Willow, love me! Not Oz!

I'm starting to hate watching Buffy season two. I'm getting way too emotionally attached. I hate when that happens. There are so many plot twists now, with Angel becoming evil again, Willow hating Xander and getting some of Oz, and Xander getting some of Cordelia. I don't like it, I want Willow to like Xander again.

Right now I'm defragmenting my media drive, so I don't want to play any music from the drive in case it screws something up. Instead, I'm listening to this Blindside cd. It's not as good as About a Burning Fire, but it's ok I guess.

We watched Omen and Omen 2 in the lounge on Friday, and I'm in love with them now. It seems like no one looked at the plot the same way I did, and I still think I'm right. The way I see it, Damien doesn't kill people, the Devil kills people. Damien is put on the earth to be the trigger to the apocalypse. The devil kills all the people who could possibly keep him from being just that. Damien really has no powers of his own, he only has a purpose.

I beat Earthbound, but again, it didn't feel like a clean win. Using an emulator make it so easy to cheat (well I suppose it wasn't cheating, it was just super-leveling with the speedup button. More like saving me time). Now I've gotta play another game. I think this next one's gonne have to be heavy on the polygonal graphics. I've had enough 2D for a while.

Nothing much else to say, I don't post as frequently as I should.

Listening to... Blindside - Teddybear
Link of the moment... Thank you eBaums

Title? My, what pressure I find myself under...

Just a "try to remember stuff that once seemed slightly interesting" post. I really just want people to leave comments, it's comforting to know that people read about my drab life.

I won Mad Maestro and Katamari Damacy off of eBay. I was going to buy Devil May Cry from Futureshop, and HL2 is coming out next month. And I almost have free time to play them all. Excellent.

Tomorrow I have a stats quiz, Friday holds a music midterm, and Monday encompasses my CS midterm as well, but I really just don't care. Calc was the last big thing on my worry list.

I've decided to start making leisure time for myself by staying up late. I tried going to bed at 9:30 one night in hopes of being refreshed the next morning, but it was still a struggle to get out of bed and to pay attention in class, so I've decided to just cut corners and take the afternoon naps. I just played some counterstrike (well, I let people kill me for a while), and I am shirtless in anticipation for a late-night shower.

Looks like I have my last exam on December 18th, so I can hope to be back home on the 19th. Notice how I called it home? I actually miss all that old shit. My mom's been talking about a bigscreen and new audio system in the basement. That makes me happy.

My soundcard is FUBAR. Well, it's still fine for hearing things through 5.1 channels, but it looks as though the card will never again have hopes of having a line-in. I don't think I'll be needing 5.1 for a while anyways, so I don't plan on replacing it anytime soon.

I haven't played guitar in quite the while. Once I get out to buy the headphone adapter, I plan to play a bit, assuming I can get enough volumage through the headphones directly through the pedal.

Christ, I'm thirsty.

I'm gonna go have a shower, then scam a juice box off of stupid John.

Listening to... Gorillaz - New Genious (Brother)
Link of the moment... I'm tellin ya, it's the stuff dreams are made of.

Troubleshooting

How to repair various computer problems, by Kevin Jurcik

Chapter 12: buzzing power supply

Step 1: Reboot. If problem persists, see step 2.

Step 2: Reboot again. If problem persists, see step 3.

Step 3: Turn off computer, and unplug all cables.

Step 4: Remove cover and place computer on nearby surface.

Step 5a: Shit, that sound card still isn't fixed.
Step 5b: Lather broken sound card areas with crazy glue.

Step 6: Well I guess I'll return this movie to blockbuster while the glue dries.

Step 7: Might as well get some cheeseburgers on the way back.

Step 8: Replace sound card and place cover back on computer.

Step 9: Plug cables back in.

Step 10: Shit, I just snapped this fucking piece off the sound card again, didn't I? Fuck.

Step 11: Turn computer back on.

Step 12: Oh yeah, that power supply was buzzing.

