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Math 22B - Differential Equations
Chemical Engineering 6 - Computational Problem Computational Methods
Chemistry 128B - Organic Chemistry
Engineering 45 - Materials Science
History 113 - Modern Israel
Philosophy 1 - Intro
22 Units
Realistically, I might drop Philosophy or my Israel class. Still, life sucks.
(1:31:50 AM) Devil May Cry eX: what are u doing now
(1:31:58 AM) phdgarfield: blogging
(1:32:03 AM) Devil May Cry eX: oh
(1:40:48 AM) phdgarfield: meh
(1:40:51 AM) phdgarfield: it's all emo shit i write
(1:40:52 AM) phdgarfield: how lame
(1:40:54 AM) Devil May Cry eX: lmao
(1:40:59 AM) Devil May Cry eX: did u post it?
(1:41:00 AM) phdgarfield: i give the fuck up
(1:41:01 AM) phdgarfield: no
(1:41:04 AM) phdgarfield: i just deleted it
(1:41:09 AM) Devil May Cry eX: oh.
(1:41:11 AM) Devil May Cry eX: sigh
(1:41:13 AM) Devil May Cry eX: i wanted to see that
(1:41:13 AM) phdgarfield: lol
(1:41:15 AM) Devil May Cry eX: lol
(1:41:22 AM) phdgarfield: if i'm gonna write emo shit, it should be at least good
(1:41:24 AM) Devil May Cry eX: seems like you put quite a bit of time
(1:41:26 AM) Devil May Cry eX: into it
(1:41:28 AM) phdgarfield: it should at least cause reason to pause
(1:41:32 AM) phdgarfield: and think
(1:41:38 AM) phdgarfield: but it just makes me think
(1:41:42 AM) phdgarfield: man, what an emo piece of shit
(1:41:45 AM) phdgarfield: who the fuck is this guy
(1:41:49 AM) phdgarfield: go fucking head butt a bullet
(1:42:14 AM) Devil May Cry eX: loll
(1:42:22 AM) Devil May Cry eX: it can't bve that bad
(1:42:30 AM) phdgarfield: it was my third attempt
(1:42:58 AM) Devil May Cry eX: i'd say
(1:42:59 AM) Devil May Cry eX: just post
(1:43:00 AM) Devil May Cry eX: but
(1:43:02 AM) Devil May Cry eX: i do what u do too
(1:43:03 AM) Devil May Cry eX: lol
(1:43:11 AM) phdgarfield: yeah
(1:43:16 AM) phdgarfield: it's frustrating not having the words
(1:43:20 AM) Devil May Cry eX: i feel like before i was more comfortable
(1:43:21 AM) Devil May Cry eX: blogging
(1:43:24 AM) Devil May Cry eX: during the xanga days
(1:43:27 AM) Devil May Cry eX: it was so routine!
(1:43:27 AM) Devil May Cry eX: lol
(1:43:36 AM) phdgarfield: well, everyone was doing it
(1:43:39 AM) phdgarfield: everyone had issues
(1:43:50 AM) phdgarfield: now it's not so relevant
(1:43:54 AM) phdgarfield: people think they have it together
(1:43:58 AM) phdgarfield: so sure of themselves
(1:44:03 AM) phdgarfield: and critical of anyone who doesn't
(1:44:08 AM) phdgarfield: fuckshits.
