New Post, just as promised!

Hey everyone! I decided to update my blog for two reasons: One because I felt the need to and two, because everyone kept asking me when I was going to update! Well, I´m updating now so you all better be happy hahah. I cannot believe people are actually interested in my life! I am so flattered everybody!!!! Just kidding. But really, let us get to the content, shall we?

Okay, so this blog is a little bit different than all my other ones; why do you ask? Well actually there are two reasons. The first reason is more exciting than the second, well, you guys will think so at least. So what is this first reason, and why do I keep stalling? Hahah okay I´m typing this alone in my room. The rest of my blog entries will be without a roommate. Because he MOVED OUT. Joined his frat house. So basically I rearranged the whole room, though some of his stuff is still here, but its piled in the corner. So I have my own TV here, I can play Gamecube whenever I please and my room has become a sort of hangout for everyone else. Its great! I can listen to music without headphones as well, which is good because I just got new speakers for Christmas!

What is the second thing that´s so amazing about this blog entry? Its on my old Acer laptop. Many of you will be shocked by this as you all know my immense hatred of Acer (though I have to admit they do make decent flatscreen monitors....nothing to write home about though). Now before everyone gets stupid and thinks something happened to my Macbook, you couldn´t be more wrong! My little Macbook is content on my desk at the moment playing music by the colloquial sounds of Quiet Riot. ...The real reason is that I´ve decided to put my love of open source and of Linux systems into this little Acer laptop. I have completely gotten rid of Windows XP Tablet Edition and have overthrown it with Ubuntu Linux. The difference is amazing! Its much faster, the comparison is unbelievable; my Acer is now like a fast Jetta, whereas it used to be a crappy pickup truck with a loud muffler. This machine is now dead silent as it runs this humble operating system. I used something called Ubooten (I think?) and it installs Ubuntu or Fedora or OpenSUSE (all variants of Linux) from the Internet to your computer! Its used to dual boot with Windows, but I just modified it a tidge and decided to completely overwrite Windows. Its a great experience so far. Best of all everything is free and easy to use. Yes this is my "You should use Linux because its amazing" rant. But I'm done, I wrote a lot more than I initially wanted to haha! I was actually thinking of making a sub-blog to review and explain Linux.....I'll have to remember that.

Oh! Sorry about the Tea website being delayed so long, I FINALLY got the host (Allegheny's kind servers) to let me upload all my files and stuff, so it should be up very soon, its actually up now, but nobody knows the URL. I'll post it soon though, keep checking for that update :). Its a very humble site, I plan to make it simpler, as right now I made the aim to make it this big and popular site, but I think small and simple is more. Or..."Less is More" haha.



Okay, what else what else......What is going on in my life? Yes, I am thinking by typing, I am a sad sad character. Oh! I know, I have a midterm this Friday and its for Computer Science. I think I'll do pretty well on it, but if I have any questions beforehand I won't be able to ask Professor Zhang....she's getting her wisdom teeth "extracted" as she put it. I really don't think she knows how bad it will be considering she laughed and smiled about it as she usually does. Its not a pleasant experience Professor Zhang.....not in the least. Its worth 50 points, so even if I do not-so-hot on it I'll still have a good grade because the labs are semi-easy and I usually get at the very least B+'s on them. Yeah, that's right, I care.

Right now I am listening to "The Police" with their hit song/creeper song "Every Breath You Take." If you listen to these lyrics they sound really creepy and stalkerish....like that song "Hey There Delilah." Except The Police have more than an acoustic guitar and are way better. Sting is the man. I don't know, I thought I'd throw that out there haha.

I started this entry by using a different keyboard layout, where the " ' " key made an a little line and an "s" ....it was titled "US Keyboard Layout, Dead Characters." So I avoided using apostrophes until I changed it, a little behind-the-scenes blogging entry haha :P. Why am I using smileys in this entry, I usually only do about one or two an entry, oh well.

So I have been eating at the Dining hall that is in my dorm building lately, known to us Alleghenians as Brooks Dining Hall. The menu does have different stuff on occasion, but most of the stuff is the same crap everyday. I mainly go there now because its cold as my freezer at home outside and the wind chill is like -4465434. Thus I choose not to stagger through the snow to our other facility, McKinleys, which also has the same shit, but its better tasting shit than Brooks. But at this point in my college career, food is an inevitability that I have to force down my throat in order to have energy. Its a disappointment, though I believe our current food supplier, known as SodexHo, is getting the boot; we are all hoping for it. Sorry to break it to you SodexHo, but your food is terrible. Just plain AWFUL.

So a few weeks ago I got on this workout regiment, just to be in shape and all that, then last week I got ill and could not participate in such activities, as advised by me. Well come now, Wednesday and I have still not worked out, as you would say. In my opinion, its too damn cold to go and work out, and as you can see this cold is really getting to me (though I am perfectly content in my double-turned-single haha).

But yeah, I know its only February 27th, and its still fucking (woah! he dropped an F-bomb, what is GOING ON!?) cold out. It was 12 today. Come on; seriously. 12. It was 36 last week! Though it is Erie/Meadville, I'm getting slammed here with both Lake Effect and "Snow Belt Region" weather. I swear I am going to live in California (especially if I major in Comp Sci and get a job at Apple, Google, Digg, Sun Microsystems, or Mozilla haha). Usually people get the so called Winter Blues in January. Apparently I just got it, I just want to see some green grass. Not a PICTURE of green grass, actual NON FROZEN green grass haha.

Man, I'm full of semi-rants today, though I am sure everyone is getting sick of this winter weather. .......


hmmmm, oh yeah, one more Allegheny-related complaint: Your internet goes down every hour or so, make it stop...

Okay, well, I'm sure I have more to say, but I'll do it later, possibly.

P.S. I keep slacking on this blog (especially picture of the day) so I'll try to do better.

Keep supporting Daily Apple Crisp everyone!

-Pat


Sidenote: Blogger seemed to be down as I was supposed to post this so my deepest apologies. Blogger, I don't mind you updating servers.