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Well, I made it eleven years here. (Two and a half in Alabama.) But I'm done. I left the middle school that I used to attend, I'm hanging out less and less with everyone I know, and I love it. I love being alone. I love working on all my projects. I love RIT. I realize now that I can't stand being around people who judge me, and most other people altogether. So I realize now that I'm effectively done with my old life. Other than the rare occasions that I see an old friend of mine or one logs onto AIM, I have a completely new life.
And it's great.
-Powerbooks in 1995 didn't have sufficient 3D rendering technology to do what they did.
-Operating systems aren't composed of large blue towers that you can crawl around and use techno-lingo about.
-If you go to a high school, you won't find ten people who know how to program and are with you. You'll find two thousand people that tell you to screw off when you mention it.
I wanna see if I can be first on this one.
Damn the JaS DVD; it seemed fun, too.
Too bad hard drives don't have any "undo".
Now the disc, ever fabled,
broke my partition table;
and I had to re-install Ubuntu.
Inspired by a true story.
Okay, Second Life is great, but there are some times where it's PROBABLY the most annoying thing I've ever experienced in my entire life. Just like right now...working on my super-secret project, making a ridiculously huge amount of progress, and finding out that Second Life disconnected from the network before I could hit compile. Of course, Ubuntu Linux's faulty clipboard chose NOT to remember the code I copied, so I lost it all. All. ALL! Jesus Christ! Cory, you could've been a bit more careful!
-What won't Linux run on?
-Apple shouldn't use embedded QuickTime in their webpages, it's just...it's just stupid.
-GNOME > KDE.
-Every Mac with a graphics card with more than four bytes of memory will cost at least one thousand dollars. Period.
-Scratch that last one; Apple charges an additional fifty dollars to add a UTF-8 period to their fonts. Make it a lower-case "o".
-Douglas Adams was nothing short of a genius.
-Randall Munroe is getting there. Stick Figure's Guide to the Galaxy would help.
-Homeschooling should be mandatory.
-Goodbye.
So, I'm posting this entry from an RIT computer for two reasons. One is that I'm now being homeschooled, and can take (sit in on) four RIT classes. Another is that it gives me a decent way to start the entry. Yes, you heard right...Lane's steps to further isolate himself from society are finally coming into fruition! I still plan to graduate with a regents diploma, so boring material is still needed.... But anything that I'm not high-stakes-tested on (courtesy of the United States Government) is now 99% less important. What happens now?
A real education.
...back.