(1:44:13 AM) Devil May Cry eX: loll
(1:44:15 AM) Devil May Cry eX: nahh
(1:44:20 AM) Devil May Cry eX: i'm pretty sure its not like taht
(1:44:27 AM) phdgarfield: then how is it
(1:44:32 AM) Devil May Cry eX: dunno
(1:44:45 AM) Devil May Cry eX: peopel are so careful to unoffend
(1:44:48 AM) Devil May Cry eX: it seems
(1:44:53 AM) Devil May Cry eX: in public
(1:44:59 AM) Devil May Cry eX: and on TV its all super offensive
(1:45:02 AM) Devil May Cry eX: or maybe i'm just crazy
(1:46:02 AM) phdgarfield: *shrug*
(1:46:10 AM) phdgarfield: it works the other way too
(1:46:14 AM) phdgarfield: probably
(1:46:24 AM) phdgarfield: don't want to embarrass
(1:46:32 AM) phdgarfield: like, tonight i'm caught between wanting to say
(1:46:37 AM) phdgarfield: i'm more than just fucked up shit
(1:46:50 AM) phdgarfield: and i love my friends for being as fucked up as i am
(1:47:15 AM) phdgarfield: i dunno though, that shit's embarassing
(1:47:18 AM) phdgarfield: you read that and think
(1:47:19 AM) phdgarfield: man
(1:47:22 AM) phdgarfield: what a fucking pussy
(1:47:27 AM) Devil May Cry eX: hahhaah
(1:47:31 AM) Devil May Cry eX: nah
(1:47:32 AM) phdgarfield: was he born with that vagina?
(1:47:38 AM) phdgarfield: or did it grow into one?
(1:47:55 AM) phdgarfield: whatever
(1:47:59 AM) phdgarfield: i'll just post this convo
(1:48:10 AM) phdgarfield: it'll have that gay ass retro, raw, bullshit
(1:48:29 AM) phdgarfield: like ohhh it actually happened, it's a conversation, it's cool, it's readable
(1:48:41 AM) phdgarfield: like watching to guys chait in a gayfuck starbucks
(1:48:44 AM) phdgarfield: *chat
(1:50:41 AM) Devil May Cry eX: loll
The Sony Ericsson w350. A sexier downgrade from my old w810.
Differences? Better call quality. Sexier. Smaller profile. Better button arrangement. No light. Shittier camera.
Similarities? Same OS, batteries, functionality, and power dock.
Something I found interesting was that the w810 is still around $180 and the w350 is around $120. I still got both for free though.
Eh, I couldn't resist.
while taking a break from finals and studying at the library...
'Brain decline' begins at age 27
Mental abilities decline at a relatively young age, experts suspectMental powers start to dwindle at 27 after peaking at 22, marking the start of old age, US research suggests.
Professor Timothy Salthouse of Virginia University found reasoning, speed of thought and spatial visualisation all decline in our late 20s.
Therapies designed to stall or reverse the ageing process may need to start much earlier, he said.
His seven-year study of 2,000 healthy people aged 18-60 is published in the journal Neurobiology of Aging.
To test mental agility, the study participants had to solve puzzles, recall words and story details and spot patterns in letters and symbols.
The natural decline of some of our mental abilities as we age starts much earlier than some of us might expect
Rebecca Wood of the Alzheimer's Research TrustThe same tests are already used by doctors to spot signs of dementia.
In nine out of 12 tests the average age at which the top performance was achieved was 22.
The first age at which there was any marked decline was at 27 in tests of brain speed, reasoning and visual puzzle-solving ability.
Things like memory stayed intact until the age of 37, on average, while abilities based on accumulated knowledge, such as performance on tests of vocabulary or general information, increased until the age of 60.
Professor Salthouse said his findings suggested "some aspects of age-related cognitive decline begin in healthy, educated adults when they are in their 20s and 30s."
Rebecca Wood of the Alzheimer's Research Trust agreed, saying: "This research suggests that the natural decline of some of our mental abilities as we age starts much earlier than some of us might expect - in our 20s and 30s.
"Understanding more about how healthy brains decline could help us understand what goes wrong in serious diseases like Alzheimer's.
"Alzheimer's is not a natural part of getting old; it is a physical disease that kills brain cells, affecting tens of thousands of under 65s too.
"Much more research is urgently needed if we are to offer hope to the 700,000 people in the UK who live with dementia, a currently incurable condition."
Damn it, we're getting close to the peak fellas. Get all your thinkin' done now before it's all gone!
