phew

So the bulk of the moving is DONE! Yay, new house, new roomates, new life, leaving old SC behind indefinitely...

I posted a few pics here:

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I love moving, wish I could do it every day... ugh. I sent out a text message to people last night saying to come over tonight to say bye to me, but haha I'm not home... and I kind of doubt that any of them will really come by anyway- Jesse and Chris called, but everyone else, I'm thinkin it was just too late notice- I'll just have to invite them all up for my bday besides...

ok this is WIERD

Hi, I'm having strange issues.

I'm on a PowerMac g4 Quicksilver 733mhz 1.1g RAM with a recent install of os 10.4.2

When I go to the apple menu and select "About this Mac" nothing happens. Nada, zilch.

When I go to "Shut Down..." and "Restart..." nothing happens. Nada, zilch.
"Log Out..." does't work either. Neither does "Force Quit..."

I had to shut down my computer using Quicksilver. I quit a hanging app through Activity Monitor.
I don't know any Terminal commands to do the same things.

I repaired permissions and checked the console for anything obvious, but I don't know what I'm doing. It's not like I really NEED that information, but it's kindof odd that I can't tell my computer to turn itself off the way I'm supposed to...

Any suggestions, friends?

new pfone

It's pretty cool. Hopefully it won't drop calls like that other POS did. It takes video too. Woo hoo.
I'm grateful to the customer service people in Toronto or Tampa or Oklahoma City or wherever they are for dealing with unsatisfied people like me, but it was easy and they didn't give me hell for replacing the replacement phone, and they upgraded it for free which was nice of them... Anyway... things are good, I have steak to eat, not sure whether I should cook it now for a late afternoon dunch or lupper, or if I should save it for dinner... it's HOT. I say salad then some math, maybe in the sun, come back and cook like mad. Yea yea, that's it... yea !!!

Current mood: Chillin, and thinkin' bout food...
Current music: RabbitRadio it's a good bunny widget...

upgrade!

wow!! I am swamped by Tiger....


It's like a new computer!
Dvd's, widgets, spotlight, I'm in love...

Gawrsh!

floccinaucinihilipilification

Hargin farg! I didn't realize that when you copy something to your clpboard and then you log out and log back in, poof it's gone and your clipboard's empty... geez that shoud've made sense before! but that's why we have Quicksilver...

For some reason when I looked up "floccinoccinhilipilification" in Sherlock, nothing came up. Maybe it's not such a handy tool after all... although it is kind of neat to just click movies and all the movies come up. I like the idea- very mac.

Anyway I've been on even more of a customizing kick lately, adding a little personalization to my login-background picture, changing it from the normal aqua blue thingamadoo- which is pretty neat, and I was getting tired of it, that's for sure... I also added some text string to the login panel but I don't think it worked, at least not the way I was told it would... And now, when I go: Apple: About this mac: THIS is what you get! I'm such a freakin' dork. I've been having this minor anxiety freak out about what I'm going to do once I get to SF and have to really get to the nitty gritty and decide what to major in. With all my geekness in the Mac lately, you'd think that I ought to go into some kind of computer field and work designing or maintaining or something, but I'm not quite the type... well, that's not exactly true, but I'd really have to find a niche and get really good at it, because in SF and in my generation, there are MILLIONS of youngstas just like me out there- with a little bit of skill that blows away some folk, but lack of major skill and I'm completely blown away by other folk...


I guess the bottom line is I really need to pick back up on my photography and Photoshop and take more classes there, I've been seeing ads for partime Photoshop peope helping out other professional photographers on craigslist, and I do know that I don't want to stick to union shit and break myself doing stuff like that forever... I'm kindof over the live production gigs. That is, until I find something that is really interesting and I'm into and that pays me well.


Ick. Ha, some asshole just kicked his soccer ball into someone's car and its alarm is going off... idiot. floccinaucinihilipilification I feel like I've been doing an awful lot of it as of late, towards myself and my decisions, what with my life changing so much and I don't exactly know in what direction... But, as I once learned from who-knows-where and tried at once point or another to explain to my father, I don't like to fill my life with making "decisions" as having to "decide" is committing another "-cide," i.e. suicide, genocide, homicide... So, rather, I chose. And to make a choice, I can live with. So can I live with mistakes. Wheras to decide, is to kill, which is a lot harder to live with, seeing as, well, it's dead.


Roger that.

Monday is a four letter word...

