Just finished a ~8hr LAN party here. We mostly played Warcraft III, all of us versus various computer arrangements. We sucked and sucked bad at the beginning of the night, but at the end we developed a team strategy for specializing our tasks and managed to win a few and work up to a decent challenge level. That was pretty gratifying ( Read more... )

I'm really thinking about taking a few summer classes to cut down my course load for my two remaining semesters. Have you ever taken summer courses? How do they compare? Recommend or not?

Please be helpful here -- this is the entire next year of my life we're talking about.

I hate the managers they have at work ( Read more... )

Okay, Ender's Shadow? Just as good as Ender's Game.

Yes, that's my mini-review. Read the book. Read them both if you haven't.

I have my AI teacher from last semester for Automata Theory this semester. I had her advertise my book in her AI class today and got a response already. I'll be selling it for $50, much more than the Co-op would've given me and yet much less than he'd have had to pay for it otherwise. He's happy, I'm happy ( Read more... )

Starting school tomorrow. I should be more excited than I actually am.

I wrote a big entry just before LJ's power went down. Since my server was down for longer than any other, I think everyone missed it. It's (partially) about shaede's wedding, for anyone who's interested ( Read more... )

News flash.

Okay, let's do this chronologically. I got Fountainhead and started listening to it this afternoon. School starts next Tuesday, so I'll get good mileage off of it. I figure it'll take me about two weeks to finish. I also checked out Ender's Shadow after liking Ender's Game so well. We own a copy of Speaker for the Dead, which I'll get ( Read more... )

 "At a sales conference at Random House, preceding the publication of Atlas Shrugged, one of the book salesmen asked me whether I could present the essence of my philosophy while standing on one foot. I did as follows:

1. Metaphysics: Objective Reality
2. Epistemology: Reason
3. Ethics: Self-interest
4. Politics: Capitalism

If you want this ( Read more... )

I won't go into detail, but the basic concept was that someone was taking DNA from the X-Men to make a mutant clone army. Apparently, the clones started out weak, but with each reincarnation became more powerful. A group of kids killed the first Wolverine, for example.

I should get more dreams like this.

Books on tape! Why didn't I think of it before? It's perfect for my two hours a day in traffic.