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Name: Eugene
Birthday: 3/22/1900
Gender: Male
Interests: Anything interesting.
Expertise: yea, about that...
Occupation: Military
Industry: Hospitality
Message: message me
Member Since:
5/1/2003
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| This is the typical conversation between me and my former roommate, Eric (S4XycloCMNDqA17).
S4XycloCMNDqA17: this song PWNS
nerdbot 5000: wdubaclbhwaudbluaxbdlawbdcaw
nerdbot 5000: really
S4XycloCMNDqA17: it PWNS
nerdbot 5000: aw3som3
S4XycloCMNDqA17: FOR REALS
nerdbot 5000: STOP SHOUTING
nerdbot 5000: fuck.
nerdbot 5000: but yea, I believe you
S4XycloCMNDqA17: GAHHHH
nerdbot 5000: lolzord
S4XycloCMNDqA17: so how's fresno?
nerdbot 5000: fresno = fuck (the bad kind)
S4XycloCMNDqA17: heh yeah
S4XycloCMNDqA17: same here
S4XycloCMNDqA17: its really hot
nerdbot 5000: but it's still cool hanging out with friends
nerdbot 5000: yea, I'd imagine
S4XycloCMNDqA17: its gonna be 116 this weekend
nerdbot 5000: ewww.
nerdbot 5000: it was 106 today, I think
nerdbot 5000: but 116, that's damn
S4XycloCMNDqA17: it is a fuck
nerdbot 5000: fuck straight
S4XycloCMNDqA17: but meh
S4XycloCMNDqA17: i went to mexico a few days ago
nerdbot 5000: oh shit.
S4XycloCMNDqA17: we smoked a joint in a strip club
S4XycloCMNDqA17: for some reason
nerdbot 5000: haha
S4XycloCMNDqA17: i dont remember the night too well..
nerdbot 5000: that makes sense
nerdbot5000 received C:\Documents and
Settings\ForeverStrifE\My
Documents\download\nerdbot5000\03-the_grouch_and_eligh-everafter-swe.mp3.
nerdbot 5000: sw33t
S4XycloCMNDqA17: check that shit out mothafucka
nerdbot 5000: i am, i am
nerdbot 5000: these feces are fucking hizzzot
S4XycloCMNDqA17: fuck yeah
nerdbot 5000: btw, is the four tet remix of madvilliany hard to find on SS?
S4XycloCMNDqA17: no, thats where i got it
nerdbot 5000: cool deal
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| Thanks for the care package. I ate all of the jolly ranchers the night I got it.
I should be returning on the 16th, in the late afternoonish.
I've been longboarding a lot. It's mucho fun. Late night parking garage
sessions are what have been keeping be happy in these dark times
(finals).
Congrats to the grads. Don't be too afriad of college, but don't
underestimate it either. Remember that you don't need to be a doctor or
a lawyer to make a living. There are a lot of other jobs out there that can fufill your needs.
Things generally have a way of working themselves out. Just keep your
head on your shoulders and be honest with yourself. In the end, you'll
be fine.
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| I come home June 15th.
Really looking forward to playing magic, and longboarding in The Bluffs.
My longboard should be coming in today, which makes me excited.
So far, I've convinced one other person in Fresno to buy a longboard. Hopefully that number will go up (hint, hint).
I also bought magic cards yesterday. I blame Dane, Lawrence, Robert,
Cyrus, and all the other people for buying more cards. They coerced me
to buy more. I'm a sad man.
Control:
4 mortify
3 castigate
3 hour of reckoning
Token Generators:
2 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
4 promise of bunrei
Other Creatures:
4 festering goblin
4 plagued rusalka
3 kami of false hope
3 Nezumi Bone-Reader
Other:
3 leyline of the meek
4 proclamation of rebirth
Land:
11 plains
12 swamps
60 cards.
Been talking to Brandon. We will be doing a hip-hop styled project this summer. I expect good things from this.
That is all.
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| One of the classes I hated the most was the mandatory writing class I
had to take in my first quarter at UCSC: Porter Core. The teacher was a
guy named Marco. He was this fat film-maker (not an english/writing
major), who was incredibly biased, and challenged the views of other
students outright, in class, in front of everyone. I hated him.