Step 13: Hit computer until buzzing is supressed. If problem persits, see Appendix D: Crying in corner of room.

Listening to... Iron Maiden - Where Eagles Dare
Link of the moment... Why must I hate what I love?

Games, Games, Games

Just an update of my list of games I want to play. Actually, this is a list of games I want to own.

Burnout 3: Takedown
Viewtiful Joe
Devil May Cry
Crazy Taxi
Katamai Damacy
DragonBallZ: Bodoukai 3
Vampire: Bloodlines
X-men: Legends

I might append more if they come to me.

Five dreams

Last night I had five distinct dreams.

The first involved me, Vic, Hollster, and a stolen transport truck. I'm not sure if it was the whole truck or just the big box part. We wound up going to Vicky's camp (or second house?), and it was in some bumsville area of some city. I can't remember much of this dream at all, except that the main theme was me and Holly being in love.

The second involved going to sit in on some sketch comedy show, part of the audience. They were doing a game show skit, where it was girls versus guys. The punchline is that there were like 30 guys on the guys' team and three no the girls', to make it an even game (cause men are dumb).

I was sitting beside John, and some girl to the right of me. When I looked back, I noticed that all the guys in the audience were on stage as part of the skit, except me and a few guys who were wearing pink. When the anouncer said "hey, anyone else who wants to come up, c'mon up" and I stood up and pointed at the guy behind me and said something along the lines of "don't even think about it, pinky!" The girl beside me laughed.

As the show went on, we started holding hands. We started talking a bit and it turns out she was in first year math, but her prof taught Calc 1 so fast and she found it so easy that she was already in calc 2. After the show, some guy came and roughed me up a bit about the ordeal, and I gathered that he was a jealous ex-boyfriend and we had one of those big "she doesn't want to see you anymore" fights. I forget where it headed after that point, but this seems to be the dream I remember the most about.

Number three invovled me, my mom, and my sister being in Toronto (which for some reason was a bigger ordeal than usual). For supper, my sister had some street meat and I had some nearby McDonald's. Then some guy came and said something like "if you don't have questions to be answered, there's no point in living in New York". Well, he phrased it better. The whole point is that if you live in New York, you have some life-altering question you want answered. Who am I? What am I here for? That stuff.

Number four was set in my residence. Raphael, Donatello, and Mikey lived in my half of the hall, and Leonardo was on the other side of the hallway. For some reason I decided it was about time that someone took down the stupid name sheets on the doors (they're actually up right now). At some point I started collecting laundry bags, and had to put them back when I realized that lots of them still had stuff in them. That really went nowhere.

Number five is just as foggy. John and I were in a movie rental place and I picked up about 5 or 6 to copy to my hard drive, and I picked one that he actually wanted to watch, so I said we'd watch it that night. IIRC (If I Recall Correctly), we were on some vacation, or at least in another city. I know there was more to this one, but it's gone now. Shoulda done this when I first woke up.

That's all.

Listening to... Iron Maiden - The Clairvoyant
Link of the moment... Does McDonald's ice cream count as a mind altering drug?

Point form perhaps?

Small update:

-new wireless controller is awesome, except the shoulder buttons (they're not sensitive enough)
-Algebra midterm did not go as well as previously hoped. Looking for 80%
-stats quiz is looking gloomy as well
-lost to Ryan Holm in the ping pong tournament, playing Patti (Residence director) for next bracket in consolation tournament
-still haven't opened these cheetos from well over a month ago
-food still sucks
-skipped swing dancing
-Grant wanted me to mention him. I just did.
-terrible weather lately. Atrocious, even.
-hoping for friend-based date this weekend, hoping for cuddling priveleges
-still want more time for playing video games
-shedding all hair in random places
-new printer kicks ass
-can't get into CS 251 until I get admitted into CS faculty next January
-CS assignment is compiling and working to all specifications. Working in groups is effective when the work splits easily.

Listening to... Cradle of Filth - Of Mist and Midnight Skies
Link of the moment... This is looking like a good game so far. If Vicky gets a high end computer anytime soon, she may get it for her birthday.

