On making posts

So I've realized making posts that I would be proud of actually is not a one-shot thing. It's simply not something I can do in a single sitting. Gathering all my thoughts is probably the hardest things.

See for me, the best thinking comes for me when I don't try and think. It just comes when I let my mind wander. Fortunately, it comes back, but it's not an on demand type of thing. So writing a post in a single topic in a single sitting would be hard.

My current plan of action is to write whatever I want to as it comes to mind and write it as a draft. Then, when more comes to mind, I'll edit the draft and keep working on it 'till it's done... yeah, that's what I'll do... I mean, except for this one...

Potential Post Topics

The title was self explanatory (But I guess this is mainly so I don't forget):

---------THE LIST-------------
Origami
Manga
Arch Linux
Wii homebrew
Procrastination
Viewpoints and Aging
Webcomics
Communication
How to make a dominating product.
Powerful influcences on me
BYU
Girls
Handstands
Bodyweight excercises
Language learning
Awesome gamecube games
Missionary work
Awesome flash games (super karoshi and ginormo sword)
What systems like Facebook + Twitter should move towards.
Cool junk (Project Natal, wiimote hacking + a TED talking)
Ridiculous log
Movies I love
Awesome board/in person games
Why I like sleep
Why I want to eat better
Perception is everything
Understanding people (as relates to charity)
Awesome books (mostly OSC)
What computers *should* be like (complaints)
Things just working out (as related to math and the gospel)
Awesome nostalgic stuff (hovershoes, eating crayons, etc.)
Food eating strategy
Why I love my family (Beyond the obvious)
Clicks, groups and fitting in.
Spiraling mindsets and paradigm shifting
Tenets I live by (or at least believe) (sleep fail)
Sayings and awesome words
Things I had wish I had done
Goals
Cool useful sites (Where I get my skillz)
Body tricks (whistling, the lack there of, and ears)
----------------------End List--------------------------

Well, I don't know how many that is, but that should last a good month or so.

Probably till my mission actually.

Major Changes

So, this blog has been dead for a while. I thought I might as well revive it. However, it's not really going to be about programming so much any more.
So it's less like I'm reviving this blog, than I am just commandeering it...

What will go here you ask? Well, just things that have been on my mind. Brain dumps. I do tend to think about things a lot so you'll get to hear my views on life. Yeah, I don't usually go spouting them, but what the hey. Maybe I'll post something that's actually insightful....

[EDIT] I might post something insightful, but maybe not... in fact probably not. I do however hope to post at least once a day on a fairly random topic... which may or may not or may or may not be serious. [/EDIT]

But anyway, this'll only go on for about a month and a half; I leave for my mission on the 29th of July....

On Girls

So I've learned several things about girls, the second one just kicked in today.

First, they can be very motivating.
Second, you don't realize how much you wanted too ask one on a date until your roommate asks her.

A gut-wrenching ouch.

[Edit] I did ask this girl on a date, and it went well. It took me two hours to do it, but I did. It didn't really do anything though. So, end of story. [/Edit]

Stupid Exercise Programs

So, it appears that even though the exercise classes (martial arts, raquet ball, volley ball, etc.) open for registration, they are no sections available to register for. That is, there are no sections actually offered yet. You have to rain check one and I don't know when they will actually open up the classes based off of the rain checks. Grrrr... I don't why I posting, but this is annoying beyond belief. I'm going to check if they have sections at one, and if they don't, then I'll go to bed. (Sigh)

I other news, I bought Kung-fu Panda and have watched it twice.

Skadoosh.

Lost Work

So when I upgraded my Kubutu install from 8.04 to 8.10, the software sources got all messed up and I couldn't install new software. So I decided to get my data off of the partition and on to a seperate one so I could install OpenGEU without beaning my data. Well I thought the data copy went well, but it turns out I lost several journal entries and ALL my programming stuff, including the stuff for the college tracker program boo.

That left me at several crossroads, the first being deciding whether to restart development. I think I will. The second question is what toolkit to use. I had been using Qt, which is what KDE uses and that was fine when I was using Kubuntu. But now, I'm using OpenGEU, and that uses gtk. My app in Qt would not mesh well with the look of my desktop. I really do want to use Qt for two reasons though: I am familiar with it, and there is QtDesigner, which is really nice for making the interfaces. Luckily, I stumbled upon a project which allows Qt4 apps to draw themselves using the gtk theme; sweet! That means I can use Qt with no worries. Now to get back to coding...

[Edit] Obviously, I never did restart the work. Oh well. I thought I would, but then second semester was busy :) I mean, busy. [/Edit]

Cooking Fun

I really need to learn how to cook. I really do.

Last week at Nicole's, we were making Jumbalia. I helped with the onions, tomatoes and green peppers. I didn't know how to do any of the them, at all. On the plus side, I did the celery chopping very fast because Bro. Slattebo used that in an object lesson, and he can really cook well.

This week, I'm making Chicken Enchiladas. I hope it goes well. The biggest obstacle is the chicken, which I should be able to cook, but can't. Wo is me.

I'm seriously going to learn to cook one of these days.

Major Software Progress.

So today I upgraded from Kubuntu 8.04 to 8.10. It surprised when I ended up with a KDE4 desktop instead of 3, but it's all good; gotta love the widgets...

I also have reached a milestone in my pet programming project, College Tracker. I actually have a semi-useful GUI framework. That is to say, you can add semesters and classes, view them, save your work, and that's about it. But that's huge. It came along with a major step up in my PyQt4 programming knowledge. (PyQt4 is the gui toolkit I use to make the program.) For instance, I have learned how to effectively use Qt4Designer, learned how to and have created a custom widget that shows up in it, and have a better idea of the widgets available out there.

I've decided the next milestones are thus:
0.1 - [Alpha] add/remove/edit semesters/courses/class periods. The class periods will make this tough. Also, loading with a dialog.
0.2 - add a wizard for first run; system
0.3 - add assignment tracking
0.4 - add support of computer stored assignments
0.5 - add support for documents
0.6 - [Beta]add a good calendar view; make computer installable;
0.7 - add a todo feature
0.8 - add builtin assignment viewing (pyKDE)
0.9 - [Release Candidate] add Anki support
1.0 - [Release] general bug fixes; other things I deem neccessary.

I have also resovled all outstanding girl issues at this point.
I have also have no classes tomorrow.
Good night.

Femaie topics.

So I watched Hitch tonight. Ridiculous.

In other news, Sam still doesn't have good social bearings (ie. accurate) with one female. Hmmm....

I feel like I should post other things here, but I don't know.

Yay, pyqt rad works

So, I'm happy. I finally figured out how to use the Qt4Designer to make forms and GUIs and then program them in python. If I didn't figure this out I would have to design the forms by using programming statements. That's less intuitive and and I can't see how it's going to look without testing it. Now that I can use Qt4Designer, things will go a lot faster.

In other news, Sam has two tests next week. Yay :(