Welcome to Cornell University

At least those are the words I would like to hear, or rather read. Cornell is the first of applications that has now been officially sent and there is little else I can do to help it along. All the transcripts are going to be mailed separately but I have been assured that there is no need for concern there. I put a lot of effort into my statement of purpose and I think my writing sample is a decent snipett of my interests and talent, although perhaps somewhat immature in its tone.

Cornell

LawJd

Law Student Blog

Good law student blog, seems to have an interesting disposition on life. Worth looking into and reading later.

In the Sand Box

Sand Box

It is amazing to find others views and expressions when they are similar yet very foreign. Now, of course, this blog is almost written entirely in English but the location alone makes me aware of a human connection beyond language. To think someone that far away, sits as I do, at some form of computer, much like my own I am sure, not too much in the way of modification, and sets down her thoughts on life, technology, and yes, even a maid that tried to kill her, with a paperweight no less.

Also: if I am going to make this blog thing work I am really going to have to keep up with it. That and my intense workout program, should start that soon, or perhaps a scaled down version. Logical Gambit, if you are reading this, how was that all Caesar Salad diet? It is looking pretty good to me now.

Actually, I had thought of a new diet, I call it, the staple diet. I will explain later, but much is in the name.

The Game Exists

http://www.pcreview.co.uk/articles/Windows/Free_Old_Games_for_Your_New_PC/4/

The game exists and it is here. Reward for several pages of thesis writing I think.

Commodore 64 games, C64 reviews, downloads, SID tunes ect.

Simply Incredible that someone made a game for Neuromancer on the Commodore. Will have to track that one down.

Aquanine Phylos waves a hello from the territory of Kryta in Guild Wars. I must say this game is amazing; both graphically, sound, and game play. Sure has proven also what great friends I have. Always willing to help me level up and take me through new missions. Great times all and I have them to thank for it. Thanks to all the SacLand Crew!  

Engaged

Well, imagine that, posted things before that happened after one of the happiest moments in my life.

I recently got engaged to my true love Lindsey. She is incredible but my ability at words ends there. She once said that it was flattering to have taken the words out of an English grad student, and to be sure that is, for the most part, true. I did have a lot planned to say when I proposed, but my heart took over and it was overwhelmed with joy at the idea of being totally committed to this wonderful woman.

I use that phrase intentionally to bring attention to a sort of phenomena that occurred when we went to Oregon on the trip I had planned to ask her father, and mother, for permission. Psycologically I believe it's called a reticular activator. When something is on your mind, a friend buys a new car, you start to see it everywhere. Your brain is actually just noticing because you have something to relate to it in your consciousness.

The day before we left we watched some cartoon that was all about marriage, on the ride up Lindsey, unknowingly, puts in Foxworthy's "Totally Committed" CD, stand-up comedy all about marriage, there we watch the Cosby show which is about a bridal shower and Theo wanting to get engaged, and episode of Robot Chicken had three sketches about love and marriage, and there was one movie we watch that slips my mind but something was mentioned along those lines. Hard to deal with I can tell ya.

Now I am happily engaged and am looking forward to all the excitement of the planning and the pleasure Lindsey and I will have expressing ourselves to those we love through what we choose for the wedding options. I have received so very many congrats and it thrills me to see so many people I care about this happy for me.

Everyone loves Lindsey, of course, ME most of ALL!

...or Kaiser Soze will get you. Here my friend the FuzeKing warns on the dangers of running out of Mountain Dew. He came up for the Labor Day weekend for good times; a little party out at night and some relaxing kick back time at the pad.  

The Red Bull pit at Infineon Race way in Sonoma. My good friend Peetree got tickets to the Indy race there this last weekend and it was pretty intense. Hot but worth it, a lot of driving since I went back to Chico that night, but a great experience. Quite loud as well.  

Behind the "mind's" eye... 

Too hard looking fellas... 

Looks like I am going to get. This is just a short collage of some friends to let me post it over at SacLand! Here ya go TinyGod, pics as ordered, can't wait to see ya.  

The proof in in the printing. My friends know good literature when they see it. 

Techno

The thing I think people misunderstand about grading techno is that there are a few levels by which an electronic song reaches greatness. That is, of course, true with almost every musical form. But what changes between musical forms is what those levels consist of.

It would take me too long to research and relate the nature of how classical music is most often scored by experts. But it would be a worthwhile project I might have to embark on.

But, in short for now, Electronica reaches its highest marks when it excels in sound creation and arrangement. Sound creation is the creative use of electronic equipment and software to invent sounds that have not been heard before. This is the genius of The Crystal Method. Arrangement is perfected when the sounds are arrayed in an interesting, possibly new, pattern or when the interchange of various sound patterns is especially significant. The Prodigy makes a good example for this element.

