Mishaps

So as it turns out, the lid to the pickle jar wasn't quite on all the way. Normally this wouldn't be a big deal, as we're not really worried about the pickles escaping, but because our fridge is retarded, we have to store our pickle jar sideways. Apparently there's been a small leak going since we used the pickles for dinner yesterday, and I had the pleasure of discovering it when I decided that pickles sounded wonderful on my George Foreman cooked bison burger. This is the very strange smelling mess I had to clean up. Always remember, kids, put that lid on tyte.

Bleary

Rain not that fun. Two finals down though! Rockin' a take-home tonight, and video game presentation on Wednesday.

The rain is good for one thing though

New Camera

So I'm really enjoying our new camera. I've taken roughly a bizillion picture with it since we lost and then found the compact flash card we ordered with it, and I'm slowly improving my visual jedi skills. It turns out that taking nice pictures with a nice camera is a lot harder than taking decent pictures with a decent camera. There's all this focusing, aperture, ISO, and lots of other features I'm talking about to make myself feel important. Someday I hope to understand what they mean. Anyway, this is probably one of my favorite pictures so far, and if I ever get some more upload space on flickr, I'll link to some more.

Non-conventional students

It always makes me wonder, who are these thirty-something people who suddenly feel the need to return to college to get a degree? We have lots of them here at Mesa, and they're not just taking night classes. Many of these people have suddenly become full-time students, taking classes during the day, and working.... some other time? What makes it even better is that they seem to be infected with the mindset that, "Hey guys! I'm in college too, so we're all cool right? I mean, it's cool if I try to dress and act like you, even though I graduated high school fifteen years ago, right?" Right now, as I type, there is a man wearing the most ridiculous plaid shorts I've ever seen. These shorts would not be out of the ordinary if he was around 20, but as he's probably much closer to 35, it seems a little out of place.

But why should I care? They're just trying to better themselves, who am I to say that they shouldn't?

It wouldn't bother me, but it seems like they've garnered all of their knowledge about what college should be from watching Animal House. Not only that, but they are BY FAR the most annoying group of people in any class, and especially in the library. In fact, the group of four sitting at the table across from me right now are the entire inspiration for this post. They are the second group so far today to talk obnoxiously loudly, as well as carry on cell phone conversations that make it seem as though they're trying to simulate what it would be like to talk with someone while at a Metallica concert. Also, one of them has the noisiest bag of Burger King food I've ever heard. Yea that they wouldest be smitten from on high!

I feel better now.

Forgotten Canyon

Canyoneering. It's kind of like hiking, except you do it inside of a canyon. Sounds pretty simple, right? Well canyoneering is what I did this past weekend. My dad was in town for the weekend specifically for this trip, and we had been planning on it for a while. We did Forgotten Canyon, one he had done once before. There's no "trail" on this hike, you just following the topographical map you find from your favorite outdoor website. It starts pretty steep as you walk down quite a ways before you get to a relatively short rapel. After that you get to walk for a couple of hours through the sand wash before the canyon deepens again and you arive at the second rapel. This one is more fun since it's a little bigger and free hanging. After all this there's just lots and lots and lots of walking. Overall the trip took around nine hours, covered LOTS of vertical feet, and caused much pain to all. In face, I don't think I've ever been so sore, especially not just from walking. Overall, very fun, but not for the faint of heart.

Once I've got some pictures uploaded to flickr I'll add a link. For now, here's one that's kinda neat.

Ubuntu and lolcats

Whether you realize it or not, what you're reading has been typed from the only Ubuntu boot I've ever used. I downloaded it on yesterday, and as I don't really have much extra room (meaning none at all) on my hard drive, I've only been using it off of the CD. It's very nice of them to let you run it without actually having to install anything, by the way. So far it's been pretty slick. Now, since Scott is the entire reason I'm writing anything today, I'm going to use one of his little blogging tricklets.

Interesting points about Ubuntu

• Very fast, considering how much is run from a CD
• So far, no wireless internet. Kind of annoyed over the lack of help it gives you there
• Comes with Firefox and OpenOffice installed, although it's not the Firefox 3 beta, which would be even better.
• Also has GIMP installed. Apparently when you go a little open source, you go all the way.

I'm not 100% decided at the moment, but if I can clear up a little hard drive space, I may switch to using Ubuntu on a semi-regular basis. As an interesting side note, my partner for my video game design class is such a hardcore Linux user that he made fun of me for using Ubuntu because it's still too Windows like. I thought I was doing good just going this far.... apparently not. He claims Fedora is the way to go, so maybe that'll be next week. Anyway, enough geeky talk. BEHOLD! LOLCATS!

First!!!!1!

First post! That's probably the best part about blogging, no one can ever beat you to your own first post. Anyway. Don't really feel like writing at the moment, but I promise I'll update something later. It'll be super awesome, and you'll likely be crying for joy because of the wonderment that it will bring to your soul. Or not. Anyway, vote for Obama.