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Unlike the care free celebrations, exciting festivities, and home-room parties of elementary school, the end of the semester in college only brings a suffocatingly large amount of work followed by an relentless battery of exams.
My status? Well, with ¾ of a Red Bull making its way through my guts, I’m continuing to charge ahead into [...]
Order is Boring
I guess you could say I’m a fan of an entropy-driven life.
The concept of entropy for anybody not familiar with it, is that everything in the universe will tend to a disordered state over time, and that any system with a high amount of order is more than likely going to turn into chaos soon. [...]
Desk Collapse
I’m on the phone in the living room when I hear a tremendous crash from my room, and immediately know exactly what happened. But first…
Backing up a bit further to set the scene: Derek, Anita, and Nate are in my room jacking around, horse playing, etc. on my bed. I get a phone call so [...]
New Laptop and Blood and Stuff
I recently fixed my roomate’s old laptop. It’s a hefty Compaq Presario 2200, with a 1.3 GHz Celeron M and 480 MB RAM. It’s underwhelming power in no way justifies the 5.2 lbs of flimsy plastic, but for working on my C and VHDL programs anywhere, it does the job.
The thing is, it would overheat [...]
Food For Thought Diarrhea
The ratio of hunger satisfaction and taste to cost in both time and money for preparing typical college meals such as Rice-a-Roni and Ramen noodles is impressively high. The vanishingly small denominator makes up for the less-than-impressive numerator mostly, but that is beside the fact.
I hope the lack of nutrition I’ve experienced for the past [...]