So over this weekend, I decided to push my luck (yet again…) at running Windows Vista and Leopard on my MacBook (If you remember from a long time ago, I use to have Windows XP, Ubuntu, and Leopard running all together, but I ran into a few bumps and lost that set up leaving only Ubuntu and Leopard [Windows lost a well fought battle against the Ubuntu upgrade, after Ubuntu took a low blow at XP by adding a hidden partition for swap space behind my back (I still have no idea how, it just appeared like magic!)].  After about two weeks without Windows (actually, the finding of a homework assignment that required Windows), I found I was very screwed without a version of Windows on my computer.  So this weekend, I decided that since it is spring break (a really really long weekend) that I would attempt to wipe my hard drive (completely), install Leopard, and then dual boot Leopard and Windows (the easy and non void of warrantee way) using boot camp.  Wipe, went fine, perfect, crystal smooth (I don’t even know if that’s a phrase but I’m using it).  Then boot camp, made a windows partition just fine.  Then I installed the drivers for windows to use all the MacBook features…  That’s when it all went down hill.  I could not install any Microsoft product after installing those drivers (I believed Windows was trying to fight dirty this time in a form of mass suicide).  This struck me hard in the head and got me really heated up!  I decided that this time, I would play rough, and shatter this window and mix it into apple sauce and feed it to the homeless kittens by the school (ok… not really, but it has crossed my mind).  I decided to use multiple versions of Windows to test this bug (yes… it was a bug, if it doesn’t work, it’s buggy).  XP, same thing happened, Vista, happened again, Windows 7 Ultimate (ULTIMATE!!!!)  it broke too.  Looking at the results, I became very flustered…  “Why could I run Windows on here before?”  “Why can’t I now?”  I decided to look deeper into the message that Windows was trying to send me… “Error 1923:  Something something Administrator cannot perform Administrator tasks cause Windows hates (HATES) you!!!”  I then decided to resort to the last (my last resort?), I googled this error code (but google is not a verb!).  The first answer I received was from Microsoft (“We still hate you!!!”), “This error means you didn’t fully uninstall Office Beta”  I started getting mad, “I NEVER INSTALLED OFFICE BETA!!!”  It gave me no solutions, so I posted feed back “No, this was not helpful… At all, please make products that work.  (I was on fire, almost literally)”  I then went back to the google page and looked at other people who had the same issue, none of them had it solved, I was nearly hopeless, then I saw live search (Microsofts version of google that looks way harder to follow) and searched it in there.  Amazingly, the results were different than googles (the pages were more Microsoft has seen your error before)!  But non of the errors were similar to mine, because I never installed office beta.  I then decided to look at a post from seven years ago that seemed more relevant that the more recent problems (Windows, as we all know, is old windows + some new stuff = old bugs with new looks [like a fly that glows… fire fly!]).  This post was just like the old one saying that I had to reinstall Office beta, and then uninstall and reinstall (I still wondered where my beta was o.o;; ).  I scrolled down the page further, and found another listing of reasons for the bug (but with no known solution) HORA! I found it (eureka?), there were two running processes that relied on some Microsoft stuff that needed to be changed for any Microsoft product to be installed I looked at my process list and there they were!  So I ended them painfully, problem didn’t fix…  I uninstalled the app and tried again… Problem still there…  I finally reinstalled Windows and installed my apps and then tried installing the problem app (problem child ^.^ ), it broke my keyboard and mouse…  I was overwhelmed wondering how to fix it, I thought to myself and started debating with my evil dark side who wanted to smash the computer in half and just buy a new one (which I mildly agreed with but didn’t do) and we decided on reinstalling Windows again.  This time we decided instead of going with install all the boot camp stuff (which boot camp did on it’s own) we would only install the drivers for the devices we wanted to work (which was pretty much everything).  To do this we decided to run all the separate executables on the Leopard DVD in the Drivers Vista looking section with a select few being avoided.  After installing these and force loading a few drivers, everything worked!  Windows didn’t die, stuff functioned right, and my evil side decided to subside admitting defeat to me (again)!  So what was causing the bug you fellow Windows on Mac users ask?  The intel mobile graphics accelerator was causing the problem, so installing everything I could but that (and some annoying install “Apple apps please”) it all came together nicely.  The War on Win(Terror)dows still continues, and we await your next challenge (which should have been “Code name Windows 007”)!

Please excuse this post for being extra nerdy and bias against Windows and it’s followers, just going through all this trouble to be able to use Windows Live Messenger (and Office) to its fullest I think is bias against Apple users and Linux users, and this fight shall never end till we all merge in to Leonudows (sounds like a food dish to me)!

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Windows Live Writer is so smexy for blogging!!!!  THANK YOU MICROSOFT!!!

