Date: 2/21/04 at 2:55AM
Imaging website templates before you create them is hard work. I spent an hour on created a new logo (not the one from 4 days ago) for the 2004C template. I like Heidi Klum so she’s my main point of interest on the new site. Everything’s backwards compatible with my recent pages. I think this is much more exciting. Paint is a awesome tool if you use it right. At it’s core (website), there’s nothing new. Haven't added interesting pages anyways. I’m been making webpages since 1999, and I haven’t quite figured out if updating is the key factor or creating new templates is the key factor. Creating new webpages can make your site look nicer plus could make link checking easiler. Create all new links that day. I had this trouble building a webpage in July 2003. I had this cool webpage I made, spent a 1 week, and it’s still worst than the last template I made in February. Except I made many, many improvements, fixed links, too the eariler one. I find that updating new templates are much better practice. I worked on 4 new templates in 3 months. I believe the one I made in January was the best. But it comes somewhat close to version 3.0. Just look at the page.
I’m really excited for Dungeon Siege 2. I own Dungeon Siege, and I played it in 2001 and early 2002. I beat Dungeon Siege (both maps that came with cd), and the graphics were cool back them. Mediocre by today’s standards. The ability to equip yourself with a sturdy sword and shield is a good feeling. I kinda forgot about Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction after I played Dungeon Siege. It doesn’t look very good on faster computers. Niether was Diablo 2. Diablo 2 looked horrible but played well. It ran decently on my old 650 MHz (which I gave to my dad in 2001) Athlon Compaq Presario with 256MB of Ram and 32MB Geforce. Today I have a 64 MB Geforce 3, and it doesn’t look to much different than on my other computer with 256 Geforce. The difference is also 700 MHz. The polygon count must not exceed a certain amount. Not like Unreal Tournament 2003 which looks awesome on my Geforce 4 256MB. I run it at 1600/1200 res, with 3 layers of anti-analyzing on. It makes it look better than Unreal Champtionship for Xbox.
Speaking of RPGs, I have Neverwinter Nights, and I forgot about it . I mean one big advantage is it does run in 1600/1200 high resolution mode having 4 layers of Anti analyzing. I didn't have 'nice' 4 layers because it affected my performance just a tad. NWN runs great over a v.92 modem. I am very novice when it comes to that game. It's been weeks since I last played it with school going on and everything. I’ve been in combat but died quickly. My character of choice is the half-orc barbarian. I played the game today. I met this guy online. He helped he though the forgotten realms. I was playing Hordes of the Underdark. Everyone’s playing some sort of mod online. Less then half the games on the Internet come with the cd-rom. Half the time you have to download data files. My game version was out of date I had version 1.61 and it’s now version 1.62b2. It takes me about 20 minutes just to download the new patch. I usually download these big files over at school, and bring it home on my personal thumb stick. I got to play for about 3 hours before I got tired of doing nothing.
I got a new 40 Gigabyte internal hard drive for my computer. I think I will load Windows 98SE on it. I hate to waste an activation on Windows XP Pro Upgrade CD which is running on my 120 GB 7200 ATA harddrive. Windows 98SE is free. There is this device that lets you switch between 3 hard drives, and I want that device. You can find it off Tigerdirect.com. I have 2 hard drives installed, and I’ll install the new one maybe tomorrow. Fun, more space to full with MP3s. I only have about 6 Gigabytes of them. 37 GB – 6 GB - 600 MB for Win98 = 30.4 GB of free space. That’s still a lot of space. On my Dell, I have a 114 GB Scuzzy Drive (super fast hard drive). I could store all my games I want to play including entire MP3 collection with about 85 Gigabytes left of free space. I have 3 computers (5 hard drives) so 15.5 GB + 112 GB + 109 GB + 37GB + 37GB = 310.5 GB of free space.
Saturday, February 21, 2004
Tuesday, February 10, 2004
Knoppix is the best self boot Linux in exsistance
Date: 2/10/04 at 7:08PM
My dell is okay now. Not that I was going to have a heart-attack, but it scared me half to death. Unknown to me at the time, it has a RAID hard drive. It shouldn’t make any difference, but it does. I called tech support, and the guy on the phone said turn your RAID setting off, and set Primary drive to AUTO. That would do her, I installed WINXP PRO back on, and it’s awesome to have it working. I found out that Norton Antivirus and PSP 8.0 came with the DELL as free software. At school, our class ran out of “linux boxes” so Steve gave us Knoppix. Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.net) boots off CD, and runs the KDE desktop. Hmm. Very cool. Read my review (text) at http://www.geocities...s101/knoppix3.3.html. It’s cool because I can do my assignments on almost any computer. Steve told me that if Knoppix gets to 4.0, he’ll call up his tech buddy, and tell him to download the huge 740+ MB ISO file. The OS seems to use every bit of 700 MB the CD gives it.
