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I want a home. I just can’t help it.

Amen, sister.

steve :: Sep.29.2003 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »

I thought this was amusing. According to the Red Book, I am a Confused Bounder, my Elven name is Vardahriveion, my Hobbit name is Ilberic Hornblower from Frogmorton, my Dwarven name is Garin Clawtears, and my Orcish name is Snikwakh the Tough. I like those names.

I ran a bunch of friends’ names through as well. The character descriptions are definitely the best part. Alex is Valiant Longbeard, apparently. The most uncannily accurate one is certainly Lisa’s though. According to the Red Book of Westmarch, Lisa Marie Homstad was an Irritating Elven Maiden. Try it yourself, if you don’t believe me.

steve :: Sep.29.2003 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »

I thought I would quickly go over what I planned to do this weekend and what I actually did. I planned to spend a good deal of time Saturday and today studying for my thermodynamics test, which is tomorrow. In reality I went to the library yesterday, read Ayn Rand’s Anthem (concluding that it was indeed the inspiration for Rush’s 2112) and started Snow Crash. Today I woke up and read Snow Crash until I was finished and then tutored Liz. So I got nothing done, and now tonight I’m going to try to cram, which will continue through tomorrow morning (but not all night). Then there will be the test. Then I will try to finish the homework for 538. Maybe things will slow down a bit after that, but I doubt it.

steve :: Sep.29.2003 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »

Robert and Elizabeth stopped by earlier today. I have a somewhat noble goal of learning to cook in my head, and they’ve been cooking for themselves for years. Liz filled several pages in one of my notebooks with tips and recipes, and Robert had seemingly endless ideas for ways to make good homemade food without much effort. Now all I need is some money and a trip to the grocery store. I feel that I won’t be able to really improve the quality of my living situation until I learn to do more than buy cheap nasty premade food.

Now I’ll need to find somewhere to eat.

steve :: Sep.28.2003 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »

I’ve decided to read Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson, but neither library in town has it checked in right now. While I was waiting (I put a hold on it) I decided to see what else he had written, and I ran across In The Beginning Was The Command Line. Somehow that title was very familiar, and I when I read the sample excerpt on Amazon I realized that I had already read it, and in fact still have a copy of it in html form. I don’t actually know if it’s the entire text or not, but it seems complete.

I kept it around because he talks about Ames and his computer science class at Ames High School, which is a pretty direct connection to my life (though I attended AHS many years later).

Anyways, if you’re curious and have time to read, enjoy.

steve :: Sep.26.2003 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »

I scanned a bunch of photographs from the three hour adventure Andy and I took to find the ledges last Saturday. It is now documented, and I’m going to take a break. Those might get tweaked and edited a bit yet, but for now I’m satisfied.

steve :: Sep.25.2003 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »

No, they’re not up yet, sorry. Scanning is a giant pain in the ass and I didn’t have the patience for it tonight. I did however get them back, and I’m quite impressed with the results. My camera seems to be working flawlessly now. I forgot how nice it is to have a working light meter. The flash even synchronizes properly with the shutter. I’m very happy.

steve :: Sep.24.2003 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »

I scanned 25 or so photographs I took back in high school. These are some of my favorites, though there are others somewhere that I really like as well. I’ll have to sort through more things to see what is and what isn’t in my photo albums.

Go check them out.

steve :: Sep.23.2003 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »

Maybe it should be steaming lecture?

Ross and I watched the live stream of our Thermodynamics lecture today instead of actually going to class. I don’t think I learn any more or less this way, since class is a pointless waste of time in this case. Nelson expects us to do 2 or 3 hours of homework a night, yet seems unable to even give the examples he plans to do in class a once-over. The stream affords the me advantage of being able to talk freely, call the professor an asshole, flip him off, etc without getting in trouble. Ross spent most of the lecture looking at somethingawful and pricing a PC he wants to build. How productive we are.

steve :: Sep.22.2003 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »

Go check out today’s adventures.

steve :: Sep.21.2003 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »