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The Beatles

"I've Just Seen a Face"

I feel like I’m meeting you for the first time :)

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Belle and Sebastian

"Judy and the Dream of Horses"

Judy never felt so good, except when she was sleeping.

Goal for the weekend Friday: Finish Gas Thermometry Experiment Finish Joule-Thomson Experiment Saturday: Finish Anthro Midterm Finish Viscometry Data Analysis Sunday: Finish Pchem Homework Revise Anthro Midterm Read 1/4th of Song of Roland  Go!

Goal for the weekend

Friday:

  1. Finish Gas Thermometry Experiment
  2. Finish Joule-Thomson Experiment

Saturday:

  1. Finish Anthro Midterm
  2. Finish Viscometry Data Analysis

Sunday:

  1. Finish Pchem Homework
  2. Revise Anthro Midterm
  3. Read 1/4th of Song of Roland 

Go!

Feeling a little more optimistic.

<semitones> :(
<semitones> when I feel sad, I need too talk to someone. But I feel too sad to be with people
<semitones> (!)anybody else ever get that?
<LjL> semitones: yeah
<LjL> semitones: more generally speaking, when i feel sad/depressed i need to do something, but i don't feel like at all
<semitones> yeah
<semitones> and when you do, everything feels better, at least temporarily, so, it doesn't make sense why it would be so hard to do
<pangolin> because it seems to your subconscious at least that the "high" of accomplishing something is going to require more work then it did the last time
<semitones> it totally does
<semitones> so much effort
<pangolin> this is not always true and if something appears to be to big a task to be worth the work, break the task down into smaller objectives for example you need to clean the apartment but it will take you all day. Clean just you bathroom today.
<semitones> and if the task(s) (it/them)sel(f/ves) seem impossible, just redefine (it/them) in more sensible terms?
<pangolin> exactly.
<pangolin> baby steps :)
<semitones> that might work :)
<pangolin> with time things will become less of a chore and you will start doing more.
<semitones> when you're doing nothing it is hard to do one thing. When you're doing 10 things, one more is easy
<semitones> I am going to go to the library :)
<pangolin> enjoy
<semitones> i just have to redefine my tasks then i'll be ok
<semitones> thanks IdleOne :)
<pangolin> sure thing, glad I was able to help :)

How to setup Quassel on a Free AWS server.

Part One

  1. Sign up for free AWS account. http://aws.amazon.com/free/
  2. Set a memo to remember to cancel your account before the free trial expires in one year.
  3. Set up an EC2 Instance — Add a TCP exception on port 4242 during the “Firewall” portion. Leave the default 0.0.0.0/0, it means any ip can connect.
  4. Go to the AWS Management Console
  5. Wait for server status to go from “Pending” to “Running.” This took me about 30 minutes, but it may be faster for you.

Part Two: While you’re waiting, it’s time to get ready to connect to the instance through SSH.

For Windows:

  1. Install PuTTY, Pagent, and PuTTYgen. They can be found at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
  2. Right-click on the instance in the AWS console and select ‘connect’ for detailed instructions from amazon.
  3. Use puttygen to convert the key. Use this guide for more information (skip to the bottom for the relevant part) http://clouddb.info/2009/05/17/a-quick-overview-of-putty-and-ssh-for-aws-newbies/
  4. Use pagent.exe to connect using the new key you just created.

For Linux:

  1. SSH is probably already installed, hooray! If not install it and set it up.
  2. Right-click on the instance in the AWS console and select ‘connect’ for amazon’s detailed instructions.

Part Three: Once Connected

  1. Optional step: to enable SSL connections to irc networks: openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout ~/.config/quassel-irc.org/quasselCert.pem -out ~/.config/quassel-irc.org/quasselCert.pem
  2. Download quasselcore to the instance using wget
  3. bzip2 -d name-of-file
  4. chmod +x name-of-file
  5. ./name-of-file &
  6. Connect with Quassel Client

Congratulations! You now have one free year of always-on IRC.

You could also set up irssi using screen on a free server with AWS. It’s another possibility.

If this guide could be better, shoot me a suggestion in the ask box, and I’ll address it if I can. Use this guide other places too, but link back here if you do, it took a long time to figure out :)

Always on connection to IRC

Hey everyone. For awhile now I’ve been using IRC to chat with people about Ubuntu and lots of other computer and internet things. It’s a great place for instant discussion with people around the world, like a few days ago when nationalgeographic.com and a few other sites got hacked. I could instantly talk to other people and find out that it wasn’t just me seeing it, and that there were other defaced sites as well.

