I was talking with one of my friends online about the homework we had that was due tomorrow, and on the surface most of the questions seemed to be really easy. As we were discussing them, however, we were getting different answers on almost all of the problems. This led to lengthy discussions about why we thought each of our answers were right. for a three question homework, it took a lot longer than it should have taken to do, but we both very likely will get a 100 on it.
Thursday has been moved into the “up in the air” category for as far as whether or not I’ll be at HP or Royse City. I did ask them to let me know ahead of time so that if I was going to be at home, I didn’t get to the stadium two hours too early like I have in the past. Sure, I can always go back home for a little while when that happens, but given the travel time and then traffic when I start to go back down there, I really only end up being at home a little over an hour.
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Having never even played Gutar Hero or Rock Band before, I picked up Rock Band 2 yesterday and am fairly entertained with it. A couple things I’ve noticed so far: I’m much better at the guitar part than the drum part, and the game is likely much more fun multiplayer. The latter is easily solved by Live though once I coordinate with some of my friends about playing.
I’ve tasked Andrew with coming up with some addon ideas for WoW so that I have a reason to start learning Lua. The nice thing about Blizzard choosing a general purpose language is so that whatever amount of work I actually put into learning Lua can actually be used in other scenarios besides WoW. I’d like to say that I wouldn’t learn a whole programming language for the sole purpose of customizing one game, but you never know what’s going to be the next big hit…
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One thing that I really don’t get is why spam bots feel that my blog is such a profitable place to leave spam comments. First off, 99.9% of all of them get caught, and a significant portion of those just get automatically deleted without me even needing to do anything. For that 0.1% that slips through, moderation on my end means that 0% actually make it to the comment section. So, wouldn’t you aexpect a bot to be smart enough, look at the existing comments, and figure out that their spam comments aren’t going to survive? Here I am, terminating poor, innocent spam comments yet I feel no remorse at all.
Easy Monday tomorrow, just the way I like them. In fact, aside from a three question homework due on Wednesday, I think my whole week is easy. Ok, not easy in the fact that I don’t have school, but no tests, no projects, and no other assignments adds up to something that ranks pretty high on the easy scale if you ask me.
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Take my plan from yesterday, remove the homework part, and that’s basically what I did today. Iron Man was still really good, and I watched the clip after the end credits this time. I already knew what happened, but little things like that are always fun to see. Tomorrow will be much higher on the boring scale as I actually intend on doing some/most of my HW.
I was able to successfully teach my mom how to use the computer connected to the downstairs TV, and she already likes the setup. One issue I’ve identified is that if the power ever goes out (or the computer completely powers off instead of jst going into sleep/hibernate), we’re going to have to get a ladder in order to be able to turn the computer back on. The remote can’t turn the computer on from being completely off, and it’s sitting up on the very top of the built in shelving made for the TV. It’s always the minor details like that which keep a plan from ever being 100% perfect.
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I hooked up our HTPC to our TV downstairs this afternoon, and with that I basically have all of the hardware arranged as it shall be until the end of time (or I decide it needs to be changed again, whichever comes first). That means that I now get to go into the upkeep phase of this whole project. On the positive, that means I don’t have a whole lot of work to do anymore. On the negative, when I do have work it do, it will be significantly more.
Aside from probably spending all of my free time tomorrow playing WoW, the rest of my day will probably go to boring stuff like all that minor homework that I have to do. Tomorrow night will be Iron Man time, and I’ll be sure to post whether or not I like it as much this time as I remember doing so originally.
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In a nutshell, Carrollton ISD schools just suck at football. I could try to somehow soften the harsh reality, but it’s the truth. Granted, a 40-7 win may not seem too out of the ordinary for us, but the game tonight was just pretty pathetic. The score differential could have been much greater had we left in our starters for a longer period of time.
Weekends with no big assignments to work on is nice. Well, at least I don’t think I have any big assignments to work on, but I could be mistaken in that regard. I have HW due next week, but in the grand scheme of things, it should be pretty minor. If I do discover that I have a big project, you can be sure that here will be the first place I begin to complain about it.
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Wow, the patch to WoW has made our weekly raid run go about an hour faster than normal. Basically, this means that I have an extra hour with my night in which to do whatever I’d like, including sleep. I haven’t quite decided what I’m going to do yet, but you can be sure that it will be a well thought out decision that won’t be made rashly.
I am so going to wear pants tomorrow for the game. If the temperature tomorrow is anything like it was today (and it’s supposed to be), it should be downright chilly by 7:30 at night, and I don’t really feel like being uncomfortable for a couple hours. Heck, I may end up taking a jacket also. That’d be crazy for a typical October game.
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I haven’t been logged into WoW all day, but apparently that’s been a hard enough thing for people who actually want to play. With a 1.2 GB patch to apply this morning, apparently Blizzard has been having enough trouble having everything work as intended. When I tried to go to their website earlier it was down, at for at least a short period of time, logging into WoW was impossible. Hopefully by tomorrow night everything will be up and running smoothly, but then they’ll have about another 48 hours to get everything working even better before I get another chance at any serious play time.
Tonight and tomorrow morning will (should) be dedicated to finishing up my first draft of my game paper so that I’ll have the time to play WoW tomorrow night. The round that everyone submitted last week varied wildly in number of pages/words, but as long as I’m in that same general ballpark, I think I should be fine length-wise. A lot of what I’m writing at this point is just a general overview that I’ll further refine for my next deadline in three weeks. After all, the point of having a bunch of drafts/intermediate deadlines is so that you don’t have to have everything to turn in all at once.
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One hundred and seven: that’s the number of equations I had to physically write out and evaluate for my Advanced Algorithms homework due tomorrow when some of them could have been done in my head and all the others were simple to work out on my calculator. Let’s just say that this homework definitely didn’t cause me to lean toward liking that class more. In fact, had the equations been much more difficult than plugging in numbers, I probably wouldn’t have been the only student to revolt and flat out not do the homework.
The gigantormous patch for WoW is currently downloading, and knowing Blizzard, it’ll take longer than most people feel necessary when installing tomorrow. It should be all downloaded by the time I go to school tomorrow, so I’ll give it those 5-6 hours to install and do its patchy stuff. Whether or not I’ll be playing WoW any because of my game document still remains to be seen, but at least the option will be there. That ever distracting option…
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Tonight at the CV BBQ we were watching the end of the Cowboys game on TV, and one of the girls there who plays on the CV flag football team got slightly confused on the offsides call right at the end of the 4th quarter. Her quote was something along the lines of, “I’m pretty sure you can’t do that [flag guarding] in this game…”, so I’m guessing that in flag football, the offsides signal means flag guarding. Since the sound was down the people who actually knew football were interpreting all of the signals, but that was one of the more amusing “interpretations” by someone not in the know.
Due to UTD’s aversion to all things holiday except when basically forced by law, I have school tomorrow rather than getting the day off. Well, fine, I still basically have the day off anyway (just like I do every Monday), but you can’t argue that not going to my 5:30 class wouldn’t be nice. I actually have no idea if that proceeding phrase makes any sense. A triple negative is not something that I feel like decoding right now, but you know how that is supposed to be interpreted.
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