I recently met a new friend! ~ daemonboardboy ~

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=117842520
He has lots of inspiring ideas and I like his writing. He is very attractive, talkative and animated. I am really very entertained whenever I have time to spend hanging out with him. I got to know him by running into him in person. He seems to make lots of incidental connections with people. I hope we learn to understand each other. He did not answer when I tried to call back and I've emailed, text messaged and left a message and still no word. I feel like he is mad at me because I have not talked to him since last night when my cell signal faded. I'm not exactly pining. I am infatuated. I am sad when it seem he's not talking to me.

I don't know if he knows that I do really like him.

I had to put my work responsibilities first on Thursday night.

Sometimes I think my life does not move forward because I don't have any times saved for dating and for meeting new friends. I've been going in late and working around 11-7. I need to roll that back by an hour. I need to do that also because I sometimes need to work 9+ and 8-9 pm gets very late. I also spend a good deal of time with my friends.

Anyway it is hard to explain to someone new that they are a priority but sometimes there are other priorites and existing obligations. Part of it is that he is younger and more spontaneous than myself. I like for things to be arranged a day or so in advance. Maybe we will come to some sort of compromise. I think also that we have not really talked about any expectations.

Anyway I am excited to go to the movies. invalid_userid purpleglitter and neitherday are on their way down to my place then we are going to Bertucci's for dinner and then to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

I hope I will hear from Jeffrey and find that he is OK everything is OK. :)

Current Mood: excited

Have you heard about the "National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive?

I believe it a matter of civil duty to learn about and evaluate this directive.

Much of the directive is reasonable and creditable. The directive outlines a reasonable preparatory and risk planing framework for large scale disasters. It also disseminates responsibility for risk planning throughout all departments of the government, and establishes accountability for risk planning. I believe that some of this might have been recommended by the 9/11 commission. The problematic part is the description of how the president assumes 'emergency' dictatorial power.

This presidential directive, dictates how the president can assume dictatorial power. In this there is no check or balance. If the president sees that there are problems with current laws and procedures concerning emergency powers then changes to existing law should be recommended to congress. This is part of the law that should not be interpreted for the executive branch. The executive branch should solely and strictly abide by the laws written by congress when it comes to these points.

This directive declares that the President may take control of all three branches of government and command private businesses in the event of national disaster. There is already an act that grants emergency powers to the president but also clearly defines a role for congressional over site. The directive also leaves it up to the President to determine when an meets the requirements to for him to assume these powers. This new presidential directive could be a lynch pin in a technical and political effort to move toward greater autocracy in the United States.

If this issue is ignored until it presents a problem then it will be too late. There are some serious concerns about this directive but there is no news and no political reaction.

At the very least it should be discussed publicly and politicians should be taking some position on the matter.
If you search for the subject the directive is on the white house website.

Current Mood: tired

Some time ago I configured my chat client (gaim) to use the jabber server that LJ recently added. I have not used it at all since then. It seems somewhat redundant to my other instant message accounts. Anyway I thought I would post to see if anyone else I know ever used it or has tried it. I supose it's another way to post and it's somewhat convient since my chat client actually does spell check. I might look for plugins that make the lj markup easier to use too.

After a lovely dinner with my parents and one group of my friends I was walking to The Eagle with two of them, Howard and Alex, in order to drink some diet coke and process recently swilled libation. Alex said "Can you do this ?" and then front kicked the air at what seemed to be an inch above his head height. Alex has been in martial arts classes for months and this was a well practiced motion. He went from his trotting gate to a clear stance and then shifted his body alignment, and kicked with a coordinated snap then continued down the sidewalk. I thought there is only one way to find out and so in the next step I snapped my foot high into the air. Indeed i catapulted my left foot to almost my height. Unfortunately at the same time my right foot was through unpredictable forces of my now ungulating body drawn a foot forward and two feet off the sidewalk. At this moment both feet were A) not on the ground, and B) not underneath my body. I could feel a breeze against my bare and swiftly moving neck, and the satisfying cloud of the highest quality sustenance hover in place as my body seemed to pivot around it, prior to pulling it downward like the ballast of a hot air balloon. I could here my friends clamor. And soon felt the fingers then wrist of my left hand twist under my weight followed by a crumpling of my right foot. With relief however I felt my head against Alex's midsection and his arms at my sides. He had caught my head which, a moment earlier I had felt, would surly hit the sidewalk like a tossed jack-o-lantern.

Even though I have some pains I oddly savor the gracelessness adventure of that spontaneous moment.

Current Music: enjoining hum of bath and comptuer fans

Check out this article on new poems called Fibs !

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/07/0628214

Houray !

I had fun at gaylaxicon yesterday. I met several people from livejournal.

I am changing my computer from using kde 3.34 to 3.4.0. I run Gentoo and the kde 3.4 ebuilds went stable a copule of days ago. And also want to tinker with the lj s2 style language and the journal entry keywords so that's a couple of the things I might be up to on the comptuer for today.

Maybe I will make more posts who knows.

Go to the ACLU site. The link in my email which I hope will work for everyone is:

https://www.aclu.org/team/tell.cfm?orgid=EA040605A&action=117&MX=2022&H=1

From there you can sent invitations to a party and download letters and materials that you can use at the party to write letters to congress and other persons.

The FCC is going to be waging the culture war on behalf of the right. Stop them now!

In the next few paragraphs I shall determine in what situations I should accept programming duties in an empolyment circumstance, and the roles I might wish to play as a consultant.In doing so I generate some text that might be useful to promote myself. It provides some insight on my current thoughts on auditing systems.
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I plan to research and develop outlines for the information systems auditing processes.

I failed the graphics programming class and accept repsonsibilty for it. I had no luck getting work done for the graphics programming class. The homeworks contained far too much wasted time, effort and frustration. It spilled into all parts of my life including being socially active, finishing repairs to my house, being able to relax, and prusuing empolyment.

I have found out the following about myself:
I am not willing to write small useless comptuer programs specified in detail by others entirely without my input, for the purpose of academic merit.
(  ruminations about the program and the class )

What is a "linux distrobution"?

The distrobution determines how all the softeware components and programs on your system will be managed how the liberaries of code (like dlls) are kept up to date and free of conflicts and to some degree how and where settings are stored on the comptuer. In other words it deterimines the distrobution method that you use to recieve your software. It determines a tradeoff between how much testing has been done on the software, and how soon new features and programs are available. The distrobution is not the operating system or the desktop environment.

Even distrobutions will have you believe this.

My advise for choosing and installing your first linux distrobution

Choose a distrobution from:
http://distrowatch.com/
There is just too much information for me to make a good suggestion for someone else.
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Some distrobutions charge big bucks for the later service. Don't go with one of those as there are plenty of distrobutions with free update services.
( about packages and distrobutions )

Next you will need to download a CD image, and burn it to a disk. These disks are also often included with a linux magazine.

Many distrobutions include a few CDS worth of programs. You can avoid downloadling it all at once by using a minimal install and then installing the additional features that you require for the internet. In any case you will need a cd or floppy to boot the installtion. I suggest a CD.

( record your hardware and network settings"> Prior to installation write down all your hardware model numbers. I can help explain that further when you do it. Write down any network settings that you will need to connect to the internet and LAN. </lj-cut> If you don )