Archive for June, 2002

24 bit unsigned mult

Friday, June 7th, 2002

Okay, I don’t know what that title was about either, but it was in that fun little ‘scrollback of titles’, so I thought, why not?

D. (or was I referring to him as V.? I can’t even remember. Fuck it)’s significant other is pregnant. I’m happy for them, I suppose.

M. proposed to her SO, who I gather said no. These things happen. Better luck next time! [or something of that sort]

And me? Well, Bill, you don’t even want to know my situaton. [I may take up sati’s approach of thinking of my reader as a 18-25 year old guy named bill. It has a certain humor value to it. Or I may think of my reader as a beautiful 18-25 year old female who really.. wait.. no..

Does anything besides love matter, in a relationship? I can’t decide.

I wish I could find the energy to do some work. There’s so much to do be done.. but it seems like today, I’m lost in listlessness. I can’t even think of anything to babble about in my journal. Bad sign.

Wading in the velvet sea, Phish

[Chorus:]
I’ve been wading in the velvet sea
I’ve been wading in the velvet sea
I’ve been wading in the velvet sea
I’ve been wading in the, I’ve been wading in the
[repeats]

I took a moment from my day
Wrapped it up in things you say
Mailed it off to your address
You’ll get it pretty soon unless

The packaging begins to break
And all the points I tried to make
Are tossed with thoughts into a bin
Time leaks out my life leaks in

You won’t find moments in a box
And someone else will set your clocks
I took a moment from my day
Wrapped it up in things you say
And mailed it off to you

You won’t find moments in a box
And someone else will set your clocks
I took a moment from my day

ARgh

Friday, June 7th, 2002

This stupid group-by function for evparts’s new web site is going to drive me _nuts_!

Anyway, for those who asked, my myers-briggs type is INFP (hrm.. I wonder what P.’s is?). Below is a description of same:


You focus deeply on your values and devote your life to chasing ideals… you often draw people together around a common purpose and work to find a place for each person within the group. You’re creative and seek new ideas and possibilities. You quietly push for what’s important to you, and rarely give up. You might be somewhat gentle or have a good sense of humor, you could be hard to get to know and overlooked by others…you like to make the world more in line with your vision of perfection.

If you’re a teenager, you probably have a bit of a rebellious streak. You might argue with others who hold different values than yourself..you probably have a small close-knit group of friends…you can relax around these pals and be pretty entertaining, since you see the world in a different and special way… that’s why your posts on the Storm Palace are so great!

Inner harmony is the most important thing to you. You’re sensitive and loyal. You have a strong sense of honor concerning your personal values. You’d rather communicate your feelings in writing…

You do best in a flexible situation where the teacher/collegue takes a personal interest in you…you like to interact with your peers, but not TOO much …you have both creativity and flexibility, and you like that about yourself….you don’t get bogged down by details…your job must be fun and it must be meaningful to you….you don’t wanna feel conspicuous so you’ll sell yourself short just to avoid the spotlight…

You can be a gentle and subtle leader…being indirect and inclusive of others…you don’t confront people head-on, but rather work with ’em to get the job done….you lead with your values in mind and let these guide you…you don’t like conflict, so you don’t confront situations directly.. you’d rather wait for a situation to work itself out….

Leisure and kickin’ back is really important to you. sometimes it is hard to separate work from play, huh? when you find a new recreational pursuit, you do a lot of reading up on it…most of your leisure things are done alone, like reading, listening to music, and even BBSing….when you want to be sociable, you can be very charming and outgoing..

Love is a very deep commitment to you…it’s not easily attained…you probably pick out flaws or are disappointed when he or she doesn’t match up to your ideal as to what love should be like…first dates are very well set up to make sure everything is taken care of so it can be “just right.” you might have a hard time sharing feelings about others…you tell so many feelings inside that you forget to tell your partner that you love ’em or whatever….

