…can do a lot of things.

But know what it can’t do?

WRITE MY FREAKING TERM PAPER. GAAH.

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I’m doing laundry today (for I’m wearing the emergency boxers), and I realized something about my hamper. It really needs to be set up in a First-In, First-Out (FIFO) manner. I tend to wear a lot of the same outfits within a given time span, because I almost never get around to doing all my laundry at once. This results in me tending to clean the clothes on the top of the hamper/pile that surrounds the hamper a lot, because they get cleaned, I wear them, and they go back on the hamper.

So, how to solve this?

I was looking at my hamper. It’s not a bad one, really. It’s nice and sturdy, with four wire loops holding up mesh sides. There’s a synthetic cloth bottom, and a hole in the top. Now, why couldn’t you have zippered ends, instead of one closed and one open? That way, you could fill it up, zipper up the top, turn it over, and open it up to take the clothes out of the bottom to put them in the wash. I, for one, know it would result in a much better turnover in my outfits than I currently have.

Bonus points if it included temperature alarms to signal when the microbial life going on in the old dirty clothes have generated a given amount of heat (this signaling when you really need to do laundry).

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It’s an amazingly nice day today. Really bloody nice. Know what’s nice about the quad? Wireless internet coverage is rather good (at least on the north end), and I’m just sitting out here, doing my homework, and admiring what an awesome day it is today. I’m going to miss this place; I don’t think too many places on Earth are quite like it here.

I think the major problem with the quad, however, is that I want to just lay here and take a nap. It’s too damn nice here to work.

Waaaay too damn nice. G’night folks.

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I can’t wait for summer. I really can’t wait for summer.

I have three things begging on my time, in roughly this order:

• School
• Work
• Robot

I really only have time for any two, especially after I discovered that my PS 391 paper I was working was already done down to the T by someone else, which means I can’t honestly do that paper, as I might as well just quote the whole thing. Grr.

As it turns out, I’ll be able to take my French 103 course as a correspondence course over the summer, which means I’ll have more time, so I’ll be able to take time for work, friends, robot, and last but not least, myself. Ward and I want to make motor controllers to sell, as we think we can offer some pretty good capabilities for pretty good prices.

I bought myself a very slightly used Bianchi. I’ll get pictures of it on this website as soon as I can. That’s another thing calling my time… the dark blue-green beauty that is my new bike.

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On the way to Meijer’s today, I stopped by Goodwill so I could drop off some old clothes. Krystal and I went inside to browse their wares. Inside, I discovered some Awesome: a table of old audio cassettes. As the car I drive has a tape deck, I decided I needed some vintage tunes. What did I get? Here’s the rundown:

• UB40. The album with “Fools Rush In.”
• The soundtrack to Footloose.
• The 2nd volume soundtrack to Dirty Dancing (called “More Dirty Dancing”)
• Bruce Springsteen, “Born in the USA”
• The soundtrack to “Stand By Me,” the movie adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Body.”
• The best of Pat Benetar.

I’ve got a shitty little car, and now I can have rocking cassette tunes to be all hXc about it. LONG LIVE FORD TEMPOS!

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Yes, I know that the title to this post has no relation to a language, real or imagined. It’s about Music, and Purchasing Music.

As a person much less well-off than I am now (not saying I’m well off now, just I was worse then), I justified piracy by saying “I wasn’t going to buy it anyway.” Then as I gained a little more in the way of disposable income, I justified it by “The record companies aren’t playing fair, so why should I?” I still think this is a valid justification, by the way. However, I also viewed that once I had proper cash, I should make an effort to purchase music if possible and if reasonably fair.

Enter iTunes. The DRM on the $0.99 songs isn’t very tough to crack, the songs are reasonably affordable ($1 will get you two songs on a jukebox in Manhattan. $1 to get one song with unlimited plays is fine by me), you get to listen to the first 30 seconds of any song, so you’re not stuck with something unfun, and EMI announced a deal letting their whole catalog on iTunes be available without DRM for $1.29 each. It’s not bad, even in light of my standing beefs with Apple (to be commented on later, possibly).

Could I be using this to justify my purchase of Mika’s Love Today via iTunes? Perhaps. However, I don’t mind that I spent the money. I do enjoy the song very much, and voted with $1 to let some corporate person know I like it as well, so perhaps they can figure that good music has to keep coming down the pipe.

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