I kinda want to make this a reoccurring post idea, but I also don't want to spend a bazillion dollars, $3 at a time for unlimited coffee here at the common cup. But we'll see, cause I really like coming here.
Anyways, I'm sitting and I take my earbuds out for a bit and start to overhear these two people's conversation. The first thing I hear is this guy say: "I haven't had much luck with girls lately." So I look over and it's a guy sitting with girl. The girl looks pretty bored with him talking about his bad luck with girls. She's playing with a napkin and giving the occasional agreement. I started thinking about why they are here and who they are to each other. I came up with the idea that the reason he doesn't do too well with girls is that he takes them to coffee houses and tells them that he isn't good with girls. They didn't come to hear him whine, because he obviously got them to the coffee house in the first place. They get bored and nothing ever comes from the date. He continues the cycle and it might never end.
So watch out at coffee houses, I might be blogging about your strange conversations. Just look for the guy going to the bathroom every 20 minute. Goddamn my bladder's response to 3+ cups of coffee.
Monday, November 17, 2008
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Customizing ubuntu is soo much fun!
So, I should be doing homework, but I'm not. I am instead going to show you how I have customized my computer to be awesome, if you don't care then pass this post by.
Fresh install
So Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" came out at the end of October and so instead of just upgrading, I decided to do a completely fresh install. That means backing up any important documents and formatting the Ubuntu partition. This is so easy to do in Ubuntu, it's awesome. Instead of having to reinstall windows and ubuntu studio, I just clear the one part ion that ubuntu lives on. So I started out clean with a blank slate to go from. It was such a great feeling, I recommend it to everyone (I also recommend trying ubuntu).
Starting out, the basics:
So for a new install to be fully functional, there are some basic things that you need to do which are not that hard to do. It basically involves installing all the things Ubuntu can't guarantee, like flash, java, and MP3 codecs. All stuff I like to have. So you just follow this guide. It's not that hard to do if you haven't worked with the terminal and it is probably a good starting tool for that. Then I did have to wait a few days before the latest nVidia drivers were released, but after that I got to start with the compiz settings, yummy.
Compiz:
So I figure that most people reading this don't use Ubuntu (save for Colin, Vinny, and Jake before he went back to Mac), so I'll be giving brief explanations for things that aren't common talk. Compiz is a background program that handles how you view your desktop. It is the eye candy of Ubuntu. If you've seen me turn my desktop into a 3-D cube, that's compiz. It lets you choose what animation plays when you close a window or if your windows are stiff or wobbly when you shake them. For a video of what compiz is capable of look here. I used to use it to make things look really cool, but now with my new Ubuntu, I'm all about functionality and being productive in a creative way. This started with getting rid of the cube and using 4 desktops in a line. To explain, each desktop can hold it's own windows and so instead of alt-tabbing through a bunch of programs to find my e-mail, I switch to the first desktop. Internet is on the second and music is on the third and the fourth is usually for the terminal. This saves me a load of time in finding what I'm looking for and it still looks pretty cool, in my opinion.
Compiz also runs the window manager, or the program that makes your windows have title bars and determines their color. I am still using the default theme for this because I haven't found what I'm looking for yet.
Conky:
Conky is an awesome program that will display basically anything you want. If there is a command for it or a way to use python to get information, conly can output it in anyway you want. I only got this running last week, so it isn't finished, but I still love it. Right now I have weather and system information to show up. In the future I will have it show what music I'm playing and other things that I want to be able to check whenever and feel too lazy to type a command.
Devilspie:
This is something I just found two days ago and am starting to use more. It's a program that recognizes applications that are running and can change their appearance when they are loaded. So right now I have my e-mail move to the first desktop when it is started and the same for firefox and my music player, rhythmbox. I can start them all from buttons on my keyboard and the go where I want without moving them.
My desktop terminal:
So I use the terminal a lot. I like it a lot more than running graphical things like update manager and finding files through the file browser. So I have it hot keyed to Alt+F1. But I found I was always opening terminals, which got annoying. So I followed this guide. And now I have a terminal window embedded into my background. It is so great. I have also been finding more and more uses for the terminal and the easiest way to learn new things is to use it a lot. Like updating twitter through the terminal. It isn't necessary, but it is a lot of fun and why not? I'll probably write a blog about twitter and try and get people to use it more. Jake couldn't completely explain why I should use it, but I figure if enough of my friends use it, it would turn worthwhile.
