sitting in an empty room. trying to forget the past. this was never meant to last. i wish it wasn't so.
So IBM has done it again. First, it was Deep Blue, a chess AI that was made to play against the world's greatest chess players. And it won. Now they have Watson, an AI built to basically work like a search engine. This is a very basic explanation. With a search engine, you type in "cats" and it finds all these articles about cats, photos, whatever. But with Watson, you can ask it a question and it will search through its vast database running multiple algorithms to determine how many searches independently arrive at the same conclusion, which make the computer realize, by statics, which is most likely the correct answer. And what better way to test this AI, than to let it play on Jeopardy? Against two of the greatest Jeopardy players: Ken Jennings, and Brad Idontknowhislastname. Ken Jennings had the longest win streak, and I think Brad won the most money in a single game? Anyways, the AI beat the humans, not because of knowing more things, but because of speed- everyone who buzzed in answered correctly.
After finding this on Jason Mraz's blog, I decided to reblog this right there and then. Right now, actually.
what I first saw was actually two words but they were in the same line.
You wanna know what I saw?
Suicide scum. I didn't post it as the title or above the picture so your eyes don't automatically lock on to it. An unbiased look at the picture. Technically, it's "suicidescum" so you can either think of it as suicide scum, or suicides cum. I suppose it depends on how you look at it. Haha.
Suicide scum vs. suicide's cum.
Suicide scum. This is actually a horrible thing to say. Life must be really difficult for someone to override their instinct to live. Humans are capable of some astonishing things.
Suicide's cum. I suppose this term would be practical in the event of auto-erotic asphyxiation, where...you accidentally choke yourself to death as you are getting off on the feeling of asphyxiation.
I suppose this a really morbid thing to think about.
Hey. It's been a while, hasn't it? And I suppose it's time for an update as well. (:
I was responding to a certain someone's message when I realized I was about to start rambling about what has been going on in my life when I thought - HEY, maybe other people wanna know too? Like you guys? Haha. All four of you. Listed followers, anyways. There might be someone who is lurking, secretly hoping that I'll update....I'll catch you, secret lurker! In the meantime. Let's hear that update.
So I've been working two jobs for about.... 7+ months now. I started in May, after I finished the last semester I attended school. Unfortunately, I wasn't in school fall, and won't be this spring either. It's actually pretty shocking. Perhaps I could have prevented this. But a close friend told me there is nothing I can do to change the past. Which, I mean, it's true.
Anyways. I plan on going to school this fall, for Radiology. Which is why I've been working two jobs - to save money. At first it was to just always have money, because I spend my money too much. Then one day after Chemistry class I went to McDonald's, and plotted out a method to save money, while I was chowing on a McDouble, a large fry, and a small drink. It's funny because I spent so much of my money on fast food. Hopefully that won't be the case.
Anyways, for the longest time I was working at Mathnasium, then got a job at Raising Cane's working the night shift. I really enjoyed working at Mathnasium, but I got tired of certain things at Mathnasium and decided I couldn't work there anymore. I gave my two weeks notice after landing a job as a server at a restaurant that just opened here, called Pieworks: Pizza by Design. It's a really great place. The owner of our restaurant (who is Australian) is thinking about opening one in Lake Charles, and if he does, I really recommend it to all of you!
Anyways. Things are steadily getting busier. It IS a chain, but we are only the ninth store they have open right now. They are hoping to have a certain amount open by next year. I think it has a high chance of succeeding. It really is great food.
Anyways. The savings account I had developed recently got wiped because Adam's car had to get fixed. I have to work extra hard to build back what I lost while trying to stay on track with where I'm supposed to be. I was supposed to have $1000 saved by late February/early March, and now I'm afraid it won't be possible. I need the $1000 for school, I have an option to do a payment plan where you pay the first $1000, then pay monthly the remainder of the tuition. I've done the math, and I feel confident that going this route will save me a lot of time, because the program is 2 years, and I still had at least 2 years left in college. I won't be saving money, necessarily, because I can't get grants because it's through one of the hospitals here, and yet, saving money is one of the things I really needed to work on and I definitely made this life changing improvement because I had over $500 saved already, which is something I haven't been able to do since 2006, when the only time I ever saved money was to buy my digital camera.
