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Twitter Updates For The Week

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . September 25, 2009 . 11:59PM

• dude, raaaaaandy was on scrubs? #
• just healed my first 5-man and i only killed 2 of my teammates! #
• im about this close to just getting an 360 arcade so i can play stupid shining force. #
• whoops, accidentally had two nicotine patches on there for a minute. #
• This ought to be @jdotames's profile picture. http://mypict.me/IyxG #
• Almost time to get a 2010 mokeskine. Think I'm going weekly planner this time. #
• Nothing like the good old-fashioned jackhammer in concrete sound to wake up to in the morning. #
• Wow Targus you have crazy market share in my life today. #
• intel says you can not run mobiln on your phone soon, too. love the idea of it, at least. #
• ouch lag on wow is killing me tonight #
• Pogue on twit: dayyyyum its a smackdown. #
• Physics lab this morning – I ought to have another copy of this somewhere. http://mypict.me/K4tG #
• i'm half tempted to plug my pc into my stereo instead of using the Tivoli that I've been using for years now then @jdotames will punch me #
• $1.91 in change isn't that off my average for a day of running around making tiny purchases #
• Today's woot-off has me all in a flutter to stay on the web at every single moment. #
• 5 heroes I had as a child: Roberto Clemente, Spock, Peresus, Batman, Neil Armstrong. #
• New idea: let's ask the UK if they'll have us back, just for a goof. #
• in case you didn't know this – lemonparty is totally iphone and blackberry browser friendly. #
• eat it woot – i totally subliminated my urge to upgrade my girlfriend's hard drive. #
• phrasesIHate #phrasesIHate #
• I wonder if anyone has ever tried refining their own hydrocarbons in the backyard? I need a barrel of light sweet crude and some pvc pipes. #
• r.kelly is either a sex genius or horrible imagineer who uses the sex angle to get away with being uncreative. #
• and of course, newegg discounts the sound card i just bought for $40 less than what I paid amazon two weeks ago. #
• speaking of consumer electronics, has anyone seen that kingston flash drive i was using earlier this week? i didn't finish watching mad men. #
• if i can get my hands on the Touch Pro 2 for Sprint, it'd make me switch teams back to WinMo (sorry @rim) #

College Made Me Do It: Respond to a quote.

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . September 23, 2009 . 10:26AM

Looking at this quote, I see the powers of possibility, and a lot about specific neuroses that you and I may be suffering RIGHT NOW.

I feel like I have permission to refer to the quote-ee by first name, we know a lot about her; because she tells us a lot about herself in defining possible selves. The human mind, in my opinion, has the incredible imagination to take any one of the myriad ways a person can be and see what life would look like with any of those facets were turned up “to 11″ as Spinal Tap would say. As an example, I pretty much have an itinerary of what I’d do in an average day if I became homeless RIGHT NOW. While it’d be a bummer to be a bum, nobody’s not going to say it’s not in the back of the back of your mind. I think being divorced by American consumer society (by having nowhere to put your stuff while you go and get more stuff, to paraphrase the late George Carlin), confined to public spaces, (which, I may add, without cost are few and far between) is considered to be a “worse case scenario” by many people. Carol called it being a bag lady. Maybe that has a lot to do with why we as a society treat the homeless like we do.

By the way, I feel like there is a disconnect between the quote and the questions. The questions are leaning towards some sort of “character traits/flaws” introspection, while I feel like the quote has more to do with outcomes versus self-image.

Another way to look at this would be, of course, the disconnect between self-image and real life. Which means that right now, really close to you, maybe even in your skull RIGHT NOW there exists an AWESOME GAP. Perhaps you (or I!) are much cooler than our collective egos gives us credit for.

(I blogged the last prompt, too, but i forgot to post it on time. Instead, I posted it on my personal blog.)

