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| Monday, February 28, 2005 |
| The Rasterbator .... get your mind out of the gutter!!! |
But seriously.....
So i'm doing homework/procrastinating and I came across this really cool website! It's called The Rastorbator. It takes a picture that you either upload to it or give it the website of an image you found online and it converts it into a poster size:
"The Rasterbator is a web service which creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. The rasterized images can be printed and assembled into extremely cool looking posters up to 20 meters in size."
It does it over the internet and converts any image into a huge image, spread over multiple sheets of standard paper, that can be printed out and put on the wall in order. It looks awsome and is a cool way to make unique posters. I'm going to try it out on s/t haven't decided what yet. but everyone should check it out.
It now has a standalone version that you can download to your computer and use regardless of being online!! Great way to make easy and cheap posters!
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per the previously mentioned bet, I lost. But this does mean there will be a party soon. Everyone who lost will be putting in a case of beer for the person with the closest date and our friend. There are atleast 8 of us in on it. That's a lot of beer and a very good party!!!
I was DD again this weekend. I had originally had other plans but since I did need to meet on campus at 10am saturday morning (an obscenely early hour for me!!) I was ok with it. It was lots of fun, hung out had a beer, some dancing and normal drunken fun was had by all.
Next week I refuse to be dd. Someone elses turn!
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| posted by mpcc @ 2/28/2005 06:06:00 PM |
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A few tech related sites that I frequent often:
- kevin rose dot com -- Past host for TSS on TechTV, good hacking/tech blog
- Scopetech --brand new site set up like digg in the respect that you can vote on your favorite articles for the main page but ran by Dan Huard exemployee from TechTV
- The Edge of I-Hacked -- Tech blog that I found recently
- Avi Adir -- another interesting tech blog
Those are just a few that I check out regularly. Check them out.
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| posted by mpcc @ 2/28/2005 05:34:00 PM |
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| Sunday, February 27, 2005 |
| umm... oops, I fell? |
| Ok, this was hysterical. We have a bet going on with my friend and when she will have sex next. (that's a whole 'nother story, not covered in this post) One of the people in on it have our spring break as his date. He was conspiring with her to encourage her to have sex during that time, splitting the winnings, and she was like "sure i'll just happen to fall on a penis." Apparently that's what the kids are calling it today. I found that entertaining. |
| posted by mpcc @ 2/27/2005 03:39:00 PM |
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| Saturday, February 26, 2005 |
| Flirt..... what to do tonight |
I enjoy harmless flirting. Flirting with a close guy friend or someone completely unavailable. If it can do no harm it's all good is my motto. With classes that are 9 to 1 male to female (remeber engineering guys, this doesn't mean the odds are good for me), you can be sure I generally flirt with the guys in my class. I don't discriminate. It means nothing, I just find it fun. You chit chat/normal girl talk with the girls and either are one of the guys on some days or flirty on the the others. For some reason it seems to work right now for me.
Is there anything wrong with that? The only thing I could think of would be the fact that, until recently, I didn't realize I was doing it! I know, I sound naive, but I honestly didn't, and I'm not all that naive. I know it'll get me in trouble one of these days, almost has already. There is a fine line between a flirt and the more insulting term for it, "cocktease." I think there is a difference -- avery fine line between the two. Almost invisible, sure but there none the less. A flirt is just having fun, not wanting anything back but a little flirty attention. Now, a cocktease, in my opinion, knows what they are doing and are going as far as they can without it no longer being just teasing, dangling the idea of what the guy wants but not delivering. I can understand how this can be annoying, but is just harmless flirting the same?
The guy undestanding it's just flirting is another big thing. How do you get that across? I guess by not crossing the line from flirt to cocktease. How? Haven't figure that one out. I've been called a flirt, even a cocktease, which no one else thought was appropriate but whatever he wants to think. Never been called a slut, tho if someone did I'd have a good laugh. They obviously don't know me!
