Rinsefirst

Why is it I am having such trouble with Dif. Eq… It’s as if I haven’t paid attention in class. Actually no, I know I paid attention in class, I just didn’t fully grasp everything that was said. I think that means I will have to go to an office hours tomorrow and see what I can do in the way of trying to understand everything that I am missing by the exam on thursday. To translate that, I’m screwed at this point.
I’ve spent the last 30 minutes trying to solve 1 problem. 1 stupid math problem. I still haven’t got it, and I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I’ve started looking at math tutorial sites because my book is worthless. I’ve come to the conclusion that if you didn’t learn it in lecture or from someone else, your screwed.
Ok, but that’s just me complaining. Hopefully I can relax, clean my room, get some work done at MSA, and all that fun jazz tonight… Maybe even catch a little Frasier. Cool? Cool…
Ok, off to math I go.

I haven’t just posted a song for sometime, so here goes:
Rhythm Of My Heart

(Marc Jordan, John Capek)

Across the street the river runs
Down in the gutter life is slipping away
Let me still exist in another place
Running under cover of a helicopter blade

The flames are getting higher in effigy
Burning down the bridges of my memory
Love may still be alive somewhere someway
where they’re downing only deer
a hundred steel towns away

Oh rhythm of my heart is beating like a drum
with the words “I love you” rolling off my tongue
No never will I roam for I know my place is home
where the ocean meets the sky
I’ll be sailing

Photographs and kerosene light up my darkness
light it up, light it up
I can still feel the touch of your thin blue jeans
Running down the alley I’ve got my eyes all over you baby
Oh baby

Oh the rhythm of my heart is beating like a drum
with the words “I love you” rolling off my tongue
No never will I roam for I know my place is home
where the ocean meets the sky I’ll be sailing
I’ll be sailing

Oh I’ve got lightning in my veins
shifting like the handle of a slot machine
Love may still exist in another place
I’m just yanking back the handle
no expression on my face

Oh the rhythm of my heart is beating like a drum
with the words “I love you” rolling off my tongue
Never will I roam for I know my place is home
where the ocean meets the sky
I’ll be sailing

Oh the rhythm of my heart is beating like a drum
with the words “I love you” rolling off my tongue
No never will I roam for I know my place is home
where the ocean meets the sky
I’ll be sailing

The rhythm of my heart is beating like a drum
with the words “I love you” rolling off my tongue
Never will I roam for I know my place is home
where the ocean meets the sky
I’ll be sailing

Your message has been sent to alex@jrcorps.com, it reads as follows:
Interesting thought… (posted to my site just now, but thought i would personally send it to you) The idea to not join an organization on the basis of not wanting to whole-heartedly support something might has an interesting idea in it. In joining an organization I never considered that I was going into it and submitting my mind to them. Nor did I consider that I was required to submit to what they think. I’ve always believed you can change any organization, all it takes is time, and willingness. You think a company is corrupt? Join the company and get rid of the corruptness. You think a group is making bad decisions, join them and try to fix those decisions. Others probably feel like you, and probably would want to join in what it is you believe. Then again, I’ve always been the one take what I want and to spit what I don’t want back at others. So, maybe my point is null and void.. Go figure.
Insane Posts Make for Insane People.

So let’s run down the line with as much as we can in the next 15 minutes.
To start with, today’s wednesday. It will be my first night back at church for wednesday nights. I need to remember that I want to bring my digital camera as well as Derek’s cable if I get home in time. I don’t know if I will be doing anything with Amber before hand, but it would be relatively nice. I’m a tad on the excited side, however, I’m also a tad skiddish… There’s a part of me that really wants to be one of those distant but cool people in the youth group this year. The one that stays in contact, but has little to no commitment to anything because of time constraints. I’ll consider it after tonight and seeing how it works out.
I want to clean my room. Right now. I want to go home, pick everything up, do my laundry, change my sheets, steam vac my floor, and clean off my computer desk. Why? Good question. Maybe it has something to do with a sane adult like attitude. Maybe it has something to do with the idea that I might be able to get more done. Who knows.
I have a quiz for CSCI in like 30 minutes. I’m thinking I should have studied… Oh Lord, Please don’t let me fail this quiz. I should be ok.. It’s CSCI right?
I’ve been putzing around with JR Corps for the last few hours. There seems to be a random surge in the amount of diskspace usage, such that, I would like to know where it came from. I’ll worry about it later. I’ve also been messing around with trying to get the SSL to work, but yes.. I don’t know.. Hmmm…
That reminds me I need to call Denise about a business meeting for a website. Blah.. Later…
Let’s see, what else, oh to talk back on the site to what’s currently going on in the ISMS. Yes, Ian, I do most if not all of my own design. It generally is an adapation of something I saw somewhere first, but not always. I should note here that Richard made the logo your currently seeing on the top of the site. Ok, but yes, let’s take for example the design of this site. Alex had a version of his site awhile ago that had some code that I really liked. It was the code for the black box you see around each segment of this page. The code works in every browser I know of, and does a fine good job of making a 1 px border. That’s a lot harder said then done when you’ve got the CSS issues between Netscape and IE. So… With that said, the idea was to create a site that was extremely modular, such that, a module could be inserted anywhere. Hence we have the logo module, we have the navigation module, and we have the module that contains the data. You may recall a time when there was a poll module, and I think I even had an image module once, but I didn’t like it so it disappeared. The ISMS could even be considered a module, but it’s not, because it’s kinda just floating… For those of you who can’t open the ISMS, well… Your not of the majority who view this site… But still, I’ll see if I can’t tri-code the javascript for your needs. To jump back to the topic of design. the general rules that Alex and I have tended to agree on:

