~ even more depressing and enraging than the possibility of church+state john ashcroft becoming u.s. attorney general, are the statistics on the ‘death row roll call’ at the nation. when, of the 688 to-date executions in the u.s. occurring since the 1976 reinstatement, 240 have been in one state – texas – something is royally (?) fucked up. make the ‘roll call’ site a weekly visit, and click the names to drop a message to the respective state governors demanding that the executions are stayed – or abolished, as in first world nations.

~ quasi thesis quote: ‘only subordinate fucks shave before thesis presentation.’

~ thesis quote: ‘i’m not going to spend 30 minutes waiting in the middle of thesis and not get my chicken bowl.’

~ unspoken thesis quote: ‘cold bean medley and tepid stewed cauliflower tastes like pain’

~ this quote is from a skin designer, not from the thesis trailer, but it sums up my feelings towards my ‘work’: ‘the best i can do. i tried all my best and this is what i can do. if you hate this just do not use it.’

~ only four working days – or 96 hours – remain until the final thesis reviews. since no one seems to have informed him about the midreviews, if anyone who sees michael speaks should tell him that they begin at 09:30 in the space above the shop. he can find a map on the side of the thesis trailer; tell him to ask chris seals which are the thesis trailers.

~ thesis quote: ‘i don’t see why i should even bother putting together a presentation.’

~ see the handiwork of the angry red planet at the sci-arc online student journal, f* [w].

~ thesis quote: ‘i like the food from the truck, but i just can’t keep that stuff down.’

~ two weeks without you:
yesterday’s surprise thesis review went remarkably well for the angry red planet – ‘remarkable’ considering the thesis and the angry red planet are not doing so well at all…

~ and still haven’t gotten over you yet:

took a trip to the last place she that and i went – when it was the last time she and i would see each other … looked with resign the same tools and information about which no one i know cares anything … listened to a man tell two women that scientists haven’t found life on saturn because they have not looked on the rings … sat on the stones where i told her all that was going to happen in my future … heard a woman tell her friend to take pictures someplace else because she would otherwise disturb my following the sunset…

~ if you are in the los angeles area at 13:00 today, stop by the angry red planet thesis review. look for it in the ‘lecture trailer’?

~ november posts have been added to the archive.

~ the more and more i read a certain letter about me, the more and more i feel like the psychopath they purport me to be. how else could i do so much wrong with so little intent and no awareness?

~ for those who could not make it, my midterm review went extremely well.

~ no stress for 12 hours.

~ machine updates:
   1) the angry red planet fleet mazda has been returned from the shop, now containing a ‘used’ air flow meter – a bargain at barely over $300!
   2)angry still has redhat 6.2 purring like a kitten under its coffee stained hood, but the linux has yet been fully explored as the monitor still waits to be configured properly. we have been directed to the proper config file, and have been brushing up on our vi., but we have yet to uncover the specs for the monitor. it is a packard bell 1020; there is no support on the packard bell website [w] (when it comes up, that is), and the support page to which we are redirected [w] seems to offer up nothing unless you subscribe to their pay service. so, if anyone has documentation or information on a 14″ packard bell 1020, please get in touch with our linux crew.
   3)planet has broken the 900 mp3 threshold.

~ lots of friends coming in these days, from our friends at star*1 [w] and from belligerent posts to various school [w] intranets and message boards. welcome aboard.

~ the angry red thesis is still languishing.