Saying goodbye to the Bebop. A good image from a fantastic anime series. Here, renowned child hacker Radical Edward and the wonder data dog, Ein, take one final look back at their former home, the center of many adventures for both.  

First Network

First post from the new network, very fast, so kudos go to both SBC and UPS for getting my gear and service up and running a whole three days early. From my standpoint, not a day too soon either. Missed the net and everything I have become accustomed to...

Good to be back

Had to post on more because it looks so good. Fie to anyone who says by the time this game comes out it will be outmatched. Possibly in engine form, possibly. But I have always loved this franchise and will continue to do so barring some deep error that would cause some sort of melt down in my esteem for UT.  

Screenshot of the upcoming and eagerly awaited game UnrealTournament 2007. There may have to be some prescription drugs used to keep me in my seat waiting for this game. Wow... delicious.  

LA

Just in L.A. - here for my sister's graduation. Weather is awesome and Disneyland is on the plans for tomorrow. Also hitting Newport beach and kiyaking in the ocean. Will have to post up later about how it all goes, hope to get some good pics.

PS - God bless Google for all this storage and such a splendid way to express ourselves.

Couple of Friends taking a picture in one of those boths in Santa Cruz. My friend Tim looks a little ominous in the back there.  

Geocaching

Geocaching - The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site

Just putting this as an official reminder to make sure and do this during summer. Phylah is here and we are going to BBQ it up with the 707 crew and the 530. Going to be awesome, I will have to blog on this later, but that is another topic.

A nice handle placard mixed up by my friend TwinVega. Much skill with the photoshop or whatever prog he uses. This also doubled as my badge at Defcon.  

Good times at the Alexis Park Hotel defying gravity. Good activity whenever you are not port scanning...right... 

I will have to enter some thoughts on my experiences at Defcon. Incredible time in Vegas with the leet of the leet.  

Elgin Marbles

Official bulletin: Logical Gambit's Choice waters are in this order:

1)Smart Water - the best tasting by far
2)Evian
3)Fiji

That is all - a good list to be sure, have to make a check to see that we are well stocked. I am still relying heavily on my PuR Water filtration system, one year running with the filter and it all tastes great.

Google Maps - Folsom,CA Calvary

Google Maps - Folsom,CA Calvary


Two links for Google's amazing photo imaging. From here I can get to pictures of my home church and from there is it easy to find my house.

Had to post this because the game is simply amazing and I have had a great many good times playing it with Phylah.  

Editing

Started work today on editing for Bob. He was kind enough to ask my help in starting his online devotional email. Something like a subscription where a short, page length email is sent out. When I get the link I will post that so it can be checked out.

By page though I must make it clear that that means less than one page on a screen without scrolling. The idea is no one will have to scroll down to read because that tends to make people not want to read.

We had a meeting Monday about it which went very well, although, in editing I feel like I have too little to say. I need to work on discovering what someone wants from me and the ability to give them more appropriate feedback at the moment.

Dusty Brown - Representing

Dusty Brown .

Had to plug this artist. Went to alot of shows a few years back and really felt a vibe there. I came to think while I was listening something about the concept of 'representing'.

Search engines and statistics govern much of many of our worlds now. To represent in this context means to add one to the count of your group for whereever you are.

Stand up and be counted.

Say, for instance, a junglist in Long Beach, people who notice him or her and her or his music, styling or dress mark that in their head, take notice. Jungle is represented in Long Beach. Hip-hop has a lot to do with this idea I think, at one level or another. Coming from an underrepresented group makes sense to me, if that means something in the end. It's a lot of noise and seems to be everywhere now, what's being done with it no longer has those intensions in mind. But in consideration of its 'roots', where representation comes from and from which people represent, I think there have been significant contributions to music and in my case to how I think about it.

Metronome

Those who love electronic love it for many reasons. Those who don't , in my experience, have a hard time getting past the persistent beat: it is the thump -thump -thump -thumb that that sets them to think they don't really care for it.

I call that sound the audible metronome. Of course, one can always hear a metronome, that is its function. But it sets the course, a musical compass. The metronome is just that in techno, electronica, what have you. It sets dead center for all the musical complexities to surround as they in turn surround the senses.

I am amazed the remember how much energy in my life has been set to that tempo, varying speeds, some slower some intense with meaning and others without a care; that energy that brought me so high and was in the background at times when I was so low.

Tick tock went my heart as the music played.

Computer slang

A parent's primer to computer slang

This slang dictionary is a good find from the crew at Google Groups Sacland. Everything seems to be represented in the basic fashion and I think the heart was in the right place in writing the piece. Parents don't have to be hip, but they need to be aware.

