tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62125492012-02-16T02:53:09.994-05:00Oreonoreply@blogger.comBlogger4791100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212549.post-48890486256722927402010-07-01T18:22:00.001-04:002010-07-02T11:48:00.906-04:00

It is with a heavy heart that I think the time has come to officially put this blog on the long-term backburner. As you've all noticed, my posts here have become increasingly erratic and consequently mostly huge event dumps. I need a change of scenery. From this point forward, I will do the bulk of my blogging on my brand-spanking-new tumblr: Constellate. For those unfamiliar, Tumblr is a

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While a lack of blog updates is nothing new for me, this semester's scarcity largely due to how much crazier/busier this semester has been than usual. School has been clobbering my time, and then with ultimate and the occasional socializing on top of that, I haven't had much downtime. Without further ado, some updates on my life:Classes:Organizational Communication and Its Social Context (aka

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Gotten behind again; school has just been swamping me. I even finished most of this post 2 weeks ago but then I never got around to finishing it =/The second half of break was far less exciting than the first half. I spent most of my time sleeping, working out, or playing frisbee. But then what else would you expect from me?Ultimate:Guest played on the UWB team again, along with David. There was

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Christmas (Dec. 25):Cornell & Co. came over around 9AM and we opened our presents with them. For not asking for anything, I got a surprising amount of good stuff. Notably, I got a Wii (jk, it's for the whole family), some base layer clothing (needed since I lost some of mine...), Friday Night Lights Season 2 (such a good show), and a BlackBerry Storm2!The BlackBerry was a very ironic gift because

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The business of finals put me behind in my catch-up schedule. Time to update quick hits style.Kristen's Party (Nov. 13):We went to the sit-down Paquito's for dinner and got hella burritos. Delicious. Met a bunch of other friends of KK, including the infamous and hilarious Lady Lana. We went back to her room where the drinks were broken out and chilling commenced. We had to peace from her suite at

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Final tournament post of the fall '09 season. It ended up being longer than I expected, sorry ya'll.Rutgers Heiko Gross Memorial Tournament @ Rutgers University, Nov. 7 & 8Friday, Nov. 6:We left for NJ at around 6:30PM and finally watched Space Jam. It was a running joke amongst the members of Purple Haze that, whenever a movie choice needed to be made, everyone should shout for Space Jam. No one

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A quick update is in order; I will try and write the next tournament post in the next day or two as well.Halloween this year was actually fairly similar to last year's, although I was significantly more tired and sore (from the night before *wink wink nudge nudge*). As per usual, costume preparation was left until the day of. I copped out by dressing up as Seraph (minor character in The Matrix 2

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Fall tournament post #2.Fall Phling @ Penn State University, Oct. 24 & 25Friday, Oct. 23:Since everyone enjoyed my cookies last time, I figured I would do a repeat performance: some simple butter and jam thumbprints. We left Cole's around 6:30PM, watched Man on Fire, stopped at a McDonald's for dinner/snack, watched Spirited Away, and arrived at our hotel in Pennsylvania at around 10:00PM. We

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Alright, time for me to finally get to my tournament posts.Brisk Winds XIII @ University of Rhode Island, Oct. 17 & 18Friday, Oct. 16:Since the Femmes usually bring baked goods to share at tournaments, I figured I would switch things up by baking some cookies myself. I finished much too close to when I wanted to leave, but then I ended up waiting for Cori anyway (since she's on the women's team,

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Another fun night from recent times: the MemeFactory show sponsored by various computer/media clubs at NYU.Friday (Oct. 9):Nicky had invited Max and me to go to an IgniteNYC (an evening of 5 minute presentations on all manner of topics) that night. The timing was such that Max and I could still go to the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) club meeting that we wanted to hit up, but we would

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Since it's been a while since I've posted, I'll just recap major events that happened recently in the next few posts. First off, mai f1rst concert 3V4R: blink-182 @ The Borgata in Atlantic City, NJ!Saturday (Oct. 3):There was an ultimate scrimmage at 1:00pm against club players so rather than take the bus with Nicky, Max, Henry, Liz, Kristen, Sarah, and Becca at 3:00PM I decided I would take the

