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You scored as Existentialist. Existentialism emphasizes human capability. There is no greater power interfering with life and thus it is up to us to make things happen. Sometimes considered a negative and depressing world view, your optimism towards human accomplishment is immense. Mankind is condemned to be free and must accept the responsibility.
Existentialist
81% Postmodernist
69% Cultural Creative
50% Idealist
44% Modernist
44% Materialist
31% Romanticist
31% Fundamentalist
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Had a brilliant conversation with my long-time friend, Leandro last night. We caught up with each other’s lives, and talked about each of our own passions— computers in my case, and architecture. Such conversation was something I truly miss. We talked about how architecture was about solving problems. Leandro asked me if I had heard about Christopher Alexander; I replied that the name was familiar to me. It was, because I realized belatedly, after Leandro described Alexander’s major work, A Pattern Language, that Alexander influenced current-day thinking into the production and design of software— he is considered the father of the pattern language movement in computer science. We talked about the intersection of the two fields. And we talked about the opposite sex, about love, about life.
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- While walking to Glorietta from school, what with the transport strike and there being no jeeps, and besides the fact that I like walking, I actually thought it was a weekend.
- On my Linux desktop, two apps that weren't supposed to fight over the sound card did and locked up the sound system (i.e. no sound, and no way to kill the processes, as they were blocked on I/O).
- On Undernet, I get G-lined, told off that, quote, "G-lined ([0] infected! Advertising infecting web sites. Clean this computer!". On X-Chat. Running Linux. With a very strict firewall. On a side note, Zak also tried connecting to the Undernet, first by connecting directly, then by tunneling to a machine outside the PH netblock. (Apparently, either someone screwed up or a whole slew of IPs got G-lined. For one reason or another. I do believe someone shot himself on the foot.)
- I can't stop something on Emacs by the magic 'C-g'.
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Spent my Easter weekend at Subic. 'Twas hot, but strangely enough Subic was cooler this year than last year. Anyhoo, interesting weekend, as my cousins (jazzbeaglet included) can attest to— dude, ano, inuman na lang? Hehehe.
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I just had the weirdest nightmare.
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I’m a bit impatient waiting for my order of CDs to arrive from Canonical (I still want them, if only because the packaging is good and I prefer original CDs), so I asked my cousin to download and burn Hoary preview for me. Yesterday, I got the CD and last night I installed it on my relatively-ancient PC
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Taken moments after I connected to IRC's Undernet. -
I’ve been looking through my notebooks and files. I apparently have a lot of story fragments lying around, waiting to be fleshed out properly, or to be polished. They’re my stillborn children— the corpses of stories never born into the world. Sometimes I wonder whether I really have the gift of writing. I am, for good or bad, my greatest critic. But no matter: I will still write for the love of writing, even if I criticize myself harshly, even if I feel my prose is poor. One must try and experience such things; otherwise, why live at all?
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It just occurred to me that I do have a voracious appetite for knowledge, but dislike formal schooling (in its current incarnation).
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... Or, why JM Ibañez tortures himself by dropping by Powerbooks and Booksale when he has no money to buy books. At all.
Imported from my LiveJournal.