Summer Ender

I therefore declare this Sunday night to be the end of summer although there were still past unresolved issues. During the last weeks, most of the TV series I had watched were already in their latest season ender/finales. I had watched Navy NCIS..too bad Kate was killed – head shot. But I kinda like Abby’s personality -> a geek goth. In Smallville, Clark was finally on the path to becoming Superman – he had collected the stones but i guess it was also the first time that he had not rescued Lana from another meteor shower. Lionel was dead, Chloe and Lex were left inside the caves wondering where Clark is and what he’s up to. Lois crawls in a hillside as she watches the town of Smallville destroyed by showers of meteors and fires. Hopefully in its next season, Lex will be the same as Anakin Skywalker in the Episode 3 of Star Wars – turning to the dark side. Another great series was Numb3rs, a CSI-like series that solves crimes by using Math sprinkled with Physics.. I would say that it is enough to change your views on the power of Calculus in our everyday life. Alias was also impressive. Its latest episode featured Von disclosing his true identity to Sydney while he’s driving the car with her (after a marriage proposal), and by the time he told Sydney that his real name wasn’t Von, the car came to a crash coming from the side of Von smashing towards Sydney. I hope that it is not yet the season ender.Oh well, tomorrow is the release of some results from my summer classes. Gotta get ready to face it.

A Series of Unfortunate Events I

Dang.. the past weeks were very troublesome.. lotsa exams, an INC to resolve this week, some unavoidable traumatic circumstances – indeed, history repeats itself.

Finally, I had a UPS installed on my system for stable uptime, and days after, I lost my phone to two suspicious people. How? Hmm.. Luck was not with me, I rushed to MB hoping to grab a copy of the sample final exam released by my prof and placed it in an envelop at his door to have his students photocopy it. Unfortunately, I didn’t had the chance to copy it or even a glance to it. Selfish people suck. If only I knew that they (the students who had the sample exam photocopied) won’t be returning those samples, I shouldn’t have gone to MB by riding a Toki jeep. The jeep that I had taken in going to MB was also the same vehicle that I had ride in leaving MB and I’m also in the same front seat of the jeepney (obviously, after that Toki jeep had completed one route). As I left the jeepney on that same spot where I had left it before and heading towards UPCC, I tried examining my pockets to check that my belongings were still intact but I noticed that my phone was gone! I thought that I left or just dropped it on the jeepney so I rushed to the side of the UP Law hoping to see the same Toki jeep. After maybe 10 minutes of waiting, I didn’t noticed any instance of that jeep – this made me assume that I hadn’t made it on time to catch it at that point of time. I thought that I could still encounter the jeep by the other side again so I left first my stuff at the UPCC and tried to wait for Toki jeeps on the spot where I usually ride a Toki jeep. Arriving on that spot, I noticed two old people – a man and a woman maybe in their 70s on the other side of the street. No cellphone was found on the ground (as expected), but I noticed something strange on the old man.. why? He picked something at the middle of the street but I was sure that it was not my phone. I tried asking a janitor cleaning the sidewalks but he found nothing. I was desperate so I tried to ask the two old people who looks very guilty of something nasty or naughty, but as usual they denied seeing a phone on that spot. So I was hopeless at that point while having second thoughts of the whereabouts of my phone. Here’s the interesting part: after asking the two old strangers and leaving the spot, I tried to look back at them and it’s like we’re 10-15 meters away and the two strangers were still looking at me!So, I was convinced that my phone’s with them and yet I still tried to check MB for the third time to see if the jeepney driver had noticed my phone. I was only sure of one thing: the two strangers (after mysteriously waiting for minutes, they seem so confused as to what jeep they were looking for) rode a UP Philcoa jeep. And I’m expecting that phone in the displays at Philcoa. Well, the thing was my phone is very had to sell.. why? obviously it is not a Nokia model, it looked very worn out..and the process of changing the cases, keypads, etc. is very expensive – almost equal to its selling price in the market. Oh well, enough of this kind of rant..

I had a hard time reviewing for the Math final exam.. stupid sample final exam.. crazy classmates.. oh well.. The final exam was kinda long, and the thing that I hated most about it was the existence of the Taylor series and its forms.. oh well..