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Since it's been a month since my last post, I will just do some quick updating on major events. Without further ado, here is how the summer ended for me.Ultimate Frisbee Summer League:We ended the regular season with no wins, and then somehow got seeded 2nd (out of 6) in the E pool which garnered us a first round bye in the playoffs. We won the second round game against Dana's team, the Disc

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While David posted pics and a brief summary of our trip to Vancouver, I figured I might as well be the one to post something more substantial for once (rather than saying 'David already blogged about it, check that'), so here it goes.Backstory:I saw a post on Kotaku a couple of weeks ago about mysterious Bioshock 2 promotional events that would be happening on beaches around the world. While

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Two weeks ago, I went to California for an epic reunion of 7-South - well, 6 of us at least. Nicky, Henry, Sarah, Liz and I were all supposed to arrive in San Francisco sometime between the 16th and the 19th of July so that we could go on a backpacking trip that Max had organized in one of the state parks in the area. It was clear a good time was to be had, and while things hardly turned out as

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I am making this post out of the fear that David will post another substantial post after asking "Really? Nobody's Updated?" before I make a post in response. In truth, not much has changed. My days are mostly spent doing programming for my side job, playing ultimate, biking, and playing vidjagames. See? I told you not much had changed.Out of the ordinary:1) Working with Davis at his

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My goal for the summer was this: some work, some ultimate, some hanging out, some video games and some reading. So far, that's what it's been, and so far it has been awesome.I have yet to get a main job, but I do have a side job. Thanks to Nicky, I have a nice gig making a facebook app for an online dating startup. I'm only being paid in equity, but it's good experience and it will be real nice

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After a luxurious flight on Virgin America (compared to the flights on airlines that my mom has picked) I returned home on the 13th. For the first few days back I just hung around home, searching for jobs online, throwing with Steven and David, playing some Sega Soccer Slam (getting embarrassed by Team Love), and introducing the pwnerers (Davis included!) to Settlers of Catan. I also primed and

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I am almost moved out. School finished on Monday for me, after a hectic wednesday, thursday, and friday, and a relaxing weekend.The long night that was pulled on Monday resulted in Tuesday being shot, which meant that my accounting case assignment got pushed back to Wednesday. I finished it in the two hours before it was due in my professor's office and then proceed to run to get to the building

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Since I saw updates from Davis, David, and Steven within the last few days, so I figured I should post. I would have updated with a 5Stars post last week, but then things got busier than I expected.On Friday, we went out to this small Italian restaurant, Paprika, as a final 7-South "floor" (just the people that we like on the floor) event. It was a decent place, the food was good but, as per

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Most of my time is spent doing all of the final assignments for my classes these days. A case project for statistics, a case project for accounting, a 1500 word essay for BiP, and a game for computer science. While working on these for the past week, my hate for writing grew as fast as my love of coding. This became apparent when I spent around 10 hours working on my computer science game which

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This past weekend was supposed to see the realization of everything Purple Haze had worked towards all season, but we fell tragically short of our goals. In one weekend, we had some of the highest and lowest points of our year as a team. Despite the disappointment, the camaraderie was palpable and the excitement and dedication to frisbee and the team made me so psyched for the future.Friday 4/17:

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For a long time now I've been wanting to do recurring theme posts a la David's "Things I Hate" but I've been busy and had to do a lot of catching up. Now, I have a free moment and no day-to-day news to report on, so I figured I would start. Inspired by Kristen's reference to inspiration from High Fidelity to do Top 5 lists, I present my own personal top five lists: 5Stars.If you know me, it

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It was looking like birthday festivities on Monday would have to be postponed since I had 3 classes plus frisbee workout. But no one on the floor knew that apparently and so they were all ready to party at like 9 oclock. I didn't get back until after 11, lol. Henry had left me a voicemail and Kristen had posted on my facebook, but obviously I wasn't checking those during frisbee. Anyway, when I

