Actually, I can’t wait for this semester to be over. Most of my classes become really frightening when deadlines come up so I’m honestly not having all that much fun, and the internship sucks away two full days of every... (03:17 PM, 11/01/08)

I’ve been a lot more involved — if you want to call it that — with the whole political process this year, thanks to the Obama cheerleaders in Pokechat. I’ve not only watched the debates and read a ton of... (10:26 PM, 10/07/08)

Especially six hour long ones! At least we get an hour lunch break. -_- The stranger thing is that there’s going to be this whole month and a half where we don’t have classes at all… we just meet up... (07:33 PM, 09/06/08)

I’m going through one of my money-agonizing phases. This time over Wii / Wii Fit. I seem to have these periods in which I will almost-definitely-want to buy something, usually something expensive, but be unsure if it’s really a necessary... (06:26 PM, 07/12/08)

… is one really mean troll. And he’s only got one arm, too. Imagine what he could do with two. o_O Though that’s not really fair, I suppose, since mostly he channels the spirit thingers and doesn’t do his own... (09:57 PM, 06/14/08)

So the main symptom is that I’m seeing double. On my laptop, I mean. Like this: double1.jpg, double2.jpg. The other problem is that it most often will not boot into anything but safe mode. If I boot in something other... (08:31 PM, 05/29/08)

Why me? Graphics cards and me just don’t get along. Looks like my Vostro’s graphics card has been fried. The display is squished and duplicated horizontally… so I see the exact same display shown one on top of the other.... (06:51 PM, 05/26/08)

I should really whine about how I’m blocked more often… more often than not, I end up coming with a solution shortly afterwards. O.o At any rate, I finally got past this rather severe problem I was having in MTOS.... (02:41 AM, 05/19/08)

Oh it’s so nice to be done. So… so… so… nice. I will do an entry about the year in retrospect (I SWEAR THIS TIME), but for now, I am seriously just going to relax. Except not, because there’s a... (03:01 PM, 05/01/08)

Got a fair amount of work done! Maybe … 30%? It’s difficult to estimate… but I did most of the hard programming stuff. Now I just (“just”) have to create the actual scene (which will be pretty monotonous, so that... (05:18 AM, 04/27/08)

Damn AC is turned up too high in here. ::cringes:: Six more days of pain and suffering! Though maybe really only three/four. Friday: Final writing assignment (check!) Monday: Final film project due! (1% done or something. -_- ) Tuesday: Final... (11:30 AM, 04/26/08)

So. I’ve run into the first application I have ever wanted to try that is Mac only. :( (well, not counting Enigmo, but there WAS a Windows port of it, so I didn’t suffer any crisis then.) It’s a game... (10:24 AM, 03/24/08)

This class really bothers me. We had a lecture today about our next assignment, which is supposed to be about exploration of space. Instructor basically showed us a number of examples, all of which were either not really very interesting... (11:17 AM, 03/06/08)

NOT COOL. Write up presentation for “your own theme park” by Monday night (presentation on Tuesday) Brainstorm and get together with games design workshop group to decide on and build our first prototype by Monday night (class is on Tuesday)... (01:30 PM, 02/09/08)

Well I’m enjoying my PSP a lot more lately, since I actually picked up a couple games to try (part of my endeavor to PLAY MOAR GAMEZ)… Crush and Puzzle Quest. If you haven’t seen Crush, here’s the trailer. It’s... (09:15 AM, 02/07/08)

If there’s one aspect of gaming that I do not understand, it’s this one. Sealed Chrono Trigger Fetching a High Price on eBay A seller is currently hosting an auction for a sealed copy of Chrono Trigger for the Super... (12:21 PM, 02/03/08)

I found this website called the “Interactive Media Awards”… here’s what they profess to do: The Interactive Media Awards™ recognize the highest standards of excellence in website design and development and honor individuals and organizations for their outstanding achievement. Apparently... (03:20 PM, 01/20/08)