Future projects:
Get a better dock than the default one. I like the way macs have docks and not a large task bar like windows, but it has disadvantages and with ubuntu I can get my own dock and make it what I want. Also, I am planning on making a sweet wallpaper that uses the multiple desktops to make things pretty, it's hard to explain.
Back to "doing" homework.
Fresh install
So Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" came out at the end of October and so instead of just upgrading, I decided to do a completely fresh install. That means backing up any important documents and formatting the Ubuntu partition. This is so easy to do in Ubuntu, it's awesome. Instead of having to reinstall windows and ubuntu studio, I just clear the one part ion that ubuntu lives on. So I started out clean with a blank slate to go from. It was such a great feeling, I recommend it to everyone (I also recommend trying ubuntu).
Starting out, the basics:
So for a new install to be fully functional, there are some basic things that you need to do which are not that hard to do. It basically involves installing all the things Ubuntu can't guarantee, like flash, java, and MP3 codecs. All stuff I like to have. So you just follow this guide. It's not that hard to do if you haven't worked with the terminal and it is probably a good starting tool for that. Then I did have to wait a few days before the latest nVidia drivers were released, but after that I got to start with the compiz settings, yummy.
Compiz:
So I figure that most people reading this don't use Ubuntu (save for Colin, Vinny, and Jake before he went back to Mac), so I'll be giving brief explanations for things that aren't common talk. Compiz is a background program that handles how you view your desktop. It is the eye candy of Ubuntu. If you've seen me turn my desktop into a 3-D cube, that's compiz. It lets you choose what animation plays when you close a window or if your windows are stiff or wobbly when you shake them. For a video of what compiz is capable of look here. I used to use it to make things look really cool, but now with my new Ubuntu, I'm all about functionality and being productive in a creative way. This started with getting rid of the cube and using 4 desktops in a line. To explain, each desktop can hold it's own windows and so instead of alt-tabbing through a bunch of programs to find my e-mail, I switch to the first desktop. Internet is on the second and music is on the third and the fourth is usually for the terminal. This saves me a load of time in finding what I'm looking for and it still looks pretty cool, in my opinion.
Compiz also runs the window manager, or the program that makes your windows have title bars and determines their color. I am still using the default theme for this because I haven't found what I'm looking for yet.
Conky:
Conky is an awesome program that will display basically anything you want. If there is a command for it or a way to use python to get information, conly can output it in anyway you want. I only got this running last week, so it isn't finished, but I still love it. Right now I have weather and system information to show up. In the future I will have it show what music I'm playing and other things that I want to be able to check whenever and feel too lazy to type a command.
Devilspie:
This is something I just found two days ago and am starting to use more. It's a program that recognizes applications that are running and can change their appearance when they are loaded. So right now I have my e-mail move to the first desktop when it is started and the same for firefox and my music player, rhythmbox. I can start them all from buttons on my keyboard and the go where I want without moving them.
My desktop terminal:
So I use the terminal a lot. I like it a lot more than running graphical things like update manager and finding files through the file browser. So I have it hot keyed to Alt+F1. But I found I was always opening terminals, which got annoying. So I followed this guide. And now I have a terminal window embedded into my background. It is so great. I have also been finding more and more uses for the terminal and the easiest way to learn new things is to use it a lot. Like updating twitter through the terminal. It isn't necessary, but it is a lot of fun and why not? I'll probably write a blog about twitter and try and get people to use it more. Jake couldn't completely explain why I should use it, but I figure if enough of my friends use it, it would turn worthwhile.
Future projects:
Get a better dock than the default one. I like the way macs have docks and not a large task bar like windows, but it has disadvantages and with ubuntu I can get my own dock and make it what I want. Also, I am planning on making a sweet wallpaper that uses the multiple desktops to make things pretty, it's hard to explain.
Back to "doing" homework.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
PBR: Pretty Blog Rhetoric
Who even knows what rhetoric means? Cause I sure don't. Anyways, It's late and I don't know why I'm posting (I shouldn't be), but I am. Wow, it sounds bad, but some kinks can't be worked out through a backrub.
