Long time no Wii.
According to IGN via Digg, the Revolution is officially the Nintendo Wii.
I am overwhelmed with ambivalence.
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Advent
Now this is how a slow day should go. Sure I was tired at class this morning, but the rest of the day made up for it. I did basically nothing after class, ate with Laura, did nothing again, and then went to the photography lab for a few hours. I was able to finish mounting all five of my prints. This means I'll have nothing to do in class Thursday besides show up and turn in my projects.
Afterwards was a late and somewhat unfulfilling dinner, but then came the crux of the day: ultimate frisbee. We got raped and my jeans are grass-stained, but it was great fun nonetheless (not to mention the best workout I've had in a while). Back to the dorm we went, where I watched House and subsequently joined Vaso and Jon in banging our heads against the last physics homework of the semester. Nothing notable resulted, but at least we gave it a shot.
It's odd; today was both a full and yet relaxing day. I feel very little stress about the coming weeks of school. Here's hoping the levee holds.
Afterwards was a late and somewhat unfulfilling dinner, but then came the crux of the day: ultimate frisbee. We got raped and my jeans are grass-stained, but it was great fun nonetheless (not to mention the best workout I've had in a while). Back to the dorm we went, where I watched House and subsequently joined Vaso and Jon in banging our heads against the last physics homework of the semester. Nothing notable resulted, but at least we gave it a shot.
It's odd; today was both a full and yet relaxing day. I feel very little stress about the coming weeks of school. Here's hoping the levee holds.
Sunday, April 16, 2006
On Death
It's been one week today since my dad passed away here at our house and things are almost returning to a sense of normalcy. It feels more comfortable being at home now, though, knowing that my family (especially my mom) needs me now more than ever. We spent a few hours last night talking about the future, about insurance money and college plans and fixing nagging house problems, and I feel a lot better about the future now than I did before. I know it won't be a smooth road, but it won't (shouldn't) be a horrible trial either.
It's just different.
It's just different.
Thursday, April 06, 2006
Epidemic
Everyone in the world is getting sick. It started with Jon and proceeded to Vaso and now a bunch of people on our floor. Somehow, though, both Vaso and Laura have whatever's going around, yet it hasn't transferred itself to me yet. My immune system's power is awesome.
I've simply been tired often, despite getting more sleep than usual this week (possibly somehow related to Daylight Savings Time). Yesterday was fairly bad, although I think I'm gradually getting better to adapting to a heavy workload. I was effectively engaged from 9:30 AM to 9:00 PM: class from 9:30 until 12:20, then lunch, a nap to survive the rest of the day, helping Laura with photography, SAGES, dinner, and physics lab. Lab was actually a relief, though, as it seemed crazy-short. We actually spent extra time in lab after we finished the data collection to perform the analysis, so effectively all we need to do is write the report rather than finishing half the lab the day before it's due.
As for other work: my previous roll of film actually developed fine last week, but I boned up the prints I was making. Fortunately, I think I'll have every project finished (developed) as of tonight, and I'll just have to print the results. In theory, it shouldn't take very long at all (barring any more stupidity on my part like dirty negatives). Here's hoping I can pull an A in this class because I think it'll be likely that I drop to a B in Calculus.
Our Engineering test today wasn't nearly as hilarious as the previous two due to me actually having a small inkling of the material we had covered (though a few problems were complete stumpers - ENGR 145 is interesting in that you can do very very well just by having a lot of equations at your disposal and plugging in stuff but do very very poorly if you forget that one equation you thought you didn't need but is half the test material). At least I'll do better than the 55.4% I collected on last Friday's physics exam - I'll let the professor deal with that when the time comes to curve the class (class average for that test: 46%). The only things I have to deal with in the next week or so are photography tonight, a physics lab report which will be a piece of cake, and a SAGES paper due Monday on who-knows-what; I have yet to decide the topic. I'm looking forward to getting done with all of my work and everyone getting less disease ridden.
Classwork aside, the biggest news of the last few days is Apple's release of the Boot Camp public beta. Apple-sanctioned Windows XP on MacBooks = woot. Windows XP, with appropriate drivers, apparently runs about as well as a comparably powerful Windows laptop. This is excellent news; none of this Virtual PC stuff any more. All I require now is a MacBook and I'll be set.
Also, my fantasy baseball team needs to play better. First place for a day left me with a desire for fresh blood / home runs.
I've simply been tired often, despite getting more sleep than usual this week (possibly somehow related to Daylight Savings Time). Yesterday was fairly bad, although I think I'm gradually getting better to adapting to a heavy workload. I was effectively engaged from 9:30 AM to 9:00 PM: class from 9:30 until 12:20, then lunch, a nap to survive the rest of the day, helping Laura with photography, SAGES, dinner, and physics lab. Lab was actually a relief, though, as it seemed crazy-short. We actually spent extra time in lab after we finished the data collection to perform the analysis, so effectively all we need to do is write the report rather than finishing half the lab the day before it's due.
As for other work: my previous roll of film actually developed fine last week, but I boned up the prints I was making. Fortunately, I think I'll have every project finished (developed) as of tonight, and I'll just have to print the results. In theory, it shouldn't take very long at all (barring any more stupidity on my part like dirty negatives). Here's hoping I can pull an A in this class because I think it'll be likely that I drop to a B in Calculus.
Our Engineering test today wasn't nearly as hilarious as the previous two due to me actually having a small inkling of the material we had covered (though a few problems were complete stumpers - ENGR 145 is interesting in that you can do very very well just by having a lot of equations at your disposal and plugging in stuff but do very very poorly if you forget that one equation you thought you didn't need but is half the test material). At least I'll do better than the 55.4% I collected on last Friday's physics exam - I'll let the professor deal with that when the time comes to curve the class (class average for that test: 46%). The only things I have to deal with in the next week or so are photography tonight, a physics lab report which will be a piece of cake, and a SAGES paper due Monday on who-knows-what; I have yet to decide the topic. I'm looking forward to getting done with all of my work and everyone getting less disease ridden.
Classwork aside, the biggest news of the last few days is Apple's release of the Boot Camp public beta. Apple-sanctioned Windows XP on MacBooks = woot. Windows XP, with appropriate drivers, apparently runs about as well as a comparably powerful Windows laptop. This is excellent news; none of this Virtual PC stuff any more. All I require now is a MacBook and I'll be set.
Also, my fantasy baseball team needs to play better. First place for a day left me with a desire for fresh blood / home runs.
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