That brings me to what should I do tonight. I was trying to do homework, but obviously, that isn't going on right now. Some friends are at the bars. Do I want to be around others? I have strong anti-social tendencies, I think it comes from my semi social anxiety issues. I'm not sure if I have the energy needed to be around lots of poeple I don't know. But waiting this long does mean they should be drunk which always makes in easier. If only I was too.
One of my room mates is a psych major. She asked me today if she could do a case study on me. Not sure whether to be insulted or willing? I'll probably just be indifferent. I'll explain more about that in another post possibly. This one is getting long as it is.
I do this when I procrastinate. Whole stream of consiousness. Gets pretty random but helps me emtpy my mind. If I do it I'll put a warning in the post so you can skip it if you so choose.
To call or not to call?
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| posted by mpcc @ 2/26/2005 11:04:00 PM |
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| Friday, February 25, 2005 |
| Past Posts |
Might have noticed that I all of the sudden have posts from December and January. I'm going through my old blog and picking out posts that I particularly liked and adding them under their original date.
I'm going to start doing a review of something every week. Either a computer related thing such as, software, freeware, games, hardware, etc. , books, movies, random shit..... This is mostly just to give me something different to do. Test my writing skills. I'm taking a technical writing course and I really like it. I think I've learned quite a bit.
I'm also going to start having a link list of links I've found around the internet and have liked every Friday. I'm going to try at least. |
| posted by mpcc @ 2/25/2005 04:10:00 PM |
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| T-shirt Weather of the Midwest |
I live in the mid-west and it's cold. This winter was no exception. We had a few weeks where the windchill was consistently 20 below. That's chilly, you just don't spend time outside if you can help it. Lately it's been in the 20s and 30s. The mid to high 30s start feeling pretty warm, it becomes sweatshirt weather. I still like a coat. I lived in the south for 7 yrs, some things just rubbed off. Granted I didn't actually own a winter coat then, but still.
On with the story, today was 44 with a windchill of 37, sunny, and just a nice day in general! And half the people I saw were wearing tshirts. This is something I've been used to since I was very young. Yet, while living in the South, you get used to seeing people all bundled up in their winter clothes when the temp dips down below 50!! Perfect sweatshirt weather IMO. So funny to think of the extreme opposites. When the temp starts getting into the 50s here, watch out! shorts weather!!!
This is the time of the year that goes the slowest tho. Spring semester usually just drags. It's the end of February and we've only been back to school for 1.5 months! Soooo much more to do.
I'm trying to figure out what classes I will be taking next semester. I have no idea. I know of about 3 that I will take for sure, but the others absolutely no idea.
UPDATE: windchill is apparently not in the blogger dictionary, I need to pay more attention
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| posted by mpcc @ 2/25/2005 03:22:00 PM |
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| Thursday, February 24, 2005 |
| Structured Procrastination |
This essay completely sums me up:
Structured Procrastination by John Perry
so funny that someone used their procrastination time to write this but that is what structured procrastination is. If you really don't feel like reading it, which I'm sure is most of you, here's the main definition:
"Structured procrastination is the art of making this bad trait work for you. The key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing ... However, the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important."
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| posted by mpcc @ 2/24/2005 06:31:00 PM |
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| ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ Sarcastic Much ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ |
I know, wtf are those stupid mini i things up there? Well, those are the "it" punctuation for today. Are you sarcastic? Misunderstood? And thought to be crazy? Well maybe you need to signal your sarcasm. Or you're just horrible at it and should stop, but no one's judging or anything¡.