I wonder when Bob can come over again? Wednesday is a free day for me, and it would be fun for us to play some games. He has a job to keep, and books to study, all at the same time. Bob, you see, uses computers only for the Internet, chat and word processing. I am willing to give him Knoppix, but I don’t think he’ll take it. He doesn’t like Linux now. He had it on his computer for a short time. Mandrake 6.0 is not the best Linux version. He, of course, couldn’t get it too work well on his machine (he was only running 300 MHz with 64 MB of RAM in 1999), but he got access to the Internet, and ICQ worked. I have Mandrake Linux 6.2 (older Linux, like 1999 or something) and those things aren’t easy to install. I tried installing it just for the heck of it a few months back. I couldn’t get pass the real mode part of it. This was an early REAL MODE build of Mandrake Setup.
And Bob - I really do think your webpage is funny. Just that I wish u change your stories. How about u be a popular rockstar. You’ll be the next Metallica! U can still have your super hero adventures - but a rock star - that would be much cooler! Hey man, just giving you some ideas. That would be you. I’ll be your drummer. Okay. Say I’m the best gull darn drummer in the whole gull darn world. I bet your ratings would go higher, twice than normal! We’re playing Paint it Black okay Bob!?! Say your latest cd sold 4 million copies the first day!
Alright already, I’ll stop talking about Linux. My friend came over two days ago. It’s probably the best fun I had the whole week. Not everyday do I get to play videogames with a friend. We played soccer and each won 2 games. The first two games were 0-0. We had a goalie shoot-out after the two over times. Guess who won? Me! In Randy’s opinion, FIFA 2002 was better then Winning Eleven 6 although he mentioned the players weren’t as ‘smart’ as Winning Eleven 6. We had a hard time scoring goals. Our balls were either two high or no where near the net. LOL! That wasn’t all we played, others were Project Gotham (Xbox), Midnight Club II (Playstation 2), Toyko Extreme Racer 3 (PS2) Mario Kart Double Dash (GCN) and Super Mario Bros. (NES) Randy still plays his NES at home all the time so he’s good at it. He can make it to level 8.3. He knows where the secret bean stock is in 4.2 so he teleports to 8.1. I’m still in 4.1. I take the secret pipe area in 2.1. Die on the spot! I have 0 lives, and he has 6 or more lives at the beginning of 8.2, then he dies 6 times after that. Now that I own an old school console, I don’t want to play it. It’s one of those ‘I have it now; I can concentrate on today’s games’ day. The console is as old as I am. Randy and I should eventually play SMB through JNES which comes with a LAN/Ethernet option for player 2. SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE T!
Tomorrow, I’ll have to start writing a script for Justin and myself. Justin is my partner for Network Cabling, one of my classes at WITC. Although what we do isn’t important, it’s important that the script be at least 15 minutes long. Reading very slow will just confuse people. Fiber Optic cable really amazes me. That’s my report! We are doing a long essay on it. It can transfer 2 GB of data per second! That’s state-of-the-art I think. The CAT IV COAXIL cables that WITC uses, you’ve guessed it, are very weak in comparison. However, it’s still incredibly fast. I don’t think I could find enough downloads to make it worth while. I click Download, 2 Seconds later I’m done. Find another page, another download. You get the general idea here. I have dial up, so everything’s fast too me. But you know, having 160 KB transfer rates can only provide so much. Confused? Our school has fast Internet, but not as fast as I would like. It should be faster! Like 512KBPS or 1 MBPS. However, I don’t think that will be possible for another 3 years at least. Just by how the funding goes.
My dell is okay now. Not that I was going to have a heart-attack, but it scared me half to death. Unknown to me at the time, it has a RAID hard drive. It shouldn’t make any difference, but it does. I called tech support, and the guy on the phone said turn your RAID setting off, and set Primary drive to AUTO. That would do her, I installed WINXP PRO back on, and it’s awesome to have it working. I found out that Norton Antivirus and PSP 8.0 came with the DELL as free software. At school, our class ran out of “linux boxes” so Steve gave us Knoppix. Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.net) boots off CD, and runs the KDE desktop. Hmm. Very cool. Read my review (text) at http://www.geocities...s101/knoppix3.3.html. It’s cool because I can do my assignments on almost any computer. Steve told me that if Knoppix gets to 4.0, he’ll call up his tech buddy, and tell him to download the huge 740+ MB ISO file. The OS seems to use every bit of 700 MB the CD gives it.
