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hoyden will follow the free tendencies of desire hoyden is a pill dropped in a glass of water hoyden is an illusion on a surface of memory hoyden is a finger resting on the controls of a broken machine hoyden turns as she pleases toward all horizons hoyden is perfect sadism, at least as a method hoyden is a beautiful chimera hoyden crouches to intercept shadows hoyden is not in the habit of saluting the dead hoyden will always find buyers hoyden is at most a thinking reed hoyden writes sad and ardent love letters hoyden is a door someone opened hoyden is a dark intention hoyden never waits for itself hoyden leaves an exquisite corpse

studying

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If I can successfully study and do practice tests during the noisy and interruptions at work, I can defintiely ace my tests in the classroom.

We have a paper and two pre-quizzes due in two days, plus two exams in class that day.
Then another test in class on Friday!
Wow!

That said, I’m having a blast. I love what I’m learning and it’s actually a pleasure to study.
Never thought I’d say that.

It is difficult, however, to study and have an active social life. I’m finding that with this intensive course, I really have to schedule my time well. I’ve got some social things that I love to do (and keep me sane) and some people that are important to me that I want to make sure to spend time with… but school comes first no matter what. So, everything gets scheduled. I am enjoying being busy though. I always find that I’m most productive and creative when I’m busy. No time for slothing, no time for procrastination.

That said… back to studying!

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geek humor

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I’m on a local Linux listserve (PLUG)
Some people get into Linux because of the philosophy (FOSS), some people get into it because of the Penguin. Regardless of the reason, it’s great that more folks are getting into Linux.

Today, one of the folks on the list did an update. Here is what happened and the song that ensued:
(thank you Jim March for letting me repost this here! Jim is a founding member of the board of directors at blackboxvoting.org )

” Some auto-updates broke x bigtime. Updates that repair the situation
are in the pipeline now and there’s pages and pages of screaming going
on in ubuntuforums.org.

So I wrote an “unborking guide” with some humor thrown in:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1267657

To the tune of “American Pie”:

—

A long, long time ago
Just last night in fact,
How my compiz desktop made me smile
And I knew if I had my way
That I could make Steve Balmer pray
And, maybe, he’d go FOSS, for just a while.
But today’s update made me freak
As X would die with a horrid shriek
Bad news on the desktop;
My computer was a doorstop
I couldn’t figure out what died
Or why my graphics card felt fried,
As if the update process lied,
The day Ubuuuuuuuuntu died.
So bye, bye to my work for the day,
Tried some hashes and some thrashes
but the boot was just nay
And ubuntuforum was all choked up and gray
singing “this has gotta be the day Karmic died” “