BEDA XIV

(rambling whilst trying to write an essay. Also I'm grounded. woot.)

Leechblock is amazingly awesome for productivity. Seriously, if you have Firefox and have a project or something coming up, GET IT you have no idea how wonderful it is. If you don’t have Firefox and are using Internet Explorer: SWITCH Firefox is amazing. It’s wonderfully beautiful, and intuitive, and amazingly third-party-developer friendly. Chrome is fine with me, but I dunno if there’s an equivalent feature on there.


Need music? I have one answer for you (okay well a couple but whatevs). Driftless Pony Club. Yeah, Quintessential indie band name, but seriously they’re amazingly awesome, in the truest sense of both of those words. Also Passion Pit. Just go buy Manners on iTunes. And get the Deluxe version, because they’ve got two of the tracks stripped of the electronic wonder and it’s still just as good if not better. Moth’s wings, free of editing, has such feeling put into it, just, awesome. And then buy the TRON soundtrack, because Daft Punk did an amazing job and did an awesome job on all the tracks, and all the tracks are not Derezzed. Son of Flynn is nice, clean, and lovely; and Fall’s got an amazing beat and bass and it’s just perfect for so many things.

GAH I love music.

I wonder how many people know that. I don’t really show it much, but I am in love with tonality and beat and musical artistry and harmonies and lyrics SO MUCH. I am a general music fangirl. And probably a bit of an elitist cuz I hate rap and hip-hop and stuff. I mean, if it’s on in a swim practice or in someone’s car, I’m fine with that. I’ll just pull a DPC or Passion Pit or something into my mind and listen to that, but I fail to see the appeal. I mean, it’s a drum machine and unartful, trashy synths with either drug, sex, or booze filled lyrics, often all three. I realize the fine line in between techno and electropop and Ke$ha. The difference? Musicality. Techno is very dance-y, but it takes care to be tasteful.

(Also this site: http://8tracks.com/)

BEDA XIII

GOTTA GET STUFF DONE BAI!

BEDA XII

Pokemon Global Link is now live, so there goes all my productivity.

Today we went to the Art Institute! They let you take flashless pictures, so now I've got a whole slew of Impressionist and Romantic cell phone backgrounds!

Also there were a lot of pictures of naked ladies, so I learned that that is a very timeless subject of painting apparently!

Also modern art is weird.

I like Impressionism. The colors are very beautiful!

And pictures of moving water. The sea is very beautiful!

I am talking a bit like a five year old you just went to the Art Institute, right?

~Niki

BEDA XI

Ohey look I'm in class now for this part ohohohohoho I am so cool. Actually I just finished the Computer Science lab in like twenty minutes and am super duper fast at this class so I quickly run out of things to do, so Imma do this.

Lessee, 15 minutes left of class how can I be interesting ohey that's work.

Let's do a list of fictional characters that I like, shall we?

• Shawn Spencer (Psych)
• Peeta (Hunger Games)
• Harry Potter (duh.)
• Sam Flynn (TRON~)
• Miles Halter (Looking for Alaska)
• Will Grayson (see: duh)

And then just a list of awesome characters from everything~

• Quorra (TRON [Do you know Jules Verne? "Yeah" What's he like?])
• Finn (Adventure Time)
• Marceline (Adventure Time)
• Hermione (HP)
• Bellatrix Lestrange (HP)
• Sirius Black (HP)
• Remus Lupin (HP)
• Takumi (Looking for Alaska)
• will grayson (see again: duh)
• N (Pokemon B/W)
• Sapphire (Pokemon Adventures (the manga))
• Ruby (see above)
• Norman (see above)
• Diamond (see above)

And there are a whole lot more. As odd as this may sound, I really like the father characters. I dunno why.

ANYWAYS boring list-blog over and out. I'm thinking sometime this weekend I'll do a "teach people some useful Internet things" post. I need screenshots for everything so it could take a while.

BEDA X

Yesterday I was not interesting. I aim to change that. Lessee, how can I be interesting today...

Hmmmmm....

Let me see....

Ohey how bout that one thing that I think about sometimes. 'Kay. /starts

Sometimes I feel left out and/or confused when there are references to like Star Trek or something that I don't get. I've seen a couple of episodes and I found them interesting, but I don't speak Klingon, nor am I able to quote lines from it and I feel like a bad nerd, especially with all the how nerdy are you tests out there basing like half of their questions on this sort of thing.

But one day it dawned on me. The majority of the content generated on the Internet was borne of those who were young enough to be involved in the phenomenon. That generation could set aside an hour every week to watch the plot develop and become absorbed in that culture as it happened.

My generation can experience the entirety of Star Trek, yes, but only through a service like Netflix, or buying all the boxed sets, or being pirates doing swashbuckly pirate watching on the Internet.

Then I got to thinking more, and realized that there are nerdy, awesome things happening for our generation to experience anew. I can remember just a couple of years ago, sitting in my room, frantically devouring Deathly Hallows in my excitement. I can very easily remember the months constantly refreshing Serebii so that I could see the new generation of Pokemon roll in.

Sometimes I look at the copyright dates of things or the year they were first made and comparing them with my birth year. Pixar has been releasing films since the year I was born (Toy Story, the first one, is as old as me and one of my favorites). Pokemon debuted at the same time I did. Harry Potter first came 7 days after my sister. This is the nerd culture of the Digital Age, and I'm glad to be as young as I am.

~Niki
The very-bad-at-staying-on-a-specific-idea blogger

BEDA IX

Woah, wireless keyboard and mouse on this one. I just noticed.

ANYWAYS I got like half an hour before I fail again.

Also I hear someone coming.

BYE!