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Ahhh, listening to Ranma and finishing up my geo homework. Finally done w/the bulk of the work for this week, jus one more midterm and lab next week... need to get a movie this weekend to watch...

Haven't played racquetball a whole week... and we had some beautiful days too, if only i had more time and our handball wall still EXISTED. Damn new sports complex, the hell we need another sports complex for? Division I? Uh yea, our schl's sports teams rule! I hope they put up a wall somewhere for handball. Racquetball is jus too hot for the summer... *unless* they AC the racquetball courts... (Hmmmmm)

In other news, our joint posting site at 1e6thoughts was taken down. Fortunately we saved the archives and stuff. I guess we'll hafta find another place to post jointly... The anime and other sections of my webpage to b posted are still being coded... besides my own comments, still trying to find decent shots and text so i dun really hafta put in that much of my own stuff. There's tons of goodies out there... I just hafta find and assemble it.

Star Trek : Enterprise came out a while ago. The visuals and scenes r on par w/Voyager... but the acting and eerily familiar casting is something else. No character right now is shining yet, as they haven't even begun to settle in. The series premier episode also contained more gratuity than normal, contained several serious chonological/technical mistakes and perhaps most troubling of all; a feeling of a forced story. I guess we should give them some time and see how well things go. I think this is a more general ST, seemingly not aimed at a niche audience more so. O wells, time will tell...


September 25th, 2001
ok, lotsa tests coming real soon. section coding will hafta wait for a while, as typing all that content and collecting the material takes up a lotta time.

Valve came out w/the ATI fix for CS last friday; relatively fast... damn, if only Nvidia had All-In-Wonder type cards... as supposedly the best driver team in the industry. It's interesting how companies can easily market thier products simply by having a spectrum of the same thing. For example, Nvidia works on a kickass chipset, and then releases it in several scaled versions to the public. (the vanilla version, then MX, Ultra, Pro, etc...) this technique is also seen in stuff like cars and indeed even ATI is employing this method more.

O yea, that new Mercedes commercial out (for the M-class SUV i beleive) ... I'm looking for the background music for it. I have a short snippet that i recorded off the TV, but it ain't too satisfying obviously. It's got an instrumental featuring the violin or cello (or wutever stringed instrument) in the background. Sounds nice. Tryin to also get the "cotton" commercial's music... yea, that guitar thingy where they sing 'cotton, the fabric of our lives..' =) damn this stuff is hard to find. If any1's interested, take a look at my MP3 list thru my AIM acct. at "Aya16CE", or read the "TXT" file linked above in this section.


September 21st, 2001
well well well... CS1.3 came out a couple days ago... and we are PISSED. Apparently, the CS team and Valve did not fix bugs concerning the use of OpenGL and ATI video cards. supposedly they're working on a fix to b out in a few days. This is no excuse tho i think. There's no reason for a software developer to prematurely release an incomplete product. I know these companies are subject to pressures... but they should've informed us of any problems earlier, not when ppl started noticing and complained. A third of the ppl out there own ATI cards and in doing this, Valve has made a big mistake.

Probably not the case, at least i hope so; but i jus have this sneaking feeling that Nvidia put Valve up to this. I mean, both Nvidia and ATI have had release and hardware problems before... but Valve loosely associated ATI cards and wallhacking together. To my knowledge, ATI cards have no readily exploitable vulnerabilities to its OpenGL code. If u had a lot of time and expertise, i think all graphics protocols can b taken advantage of. BUT certain uncommon graphics cards HAVE been taken advantage of, as well as the ASUS GeForces2s (which has an Nvidia chipset).... ASUS GeForces are not no-names, but are THE exploitable OpenGL wallhacking card for CounterStrike.

It's probably no coincidence that Nvidia releases its driver sets timed when ATI comes out with new cards. The last round of Detonator drivers from Nvidia were available weeks before, but Nvidia waited... waited for ATI's new Radeon2s to come out. It's dirty business... even the increases in performance w/the installation of the Detonator drivers should b noted. The new drivers increased performance by nearly 50%... which is a whopping figure in any case. Now how come NVIDIA didn't come out with THOSE drivers before? If they didn't know exactly how good a card they had on thier hands before, then great job! But if they indeed did know the potential of thier cards but intentionally used that along with drivers as a market manipulation, then Nvidia is one evil company. I hope this isn't the case, since Nvidia does make good cards.

