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Lamp 08:50:54 pm on March 26, 2008 | 5 | # |

I put Ubuntu 7.10 (Gusty) first on my small (8GB) hardrive, mostly because I was bored and hadn’t really gotten a chance to try out linux to a full extent, but when I starting using it full time, I stuck in the portable hardrive, copied over the important stuff, then wipped my main (40GB) clean, and installed Ubuntu.

I am fully impressed and ashamed that I had never seen this before. It is amazing compared to Windows. If you’ve ever had doubts about Windows and the lack of.. well, everything you’ve ever wanted, try Ubuntu. You can burn it to a CD to boot from, and simply test it out a bit, get a feel for it, tweak with things (the normal procedure I go through when testing), and decide if it’s for you.

It does take a bit of time to figure out the basics and get things set up incase you: want to play mp3s, use nVidia drivers, or user Opera. But please, If you have any problems, let me know, and I’ll personally find a solution and try to get it working for you! I believe it is that great. The forums have been a great resource for me, and solved everything I had a problem with.

Something else that I’ve been testing out would be the new WordPress 2.5 RC2. So far, it looks amazing, especially from Matt’s video of it. Personally, in Opera, it looks kinda shifty, but I take that as my own resonsibility because I choose to use it… >.< I might have to use Firefox to update some posts here and there…. I was just using a messed up plugin… But the visual editor is still messed up in opera. =P It expands to the whole width, overlapping the right column *annoying*.

One thing I’ve noticed is that it’s a lot cleaner. Tidy and white. Less images as backgrounds and more solid colors. I like it. If you get bored with your current setup, both Windows and the old WordPress, give both of these a try! Let me know what you think of either!
Lamp 12:22:33 am on March 8, 2008 | 1 | # |
Lamp 04:20:03 pm on March 5, 2008 | 0 | # |

I actually came up with this by accident. I was working on number sequences, such as the Fibonacci sequence, and was trying to make up my own, and it turns out (one of them, this being it) was the same as n++. I felt pretty lame and geeky at the same time.
Lamp 12:59:06 pm on March 5, 2008 | 2 | # |

I actually haven’t had the opportunity to test out Vista as much as I would have liked to. The first service pack is supposed to be released here pretty soon, so I might as well wait for that…

And apparently Bill Gates quit from Microsoft? I haven’t heard much of this (or researched it at all), other than from Trevor. So look it up yourself if you care that much…

I also need to stop using “…” as much as I do, but I feel it gives a sense of flow (that could also be achieved through words). And you can’t begin sentences with “and,” but I’m doing that too… Maybe I’ll start to just write in lojban. That’ll make all of you non-believers happy.
Lamp 07:59:37 pm on March 4, 2008 | 3 | # |

So, after finding and reading ALL of the xkcd comics (in a night.. or two), I’ve decided to make some. I was also influenced by my sociology class, where I had to make a comic about… Drug abuse? Or something. Anyways, I haven’t decided if I’m gonna keep it seperate or not. Oop. Just did. I’m gonna put them in here =]. I guess I can always take them out later… I think I’m going to name it asxam. The “as” coming from aslamp, and the “xam” coming from the word “xajmi” which means funny in lojban.

I have also decided to start learning lojban! =D And that’s pretty exciting in itself.

I’d also like to thank Decorum, which I am starting to read (backwards >.<). I guess I never really thanked xkcd either... So, thanks xkcd.

And now that I'm done narrating my thoughts, here's the first and original comic (for soc class):
Lamp 12:15:10 am on February 23, 2008 | 2 | # |

The last few months, I’ve been debating a few different scientific and religious concepts that have somewhat challenged my faith, but in the end, turned out to strengthen it. Two sides of one topic have been Creation and Evolution. I am a Christian, and believe in Creation, as told from the bible, but when people hear that, and ask “how can you not believe in evolution because of the undisputable evidence?” While the amount of evidence is debatable, it is immaterial for me.

When I see evolution, the big bang, the human race coming from primates, I see only one thing, and that is God’s work. Ever piece of information that supports evolution, I see it supporting Creation. It doesn’t matter how it came to be, how things evolved, God still created it, and in doing so he intended it to evolve.

The miracles experience in our biblical history have been doubted by those who say, “Well, it’s only a simple chemical reaction…” (in the example of turning water into wine, perhaps one that is currently unknown). My reaction is, “Yes! But it is by God’s laws that it happens! He created them in order to perform it!” Chemistry in itself is a miracle. Who else but the Almighty could have the power to take molecules that one cannot even imagine and turn them into something else?

Humanity has always had it problems and conflicts in dealing with the church and science. I can not understand them any other way other than always aiding and supporting each other. Science exists to explain events that happen in the natural word, and religion exists to explain how the science can exist. While both can be independent, science without religion, and religion without science, I believe it is best to combine them, faith with evidence, evidence with faith.
Lamp 03:50:12 pm on January 20, 2008 | 4 | # |
Is America lacking enough personal responsibility that the schools should be fully responsible for the results of the education of its students? Whether it is or not, the school’s involvement in its students’ education is at a peak from what I have observed.

The following is a short list of what I have observed in one school in particular (Carroll High School):
- Study hall monitoring, no sleeping, no headphones/eletronics, must stay active.
- No more than one study hall during a semester.
- Detentions for not completing homework.
- Required classes (Literature, Social Sciences, General Math, etc.).
- School standards in general.
- Everybody Reads (ER), where everyone must be reading something
- Truancy and its punishments (unauthorized absenses).
I go to school because I want an education, not because I want uneducated and unrespected authorities to tell me what I should learn, what kind of grade I should get, what kind of person I should be, and what sort of activities I should do.

Our freedom has been limited so that we cannot be trusted to make the correct decisions. Our rights have been limited so that a criminal has more than we do. Our education is being transformed into a uniform bell-curve where the stardards are so low that 99% of our students can pass it.

Our schools are being transformed into a fascist state, and the people who care about it the most forget about it once they graduate. The students need a speaker, a representive, to let them have a voice. Give them one.

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