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So it's Thursday night and the X Games are on. My two roommates and I are watching and we notice the huge Taco Bell hats. That reminds me of a boast my roommate made earlier in the day, "I could eat 10 tacos and I'd still be hungry". So my other roommate and I call him out and challenge him to...
Who likes rollercoasters? This weekend I went on an international road trip spanning 4 parks in 4 days with 21 different rollercoasters. To some it may seem retarded, but it was probably the best weekend ever. The trip started out with a drive to Kennywood near Pittsburgh PA. It was a trip for...
I got a ton of progress done the first few days I was working on O2 because I was on spring break. Thats over and I have tons of shit to do at school. I just finished a physics exam so that frees up a little time but I have a pretty big project due on the 14th (Its a pretty sick little drawing...
There are three major things I need to do to get this working completely.
1. Compile it
2. Timing
3. Textures
Right now I have it compiled and running but without the timing nothing is going to happen. Textures are really only important for making it look nicer. As you can see the sky is...
I've been in contact with the people that are making O2 skiing (www.o2skiing.com) and they've given me access to their code so I can port it over to mac. After about 5 minutes of checking out the code it looks like I should be able to get it up and running pretty quickly. I can't say for sure...
So earlier this week I had an interview with EA for an internship. It went really well, I feel like I dominated some of the questions I was asked and she thought I had a pretty interesting background that would help with game design. It would be really awesome to work for EA and who knows, maybe...
Since Jibberish 2 doesn't seem to be coming, I have decided to take it into my own hands and make my own skiing game. The screenshot above is from a project I did for my graphics class. It was only an animation and I wrote the 3d file myself using boxes and cylinders but I think I have the...
Lots of people have HDTVs now. If you have an HDTV and have watched actual HD content on it you know how much it sucks to watch SD. This makes me want to have ski movies in HD.
The only company that really seems to be doing anything with HD is Level 1. As far as I know they're the only company...
So this summer I worked at Cedar Point. At first I was supposed to be working there with one of my best friends but he backed out at the last minute. I decided that it would probably be a pretty cool experience so I decided to go down there alone.
My first couple of days were awful. My...
So those are all the bottles and cans my roommates and I collected over the year. We got about 90 dollars worth, so ~900 cans. (I live in michigan so 10 cents a can/bottle). In case you're wondering, the huge bag came from a mattress. We had it set up like a giant basketball hoop in the corner...
A lot of people really seem to like both of these. I hadn't seen the office until this week and I have to say I was a little dissapointed. Maybe people hyped it up to much but I just didn't think it was that funny.
Now Monty Python is only related because theres the British version of the...
I'm a computer science major. That means I use a computer A LOT. In two weeks I have projects due in 2 CS classes and a paper due in a film class. Guess what happened yesterday? My computer stops turning on. Thanks Apple. So I go to Apple's website and do everything they say. Nothing. I make the...
George Bush might be a terrible president but the only other choice was John Kerry. Seriously, it's like the Democrats said, "Hey lets find someone worse than George Bush" Everyone bitches and moans about him but the only alternative was (in my opinion) worse. It looks like the Dems are making...
College should be learning, not getting a job that pays well. I can't stand most of the people that I go to school with. Everyone is so concerned about their grades. Most of my friends hate their classes but they have to take them for med school or law school or whatever they want to go in to...
So theres this guy that sells shit on campus and he's a pretty big hippy. He sells knitted hats and che guevara posters to the upperclass liberals on campus. He has dirty hair and wears a poncho. He's pretty much the stereotypical hippy. One day I was walking by and my friend wanted to look at...
This is the story of how we fooled everyone we knew into thinking my roommate got kicked out of the dorm.
So last year my hall was apparently the worst behaved in the whole dorm. The main RA issued a blanket warning to the hall which meant that we would no longer recieve warnings if we were...
So every year the two biggest dorms on campus have a huge snowball fight. Theres probably 1500 or so people in each dorm. It all started at midnight on the night of the first big snow (more than 2 inches). The fire alarm went off and everyone rushed outside to battle. I guess the point was to...
That damn computer program has taken over my life. I didn't sleep for a week. I finally gave up and turned it in as complete as I was going to get it. No more starting the weekend before its due.
I got an email from my school's newspaper the other day asking me some questions about why computer science is male dominated. I'm surprised they actually quoted me in the article. My quotes are towards the bottom.
You've got males
Inside the University's most male-dominated major
By Danielle...