! Whee! I noticed leaves changing colors for a few weeks now. But the season of turkey, pumpkin pie and candy is now officially upon us! Now to only think of costume ideas…
Hitoshi wanted to know how to post pictures to his weblog. Blogger makes managing a weblog so easy and straightforward, anyone can pick it up. MovableType however is almost bloatware, having way too many features, rendering the software clunky and inefficient. I’ve long appreciated simpler, usable designs as superior. Extra features are pointless if they don’t have mass appeal.
But the upload feature is quite nice. Saves me the trouble of setting up FTP accounts for everyone.
I am indeed a textbook case of the co-op paycheque syndrome. Co-op is a wonderful system, no bones about it. If you can get yourself a job, co-ops usually get paid enough to cover their living expenses for their workterm as well as tuition and living in the following study term.
I for one spread my cash out so that it lasts me to the last day of school. Of course, I go well over budget and needless to say, I live the last few weeks of the term as well as the first few weeks on credit.
The first paycheque always goes towards paying off the credit card, and the second usually towards some sort of electronic purchase. I go to Waterloo afterall. This term was just like all the rest, but with a tad bit more booze.
I’m transforming in ways I never thought possible. The second paycheque in the past has purchased me my digital camera, a cell phone, and a gamecube. This time around I somehow resisted the urge to buy an iPod, and instead bought almost an entire wardrobe. There’s still an empty space in my heart for Apple’s little white gold, but I do feel satisfied. I got my tweed.
Next up, the social life to open opportunities to wear all this slim fitting body decor.
So I decided to build an enormous f*****g sandwich. I’m not sure which is the sweeter touch, the eight sausages or the eight burgers.
Conference Bike! - We saw one of these a couple months ago in NYC. We were like, WTF? But I _do_ want one!
25% off at Club Monaco, ends Sunday. But they don’t have any tweed for men!
I spent the day looking for a nice tweed blazer… Harder than I thought!
I find that my ambition is too often larger than my patience. I wrote most recently of all sorts of side-projects and activities I’ve picked up to keep myself occupied.
It’s only the third week into the term, and I find these things often clashing with my obligations towards earning my Lush Card as well as my desire to sleep twelve hours a day.
I’ve picked up and started so many projects over the years. There are so many I wish I’ve bothered to finish. But once the phase passes, I can expect all progress to be lost. I have unfinished art projects, business ideas, hiyo.org designs, home renovations… I can start a lot of things, but it’s truly impressive when any of them get done. But I could still say that I used to get things done. I did them for someone.
I do have a lot more free time these days. I can now dedicate hours of my time towards my personal interests, but too often I’m more interested in snapping my fingers at the barkeep.
I’m still maturing, and I think a lot of growth has taken place. Projects are getting finished as I try to really jet-set my enthusiasm before getting into something new.
Last summer I took my last bennybox design (available at hiyo.org/bennymoto) from concept to design, creation to code in two or three nights. I’ve been grinding through the code update of the new hiyo.org for a couple weeks now. If I don’t keep the spark alive now (and I don’t think I can), the main site probably won’t change for a good half year.
I think it’s just hard to find the motivation anymore. Nothing has really been moving for me for a good while now.
bennymoto is seeking someone to instill him with a sense of purpose once again. The problem is I don’t know where to look anymore.
A true friendship is worth sacrifices. Acting on temptation will ruin them forever. So I shall behave!
Amazon.ca: Books: How to Date a White Woman: A Practical Guide for Asian Men - No, not just yet.
A9.com Search: bennymoto - Amazon’s new websearch has launched. Looks like fun!
Memoirs of Braunschweig - Vince has gone on exchange in Germany and having a blast!
I almost feel settled in… but being here, something is definately missing. For the first time in several years, I’m going to put up posters! They are pretty and ultra-nerdy, thus insuring that I never dare bring a lady to my bedchamber. Star Trek posters, the best form of contraception!
Being a Waterloo student is actually pretty go, because there’s tons to do. In the past, I had been plagued with the small issue of having no free time. But this new job give me the experience of an engineer while having more freedom than an arts student.
CUTC is my bread and butter. I’m co-chair of the Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference. It’s a huge deal here, and it’s way too much work. But if we can inspire some engineers and cs students to not just live out the daily grind and do something with their brains, it will certainly be worth it. Judging by the turnout at today’s kickoff meeting which I ran, it’s going to be a great conference. The interest is there at least.
First Year TA - I love the froshies. They’re so cute. I shall help them pass first year physics, calculus and algebra. I think this is a good way to spend my free time. More school!
UW Poker - A recently budded guilty pleassure of mine… I’m hooked on Texas hold’em ever since I got a serious taste at a friend’s birthday this summer. I found a deal on chips, and now I’m signed up to play every Wednesday with some other UW cats. Reminds me, I gotta hit up a loan shark tomorrow.
Campus Rec Ball - My ballin’ friends decided to step things up this year. We moved up a level to B league. I’m not sure why, we barely made the playoffs last term, though we were two bad plays away from bumping the first-seeded team from a chance for the title. Intensified physical game, please be gentle on my lanky butt.
hiyo.org - I have a quirk for the website. An idea for the next layout for the hiyo.org splash page has been ignited… there will be a few sleepless nights soon, getting that going.
The Videogames - It’s hard to believe that I didn’t play any videogames for the past four months. Let’s just say, my Gamecube is broken and cannot be turned off - it doesn’t need to be fixed.
Gadgets run me - And of course, paycheques mean Chris spends it unwisely. This time it’s gadgets… the phone is new any quite spiffy. The iPod will save my jampacked hard drive. Chris will have new shiny pretty things, and that makes Chris happy.
I recently ripped every CD I own to mp3 with iTunes. The stack probably has about 120 CDs. Tricky tops out the stack. k-os’ first album, Exit is in the case. The 20GB iPod will devour all that music, with room to spare, and categorize it and organize it for me in minutes (though the entire process took quite a few days). And then I will probably never look at those CDs ever again.