Wellps! Some good things happened today, and I don't believe anything poopy has happened- firstly, got up rather early, couldn't sleep too well last night for some reason... Then, went to skool- found out that I'll be able to take my final early, Monday afternoon after the 2nd exam, to be over and done with summer school three days earlier, which will allow for faster moving, and J can help me then since it'll be during the week... woot.
Then I came home and did some more packing- got the garage sale stuff in a big pile, books in a box, installed some more memory into my Mac and played around in flash testing out memory and making the thumbnails in my gallery black... I hope that it'll detect flash now and load on other computers- for some reason it works fine here at home, but reloading on a different machine hasn't brought up anything, while Jeffey's page worked fine. I don't get it. Is it worth it to detect a flash version? I mean... I guess a lot of people don't know what they're doing when it comes to whatever flash version player they have, but are those the kind of people that are going to stumble upon my page? I dunno... I guess.
Anyway, I was thinking more about whether to get a brand new bike or not- and I still think HELL NO, I'll feel like such a dumbass and like I wasted thousands of dollars if I drop it. Which, everybody says, will happen. I may not mean to, but it could, so get something shitty until I run it into the ground learning and developing my skillz- yeah.
Word. Feels good to get things going...
7-8 days until I'm moving! Oh god that's so soon...
... crap...

I just bought this dvd drive which will seriously do me a good upgrade with tiger, and memory, and it's like I'll have a new computer on the move! Good job, Julian, for helping convince me to just f*it and go for the gold... it's still cheaper to upgrade this one than get a new machine...

If only they'd ship fast enough!

finky steet

Hewooo!

I'm so pooped I could fall over. Wheeoops I just did! UGH.

It's so hard to motivate myself to finish up my math homework, but I have to at least study the pre-quiz and get ready for the test tomorrow. I'm so grateful to Erin for taking on the brunt of the 3rd group project thingamagig- I just lost it this weekend and was completely involved in counterweighing and press left, go left- clutch brake shift! I PASSED! Yippereeedoodaddiddydiddaaaay!

I love this customizing themes thingy! Check it out: -- >

Phew.

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Sigh...
I had a good day. Now I feel ill, though... not sure if that dinner was all that I'd made it up to be, but it filled me up and tasted pretty darn good. It sure was pretty healthy too, only now my tummy feels iffy.
Anyway, it's so hard to do math. Not that it's hard math, it's just tedious. Argh.
And I can't find that old school looking Panasonic car stereo system with the audio-gages and things on the web, I lost it. See what happens when you don't bookmark! Argh again.
Ok.
Math.

Beach Bummin

People really love our California beaches, don't they: I can't fucking believe people who blatantly trash the beach. FUCKERS.


We went to Panther beach again, my fave- although I was told it was actually Greyhound beach and I don't know which to believe... Regardless, it was yet again another fine beach outing- with old friends from NM and the wind in my salty hair and not a care in the world... Climbing up to the top of the big rock in the ocean was again an exhilarating experience, the feel of the strong wind blowing up the side of the rock as you're clinging on to pieces that could easily fall off without warning, I love it... and watching "time" in the rock as you climb higher, with my heavy bag and shoes knocking together... I totally want to make sweet sweet luv up there, sometime- sheltered from the wind and any normal tourists- only those ballsy enough make it up to the top of that crag, so to be caught in the act would be rare- but romantic... One of these days... mwa ha ha ha ha...

So, that was yesterday- a cool day. Today is hot again, I figured I'd go for a ride and come back and pack some more, finish up the AIDS project for math...

w00t.

London, baby....

Hm, I sure hope that Mary and her brothers and the boys are okay. I hope I hear from them somehow soon. That would just BLOW if they had some wacky experience and were like ... right there, or had their legs blown off or something. ... Sigh.

But GOD DAMN IT! I hate it when stuff like this happens. Stupid stupid stupid stupid. Now everyone is going to go spewing with anti-terrorism mumbo jumbo, and sit on thier asses and dip shit in ranch dressing, and now we will never get the fuck out of Iraq, because people will STILL buy that we are there to fight against terrorism. AGGHHHH!!! It makes me so angry. -ww.

(wish 'em luck)

et phone home

Sigh...

Word. What a day. Traffic was HELL. Why in the world does everyone really want to go bbq at the beach in Santa Cruz together, all at the same time, get smoked out and go deaf after all the stupid fireworks? For some reason, I hate the fourth of July. I always have. It's a stupid holiday- America's the only country that is so egotistical to celebrate its so called independence by blowing shit up. What a lazy fucking disgusting excuse to get fucked up and fuck. Right on. Dammit.

Website bullshit. I've been thinking whether ethically I should contact that guy whose desktop image thing I based by background image off of and tell him I altered it and made it mine for stillsight, and also whether it's right of me to use the d70 icons that some guy made for the buttons too- or whether they both respectively knew that as they were putting their art out on the internet to be used as icons and as desktop images if they knew that artists we are all, so therefore we'd use and maniuplate and change and, I'm obviously not profiting from it, but I suppose I'd ought to give some kind of credit.

Well, here it is. And I'll put it in the source of my site and hopefully then my concious will ease, and I won't get sued or something stupid.

Credit to Plasvics at destopimage.com for the camera, 1941.
Credit to Joe Schlitzer for the d70 icons.

Hazaa.