wtf sun
Why you discolor my skin like that, that's not cool! D:
One of the muggiest mornings I have experienced in quite some time (oh, about nine month's time) was spent getting rid of wood chips in front of the theatre in preparation for the new batch that is arriving tomorrow. I am really hoping those thunderstorms tonight cool things off for tomorrow morning. There should be more people tomorrow, too. It was just Dan Kelly, Brian the maintanence dude (not my brother or the manager), and me. Apparently Elisa is working tomorrow. It has been too long since I have made fun of her!
I am upset that Nicole got promoted to OC and transferred to the Great Lakes Crossing Star theatre... No longer can I play with the things at Guest Services and make her mad! Stupid changes at the stupid theatre. Time to pick up the kiddies from school in two hour's time.
Having my computer hooked up to the stereo instead of my speakers is neat. My speakers are cool and all, but the sound they project is very directed. If that makes sense. The stereo in the family room sounds good from anywhere. My speakers only really sound good if they are aimed right at your head. Then again, I could use my subwoofer with the speakers out here instead of the stereo amp.. ::evil grin::
It could have just been that MSV rooms have shitty acoustics.
So the three FPS Tourney game choices (for the LAN) are Jedi Academy, Doom 2, and Tribes 2. I was torn between Doom and Tribes, I do not appreciate the hard decision Andrew! It is cruel to make one choose between such loves!
--My mind just blanked, wtf? Um.. this is awkward...--
Oh. I eventually picked Doom 2 because I figured it would be a lot more fun than Tribes (well, Hunters or Team Hunters would be fun. We should also try (Team) Rabbit). But at the end of the day, nothing beats the BFG9000.
I really do need to find AndrAIa a permanent home. I dislike having to constantly zoom in on text in order to read it.
Stupid low-resolution TV. It is great for watching movies and playing games, like Doctor Who and Nexuiz specifically and respectively.
Meh, I sitll need to unpack everything as it is. I will probably live out of my duffel bag until it runs out of clothes and they are all circulated into the normal wash cycle. All of my other crap currently resides in the family room. About half of it (the family room).
Next on the agenda: Install Unreal Tournament 2006, see if I can patch Tribes 2 Linux (Tribes 2 Windows via WINE does not agree much with my mouse acceleration), install Quake 3 Linux using, but without breaking, Quake 3 Windows installation, and possibly see if I can get Kevin's Star Trek game to work via WINE.
Apparently when I grabbed my broken PS2 from Pete's room, his PS2 harddrive was in it.
...
I have a 160GB harddrive sitting in a box on my dining room table. Game time, anyone? This is kind of ridiculous: I have Casey's Wii Play game, his Wiimote and nunchuk, and even his Wavebird and receiver. I have Corey's boxed Prey game. And I have Pete's PS2 harddrive. I really hope I do not have anything else that belongs to anyone else. That would be almost silly. How did this happen?
ATI needs to hurry up and release drivers for the newest version of X. It is kind of hard to get David to switch to Ubuntu if the drivers are not there. Or I could just have him run an older version of X... Hm. We shall see. He says all he really needs it for is Warcraft III, which works fine for me. He somehow even got it to run WITH the CD (I had to use a CD crack), when playing via WINE. Problem is, it renders everything so horribly slow with the current drivers.
Time to shower, sweat seems caked to skin.
Less QQ more pew-pew
Took the bio exam this morning, doubt that went all that well..
Came to my room, showered, and played some melee with Jason, Matt, Toro, Kevin and Phil. Then I played some Nexuiz, which is a very fun twitch-FPS. It uses a heavily modified Quake 1 engine, but it looks great. It's been about a year, I believe, since I actually last played, and since then they've added bots, a few more game types, a single player campaign, new maps, better network code?, and a ping display! I just spent the last two and a half hours playing through the last ten levels of the campaign. I had to have spent at least half an hour on the final level alone, playing it over and over until I finally won.
It's nice to be able to spend some time playing a game without having to actually worry about anything. I mean, I've gotta worry about cleaning the room and finding all my stuff and when I am leaving (and what to do with my keys and stuff; and, depending on when I leave, what to do in regards to friends when I get back.. most of the losers are still in highschool), but that's all just fun stuff. I took three exams, turned in two papers. All is done. Happy.
Phil, Jason, and I ordered Giordonnos (sp?) and watched the Fantastic Four movie that came out a while back. Everyone at work was saying it sucked, but, while it could have been better, I enjoyed it. They did spend too much time just goofing around and not really advancing the plot, but I guess that's what the Rise of The Silver Surfer is for, eh? And besides, Jessica Alba.
