AUGH!! NO!!
It has come to my attention that a horrible thing has happened; after having error after error installing Debian, I decided to go with Ubuntu. However, when the process came out the other end–although I had a working Ubuntu install–I no longer had a windows install. Somehow, windows put its boot files on one hard disk, and its operating system files on another. I was horrorstruck to realize I’d overwritten the boot files. Continue reading »
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“Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the things I’d been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.”
–Dorthy Parker, “Inventory”
Today I had German 1, AP Calculus, and AP Physics, and of course Chamber Orchestra. I had fun in all of them, although the majority of the fun was concentrated in Calculus, Physics, and Orchestra, and not German. We took a quiz in Calculus, and did impressive-sounding but easy problems in Physics.Overall, today has been pretty good. I thought I’d end the day with another poem:
Filed under Myself | Comment (0)“Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green,
That host with their banners at sunset were seen:
Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown,
That host on the morrow laid withered and strown.”–George Gordon, Lord Byron, from “The Destruction of Sennacherib”
Sunday, Day of Warships.
“Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!
Long has it waved on high,
And many an eye has danced to see
That banner in the sky;
Beneath it rung the battle shout,
And burst the cannon’s roar;
The meteor of the ocean air
Shall sweep the clouds no more.”
–Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., from “Old Ironsides”
School and the Weekend
“…I wrote out the characteristic packing lists of my parents and my friend, and described packing the car and driving to the camp site: ‘They had packed so much that it was spilling out the doors and windows [of their car]. … They were ready. “Wait! Did we pack the tent?”‘ The book was unfinished at 17 pages, leaving off as I found a magic ring and showed it off to my mom on the beach near our campsite.”
I am writing my two AP English 12 papers this weekend. They were due the second day of school, the first time I had AP English 12. Unfortunately, and regardless of fault, I was unaware of this assignment. As it is late work, I will get at most a 50/100 if I write a perfect paper. Although this is demoralizing because there seems to be no hope in the paper, I will continue to write my papers.
My whole family took a hike today. We hiked along the Flume Trail to Sheridan Lake; it was enjoyable, but the weather is colder now that fall and winter are nearly here. Each of us wore a light or medium coat; I wore a scarf and headband, Luka wore a hat and hood, my mother wore a headband and gloves, and my father wore a headband with his jacket unzipped.
Filed under Myself | Comment (0)Back from Oregon
Hello! I am indeed back from my vacation in Oregon, I got back last night at about seven in the evening. I had a very good time with my relatives and of course my cousin. (And the other two cousins that only hung around for about… two days, being quite liberal in my evaluation)
We stayed my uncle Peter’s house in Ashland, Oregon, which he bought and then added a loft, garage, and redesigned the whole house. It wasn’t really built for quite as many people as it held, but it was ok. My parents and I slept in the real bedroom (being the first to arrive), and although they got a bed with tempur-pedic foam, I slept on a piece of nice, but regular foam on the floor. Peter and Ariella (uncle, aunt) slept upstairs in their loft which was the most spacious room of the house and had their bed and their own bathroom and such.
Filed under Myself | Comments (2)Threadless T-shirts!
I recently unraveled what was previously a mystery to me; I could not understand where my friends were finding such awesome shirts.
I was shown the site Threadless. I particularly like the shirts on Threadless because they are themed, and thus spin tales; however, they may need to be explained to others.
At any rate, I am particularly liking the looks of a shirt which might not even make it into production, part of the Gmail <3 Threadless Contest. My favorite design has this king guy with a sword on the front, and he says ‘1337′:
Anyway, if you all register, you can all vote 5$! And then, I can order it!
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