FJ Blog

My ASL class was canceled today.. I diddn't recieve an e-mail.. it would be easy for me to say technophobia on part of that damn dept. but I'm begining to wonder.. Are d/Deaf people in genearal technophobes? I mean there's Baudot, and AOL.. bleagh. or maybe its the fact that it's a lot of teacher's college people.. they're technophobic... sure we get technophobia even where I work, in the business college.. (90+% of desktops are business machines *shrug*) .. but.. ugh I miss the college of Engineering and Technology, and I miss the BSE dept. they knew how to run things. If I had an idea on how to do something or a better method they were open to it they wanted to hear it and if it was a good idea they might even use it. if was a sucky Idea they teach me how to make better ideas.. that's what I loved about the Biological Systems Engineering program.. I'm a problem solver at heart, the program really allowed me to be myself.

In other things I'm still determined to start a new student organization, but, I just don't have time to mess with it this week and maybe not even next week :( so, who knows. I should find some one willing to help me out.. OK, if you go to UNL and you're actually reading this. let me know.. uh email me at.. um herb7000@hotmail.com all I need is a hand full of people.. and then I'll have a student orginzation.. I need officers.. I plan to be presedent at first. but I need a secratary and a treserer.. so if you're a student here grab this chance to pad your resumè.

in even more news I have two.. exams tomorrow.. one I'm not worried about too much.,., but the other *shudder* oh I'm not looking forward to that.. wish me luck. .... I still havn't done any thing with getting the other ethernet port in my room activated.. at 2:00 I'll go down the the place "Res-net" or whatever they call it.(fortunately its here in between dorm buildings -- attached to this very building I "live" in where I'm updateing my blog as I type) Then, I'm gonna gather my books and walk over to the union and find a comfy place to sit and review review review.. Tonight I have to go see Shakespear's Measure for Measure I have to write a stinking 3 page paper for the class I'm in too.. bleagh.. so that sucks 'cause now I have to worry about a bad-ass exam and pay enough attention to this darn play so that I can write a 3 page paper on it by the end of next week. and in the mean time for about 20 min I'm gonna clean up my room.. (yeah it's a mess) and play my mp3s.. hopefully I can settle down a bit so that I can actually study later this afternoon.

Jimmy John is my hero..

I got that old clunker of a computer goin tonight.. it's gonna be my server.. but.. I only have one active ethernet port in my room.. that totally sucks., and I don't know when I'll be able to get it activated.

If I had the power I would prohibit the manufacture of communication devices that use baudot. for those of you who don't know baudot is a standard that's around 30 years old. It uses only 5 bits, so it's very limited. Unlike ASCII that uses 7 data bits and an 8th error correction bit. It dates back to the time when data could only travel at about 45 bps. and that's where it sits today. You know how much a TTY device cost? $300 or more. it's f-ing insane. if you want one that supports ASCII you'll have to pay even more. The manufacturing of these devices should be illegal. here's what I propose, take the money currently used to subsidize these things, for those that need them, and replace every one that uses baudot with one that uses ASCII only. then once we have a decent fricken standard the cost of these devices will drop like crazy. heck I could turn an old 486 into one. there's freeware available if only I didn't have to worry about that damn outdated standard. Luckily for me though I think most of them will auto detect ASCII, so, that's good. Maybe I should write a letter to my congressmen. Something should be done.
Update: hmm these things use blue vacuum florescent displays .. that's probably why they're so darn expensive

Ok, um yeah that previous post was probably pretty confusing.. don't worry about that.. if it bothers you just ask and I can make clarifications. The other day I got an e-mail from the group president. Just when I think that this whole complicated mess is over, they want to sit down and discuss the whole issue with me. This freaked me out. Why do they want to talk to me? (they being the president and this Faculty .. um person) here is a piece of the e-mail ver batum.

I am suprised that you took this into your own hands before you discussed it with us..........the FDC OFFICERS ...../and got a response. WE would have to oversee anything that you would have done on this webpage......

