graudrakon

i had to make my own calendar file to manipulate in class and am rather proud of the schedule I wrote up

1/1/00 Have master plan foiled again
1/4/00 Trial
1/9/00 transfer to maximum security prison
5/12/00 escape
6/4/00 henchmen day
7/2/00 formulate new master plan to conquer the world
9/4/00 steal ancient artifacts for dooms day device
9/14/00 ignore Yom Kippur: nothing to atone for, my actions are justified!
10/16/00 steal particle accelerator
10/23/00 steal neutron band focus array
12/22/00 Hanukkah begins
12/25/00 send heroes deadly Christmas present that shall eliminate them once and for all
1/1/01 conquer world
1/1/01 have world leaders kneel before me
1/1/01 imprison everyone who always said i would never amount to anything
1/1/01 make "Three Dog Night" reunite
1/23/01 conquer moon
3/27/01 launch preemptive attack on mars and Saturn
4/9/01 accept mars and Saturns surrender
6/4/01 henchmen day
8/12/01 push last remaining rebels out past the Kuiper belt and claim dominion over the solar system
12/10/01 Hanukkah
2/5/02 find cure for death
6/4/02 henchmen day
5/8/03 transcend all other mortal limits
11/30/03 Hanukkah

Spent all yesterday running up and down panhandle park in sf doing india themed contests for my friends b-day party. Then after that everyone at the games did a bollywood dance routine. My legs where so sore. The whole thing was to raise money for goats in india. http://www.iwantagoat.com/

then ice skating which is not like riding a bicycle, it does not come right back to you.

havent slept in 24 hours which really puts me in a writing mood, I was for awhile even falling in and out of sleep but still typing. I wrote about a 1000 on my memoir before running out of ideas and starting a new book. A romance novel...

• 2000 words of that done in two hours I'm really into this.
• I am absolutely amazed how versatility the word heaving is.
• I really should read some romance novels to get a feel for there genre and feel can anyone recommend or loan me some in a hurry?
• Chapter two and I already had to edit out a ethnic slur about welshmen, I am really getting into this!

Belly Dancing and fancy food and friends what could be any better... hmmmm I need to make my friends learn to cook and belly dance!

Then drinking, I am rather getting bored with drinking but it was her 21st so I felt obligated to encourage out right inebriation.

Then I read Darkly Dreaming Dexter. Just watch the show, its way better than this book.

It has a well chosen target of 50k words. 1666/day is about where my mind stops working, at least for the first couple days. But then I just don't know what to write, I think that my main problem is that I'm writing a memoir and I just dont know how to fill a chapter on one facet of homeless life. This may just be an excuse for writers block though.

Added to that my sleep schedule is coming to a head, I stayed up 25 hours which hopefully will push me forward to a normal bed time again.

Sleep deprivation does not help writing. Neither does alcohol it seems. It's like everything I have ever been told about artists is a lie!

I have found the biggest problem in my writing is finishing long stories. The mere fact that I should write a particular thing, should finish drains the interest and creativity out of me.

Is trying to understand what makes a system tend towards Bureaucracy. I am looking at how hackerdojo is forming up and there is a whole lot of people wanting to add documentation, paper work, transparency, and oversight to things that really shouldn't need it (like logging the email of every single person who comes to hang out) but from what I hear from in charge types we have been piss poor and dealing with paperwork that really should be done. very perplexing...

I dont understand the net nutrality issue. Basically it says we don't want corporations to regulate the internet so we will make the government do it instead. Despite the fact that there has never been a problem with this before and it would likely be suicide for an ISP to try we still think the internet will stay exactly as it is today when controlled by a government bureaucracy.

The second part that confuses me is that it is supported by the republicans O_o. Since when where they about letting big brother keep the corporations down?

its weird that the topic of the homeless or homelessness come up at the dojo almost everyday. I am silent and >.> on the subject.

I decided to write a memoir about being homeless for NaNoWriMo.

Today my soul flew away
Come on back another day.
Where the wild west winds play.
To where strange solemn peoples pray.

Don't wonder off the way
dear soul, don't delay
with will-o-wisps or the fey.
Don't stray.