Online social networks are so new that it’s impossible to know their long-term impact. There’s some evidence that college students have mixed feelings about being guinea pigs for the faux-friendship age. One student interviewed for a study of why and how college students use Facebook, which was published last year in The Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, admitted that being privy to the personal details of “friends” who she had not seen in years made her uncomfortable. “Someone from earlier in her life had broken up with a boyfriend,” an author of the article, Sandra L. Calvert, a professor and chairwoman of the psychology department at Georgetown University, told me. “She felt she knew all these intimate details about this person, yet they hadn’t actually been in touch for five years.” On the other hand, a study published in 2007 in The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication suggested that hanging onto old friends via Facebook may alleviate feelings of isolation for students whose transition to campus life had proved rocky. Evidently they took comfort in knowing that “Dylan is drinking Peets.”
That may well be, but something is drowned in that virtual coffee cup — an opportunity for insight, for growth through loneliness. Perhaps my nieces will find a new way to establish distance from their former selves, to clear space for introspection and transformation. Perhaps they will evolve through judicious deleting and updating of profile information, through the constant awareness of their public face. Maybe the Greek chorus of preschool buddies will be more anchor than albatross, giving them strength to take risks or to stick out tough times. It could be that my generation was the anomalous one, that Facebook marks a return to the time when people remained embedded in their communities for life, with connections that ran deep, peers who reined them in if they strayed too far from the norm, parents who expected them to live at home until marriage (adult children are already reclaiming their childhood rooms in droves). More likely, though, the very thing that attracts us oldsters to Facebook — the lure of auld lang syne — will be its undoing. Kids, who will inevitably want to drive a stake into the heart of former lives, may simply abandon the service (remember Friendster?) and find something new: something still unformed, yet to be invented — much like themselves.
This weekend there was an alleycat race in Fremont. An alleycat race is an informal race set up by bike messengers - or in our slightly updated case, urban cyclists. In this race, over a hundred fixed gear and single speed riders raced through the sleepy streets of Fremont. From Ohlone college to the base of the Dumbarten bridge, these people ran stop lights and stop signs in an effort to win the day's goodies - bike parts.
Sadly, no roadies allowed :(
I didn't get to make it out, but my friend Kenny was kind enough to share some with me. Excuse the gore.
1. For $10 you can have Safeway deliver all the food you want. You'll never need to bike in the rain for groceries again!
2. When rock climbing keep in mind that your shoulder was not meant to twist backwards. Therefore, be wary of trying to leap for a grip while simultaneously dislocating your shoulder.
3. Be wary of rain + darkness + drivers, because you never know when one jackass is going to jump his turn and almost wipe you out.
4. Hong Kong (well Asian girls in general) appear to come in pairs out here. One usually ranges from decent to cute. The other usually ranges from ugly to batshit-paperbag-ugly. I ponder as to how they attract one another. Perhaps it's some symbiotic relation? Such as between a leach and a mammal? Ah, but who's the leach...there's the rub.
5. As demonstrated by last night's game of Cranium, I'm deathly afraid of touching people and people touching me. Hands off!
6. Appears as though a higher gear 52/16 (or is it 53/16, I can't read the damn numbers) is the way for me to go, at least on the flats. I can plop along at a solid 19-20mph without getting super fatigued.
7. Fremont has noticeably more cyclists than 5 months ago. Unfortunately, most of them appear to be fixed gear hipster types. At least they don't run the stop signs like they do in Davis.
8. Amtrak bike racks on trains are not large enough to hold those fatty downhill mountain biking tires, be prepared to sprint to the next car.
45 Miles, 2.5 hours later...
Mostly flats, some annoying flase flats. Wicked crosswinds on the way out there, nice on the way back. Maybe 2 or 3 so-so hills. Last time I was granny gearing them, but not this time. Some random person in a car waving to me.
Notes:
- Mostly in 52/16 gears for most of the ride.
- 37 mph on the downhill (super fun, bumpy as shit!)
- Smooth roads for the win.
- New Pearl Izumi bibs = awesome!
- Avg speed - 19 mph
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