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Alright, this should be short post. Not much of significance has happened between now and Spring Break. Marisa (Linnea's sister and my ~4th cousin) was in town right after my break ended so we hung out for a while. I hadn't realized how long it had been since I'd talked to her, so it was nice to find out what she's been up to. And I always love visitors, too. Later in the week, a bunch of people

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My spring break was composed of sleeping in, video games, movies, and working out. So basically my normal routine minus homework and classes. I got Etrian Odyssey II and Geometry Wars: Galaxies for DS and both are really enjoyable. I've always heard good things about Geometry Wars and now I understand all the praise; it's a beautiful and elegantly simple shooter. Every kill is super satisfying

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Much to my surprise, after not going to practice for multiple weeks due to a foot injury and doing poorly at the one practice I did go to, I was on the list of 20 selected to go to the Huck of the Irish tournament in Salisbury, MD. As is starting to become a habit with tournaments I go to, HotI was canceled the Thursday before due to the fear of melting snow flooding and ruining the fields. The

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It's Spring Break and I have no excuse for not doing some updates. 'nuf said.Feb 13, 14, 15:Jack became the first person to visit me in the big city on that Friday. I'd been bugging him for a while to come in to the city and he finally got a free weekend for President's Day. After letting him change out of his WP attire, we went to my favorite pizza place for dinner ($1/slice). Then we just

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After getting back into the swing of things with new classes, etc., I wasted no time in making sure I would have some more exciting weekends. It was a little embarrassing coming back home and having people ask, "So what cool stuff have you done in NY?" and not being able to really answer with much at all. So, here are the first 2 of my last 4 weekends recapped.Jan 31 & Feb 1:On Saturday, I headed

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Well David, I said I would post before that two month mark, so here's a new post. Unfortunately, not posting for nearly two months means I have a lot to recap. Let's start with winter break post-epic-24-hours.The first couple of days were spent at home with the family or in Steven's basement playing Dungeons & Dragons. Let me tell you, D&D may be the epitome of nerdiness, but it is really fucking

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It all started with a late start of 20 minutes. I left Third North at 1:20 and started my train ride to JFK. The L got me to Broadway Junction where I waited for the A. While waiting there, two noobly asians started to shadow me, presumably because they were unsure about how to get to the airport. I quickly ditched them and got on the A, making sure to get on Far Rockaway. The sign lied. When we

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Last Thursday (as in the 11th), we held a party to celebrate Henry and Liz's birthdays because they happen during winter break. Henry's is Dec. 25th as it turns out - his driver's license proves it, although I secretly still hope that he got a fake just to be born on Christmas. Anyway, we picked out a secret restaurant for their b-day dinner. It was called Counter and did not serve meat. This

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My break began 11/26 at 9:15 AM. I didn't realize this until 11:00 AM. That is because I had assumed going to calculus would be prudent when our teacher said there would be class, it turns out no one else in my class shared that sentiment. When I peeked in the room at 10:59 AM it was absolutely empty. I left, and coincidentally, saw my teacher coming up the stairs as I was leaving. Too bad for

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I was worried about having not posted anything about the last three weeks but after thinking about what I'm gonna post, I realized that there hasn't been too much stuff happening. Only Kristen's birthday and the pair of events with Emily (who has yet to be mentioned) have been very out of the ordinary. But I think I will not write about those until I get a post about everyone on my floor down, so

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So here is my post about Halloween as promised. Halloween related activities began in the afternoon when we did some shopping for people's costumes and then proceeded to get everyone dressed up. I was Orion, the constellation (pics on facebook). I dressed in all black and then put on a belt and stars in the appropriate places on my body. Nicky was Tyler Durden (from Fight Club), Henry was a