I wonder what earlier equilavents were. Did parents have circulating news fliers that had articles on discovering the secret language of HAM radios so as to make sure their son or daughter was not a spy or communist subversive?

Breaker breaker the Chicken is in the Coop - or is that Trucker CB? HAM radio, it didn't go underground, it went on the road.

Upon the Sea

On beginning the Epic Tale Moby Dick

Impressive to say the least. This is, in small part, an attempt at getting to blog better. I feel that when I write something down I really have to have something to say, that it better be good, well thought out, and... such. But I understand that such a method is not entirely productive and not in the least for making records of my true thoughts and feelings.

This right here is a good example: I was going to write a few lines and look what happened. Could go somewhere... now to the Pequod.

On Looking First into the Sea

On beginning the Epic Tale Moby Dick

Impressive to say the least. This is, in small part, an attempt at getting to blog better. I feel that when I write something down I really have to have something to say, that it better be good, well thought out, and... such. But I understand that such a method is not entirely productive and not in the least for making records of my true thoughts and feelings.

This right here is a good example: I was going to write a few lines and look what happened. Could go somewhere... now to the Pequod.

Elgin Marbles

On beginning the Epic Tale Moby Dick

Impressive to say the least. This is, in small part, an attempt at getting to blog better. I feel that when I write something down I really have to have something to say, that it better be good, well thought out, and... such. But I understand that such a method is not entirely productive and not in the least for making records of my true thoughts and feelings.

This right here is a good example: I was going to write a few lines and look what happened. Could go somewhere... now to the Pequod.

Elgin Marbles

Playing at the digital music game. Loving all the amazing beats. Enjoying the incredible talents of all these people who are making me groove tonight. Looking into making use of my prepaid gift card on the old ITunes site. A little Groove Armada here and a little smooth jazz there should round me out just right for an amazine week of working and getting everything at school in order.

Part of the evening spent at Professor K's house. Immensely pleasureable and a wonderful time all around. But more of that later, more shopping.

"One Fine Day..." rhyme.

"One Fine Day..." rhyme.

Here is a good look into one of the very famous nonsense poems. Makes good sense though if that is what you are in the mood for.

One fine day in the middle of the night,
Two dead boys* got up to fight, [*or men]
Back to back they faced each other,
Drew their swords and shot each other,

One was blind and the other couldn't, see
So they chose a dummy for a referee.
A blind man went to see fair play,
A dumb man went to shout "hooray!"

A paralysed donkey passing by,
Kicked the blind man in the eye,
Knocked him through a nine inch wall,
Into a dry ditch and drowned them all,

A deaf policeman heard the noise,
And came to arrest the two dead boys,
If you don't believe this story’s true,
Ask the blind man he saw it too!

Constantine

Constantine

I hate to say something as trite as 'looks like a good movie'. Needless to say my expectations are high although my thoughts on the subject matter vary in content. Not sure if they will stay primarily with the occult theme, wherein I think they will narrow their target audience, or they might stick to a Heaven vs. Hell motif. I think the most success could be achieved that way. Of course my higher expectations would hope there to be references to Paradise Lost and most certainly the Divine Comedy. Good Idea would be to AudioBlog this when I get out of the theatre. Perhaps one before - one after.

Chambers' words of Wisdom

Matthew 6:30
"If God so clothe the grass of the field... shall He not much more clothe you?" [Taken from the January 26 entry in Oswald Chambers' My Utmost for His Highest]

The time noted on this entry will do well to tell of the circumstances with which I write this. So, this entry I read in my devotional fits so nicely. I was reading it to try to give myself something to meditate on as a means of falling asleep. I had to make a task of this after I was kept awake by the "cares of this world," namely the noise of others whose inconsiderate nature pushes my mind dizzily in an effort to comprehend it.

But I realize to quickly in the light of God's word that to lay these things to rest is to work toward a better, more Christ like, soul. The connection to my own life is so available to me that it's hard just to type it. Rest in the soul comes like trying to fall asleep. The things I meditate on take me there and calm my thoughts into heavenly bliss or trouble my mind to torturous nightmares.

It's hard to keep going at this point, writing that is. I keep trying to think of all the ways I can help make this work in the days to come, but for the most part I need to try and sleep again knowing that God has spoken into my life. It is His assistance that smoothes the waters of of a troubled sleep and it is my prayer that it also pacify my waking moments.

