I was right. I never actually was able to talk to my boss about that project. But on the up side we got Jimmy Johns for dinner. I'm so easy to placate. Blow off my important questions but feed me good subs and I'm content. Hopefully tonight I can pin him down and make my point clear.
Cheese is all pretty and re-merchandized. Basically we had to take everything apart, clean, re-organize, put it back together. It took longer than we expecter but we also spent a good hour or so slacking and goofing around. ah well.
Thursday, December 15
Wednesday, December 14
go off on tangents
Lately I keep starting things but never finish. Like books. And mix cds. And projects at work. And cleaning my room. Oh yea and probably the biggest one... my website.... The worst part is I see this and yet i can't bring myself to change it.
I don't work until 6 pm tonight. So I had all day and could have gotten so many different things done. At the very least I could have cleaned my room, finished those cds and made some webpages. nope. None of the above. I woke up at 7 am. I read for a couple hours. (so I guess I kinda made some progress) I took a nap. I ate some lunch. I watched Empire Records. And now I'm back at the computer.
So I work today from 6 pm to 3 am. Why? you ask. To re-merchandise cheese. Yea I don't know what that means either. But I can tell you all about it tomorrow.
I realized the reason I haven't really posted anything lately is because all I do is work and sleep and spend time online. Which doesn't seem all that interesting to me. But I've decided to begin posting about it anyway. And maybe it will lead me to more interesting topics to talk about. For example this post has just gotten ridiculous with its miscellanity. yes that's right I like to make up words.
Tonight at work I'm supposed to talk to my boss about one of those projects and why I've seemingly stagnated and how we can fix that. Hopefully it will be a good meeting. I predict, however, that we'll talk about it, but nothing will be changed to help me get the job done.
So I'm caving in. I need an mp3 player, and have needed one, but I couldn't bring myself to buy an iPod. It seemed too cliched, too mainstream. And this isn't something I usually have a problem with, but this time it bothered me. Now I'm caving. But to be different I'm buying the black one. When was the last time you saw someone with the black iPod? I don't think I ever have. The question is, what to have engraved on the back. By purchasing online, I get free shipping and two lines of 27 characters to be engraved for free. It's actually more space than it sounds like. I've been trying to come up with something better than "alex's iPod" because if that's the best you can do, you really shouldn't be engraving anything at all. Let me know if you have suggestions.
I don't work until 6 pm tonight. So I had all day and could have gotten so many different things done. At the very least I could have cleaned my room, finished those cds and made some webpages. nope. None of the above. I woke up at 7 am. I read for a couple hours. (so I guess I kinda made some progress) I took a nap. I ate some lunch. I watched Empire Records. And now I'm back at the computer.
So I work today from 6 pm to 3 am. Why? you ask. To re-merchandise cheese. Yea I don't know what that means either. But I can tell you all about it tomorrow.
I realized the reason I haven't really posted anything lately is because all I do is work and sleep and spend time online. Which doesn't seem all that interesting to me. But I've decided to begin posting about it anyway. And maybe it will lead me to more interesting topics to talk about. For example this post has just gotten ridiculous with its miscellanity. yes that's right I like to make up words.
Tonight at work I'm supposed to talk to my boss about one of those projects and why I've seemingly stagnated and how we can fix that. Hopefully it will be a good meeting. I predict, however, that we'll talk about it, but nothing will be changed to help me get the job done.
So I'm caving in. I need an mp3 player, and have needed one, but I couldn't bring myself to buy an iPod. It seemed too cliched, too mainstream. And this isn't something I usually have a problem with, but this time it bothered me. Now I'm caving. But to be different I'm buying the black one. When was the last time you saw someone with the black iPod? I don't think I ever have. The question is, what to have engraved on the back. By purchasing online, I get free shipping and two lines of 27 characters to be engraved for free. It's actually more space than it sounds like. I've been trying to come up with something better than "alex's iPod" because if that's the best you can do, you really shouldn't be engraving anything at all. Let me know if you have suggestions.
