| LAN Party End |
[Mar. 15th, 2005|01:55 am] |
Just finished a ~8hr LAN party here. We mostly played Warcraft III, all of us versus various computer arrangements. We sucked and sucked bad at the beginning of the night, but at the end we developed a team strategy for specializing our tasks and managed to win a few and work up to a decent challenge level. That was pretty gratifying.
Funny, it was my first LAN party ever. Next time we'll probably play a lot of Starcraft. |
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[Mar. 7th, 2005|10:45 pm] |
I'm really thinking about taking a few summer classes to cut down my course load for my two remaining semesters. Have you ever taken summer courses? How do they compare? Recommend or not?
Please be helpful here -- this is the entire next year of my life we're talking about. |
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[Feb. 23rd, 2005|03:37 pm] |
I hate the managers they have at work.
I had a project due today. They scheduled me to work at 2:00, so I tried to get work off today. It didn't look like it was going to work, so I skipped two of my classes yesterday to finish the project. I then talked to a manager who okayed me getting today off after I worked everything out.
Today, another manager calls me and tells me I didn't really get the shift covered, since my arrangement ends up being inconvenient for some of the people who are working today. I ask him what he wants me to do about it and he says, "Nothing."
Well, what'd you frickin' call me for? Do you enjoy complaining to me? I have my own responsibilities and I don't want to hear about how inconvenient it is for you when I spent an hour on the phone getting things worked out in the first place, lost sleep to finish the project on time, and skipped class to make sure I could get it to run on UT's computers. Don't you think that was a little inconvenient for me? Then you call me up and tell me you don't want me to do anything about it?
Work has done very little to make me happy these days. |
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[Jan. 19th, 2005|12:31 am] |
Okay, Ender's Shadow? Just as good as Ender's Game.
Yes, that's my mini-review. Read the book. Read them both if you haven't. |
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| Book-savvy this semester. |
[Jan. 18th, 2005|08:50 pm] |
I have my AI teacher from last semester for Automata Theory this semester. I had her advertise my book in her AI class today and got a response already. I'll be selling it for $50, much more than the Co-op would've given me and yet much less than he'd have had to pay for it otherwise. He's happy, I'm happy.
I also figure that I'll have to buy about two books for five classes this semester, based on the first day of classes. BIG TIP TO ALL YOU READERS: Never buy books before the first day of class! You'll never use half of them more than once.
Here's something interesting I learned last semester. I was taking a course survey on EE316, the work-at-your-pace class. It asked me how many hours I spent per week on the class. I think it didn't count in-class work. The first answer choice was "6 or fewer hours." I just stared at that question -- there was no week last semester in which I spent six hours in total on my classwork (16 credit hours).
I'm probably the smartest person I know, but I'm an awful student. I got five B's and an A last semester, while for the same grades my classmates have been pulling all-nighters. I didn't realize how much other people studied until that survey. 6 hours? On one class? As the first and minimal answer choice?
Mom keeps telling me that, as smart as I am, I should be getting straight A's. Maybe I should, but I don't really see it as that important. I see very little as important lately and I have trouble motivating myself.
And this, friends, is Adam Perry. If I weren't me, maybe I'd be disgusted. |
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[Jan. 17th, 2005|09:54 pm] |
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Starting school tomorrow. I should be more excited than I actually am.
I wrote a big entry just before LJ's power went down. Since my server was down for longer than any other, I think everyone missed it. It's (partially) about ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) shaede's wedding, for anyone who's interested.
Oh, and as a little follow-up to the last entry, I totally did ask girl #1 out for Wednesday. (Yes, she said yes, and you suck for asking.) |
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| Hooray? Yes. |
[Jan. 15th, 2005|08:54 pm] |
News flash.
Okay, let's do this chronologically. I got Fountainhead and started listening to it this afternoon. School starts next Tuesday, so I'll get good mileage off of it. I figure it'll take me about two weeks to finish. I also checked out Ender's Shadow after liking Ender's Game so well. We own a copy of Speaker for the Dead, which I'll get around to reading sometime.
I know one of the people who works at the library. She graduated with a major in Linguistics and got a graduate degree in Library Science. I've been thinking about asking her out and might go for it tomorrow.