A very lame volleyball game commenced around nine. It was two on two at first, Jason and Kevin against OB and me. Linda played for their team a bit, then our team, then left. Then Galina joined our team, Toro theirs, Brooke ours. At one point I rushed out of there because the pizza had gone right through me, and I didn't think that would have been a pretty sight on a volleyball court. I slept from about ten-thrity to two-thirty. Apparently Phil isn't enjoying the pizza either... Haven't been able to sleep since. Jeremy's parents are gonna be here around noon, and he wants me up to help clean and what not. I'm probably not gonna sleep. Go shower, see if the cafeteria is open for breakfast, talk to work about next semester and retaking precalc, play some more games, etc.
This summer is gonna be great. Gotta catch up on so many video games <_< I really wish I had the money to play FFXI again...
Was thinking of heading over to the lake for the sunrise. Maybe tomorrow.
Klassen, Videospielen, Computerdinge, und Bücher
So those screw/bolt things on my license plate were a total bitch... Finally got them off, though, and put on the new plate. The new plate would totally suck (stupid new design) were it not for the fact that it says SUGRDTH on it :-D
Rock on.
Took the car for a drive today, psych was canceled. Lots of traffic. Hate busses. Saw gas prices ranging from $3.07 to $3.29. What's it like in the D-Town?
Went to humanities... fell asleep. Generally I try to be inconspicuous about my sleeping (though I'm sure the professors know damn well when a student is sleeping), but when I saw a kid sleeping in the front row, I gave up on trying to look awake and just passed out.
Registered for classes at Linda's urging.
CS331 (Databases and Algorithms or something?)
CS350 (Assembly! WHOO!)
MATH148 (precalc... stupid retakes...)
ITM460 (Some computer multimedia class. Or more web oriented. I was looking at this one and 461, but 461 interfered with one of my classes)
SOC200 (sociology something or other)
16 credit hours.
Doing my schedule for next semester kinda makes ya think about this semester, ya know? I could have done sooo much better... I got a 62.5% on the bio exam I took a week or two back. The average was a 69%, but I totally could have done better if I studied sooner... The final is gonna be a bitch. Gotta know all twenty-four chapters. And do damn well. It's worth 60% of the final grade. For everyone else. 75% for me. I missed the very first exam, but the professor was nice enough to help me out on that. Awesomes... Gotta do well...
I was trying to look at Macomb's class schedule for the summer (to find a class that might take the place of Math148 and 149, so that I could go straight into 151 next semester), but I could barely navigate their website... I could totally take summer classes here at IIT. Work at the River East 21, maybe. Where would I live? Wouldn't get a cheap CTA Card, either (I'd actually have to, gasp, PAY for each and every train ride). Summer housing on campus is ridiculously expensive... Doubt I have the money for an apartment. Plus classes here are also ridiculously expensive. A class at Macomb would be cheap.
And the Forum 30 knows me. They'll give me hours.
Also, friends. Those people at home who like to hang out with me. Weirdos.
There's my little bit of emo for the day. Valid reason for it, too.
Played some Halo with Jason, Phil, Toro, Kevin.
Played some TMNT (I BEAT THE WATER LEVEL, ON ONE GO).
Played some Prey. I seriously hope I'm not on the final boss already. That would be way too quick (I'll have to install Doom 3, next. Never did get past the first level of hell.).
Hung out with Linda for a bit (crap, still gotta buy my formal ticket... table 33, I believe? I seriously hope we don't have to dress up like we did for Ford's homecoming... I don't have a coat/jacket thingy, and I think Pete may actually be going, so I may not be able to borrow his again..). She had an... explosive episode... (I declare innocent bystander status!)
Alles gut.
Jeremy has had his computer copying Windows settings and shit from one harddrive to another (through Windows' Transfer Files and Settings application thingy) for over a day and a half now. Probably two. I think he's got three harddrives in there now, or something. Just stick everything you think you'll ever need on a separate harddrive, and wipe the other(s). Start fresh with whatever operating system you want, and never move those files from that drive. Store everything that matters to that drive. Applications? No. Music and movies? Yes. School stuff? Yes. Other personal documents? Yes.
NEVER use the Documents and Settings folder (or the My Documents folder, for those of you running older versions of Windows), unless you are mounting another harddrive or partition over that folder (which is a pain in the ass to do in WinNT/XP).
Example: I had a T (guess what it stood for) drive in Windows. I stored everything important there. Never had to reinstall Windows in the two and a half years I had it, but if I ever had to, there would be VERY little backing up to do. When I migrated to Linux, I just installed over the Windows partition (which \was on a separate harddrive from my personal stuff), and all my stuff was still on the other drive. Untouched, perfectly usable still. Mount that drive as my /home directory in Linux, and ALL of my personal settings are stored there. For every application. Automatically.
