Did I mention that I have one paper to turn in on Monday, and after that…I’m graduated? Done? Finished?
Well, with undergraduate work anyway.
Apr 282006
Apr 282006
I was informed yesterday that my senior thesis is likely to be used in later classes.
That’s kinda sorta almost awesome, I think, maybe.
You can tell I’m real sure about this.
Apr 272006
Yes, it’s in German because that’s the language I wrote the damned thing in.
My senior thesis.
Apr 212006
Royal Philips …what kind of backwoods fecal-cut HeroinMethCrack are you smoking!? I don’t think I would blame anyone for resorting to piracy if this brand of “legitimate” TV viewing came to fruition.
Are you also patenting the leather belt-straps, catheters, and eyeclamps that will keep us forcibly in rapt attention and awe of the advertiser’s sweet, sweet, enchanting ambrosia?
“FILE SHARING IS KILLING OUR BUSINESS!”
No. Corporations and lobbyists like you and your ilk are responsible. I honestly hope you succeed just so you can fail spectacularly and end these fruitless pursuits to make us pay for things we are already paying for, and make us rent the things we already own.
The broadcast flag, analog downsampling, captive audience programming, and the general dilution of consumer rights will only end in a backlash so fierce your revunues will hang themselves from your bottom lines. There’s only so much you can trick Joe Consumer into believing he’s supposed to take before his pocketbook overcomes his ignorance.
It’s going to be an interesting few years.
Apr 192006
With my thesis finished and only a few more papers to do before the end of the semester, I’ve been thinking about Kenny again.
I was thinking about Kenny while walking to my car and all that’s changed in my life in the past six months when I decided to call Rebecca for the first time in a long while. It wasn’t so bad. She’ll be back in Canton soon.
That’s…about it for my day. The first draft of my paper is on Jux if you care to find it, and I’ll be posting my final draft as a feature.
Apr 182006
I’m in a staring contest with the last two pages of my senior thesis, the conclusion chapter. I know what I want to say, I know how to say it, I just can’t summon up the energy to actually do it after working on this thing for days (well, months really). I’m going to play a round or two of DDR and finish this bastard.
Apr 172006
Q: Why is it that some people can smell dead ants, and some people can’t?
A: I’m a bit unsure of your question. I’m not sure if you’re referring to the smell of dead, decomposing ants or an ant that has just be killed. I assume you mean the latter.
Ants have a substance they produce called formic acid which is unpleasant to most animals. This acid provides safety from many predators since it is disagreeable when eaten although flickers are an exception and are especially fond of ants. If you kill an ant, especially if you crush it, the smell of the formic acid is quite apparent. I never knew that some people were unable to smell this substance but I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that for some people, they simply don’t have the physical ability to pick it up. Maybe it’s a little like being color blind but in reference to smell not color.
– John Wiessinger on December 15, 2003 at 12:21 PM
Q: Do ants have a natural scent? I have little black ants invading my home that have a sweet smell to them.
A: Ants have a variety of secretions that are used in defense, offense, and communication. Crushed ants may smell of formic acid but this is not a sweet odor. Most animals don’t like the formic acid and avoid ants although flickers are noted for feeding heavily on them – they must like the taste.
– John Wiessinger on June 10, 2003 at 04:34 PM
Apr 132006
I really can’t write even semi-Fantasy stories. I like them, but I can never make them go where I want to, like I want to.
I’ve got some ideas, but mostly I’ve got frustration.
Apr 102006
On Saturday I finally cracked and went insane, ranting and raving about my printer (a beloved Canon S750 that I had simply beat to death printing manuscripts) and how it was impossible to get anything out of it that looked even semi-professional with all the lines and blotches the thing would print. I had no choice at the time but to print everything necessary for my GSU application as best I could and send it off that morning.
That afternoon, though, I recieved from my parents a new Brother HL-2040 laser printer. I finally have a damned laser printer. In exchange, I turned over the S750 to them to replace their ancient and decrepit (and frankly, broken) DeskJet 722C that came with my 333mhz Pentium II back in 1998 or so. My printouts are now crazily crisp and fresh.
I’m sure the Canon could be fixed by replacing the print head and dusted really well, but I print out so much as a student and a writer that an inkjet just really doesn’t make much sense anymore. I bought the Canon because it had very fast text printing and cheap ink costs. I left it in greyscale most of the time to save color ink that I never really needed to use anyway. The thing wasn’t a photoprinter and was never very good and printing them. Besides, I can either go to Walgreens to print out photos with their dye sublimation printers or I bought my sister Erin a photo printer two years ago for Christmas. I’ve got it covered.
