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My desk area r teh photo-y! :-D
Actually, I’ve been meaning to replace most of the photos on the wall. They’re mostly from freshman and sophomore years of high school. My wall above my BED, on the other hand, is happy. I guess that’ll be tomorrow’s picture.

Um… yeah. So I head back to Pittsburgh in 2 days (this Saturday). Strangely, I’m not as excited about heading back as I was at the beginning of summer… probably because I actually am starting to feel comfortable here, and because I havn’t spent as much time with friends here as I would have liked. Meh.
Poo to all of you too, for not having time for me :-P
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Only half kidding.

Worked a bit on constructing Student Wars decks today. Got a Programming deck, Athletic deck, and KGB deck done. I’ll build more so people have more options when it comes to introductory decks (since building a Student Wars deck, like any other TCG, is not trivial). So yeah, I’m putting all this work in, so people please play? I’ll sit down with you and teach you everything. Seriously.

For those of you who’ve asked, I’ll be working at the PSLC this summer (which basically means I’ll be on campus at the LTI). They produce and market tutoring software for kids. I’m working on the algebra tutor project. I’m going to be rewriting the backend of said system: the parser that takes the word problems the instructor enters and outputs the solution algebraic equations. The existing parser is written in lisp and is relatively accurate. Our goal is to improve the accuracy (so instructors don’t have to go in and fix the parser’s mistakes, which is extremely time consuming) and to rewrite it in Java. In doing so, we hope to gain an understanding of how children learn to parse word problems and get solutions. Should be lots of fun.
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I just hope they didn’t misplace their faith in me… as in I hope I’m smart enough to do this. Meh.
Sounds like an incredibly difficult problem.

Gone to GameWorks for the past 2 days and played DDR. It’s really weird that they don’t have an ITG machine there, given how they’re supposedly incredibly state-of-the-art. At least I’m getting exercise.

What else, what else… there’s so much I want out of life, and I feel like such a bum sitting here in front of my computer all day not getting any of it. What have I contributed to the world? Nothing. Makes me feel insignificant. Meh.
Whatever. I don’t want to be big and important anyway. Famous people are scary. I just want to be content with who I am and what I have.
And I think, at this moment, I can be, so yay.
Life is good.

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Yeah, so I was going to make a nice, long, thoughtful post. And then I realized I didn’t really have anything to say.

Meh.

Instead I will leave you with this preview of Student Wars: Booooth

Liek omgz pr0n!
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Actually, it’s a very cute picture.

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Apologies to people for the spoilers in yesterday’s post. I hope they didn’t ruin anything for you… I mean, they weren’t really too blatant, I don’t think. Meh.
You should see X3 though, if you havn’t already.

As promised:

Um… this has to be a new record. I have made 111 of the 126 cards in Student Wars: Booooth in the past 3 days. I expect to be finished with the expansion tonight. This means both Hijinks and Booooth will be uploaded this weekend for your downloading pleasure. If I have time, I’ll also create some theme decks so people have an easier time playing (all you have to do is download the cards, assemble the decks per the provided card lists, print, and play).

I’m also especially proud of this expansion because it really brings out the differences in the various concentrations (Programming, Artist, etc). It also adds 106 characters (8 dual) to the pool, which means it should now be a lot easier to build decks themed around a specific concentration. My one regret is the name… I should have named it something like “Activities” or something, because there’s a lot more in the set than just Booth (cluster raving and graduation, for example). Oh well.

Things for future expansions: More attach events (Addition attribute, specifically). More GPA dealing with the rarer traits. More uses for the “study” line of traits. More rules. More faction-themed or faction-friendly cards.

Given that I also finished most of Hijinks, I’ve made around 150-175 cards over this break (in addition to creating the entire Booooth card list). Not bad at all. Whee.

People please play? You can read the rules for now. They’re a bit confusing though… I may post a “walkthrough game” for you to read and/or play so you can better understand how the game works. I’m proud of it. Whee.

Not much else. Went to lunch with Nui today at Crazy Buffet. Lots of yummy sushi and dim sum and random chinese dishes. And green tea ice cream. Mmm, mmm.

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I’m running out of languages for post titles. Meh.

It occurs to me that I never posted this:

I’ll post rlambert with rasterbated pfriedma tomorrow.

Um… saw X3 today. It was fairly good. People die. Meh. But then person undies, so it’s okay. I guess. Overall it was very well done, but I dunno…

59/126 cards in Booooth are now done. Not bad for only 2 days’ worth of work. If I keep going at this rate, I can get it done before I get back to CMU and have it uploaded this weekend (along with Hijinks). I’ll work more tonight and hopefully get at least 75 done.

WordPress’ archiving style (going by month only, no way to access a list of all entry titles/dates) is driving me kinda crazy. I should see if there’s a plugin to do individual archive indexes or something.

Back to PA in 6 days. Yay.

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Greg’s pretty good… got most of the post title languages… He didn’t get the last one though.
English German Italian Dutch
Anyone care to guess today’s and yesterday’s?

In any case, I actually got stuff done today! Besides batching massive amounts of photos (and uploading them over my horrible dialup connection), I also modded the photo script to add thumbnailing! jgrafton provided me a function to create thumbnails, and then I just modded it… so now, whenever a new gallery is uploaded, the first person that views it triggers thumbnail creation for it… the thumbnails are then saved so the next person doesn’t need to wait. Yay!
Check all of it out at here.

Got a bit more done with Student Wars. I’m hoping to have Booooth done (or mostly done) by the time I head back to Pittsburgh. Probably won’t happen (99 cards left to make), but meh. Not having to find quotes for all the characters really helps though.

Had an amazing lunch today at Fogo & Brasa, a Brazillian steakhouse. Yay for yummy food stuffs.

Um… yeah. 7 days until I head back to Pittsburgh. Yay!

Um, meh.

Liek OMGZ Orgy!
(That’s actually a card in Student Wars: Booooth… whee)