I just took a break,...

Date: 2000-04-26 21:08:00

I just took a break, having finished one homework assignment (only two remaining in that class this year), I read another page in this pseudo webring, which conveniently referenced distracting students from their homework. I would like to point out that, due in part to a purchase I made while in the presence of the author of this website, my visual lexical parsers are quite tuned, so I am able to read the content this individual puts up without expending too much other time valuable for homework, coding, and playing xgalaga. I'll also point out that my current place of schooling provides plenty of opportunities to meet females meeting a specific religious preference or background, which right now is somewhere between "pseudo-SDAish enough to go to Union" to "slightly below a full religious nut". I will obliquely mention to the unnamed individual referenced in this paragraph, whom anyone who actually bothers to frequent this site can probably determine the actual identity of, that my schools (for the target age group, colleges) are convenient places to meet similarly-aged females.

To provide further evidence that some supernatural entity enjoys playing with my head, I finally figured out the name of the (don't laugh) Kenny G song that has been running around in my head since noon Monday: "A Year Ago". I'm really not certain how it got there; it is possible but unlikely that I heard it sometime before noon Monday, but the only other solution is that I heard it years ago (I'm guessing at least three years) and it spontaneously surfaced. (Then there's the playful supernatural entity theory that has too much empirical evidence backing it up to dismiss totally.) This gets ironic, or even scary, when one considers that the only reason this song gets so much airtime now is that it speaks to my contemplative but messed-up emotional state at the moment due to an event Sunday evening that referenced what was happening a year ago.

Got Neelix's Voodoo2/3000 when he got a Voodoo3/5000. Tried but failed to get 3d acceleration going (I still can't find good docs for it) and eventually got X working with the svga server, which works decently, except that the pixmaps in Netscape display in black and white and the Netscape and xdm fonts are way bigger than they were before. (Some of this might have to do with certain apparent weirdness possibly with GDK, which causes the Mozilla star pixmap functioning as a Dvorak keyboard indicator to have funky colors in the background. This appeared before I installed the Voodoo, after I updated more Debian packages.) Learned the downsides of a sedentary lifestyle. Wondered if running fifteen kilometers a week is enough to escape such downsides. Considered building an analog clock whose hour hand makes one complete rotation in twenty-four hours instead of twelve. Successfully resisted the urge to quote any lyrics in this news item.