Oopsies.

Shit dude, it's been like fifteen days since my last post.

Couple big things lately. Primarily, one of my friends and I have decided that we're going to see about collaborating on a senior thesis concerning some specific pieces of classical Japanese literature! This probably sounds boring, but it makes the linguist in me really really hot. Purr. The idea is that she will be doing the primary literary analysis, but the linguistic aspects (mostly how classical Japanese writers had particular methods of differentiating their work from others' via stylistic choices in verbs and such, I haven't looked much into it yet) will largely fall under my responsibility.

Second, Lisp is painful. Lisp is hard. Lisp is, quite literally, learning how to program all over again. But god damnit, I'm going to do it. To Lispify:

(defun will-do-this-shit (stephen)

(if (< stephen-effort-lisp some-big-number)

(will-do-this-shit (car stephen-priorities))))

Implicitly requires that the top of my priority list be Lisp. Yeah.

Um, some other neat little things:

Magic: I have a big Jace for trade/sales, I only need 2 for Legacy. Message me with offers.

Music: "Love Song" - Big Bang and "Mr. Taxi" - SNSD are dominating my "Top Played" since they came out. Seriously. They're fucking amazing. Check them out. Also, f(x) comeback, YUUUUUUUUUUS? I KNOW YOU'RE FUCKING EXCITED, KAREN. :D

Languages: Going to learn Korean through a very intricate and probably retarded process. Oh well. That's kinda my life in a nutshell.

Here's a reason I hate computers.

Yesterday my mobo finally kicked the bucket and wouldn't get past checking about a gig of RAM in the boot check. So I'm like "whatever, I'll take it to Microcenter tomorrow and exchange the mobo". Pack it up, get it in a box, get a ride from my mom on her way out of work, get there and bring it in. They inform me the diagnostic tests they do aren't free for the "build it yourself" replacement warranty, so I'm like "whatever, I'll just exchange just the mobo". Talk to guy, he says I have to disassemble it. Makes sense, but I hadn't thought of that. Internal rage ensues.

I start looking around for a SATA power cable that I need to not kill myself while connecting everything, find one and look around the store some more. Upon looking at an aisle of tools, I then remember I need a screwdriver for this and other purposes, and grab one. I then realize something: I can probably just disassemble the computer here! I ask the nearest Microcenter rep if they have anti-static packaging, and he directs me to such a treasure. Pick some up, find some other stuff, go check out, acquire PC, wait outside. Mom's okay with waiting for me to disassemble computer and find replacement mobo, hurray.

After disassembling my entire computer, putting parts in anti-static bags and whatnot, all in a parking lot, I take my motherboard back in, get my $80 gift card and find another mobo (this process actually takes like 20 minutes because I'm retarded). Huzzah and candy.

I return home, get all my stuff inside, retreat to my room with a Lunchable, Capri Sun and my gatherings of the day + PC. I put it all out on my bed for lack of a good work table (bow chicka bow wow) and start putting shit in. Mobo goes in without much of a hitch, check. Hard drives, check. RAM, check. Vidja card, check. PSU, check. Get everything connected and all that jazz and put it in its old spot, where I plug in the monitors, power and keyboard and boot 'er up. Turns on, hurray!

It gets to the boot menu. I hit enter for Windows 7...and then it dies. FUCK. First thought, try it again. Dies even faster. FUCK. Go in, check everything. Looks fine. Fuck.

Two hours later, I discover the culprit is the CPU wasn't screwed in tight.

This is why I hate computers. Someone explain to me why I'm a computer scientist?

Oh yeah, because I've been doing it for too long to do anything else.