Me and Dan Hoberecht met with Derek Wilson and company today to discus CSMBC bandwidth usage and whatnot. In short, we (CSMBC) estimate a maximum bandwidth of 55 gigabits a month, which seemed fine with them. They were also agreeable to not only host the server on campus, but to host it on site. In short, since a large majority of our initial listeners will be on campus, it’s less strain on the network if we stream from within. I also quoted ~$5000 budget for the all the computers which they didn’t even bat an eye at, so our RFP (Request For Proposal) should go through in April without incident.
Justin Regina just game me a call. ASCSM decided to move our hearing for official club status up to this week and we are now a club! Next up is to tomorrow’s meeting with Derik Wilson, director of IT. Then on Saturday we’re heading up to CU to look at their radio station setup, KVCU 1190AM. From their we submit a few requests and hopfully have something up in a month or so. Stay tuned!
I just awoke from a mostly restful 13.5 hours of sleep. I was feeling ill yesterday and so I hit the sack at about 10:30 pm MST last night. I did miss two of my classes today, but when I work up at 7 this morning I was feeling like utter crap and decided to call in sick, without actually calling anyone. Anyways, I do feel substantially better and well rested. I just hope I’m not getting the flu.
What is a Retzism, you ask? Well, sometime during high school at SAAS, Trevor Essmeier got this great idea to make these really awesome cut and paste montages of our history teacher, Steve Retz. Well, during our senior year, I got in on the game, creating more realistics compilations of Retz. I haven’t done any for almost a year, but I got board and decided to make some more up. I’ll periodically release more, so be sure to check out the Retzisms gallery every once-in-a-while.
I was actually able to get some Chemistry homework done. I also have a plan: finish chapter 13 by this weekend, finish chapter 15 (we didn’t go over 14) by the end of the week, and finish chapter 16 next weekend. That should put me in a good spot. I also watched Saw. It was an interesting movie, worth seeing. The DualBS was up at Camano Island celebrating Quinn’s 19th and Annie’s 18th Birthdays. I gave them a call and chatted with them. You have no idea how close I was to actually getting on a plane yesterday and flying up to Seattle. In all honesty, if I didn’t have as much homework as I did, I would have done it. Maybe next year.
Just a nice relaxing Thursday. Didn’t have to get up until 10:30ish. Had one class. Then I was done. I did play soccer tonight on the IM Soccer Team. We lost, but it was great to be back on the field after so many years. Also watched The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
Stevie Starr, the amazing regurgitator was at Mines tonight. Rather cool actually since he was literally just on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night. From what I could tell, he really was swallowing all the objects he put in his mouth.
I am by no means a medical professional, but I with a bit of logic and knowledge of human anatomy I suspect that Starr simply has the ability to control his pyloric sphincter, a muscular valve between his stomach and duodenum (a digestive region between the stomach and start of the small intestine), and his lower esophageal sphincter. In short, he can trap object in his duodenum, his stomach, and perhaps even his small intestine and esophagus. Again, this is only my opinion. Regardless, the show was very amazing I would recomend that everyone see it, if given the chance. Starr is very entertaining and knows how to work with the audience. He swallowed everything from a small lightbulb, to a small 8-ball, tacks, rings, a locked lock (which he unlocked after removing the key and swallowing it seperatly from the lock, then relocked with a ring inside, removed the key and brought back up), sugar (which he brought back up dry), and even gold fish (which were still alive). Check out the gallery for more pictures of this truely amazing man from Scotland!
So I was sort of conned into going to Circle-K by Emily Milian. She was also able to con Laura and Shanon…and we really weren’t conned, but con is such a fun word to say. I digress; we went over the RMD House and played Bingo with the families over there. It was pretty fun. Some of the families were actually pretty competitive. All in good fun. After Bingo, we servered ice cream and then played a final round of Blackout Bingo for the big prize.
To, just like every other weekday, I had school despite the fact that today is President’s day. I feel compelled to argue against the policy of not having days such as these off not because I think they are bad a idea, but because they are forced on us. I think that that schools should eliminate as many days off as possible. It’s really quite nice having the same same schedule every single week. I remember back in highschool, we might go an entire month and not have a single “regular” week because of all the days we got off.
