[	Tags	|	cornell, ddr, soul caliber 2, ssbm, videogames, warcraft 3	]
[	Current Mood	|	happy	]

I am getting settled in at college. I have been here two weeks now, and I just finished my first full week of classes. I do not have much homework and, so far, my classes are easy. I am not expecting that to keep up, but I am taking a rather light course load (16 credits).

Last night I went to DDR club for the first time. There was too long a line for the metal pads (Cobalt Fluxes) to play very much, so I mostly played SSBM. I was definitely out of practice, but after a few rounds I was doing okay. I even won one round. I think the people there are better than me, but not by very much. I'll just have to practice more. :-D

After DDR club ended at midnight, I headed back to my dorm, where I found some people hanging out and playing Soul Caliber 2 (XBox) in Chris's room. I watched a few rounds and then played a little. Chris has a rather large collection of movies and games and he brought a XBox, PS2, GCN, N64, and SNES. I thought I brought too much stuff.

After that, I wandered back toward my room and found Karren and Brian playing Warcraft 3 (arranged teams on BNET). That was fun to watch. Karren was nice and calm and moving at a reasonable speed. Brian was moving really quickly. He just kept clicking the mouse button. It looked like he did every action at least three times. He kept cycling through all of his unit/building groups. I think he used to play Starcraft tournaments when he lived in Korea. I was just watching, but I will probably try to join them some other time.

I actually got some homework assigned sometime late last night, so I am going to do that now.

[	Tags	|	cornell, summer, vacation	]
[	Current Mood	|	bored	]

I have not really written anything here for a long time. So, here's a quick recap of my summer vacation: I graduated high school. About a week later, I went to China. (I think that was covered pretty well in my past few entries.) I was home for another week before heading off to Long Island, where I stayed at my friend Peter's house for a few days. Peter was my roommate last summer at Harvard. Erin, our mutual friend, flew up from Austin to hang out with us. That was a lot of fun. Then I went to Montauk to vacation with my family for a few days. It was not great weather, but we went to the beach anyway. After that, I was home for about three weeks. I pretty much just hung out with friends for a lot of the time. Then, on August 18th at 3:00am, I headed off to Cornell.

I got to Cornell at 7:25am with very little sleep. They did not let us start moving in until 8:05.

I had a week of orientation stuff, and then classes started on Thursday. I have met a few people (or at least saw them once and friended them on Facebook) and pretty much know the people on my floor.

… last one! I'm done. The "Current Location" is the location the journal is about, not where I actually am (home). All of the pictures are up: Trip to China 2006 gallery (thanks to Jon for the gallery space).

The end.

… I swear, I am going to finish these. The "Current Location" is the location the journal is about, not where I actually am (home). All of the pictures are up: Trip to China 2006 gallery (thanks to Jon for the gallery space).

One more day left. To be continued…

… I swear, I am going to finish these. The "Current Location" is the location the journal is about, not where I actually am (home). All of the pictures are up: Trip to China 2006 gallery (thanks to Jon for the gallery space).

To be continued…

… back onto the journals. The "Current Location" is the location the journal is about, not where I actually am (home). All of the pictures are up: Trip to China 2006 gallery (thanks to Jon for the gallery space).

To be continued…

… back onto the journals. The "Current Location" is the location the journal is about, not where I actually am (home). All of the pictures are up: Trip to China 2006 gallery (thanks to Jon for the gallery space).

To be continued…

So, uh, who has not seen POTC yet and would like to see it?

BTW, I am back home and will be finishing the China journal entries soon. All of the photos are up now.

… another day. The pictures my father has taken so far are up: Trip to China 2006 gallery (thanks to Jon for the gallery space).

To be continued…

… another day. The pictures my father has taken so far are up: Trip to China 2006 gallery (thanks to Jon for the gallery space).

To be continued…

For those of you that did not know, my father and I are visiting China this week as a graduation present for me.

To be continued…

My metal DDR pads are working once again. Both of them just needed a little soldering. Naturally, I tested them by failing at playing doubles.

Most impressively, on one, the solder did not fail: the bond between the metal and plastic parts of the circuit board did. It took me a minute to realize that the hunk of metal attached to the wire was not all solder.

[	Tags	|	overkill	]
[	Current Mood	|	impressed	]

Specifically, this model.

…

I can dream, can't I?

[	Tags	|	ap, dos, school, star fox, star fox 64	]
[	Current Mood	|	exhausted	]

The end of my APs, that is. I took Physics C: Mechanics and Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism today. (The latter exam's name is why the blank on the answer sheet for exam name is so long.) I definitely got at least a 4 on E&M, but it is quite possible that I did not get a 5, which would be really annoying because I would have to retake the course in college.

Now that I am done with my APs, I have my time freed up for much more important tasks like freeing the Lylat System. Yep, that's right, I'm trying to get all the medals in Star Fox 64.

On a completely different note, please tell me that I am not the only one who did not know about this:
<aebonyne> OMG, the DOS one working directory per drive letter actually has a use other than for the CD command!
<aebonyne> ... okay, I feel really stupid having never noticed this before, but x: and x:\ do not actually mean the same thing.
<Michael1> ...They don't? O_o
<aebonyne> ex: c:
<aebonyne> cd d:\winxp2
<aebonyne> dir d:
<aebonyne> dir d:\
<aebonyne> the first dir lists d:\winxp2
<aebonyne> the second dir lists d:\
<Michael1> Ah, nifty
<aebonyne> note that ls completely ignores this
<aebonyne> Also, I have no idea why I typed dir in the first place.

[	Tags	|	movies, the sentinel	]
[	Current Mood	|	tired	]
[	Current Music	|	Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka - Mother 2 - Sanctuary Guard	]

Anyone up for seeing The Sentinel Friday at Seymour at 4:20? Please reply here or IM me if you are interested.

[	Tags	|	inside man, movies	]
[	Current Mood	|	tired	]

Anyone interested in going to see Inside Man tonight? It actually looks like it should be a good movie. It is showing at Seymour at 6:50 and 9:30 or at the "Post De Lux" 6:40 and 9:50. I would say that 6:50 at Seymour would make the most sense. Who's in?

[	Tags	|	dell, rakka	]
[	Current Mood	|	exhausted	]

I sent Rakka in to Dell again two Thursdays ago with a message requesting that they just replace the motherboard. They did so, and hopefully that means that Rakka will actually work now. Seems okay so far, but last time I did not encounter any problems for a week. Well, okay except for a piece being bent where the hard drive goes in, so it barely fits now.

[	Tags	|	anime, evangelion	]
[	Current Mood	|	tired	]
[	Current Music	|	The Pillows - FLCL OST1 - ADDICT - One Life	]

I am having a few people over to watch the start of Evangelion tomorrow. (It's an anime, your good old normal giant robots* and end of the world type stuff.) Anyone interested?

EDIT: Wow, watched 19 eps in one day.

I beat the Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask!

Yes, that did need its own paragraph. I own the gold cartridge and I just beat it today; isn't that pretty pathetic? The gold cartridge&emdash;complete with fancy holographic label&emdash;is the pre-order bonus version. In other words, I have had the game since October 26, 2001, and I just beat it.

So that accounts for #1 of my vacation goals. I have been doing okay on #3 (sleep), not great. On the other hand, I have been quite lacking in fulfilling #2 (play Mafia). Unfortunately, I doubt that will be remedied.

I guess I should mention Lou's addendum to that list: the Nerf war. I think it was a lot better than any of the other wars I have been at because no one there was a complete newbie. I got five kills&hellip two of which were knife kills.