has been completed without a bunch of maniacs blowing up this floating rock karoming through the aether.

huzzah and hooray!

Them’s drinkin’ words.

give or take, done today. I did find an exceedingly useful section in Kenneth Burke’s Rhetoric and Religion that will help me nail things down for either the intro chapter or at the beginning of chapter 2. I think I’ll use some of that, get me some plato/aristotle and then be done with rhetoric as it stands.

then it is covering the theory in mythology to cap off the first chapter. Will this be done by the end of January (the first chapter)? Maybe!

Chances are though that the page count is going to be closer to 60 instead of the planned for 40.

I’m ok with that though.

I was totally a fan of netscape navigator. It had more features, it worked with more sites, and it was a better all around browser than IE. Back in the day.

Now its being shut down as of February 1st.

I’m not too sad about that. It has, quite illogically, become a tottering behemoth of spam, redudancy, and irritations that have no place in the browsers of today. IE is close to that, but they just toe the line (as they’ve been doing for ages). The browser for me nowadays is firefox (of course) because you can choose how crappy you want it to be (yes, most add ons made for it are crappy, you cannot deny this, no matter how much you try), or how completely awesome you want it to be.

K. I’m done now…it makes me recall the days when webcrawler was evident search engine king…the good ol’ days.

it’s what I do.

to all!

how about some…jazzmas?

or important going on.

consider yourselves all updated. Also, consider hanging out with me before I fly back the 4th. Just let me know when you’re coming to bemidji and we can do coffee/lunch/beer break or whatnot.

email me, leave a comment, or call my cell if you have it. If you don’t have it, use one of the aforementioned methods.

the sinus problems are still quite evident. haven’t slept very well (or much) in the last 48 hours.

Maybe naptime.

So the sickness has bee alleviated, but leaves the vestiges of sinus pressure and congestion. I feel like I’m in a cole medicine commercial. Except, instead of a cartoon head, it’s mine. And it’s not happy.

Anyhoos, flying back to bummage tonight. w00t.

uff da. At least I picked a good day to be sick…it’s all drizzly outside. Matches what my head feels. Some of my friends spent a full week sick, but I don’t know if I’m going to feel as badly as they did. This started on saturday, but has gotten worse each day.

Today is by far the most sick I’ve been since last Christmas when I was overtired. But, I’m pounding green tea and drinking tomato juice(more vitamin c than orange juice, plus it doesn’t give me heartburn), and eating chicken noodle soup, so hopefully this’ll pass.

it feels pretty good not to have to go to school to teach this morning.

for consoles. This game pretty much shows it. I saw the ads, I’ve looked into it. It looks pretty cool. Neat universe, cool set up, and I thought “Hey, maybe it’ll be like crimson skies on xbox”, and that I’d have a reason to buy a PS3.

aaaaand then I looked closer. There is no single player game. There’s a reason why I play console games instead of computer games. Graphics has nothing to do with it, automatically working has a little more to do with it, and mostly it has to do with the fact that it’s more difficult for $#)(*&’n idiots to invade my gamespace. Let’s be honest, there are loads and loads and loads of idiots. The percentage of the population of video game players who are idiots is probably greater than that of the ratio in the real world. I may be one of them, sure. But at least I have the good graces to KEEP IT TO MYSELF AND NOT INVOLVE OTHERS.

I like single player games because I’m not relying on other people, they’re not relying on me, and I can meander about on my own pace. No one’s getting angry with me for not doing things their way. Enter the world of multiplayer, where for whatever reason that the fates decreed, every idiot gets an equal voice. Or at least, an equal volume. Multiplayer games on the internet = not fun for me. When I want an idiot screaming at me because I messed things up for them, I’ll go back to working at kmart thank you very much.

When I want to feel badly about my skillset because someone spends way too much time doing this one specific thing, I’ll go back to grad school thanks.

Until then, all video games I buy will have to be PRIMARILY single player games. Also, let’s face it: the story is better for single player games. Multiplayer games have no plot. Think of any unreal game. No plot. Think of that “awesome” FPS shooter that MS put out a while ago…no plot. Think of that warhawks game…no plot. This means, for those idiot video game players out there, that they’re paying $60 to a company to make sure there’s a great multiplayer video game experience. They don’t need to make it good, they just need to make sure that the controls and graphics work. Congratulations, you made a game that looks better than an atari game, but not surprisingly isn’t as fun to play. Why are idiots rewarding them for this? When I want to play with other people, I’ll take up sports or something.

And, considering my relatively lazy antisocial behavior, that isn’t going to happen any time soon.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is one of my most favorite movies of all time.

Reason #17 why I love them:

Widescreen movies.

Sure, it takes some getting used to having the bar between monitors between the movies, but once that hurdle is crossed, it’s pretty damned cool. Plus, considering that the monitors cost about $60 between them, it’s a hell of a lot cheaper than a widescreen monitor.

Watched gettysburg today, one of my favorite movies. In double screen glory. It was pretty sweet.

to my Mom!