I wonder when Bob can come over again? Wednesday is a free day for me, and it would be fun for us to play some games. He has a job to keep, and books to study, all at the same time. Bob, you see, uses computers only for the Internet, chat and word processing. I am willing to give him Knoppix, but I don’t think he’ll take it. He doesn’t like Linux now. He had it on his computer for a short time. Mandrake 6.0 is not the best Linux version. He, of course, couldn’t get it too work well on his machine (he was only running 300 MHz with 64 MB of RAM in 1999), but he got access to the Internet, and ICQ worked. I have Mandrake Linux 6.2 (older Linux, like 1999 or something) and those things aren’t easy to install. I tried installing it just for the heck of it a few months back. I couldn’t get pass the real mode part of it. This was an early REAL MODE build of Mandrake Setup.
And Bob - I really do think your webpage is funny. Just that I wish u change your stories. How about u be a popular rockstar. You’ll be the next Metallica! U can still have your super hero adventures - but a rock star - that would be much cooler! Hey man, just giving you some ideas. That would be you. I’ll be your drummer. Okay. Say I’m the best gull darn drummer in the whole gull darn world. I bet your ratings would go higher, twice than normal! We’re playing Paint it Black okay Bob!?! Say your latest cd sold 4 million copies the first day!
Alright already, I’ll stop talking about Linux. My friend came over two days ago. It’s probably the best fun I had the whole week. Not everyday do I get to play videogames with a friend. We played soccer and each won 2 games. The first two games were 0-0. We had a goalie shoot-out after the two over times. Guess who won? Me! In Randy’s opinion, FIFA 2002 was better then Winning Eleven 6 although he mentioned the players weren’t as ‘smart’ as Winning Eleven 6. We had a hard time scoring goals. Our balls were either two high or no where near the net. LOL! That wasn’t all we played, others were Project Gotham (Xbox), Midnight Club II (Playstation 2), Toyko Extreme Racer 3 (PS2) Mario Kart Double Dash (GCN) and Super Mario Bros. (NES) Randy still plays his NES at home all the time so he’s good at it. He can make it to level 8.3. He knows where the secret bean stock is in 4.2 so he teleports to 8.1. I’m still in 4.1. I take the secret pipe area in 2.1. Die on the spot! I have 0 lives, and he has 6 or more lives at the beginning of 8.2, then he dies 6 times after that. Now that I own an old school console, I don’t want to play it. It’s one of those ‘I have it now; I can concentrate on today’s games’ day. The console is as old as I am. Randy and I should eventually play SMB through JNES which comes with a LAN/Ethernet option for player 2. SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE T!
Tomorrow, I’ll have to start writing a script for Justin and myself. Justin is my partner for Network Cabling, one of my classes at WITC. Although what we do isn’t important, it’s important that the script be at least 15 minutes long. Reading very slow will just confuse people. Fiber Optic cable really amazes me. That’s my report! We are doing a long essay on it. It can transfer 2 GB of data per second! That’s state-of-the-art I think. The CAT IV COAXIL cables that WITC uses, you’ve guessed it, are very weak in comparison. However, it’s still incredibly fast. I don’t think I could find enough downloads to make it worth while. I click Download, 2 Seconds later I’m done. Find another page, another download. You get the general idea here. I have dial up, so everything’s fast too me. But you know, having 160 KB transfer rates can only provide so much. Confused? Our school has fast Internet, but not as fast as I would like. It should be faster! Like 512KBPS or 1 MBPS. However, I don’t think that will be possible for another 3 years at least. Just by how the funding goes.
Saturday, February 07, 2004
My PC had the crash of the century. Read more....
