Tempting

One of the reputable bus companies is hiring part time drivers.
2 hour drive for the longest route. Regional transit. 15-26 hours a week. Pretty good pay.

Very tempting...

Buses, Fire Foxes, and Thunderbirds

I couple of interesting sites were nice additions to my study breaks.

As I said before, I want to be a bus driver. Apparently, there is a site for that. DriveaBus .ca Cool.

Then there is Mozilla Fire Fox. Exactly what is it? An internet browser gaining quite some market share lately. For one month ending yesterday, it had 10 Million downloads. What's the best part of it? A lot less likely to be attacked by hackers and viruses, since it not the overly popular market leader. It's simple, easy to use and have nice features like tabbed browsing (also in Netscape), popup blocker (also in IE) and ad blocker (extension to FireFox). It's also suppose to be more secure when using SSL connection. I am using it right now. So far, no major problems, except the need to download another Java Runtime from Sun.

Mozilla also has a Thunderbird, an email client, may be I will check it out next time.

Alright, back to study.

Interesting Charmed Quote

Seer: I want to be made human.
Piper: What? Why, in the hell, would a power demon want to be made human?
Seer: Hell being the operative word, as in I live there, and it sucks.

Care

What is care? What is love? Love cause care? Why do I care about someone so much? Does that mean I love her? What is Romantic love? How do I feel it? I feel something. Does that mean I romantically love her? Why, on Earth, do I think about these things just before exams?!

Dogs and Guitars

What do they have in common? Owners of both create as much annoyance to others as possible while providing enjoyment to themselves. Of course, well discipline owners of both can be very considerate to train their dogs well and play guitar only when welcomed. However, many owners failed to be disciplined.

Take my roommate, for example, almost every single day he has to make some noise with his guitars. Sometimes it's great short songs that are good to relax. Sometimes its just annoying fiddling while he studies. Other times is down right 2 hour or more of "band practice" with his friend. You may have noticed the "s"in guitars that I used. Yes, he has both a traditional guitar and an electric one.

Just like he has a German Sheppard and a Pit bull. Both of them bark at anyone other than their owner, and the Pit bull threatens to kill you all the time. Just like the electric guitar that can be heard 3 floors down.

Music to my roommate's ears can be noises to mine. Playmates to owners of dogs can also be monsters to others.

I want to be...

Someone who operates a large fascinating machine. Someone who repeats the same routine, but sometimes changes it. Someone who everybody else should yield to. Someone who controls at least 40 others lives. Someone who uses every single limb to work. Someone who wears sunglasses most of the time. Someone who is the least likely to violate the law. Someone who we call a bus driver. Apparently, it's not that hard to achieve. Dream on...and may happen some day if I dream too much.

Statistics

The art of create something out of meaningless lists of numbers. The art of confusing people with way too many hypothesis and probabilities. The art of naming same things differently so each book looks different than others while talking about the same thing. Who cares that Microsoft Excel doesn't generate a truly random number after 30,000 iterations?! Not an engineer, I must say. Those crazy hardcore statistican, may be. Why, why on earth, should that course be taught by those people?

Efficiency

The result of analysis of my lack of motivation to study is apparently my frustration towards my lack of efficiency. This creates a downward spiral for myself, because the less motivated I am, the less efficient I am, and the more frustrated I am. Silly, right? Try getting yourself to not think about something is apparently very hard. It's time for some brainwashing.