So we got sent a new lease for the 08-09 year… they’re increasing our rent by over $100. -_- Our current rent is already kind of ridiculous considering the size of the place… sure, we get satellite television included, but... (11:45 PM, 01/19/08)

I can’t believe I’d ever say that. But it’s incredibly true. I’ve discovered, more and more after arriving at this program, that I’m really not very immersed in gaming culture as I pretend to be. People talk about games that... (01:43 PM, 01/16/08)

I can’t decide if I should try to take a 3d class this semester. :\ The classes are all full, but maybe I can slip in on the first day… Or even if I can’t, I should try to decide... (11:48 PM, 01/08/08)

:\ I really didn’t want Kensei Takezo to end up a villain. I’m not sure why exactly… maybe I’m not entirely convinced that Hiro’s moment of weakness — albeit, very stupid one — ends up ballooning into the reason for... (12:45 PM, 11/06/07)

It is absolutely imperative that I flip and write every day. If I do not flip every day, then I will lose the motivation of having something written for every day, which will eventually lead to weblog disrepair. I am... (11:55 PM, 10/15/07)

(crossposted from limelight) Just a couple quick comments on tonight’s seminar, which I thought was pretty damn interesting. (by the numbers, clearly other people agree.) There was a lot of stuff said and while I did spend a couple very... (01:00 AM, 10/11/07)

(crossposted from me@imd) We had a fascinating 505 class session today, if I do say so myself. :P There was a nice overview of Net Neutrality, complete with Ted Stevens and “The Machine Is Us” videos… both of which I... (06:51 PM, 09/20/07)

Toshiba tablet arrived in my hands on Sep. 13, 2004. That makes it just over three years old, which in computing years — especially portable computers — is pretty damn old. In that period of time, it has gone... (11:58 PM, 09/19/07)

If I had unlimited finances, I would get all this. That OGIO bag that was in the bookstore Ticket to Wicked Cable internet service, because the service we have now bites A Campfire premium account, so that we don’t have... (08:49 PM, 09/12/07)

My interview with Jason Dzsomething went well, actually, but I’m not sure I should take the job. He gave me this “sales pitch” at the beginning and it sounded pretty nice, but maybe too intensive to take on with the... (09:01 PM, 08/23/07)

You know what annoys me about action sequences in Naruto lately… An anime episode on a movie file that is 22 minutes long… we’ll drop five of them to account for the opening and ending sequences. So that’s 18 minutes.... (02:54 PM, 08/19/07)

I really find it odd how many people do not understand the story behind Dev’s “Frame of Mind”. I mean, we’ve shown the film to non-WoW players and they still get what happened and understand the user inferface metaphor. I... (09:26 PM, 07/04/07)

So like, this design isn’t working. ::lol:: I mean, I still like the overall appearance, but changing stuff is still too much work… and I keep pushing myself to do it too often. Not to mention, I’m running out of... (12:22 PM, 07/01/07)

Spent like, three hours this morning, reading in bed. And haven’t done anything that was remotely mentally extraneous since then. I feel really listless and tired, not wanting to do anything or go anywhere or see anyone, while simultaneously feeling... (06:57 PM, 06/23/07)

Presentation went terribly. Skype sucked and dropped connection three times while I was talking. I could also HEAR myself on the other end with a two second delay, which is hugely distracting when you’re trying to maintain self-coherency. And Aida... (10:45 PM, 06/11/07)

… there’s probably a reason. I was wondering why USC had been so very silent since I sent in my Statement of Intent to Enroll (SIE?) … it turns out they never received it. Which is unfortunate, cause there was... (03:46 PM, 06/06/07)

Uh, okay. Due to getting into a graduate school that is on the semester system… school starts in mid/late August for me (29thish?) … so this list that I made out a loooong time ago on stuff I want to... (03:08 PM, 05/23/07)

