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Salut!  Check it, yo.

Or for you Americans,

Nice, huh?  All I need is 10 more degrees and I’ll be happy.

I finished my C++ program.  It counts the characters in a text document and gives you the most frequently used character, and the least used character.  Very useful, huh?  It should be.  It caused me a lot of frustration.  Especially when I had and i instead of a 1.  I spent a half an hour trying to figure out why the array was going out of bounds.  That explained it.

Uhhh.  Yeah.  So I’m all done with midterms.  FOUR MORE WEEKS until school is over.  Damn that’s soon.  I can’t wait.  I wish I had some cheddar, though.  I’d like to go somewhere in the summer.  Ah well.  Maybe I’ll hitchhike.  I’m pretty big and scary-looking though.  I don’t think very many people will pick me up, although it has been known to happen.

I’ve been listening to these indie playlists that Laurie recommended.  You can get the torrents here if you’d like.  Some of the stuff is pretty good.  There’s like a thousand songs, though.  I burned four CD’s for driving around and that didn’t even get through one of the playlists.

I’m re-reading this book, "Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind" by Shunryu Suzuki.  It’s got some cool stuff in it.

     Tozan, the famous Zen master, said, "The blue mountain is the father of the white cloud.  The white cloud is the son of the blue mountain.  All day long they depend on each other, without being dependent on each other.  The white cloud is always the white cloud.  The blue mountain is always the blue mountain."  This is a pure, clear interpretation of life.  There may be many things like the white cloud and blue mountain: man and woman, teacher and disciple.  They depend on each other.  But the white cloud should not be bothered by the blue mountain.  The blue mountain should not be bothered by the white cloud.  They are quite independent, but yet dependent.  This how we live, and how we practice zazen.

… So we are completely dependent and independent.  If you have this kind of experience, this kind of existence, you have absolute independence; you will not be bothered by anything.

I’m out.

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Actually, some of my highschool midterms were probably worse.  We had to copy a website and re-create it using Dreamweaver.  Sooo frustrating.  I couldn’t get some parts right so I gave up half-way through and submitted it.  Fuck it yooo.

This is what it was supposed to look like:

And this is what I ended up with.

I brought my camera into the repair place a couple days ago.  Hopefully it’ll be fixed in about a week.  I miss taking pictures and making random videos.  And I know Rey misses it as well.  =p

Two days till the weekend.  YUS.

Wednesdays suck azz.  I have to go to school from noon till five.  Actually it’s usually more like 4:30 but still.  I don’t like staying here that long.  At least I get a couple extra hours of sleep, although I still have to wake up to drive my dad to work at about 7:30.

HOLLA

p.s. alt-country/goth country kicks ass. Check it out on Last.fm

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So I’ve been listening to this song, Clickity Clack by Alela Diane a lot.

Nowww.

Yeah.  I’m off of school for the week.  I beat Guitar Hero 3 on medium yesterday.  I’ve just been playing the bonus tracks now.  I also managed to get through Slow Ride on hard and eke out three stars.  I can’t seem to beat any other song on hard though.  I guess I just suck!

I’ve also been practicing my romaneste (should that be capitalized?)

Nu face nimic - It doesn’t matter
E bine - It’s fine
Nu aveti petru ce - Don’t mention it.
Ce parere aveti? - What do you think?
Uitati-va - Look at this
Noapte buna - Good night
Sigur - Certainly
Cred ca da - I think so
Nu cred - I don’t think so
De ce nu? - Why not?
Poate - Maybe
Se poate - It’s possible
Va-sint foarte recunascator(oare) - I’m very grateful
Sinteti (esti) sigur(a)? - Are you sure?
Adeverat? - Really?
Aveti grija! - Be careful!
Bine ati venit! - Welcome!
Cu placere - You’re welcome.
Nu face nimic - It doesn’t matter.

I have most of them down pat now.  Not bad for a couple days work IMO;  except I need some actual lessons.  I don’t know why they add "have" (aveti) into a bunch of those phrases, and it confuses me.

I’m also reading Tomorrow’s Parties by William Gibson. So far it’s pretty cool. Cybernetics and all that crap.

Will write moar later.

