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Friday, March 26, 2004

More vacation

if you call it that

Last night, as you might have guessed, I was able to get out of the house and come online around 2:30am Eastern time. I will be trying to do the same tonight. If you are reading this, chances are I was successful. I found a nice house that was dark, with a standard netgear wireless B router. Unfortunately, there is so much light around Arcadia that it's not a good idea to go into people's yards to hide. So I was sitting on the street curb behind a parked car to avoid any curious people. Not a lot of wireless signals around, not as much as Jo expected. I kinda knew what I was into. At least tonight I won't have to do a lot of hunting like last night.

Anyways, today started off with a trip to the Santa Anita mall, in my hopes of finding a dance dance machine. This stupid, boring mall only had one place to find CD's yet had 5 places to buy sunglasses. You'd think with CA being much closer to Japan you could find more DDR machines. I doubt I'll have another chance to find one in town, but Saturday we are going to Knott's Berry Farm, which probably has an arcade. After the mall, we went to San Pedro to visit one of my mom's old high school friends. I said yesterday that Arcadia would be a nice place to live, but San Pedro is not. There are a lot of gangs, crime, etc that apparently weren't there ~10 years ago. San Pedro is about 45 min southeast of Arcadia, right along the Pacific Coast. So we went to the ocean so teh mom could talk and stuff and just kinda wasted time alone. Still way too cold to swim, not that I really like to swim. My grandma has a cold or something now, so I hope she gets better for tomorrow, our day of movies. She goes to the movies and watches TV a lot. I guess that's what old people do.

I hope I can stay online longer tonight, but it's not terrifically fast or even safe. Actually, I think I'm falling asleep, so this post might not even make it online in time.

Saturday, March 27, 2004

Even more vacation

sigh

Today was pretty boring. My mom had her philosophy conference, which is the real reason we are in CA. Well, MY main reason to be here is to support teh extended family, whom I very rarely get to see. But she came because KSU covers the cost. So today Tim and I were at the mercy of what my grandma wanted to do. We went to go see the movie "Ladykillers" which started off very good, but i didn't like the way it ended. Played cards with her for a few hours afterwards, until dinner. My grandma is really the only person I will play cards with. Then teh mom came back with some of her friends and promptly started to tell embarrassing stories about us... Yeah so just sat there politely until they left. If i'm lucky I'll never see them again, so it's okay.

Never got around to warwalking last night, I was too tired. Fell asleep listening to the ipod. I guess it was playing relaxing music , but all of a sudden it started playing something where someone was screaming. Of course, I thought it was real and woke up yelling in a cold sweat wondering what the fuck was going on. Damn subliminal messages. Today was a nice day, I guess. As the expression goes here "The mountains were out today". What it means is that the air was clear enough to see the mountains. I highly recommend seeing the movie "Seabiscuit", which was filmed in Arcadia. You'll see the mountains I'm talking about.

So tomorrow is Knott's Berry Farm Day. I want to go on some roller coasters, but more than anything, I need to get some DDR in. I hope it's a DDR Extreme machine so I can play Speed over Beethoven. Such an awesome song. I also have to interview my grandma about WW2 and vietnam for history class. I'm already reading this horrible book about the civil rights movement. Now I'm all about freedom and equal rights, but the book is so boring that it's put me out cold in sleep 3 times already. I can't be expected to write a paper about it. Oh well, another semester, another miracle to get through it.

The problem with warwalking in California is that I'm still sleeping according to eastern time. When it's 10pm here, I feel like it's 1am. And If I wait for everyone in the neighborhood to sleep around midnight, I have to leave when it feels like 3am to me. And then I spend about 2 hours online, so now I feel like it is 5am. This is the last time I will be online before coming back to Ohio. The plane leaves Cali around 6:30am local time, so I will have to get some sleep. Or I could read that damn book.

See you real soon kids!

Sunday, March 28, 2004

BEST POST EVER!!!!111pnr

no, seriously

I’m home

Monday, March 29, 2004

CAPSLOCKOMGICANTTURNITOFF

Thursday, April 01, 2004

Will likes the cock

owned!