I feel the need to say "anyways" again. But I won't.
It wasn't difficult balancing Mathnasium and Cane's because I didn't have to work at Mathnasium early in the morning like I do for Pieworks, so right now life for me is kind of hectic and I've been reflecting on how much I'm not doing....but you know what? I feel content, regardless. I live with my boyfriend, who I've been dating for five years. A lot of things have happened in that time. And I'm happy. There are things I regret, but I feel like those things are in the past, have been smoothed over, and everyone has found happiness.
My friendships are great. I'm so glad that I can spend New Year's with the same friends I had in high school and things are where we left off. They can easily be picked up again and we can still have a great time. At first, I spent a lot of time upset whenever Adam, Corey, and I first moved to Lafayette, because I felt as though I didn't spend enough time with my boyfriend doing things, hanging out, going places. He often used the argument that it was because I missed my friends. And I did. Of course, I can only admit that now, way later. Back then, I argued back. I can be pretty bitchy. Ask Adam. But I was afraid that being in Lafayette when everyone else was either in Lake Charles or Baton Rouge, that things would slowly...drift apart. And I don't think they have. Of course we talk less because we aren't in the same school/same city. Technology makes it possible to where we can be looking at the same rooms as each other (thanks, skype!) so it feels like we are together. But that doesn't always work because we have other things to worry about in our immediate surroundings. But being able to spend time together is great, especially whenever you're sticking firecracker in leftover doughnut holes, grapes, oranges, kiwi, and bananas. Or when you're standing on the side of the road because your friend's boyfriend's car fucked up and it's freezing cold, and why the hell did it have to start the rain, I'm going to get Jurassic Park hair. I love my friends.
For New Year's, I decided to give up sodas, and other drinks with added sugar. I sort of chickened out because the original plan was no sugary drinks, which would include juices, but I can't drink only water. I can't. So I changed mine slightly so that I can drink 100% juice. I've been drinking this 100% juice by Welch's that the only sugar content is from the sugar contained in the fruit used to make the juice. It's not artificially flavored, it doesn't contain added sugar, or any fake sugars, or corn syrups. There is also this drink from....I forget the brand. It's a fruit juice with natural energy. Also contains no sugar additives. And it's delicious. Adam and I decided to no longer eat fast food, as well. We are also watching our sodium intake. If I don't eat fast food anymore, then I should save a fuckton of money. Seriously. I eat it too much. We're watching sodium intake because our fast food diets contained a lot of that and because Adam's been having heart burn a lot lately, so we decided to change our diet to better reflect that Silly Triangle that no one pays attention to anymore. Especially moms who bring their eight year old children to Cane's and lets them order the Caniac Combo. Honestly.
So....this is really what's been happening lately. Perhaps another resolution should be to update this blog more frequently. Perhaps do some posts on some Pretty Neat Things TM. We'll see what happens.
By the way. My title is Water from Iceland. Anyone ever have that iceland pure water? It boasts a ph of 8.88. It tastes like water. It makes me wish I had some pH paper to test this claim. I checked google for a pH indicator chart. It tells me that 7 is water (I knew this), that 8 was sea water, and 9 is baking soda. Based on rounding to the nearest whole number? I'm drinking baking soda. Based on significant figures, where my bottle has 3, the pH chart numbers have only 1 and they are unit rates and therefore absolute, and when working with numbers of varying sig figs, we can only use that with the least.....I'm still drinking baking soda. Yum.
(it doesn't actually taste like baking soda.
But let's pretend it's 8. Sea water? That's not much better is it...
