Work is Play...

...and play is work. I really want to finish my AI language API, but I keep thinking up new problems that I need to solve regarding the computer's interpretation of an entered sentence, and I haven't actually done any work on the computer itself.

I've decided to start taking private viola lessons again. Hopefully it'll be good.

I'm still writing music, though I still need a better program. I'm going to put up the one I've already done on my website, once I get a better site. I'm trying to get a site on sitesled.com, but I keep encountering problems when I sign up.

I signed up again for AIM, so now I can chat with people who want to chat with me...but no one knows it yet...

Nothing else...

Until next time, remember: A villain cannot exist without a hero. A hero cannot exist without a villain. The forces of good and evil are always in balance.

---TDM

The Hassle

I know it's been a while since I last posted...I kinda hoped this problem would have been solved by now...but I guess not. (I figured out what was the problem with my computer...turns out it's the place on Blogger where I write my post.) Right now I'm typing this up in Notepad so I can do it quickly.

I haven't done much work on any programming...maybe I'll get to work on that later. What I've been doing is composing music. The only thing is...I don't have a very good program for it. One program allows me to print it, but with shorter notes (like 16th notes), I get one measure per line and 4 lines on a page. It also gives me a hassle when I try to make notes of odd lengths (like a dotted whole note). My other program tends not to play the song back correctly, and though I can fit the whole song on 3 pages (and not 7 with the other), it repeatedly obscures parts of the song with the message that it's a sample printout from an unregistered version of the program.

There haven't been any important world events recently for me to harp upon...that I pay attention to, anyway.

Saviors prerelease this Saturday...I hope I do better than before. 4-0 would be nice...nicer than 3-1.

Until next time, remember: The problem contains the solution.

---TDM

The Age of Unsatisfaction

We live today in the Age of Unsatisfaction. People are not happy with themselves as they are, and so they seek to change themselves, to hide behind an illusion. Whether it's their eye or hair color that they're changing, or they wish to remove part of their body through liposuction or surgery, they believe that these changes are good. But what we are really doing is destroying ourselves, choosing to wear masks instead of showing the faces we believe are horribly disfigured. We think so low of our current state that we are always thinking of ways to improve ourselves, often at the cost of others. But there's beauty in nature, and as we have learned to appreciate that beauty, so must we learn to appreciate our own beauty, without resorting to artificial means to inducing change in our bodies.

It is now time to remove our masks and proudly display our individuality instead of conforming to the accepted social norm.

Until next time, remember: What we are and what we are not are the exact same thing.

---TDM