This past Thursday, a huge windstorm ripped through the pacificnorthwest, leaving hundredsof thousands withoutpower . I know I didn't get the worst of it, but I did get hit pretty bad: ahuge tree landed on my car. I can't seem to get embedded images to work, but there are quite a fewpictures at the link.
I attest that the following story is true in its entirety, except thenames of people have been changed to protect identities (and hopefullyto provide a few cheap laughs). First, a little background: this summer for work I am traveling,teaching workshops for junior high and high school students. Sunday Iwasscheduled to travel across state (I live in western Washington) toteach a one week workshop. From Bellevue where I live to Newport whereI was headed is about 300 miles, so no small trip. ...
I flew in to Greenville SC today, where a double mix up ultimately gotme a free dinner. You see, I was checking in to the "La Quinta". However, there are twoLa Quintas in town, and I ended up taking a taxi to the wrong onewithout realizing it. So the first mix up was my fault. Once I got to the wrong hotel, I gave my name to the front desk. Theychecked me in, gave me my roomkey, and put it all on the credit cardthat had been used to make the reservation. But it wasn't my reservation .S...
Garbage collection comes on Thursdays. At my house, we always put outour garbage the night before, usually close to midnight since we arenight owls. This past Wednesday something unusual happened: our neighbor across thestreet had a refrigerator in their driveway. On this particular night Iwas already in bed and my roommates were in charge of taking out thegarbage, so I deny any responsibility for what transpired. My roommates took the refrigerator and put it in our garage. The ques...
For a college student, there are two choices over the summer: work orsummer school. Some students choose both. I choose work out ofnecessity to store funds for rent the following year. Two years ago, I painted over the summer. The nice part was workingoutside in the sun doing good, solid physical labor. But physical workcombined with 40-50 hour weeks really wears on you, especially whenworking at close to minimum wage. I had no desire to go back the nextsummer. So the next summer (last ...
Today my school, DigiPen ,held a career day for the graduating seniors. DigiPen specializes ingame development, so the career day consisted of recruiters from thegame industry getting a chance to look at senior projects andconvincing students to apply with them. I'm not graduating this year so I didn't have an explicit reason toattend the event, but I went anyway to see what kind of companies werehiring. The school claimed that thirty-five companies were represented.Five companies gave pr...
Coming back from Spring Break I had some good news in regard to school:in my tougher math class, quaternions, I got a 94 on the midterm. (wetook the midterm the week before Spring Break) The distribution on the test was rather interesting, here it is in fullcompleteness: Range: Number ofResults: 90-100 2 80-89 3 70-79 3 60-69 3 50-59 2 ...
Today I hung out with some friends from highschool. It was sunny outside, so we rode bikes onto a deserted logging road. We found a stream in the woods and dammed it up just for fun. I didn't realize it before, but I miss this type of thing. Now that I am in college in The City, I don't really get the chance to go outside and enjoy nature. Even more so, I never get the chance to just play in the woods. There is a certain appeal to exploring forest, getting dirty, and having good clean old ...
Spring Break is next week! I am most definitely ready for it to be here. School has been demanding my time for weeks, and this past week in particular was rough. I had seven items due this week: Math homework, two computer science projects, computer science homework, two midterms, and a beta presentation for my team project. Fortunately everything is now done except for the two computer science projects due tomorrow. It's funny how one reacts to fluctuations in workload. I've been in a har...
The following was written on Sunday March 12th, immediately following The Game: Tonight the DigiPen Regulators played a game for the ages. But before I go into that, I feel I should give some background. DigiPen is a school for computer game development. In other words, everyone at the school is a nerd in some form or another. Two years ago, some of the “nerds” decided to form a flag football team. They bought DigiPen jerseys, signed up at a local league, and played for fun and competit...