So, I was in the campus cafe today, and I went to the bathroom and when I looked in the mirror, my eyes were yellowish. Like, a tint of yellow. I was kinda freaked out, so I went to WebMD and found that it is something that happens when your liver isn't happy. When you have hepatitis or mono. But then I thought to what I have been up to the last few days and it made more sense. Last Friday I hung out with friends and went to zombie prom and stuff and stayed up to 5. Then Saturday I hung out with more friends and drank an entire two liter of Shasta cola and a starbucks double shot energy drink. I also ate like 5 grilled cheese sandwiches, 4 cinnamon rolls, and in the morning ate two McGriddles (each 440 calories). Then I went to bed at 10 (on Sunday) and woke up at 3 something. Ate more and drank more cola till Monday morning at 8 when I went to bed for two hours. Then I woke up at 10:24 to goto calculus. I never really go unless I have to turn in homework or take a quiz, and I thought we had a quiz. So I get to class, sit down with just my pencil and guess what, no quiz that day. but we got out midterm exam back and it reminded me why I don't goto class, 95/100. So then I goto my second class and then do stuff, review music, play guitar hero until I have to go watch a movie for my English class. Then I eventually went to bed at 11:30 and woke up today at noon to get back to work, cutting stencils, reviewing music, and such.
So I am not overly surprised that my eyes were freaking yellow, although it is a little scary. But they are back to normal, according to Mary and Meghan at least (but they never actually believed my story).
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Live concert archive
So I was browsing the Roster McCabe website and found this archive of their live shows. I was pretty excited with the 4 or 5 shows. But then I started digging around the site and found that they have an archive of band's shows with 60,000 items in it. So I browsed and there were some notable ones in there. Fugazi, Mountain Goats, and the Decemberists were some one I recognized. So, take a look at the list and see if your favorite bands have some live shows up.
Here's the link.
P.S. There are about 2,000 live grateful dead concerts on the site, talk about a touring band.
Here's the link.
P.S. There are about 2,000 live grateful dead concerts on the site, talk about a touring band.
reword'd
Like Tasha did, I used what Julie wrote To write something about me. It wasn't as easy as I wanted.
"This year is" "active." "I like my" "active" "life." "I like my" "habits and tendencies" "this year." "The logic behind" "me" "is" "not" "all" "negative and" "lately" "I'd" "note" "that" "what" "truly upsets me" "is that" "things happen" "and" "my person" "is" "not" "responsive." "My cynicism" "is" "a side" "that" "is" "pressing." "It" "is" "me;" "a side" "that" "I" "know."
"This year is" "active." "I like my" "active" "life." "I like my" "habits and tendencies" "this year." "The logic behind" "me" "is" "not" "all" "negative and" "lately" "I'd" "note" "that" "what" "truly upsets me" "is that" "things happen" "and" "my person" "is" "not" "responsive." "My cynicism" "is" "a side" "that" "is" "pressing." "It" "is" "me;" "a side" "that" "I" "know."
Friday, October 24, 2008
mARTin: kumm shirt
Okay, so this is my rough design for the new KUMM shirts. I would like as much feedback as possible, because at this point I dunno what to add/remove/change/if it's any good at all.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
I gather no moss when I'm rolling like this
So I got like 10 minutes until my radio show, but I'm doing pretty well at pumping out these posts so here's another one.
Last week I had an internship interview with Thomson Reuters, the largest IT employer in the state and the largest bandwidth user in the 5 state area. It went pretty sweet, I think I did alright in talking and answering questions. So hopefully I can get an internship there for the summer, 9 to 5, 5 days a week of technology internship with pay, sounds good right. I figure if I don't like it, it's only a 3 month deal and I can drop it and never work in an office building again (yeah right).
But the best part of it was a question they asked me during the "so you think your a compsci major?" part. The question is this: How do you determine if an integer is odd or even?
I'll let your brain digest this one for one sentence.
