Zhanga: September 21, 2005
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Today, rain fell. When the raindrops hit the ground, they created wet spots the size of small plums. They were the most massive raindrops I had ever seen in my life. I walked through the rain for about three minutes to get to the gym, and in moderate rainfall, I only got hit by about ten raindrops. Those were ten enormous drops, though. Next, we had a fire drill. Luckily, the rain had stopped. On the other hand, I didn't see half our dorm. Then... thunderstorm. And that can only mean one thing -- Frisbee! Too bad it was too dark to actually play a game. I really wanted to play a game in three inches of water, but it was just too hard to see anything, especially with the hair in my face. My hair is almost long enough to tie back a ponytail.
That's all the laundry listing I have for today.
About two weeks ago, I had a computer science assignment which consisted of selecting one of six or so articles, reading it, and then writing a response. The one I chose was supposed to be about "leetspeek." Reading this article is a good way to make yourself want to bash your head against your desk repeatedly. My response [link removed] is posted on the Duke CS forums (interesting way of turning in an assignment...). Read those if you get really bored. I promise that if you actually read them, they'll entertain you for at least a little while.
Today I was doing some more CS stuff, and ran into another article, this one from Microsoft, on "leetspeek." At least this time it really had to do with leetspeek. (The first article was about Internet slang and acronyms, not 13375p33|<.) But anyways, it's a pretty short article, so I was reading it, and I found a section entitled:
Leet words of concern or indicating possible illegal activity:
Crappy grammar aside, this interested me. So what's under this heading? Well, there were five words in all. Warez/w4r3z, h4x, pr0n, sploitz, and pwn. The first four are either some sort of illegal or at least highly objectionable (even though I've never heard of sploitz). Now check out the description for pwn:
"pwn": A typo-deliberate version of own, a slang term often used to express superiority over others that can be used maliciously, depending on the situation. This could also be spelled "0\/\/n3d" or "pwn3d," among other variations. Online video game bullies or "griefers" often use this term.
Apparently pwn is some sort of foul word that makes you an evil person. No wonder the 1337 hate Microsoft. Why do stupid things like this piss me off so much? The government should censor everything on the Internet and ban stupid people from writing things! (Whoops, there goes this site. And the parts that aren't my work are even worse, because they capture the most un-brilliant moments of Gene and Charles. And a few blondes.)
By the way, when I wrote my response to the first article, I sent it to a couple of people to get some thoughts about what I had written. One person, who I'll keep nameless, thought the response was pretty funny and seemed to like it. Then it hit me. I found out the next day that she had thought some "intelligent Internet user" had written my essay =( Thanks.
(If you're dumb, that means she thought someone else wrote it and I just happened to find it online.) But! I am always the optimist! Always! So I'm going to take that as a compliment. Anyways, when have I ever been pessimistic about anything?
On to a new subject, because thinking about this incident just makes me feel really, really stupid. Stupid like "how much does it cost to light up your trees" stupid. (Jess's pool.)
That just makes me feel stupider. Anyways...
In econ today, I made the mistake of sitting next to Jerry. He watched videos of ping pong matches during the last half of the lecture, and so I barely paid any attention to class. That's gotta stop. But I did see some deadly moves. This one old guy stood a cigarette straight up on the edge of a ping pong table, then walked across to the other side of the table. He bounced the ping pong ball on the table, and then smacked it across the table. Cigarette snaps in half.
Jerry also sent an IM to the girl sitting in front of us and got her to go to lemonparty.org (which I didn't make a link for a reason). He tried to do it to me, but I've already seen more than enough gay old man porn to know better. Goatse was bad enough. I think my elder sister sent that to me when I was in 7th or 8th grade, and I'm pretty sure I saw it while on my mom's work computer.
What an abrupt ending point.
4:10AM
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your hair... is long?
who is gay now?
rj on Thursday, September 22, 2005 at 1:33 AM
What about fj??
Gene on Friday, September 23, 2005 at 6:30 AM
SO, you have like no IP?????????
JIN on Saturday, September 24, 2005 at 5:28 PM
Update!
Tiffany on Sunday, September 25, 2005 at 4:30 PM
btw, i like your opening sentence. it was very commanding.
rj on Sunday, September 25, 2005 at 6:32 PM
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