My desk. Monitor my girlfriend found on the street. Dresser I found on the street.


Roommates in the dorm room freshman year


bike i found and used until the pedal broke and the fork was too bent. However in the summer I will fix her.


me probably programming or something


bike i got free from Bills, they were closing shop and I told them about how my bike fucked up and one of them was kind enough to give this lovely machine to me.

Disillusioned college student

Right now i'm staying up late to finish a homework assignment for upper division electrodynamics. I have to wake up in 5 hours but I see what this is all about. Instead of going to office hours I thought I could do this assignment myself and give it a go by myself, well that was a stupid idea. Instead I should have gone to office hours and wrote down the answers and then do the problems. Instead of being honest and virtuous, doing my homework myself and suffering through it, I should just focus on the grade. I mean that's what everybody does anyways. Fuck being an honest man, it's like you have to lie and deceive to get what you want from college. This of course doesn't apply if you're above average. I'm not the brighest lightbulb in the box, but I love to learn. But when it comes to school it's always about the GPA; GPA booster classes, GPA THIS GPA THAT. It's what people talk about when doing physics homework, but most importantly it shows the world what kind of people we are. This 3 digit number tells the world this guy/girl is this kind of person, an incredible genius or a complete fuck off. It definitely sucks because I fall into the fuck off category. It's not like I am fucking retarded, it's that I applied for a hard major wanting to learn physics. I mean it's magical learning how the world functions from a physical perspective. But being assigned questions that are harder than dried shit, and trying to do an assignment by myself backfiring on me makes me sad that I ever came to college. It has made me more cynical of the world, and of life in general. I'm too tired I'm getting my average 5 1/2 hours of sleep now.

I wanted to append to this angry tirade that in order to succeed in school you must do everything/ anything. It's all just a game, any time you can get an upper hand to better yourself then take it, unless doing so would jeopardize your chances of winning. Anyway that's the kind of mindset I have now ever since I realized it was all just some big game and I'm fighting with lots of people that have superior mental capabilities far greater than I could ever hope for.

Survivorman episode/ spinoffs

Yesterday I watched my first episode of Survivorman. It was pretty good stuff, I learned a few survival things and it was entertaining. After watching it me and my two roommates started thinking about other environments Les Stroud (the Survivorman) could be thrown in and survive for seven days. Here are some of the best ones we came up with:

• Survivorman AIDS- Les injects himself with AIDS blood and has to find a cure in 7 days.
  
• Survivorman bum- He is tossed into a big city and must live 7 days as a bum carrying 60+ lbs. of camera equipment.
• Survivorman heroin addict- Les injects himself with heroin intentionally getting addicted and must live 7 days in the streets feeding his addiction.
• Survivorman quadruple amputee- Les gets his limbs cut off and must live for seven days.
• Survivorman AIDS + quadruple amputee
• Survivorman AIDS + quadruple amputee + survive in the Antarctic
• Survivorman Russian roulette- He has a revolver with 1 bullet and has to live 7 days, at the end of each day he must put the gun to his head and pull the trigger.
  

What he does after the 7 days has passed is blurry. It got really late after we were done playing around with these ideas so we started running out of ideas. I realized we had wasted 2 hours talking about this crazy shit and am wasting even more time writing about it.

Pinyin input vs. Cangjie method

During winter break I got really bored, watching tv from 12 to 12 every day for a week. During this time I was also on the computer reading wiki and stuff and decided to learn Cangjie. Cangjie is a method of inputting Chinese characters into the computer by decomposing each character into a bunch of components, with a max of 5 components. So each letter on the keyboard has a character to it, and each character in turn represent several "shapes" (for a lack of a better word), and these "shapes" are put into a string of "shapes" to represent a Chinese character. So I spent a few hours throughout my break learning how to decompose characters and type them in, and I have to say it is hard. Sometimes it seems unintuitive and would need brute force memorization of what "shapes" represent the character.

Then there is another input method that I mainly use the pinyin system. In this case if i wanted to input a character I would type in what it would look like written in pinyin. Pretty simple stuff, if you know the Mandarin pronunciation and pinyin, which I am not that great at. And that's not the awkward part. What makes this system terrible is when you want a character that has a very common sound. Like the sound "ji" has the same sound for a lot of words, and you have to scroll through a list to find the one you want. Sometimes using the Cangjie method you need to scroll through a list, but the list is not as extensive most of the time.

If my knowledge of Chinese characters was more extensive I would probably just learn Cangjie. The pinyin method requires too much scrolling through a list which makes things incredibly slow, unless I memorized the lists, which just sounds stupid. Using Cangjie you have to memorize what shapes each character on the keyboard represents, which isn't that bad it's like learning how to type and how you have to memorize where the keys are, and know/ memorize how characters are decomposed and what shapes represent the character. This sounds like really hard stuff but being skilled in using Cangjie seems like it would cut typing time down significantly. Not only that but it looks sexier than scrolling through a list.

First post ever

Whooo! I started a blog.