life: September 2004 archives
Power to Animals
[ rakaur on Thu Sep 30 at 06:11 PM // category: eawr, life, programming, relationships, school, technology ]
First off: I’m definitely owning in IRPG:
- rakaur, the level 51 destroyer of worlds. Next level in 0 days, 15:06:11.
- sycobuny, the level 50 CockGrabber. Next level in 0 days, 07:46:59.
- rintaun, the level 50 ultimate lego warrior. Next level in 0 days, 13:27:15.
- madragoran, the level 49 gaidin. Next level in 0 days, 03:53:00.
In other news: at about 7:45 AM yesterday I bent over to pick up my backpack and when I came back up the power was out. This wasn’t too surprising, but the fact that it didn’t come back on immediately was pretty surprising. So, I go outside and my neighbors are all out there “we don’t have power.” Okay, so I didn’t forget to pay the bills at least. My ride shows up, we go to school. All the way down Edwardsville Road the lights are out in all buildings. The traffic lights are also out on Edwardsville Road and Wood River Ave. We get to school, and the main and south buildings are without power. However, right across the street, the east building has power. What the hell? Is that road a power grid seperator or something? We all just stood around for twenty minutes before they told us to go home.
I wasn’t too thrilled either way, as I didn’t have power at home. I spent the first thirty minutes looking for a corded phone (every phone in my house is cordless, and my cell was at my dad’s). When I finally found one and plugged it in the power came back on. Apparently some animal had chewed through a wire at a power distribution station, taking out several grids.
On a side note, I’m making progress with my Python project. I just built a few classes based on the asyncore module. It’s very interesting. I’m kind of confused though. It insists that the asyncore.poll method uses select.select, that asyncore.poll2 uses poll.poll, and that asyncore.poll3 uses select.poll. Those are all correct, according to the code; however, the process status is always listed as poll when using any of these (including asyncore.loop(use_poll=False)). I guess maybe the Python interpreter uses poll if the system supports it, even when you’re calling the select.select method. I’ll have to look that up I guess; it’s irking me.
No still haven’t talked to girl probably never will talk to girl no one cares if girl talks to me or I talk to girl except other guy that wants girl who will “get” her according to everyone I talk to which puts a real damper on my self-esteem as if I had any to begin with.
If you read that “sentence” and still want to ask me if I’ve talked to her you need to go cut your tongue out.
-- rakaur // 2004.09.30 @ 06:11 PM
The Daily Show
[ rakaur on Tue Sep 28 at 03:50 PM // category: life, relationships ]
To those of you that insist I update my blog: my back hurts so badly that by all laws of physics I really shouldn’t even be able to move at this point and going to football games and standing for four hours and sitting in stands for four hours probably doesn’t help but that’s okay I’ll keep going to the stupid volleyball games to see a girl I’ll never talk to because I have no testicles and girls latch themselves to your face like the godless blood sucking bastards from Alien and refuse to let go until they’ve drained your soul and left you an empty shell of a human being.
There, I updated my blog.
Ratassed goatfuckers.
-- rakaur // 2004.09.28 @ 03:50 PM
Football, Python, and Ruby
[ rakaur on Sat Sep 25 at 04:15 PM // category: life, programming, relationships, technology ]
I went to a football game last night.
Let me just give you a moment to digest the fact that I went to a football game.
Okay, so anyway. It was supposed to be a really good game, and it was. Of course, I didn’t really care either way, but it was still nice to be able to be around a bunch of people and have them set everything aside and just get along for once. We won 21-20 after being down 20-0 at halftime. I couldn’t really see much of the game (I was mostly watching the girl I want anyway), but it was still fun. Standing for like three hours screwed up my back nicely though.
I can safely say that I know Python now. I’ve read a ton of books until it got to the point where they were just repeating everything I knew. I’ll keep making plans on how to implement my first project though. The only thing I really wish it had is switch. There’s a PEP for it, but Guido (the Python author) doesn’t seem too keen on it. It’d be nice to have though.
On a related topic, I still haven’t found any decent “Learning Ruby” books. I guess I just won’t, since I don’t seem to care for it anyway. I thought perhaps it was the book I was reading, but I just don’t like it in any case.
