Saturday, June 17, 2000
Friday, June 16, 2000
Thursday, June 15, 2000
Anyhow, he begins thinking of how to describe it, and starts saying it's like food that's really hot, but it sticks to your mouth so you can't get it off and it burns, then he says, "yeah! Like napalm! Frozen napalm!" For some reason I found this tremendously funny, and now while I'm waiting for the dishwasher to finish so I can finish my chores, I'm writing this.
Why can't my sister just learn to use Audiocatalyst correctly! She keeps on screwing up the settings and ripping really f***ed up sounds.
Anyhow, it's a bit interesting seeing a number of people I haven't seen since I left Parker, that being the end of 8th grade, and now I'm at the end of 10th. Well... hmm... not much to say. Who know's who will walk in next? The inasphere group has I think 1 or 2 people out of the whole whom I don't know, and didn't go to school with at some point. The vast majority however I either had classes with at some point in middle/high school or know fairly well through other means.
Perhaps I should be doing something productive now. Or... maybe I'll find a computer that's totally unused, copy Team Fortress on to it and enjoy a nice low ping game thanks to the office's DSL connection. Not likely, but possible. Well... enough blogging for now. I'm going to head off and do something else.
SCHOOL IS OVER!
Well... sort of. One more day for me, but there is no more work involved. Yeah!Ok, on to the complaining and such. First of all, what ridiculous rule is this: I was denied the ability to use a bathroom during my final. What am I going to do? Huh? What could I possibly do? I'm sure it's some sort of anti-cheating thing, but it confuses me. What would they do? Run to their locker and look something up? I suppose there is some merit to that... but what about the people who really do have to use a bathroom? Huh?! My bladder was about to freakin' burst! Also, it detracts from my ability to effectively think, and as a result, I do worse on the final. On the whole, I think the system needs revision. That's a pretty strange complaint, but still... moving on.
Apparently the math course I was going to take after school with a bunch of the other people who took AP Calc this year who didn't graduate and need a hard math course got canceled. I have no idea why, I was told by one person it was funding, but who knows. What do they expect us to do? Nothing. Try to dual enroll, even though it's technically after the due date for registration. Worse yet, if that's going to happen, I'll have to find somebody else who can drive other people around who is doing this, because I can't. This is not good at all.
Finally, I don't really like finals too much. I think it's a bit absurd, having a comprehensive exam for the entire year, basically compacting what was supposed to be a year of learning into a multiple hour exam. A friend of mine had a different requirement. Instead of a final exam, he had a final project. For a project, he did a simulation of the battle of Trafalgar or something like that using integrals and Euler's method. It demonstrated his comprehension of the math, and a bit of history at that. It just seemed like a good idea, a project or something instead of a test, which in my mind is mostly meaningless because although people are supposed to, I certainly don't remember everything from the beginning of the year. At least change it such that instead of one giant final, it's two or four split up over the year. Like a quarterly final or two finals, one for the first half of the year, one for the second. At least then I don't have to worry about filing the tremendous piles of CRAP I have laying around of which I didn't even use... I have tests and such I have filed away, but guess what... not a bit of them was on the final. It's really entirely beyond me. Maybe I'll grow up, do some normal work, make lots of money, and go off and make a school with a new set of ideals.Oh wait... that's exactly what my dad did. Of course, his school turned out... a bit odd. The school seemed to have started out with the right ideas and some nice visions of what a school should be like, of course, it seems to me that the people running it had slightly different view, of which many I don't like.
Well... enough random bashing of things. I've got to go to Traxit today because apparently I'm going to be wiring the new office space Traxit has for inasphere.com I really don't like that name, but hey, I'm not working for them, so it's not my business. I would think they would have tried inabox.com, of course, that's all owned by somebody else... most notably register.com apparently bought the inabox company. Either way, inasphere sounds too much like innersphere when spoken. Maybe somebody else working there can explain the logic behind this choice of name. I was told that it was so that they could have things like http://tech.inasphere.com which makes sense I guess... I don't know what I'm talking about. I need to stop rambling and do something productive, and I think I'm leaving in a few minutes, so... I'm off.
Wednesday, June 14, 2000
Well, I've found out a bit about what I need to know about the Spanish final. I know everying except the prepositions I'm supposed to know. Apparently we learned some prepositions this year, but I am at a total loss as to which ones and when. Anyhow, time to go find some other people online and mooch it off them.
And one more thing. Most everybody has at one point heard of the "Golden Rule" in some form or another, and it's basically, "Do unto others what you want done to you." So, why is that so many people completely ignore it, regardless of circumstance. Those people really bug me. Well, now I really must be off... so... goodbye for now.
I guess I wasn't out of things to say.
Tuesday, June 13, 2000
Well... I should be studying for the English final...
Oh, as a note, Tyo is one of the most sick and deranged people I know. What horrible forces of evolution create a mind so warped?
On another note, I seem to have become very bitter and cynical... yet I don't feel embittered and cynical. I should probably watch what I say for a while. Enough babbling. I'm off.
Monday, June 12, 2000
Well, on a completely unrelated note: This just in!
"sakas9884 (9:27:48 PM): i want alex but he wants anthony so i am resorting to nathan"
My Goodness! The Scandal! (As a Note - the Nathan being referred to is Nathan Malone)
I should stop screwing around with blogger and get back to studying.
Sunday, June 11, 2000
That's pretty dumb. I've been online for way too long. 4 hours typing notes is too much for even me. I'm going to go do some laundry, and... probably play a game for about 30 minutes or something to get my mind of chem for a bit.
TyoA (2:51:20 PM): but I am pretty sure I am right
rlstadler4 (2:51:24 PM): No you're not.
rlstadler4 (2:51:28 PM): You are full of s**t.
TyoA (2:51:30 PM): I think I am
TyoA (2:51:46 PM): But it is Highly believeable s**t
rlstadler4 (2:05:38 PM): Which archetypes did we go over in english?
Helpfulrefrenceperson(2:10:02 PM): temptress. outcast, noble savage, hero
Helpfulrefrenceperson (2:10:53 PM): then she mentioned stuff like fall from innocence, journey and quest, search for the father, death and rebirth, wise fool, devil figure, and scapegoat
rlstadler4 (2:11:04 PM): Holy crap.
rlstadler4 (2:11:22 PM): I'm f***ed.
How true it is. I'm dead. I'm going to do so miserably... Maybe if we went over all of that stuff... I for one don't remember that stuff.