Ziggy zaggy ziggy zaggy, oi oi oi!

Time for a post.

Last night my sister and John's sister came to Kitchener for the Oktoberfest festivities, and slept here too.

I can't say that it was the most thrilling night of my life. It's terrible how everything is bastardized these days. Back in the day, Oktoberfest was a celbration of German culture. Now it's an excuse to get together with other alcoholic university students, dress all clubby, and dance like tools to all the latest hits. Well, I'd like to say Danke Schon to all you Germans out there.

One thing I found frightfully startling is that Maria's profile, aside from perhaps her mouth, struck a startling resemblance to Agnes'. A few times I had to do a double take.

Alright, let's come to terms with something. Agnes is a babe. She is perhaps the most beautiful girl I'll ever have the privelege of knowing. She has what I can only call the perfect figure. I'm lucky to have had as much fun with it as I did. Jeezum crow, did I have fun with it.

Enough about that. On a different note, I think I may have convinced Laura to accompany on a friendly date. We would have gotten together tonight if not for her tremendous workload. I can't say I'm expecting much from her...I mean, we've already been down that road before, and there just weren't enough sparks to start a fire, but it still feels so right to have her under my arm. It feels good when just about anyone is under there (and yes, I do have limits and standards).

Well, there's no you-know-who on MSN, so I've got nothing to do...some people are watching a movie in the lounge, but I'm not willing to stay up until 3 AM two nights in a row.

Time to finish some CS.

Listening to... Raised Fist - Tribute
Link of the moment... Maybe I've got it all wrong...maybe college is the way to go

I miss the good old days

Sudden epiphany the other day. What I say may not apply, but it certainly seems like a general case.

High school was the time in my life when people had "crushes" on one another. I loved crushes. I loved nervous love, when no one knew what they were doing, cause they've had no or few relationships before. Homework was generally trivial, and social lives and opportunities blossomed. Flirting, blushing, and feeling fuzzy were common events in a relationship.

By the university level, people start thinking realistically. People start dating based on attraction (which may or may not be completely different from fuzziness), schedules, and work terms. People start dating people they think they can one day marry. Few are nervous about love, and classes are about learning, not socializing.

After University, people are concerned with getting married and starting families. The best part of my romantic life as I know it may very well be over and done with.

Christ, I miss feeling fuzzy.

Listening to... Fear Factory - Hi-Tech Hate
Link of the moment... Shit that's hilarious.

Too much to say

Shit, there's ages upon ages of stuff to talk about. This might be a huge post. Since I forget about everything I want to say, I'm gonna make a list right now:
1. Mississauga Trip
2. Program to rip DVDs
3. Power going out
4. Earthbound
5. How my week got worse on Thursday
6. X-Men Legends et al
7. Costume Party
8. I'm bored as fuck.

1. Mississauga Trip

I had a good time in Mississauga. It was good to just be in a house again. A television, couch, microwave, front door...all that jazz. It turns out G is the Kevin of his friends. Everyone hangs out in his basement and he supplies groceries to everyone. I got to meet BC and Cvet, and they're awesome. I finally got to play some fun video games with a group of guys (Gamecube kicks ass, I wish PS2 came out of the box with 4-player abilities). We played some Mario Kart: DD and Smash Brothers. Shit games are fun. We were hoping to rent X-Men legends that night (my idea), but there were no copies left at the BBuster.

Yeah, it was fun hanging out with BC, Cvet, and G. Don't get me wrong, I have just as much (if not more) fun with Adam, Phil, Grant, Vic, Turner, and all those folks. But how often can you sit in Tim Horton's and have a discussion about sorting algorithms and programming languages? Yeah it turns out these guys are hardcore-er than me.

2. Program to rip DVDs

I found a decent program and method to rip DVDs into AVI. The process takes a shitload of time, but I can set it up in a queue to do as many as I want. Last night I set it going before I went to bed, and I got through about 11 Simpsons episodes before the power went out.

