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Meh, using the same post title for every entry is good in that I don’t have to think very hard, but I imagine it’ll make posts hard to find in the future. Then again, my titles are never very descriptive anyway, so what does it matter?

This weekend has been full of homework. Like, omg, I didn’t know I could have so much homework… and it’s only the first week. Slowly working away at them… I need to start the graphics assignment today and go to office hours for algo tomorrow. Still need to finish numerical methods (which was supposed to be the easiest one…) and algo. Also, once my film arrives, I need to shoot a couple rolls in varying light to see how colors change.

Went to see SoaP yesterday with Everett. Surprisingly, it wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it would be. In fact, if it wasn’t for the name, I’d be temped to call it a decent movie.
Now they just need the trilogy… BoaT (Bears on a Train) and HoaC (Hamsters on a Car)… despite the fact that the last one doesn’t make a word, and that they’d have to be rabid hamsters.

Bagelfish sandwich! :D

Last night was lots of puyo fun with people, pizza, and brownies. Then I felt antisocial and came and holled myself up in my room with algo.

Whee life is good :)

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Time and time again, you discover that it isn’t the subject matter that makes a class good or bad, it’s the professor.

In high school, I hated history, but I loved Ms. Pullen’s history classes. Same thing with Intro World History here with Donna Harsch. In high school, I loved chemistry, but hated Mr. Petkus’ chem class. Here, I hate physics, but I loved my experimental physics class.

This semester, I was looking forward to numerical methods… the subject matter seemed interesting and everything. Now that I’ve been to two classes, I can’t help but feel disappointed. I mean, so maybe it’s just the beginning of the class and it’s too early to judge, and maybe she hasn’t taught the class before, so whatever. I just know I’m disappointed thus far.

Likewise, I was dreading my analysis class, but now that I’m in it, I’m loving it. The professor is amazing and whee! Also, the section I switched into (because the professor asked people to, if possible) has something like 10 people in it. Amazing!

But yeah, today’s alt. photo class was amazing. We shot 4 X 5 film, and took polaroids to test the exposure metering and such. 4 X 5 cameras are a pain to use though… I don’t know how fond I am of them.

Less than three, OMG
I love alt photography
Polaroids they shot of me
LOLOL

Memories

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I’ve spent the past ~6 hours going through stuff on my hard drive. There’s things on there from my very first webpage (back in 4th grade) to my first VB programs (4th grade) to my first Java programs (6th grade) to various LPSO board stuff to every photo I’ve ever taken to a bunch of Games Factory games I made with Jim in middle school.

As I read through the various archived forum pages and chat logs, it occurs to me how horribly arrogant and self-righteous I was then. I acted like an ass to so much of the LPSO community, and for that I apologize. In chats, I was intrusive and annoying (hopefully I’m not as bad now… hopefully). Bleh. I hate who I was back then. Stupid stupid stupid.

I look over my old websites and I realize how horribly devoid of content they were. Sure, they featured interesting layouts and advertised themselves as “Fanfics, forums, and much much more,” but there really wasn’t “much more” than that. I think that’s one thing I’m proud of in AlanvDotOrg… it actually has content. Design is important, sure, but it comes second to content. Back in my early web design years, I seem to have forgotten that and used and reused the same old tired layouts as many times as I could just to have many pages up, even if those pages had only a “Coming soon” sign on them.

I was so full of myself… things were created under the assumption that everyone was interested in me… that my site was the one that everyone wanted to come to. I had password protected pages. I had exclusive members-only content. I put together tons of web games and quizzes. I had a page to give out awards to other websites. Meh.

I also stumbed across my first website ever. It’s an animorphs fansite with stuff copied directly from the official site and random animated web graphics. I was a little confused until I remembered it was before I knew to use “index.html” as the splash… so the index is “t1.html”. Odd, but meh. I should upload it sometime in case people are interested… it’s 1.2MB, but only because it contains WAV files.

So yeah, it’s highly amusing to go back and look through my old webpages. I just realized I have screens of them here. Heh. They evolved so much.

