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Me got a flu. I can't really think, so reviewing Ubuntu like I had planned is out.
Rest assured, Ubuntu is trash and will drag Linux down into a pit of horrible stability unless it loses it's momentum.

Oog, logging out.

Book, Inherit the Earth, Math Exam

It was suggested that I re-do my chapters, so I rewrote it, chapters 1 and 2. I've started 3. In other words, major re-write since last post.

I got my math exam. I passed. W00t.

I wrote a spider for Inherit the Earth fans that downloads all the strips and keeps them updated.
You can find the thread with it here.

I'll review some software soon, I promise.

Life, the Universe, and Everything

I just named this post that because I was too lazy to actually think of something that describes it. Making up for my bad math exam, I got a near-perfect grade on my American Literature final. W00t! The American Government exam was pretty easy, and while I haven't gotten my grade back yet I think I'll do even better then I did on my Literature exam.

In other news, I started writing a novel. Compared to my previous attempts at a novel the detail has gone through the roof. Chapter 1 is 716 words, which is a bit shorter then I would like, but still pretty good for me. It is called "The Death of a Vixen", and here is an excerpt:

She sniffed, and could still smell a human and a dog. A hound. She sniffed again, then listened. They were coming closer. There was no hope now that the human and the dog would miss them in the rain. She would have to try to escape. Grabbing her slumbering kit by the scruff of his neck, she snuck out of the den. The kit recognized the danger and stayed quiet. Crawling over a hill, the vixen listened again, and was disturbed to find that the dog and the man were still drawing nearer. She hurried on. Just a few yards away from another one of her dens, she brushed past some wet branches and a trap abruptly snapped on her leg. Struggling and crying, she dropped her kit who rolled down a rocky hill and hit a tree. Weak and bruised in countless places, he hid behind the inconveniently placed tree where he could watch the proceedings above. As he watched, the hound and the farmer ran up to the struggling vixen. With a smile creeping across his mouth, he triumphantly spoke two words: "Get 'er".

So there it is. Yes, my search engine is still in progress. I just got a python programming book to help me.

Math exam finished

Well, I finished my math exam. And i'm hatin' it. I couldn't about 4 problems, and each problem is worth 4-5 points out of 100. I'll be happy to get 75%. Wah! *sobs *

Oh well. I reimplemented the database in my spider with buzhug, and started the engine.

Oh yeah, and I spilled some peach juice on my keyboard, so my comma key and space bar are sticky. Good thing this is my old desktop and not my nice new laptop.

Computers + Math = Geekishness?

I don't get it. It's always been my ambition to be a massive computer geek, but computers involve math.

I fully meet the requirements computer-wise of being a geek. I run Slackware Linux and enjoy tinkering with it, I like programming, and I have fun rattling off info on the upcoming CPUs from AMD (4x4, in case you were wondering. 4 Athlon 64 FX cores mounted on two CPU sockets (I think AM2). Compare to Intel's upcoming CPU, which has faster cores but will have bandwidth issues because it only uses a single socket), but math is a nightmare to me. I don't know why. Sure, I'm a little accelerated, but it's not like I'm in Calculus or anything.

I have to take my first math exam for this class soon. *sigh*
On the bright side, I did find a cool webcomic.

Queiba Wars

I can't remember if I posted this already, but I started a fictional blog.
The Queiba Wars
Enjoy, and happy thanksgiving if I don't post again!