Will More Farms: Hey, I heard from this one guy that you're straight.
Will More Farms: APRIL FOOLS@
Will More Farms: !!
Will More Farms: OWNED
Eclipse278: so it was a girl?
Eclipse278: i dont get it

Sunday, April 04, 2004

History is written by the victorious

The sun rose slowly over Planet Frostbite, taunting the few warriors left on the planet. Years of war had reduced the once beautiful pearl in space to a glazed sleet of ice. You had to be the best to stay alive on Frostbite. You had to be even better to win. Five soldiers were on call this particular morning. Commander Eclipse, and Privates Rombus, Darksquare, Swiftwulf, and Infinity X, all trained in various aspects of combat. Though long and arduous, The war of JeloH was coming to an end. You could feel it in the air, the oncoming foul stench of death. But these heroes of the Red Team knew they would not fall. They had trained for this their whole lives. And it meant too much to them.

There was only one power node left in this planet, and controlling it meant you could push pure energy into an enemy's core and override the shield protecting it. Once vulnerable, the core could be destroyed via conventional means. No one remembered how the war began. But we knew how to end it.

The moments before the battle were tense, each team waiting for each other to make a move. Waiting for Rombus to load...his weapons. Over the radio, the command was given! "GO!" It yelled, but the convoy of death was already marching. A tank, a manta-class hovercraft, a raptor-class air cruiser and two scorpion-class light transport trucks rushed to the power node. Speed was of the essence. The power node must be under red control, for without it the team could only defend. And you can only defend for so long. But there was a problem. Midway through the journey to the power node, the node turned blue! In the race for victory, the mighty red team was losing!

Through the eyes of Eclipse, commanding the slow but powerful and armoured tank, the battlefield was a mess. There were light ships flying everywhere! So many he couldn't tell which were friendly and which were not. The blue power node, now halfway completed was his primary target. Through the mess of combat, he caught glimpse of another danger. The enemy tank was already in the battle, tearing his teammates apart with ease. It would only require a few shots from the main cannon to destroy the node, but he would leave himself vulnerable. This was his first choice in a long and bloody battle. Time seemed to slow down as he knew he could only do one thing.

"I've got to take that tank out" Trusting his teammates with the destruction of the blue power node, he charged his tank directly in front of the enemy tank, to draw its fire. Watching his armour blasted away by the other tank, all he had to do was damage it to the point where his team could destroy it. To put it simply, he was trading the red team's tank for the blue team's. Like a game of chess, sacrifices must be made to advance the other pieces. Driving his tank right up to the enemy, staring the blue team's captain in the face, Eclipse smiled as he saw the light come from the other tank's cannon. He laughed as his tank took all the fire from the other team. "You think you've won?" He yelled as his tank blew up, making him the first red casualty. Moments later, Swiftwulf's AVRIL rocket ripped through the weak armor of the damaged blue tank and Rombus's flak cannon tore through the underdefended power node, leveling the playing field.

Only the field was no longer equal. Without the tanks, only light vehicles were left in the center. The red team was prepared for this. The blue team, passionate in their cause, but not experienced enough, believed in their vehicles. The vehicles were their key to winning. The Reds knew better, leaving their weak vehicles and equipping themselves with AVRIL anti-vehicle heat-seeking missiles. Within moments, the blue team was all but destroyed, and construction of the red power node commenced. The blue team had led, but couldn't withstand the red offensive.

Pain was extreme but short, followed by nothing. All of a sudden, the pain was back as Eclipse woke up in the red base, respawned through the energy of the red power core. He immediately knew the situation, getting in the new tank to help with defense. Because his tank was destroyed first, he was also first to respawn. Arriving at the site of the new power node, the tank took up the position as power node defense. Two runners, Darksquare and Rombus, flew high speed to the enemy core, damaging it little by little. The runners were light and underarmed, but extremely fast and able to get past the strong defenses at the blue power core, and with the strong defense by Infinity X, Swiftwulf, and Eclipse, the power core fell after constant pressure.

Victory was ours! Cheers went all around as the red team rejoiced in victory. It was short lived however, as blue team demanded "You have to win two out of three!" The red team was caught in surprise, some several feet from their command interfaces. Scrambling our attack as the power node was already in blue control. The enemy flyer attacked our base right away, damaging Eclipse's tank heavily before being chased off by Darksquare's flyer. Proceeding towards the battle with Infinity X performing repairs, it didn't stand much of a chance against the already present fleet of blue arsenal. The red team had lost the race again.

