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Alright. Don't kill me.

Mon, 08 May 2006 20:09:54 GMT

I'm only updating this thing for one reason: MY BLOG DIED. As in, the server exploded and hasn't come back yet. So therefore, to counteract such a problem, I bought my *own* server with a domain name! Yes, a domain!

So, without further ado, I can now be found permanently at SPAZ-ATTACK.NET.

Apologies for all the confusion. I finally have a reliable host now though.

The Psychology of Rain

Tue, 28 Feb 2006 01:40:26 GMT

I now know what a drowned rat feels like. ;_; It's been raining here for about a day and a half straight, and parts of campus are beginning to flood. I tried to stay indoors as much as possible, but there was a Psychology experiment I needed to go to this evening - which meant going out in the rain. Lots of rain. So I'm now soaked to the bone, but at least I'm not hungry, because I got food before I came back in out of the rain.
It's also not good being sick and soaking wet from the rain. I should probably take a shower and put on warm clothes if I don't want to catch something worse and die.

Friday, February 17, 2006

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 03:27:28 GMT

I. HATE. PROGRAMMING.

Or, rather, it hates me... it's completely and utterly refusing to cooperate. All I want it to do is sort a list two different ways. But is it listening? NO. KILL KILL KILL!!!

The Pi Conspiracy

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:08:42 GMT

Today was really nice, aside from forgetting to turn on my alarm and thus sleeping through English (again). But I can't really bring myself to care about that. I participated in two psych experiments in a row today, and in one of them I was completely fooled! The experimenters for that one conducted it under the pretense of it being about memory and how it relates to age, but what they were really studying was memory in terms of social conformity! I can't believe I fell for that one so easily - I should have seen right through it (not like it matters at all, they got their point across, but still...). After the experiments I had about an hour to kill, so I went and took a catnap on the lawn by the theatre. I've wanted to do that for a while, and it was quite nice, because almost everyone else was either in class or inside somewhere (I can't imagine why... it was a beautiful, warm day).

We're learning how to solve square roots by hand in calculus. All I have to say to that is: my life is now complete. I can die happy knowing how to solve square roots without a calculator. </sarcasm> (Prof. Tran today: "Who needs calculators!? We're gonna do this by hand! The college way!" -- a minute or so later he gives up on that and plunks it into his computer)

Since yesterday was Valentine's Day (or Singles Awareness Day, thanks to Cheryl's roommate, I believe) Nick and I decided to try our luck with the speed dating thing. Well, it would have been a lot better had more than myself, Nick and Richard from anime club (really annoying and really likes me Katie and Ruth) shown up. That was a total bomb, but I did get some free Bronco pom-poms out of it... I think the activity coordinators felt kinda sorry for us, considering how loserish we looked being the only ones interested in speed dating on Valentine's Day.

As for the title of the post, it was something that came up in calc today. Professor Tran was trying to explain why people wanted to compute pi to several million decimal places. Since none of us could really wrap our brains around it, he called it "The Pi Conspiracy". Apparently there are a bunch of nutters in the world that think that if they solve pi to enough decimal places they'll unveil a secret code sent down by aliens or something. I was terribly amused.

Thursday, February 09, 2006

Thu, 09 Feb 2006 06:33:21 GMT

So I guess you could call this an update. Nothing earthshaking going on over here. Discovered the swimming pool and the sauna on Sunday. The sauna wasn't nearly as fun as it should have been - the air was far too dry. Stupid electrical heating system.
I think Sarah already noticed my new layout. Yeah... this is pretty much what happens when I'm sequestered off in my room for an entire evening with absolutely no desire to study whatsoever. Strange things happen. Like this.

I'm sleepy, so I'm gonna sign off for tonight... more before the end of the week hopefully.

Friday, February 03, 2006

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 05:33:24 GMT

Hee.

http://www.holybibble.net/images/strips/1135338942.gif

Monday, January 30, 2006

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:24:30 GMT

The sky is leaking. It's not really raining. More like leaking. Yup.

I think I did alright on my calc midterm today. Except for the fact that I fell asleep at about 1:30 (class is at 2:15) and accidently woke up at 2:13. THAT was fun getting to class.

Someone is still on my hit list. Won't say who because I'm not sure if they read this or not.

Anyway, off to study for psych and do more programming.

PS - Amtrak officially sucks. We got stuck in Oakland for two hours last night. Unexpected track work my ass. Pfft.

Thursday, January 26, 2006

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 05:53:01 GMT

There was an outbreak of scabies in Graham 300 (aka the building next to mine). They're cleansing all four buildings as a result and telling us to wash all of our linens in hot water. Needless to say it's impossible to use the washers now, because everyone wants at them. The new whiteboard trend is something like "(name) has scabies!!" or "(name) lives in 300 and does NOT have scabies!!"
If it wasn't an infestation of rabid mites, I might find this all very amusing.

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:19:08 GMT

Guess what I'm going to be for Fanime? Bonta-kun from "Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu!" The last few episodes of the series were shown at the anime club marathon last weekend, and right then and there Nick and I decided that we had to be Bonta-kun. Both of us For our cosplay skit, we'll be dancing and singing Der Guten Tag Hop-Clop from The Producers (I now have the soundtrack, and I found a video clip of that part ^_^). If you don't know what Bonta-kun looks like, here's an image:

Friday, January 20, 2006

Fri, 20 Jan 2006 20:22:50 GMT

We're doing it. We're REALLY doing it. The DDR club will be official by this time next week!! I feel like I'm part of something much bigger than myself right now. Almost as if with this little move we're going to make a mark on SCU history. And our names will be on it: Nick Garnes, Cate Greenwood, Will Whitener, Andrew Valmonte.... OUR names.

We the People of DDRSCU, in Order to form a more perfect Gaming Union, establish Community, insure domestic Amusement, provide for the common desire, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Best Scores Possible to ourselves and our Followers, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the establishment of the Dance Dance Revolution club of Santa Clara University.