I'm encoding at about 50% quality, and each ~25 episode comes out as ~300 MB. I don't know how good that is per se, I guess that means I can fit about 600 episodes if they're all that size. Of course that would realistically turn into about 400 since I store other crap on the drive too. Plus I plan on ripping movies onto it too...looks like I might need another hard drive in a while :)

3. Power going out

So as I said, the power went out sometime in the middle of the night. I woke up and realized that my jet engine (read: computer) wasn't on, nor was my alarm clock. That stuck around until about 11 (I was up at perhaps 9:30). There was absolutely nothing to do. Couldn't phone anyone, or play a game, or watch a movie. All I had to do was algebra. The outage pushed lunch back about half an hour too, and of course the cafe staff was all cranky.

4. Earthbound

Shit, Earthbound is a great game. I've decided to play it to completion with my free time. It doesn't look like I can make it to the end by the end of the weekend, I'm only getting out of Twoson now. Damn, Paula's a weak bitch.

5. How my week got worse on Thursday

So this CS assignment that I worked an extra four hours on, and was certain would compile correctly, wound up failing. Turns out I left one System.out.println statment in my code that fucked up every test (I got 3/30 for completeness). They gave me 0/10 for testing, and 8/15 on two section for class design and programming practices. Assholes, my program is as good as they'll ever see...goddam TA thinks he's so damned good.

6. X-Men Legends et al.

Shit, I wanna play X-Men Legends. You know what, it's not even that I want to play that game. I just want to play a game with friends. A nice co-operative game where we just kick the shit out of other guys (preferably with mutant powers). That thought alone makes me want to move in with G and his roommates, just so I could play games with G. Once I hit town in the summer, I'm going to buy some awesome games and play them with my bitches. Or, at least I'll burn them, since I've already paid for the swap disc...regardless, I haven't owned a new game in ages. It's really such a thrill to go to a store with someone, pick a shiny game off the shelf, and own it five minutes later, filled with the anticipation of cracking open the case and slipping it into your drive.

So heads up to Adam, Phil, Turner, Vic, Grant, and anyone else who has two hands: you're going to play X-Men Legends, Sonic Heroes, or some other respectable multiplayer console game with me sooner or later.

7. Costume Party

I think when I get back in town, I'm going to have a costume party at my house for a few reasons:
-see my friends again
-reclaim my old reputation of putting on awesome, original parties
-see girls dressed up in kinky costumes
-don't get to spend halloween with my old crew
-dressing up kicks ass!
A few of us have been talking about how fun it would be to dress up as some of the X-Men. So far the list looks like
Adam - Wolverine (got the burns)
Phil - Prof. X (baldness) or Juggernaut (awesomeness, suggested by me)
Me - Gambit (no movie reference for clothing, but he's awesome)
Vic - Rogue (cause Gambit totally wants in her pants)
Grant & Chanel - Cyclops & Jean Grey (suggested by Vic, I don't think they know they're a part of it so far)
Turner - Nightcrawler (I'd love to see that)
Gen - eh, beats me. Who's left? Storm, Mystique, Jubilee, Lady Deathstrike...

8. I'm bored as fuck

I'm bored as fuck. I skipped supper cause I was sleeping, so I guess I'll have to get off campus to get some food. I had pizza last night, so I don't know what else to eat. Maybe I'll have another delicious, greasy hamburger....oh baby.

Listening to... The Rots - I'm Scared, Give me a Gun
Link of the moment... Hehehehe...cosplay/roleplay is kinky

Still not better? Soon enough.

It's been another few harrowing days. Tonight was among the worst of the onsluaght as of late, as I found myself waiting in line for 45 minutes to order a pizza which wound up having way too much onion on it. In that meantime, I wound up getting a goddamned parking ticket since I decided to drive to get the pizza.

Other than that today was ok. I wound up getting perfect on two stats quizzes, so my mark should be nicely buffed for a while. G and I went to the Campus Cove, since it was free. However, that meant that it was shit ass busy, so we barely got to play any games.

