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This is probably the hardest of core in paintball I've ever heard of. If you know nothing of Starcraft, or Halo, or Red Vs. Blue, you'll get a pretty good idea of how ass-kicking-centric the games are. This paintball event takes the cake in bringing that ass-kicking to real life. I drool at the prospect of driving a tank in a paintball battlefield, after all.
I've now seen two forms of dolls in their most terrifying manifestations. One is linked here via BoingBoing, just have a look-see. Fascinating. The other, I heard about when a guy came by work to visit a few co-workers. He told us about one of his artist-girlfriend's passtimes: Making petits monstres monthly. This site also was mentioned on BoingBoing, and I hope it hasn't caused a huge deluge of orders for her; she was hurtin' for time around Christmas, as I recall.
I have some things I'm trying to write about, like a few vacations and a new & overdue XSLery entry, but the quarter has gotten awfully busy again (already). I may be implementing a neural net on FallenEarth with some JSP magic, or an applet if need be, but I can't think of an application for it so far besides just getting the net in place. Believe it or not, implementing the net wil gain me a whopping 1 credit in addition to the 3 credits I'm getting for the class "Connectionism." Well, more on that later.
And now, to wipe the ass-kicking and freaky images from above, a palette cleanser. Good night.
About five minutes after December 31st, 2004 ended, everyone in the Forks cabin told their New Year's resolutions. Well, almost everyone did. Nick and Julie needed a little help with theirs.
I held onto the scraps of paper people used to get their resolutions out, for those who couldn't think of them without writing being done (by them or on their behalf). So, how're people doing with their resolutions? They don't even have to be written down here.
Nick:
Julie:
Nato, who actually wrote them himself:
My resolution of learning a new OS is pending Tiger's release (which should be soon).
[22:14:39] LoupOrange: Do you see Kate Nix online?
[22:14:44] theandyman87: never
[22:14:46] LoupOrange: ok
[22:14:49] theandyman87: knew she was even on, even
[22:14:53] theandyman87: even even whoops
[22:14:55] theandyman87: even odd?
[22:14:57] theandyman87: bleargh
[22:15:10] LoupOrange: Two odds make an even.
[22:15:20] LoupOrange: Odd odds make an odd.
[22:15:25] LoupOrange: Buahahaha.
[22:15:27] LoupOrange: ok, i'm done.
[22:15:43] theandyman87: hey, you missed pi day
[22:15:45] theandyman87: hush
[22:15:47] theandyman87: ; )
[22:15:48] LoupOrange: ...
[22:15:50] LoupOrange: FUCK
Honestly, last night at the SOGO board meeting, I had π day burning in my mind. Somebody reminded me at about 9 o'clock that I had but three hours left to celebrate. "Must blog about π day!" I had in the back of my head. Alas, I forgot by the time I got home. March 14th has come and gone. Next year. I'll have something for next year.
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"I live less than 50 miles from St Helens, and I heard about this on Slashdot first" (/. poster). I didn't hear about this on Slashdot, but nearly as bad, at OCO rehearsal tonight during break.
Since this won't be on the news 'til tomorrow, or maybe it was on at 10 tonight and I missed it, here's a nice shot somebody got. Good use of a photoblog.
Ever hear of the term "March Deliverable?" Or "x-month Deliverable?" That means a product/update's ready to go on the 1st of the month. I assume it's common in tech positions to hear that.
I heard it in December. A new User Manager for a web system was to be placed in a system made before I came to LGAN. The head of that system asked me if I could put in the manager for our major web systems, replacing the old one that didn't even allow something as simple as an interface for browsing through a list of users. Sounded like a plan; due by March. We both thought it would only take a couple of days, no problem.
The unfortunate thing is, I never could find a place for those couple of days to go. By the time work for SOGO, classes, SAS studies and other work projects was done and gone, I always decided "Eh, the manager can wait for another weekend."
End result: come last week, still hadn't gotten the project off the ground. Those was not the best of my work decisions. But, I did tell the guy it'd be done by March 1st. So, after a late Saturday and a late Sunday, I was where I should've been a month ago. Good times. Then yesterday, I was in for about four hours during the afternoon, had to drive Damian and eat, and then came back in at 8. Didn't leave 'til 6:30 this morning, but the project got done, damnit.
Let it not be said that "Good things come to those who wait."
Then I had the lovely timing of an 11 o'clock lecture this morning. I slept right 'til it started...bad news for the East-Oly-to-Evergreen transit. Yet, the class started fifteen minutes late because the room was locked.
Let it not be said that...oh, wait, but it is so.
What I hope this eventually yields is a defeat of procrastination, by pummeling it into a bloody pulp. All the school and orchestra work managed to break me of too-often video game playing last year (except for a fling with Kingdom Hearts). This year, I hope something in me figures out that starting things early means I sleep more. But obviously it isn't working, because I got a F&*$#ing Hard take-home final for Math Logic. How hard? There's an essay question. I'm to explain what the big deal is with Godel's Incompleteness Theorem in 2-4 pages, to someone who has some formal logic background (logical implication, deduction systems, logical equivalencies). I may post that here for chuckles; I hope to cite one of the Hitchhiker's Guide books, or at least the gist of what Douglas Adams wrote (anybody remember the 13-mile wall, "As good as infinity when close enough"?).
Ooh, I see the new RedVsBlue came out. I'm off to not learn my lesson.