When I got home, Janine, my date for Kevin's wedding, called me and cancelled -- she had triple-booked herself. She and Inne, who dumped her boyfriend on my birthday and probably has a thing for me, promised to "cook for me" some night. Inne had promised to make me tamales for missing my party anyway, so now the both owe me. Food.
So it's no problem, because when I had RSVPed for two I was planning on taking Mom anyway. Kevin and Jenn -- whoops, that's shaede and krylanna for the rest of you -- had a fabulous wedding. While I was there, another girl gave me her phone number but was too shy to actually talk to me. She works at a court reporting firm just off the UT campus and the person she was with pointed out that it would be nice for us to have lunch together sometime. She was attractive but very shy and I'm not sure how to deal with that.
Topping things off, I have to return a call from Toni now, who earlier this week called me to ask if I was interested in her. I told her that I would date her when she came back in June (but with more words, because I'm better at this than I make myself sound, see), which was probably more diplomatic than anything.
Um, let's count 'em. That's... five girls I'm juggling? And this is just one day.
But I digress. It was great seeing everyone at Kevin's wedding today. I hadn't seen most of them in the last three years. They told me it was like I stepped into a time capsule and popped back out unchanged. (Except that I restyled my hair since that poll I did where everyone told me to change my hair. I'm a CS major; I don't catch these things on my own.)
And now school's starting back up, so it's time to screw up my schedule again. It was a great month off, so no regrets.
Now, I've really got to call Toni, who lives in the Eastern time zone. |
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| From Rand's website |
[Nov. 29th, 2004|04:20 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Brink of Time - Chrono Trigger | ] |
"At a sales conference at Random House, preceding the publication of Atlas Shrugged, one of the book salesmen asked me whether I could present the essence of my philosophy while standing on one foot. I did as follows: 1. Metaphysics: Objective Reality
2. Epistemology: Reason
3. Ethics: Self-interest
4. Politics: Capitalism If you want this translated into simple language, it would read: 1. "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed" or "Wishing won't make it so." 2. "You can't eat your cake and have it, too." 3. "Man is an end in himself." 4. "Give me liberty or give me death.""
I find this interesting, not entirely for the philosophy but for the fact that she described it on one foot. Mom says this is a Jewish way of saying, "Make it brief."
Anyway, I'm done reading Atlas Shrugged. I might do The Fountainhead next, but I'll probably wait for next semester to do it, since I don't have a lot of driving to do for the rest of the year. |
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| Great dream |
[Nov. 29th, 2004|02:31 pm] |
I won't go into detail, but the basic concept was that someone was taking DNA from the X-Men to make a mutant clone army. Apparently, the clones started out weak, but with each reincarnation became more powerful. A group of kids killed the first Wolverine, for example.
I should get more dreams like this. |
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| I am a genius. |
[Nov. 19th, 2004|02:59 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | What music? It's "Atlas Shrugged," by Ayn Rand. | ] |
Books on tape! Why didn't I think of it before? It's perfect for my two hours a day in traffic. |
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| Prediction |
[Nov. 2nd, 2004|11:42 pm] |
Bush is gonna win. You heard it here first, folks.
Seriously, it's going to come down to Ohio. I bet Bush'll take it by a very narrow margin, putting him between 270 and 274. |
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| Courses for next semester |
[Oct. 27th, 2004|08:45 pm] |
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| |  chipper | ] |
| [ | music |
| | FFV Piano Collections - Waltz Clavier | ] |
I may have figured out how to reduce my classes to Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday next semester. Cross yer fingers...
On the tuition issue -- I called them up to make sure they weren't kicking me out without telling me, and they were like, "Whoops, sorry about sending you that check. To make up for it, we'll give you a bill for the same amount." Then they put a bar on my registration, meaning I can't register for classes tomorrow until I beat them up about screwing me over for a mistake that was theirs to begin with. I'm pretty upset. There's a lesson on honesty in here somewhere, I'm sure.
Courses I'm planning to take: PHY317L, PHY 117M, GOV312L, CS341, CS352, CS378 (the one on debugging programs -- it's got a substantial writing component).
