The Beatles – You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
So my big news of the week? WallaceAndGromit.net is up and running!!!
So go see it noew ’cause I put lots of time and effort into and Wallace and Gromit rock.
Which Personality Disorder Do You Have?
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I am so glad I have quizzes to tell me things like this, I wouldnt know otherwise, really.
This reminds me, I have been paying careful attention to my shyness recently. I guess mostly because I REALLY feel ashamed of it, and it’s something that I think I can overcome eventually if I take the time to understand it. So we went to that crappy LAN party on saturday, and after leaving, I realized I wasn’t particularly shy there. I mean I didn’t talk a whole lot, but when there was something to talk about I spoke up normally. Some guy was asking how to play a game and I wandered over and helped him out getting his character set up and everything. I didn’t really realize I wasn’t being shy until we were driving home. So that blows my whole “i am shy in social situations and not in professional situations” theory out of the water. I think I have discovered my problem however! I am shy (unless intoxicated, that changes everything) only around people I feel I have a social obligation to impress. So when we are around Myk’s good friends I feel like I have to impress them so I get all self conscious about what I am saying so I just end up being quiet (all sublconsciousy of course). It’s terribly frustrating… especially because in my mind I know I do make a good impression if I am not shy. I think I need to have a long talk with my subconscious and tell it it’s being irrational.
So FedEx is cool… they have this neat tracking system on their website that tells you all the places your package was shipped, and when, down to the minute! So my new computer stuff is being shipped by FedEx and they tell me that as of 8:30 this morning it’s on a truck in the area to be delivered, woohoo! So hopefully sometime this afternoon it will be delivered, they better hurry, it’s already 3 pm, hehe. I cant wait to get my computer up and running with his new 2.0 ghz processor %) The poor 450 mhz one he has is really terrible, hehe.
Ok I am gonna talk about wallace and gromit again, ’cause I am so excited. See I found this website a while back that has tons of really great screencaptures from the movies. It’s on an AOL site, so pretty sluggish at times, so I was thinking I’d email the webmaster of the site to ask him if he’d mind me reproducing his image archive on my website. So I write this nice email, asking politely and all, send it off, and a few minutes later I get an email “Returned mail: User unknown” GAH!!! So now I am trying to rationalize stealing these images %D I mean really, if he cared that much about his webpage don’t you think he’d at least update his website with a current email address? On his webpage it says the last update was in 1998 anyway! That’s 4 years ago! So I think I will put a little disclaimer on that part of my site saying that they images were “borrowed” from that website, and making it clear that I did try to contact the owner. That’s ethical right? I just want to put all these images on a fast server so more people can have faster access to them %) hehe END RATIONALIZATION;}
Just to reply to one of those comments yesterday, I do apoligize, there are some computer science majors who know what they are doing, I even know a few… it’s just that lately I’ve been running into so many that are so *clueless* that it’s amazing. This one kid is in his 3rd year of a CS major and he still says he does not “understand the differences between Operating Systmes” … he askes me all the strangest questions about Linux, and it’s quite obvious he really has no idea… and just the other day he came into our chat room asking for help with a windows install, which turned out to be an upgrade disk and he didnt have a previous windows verion disk. This other girl I know is in a “web master” degree, I guess it focuses on design and how to make pretty things with front page, because this girl doesnt even know what ISP stands for, NOT JOKING. I don’t mean to sound bitter or condicending, but even as a webmaster you need to know a bit about namservers and DNS, right? Unless all the websites you make are hosted by a cheesey domain hoster (yahoo! and the like…). I don’t even admin my webpages (Myk does that, since it’s his box they are hosted on) and I know what he’s doing, I know about domain names and such. I guess my point is I am frustrated that some people are in it for the money and others for the love of it. I guess Myk works for some people who are “in it for the money” and even if they are good at what they do they NEVER would consider doing it in their free time, and that is something that is just unconcievable to me. Everything I have learned I taught myself because of the sheer joy of the process and final acomplishments… and I can see some inexperienced CS major getting a job before me *sigh*
It’s raining out %)
Well I guess I’m gonna go do some work noew… *wanders off*