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Of note in the past two weeks: frisbee tournament at Haverford and Halloween. Coincidentally, the title of this post is Haverford and halloween combined which is the same as the name of the frisbee tournament.Haverween:Because it was a halloween themed tournament, everyone was supposed to bring costumes to wear for the first game or so. Haze (NYU men's team is called Haze, think about NYU's

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I've already settled into a nice routine, so crazy stuff to blog about doesn't happen quite as often. The petty but humorous everyday events that I used to share won't really work since you don't know the peoples over here in NYC since I do want to keep this interesting for you guys. Most of my time is occupied with one of four things: school, frisbee, video games, and settlers (of catan,

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I had an epiphany last week. While watching the news and hearing about famous people and things that were happening, I realized that lots of that stuff happens in New York City and I could go see it at any time. Stupid and obvious I know, but after living in Washington for so long, you assume big stuff probably isn't happening near you.My first celebrity sighting was with some girls I met during

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I would have posted earlier this week, however, I have been busy and making a blog post requires a chunk of time to be dedicated to writing it. Without further ado, I present an update on my classes, ultimate, and my dorm.Commerce & Culture:Pretty easy but still thought-provoking. We got to watch Citizen Kane in class last week, and this week we discussed the Great Gatsby. Reminiscent of

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Okay, so my first classes were not really first class. First classes seem to inherently be boring since teachers only ever repeat what they wrote on the syllabus, despite the fact that they just handed that syllabus to you. Here is a quick overview of my first impressions of classes (if you want to know my daily schedule of classes exactly, I posted it on Facebook):Commerce and Culture:An

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Well, I have officially been welcomed to NYU. It has been a pretty busy week here in the East Village (that's the borough of NYC that I'm living in). I'll just go over each day to make it simpler.Sunday:At around 6 AM I said goodbye to my family and headed to my 7:40 flight. I slept the first 2 hours or so (quite refreshing since I hadn't slept yet) and then at some point I managed to spill my

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So it has been about a month since I last updated and ton of stuff has happened. My 3-week trip to China, my final 10 days in Shoreline, and my first three days at NYU. I don't think I'm going to do a full word post on China since 1) it would be quite long to read and 2) it would take quite long to write. Eventually, I will upload a picture slideshow or something that will show what we did in

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So...yeah. I haven't posted in a while (no shit). It's just too easy to not post, but I figured since I am leaving for China tomorrow for 3 weeks, I should at least do a minimal (heh, for me) update on what's gone on since the last post. Be glad I broke them into slightly more bite-size pieces.Seabrook + Jaxx0r:To end May, we had the pwnage trip to my family's vacation house in Seabrook. The

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It's been more than a month since I last posted which makes it hard for me to update, once again. Surprise birthday party, FBLA State Conference, Spring Reign, Stoicism presentation, and lots of other stuff that is less prominent in my memory.Today, I took the AP Calculus BC test and it was pretty pwnage. The material wasn't actually that bad for me, what was a problem was that I was out of good

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It has been a ridiculously long while since I last posted, and I won't burden you with talking about things long past. Everyone knows that I stayed home alone for 10 days in February, got in an accident with a car while on my bike, got cited for said accident for not having a light a mere minute or two after sundown, played lots of Ultimate, went to Vancouver to see Pure Pwnage Episode 16, got

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well this is the first time that I will have used a dictation program update my blog. It's a little rough around the edges, but its pretty good. a lot has happened since the last time I updated my blog. From Frisbee to being home alone to a car accident to pure pwnage, I have been busier than a two winged insect that collects pollen. I will probably do a higher quality update sometime soon,

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Just thought I would update with a brief post about how Ahmad, Ashley, and I totally pwned up the business simulation in our marketing class. At the beginning when everyone else was worried about ranking and profit, we invested all of Z Inc's (our company) money into R&D and expanding our production so that we we finished researching the game module for our "Holo Generators" in quarter 8, we went

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Hmm, I haven't posted in a while. To sum up the part of winter break after my last post, my parents went away for 3 days which wasn't too different except that I had to cook one meal. I decided to try out a recipe for Spanish Tortilla (Tortilla Española). It's basically fried potatoes and onions baked with eggs (in spanish, tortilla literally means omelette, "tortilla mexicana" is the flour/corn