OK, that's it.. all those periods and caps are part of the original. She is surprised that I took it into my own hands.. (I was just getting as much stuff together as I could so that I wouldn't look like an idiot! I don't want to say I can do it and then a month later say "oops sorry". Besides these are AOL users they don't have the slightest idea of what it takes to put together a website. sure they might be able to put together a primitive web page but it'd be boring and get out dated fast. I had something more along the lines of a blog in mind)
They would have to oversee anything that I'd do.. well no crap. do they think I'm gonna slap the school logo on and host a porn site or something? I mean what the hell? Again AOL users. Their mental image if a website compared to mine is like comparing two glued popsicle sticks, to the Eiffel tower.
I sent an e-mail back and asked her to be more specific. This whole idea just gives me the creeps. I want to walk away from it. I've considered starting my own group. I printed out the standard procedures and regulations .. doesn't seem to hard. This next week I'm gonna get all my ducks in a row.. (I don't know why I like that expression so don't ask me) my only concern is getting the student gov't to vote and recognize this new group as an official student organization.

UUUHHHGGGHHH!

I was just trying to be an active member in a student group.. I was trying to be involved. Isn't that why they call it student involvement? *sigh* There is a student group here called FDC. I've mentioned them before in my blog. They don't have many members, and they are looking for ways to promote membership. All announcements are currently done via e-mail. well. I'd finish this but I need to leave.

Update: Ok.. here's what happened. I was blogging.. then I got called away at work.. and well I messed something up ( installed wireless trackball software onto windows 2K and well the software kinda didnt like it.. it diddn't kill it but it made the machine un useable. and there was a dead power supply.. anyway.. it took me a long time to fix what was not to big of an issue.. heh I know not to install that stupid prgram under NT now. ) OK... as I was saying earlier I was deeply depressed by a turn of events that occured yesterday.. I was sick to my stomach. First I get the run around... As I've mentinoned previously, and then things weren't adding up... it was all odd.. I was upset. I felt like people were playing games with me. I go to speak with the guy that was giving me the runaround and after him being a jerk and giving me double talk when I ask a simple question I talk down to him .. I basicly ask him what makes him qualified for his job (he sounded like some one that diddn't know what they were doing b ut I'll get to my new theory in a second) this seemed to disturb him. I realize I'm not getting any where with this prick and they're about to tell me to just leave anyway. I say "well I'm sorry to bother you guys" (yeah right) and I'm gone. This happened tuesday.. On wednsday I stoped by the head of the department in this building.. (ugh it's the same backward speech pathology dept by the way... ) Who is also the faculty person for the student organization (FDC).. . OK.. so before hand I looked into getting server space for the website on the schools central server.. they will allow some stuff for groups listed under student involvement. I go through all the work of filling out the form (I diddn't bother to correct the spelling errors on the form though this is a university. crappy layout and correct spelling are not a requirement of required forms. ) The one thing I still need is this woman's signature. So I go to her office with the plan to tell her what I want to do, what I've done allready, and what I need from her. Well, as it turns out this woman talks down to me the whole time.. tells me that I'm doing things the wrong way and that she will not allow a website to be created unless the group president does all of it. I should have known, this woman dosn't like me. and well that tech guy aparently tattled on my she told me "some one was rude to one of our technolgy people and I won't tolerate that" well. I think the reason the guy did this is (now this is a hypothesis) that he has a rouge server running on school resources. It makes sence this guy knows how to play their damn little games. The computers here in the labs are crap and in his office I saw a mac cube, a flat pannel monitor, (at least 19 inch maybe 21) and an apple air port.. I can belive that they'd appove this guy to have this sort of thing.. two words come to mind when I think about this place "Anal-retentive" and anti-technology

I suck. Bleagh.. I'll be happy when this semester is over. I just keep going.. I'll be happy when the semester is over.. when the year is over... when the next semester is over .. when the week is over when the day is over when class is over.. when the bus gets here. yada yada yada.. see a trend? maybe I'll be happy when my life is over.

I thought "eh why not" so here see how well you know me QUIZ

Update: there are loads of spelling errors .. I know I know I know...