Twitter Updates For The Week

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . September 18, 2009 . 11:59PM

• New bios and soundcard into Balthier (he's my gaming rig) – ought to be fun. #
• Me and @jdotames are gonna roll her 1st d&d character today. #
• microsoft trolled me with an e73 epeen #
• wow, i had me quite the dorky day yesterday. i ought to blog about it for posterity. #
• the ASUS home server looks pretty tasty, if mr. blurrycam is to be believed: http://bit.ly/l333K #
• installing DDO because WOW just isn't nerdy enough. Also, more Cleric. #
• ARAGH Literary Rage! http://bit.ly/t2QdE
  Keep the damned libraries open! #
• Ill and going to school anyways. The administration says: "don't go when you have symptoms" – but im penalized for missing lectures. #
• Do I know anyone who plays DDO or WOW? Whats your server? #
• @alexknowshtml you need a bumper sticker that says "my other desk is @indyhall" – I guess that makes it a desk sticker. #
• GARCIA IS BAAAAAAACK!!!!!!! #
• i don't know if this is just my fever talking, but I'd like to own a rose cooker. #
• when i'm sick (like I am now) all I do is watch law and order and drink a lot of water. #
• shit.woot.com is nice enough to redirect me to shirt.woot.com #
• this has been under the radar: were in the black hawk down business again http://bit.ly/3wkWf5 #
• i'd like to nominate jason everman as man's man http://bit.ly/bnSeJ #
• i tell you what, Denise Richards might not get acclaim for The World Is Not Enough, but cmon, she tried really hard guys. #
• still sick, btw, but feeling not-bad to the point of attempting class. #
• @LudwigK If you are doing some serious hauling, I'd go with a backpack like the north face's surge. in reply to LudwigK #
• This is prolly a bad place to have this conversation but god damn my fellow college students are self involved and uninteresting to me today #
• OH: "its not lmao any more, its lmnop" #
• Got mc chris' "white kids love hip hop" stuck up in my dome. #
• o sweet i got my first name on gdgt http://user.gdgt.com/Zacharias/ #
• o sweet creative has some crazy headsets in the works http://bit.ly/3FOvZw #
• ive been running 400mhz ram at 500something for um, a year now. #
• in unrelated news, i think i solved my pc heat problem. #
• who needs a phil? i have a phil! http://bit.ly/EYKID #

Twitter Updates For The Week

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . September 11, 2009 . 11:59PM

• At the real indyhall. #
• @jdotames and I are watching the guild on our new couch! #
• The pats second-stringers playing like they aren't tonight (and I do love watching the giants lose) #
• Catching up on blogs that I forgot I read. #
• Played through the first half of gears of war 2 today. It was pretty bitchin – except for some. Now, were off to center city for some dinner #
• here's hoping the 3rd iPod Touch sucks! I just bought a 2G one two months ago! #
• someone just found a decently-priced copy of final fantasy III for snes!!! #
• being taught by a professor who still uses Frontpage. I'm such a web design douche now. #
• There's security holes all up and down my computers and apps. I have 4 things to get upgraded. #
• (1 of 4 security updates today) – upgraded my flash player on snow leopard. #
• (2 of 4 security updates today) upgraded Sprint Smartview #
• still thinking about a late birthday present for me? I'd like a http://bit.ly/1CRyg0
  thanks. #
• (3 of 4) upgraded my wordpress to 2.8.4 #
• jeebes, i've been awake for 4 hours already. #
• Off to physics. For the very first time (don't ask) #
• bastages! I paid um, $100 for my iTouch. but still! #
• zomg nano pictures! now i can finally do video ichat without my macbook. oh, wait, whats that? i still cant? #
• If I was wearing a mood ring, itd be magenta for malevolence. #
• Upon getting home, I weigh my backpack. Its 26 pounds. #
• Gotta add up how much I've spend on school this year, out of pocket-wise. #
• Even though I saw rain in the forecast, this morning's weather is nothing short of excellent! #
• Unlike nyc, everyone in philadelphia seems to have cheaper headphones than me. #
• if i had a gargage, it'd have like 4 different crt displays for projects i want to do #
• Gotta upgrade my bios on my desktop. Always good and terrifying to do, but easy to accomplish. #
• Wrote out all my "notes to self" in one place and they barely fit on a single page #
• Oh, the pirate bay deal isn't real? Say it ain't so. #
• not counting financial aid, I've spent over $4800 out of pocket for college this year. #
• break out your credit cards, people, because amazon's selling all eight seasons of Will and Grace on DVD for just $125! #
• the acceleration due to gravity at the Earth's surface is approximately 9.8 m/s∧2 downward. #
• thanks @wigu i forgot i liked scary go round #
• New policy: show up a half hour early at college to account for the unpredictable nature of septa. Should of done this today. #
• Just 25 minutes and I get to have my second "weekend" thing since I was like 15 years old and started working on them all the time. #

Twitter Updates For The Week

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . September 4, 2009 . 11:59PM

