Back again.

Yup, JQ is back. And really, I'm the only one that will read this post. But, hopefully, it's not forever this time. I created a schedule, and have been following it better this time.

See I have this dream, that if I keep working on my blogs everyday, and make new post's, they will become popular and people will follow and read them. Even if it's not true, I really want to try. I have nothing to lose by this.

That's all, for now. Thanks for reading.

I don't want to miss July.

Hey everyone, sadly, I have not made as many blog post's as a wished. Here is your's (and mine's) list of things to blame.

• Google+
• Reddit
• U413
• School
• Straight up Procrastination

Not in any particular order. 

I for a time had a schedule that I followed, I was ready to write in my blog, practice go, learn stuff. etc.

It was solid and it was working well, I think I certainly felt more productive. I think I will do it again, hopefully after next week ends. Here is to me making a new schedule and following it in the future.

A toast to the occasion?

Really though, I think of what I accomplished in that time, when I was really studying, not just school, but go, programming, I was doing project's, I was reading real books, not just math or programming ones. I didn't do as much as I wanted but god damn it is more then I do now.

Thing is my parents don't complain, nobody would. Why?

I'm acing every test, I'm getting the best grades of my life. But at what sacrifice? When is the last programming project I wrote a line for?

How about writing a line in the spec for?

I would be lying to say I have done nothing, but it is trivial compared to what I should be doing, and have done before.

Is it worth it, is I'm really just working on school?

It's my fault though, you saw above, the first part of this post. My reason's made it clear, I have plenty of time to learn. So why don't I?

Is my brain being lazy? Or is it being tired?

I don't believe in such metal limits, at least I don't want to until they are proven. If I can do school and work on programming for 10 min in a week, there is no conceivable reason I cannot work on it for 20, and so on, until I realize there is no reason I could not be working at full speed right now. Writing in my blog, posting on Youtube, all that good stuff.

So no, it's a cop-out and I know it. I'm not sacrificing my life for school, my lazy subconscious is making that excuse. 

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That said, I can't seem to even spend full time on school, I am always doing things last minute, getting things done only just before time. And cramming before tests.

It's working for now, I don't want to find out how long it will.

My old quotes file.

A long time ago, I used gmail drafts to save data, like links and such. (I now use ubuntu one, dropbox or my own server).

Below is a old quotes file I found, thought it would be interesting to share it. It's at least 4 years old.

I have marked in bold the quotes that I particularly liked, upon reading it again. 

The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned. (Bruce Ediger, bediger@teal.csn.org, in comp.os.linux.misc, on X interfaces.)
..............................................
Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.
- Evan Esar
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It could be worse I guess. It could be 10,000 rhinoceroses instead of monkeys.
- Rick
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
- Gore Vidal
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone
........................................................
The difference between a monk and a philosopher is that a monk spends years trying to clear
his mind by meditation , a philosopher spends years trying to fill it by deep thinking.
- James Mcclain
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In hell you think of how great it would be to relive the worst days of your life.
- James Mcclain
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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
- Eric Hoffer
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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
- Ronald Reagan
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The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. (Favorite of this list)
- William Gibson
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I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
- Emo Phillips

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Tell me what you think of them, and if you have your own quotes file, share it.

Does this exist, or is this a unique mental disorder I invented?

So, I have *no* idea why this was going through my mind. But I had to write it down.
Considering *how* many mental disorders there are, I figure this *has* to be one, but I have not yet found one in my searches.

So here is a description:

Basically, for every object the person see's, they *have* to give it a name. So, as soon as they focus on something specific, in their mind they hear a name, and when they recognize that object again, they will remember that name. The person likely cannot choose the name that their mind gives the object.  So this means that while they should be able to remember what their friends name are, in their mind they will always hear the original name whenever they recognize their friend. It is like you recognize a face, or remember any other object by it's image, it's just they associate a proper noun to it.


So for this person, every door in his house, his cups(if he can distinguish them apart), his tv, the doornobs, have names.

They are not actively *remembering* these names, they simply *know* when they see the same thing again.

It's like this:
You walk into a denny's, you have to sit in a waiting area, and you notice a scratch on the wall. You look at it while you wait.

