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I’m in the mood to complain, but I have nothing to complain about. I think it has to do with just the lack of planning going on in my life right now. Waiting on emails or on other peoples timelines. I think I need to find a way to allow other people to schedule my life so it matchs up with theirs to some degree. Who knows. It would be an interesting idea.

So that said, I don’t want to type anymore, but I probably will later.

Everyone must make their own opinions about things. If you think something is going to be good, trust your instincts. Go with it. It probably will be. Even if the public thinks it will be bad. This is of course assuming you are known for having good instincts. Some people of course screw this up by constantly doing things they think will be good but always end up being bad. I believe that this is a select few people in the world that have this ability, but for the most part, I believe most of us are mostly right.

That said, I watched The Village tonight. I managed to not see it in theatres, even though I knew I wanted to see it. I loved the 6th Sense. I loved Unbreakable. I loved Signs. I knew I was going to love The Village. Why didn’t I go then? Well, I only heard bad things about it. Friends told me it was OK. People at church said it was nothing special. This didn’t make any sense to me. How could a director and writer I have come to find has amazing talent do something so horribly wrong to get bad reviews. I didn’t believe it at all.

And after tonight, it turns out I really shouldn’t have listened to all those people. I should have seen it. The movie at points had my heart pulsing, my mind guessing, my mood shaken. The plot was fantastic. The acting was typical. The attention to detail: fantastic. Of course, it is another mind bender, but that’s what I love. And, it had a good ending!

Speaking of good endings. I saw The Incredibles last night at the U of M for free. I love free movies, so I think I will have to do this again sometime. It was very good and very Pixar like in feel. It made me laugh which is always good and the plot was more than good enough for me. I especially like the pre-movie avertising where I saw Matt playing DDR with a kiosk. Very cool.

That said, I’m off to sleep. I have some decisions to make and some homework to do. Not to mention, about 300 Pokemon to catch, raise, and store.

Did I mention today that, I Love Amber Radabaugh?

There are two needs I would like to talk about today. Both the need of stability and the need of comments.

It turns out that Amber being upset with me might have to do more with stability than anything. As we return to school, she has to go back to the mode where she can’t spend every day with me. In fact (in my opinion), she’s lucky if she get’s to spend any time with me Monday-Friday. We both are busy people, and scheduling time to be together means working each other in. What I’m curious about is why do some people have this need more than others?

Let’s relate it to the stability of websites. If a website is going up and down, most people won’t go to it because they don’t want to waste their time if it’s down. If a site is updated weekly, most people won’t go to it more than once a week. If a site is updated daily, and then starts updating weekly, it’s hit counts go down. People don’t adjust immediently to the change. It takes time. Some people can do that fast, others not so much. Why though?

The second need is the need of comments. This site has never had a comment engine attached to it, and I’m starting to consider it. Many people have those little things you can put on the side to leave kind of like a miny instant message. Others have comments attached to the posts. Still others have forums. We have nothing. I’m not sure I want anything either, but it might be fun.

That said, let’s talk about graduation. I needed to fill out my graduation form by January 31st. I no longer need to because I submitted it about 10 minutes ago. That’s right… Justin, at age 20, is schedule to graduate with a 4 year degree this summer. If you want to know what I’m going to do after, the short answer is "sleep".

If we all know what we look like naked, and if warmth is not a factor. Why is it we don’t all run around naked? Probably has something to do with textbooks according to Everwood.

Lately, I find myself finding my body in weird situations that I’m not entirely sure what brought them on. For example, I’ve started eating breakfast again. It’s really weird. I haven’t eaten breakfast more than 2 days in a row in a very long time, and now I’m up to like 6 days. It’s weird and I think it’s messing with my diet.

So much so that I seem to be on a late night diet now of popcorn salt and Dr. Pepper. Yes, I did say popcorn salt. Not salt on popcorn. Just a nice little mound of salt that I dip my finger in, eat, then drink a sip of Dr. Pepper. I can’t imagine this is at all healthy, but I do it non the less the last few nights.

I’ve also been staying up later than normal. Not always because of pokemon either. Mostly because I get coding idea’s. I dont know what I’m doing, but ok.

John was just acting all weird, I don’t know why. Amber seems to be mad at me, I don’t know why. Nikki sounds like she’s up to trouble, but I don’t know why. Elizabeth got the shaft, but I don’t know why. On the upside: Alex is redesigning, and I don’t need to know why.

What if we are entertainment? Would we be Drama? Comedy? Tragic?

Well researching the usage of database software across the world, I ran into someone who has recently taken the lead (I guess) in open source databases. It’s called Firebird, and I’m sure a lot of people are running into it because that used to be the name of the now cool browser known as Firefox. You can find it here: http://firebird.sourceforge.net/

It sounds like it’s better than mysql, however, I haven’t found to much that I can’t do with mysql, but it’s still cool that someone has found a way to do it better (go figure). I doubt I’ll be changing anytime soon because of how much relies on what we have now, and because I love phpMyAdmin and their web interface isn’t quite up to par:
http://81.138.11.136:8080/ibWebAdmin_0_98/ 

If someone has worked with it before, send me an email and tell me what you think about it. I’m curious :-).

On another note: I’ve also discovered how to figure out where the MP3’s are stored for a flash file (IE: a flash jukebox). Very interesting method to secure that I feel (At least more than it is) might be useful to some people.

Ok, well class is over, time to go.

So it starts again tomorrow… That most wonderful of events known as school. The schedule for me reads as follows in a not so pretty text form:

CSCI 5511 TTh 4:00 PM Electrical Eng/Comp Sci 3-125
CSCI 5512W MW 4:00 PM Electrical Eng/Comp Sci 3-111
CSCI 4211 M 6:30 PM Mechanical Engineering 212
CSCI 4707 TTh 12:45 PM Mechanical Engineering 212
MATH 5251 MWF 1:25 PM Elliott Hall N647

If you want to stalk me, that’s where I’ll be. If I’m not there, it’s probably because I’m working on something really cool to have to do with OXWAF or money. Who knows.

I think sleep is in order for the first night before school. I seem to recall I used to set out everything I needed the night before. I used to have a list of supplies I needed. I used to go to the U of M a week before to get my books. In first grade I had supplies like glue and crayons. Now I don’t need crayons. I think everyone should be required to have a box of crayons.

Can you imagine that? Doing your final paper in crayon. Or how about using pictures of scenes in a book to describe what you read? I miss those days. In fact, maybe I should follow suit with Alex and redesign for the new year. Refresh my CSS and show people that I too can be creative from time to time. Crayon… Hmmm… I can see it working.