O wells, Valve ~should~ have those fixes out sometime soon, we all jus hafta wait. Currently, ATI ppl can play in Direct3D if they r not serving, but it's an inconvinience and (more importantly) a degradation of graphics and gameplay. CS1.3 has been a great disappointment to many... (i hope that hitbox rumor isn't true also, since i see a lot of ppl complaining about headshots) *sigh* I really wouldn't mind if Valve and the CS team were still in beta and freeware stages, but this encompasses retail releases. Ppl PAY to enjoy these games, not for them to screw up this bad.


September 19th, 2001
Coding the Lego and anime sections offline... the Lego section will concern my concepts and philosophies of constructing any structures. (yes, i actually have philosophies about Lego) The anime section will mostly deal w/reviews, insights into American/Japanese art, culture, and society, and perhaps the economics of anime (?!) Heh, i'm probably not making too much sense rite now... jus stayed up all night. haha, a cat came in my room from the balcony/suite before. (which is why i stayed up) It's all grey with yellow eyes, which looks green at certain angles. It stayed for like 3 hours... eating, drinking (wut a leech), licking itself (damn they must hate showers) and napping on my stomach! (um, it's not afraid of humans at all) I guess it must b some1's cat around here... it'll b back... that's how they r; u feed them once and o boy, it's as good as yers =) O wells... it's good company when i'm up anyways... ahhh wish i had a dog walk in tho... i guess i'll settle for "Kelly Kitty".


September 17th, 2001
Updated the Line Of Fire (LOF) section. Nothing much, jus a lil stuff on how well Bush is actually handling this recent string of events. I put those thoughts up in that section cuz my interests actually include politics and political theory. I've taken "comparative politics", europe after 1945", "the second world war", and "politics and society" so far in Stony. I think i'll take "traditional china", "the japanese economy", and mayb "chinese2" sometime later.


September 16th, 2001
i jus found out that 3Demons is no more... the MA based CS ring didn't have enough finances or something... so there goes my nice list of administrated, FF-on, team oriented servers. They had a server in every major location in Massachusetts i believe. (Boston, Bellingham, Cape Cod, Weymouth, Wellington, Quincy, etc...) man, even tho internet servers for CS allow me to play all more maps, i will miss the best of them. the others have so many cheaters and mad f'n cursing going on =T

OK, enough of that... the thing lately has been coping w/the WTC incidents... *sigh* i think in this horrible act of war we can actually see heroes of our daily lives. any fireman or volunteer rescue worker will always receive more respect from me than any celebrity or wutevers. there were only 2 times these past few days when i felt really really sad; when i watched over and over the replay of the towers collapsing and having it sink in, and when i saw ppl waving and cheering for rescue workers going to and from the site... it was so moving watching ppl cheer the ppl who helped... if i were a rescue worker... all that work for jus cheer on the way would b a bargain. they r truly heroes.

Afterwards, i found myself feeling much better... and the fact that every1 is determined to rebuild only reinforces my healing. i took down my United States Postal Service motto for my AIM profile, in case ppl get the wrong idea... ("Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds") it seems inappropriate if misconstrued. anyways, i'll end this post w/another quote this time from Winston Churchill: "we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender..."


September 13th, 2001

still pissed and sad..


