Well, it turns out in bowling even when my team wins we lose. What does he mean you ask? Well it turns out that even though the scores at the end of our games two Tuesdays ago were wins they decided to give the team some extra pins after the game so we would lose. How many pins? More than 30 at least. It appears no matter what we do we cannot win.
We won all of one game last Tuesday (well maybe two). I bowled alright for all three games but the other team once again bowled the games of their lives. Also doesn't help the whole damn team we bowled against wasn't there (well 1 person was) so they PICK UP RANDOM PEOPLE! That's right we lost to a team of people that didn't know eachother. This seems cheap as they must have found a team of decent bowlers for us to go up against. This really isn't fair as the team already had a handicap boost on us. On top of that at least one of their bowler CROSSED THE FOUL LINE EVERY SINGLE TIME HE BOWLED. But do they turn on the foul lines? NOOO. So here we have someone fouling just about every time he bowls and he still gets a good score 'cause they won't turn on the damn detectors. This really isn't fair stupid cheaters. Next thing I know we'll be playing people with "pin hacks" and "aim bots".
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Saturday, February 19, 2005
Babylon 5
Well my study goals for today have been shattered. Instead of getting anything productive done, (well some stuff but not much), I spent most of the day watching season 1 of Babylon 5 as a neighbor happens to have the DVD set. This is seriously impacting my ability to get any work done. I need help learning how to study...
Friday, February 18, 2005
Friday Again!
Well it's Friday which means another week has come and gone. Did I finish any of my goals for this week? You bet I didn't!
Last Tuesday our bowling team did well, we beat the other team in all 3 games giving us the series. Soon we will no longer be 3rd from worst team in the league (we really messed up the time before). Of course we only won because I bowled so crappy the time before, so my average was < 100 (99). That gave me a wonderful handicap of 90 pins and when combined with everyone else's handicap our teams hadicaps they all added up to more than 100 pins in the first frame!
Aren't we lucky? Still, we won one of the games by more than 150 pins so the handicaps didn't give us all the wins, only two of them. If I could have only consistently bowled a 133 instead of getting that 85 and the 120. The double gutterballs following a strike didn't help my score either.
My plans for this weekend are pretty simple. Do homework, work, and play some WoW, in that order. Of course I'll end up playing WoW and not doing the other things. I need to learn to prioritize or something, anyone have any advice?
Last Tuesday our bowling team did well, we beat the other team in all 3 games giving us the series. Soon we will no longer be 3rd from worst team in the league (we really messed up the time before). Of course we only won because I bowled so crappy the time before, so my average was < 100 (99). That gave me a wonderful handicap of 90 pins and when combined with everyone else's handicap our teams hadicaps they all added up to more than 100 pins in the first frame!
Aren't we lucky? Still, we won one of the games by more than 150 pins so the handicaps didn't give us all the wins, only two of them. If I could have only consistently bowled a 133 instead of getting that 85 and the 120. The double gutterballs following a strike didn't help my score either.
My plans for this weekend are pretty simple. Do homework, work, and play some WoW, in that order. Of course I'll end up playing WoW and not doing the other things. I need to learn to prioritize or something, anyone have any advice?
Monday, February 14, 2005
Internships and the Summer
Well I'm busy as ever. My mission was to update my blog every other day. So far that's failing.
Well today I heard from NVIDIA about the possibility of a Hardware Design ASIC Internship position. I still need to interview for the position but I'm really, really excited as I finally have a chance to show that my Computer Engineering isn't all software.
In other news in my lab group we have decided to develop a video game console. Since it was my idea I ended up as defacto-team lead (basically no one wanted the job.) I also had to agree to write a game for it as no one wants to do software. Now we need to figure out VGA and how we are going to make a somewhat accelerated graphics setup. We've got the ISA specced out for our CPU which we plan to model after the standard pipe-lined RISC system.
