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I neglect this whole community terribly. I've just grown away from the warm and fuzzy sense of community (I feel sort of dumb assigning personification characteristics to websites but I hope you get the point) and I just follow faux communities. One such example is digg.com. Digg is a social networking site but at the same time, not really. I use it exclusively as a news source which is sort of stupid because digg is clearly biased. I'm personally in favor of much of the bias but it's a bias none the less.

So I'm doing pretty good in school. I actually find Calculus very interesting but I'm not doing as well as I would have hoped in it. I'm figuring about a 3.0 at the moment. I think I find it so interesting because a lifetime ago (read: 2003) I wanted to become an engineer. That was just a dream but I still hold onto the rements of that, one is the borderline idolatry of calculus. I know what I'm learning is Kindergarten calculus but it's fascinating to me all the same.

Other classes are Managerial Accounting which I currently have a 96% in and Anthropology which is great as well. I like Managerial Accounting a lot but Financial Accounting is terrible. I don't know what to say beyond that. Oh well, I could get a degree in Accounting if I wanted to in 6 classes if I choose to become a double major student but I'll get my BS in MIS and then worry about an additional degree. Speaking of which, another ~12 classes and I can graduate which isn't that exciting to me. Mainly because completion of said 12 classes is still pretty far away.

I bought an XM radio about 2 months ago and I like it. Reception is sort of annoying, mainly because I live where there are no repeater stations but once I get close to civilization, there are zero drop outs. I listen to "The Virus" predominately though I listen to "XMU" and "Ethel" as well. I have the Pioneer Inno which means I can record up to 1 GB of XM content which I like. I can't transfer the songs back to my computers though I don't think I would want to unless they broadcast entire albums (you didn't hear my say that...). Besides, the quality is less than stellar. 64kbs HE-AAC isn't that great though I do find it palatable in most cases, such as on "The Virus" which is a talk channel and 64kbs is possibly even overkill for that. I'm not even sure what bitrate XM broadcasts at but I've read 64kbs. I sincerely doubt it's above that though, and if it was lower, I wouldn't be surprised.

That's about it for the moment. I need to do homework for aforementioned Calculus as well as finish a project for the same class. And watch Top Gear which is currently at 65.0% and should be done within an hour. I love the internet.

Racing and story timeWhy I Got XM or My Radio History

Comments

chthoniid 30. December 2007, 19:43

Aah, calculus. One of my great favourites (no, seriously). Hope you do well.

undeuxtroiskid 1. January 2008, 16:06

I did end up with a 3.0 in Calculus. Another update, I finally put the antenna for my radio on my roof (who would have thought of that!?) and I get 0 dropouts now which is great.

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