Date: 2/7/04 at 1:39PM
Hi, everybody. Yeah know what happened to me today? I went to a Eagle Scout ceremony. It wasn't half bad. Just that I never were friends with Rance. Long ago when I was a boy scout, he came in, since his dad was the big cheese, the Scout Master, he was usually commanding us around. But that was okay, someone had to make decisions. A good example is when we planned campouts. All I had to do is describe it. Rance had to organize it. I know how it was, I was Patrol Leader too. There was this kid bugging me, made me feel crazy, so I quit scouts all together. I left scouts when I was turning 17, and just reached Life Rank (not lying here.) It wasn't the really the kid that bugged me at times when I was slow in speech. I hated to be slow in thought. It was that I haven't really did my part as a scout. I was scribe and Patrol Leader for 7 weeks. Not the best one either. I could make decisions, but that's about it. I couldn't teach how to do knots (except for a few) or calm the younger kids down. You get the idea. I know I wasn't good because I wasn't voted in The Order of the Arrow. I wanted to be, but I was never elected. Well I thought, it's time to leave. Well, it's 2 years later, and I'm too old for scouts. I'm probably the only guy from the troop long ago that will be at his ceremony. I haven't seen Rance for over a year. I hear he's kinda immature for his age now. So I was iffy on whether or not I would go. So I go.
(3 Hours Later) I got back from the Eagle Ceremony. Bob, Joe, Justis, and former scouts were there. I said hello to a couple of them, told them about my school what I do. I couldn't began to talk about how I hate Microsoft sometimes. I talked to some people about using MS Windows to play games and surf the Internet. I'm know I'm not like most adults who don't play computers and Linux. Then I left. I didn't want to spoil Rance's fun. I felt like I couldn't say anything good to him. I went just to see him be awarded. I felt like I was going to embarrass myself talking why I left. I was a little interested on why there was a teenager wearing a SCC letter jacket. I pretended I didn't know him. State Reps and boy scout board members were also there. I just didn't feel up to speaking to all of the people i use to know.
Today, I tried to install Linux on my Dell. Something went wrong, and now I can't access Windows XP. I put in Redhat Installation CD tried to load a driver to recognize the hard disk. It was Intel driver that worked but then froze. So I then tried renaming all the drives to NTFS so that the drives could be combined, which worked. But Windows XP still didn't boot. My last choice is try to install Windows XP again, and use the cds to reinstall the software. I found out Dell computers are actually anti-Linux machines. The process should of went smoothly when I re disputed free space for Linux with Partition Magic. P.M.8 is the best there is. So today will suck trying to reinstall all the games / programs on it. But I know it can be done, that's the best turnout. I installed Linux a dozen times, and this never happened.
Life has been really good lately. The computer was just a minor set back. I'm only lost 1 of 3 computers I have access too. If the worst happens, I won't lose much data. My last backup was one week ago. I think I'll do my Micro Operating Systems II homework tonight because nothings going on 'till tomorrow.
Going to play Final Fantasy X-2 tonight, game store tomorrow. Yes, I know I've been on that title forever (over two months). I haven't completed that game yet. I want to see if Yuna mets Tidus or if she falls for someone else. If I had a choice if I liked Final Fantasy X or FFX-2 better, I would defiantly pick FFX-2. It has minor improvements, plus your character has more freedom on where to go. Freedom and less lunar gameplay makes games more interesting and more fun. FFX had some very hard bosses. While that Boss at the end of Zanterkan was very hard in FFX-2, it didn't stop me from beating him. I like FFX and FFX-2 because u can do a lot of magic combos that do good damage. Though, in my opinion, Final Fantasy X for Playstation 2 had a better script. The number of save spheres in the game were there when you needed them. I rate FFX script a 5/5 but I give FFX-2 a 3/5 for script. The story probably isn't as deep as Metal Gear Solid, but isn't to bad. In both games, my reason to play them both are watching the cut scenes because they did make good use of the physics engine. This is something I admire in a game
Now Readers, I am proud to present Gaming, -again -
I want to go to the game store, and buy a game called Winning Eleven 6 for PS2. But i don't think they will have it used. I only have one other soccer game and that's FIFA 2002 for Gamecube. I use to play it a lot. And I gotten rusty on the gameplay so why just play it again. It's free. Perhaps I'll make time before homework to play a couple soccer matches. We don't have Fox Sports World so I don't get to see soccer ever. I never ask my dad because he hates soccer. He's a big Vikings fan.
Comments on Winning Eleven 6: So far it looks really cool. On the box, the header has "The Worlds Best Soccer Game is coming to North America." I knew that Winning Eleven was a big series in Europe and Japan. It was on the #2 spot last year for 2 months. I played both FIFA 2002 and this game. This game looks a little more animated (although FIFA 2002 had better graphics on Gamecube). I tried out the training section, and the game told me which buttons to push for what moves. If you own a Playstation 2, this is a good buy! It's not a cheap, buggy game, it's as good as any of EA Sport's soccer games. Trust me on this!