Nagivation should be simple and intuitive.. By far and away, this is the most important thing for ANY site, except those maze sites where your trying to find the right link.

You should try to pick a color scheme of no more than say 4 colors with white and black not being counted. If you can remember the SMRC before it’s current design, you can see where the flaw was… Each page was a different color… very distracting.

I’ve become a fan of white backgrounds. Why? In my opinion, anything else is distracting. Black backgrounds seem to make anything look nice in my mind.. but I guess I find a challenge working in the white. Trying to make white look good can be… hard… I should note, I believe off white colors work well too.

Don’t try to get overly fancy with any technologies, IE: Javascript, Flash, etc. Odds are you are only bound to isolate the people who can’t see them. For example, the people that can’t see my ISMS.. There’s a reason the whole site isn’t run by javascript (or flash as the front page seems to have a problem with right now)

Try to get everything you want your user to see on the opening screen. Don’t make something they might want to see go off the screen. For example, you’ll notice the navigation module for my site is on the top of the page, not the bottom. The day section used to have that problem. Now navigation is on the top and bottom… Problem solved.

Oh, there is one more note about navigation: it shouldn’t move, unless the user moves it.

Let’s see, anything else? I’m sure… Maybe at a later date though…

The Mac/PC debate has managed to work it’s way into the ISMS, and I’m still not sure where the Spanish debate came from. To make what I was originally talking about a little more useful… JR Corps Inc. is the hopeful name of the company… So far the only one I’ve heard so far that I kinda like is JR WebCorps Inc. Why? Because it says what we do. That helps in the long run…. We’ll see though, keep throwing out ideas, and by far and away, keep the ISMS full of stuff.. people seem to be enjoying the debates.
Well, I have to go take a quiz now… Wish me luck everyone.. Oh god.. did I bring my book? Yes… Thank you lord…
Peace

Wow
Truly Amazing
I am moving faster than I feel I could.
Have I really completed anything… Probably not, but that’s not important. I feel like I got a lot done. Had a good chat with Dan. Had a good chat with Alex. Had a good chat with Nathan. I even set up some stuff and yeah.
I am now on the phone with Amber. Today has been a good day for both of us. We are now thinking we should sleep, so I will write more later *as always*. Note to self: You had a story idea. You have forgotten it. You should try to remember. Oh, BTW: I will comment on all the crazy ISMS posting that has been going on in the last few days as well in my next post.

Ok, so somehow the topic in the ISMS has gotten from renaming JR Corps to the debate between OS’s. To answer Dan’s question, no, I am rather fond of Mac OS X, mainly because it is a step in the direction of allowing both high end and low end users to work with it, as is Linux *in reverse*. Windows just seems to like being stuck in the middle. As do I :-).
As for the browser thing… Well, that has to do with what my viewers read with most of the time, and has to do with my decision to only cross javascript 2 browsers at the time of coding. So blah. To change subjects…
Amber and I are doing great. She is so wonderful. Her smile just brings a smile to my face, which in turn just brings more of a smile to hers, and more of a smile to mine. It’s a great feeling. We watched 7th Heaven and Everwood almost exacltly like we did last week. We ate our cheesey popcorn. I did some math homework. And basically, we sat there on the couch, in love. Isn’t that sappy? She says hi to everyone by the way.
I’m going to go now, it was fun updating. Ignore the title, it was in refrence to debates.