Category Archives: Photo Stuff
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Whee
Finished the Internships expansion for Student Wars yesterday. The tenative card list for the final expansion, Loose Ends, is also posted. I hope to have those finished, and to have Student Wars v2 started, by the end of next semester. Whether that’ll happen or not is anyone’s guess.
Also, as a note to myself, I need to work on graphical cards for the STD TCG, and also to make more cards for the Cluster card game.
Last night was a good day in KoL. I managed to get to level 11 in 2 adventures (I just needed 2 clover adventures + stat script) and beat the sorceress with no problems (had over 150 HP left; her first form only dealt 15 damage the entire time). Then I power levelled to level 15 in about 110 adventures while simultaneously building my NPZR (keep in mind a lot of those adventures were spent at the shore getting the toaster), then farmed for clockwork keys for my remaining 160 adventures. Then I ascended as an AT and got to level 4. So yeah, it would have been a sub-1000 turn run if I hadn’t wanted to level to 15 to perm pulverize. With just the levelling, its around a 1000 turn run. The only thing that made the turncount so high was my farming.
Yesterday Kat and I went to see Victor and Leon’s puppies. Oh god, they’re so cute!
Er… Oh god, there so cute! Their cuter than you’re puppies, and they have the affect of making you go “awwwww”. Your weak for puppies, you know you are.
That was painful >_<
In other news, my new memory card makes my camera say there are 1.2K available pictures… but the battery is on its way out (already :-\ although given how much I use it I guess it’s not a big deal) so I only get enough power for a couple hundred (on a full charge, although it’s stopped charging correctly, so that doesn’t mean anything).
Wheee!
Life is amazing and awesome and makes me happy.
Life
It seems I’m writing in here more and more sporatically. This is probably a good thing.
Stuff’s been happening over the past few days. Alisa had a birthday party and there was much yummy Cheesecake Factory fooding. She’s uploaded piccars to Facebook, so you should go see them.
Went to develop the 6 rolls I shot for my color photo final, and many of them came out awesomely. Spent about 3.5 hours scanning negatives today. Ended up with around 58 total images, and the requirement for the final was only 10-15 images, so I think I’m set.
There was the most beautifully awesome sunset the other day, and the only camera I had with me was my film… but meh, here’s the picture.
There’s the awesomeness that is Elise (of whom you cannot take a bad picture)
and Todd-in-a-window
and nwf-at-work
Whee
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I still haven’t really started graphics.
This is probably a very bad thing, given it’s due in 4 days.
…
*sigh*
Last week. Let’s hope I don’t screw this up.
Edit: No, I didn’t photoshop any of those images except to remove dust and scratches. All colors are (more or less) as they were seen.
Various life musings
I keep having really weird, really freaky dreams. The moment I wake up, I forget almost all of it, but I’m left with this sense of intense fear and anxiety and lay there for a few moments too scared to move. Not quite sure what that means.
My final projects for both photo classes are coming along. For alternate, I plan to print various photos of Ev, with Van Dyke, onto a roll of paper towels. It turned out rather well when I printed Ben to test (although I didn’t fix it for fear of absorbing all the fixer and wasting it), so we’ll see how it goes. For color, I’m doing a more documentary-style portraiture shoot of CS life… which is to say, I’m shooting like I always do, except with my film camera instead of my digital. Dylan seems to be pleased with the results thus far… kinda ironic that I’m putting less effort into this (just shooting as I always do instead of racking my brain trying to think of things to shoot or trying to organize shoots) but it’s working out better. I want to assemble a book for the final, but I’m not sure if I’ll have enough images to do so, and if I do, I’m not sure I’ll have enough time to do so.
We’ve recieved the final assignments in all classes, so it’s all downhill from here. I’m a little worried about the graphics lab and final algo homework, but I’m sure I’ll eventually get it done. These next two weeks are going to be intense… followed by an intense week of finals (4 finals in 3 days… ew), and then it’s off to home.
Normally I’m kinda relieved to be heading home, even though I prefer it here in Pittsburgh. This year, however, that “Eh, whatever, I’ll go home” is turning into an intense feeling of longing. I don’t want to leave, despite really wanting to see my parents.
Relatedly, things in relationship land are amazing and I still feel like the luckiest guy alive.
Most of you already know I’m planning on graduating in December 2007. However, I’m contemplating becoming part time for my Fall 2007 semester. After next semester, assuming I pass all my classes, I will have exactly one requirement left to graduate, and it’ll be a CS elective. I’m planning on taking Computational Photography and Operating Systems… but there’s not really much else I want to take. That comes out to 24 units, which is less than the 36 required to be full-time. It’d be cheaper to pay for the units, especially given that I wasn’t planning on living in campus housing anyway. It’d absolve me (read: my parents) from various CMU fees too…
I dunno. Mark says it’s a good idea if I don’t really have anything else I want to take. I’m not on any scholarships that require me to be fulltime. I suppose I should discuss this with my parents.
I’m horribly behind on internship searching. I have no offers and no prospects, and it’s almost December. Blah. I guess that’s what Christmas break is for.
No pictar because I’ve been shooting all film and don’t have any of it scanned yet.