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I've recently (tonight) installed a special slackware "thang" called dropline gnome. Its a gnome/gtk 2.0 install that uses slackware's installpkg to give me some sugary sweet looking desktop candy. All of my fonts are antialiased now, like windows XP only they look clean. I kind of like it.. finaly GTK app's don't look like ass, and it even comes with a version of Mozilla 1.21 that is hacked to use antialiased fonts. Its pretty sweet if you run slackware. I'm going to test it out on JaySlack, or whatever the hell I'll name my silly little slackware cd.

Apparently, through no real affirmative action of my own, I've been non-formally accepted into the crack team of elite computer scientists at stevens. I really actually respect "tha crew", they know what they're doing and what they're talking about, and its only through hard work do I learn what it seems they've known for longer than me.

What I like about it most in comp sci is that there is so much crap to learn, that you could never, ever learn it all. That means the biggest idiot could potentially teach the greatest guru a thing or two about something, whether it be experience with a certain software or just some wierd historical tidbit.

Work has continued to be a source of indisputable fun where it lacks to be a legitimate source of income or revenue of any sort. My paycheck for the past month and a half seems to have totalled little more than what it used to for two weeks of work. Soon it will approach goodness, as apparently, due to a shipping error, I will be getting paid for more than a month come January 30th.

In an effort to make freshman more culturally aware, we treated them to Taco's, Shaolin Soccer and Bowling for Collumbine over at the house tonight. I was actually quite elated that my room ended up not being used, because it saved me the trouble of returning from my daily workout to a room full of people I don't know looking rather uncomfortable on my exquisite couch, taking up valueble daily show time, as if I actually caught the damn thing tonight anyway.

Beyond the topic of my fonts being absolutely beautiful, just so you know, again, there is the topic of classes to speak about. Database looks like it is going to suck now that I'm forced into Visual Basic with Microsoft access database projects. I wish I could do php w/ mysql or something else that the real world uses. (note IRONY -ed) Compilers looks to be boring in theory, but the project could prove fun. 521 is going to still rule, and 465 will be entertaining beyond the definition of the world.

A new friend seemed to be exactly what the doctor ordered to break the tedium at stevens. That, and a schedule chock full of excellent classes taught by excellent teachers.

Content over at omlettesoft is pretty cold, as is the weather both inside and outside my room. I don't see what all of the fuss is about, really; if you want fuss, go to jerm's page, he seems to be overflowing with fuss recently. I'd like to welcome a VIP to the community, the god of tinhder. Feel free to post comments by following the links below. Hopefully he'll have his own page soon, too. He's hilarious.