About midway through the quarter he developed some internal bleeding
and almost died. So, we got a replacement teacher who actually
graduated as a creative writing major, and things were good.
The last essay we had to do was a class/self-assessment. I had fun.
Info: the class is called Porter Core, the former teacher was Marco,
the quote at the end is from one of our readings, which we were
supposed to mention in the self/class-assessment (yes, those are my
edits).
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Eugene Yoo, free association exercise #15.
Marco: biased
readings: good
Core: BS
Porter: crazy
Porter Core: BS
effort: late nights
So, insights... insights and insights. Insights? As
you can see by the breakdown of my thoughts on this course, the class
hasn't sparked many light-bulbs. Treading on them would be a better
metaphor -- broken glass, bare feet, useless pain: Joy.
However, I did learn. I learned a decent amount for
the time's worth. But, just not much about writing, or learning how to
better understand the written word. The peer evaluations were time
consuming and unproductive, considering that the teacher's editing was
ultimate; Marco's lectures were extremely off topic from our readings,
and his scotch-tape efforts to incorporate them were equally bad; Jesse
is a cool guy, but most of his lectures weren't very productive either.
But, I still learned. And no, this is not a
sarcastic jab, I did, just not within the goal of the course. Despite
my dislikes of Marco as a writing teacher, he did introduce the unmoral
and unjust endeavors of our country, as did Jesse, with his discussion
about the war in Iraq changing my view of US foreign policy. They
didn't really teach us anything about writing, other than just saying
something along the lines of, "Hey, you've got to have this thesis
thing, and yea. Do it." But regardless, I did learn something; I
learned things that are arguably better than the items we were supposed
to learn. I received no help in improving my skill in word choice, and
creative diction, or about how one should read and perceive creative
punctuation. But, I did learn that there is a thick layer to peel of
our government, and the revelation of it's true identity looks like an
army of ants furiously taking back dollar bills to their home. We live
in a money driven society; I knew that. But to the extent where we
stage coups for control of a nation's fruit export? That was terribly
new.
So, thank you Marco, thank you Jesse. I still happen
to think you guys are horrible writing teachers, however. And this
course, in comparison to some other high school classes I have taken,
has done very little to change the quality of my writing. The higher
level prompts and expectations did push my standard of writing a bit,
especially in the aspects of defending my argument from multiple points
and perspectives. But, stylistically, nothing has happened. All this
class was, in terms of a writing class, was a harder writing class, so
I wrote harder, and that's it. My desire to incorporate my odd style of
writing into my essays was left behind in fear of Marco. Maybe I
would've experimented more if you were our original teacher,
considering that you are an actually a decent writing teacher (and a
creative writing major at that). No, not sucking up (well, maybe), but
anything after Marco is bliss.
So, what do I think my grade should be? Looking back on
what I wrote, it seems like I've just made a long process to shoot
myself in the foot. Yes, I do believe that this class was a terrible
writing class (which is actually a very bad stance to take, considering
that I'm going to be graded on writing skills). But damn-it, I spent
time on this class; I put effort in all of these essays whether I
thought they were terrible or not, and I edited my essays with what
I've learned from the scribbles on rough drafts. I'm much more of a
creative writer than a formal essayist, preferring poetry and odd
short-stories over the analysis of a book, but I still feel like I've
accomplished some small feats on the side of writing I hate the most.
I've learned to better defend my argument from multiple views, from
multiple texts, from multiple sources; learned how to appease my
terribly biased teacher; learned how to survive that one course a
quarter that you want to destroy. That has to count for something (and
my writing will speak for itself).
And now, to include something from the readings, I will end this with a poetic quote from Angels In America,
"I've lived through such terrible [off-topic
lectures], and there are people who live through much much worse, but.
. . . You see them [writing] anyway. When they're more spirit than
body, more sores than skin, when they're burned and in agony. . . We
[write] past hope. If I can find hope anywhere, that's it, that's the
best I can do. It's so much not enough, so inadequate but. . . . Bless
me anyway. I want [an A-]." (Kushner, 266-267)
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My final grade for the class was an A-.
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