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Friday, June 28, 2002 Wow, flashback time. Today is the 30th anniversary of Atari. I used to have an Atari pong game. Hehe. And later an Atari 800 computer, which I bought cuz I thought it was better than my Commodore VIC-20 computer. I really wanted the Atari 1200 but it was too expensive. I think the Atari 800 cost me about $500 but I rarely used it for anything but playing games because its BASIC programming language *sucked*. The Atari had I think 8k of RAM and my VIC-20 had 3.5k but I could write longer programs on my VIC. I'd always run outta memory on the Atari after spending *hours* typing the darn things in. The VIC rocked though, it had a lotta capability for its 3.5k and you could abbreviate commands which saved tons of memory, so instead of typing in PRINT for instance you could just type P. That's a huge savings. Anyway, I wish I'd kept my old Atari and my old beloved VIC-20. I learned to program on my VIC (well, sorta more like I learned to type in programs from Compute! magazine and debug them and modify the sprites and stuff. The only things I could program from scratch were dumb things like a thing that listed all my records.) I wish I'd gotten a Commodore 64 computer too (I wanted one of those too but couldn't afford one) cuz then I coulda gotten on the internet! I remember reading about the internet and 300 baud modems in Compute! magazine back in the dark ages and thinking it sounded way cool. Too bad I didn't stick with computers back then I coulda been a l33+ d3v now or something instead of a loser. Hehe.
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Today is the last airing of the television show Politically Incorrect  They'll probably put some politically correct family values god-promoting show in its place. I may have to boycott ABC again. But I'll wait till The Mole is over. I love The Mole. Even though the mole got booted last week. <evil grin> Well, maybe not but I still think Elavia is the mole. <sigh>Anyway, write to ABC and tell them thanks for letting the whiners kill Politically Incorrect. 
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Thursday, June 27, 2002 ::Note to self: Don't skip caffeine fix day before test. :: I am dumb, yesterday I didn't have any caffeine cuz we had a project thingie to present in my speech class and caffeine + nervousness = disaster so I thought it'd be a good idea to not do any drugs yesterday so I wouldn't get anxious in my class. But I forgot about that little teeny side effect I get when I skip caffeine for a day - the next day I get a raging migraine. Heh. And I had a test this morning. And the painkillers didn't kick in in time so I was basically in major pain not to mention feeling dizzy, and the air's humidity was aggravating my asthma (which only bothers me if it's humid or if I'm nervous by the way). So, I couldn't breathe, I felt like I was gonna pass out and my head hurt so bad I couldn't think or see straight, so I got the test over with as quickly as possible. The good news is I didn't over-analyze any questions like I normally do, I just picked the most obvious answer from the questions I could actually read (the long ones I gave up on cuz I couldn't see straight). It'd be really funny if I got an A on the test cuz I've not done very well on this teacher's previous tests, in fact I've never gotten an A on her tests unless she adjusts the grading curve or tosses out a question or two.
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Wednesday, June 26, 2002 Wow, they're finally maybe gonna change the Pledge of Allegiance to the way I've been saying it since third grade! Well, almost, I didn't used to say that part about "liberty and justice for all" either because it was a lie. Kind of interesting though, personally I think it's kinda cool but on the other hand this country was sorta founded on Christian principles, like it or not, and most Christians that I know of at least claim to believe in God. <grin> Maybe they'll change our currency to say "In Corporate Greed We Trust" instead of "In God We Trust" too! Yay!
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Tuesday, June 25, 2002 Well, sheesh, this means I'll have to give up another one of my favorite meals. Grrr, how I am supposed to meet the requirements of my four food groups now? First I hear caffeine is bad, then salt and sugar and now fried fat! Grrrr. Hehe. No more lunches of goldfish crackers or french fries for me I guess. <pout> Maybe I should become a vegetarian again, I mean they serve veggie Whoppers at Burger King now, right? Of course they don't make them the same as their regular Whoppers, I dunno why they think vegetarians don't like ketchup and pickles on their "burgers". Vegetarians aren't weird or anything. Erm ... yeah. Well, I was weird when I was a veggie in junior high. Try going out with your teenage friends to Jack in the Box and ask the clerk if the beans in the burritos are fried in lard or vegetable fat and see how popular you get!
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Monday, June 24, 2002 What happens when someone steals your eyeball? Ok, let me explain. I am working on a report for my speech class on identity theft and while doing research, I ran across stuff on biometrics and how it'll be the Next Big Thing in privacy protection and all that. Yeah. Whatever. Anyway, the argument the pro-biometrics people give is that it's safer since if someone steals your credit card, for instance, they can't use it unless their eyeball matches the retinal scan the bank has on file for your card. This sounds all fine and dandy. But there's a catch. As things are now, if someone steals your credit card, you generally report it to the credit card issuing company and they cancel the card and issue you a new one. But what happens when a thief steals your credit card when it's attached to a biometric marker? Does the bank just issue a new card and link it to your eyeball? What if someone steals your eyeball? Then what do you do? Do you go to the bank, one-eyed, and try to explain that they need to link up your remaining eyeball with your credit card data? And how do you prove it's really your card? And how do you keep the bank employees from laughing?
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