So, the next day after the interview, I have my comp sci seminar with my co compsci peoples. After class I was walking in front of a few of them and heard one mention the interviews. So I slowed down and started chatting with them about it. This one guy mentioned how he didn't know the answers to the questions they asked and I was like, well, I felt alright about them. So they talk about the even or odd question and they go over what they said for it. The first kid's answer was: "I said I'd divide it by two, and if it's divisible by two, then it's even. But they asked how I knew if something is divisible by 2 or not, and I didn't know." So, the next kid chimes in: "Wouldn't it be something like checking if the last digit is a 0, 2, 4, 6, or an 8?" Well, those are both really inefficient ways of doing the problem, which is why I was smiling the whole time because in my interview I got the question and replied: "Well, I'd mod 2 it and see if the remainder is 1 or 0." Then one of the interviewers slammed his hand on the table and exclaimed "That's what I'm looking for!" It was great at the moment, bu now I have the suspicion that I was after a string of wrong answers, meaning I probably left an impression, which is a great thing to do in an interview.
Last week I had an internship interview with Thomson Reuters, the largest IT employer in the state and the largest bandwidth user in the 5 state area. It went pretty sweet, I think I did alright in talking and answering questions. So hopefully I can get an internship there for the summer, 9 to 5, 5 days a week of technology internship with pay, sounds good right. I figure if I don't like it, it's only a 3 month deal and I can drop it and never work in an office building again (yeah right).
But the best part of it was a question they asked me during the "so you think your a compsci major?" part. The question is this: How do you determine if an integer is odd or even?
I'll let your brain digest this one for one sentence.
So, the next day after the interview, I have my comp sci seminar with my co compsci peoples. After class I was walking in front of a few of them and heard one mention the interviews. So I slowed down and started chatting with them about it. This one guy mentioned how he didn't know the answers to the questions they asked and I was like, well, I felt alright about them. So they talk about the even or odd question and they go over what they said for it. The first kid's answer was: "I said I'd divide it by two, and if it's divisible by two, then it's even. But they asked how I knew if something is divisible by 2 or not, and I didn't know." So, the next kid chimes in: "Wouldn't it be something like checking if the last digit is a 0, 2, 4, 6, or an 8?" Well, those are both really inefficient ways of doing the problem, which is why I was smiling the whole time because in my interview I got the question and replied: "Well, I'd mod 2 it and see if the remainder is 1 or 0." Then one of the interviewers slammed his hand on the table and exclaimed "That's what I'm looking for!" It was great at the moment, bu now I have the suspicion that I was after a string of wrong answers, meaning I probably left an impression, which is a great thing to do in an interview.
While were on the topic...
Stencils are cool, like really cool. I remember learning about negative space in art classes since 6th grade and I never knew it could be so much fun and such a challenge to only use not only one color, but in such a way that you can't have an unfilled space surrounded by filled space. In stencil art, you're cutting out of paper, and if you cut an O for example, there isn't any white space in the middle, it's paper and just falls out. So you have to be creative in your methods. Using that idea, you get into things like implied shape. That's where you use the stencil to create what the shadow of the object would be, tricking the human eye to then see the object even though it isn't inherently there. I've been trying to get better at stenciling and after looking at a gallery of banksy, a british street stenciler, I now really want to get better at the art. It's something where my lack of painting and drawing skills are augmented with my use of technology and controlled settings. i can create most of a stencil on the computer then print it out and cut it. If I mess up, I just reprint it, no biggy.
I'm always looking for new things to create a stencil out of, if you've seen the helloblacksmith shirt design or the shirt that was last weeks mARTin update, check them out and send me a request. I figure I can stencil most things and get them on a shirt for you for about $7. That depends on how hard the image is to design. But yeah, let me know.
I'm always looking for new things to create a stencil out of, if you've seen the helloblacksmith shirt design or the shirt that was last weeks mARTin update, check them out and send me a request. I figure I can stencil most things and get them on a shirt for you for about $7. That depends on how hard the image is to design. But yeah, let me know.
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