Amerikkka

Just related to me by Alex: apparently, the best way to get information on people is to ask them for it. How quaint.

Bah

I would've posted earlier but the internets were not moving in my favor.

New Apple products, yay. Intel Mac Minis, software updates, leather iPod cases (for a whopping $99), and the iPod Hi-Fi all were announced. Still waiting for more laptops...

I made prints for one of my projects today at the photo lab and they turned out okay. They're, uh... mostly grey, but probably usable. Oh well. I blame the limitations of greyscale photography. Oh yeah, and I left my Case ID at the photo lab (sign-in requirement is to leave your ID with the assistant) and didn't realize it until I was back at north-side. So, we had to run all the way back down to the lab to get my ID and run all the way back. Hooray, I feel like death.

I'll probably have to start Physics homework tonight too. Bah.

No Means No

Slow Tuesday.

I made it to my recitation on time, handed in my homework and took an easy quiz. Success. Later I get to go back to the photography lab and do two more prints; only then will my midterm be a success.

Developing photos sucks.

Also, our housing form was turned in today by I. Hopefully all will go as planned and we'll all get Clarke Tower. I don't want to be stuck on South Side...

Pure Morning

Continuing the song titles... it's late, and here are some quickies.

• The Playstation 3 will apparently be delayed again as Sony tries once more to force its proprietary media format on an unsuspecting market. The DVD format wars are getting to be even more ridiculous than the +/- debacle of yesteryear.



• Speaking of debacles, instead of creating a simple-to-understand, definitive version to buy, Microsoft has proclaimed that Windows Vista will have no less than six boxed formats available for purchase. Honestly, we've got things called DVDs now. Linux can somehow cram more setups than you can shake a stick at on only one disc (though, given, Linux is much more segmented and chop-friendly than Windows could ever aspire to be). Now we need six separate, empirically different versions of the same operating system? I can only imagine this being a support nightmare as the techie on the phone tries frantically to figure out the differences between Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium.



• From the Who-Didn't-See-This-Coming Dept. comes news that, due to financial difficulties (surprise!), the Phantom game console has been put on hold for an indeterminate period of time while they lose money elsewhere. I can't believe Penny Arcade didn't get wind of this earlier and really dig into them, knowing their history with Infinium Labs.

That's all for tonight. I'll already likely be sleeping through my recitation this morning, though I desperately need the information. We shall see what transpires in the later morn.

Tripwire Garden

Little to talk about.

Wang showed me a game he discovered based on the hidden minigame in Project Gotham Racing 2 called Geometry Wars. The game's called Grid Wars, and it's addictive as all hell. The description that everyone seems to agree on is "Asteroids on crack", the first thing I said to Wang when he showed me it (we then Googled a review of it and the summary was exactly "Asteroids on crack", by an interesting coincidence; in fact, a review of Geometry Wars is the first search result for "Asteroids on crack"). Just goes to show that gameplay is once again > graphics.

In other news, Google now offers a hosting service for members of Gmail. 100mb of space, ad-free... sounds like a deal to me. This essentially doubles my available web space (including the 100mb provided by my university), which is certainly nice. What'd be even better is to scrounge up another hard drive and run my own web server, but Case's outgoing speed may be prohibitive to that sort of endeavor...

Regardless, I have reading to do for SAGES now that requires my attention more than the intertron. With photography trouble and now drama with regards to our housing situation for next year, things have been a bit hectic. Time to sit back and fall asleep doing my reading assignment.

Fotografía

Stress...

I realized upon developing my latest roll of film that I'll have to redo one of my projects and fiddle with another to get a workable picture. Photography is definitely my most stressful class, for some reason. I'm pretty confident in Physics, Calc and SAGES now, and I don't really care about Engineering 145 one way or the other. It's a bullshit class for a Comp. Sci., anyways.

I'm slowly but surely working on code for MY WEBSIGHT. I've always been meaning to learn CSS, but I never really had any reason to because all free hosting system available sucked. Now I've got university bandwidth to waste, plus possibly a Google Page for extra storage. I might as well dig into PHP, too, while I'm at it... maybe SQL if I'm feeling daring. Not like the resources aren't available to me here to learn it.

Today I am to develop pictures after classes... hopefully they'll turn out better than the last batch. Fingers crossed.

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