Hi, everybody. Yeah know what happened to me today? I went to a Eagle Scout ceremony. It wasn't half bad. Just that I never were friends with Rance. Long ago when I was a boy scout, he came in, since his dad was the big cheese, the Scout Master, he was usually commanding us around. But that was okay, someone had to make decisions. A good example is when we planned campouts. All I had to do is describe it. Rance had to organize it. I know how it was, I was Patrol Leader too. There was this kid bugging me, made me feel crazy, so I quit scouts all together. I left scouts when I was turning 17, and just reached Life Rank (not lying here.) It wasn't the really the kid that bugged me at times when I was slow in speech. I hated to be slow in thought. It was that I haven't really did my part as a scout. I was scribe and Patrol Leader for 7 weeks. Not the best one either. I could make decisions, but that's about it. I couldn't teach how to do knots (except for a few) or calm the younger kids down. You get the idea. I know I wasn't good because I wasn't voted in The Order of the Arrow. I wanted to be, but I was never elected. Well I thought, it's time to leave. Well, it's 2 years later, and I'm too old for scouts. I'm probably the only guy from the troop long ago that will be at his ceremony. I haven't seen Rance for over a year. I hear he's kinda immature for his age now. So I was iffy on whether or not I would go. So I go.
(3 Hours Later) I got back from the Eagle Ceremony. Bob, Joe, Justis, and former scouts were there. I said hello to a couple of them, told them about my school what I do. I couldn't began to talk about how I hate Microsoft sometimes. I talked to some people about using MS Windows to play games and surf the Internet. I'm know I'm not like most adults who don't play computers and Linux. Then I left. I didn't want to spoil Rance's fun. I felt like I couldn't say anything good to him. I went just to see him be awarded. I felt like I was going to embarrass myself talking why I left. I was a little interested on why there was a teenager wearing a SCC letter jacket. I pretended I didn't know him. State Reps and boy scout board members were also there. I just didn't feel up to speaking to all of the people i use to know.
Today, I tried to install Linux on my Dell. Something went wrong, and now I can't access Windows XP. I put in Redhat Installation CD tried to load a driver to recognize the hard disk. It was Intel driver that worked but then froze. So I then tried renaming all the drives to NTFS so that the drives could be combined, which worked. But Windows XP still didn't boot. My last choice is try to install Windows XP again, and use the cds to reinstall the software. I found out Dell computers are actually anti-Linux machines. The process should of went smoothly when I re disputed free space for Linux with Partition Magic. P.M.8 is the best there is. So today will suck trying to reinstall all the games / programs on it. But I know it can be done, that's the best turnout. I installed Linux a dozen times, and this never happened.
Life has been really good lately. The computer was just a minor set back. I'm only lost 1 of 3 computers I have access too. If the worst happens, I won't lose much data. My last backup was one week ago. I think I'll do my Micro Operating Systems II homework tonight because nothings going on 'till tomorrow.
Going to play Final Fantasy X-2 tonight, game store tomorrow. Yes, I know I've been on that title forever (over two months). I haven't completed that game yet. I want to see if Yuna mets Tidus or if she falls for someone else. If I had a choice if I liked Final Fantasy X or FFX-2 better, I would defiantly pick FFX-2. It has minor improvements, plus your character has more freedom on where to go. Freedom and less lunar gameplay makes games more interesting and more fun. FFX had some very hard bosses. While that Boss at the end of Zanterkan was very hard in FFX-2, it didn't stop me from beating him. I like FFX and FFX-2 because u can do a lot of magic combos that do good damage. Though, in my opinion, Final Fantasy X for Playstation 2 had a better script. The number of save spheres in the game were there when you needed them. I rate FFX script a 5/5 but I give FFX-2 a 3/5 for script. The story probably isn't as deep as Metal Gear Solid, but isn't to bad. In both games, my reason to play them both are watching the cut scenes because they did make good use of the physics engine. This is something I admire in a game
Now Readers, I am proud to present Gaming, -again -
I want to go to the game store, and buy a game called Winning Eleven 6 for PS2. But i don't think they will have it used. I only have one other soccer game and that's FIFA 2002 for Gamecube. I use to play it a lot. And I gotten rusty on the gameplay so why just play it again. It's free. Perhaps I'll make time before homework to play a couple soccer matches. We don't have Fox Sports World so I don't get to see soccer ever. I never ask my dad because he hates soccer. He's a big Vikings fan.