If I need to reinstall openSUSE or wanna try out Ubuntu or anything else, all my stuff is intact. Opera will still have all my bookmarks, Gnome will still look EXACTLY the same (which is totally fucking awesome, so much time has been spent customizing it), and there'd generally be very little to do in regards to making the computer mine again.
Same idea if you mount a drive as "c:\documents and settings" in Windows (though you'll have to worry about the registry, which is another pain in the ass on its own).
...
Um... end rant... <_<
Yeah.. I'm totally a CS major... what tipped you off?
(The "My Documents"/"Documents and Settings Folder" is such a retarded idea.
Besides, what's easier to work with:
"c:\my documents and settings\satoshi\local settings\my music\evanescence"
or
"t:\music\evanescene")
Linda lent me The Atrocity Archives a week or two ago, and I just finished it a day or two ago. Very cool book. Very nerdy. I enjoyed it :-D (When magic and the occult meet technology, which then meets interdimensional travel, which then meets Nazis and Hitler's face carved into the moon, you know you've got a good book.)
Ending this now. Need to. Class at ten.
:-D
Woot. I think things are working out quite well at the moment.
I spilled easy mac noodles all over the bathroom sink and floor while trying to open the bag D:
Went through a round of Starfox 64 on my Wii. Got to some of the "secret" planets! Whoo!
Turned in java an hour and a half before due time. Was freaking easy. Enjoyed it.
Volleyballed in forty-five degree weather.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the NES (I love the Wii Virtual console) is pissing me off. Fucking underwater level... with the bombs.... electric seaweed.... freaking electric beams with timers... and the curvy path filled with electric seaweed so that my turtle BARELY fits through it! Hate you game.. HATE YOU! I hated you... ten years ago? More than ten, probably... I was quite young when I played it... I remember Brian and I used to play that game LOTS. Game was releasd on the NES in '89... Though we had the PC version, it shouldn't have been too far off. ... ahem... I hated you roughly ten years ago, and I still hate you to this day!
Yet I keep coming back... stupid love-hate relationship... I will get you underwater bombs! I will get you!!
Tomorrow... after class... meet at the flagpole
Last night (Saturday night): Watched the last fifteen minutes of Robocop 1 and all of Robocop 2 and 3 in Kevin's room with Kevin, Linda, some of Phil, and some of Jason.
I had never seen them fully (still need to watch all of the first one), glad that I finally got the chance.
There was a sort of human pile on Kevin's bed.
Saturday night was also the concert at the BOG? Some band, I forget their name. The lead guitarist had mad skillz. Very dextrous hands.
Friday involved hanging out with Jason from home and Linda's hostee for the undergrad preview weekend (Linda was off at the Medieval Times thingy that Brian went to with SAGE a few years back).
There was a distinct lack of ducttape! I failed! She was on Kevin's bed, but Toro was all over her (not physically, but you could tell he wanted to be).
Um... Corey kept me up until about seven-thrity/eight in the morning Saturday night. Talkin' 'bout lots a things.
Sleeps? Really not tired, but I really should... Class at one-fifty... is now five twenty-one...
Grrrr.... stupid sleep.... who needs it
Apparently my love of fire has carried over to Alyssa's game in Sims 2. I think I killed a few of the neighbors by setting a tree on fire (and calling everyone near by flailing my arms). Those bastards deserved it. Coming over and using our pool uninvited... Gonna set their pets on fire next.
*Pulls out lighter*
*Realizes it's not very intimidating.. as it is shaped like a penis* (literally... thanks Jason and Elyse...)
*Realizes it IS intimidating, as it's more of a torch than a lighter* :-D
Coffee Bean
Fear is when you realize that, after enough practice, you can pull an all-nighter without any sort of caffeine.
Five-hundred words; should be easy enough, right?
Things.
I've been reading a lot more, lately. I really wanna start that German book I ordered. Should be a jolly-romp through language land. I just can't seem to set aside the time out of my ridiculously empty schedule to pick up the book, a pen, and a notebook (I'm going to encounter words and grammars I don't understand, gotta be able to look them up). I see myself reading each section twice, once before and once after figuring most everything out.
I haven't played a video game besides WarCraft III, Smash Brothers, or Mario Kart 64 since BEFORE Christmas Break. What's wrong with me?
Articulation is something I've had a problem with ever since mid-way through the summer, if I recall. Not sure what's up with it.. Memories of that last few days of school just came flooding back to me. Walking with Jason in the fresh, summer air to his car after school. Did we ever skip a psych class? Eighth hour, we had to have. I think we did, once, visited MST. Or was that in the early Fall, when we skipped one of those lame pep assemblies?
