Monday, February 28, 2005

Average everyday seems psycho

Wow, what a week. What an incredibly busy week.

Cool Things About Last Week
Finally finished my piece for Hope Haven
Finished designing the set and lighting design for the Monte Markham interview
Met Monte Markham and operated a camera jib for OISD's taping of an interview
Told by my supervisors that my set and lighting looked awesome
Katie visited over the weekend
Finally got to see Moxa's house

It's been a crazy week. As you can see, a ton of stuff has happened; and that's just the big things. Right now I'm sitting in the Student Learning Center taking a break from writing a paper that is due tomorrow. Been at it for 2.5 hours now and I've written 6 pages. It's going well, I should finish it in an hour. Luckily, it is just a rough draft and it is not for a grade.. but it has to be done anyway. I'm writing a critique of Wonderfalls, a cute TV show that was unfortunately cancelled. J turned me on to it.. it's pretty good. Too bad only 13 episodes exist.

The rest of this week looks pretty hectic too. In the next three days, I have to:

1) Read a book
2) Write a 5-7 page paper on said book
3) Study for a midterm
4) Take said midterm
5) Begin working out with Moxa

I need to get into a routine with the whole working out thing. It'll be cool though, cause Moxa needs to work out a ton and if I do it with him then I could see some health benefits... time to lose some of this flab!

Anyway, back to the paper.

Sunday, February 20, 2005

There's a bad moon on the rise

Heh.. funny joke!

A couple from Minneapolis decided to go to Florida for a long weekend to thaw out during one particularly icy cold winter. They both had jobs, and had difficulty coordinating their travel schedules. It was decided the husband would fly to Florida on a Thursday, and his wife would follow him the next day. Upon arriving as planned, the husband checked into the hotel. There he decided to open his laptop and send his wife an e-mail back in Minneapolis. However, he accidentally left off one letter in her address and sent the e-mail without noticing his error.
In the mean time: In Houston, a widow had just returned from her husband's funeral. He was a minister of many years who had been "called home to glory" following a heart attack (died and gone to report in heaven). The widow checked her e-mail, expecting messages from family and friends. Upon reading the first message, she fainted and fell to the floor. The widow's son rushed into the room, found his mother on the floor and saw the computer screen which read:

To: My loving Wife
From: Your Departed Husband
Subject: I've arrived!

I've just arrived and have been checked in. I see that everything has been prepared for your arrival tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing you then. Hope your journey is as uneventful as mine was.

P.S. Sure is hot down here.

Friday, February 18, 2005

Going down in a blaze of glory

Today has been an interesting day so far, and it is only 11:45. We'll start at the beginning:

1) Woke up, took a shower and came back to check my mail/the regular websites I visit. On the Chaser Forums (link on right), I found this game that looks interesting. It's LEGOs! You build crap! J and I want to make a big building and some spaceships.. we'll see what happens.

2) This one will take a little explaining. A couple weeks ago I had a paper due for my History of America 1945-Present class. So I turned it in and got it back 2 days ago. To my horror, I discovered that I FAILED TO FINISH IT. The paper even ends in the middle of a sentence! I couldn't believe I did something like that. Neither could my professor (haha). But she gave me a B on it and told me that if I brought it back finished today then she would give me more points... this is amazing, considering the woman has been a very harsh grader in the past. So I gave the paper a proper ending and took it back. As I turned it in this morning, the professor asks me if it would be ok if she made a copy of the paper to use as an example of "excellent writing." I'm standing there thinking 'Ok.. you think an excellent paper is unfinished and deserving of a B?" What a weird experience.

3) Get in to work and I'm assigned a new project. Boss wants me to take 3 short clips from an interview with the judge that first integrated UGA. Only problem is that the interviewer screws up in his questioning with a bunch of pauses and "uhhh"s. So I quickly devised a way to edit that junk out.. a much quicker way than Boss expected. I finished the project in roughly 25 minutes.. and it took about 10 to export as Quicktime and to burn to CD. So in all, roughly 35-40 minutes. I turned it back in and Boss is like "Wha.. nice job." Yup yup.

Family is coming up tomorrow. J's dad and bro are coming today. It'll be a big Wartown party in Athens this weekend. We're going to be taking them by the apartments we want to move in to. Kinda scary actually, because the dorms are all full so people are going for the apartments like CRAZY. I'm worried we won't be able to get what we want. But I'm sure it will all work out in the end.

Thursday, February 17, 2005

Running at an unofficial pace

So I started an online photo album for people to look at pictures I deem important. Nothing much on there right now as I don't exactly have a digital camera or anything, but it will be updated as more and more photos regarding my life make their way to the Internet. Link on the right, or you can click here.

Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Not a way to mow you down

Downloaded a mod for HL2 that allows you to mess around with the physics engine for the game. It's pretty hilarious. I made a few scenes you can check out below. Click on them to see the full size versions.








Which Family Guy character are you?

Ha Ha! I wasn't even trying for this.

Monday, February 14, 2005

Tell her all your crazy dreams

Updating from work again. Being paid $8/hr to update my blog. I'm actually waiting on my boss to come in here and review a lecture I've edited. It's pretty basic, except for the color of the thing gets weird towards the end. I don't know what my coworker was doing when she shot it, but whatever. It's fixed. Behold the power of Final Cut.

The weekend was a pretty good one. Great in fact. Went to visit KT in Rome and celebrated Valentine's Day over the weekend seeing as how she's across the state. Gave her The Notebook on DVD.. man I think every female on the planet loves that movie or wants to love it. I asked "So, what makes the movie so great?" to which KT responded "You'll see."

That's right, I had to watch it.

In all honesty, it really wasn't that bad. From a purely technical aspect, there were some cinematography and directing issues, but the story was good (and really, girls, that's all that matters right?). We also went out to eat at Johnny Carino's where I got this sampler dish thing that had lasagna, chicken parmesean, and spaghetti all together for the wonderful price of $12. Pretty good stuff.

Went to KT's college's version of a beauty pageant called "Miss Berry." Aside from watching KT and her fellow group members set up for the event, it was pretty enjoyable. A couple of the competitors had some interesting "talents," such as this one girl who just went crazy on a DDR pad. Props to her.

After that event, we drove to someone's duplex where there was a party going on. I didn't drink anything (as usual) and just watched people act silly.

Cool things about last week
Learning that a RFCU is coming to Athens. No more traveling home to cash my checks.
Going to Target with Jen, haven't spent time w/ her in forever
Finally playing Resident Evil 4 . Excellent game.
Superbowl Party, even if the Eagles lost

Thursday, February 10, 2005

A Baby asks God

A Baby asks GOD:

A baby asked God, "They tell me you are
sending me to earth tomorrow,
but how am I going to live there being so
small and helpless?"

God said, "Your angel will be waiting for you
and will take care of you."

The child further inquired, "But tell me, here
in heaven I don't have to do anything
but sing and smile to be happy."

God said, "Your angel will sing for you and
will also smile for you. And you will feel
your angel's love and be very happy."

Again the child asked, "And how am I going to
be able to understand when people talk
to me if I don't know the language?"

God said, "Your angel will tell you the most
beautiful and sweet words you will ever hear,
and with much patience and care, your
angel will teach you how to speak."

"And what am I going to do when I want to talk
to you?"

God said, "Your angel will place your hands
together and will teach you how to pray."

"Who will protect me?"

God said, "Your angel will defend you even if
it means risking its life."

"But I will always be sad because I will not
see you anymore."

God said, "Your angel will always talk to you
about Me and will teach you the way to come
back to Me, even though I will always be next
to you."

At that moment there was much peace in Heaven,
but voices from Earth could be heard and
the child hurriedly asked, "God, if I am to
leave now, please tell me my angel's name."

"You will simply call her, "Mom."

Monday, February 07, 2005

Come away with me in the night

Found this interesting. It's a collection of various newspaper headlines from around the world in regards to 9-11. Do not attempt on a dialup modem.

Thursday, February 03, 2005

Sweat till you can't sweats no more

24 hours of semi-torture are over. Two papers cranked out.. I'm getting good at this. I'm looking forward to this weekend. It'll be the first real weekend in quite awhile where I don't have anything pressing to do. Just sit back and relax for awhile.

I'm kinda ticked at Amazon.com right now. I ordered some books from them on January 23 and I got an email that because I chose their SuperSaver shipping (read: free) I won't be getting the books until February 22-26. That is just horrible, I mean really. Especially considering I have a paper on one of the books due the 26. Guess that's what I get for using the INTERNET!!!


In other news, I made a website for work. I had to practice embedding a Real file, so naturally Realplayer (hiss!) is required. I know Real Player sucks, but I had to use it. Anyway, it's here. It's pretty dumb and simple, but it was the first time I've really used HTML in probably 4-5 years. Yay to me.

Things are slow still at the office, although today like half the people were out with the flu. It's spreading.. people are dropping like flies. J is coming down with it, which means he'll probably snore alot the next couple nights. Hope it goes by quickly.

I found the following humorous:

Moxa: it's a girl
Moxa: named cinnamon
bpw whirl: Does she have a sister named Nutmeg?
bpw whirl: a brother named Barley?
Moxa: I don't have thyme for this nonsense

College is hilarious.

Wednesday, February 02, 2005

Oh baby give me just one chance..

Best. Penny. Arcade. Ever.