i was sitting at work, and realized, "hey!  i have time to update the lj."  thus, the update:

i just got a letter in the mail saturday one that i have been waiting on for more than a week:  mtsu accepted me!  i expected that i would have to go before a board or something, or at least write out a plea as to why they should accept my transfer (i did ( Read more... )

yesterday (friday), i went to MTSU to turn in some forms. yep, since i forgot to write about it a couple of weeks ago, here's the news: if everything goes as planned, in spring, i'm going back to uni. yesterday was my second time on campus and in murfreesboro, and i think i did a fine job of finding my way around, especially given that it is so ( Read more... )

x-posted from...somewhere else...can't rememberI can't imagine that the Death Star from Maw Installation and the Great Weapon are anything but superficially and ideologically related. Considering the enormity of the project, and the fact that just about ever major system in the Death Star would have to be designed from scratch, my feeling is that ( Read more... )

Great sadness in my region came with the death of Trooper Todd Larkins yesterday. This occured in the county east of mine and really strikes home, as the last THP trooper to lose his life happened inside of my county in 2001. Story after the cut:

( State trooper struck and killed by tractor-trailer near Dickson )

okay, so i'm back home after seeing the premier of star wars episode 3.

wow. don't know what else i can say right now.

in my opinion, there has never been such a film, and it is hard to imagine a better one will ever come along.

blows the previous two completely off the map.

Congratulations to the entire Catholic church. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany elected as Pope Benedict XVI.

Certainly a historic moment.

just saw a tv ad for 'cinderella man,' and the background music was the main theme of 'children of dune!' very good choice for a boxing movie...now that i think about it, it has echoes of the theme from 'the contender.' both are very emotionally moving pieces ( Read more... )

first things first. i don't know if i've ever mentioned this before, but the soundtrack to the scifi channel miniseries children of dune is perhaps one of the most emotionally moving pieces of music i've ever encountered. just incredibly powerful, especialy the first, third and eighth tracks (summon the worms, house atreides and inama nushif[ ( Read more... )

my new external hard drive enclosure just came in, and i'm already loving it! i'll write more after i get back from this stupid telecommunicator class at work.

well, i'm sitting here trying to decide what new computer hardware to order. of course, it would be nice if my desktop was actually working, but the tech support folks feel that, even though the problem is very unusual, it can be solved one way or another. time is the only issue at this point. anyway, because everything is still under warranty, ( Read more... )