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So yesterday was alright.  I ended up going to the casino and winning seventy dollars.  It was pretty sweet, except that I hit these three symbols and it looked like I should have won a lot more.  That’s the thing about gambling, once you win a couple hundred anything less is just dissatisfying.  It makes whatever you win like a lot less than it is.  I mean, seventy dollars for ten minutes of fun is a lot of money, right?  Except it doesn’t seem that way.

I’ve been playing around with my camera.  Lookie:

Man, so filthy.  My camera kicks ass, though.  So clear.  Here’s me looking whimsical.

You know you’re sad when you have to take pictures of yourself.  Man I’m funny looking rofl.  S’all good, though.

I spent ten minutes convincing my parents to drive my brother and his friends downtown last night.  I had a headache and felt like shit so I didn’t want to.  I go, “Can’t he just drive drunk like every other teenager?”  And my dad says, “Not in our vehicles!”  Hahahahaha.

They finally did it so I was relieved.  Ten minutes later the phone rings and I answer it.  It’s my fucking brother, he forgot his ID in his coat pocket and begged me to bring it to him.  So I ended up driving downtown after all that crap.  I guess I figured that I was working for the money that I got from the casino.  And now he owes me one so it’s cool, plus he woulda done the same for me.

I’ve been listening to this last.fm station for the past little while. It’s very relaxing so it’s coo’.

EDIT: Apparently I can do this, enjoy:

Now I’m out yo.  Peace.

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Yeah, I forgot to do that last night.

Hey, look!

I love the start of the month. Or end I guess. Except for the bank fees that usually drop me into overdraft. Those piss me off.

I guess you gotta pay to play, though.

Dudes, people need to take responsibility for their actions. I hate excuses. Am I the only one? It drives me nuts me people don’t do something and then they give some excuse. Even if it’s a good one it annoys me; if it’s a lame one then it pisses me right off.

So don’t make excuses. If you say that you’re going to do something, do it. If you’re not going to do it, don’t say you will. I’ve been guilty of this a couple times, I know. But for the most part I consider my promises before I make them. I decide whether or not I’ll actually be able to keep them before I agree to anything. It’s a good way to live.

PEACE.

P.S. Imeem kicks ass. Just listen to a song you like, then click the Auto-suggest box and it’ll bring you to a bunch of good music. Also, I added my flickr account to the blogroll. If you want to check out a bunch of random pictures, click there.

P.P.S. I noticed that Kate had some problems remembering to fill in her name. If you comment often (or ever), feel free to register for my site. Just log in and check the “Keep me logged in” box or whatever it’s called. Then you can just comment without filling in the same crap over and over. Peacee.

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Bikini Bloodbath, bad horror flick or the worst horror flick?  Just thinking about it makes me laugh.  If you like god awful movies then check it out.  You won’t be disappointed.

Only thirteen dollars before Google pays me.  Damn, I can’t wait.  That hundred dollars will go a long way towards paying off my credit card.  I owe that bitch like eight hundred dollars.  =\  Most of it will be paid off tomorrow, though.  Then I’ll owe about three hundred.  Damn Visa!

I’m supposed to start co-op this summer.  Who knows where.  I guess that we have to go and get interviewed and crap.  I’m not looking forward to it.  I am, however, looking forward to getting a paycheque for something that I enjoy doing and being able to pay off that blasted charge card.

I’m currently listening to Sonic Youth because of the movie Juno.  I’m not really impressed.  Some of their stuff is okay but a lot of it is hard on the eardrums.  I also got a bunch of At the Drive-in.  They’re pretty rad.

My host keeps yelling at me about those CPU cycles and shutting down my site.  I think I might just change to this Proto-host place.  It’s cheaper than Hostican and moiph knows the guy who runs it personally.  It’ll be a bitch moving everything over there, though.  Maybe I’ll be able to sort out this host instead.  They’re really pissing me off, though.

My screen is so damn shiny.  Josh brought this gel crap into class today and I wiped that bitch down.  It’s a beautiful sight.

I also added a new favicon, courtesy of Aura.  It goes well with the theme, yeah?  I thought so.  Now if only people were able to view it without getting redirected to that high CPU page.

Nowwww.  I must leave.  Tomorrow is Friday.  Fuck ya.

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