Saturday, December 10
Make Mix Tapes... cds? whatever...
So I noticed today that when I make a general mix cd there's a similar feel to all the songs. Sure the list includes two or three songs that are added on purely because they're new and I can't get them out of my head, but most fit together. I suppose this shouldnt' be a surprise. The interesting part, and of course the point I'm trying to make, it what the common theme seems to be. This most recent cd can be summed up as songs about missing the last stage of life you left. About wanting to go back and the memories of those people/places/events.
Huh. I didn't know I was feeling like that. The crazy (impressive?) thing is the variety of songs. It's not like I put together a list of tracks that are all slow and "woe is me! I miss..."
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Toxic Toast?
Hot Hot Heat - Shame on You?
Monty Python - The Galaxy Song?!?!?!
How did I not realize the theme sooner? Of course there are songs that were obvious:
Remy Zero - Perfect Memory
Fountains of Wayne - Hackensack
But that's just a handful of songs. So apparently... I've been in a remembering kind of mood lately. Who knew.
Huh. I didn't know I was feeling like that. The crazy (impressive?) thing is the variety of songs. It's not like I put together a list of tracks that are all slow and "woe is me! I miss..."
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Toxic Toast?
Hot Hot Heat - Shame on You?
Monty Python - The Galaxy Song?!?!?!
How did I not realize the theme sooner? Of course there are songs that were obvious:
Remy Zero - Perfect Memory
Fountains of Wayne - Hackensack
But that's just a handful of songs. So apparently... I've been in a remembering kind of mood lately. Who knew.
Friday, December 9
websites
Hey, so I have a website now. part of a website? sure. www.gangstaninjasfrombrewcity.com I didn't pick the name. Blame Matt and Drew. Most likely it's entirely Matt's fault. There's nothing too interesting up there. Check it out anyway. Go on. DO IT you know you want to.
Tuesday, July 5
Live 8
So I watched most of the Live 8 concert this weekend and it made me start thinking about some things. Now I'm all for ending poverty and I know opening up markets and increasing trade will go a long way to helping out people in these countries, but no one ever really talked about these issues:
1) We get cheaper medicines to these countries and let's say it halves the number of people dying every day... How will these 10 000 people who no longer die each day get fed when there are already hundreds of thousands starving?
2) If there are farmers trying to get their crops sold and people starving, why isn't more of the food making it to local markets? Why focus on the international/intercontinental?
3) At least twice I heard statements saying "It's time we step up and help out. AIDS was introduced to Africa to keep them down just like the government put crack in the ghettos in the 70s. We need to stand up and say that's not right."
Do people believe that? That some secret coalition of western world leaders thought to themselves "hey I know how we can keep african farmers from competing with us, lets give them an incurable disease" Seriously? The whole crack in the ghettos thing is at least plausible, but AIDS? People really need to get their facts straight before going on national tv and blurting stuff out.
Just things I thought about.
1) We get cheaper medicines to these countries and let's say it halves the number of people dying every day... How will these 10 000 people who no longer die each day get fed when there are already hundreds of thousands starving?
2) If there are farmers trying to get their crops sold and people starving, why isn't more of the food making it to local markets? Why focus on the international/intercontinental?
3) At least twice I heard statements saying "It's time we step up and help out. AIDS was introduced to Africa to keep them down just like the government put crack in the ghettos in the 70s. We need to stand up and say that's not right."
Do people believe that? That some secret coalition of western world leaders thought to themselves "hey I know how we can keep african farmers from competing with us, lets give them an incurable disease" Seriously? The whole crack in the ghettos thing is at least plausible, but AIDS? People really need to get their facts straight before going on national tv and blurting stuff out.
Just things I thought about.