Then 2 days later, you go to the denny's again, and sit in the same place, you will certainly remember the scratch as the one you looked at before. A person with this disorder is the same, except when they remember it, they also hear "Jeff", or whatever name their brain gave the scratch originally.

So, for anyone reading this what do ya think?

Possible names for this syndrome:

• Adam and Eve Syndrome Taken
• Earthsea Syndrome # seems to be good. Maybe you guys can think of a better one.

I'm rather excited to write in my blog again.(soon)

I sadly don't have time now, or until this quarter ends, however, I believe I can work writing in my blog into my schedule. And most of all, writing in my actual entertainment blogs, not just this one. My Today I learned blog an my Let's Consider still get a pretty good amount of views. And that is with only a few post's. As I add more post's to them, more and more views come each day, from google searches and such. I hope to add many more post's to them, and see all the views they can get then.

The problem is, however, that this blog is very easy to write. They are not, I have to make sure what I write is interesting, and people want to share it, and people stay entertained. It's what they *deserve* if I hope to make any money off them. So, I need time to write in them.

My greatest hope is that eventually I will be able to put together a schedule where I make one post a week in each of them, I think that would be a massive improvement.

I *know* I could do it too. In fact, if I did not let myself get so behind, I would be able to do it *now*. But hopefully I will live and learn.

Look what I found out!

So I'm looking at my blogs and see that my Today I Learned blog still gets about 7 views a day, I was curious why, considering I only ever got to finishing one post (Though I swear I have like 3 in draft that I just need to finish up). And it terms out that they are from google searching. I look at the search term and there it was.

"Isaac Newton Ego"

I'm the top result on google for searching for those three words :D.

(Shown in incognito mode so google does not personalize the results.) 

A math test today.

In about a few min, I'm going to take a shower and then leave for school to take my math test. I feel pretty good about it actually. A lot of what we are doing in trig is just using concepts from geometry.

I *think* I can get an A. Anyway, wish me luck.


In other news, I installed Chrome Nanny, to block my from reddit and other offending sites, really I would like to only spend my time working, forget about TheLibrary or any other projects in my mind, and instead of going to reddit, I should at *least* be writing in this blog, because at least this can help me a bit.

Not so much *this* blog at least, but, my Let's Consider and Today I learned blog can, If I actually really tried, I feel I could make a decent income by writing in them.

Well, I'm off, bye.


EDIT: I felt I did good, I did have to guess on one problem because of time, but I was very calm throughout the test. I think I got an A.

A procrastinatory eater

I'm procrastinating right now, so I figure I might as well do something a little constructive with that time and write in my blog. Hopefully, after writing this, my damn mind will focus on math, and study.

Before this, I was procrastinating by reading up on any new legend of korra news on the avatar subreddit.
(And as I go the the tab to get the link for you guys, I had to fight the urge to click new and read any new posts. I did succeed though, however. )

Anyway, as far as the title. It is based on this observation. I am here, sitting in the De Anza computer center, with my book right next to me, and I am trying to make myself work. As I sit still, fighting with my own mind, I notice that I have the urge to go to get some food. "I Just ate", I think to myself. And I realize that the non-logical side of my brain, in a genius effort to get to keep procrastinating, caused me to be hungry. I then look back, and realize that it has done this *alot* recently. So, while I don't eat while I'm sad, and I'm happy about that, it seems that I do eat whenever I have something big to do that I am procrastinating on.

"Oh, James, that is just eating from stress" (Lets assume you tell me this)

No, it's not.

There are many more stressful situations, such as during a test, or or not being able to figure out some problem, or meeting some new people, or waiting for an upcoming event. I *never* feel unnaturally hungry in those situations, it is only when I am specifically trying to avoid doing something.

So there you go, a procrastinatory eater.

I'll leave you guys with this quote,

"procrastination is sort of like the unfortunate offspring of a situation where both low self-esteem and striving for perfection exist together" [1]

So, there it is, my post. I suppose I feel a bit better now,

I think I'll get a bite to eat.

CITATIONS:
1.http://healthygirl.org/2010/05/11/procrastination-station/

The story of emoobia, take one.