September 12th, 2001
it is the day after... and i'm still so pissed and sad. this was something very close to me. the collapse of the Twin Towers really struck home the indiscriminate fury and senseless violence of terrorism. i kno the OK City bombing was pretty big, heck, even the 1993 WTC bombing... but that time, it wasn't as devastating as this one... but this act in NYC on the WTC and in Washington against the Pentagon; i found it necessary to use all my energy to rein in my feelings. i wasn't in a talkative mood at all the whole day, restraining any gut reactions and trying to convince myself i would not b affected by the sequence of events now burned in my mind.

rite now, i'm trying to think of a way i can prevent this kind of thing from happening again. i realize i am but one person... every little bit helps tho... i keep thinking about my future more and more: wut am i gonna do when i grow up... i need to make a difference. anything is possible, but the fields of intelligence and those relating to the military now seem to beg me more than ever. business and compsci r great, perhaps more pragmatic... but shouldn't ppl go w/the things they like and do best? i kno there r some obstacles to this path. For example, i don't always do things in logical/priority fashion, like my term paper procrastination. i'll hafta work on logic and efficiency in prioritizing my tasks more... tho this time it will b a much much more concentrated drive...

life is difficult... too many things to do, too many things not to do, and too many things i would like to do.. we must do wut we can and think is rite... and i don't mean in the way like "religion at its best" jus a while ago >=|


September 3rd, 2001
ahhhh... Labor Day... believe it or not but some businesses still have thier employees work today... oy. Well, i'll b going back to schl in a few hours. Had to come back for some stuff (fridge, more printer paper, money for txtbks more expensive than Lego, clothes, etc...) After getting some feedback from ppl, i've editted my last entry on relationships to make it clearer. most notably the addition of numbers. it was also bought up by Elaine that i should have paragraphs... hmmm, good idea... i will definately take it into consideration in future posts. the only thing is that my absence of paragraph form sorta allows u to get an accurate reading on my brain... since in my head this is how it's all running around; all messed up and amok =) usually i don't have any sort of format for ramblings... hehe, i remember in freshman bio when we had to get our lab binders checked and the tchr remarked on how the girls had thier stuff more organized in trappers, folders and crap... to which Dennis said, "Easy access..." I guess we're not the only ones vouching for 'easy access' rite Chuing? =) (Our friend CHK here takes everything to 'easy access'; from bookbags to binders and from graduation gowns to double slit dresses) ok ok, new paragraph for now..

Even tho i stubbed a finger today in handball, haha... i think i'm gonna up my racquetball activity up to 4 times a week. Friday and Saturday at least, and then 2 more days of the week... i plan to work on my technique, shot selection and endurance... all from being fresh at the court to the end of the day, since i think one of the most important things about any sport is pushing yer limits higher and higher... hehehe, kinda like 'limit breaks' in Final Fantasy. Thru this, u can improve... even under stress. After the 1st round of midterms, around the start of October, i will jus walk around looking for games... those old pros better watch out...

Werd, i also had this really awesome dream before... it's 7am now... i dreamt i had 2 dogs and i was in schl... we went thru like classes together and stuff... *sigh* i want a dog so bad... i think the only 2 things i've ever really wanted since i was very little were dogs and bikes... and since i already have 2 bikes now... i need my dogs! Gonna get one ASAP when i get outta college later... a nice Labrador mix or two would b great, jus like in my dream... o wells... i suppose that will hafta wait =T hmmm, given the choice i think i would rather have some dogs than another relationship... *woof woof*


