I have decided that I may never actually need to attend my physics class. The latest homework assignment on circular motion had me scared and I resented the possibility that I might need to start spending another hour in class each MWF, but alas, it seems to have been merely a passing moment in a class I already know everything in.
Last night was the first match of the intramural Halo tournament. (I made a reservation in my abstinence from video games this week for the intramural Halo that I had already signed up for.) Our petty little team was shamelessly owned up and down the field. It’s a double-elim tourney, so we play again tonight against someone else who got owned last night, so we might have a better chance at the games lasting more than a minute or two. All in all, it’s not any worse than playing on Xbox live used to be, so I’m used to these kinds of games.
Monthly Archive for February, 2007
One more reminder that it starts three weeks early starting this year (March 11). You might also want to visit Microsoft’s site on the matter and get a manual update to make sure your computer will also be able to cope with the time changes correctly. Linux users need pay this no heed, you are in the good hands of the community.
Today marks my second day of my five day (voluntary) fast from video games. It’s a little strange, but not bad. Every time I have to stop myself to realize, "oh wait, that’s a game too," and then I have to actually find something productive to do. Maybe a little depressing to find out how much I could get done if I didn’t just go take a nap instead of playing a game. But it’s not really a loss either way.
In what could become an interesting turn in the piracy area of the internet, the official BitTorrent source BitTorrent, Inc. has sealed its deals and put up its new site today, offering legal pay-to-download of a good collection of movies, music, and games. They also have a way to upload your own content to be included in the database for people to download for free. It could be a turning point, sort of a next step from iTunes, or it could be quickly forgotten about as just one more place to throw away a couple of dollars on the internet. I don’t think they were quite ready to go live, though, since in just browsing around I’m getting lots of page errors, especially they wonderful ‘Error 500: Internal Server Error.’ It looks good on the surface, but keep working on it BitTorrent.
This weekend I spent 14 hours driving, or, mostly riding, with Travis to Ohio. His lease ran out on his car so he was returning it to where he first got it and picking up the new one that his Dad had already leased for him. Guess what! There’s snow in Ohio. Days old, frozen over, inches of snow. (Photo in the sidebar.) Did I mention it’s cold in Ohio?
The wierd thing is, on the way back we passed somewhere around 10 cars from Ontario. And I’m not just saying we passed a group of ten cars from Ontario heading south, it’s more like we got on the road at 10:30 am and saw randomly dispersed cars about every 30 minutes for the entire duration of the trip, from Ohio, to Papermill exit on I-40. Some kind of Ontarian convention going on down here that I don’t know about?
