... fucking cable modem. Apparently my dad thinks the modem got busted somehow. Hopefully that means the problem will be solved by simply turning in the old one for a new one. And hopefully that means it'll be done soon and not by next thursday. The timing really fucking blows though. I've already missed 2 TC comps because of it.

Paul: Hopefully I'll get some work done on the "project".

take your damn test.

I will go program some SDL shit instead. I can integrate it with OpenGL now.

My cable modem is down.

Cox said they would send someone next thursday.

god dammit.

Yesterday at about 11:00am(or so my sister tells me), the cable modem went down. It's now 2:00pm today and the cable modem is still not back up as of this writing. GGRRRRR! Fuck you Cox. Fuck you and your shitty service that goes down without warning.

As such my web page is inaccessible for the moment, and I cannot access my computer from work, with the latter annoying me quite a bit right now.

I had a lot of fun playing around with SDL today(thanks to the awesome book i got). It is a very impressive API. It takes all the ease of DirectX(and adds some) and then adds the greatness of portability. It has built in support for all kinds of graphic file formats, even JPGs and PNGs!! The only problems that I have been having for it is that there is no native 2D primitive graphic routines(you'd think a library that can display PNGs with ease would at least be able to make a colored rectangle??) and native font displaying. I found some code to do primitive functions(thereby saving me the trouble of having to write it myself), and I'm still looking for a good code for displaying fonts. Other than that this API has been quite a joy to work with. It won't replace OpenGL completely, but it's much better for doing 2d-related graphics programming. It even integrates itself with OpenGL somewhat, which is very cool, especially since i'd like to do a mix of 2d and 3d stuff. I don't think I'm going to even boot into win2k for the next few days(see my previous entry to know why)

IE is very annoying. Even though i set my default web browser to be Opera, IE still rears its ugly head every once and a while. You know, when i set something to be my default browser, I kinda expect nothing else to show up ever when I hit a link or something. Right Now, both outlook and AIM all open up IE when I hit a link there. It's getting really fucking annoying. It's like an ex-girlfriend that keeps on hounding you and hounding you to get back together again. Fuck off, IE. We broke up a long time ago and I have no intention of going back.

The weekends need to be longer. I propose the addition of another day to the weekend to alleviate this problem. Any suggestions for a name? I really don't give a shit if god made the world in 7 fucking days, i want my extra day for the weekend. That way, ppl won't bitch about a 4-day work week, and I can have my 3 day weekend every weekend, instead of just holidays.

Uva was fun. Me an pierce got to hang with dan. I saw return of the jedi again. Yay for nostalgia. We also went to patricia's place to hang with her and for some more movie nostalgia. Geez, i really could have used that extra day.

I haven't seen any of my friends for a long time(only my plush Tux is around to keep me company), and it was good to see some of them in person again. The only good news is that it's only 2 weeks before thanksgiving break, which means people will be home for that week(though i think i'll be working for most of it), and after thanksgiving it's only 3 weeks or so before the semester ends and everyone's home for winter. Then the weekends will be somewhat intersting.

Anyways, as for linux news(which is why i chose that icon for today), I've been reading Programming Linux Games by the people at Loki Software. 'Tis a fine book, and hopefully I'll be able to play with some of the stuff they talk about(most notably SDL and OpenAL. Horray for books.

It was cold on the way walking to work this morning from the metro. It better stay cold. I'm so sick of this fucking alternating hot and cold weather. Stay cold! I want snow!

I got my ssh server working. I can now play around with my computer at home from work. Still a few kinks to work out though. First off, i need to find away for my apache and my own account to have write access for my fat partition and then i need to see if i can secretly install a ssh telnet client on the computer i'm working on(though my boss hinted that he might buy a machine for me to use!)

I installed a xine from home today. Groovy!

No, I didn't do anything. No kids came by to get any candy either.

I'm going to head to Uva tomorrow. That'll be a good change of pace from a normal weekend at home.

What's with all the covers songs this year, some of them aren't bad, and some are actually pretty good, but why so many all of a sudden, here's the list so far:

Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal(Michael Jackson)
Goldfinger - 99 Red Balloons(Nina)
Stone Temple Pilots - Revolution(The Beatles)
Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love(Soft Cell)

AAF is ok, but the fact it's a cover drives the song down to mediocre.
I really like the goldfinger song, esp since the original song is so horridly bad.
STP song bites.
Manson song is pretty good.

Hopefully though, some new original music should pop up.

I think lewis black said it best: FUCK FALL!.

Today it's mild, yesterday it was blistering cold. Make up your god damn mind!! Is it going to be hot, or is it going to be cold? Pick one and stick with it!

Here's another alignment quiz i found. This one was a little more fun and not as annoying as the last one. Enjoy. I got netrual good again.

yay. my skills in openGL have improved. I can now make a box turn a different color when i click on it. yay! I can also display text!!(well in linux at least, i haven't figured out how to do it in a win32 console app). Hopefully i'll be able to do more neat things during this week.

to get home. I got a whole shitload of linux stuff to do this weekend.

I will also be going to try to get to UVA next weekend. It's been awhile since I've had contact with the college world.

No, this isn't about anime, it's just the only topic icon that seems to fit.

My dad really pissed me off today. He decided that he was going to pester me about the "girlfriend" topic again. Usually when he bothers me about it, he just asks simple stupid questions, like "why don't you have a girlfriend?", or "don't you have any friends that are girls?". Lately he's been suggesting that there might be something wrong with me psychologically(or at best i'm just not a "normal" person) because he can't seem to understand why I haven't don't have a girlfriend yet. Worse still, he claims that I'll grow up to be some sort of mysoginist hermit if i don't "mend my ways," as he put it.

What the fuck is his problem? He always seems to assume that, a) i don't want a girlfriend, and b) that there's something wrong with me because i don't have a girlfriend.

Am I happy about the fact that I don't have a girlfriend. No, of course not. I used to let it bother me a lot(partly due because of my parent's incessant nagging on the subject), but now i'm not going to fucking whine like a little baby(yes, i've been guilty in the past about that) about it.

As for normalcy, I just haven't met the right person yet, so i fail to see how that's not normal. Just let me live my fucking life please.

Sorry if you don't care about this, but I just needed to vent.