August 28th, 2001
well, there goes the 1st day of class.. bright n early ones too, and a nice 3 hour lab from 7-10pm (Mondays only) Ok, so now on to the primary purpose of this post... i had a nice reminiscent conversation w/some1 and so i'm gonna talk about some stuff that few ppl kno and isn't evident in any other place of this webpage: dave's love life... "dave's love life?!", u say. yups... i'm jus gonna lay it all out. well, not every single little thing, but enough... i'm gonna hafta tone down some parts as well and also try to make it as good as i can while making exact names and stuff unknown. to some of u it won't really matter anyways. besides, the real reason of my posts and everything is jus so ppl can kno me better, wut i think and why. details about my days and stuff are fun, and if they can reflect some of my philosophies, then all the better. so anyways here we go..... i admit, i've gone after a few girls... pretty much starting from 7th grade at 237 i've "paid attention"... since then, there have been 5 girls. (i talk about them in chronological order here) ok, going back again on my "influences" and how they played a role in my relationships... i guess i lean towards conservative/traditional values because of my parents. they've been very helpful at the times when they helped out. they talked about how they handled stuff and thought about choosing ppl... my friends have been pretty good too. even tho some of them don't work out well, we can all still learn from that. remarkably, the media and wutevers have had very little influence on me.. o wells. from the beginning, i think i was too much of a nice guy... i didn't like picking on girls, esp. if i liked one of them... guys and schl facualty r another story... *sigh* U could always tell which girl i liked if i teased a group of girls but one of them was 'spared' =) This was one of the things that didn't allow me to get "Chicken" (nickname we had for the girl l liked in 7th grade)... plus, as always, i was too shy. the next relationship i had right after that was better and worse. we talked a lot and stuff but then we stopped talking afterwards. i really didn't get y ppl would not talk to ea. other afterwards until then. it really sucked. i was sad for a long time there. it got better at the end of the year when we were about to graduate, had class trips and the senior dance... i learned a lot from that relationship. one of those things was dun call her too much... hehe sorry Kath. i'm still suprised at how parents treat thier children; esp. Asian parents to thier daughters. i kno they dun like guys calling but they need to cut guys some slack... ask yer own daughter about the guys who call and find out some stuff first, dun blow ppl off initially jus cuz of the bad stuff u hear that might happen. there r parents who really care about thier kids too but they rn't as over-protective and thier kids turn out fine. my parents r pretty open about this and i hope i'll b as open when i've got kids too. alrite, enough about my parents now... the next thing i got into, which is the 3rd girl, would happen in a place where i would spend an hour every morning of freshman year in HS: the cheesebus. i was really excited about high schl (actually, mayb not the 'schl' part). so there i am, sitting there like some freshmeat and another girl walks into my life... or rather, down the aisle of the bus. we started talking pretty soon... but my previous encounter w/a girl was still in my mind. i took it real slow... haha, Sean and WINs would say 'toooooo slow'... i was a bit more involved now too, putting in more effort and dealing w/shyness and stuff. we still had fun times... she was very easy to talk to and i could relate to her background well... interestingly, her name started w/a 'K' too. but afterwards... i didn't do much, and we so jus remained great friends since then. Well..... if i called too much for Kath, u'll b pleased to kno i really upped the rate on my next (4th) relationship. After "the second K", and during the second half of freshman year, i got to kno a friend better and better who i had met since the first day of schl. We were open and involved and enjoyed ea. others' company. (her parents also handled me well and understood this kinda stuff better too) We called each other. a lot. late at night. til sunrise. and then we would meet up a few hours later in schl. haha... it all started when we boasted to ea. other about how long we could talk on the phone. =) it may have gotten outta hand but we were playful about it so actually the time seemed to fly by... we stopped going out and stuff afterwards because supposedly she didn't want a serious relationship while we were students. in a way i would have to agree w/her because we did spend a lot of time together doing non-academic things, *ahem*... but that's ok. This reinforced my thinking on concentrating on my studies first, and then other stuff... but it did not stop me from falling in love again. (ack! and it's not even addicting!) hahaha, this brings us to my most recent relationship... junior year and beyond in HS. Coincidentally, this time it stated w/a method of mass transportation too =) I would walk to my house from my bus stop, but sometimes i would get off at my friend's stop and walk w/her and mayb some other ppl. Anyways... it was during this short 3 block journey where it really started. For one thing, not only did this girl have a good and interesting background of all sorts, we were friends from JHS. the thing that really did it for me was when she sang and complained to me... it's very strange. i felt close to her for that.. and out of that; better friends. i dun think she even knows how much of an effect her singing and whining had on me =P well, in more serious a matter, i learned sacrifice among other things in this relationship. one of the things we would talk about was her and another guy she liked. again, my thoughts were for her, and so it was real tough for me when i encouraged her to like another guy and console her when she was depressed. afterwards, i finally did tell her wut i really thought tho and she understood. we got along well and stuff... tho i think i put out most of the efforts for fun between us, which leads me to the final lesson i learned w/this relationship and the stuff that follows... i put in my efforts for her and respected her privacy, which she acknowledges... but we were all rather busy in HS. we had our seperate teams/classes and other functions... we had our fun on special days (bdays, dances, holidays, etc...) but wut i could not work out was her lifestyle and later, her philosophy and values. perhaps my last sentence is too strongly worded, but i have to express it like so otherwise the ideas would b lost. but in reality and my intentions, it is not harsh. ummm, so on the last day of HS, we parted pretty much... geographically =) we still keep in touch, but not as much as we're very busy and seperated. ehhh- esp. seeing since i can't walk her home anymore =T From that pt. on, i felt more and more isolated from her... and she didn't respond as much. As a result of these feelings, real or imagined, i believe a person should only love another if that love is at least returned and acknowledged in some way. in such a situation, there is no blaming around or finding who is at fault... u need to realize it and move on. there's no1 at fault here anyways because no1 is obligated to do anything for any1. It's all a lil murky here but it's basically the point and thoughts that i am trying to get across to whoever is reading this..... As of now, 'dave's love life' isn't exactly in high gear... Of course there are inherent risks, but it's never stopped ppl. before... I think most of u guys can relate to this stuff and all the things i've gone thru... and so i conclude this really long post w/my quote: "Fire keeps the heart warm."
Thank u for yer time =)