For those of you who aren't UT students and/or don't feel like looking up those codes, the others are a physics class and its lab, a government doothingy, automata theory, and computer systems architecture. I've basically decided that I'm taking Electrical Engineering as my sequence for the BS, so automata theory and comp sys arch are required now. Exciting? Yes. |
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| BEST DAY EVER. |
[Oct. 19th, 2004|12:49 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Xenogears - Small Two of Pieces - Restored | ] |
I just found my old MP3 collection, which had pieces of Xenogears, Brave Fencer Musashi, and rare Final Fantasy IV - IX (Potion 2, FLWV, FF Christmas, and other albums), with a few singles from Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, and the Seiken Densetsu series. I'm so happy!
I also got an e-mail yesterday saying (without explanation) that UT wanted to give me $3459 -- the exact amount I paid in tuition. This is either the best or worst news I've had all year, depending on the implications. More news on that to come, definitely.
Am I not the most luck-charged (good and bad) person you've ever met? |
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| Ahoy! |
[Oct. 16th, 2004|04:37 pm] |
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[Oct. 16th, 2004|02:22 pm] |
Guess what I'm wearing.
That's right, I'm dressed like a pirate. Yarr.
I'll try to get some photos. |
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| Irony |
[Oct. 11th, 2004|10:42 pm] |
is me giving girls advice to Orson and Tyler. Never thought I'd see the day. I am getting about twice as many dates as the two of them put together, I guess.
A really bad day turned into an okay afternoon/night. I think the turnaround was when I prepared my part of the presentation on "AI in Video Games." I'll put a copy online if anyone's interested. I had fun putting it together. |
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[Oct. 3rd, 2004|01:34 pm] |
"Do you miss Toni?" Mom asks.
I pause, thinking of an appropriate response. "Yeah," I conclude. "But I wouldn't have even seen her by now. Let's not be irrational."
This is what I like about me. |
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| The march of Time |
[Sep. 28th, 2004|10:33 pm] |
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| | FF7 OST - You Can Hear the Cry of the Planet | ] |
Strangely enough, I'm ready for Friday already.
I say "strangely enough" because there's so much that I still need to get done between now and Friday. Besides, Friday is the day Toni leaves. She is one of the most level-headed people I know and one of the only with whom I feel I can freely converse. (That, and we were going out.) Friday is also the day of my Government test, plus several other things are due over the weekend.
Yesterday -- er, really early this morning, I guess -- we had our game group over here and Toni and I pretended we were engaged. Tyler and Orson pretended to be disgusted. It was really quite amusing. We had everything worked out: Orson would be our best man and Toni's sisters the bridesmaids and maid of honor; since Tyler wasn't coming, we would name a kid after him. The wedding would be on December 20 (that way, we get the most people in town), but before then I would have to meet her parents. That, combined with our gushing professions of love every now and then, was probably more fun than the games we were here to play. (Seafarers of Catan, mostly. Good game.)
So, yeah, I'll miss her, but more as a friend than a girlfriend. It was probably time for me to date other people. I'll see her again on Thursday. Tyler decided Thursday would be a good night to have another game group, which I suspect is more than coincidental timing. (Tyler had asked her out a while ago, but she was offended because he said "because you're leaving." Tip: That's not flattering.) Then, maybe while I'm taking my Government test, she leaves for Utah, followed by Maryland. We'll probably keep in touch, since we both have free long distance.
And... somehow I'm okay with all this. My Government test, my EE catch-up work, my other homework, Toni's departure, the job I need to get. It's my cue to be freaking out, but I'm not.
Friday, here I come. |
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| Upset. |
[Sep. 27th, 2004|07:47 am] |
"Can I use the truck if I get it back by seven?"
"Okay."
It's a quarter to eight. I should be in Round Rock by now. There's no point in going to my first class anymore because I certainly won't be there on time or anywhere close. |
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| I have some sort of curse. |
[Sep. 21st, 2004|08:54 am] |
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| | Actually, this could be useful if I could control it. | ] |
I go out with Kami. She moves.
I go out with Toni. She is going to move.
WHAT. |
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