• Me and @jdotames are going for broke at Philadelphia Park #
• My neighborhood has a lot of security…. guards #
• today's avarice index (the total of my amazon wishlist): $3088.63 #
• Looks like Fall 2009 is starting tomorrow, regardless what I do today. #
• youtube comments are the stinking taint of the internet http://bit.ly/RoZHh #
• Watching Good Night And Good Luck (again) #
• zomg shining force for the 360 – I'm all over that. #
• with crime down via @theecomonist http://ow.ly/15N79B – can we get away with *OMG* spending LESS on the Philadelphia PD? #
• barney frank vs obama hitler lady: i'm pretty sure LIKE A BOSS – http://bit.ly/PX5sD #
• Fun, there's Toronto-based ads on the 15 trolly (you know, in Philadelphia, PA, USA). #
• for the next 45 minutes, the amazon lightning IS A BANJO! wake up people, A DAMNED BANJO. you don't own one already #
• God of War HD and interesting downloadable games like Fat Princess and Pixeljunk (anything) make me want a PS3 more than usual. #
• Wow, there is TWO women in this computer science class! (out of 31 students) #
• okay, my server takes 4x SATA drives, so to do 8TB – I'd need 299.99 x4 worth of drives: 1196.96! #
• via @engadget Hitachi ships 500GB Travelstar 7K500: 7200RPMs in a 2.5-inch form factor (and it's just $160?!?!?) #
• http://bit.ly/iNMxj best book review ever! #
• 4th time I've been told to read Antigone. #
• @justinmcelroy ¶ in reply to justinmcelroy #
• First time I've ever pocket-twittered. Dre's 2001 holds up pretty well, btw. #
• feeeling quite the meh tonight and no amount of dried banana can bring me out of. mebbe black velvet. #
• season finale of rescue me – glee! saw a promo for the next season of house – glee!!! #
• for the 2 classes i didn't know about, there's 13 books to buy. from 3 places. #
• this just in: Brett Farve can't block. #
• some days, i daydream of a garage or basement i can keep all my junk in, and for hobbies that take up too much room. #
• smartest thing i've ever read: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=353 #
• dude, this looks pretty awesome http://bit.ly/1849mi #
• Math class. #
• The secret life of the american teenager is like the best show if you like the word "sex" used without innuendo or bombast. #
• thanks, @laughingsquid for turning me on to ikea heights http://vimeo.com/4921692 #
• "Love your Zune? Add a #Zune gradient overlay to your Twitter Icon with just one click http://zune.m80im.com/" #
• anybody think that having a Windows 7 launch party sounds like a good idea? (like, a sponsored one, i mean) #
• oh, crap why didn't anyone tell me it was time to start drinking? #
• screen shots in 10.6 are better – they're named with a number and date. #
• 53% of my site's traffic is on Safari, 28% Firefox, and 8.5%, IE. #
• rat bastard google sync for blackberry made me miss physics class. now i need to give a java/bb API lecture to my professor about it. #
• oh temple, lookit your squirrels. i miss em from the country sometimes. #
• Girl wearing a hoodie: dude, its over 75 out here. And your ass is hanging out of your short-shorts. I'm getting mixed signals here. #
• Don't tell the missus I bought a $15 nes clone, thanks! #

College Made Me Do It: Journey Blog

by Zacharias @ http://inexactitu.de . September 3, 2009 . 9:56PM

There was a journey I made in the middle of August, in 2004. It was a trip I made quite a few times in that earlier couple of years. Roughly 190 miles separates the bucolic vistas and monoculture of Bradford County and the well, un-bucolic and varied North Philadelphia. This trip, unique for a couple of reasons – it was in the middle of the week, I wasn’t driving, and I was riding in the cab of a pickup truck with a grizzled contractor with everything I owned on God’s green earth in the back.

I was moving, without having any idea what I’d do when I get there.

Turns out, I’d do a lot of nothing: electricity took about a week. Thankfully, I knew a neighbor through my girlfriend who let me charge my laptop and phone while I chased down many a dead-end job. I ended up taking one of those jobs, and the gradual rise out of poverty was quite the journey indeed, and one I’m still on today, depending on your view.

The simple act of making a decision, regardless of the fact it was an ill-advised one, and sticking through it has been character-building, to be charitable. The personal growth angle, of course is one that one sees in many “journeys.”