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And so it continues

2010-01-17T21:38:00.003-05:00

Well, it's been a while. I've been telling myself I'm going to write a blog entry since ... November. Woops! Oh well, at least I'm working on one now. So I guess to start I'll summarize my last semester real quick, meh. It wasn't bad, defiantly an improvement over last year, but I could have done things a lot better, academically and with my life. But, here I am, I somehow still scraped by and I'm pressing onward. Hopefully this time in 2 years, I'll have a degree and I'll be job hunting (assuming I get my academics up a little bit). I've been doing a serious a mount of thinking over the past few months about my life and it's direction. I've even debated if I want to continue in my Computer Science degree, but I've been encouraged by older, wiser friends to fight through the tough times and it won't be so bad when it's all over.

I've also been struggling with my relationship status. I can't seem to really find anyone that I like, and if I do ever meet someone I do they are either taken, or what feels like out of my reach for one reason or another. I have no idea what to do about this, but I'm young, and I don't have to worry too much about this (yet...).

On a slightly lighter note, I've been elected the President of the Computer Club here at Western Michigan University, which fills up any free time I might have had between the 14 credits I'm taking this semester and the 30 hours/week I work. I'm finding myself feeling happier when I'm this busy and I'm finally on a normal sleep schedule (11pm - 8am)! Now that I'm waking up at the same time every day, the rest of the day seems so much easier and things don't seem as hard anymore. This is good.

It's only been 4 1/2 months since I moved in here at Zimmerman Hall, right? Well I guess better late than never to post pictures (also I just cleaned my desk!). So here it is, the place I sleep and live.

My desk and couch (yes it has flowers on it)

My bed is the bottom bunk (no, I don't make my bed, take that dad!)

yes, I do love this screensaver and my memory hog ;)

Tomorrow I'm going to look at apartments which I am very excited about. I don't mind the dorms, but I really want more space and to start cooking for myself. I can't wait to start making use of this website! I am looking forward to this summer, it will be boat loads of fun. I'm going to work, take one class, and go home on the weekends to sail with my dad. It's going to be a blast. Anyways, I will post pictures and thoughts on the apartment later this week.

The New Direction

2009-10-13T03:01:00.001-04:00

Just so everyone (and no one) knows, I am aware that nobody follows my blog, but that is alright, I thought I would at least explain my change in direction to the Internet ghosts.

The past few months have taught me a lot about life and one thing I've learned is that if you want to be happy, you can't follow politics, end of story. So... I stopped. I also learned that I need to slow down and enjoy life. I was trying to be older than I was, but at the same time younger than I was. And anyways, moral of the story is I am less concerned about what is going on around me and focusing instead on my studies and interest. That will of course be reflected here (not that I ever update... but I might start updating more, who knows). So expect to see more post about life, philosophy, and of course, Linux!

Wait... What?

2009-06-16T10:30:00.002-04:00

Just a quick post:
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashaot.htm

Does anybody else see something wrong with ABC doing this? Since when does the news broadcast from inside the White House to promote a presidents agenda? Don't get me wrong, I am an advicate for free speach, but don't newscasters have to show both sides to an issue? I sometimes wonder what's going to happen to our country in the next few years and if it can ever be undone.

travis-thompson.info

2009-06-12T11:44:00.006-04:00

Today I bought travis-thompson.info for 99 cents from godaddy.com. So far I'm much happier with godaddy than I was with 1and1, admin interface is much nicer (the number of features and ease of use is great for 99 cents a year). I already have it registered with Google Apps Standard Edition to handle email (travis [at] travis-thompson [dot] info). Also you might have noticed that blog.travis-thompson.info goes here. I am currently considering moving to a private host for my blog (using Wordpress of course), but until then, this is good enough.

I thought I might also mention http://shortn.me, a website I found the other day by chance. It's very intuitive, I'd recommend checking it out.

Testing, Testing, 1 2 3

2009-06-11T11:42:00.003-04:00

Testing out the ability to update my blog from my blackberry. This will handy because I spend 3 hours a day as a passenger in a car riding to and from work. Hopefully my spelling won't be too bad, it's pretty bad to begin with, and now I'm typing on a 2.5 in keyboard, so please, bear with me.

Some food for thought: http://tinyurl.com/mqhdum
I recently reread Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, and so of course I'm a little weirded out about some similarities going on at the moment, and this article is one (of a great many) things that has me worried about the fate of our country.

First!

2009-06-11T10:25:00.000-04:00

I thought it appropriate to title my first blog "first!" because, we are in fact on the Internet. I'll dedicate this first post to talk about why I've decided to start writing a blog. Firstly, I'm bored. I'm an Intern at DTE Energy and I have a lot of free time, and I need something to do, so I read lots of news between my assignments. That of course lead me to further strengthen my feelings and opinions about world events, politics, philosophy, science, and (my forever favorite) technology. So naturally I've got a lot of these feelings and opinions just built up with no outlet, and twitter by itself just isn't doing it. So, get ready for a compilation of insight and thought about world events, politics, philosophy, science, and lots of technology (and maybe even the occasional off topic post).