Such a good example. Personally I'm not in favor of it. Kinda stupid. If you're not smart enough to understand me then you have no business reading my posts. I guess if I was targeting people out there it might be a good idea. Those "popular" celebrity bloggers (you know who you are) might want to try it out, but me, for now, I'll pass. Chances are if it comes out of my mouth it's sarcasm. |
| posted by mpcc @ 2/24/2005 06:19:00 PM |
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| Wednesday, February 23, 2005 |
| Procrastination at it's best....................... |
So I'm at work. I feel like procrastinating and what better way then to post to a blog no one reads? Towards that end I'm going to explain my blog name. (note randomness)
(Please read with lecture voice!) In French Ma = feminine version of mine, petite = little/small also feminine (since I too am feminine) , chou = cabbage which I belive is also feminie (strange, but it'll make sense in a min. sort of). In France this is considered a term of endearment. Kind of like "my little darling", but cooler 'cause it's in French, of course (biensûr). I've heard it as ma petite chou and ma petite chou chou, no idea which is correct but with the double cabbage is the way my mom, who doesn't speak a lick of French so the other one is probably correct, used it when I was little. Her friend in high school took French and called all her friends that, strange.
Could explain why I have taken French classes for the past 8 or so years. Granted not taking any currently, engineering classes are a bitch, but hopefully next semester.
I have to meet with that advisor today to switch my major over to the French for Professionals option that they just created and figure out how my study abroad classes transfer and what I still need to take. oy, looking forwared to it.
I proofed my friends paper the other day. 13 pages of a psych. study. Context was good, grammer was horrid. I can't really talk cause mine is really bad too but I do know how to make sentences sound like I'm over 10yrs old! Cleaned it up some, just made it sound more mature. Other than that I can't help, have no idea what the context should be. |
| posted by mpcc @ 2/23/2005 01:21:00 PM |
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| Friday, February 18, 2005 |
| zzzzzzzzzzzz t minus 15 min and counting!!! |
It's almost sleep time. I'm ready. It's been a long day to end a long week. Got my paper back tho. B+ not to shabby considering this is the first English teacher to like my writing. Went in to talk to him this afternoon, during my usual nap time, and he said that it was good, minor issues but all in all he likes my style and tone! I was on a nice high after that for awhile.
Not sure what's going on tonight besides Zs friends coming over. Should be fun, I've met one of the three that are coming and she's fun so should be a good drunkin weekend. I'm ready for it, well I will be.
Tomorrow I need to go into the office of a club I'm the computer coordinator for. I just got the position this semester, haven't touched a thing yet (i know i'm slow) andthe webserver crashes! Just my luck the guy before me is no longer in the state, he's doing a co-op. He set it up using Gentoo Linux, which I know bare basic linux stuff so i know nothing, and now he pretty much seems like a control freak. Kept it so that he gets the email along with me and responds. Talk about walking on someones toes!!! But he is helping me since it would take me forever to set up this server since I don't know what I'm doing. I could do it, just would be lots of time I don't have. I suppose I shouldn't complain too much!
I hope this class doesn't stay over. They're supposed to get out at 5 but the prof usually keeps them till 10 after and then i wait another 5 min for them to all get out so I can straighten up. Gotta love my job!
PS if anyone wants gmail invites I have tons so comment here with your email address and I'll send you one.
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| posted by mpcc @ 2/18/2005 04:38:00 PM |
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| Thursday, February 17, 2005 |
| Hellish Week |
I'm done, my brain has quit for the week. Doesn't seem to care that at 8am I have a huge test but eh? not important. But I suppose I will continue to study. Hopefully not to many people will need help tonight and I'll just be left to do my homework in peace.
It's almost the weekend!!!!! I'll crash as soon as I get home, few hours of sleep and ready for Friday night! 24hrs from now hopefully I'll be asleep!!! Oh so sad that that's the biggest thing I'm looking forward to.
other than that not a damn thing going on. I'm boring, just call me captain obvious i know, haven't heard of any cool news or anything at all.
Microsofts anti-spyware will be remaining free, which since it's the wholes they didn't fix, in their software, umm ... yeah, they should feel responsible for it and try to help!
I need a topic for an instructions tech paper. No idea what to do, i'm thinking of maybe: How to design and build your own economy PC. but I don't know.
