It’s been a long time and I’ve watched as my number of vistors a day slowly dwindles with a horrible grimace. There’s noone to blame except myself, well and college work. I really don’t know what to write about and it’s haunted me for the past week or so. I’ll just start by talking about my classes this year. I’m currently taking a whopping 17 credit-hours a week with two 3 hour labs. Quite the handful. I’m taking Applications of Differential Functions, Quantum Physics, Metaphysics, Vector Mechanics, Fortran, and Soccer. It all sounds alot more impressive than it really is, promise. App Diff is taking everything I learned in Calc 1-3 and actually using it in real situations; Makes it all a lot more interesting. Quantum physics is just the study of physics on a molecular level, easy and breezy. Metaphysics is the philosophical discussion of time travel and Fortran is really simple computer programming. My favorite class by far is Vector Mechanics, also known as statics. It’s the study of equillibrium forces in three dimensions. Soccer is keeping me from getting fat. Well that’s it…. Uhm. There’s a girl too. Oh, and my birthday is tomorrow. The big 19!

In other news I’ve been trying out alot of new Mac software. The only one mentioning so far is an Application available for PC, Mac, and Linux called Dropbox. It’s an online back-up and syncing program. It allows you to create a folder called a Dropbox on several computers you own. Any file you drop into the folder gets synced up with all specified computers. Very useful for online collaboration and just transferring files between multiple computers. [Legally of course] You can also create a shared Dropbox for collaboration between several different accounts. Dropbox just got out of beta and is free to the public. They give you 2 Gigs of storage free (which is generous), but I assume they will add a Premium Member status of more storage from some monthly fee.

Wish me a happy birthday; Last year as a teenager. Comments.

I follow tutorials. I got this one from PSDtuts.com, one of the best tutorial sites out there. I’m no where near a professional and I don’t even take classes, so I rely on tutorials like these. Just wanted to let you know where I stand. Here’s the latest I’ve done:

I plan on doing a major overhaul on the site after I get settled back into college. Also keep an eye out on the Webcam page, because it will go into full effect fairly soon.
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This would be a cartoon if I had extra time.
Rick Astley- Hey guys, did you hear about the new villain for the next Batman movie?
Friends- What‽
Rick Astley- Yeah, it was on Digg last night. A whole sneak preview trailer devoted to revealing the new bad guy.
Friends- Well shit. I’m getting on my laptop to look it up.
Rick Astley- Don’t bother. Warner Bros took it down because it was leaked before it was supposed to. I can give you the play by play though.
Friends- Alright I guess….
Rick Astley- Well Batman is kind of a bad-guy now right? So he’s actually sorta the bad guy at first, but then it shows a politician by the name of Edward Nigma.
Friends- THE RIDDLER! *drools*
Rick Astley- Yeah, I know! So the end of the trailer shows Batman and Edward Nigma battling on live t.v. because they’re in City Hall! Riddler slips away but leaves a riddle on how to find him.
Friends- Dude! What’s it say? I bet it’s a clue at how to find the viral marketing website! Tighhhhhht!
Rick Astley- Well the camera zooms in and Morgan Freeman starts to narrate and it goes “Never gonna give you up! Never gonna let you down!”
Friends- You bastard. That’s the third time this month. F*cking one-hit wonder.

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Oh the things I happen to find on the internet… Today I came across the interrobang, which incidentally is not an interrogation with a sexy conclusion as you may have originally thought. An interrobang is basically the grammar-friendly English punctuation for ‘?!?!?!?!?!’ Albeit very obscure; I wouldn’t recommend using it in an English paper. So spread this on ‘mainstream news nation-wide’, as Mitch Hedburg would put it.
Found the word on Digg:

Proper uses include:
-”You were inappropriately touched by whom‽”
-”You did what to get your tuition money‽”
-”You actually enjoyed Legally Blonde 2‽”

Don’t expect to find these marks in any novels or magazines, but feel free to confuse your friends when IMing. The proper way to achieve an interrobang is by pressing ALT+8253.
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As a forewarning, this is in no way some strange pre-suicide cry for help. It’s pure speculation. The past month or so I began wondering about the following scenario. Ahem, so okay. You’re a messed up angst-y teen or an adult with a long history of adverse mental health and you just lost your job and you’ve decided you kill yourself. You get a gun and hold it to your temple. You pull the trigger and obviously you die, but before you die, do you hear the sound of the gun? A ha, bet you didn’t know where I was going with that. It’s pretty puzzling but I did some research and I think I came up with an answer. Alright, as any physics student can tell you, the speed of sound is roughly 340 meters per second at sea level, but the speed of a bullet fired from a handgun isn’t exactly common knowledge so I started with google and ended up finding out that the average speed of a bullet leaving a .9 handgun is about 425 meters per second.

Considering the circumstance that the transfer of energy is instantaneous it seems that our troubled suicide-r won’t hear the sound caused by his own bullet pushing its way through the air. Don’t believe me? I don’t exactly recommend finding out for yourself. Comments? What do you think?