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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Consistency.

[mood: aggravated] [listening to: trailers]

OKAY. I swear. Firefox always crashes when I'm in the middle of writing a post.

So. I was talking. About how we were talking. At my last party about consistency. Well, here you go.

I then started talking about similarities between The Dark Knight and Inception and came up with something called the Michael Caine Effect. But I'm tired. So here are some trailers. They are similar. Crescendoing boom. Low, rumbling strings. Long drone. Both movies' scores are done by Hans Zimmer. Expect for their music to be similar.

Consistency.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

A new initiative

[mood: old] [listening to: new]

I'm proposing a new initiative for all the authors. Whenever during this summer you're just sitting around, bored, not doing anything... write a post! It will make a world a better place.

So I've started my internship up here in Nova. It's been good so far, thanks for asking. As I mentioned previously, I'll be doing web development stuff. Nothing to show off right now, but trust me. It's cool, again.

I've been thinking lately about how many "real worlds" we encounter in our lives. It's hard to imagine it, but remember when middle school was ending and high school was supposed to be the "real world?" Then it was college. For me now, it's this internship. Whatever I'm going through now certainly feels more real world-y than anything else I've done in the past. For one, I don't have a dining hall or my parents' money to rely on for food. I'm actually quite impressed at how long I've made the $14 I spent at tthe start of the week last in terms of food. (There's Maruchan in there somewhere, hint hint)

So. When does this series of real worlds end? To some, I'm sure the "real world" barrier comes definitively once they're out of high school. For others, maybe it's once they're married. Or have kids. (I've also watched the entire series so far of How I Met Your Mother in the last month, can you tell? It's good; I recommend it.)

For me, for right now, I like where I am: I'm in a "realer" world than I was in the past, but I know there's something still ahead to look forward to/dread. Related.

Thursday, June 03, 2010

What I have been doing, what I am doing, and what I will be doing

[mood: aldkjflasdjfds] [listening to: oldies]

Alright. I had an entire half post written when Firefox crashed. I am going to attempt to recreate it the best I can. Just like old times, eh? So. Here we go. An overview of what I've been doing, what I am... well you read the title, and this would be the fourth time to type it out. Here you go. I'll even add a cute little image to the right (indicating I've fixed the image bug and that we, indeed, are back. Read for details).

What I Have Been Doing: Web Development + Blogging
Ha! Blogging! ... Just not Hublogging, shamefully. During the semester, I write for our undergraduate blog, the Bwog. I've mentioned this previously. Like people who work for the paper in a lot of other schools, this consumes a lot of my time; perhaps more than it should, but I still enjoy it. And I'm proud to say that I routinely use the many lessons I've learned from Hublog about blogging and writing for an online audience when I'm writing for Columbia students.

As for web development, during the school year, I've been primarily working on two projects. I work under the IT Director of Columbia's old people school, and I've been developing a website for them. It's an internal website for their HR department, so there's not really much to show off. But trust me, it's cool. In addition to that, I've been working for Hoot Magazine, our student-run fashion magazine. I've been designing and developing a website for them, as well as migrating and doing other administrative stuff for their blog. You can check these out. They're cool. My first non-Hublog work in the wild!

What I Am Doing: Web Development + Blogging (+ GTA IV + MW2)
Currently (as in, this week) I'm doing some freelance work for Columbia's old people school, wrapping up some loose ends on the project I worked on during the semester. I should probably be doing that instead of writing this, but hey, like I've said, Hublog changes to suit the needs of a community. And now I need a way to procrastinate.

As for blogging, I'm writing this, aren't I? I also rounded a few corners the other night. Like/dislike?

I also recently traded my old phone and some cash for a PS3 on Craigslist. My gamertag/username/thing is "dococtopi." Add me. You'll probably kick my ass in MW2... for now. I'm getting better. I haven't fiddled with GTA IV multiplayer much, but it's not that great from what I've played.

What I Will Be Doing: Web Development + Blogging (+ GTA IV + MW2)
On Monday, I'll officially enter the world of interning. I'm going to be working for Noblis, a nonprofit engineering organization (in their words, "nonprofit science, technology and strategy organization that helps clients solve complex scientific systems, process, and infrastructure problems" ... I smell DoD contracts I'm not sure if I'm allowed to say that.). Guess what I'm going to be doing for them? Nope, not blogging. Nor GTA/MW (I wish). Yeah. The only other one left. I'm gonna be creating a site that visualizes climate data, and from my discussions with my supervisor and other people on the team so far, I'm going to basically be the intern in charge of the design/development... which is a daunting task to say the least.

And I promise to write more posts, keeping you guys updated on what I do.

Oh and play more PS3 in my spare time. There's a story about how I ordered HDMI cables from a crappy company on Amazon and they canceled my order. But that's another post.

TL;DR
I've written for this; I've worked on this. They're cool. I'll be doing more of the same of the latter over the summer.

We're I'm back. (I can only speak for myself, but I urge my fellow authors to follow suit.)

Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Images are fixed.

[mood: fix-y] [listening to: mr. mayer]

About three months after Mr. Chen complained about the lack of image support, I have fixed it. Three months ain't bad. I have a feeling that in fixing this, I also fixed the little error that upset Mr. Reyes.