Happy singleness awareness day! If you’re like me, it might be a first where you’re not getting phone calls, emails, texts, and asked out on dates! But, then again, I don’t think that’s how we should see today. Not just a day for sending flowers, a cute little card with some copy righted catch phrase (Front: “I know the 3 words you’re dying to hear” Inside: “Lets Eat Out”), but a day to really just get closer to the person you’re planning to grow old with (and, with how things are today, you can take a picture of them, and get an editor to age them on a computer so you can see what they look like before it’s too late!), and actually take time to get to know them. Most people today are probably worried about how much candy (chocolate x.x) they’re getting, or flowers and big stuffed animals, but like, what do you really want. I mean lots of people are probably planning to get a little something something, but like, is that what you really want on a day where you’re suppose to express your love towards the person you love most? Like why not do something special, something memorable? Go on a date, but not like any other date, not the movies, not just eating out (even though I love food D= ), like live like a child again, take them for a picnic at the beach, a park, go on the swing sets, build sand castles, play on the monkey bars, spend time with them, being all that you really are, cause if you can’t be you around the person you’re going to grow old with, how are you going to grow old as you? I believe kids these days (people my age D= ), don’t have any idea what love really is. I think, people who study expressions and emotions worded it best, “Love, is not an emotion.” I believe those words, that love isn’t an emotion you feel, emotions change, you can be happy one second angry the next, but “love never fails. (Bible)” If you have a special someone this year (and hopefully for the following years to come), spend time with them, just playing, day dreaming together, tell them your dreams (childish ones too), hopes, goals, what your favorite type of sandcastle is (one with round towers or square, etc), like, speak your mind, how you feel, why you love them, how they’re the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen and ever will see, and you want to see that sight every morning just waking up. Don’t worry about dressing up or all that other stuff, be you, dress how you feel comfy, wear pj’s, lounge pants, a baggy shirt, don’t be fake. Because, if you truly love the person you’re with today, you’ll love them every day, for everything they are, seep it in, let them know, that even if they wake up with medusa hair, that it’s the hottest medusa hair you’ve ever seen. Like, you don’t love someone for how they look, you love them for who they are, the way they call just because they felt like it, or the way they call you to wake you up to tell you that they just needed to start their day out perfect, like even if they don’t do all that, you know you can list off all the things that you love about them, and you’d still have more to write down even when you think you’re done. Today, do everything you can to make the person you want to spend the rest of your life with, to know that they’re the most coolest person you know, and that you want to make every day special for them! Sing for them, and just for them, dance on the sidewalks, look them in the eyes and just dream about all the days you’ve spent together and the days your hoping to have with them following. You can say “I love you” every day of the year, to anyone any where, but how do they know if you’re telling the truth? So many people are in relationships for the wrong reason, and, if you just be yourself, and if you’re both completely honest, you should be smiling all day in my opinion, but then again, I’m a single hopeless romantic =x.

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K, I just posted this lol, but like, I guess I felt like I should add more =x.  I know that I said if you say you love them, that they wouldn’t know, but that doesn’t mean you have to go out and “prove” it.  Like a lot of girls/women I know do that “if you love me show me” stuff.  Love is a very complicated and simple thing all at the same time.  And I don’t know if anyone really knows if they’re in love, just, you can feel the changes, like, you can’t really slap feelings on it, but like, one of my professors would always talk about how he’d try getting in shape, or try to do better, or just try to change his life style, but, whenever he tried for himself, he said he couldn’t do it, but, one day his family was talking to him about his health, and everything else, and he decided that he had to change, for them, for the people he loves, and he told that class (almost every day x.x), that if you want to change anything about you, you could only do it for love.  People have no idea what they want in life, and they just know that when they have what they need, they need to do whatever it takes to keep it (I’m not talking about breaking the law or something, I’m talking about changing for the better).  My sister recently got married (omg she looks amazing, my bro-in-law was so nervous it was kinda funny lol, but he looked pretty cool), but like, when she was with him at home, and when we went out, she was still her, actually, she became more of herself than before they were dating, and like, you could see how she was really happy (lol, she didn’t have to dress up and do her hair!  jk jk xP), and how he was himself with us (the in-law family), like, love isn’t a feeling.  People tell you that you’re in love when you get butterflies, or that you feel like you never could let go, or that some other mumbo jumbo stuff, there’s too much of it x.x.  Love isn’t that simple, people who love each other fight, argue, throw tantrums, and at very awkward moments get along so well that they fall asleep on the couch watching static.  Like, the way a parent loves a child, is the way I believe love really is.  The first time that child says “I hate you” the parent is heartbroken, they know it’s not true, but like, it still hurts.  Children and parents fight all the time, about dumb stuff, whether they watch cartoons or the Presidential Inauguration (I picked cartoons =x), but like they still love each other, and accept the flaws, and have good times together.  When you love someone, you don’t ask what they can do for you, and they don’t ask what you can do for them.  You both just do what you know is best for each other.  You think your parents had to spend money on you for those first 18+ years of your life?  They could have just been popping out babies and putting them up for adoption (trust me, lots of people would like to have a child and give up on early retirement, and those people would love you too if they got you!).  Love is patient, love is kind.  Like if the person you celebrate your “love” today with breaks up with you, and you don’t ever date again, do you still love them?  Do they still love you?  If it really is love, the answer should be yes.  You love your friends (even the same gender ones O.O *cough*homo*cough* jk jk) even if you won’t admit it, but, you care for them, you have fun, you look out for them, you’re patient with them, you’re there for them when they’re down.  Like, today of all days, when ever you think about telling someone you love them, think about it.  What are you really saying to them (“You, me, bed”; “I’ll always be here to catch your tears (corny I know)”; etc.)?  Love is not temporary, and it’s not in a box of chocolates, and it’s not in a toy.  My youth pastor told us of a great exercise for people when they say “I love you.”  When some one says it, have a list of things, of real life situations that come up in every marriage/relationship, “Would you hold my hair during morning sickness?”  You’d be surprised how fast people can disappear when a tough situation pops up.  If a person says “I love you” and cheats, I don’t think they really love you.  You wouldn’t do something that would hurt the person you love, not on purpose, and not if you can help it.  I see guys every day telling their girlfriends (or pseudo-girlfriends) that they love them, but then have other girls on the side.  In all honesty, grow up, and stop saying the L-word if you don’t mean it, words have meaning, don’t strip it of what it really is.  Be honest, next time you’re about to say “I love you,” stop, pause a moment, spin three times, and think of what you really want to say (“I want to get in your pants”, “I’m coming off the rebound”, “I drank some funny looking water”, “Lets eat out”), and if you see yourself, old, still working, paying off your kids college, and the person right beside you all the way till you die, is the same person you’re facing now, and through all the years from now till then…  Still think a bit more, and then finally, decided, that when you say, these three little words, with the big four letter word in the middle, that no matter what, that you have decided to love that person, from this day forward, for better or worse, in sickness and in health, that even if they end up with someone other than you that you’d still care about them and be there for emotional (not sexual…) support, then you can say “I love you.”  And hopefully you’re telling the truth, otherwise, YOU’RE A BIG FAT JERK!!!  Happy Valentines (Singleness Awareness) Day!  