So, I've decided I will write the opening lines of emoobia. And I plan to do this over and over again, until I think I have it right. I have tried to write them before, only to completely fail. So, here is my first take (on this blog)


In the beginning, there was nothing. The entirety of existence was that of a single point, infinitly small. Time was the creator of the first universe, bringing a force into existence broke the resolve of oblivion, and it cracked. Energy formed, and particles connected to each other, in a random pattern. Those random patterns eventually formed together to create an intelligent being of pure energy.

Then the being watched, it watched as the universe formed. It collected energy, and it discovered it can synthesize matter. The building blocks of the universe. But the energy needed to create matter was great, and it could not collect it all in itself. It found that the greatest way to store energy was in matter. So it created created a stone, whose sole purpose was to hold reserve power of which to build the universe. The most refined and pure stone ever to be in existence. And there started the first relationship to ever happen. Knowledge and power, both pure and without ethics and emotion, living symbolically, creating the universe.

U413 is back up. Everyone get in there!

PiMaster has done amazing work on u413. A social site for geeks of all kinds, where people can chat and talk in an intelligent, and/or fun discussion. I'm posting this to let everyone who views my blog, and looks at my post's on google+ to know about it. To register, simply type "register". No email required.


Some extra info.

The site is programmed in an old 90's BBS type theme, yet made with web 3.0 technologies. This is purposely it's look and feel.

To use the site, after you register, type "Boards", you will see all the categories you can post to. To get a list of all the recent topics, you can type board all or board 0.

To go to a topic, type "topic [#topicnumber]"

To reply to it, type reply. To go to the next page, type next or prev, optionally just hit the page number.

For a new topic, type newtopic.

That should be good enough for now, if you need any more help. Simple type "HELP". 

Some appreciation of tau.

So, school has started. Believe me when I say I have wrote a lot of blog post's, it's just... they are all in drafts and not public yet. But, I'm writing this one during lunch, and I will have time to post it the same day ( I swear).

Anyway, It's my second day of math, Precal with Trig. And we finally did this thing:

Which, I had more fun then I'd like to admit doing.
Anyway, I've seen it done before on youtube by that girl who has a fetish for spirals and math, and doing it myself helped me understand why tau made more sense.

I'm not going to pretend that I understand all the extra complexities that there are to it, but I think understanding it a little bit helps me to say truthfully that I can appreciate it.

That's all for now,


- JamezQ

A Promise to me.

So, I'm happy to see people are still checking my blogs. And it makes me feel bad for not writing anything recently. So, here is a public promise that I will update them, let's give me until tuesday.

If I break this promise, I suck big time. And so, since I am publicly stating this, hopefully my brain will start working on them. As to not be embarrassed when the time comes to find out that my aptitude to slack off projects of any kind is stronger then my logical brain, who wishes for me to get project done and achieve things.

This is short, almost a status frankly. But the important thing is, everyone can see it.

Finals, school soon over, a new change.

Well, I was happy to learn that today was *not* the day I had my math final. So I'm feeling a lot better today.

The main point of this post is, that school is over soon. And I would like to get to improving myself again.

I want to create a new schedule to workout, study go, and work on programming projects.

I may post an example once I am done.

To think, school is over soon. Amazing.

Lessons from a bad drink order.

So, here is another post for the least viewed blog of mine. In fact, not a single person viewed the last post I made...

That said, the other blogs, (especially Today I Learned), are doing *very* well. And this is a personal blog anyway, it's not supposed to be the interesting.

So, what inspired me to post today?

A crappy drink order, at Quickly in De Anza.
I have no problem at all with the store, I have had some good food and drinks there. But I have re-learned two lessons from this drink.

1.  If you order something you have never ordered before, *never* get it in Large...
2. If you order something large, you *will* force yourself to drink it all, no matter how sick it makes you. (This one may only apply to me)

The drink, if your wondering. Is Mango flavored milk tea, with mango stars and perls.

Disgusting....

Now, I think I'm going to share this post, so I feel loved by people clicking the link out of pitty.

Some memories for u413.

I've decided to write the title after writing this post.

So, as some of you know, the geek site u413 went down, and so PiMaster took up the job of trying to rebuild it. He wants to do it in python, and is using cgi. Here is the github, for those interested.