The following day at 7am, I had a biology exam. Well, I had not memorized the names of specific people having weird reproductive life and also due to the fact that I was absent at the last session of Biology because of my last long exam in Math 55. Anyway, I guess that everything will turn out just fine after these series of unfortunate events.

Jedi Master!

You scored as Yoda.

Yoda 69%
General Grievous 69%
R2-D2 67%
Mace Windu 64%
Anakin Skywalker 61%
Darth Vader 61%
Clone Trooper 50%
Obi Wan Kenobi 47%
Padme Amidala 36%
C-3PO 36%
Emperor Palpatine 33%
Chewbacca 19%

Which Revenge of the Sith Character are you?
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I think this was also the time I was given a JEDI (Java Education and Development Initiative) shirt..

Iterated Triple DisIntegrated

Finally, i had the chance to post again after numerous intoxicating situations. Math 54 seemed to be easier than Math 55..why? since I had taken Math 54 in a normal sem whereas the Math 55 this summer, that is also approaching the last weeks or even days of it. Weird? Yes, it is! Math 55 is only a 3-unit course as compared to the easy Math 53 i had taken last summer. Well, maybe it’s just that I feel that the summer session of this year is kinda short. And the challenging one is to take full units (sort of 6) which i’m presently doing. Would you believe that I had just taken my 1st long exam in Biology 1 hour ago?… and also that there’s only a week left before Finals? Awww shucks..

I really hate this summer.. kinda hot.. hotter than last year.. Last year seemed to be an enjoyable one. I even used to play Ragnarok during that time. Well, this year’s different. It’s like that I had only accomplished 40% of my objectives, not to forget my crappy INC at UPM. I find it very hard to go there..too far to reach, traffic and the risks of going there as well (like hold-ups, etc).

Well, the only good thing that I had gained this year (including summer) is Linux tricks, tips, strategies in calculating stuffs by using Calculus, having an OC (obssessive compulsivve) prof, a relatively short session of Biology 1 and other stuffs that I guess need not to be elaborated more.

Sad to say, I lost my UPS.

A Hopeless Fanatic?

Am I a hopeless Linux fanatic? hopeless Linux advocate? nah.. after initiating good threads on one forum filled mostly with Wind0ze fanatics, I had really found the job of advocating very difficult especially in a forum packed with closed-minded people.

For instance, having the initiative to spread the word through the creation of such threads: Wind0ze-specific hardware on Linux issue, New Firefox version released, A Very Special Thread, and Study Finds Wind0ze more secure than Linux – most of them getting locked by the admin/moderator. The topics seemed to be very controversial and heat/anger generating and not for the ones who have little threshold of anger. They still don’t wanna face the reality that they have been using a hopeless, expensive, and not creativity-inducing OS for years! Who cares about viruses? spywares? adwares? malwares? It’s about time that the Tiger and the Penguin search for $PATHs instead of Winbloze.

Everything that I had begun was like getting nonsense after all.. I wouldn’t wonder.. nothing is new in this world, chaos is everywhere.. there is no free speech in this era anymore. My version of the Inferno is definitely true! The mentality of the people – severely corrupted by such corporations or companies. People still continue to pirate here, there, everywhere! I don’t think they would even care if the Philippines notches the top of the list of piracy violators of other countries, specifically the US. National IDs gonna be implemented. How? AFAIK, they’ll be having an affiliation with M$!

Oh well..

“And Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? And Where Is The Place Of Understanding?” (Job 28: 12, 13)

Forgive them.. for they do not know what they’re doing.

aQEMUlated..

Finally, I had reinstalled my LAMP environment again.. how? I had removed everything by using the YUM Extender. Synaptic kept on saying i had some packages with different versions installed on my system. So the last step that I had not yet accomplished was to configure my MySQL environment.. Very clueless since i started from PostgreSQL and I had to be oriented again to the PHP-MySQL conventions for the forms and queries as well. I was supposed to explore OpenOffice 2.0 Beta during the summer vacation, but obviously there were lotsa change of plans.

I had successfully changed my desktop themes by using Mac OS X theme taken from the gnome-look.org site. It seemed that it needed enhancements but I still had managed most of its configurations especially the icons. I had also experimented QEMU, an emulator where you can boot some ISOs – a good way or cheap alternative to boot and test LiveCDs before writing them to CDRs.

For now.. well.. i’m still fixing/eliminating my long list of archived articles in Firefox. Oh well.