Comments on Winning Eleven 6: So far it looks really cool. On the box, the header has "The Worlds Best Soccer Game is coming to North America." I knew that Winning Eleven was a big series in Europe and Japan. It was on the #2 spot last year for 2 months. I played both FIFA 2002 and this game. This game looks a little more animated (although FIFA 2002 had better graphics on Gamecube). I tried out the training section, and the game told me which buttons to push for what moves. If you own a Playstation 2, this is a good buy! It's not a cheap, buggy game, it's as good as any of EA Sport's soccer games. Trust me on this!
Monday, February 02, 2004
Jeep back, more bad weather, missing two credits
Date: 2/4/04 at 12:51AM
My comments on the Super Bowl are I caught a glance at the Patriots rejoicing at the end and went to bed. It’s nice playing in a state-of-the-art football stadium like Houston. This team also won the 2002 Super Bowl. Minnesota Vikings Running Back Carl Eller got into the Football Hall of Fame today (7th Hall of Famer for the Vikings.) I never heard of the him. Hmm, I wonder if the Vikes will get their act together for the 2004 season. Again they’ll most likely win the first game and maybe the second. But mid-season they’ll just plunge to the bottom of the chart. I don’t think coaching has anything to do with it. The group doesn’t seem focused on the game and they make stupid mistakes like Dante under throwing the football and 50 yard passes to Randy Moss. One things for sure, the Vikings turned all offense, and that’s not like them. Historically the Vikings have been better defensive then offensive.
Well I am just puzzled that I forgot about the 2004 Daytona 500. This was the Winston cup, but there is also the Nextel Cup, featuring Nascar drivers one class below. All seems the same to me. I don’t have any favorite Nascar drivers myself. Sometimes the Daytona 500 isn’t always 500 laps. One year it was cut short in recent history because of thunderstorms. The name Daytona 500 just sticks to it. It reminds me of Daytona USA (Daytona USA 2 in arcades) for Dreamcast. I miss that game. The classic arcade game is really fun. Some day when the arcade game disappears from arcades I’ll buy it from an antique dealer at a great price, put it in my house and play on it. It’s interesting I haven’t seen Daytona USA 2 at Aladdin’s Palace (arcade in Maplewood Mall) when I went with my friend Bob and his friend Angie. My reasons are that it’s a game with the same backbone of the original. I am very fond of the orginal. It has that arcade feel and I just felt good sitting behind the wheel and spending a dollar on a race. I'm not a expert driver though. Daytona USA 2 has high resolution graphics, more tracks, better soundtrack, and nicer screen. Only reason I know about it was it is at the local Wal-mart. Daytona USA 2 is very similar to Rush 2049 (Atari racer in Arcades). Other Nascar games I own are Nascar ‘99 for N64, Nascar Thunder 2003 for Xbox, and Daytona USA for Saturn. Daytona USA for Saturn the least favorite of them all. It’s going to odd come 2005 not seeing Sega as a major cotenant in the console race. I’m sure there are many people favoring Playstation 3, and that’ll leave no room for Sega.
The college caught me with my pants down again. (another figure of speech) This time it was that I enrolled in a class I never went too this year. Now I can’t go to it because class has been going on for 3 weeks. It was basically a class I took before in high school. WITC has this particular class set up as a 3 credit course. I am waiting for my youth options course to transfer over to WITC to replace this 3 credit course. That’s that story. If it doesn’t then I am going to look for another excuse for missing this class. Okay, the problem isn’t that I missed the class. The problem is I took this class during high school, missed an important Spanish class (so I can’t speak Spanish now), and now WITC may / may not except my C+ grade. My high school wanted me in college. You know what WITC told me, “Well Ian. At least you can do it over again better!” I didn’t know whether or not to get mad at the WITC consoler who dragged me into this, and basically said, “You don’t have enough credits to be half-time. Come see me tomorrow. Have a nice day.”
I got my Jeep today. It looked better then I thought. My views were it would be multicolored with a black grill and black side panel over the right wheel. The door doesn’t shut as well as it did before the crash. But Jeff Johnson’s Autobody in Hudson did a superb job on fixing it up. I’m really happy to be moble again. The weathers about 3 degrees above freezing. More hydroplaining on the roads. May be dangerous tomorrow.
This is Ian signing off.....
