It's always fun to have work. Gives you a sense of worth, makes you want to wake up in the morning.

I've come away with a great insight from reading this article listed below. At a few of my jobs, I've posed questions to my colleagues and inadvertently answered myself on numerous occasions. I always find it unusual that I will talk to someone about my problem and by them being there to listen to me talk, I end up solving the problem that I was asking them help for. I feel my brain is sometimes just a mass of information and I just need to speak aloud my view-point in order for me to extrapolate answers to sometimes complex problems. The article states that asking oneself a question maybe the solution to having a problem. If you are bright enough, maybe all you need to do to answer your own question is actually try to write down your question in regards to someone else, maybe debating with yourself in written context may be the most useful form of answering your own questions. I always used to think that I just needed someone around to bounce ideas off of, but rather all I needed was to talk to myself!

http://justseventhings.com/2009/01/25/why-talking-to-yourself-might-be-the-highest-form-of-intelligence/

So, it appears that my father is fairly sick. Started last week when he had a horrible sinus infection, then his bottom started to hurt and was under the impression it was sciatica, found out it was just a compressed disk, and he received antibiotics, prednisone for his sinuses and vicodine for his compressed disk. Yesterday I had to take him to the hospital because he was practically chocking on his own mucus and he couldn't keep anything down(kept vomiting). I don't know how people deal with this kind of emotion. It's very melancholy. I guess everybody eventually goes through this. I just find it incredibly depressing because if this puts him under, he will have passed away younger than my grandfather who was never in any physical shape in his life. Who passed away from Pancreatic Cancer when he was only 62, my father is only 54, "The good ones die young" seems to come to mind.

So, I've finished school for the semester, now already out of class for almost 2 weeks and getting bored. I finished the semester with 3 A's and 1 B: Differential Equations 4th Semester Calculus [A], Physics 202 Electricity & Magnetism [B], Java2 [A], Data Structures & Algorithms [A]. I felt pretty good about the semester. I did however feel as though I learned nothing though in my software courses as my Math & Physics class I believed were quite demanding on my brain. I guess when you have to deal with complicated subjects your brain puts to the side other complicated subjects and you start to realize you cannot enjoy them all with the same enthusiasm. Now all I have to do is take Linear Algebra to transfer to 4 year university.

I've decided that I will try to attempt to learn the programing language Python, and while I'm at it, I installed Ubuntu 8.04 64bit as to keep me more focused on my objectives. When I run windows, I don't know, it keeps me from programing as much as I'd like to. It's as if windows XP is distracting me so much that I don't want to do anything. Who knows, maybe the whole OS stifles innovation in how much it keeps you from doing things. So now I'm running Ubuntu and I've figured out how to configure most of the things I want.

As of late, I've been playing around with Komodo Edit 4.2--I couldn't find a 64bit 4.3 version--and I have to say that I'm quite happy with it. I love how it has amazing auto-complete functionality for not only php and python, but also for Javascript. It is rather light-weight as compared to say Aptana, which runs on top of Eclipse and we all know that Eclipse is a beast compared to the gecko engine that Komodo runs on.

Finally upgraded my computer, got a * ASUS G Series G1-AK024C NoteBook Intel Core 2 Duo T7200(2.00GHz) 15.4* Wide SXGA+ 2GB DDR2 667 160GB 5400rpm DVD Super Multi NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700 - Retail* Off newegg for roughly $2k, was originally 2,400 USD, but i got the warranty refunded, but once i got that finished, everything made sense price wise, considering everything it has, I'd say it's a pretty decent price. Also got a pair of HD215 Sennheisers as you can see in my webcam pics as i wear and enjoy them. Not only did i get a laptop, but i also built a workstation sporting another core 2 duo, but it was an e6400 now currently overclocked to 3.1ghz with the help of a good technologist friend, i have it running stable on an MSI P6N SLI Platinum LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail also from newegg. Can't really beat heir prices or their return policies. Anyways, I only purchased that board because it's the only one that i've seen which not only has pata but also sports sata which is a major plus in my book, it has the 2 pata ports, very important--untill 99.9% of drives on the market are no longer pata. Also, now that most of the systems are sporting the 10/100/1000 nic cards, i decided to start migrating us to gigabit ethernet and i must say, it's quite fast, transfering an episode of DL TV to another system in well under 20 seconds smiles