-- rakaur // 2004.09.25 @ 04:15 PM
Every One is Addressed to me
[ rakaur on Wed Sep 22 at 05:54 PM // category: life, programming, relationships, technology ]
Yeah, so I gave up on Ruby. At least, on that particular book.
For now, I’m concentrating on Python, as it is awesome. Take the socket module for example. It’s pretty much a higher-abstraction interface to the C API, which is awesome. You can manipulate the sockets on the system API level if you choose to, or let Python handle all the dirty stuff if you choose not to. It’s very cool.
I’m going to another volleyball game tomorrow. Yeah, I know, I’m pathetic, etc.
Sorry for not updating this very often, but my life isn’t very interesting.
-- rakaur // 2004.09.22 @ 05:54 PM
Volleyball for the Win (Volume III)
[ rakaur on Mon Sep 13 at 09:12 PM // category: life, relationships ]
My current school played my home town today… and beat them rather severely. I only recognized two or so people… it’s been about four years since I last saw any of them.
I can’t talk to girls.
I have a lot of homework.
Yeah, that about sums it up for the day.
-- rakaur // 2004.09.13 @ 09:12 PM
Yay Eighteen
[ rakaur on Sun Sep 12 at 07:16 PM // category: life ]
Oh, right, it’s my birthday. I’m 18.
Yay for me.
-- rakaur // 2004.09.12 @ 07:16 PM
Volleyball for the Win (Volume II)
[ rakaur on Sat Sep 11 at 10:30 AM // category: life, programming, relationships, technology ]
Another awesome game last night.. we won again. It was a big tournament, with a bunch of schools. We only played one last night, and it was another “tied right to the end” game, which was awesome. The tourney continued this morning at 9:30, but I guess I’m going to have to sit that one out. Oh well. There’s a game Monday night against my home town, Bunker Hill, which should be awesome.
Oh, and there’s the other kid there that wants the girl I want. We both go just to watch her, it seems. That’s a bit of a conundrum.
I’ve been reading up on all the changes for PHP5. Some are pretty neat, some are pretty Java-retarded. I’m really beginning to hate OOP. I mean, I like the idea, but all of the implementations (excluding perhaps D’s) suck. I hate Java’s retarded interfaces and lack of anything else useful (which has been carried over into PHP5) and I hate C++’s multiple inheritance and kludgy templates. But the thing I hate most of all are accessors. Accessors are methods with the sole purpose of modifying and/or retrieving the value of a private property. I hate that. Isn’t it easier and less crappy to just make the variable public? But wait! That violates the OOP blah blah encapsulation blah blah. Okay, so why not just come up with a type modifier akin to public, private, and protected that allows for public read-only yet privately writable properties? Would that be really so hard? Oh wait, that would make fucking sense or something.
I don’t think I can stand to use OOP until D is finalized/standardized and put to real-world use. D is the Christ of the programming universe, IMO.
Oh right, 9/11 never forget etc. Tomorrow is my birthday; buy me shit.
-- rakaur // 2004.09.11 @ 10:30 AM
Volleyball for the Win
[ rakaur on Thu Sep 09 at 10:08 PM // category: life, relationships ]
Yeah, so I finally went to a volleyball game. It was pretty fun. The first few games were JV and not quite as exciting as the varsity games. We were getting pretty into it the last couple of games.
Of course, there’s always a down side. There were a few fuckwits there, as is to be expected. They continually showed their amazing ability to throw both soda bottles and Skittles at us. I know performing both of these feats at the same time is indeed impressive; however, it does get old, and you are quite stupid for doing it. I mean, what do they hope to prove? If they could apply the same skill to throwing a baseball then they might go somewhere in life. Unfortunately, it only applies to soda bottles and Skittles. The games were definitely more enjoyable after they left.
They’re not going to stop me from going to further games though. They’re stupid, and insist on showing it to everyone. I have no problem with that. I’m sure they’ll do it more tomorrow night too.
-- rakaur // 2004.09.09 @ 10:08 PM
The Day of Nothing
[ rakaur on Wed Sep 08 at 09:30 PM // category: life, relationships ]
Yeah, so, nothing happened today.
My cat, Pax, is insane. After last night, she’s now randomly climbing up all walls. Sometimes I’ll hear something and look behind me to see her climbing out of the ceiling after being hidden for a while. After I came home from school, she suddenly appeared climbing over the top of the partition (id est, brick wall) between my desk and the washing machines. It’s a little disconcerting; I’m still worried she’ll fall down in-between the wall and the sheetrock. That would suck.