My comments on the Super Bowl are I caught a glance at the Patriots rejoicing at the end and went to bed. It’s nice playing in a state-of-the-art football stadium like Houston. This team also won the 2002 Super Bowl. Minnesota Vikings Running Back Carl Eller got into the Football Hall of Fame today (7th Hall of Famer for the Vikings.) I never heard of the him. Hmm, I wonder if the Vikes will get their act together for the 2004 season. Again they’ll most likely win the first game and maybe the second. But mid-season they’ll just plunge to the bottom of the chart. I don’t think coaching has anything to do with it. The group doesn’t seem focused on the game and they make stupid mistakes like Dante under throwing the football and 50 yard passes to Randy Moss. One things for sure, the Vikings turned all offense, and that’s not like them. Historically the Vikings have been better defensive then offensive.
Well I am just puzzled that I forgot about the 2004 Daytona 500. This was the Winston cup, but there is also the Nextel Cup, featuring Nascar drivers one class below. All seems the same to me. I don’t have any favorite Nascar drivers myself. Sometimes the Daytona 500 isn’t always 500 laps. One year it was cut short in recent history because of thunderstorms. The name Daytona 500 just sticks to it. It reminds me of Daytona USA (Daytona USA 2 in arcades) for Dreamcast. I miss that game. The classic arcade game is really fun. Some day when the arcade game disappears from arcades I’ll buy it from an antique dealer at a great price, put it in my house and play on it. It’s interesting I haven’t seen Daytona USA 2 at Aladdin’s Palace (arcade in Maplewood Mall) when I went with my friend Bob and his friend Angie. My reasons are that it’s a game with the same backbone of the original. I am very fond of the orginal. It has that arcade feel and I just felt good sitting behind the wheel and spending a dollar on a race. I'm not a expert driver though. Daytona USA 2 has high resolution graphics, more tracks, better soundtrack, and nicer screen. Only reason I know about it was it is at the local Wal-mart. Daytona USA 2 is very similar to Rush 2049 (Atari racer in Arcades). Other Nascar games I own are Nascar ‘99 for N64, Nascar Thunder 2003 for Xbox, and Daytona USA for Saturn. Daytona USA for Saturn the least favorite of them all. It’s going to odd come 2005 not seeing Sega as a major cotenant in the console race. I’m sure there are many people favoring Playstation 3, and that’ll leave no room for Sega.
The college caught me with my pants down again. (another figure of speech) This time it was that I enrolled in a class I never went too this year. Now I can’t go to it because class has been going on for 3 weeks. It was basically a class I took before in high school. WITC has this particular class set up as a 3 credit course. I am waiting for my youth options course to transfer over to WITC to replace this 3 credit course. That’s that story. If it doesn’t then I am going to look for another excuse for missing this class. Okay, the problem isn’t that I missed the class. The problem is I took this class during high school, missed an important Spanish class (so I can’t speak Spanish now), and now WITC may / may not except my C+ grade. My high school wanted me in college. You know what WITC told me, “Well Ian. At least you can do it over again better!” I didn’t know whether or not to get mad at the WITC consoler who dragged me into this, and basically said, “You don’t have enough credits to be half-time. Come see me tomorrow. Have a nice day.”
I got my Jeep today. It looked better then I thought. My views were it would be multicolored with a black grill and black side panel over the right wheel. The door doesn’t shut as well as it did before the crash. But Jeff Johnson’s Autobody in Hudson did a superb job on fixing it up. I’m really happy to be moble again. The weathers about 3 degrees above freezing. More hydroplaining on the roads. May be dangerous tomorrow.
This is Ian signing off.....
Sunday, February 01, 2004
Everyday surfing a new experience, everday a broad
Date: 2/1/04 at 3:52AM
Hello world. It’s me again creating my 25th wonderful blog of myself. I created a new quote “Everyday surfing a new experience, everyday a broader understanding of music.” I made it up myself. I’ll translate, it means, “Everyday I try a different song, the more songs I listen too, the more I know which ones I like the most.” Every days a new experience. Thanks to the Internet I have songs I never thought I listen too and like. I rediscovered a new group of radio station from Yahoo’s Launch Radio. It’s a lot like Live365.com.
Bob, his friend Angie, and I went to the mall today. It was more fun to hang around Bob then most days. I went into Hot Topic for the first time. It would be hard to describe. At first appearance, the hard metal was disturbing. The room was filled with Slopknot, Iron Maiden t-shirts, a lot of piercing and odd bumper stickers. I had to leave it, Bob wouldn’t leave. Because I wasn’t causing trouble, everyone could see that, maybe this crowd would just vanish. That wouldn’t mean Bob would have to vanish with them, but he looked like he’s use to this place. Any how, Angie’s the more silent type of females. She hasn’t spoken one word to me today. I didn’t want to embarrass her in front of Bob. She’s not in high school and doesn’t act like one either. Then Bob, her, and I walked into Spencer. I heard the name somewhere before. Small world, heh? See, it was full of expensive clocks with neon lights. I wanted those neon clocks, but seventy dollars for a small clock like that. Of course, no! That is defiantly price gouging I think. Then, I look on the other shelf and saw a weird clock 50% off, and it didn’t look half as good as the neon clocks I saw.