If the relationship goes bad, you take it to heart, but probably don’t tell many others about it….you have a tendency to overreact, huh? Other things to watch for…don’t get so caught up in your dreams that you don’t consider others’ points-of-view…you might not adjust your vision to the facts of a situation…you may need a “reality check” once in a while… also, don’t try to please everyone and be so hesitant to criticize… don’t delay projects ’cause you’re holding out for perfection…it’s not gonna come…don’t get overly critical because no one matches your perfect ideals… you could lash out and it could get ugly.

INFP: “I Never Find Perfection”

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Friday, June 7th, 2002

Duplicate entry – clicked twice – oops – deleted.

Interesting paper about e-mail and gender identity

Friday, June 7th, 2002

can be found here. I didn’t get through the whole thing, but sometime maybe I will.

[Nice thing about a LJ – I can ‘bookmark’ things that I’d like to look at sometime. I really wish that bookmarking things on the net wasn’t so questionable.. sometimes pages are there forever, other times they dissapear in a matter of days, so a bookmark on the net is less than totally useful.

I wish it wasn’t so copyright-questionable to mirror content that you like on your own web server so you can directly link to it.

S.

An interesting thought

Thursday, June 6th, 2002

So I presume all of you know that the EPA has finally come out and admitted that yes, um, global warming is in fact real.

They’ve added a prediction that the earth will heat up by 10 deg F over the next hundred years.

I was listening to the Midnight Oil song ‘beds are burning’. I’m going to cite the lyrics, just in case my readers, like me, don’t actually know them.


Out where the river broke
The bloodwood and the desert oak
Holden wrecks and boiling diesels
Steam in forty five degrees
The time has come
To say fair’s fair
To pay the rent
To pay our share

The time has come
A fact’s a fact
It belongs to them
Let’s give it back

How can we dance when our earth is turning
How do we sleep while our beds are burning
Four wheels scare the cockatoos
From Kintore East to Yuendemu
The western desert lives and breathes
In forty five degrees

Let me put this as plainly as I can. The australian desert – home to some of the most unique life on earth – doesn’t have the headroom for global warming. It’s just not there. Things are already just about as hot as they can be (45 degrees C!).

If you drive a gas car, you are a party to the extinction of hundreds of species. You’re killing them, with your hands, every time you turn the key forward. _there is another option_. bush & the automakers won’t tell you about it, because they really want you to keep burning oil, but electric vehicles are perfectly practical commuter machines.

Once again, if we follow the path we’re currently on, the outback will die.

Have you ever been there? Do you know what you’ll be killing?

Can you in good concionce load the gun, aim it, and pull the trigger? Apparently we all can..

Whee. Another fun test.

Thursday, June 6th, 2002

There are sooo many of these things.

My Q-score is 11.

find yours.

Okay, since there was apparently some confusion on this matter

Thursday, June 6th, 2002

None of the people [well, actually, only one of the people, but I won’t tell you which one neener neener] in my friends list is a ‘ex-girlfriend of sheer’. My exes – and currents – read my journal, but don’t have LJ accounts of their own and thusly can’t friend me.

Takes all the fun out of things. They get to see exactly what I’m doing and thinking about, and I don’t have a clue about them.

Anyway, back to my regularly scheduled life.

Gallaleo

Thursday, June 6th, 2002

I should be coding. but instead I’m typing in song lyrics. Bad sheer.