August 27th, 2001
Changed the BGM for this section to a Kenshin song. The original song: Power of the Dream by Celine Dion is still available for dl here


August 25th, 2001
*sigh* well... so here i am sitting here w/all my packed stuff littered around me. Went to 'Nan Bei He' for the Nth time this summer... haha, can't get sick of the food for some reason. Jus read some tragic news on the death of Aaliyah in the Bahamas. Apparently she died along w/7 others in a small-aircraft crash. Really sux to die young... not to mention rich and famous. Hmmm, still gotta make those new sections for this webpage in schl... this semester; i plan to up all my grades by half a letter, get seriously good in racquetball, not gain any weight, and watch a movie and some anime every weekend. i think it's a doable thing. We'll see... I guess i better get to bed...


August 17th, 2001
an interesting day... walked around a lot doing errands and running around later soaking wet at Shaunna's early bday party... CPS rules... hehehe, "hey i think that dude's chking u out" *pointing to lifesized cardboard picture of a guy holding a Palm* denial. anger. depression. bargaining. acceptance. "we can show u the door, but you must walk thru it yerself" and i leave u w/one last quote, the one that made some1's day: "how U doin~!" =)


AUGust 9th, 2001
Hmmm... jus updated the Writings section. I'm planning on adding an Anime and Lego Section during the coming semester and seriously considering adding a Virtua Fighter 2 and Samurai Shodown 2 Section nested inside somewhere somehow. More on this later. Schl. starts real soon; we've got 2 weeks of summer left. half of me wants to go bak while the other half doesn't want to. logically, i'm gonna only do half my work there again =)


AUGust 4th, 2001
hmmm played some CS today, *sigh* missed Amy... i'm getting real slick in updating to this page; using 1E6thoughts and this place interchangably... anyways, it's cut-n-paste time:

i'm having so much fun w/this double male ended audio cable. i can finally record stuff from cassette to my computer now... ahhh, all those old songs not on CD... well, just this afternoon i got the idea to record the whole series of tapes for Xi You Ji or Journey to the West. i dunno if u guys r familiar w/the story, but it's really interesting and produced well. the voice acting is one of the best i've heard. the sound effects are not as exceptional as the voices but they also have a similar standard. the songs and poems r made pretty well and some of them r downright hilarious =) u guys r welcome to borrow the tapes if u guys want. they're in mandarin tho. i guess it's both good and bad, since some of u who speak cantonese may have a difficult time figuring out the details. but some of u who took Chinese in HS *hint hint* and some of u learning mandarin now *wink wink* might find this useful. anyways, i'm having them recorded as WAVs. the problem is; even at the medium sound quality they r in, they take up lotsa space. i tried to match the audio quality rate of the cassetes w/my digital recording rates. even at 16,000Hz/16bit/stereo, ea. ~20 minute side of this 12 tape (48 sides total) set take around 60 megs ea.. this is not good. if any1 has or can find a WAV to MP3 converter, i would really really b happy. i've tried several programs within my budget (which is around $0) and none of them work satisfactorily or at all. at this rate, one CD will only b able to hold 5 tapes (or 10 sides) thus making a complete recording of all the tapes at 5 CDs. if i had them in MP3 format, i'm pretty sure i can get all the tapes to fit on 1 CD, 2 at most. in any event, i'm gonna burn these recordings now in WAV format. they're simply taking too much space on my HD. i suppose i can have them converted to MP3s at a later date. well, that's about it... tell me if yer interested.
EDIT
OK, i'm adding some stuff now in edit. I've decided to record at 8bit instead of 16. this decreases ea. file size by a good 50%. there's a slight decrease in fidelity, but it's not something that you can notice w/o listening very very closely the same clip over and over again. So now everything fits on 3 CDs now... hey, at least it all fits into one CD case =)


