General, Internets, School

Venturestein’d

SHE LIVES! Hello hello.  I can finally say that I’ve been hard at work with some things. Portfolio is coming together nicely and I cleaned up my main site a ton. Overall, I’m pretty satisfied with it 🙂

I’m currently halfway through my master’s program and that is keeping me busy (in addition to the job search). Hopefully this momentum continues *fingers crossed*

What else is going on? Gammer (I swear, he’s like my spirit animal) and the gang have been working on some amazing stuff that I’ve been listening to the last week or so. This really brings me back – check out his SoundCloud for a free download of his latest mixtape! There are so many good songs on there (then add in what Darren Styles has been working on!) HTID, fo realz, yo. UK Hardcore moves my soul.

As I stand here, right here I am taken by the view
Leaves me speechless, I’m overwhelmed being here with you
Can you feel my heartbeat, can you read the signs, this is our destiny
You said “don’t jump too soon, baby, what will be will be”

I feel I’m on top of the world tonight, with you
The stars all shine so bright tonight, when I’m with you
And I don’t wanna come down, I don’t wanna come down
I wanna stay up here tonight
I feel I’m on top of the world tonight, with you

– Darren Styles, Dougal & Gammer feat. Hannah Faulkner – Top Of The World ; (Alive)

Internets

Oops

I had the strangest dream last night and for the first time in a while, I decided to log it. Silly me saw there was an update and didn’t back up. Echo crashed and disappeared. Great.

I finally restored that and came over here and finally worked out the img upload kink I’ve never bothered to fix for a few years now. Oh look, update on WP Framework! Let me update. I don’t learn. Not that anything broke, but installing the new layout overwrote my own and thus my site looks even more stock than it ever did before. I’m in the process of making it a little more personal again, but I can’t seem to figure this one out. In time. I put up a stupid logo in the mean time!

Did I mention this font is HUGE?

Friends, Internets

FFS

In a medical abbreviation, FFS in one case stood for “fell from sky.” I have this fear of falling, both physically and emotionally.

I am only going into my third week of just knowing Chris, but I have this fear that I am beginning to fall.  Going into this, it was established that there were to be no strings attached. He said he was not particularly looking for anything, but at the same time, if something came up (in general, not our situation specifically), then so be it. What happens when I can’t hold up my end of the deal?

I’ve been there every weekend so far (3 at this point), and we have a good time talking about everything while watching some TV or a movie. Personally, I have a tendency to fall easily only because the qualities I value most in a guy seem to be satisfied very easily, and thus my needs are met. It’s the little things in life that I enjoy, simple and plenty of them. We have a lot in common as is, but the more I get to know him, the more there is about him. Just sitting there today, “there is never spicy enough.” He’s kind of a nerd to top things off.

I do appreciate the type of “friendship” we have; it’s a pretty simple, yet understanding one. He’ll freely bring up tidbits about his mother, sister or friends.  There’s almost a trust in that for opening any sort of information when we just met.

I know I shouldn’t get attached, but what happens if I do? I was a bit upset over something related, but problem is that it shouldn’t matter. I talked to Dave a little bit, just to try and fill a void, but that was short lived (not a bad conversation, just short)…That’s another huge mess I started too : Why do I care so much? For being just friends, I get a little too excited at his messages. He’s more than a gentleman; there’s something about what he says, the way he talks- the way we talk, joke, just fits. Example. Something came up in conversation in a joking light, and I noted how I personally would not appreciate something like that. But then in a serious like, he says, “I respect that…and if [you’re] not cool [with it], I wouldn’t do [that] to you!" I can hear him say that last part, and something about it is just so genuine honest (I used the word with James).  Idk.

I just went through my SMS-Backup, situating the XML file to make it readable etc. and read through some old Dave conversations. There’s a lot of stuff I forgot about, and a handful of “unfinished business”… I could fall for him all over again. But after everything, I’d hold out for him. He’s the one I’d say yes to any day.  As much as I shouldn’t like Chris, I am still crazy about Dave…L word crazy : Even if I try and deny it.

You try to move on, but there’s always something that brings you back.  I foresee myself getting into some trouble here…

Friends, Internets

Graphesthesia

You felt it too?

Haha…this has been a crazy week. But the thing that tops it off was that while I was waiting for Joanne to get in at 30th, I got a text from Chris, basically apologizing for not texting all week since he’s been so busy. Seriously. I asked Jenn if I was allowed to like him. She said yes.

That’s my quick rant. Joanne is in for the weekend, and I’m hoping to get to hang out with Chris at some point…or at least text some when he’s not busy or passing out of work exhaustion. Boo.

General, Internets

Pi

So after editing the entry, I went to look up the full plotline of The Number 23. The way wiki goes through it seems interesting, but I can see how the execution of the movie could be terrible. If it were originally a book, I would read it.

Why I’m updating this now though. At the end of the wiki, there’s a list of related movies, Pi being one of them. I’ve owned Pi for years now but have never watched it. I start reading and first thing under the plot: Max Cohen (click to enlarge)

pi

Not sure how many people recall, if any, but in kindergarten, my best friend was Max Cohen, and we’d have sleepovers and hang out all the time (for being kids, especially). He was weird like me, but he moved away (to Minnesota)the following year because his father was a missionary. I’ve always joked about how one day I’d like to find him again. Would he remember me? I just feel like that was a silly name to bump into after reading about these situations.

I don’t think I’m obsessed (yet?) but it is extremely fascinating. Here’s Wiki on “23 Enigma”

As with most numerological claims, the enigma can be viewed as an example of apophenia, selection bias, and confirmation bias. In interviews, Wilson acknowledged the self-fulfilling nature of the enigma, implying that the real value of the Laws of Fives and Twenty-threes lies in their demonstration of the mind’s power to perceive "truth" in nearly anything.

When you start looking for something you tend to find it. This wouldn’t be like Simon Newcomb, the great astronomer, who wrote a mathematical proof that <heavier than air> flight was impossible and published it a day before the Wright brothers took off. I’m talking about people who found a pattern in nature and wrote several scientific articles and got it accepted by a large part of the scientific community before it was generally agreed that there was no such pattern, it was all just selective perception."

In the Illuminatus! Trilogy, he expresses the same view: that one can find a numerological significance to anything, provided "sufficient cleverness."

Not so much that I’m actively looking for these things, but I do take notice.