Ennui
So, my apartment falls somewhere within the 8th circle of hell on the temperature scale. The window AC probably hasn�t worked well since the 70�s. Being on the third floor, while keeping me safe from flooding, does have a disadvantage where the laws of thermodynamics come into play. I�m not even really sure where my pants are, but I usually remember to put them on before I leave for work in the morning. Speaking of morning, I now know what it is. I was lucky enough to spend my first two years at college blissfully ignorant of the pain involved with having to be somewhere at 8:00 every morning. I have a regular full time job in an office building that requires me to be there around 8 every morning. This concept would have seemed so foreign to me only a few short months ago. What happened to me? When did I start wanting to go to bed by midnight? When did I start drinking coffee every morning? Why do I feel OLD!?!
My feeling of agedness might be related to the impeding birthday. That day in which we celebrate� um� still existing I guess. Not that I am actually old, it�s just that I will be turning 20, and will no longer be a teenager. They say that youth is wasted on the young, I say that expendable income is wasted on the old. Speaking of expendable income, apperantly apple is releasing the rev 4 iPod tomorrow. Those jerks, they dropped the prices of each level $100. But they didn�t keep the lowest level and drop that $100 too did they! No, they completely removed the 15gig iPod from the product lineup instead of offering it at the sweet price spot of $200.
All these dollar signs are confusing me. Why do you put the dollar sign in front of the numbers, but say the word �dollars� after the numbers. It makes no sense!
At work I have been putting a lot of effort into the Space Weather CBT. I now know more about space weather and it�s impact on DOD systems than I ever will need to know. All in all I have learned a ton about flash development this summer and hope that I can really leverage my new skills to benefit Level 1 Media.
One more point I wish to make. I saw I, Robot the movie this weekend. I was truly impressed. It was a completely likable movie. It didn�t follow any plot of Asimov�s too closely, and it certainly violated the spirit of what he originally intended in his robot stories. Yet, somehow I felt appeased by the number of elements from his Robot short stories that were included as ideas in this awesome mix of action/mystery/scifi. Sure, I had trouble visualizing Dr. Susan Calvin as young as the person cast for her part here, Bridget Moynahan. Will Smith is, as always, funny enough to keep audiences interested in the unrelentingly sci-fi themes that pervade this movie. The problem with sci-fi is that it can make people think, people don�t like to have to think about their movies. Sure, Issac Asimov told much more fundamentaly interesting stories, but none of them had the action or excitement that the movie I, Robot delivers so easily.
I have a fun idea, lets go over Timbly�s to-do list this week.
* Call UNK, register for Radio Workshop.
* Go to the bank, get new ATM card, open savings account.(what�s a savings account?)
* Do Laundry!
* Find some sort of tutorial or book or something on SQL queries
* Start writing my paper about my internship
There�s probably some stuff I have forgotten. But hey, it�s the unexpected things that make life interesting.