July 25th, 2001
Lately, i've beginning to ponder the influence things have on me. i suppose my parents have the most influence, followed closely by my friends, physical abilities, interests, etc... well it get's murky then on since physical abilities or interests can b influenced themselves. so i guess it's mainly ppl.. all these things around me make the person... and when i think wut influences the ppl that influence me; i see no end to this cycle =) it's strange. mayb some influence gets lost along the way due to time/resistance/death/wutever... but in a bigger picture, i think wut really influences ppl is the group of ppl they live with, live in and kno of. (like yer environment and BIG environment which encompasses yer knowledge of other ppl's environments) anyways, influence makes us do things and think things in "our own" lil ways. i listen to my parents, telling me i need to do better in my compsci classes. i hear my friends tell me wut the wanna do next week or the next decade. i see strangers living out thier lives when i walk around. i witness world events on TV. it's really quite interesting when u think about it. so much input, yet, u can only do so many things at once. right now, at this pt. in time, i'm unsure of wut i want to do. life's short? hmmm i am pretty much at least at the one-fifth mark. on the other hand, i have time, perhaps lotsa time. but, i kno we can't do all the things we wanna do. my parents urge stable and good jobs and wise choices. my friends and i converse of a range of stuff, including mayb too idealistic of futures'. in addition, the world environment begs/offers things that only a truly human human would undertake. i can't seem to find something that's a mixture but yet fun. it sux how there r times when we hafta yield to influence huh? o wells.. tomorrow's another day. it should always b like this... hehehehe, i'll probably play handball again... ahhhh, there's nothing quite like peer pres- uh, i mean influence =P


July 21st, 2001
wow, looking back on my first entry.. i realized how old i'm getting... hahahahahaha... dammit i can't stop cracking up about that "geezer talk" =) o wells. i stopped playing handball recently (at least for this week) and i can't eat anything harder than cold french fries... i got all 4 of my stupid wisdom teeth "extracted". i must say my dentist did a damn fine job. the top 2 that were pretty much normal were out in 1 minute. my bottom left took a bit longer, say 5 minutes... since he had to cut some gums to reach it. ok, the last bastard took a good 20 minutes. i asked: wut's taking so long? "o, this one's more of a problem... but it's all good" so when it's all done i look on the table and "wut the..." there were 5 teeth on the tray! "i had to drill the last tooth in half to get it out" wow. i can see y this guy graduated early =) we're very fortunate in this time and place to b having such good medical care. i mean it's awareness level is quite high. most places, ppl don't care/know/get much medical stuff. *sigh* there's really nothing quite as important as yer health... so wut the hell am i doing up 2 in the morning? uh, excercising of course =) nitenite ppl...