Anyway I was using quassel to connect to IRC through a friend’s server, which gave me an always-on connection. This is especially good for those slower channels that might be quiet for hours at a time, if you don’t want to miss anything by logging out. But the time came for me to stop squatting on my friend’s server and set up my own.

Anyway I found a good solution with Amazon’s Web Services, which gives a free trial year, which is good enough for me. The setup was a little tricky, but I documented everything to make it easier for the next person. So what follows, for the technically inclined, is a simple walkthrough on how to get quasselcore set up on a free AWS server. Enjoy!

Materialism and Climbing Gear

One of the more troubling dichotomies in American society is the dual motivation of materialism and anti-materialism. From an early age we’re taught to desire the toys and clothes of our peers, while at the same time we’re taught to be content with what we have. Money can’t buy happiness, or can it? If we see a car speeding down the road in a commercial, or hear someone playing music on a guitar, both seem like a lot of fun. But a lack of those possessions put those experiences just out of reach. The two are linked, so where can one draw the line separating frivolous possessions from necessary ones?

I just got back from a trip to Red River Gorge in Kentucky, which was rock climbing and camping for six days with four friends. All of us had hundreds of dollars of gear, all told. Ropes, harnesses, shoes, slings, carabiners, quickdraws, sleeping bags, pads, packs, cookware, cameras, but our focus was on our task not our tools. Our gear had become an extension of our bodies over the years. “Hello, my name is Patrick, and this is my harness.” Tools acquired over the years and only as needed to do something are not as much materialism if they become a part of you in the course of regular use and necessity. All towards the goal of experience, owning possessions is fundamental to personhood.

Summer Projects (An Open List)

Make tshirts

Learn to silkscreen

Climb

Explore

Run

Bikes

Make Music

Register for classes

Find an Internship

Watch clouds

Watch stars.

 

(Find love?)

Music is an exercise in pattern recognition. After listening to a certain artist or song enough, you glean an understanding of what is going on musically, rhythmically, tonally, etc.. makes very texturally-dense music; at first, it’s difficult for your brain to sort through the dissonance and find patterns, but over time you start to hear the patterns, your brain understands the music, and it becomes pleasurable to listen to. Honestly, I think it just takes time.

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ToTheMax32

I guess this is how I started liking music that annoys other people…

[ cloud overview | get your own cloud ] I feel it&#8217;s time to post one of these tumblr clouds, which measure what words you use most, on your blog at least. It&#8217;s pretty cool that the most used words it found are fairly interesting&#8212; they must have it down to a science to avoid the boring words people use in everyday. I was also glad to see that 58% of my posts are original &#8212; I guess a lot of those are songs I upload, even though I&#8217;ve only posted a song or two that were truly original. Though in that case there&#8217;s not much in the world that&#8217;s completely unique, almost everything is a reblog somehow, with an original twist on something you&#8217;ve read, or seen, or experienced. I&#8217;m back at home for work like I am most weekends. I love my job, but together with school it makes my life rather hectic &#8212; or grounded, maybe I should say. It&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve spent the night staring into space, thinking about the world, or listening to music. Sometimes I wish I were one of those freefloating planes in that float video &#8212;- serene, unaffected, flowing wherever life takes me. It would be awesome. And now that I&#8217;ve used every one of those tag-cloud words, I am going to go to bed. Goodnight. :)

[ cloud overview | get your own cloud ]



I feel it’s time to post one of these tumblr clouds, which measure what words you use most, on your blog at least. It’s pretty cool that the most used words it found are fairly interesting— they must have it down to a science to avoid the boring words people use in everyday.

I was also glad to see that 58% of my posts are original — I guess a lot of those are songs I upload, even though I’ve only posted a song or two that were truly original. Though in that case there’s not much in the world that’s completely unique, almost everything is a reblog somehow, with an original twist on something you’ve read, or seen, or experienced.

I’m back at home for work like I am most weekends. I love my job, but together with school it makes my life rather hectic — or grounded, maybe I should say. It’s been a long time since I’ve spent the night staring into space, thinking about the world, or listening to music. Sometimes I wish I were one of those freefloating planes in that float video —- serene, unaffected, flowing wherever life takes me. It would be awesome.

And now that I’ve used every one of those tag-cloud words, I am going to go to bed. Goodnight. :)

NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY