As some of you may know, I have been visiting family for the past week and have been on vacation away from the madness of McNeese for awhile. Its been really fun, not to mention really good to see my awesome cousins again. We have been having fun and going out to do things as well as staying in late and being lazy with movie nights all week. Its beautiful up where my cousins live, and I would not mind living there at all if I chose to move away from the south.
This trip was for my second cousins graduation from high-school and her grad party a few days later. Seeing her graduate makes me feel old because I still remember us playing together when we were small at my grandmothers house, we would try to sneak up on my sister and play pranks on her. And the cookies! Oh the cookies we would make with our grandmother / great-grandmother after we were done swimming for the day. I just find it very hard to believe that 18 years have passed just like that. I feel also since I have not been able to see her and her family as much as I would like that I have miss out on a lot of things. But, that’s just how it goes sometimes. I hope I can come up to see her more often now, but that is up to her and her family to decide. I wish you luck in college sweet and loving cousin! But I know you wont need any!
Now that the awesomeness of the week has been told, lets talk about the interesting part of the week. I got a email a few days ago from McNeese saying they will be dropping my Computer Science major and will make two different ones from it. I have two years to complete my old major or I can switch to one of the other ones. I have not had a chance to look at the other new majors, but I can only hope that they drop some classes instead of adding more to it like how they have done in the past. Not being able to go see what I can do about it has been on my thoughts since I got that email.
I miss my two friends from Lake Charles. I’m going to have to kidnap them when I get back and have a movie night or an outing.
I think that’s all I wanted to say for now. Till next time! (^_^)
My cousins came down this past weekend to come visit Granny and to tour McNeese State for college hunting. We had a great time and was like we were younger again because me and my wonderful younger cousin were up to our old tricks like always . I dont even think I spent an hour on the computer these past few days, which is amazing for me. But, they could not stay, and went back home up north. I considered hiding myself in their luggage, but Im alittle bit too big for that.
Oh, and sweetie, Im kinda scared now after seeing this…
It just seems like shes gonna come out of no where in that movie now…
Outside right now, and its the most beautiful day I have seen in a long time. Its not windy at all, its cool, and the sun isnt beating you down. These are probably some of the best days before summer truly hits and makes things really hot. I really do wish they could have stayed a little bit longer, but thats how it is.
As for the title of todays post, I chose this one because while yes, my mid-terms are over, I just got a crap load of things to do from my teachers due before spring break, and then finals right after that! No break, keep pounding your head with a book, hope you absorb it… BLAH!!!
I also found out that my summer calculus class will be from 4pm to 6:15pm. With a ten minute break somewhere in there. Plus the teacher has not been announced yet, so I can only hope its not the one which we will not speak of…
But, I only have to go from Monday to Thursday and I get to sleep in. But still… I do hate late classes, Im afraid that I might fall asleep in this class…
Ive really been wanting to go to the beach lately and just be lazy and play, but I dont think I will have a vacation again until Im 30 years old. I think I miss the sand and the bikinis the most. Not that we dont get plenty of both here, it just seems like I dont have to look for it over there.
Well time for me to go, so I wish everyone a great day! Love you JJ&M! Ill speak to yall soon!
So I have been listening to Bruno Mars since his new song came out, and when it came out, I didnt know it was him singing it! Check it out!
Anyways, Ive had a rough week like everyone else I know. I had a calculus test that I know everyone failed. I say that because one of my good friends JR who wants to be a calculus teacher told me he failed the same test the day before I was suppost to take it. Yuck. Plus I had another test in computer security (which I totally murdered) and project due days afterward. Im fairly sure that the project wasnt what the teacher wanted.
As for other people having a bad week, my dad tells me constantly that the stuff he is going through with his job is the biggest cluster f*ck he has ever seen. And my dad has seen alot. Scary…
However, I think my calculus teacher has had the worst week of them all. He also happens to be my adviser (and I could not have asked for a better adviser) and has taught many of my classes. He had one of his best friends commit suicide and his son sick with a stomach flu. I have been praying for him and his family. I hope his weekend has been better, he didnt look so good during our friday class.
As for my weekend, it has been pretty uneventful. It seems that whenever I text my friends to see what they are doing, they are busy or something comes up at the dorms that I have to take care of. Im really starting to hate the white walls of my dorm room.
