Shadic’s Musings

This is so fucking weird. Surreal. I’m going to try and explain what the hell just happened to me, but my thoughts may be a bit scattered. And I promise you, every I report was indeed what just happened to be within the last hour.

So I’m sitting in this Comparative Economic Systems class of mine. As a note, this term started on the 4th of January for me, so this just concluded my second week.

With an extremely worldly, educated, My professor is extremely worldly, educated, and experienced and apparently been followed in ways I’ll never even be able to fucking imagine. From being in East Germany months before the USSR collapse, etc. I mean, he knows his shit.

So towards the end of lecture, he starts sort of rambling on to his experience with local and state police officers in other countries. Then he mentions something about how he’s even been followed into the states. Things are starting to get a bit weird.

He mentions how they’ve even come into his classroom and attempt to incite violence within his students. And he mentions how he knows who it is, and that whatever he was doing (The person doing this), is basically going to end now. He hands a manila envelope to one of the students in the class, he’s got a hoodie, some sort of stylish fancy hat, and seems about his his mid-twenties.

It is then mentioned that this man was apparently an Israeli Sniper. Who has killed many people, and who frequently travels armed.

Things are getting weirder. He puts a copy of a letter to the Dead addressing this man, discussing what he’s done, etc. on the projector. A lot of it is the same information as what he was saying.

He tells this man that if he ever sees or hears of him even approaching the campus again, that it will be brought up to somebody in law enforcement, instead of simply the Dean. The professor also tells the man to give that letter to his superiors, then tells him that he may leave.

The man stands up, confirms the story of his experience as an Israeli Sniper, says that he has other information wrong, and then leaves the class.

My professor resumes talking about the subject a little bit, and gives more details on times that he had been apparently followed before. I was not the only person confused, I can promise you that.

However, after he leaves, several students confirm that he had actually spoken to them about weapons training, advice on constructing explosives, etc. Apparently this was all wanting to incite violence against the school. Apparently he wasn’t very subtle about this.

We get dismissed soon after. I didn’t get a chance to chat with any of the students who spoke up at the end, but if this was all a big joke, they were all the best fucking actors ever.

I honestly have no idea what the hell is going on. I guess I’ll see when next week begins. All in all, I’m extremely confused.

Note: This was a repost from a message board, simply because I thought it was interesting and applicable to the blog. Also, WHOO, 2010!

[16:53] XxShadicxX: OH GODS I WILL KILL THEM WITH FIRE
[16:53] XxShadicxX: WTF PROGRAMMERS
[16:53] ApeKing: WHat?
[16:53] XxShadicxX: Okay.
[16:53] XxShadicxX: So, I want to upload an icon for a group on Facebook.
[16:54] XxShadicxX: And I don’t want it to be resized and look like ass, so I look up what size the use for their icons.
[16:54] XxShadicxX: By checking the size of a resized one.
[16:54] XxShadicxX: 200×195
[16:54] XxShadicxX: So, I go, and make an icon that is 200×195.
[16:54] XxShadicxX: Upload it as a PNG.
[16:55] XxShadicxX: Check it out, notice is looks like ass.
[16:55] XxShadicxX: Check out the image properties, notice it’s now a JPG, think “Oh, so they must just be converting it poorly.”
[16:55] XxShadicxX: Convert it to a JPG myself, upload it.
[16:55] XxShadicxX: Looks like ass AGAIN.
[16:55] XxShadicxX: Now I’m all like “WTF”
[16:56] XxShadicxX: SO I go to the icon I uploaded.
[16:56] XxShadicxX: View the image alone.
[16:56] XxShadicxX: And it looks fine as a 200×195 image.
[16:57] XxShadicxX: “Hrm, Facebook must resize images too large to be 200×195, but the image they use on the actual page must be a bit smaller than that. That’s odd…”
[16:57] XxShadicxX: So, I figure out the ACTUAL size of an icon they’re displaying on the page itself.
[16:57] XxShadicxX: 203×198
[16:58] XxShadicxX: “Okay Facebook, we’ll have it your way.”
[16:58] XxShadicxX: I resize the icon AGAIN, making it 203×198
[16:58] XxShadicxX: AND IT STILL LOOKS LIKE ASS.
[16:58] XxShadicxX: Turns out.
[16:58] XxShadicxX: What Facebook does.
[16:59] XxShadicxX: Is convert any icon you upload to 200×195.
[16:59] XxShadicxX: BUT AFTER THAT.
[16:59] XxShadicxX: DISPLAY IT ON THE GROUPS PAGE AS 203×198.
[16:59] XxShadicxX: So it is IMPOSSIBLE for you to upload an icon and not have Facebook auto-resize it to look like ass.