Defense of the core was hard. Eclipse's tank had to be protected! The only way to take the power node was to destroy it with the tank. Other methods were too slow, as the blue attack lowered the red power core's power to 50%.

"Infinity! Rombus! I need you two to heal me as I push through their defense!"
"Roger!"

With the two soldiers linking the tank, Eclipse drove straight through the blue attack, watching the blue vehicles pass him on their way to his power core. With the two healing the tank, he could survive anything they shot as he protected them, as they hid behind his armor. The power node in sight, Eclipse let out a fury from hell, reducing the power node to rubble in four shots. With the power node destroyed, the shield around the red power core rose once more.
"Oh shit!" Eclipse yelled, realizing that now he, Infinity and Rombus were facing a two front battle. Newly spawned Blue soldiers from the right and the soldiers who were attacking his core from the left now sped towards the three. That's when the blue team made their mistake.

After a short battle involving the tanks, the blue captain must have thought his tank was going to be destroyed, so he abandoned it. Eclipse's shot ripped the ground apart around the tank, stealing the life from the poor blue soldier, but amazingly the tank itself survived. Infinity X, wasting no time, jumped into the tank and hijacked it, and the two red tanks blew away the advancing blue team's wave. Infinity's tank was destroyed soon enough later, but it turned the tides on the battle, allowing the red team to attack once more.

Bullets flew past him as he raced through the canyon. Private Darksquare would let nothing intimidate him. He had nothing to fear. He was the red offense. He was the chosen one. Dodging a tank blast to the right, he hit the boosters and flew over it at 100 miles per hour, leaving it in the dust. Up ahead of him laid the blue power core, and his heart lusted for revenge for the damage to his power core. The blues, determined in their fight as well, chased the lone rider, but to no avail.

"Your deaths only fill me with strength!" He yelled, his body in vampire mode, living to see the blood of his enemy. It took the entire blue military to take him down, but not before he single handidly took the blue power core down 50%, his revenge was complete and he was awarded the purple heart, the second miracle of the battle.

BAM! The sound of the tank cannon impact echoed through the canyon walls as the scorpion flew 20 feet in the air, only to be followed by the car ripping to peices as Infinity X's Jeep laser blew it to peices in mid air. The blue spirit was crushed the same way. The red defense was in solid control of the power node and would not give it up for the rest of the battle. Swiftwulf's flyer and Darksquares Raid led the attack and the blue team fell with a loud explosion as the power core was reduced to scrap metal.

It was a costly battle, and although the war was now over, the benefits were less than desired. Many invisioned great rewards and joy at the end, but instead they were left with only a 15" LCD Gear grip pro, a pair of headphones, and a mini-pc gear grip pro. The feeling of victory would have to be enough for these tired soldiers, but they deserved it.

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Saturday, April 10, 2004

Live from furry nips!

Wireless in da hizzouse!

Thanks to Rick, we now have a place to live for the summer and hopefully for the rest of college. It's a small duplex on the edge of Brimfield. Ask rick for pictures if you want them, cause im lazy. Best part is that there is an unsecure WAP there, with the name "furry nips"

...

Well free internet is free internet. It's a really nice place despite being kinda small. LAN Parties are still go. We could hold them in the Garage, outside in the backyard if the weather is good, or in the bedroom downstairs which will be empty during the summer. Once winter comes i guess we can use the living room or someone else's house. No offense to the family, but i really dont want to live at home anymore. I want to be free finally, not having to tell the mother where i am going, or worry about waking her in the middle of the night when i come home. I'm going to have to get a cell phone too, so expect that in a month or so. I might get a cheapass one and then when i have money I'll get that Panasonic x70.

Expected move in date: Monday May 3rd

I need more categories than just "General"

Tuesday, April 13, 2004

Quote of the day 2

from krhainos

"Fred Gallagher:

It's like someone pushed him over and he never bothered to get back up"

Thursday, April 22, 2004

Finals

Wednesday, May 5
10:15-12:30 - Physics

Thursday, May 6
10:15-12:30 - History of Modern Period

Friday, May 7
7:45-10am - Music as a World Phenominon (ugh!)

So hopefully me and rick and maybe ben will move into the new place monday afternoon or Tuesday. Seeing as how we still have to work that week and we still have to pay for the house, we will see..I hate this small dorm room now.