Thursday, June 30
follow up
Just in case any one was remotely curious... that professor I hated... yea still hate him, but he also gave me an a-.
don't really know why. I got a 90 on the final project that didn't work. And some how must have saved the exam. who knew?
don't really know why. I got a 90 on the final project that didn't work. And some how must have saved the exam. who knew?
Monday, May 16
Wednesday, May 4
Tuesday, April 19
Explain
Crazy ranting complaining ahead... be warned....
(I just realized I start all my stories with the word so....hmmm oh well, don't care)
So I know I didn't get my Optimization homework done. I turn in incomplete homework for other courses all the time. I take my lowered grade and move on. Not this time. Stupid professor pulls me aside after class, brings out my homework and asks "I'd guess you're not happy with how this turned out, huh?" Well no shit... "No, but I worked on it for hours and couldn't get the second question into the 4th degree polynomial." "Well I have office hours today so why don't you come by and we'll get this fixed." What?! you mean I have to redo it? It's a beautiful day! I was going to go play some disc golf and then head to work at 3 pm! Noooooooo! "All right I'll stop in then."
Rage! So much Rage! Must swim out anger. Hour later: too tired to be angry... want to nap... want to eat...
I go to office hours, show him the work I've done so far and where I got stuck. He brings up Maple (If you do complicated math with any regularity Maple ought to be your new beast friend) and he starts plugging stuff in. Now I know Maple well enough, but umm wow, didn't know it could do that! That makes my life so much easier! So he gets to the gobbledygook 6th degree root crap I got stuck at and I mention this and he says "huh." Of course where I was stymied, he reaches into his nifty little bag of this is why I'm the professor tricks and gets an actual 6th degree polynomial that can't be factored.
Victory is mine! Professor 0 - Alex 1 I'm not just retarded! He doesn't know what to do with this either! Shit! What did he just do? He just got 6 sets of points, 2 complex that get thrown out and I'm left with 4 roots... like he originally said I would. Professor 1 - Alex 1. Yes I can go to the lab and redo the problem and turn it in tomorrow....
Problem 2: "What's this error you got here?" I ran HIS code like HE told me to and got a weird error output. Not my fault, not gonna change the code, just gonna turn it in as is. "Well that's what I got when I ran it with (0,0) as my starting point." "Here in the lab? let's try again and see what's going on." Oh please let it spit out the error again. Don't make me look like a fool... BAM there it is. Exact same result! Vindicated again! A few minutes of narration and code testing later he turns to me and says "Congratulations you just disovered a flaw in my code!" Woohoo! So that can be left as is. Professor 1 - Alex 2
Problem 3: "Umm these are KKT conditions, and the question asks about Lagrange conditions..." Um, I know, but I skipped the day you covered Lagrange so I had to consult that massive textbook we don't even use and these are the only relevant conditions I could find. Professor 2 - Alex 2 "Oops." "Ok well lets start at the beginning... What is the objective function?" "x^2 + y^2 = r^2? no that's the constraint, so just x?" long pause "Right...and..." and what? it's just x. isn't it? we're minimizing x. So 10 minutes of me feeling small and stupid later, I'm now on my way to the lab to fix 2 problems. Professor 3 - Alex 2 Dang it.
So much for disc golf, so much for going into work. Now I'm just cranky and pissed.
(I just realized I start all my stories with the word so....hmmm oh well, don't care)
So I know I didn't get my Optimization homework done. I turn in incomplete homework for other courses all the time. I take my lowered grade and move on. Not this time. Stupid professor pulls me aside after class, brings out my homework and asks "I'd guess you're not happy with how this turned out, huh?" Well no shit... "No, but I worked on it for hours and couldn't get the second question into the 4th degree polynomial." "Well I have office hours today so why don't you come by and we'll get this fixed." What?! you mean I have to redo it? It's a beautiful day! I was going to go play some disc golf and then head to work at 3 pm! Noooooooo! "All right I'll stop in then."
