State of the Thingy.

So now it's just over a week to STM. Quite honestly, there's a part of me that still hasn't quite grasped the fact that I will be leaving on a plane to go to the US for ten days and over those ten days, I will be worked the hardest I have ever worked and do things that I would otherwise never do.

Spiritually, I was spun off course a bit during exams. This week, I should be able to get back on focus. Need to synchronize the pulse again. I don't think I've done as much as I should have the past few.

Packing should begin. I have no idea when I'm going to get to some of this stuff. I have no idea where to begin. Other stuff too, like money, rides, etc. Tons of preparation to do.

On top of that, I get to do first aid at Atlanta. I feel slightly more confident after today, but I'm still praying that no one will need it.

HSC. Eh, I have no idea.

In other news, I liked Shrek 2. Puss in Boots owns you.

The origins of w00t, by Thinkgeek.

w00t belongs to gamers the world over. It seems to have been derived from the obselete 'whoot' which essentially is another way to say 'hoot' which itself is a shout or derisive laugh. But others maintain that w00t is the sound several players make while jumping like bunnies in Quake III. Still others want you to believe that it comes from the phrase 'wow loot' used in multiplayer RPGs many moons ago. And if you can believe it some folks even think it was derived from the gaming phrase, 'We Own the Other Team!' Fiction or fact? I suppose you'll just have to decide what 'w00t!' means to you…

I'm bored

I was bored, so I decided to get NWN and its two expansion packs (that's Neverwinter Nights, Shadows of Undrentide, and Hordes of the Underdark).

BitTorrent

I love BitTorrent. It’s great. I can download at speeds of 100-300 kb/s. That’s better than the 30-60 kb/s I’ve been getting on other p2p programs. There’s one thing that annoys me though and that is the fact that it takes an enormous amount of memory to run.

Each torrent that I have downloading is taking about 13-14 megs of system memory. I just had three torrents open. System performance shot down. Even with two torrents open, I can see the difference just typing this thing up.

It’s probably because it’s written in Python. Python isn’t the fastest language out there. I guess I’ll just wait until the C port comes out.

Choice quotes from bash.

Roses are red
Violets are blue
All of my base
Are belong to you

Our Father, who 0wnz heaven, j00 rock!
May all 0ur base someday be belong to you!
May j00 pwn earth just like j00 pwn heaven.
Give us this day our warez and mp3z through a phat pipe.
And cut is some slack when we act like n00b lamerz, just as we teach n00bz when they act lame on us.
Please don't give us root access on some poor d00d'z box when we're too pissed off to think about what's right and wrong, and if you could keep microsoft off our backs, we'd appreciate it.
For j00 pwn r00t on all our b0x3s 4ever and ever, 4m3n.
(adapted)

Arrrr, pirates fo the southwest
Thar be large pipes o'bandwidth near ye'ol univarsety.
Yearg, ye may be an ta somethan thar.
What say ye we pull yonder USB hard disk longside yonder NMSU puter and begin tha lutin and plunderin.
Yearg. The master done gaved me a testin machine with a grand ol CDR.
Avast!
MP3s off the starboard bow!
Stere clear of ye porn popups rollin in from that east.
I have mah trusty Opera browsa to help me fend em off.
Encrypt the data holds, batton down thar security patches, argh thar be spyware abound.