Did you know they can charge for silence? I didn't either but apparently on iTunes there are some tracks for 99 cents of silence. Go figure, gotta be illegal and the songs are even protected by DRM (Digital Rights Management). Everyone must go to PlasticBugs the guy there works for TSS (The Screen Savers on formerly TechTV then G4TechTv and now G4) . He has downloaded the silence with his free iTunes song from pepsi and has made it downloadable. Go protest against the RIAA!!!! |
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| Tuesday, February 15, 2005 |
| links and randomness |
If you're looking for gmails head over to isnoop.net, they have over 200,000 and have already given away around that many. I'll end up giving them over 100, I'm thinking it should be public eventually. Check it out tho.
Today my English Prof. said "There are certain cultures that do things better than other cultures", in context he was talking about different Amercian cultures like North South kind of thing. I thought it was interesting. I've lived in both places and it definitely is a whole 'nother culture!
I was checking out other blogspot blogs by hitting the next blog button, wow, lots of languages, especially Spanish, and random, one was a list of emails, one a list of news in cancer, and some really strange ones, half engilsh and half I have no idea. Very interesting. |
| posted by mpcc @ 2/15/2005 07:17:00 PM |
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Just gotta let my geekyness show. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy looks cool, didn't realize it was coming out this April 29!
UPDATE: I take that back, it's no longer at that link, but if you go there and read the read there is a link up to an official trailor at amazon.com. |
| posted by mpcc @ 2/15/2005 03:13:00 PM |
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I hate getting sick. That feeling you get when you know you're getting sick but nothing you can do about it? Yeah, feeling that right now. Everyone around we is coughing, sniffling etc. And lack of sleep on my part, 4 hrs tops of sleep a night, isn't exactly healthy. I funciton well enough but, I hurt all over this afternoon.
I'm also addicted to caffeine. Doesn't matter what form, any will do: chocolate (personal favorite), coffee, pop, whatever. Had a hell of a headache today, hid the rest of the bodies aches which is nice, but as soon as that caffeine headache was gone, my body just aches all over. I really should try and cut down the coffee but it's just too good. Having a friend work at a cafe is not the best idea. Free coffee whenever I want? Nope not quitting this addiction any time soon!
I usually go cold turkey at the end of the summer. Being at work at 7:30 is not fun, I'm not a morning person. But this year for some reason I just couldn't do it. The headaches are a bitch and two weeks are really long weeks if you have a constant headache through them.
I love my job, granted it's just for the school year but basically getting paid to do my homework is great. Lab monitoring is so easy. Sure I do actually have to do stuff from time to time but in general the teachers teach and just leave me alone. First few days they are a little confused, keep trying to get me to participate in their class! no thanks, already took this class once which was more than enough.
I shouldn't spread how great a job this is probably, don't need competition forming. Now summer job? That's a whole 'nother issue which is it's own rant in itself for another day! |
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| Sunday, February 13, 2005 |
| The Randomness Commences |
Since others have found my original blog, which will not be linked to since it is horrible and on Xanga, it's time for a new blog. Really don't understand how they found that one. Didn't tell anyone about it and now everyone knows. Go figure.
This will mostly be for me. Hence my blog but if you are reading this, no promises. Feel free to flame, comment, whatever you feel like and if you're a lurker have fun, I'm a lurker all the time.
Content will be my own random ramblings, random tech information, school crap, venting, pretty much anything I feel like talking about. No names will be used, cause if someone does find this, which I'm not discounting, I'd rather they were left guessing as to who I'm talking about.
A little bit about me. I'm 21 year old female, computer engineer with a double major in French, that right there pretty much pin points me but, eh. I spent an amazing semester in France and love the culture and language. Love computers and working with them but have no idea where I want to go with this. So confused. I have close friends, class friends and random acquaintances, liberal in most things, oldest of 3, moved around in 4 states. Hmm that's about it for now. But anyone should know and will figure out very easily i'm a procrastinator, who can't spell and am very random at times.
PS. there will be venting and ranting so just deal, not forcing you to waste your time reading this, that's your own issues |
| posted by mpcc @ 2/13/2005 08:11:00 PM |
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