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Sep. 23rd, 2006 11:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ionelvLet's see what happened in the past three months. I got accepted at Colo State in the Masters program, but I haven't enrolled in a course yet (next deadline is Dec 15). I'm looking into taking some Java courses too (and maybe a Sun certification) since knowing just C++ seems to be getting old nowadays if you're looking for a job in the US.
We finally did some traveling: a week in Orlando (with a few side trips to the Melbourne area) with occasion of some job training, a week in Mystic, CT area (definitely worth going back especially Watch Hill and Block Island) and a few days in Chicago this past weekend for my bro George's wedding with Deb (seeing my parents for the first time since last Thanksgiving). Some pics from these trips are available on flickr. My dad finished building the house and is on the market now.
Just a few weekends ago we went to Portsmouth for the n-th time and first time ever we walked past Prescott Park and discovered a really nice Four Tree Island.
Brain dump (from a few weeks ago):
HPL said this almost a century ago:
Upon reading this, me neurons started [mis]firing. We all are little cogs in a big machine that no one controls, right? We don't know what the machine will produce in the end, but we keep plugging away. Moreover, the machine and its cold inner workings determines the fates of billions of people and at the same time alienates them. The popular uprisings of the past century and the consequent slipping into dictatorial regimes will only intensify in this age of clueless sheeple pointing their shining beacons of democracy in the mirror and dropping their depleted uranium wrapped-gifts on the ungrateful and uncivilized. But, it will all turn out OK in the end as Hollywood have shown us over and over again, right?
We finally did some traveling: a week in Orlando (with a few side trips to the Melbourne area) with occasion of some job training, a week in Mystic, CT area (definitely worth going back especially Watch Hill and Block Island) and a few days in Chicago this past weekend for my bro George's wedding with Deb (seeing my parents for the first time since last Thanksgiving). Some pics from these trips are available on flickr. My dad finished building the house and is on the market now.
Just a few weekends ago we went to Portsmouth for the n-th time and first time ever we walked past Prescott Park and discovered a really nice Four Tree Island.
Brain dump (from a few weeks ago):
HPL said this almost a century ago:
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
Upon reading this, me neurons started [mis]firing. We all are little cogs in a big machine that no one controls, right? We don't know what the machine will produce in the end, but we keep plugging away. Moreover, the machine and its cold inner workings determines the fates of billions of people and at the same time alienates them. The popular uprisings of the past century and the consequent slipping into dictatorial regimes will only intensify in this age of clueless sheeple pointing their shining beacons of democracy in the mirror and dropping their depleted uranium wrapped-gifts on the ungrateful and uncivilized. But, it will all turn out OK in the end as Hollywood have shown us over and over again, right?