Why is it so terribly hard to just be happy in this world? On a completely different note, my daemon is an osprey named Alexius. I screwed up when getting him, so other people can’t input their opinions and change... (12:37 PM, 04/29/07)

S/he… … wishes both to be challenged and to live an unfettered lifestyle. … wants to be unique and individual, while also being part of a homogenous whole. … wants to be understood, but resents when someone assumes too much... (05:57 PM, 04/27/07)

In badminton, the most annoying thing in the world is when you know where the birdie is going to go, but you still miss it… or worse, you were STANDING there and missed it. On the other hand, the most... (01:40 PM, 04/12/07)

I’m a little… disconcerted. I’ve sent e-mails to both UCSB and UCI, inquiring about miscellaneous things… that was on Sunday. Mainly they were questions to help me decide which school to go to. Neither school has responded and it’s been... (02:44 PM, 04/04/07)

Here’s a list of the stuff I’d like to get done. Clean. My. Room. This mainly consists of organizing my closet and chest o’ drawers… both of which are overflowing with clothing. I also have TWO suitcases filled with clothes... (05:17 PM, 03/27/07)

I’ve come up with a brand new term for this new kind of cold/flu symptom that I just discovered. The COUGHACHE. Cause when you cough, there’s this region of muscles below your ribcage that tighten and tense, because you’re breathing... (10:26 PM, 03/17/07)

I just watched yesterday’s Heroes episode. And… I dunno, I naturally had a huge reaction to everything that happened in it, but now I’m kind of spent. Fantastic episode, though, really killer (no pun intended) and emotional and all that... (08:18 AM, 02/27/07)

The pressure is on. I’ve made very little progress on Voices in the past couple weeks, which needs to be quickly remedied, or else I’m in a whole boatload of trouble. I could blame WoW. As I’ve been playing an... (08:57 PM, 02/25/07)

Well, I was going to totally rant about the latest Heroes ep, like a crazy girl, but my log was down at the time and I’ve since then gotten most of my giddiness out. So I’ll keep my observations down... (11:33 PM, 02/20/07)

I’m having a little trouble coming up with the tone of voice I should be using for this one, but other than it should be okay. Still, something about this prompt doesn’t seem quite right to me… Personal Achievements/Contributions: UC... (03:16 PM, 02/17/07)

Let me start off by saying that despite my complete and sincere resistance to switching to Apple, I am by no means deluded into thinking that Windows is a perfect operating system. I am well aware of the general opinion... (09:29 PM, 02/12/07)

Sometimes I just can’t stop thinking. Usually this starts out when I’m considering a simple problem… something like, what do I want for dinner tonight? or how do I fix that programming bug? or what should I have been typing... (06:20 PM, 02/08/07)

WHO in their right mind decided that it was necessary to have MORE THAN ONE “detect right click” channel in every place that the information was needed… instead of having ONE right-click channel and then MAKING SHORTCUTS to it from... (03:57 PM, 02/05/07)

I found that they had this “alert me when such-and-such is in stock again” deal on their website, for the Burning Crusade: Collector’s Edition, right? So I click on it and enter my e-mail address, just for kicks. That was... (06:27 PM, 01/14/07)

I really like mezzoblue’s redesign. I just really like how utterly different it feels, while still retaining a clean look. I have this sort of love-hate relationship with centered designs… mostly I just don’t like them, since they feel so... (03:40 AM, 12/26/06)

It hasn’t been twenty four hours yet, but I did take a sizeable nap in between yesterday’s debacle and now… so I think I’m becoming a little more clear-headed. Still depressed, but trying not to think about it. If you... (12:50 AM, 12/22/06)

I cracked. I may have done all right on the analytical section, but was pressed for time on both essays… literally taking up to the very last second to finish my thoughts. But then the quantitative came up and the... (11:43 AM, 12/21/06)

Note: the following was written while extremely unbalanced because tonight’s Heroes ep was incredibly distressing and there will be no relief until sometime next month. Stupid network television. NOOOOOOooooooooo! Eden DIED! I liked Eden so much and she was SO... (12:01 AM, 12/05/06)