Anyways, this blog will be about something, I just haven't decided yet, so hang on. It will be about something that makes me happy: aha! I listened to the belles of skin city today. Both albums. It was great. Their drummer is probbably the reason I drum for hello blacksmith. He's amazing. Give them a listen to if you have them, and if you don't, let me know and I'll hook you up. but yeah, I also decided that I won't be a drummer for another band outside hbs. Because I just really don't fit there. I love guitar too much and miss playing guitar. Over last summer I jammed with Dylan and Jacob and it was great. We just went thorugh chord progressions and improvised what we wanted. It was probbably the best learning tool I've had for guitar. Having other instruments going off of each other was amazing and even though it was simple and repetitive, it was soo much fun. Which is why, although I would if I had to, I will not drum again (again, outside of hbs.). I just love playing guitar too damn much. And if I want to get better at it, I need to play it, expessially in a band setting. I dunno how it will work out, but CDubs and I have a plan for me on guitar, him on bass banjo(thats right a banjo through a lower octave pedal) and Jamies friend as a possible drummer, and someone else on vocals. It would be my dream come true. Well, actually it's not my wildest dream, but it is up there with...well, I won't say. Anyways, this has been a productive blog post. So, again, thanks for listening. Sorry for the typos, I'm not in the mood to fix them yet.
Anyways, this blog will be about something, I just haven't decided yet, so hang on. It will be about something that makes me happy: aha! I listened to the belles of skin city today. Both albums. It was great. Their drummer is probbably the reason I drum for hello blacksmith. He's amazing. Give them a listen to if you have them, and if you don't, let me know and I'll hook you up. but yeah, I also decided that I won't be a drummer for another band outside hbs. Because I just really don't fit there. I love guitar too much and miss playing guitar. Over last summer I jammed with Dylan and Jacob and it was great. We just went thorugh chord progressions and improvised what we wanted. It was probbably the best learning tool I've had for guitar. Having other instruments going off of each other was amazing and even though it was simple and repetitive, it was soo much fun. Which is why, although I would if I had to, I will not drum again (again, outside of hbs.). I just love playing guitar too damn much. And if I want to get better at it, I need to play it, expessially in a band setting. I dunno how it will work out, but CDubs and I have a plan for me on guitar, him on bass banjo(thats right a banjo through a lower octave pedal) and Jamies friend as a possible drummer, and someone else on vocals. It would be my dream come true. Well, actually it's not my wildest dream, but it is up there with...well, I won't say. Anyways, this has been a productive blog post. So, again, thanks for listening. Sorry for the typos, I'm not in the mood to fix them yet.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Some kind of....
i don't know why, but this is one of my favorite phrases of all time. "Some kind of" something. It's something I hear a lot and am always happy when it happens. I think I heard it from one of strong bad's emails a while ago. He was explaining something and said it was some kind of robot. Then I heard it more and more and I dunno why but I like it.
just to let you know.
just to let you know.
It's been a while
But I've been stressed out and writing blogs has been put off. I dunno why, well I do, but I wish I didn't. Things right now are not things I always want to blog about. How could I put into text what I can barely get through my head. It's hard. But some things that are making me this way: I am doing very poorly in my english class. I need to write an overdue paper, read books, and have an topic for my next paper. I should review music on a more regular basis, and not so sporadically as I do, it would ease the load. I should sleep, eat, and relax more. The actual thing is, I relax all the time. I sit around and do nothing most all day, it's sad. It's like summer reincarnate. I play guitar hero and mario cart, I watch TV and movies, I don't even play guitar which is supposed to be my fun relaxing hobby. My room is on average 50 degrees, which is horrible. I spend a lot of time at the on campus apartments at my freinds mary, meghan, and nicole's place. It's warm there.
I have a lot of goals. Too many you could say. And I can't find the motivation to do them. I hate it, because I make more goals to complete my other goals and it gets pretty ridiculous. Life is almost too simple. I thought about taking 20 credits next semester and volunteering at the co-op for a few hours a week to actually feel what it's like to be busy and make the most of my time. I wish I could say I knew what that felt like. I've been there, but I don't know if I'm headed in that direction.
I have a lot of goals. Too many you could say. And I can't find the motivation to do them. I hate it, because I make more goals to complete my other goals and it gets pretty ridiculous. Life is almost too simple. I thought about taking 20 credits next semester and volunteering at the co-op for a few hours a week to actually feel what it's like to be busy and make the most of my time. I wish I could say I knew what that felt like. I've been there, but I don't know if I'm headed in that direction.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Vincent the cat
So my roommate Ryan got a cat, we'll our house got a cat, but anyways, it has just been deemed responsible enough to roam the whole house and so it came into my room and was walking on my computer when it found my laptop's heat sink fan vent. So, in all it's cuteness it sat down and curled up to my computer and took a nap. It was awesome except for it kept typing ` or 1 repeatedly.
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