Tuesday, January 10, 2006

The Pro from Cupertino

The “MacBook Pro”

We can forgive the dumb name because of what it is: An apple powerbook with a dual core intel processor.  It will be able to run windows, natively and through an emulator at full speed.  It will be able to run linux, not that it matters because OS X is a better linux than linux is.  Backlit keyboards, magnetic power cord, it’s omg delicious.  I soo want a 12” version, but I may not be able to hold back.  It’s such an awesome machine.  Got two really bad parts though..  $1799 even with student discount and it won’t ship until February.  If they don’t introduce a 12” by May I won’t be able to use the student discount, maybe.  When I bought the airport card I only had to flash my KSU flashcard at them.  Maybe I can do the same again…anyways I can’t wait until I get one..

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Monday, January 02, 2006

Stolen from jo

Happy New Year! Here’s a meme!

1. What did you do in 2005 that you’d never done before?
Fly above the clouds

2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Didn’t have one.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No

5. What countries did you visit?
USA, Canada

6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
All my flight ratings

7. What dates from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Chronologically, Dec. 31 will be easiest

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Uhh..probably instrument rating

9. What was your biggest failure?
Not inventing a device to travel through time.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
1x broken wrist
manyx bloody nose

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Education

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Not Yash!

13. Whose behavior made you appalled?
Yash!

14. Where did most of your money go?
Rent

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Quakecon!

16. What songs will always remind you of 2005?
none, songs dont remind me of years.

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
LAN?

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Spending $

20. Did you fall in love in 2005?
Already there aww..

21. How many one-night stands?
0!

22. What was your favorite TV program?
Firefly hands down

23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Apparently, though it was news to me

24. What was the best book you read?
Harry Potter 6, being it was the only book I read.

25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Cynic Project? I already knew about them but got the rest of their songs.

26. What did you want and get?
My instrument rating

27. What did you want and not get?
My Commercial Certificate

28. What was your favorite film of 2005?
Serenity

29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Nothing and I enjoyed it, 21.

30. What’s one thing that would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Free food?

31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005?
meh?

32. What kept you sane?
Alison

33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
I hate celebrities

34. What political issue stirred you the most?
Roe vs. Wade, Wal-Mart, Iraq, “Definition of marrage”, is it a voting year yet?

35. Who did you miss?
Yash, I guess….until he became an asshole

36. Who were the best new people you met?
The entire flight team

37. What do you look forward to in 2006?
Graduation

38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005?
Don’t mess with rick’s computer

39. What song lyrics best sum up 2005 for you?
Songs dont sum up years except maybe 1985

Saturday, December 31, 2005

Joomla!

http://darkmercury.net/Joomla

I don’t know why, but I like web design and tinkering around with websites.  Could never do it as a job though.. Some of you know the project I have been working on since the week before finals week (known as week of hell).  To distract myself from doing my real work, I started work on the KSU Precision Flight Team website.  I used Joomla for this, which is pretty much just Mambo.  I made the KSUAnime Site with Mambo in early 2004, and can’t say much has changed.  Joomla is the same thing as Mambo but open source I guess.  I thought Mambo was open source, but since I am a proponent of open source software and I’m curious by nature, I tried Joomla.  I’m definately a lot better at the Joomla/Mambo system then I was when I designed KSUAnime.  Looking back, I don’t even like the anime site.  I think a new skin in the near future is in order for that site.  But back to the Flight Team site.  I spent a lot of time on the skin of it, trying to make it look like the flight team jacket and had to fight a lot of CSS to achieve it, but it looks good now.  Now I’m trying to add the endless amount of content and information.  I know that once I move it to the KSU server all hell is going to break loose.  The only problem I have with Joomla is that it has to systemize everything.  I can’t just add a random page, it has to be a member of a category or something.  And I don’t like the publishing system.  Everything content-wise is added by a user, who by default has no access to “publish” anything, and so everything he writes stays hidden until an admin comes by and says “ok” and publishes it, so it appears on the site.  Not a bad feature if that’s what you’re looking for.  However, I am a very lazy admin, and so everyone’s posts will go by unpublished forever.  Would be fine if I could change the default access level, but no.  Best I can do is make everyone an admin, and then all hell breaks loose again.  For what I needed, which is pretty much contact info, team info, and most of all - the events calendar schedule, it’s okay.  I think the site has really come together and I’m pround of it.

Saturday, December 31, 2005

2005 in review

not as bad as 2004

January
Went to Washington DC with Alison
Went to Ohayocon with yash
Break wrist at Brandywine
Very busy Spring 05 Semester starts

Febuary
Cast comes off wrist

March
Pass Commercial 1 Final Checkride - Worst checkride ever
Design KsuAnime.net with mambo
Go to Arcadia, CA for Spring Break like usual

April
Start Instrument Training

May
Very Busy Spring 05 Semester Ends
Begin work at KSU Airport
Begin Summer 05 classes (2)
Become training manager for flight team

June
One year with Alison

July
Got my instrument rating
Begin Commercial 2 course

August
Summer 05 classes end
QUAKECON!
Went to Niagra Falls with Alison
Begin Commercial 3 course
Very Busy Fall 05 Classes begin
Become very busy with Flight Team (only 2 months to practice!)

September
Yash gets pissed off
Finish Commercial 2 course
Serenity movie comes out

October
Re-create the DGS
Flight Team competition! Awesome! Second Place!
Quake 4 - much less awesome!

November
Quakecon video done
Become webmaster for flight team

December
Get bogged down with lots of finals work
Very busy Fall 05 semester over
GPA over 3.0! woots!
Yash gets a little better
Oral part of Commercial 3 checkride 93%
Yash gets pissed off again
Write this stupid post

Friday, December 30, 2005

LAN January 1st

Normally I post LAN stuff on the DGS site, but I thought it would get more exposure here.  Normally my LANs are plagued by the lack of chairs and tables and space.  Well, I bought the huge table that is in my computer room, and a set of four metal generic chairs.  This should help a little bit.  If there are too many people for the computer room, we can move to the living room and someone can bring a spare table or something.  I want to make an interactive sign-up thing.  Maybe that will be the next website project I will take up.  I only make progress on those when I have some sort of paper due in school.  I’m rambling on now…so in conclusion…LAN Jan 1st - 1pm - got enough chairs now! kthxbye!