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I'm back.Spokane was fun and relaxing as usual. As far as Christmas presents go, the most significant that I received would be a DS. Along with it, I got Elite Beat Agents (made in Japan rhythm game) and The New York Times Crosswords (1000+ crosswords). The latter means I will never be at a loss for a crossword puzzle. I wouldn't bring my DS to school, but any trips we go on, crosswords to the

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It hasn't really felt like sleepwalking, but I certainly haven't felt in it. As in I've felt "out of it." I guess I've been wanting something crazy awesome to happen and nothing has. I got deferred from MIT and Caltech - no early no or yes, I get another chance during regular admission. It's not rejected, but then it's not accepted either. I just hope I don't end up waiting another three months

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So, I was bored and decided to give ya'll something new to look at on my blog. I posted below a bunch of photos from Operation Catapult (aka engineering nerd camp) at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology this summer. Enjoy.

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The first supper. Worst meal we had in my opinion, but then again the cafeteria food we got access to later was pretty good.

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My intramural team, Team Olympia. It consisted mostly of noobs, with a few pros sprinkled in.

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Our flag is the uppermost one. The most pwnage one in my opinion is the badass Corinth one.

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Me about ready to pwn a fool with my pool cue. My love of pool was rekindled, although I am quite mediocre at it. I pwned noobs, but not pros; this is also the story of my life.

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Team Olympia forming a pyramid; it was not enough encouragement to save us during the volleyball game though.

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People playing Risk which apparently is the #1 board game of nerds across America. On the right, in red, is a guy who was exceedingly similar to Chase Parker - loud, loved to talk politics, opinionated, etc.

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Prizes for in what ended up being just a random drawing. Wrapped in the green fabric was a Yard-'O-Beef.

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Las Vegas Night or something along those lines. The table was Hold 'Em with limited betting rules. I pwned it up until I got pwned by David, in white, who actually did have the four of a kind (he was also my pwnage receiver when we played ultimate). The guy in shades is Daniel who should become an actor someday. The guy in blue is Nick, he reminded me of Jedrik, for those of your who remember him.

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Pic taken during Redneck Night, which consisted of Root Beer + working on cars in a barn/garage. The guy in the back to the left is Ethan who was reminiscent of David.

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Me pwning up the girls on my intramural team prior to our Ultimate Frisbee game.

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We took a trip to Ritter's Frozen Custard. As is obvious, they sell frozen custard. Pretty pwnage stuff.

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The guy in the blue to the right of me in the picture is Jake aka Greece. He is from Greece and was like a real-life Borat. Also of note: you can see that I am wearing non-Samba footwear - this became quite common for me, since it was quite hot there.

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Sam on the left actually reminded me a lot of Sam Steuby, not the least because of a similar violent, punching side.

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Gary on the left was cool in a Bobby Wilson way. The guy on the right was known simply as Montana and was kind of an attention douche.

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Austin, one of my roommates getting pwned.

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Counselors dressed up for some spirit day. The emo-ness of the scene is doubled by the MySpace-esque camera angle.

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The guy in the very front, Brian is the one who always got in trouble. The other four are what I refer to as the quartet. Starting from the left: Krista, first girl I met; Mureji, started late; Cady, Pennsylvanian version of Cady from Mean Girls, and Andrew, Matt Damon.

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Probably also from Redneck Night. TK is on the left, he was teh ub3r pr0 frisbee h4xx0r. His real name is too long and odd for common use, thus TK.

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Midnight run to Denny's because IHOP was closed for cleaning. Nerdy guy I didn't talk to much on the left, me and the quartet.

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A pic of about half of the counselors. From left to right: Josh, Prize God; Angela, HP fanatic; Natalie, the nice counselor; Cody, very random; Brian, computer hobbit; Johnny, guy who always laughs (not like Matt Gill though).