I wanna live with him, for the sole purpose of having someone else who loves games. I'm too cheap to pay $60 for a new game, but if I had one roommate interested in games, then we could both drain $30, or $20 if there are three of us. We both agree the new X-Men Legends game looks worthy.

I've got a squash match tomorrow at 11, so I'd better get to bed. More has gone on in the last few days, hopefully stuff I can remember for the next posting.

Oh, of course it's more than worth my time to mention that I'm going to G's house this Friday and Saturday. I get to meet the legendary Cvet and BC. We're going to some pub Friday night, and I'm hoping to just generally have a good guy-oriented night with video games and other carefree activities.

Watch the video for "Go With the Flow" by Queens of the Stone Age. Fucking trippy.

Listening to... Alexisonfire - Counter Parts and Number Them
Link of the moment... Cannabis has come up a lot tonight. I personally am not a fan. Nothing against it though, just not my thing.

Better? Nah.

Everything sucks right now. Sure, I'm bitter about not getting a date this week. I feel so depressingly lonely without a significant other. I don't care how many friends I have, I don't care how much my family loves me. Every once in a while, I just need someone to share my warmth with. Of course everything else is important to me, it's just about balance. If anything in my life is dipped dangerously low, everything else tastes like ash. There's no moderation with girlfriends. You either have one or you don't.

I have no good games to play. Well, I have plenty of good games to play. It's just that to play games, I like to commit a lot of time to them, and I have to be in the right nood (forget everything I just said about moderation).

I have no appetite due to this terrible cold. Well, it's only terrible enough tomake me blow my nose occasionally, and have no appetite. Or maybe I just hate this fucking cafe food. You know what? I just hate food in general I think. Balanced meals taste like trash to me.

Gee is like a brother to me, in some weird, abstract way, but I never get to hang out with him, and when I do, there's no place to hang out. John is also like a brother to me, in a less abstract way that I've lived with him for so long, and he's always willing to listen to my shit (which reminds me, I have to bitch about getting rejected to him). He's gone on a work term next term, so I'll be back down to doing nothing, because I have no one to do it with. On the plus side, I get the fridge in my room.

Shit. I swear Kristen was the last cute girl worth chasing on campus. There's absolutely no way to meet non-alcoholic girls. In university, and life in general. People hook up at bars. People drink at bars. I don't drink. I don't go to bars. I don't hook up. Try using some logistic skills on that one. Social dance is good cause I meet girls (en masse) who share at least ONE interest with me. But, aparently that doesn't work either, given my lack of having someone to share my warmth with.

Listening to... Less Than Jake - Last One Out of Liberty City
Link of the moment... Fuck, this is the only thing that has any taste right now.

FUCK

She has a boyfriend at Laurier...FUCK. Fuck, fuck fuck.

The important thing is I actually talked to her, and it came out somewhat fluently, I didn't make too big an ass of myself.

But on the other hand, FUCK!

Listening to... Offspring - Smash
Link of the moment... A link that G can probably associate with

It doesn't take much...

No, it doesn't take much at all from Vicky to make me happy. She seems to be a lot more generous with the smile-bearing comments lately, or I'm just better at making her say them. I couldn't go into more detail here though, that would be no fun!

I'm still kind of sore in the sides from basketball last Tuesday. Pretty sad.

The movie "Big" with Tom Hanks is awesome. Such a classic. Hollywood is running out of ideas, hence "13 Going on 30".

Thing are all that much less coherent in the mornings. I can't stay focused on one topic for long, nor can I remember anything important I want to post about.

There's a math contest on Saturday, but I've comitted myself to going to Toronto-ish. Today I'm gonna run some chores and hit up the mall with G. Haven't seen him in a while.

I had a nice chat with Dong-Ik, he's the guy that lives next to me. Nothing of great interest there, just wanted to make a point of the fact that sometimes you can get along with people you don't really know yet. It's just a matter of one of you saying something first.

Bah. Class.