
Originally Posted by
Culise
I don't really do resolutions, but I do have some goals for the new year. Mostly, they're practical things I've known about for weeks or months.
1. Actually do a job I can take confidence in on the second senior design project
2. Find a job for after college, preferably somewhere other than here
3. Write. The ideas just keep resurfacing, and they won't go away.
4. Actually learn more hypersonics on a practical level.
5. Design and research the necessary hard sci-fi for a full world and backstory, including ship designs and modern warfare.
6. Learn Japanese, Korean, German, French, Russian, and Romanian. And Chinese, Mandarin and Cantonese. Maybe some Latin if I can swing it.
7. Go absolutely mad scientist after a mental breakdown, build a neutron bomb, and hold a nation hostage for *dramatic zoom* one million dollars!
7a. Mad science is not mad science without bubbling flasks and Jacob's Ladders. I'll need to buy those. I think there's a set on sale at S-mart that includes a Van de Graff generator, too.
7b. Is a neutron bomb mad-sciencey enough? Maybe a neutron cannon or zero-point bomb. Or giant mutant weasels. Ooh, ferrets, that's an idea. Or I could just throw rocks at the Earth from the asteroid belt until someone pays up.
7c. I may need to find some desolate tropical island or haunted manor/castle for my mental breakdown, then. Maybe some real estate shopping in Transylvania will be necessary. Then again, a lot of this outsourcing stuff is going to the Third World, so maybe the Transvaal would be better. Still, a moon base does have its appeals...
Of course I'm taking this seriously. Why would you think otherwise?
Give me some of that shit you're smoking.
"When you were born, you cried, and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."
- Kabir
I will miss you guys.