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Pictures were moved to the features section http://darkmercury.net/comments.php?id=193_0_3_0_C There.
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Today was the first day of competition here at Western Michigan University. We practiced E6-B for months straight for this. KSU hasn't placed in E6-B in.....maybe forever....I think I did pretty well. Normally these tests are so difficult (35 Questions in 60 minutes), but this time it seemed so easy. I don't know if we did especially well, or if there will be a lot of people who scored very well at the top. Everyone except one person ended early. Won't find out results until Saturday. I just want a medal, and to help the team go to nationals. Such pressure... Still have Simulator, Navigation, and Landing Competitions until Friday.
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Through the magic of RSS, I have added the DGS news to the left side of the page. Now it's easier to see when things happen. If ever. We need to have another LAN soon. Preferably after this next week.
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"I paid $3 for a one month subscription, so I can create LJ users out of RSS feeds, for those rebels who prefer to run their own blog. " -Krhainos I know I can't speak for everyone, but I love running my own website. It is an extremely fun and cool project that I started for myself way back in the end of the DGS times. It started when codex effectively kicked the DGS site off his server for whatever reason, although the LAN Party was on its last legs at that time anyways. I had this crappy computer lying around that was the "DGS Server" although it really didn't do anything. Most of the time I ended up using my own computer for serving games. I also wanted to get into linux which, if you remember, I had codex install for me during one of the parties. At first, aphelion.sytes.net was run on 2000 professional, sitting in my mom's basement and did nothing. It didn't even host my website at that point. I think it ran a ventrillo server for tim and that was it. Once we moved into the Brimfield house, I brought it there and formatted it into Suse linux. At this point I had been playing with unix on my powerbook, and knew how to do linux compiling. I played around Suse, but they have their own installer, and I never got it working quite the way I wanted it to, except for an IRC server, so I formatted it into Whitebox linux. This is what the server still runs. It's dreamy, stable, and oh so much fun. It's been hell trying to get every damn permission correct, and even today I find that my username still doesn't have permissions on some files on my homepage :P I like pmachine, and I've figured out how to upgrade it from 2.2.1 free to 2.4 professional, so a major site upgrade is in the works, but not until the flight team competition is over. I like how everyone's site is tying together now with RSS, thanks to Jo, but I'm still keeping my site on my server and continuing to be a rebel. I know it's easy to create a livejournal and keep up with everyone easily though LJ and stalkbook, I mean facebook. But as always, I don't like anything that's popular, right? Why would I give up my project after so much success? It's too much fun.
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I passed my Commercial 2 checkride on friday, which is good news although I would have liked to do better. There are always 2 parts to a checkride, the oral exam and the flying exam. I know, I know, everyone makes jokes at the oral exam. Anyways, the oral part was mostly a joke were we sat there reading some weird legal definitions from part 1 of the Federal Aviation Regulations. The flying part was worse. I had never flown with, or even really talked to the instructor I was doing this with. I didn't understand a lot of what he was asking and he mumbled a lot. All that on top of my anxiety and bad decision making and you have one lousy checkride. Still managed to pass and I guess that's all that matters. I hate commercial manuevers. Now I'm flying the retractable landing gear Cessna 172's for Commercial 3 for about a month until my Commercial 3 checkride where I will become a commercial pilot and can be paid to fly. After that, on friday we went to see Serenity. It was just Rick and Alison and me. It was a really good movie, but they killed some characters I liked. I was hoping another tv network would pick it up, but I don't know if I want to see any more without them. He didn't even need to die. There was no point. But I guess there never is...
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