diary

Lesson 3: DONE!

I just have to wrap up the Discussion boards section & then i'll be finished w/ that. Lesson 4 on Friday. I also went & finished up the rest of the grocery shopping that i needed to do for a while & have a nice pizza here to snack on.

I was going to go to SLCL to pick up The Federalist Papers today, but i didn't make it down there. Tomorrow maybe. I know that i am def going to get laundry done tomorrow, so, i may as well make my way to SLCL, too. Haha.

anyway, hi.

highlighting and the like

busted out the highlighter and am (or did) highlight different parts of my notes for the research class that i am taking & have everything squared away, i think. Classes resume tomorrow AM & then after all of that Lesson(3) is said & done, i will do laundry & then walk to pick up The Federalist Papers from SLCL. Gonna be a full day. The Nexium was delivered (Dog Bless) & the 2mg nicotine lozenges are arriving in the mail tomorrow. That's good, too. I also started to put sources (but not citations, yet) in the Newer System story which i have scraped from the Littered Thoughts book & put into a .docx format for editing w/o fear of messing up the original in Littered Thoughts. I will update Littered Thoughts after this draft is completed. I may be working on it for a while though. More will be added. I need specific citations in it instead of simply listing an ENTIRE BOOK as a source for my argument(s). I am using Google Scholars Search for my source(s) so they will be academic, even though they are not quite Primary (Primary meaning “original” sources). The other type of source (opposite of academic) is anecdotal. You know; “heard it from a friend that heard it from a friend”. Gossip-type shit. Lol. I won't be using that very much i don't think. Nevertheless, i will be continuing to use Google Scholars Search for my sources because I want this to be as academically approachable a possible. :) Still need to learn the ins & outs of how to do a PROPER bibliography though. Don't want things to look sloppy.

Be back in a bit!

i got shit to do today

many things including copying these notes before class tomorrow & (if the weather clears) a walk to SLCL to check-out The Federalist Papers. Other important things to do, people to talk with as well, but, i think the book is what i am most excited for.

I also have been thinking about how i am going to expand Newer Systems (the article-thing i wrote) and i have some good ideas in mind. Gonna be fun. But that won't start for a little while, i am thinking.

be back in a bit!

ok, so, fuck cross-posting to tumblr right now

i can't. there's like 9 duplicates. i already addressed this w/ write.as and they are working on it. mistakes happen. i get it. but i disconnected tumblr for right now.

so what am i up to? well, i was copying notes from the mini-journal to a bigger journal for the research class, but i am going to continue that tomorrow bc there are TWO DAYS worth of notes! Haha. too much for one eve.

i am also watching Facebook go up in flames bc the whole fucking corporation is a dumpster fire of spies which lead me to de-activate (delete, permanently) my Instagram acct. Fuck Facebook and everything it touches.

Fascinating how the (short, so very short) article on NYT opined upon itself “what shall we do? Deactivate our Facebook accounts?” & the answer they inferred was: No! People neeeeed them to attain apartments & jobs & such. Like, guess what? Tell them you don't HAVE a Facebook (which is still your gd right, ya know) & that you can't show them the acct bc it doesn't exist! If any walking / talking / breathing / human adult in any developed (or undeveloped) land cannot function w/o access to facebook.com, they shouldn't be allowed to walk free in society. So what will happen next? People will bitch a-b-o-u-t-F-a-c-e-b-o-o-k- ON F-a-c-e-b-o-o-k. Because every security dense nimrod out there still thinks what they say on the platform is somehow safe and not being monitored by...everything.

Android P just came out with a nice new feature: it turns off the microphone and camera to apps that are not running. Thx bro! Would be pretty sweet if they didn't fucking do that in the first place, but, beggars can't be choosers amirite?

How about just leaving sites that monitor your every move? I mean, i get it: i use Twitter a lot. idk how much they know about me (probably everything) and what they do w/ this info is a black box from all i can tell. They don't send me e-mail updates saying “we're auctioning off your data to this buyer for this price”. They just...do it. And somehow ads pop up on some rando site for typewriters or some shit.

Regardless, i cannot rightfully stop using the internet bc like most people, i am hopelessly addicted (esp to Twitter) but unlike some; i admit that fact.

the internet is awful. be safe. do damage control. and fuck Silicon Valley.

working on Newer Systems

i have decided that i am going to re-draft (but not remove) things from the Newer Systems “story” / “article” / “manifesto” that i have written. I feel that it is something worth being expanded-upon as well as having some source material to back up my claims (even though a lot of it is simply opinion & whatnot. Sounds like a terrific project i can undertake and may simply only take me several hours to complete (or a day). I need to print it out first so i can make the necessary revisions ON-PAPER, in red ink pen before doing anything digitally. I always like to have my work readable in both digital AND physical format, but this will more than likely simply be digital in the final version. idk. maybe both.

anyway, gonna be fun!

be back in a bit!

i am sitting here thinking about making things

particularly, what can i make w/ a Raspberry Pi Zero W? I saw that someone built a super small PC w/ one & was wondering what it would be like to use it & how cool it would be to realllllly build a PC from scratch. I mean welding & all that shit. haha. I know i want to learn how to weld so i can make compnents or whatever in the future, but i am not there yet.

Fun to think about

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thought i'd give it a shot

i went to tumblr and tried to create a text post on the Web version and of course it lagged and dragged this Raspberry Pi to its knees and almosyt crashed the entire machine, so, i will continue to make blog posts w/ write.as and just sync them across to tumblr as needed. I may flip back to tumblr after i get the Q10 (should that be the phone i buy) bc there is an easy Tumblr Lite type of app that i can use on there. but that still won't fix the RPi Web problem, so....maybe not.

idgaf

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another reason i love having a desktop....

...it was so easy to clean up olearytm.tumblr.com just now. all i had to do was hop in the theme editor and make one link a redirect link, take down another link (to oleary.io, everyone who knows of me knows this is where the action happens) and to make the description i have on the blog (tumblr blurb) less lengthy bc you originally had to scroll to see the whole gd thing & that is a pain in the ass. If i were doing all of this on mobile, i would have been an incredibly tedious process switching between browsers, tabs, apps, etc. Desktops are convenient.

anyway, just warming up in the apt right now bc it is basically below-freezing outside (as far as i can tell, could be wrong) & it is still raining, so, i am in for the day. For sure.

Be back in a bit!

hello all

raining here. more and more and more and more rain coming down like the skies have been holding back for a week! i was enjoying it as a warm rain (the best weather) but then it got chilly & it is what some people would consider “nasty” outside, but i am still enjoying it immensely. I am also p happy bc i went & bought a kitchen's worth of food earlier today & i am loaded up on everything i could possibly need for a good amount of time. feeling good.

Wednesday Lesson 3 begins from the SLCL course & i am v much so looking forward to that. Learning a lot. I have also been looking at the PhD research videos on YT again bc i am fascinated w/ what all goes into a PhD (these videos are out of Western Sydney Uni) and just what all it entails. Great stuff.

anyway, already had lunchie. might make some coffee in a bit. good times.

be back in a bit!