it was always burning, since the world's been turning
I'm typing this up at Ryan's house.
Last week was TSA States competition, I was the only one in the chapter to place, and did so in two events. Third Place in Prepared Presentation and 2nd Place in Program Design which I single-handedly accomplished. The latter event was supposed to have been done in a team of three, so I decided to have Kovacs on my team, who absolutely swore by his programming skills, along with Darren who took an introductory course in C++ and I really didn't expect much from in the first place. During the competition, it was officially proven to me that Kovacs cannot code. He showed me some Perl code he did beforehand for a proxy he helped develop, so I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that he knew what he was talking about, but when he couldn't go through an array and find an average of numbers in C, that just proved that he is incompetent. Not coding in C "for a long time" is just not an excuse at all, Sorry. I finished 4 of the 5 programming challenges in Java. The judge was pretty impressed and actually asked me to help him out with next year's event by making some challenges and the like. I'm all up for it, makes me proud really.
Comcast still fucking sucks. I've had no Internet since I came back from Orlando on Sunday. Today my mom cancelled our service outright switching over to DirecTV and BellSouth finally. Sadly, I must wait until next week for to possess internet access at home again. Grr.
Senioritis leaves no victim behind. With 4 AP Tests in the next two weeks and a considerable lack of motivation, anything goes. The only thing I really feel like accomplishing is my Senior Exhibition which is coming along very nicely. I just finished the networking code of my tank game and should soon have multiple players able to see each other on a map. After that, it's just object collision and I'm set for my presentation on the 12th. I plan on developing the game even after I'm done with the exhibition, going beyond a simple shooting tank game to one like Bolo, except with updated graphics and rotation by mouse (a feature already implemented in my exhibition). It will be a nice project for me to keep working on.
I'm going to be 18 in a week and a day, and I'm leaving high school in barely three weeks. It's all so surreal. I'm just anticipating the road trip and going off to Tech.
Congress has just been busy with filling the sessions with shitty legislation, do contact your local representatives and speak out against these abimbinations, seriously:
PERFORM ACT
Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act of 2006
Last week was TSA States competition, I was the only one in the chapter to place, and did so in two events. Third Place in Prepared Presentation and 2nd Place in Program Design which I single-handedly accomplished. The latter event was supposed to have been done in a team of three, so I decided to have Kovacs on my team, who absolutely swore by his programming skills, along with Darren who took an introductory course in C++ and I really didn't expect much from in the first place. During the competition, it was officially proven to me that Kovacs cannot code. He showed me some Perl code he did beforehand for a proxy he helped develop, so I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that he knew what he was talking about, but when he couldn't go through an array and find an average of numbers in C, that just proved that he is incompetent. Not coding in C "for a long time" is just not an excuse at all, Sorry. I finished 4 of the 5 programming challenges in Java. The judge was pretty impressed and actually asked me to help him out with next year's event by making some challenges and the like. I'm all up for it, makes me proud really.
Comcast still fucking sucks. I've had no Internet since I came back from Orlando on Sunday. Today my mom cancelled our service outright switching over to DirecTV and BellSouth finally. Sadly, I must wait until next week for to possess internet access at home again. Grr.
Senioritis leaves no victim behind. With 4 AP Tests in the next two weeks and a considerable lack of motivation, anything goes. The only thing I really feel like accomplishing is my Senior Exhibition which is coming along very nicely. I just finished the networking code of my tank game and should soon have multiple players able to see each other on a map. After that, it's just object collision and I'm set for my presentation on the 12th. I plan on developing the game even after I'm done with the exhibition, going beyond a simple shooting tank game to one like Bolo, except with updated graphics and rotation by mouse (a feature already implemented in my exhibition). It will be a nice project for me to keep working on.
I'm going to be 18 in a week and a day, and I'm leaving high school in barely three weeks. It's all so surreal. I'm just anticipating the road trip and going off to Tech.
Congress has just been busy with filling the sessions with shitty legislation, do contact your local representatives and speak out against these abimbinations, seriously:
PERFORM ACT
Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act of 2006