Love Poems

Your skin glows like the Strawberry, blossoms bright as the lilly in the purest hope of spring.
My heart follows your sax voice and leaps like a teddy bear at the whisper of your name.
The evening floats in on a great dove wing.
I am comforted by your sweater that I carry into the twilight of underwearbeams and hold next to my neck.
I am filled with hope that I may dry your tears of water.
As my lip falls from my scarf, it reminds me of your computer.
In the quiet, I listen for the last beep-boop of the day.
My heated thigh leaps to my jeans. I wait in the moonlight for your secret DVD so that we may go as one, thigh to thigh, in search of the magnificient black and mystical Eugene of love."

The online adlib style poem generator Phylah and I made on our six-month anniversary. I hate it when she watched me type because I knows she is bettah... oh a kiss

AM in A Flat

'Tis a good morning. I would like to say, however, being not of a time period where such remarks work well it might illicit a response I am not intending. Needless to say then that I am having a pleasant morning just before noon.

Sound Track - Jazz compilation from Cowboy Bebop, no doubt provided for me some time ago by Kaioken. Excellent friend in long standing K was frequently an avenue through which I attained a nice array of files and programs.

To the buisness at hand. I will have to become more open to the idea of blogging as part of routine. I don't want to pattern it, say in a specific hour of everyday, but something to keep my head thinking, 'you know, that would be a nice addition to marbles, you should keep that in me (mind)'. However good I might become at remembering things that I would like to think about later, it's getting rid of the poor puns and sketchy material that I have a hard time with.

Head of the Class

First day as a T.A. in class this evening. I was afraid I had made a mistake by choosing to sit with someone I knew in the back of the class and wish I would have done it a little differently. However, the class was so full I had little choice other than a seat right next to the Profs. desk which, in my opinion, could have seemed slightly presumptuous. I was introduced by a single statement, which worked nicely and got people to look over at me as I made my way to the back so at least students know my face. I plan to make a more formal address for next class' meeting.

The subject material is interesting to say the least, and there is almost no way not to engage it in discussion. I think very highly of Chico State's English department and know that I will be impressed with its students. Plans are already underway to help myself be as much of a resource as possible and I hope to make myself available in whatever ways I am needed. Professor B. has been exemplary in his encouragement and if I am stunned and slightly overwhelmed at the class' beginning it is only because of his display of the possibilities.

In Your Eyes

I would have to say that, although dated, Peter Gabriel's In Your Eyes is a wonderful song with touching emotion. In actuality, songs like that are more connotative of time, place, and person that actually judged on musical merit. In this instance my girlfriend springs to mind in vivid detail as does our date eating Grilled Cheese sandwiches on the living room floor while watching Benny and Joon. I am having the pleasure of spending the evening with her tonight and we are going to do some moving into her new place. A great pleasure being of service to someone so beautiful and kind. So, true, and song that reminds me of her, her grace, any time spent is ranked very highly.

Technological Toys Trump Food Staple

Well, It would seem that I have had enough fun with the audioblogger, but I am still in shock as to how cool it is. I mean, sliced bread is having to rework it's material in order to compete.

I thought this poem was fitting because, in its own way, this blog site is my own elgin marbles. Howowever, I will not be faced with the same inspiring dillema as Keats is here. To the best of my knowledge there will never be any degradation of this site or for that matter any well maintained digital media. Of course that is fairly short sighted, but the point remains. Sure something could come along and alter the structure of archives and servers to where what I write here may come never to exist. But in that respect it would be as if it had never existed at all and that's my point.

Perhaps, like Hackers, some Zero Cool or Lord Nikon will excavate some form of stored media from some nondescript pile of rubble and follow their techno-lust in order to discover what it contained, only to discover fragments of code that little resemble the original. So I suppose there can be some romantic effort to frame this global dialog into some self sustaining achitecture. You'll have to excuse my lack of specifics here, I am but an eager student of the written English word and am not, and shall not, ever be on the cutting edge of understanding all things computer. But, at least for our sake, I hope my knowledge of the existence of things helps to explore the relationship of things such as this Blog and the over all virtual world, as it is coming into being and being understood by our culture.

I am somewhat under the impression that these entries are suppose to be shorter. You'll please to excuse my verbosity, to the extent that my trade makes me susceptable to it.

Dedication

To this poem do I owe the title of this, my Blog;

On Seeing the Elgin Marbles for the First Time
~John Keats

My spirit is too weak; mortality
Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep,
And each imagined pinnacle and steep
Of godlike hardship tells me I must die
Like a sick eagle looking at the sky.
Yet 'tis a gentle luxury to weep,
That I have not the cloudy winds to keep
Fresh for the opening of the morning's eye.
Such dim-conceived glories of the brain
Bring round the heart an indescribable feud;
So do wonders a most dizzy pain,
That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude
Wasting of old Time -with a billowy main,
A sun, a shadow of a magnitude.