Needs more seizure bots.
I find myself tripping over words. It bothers me.
Andrew's coming to visit on Thursday. Something about being a Camras kid. He's not staying for the entire event, if it indeed lasts longer than Thursday. He's got robotics that weekend. Since he's not staying the entire time, he's not shacking up with a currently enrolled Camras kid.
Things back home.
I should really get to work on this essay. I have the idea worked out in my head. I just can't make myself type it out. Webcomics, livejournals (ebay, even!) are distracting me.
Wine does not want to install Oblivion. Some bullshit error (error -2147418113). (I'd rather not boot into Windows, never did run Oblivion all that well. Though Wine's current track-record gives me hope: most games have been running better through wine than they did under normal windows)
I want to play FFXI again.
I need a good RPG. D&D is only so often, and I want an escape that's more available.
I should try and play PSO some more. Get me that s-rank twin I've been wanting.
I'm almost tempted to start on the next Java lab (due Thursday at 12:45PM) than start on my paper (due in six hours). I would love to escape into a world of code.
Apparently I have a communication problem. Who saw that one coming?
I did, but did not.
I like how we always assume the worst. Oh, it couldn't be me. I wish it were.
I'm really cold. I tend to get cold around seven to eight in the morning.
Currently my PS2 is out of commission. What, with four pins on one of the chips being soldered together. I'm really not too worried. Dropped sixty on a mod-chip; totally useless without a working ps2. And I don't care.
Absolutely.
Commas, semicolons, periods.
Vicarious, Perfect Situation, Hate Me.
Was thinking of rolling a Blackguard, if I can't play FFXI anytime soon. The Blackguard is the closest thing I've found to my Dark Knight.. Gotta create a whole backstory for him. He's gotta have a good one, seeing as how he's an EX-PALADIN. That's an accomplishment, where I come from. He's adept with poisons, good with martial weapons (SCYTH SCYTH SCYTH), and is evil. Sounds like a Dark Knight to me.
California rest in peace,
Simultaneous release
One of Jeremy's friends recognized the AIM client I used. First person to do so. Everyone else is just like "oh, you're using that one that doesn't allow file-transfers [it totally does, by the way]," or "the DOS one [it's linux, nub]." Robert (?) goes "What client is that? Naim?" I don't know how, but I did a verbal double-take.
I haven't booted Windows in a week or two. Or three? Uptime of 2 days, 17:56. Might just wipe it all. Unless I fail at getting PlayOnline/FFXI and/or Oblivion running through Wine.
Doubtful.
Like a lot of things.
Though I may be pleasently surprised.
Jeremy pointed out that there's only two more weeks of school left before Spring Break. I'm still undecided as to whether I'm going home or not.
The kids back home just started their mid-winter break. They'll probably have their spring break in about a month, or whenever Easter is.
I want a new monitor. A 19" widescreen LCD. $150-$180. Maybe if I do well on midterms.
Thoughts keep popping in my head "What if I don't do well? What if I lose my scholarships? I can't come back.. don't have the money.." And then I get really upset at the idea that I would have to go to Macomb for a year or two. I'm better than that. So is everyone I know who goes there. So are the people who will be going there in a couple years.
I just don't work hard enough to deserve anything better.
Fuck this paper.
Great book. Thérèse Raquin. Translated from French. Typos galore ('them,' instead of 'then').
Jeremy accidently bought regular Oreos. He never buys regular Oreos. He ate my Double Stufs because he bought regular Oreos. Fine by me. I've stolen so many pop-tarts from the kid. And cheez-wiz. Delicious, pressurized, canned cheese.
Damn I'm cold.
I made a snow angel today. Been meaning to do that for quite some time.
Should make a whole army of snow angels.
To assault the above freezing temperatures that are nigh.
Andrew's coming to IIT on Thursday.
Heather left at seven (two hours ago... it's eight now), for MSU. I think it was MSU. Wasn't really the focus of the conversation.
I never visited any colleges. Well.. April 24th, 2006. The day after one of our LAN Parties, Mom and I made a trip to IIT for 'Undergrade Preview Day.' But that was because we had already decided where I was going. Without so much as an application to UofM, MSU, MTU.
Brian's going to MTU. Upwards of twelve feet of snow sounds like much fun. They use snowshoes up there. And I'm sure the summers are damn nice too, right on Lake Superior.
I'm hungry. Cafeteria is open for breakfast.
I have the following typed for my paper:
Tony Lademan
HUM-104-102
Therese Raquinasdf
Bland Sodexho eggs and pancakes are calling to me.
Will proofread later. If ever.
Am cold.