I have also just finished doing two projects for my sister, and so far she tells me that she has got it up and running on one of her friends server. I have yet to see it for myself if it is useful or not to the group of researchers that I made it for. It is always interesting to see how your work is used.
So, just sitting here watching Archer while backing up my backup. Long story. You never realize how much digital data you have until you backup all of it. I really need to get rid of the IDE HDDs that I have in my server. I wouldnt mind the sounds they make if they were in some sort of computer room. Which they are not. Since they are in my small dorm room I cant really sleep while It is reading data constantly to send it to a backup disk. The constant RBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRB sound will keep up any seasoned computer nerd. I can stand the fans, but the hard drive sounds is just too much.
Well, I think I will try to go to sleep now. Even though there is still a good 7 hours of data transfer from backup to backup. Dont think I will sleep good tonight, like the rest of this past week. Wish me luck.
To live on your own without having to listen to the coughing one night stand sl*t smoke all night, making the coughing last all night sounding like shes hacking up more than just a lung… *shudders*
Cant really sleep, wondering if I should get something to eat or play COD6MW2. Well, I know what some good friends would say, do both!
Hey guys, thought I would post that I have a Intel SSD 40GB drive on amazon.com for 70$ if anyone is interested. My seller name is Inthebrilliantblue. Great condition. I brought it originally to test it on my machines but now that Im done, I dont really have a use for it. Head to amazon to pick it up!
Sitting in the computer lab right now, being all nice and warm because of my handy usb warming gloves. Since we live in times of budget crunching, the school doesn’t keep the heater on as long as they really should to keep students warm in classes. Ive been getting a few weird looks because of the wires coming out of my gloves. Its pretty funny to see though .
Hello all! Its been awhile, again! Sighs, its been rough this semester. We have not had one break since school started, and I can just see it on the students faces. McNeese usually has a few monday and friday breaks in the fall to stretch out the school year for hurricanes. Not this year! Boo…
Video BREAK!!!!!
Ah, that feels better. Where was I? Oh yes, me.
Ive been working on a project for software engineering lately, and once Im done with that Im gonna take that code and use it for cheap image hosting on the peopleofcollege.org server. Its going to be interesting to see what laws Im gonna have to conform to to run it. Bleh.
Finally fixed the door to Deathstick! I did it while working on a circuits project for school. Hopefully This one will last much longer than the last fix I did. Heres a pic:
I keep having a small laugh from Mel because she will get so scared about not passing a test, and the next day she’ll come to me and say she got an A on it. Silly girl .
One of my good friends from the computer science department, Grant, came over last week to hang out and help me to overclock my intel i7 machine Deathstick. Its standard clock is 2.66 ghz, and we had managed to get it up to 3.6 ghz. Man the i7 can overclock like a racecar before overheating too much! Heres a screen shot:
The Virtue (intel P4) however can only overclock from its original setting 2.6 ghz up to 3.07 ghz before it starts to become unstable. And when I mean unstable, I mean like grandma walking up the stairs unstable. However, it stays cooler than the i7 does on overclocking. Weird.
Andy and Joe had Rowdy dressed up for halloween weekend!
Found this oncampus a few days ago, and forgot I took a picture .
Can’t wait to go to the football game this weekend with the gf, its gonna be fun!
Been awhile, again! Sighs, so want to just get a job, but I need to finish school. Bleh.
Melani and Me decided to do some photography and edit some pictures of her, and Im going to show them here and let you guys tell me how yall like them .
Coming before congress very soon is the S.3804, known as the “Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act”. This act would give the justice department new powers to censor any and all websites accused of “piracy” without any notice. This means that you could be accused of piracy and have your website taken down without a warrant, even if your website has nothing to do with downloading music or movies online. As anyone can imagine, this can be and will be abused against supporters of any opposing party or free speech that is viewed as “immoral”.
