Intermission
I've decided that I'm going to try to write an entry everyday,. The size doesn't matter, what I want to do is force myself to write. It's probably a better form of procrastination than playing games. I will no longer play Mario Kart (all day (when I'm not doing work)), I will be antisocial and blog!
I'm currently working on my essay on tragedy and video games. I'm not sure if it's a good sign that it's about 9 pages long even though I'm only one third done with my thoughts. What I really like so far are For those interested, the title is "You're in Our World Now: Suspended Disbelief and Real Emotions in Final Fantasy VII." I'd be more than happy to e-mail it to people who want to see what it's looking like.
My current distraction is my binary clock. I did buy it. At first I almost regretted it because I already have enough clocks. Then I almost regretted it from the hard time that my roommates gave me: I fear that I'm going to be "that nerd with a binary clock" that his friends they snicker at when they're drunk. But then I realize that if they're doing this, they're jerks anyway. But it might not be the first impression I want to make or the things that people remember about me...
But then I think of how cool it is. Besides consisting of blue lights on a sleek stainless steel curve, what I like about it is that it's different. It's not the circular clock or the digital display. It looks cool. It's unique. It matches with my sliver computer system. I love it.
And besides, I am a geek! I've probably spent at least 15 minutes just watching it and thinking about it. I'm currently memorizing the visual patters so that I can read binary without doing math. This seems to me similar to how one should learn how to read a language. It needs to be internalized so that I don't need to "convert it." But at the same time, the nature of binary makes it an adding language, and it is meant to be converted into every form of data. I think the best solution is to memorize visual forms and give them internal meaning so that this speeds up my converting binary to meaning. I guess we use normal numbers in the same way: every digit is a number that ends with zero added to another number. 3 has an internal meaning to us, but 3,333 probably only has meaning as an abstractly, it has meaning in math. So basically I need to internalize 11 as 11, and not 3. I need to stop thinking in base 10.
As an amusement to myself, I think I'll learn how to read binary text too. But I don't want to internalize that, I just want to know how to laboriously translate it.
Anyway, I'm now waiting for friends to come over to get late meals. Then I'm going to start either reading Saint Augustine's confessions or writing a different essay for hum. Either way, I won't be getting much sleep!
Oh, and here's a quiz I took a while ago.
Your element is Water. You are a deep person and a
good communicator. Incredibably loving and
loyal when your trust is gained and you are
fairly mature.Myterious to the utmost water is
in everything. One can be an Ocean or a river
but nobody truly knows you.
What's your element
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I'm currently working on my essay on tragedy and video games. I'm not sure if it's a good sign that it's about 9 pages long even though I'm only one third done with my thoughts. What I really like so far are For those interested, the title is "You're in Our World Now: Suspended Disbelief and Real Emotions in Final Fantasy VII." I'd be more than happy to e-mail it to people who want to see what it's looking like.
My current distraction is my binary clock. I did buy it. At first I almost regretted it because I already have enough clocks. Then I almost regretted it from the hard time that my roommates gave me: I fear that I'm going to be "that nerd with a binary clock" that his friends they snicker at when they're drunk. But then I realize that if they're doing this, they're jerks anyway. But it might not be the first impression I want to make or the things that people remember about me...
But then I think of how cool it is. Besides consisting of blue lights on a sleek stainless steel curve, what I like about it is that it's different. It's not the circular clock or the digital display. It looks cool. It's unique. It matches with my sliver computer system. I love it.
And besides, I am a geek! I've probably spent at least 15 minutes just watching it and thinking about it. I'm currently memorizing the visual patters so that I can read binary without doing math. This seems to me similar to how one should learn how to read a language. It needs to be internalized so that I don't need to "convert it." But at the same time, the nature of binary makes it an adding language, and it is meant to be converted into every form of data. I think the best solution is to memorize visual forms and give them internal meaning so that this speeds up my converting binary to meaning. I guess we use normal numbers in the same way: every digit is a number that ends with zero added to another number. 3 has an internal meaning to us, but 3,333 probably only has meaning as an abstractly, it has meaning in math. So basically I need to internalize 11 as 11, and not 3. I need to stop thinking in base 10.
As an amusement to myself, I think I'll learn how to read binary text too. But I don't want to internalize that, I just want to know how to laboriously translate it.
Anyway, I'm now waiting for friends to come over to get late meals. Then I'm going to start either reading Saint Augustine's confessions or writing a different essay for hum. Either way, I won't be getting much sleep!
Oh, and here's a quiz I took a while ago.
Your element is Water. You are a deep person and a
good communicator. Incredibably loving and
loyal when your trust is gained and you are
fairly mature.Myterious to the utmost water is
in everything. One can be an Ocean or a river
but nobody truly knows you.
What's your element
brought to you by Quizilla