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Jackson Hole is Go For Launch

The trip to Jackson Hole was in doubt up to just about 10 minutes ago. Even as late as this morning, I talked Cassy in my NHV class who works at the Outdoor Rec Center and she said that they still need 8 more people by 6pm tonight. Anyways, Rob Thompson, Director of the ORC sent out an email that sayiung, “I have great news. Despite our low numbers we are heading to Jackson as planned.” He didn’t specify if they were able to aquire 8 more people, but we are going none-the-less. I’m taking my digital camera, a 128 MB SD Card, 64 MB SD Card, and my latest toy (which I got a few weeks ago), the Belkin iPod Media Reader. It allows me to transfer photos from my camera to my iPod. I was able to purchase it when I won some items at an RHA Casino night a few weeks back. I took them to the CSM Book Store and exchanged them, and some money, for the device. Belkin also makes a version that uses the cameras USB cable, but that is just one more thing to lose and it also wastes the cameras batteries.

Barb Morgan Resigns

Breaking news out of Mines. Barb Morgan, Director of Student Housing, resigned today. I’m not quite clear on the details, but from what I’ve heard, Bob Francisco gave Barb an ultimatum on Friday and gave her the weekend to think about it. In short, it sounds like Barb bit of more then she could chew, but don’t quote me on that. So now housing is up in the air I guess. It seems as if there is a lot of turmoil in the ranks, and I doubt this will be last the shuffle for the near future.

Lights, Sound, Action!

A battle of the bands is going on right now. I’m not much of a hard rock/punk enthusiast, but I did happen to wondering in to the Ballrooms while they were setting up and lent them a hand while they setup the audio and lighting. The event, like many other activities on campus, is put on by the Mines Activity Council (MAC). Unfortunatly, they don’t have the appreciation of sound, and light for that matter, that I do. So I’ve been thinking about joinging them so I can make the world a better place.

Healthier Than a Horse

The Student Development Center is putting on a Wellness Day today. I stopped by, had nice little chair massage and went and did all the tests. I knew I was in good shape, but I didn’t know I was this good:

  • 13.2% Body Fat – This puts me right on the line between Low and Average
  • 4.26 Liters Forced Expiratory Volume (amount of air exhaled in one second) – 99% of predicted
  • 5.35 Liters Forced Vital Capacity (lung capacity) – 107% of predicted
  • Phoria:
    • Me: 5.50 Exo – Pass
    • Normal: <4 Eco, < 6 Exo, < 1.0 Hyper
  • Fusional Ranges:
    • 21.12 BI Break (Normal: >= 10 diopters) – Pass
    • 18.37 BI Recovery (Normal: >= 6 diopters) – Pass
    • 40.41 BO Limit Without Break (Normal: >= 20 diopters) – Pass
    • 40.41 BO Recovery (Normal: >= 16 diopters) – Pass
  • Accommodative Facility
    • Right Correct: 100.00% (Normal: >= 80%) – Pass
    • Left Correct: 97.92% (Normal: >= 80%) – Pass
    • Average Cycles/Minute: 22.36 (Normal: 12 Cycles/Minute) – Pass
  • Blood Pressure: 100/54

I do have over-pronated (flat) feet, my lower back/hips have an anterior roll (they’re rolled to far forward), and my chest muscles overpower my back muscles. The two first things I listed are probably contributing to the muscles in my lower back being tight all the time, the Doc said, which they are. He recomended getting a set of insoles at Target or something to help with that. I’ll try it. But other then that, I’m in really really good, shape, especially for being a college student.

Actually Early

Ha! So I Just woke up about a half hour ago and headed to my NHV class. I got to the door and no one was there! I looked at my watched and it was 10:00. Class starts at 11. I was an hour early. That sucks.

I am Root of MACS261 C++

Just got my C++ test back. Got a 92%. Very cool. I didn’t get an entire problem wrong either, just parts of a couple problems.

Why Chemistry Sucks

I’ve recently determined that chemistry sucks, and can join other sucky things on my list of things that suck (similiar to Bush’s Axis of Evil). Chemistry sucks because despite the fact that it tries to be an exact science and it’s taught as an exact science, it is not, in fact, an exact science. For example, we’re currently working on solving equations that determine pH’s, solubility, equilibria. Yet, certain parts of very critical equations can actually be left out if values are small enough! It doesn’t make any sense. The only reason I’m not dropping it is because A) it’s a required class, and B) it’s the last required chemistry class and I want to get it done and over with NOW! I’ve also managed to find a cool little resource that will hopefully help: http://www.sparknotes.com/chemistry/. They worked in High School for English, hopefully they’ll work now.

Spring Break and Server Plans, Finally!

Spring Break is a mere 12 days away! For the first 4 days, I will be skiing with famed “Stunt Man” Peter Walchenbach up at Jackson Hole in Wyoming. The Outdoor Rec Center offered a really good deal and I took it. So that will be from the 19th to the 22nd of March. Depending on when I get back, I am currently planning on flying out to Seattle on the 22nd or the 23rd, I don’t know yet. As it happens, UW has the same break as we do, so I’m going to hang with Quinn and Ben. Maybe even go to Canada. Then return home on 27th for the remaining month and 11 days of school.

So how do server plans fit into this picture? Well, I was looking at servers for CSMBC and noticed that Dell is running some pretty sweet deals. So I spec’ed one out for my needs and came out with a very very cool deal. For a mere $540, I can get a 2.53GHz Celeron Processor, 512MB DDR2 RAM, and 80GB SATA RAID 1 hard drives (RAID 1 being the mirrored hard drive option). I already have my copy of WS2K3, so I can slap that on and be ready to go. It will aleviate a lot of the stress on the current server and myself. Ergo, if you have benefitted from my site, or if I host your email (cough*quinn*cough*annie*cough) or your website (cough*kelly*cough*trevor*cough), it would be cool if you could chip some money in as I am still a very poor college student with no summer internship yet (cough*microsoft*cough*lockheed martin*cough*boeing*cough*anyone!!*cough).

CU Radio Station

Just got back from visiting the helpful folk up at the CU Boulder Radio Station. I took lots of notes and now have a better idea of where we’re heading. It also seems that we will need to keep all our servers within the CSMBC office so we can pipe the audio feed directly to the encoders. So yea, this radio station is going to rock.