That is all.

Also, Obama.

I don’t know why I’ve not bothered to update this thing in so long, really. I’ve thought about it a bunch of times, but never got around to writing anything. I guess likely because nobody reads this thing, but whatever.

Anyways, I’m back in school. Macro Econ is SO boring. Seriously. Ugh. I was Micro back, when things kind of made sense. I wish that I had more choices for a major, or that I just didn’t have to have one. General education for the win, screw specializing.. That’s my weak point, and likely will always be. I’m a jack-of-all-trades, proficient in almost all, skilled in.. Well.. Typing? I can’t take a major in just “Typing” though, and Computer-type things are all heavy in Math and Science.. I already tried that path.

Also, due to the last couple of sentences, I’m sure that this entry will be flooded in typos.

Hrm.. Not too much else to say. I’ve started playing D&D most Sundays, which is pretty awesome. Last session was “Meh,” but that’s because we were all exhausted. My character got a fancy new Greatsword, and I almost died, but besides that..

Mine and Leslie’s Five-Months was on Tuesday. That was nice, we were trying to find this Mexican Restaurant to eat at, but couldn’t find it, so we just walked to The Roxy… It’s an interesting place that we go to with our whole social group a bunch. I wish we had found the other place, though. I’ll just make sure not to screw up for six months… I hope. I have the amazing ability where.. The more I plan something, the more likely it is to completely collapse through some completely unpredictable variable. So if I started planning now, for example.. I’d probably have a piano drop on me the day before.

And as such, it’s probably for my best health that I don’t try and plan it too much. I’ll just print out a map for where we’re going next time.

Ooh, and I almost forgot! I’ve got my ballot! I have it all filled it, and I’m going to turn it in today, I believe. I actually voted for one Republican, because he seems to know what he was doing more than the Democratic guy, plus, he’s been dealing with Oregon politics for a while. I figure, why throw a new guy to be in charge of the money when he doesn’t know the system. Especially if the experienced guy seems like he can do a good job anyways.

Besides that, I mostly went blue. And I was pretty happy as I was able to bubble in the Obama/Biden choice. I’m going to seriously be depressed if the Republicans steal this election. They’d have to, looking at how the polls are going. The polls, may I add, that I’m very happy to look at.

Maybe I’ll update again before 2009.

It’s been awhile. Again. I keep thinking about updating this place, but never get around to it. Both a lot, and a little have happened since I’ve last written, I just need to think of a couple of things.

First of all, I have a forum now! If you go back to the homepage, and click forum, you’ll find it. It’s got a decent amount of members, but could always stand to increase! So if you’re reading this and haven’t registered or posted yet, do so! And if you have.. Go back and post some more!

Also, I’ve got a job. I deliver phone books, and it’s kinda lame. I think if I work it out, I’m really not getting paid much at all.. Oh well. It’s fun if I have a friend in the car with me, otherwise it’s pretty terrible. Not quite sure how I feel about having 300 (which is about how much I can fit) phone books in my car at once, either.

And I just today updated the main page, so it links to a portfolio that I did for college, along with the forum. I think I also made the descriptions a little more entertaining.. Maybe I’ll go back and actually make the main page look decent some day, but if I did that, I’d also be obligated to update this place more often, hrm..

Edit: This is my 33rd update! Favorite number whooo!

So, last I updated was after that concert. Quite a bit has happened since then, I’ve just honestly been way too busy to be able to update this thing. School was ending, which meant that not only did I have to move out, but I had finals week! Stack that ontop of my new relationship suddenly becoming a long-distance one, and it should be fairly obvious as to why I was so strapped for time.

I managed to move out and everything though, and so here I am. The last day of school was actually the 14th, but I was a little busy that day. Shortly after, I started to hang out with Joe again, something I hadn’t done since 2007. A lot of time was spent doing our Pokemon Competition, of which we’re only six hours or so into. However, I find myself greatly in the lead. I’ll perhaps give all of the details at a later date.

Home has been nice, but somehow hectic and boring at the same time. I hate having to look for a job, really don’t want one, but hate the process of finding one more. Not to mention the pressure that my parents are putting on me to find one. I’ll applied to like, ten places already, so hopefully I’ll have some luck. I’ve also been really tired, I think all of the lack of sleep during school has finally caught up with me. I’m yawning as I type this.

