Its been a while since I've updated this thing. Quite a few things have been happening. I guess I should read my last post to see where I left off ... (reading) ... (analyzing timecode) ... (rendering) ... Done! Ok, I see what happened. I was distracted by this string of natural disasters (A FUCKING EARTHQUAKE? AND A HURRICANE? LESS THAN A WEEK APART?) along with all of the bullshit that comes with going to a HBCU. It seems like the administrative processes are flawed at a basic level no matter where you go. If you feel differently please let me know. Side note: I would hate for the human race to be destroyed by a natural or string of natural disasters. Where are the zombies? I think the world would benefit from a common enemy. Get on it Umbrella Corp. Stop all this fighting and inequality. Zombies, the great equalizer.
I have officially started my Howard university journey. I've got my classes and I'm doing better than expected. Most notably I'm taking a few 3D modeling classes using Maya, 3DS Max, and Modo, and I love the environment. Ellen Pagesaid it best in Inception, "Its just pure creation."
I'm not as shocked by the experience as I was at Tuskegee. I guess because I'm much older and wiser than before. Its like high school all over again but people see less intelligent. Hehe. Occasionally I run into those who like to snicker or tell a joke behind my back. I used to let those people slide. I call them out now and I've to find out that most of those people, as we say in the hood, are bitch. Spineless, simple minded, bitch ass mutha fuckas :) I'm thankful for them though. I would be bored without them. I guess I'm on my grown man shit. Kicking ass and taking names while riding on a cloud (hehe) and it feels good.
Speaking of kicking ass, I seem to have lost all of my natural ability in the FPS genre. Black Ops and Gears of war 2 are now almost unbearable to play. And its not like a have a terrible connection or anything. It just seems like I have the worst aim possible. But to defend myself I have been out of the game for a few years. I just picked it back up a few months ago and I'm no slouch but I have not been bodying these hoes like I used to. The occasional killstreak or curbstomp will keep me in the game but the feeling of greatness is fleeting at best. For those of you that are reading this and aren't helping me beat these ass holes on Xbox Live, The gamertag is obviously "Suplox." I could use some help. However, I cannot stop shaking over the release of GOW3. 11 days left.
I've got a new toy and I'm actually using it to write this post right now and I'm finding more uses for it every day. Its the Acer A500 Iconia Tablet. And it is a beast. More than the iPad at almost half the price. I love it. HDMI, Front and rear facing camera, Full sized USB port, and expandable memory, its amazing. Sporting the Android 3.1 (gingerbread i believe it is called), I have access to tons of apps. The ones I find myself using the most are Autodesk's Sketchbook pro and Genial Writing. Had to get a stylus and protective case which ran me about $50 but that is the only downside I've ran into to date. Another great app is LumiRead which came with the thing. I normally don't like to read books but I've come to find myself downloading a few novels and other texts just to read on this thing.
One of the books I've been reading on this thing is The End of Faith by Sam Harris. Obviously by the title you can tell the book is about how religion (and not just that blowem' up muslim shit, all religions) has no place in our world of logic and reason. It makes clear observations at the way religion is destroying the human race by opening the doors of inequality and by slowing technological advance to a crawl. The amount of undeniable truth in this book is unnerving. Most people are afraid to fight against large forces. I am proud to say that I am one of the proud few. We are living in revolutionary times and I cannot wait to see the coming change. As soon as I'm done with this post I'm going to pick it back up and I suggest you do the same. You can even find it online if you look hard enough. Thanks a lot jsk and darksiderg!
"There seems, however, to be a problem with some of our most cherished beliefs about the world: they are leading us, inexorably, to kill one another. A glance at history, or at the pages of any newspaper, reveals that ideas which divide one group of human beings from another, only to unite them in slaughter, generally have their roots in religion. It seems that if our species ever eradicates itself through war, it will not be because it was written in the stars but because it was written in out books; it is what we do with words like "paradise" and "sin" in the present that will determine our future.
Words like "God" and "Allah" must go the way of "Apollo" and "Baal," or they will unmake our world."