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Ned and I working on our robot. Actually, probably just Ned working. Ned was my brothah from anothah mothah for those three weeks.

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A group of guys sang an Ode to Stroh, the head counselor who is sitting on the stool, for the talent show.

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Fake pickup line competition. It was all a set up to make the guy sit on the "couch" (two chairs with blanket draped over it) and get pwned when the girls stood up.

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Punishment, Operation Catapult style. This guy was probably in that for 3 hours or so.

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It seemed to me as if last week's 2.5 days of school were a struggle for everyone - a struggle to get to that long weekend. Very little happened in class and even less happened outside of class. Either that or I can't remember the stuff that did happen. The half-day was exceptionally worthless.After school let out, David convinced me to go see Hitman with Steven, Chris, and him. It was a mediocre

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Apparently it is a synonym of fatigue - look it up on thesaurus.com.Anyway, I seem to have gotten back into the bad habit of spontaneous naps for whatever reason. It has resulted in a lot of procrastination. Through it all though, I managed to get one more college app done, get my waiver applications in, and generally get my senior year stuff in order.Tangent Concerning Waivers and Credits:Holy

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Well, the deadly November 1st has come and passed with little fanfare for most people; although for me, it was like a symphony orchestra. No, not because I got crazy crunk on Halloween. College apps are why. I have finally completed the application process for MIT and Caltech early action style and now those are out of my hands forever - which is good and bad. On the one hand, there is no more

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While trying to find fighting moves that I could use to describe a school fight I saw once, I happened upon the following information regarding a specific illegal wrestling move. I thought it was worthy of being shared (as did Davis).

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The deluge of things that I must do grows ever intenser as I approach D-Day 1. Deadline-Day 1 that is. November 1. The end of early action college apps - because they are due. Aside from college applications, I have clubs to worry about (FBLA especially), homework to complete, homecoming to plan and prepare for, as well as moving. Yes, in case you didn't know, I am moving. In fact, today was our

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Well, I don't think it's really going to be possible nor will it be practical to post about everything that has happened since the last time I posted. That would be nearly two months of tons of stuff. time for one sentence summaries:7/30 - 8/4: After getting back from engineering camp, I got to chill for a whole week (something I very rarely get to do), and then I actually hung out with people!8/

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For those too stupid to have noticed the post below this one in the past 3 weeks, I have been at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Indiana from July 10 to July 29. It was frickin' awesome. Hopefully the following post will not be too long, though I have no way of telling because a lot happened but at the same time I don't remember a lot of it as I post this. Nevertheless, I think of all my

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So, I went on my yearly Hoodsport overnight bike ride this last weekend, but I don't have time to update about it, as I am feverishly packing. I have a plane ride scheduled for 7:00 AM tomorrow morning to Indiana. I will be attending Operation Catapult, a summer science program at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. My return is scheduled for the 29th of this same month. If any of ya'll are

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No, that does not refer to anything asian, in truth, a lot of people refer to Chicago as Chi-Town (sounds like shy-town). And that was where I was from June 26 to July 2, on account of the National FBLA Conference. This will probably end up being a long post, so I'm warning you now. Also, I met a lot of people, so the names and numbers are only of the people that I can remember as I write

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Yep, after about six hours or so of presearing farming, I managed to end up with 27 dyes and made about 4000 gold as well. And to top it off, on what I decided was going to be my last run, I then got black dye (the rarest), two of them. Hooray for virtual materialism!

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Well, this week started off with Campus Day, which I thought was going to blow. I had feared that no matter what FBLA did, it was going to flop. But, thanks to David's last minute idea of selling pop, and the unexpected success of the Rock Paper Scissors Tournament, it turned out to be an awesome day for FBLA. The future of the club is looking good, I can't wait for next year, we got quite a few

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So, as school is winding down, the only classes that work has had be done in were Band and English, and now APUSH again. Things of significance in the past two weeks:SAT Subject Tests:Rapage. It was unfortunate for me because going in, I thought 1 was going to be hard and 2 would be easy. I got it backwards. The Mathematics II was quite easy and I should have not worried about it. Biology (which

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David doing his best to act totally retarded.Steven doing his best to give one of his customary combination expressions.The totally cliche shot I did with David.This is totally myspace worthy.Though this is a crappy picture, I had to include it because it had the guy who saw me taking his picture in it. After he saw me, he just stared at me with equal parts scorn and derision for like 10 seconds.