Graduate Applications Write a few other miscellaneous writing pieces… nothing as formal as the Statement of Purpose, so they should all be relatively easier. famous last words… Finish filling out online applications; once SoP is approved and cleaned to the... (10:26 AM, 12/02/06)

Who says they’ve all already been taken? We had our last 160A class today and another ICAM department person came to drop in and hear what our projects were all about. She wasn’t exactly an artist, I don’t think… more... (04:02 PM, 11/29/06)

Another thing that’s been bugging me for a while, as trivial as it is, is the fact that I think I’ve totally missed the chance to get my hands on a WoW Expansion Collector’s Edition… which makes me sad. (To... (12:52 PM, 11/19/06)

When professors, who are perfectly web-savvy and know how to use a computer and an e-mail client, have normal paper-and-permanent-marker signs posted in front of their classroom doors about how class is cancelled and how their students definitely won’t see... (12:14 PM, 11/15/06)

Games 4 Girls at Gamestop: Gagging, Weeping, Bleeding From the Eyes, courtesy of Alex. As a female gamer, I’m really kind of offended. Everything about that display is just… a little alarming, if it’s a serious indication of what the... (01:31 PM, 11/12/06)

So far, this has been a very “well crud” kind of day. And I don’t know about you, but I’ve only been awake for 48 minutes. -_- I got an e-mail from place that’s offering the internship. And it says... (12:50 PM, 10/13/06)

This “flowerbabii699” person has been IMing me with random lines. The first ten times it happened, I just ignored it… I thought they were generic spambot lines, which I just ignore. Don’t bother to block, because bots never IM twice.... (05:54 PM, 10/10/06)

Reinstalled the OS on my tablet, just cause. It was amazingly fast, actually… most of the time was spent downloading and reinstalling applications. But now I have a cleaned up tablet and it makes me feel better. :P Then I... (03:12 PM, 10/01/06)

It’s really kind of funny how society values can ingrain themselves into you, no matter how much you think you’ve avoided them, how much you think you’ve refused to let them sway your mindset. As much as you pretend to... (12:25 AM, 09/07/06)

This is absolutely infuriating. C:\Documents and Settings\Kass\workspace\project-voices\voices>javac Voice.java Voice.java:18: cannot find symbol symbol : class DatabaseAccess location: class voices.Voice DatabaseAccess dbAccess; ^ Voice.java:28: cannot find symbol symbol : class ExpressionCrawler location: class voices.Voice public ExpressionCrawler crawler; ^ Voice.java:34: cannot find... (02:20 AM, 09/02/06)

… for burning audio CDs. NEVER … burn audio CDs with iTunes. It cut my 1:00 sound file into a thirty second one for no reason at all. And it keeps doing it. It’s also done similar things to many... (06:33 PM, 07/26/06)

I am such a wuss. I am totally exhausted and sore as **** after moving and carrying crap all day long. I’ve concluded two things: (1) I have too much trash, but that can’t always be helped. (2) I am... (11:55 PM, 06/17/06)

So I was thinking. As a quasi-hardcore WoW player, I hear this a lot. “It’s just a game.” I’ll admit that I get worked up over things in game… over items or quests, over how so-and-so did such-and-such, or whatever... (12:55 AM, 05/22/06)

try { // Load the JDBC driver System.out.println("check 1"); Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"); System.out.println("check 2"); // Create a connection to the database String url = "jdbc:mysql://" + serverURL + "/" + DATABASENAME; // a JDBC url System.out.println("check 3"); conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url, username,... (03:44 AM, 05/16/06)

Pardon me while I indulge myself in a moment of extremely and completely feminine pursuit. I ran out of shampoo this morning. Which is really very aggravating, because I like to use a particular kind of shampoo that’s not located... (01:26 PM, 05/12/06)