Pilot's Log

So I gave up Publishers Clearinghouse for Lent and went back to it after Easter and got really bored with it of late.  Since the current Superprize wrapped up today, I'm throwing in the towel for a while.

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of May 9, 2013

Charlie Parker was a great jazz musician. As a saxophonist and composer, he was an influential innovator. Unfortunately, he also had an expensive heroin addiction. It interfered with his ability to achieve financial stability. There's a famous story about him showing a bystander two veins on his arm as he prepared to shoot up. "This one's my Cadillac," he confessed. "And this one's my house." I'm bringing this up, Sagittarius, in the hope that it will provide a healthy shock. Are you doing anything remotely like Charlie Parker? Are you pouring time and energy and money into an inferior form of pleasure or a trivial distraction that is undermining your ability to accomplish higher goals? If so, fix that glitch, please.

I keep asking myself why I can't get interested in anything that could make me some money. I guess that's a fatal flaw in my character.

March of The Machines.

There was a part that meshed directly with the "firmware" portion of POI's Machine. Law offices, prosecutor and defender divisions are now commonly using analytical computers to research cases and collect evidence in the "discovery" phase. How much you want to bet that The Machine already is looking in on every single one of these systems to tell who's being investigated...and who's doing the investigating? Maybe even to recruit potential future assets?

I'm attempting to follow the Rugby World Cup this time around, as some of you may know. Today/overnight, the US Team will play the Russians; the Eagles have just come from a loss against Ireland, where they still held the opposing team to 22 points and scored a touchdown in the final moments of the match. They have to win to advance.

I guess the first thing I'll have to do when I get up this morning is look to see who won.

...Computer King. Saw the manager today and talked with him about wireless devices for networking my compy with Mom's and a possible broadband "hotspot" we may get through my brother's cellular phone shop. Everything seems reasonable, so far.

Last couple weeks I've been looking over the Projections of NCAA Bowl Matchups On Yahoo. A recap of the rundown--and there have been changes made...

The top two teams in the BCS play each other in the Championship.

The next eight teams play in the main four "prestige" Bowl games (The Sugar Bowl in New Orleans; the Orange Bowl in Miami; the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona; the Rose Bowl in Pasadena).

There are THIRTY lower-rank Bowl games held across the Nation this year. Two new Bowl games have been added this year.

That means SEVENTY teams get to the postseason...and there are only 108 teams in Division I football! (In theory, with twelve leagues/conferences and twelve teams per league, they could have 144 teams in Div I.)

The matchups, as they look now, favor the larger conferences (those that have more teams) than the smaller ones. I'm not sure that I like that...and at the same time, I think there needs to be some more flexibility to the system. Have teams that aren't likely to play each other matched up in bowls to prevent the possibility of rematches. Send teams to cities they've never visited before. Things like that. Make it more interesting.

...Is the fact that once a problem comes along that the answer isn't readily available, you can't stop till you make one available.

Just accomplished such an outcome for my Electricity & Electronics classwork.

Looked up a fall lineup online just now and it wasn't particularly easy.

The problem with this year is that most of the "interesting" shows for me are in the 10 PM timeslot, which will be unavailable to me if I have to go to school at 7 AM, which means waking at 6 AM, which means going to bed around 10 PM on "school nights". So Chase, The Defenders, The Good Wife, Castle, Detroit 187, The Whole Truth--all that is off the table.

I wonder how much Tivo-oid systems go for these days.

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A very well cultivated Bookmarks filing system, and important links on the main page of my LiveJournal.

Hey.

I purged some things from the Interests of my profile, not because I'm not interested in them anymore (I still am) but because hardly anybody else in LiveJournal is interested in them.

Before I purged, I Friended some LJ'ers who shared some of the following interests:
Argentosoma
Firehawk
Stratos4
L-Gaim
SPT Layzner
Ring Raiders
Titan Legions
Dragonar
Starsiege
Earthsiege

Now I need to go back through my account and see if there are other Interests that would suit me and LJ better.

FP