Looking over old photos, I’ve really changed.
Here’s me from Halloween 2000 with my Sonic pumpkin

Here’s me from before we even had a digital camera, at my birthday party (probably 5th grade) with Kat, Katie, and Jim

Oh, and me with my 6th grade homeroom class

My photography has also changed a lot… I guess you could say it’s matured. Interesting.
In any case, my folder containing almost every photo I’ve ever taken is now 47.2GB (94,872 photos) and growing weekly.
…
That’s a hell of a lot of photos.
I wonder if I can break 100,000 before December.

Looked over my massive archive of game screenshots from back when I loved posting screens of video games online. There’s over 1.5 GB of horrible-quality 640X480px screenshots from SoAL, Sonic Adventure 2, Animal Crossing, PSO, Grandia 2, Evolution 1/2, Starfox Adventures, SSBM, and Super Mario Sunshine. So much random crap in there. I really should get back into video games… I kinda miss them sometimes. I should also get my video capture card working again. Meh.

Looked over my archive of card games, from the failed games to my first “successful” one, the Starcraft TCG (although the definition of “successful” is debatable). So much potential. I still want to create RPG Get! I think they’re the best set of card game rules I’ve ever created, and the system is expandable such that it can encompass potentially-limitless numbers of RPGs in the game as seperate affiliations. Meh. One of these days I’ll get around to taking more screenshots of the games so I can have enough stuff to create the base set (which I think was supposed to be themed around Grandia 2 and Skies of Arcadia). Whee.

Ahhh so much more I want to write about, but it’s almost 2 AM, so I should probably sleep.

Edit: Meh, it’s 2:30. I’ve uploaded some (more) old pictures onto Facebook. Go and look. Whee.

ITG

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A can of apple-favored water that mklipper had yesterday. Whee.

Played (a lot) more ITG today with 8. Passed my sixth 10-rating song: D-Code. Also came close to an S+ on Land of the Rising Sun (about 0.3% off). Whee. Still need to work a lot on my accuracy.

Also played a lot of Stepmania today. Downloaded an ITG skin for it, so now it’s more fun and whee.

Um… yeah. Why is it so cold in the cluster? Meh. I’m freezing.
I also havn’t eaten yet today. It’s now 6:45. Hmm. I should probably eat something soon.

I’m seriously considering spending the night in the cluster again, but that’s probably a bad idea, given that I have work tomorrow at 7:30.

No one gave me hugs yesterday :(

I have been so horribly unproductive this entire summer (outside of work). I don’t even remember what my goals for this summer were. Meh.
I’m sooo lazzzyyyy…

Edit: Passed two more 10-rating songs: Hand of Time and Queen of Light (both with Bs).
Wheee.
That makes eight 10-rating songs passed (all with C+ or better).

Tiiimmmeee

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Where does the time go? It’s already 10:30. I should shower and sleep soon, especially since I think I’m coming down with something (sore throat, trouble breathing, cough… bleh).

Work today was kinda bleh. I feel so behind… I can’t work on formula extraction until I finish formula classification… and formula classification currently has a success rate of 74% for non-standard problems (99.2% if you include standard problems). I need to get that up above 80% before I’m comfortable going to extraction.
After that is working well enough, I need to tackle the issue of systems problems as well (for which equation extraction will be a horrible mess of painful death).
My mentor is so amazingly understanding…

I had another weird dream last night. I was in a video game, and there were a bunch of different quests I had to undertake to complete it and save my friends and family.
The only one I remember, unfortunately, was me noticing a bunch of gold and jewels (the game’s “collectable items”) under some crates, and trying to jump in such a way that I would slide in and touch it (picking it up; my character apparently is thinner while jumping or something). I finally consulted the hint system, which led me to a nearby computer station with a guy who introduced himself. He said that that terminal controlled the invisible radio waves in the air that could blow up the crates. I did so and collected the treasure.
…
There was more stuff involving sliding down broken railings over pits of lava and jumping over electrified metal shard boxes, but I don’t really remember that part.

My first S (even if it was just an S-) from this weekend.
(The left is 8… he’s too good -_-)

The front of New House, stylized.