galileo’s head was on the block
the crime was looking up for truth
and as the bombshells of my daily fears explode
i try to trace them to my youth
and then you had to bring up reincarnation
over a couple of beers the other night
and now i’m serving time for mistakes
made by another in another lifetime
how long till my soul gets it right
can any human being ever reach that kind of light
i call on the resting soul of galileo
king of night vision, king of insight
and then i think about my fear of motion
which i never could explain
some other fool across the ocean years ago
must have crashed his little airplane
how long till my soul gets it right
can any human being ever reach that kind of light
i call on the resting soul of galileo
king of night vision, king of insight
i’m not making a joke, you know me
i take everything so seriously
if we wait for the time till all souls get it right
then at least i know there’ll be no nuclear annihilation
in my lifetime i’m still not right
i offer thanks to those before me
that’s all i’ve got to say
’cause maybe you squandered big bucks in your lifetime
now i have to pay
but then again it feels like some sort of inspiration
to let the next life off the hook
but she’ll say “look what i had to overcome from my last life
i think i’ll write a book”
how long till my soul gets it right
can any human being ever reach the highest light
except for galileo god rest his soul
(except for the resting soul of galileo)
king of night vision, king of insight
how long
(till my soul gets it right)
[til we reach the highest light]
how long
(till my soul gets it right)
[til we reach the highest light]
how long

Whee!

Thursday, June 6th, 2002

The folowing is courtesy of www.colorgenics.com. Yet another web-based figure-out-what-makes-you-tick test. 😉


You have always longed for tenderness, love and a sensitivity of feeling into which you would like to blend. You are a very gentle warm person and responsive to ‘All things bright and beautiful’. This personifies a caring person, a person who ‘needs’ and indeed ‘needs to be needed’.

You are a leader and possibly at this time in a position of authority, but you are experiencing problems. You are not quite sure how to handle the present situation.

You are prepared to establish a particular relationship that is being made available to you at this time. It could be a satisfactory liaison but there could be a certain amount of conflict involved -try to avoid direct confrontation at all costs.

Setback after setback has resulted in considerable stress and now you have got to the stage where you are continuously on your guard, not only to protect yourself from others but to protect yourself from yourself. It would seem that many of your unfulfilled hopes and dreams have led to uncertainty and suspicion. You no longer wish to answer to others and you are insisting on freedom of thought. You feel that you are fully self-sufficient and can control your own destiny. You are seeking ways to protect yourself from further loss of prestige and against further setbacks. You have become very dependent and you doubt that matters could possibly get any better in the immediate future and this negative attitude is leading you to exaggerate your claims and to refuse reasonable compromise.

You wish to be left in peace… no more conflict and no more differences of opinion. In fact you just don’t want to be involved in arguments of any shape or form. All you want is for ‘them’ to get on with it – and to leave you alone.

You are inclined to be too trusting and you feel that you need to be on your guard against the possibility that your endeavors and actions may be misunderstood. Too often you have been taken advantage of and you have been mentally abused. Now you are seeking a relationship which can provide peace of mind, where you can be yourself and not have the need to put on a false front.

Wow, more readers.

Wednesday, June 5th, 2002

I seem to have garnered a few more readers since last check. P. was joking about starting a ‘ex-girlfriends-of-sheer’ club – it’s possible that my LJ readers list will someday soon look like same.

Anyway, on to what I’m up to. Still trying to retrofit the suspension of my car, and have actually succeeded in finding the parts I need to do it, all praise to Roy and the EVDL. [Whee!] For those of you who came late to the party, I drive a electric vehicle. It’s a ’86 honda accord, I did the conversion myself at Saddleback Community College with much help from Prof. Macfarland and Leo Galcher, it’s got a top speed of [estimated] 120 mph [We’ve verified 100, and with the current suspension, that was scary enough] and a range of 112 miles at freeway speeds. Maybe a bit less once the batteries finish breaking in.

Anyway, so that’s the car, you can see it at it’s homepage. Although ti’s horribly out of date because I’m a bad, evil, awful person.

I also have been doing a lot of consulting, to help prop up the bank account. Oh, and I bought a motorcycle today, so I can relive my teenage rebel-without-a-clue days. Except this one is a bit more powerful. [The speedo actually reads up to the triple digits.. let us hope I am never foolish enough to try doing _that_]

Talked to my mother today. That’s always fun. She wants me to get health insurance. This will somehow make my life safer. I didn’t ask what she thought all the poor people who were shafted by the president she elected should do. 😉

Anyway, I have nothing new and exotic to say today.