The sponsors of this bill:
Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]
Lamar Alexander [R-TN]
Evan Bayh [D-IN]
Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]
Thomas Coburn [R-OK]
Richard Durbin [D-IL]
Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]
Lindsey Graham [R-SC]
Charles Grassley [R-IA]
Orrin Hatch [R-UT]
Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]
Herbert Kohl [D-WI]
Charles Schumer [D-NY]
Arlen Specter [D-PA]
George Voinovich [R-OH]
Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]
And supporters of this bill:
US Chamber of Commerce - (very scary) Screen Actors Guild
Viacom Motion Picture Association of America
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees
Moving Picture Technicians
Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States
What Id hate to say to all of these supporters is that this bill infringes upon the peoplesFirst Amendment Rights to Free Speech and Free Press. You can’t just take down any website without just cause, such as in the case of child pornography. If this bill passes, not only will bit torrent websites be taken down (including the ones who host legal torrents, such as Ubuntu) but so will websites such as Rapid Share and Mega Upload. I say this because these services are used more often than not as download links to content that is viewed as “immoral” by the upper class.
It should be obvious that this bill is nothing more than another way to make people pay high prices for declining big content companies that have not put out even remotely good movies or music in the past five to ten years like how they did thirty years ago. MPAA as a supporter? Red flag right there. The MPAA along with the RIAA has been responsible for ruining countless lives by false accusations and jacking up prices of songs and movies in court to almost as high as 500,000 dollars. PER SONG or MOVIE. If I remember correctly, iTunes sells songs one dollar each. Oh, and lets not forget the case they brought to court AGAINST A DEAD PERSON.
I don’t believe that any bill with the MPAA or RIAA brand on it should even be considered by our government. But since the US Chamber of Commerce is a supporter of the bill, along with all the sponsors in congress, this probably means that our government no longer protects us, the people, against negligence such as this.
Now, for the NEXT proposal by Obama.
The Obama Administration will propose to congress that new regulations be set so that “wire tapping” of online services be possible for government and state officials such as police and military. They propose that each and every online service (such as Skype, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Digg, Stumble Upon, AIM, Remote Desktop programs,Internet Service Providers, Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) be required to track each and every user online and be able to look at the tracks of any person at any time.
This is basically saying that the government wants to try and put a back door on your computer like how they did a few years ago on certain cell phones, but have now upgraded to just getting the AT&T company to wiretap for them.
Instead of wiretapping your cell service now, they are trying to do that to the internet. Think about it, how much time do you spend on the internet looking at things that you want to keep private? Are you currently supporting financially any government cause? So if you don’t keep giving them money, they could just pull up your track record on the internet and just give it to the local media if you dont pay up.
This can and will happen because its just not the government that will be looking at this information. Anyone in the world can look at this information so long as they know how to get there. User names and passwords? They just serve as a way to keep honest people honest, they will not stop someone from breaking into your personal life. Credit cards, medical information, all of your life will become part of your internet record even though its in your best interests to keep it off of any record. I could gain access and find someone who has looked at some pretty immoral things such as porn. I would then issue a blackmail threat to them saying if you don’t pay me money, ill give your internet record to the media and expose your secrets. So far fetched? It has happened all throughout history, and this would only make it easier for the people who wish us harm.
Please, go to your state representatives and say this is a gross invasion of privacy, and to not support these proposals.
Else, we might just go back to having no internet at all because it would become a useless neutered tool that would only harm us. If any of this will come to be in this country, then I’m going to tell my ISP that I do not want their business anymore. When they ask me why, I will say they failed in keeping me safe and keeping my privacy safe.
Please go and visit the EFF and donate money for their cause and support of our rights on the internet. http://www.eff.org/
First things first, Im confused about how peopleofcollege.org is suddenly getting 4000 unique visits in one week when it was only getting 200 uniques in one month! What is going on here?! If anything, I just hope that this trend keeps on going!
Secondly, I got a new phone today. Its the Droid 2. All I can say? AWESOME.
Third, my birthday is coming up and its gonna suck. Ill have a test on that day, and an examination the day after. Oh it will be an away game (if I remember correctly) too after that. Dang.
Still no updates to coding due to the fact that Im now in a software engineering class. One of the projects we are starting on is pretty much the same one that Ive been wanting to do for the past few months, so Ill have to post what Ive done about some of it and maybe it will help those of you looking for help. That is, if we do it, we have three we will be choosing from.
The hunt for themes has left me tired and bruised, but Ill keep searching. For now, this is gonna do until I have more time to make one that I like and can code myself.
I have been praying for him and his family. I hope his weekend has been better, he didnt look so good during our friday class.
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