Tomorrow have a long day but at least it doesn't start until 1pm. Algorithms, Kendo, 752 discussion, Enlight, and Bowling all await me on my tuesday evenings. If I'm lucky I'll be back by Midnight.
Well today I heard from NVIDIA about the possibility of a Hardware Design ASIC Internship position. I still need to interview for the position but I'm really, really excited as I finally have a chance to show that my Computer Engineering isn't all software.
In other news in my lab group we have decided to develop a video game console. Since it was my idea I ended up as defacto-team lead (basically no one wanted the job.) I also had to agree to write a game for it as no one wants to do software. Now we need to figure out VGA and how we are going to make a somewhat accelerated graphics setup. We've got the ISA specced out for our CPU which we plan to model after the standard pipe-lined RISC system.
Tomorrow have a long day but at least it doesn't start until 1pm. Algorithms, Kendo, 752 discussion, Enlight, and Bowling all await me on my tuesday evenings. If I'm lucky I'll be back by Midnight.
Thursday, February 10, 2005
Bowling and Tests
I'm not sure if I mentioned this before but I'm currently in a bowling league that meets Tuesday evenings. So far my team isn't doing so well. Last Tuesday we played a team who's handicaps gave them about 40 pins on our team at the start of the game. Know what? They whooped us by about 100 pins twice and in the last game beat us by 3! They didn't really deserve to have such high handicaps considering how well they bowled, of course they may have just bowled the game of their life. Doesn't help I sucked it up and didn't make it over 100 in 3 games. Gah, after one of the HIGHEST games the Tuesday before this sucks for me. At least my handicap will go up!
In other news I have my first midterm today at 1pm. This midterm is in my Algorithms class where so far we have learned NOTHING! That's right a test when we have had 1 of like 6 classes canceled and of those 5 we had class for only half the time for 3 of them. On top of that we don't really do much of anything in class. So I don't think they really have much to test us on. At least the test is open book.
In other news I have my first midterm today at 1pm. This midterm is in my Algorithms class where so far we have learned NOTHING! That's right a test when we have had 1 of like 6 classes canceled and of those 5 we had class for only half the time for 3 of them. On top of that we don't really do much of anything in class. So I don't think they really have much to test us on. At least the test is open book.
Sunday, February 06, 2005
A Wet Rainy Day
Well I've been keeping busy here in Madison. It was beautiful outside yesterday, it got up to crazy 43 degrees. Since it was so nice I went down to the "Kites on Ice Festival" hosted out on the lake by Memorial Union. On the way all the melting snow turned lakeshore path into a mud hole. To get around this I walked over to the Union entirely on the ice of lake Mendota. Out on the lake it was warm and you had a great view of all the kites. Some of the kites were pretty cool looking but I got there to late for any of the activities (like make a kite). Plus due to the warmth the lake was melting so there was about 4 inches of water on top of the ice. Boy did my feet get cold and wet!
Today it was also warm but I spent the entire day indoors. I went to Kendo club from 4-7pm during the "superbowl". There were all of two students there so we got a semi-private lesson. I mostly worked on my swings, men, kote, do, and even skee, but I also started to learn part of a kata! Now I'm about a week or so past the rest of the class. On Tuesday they will be handing out Bogu (armor) in class and we will soon be hitting each other!
Of course I finished up my day with a bit of WoW and did quick run on Blackfathom Deeps. I managed to get my rod of the sleepwalker, so next time we go "for Gnomeregan!"
Today it was also warm but I spent the entire day indoors. I went to Kendo club from 4-7pm during the "superbowl". There were all of two students there so we got a semi-private lesson. I mostly worked on my swings, men, kote, do, and even skee, but I also started to learn part of a kata! Now I'm about a week or so past the rest of the class. On Tuesday they will be handing out Bogu (armor) in class and we will soon be hitting each other!
Of course I finished up my day with a bit of WoW and did quick run on Blackfathom Deeps. I managed to get my rod of the sleepwalker, so next time we go "for Gnomeregan!"
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