Quick rhyme for the day. Which was yesterday btw, I'm just late uploading the video. Slept till 11:30 this morning/day/whatever so I'm feeling pretty refreshed, despite intense unseizable rainfall. :)

Been a while since I played Underground. Drifting was easy. :) Sorry about quality fuzz.

I thought I use a lot of metaphors, but I just became aware that maybe I never use metaphors. What I do use are similes. I tend to add a 'like' between the object being compared and the end-result, and apparently that's not a metaphor any longer. Strange huh?

I wonder how many people who speak of metaphors actually use them? I know I've heard the word occasionally used in lyrics, and I'm not so sure it's used correctly any longer. I think it was through the lyrics I took my own definition of the word metaphor for granted. Anyway. Say it with a simile (smile, get it? yeah?)... that's my new motto. Also, the words Metonymy or Synecdoche just won't stick in my mind... at least not the spelling. Writing similes is a lot easier.

I've been studying on distance at various universities for uhm... on and off for 4 years now.

So far, most of my teachers have been real woozies. IOW, Swedish teachers. Teachers that comply to a students any and all requests, don't mind if you miss a deadline, and probably raise your grade if you would ask them to. This semester I've a teacher from California, the first one that (so far) properly defines the balance of understanding and discipline that teachers must have to withhold an aura of respect and reliability.

Handing in assignments late is not tolerated. Each assignment handed in late (without medical or other supremely valid reason) results in a 1/2 letter drop in the final grade. The introductory guide for the course is comprehensive. It spans 10 pages and boasts 6,530 words. Additionally there are videos to supplement this information, a detailed schedule, and examples on all course momentum.

I've been made a bit apathetic by courses in which the teachers have no control, take no control, or don't seem to care as much as they should. This semester it's different. Obviously it'll be tougher than usual too. The course I'm speaking about runs at halftime pace, and according to the teacher the time requirement lies at about 20 hours per week and frequent activity on the university platform. I have no doubt in mind that I'll be spending at least 20 hours every week on course, though I still can't seem to let go of a naive belief that just maybe I'm a bit more clever and effective than the rest of the crowd and will complete the required assignments in considerably less time. It's a belief that's leftover from other courses I've taken that have at times not been pleasant events, partially due to lack of discipline, partially due to lack of interesting material.

Even if I don't really like discipline, I've come to realize that it's necessary for there to be progress. Though I realize this I still don't like it; maybe I never will, but that's a part without relevance. This time, all is as it should be, and I'm probably going to have my hands full the rest of this year. Not as much free time? Not a problem. At least now, I feel obligated to comply. I mean I feel inspired. I feel like learning.

Yesternight I slept peacefully, unaware of the fact that the 1,67GB large file I was uploading to YouTube during my sleeptime had in fact been aborted, failed, and that my OS (Win 7) had rebooted itself without permission at the start of the new day. When I sat down by the computer at 8:30, the first thing I saw was the login screen; for the first time I was enraged at the sight of it.

I know Windows was just waiting for me to reboot manually (there was that little shield on the downpowering button) so that it could install an important update. What I didn't know is that it would reboot by itself, without my permission, disrupting a full workday's workworth of uploading video material, if I didn't.

I can't upload videos at day, because I'm by the computer at day, and uploading videos to YouTube uses up all available bandwidth, making any other surfing incredibly slow and at times impossible. Enough of the reason for the rant though, the point is that I really truly dislike Windows rebooting without my authorization. Suddenly I feel like my level of control over my own computer has dropped significantly. What next? Will it start rebooting even while I sit here, typing this? That would be pretty shitty.

Statistics from Worms (Reloaded I think) from a few years back. I've played a lot of Worms, and installed/uninstalled a lot of times, tried a lot of versions, even the demo for Worms 3D (which sucked btw)... not sure which game this is from.