Why did I not mention this last week when I was freaking out about what I thought was the hosting renewal? Sugardeath.net has been active for three years as of last Thursday, the twenty-fourth.
Only about a month and a week until the journal itself turns six. On the six day. Of the six month. …
[Translator’s note: Keikaku means plan in Japanese.]
The COM syllabus told me that first round presentations were going to start last Wednesday. I emailed Gehrs and he told me the same thing. Apparently he decided to push it up a day and first round was supposed to start today. But the projector was broken. First round starts a week later than I originally anticipated. I can easily attend class on Wednesday, see what’s expected of my presentation, and then spend the rest of the week conforming. This… this takes a LOT of pressure off of me right now. And here I was thinking I was two presentation days late. Goddamn. I am so glad that we just happened to sit near Shavonne’s (acquaintance from COM) group of friends at dinner tonight.
Hit the jump below for lots of text. (It’s my quick little review of Mario Kart Wii. It’s long. You probably don’t want to read it. Don’t click it. Seriously.)
I am in serious need of some sleep. Lately I have been listening to the Piano Collections of Final Fantasies 4, 7, and 10 while working on my paper stuff. I also have 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10-2, but I have not played any of those games and thus do not appreciate the music as much. Sleep, however, has come quickly the past couple of nights with the aid of the FFXI and FFXI: Rise of the Zilart soundtracks. The music influences my dreams.
I must also make up serious hours at work. I skipped again today to work on my paper. That’s a total of six hours that need to be made up. I’ll squeeze ‘em in no problem.
By the end of 1992, there were about 26 [web]sites.
And then this, which isn’t quite as amusing, but more awe-inspiring:
He [Ray Tomlinson] sent himself a message, the contents of which have been lost in time. The first email message was unceremoniously sent between two PDP-10 nodes of the ARPANET network. History had been made. This would be about 1972, by the way. Just kinda give that a thought: email, which we all use everyday, was originally used for user to user talk on the same machine in the late sixties. By seventy-two it had the capability to send from machine to machine. Various upgrades were added to the service over time. Twenty years after Tomlinson made the ‘@’ sign important, there were only twenty-six websites on the internet (which evolved out of ARPANET). Email as we know it is thirty-six years old. Almost as old as my parents. Sixteen years older than me. Email spam is thirty years old.
I am honestly not sure what astonishes me more: the fact that a service I use multiple times a day was originally developed in the late sixties with a plethora of additions since then, but the core features have been in place from the beginning. Or that only sixteen years ago the web as we know it was in its infancy. I always thought that the web was around longer. Yes, I do remember when Mom ran a BBS, that was before the web. But it just seems so long ago, when really it was practically yesterday compared to all of man’s other achievements. And my how it’s all grown. And now the internet is facing its first real growing pain: Net Neutrality. It’s a big boy now 
I would insert a post on Net Neutrality here but this whole post was just spawned from something I found while researching my COM paper. Plus I’m not well versed on the whole ordeal.
It’s weird how some things that you thought were no longer a problem can suddenly make you feel a little uneasy.
Is not what we have right now. Weather.com says that we’re at 69F with 75% humidity. Either give me about twenty percent less humidity with the same temp, or give me about eight degrees cooler with the same humidity. Actually, I’d prefer the latter. The humidity makes the air smell nice. Also, keep up the gusts. I think I might go wander around downtown sometime today, perhaps.
I need to work big time on my COM paper and presentation this weekend. I can start working on my precalc paper after COM on Monday. Precalc is due on Friday, though, so that should be fairly easy to pull off.
I upgraded WordPress again last night. It has neat features here or there. That’s not why I upgraded. I upgraded because I couldn’t use a certain admin theme with the old verison I was using. This new admin theme is great compared to the old one I was using, which was broken (but still tons better than the original WordPress admin theme) when I last upgraded. WordPress now has native support for Globally Recognized Avatars, which is neat. I’m having trouble getting them placed properly in the comments without breaking formatting. I think they’re semi-OK right now, but I’ll get them perfect when I start work on a new theme this summer. If I start on a new theme this summer. I really suck at design and aesthetics. I would like to be well rounded when it comes to HTML+CSS stuffs. I can generally do the code part fine, but the making it look good is where I need to advance. Take this theme, for example, it’s pretty simple and gets the job done, but it doesn’t particularly stand out and make you go “Wow, he knows what he’s doing.” And I don’t even mean over the top themes, just something simple that looks good. Kinda like good ol’ Oliver here.
Man this new admin theme is amazing, I wish you guys could see it. It’s similar to the old one I was using, but less OSX inspired and more streamlined. Plus it incorporates a lot of the layout changes made to the default admin theme which is fairly nice. No longer do I have to scroll down to hit the publish button, it’s on the right. Categories were moved to below the post entry, which kinda sucks because I’ve started using them again.
This definitely feels like one of those Saturdays where I’d be at Paul’s house (just about every other weekend, because on the other weekends he’d be over at my house) playing Uniracers on the SNES or Donkey Kong 64 on the N64 and his Dad would have all the doors and windows open and be cleaning up the house. They did this every (other?) Saturday or so. Sometimes he had us wash and wax his car, too. I never complained, it’s always fun to play with water on a warm day. Mind you, this would be during elementary and junior high school.
Man does the air smell good. There’s also supposed to be incoming thunder storms. We were supposed to get some last night too, but it was just a simple rain. And the night before was supposed to be pretty wet but all of the green and orange on the radar just went north of us, which reminds me of home where storms have literally split up before Shelby Township / Sterling Heights and then joined back up after they passed over us. There would be a little open pocket between all the green if you looked at the radar. It was so damn annoying.
I think I might skip work today and make up the hours next week (which will be no problem, I’ve gotten used to pulling six hours on Fridays) just so I can enjoy the day during the day. I’ll be on AIM for a bit if anyone wants to hit up the outdoors. Anyone, IN CHICAGO! Hahaha Michigan people (laughs)
And by “be on AIM for a bit,” I mean that I’ll be on for the next several hours playing PSO. 
Paul took my mag to raise it so that I could work on leveling the right character (the mag I’m working towards can only be evolved correctly on certain characters, plus Paul is on more than me anyway), which is at level 60 now! Just twenty more levels until Ultimate. Or I could go to the Chinese ship and play ultimate now, but that would just be a massacre. I fear that at level 80 (the normal level requirement for the Ultimate difficulty) it would still be the same. Too bad most of the good rares which would help me out are in… Ultimate and the later levels of Very Hard. Both of which are tough for me.
Maybe I’ll run some low levels through some quests or something, that was fun the last time I did that.
