http://rwong.tmesismag.com Discoveries of a talentless writer Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:08:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en President-elect Obama gives his victory speech. w00t!! My new computer parts came in, and wow.  (Pictures and screenshots to come) Got caught practicing archery on the Rutgers campus in Piscataway by a campus police officer. When he saw my traditional Martin recurve, he started telling me stories about his childhood and how ... http://rwong.tmesismag.com/two-weeks-in-summary Kevin and I met up with Dr. Connor on Tuesday this week to catch up on things (and for a recommendation letter I need for my graduate application). He recently moved from the Poconos down to Rahway - just a few towns away from us - and he broke his ... http://rwong.tmesismag.com/the-good-doctor-and-theories-of-writing This has been a long time coming, but it's a good thing I waited. If you know me, you might just understand my love of computers. My dad was an electronics engineer, so he set me up at an early age, always bringing home circuit boards and other computer parts. But I ... http://rwong.tmesismag.com/rays-tricked-rig-2008-pt-1 A quickie update! I added a Last.fm widget to the sidebar, over... <--- there! (and possibly higher or lower, depending on where the arrows pointing.) You'll notice that, as of today, I haven't listened to any songs in over a month. Not true! I've just been logged onto a different Last.fm account ... http://rwong.tmesismag.com/cool-despite-my-inactivity (... especially with little kids in the building.) The learning center isn't big enough to facilitate separate bathrooms for men and women, and I've been noticing how consequential this has been for the women and girls who've had to use our two commodes. There's actually a whole drama that centers around ... http://rwong.tmesismag.com/the-plight-of-women-and-girls-in-our-unisex-bathrooms Patience est une grant vertu Maxima enim, patientia virtus Suffraunce [forbearance] is a souereygne vertue Pacience is a greet vertu of perfeccioun Patience is the greatest virtue A phrase so valued often becomes taken for granted and, consequently, patience is now not often employed as a core value of everyday life. Patience is a virtue, and ... http://rwong.tmesismag.com/patience-is-a-virtue It’s human to fight. That a person can escape conflict is ideal, but not right, nor honest. We fight when we don’t know better, and sometimes when we do. We fight when we feel brave or angry, and so much harder when we're scared. When we are hurt, we fight the ... http://rwong.tmesismag.com/axioms-of-conflict I'm the laziest person in the world... normally. When left on my own, I'll tend to find a nice, cozy field on which to sit and space out to the sounds of honking geese and the visual hypnotics of nebulous gas puffs (which are sometimes natural-looking enough to be considered ... http://rwong.tmesismag.com/contagious-workoholism If you can step abroad to reach great heights And still recognize what lows can be; If you can swallow all your lonely nights Yet have room enough to spare for me; If you can wonder what it means to ‘know’, When your knowledge dictates what you see, Or through the cosmic things in life, you ... http://rwong.tmesismag.com/97 It hit us like a ton of pollen, hurr! Like a brick oven? Like a... bottle of Tide detergent? But all seriousness aside, this change in weather is ludicrous! One night, I bundled up with three blankets for bed, and the next morning I felt like I was being broiled. Not ... http://rwong.tmesismag.com/its-spring-already