Although I know this is not a new experience for all of you, I would like to take this chance to inform you that my dorm is really a fun place to chillax. My roommate and I have people over every evening and there is usually some serious gaming going down. I called it quits early tonight in honor of the fact that I need more sleep. It is not that I am too sleep deprived, I am anticipating that I will be though. Tonight I plan on going to bed at 11, and waking up at nearly 8am. Seriously though. We have it made. Friends when we want them, but still our own space and area to work. Contrary to popular belief the dorms at Depaul are really nice, at least in University Hall, or Uhall as it has come to be called. The rooms are perhaps 14′ by 12′ or 16′ by 10′ depending on the room you get. You get a bathroom that is shared with the neighbors nextdoor and a private closet each. I spent my day touring ethnic bakeries and then exploring the train stop north of ours. The elusive wattage limit for TVs at DePaul has not manifested itself, so I assume that it is a free for all. Speaking of TVs there is a 42″ plasma at target for $414, shich would be a good buy if I didn’t already own one. I have made up my mind to sell the PS3 over my winter break, and probably buy some other broken electronic item. Maybe an HP mini 311 or 210 with a 720p screen. They come with the hd accelerator, which is a nice bonus. I am leaning towards the 311 though because of its Nvidia Ion le, which can be modded to a standard Ion chip with the help of software.
So, I’m a sophomore now, and the first week of classes started on Monday. Here is what I think of my classes so far:
- PHYS 214 – I think this should be pretty similar to PHYS 211/212, but only half a semester. I dumped the discussion and lab on Friday so I don’t have to walk very far and I’ll only have one class on Friday total halfway through the semester.
- CS 231 – Today we learned about (reviewed) binary and hexadecimal numbers, and some very basic stuff taught in the first week of CS 173. As a result, I don’t think this class will be very hard; other people who’ve taken the class in the past have said as much, too.
- MATH 461 – I’m taking the Mathematica section, so hopefully that will be an interesting (and effective) way to do a math class. The only thing we’ve done so far is learn how to use the software.
- HIST 142 – This class is a 100-level gen ed, but the professor was rated highly, and I guess I’m okay with learning about the history of Europe from 1750 to the present. The lecture hall is slightly packed, though.
- CS 373 – This is supposed to be one of the hardest CS classes, but my discussion section TA said it was his favorite, and he was one of the best TAs for CS 173, too. I think the class was described by both him and the professor as mixing philosophy and theory together.
- CS 411 – This is an “introductory” course for databases. We were introduced to the “DBMS” in the first class, and the PowerPoint he had was almost impenetrable. A large part of this class is the group project, so hopefully I can work on one that’s awesome or something, but maybe I’ll see more about this class tomorrow.
In other big news, I’m turning nineteen on Labor Day. I’m busy sourcing ingredients in preparation for my pistachio cake, and that including buying (and finding out that it exists) some pistachio-flavored Jello pudding mix. One of the variations of the recipe I found calls for using Sprite/club soda, but I’m thinking Mountain Dew will suffice, and it will add to the green tint of the cake. I hope to add a layer of pistachio paste to the cake somewhere, and I’ll try to see if it’s feasible for me to grind up some pistachios; else, I’ll have to buy some pre-made paste somewhere.
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I really wanted to take some pictures and post them here, but I kept on not buying AA batteries for my camera. :-p
I am selling the netbook. And probably buying another in the near future. Preferably one that has a hard drive not an ssd.
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While browsing for editions of Windows to install on my netbook I came across this list. At first I thought it was all useless crap that they removed from Windows Vista, but some of it is stuff that I did not know Vista had. Like the Windows Ultimate Extras. They gave extra games and cool bonus features to all Windows Vista Ultimate users. These include Dreamscenes, Tinker (game), and some other stuff. I wanted to try Dreamscenes out because it sounds really cool. Also that PS3 and zif socket drive have still not arrived, so I have nothing to do.
Did you know the space between the period at the end of a sentence and the first letter after it should be as wide as an ‘m’ (em)?
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Don’t bullsh*t me, you didn’t know that.
After wasting about 6 hours on attempting to install xp onto a flash drive for use on my netbook, I broke down and paid $65 to buy a 16gb ssd on ebay, replaceing what was originally in the computer. I believe that Windows 7 can fit, but I will have no space for anything else. Does anybody know how to remove Windows components to improve the size of the installation? Like that stupid Windows Media Center. That has to be at least 200Mb of wasted transparency overlays, which would not be a problem, except for the fact that it is either that or something like Office, which is something I would use. Is Windows 7 Starter like a stripped down copy?
That is all.
Did you know Alien Swarm has a tile generation tool? To get to it, start the game, and type in sv_cheats 1 and then asw_tilegen. You can load the “Example 200″ mission and generate a map from there. I couldn’t get the “Export VMF and Play” option working so I just exported the VMF and compiled it from Hammer. Then, I just did map <mapname>, and that worked fine.
I totally got owned playing by myself, though.
Shit is gettin' fo' real.
Also, the caption functionality seems to be broken. You’ll manually have to edit the caption box to be around 640 pixels or so in the HTML tab.
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I Audiosurf’d the entirety of the Guns n’ Roses album Appetite for Destruction. For the most part, the famous songs are the only really famous ones for a reason. “Paradise City” is always a phenomenal song, and “Welcome to the Jungle” is the heaviest of metals. It’s surprising that “Sweet Child O’ Mine” was meant to be filler.
The only song outside of these three that I will really listen to ever is “You’re Crazy.” It’s way fast and pretty pimpin’ too. “Nightrain” is pretty hardcore as well, maybe it will find its way in my rotation.
“Rocket Queen” has a Sublimesque moment in having sex noises during the bridge. It’s kinda awkward.
