Changing the default background of programs from white to a cool grey-blue may, in fact, pose less of a burden on my eyes while using the laptop (dubbed Mason-Dixon II, or Mason for short). Only time will tell. Tomorrow night, then? 24 hours from the time of this post.
Also, The Constants of Nature by John D. Barrow is an interesting read so far. And the typography within is so simple and gorgeous and elegant. Mmm.
I want to make a move to a field that has little (or perhaps changing) reliance on computers. Like music. Someday.
Finding a Theory of Everything shouldn't be so hard. It's just a matter of taking two or three sets of equations and smudging them together. Like glue.
Einstein: ‘You know, Henri, I once studied mathematics, but I gave it up for physics’.
Poincaré: ‘Oh, really, Albert, why is that?’
Einstein: ‘Because although I could tell the true statements from the false, I just couldn't tell which facts were the important ones’.
Poincaré: ‘That is very interesting, Albert, because I originally studied physics, but left the field for mathematics’.
Einstein: ‘Reall, why?’
Poincaré: ‘Because I couldn't tell which of the important facts were true’.
That's cute.
I have this cute little guy curled up and sleeping right against my left foot. Andrew is babysitting him while Paul and Joanna are out doing groceries or something.
Paul and Joanna are Shirin's former parents. She is ours now. She is fiesty but fine.
I hope Calix doesn't poop by my feet when he wakes up.
It's so pretty outside again. It makes me want to go back to sophomore year. In October. Playing EverQuest. For some reason.
Gotta take a walk sometime.
Hasan and I came to campus together today, as it's his first day of orientation. We were walking from my apartment to Foellinger and I tried to act like a tour guide, which amounted to pointing out two streets and a handful of buildings.
I'm trying to remember what it was like to be an incoming freshman. I'm pretty much certain that I wasn't filled with any (or maybe just a little) sort of wonderment or excitement or curiosity. I was fairly acquainted with the campus a couple of years before.
Meh. Current habits formed quickly. Disinterest, laziness, lack of curiosity.
In that way, I suck. But my brother will do the family proud. Yes.
Flashback to tonight, where I did yoga for the first time. AD joined me. I will feel sore tomorrow. I'm out of phase with myself. I hope I can improve in how I feel about myself.
It's beyond perfect outside. I feel like I should walk around the backyard or something. Or maybe go to the park later. I suppose I'm content enough to sit in the living room, working and watching television (Judging Amy, at the moment), but restlessness may soon set in. Indefinite.
I just received a spam e-mail.
From myself.
The wireless router is in the office room, for all intents and purposes, almost across the house. So, I've been getting shaky signals in my room (almost always low), to the point where it would drop in and out (or totally out) for long stretches. As soon as I moved the laptop to the living room, though, things became better.
All this time (since Sunday, really), I'd been wanting to move the router out into the living room, but there wasn't an ethernet cable long enough to reach back to my brother's computer. Blah.
About 20 minutes ago, my connection dropped again; I got frustrated. I then remembered that my brother had a wireless adapter as well as a regular ethernet card.
Armed with this memory, I moved the router not five feet from its original location, just outside the office room wall. I made sure my brother's computer was working then came back to my room.
The signal is now consistently good or very good.
The point? Walls can be stupid. So can I.
The novelty of a laptop and wireless connection won't die yet.
