Today all i’m going to do is actually quite a load. I’ve to do a quick project port from one engine to another, also making it a rocking layout, then write a presentation on Japan—i decided to do it about the different languages present on the japanese islands (japanese dialects, ryukyuan languages, ainu) with some culture overview included. I guess it’ll take a couple of hours, but i think i will enjoy doing it just as much as the chaos-theory one last week. This week i’ll also have to run a query like this:

SELECT `name`, COUNT(`important_people`.`name`) AS `people`, `presents`.*, `afford`
FROM `important_people`
LEFT JOIN `presents` ON `important_people`.`name` = `presents`.`person
LEFT JOIN `bank_account` ON `presents`.`price` < `bank_account`.`afford`
WHERE `presents`.`price` < `afford`/`people`
GROUP BY `name`
ORDER BY `name`

Yesterday i asked my brother for some interesting audio-book for the times of being tired to read but awake to sleep, and he gave me Yann Martel‘s Life of Pi. I just listened to the first nine or so chapters of it, which was really fascinating. Kind of reminds me of Orwell‘s Coming up for air, in many ways, the style, the methods. Not as if i were telling Martel was a copycat, it’s original, i think.

Too bad this and installing Ubuntu made me skip learning. I don’t know what i’ll do, as i really should’ve practiced german and read that history stuff over again. Maybe i will now, but i don’t know if it’ll be successful.

So i was installing Ubuntu, and it’s working fine on that half of my anime partition, except of a few annoying things i couldn’t yet solve. Such is first of all that it rejects to connect to the local WLAN, of unknown reason. I’ll figure out somehow, the troublesome part of this is that since i can’t connect to the network, i can’t connect to the shared internet either (i fear i’ll have to run a few laps with that too…), so i can’t access the online help, so i’ll have to use the desktop computer for that purpose. Lazy.

This title caused my mind to follow a quick thought that connected this word to a song of NOFX, Kill all the white men, where the chorus sounds something like “whoye, whoye, kill all the white men…”–so my mind followed and i ended up writing something i haven’t planned.

I’m dead tired after two hours of dancing. The faces of my classmates are burnt into my retinae, but at least i feel that we are having progress in learning that dance for the first of our graduation ceremonies. Hurray.

Naturally i haven’t done anything about the podcast i wrote about earlier, but i couldn’t care less now. Once upon a time, maybe i’ll do it. Not now for sure.