Watch. This. Video.
Also, I couldn’t find any that didn’t freeze for a second after NBC. If you can find one, let me know and I will post that one.
Update: Thanks Cassie! If you’re on Facebook, here’s a link to a better version, posted by the actual group:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=32065232726
Pilobolus Dance Theatre - The best video clips are right here
So we went to the Madison, Wisconsin for a college visit this last Sunday/Monday.
I had heard a lot about the U of W - Madison. Mostly, that it was the top party school in the nation, that it’s known for academics, athletics, and alcohol. I also heard it was one of the top schools for Computer Engineering in the nation. Could there be a correlation? I do not know.
Impressions
At first, I didn’t like UW Madison. Then I went for a college visit. I still didn’t like it. Didn’t receive any confirmation letter in the mail like I was supposed to. Had to find a map of the campus to figure out where to go from the parking garage. We arrived early to the check-in building, and were told to go wait next door at the union. After about 10 minutes, we came back and waited in line (a long line) to check in.
The whole thing was rather impersonal. After we got checked in, we received a generic folder of information. As we went into the video room, one of the admissions folks asked what major I had thought about and handed me a sheet with information.
Then we watched a presentation (not particularly useful), then a video (boring). Some people asked questions (”Do students get free football tickets?”) - we found out that there is no honors dorm.
Then we all got up and went on a walking tour. It was, to say the least, not all that informative. We saw some buildings. Then some other buildings. Then we saw a garden. We saw a model dorm room that isn’t the actual size of a real dorm room (it was smaller, I guess). Then we climbed some stairs. There were more buildings. Saw some sort of fancy physics device they’ve been working on for a while. It had a piece of tinfoil on top. We saw a lecture hall (biggest lecture about 400 students). Saw a football stadium. At the end of the tour, we got a certificate for a buy one, get one free ice cream. I didn’t use it. After dropping $50 in the university bookstore for some shirts, we had to pay parking.
Report Card:
Academics: A
Activities for Students: B+
Security: B-
Size: B
Businesses in area: B
Transportation: A
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Overall: B
Well, camp is almost over. Also, it’s my senior year, so no coming back.
Hopefully I will have some YouTube videos to show you (of the show) soon. It was pretty awesome.
Forgot to rate a couple of movies.
Hancock: Grape/Strawberry Blend.
Dark Knight: HOLY MOTHER OF PEARL THAT WAS AWESOME jelly.
My Windows XP server (a.k.a. the Desktop in my room) has been throwing a hissy-fit for the last month. It’s been BSoD-ing constantly - and I didn’t notice it for a few days until I try to post something here.
The first thing I did was to do a chkdsk and make sure the hard drives weren’t giving out. Then I did a memtest and made sure the RAM wasn’t giving out. No dice, everything seemed okay.
The next thing I did was to (physically) dust the cobwebs out of the tower. My room gets dusty, and dust is an insulator, so I figured heat might be an issue. I also took out a couple of PCI cards that I wasn’t using (a network card and a DVD-decrypter).
I booted her back up and ran stress tests for 6 1/2 hours. Seemed to be okay.
The next morning it was frozen again. I swore loudly.
I noticed that it seemed to be freezing sometime in the middle of the night, after the screensaver went on, so I could never see the actual Blue Screen. I turned the screensaver off and waited for it to die again. Several days later I come home to find a bright blue error message waiting for me.
Turns out it was my firewall.
The same firewall I’ve been using for the last year and a half without problems. The same firewall I switched to because I was getting BSoDs on the other popular ones. I grumbled, uninstalled it, and left for a family camping trip. Problem solved.
I think I shall leave the firewalling up to my router.
Just saw this game in a review over at jayisgames.com.
You should totally play it.
No, really. Click the picture below and play it friggen now. (I believe the link takes you to the JayIsGames review page.)