Time passed, I went over to Suncoast and bought a couple DVDs. First was Man with no Name trilogy (Clint Eastwood) and then I got 10 John Wayne B movies. It was that choice or games. I also wanted Final Fantasy 7 for the PC, that’s a really old game. That game should only be 14 bucks used I had the money. Hey I thought, Wow I getting 10 John Wayne movies for 40 dollars, what a bargain! Just as I said before. Clint Eastwood acts like John Wayne sometimes. Did anyone see a lot of similarities between The Shootist and Unforgiven? Dad said the John Wayne movies I got weren’t his good ones. I was disappointed.
School on Monday. I have to study for a test like every week after this. It’s not hard – just he basics of taking apart computers. But soon it will be harder. It will get in depth and talk about all the buses and microchips on a motherboard. I know where most of them are. I want to do well in this class. Classmates are treating me well, that’s good. Sometime I want to invite them over for a lan party. I feel shy towards that because they don’t know me too well. They know me through class discussion. One question I have to ask myself everyday is, do these guys want me to know them. This is the only way I am going to get a further education so I mustn’t back down. Somehow I feel forced into college, like something isn’t right? I want to go to college so nothing should be wrong? Maybe I should be in a different class? But why start over, it’s only going to be the same curriculum over again. Interesting though, I had this same experience in 10th grade.
Hello world. It’s me again creating my 25th wonderful blog of myself. I created a new quote “Everyday surfing a new experience, everyday a broader understanding of music.” I made it up myself. I’ll translate, it means, “Everyday I try a different song, the more songs I listen too, the more I know which ones I like the most.” Every days a new experience. Thanks to the Internet I have songs I never thought I listen too and like. I rediscovered a new group of radio station from Yahoo’s Launch Radio. It’s a lot like Live365.com.
Bob, his friend Angie, and I went to the mall today. It was more fun to hang around Bob then most days. I went into Hot Topic for the first time. It would be hard to describe. At first appearance, the hard metal was disturbing. The room was filled with Slopknot, Iron Maiden t-shirts, a lot of piercing and odd bumper stickers. I had to leave it, Bob wouldn’t leave. Because I wasn’t causing trouble, everyone could see that, maybe this crowd would just vanish. That wouldn’t mean Bob would have to vanish with them, but he looked like he’s use to this place. Any how, Angie’s the more silent type of females. She hasn’t spoken one word to me today. I didn’t want to embarrass her in front of Bob. She’s not in high school and doesn’t act like one either. Then Bob, her, and I walked into Spencer. I heard the name somewhere before. Small world, heh? See, it was full of expensive clocks with neon lights. I wanted those neon clocks, but seventy dollars for a small clock like that. Of course, no! That is defiantly price gouging I think. Then, I look on the other shelf and saw a weird clock 50% off, and it didn’t look half as good as the neon clocks I saw.
Time passed, I went over to Suncoast and bought a couple DVDs. First was Man with no Name trilogy (Clint Eastwood) and then I got 10 John Wayne B movies. It was that choice or games. I also wanted Final Fantasy 7 for the PC, that’s a really old game. That game should only be 14 bucks used I had the money. Hey I thought, Wow I getting 10 John Wayne movies for 40 dollars, what a bargain! Just as I said before. Clint Eastwood acts like John Wayne sometimes. Did anyone see a lot of similarities between The Shootist and Unforgiven? Dad said the John Wayne movies I got weren’t his good ones. I was disappointed.
School on Monday. I have to study for a test like every week after this. It’s not hard – just he basics of taking apart computers. But soon it will be harder. It will get in depth and talk about all the buses and microchips on a motherboard. I know where most of them are. I want to do well in this class. Classmates are treating me well, that’s good. Sometime I want to invite them over for a lan party. I feel shy towards that because they don’t know me too well. They know me through class discussion. One question I have to ask myself everyday is, do these guys want me to know them. This is the only way I am going to get a further education so I mustn’t back down. Somehow I feel forced into college, like something isn’t right? I want to go to college so nothing should be wrong? Maybe I should be in a different class? But why start over, it’s only going to be the same curriculum over again. Interesting though, I had this same experience in 10th grade.
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