how you gonna rip it like this son?!?

world travel is overrated. i think i might just be a lousy world traveler though.

ipods are not overrated - that little guy owns your face! can't believe i waited so long to get one.

wednesday night there is a concert in switzerland with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Arcade Fire, and Bjork. it's sold out so far as i can tell - or at least i can't decipher anyway to get tickets. shucks....probably would of cranked up the awesome a couple notches.

i might see badly drawn boy and elvis costello at a different concert that same night - so i guess that could be some sort of consolation prize.

my love of movie trailers might have eclipsed my love of actual movies at this point, it's a close call.

on ratatat's website they have pictures from a european tour. in some of them they show pics of them playing at some house party. that wouldn't be the coolest thing ever or anything. maybe i'll end up at some party that clap your hands is playing at after their concert wednesday night.

i don't even like chocolate that much.

i sat in my hotel room for a day and read the new harry potter book. yea shitty world traveler. my spoil free analysis - it was pretty good, i've got plenty of complaints though (big shock).

less then a year until The Dark Knight. my expectations for this movie could not be any more opposite of what i expected of Batman Begins.

i'm not sure if i'm supposed to be doing work right now. basically all we've done in classes so far is install software and plugins - it rules.

college bars make me question my faith in humanity.

real post?

Today in one of my computer science classes my professor said something to the class along the lines of "you're going to be programming a lot in your lives, you have to find a way to make it fun for you". So that got me thinking, what is it about programming that I like? And I think I've come to a satisfactory answer. In my mind a programming is basically equivalent to solving a puzzle.

I know it's not a perfect analogy, but I think it works pretty well. Writing a sorting algorithm in my opinion is almost similar to trying to solve a sodoku puzzle. I get almost the exact same feeling when I get a program or function to work properly as when I solve a sodoku (the only difference may be there is some added relief when it comes to my coding, because there is usually a sense of added relief seeing as I'm being graded on the material). Also there is the same type of frustration in finding something that you sure you implemented or debugged properly doesn't work, as when I find that I've made a mistake somewhere earlier in the sodoku, and have to start over.

When I look at it this way, it's no surprise to me that I like programming. It's just a little thinking game. And I think the fact that I can be graded and recieve credit for, and hopefully one day get paid for, playing a game is pretty cool.



In other news:

if you are of the mindset that no good (or very little) popular music has been released after 1980, you are probably an idiot. I'm certainly not one to dismiss classic rock altogether (far from it), but if it's all there was to listen to things would be pretty awful.

I think I need to find a part time job, anyone know of a decent one? this is sort of a silly place to ask this seeing as no one reads this, but might as well put it out there. This Geneva trip as awesome as it's going to be is going to pretty much wipe out my funds, and, seeing as it takes up the middle month of the summer, will make it pretty much impossible to find normal summer employment.

Now that's what I call positive reinforcement

Awesome thing to see when you're just starting out writing a blog. The idea of blogging gets more and more exciting by the day!

sticking with it though, real post soonish, maybe.

in the beginning there was...

I've been toying around with the idea of starting a blog for awhile, but now that inkling has left it's home in the fantasy world of my mind, and has taken residence in reality.

Someday I plan on writing something so amazing that it manages to alter the course of humanity altogether. For better or worse, nothing will be the same.

Today isn't that day though.