Random semi-philisophical blather.
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sorcyressI suspect at least part of it is the world's way of apologizing to me for how shitty last night was1, but today has been Pretty Damn Good.
In English, we got to talk about the Jonestown Massacre which, if not pleasant, is at least fascinating. Maths, we did some serious review, which helped me get unconfused, and politics we had a nice relaxing discussion about electoral districts and Gerrymandering.
Really, interestingly enough, the actual events of today haven't been anything special (with the exception of a perfect moment early this morning), instead, it seems that my outlook has just been phenomenally better than last night. Remember that terminal optimism thing I mentioned? I'm at full optimism at the moment.
Although, also on the list of good things, the torrent I found for the Shock Treatment soundtrack is *finally* doing something, after a month of just sitting there. So yay!
(Relatedly, torrents are dangerous. Ignoring the whole ethical argument2 that I still haven't quite figured out, being able to put things onto my harddrive is just inviting me to use up all the rest of my space. Damnit, I intended to use that for the several million pictures I intend to take with my new camera.
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1: Last night was actually not that bad. Like today, the events and things that happened were neither especially good or bad. However, my outlook was completely borked, and the six hours of rehearsal really didn't help. (I didn't get to see my parents off. :( )
Also on the list of 'not helping' was finishing reading 'Watchman'. First off, yep, go read, it's awesome. Second off, well, uhm. It makes you think. And while thinking is ordinarily awesome, it makes you Think. Or, well, stare at the ceiling for a couple minutes and just completely blank out and try to process it.
Soyeah, trying to go to sleep while my brain is busy trying to process this deep meaningful piece of art really just doesn't work. It leads to conversations like this:
"You okay?"
"No."
"What's wrong?"
"I have just read something astonishing and I can't quite wrap my head all the way around it yet, and I'm having a slight existential crisis at the moment, and I'm being made nervous at the incredible fragility of humans." (Only, of course, I'm not actually that eloquent when speaking, so I think what I actually managed to say was something like "dunno".)
***
2: My goal is to not actually steal music etc from people, because that is bad. However, the rules start bending when it comes to things that one of my parents already own. Because, I mean, I have access to things like 'The Breakfast Club' when I'm at home. Should I suddenly lose my access to it just because I only live at home for four months of the year now?
It's basically the same idea of taking one of my mom's CD's and burning it to Vera. Mom paid for this lovely thing of music, but it's not technically *mine* --should I therefore go buy my own copy if I want it? Probably. Am I going to go buy all the CD's that I want copies of? Not for a long time.
Obviously, downloading movies or music that mom doesn't own is a Bad Thing. I don't do that, it's shitty.
Soyeah, Torrenting is weird ethical dilemma's, and I haven't resolved them quite yet. But that's okay.
~Sor
MOOP!
In English, we got to talk about the Jonestown Massacre which, if not pleasant, is at least fascinating. Maths, we did some serious review, which helped me get unconfused, and politics we had a nice relaxing discussion about electoral districts and Gerrymandering.
Really, interestingly enough, the actual events of today haven't been anything special (with the exception of a perfect moment early this morning), instead, it seems that my outlook has just been phenomenally better than last night. Remember that terminal optimism thing I mentioned? I'm at full optimism at the moment.
Although, also on the list of good things, the torrent I found for the Shock Treatment soundtrack is *finally* doing something, after a month of just sitting there. So yay!
(Relatedly, torrents are dangerous. Ignoring the whole ethical argument2 that I still haven't quite figured out, being able to put things onto my harddrive is just inviting me to use up all the rest of my space. Damnit, I intended to use that for the several million pictures I intend to take with my new camera.
***
1: Last night was actually not that bad. Like today, the events and things that happened were neither especially good or bad. However, my outlook was completely borked, and the six hours of rehearsal really didn't help. (I didn't get to see my parents off. :( )
Also on the list of 'not helping' was finishing reading 'Watchman'. First off, yep, go read, it's awesome. Second off, well, uhm. It makes you think. And while thinking is ordinarily awesome, it makes you Think. Or, well, stare at the ceiling for a couple minutes and just completely blank out and try to process it.
Soyeah, trying to go to sleep while my brain is busy trying to process this deep meaningful piece of art really just doesn't work. It leads to conversations like this:
"You okay?"
"No."
"What's wrong?"
"I have just read something astonishing and I can't quite wrap my head all the way around it yet, and I'm having a slight existential crisis at the moment, and I'm being made nervous at the incredible fragility of humans." (Only, of course, I'm not actually that eloquent when speaking, so I think what I actually managed to say was something like "dunno".)
***
2: My goal is to not actually steal music etc from people, because that is bad. However, the rules start bending when it comes to things that one of my parents already own. Because, I mean, I have access to things like 'The Breakfast Club' when I'm at home. Should I suddenly lose my access to it just because I only live at home for four months of the year now?
It's basically the same idea of taking one of my mom's CD's and burning it to Vera. Mom paid for this lovely thing of music, but it's not technically *mine* --should I therefore go buy my own copy if I want it? Probably. Am I going to go buy all the CD's that I want copies of? Not for a long time.
Obviously, downloading movies or music that mom doesn't own is a Bad Thing. I don't do that, it's shitty.
Soyeah, Torrenting is weird ethical dilemma's, and I haven't resolved them quite yet. But that's okay.
~Sor
MOOP!
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on 2008-04-07 10:49 pm (UTC)Not if the people that wrote the music are giving it away FREE to the entire internet... (http://www.thefump.com)
(okay, so I'm a hopeless shill. It's still a good idea to go there and download stuff...)
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on 2008-04-08 01:31 am (UTC)Such a thing exists? Where?
Torrents are dangerous, yes, especially for movies/TV shows. I know of another, safer way that might work for you, if you're interested. Beware all of it, though. The RIAA (music industry) has gone after lots of people (and won - a $3000 settlement is the average, I've heard), mostly uploaders, and the MPAA (movie/TV industry) is starting to as well.
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on 2008-04-08 01:55 am (UTC)2. I download from http://mp34u.muzic.com/ and get the free songs of the week from iTunes and Amazon every week. I don't like the free songs every time, but it keeps me trying new things, which can only be a good thing.
3. I just bought a 750GB external hard drive. I highly recommend backing up your computer. External hard drives are getting ridonculously cheap. Didn't you just go through traumatic data loss a couple months ago?