Anyway, I have been trying to help. And have been put off by a few things. One is cgi, another is a bit of the way the code works. (which me and pi are working on fixing).

But most of all, I'm having trouble fully remembering python, and not just that. Mysql too.
I'm sure it will come back to me, but I would like it to be sooner rather then later, considering I would like to help pi put u413 up.

At least, until I can start working on my own site, TheLibrary. Which as of now is just in my brain. But possibly will be a project when I have time.

Until then, I will work on C.

Keeping with the rhythm.

Class in 30 minutes, I think I got time for a post.

School has been going decently well, I'll need an extension on the C assignment I have. But it's okay because the teacher is understanding and always gives one when you ask. Anyway, that will give me time to study for the math test, which is the big deal at the end of this (and every) week.

The chapters that this test is on is chapter three of my precal book, which are the ones that introduced logarithms. Which I just learned about. Pretty cool, actually. But I do need to spend a few more hours studying to be ready for the test.

Wow, you just read me talking about logarithms and a math test and you're still reading. You must really love me.


So in other news I have a few more idea's for a youtube channel and blog.
That's not to say I don't want to continue the Today I learned blog, I do. As soon as I have time to write the next article on it, I will. (Which might be today or tomorrow). Anyway, the "problem" with the TIL blog is that each article takes a decently long time, it is like writing a mini research paper. This is definitely a good thing, I did not expect it to be easy to write a good, entertaining blog. People appreciate hard work and enjoy learning and cited sources. So I expect to continue doing the TIL blog this way.

That said, I also enjoy rants, where I can talk or type and not worry about it sounding too professional, just getting some opinions out there. That is why I came up with the idea of "To Consider".

The "To Consider" blog works like this.

• I pick a topic to rant about.
• I say some good things about it.
• I say some problems with it.
• I ask the viewer/reader for further discussion.

I will try to have this more casual, more open to discussion, and unlike the TIL blog, I think this one will be suited for video too. 

I will try to talk about things I already know about with this one, and not do too much research, as I want to keep it more as a discussion as not a presentation. 

Thanks for reading,

JamezQ

My car was recovered.

So, I'm sure most of you don't know. But my car was stolen a few days ago. I live in a pretty good neighborhood , yet the car was stolen from right in front of my house. Amongst other cars, which look a lot nicer.

My guess is this choose mine because they assumed mine did not have a security system, like the other cars did.

Most cars get recovered before 3 days, so my hopes were up because of that fact. It was 4 days past when my car got recovered. Basically, what happens is someone reported it in. Here is my exact guess of how it happens.

1. Some people steal a car.
2. Brag to their friends about it.
3. One friend thinks, hey, that's fucked up. So he calls it in without getting his friends in trouble.

So I think that says something about there being good people in this world. One being that there are good people, and two being that you only need one good person in a chain of ne'er do wells for the outcome to be good.

The car was returned in good shape, some tools and the spare tire were stolen, but overall good. 

Something interesting though, there was a ticket to a broadway show in new york, dated for last year, in the car. So...., I don't know what to make of that. Maybe you can come up with something.

My final point: I hear there are certain secret techniques top bloggers use to get more views. I have decided to start using these. You may not notice them, but they are there. In my research, they are proven to work.

== BEGIN SUBTLE TECHNIQUE TO INCREASE VIEWERS==

== END SUBTLE TECHNIQUE TO INCREASE VIEWERS==

I hate sleep.

I now have a smile on my face, because in the blog statistics, I had 5 views before I came on. That means that some people are actually reading it without me asking them to. (Or there is someone who views my blog 5 times in a row via proxy)

Now to the topic at hand, sleep sucks. It's a waste of time. For all the good things it does to your body, I feel like our species would be better if we were able live like deer, who only sleep 5 minutes a day.

I find it interesting that scientist still don't know exactly why we sleep, or why we have to sleep for as long as we do. [1][2]

But, sleep is something special. It's not a dormant state, where we would try to conserve energy. All animals have dormant states, even plants. But sleep, especially in us. Is *not* a dormant state. We actually use *more* energy sleeping then when we are ideally awake. And our brain is much more active. Which suggests it is doing something.