-Great Ideas for something special-

• Everyone does chocolate, why not do fish (Salmon ftw)!
• Moneyless date (sounds cheap, but like makes you focus more on date composition)
• Cloud Watching
• Star Gazing
• Random exploration (it’s really fun, get in a car, start driving towards an area you don’t know, and just make random turns, see if you can find a new place to celebrate anniversaries and such [like a park!])
• Dress up and eat fancy
• Stay home, cuddle up (warmth => survival, cuddling => warmth therefore cuddling => survival; this is logical, take a logic class!), watch old movies, read books together, just talk about goals dreams and such (of course, while eating ice cream), talk about childhood memories (better yet, watch childhood videos, or look at photo albums of each other when you both were little!)

The biggest thing, that everyone should do, who is celebrating today, is to communicate, and, if you can’t spend time together, just talking (no physical!), and being yourselves, is it really a relationship you want to be in, cause what’s really holding it together?

So, life’s been good, kinda.  Schools just really boring with a lot of work x.x.  Have you ever wondered where all these calculus and physics formulas come from, like they just tell you that they’re rules and such, but they never explain where from, and once you get the calculus basics, you can pretty much derive all the formulas you need from each other, and they all seem to come from just 1 formula (pretty crazy stuff x.x).  Like how did Newton though, and all those other famous math guys, find out all these things.  Like how do they get the measurements for gravity down, or the speed of light, and how did they come up for the ideas to do it.  Like we have electricity and AC and cars and everything else, because people thought and tried to make it happen.  But no idea is an original idea (so I’m told), so why didn’t it happen earlier?  Like what would things be like now if cars were made during the middle ages?  If the Achilles wasn’t the “swift-footed,” but the, “swift-biker.”  Like would we have advanced even further today?  Would the issues with fuel source be solved?  Would we have looked for an alternative source earlier?  Like, what makes the people of today so different from the people of the past?  Everyone has potential to do something, but no ones making as big of finds as those people did.  Some one made a car, and others redesigned it, and we try to better what currently exists.  Why not try to make something new?  If everyone approaches the same problem from the same angle, we all only see the same thing.  When people were making physics (not studying like we do), they were probably looked at as weird, like “Why does the coconut fall of the tree?” When the rest of the world was probably like, “Well cause it does, why should you question it?”  Like the people who find things ask how it happens, try to see what they can’t see.  What if they were wrong though?  Like we all look at it the way they explained it and try to make their numbers more accurate.  But what if we’re doing it wrong, or there is actually more to it that we’re not looking at.  Sure it’s all probably done as well as it can be, but what if we look at other things.  Like there is so much out in the world that many people just haven’t questioned why or how.  Even a child asks, “Why is the sky blue?”  And people have found the answers.  I believe that most solutions come from asking questions, and trying to answer those questions.  People may think it’s a dumb idea, but how else are you suppose to do it?  Does a muse come and give you the idea with background information?  People build computers the same way and explain why it works, but why can’t you do it another way?  People always say children are the future, and I think questions find solutions, so keep the future asking questions so that they will find solutions to problems that people just stopped asking why about.  I have no idea what I’m really talking about x.x cause I speak my mind, but like, I don’t think we know as much as we think we do, cause, if people in the middle ages didn’t have what we have, people in the future are bound to have better.  We just need more people asking questions, so we can trace the question train to something new =D.