Chapter Meeting

As you can probably guess, there is a chapter meeting tomorrow at Eden Prairie library. If you couldn't guess, now you know. You would also do well to know that they are on a monthly cycle. Anyways, you guys should come, since our turn out for the last meeting was quite impressive to say the least.

Using a program called Synergy I was able to do away with the dual boot. Since I have two computers in my room anyways, I figured I might as well use them both. I now have them set up with two monitors side by side. It's actually two computers sharing one mouse and keyboard. When I move my mouse from the edge of one it goes into the other. Quite cool.

I got substantially farther in the secret level, but I'm still unable to complete it.

$20 an hour is fun for me

Yesterday was a good income day for me. I got thirty dollars for instructing a nice old lady in computers. Yay for easy money. Besides that, not much is going on.

Getting close to departure

Not as major this time...

This was a more minor update.

Anyhow, the soccer game went pretty well. The final score was 7-2. I think I neglected to mention that I got a yellow card two games ago. I got two refs in a row which were ridiculous when it came to slide tackling. Soccer is a contact sport for a reason. <_<

Haven't felt like posting in some time

I did it again...

I couldn't help but redecorate. I got new techology (Compiz Fusion) so it's only appropriate that we did something to match.

So I finished about a semesters worth of physics in around a week and a half, which was a lot of work. I still have about half a semesters worth to finish before I leave for Stanford. I haven't got test scores back from my computer final, but I felt pretty good about as I left the testing center. Computer programs shouldn't be written by hand, it sucks. And I took two physics tests, got a 95 on it. In a bit of awesomeness I got an A on my philosophy paper. I was pretty much the only person in the class that didn't full out blast communism, it seems, so I got creativity points or something. So my final grades are: terrible. Actually they were: English B, History B-, Philosophy B+. And I got AP scores back... AP Comp Gov: 3, AP Comp Gov US: 3, APUSH: 4, Calc BC: 4, Physics: 3. Hrum, I'm going to need to retake the Calc BC again for sure... And UMTYMP finally mailed my summer homework.

I also had a spew of soccer games happening and coming up. One game was canceled due to rain, and three tournament games were lost. The scores were 1-6, 1-5, 0-6. Whoopdido, I gotta say, those were good teams. And then a game in about two hours, and another on Wednesday, and another on Friday. My legs make me feel like the Tinman.

An Exciting(?) Day

Well... today I got my braces off! Or, completed getting them off and got retainers anyways. And I got a load of new music. Which is to say I got: From Here We Go Sublime by The Field (which is my introduction to minimalist music; I must say, it's excellent music to work to, sort of like classical), the complete Death Cab for Cutie discology (5 CDs and 3 EPs, this is probably as close as you get), and Neon Bible by Arcade Fire, which I happily report lives up to all the hype and good reviews it received. It's much better than the other album I have.

C programming final tomorrow, I hope it goes well, because I have not prepared at all. But it should be okay, because I've been doing the stuff for so long anyways. And physics is proving a pain, mostly because capacitance is running circles about my head.

In a bit of awesome Linux terminal usage I finally compiled PMask and Allegro together in the same program, meaning a new era of games which don't concern themselves with collision testing is unfolding. I'm inspired by Odin Sphere, it seems to have pulled off the 2D action rpg very well.

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I really love this sort of environment, where you've got the bridges spanning large expanses and stuff. I need to see if I can find this one really cool old painting I found once.

Anyways I'm finally back, and finished licking my wounds. For those of you who didn't know I did worse than I had expected on a few key tests, which didn't really put me in the mood of blogging. Those scores were 4 on the AIME, and 78 on the second UMTYMP test. Actually my UMTYMP score was pretty in comparison to my classmates' scores, many of whom received something like 48. Anyhow it is pretty good to be back after my four week (exactly!) absence.

The past couple days news in brief is:
*UMTYMP test in little more than a week.
*I'm a student in training for the Minnesota American Regions Math League, again. I was hoping to get promoted, but oh well.
*I'm taking five APs. Comparative Government, US Government, Calculus BC, US History, and Physics B
*I've turned in lots of assignments as usual
*Got two new computers from a friend

With one of those new computers I made a foray into the world of Linux computing. I installed Ubuntu (really easily) and had a load of fun. Screenshot below. Screenshot2.png However, that computer is currently broken, since I installed an nVidia driver incorrectly. Silly nVidia is just another one of Microsoft's goons. I think I might just install Fedora when Core 7 comes out, so that will fix my problem.

Also I wasted some time two weekends ago, and went to the Future Sight pre-release with Kevin. Despite being a complete waste of time it was a lot of fun. The best part is that Kevin and I did really well as a team, so we got prizes. :)

And that's about all for today. Enjoy more onslaught tomorrow. Oh, and by the way, the next chapter meeting (in three weeks) is at a pizza place, food on the chapter.

And one last thing, A Realm Divided has been permanently suspended while we work on a new more snazzy game. Read: one that is actually within my ability as a programmer.

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Sea Horse, very cool.

I'm saved, because I was able to install everything onto my laptop.

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You may have seen this again, but it's from the great game Killzone for the PS2. I was just recently kicking butt in that game.

Anyhow my life just got about 1000x more complex. My desktop (I'm using the laptop right now) gives me the infamous 'Blue screen of Death' native only to Microsoft computers when it starts up. That computer happened to have eveything I need to attend my virtual highschool, which means right now I'm screwed. I've already missed an entire day of class. UMTYMP lecture was poor again, I got 24/30 on my homework the lost points were all due my forgeting the constant of integration. *Smack* However my average is still 26.5 which is above my goal of 26 for the school year. I think there will be good attendance for the party on Friday, I hoping this will become weekly, because I haven't seen anyone in quite a while.

Wow quite a mouthfull. It's likely I'll have to buy a new computer to get this all working again. Grr. I've decided that the alpha version of a Realm Divided will be a roguelike, vastly simplifying my life as a programmer. I'll have to re-rip my music collection now too, atleast I have my shuffle. I was going to say something else too, but I forgot. Oh yes, tomorrow is my first debate practice that I can attend. Geeze, I just relised how out of shape I am. The 40 minutes of exercise that I have to do for my phy-ed contract has been hell, but it helps me sleep better. :D