Things that go on in my life that cannot be catagorized somewhere else, sort of a catch-all
Just got off the phone with Peter. Sounds like he just might be coming down to Colorado after his stint at Jackson is done (April 7). Details haven’t been worked out, but this could be really awesome. Lil’ Pete is also planning on working on the Sacramento River Delta with Sonshine Ministries for the month of July, or something like that. For those not in the “know”, when the BS went down to Shasta last summer, it was with Sonshine Ministries. Very cool.
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).
I’ve enjoyed listening to Old Time Radio (OTR) for as long as I can remember. It used to broadcast in Seattle on 710AM KIRO on Saturday’s and Sunday’s from 9pm to 1am. Eventually, it fell out of favor at KIRO and was moved to the 1-4 am timeslot. I still continued to listen to it, but only if I happened to be up. Eventually, I stopped listening to it because it was so early in the morning. When I moved out to Colorado I thought I’d never listen to it again. However, I was wrong. One of the great things about the Internet is that it makes it easy to create content specific channels. I was looking through the Radio stations listen in iTunes and I thought I might check to see if I could find any OTR. To my suprise, I did! And not just one stations, but two! So now I’m getting my fix of OTR, and I can get it when ever I want. Sweet!
The Golden GREAT Film Festival is going on as I write over in the Student Center. There are actually quite a few films, at least several dozen, ranging from 4 minutes to over 100 minutes. Because of my background in film making in high school, I am announcing that I will be entering the 2006 Golden Film Festival. Walking back from Safeway, I even came up with a a really great film idea that it’s both practical to shoot on a very low budget, but is also interesting. In short, it’s a comedy about the stuggles a young man has in mind while sitting on a bus. So stay tuned for more info on that one. I am still working on my other screen play, but that is of feature length and will not be completed for many years.
Happy Birthday Day to You!
Happy Birthday Day to You!
Happy Birthday Q and A
Happy Birthday to You!
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So leave a comment wishing Quinn and Annie a Happy Birthday!
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.
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.
Mostly to prove that I will do just about anything someone suggests, within reason, this blog is to alert you that Dan just ripped a nice one…and how.
I literally just got out of a presentation put on by a Google rep. It was very interesting to hear how Google works, even if only a breif glimpse. It also started my thinking about majoring in Computer Sciences. While I doubt I would switch to a CS major, I am definatly considering either minoring in CS or double majoring in EE and CS, perhaps with a EE emphesis towards biomedical.