June 11th, 2001
ok, i'm at the office rite now... and i see the 'huge' white blob now CHK. let's jus say your desktop resolution is set pretty high. (my highest possible monitor resolution is your lowest possible) anyways, for visitors of this site, this can be a problem , since 800X600 or better is pretty commonplace. i'll try expanding the background pic to cover more area, or use something else. so far, summer has been pretty good. kicking back working and commuting... so fun. hahaha. well, not everyday. went biking and rowing on saturday w/some friends in central park, a nice day. then 'some' handball the day after. lost 6 lbs. since schl let out. scary. see wut happens when u dorm? grades came out. did pretty good. except in math. this'll really screw me over as compsci goes along tho. i'm thinking about going into forensics or business instead. i may also do computer security or that 15th sub-basement level of the pentagon thing i've talked about. "i dunno. damn, we're 19 already. life is passing us by. we're old geezers." (u know, i'm cracking up like crazy rite now as i type this... there's more than one occasion where i jus remember wut happened that chicken nugget laden night and start laughing... to the puzzled look of strangers) look wut u guys did... welps, gotta get back to work now...


May 15th, 2001
*sigh* schl's over... jus took my last final. which was really hard, not to mention i hadn't slept in 20 hours and had a stomachache during the last hour of the test. damn, it was hell... anyways, i need to abu- utilize this DSL connection for another day... and backup files before i dismantle. too much stuff to pack! too tired to pack... ok no more updating right now; i'm off to sleep... damn, and it's Discovery Tuesday too =T (o yea, i jus changed the text color to black, u happy now CHK? ya weird MSIE bum... hehe)


May 6th, 2001
Ok, a fellow admin helped me decide that linking our group postings is ok =) so here's the link for our little place in cyberspace...


May 6th, 2001
It's the wee hours of the morning... and i just came out of a refreshing internet counter-strike game full of teamwork and cooperation. this is in stark contrast to the freelancing styles found here on the LAN at USB. whether on CTs or Ts (i prefer CTs much more because of the AUG and M4), nearly every1 on both teams advanced within fire support distance and provided coordinated backup. teamwork was intricate enough to the point that we could proceed thru hallways and stairs w/intersecting fires and Z-entry patterns as in real life CQB. Around half of the players were total strangers, but quickly picked up on the teamwork when they became involved in it. The core players of our teams; '=[SF]= Python' and 'asdf' (me and some other dude in Mass.), were taking down nearly every1 in our path... we knew which of us were lower on health and/or was better equipped... and so navigated dangerous chokepts. and entry pts. accordingly... both of us rarely died (i don't remember the exact records now but we were both around doing at least around 2:1, not as high as most my internet games but the other teams were pretty good too). All thru the whole time, i did not hear much sniper rifle fire. i think this was because every1 was concentrated on CQB teamwork and methodology, which rendered sniper rifles pointless and inappropriate. every1 basically used SMGs and assault rifles, and an occasional shotgun and MG. (typical FBI Hostage Rescue teams have 4 man teams; the 1st is the best assaulter, the 2nd and 3rd are backups for fire and last guy is the heavy weps and explosives expert. that way, if the 1st person, usually the team leader requires it, the 4th member can lay down heavy cover fire or throw the grenades for the assaulters.) there were some sniper rifles around, but they were all of semi-automatic type. Even this fact shows how teamwork oriented the server was, since while bolt-action rifles are traditionally the usual sniper rifles; this became a hinderance when nowadays, snipers need to engage multiple targets in a short amt. of time. bolt-action rifles not only may give away position when u use them, but require u to re-sight your target(s) over after every shot. the semi-automatic sniper rifles were developed to eliminate such vices and so we now have superb semis like the PSG1, G3 and M14/21. with the volume of ppl in the server, these were the only ideal sniper rifles to use. with less ppl, one the stronger bolt-action snipers might've been acceptable. if u use one when there's a lot of ppl coming, it makes no sense since you're just shoot and scooting, yer job as team sniper is not fullfilled to it's potential and the team suffers. if anyone is interested in some good teamwork and actual counter-strike, i suggest the "3Demons -Weymouth" CS server. (24.147.151.53:27015) It seems to be one of the best servers i have found, even tho it allows u to see yer stats. in some of the servers i play in, the admin blocks out stats and bans the Arctic Magnum. In addition, the 3Demons server always has friendly fire on, as opposed to the surreal FF off of our schl's LAN. Team-Killers also sit out the next round and lose some health in addition to money. The benefits of internet games over LAN are not w/o price tho: internet servers have more cheating than LAN servers. i believe this is only the case if the server admin is lazy. the 3Demons server however, seems to be in good hands. The 3D server also cycles thru a list of maps, letting players experience more scenarios and improving their situational awareness and teamwork skills. The more environments encountered and played, the better u can become. I tend to favor internet servers a lot more than LAN servers now since every1 in Stony seems to just play mainly de_dust and maybe italy or aztec. There's virtually no variation here. I think it's pretty depressing how there could be 4 seperate dedicated servers on the LAN and every1 is in the de_dust server and absolutely no1 in the other newer and more varied places. I appreciate whoever reads this huge block of text/rant/strange utterings, etc... and suggest that if u have a decent internet connection and a valid Counter-Strike key, to go play some internet games on the good servers. Strive for teamwork, and don't b afraid to suggest new ideas and tactics. ppl WILL listen if u don't behave like most of the ppl i find here in USB. In the meantime, i think if i ever play CS, it'll most likely b on the 3D server =)