What did I do or did I say,
To keep it oh so far at bay?
Will you come back someday,
wont you just this once,
please stay?

--me

"Quarantine"
Eavan Boland

In the worst hour of the worst season
of the worst year of a whole people
a man set out from the workhouse with his wife.
He was walking – they were both walking – north.

She was sick with famine fever and could not keep up.
He lifted her and put her on his back.
He walked like that west and west and north.
Until at nightfall under freezing stars they arrived.

In the morning they were both found dead.
Of cold. Of hunger. Of the toxins of a whole history.
But her feet were held against his breastbone.
The last heat of his flesh was his last gift to her.

Let no love poem ever come to this threshold.
There is no place here for the inexact
praise of the easy graces and sensuality of the body.
There is only time for this merciless inventory:

Their death together in the winter of 1847.
Also what they suffered. How they lived.
And what there is between a man and woman.
And in which darkness it can best be proved.

whitespace in which ONLY white spaces are counted for the program.  All other characters are ignored.  This means you can hide whitespace code in another languages code ;)
LOLCODE with comands named after lolcat themes its hello world looks like

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 CAN HAS STDIO
    PLZ OPEN FILE "LOLCATS.TXT"
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Brainfuck designed to use the smallest compiler possible.

this is my personal essay to use for getting scholarships, internships, and into better colleges. Any suggestions on how improve it, I'm still pondering whether the conclusion is conclusiony enough.

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I realized that this is the sort of thing people write inspirational books about. The question is how to expand and inspire....

So I have realized that being homeless has given me the best personal statement essays, like ever.

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Turtle Count: 100

test from http://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/Default.aspx
the internet's leader in happiness research (or maybe second after friend finder)
the idea is that by recocnizing our strengths we can try to solve problems by using them instead of our weaker traits.

I really thought spirituality and self control would be a lot higher

So quick poll, where do people think the cut off is between strengths and weaknesses is?

1. Creativity, ingenuity, and originality
2. Judgment, critical thinking, and open-mindedness
3. Curiosity and interest in the world
4. Love of learning
5. Perspective (wisdom)
6. Bravery and valor
7. Humor and playfulness
8. Spirituality, sense of purpose, and faith
9. Industry, diligence, and perseverance
10. Social intelligence
11. Kindness and generosity
12. Self-control and self-regulation
13. Honesty, authenticity, and genuineness
14. Zest, enthusiasm, and energy
15. Appreciation of beauty and excellence
16. Caution, prudence, and discretion
17. Gratitude
18. Hope, optimism, and future-mindedness
19. Leadership
20. Fairness, equity, and justice
21. Forgiveness and mercy
22. Citizenship, teamwork, and loyalty
23. Capacity to love and be loved
24. Modesty and humility

In the beginning was darkness and Noroldama its god who's name it is not wise to know the meaning of. He shrouded and ruled over all enslaving any that drew his attention. All life eked out a pitiful existence avoiding his gaze and hiding in deep places. Some chose to fight him choosing death rather than cowardice but they found that not even death was escape from his rule. The Jargoldir they became, the hunters of other rebels, bloodhounds sniffing throughout the world for the scent of freedom.

No one knows how long this dark age lasted for the only records that where kept where those etched into the memories of the world, the deep places in our minds that is passed on through the generations, that place within us all where darkness still rules.

The end came when a group of craftsmen and wise men gathered. Magi and sorcerers who would defy the Black God, and so they toiled long in deep places where the dark skies would not notice them a fortress they called Komdoriimon which means 'where darkness isn't.' For 50 years they labored before they where discovered and the mindless hounds of Noroldama assaulted their gates. The Jargoldir where repelled by the defenses and where sent reeling back till Noroldama itself came to beat down the gates with his ebon sword. He torn out the walls of Komdoriimon and trod down the defenders as if they where no more than a road cobbled in mortal flesh. He ripped his path to the heart of that bastion and found the result of five decades of mortal effort. Shastriyea'a, the Mirror of Opposition, as the Shadow King looked into silvered surface of molten mercury framed in adamant and white gold he saw for the first time his own reflection which was named with the humble name Kun, the dawn.