Archive for the 'School' Category

2008 Wishlist and Goals

Published
by
Laurence Anderson
on January 2, 2008
in Articles, Family, Miscellaneous, Noteworthy, Personal and School
. 2 Comments

With it now officially being the new year, I’m not one for resolutions (such as losing weight by getting a gym membership, etc) because, in my opinion it’s just false hope for the individual with the resolution, it’s something they want to do, but just can’t. So I just take a look and think of things I’d like to do, with no guarantee they’ll happen because I know who I am and I don’t expect perfection or excellence.

So without further ado, I present my goals/things I wish to complete/have happen by the end of 2008.

* Move out of my home, get an apartment somewhere in town.
* Manage my money better, I have to start saving to have #1 happen.
* Do well enough in the last half of the school year so that I’ll be setup for success at ECC come fall.
* Do various odds and ends on my car to make it more personal to me.
* Get more of my old online presence back.

There’s probably going to be more as the year progresses, but those are the major ones for me at this moment in time. Happy 2008 everybody!

Little Bit of an Update

Published
by
Laurence Anderson
on December 17, 2007
in Family, Miscellaneous, Noteworthy, Personal, Photos and School
. 2 Comments

Alright well after quite a few people have poked me about it, including my art teacher from last year when he ate lunch with us one day, so I figure I might as well give you some insight to what’s been up with me lately seeing as so many of you have asked.

Pretty much the only reason my “online presence” has been pretty much lacking is the fact that not only am I at school from 6:45AM - 1:35PM (2:20 on Wednesdays), but I usually come right home after that, except on Tuesdays and Thursdays when I go right from school to my internship at a doctors office to my paying job at Father Baker Manor (nursing home) at 4PM and I work there until 8:30-8:45ish depending on the night, get home here by 9PM and spend about 2 hours with my girlfriend and then when she leaves I head to bed, so my day is pretty occupied, I really regret not being able to blog more but such is life.

I’ll leave you with this blast from the past though:

MacBook Pro

Published
by
Laurence Anderson
on September 19, 2007
in Apple, Articles, Family, Miscellaneous, Noteworthy, Personal, Photos and School
. 7 Comments

First off as most bloggers do when it’s been a while since they’ve written an entry, let me apologize for just that, not writing an entry.

Now that that’s outta the way, you may have seen (or maybe are even subscribed to) my flickr photostream recently, and if so you’ll have seen the image at the beginning of this post before. Yes, that’s right, that’s a macro shot of the words “MacBook Pro“. Now you may be thinking “Larry has a Black MacBook, why would he take a picture of this?” well also if you’ve been looking at my photostream you’ll notice I put exactly why I had those pictures.

Basically all you need to know is milk got spilt into my BlackBook and fried it, so I got this as a replacement/upgrade, which is nice because it’ll handle Leopard a lot better.

Let me sum up the story, I was eating breakfast before school on Monday, like I do every day I have school, which was a bowl of cereal, and at the same time I happened to be working in CS3. Well I went to go reach for my keyboard to go type something, and my bowl of cereal was in between my arms, and I bumped it and some milk splashed out and hit my MacBook’s keyboard, immediately shutting the machine off. So I did what I heard you’re supposed to, take out all cords, battery, and flip the machine upside down and let it dry, which in the long run (2 days) worked fine.

The MacBook turns on and runs, but a majority of the left side of the keyboard is stuck down once you press a key, and the power adapter is being wonky when it’s plugged into the laptop, and obviously I can’t run off battery forever. So, with Leopard coming in November, my MacBook being almost paid off, I figured I should just upgrade and salvage what I could off the old laptop. While I was at work my mom ran out for me and got me the stock 15″ 2.2GHz MacBook Pro.

I came home, set it up, transferred all the data I could, now I’m up and running (minus installing my printer). So expect a review maybe this weekend or in the near future.

Prom 2007

Published
by
Laurence Anderson
on May 12, 2007
in Family, Miscellaneous, Noteworthy, Personal, Photos and School
. 6 Comments


See all the photos on flickr.

On May 11th, 2007 (aka last night), Stephanie and I attended my schools prom, at Brierwood Country Club in Hamburg, NY from 6:30PM - 11:30PM. The night started out by everybody meeting at a couple places, the group of us was Derek, Me, Stephanie, Cartman, Flora, Lucca we all pretty much just stuck together the whole night. When we got there, we entered, had the option of taking pictures, we passed, picked out a table, we chose the table in the far corner with different colored (red) chairs (versus the normal green), to you know be different. Then soon after that they started to serve dinner, I wasn’t too interested so I didn’t eat anything except maybe a dinner roll so dinner was kinda null, just joking and talking to each other for a couple hours, in fact we made friends with one of the staff members there, his name was Dave, nice guy.

Next came just time to socialize and relax before the “dancing” started, that mostly involved talking, making fun of one another, walking around, mingling with other friends. We ended up going outside for a while and just sitting absorbing the air, talking to a few teachers just social time. Then time came where the DJ started to play music, they had packed over 400 kids into I swear to God a “dance floor” that’s a little bigger than my room, so it was quite small, everybody was complaining, but the banquet hall and “dance floor” were connected so Stephanie and I stayed towards the outskirts of the floor but closer to the banquet room in case we wanted to sit down. Eventually, after a few songs and a slow dance, we spent the remainder of the time outside sitting on the balcony just relaxing with each other and some friends would come and go.

Overall, it was a good time, and next week I’m attending her prom at Creekside.

Microcomputer Applications

Published
by
Laurence Anderson
on December 18, 2006
in Miscellaneous, Personal and School
. 5 Comments

You’d think with a name like that and the class being a college credit, you’d get a little in depth with some actual applications. But no, not in this class, we’ve spent WEEKS on typing in friggin Microsoft Word, and now we’re on our THIRD WEEK of Excel.

I’m so bored in this class, because I always finish my work early, and I have nothing to do except read MacRumors, etc. Because digg and flickr, all the good sites I go to are blocked by the filter..

This sucks.