It’s late, so I don’t really feel like typing much more out. I will point out that my main directory is the sixth result of a good search for Shadic! That’s pretty awesome, isn’t it? I just need to link to it enough to pull it up to number 1!

So, I just went to the Panic at the Disco concert with Leslie, and it was pretty cool. The speakers were WAY too loud though, and you could actually hear everything clearer if your ears were plugged, hence the title for this entry. I was supposed to be doing some homework today, but I uh, didn’t actually accomplish anything. And I haven’t gotten the Econ notes, despite the fact that I should have, so I’m a bit worried. I managed to friend the guy that has connections to these people on Facebook, so I can talk to him tomorrow.

Also, to Ellie: STOP CRUSHING ON THE WRONG GUYS. IT’S STUPID AND BAD. SERIOUSLY!

And this may be a bit random, but I hate Facebook applications. I also have a bit of a headache, but with all the really loud music, it’s pretty understandable. Typing is actually difficult as well, and I’m typoing like crazy over here. And I’m not even sure if typoing is a word, maybe I’m supposed to put a dash in there. Meh, either way.

Not much really went on today. I actually went to my 4 straight hours of classes, which is something that I didn’t really do that much this term. Usually I’d take a break to go eat, or something. It wasn’t too bad, I probably should have done it more often.. Whoops.

Leslie was feeling a bit crappy today, and I tried to help that. I think most of her getting-better time happened while I was still in class though, but with finals coming up, I kind of needed to be in class, paying attention. It’s nice though, all that’s left is to have review classes (Which should be really nice), and then watch presentations… Which should be easy. There’s a guy in my Freshman Inquiry class named Jordan that takes Economics with me, and I need to chase him down and see if he has some of the handouts that the teacher gave. I really hope that she does, I’m going to use those to construct my two pages of notes for the final!

Also, Ellie did an AWESOME drawing of me, and uploaded it on her Facebook. She’s a pretty damned good artist, I hope that she realizes that.

Hrm… I should be packing, as well. It’s weird that I’m out of here in two and a half weeks.

So, it’s now confirmed that I’m going to a Panic at the Disco concert. It’s pretty weird, in the last month I’ll have seen two Bands live, and before then, I had never. Regardless, it should be pretty cool. I’m not a gigantic fan of theirs, but I enjoy the music. I’ve not really listened to much from their newest album, but I’ve enjoyed what I have.

I also went to a parade yesterday, which was pretty cool. It was fun to watch Marching Bands, but it made me miss mine. There was only one that was even on par with the good old Capital High Marching Band.

Oh yeah, and after I got back from fun last night, I find my chair all messed up. I have no clue what happened to it. Roommate swears he doesn’t know anything, and he’s a pretty trustworthy fellow. There’s a part that I can’t even FIND. I’m not quite sure what to think about that, but it may turn up when I have to move out in two weeks.

Wow, I’ve gotta move out in two weeks. I’m going to miss all my College friends. But at least I’ll be able to hang out with the High School ones. Hopefully they still like me enough to want to do stuff. If all else fails, Brawl works great for bonding.

It’s been a few days, but I’m managed to drag myself back into updating again, obviously a sign of my dedication to… The nobody that reads this.

Anyways, I went to some fireworks with Leslie and Dylan yesterday, it was pretty awesome. Actually, playing Audiosurf afterward may have been the part of the evening that I enjoyed more, which probably makes me a sad pathetic person. Regardless, that game is pretty much a constant eyegasm, I just don’t think that it would have that long of an appeal for me. It’s fun, colorful, but not really what I’d play very often.

I’ve also got a presentation on Monday about the Commodity Chain of rice, and we’re supposed to stretch it to being 15 minutes long. Our presentation may not even be that long, and we’re going to likely go off the main subject quite a bit. Oh well.

Also, I haven’t really mentioned her before this blog post, but I am back into being in a relationship. It’s the girl mentioned above, Leslie, and she’s pretty cool. My choice to try another relationship ended up with me having a bit of a falling-out with Megan and her closest friends, but I think that I can manage… I’m pretty sure they didn’t like me that much anyways, and I kind of expected it.

….Oh my god. While I was typing this, my Mom just called and told me that she just found both an NES and SNES at a garage sale, in the box! They were $10 each or something, and she called and asked if I would like them. I of course said yes. Failing all else, this is one awesome collector’s item.

Happy happy happy.

My wrist hurts. I just had to delete 90% of the comments on this thing, because they were all spam. Curses.