Saturday, May 08, 2004

Whoa

Whoa hey, the site is back up.

Gots lots to talk about

But after I get back from work...

Monday, June 07, 2004

Long time no post

.....

Yeah so it's been forever since I posted on my site. I kinda fell off the face of the earth. Lots of things happened. I don't even want to write about them, not that anything is bad, it's just that i am tired and lazy and dont want to post. I have slipped back into my amusement park life and it consumes me every summer. I also got promoted to full team lead. You can always call and leave a message and i will call back at night. Wednesday - day off. I finally get a day off after 11 open to closes! grrrr....

Still wont have any time on Wed to do anything though. call me

Sunday, June 27, 2004

Argh, I’m going insane.

And not the good type either - time for sleep

maybe another update in a month

Monday, July 19, 2004

24 Days to Go

It’s official….I am going to Quakecon 2004.  Dan….you better be coming with me

Tuesday, July 27, 2004

Meh

I hate my job so god damn much.

I've missed out on my summer, and being with the people who matter to me.

And the stress I could do without.

Wednesday, August 04, 2004

True true

Re: NYC

Eclipse278: heh
Will More Farms: It's way too late to pull out.

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Monday, August 16, 2004

Stuff

Wow.  So it’s halfway through August.  Time is sure flying by.  If you didn’t know, I quit Geauga Lake on account of me basically being a slave.  Now I am working at ResNet during the summer!  I love working here cause it’s so relaxed and the fun, while tedious, is still fun.  I get to listen to music and go out for lunch and be in a temperature-controlled environment, which is unheard of in GL.  School is starting soon, and with it, a horrible schedule.  Mostly me being busy, and I have a class that’s 4 hours long on Thursday.  Bah.  Oh well.  Looking forward to flying.  I’m going to join the precision flying club and the general flight club.  That should win some points with the dean and get me an internship later.  (heh im so on top of things).  So I just formatted the linux box, so I’m starting on aphelion new again.  Hopefully this time it will let me install things.  Yes, installing things is good.  I want to redesign this website again.  It’s starting to bore me.  Now it’s too dark or something.  We’ll see.

Sunday, August 29, 2004

KSU Again

The day before the new semester, and all is well.  Life is busy until ResNet settles down.  It’s kinda fun to walk around and see everyone struggling to move in and it’s good to not have to deal with that this year.  As much fun as living on campus is, it’s still better to live in a place with your friends.  I’m on campus almost all the time anyways.  Life is good with my super awesome girlfriend Alison, whom I met at Geauga Lake over the summer.  She lives on campus here at KSU so I’m happy she’s around.  Most of you have seen her and maybe even talked to her.  Anyways, I can’t wait for the DDR machine to open up again.  Hopefully no one will use it when I’m around.  Since I’m now a commuter, I can’t just sit i’m my room, I’m going to need things to do, so I’ll have to play DDR.  Classes kinda suck, but I’ll get through it.  I need some A’s to bring my GPA back up.  Also going to join the flying club and hopefully the precision flight team.

Sunday, August 29, 2004

Users

The following users have accounts on Aphelion.sytes.net:

Lethal - http://aphelion.sytes.net/~lethal
Rombus - http://aphelion.sytes.net/~rombus
Swiftwulf - http://aphelion.sytes.net/~swiftwulf
Darksquare - http://aphelion.sytes.net/~darksquare

IM me to get an account. HTML, SSH, FTP, PHP, MySQL, CGI all working in theory.

Tuesday, August 31, 2004

G5 iMac

it looks silly

I love the new LCD displays but this mac looks kinda silly. I hated the old imacs too at first. Whatever. I would never get an imac. I would get a power G5 tower.

Anyways, this is just a quick post.

Wednesday, September 01, 2004

Grounded Again

suffering ensues.

So I was going to fly a Cessna 172P Skyhawk for the first time today. I even got out to preflight the aircraft, but then the flight manager comes out and tells my flight instructor that I can't fly wearing shorts. And I need a second class medical (I only have a third). But the shorts were enough to ground me(aviation term for not allowed to fly). So I got to play with the new 172R's but not fly. They were cool and all, but they were on the ground.

I bet they are beautiful from the air.