Rage! So much Rage! Must swim out anger. Hour later: too tired to be angry... want to nap... want to eat...
I go to office hours, show him the work I've done so far and where I got stuck. He brings up Maple (If you do complicated math with any regularity Maple ought to be your new beast friend) and he starts plugging stuff in. Now I know Maple well enough, but umm wow, didn't know it could do that! That makes my life so much easier! So he gets to the gobbledygook 6th degree root crap I got stuck at and I mention this and he says "huh." Of course where I was stymied, he reaches into his nifty little bag of this is why I'm the professor tricks and gets an actual 6th degree polynomial that can't be factored.
Victory is mine! Professor 0 - Alex 1 I'm not just retarded! He doesn't know what to do with this either! Shit! What did he just do? He just got 6 sets of points, 2 complex that get thrown out and I'm left with 4 roots... like he originally said I would. Professor 1 - Alex 1. Yes I can go to the lab and redo the problem and turn it in tomorrow....
Problem 2: "What's this error you got here?" I ran HIS code like HE told me to and got a weird error output. Not my fault, not gonna change the code, just gonna turn it in as is. "Well that's what I got when I ran it with (0,0) as my starting point." "Here in the lab? let's try again and see what's going on." Oh please let it spit out the error again. Don't make me look like a fool... BAM there it is. Exact same result! Vindicated again! A few minutes of narration and code testing later he turns to me and says "Congratulations you just disovered a flaw in my code!" Woohoo! So that can be left as is. Professor 1 - Alex 2
Problem 3: "Umm these are KKT conditions, and the question asks about Lagrange conditions..." Um, I know, but I skipped the day you covered Lagrange so I had to consult that massive textbook we don't even use and these are the only relevant conditions I could find. Professor 2 - Alex 2 "Oops." "Ok well lets start at the beginning... What is the objective function?" "x^2 + y^2 = r^2? no that's the constraint, so just x?" long pause "Right...and..." and what? it's just x. isn't it? we're minimizing x. So 10 minutes of me feeling small and stupid later, I'm now on my way to the lab to fix 2 problems. Professor 3 - Alex 2 Dang it.
So much for disc golf, so much for going into work. Now I'm just cranky and pissed.
Thursday, March 17
Dream
So I've been having some weird dreams the last couple nights..... tuesday night was about scuba diving in a pool and searching for something on the floor, but it wasn't a normal pool floor... and my Bio I TA was there, and she was pretty crazy so I guess it just kinda fit in with whatever was going on. Last night I dreamed I was in England riding a train past Old Trafford (where Man Utd play) and saw that a game was starting and climbed out the train window, jumped down, hopped a fence and took a seat. Random. Then I get to work today and read Aaron's livejournal which always has weekly horoscope things and when I'm sitting here bored at work I'll check mine.....
So begins the Potent Dreaming phase of the year for you, Taurus. In the coming weeks, the adventures you have while you sleep will be far more interesting than any movie you could see in a theater. Some of your dreams may be the nighttime equivalent of wild goose chases and shaggy dog stories, with no discernible plots or meaning. But the revelations you receive in others could change your life forever with useful lessons and brilliant insights. To help you remember these spiritual gifts from your subconscious mind, please keep a pen and notebook near your bed.
What? What does this mean? More crazy dreams to come? I don't know if I like that. I normally don't dream at all... or at least don't remember them.
So begins the Potent Dreaming phase of the year for you, Taurus. In the coming weeks, the adventures you have while you sleep will be far more interesting than any movie you could see in a theater. Some of your dreams may be the nighttime equivalent of wild goose chases and shaggy dog stories, with no discernible plots or meaning. But the revelations you receive in others could change your life forever with useful lessons and brilliant insights. To help you remember these spiritual gifts from your subconscious mind, please keep a pen and notebook near your bed.
What? What does this mean? More crazy dreams to come? I don't know if I like that. I normally don't dream at all... or at least don't remember them.
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