Anyhow, I think I’m making progress on other fronts. I really like her for whatever random reason. I’m going to go to a volleyball game tomorrow after school, and I’m fairly sure she plays, so that’ll be neat. We also have to do a lab in Physics tomorrow, so maybe I can get into her group or something.
Yeah, definitely becoming obsessed again. At least I have some semblance of progress with this one, though.
-- rakaur // 2004.09.08 @ 09:30 PM
The Cat's Meow
[ rakaur on Tue Sep 07 at 10:10 PM // category: life ]
Yeah, so I was typing on IRC and I suddenly hear this clawing:
<sycobuny> I noticed they had the expansion for the threads
<sycobuny> without page reloading
<sycobuny> and I was like I KNOW HOW THEY DID THAT
<sycobuny> I was surprised it worked in firefox
<@rakaur> why
<@rakaur> ie and gecko are like
<sycobuny> because I've never been able to get that shit to work
<@rakaur> the only two mainstream render...
<@rakaur> my cat just climed into the... brb
<sycobuny> .............
I looked back, and my cat (whom I’ve named Pax) had climbed up the insulation and was about ready to dive down in-between the wall and the sheetrock.
Naturally I took a picture instead of trying to prevent that sooner.
Update:
<@rakaur> wtf
<@rakaur> i turn aorund and pax is climbing down from the top of the
wall again
<@rakaur> swear to god i'll come home from class tomorrow and hear
these distant meows for hours before i realize what the
dumbshit went and did
-- rakaur // 2004.09.07 @ 10:10 PM
The Concert Gods Ruin My Shit
[ rakaur on Mon Sep 06 at 09:34 AM // category: life, music ]
Swear to God, every time I try to go see a real band something happens and I wind up either:
- Not going;
- Going, but not seeing who I wanted to see.
I went to the St. Louis County Fair and Air Show last night because Sister Hazel was supposed to play. As we started walking in, there was a giant sign saying “SISTER HAZEL CANCELLED.” They’re from Florida, and that hurricane is ripping the hell out of Florida, so they cancelled to deal with matters at home, which is understandable.
Better Than Ezra played, and they were decent. I’d never really heard of them, and only recognized two or three songs. The lead singer was pretty funny, though. The drummer was good.
The twilight air show sucked. I was expecting some fancy stuff. They were flying old planes (the same the Tuskegee Airmen used) and did simple loops and stuff. It was neat, but I’ve been to so many air shows that it seemed lack luster.
The fireworks were pretty cool. I saw some random ones that did things like three-leaf clovers, so I guess we got the fireworks that no one else wanted or something. They were still really neat though. The best part was the chick in front of me. She had “shorts” on that were like six inches long if that, and clung to her ass. And she stood leaning on one leg, making her ass even more pronounced. You know, I usually wouldn’t mention something like this but fuck me dead if she didn’t have like the best ass I’ve ever seen. It was awesome.
However, even that pales in comparison to Harrison falling in the ditch. We were walking back to the car, and he goes to get on the runway from the grass. I look at the ground and mutter “er, Matt that doesn’t look too soli—” SLUSH. He stepped in like a foot of water. “SON OF A BITCH.” Then a few other people did it too. This one girl fell completely in I think.
Yeah, that was pretty awesome.
-- rakaur // 2004.09.06 @ 09:34 AM
The Battle of the Fish of Bunker Hill
[ rakaur on Sat Sep 04 at 04:23 PM // category: health, life ]
Yeah, so, drove up to Bunker Hill. Did some reading, some homework, some fishing, and took some pictures. Good mental health day.
Enjoy.
-- rakaur // 2004.09.04 @ 04:23 PM
The Last Butterfly
[ rakaur on Sat Sep 04 at 08:29 AM // category: life, movies ]
Okay, so, I didn’t get to go to that party. Oh well.
The other night I watched a pretty awesome movie: The Butterfly Effect. When I was 10 or 11, I used to write stories all the time. I had one that was like that movie, except you traversed time using a necklace or something. The general idea was the same: go back in time, change things, everything’s different in the future. I can’t say it was a very original plot; but, the addition of the character controlling it himself as a carry-over from his father was neat. All in all, it was a very good movie. Too bad the main role was portrayed by such a deplorable “actor.”
