monkey nonsense

this past weekend, i visited psycholand for the very first time. i was kind of worried at first… how weird would it be?! would everyone talk like thaaaaat!? would the natives insist on calling it a land when clearly it’s just a city? not everything can be as cool as maryland!

to my surprise, psycholand is actually quite nice. i visited napersville, the ville of nappers, which was quite nice. we ate chicago style hot dogs, drank 50oz bubble tea drinks, walked along the riverwalk, napped along the main street (as i assume all the native nappers do), and ate deep dish pizza. on sunday, we drove a little farther to psycho’s church where on the way we saw the fifth third bank. hahahha, i wish i got a picture of that. and on monday, we ventured into the city. chicago seems like an awesome city to live in… so many things to explore!

but the best part of the trip was in psycho’s basement… she gave us a tour of her house and in the basement, the family has a bunch of family pictures. psycho and her sisters look pretty similar as little kids so it was kind of hard to tell who was who. except for this one picture….

the highlight of my trip!!!

many, many years ago… senior year of high school… i was lost as to what to major in in college. if u looked at the colleges i applied to, u’d see they were pretty split between engineering and liberal arts. i decided spring of senior year that i wanted to study computer science. this decision was based on little (basically NO) research and was not well thought out at all!

reasons why i thought i wanted to major in computer science:

• i always liked to press buttons… just ask anyone who’s ever had me in the front seat of their car.
• i hated math, therefore needed to avoid all types of engineering.
• i liked to play little flash based video games
• by senior year, the only class i wasn’t failing because of senior slump was my computer class
• i didn’t like working in groups… not that i was anti-social or anything… i don’t mind one-to-one kind of interactions, but large meetings and presentations were painful to me.

what i discovered after the fact:

• this wasn’t even really after the fact. junior year summer, i worked as a cashier at k-mart. i should’ve just stayed at k-mart!!
• computer science is apparently very math based. who knew!??!
• you don’t need a computer science degree to program flash video games. similarly… just because u have a computer science degree, doesn’t mean you’ll know how to program flash video games ’cause i sure dont know how!
• the reason why the computer class was so easy for me senior slump wasn’t because i was awesome at it (ha! far from it!!), but because i had an idiot of a teacher who taught us very little important concepts. all i remember from that class was creating a restaurant menu program with shruti for the International House of Veggies (IHOV), programming a poll for naming the moon, and watching angela demo her “Find Diddy!” program (“… so, you click on one of the doors. and hidden behind one of the doors, is Diddy. Oh! There’s Diddy!!!”). Yea… so I really didn’t get a good idea of what computer science entailed from that class…
• This week alone, I have 11 meetings!!! I actually have more, but I totally ignore the non-mandatory ones. What happened to going into computers because you don’t like interacting with people?! Whoever invented this “SCRUM” development crap ruined it for all anti-social software engineers everywhere!!!

my sister’s going to be a doctor!!

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it’s been awhile since i’ve posted on this website… it’s 2009! i feel like the new year just happened, but it’s already march. i don’t know where all the time goes. nothing really happens in my life. let’s see…

• i’m still working in DC. traffic still sucks. my office moved deeper into the city so now it takes me about a hour on average to get into the office.
• i still live in the same apartment. YAY!! first time since 2000 that my address hasn’t changed in over a year!
• i’m still obsessed with settlers, desktop tower defense, and conflict. but i’ve also added flag football to my obsessions. i do miss playing spades and double solitaire…
• it was not wise to play flag football in the winter. i got sick 3 times this winter. oh yeah, and i fractured a rib the last time i was sick due to coughing too hard… who knew?! this was my first broken bone ever though!
• been looking into houses… is 2009 the year to buy?

VA does not allow radar detectors. how are we supposed to know when cops are nearby and we need to slow down?!

why doesn’t someone design a stealth car??? a car that exhibits some of the same principles and technologies as some of our most advanced ships or aircrafts?! my camry needs re-entrant triangles under the exterior and radar absorbent paint like iron ball paint…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_technology#Radar_cross-section_.28RCS.29_reductions