Of our best guesses are:

• Enforcing memory, our brain runs through the same things we remember doing that day over and over, so that the synapse is stronger, and we will be able to remember it longer.
• Regenerating cells and fighting infections.

The first is the reason scientist's (and teachers) say to get a good nights rest before an exam. And there has been studies that verify that sleep makes a difference in that respect. (But we are only guessing as to *why*)

The second is the reason that people tell you to get lots of  sleep when you are sick. Which also has evidence that it helps.

But the parts of sleep that we have no good guesses about are much larger, why we dream, why we need to sleep a certain amount of time to feel rested. etc.

On that last point, the cracked article below says a man claimed to have not slept for years, he is wrong. (In case your wondering, the record for longest time without sleep is 18 days) 

A little research says that it turns out it was a misunderstanding. Because he thought that getting below recommended sleep meant "no sleep". In reality, he got 2-3 hours of sleep a day. Which we already know is possible with Polyphasic Sleep.

I'm rather interested by the idea that I could be awake for 22 hours a day. Even 4 would be a great improvement. A few sources say that it does not necessarily increase your productivity, but it is really something I have to try for myself.

My current sleep schedule is a 6 hour Monophasic sleep cycle. I go to sleep at 1:30 AM, and then get up at 7:30 AM, I switched to this schedule from a 10-hour sleep day.

Here are a few noticeable differences compared to 10-hours:



• I feel more awake in the morning. (But still feel like sh*t)
• I feel more awake and focused during the day.
• I feel significantly more sleepy at night (starting around 12:30), and I feel that I would not be able to pull an all-nighter on this sleep schedule.
• It have to try slightly harder during my morning class to stay awake, but not that much, and I still find myself more focused.

I'm not sure what effects it will have in the far future. But so far it has been positive. Scientists say that 3% of people have certain gene that allows them to do fine on 6 hours. [3]Here's to hoping I have that gene. 

Citations:
1. http://www.cracked.com/article_19442_8-simple-questions-you-wont-believe-science-cant-answer.html
2. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.02/bigquestions.html?pg=3#sleep
3. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2009-08-13-sleep-gene_N.htm

New Youtube, New blog. Some ideas.

Hey look at me, I'm actually posting.

Anyway, I was thinking to myself, about this blog, and my youtube channel and thought to myself.

"It's generally not that interesting to watch(or read) people just talk about themselves, at least unless I know the person personally"

So that means that the maximum about of people that will probably watch those is just people who consider me their friend. Which, is maybe 15 people.

So, what do *I* like to watch? Well, I like funny videos, and seeing funny stuff. But I don't know if I'm the kind of guy who can come up with that on the spot. I like informational videos, but creating long how-to's is hard, and I need pretty good video editing skills to keep people entertained for more then a couple of minutes. So, what do I spend my time viewing, that is short and interesting.

Well, I think back to the time I spend on reddit, and besides the funny stuff and ask science, my favorite part of it is the todayilearned subreddit. So I decided I would make a blog and a youtube channel based of this idea.

I'm not going to copy what is on the subreddit, but rather the idea of a TIL, some short interesting factoid.
Here are some basic idea's of the channel:

• I plan to have videos 1-2 minutes long
• Talk about some interesting fact, along with some extra info about it.
• Try to get idea's for videos naturally, as in stuff I incidentally learn. 
• Research the topic to get more info, and share it.

Along with the youtube channel, there will be a companion blog, that will talk about the same thing as the video, not exactly a transcript but similar, and will also give people sources to whatever I talk about. I will likely write the blog post first, then post the video. 

With short 1-2 min videos, I hope for them to be rewatchable and interesting. And good enough to share.

I will continue to update this blog and my original youtube channel with more personal stuff, as well as introducing new projects. I will also post here when I make my first TIL video.

An exercise in blogging.

So, I have not written a single blog post in about 2 years. That sucks.

But the best way to get started has to be by writing something. So I will. I will try to, a few times a week, write *something* to the blog. And hopefully it will be interesting. As I get better, and the task of writing itself becomes less of a big deal, I can devote more time to content.