Ashton Kutcher did an absolutely dreadful job in this movie. I failed to see the conveyance of his love for Kayleigh (portrayed by Amy Smart, a real life, decent actress you may remember as TCW from Scrubs), or any other of the main characters. I failed to ever see him convey any feelings with any element throughout the entire movie. The only decent part was when he killed the sadistic son of a bitch of a brother in the “fratboy” future. He just seemed dumbfounded throughout the entire film. Horrible. Absolutely abysmal.
Last night, I watched The Last Samurai, again. I actually like this movie quite a bit, even though it’s a total load of shit. How condescending can Hollywood get? The last surviving Samurai in Japan is indeed not Japanese, but American. Yeah, that’s plausible.
I’m hoping I can get up to Bunker Hill some time today or tomorrow. I need a mental health day, and that’s the best way to go.
-- rakaur // 2004.09.04 @ 08:29 AM
The Day of the Cat
[ rakaur on Fri Sep 03 at 06:37 PM // category: eawr, life, relationships, school ]
Today was interesting.
I went to school hella early (~7:20 AM), to deal with some things and in hopes of talking to that girl, which didn’t happen. I don’t think anything has really progressed on the situation.
I was supposed to go to a party tonight, but it apparently doesn’t start until it’s way too late for me to go. Stupid football games.
Anyway, on to the interesting part. I get home, and my mom leaves and about 20 minutes later comes back with a new, old cat.
About a year ago, we got a pretty white kitten. We let her out and she started getting fleas. Later, my uncle/neighbor got drunk and threw the cat across the lawn (“body slammed” was the phrase a witness used). She ran away after that, and we hadn’t seen her since.
My mom went to look at someone’s dog, and they said they were giving away a cat they’d found. Turns out, it’s the aforementioned kitten, all grown up. Things like that make my day interesting.
Anyway, I took some pictures of my cats meeting each other. It’s not going well; they’ve been doing that for about an hour now.
-- rakaur // 2004.09.03 @ 06:37 PM
Some People Are Worse Than AIDS
[ rakaur on Thu Sep 02 at 02:08 PM // category: eawr, life, relationships, school ]
I’m so pissed off it’s almost beyond comprehension.
So, I finally “talked” to her. All we talked about was Physics homework, but it’s better than nothing. Later, in first hour, I discovered someone else (also in our Physics class) wants her, so I was immediately depressed for the rest of the day.
Why? Well, girls will pick anyone else over me. Always. I’m actually a decent and nice person, thus I get nothing. But, I digress.
Later, in Physics, I overheard this other kid and his friends talking about her. They’re typical, and were talking about nothing other than sex. To paraphrase, “I’d like to cum all over her face.”
So, at this point, I was pretty pissed off. You know, right now, I don’t care who “gets” her. I only know that I won’t sit around and let someone like that do something like that to someone so innocent. It’s just fucked up. I don’t know what to do, but I think my only option is to talk to her and tell her what I heard at the risk of being taken for a liar, and wind up getting in a fight. I don’t even care. I won’t let someone hurt her like that.
On another subject, I come home to find that, after two years, Charter changed my IP address. They recently built an office in Roxana, which is a few miles from me. I noticed they changed people in Hartford over to it. I figured they’d leave me alone, because I’m in East Alton, and closer to the Alton office than the Roxana office, but no. This bothered me at first, because I have to change so much shit now. But you know, in comparison with the other stuff that happened today, it doesn’t even matter.
I fucking hate people.
-- rakaur // 2004.09.02 @ 02:08 PM
No Backbone Since 1986
[ rakaur on Wed Sep 01 at 05:18 PM // category: eawr, life, relationships, school, technology, web ]
Yeah, didn’t talk to her yet. I will tomorrow. I swear.
We had hella Physics homework today, so I can use that as a conversation starter. I had like the perfect opportunities too. I never do anything, and I regret it all day. I hate me.
Sorry about the page being messed up all day (as if anyone reads this). I kind of forgot about the possibility that there wouldn’t be any posts for a month.
Oh, I didn’t have any pictures to post today, so I went outside and took some. If you haven’t caught on yet: I like to take pictures.
-- rakaur // 2004.09.01 @ 05:18 PM
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