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This is the thong lady that you may have heard about. Zooming in will result in you seeing her hand holding the thong-like apparatus out of her window.A noob mime.A pro magic person, who was unfortunately hit on by an old lady volunteer he called up.The key part of this photo is the second section of text which says, "Call the front desk if access to adult movies is mistakenly cancelled." I can

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Well, the picture is crappy and worthless, and makes me look sufficiently weird, however I had to use it as it was the only picture (it'll take time for me to become a diligent photographer for long periods of time) I took on the last day and I had to finish the trifecta of titles for these posts.

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Alright, well I haven't quite reached heaven I guess, since we still get so much homework from AP English's master of disaster Hastig. We have to do Grapes of Wrath stuff while also reading another book and then make a dramatic monologue. I feel sorry for the people who didn't get to do their American Beauties very quickly and then let that pile up. Also, missing so many days has meant a lot of

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I have finally achieved a new plane of existence. Having gone through a period of seven days (May 5-11) that contained the SAT and 4 AP tests, I can now say that the promised land does feel oh so good. Although, I must admit, not doing homework or going to school for those seven days was pretty fun also. Finally, I will have more time to play videogames, hang out and sleep. Granted, the dramatic

Oreonoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212549.post-62802933003102248862007-05-01T02:18:00.000-04:002007-05-01T02:48:31.735-04:00

Essentially, these past two weeks or whatever since I last posted have been quite extreme. Meaning of course that they were either really fun or really suck. So I guess it's time to quickly (lets see if that happens) recap what happened.Science Olympiad (Apr 13-14):You can check out Davis' brief post on that if you want cuz I don't feel like being too lengthy in recapping it. Two words came

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Man, I just gotta say right now, that that was one of the best trips I've gone on ever. I also shall announce my intent to post a ridiculously long post about it now (There is a synopsis/epitome at the end). So for sake of the faint of heart and those with short attention spans, I warn thee. Also, I warn everyone else who even thinks they have the patience or physical endurance to read this

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So, as I sit here untterly confused by the diabolical work Ms. Hastig has assigned, my mind looks for every excuse not to try and figure it out. Hence, this post. Anyway, I got to double digits finally in GW, on thursday I believe. Also, I'm post-searing now! I'm just going around getting lots of skills right now, and then I'm sure sometime soon missions will be done.Yesterday, I got a haircut at

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Boxer made the front page of the Seattle Times. Yes, THAT Boxer. That one you guys say is so good at that "futuristic strategy game" you all play/ed.

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Alright, recently has been a fairly busy time so I shall quickly recap the props and the slops of the last however long since my last blog post.AP Practice Tests:I think every single AP test I took was harder than I expected so I guess it was good that I took them all instead of skipping. However losing all of those sleeping in opps made me angry. I got zero chances to sleep in :(FBLA:Rob and I

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First, in case you don't want to read through the whole post for some linkage:The People's Mario - "Based on that silly rumor that Mario had subliminal communist propaganda."How to Kill a Brand - The story of Sony's current failings as a parody of a pop song.Flute Beatboxer - If you didn't catch it on Zach's blog, watch it now, it is awesome.Well, quickly I must talk of what has happened these

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Here is a small compilation of some pictures I took at the FBLA Regional Conference (and before and after). This picture shows that we actually did go to a business conference (or else we were going to a "gentleman's club") because of the business related attire.

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This picture seems very surreal to me, especially if you enlarge it. The blur and David's hillbilly smile and demon eyes, his strangely contorted arm which appears to be going through Rob's head and coming out his mouth, etc.

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