I, Curtis

Category: General Life

  • Questionnaire for Heterosexuals

    This very interesting questionnaire was part of the resources listed for this week’s activities in my Personal Health and Wellness course: http://advocatesforyouth.org/lessonplans/heterosexual2.htm.

  • Art Instructor

    I was contemplating careers tonight as I was driving home, I am adding Art Instructor to the list. Seems to fit what I like.

  • Missing What Is In Front of Me

    I have been waiting for a package to arrive from Orion for the past 8 days, today it arrived. From another place, Adorama, I ordered a part as well, it arrived on Tuesday. I ordered both parts on the same day, believing that the parts were compatible parts that needed each other to function. The desired function in this case is to mount my 55mm camera to my telescope’s T-mount (the lens insertion function). The part from Adorama is a 55mm to “standard” adapter. The Orion part is a “standard” to telescope adapter… considered to be a universal part. When the Orion part arrived today I tried to put it together with the Adorama part, as I thought they should fit… they didn’t fit. I became immediately irritated and almost gave up on the whole project.. until I noticed that both adapters seemed to have a common end… a female thread component. I went to my telescope with the Adorama part, lined up the threads and screwed it on… it fit. So… apparently “standard” isn’t really standard… it ended up being that the Adorama “standard” was the standard for telescope lens connections, and the Orion standard is the SLR camera standard…. oops. Either way, I now have a reliable way to connect my camera to my telescope… and apparently I have had that ability for several days.

  • What it means to be a UNC student

    Education at one of the best colleges in the country? No
    Having class with really hot basketball players? No
    Chance to take part in an old academic tradition? No
    Opportunity to become a human lab-rat? YES
    Since becoming a UNC student I have been invited to join about 15 different medical studies. I get at least 2 emails per week asking me to take part in some type of medical study. This week it was the hearing and acne studies. Last week it was ” Fluoxetine in Autism” and “Muscle and Jaw Function”. If I were living on campus, I would be able to pay for all of my tuition, books and whatever else just by participating in these studies. I don’t think I feel comfortable with being in a population that is studied this much.

  • Lunch – My Sandwich Process


    Some of my photographic adventures are boring, some are redundant, this one leaves me still feeling empty. Maybe I should have taken more time to take more pictures from more angles and not been in such a rush to eat.

  • To My Secret Admirer

    Whoever you are, I would like for you to STOP sending me new magazine subscriptions. I appreciate the thought, but I really have no use for this many magazines. I am more of a writer than a reader. Although… if you happen to have the urge one last time, I would love to have a subscription to “Muscle and Fitness”, other than that I don’t need any more magazines.
    For those who aren’t my admirer and haven’t been around me while I have been being creeped-out by what is occuring…. since the surprise arrival of Instinct early last month, I have also begun receiving PC Photo and Men’s Health. Those three aren’t useful to me. BTW, anyone want those magazines?

  • Life As Viewed Through Facebook

    Facebook paints an interesting picture of life. In the Facebook universe I have 116 friends and attend 4 schools, with a degree in progress at each. This is a highly over-optimistic view of things. While it is true that I know at least 110 people of the 116 it thinks are my friends, I only consider about 10 of them actual friends, the rest are acquaintances. It is true that I have 4 academic institutions (and probably 1 mental coming soon), but I am only actively seeking a degree at one of them (BA in SIS @ UNC-C) and passively earning a degree at another (AA @ Gaston). The other two are just places that have courses I like to take.
    Also in my Facebook universe I recently purchased several of my friends. I purchased Chris for $540 and Guy for $620 (I keep having to rebuy Guy, hes in high demand). I really don’t get the fascination with buying and trading friends (called “pets” on facebook). Is the world so bored that we now much place values on people like that and then “purchase” them? There are several people I know on Facebook that I would love to “buy”, but I am afraid they would take it the wrong way (probably because I am not thinking of it in a pure way).
    Overall, Facebook sucks and I really wish I had more to do today so I didn’t have to think about this shit.

  • Blog It on Facebook

    I think I have found the most useless Facebook application ever. Blog It by SixApart (powered by TypePad). It doesn’t seem to do anything unique. It connects to the Movable Type blog installation almost the same way I would manually, and then gives a really simplified editing tool. I don’t entirely get it. If anyone has found anything useful about it, I would love to hear from you.

  • Camera Back on the Map

    After a long delay and the absence of a departure scan from Bloomington, CA, there is an update on the camera:
    Apr 3, 2008 3:46 PM
    Arrived at FedEx location
    CHARLOTTE, NC
    Looks like it will be a Friday delivery.

  • Camera Delay, Artist Acts Like Child

    My camera won’t arrive until Friday, a whole day later than originally planned. This makes me want to jump up and down and scream at the sky. The worst part is, the camera is going FedEx, so I can’t do a service upgrade over the phone, and the package will likely arrive in their shipping center on Wednesday evening, in time for a Thursday delivery, but they will hold the package for an additional day because it isn’t yet scheduled. Anybody know the going rate for bribing a shipping person to release a package for station pickup?