May 1st, 2001
ACK! my writing portfolio's due very soon... so i may get a lil lazy here til then =) Some of my friends have started similar writings of their own ( Elaine T. , Mike S. , Dave L. , and Iggy C. ) Take a look at them; very thoughtful stuff. There's a few more "collective" writings, but i've gotta get every1's permission b4 i link so u guys'll find out by the next entry here.


April 27th, 2001
Wow, there was a fire in the building across our quad plaza just recently. I called the authorities at 333 and it took them six (6) rings to pick up. SIX RINGS?! I don't know how many of u guys have dialed 911 by accident, but w/them it's like: *RIIINNN- "Officer Winslow..." The person who responded also hung me up right after she repeated me and said that "we have an actual 240 in Hamilton." errr, how often do we have fake 240s? Do ppl often open their suite curtains, have a smoke generator and lotsa bright red and orange lights? Then two dozen firefighters spent 20 minutes to get a hose up to the 2nd floor suite to put the fire out. That's after they took 10 minutes to get here. They didn't look too animated either. Geez, it makes me feel kinda/more paranoid witnessing how slow and inefficient our SBFD is. I'm sure that if every1 in the crowd watching the fire fighters went up to the room, opened the door and took a piss, the fire would've been out in no time...


April 19th, 2001
Sitting in WRT now... Mike's a fairy eater... "I wish I read more books." Going to de_dust right after this class........................................... (hball)


April 15th, 2001
Ummm, i forgot the HS papers =T, but... i do have some essays due up soon =) Yay. Just recently, i watched a network television "investigative report" claiming that we did not land on the moon. There are a few things not easily explained, like the mysterious deaths of several key figures in the space program. These coincidences however, pale in comparison to the counter-arguments to this report, which i can think of right off the bat. First off, the claim that astronauts cannot pass thru the Van Allen radiation belts is false: simply exit the belts through the top or bottom of the Earth (parallel to the Earth's axis of spin). Every1 who has taken physics knows that the EM fields around a magnet (like our planet) come out of the "poles" and this where the radiation has a loophole and is also most thin. The pictures depicting multiple light sources is easily rebuffed with the explanation that there can easily be more than 2 light sources in space: the reflection of the camera holder, the sun, the Earth, or any spacecraft. Optical instruments are also very sensitive, in fact: with night vision goggles these days (standard NVG/ANG9s from the US Army), u can play a baseball game in a pitch black indoor stadium with only a single candle lighting the place. Thirdly, tapes have shown that astronauts seem to be running when tapes are played at 2X speed... well, our astronauts ARE human right? obviously in a low-gravity environment, we cannot run properly: because our feet do not touch the ground as often! Conspiricists state that there should be blast craters from the rocket engine of the LEM lifting off... keep in mind that the moon is only 1/6 Earth gravity, if u thought 198lbs. for yer 5'8" frame is overweight... just tell every1 u're 33lbs., on the moon =) It takes minimal thrust for a launch off the moon, especially as it has no atmosphere. Which reminds me, the American flag is seen waving on the moon. Obviously there is no atmosphere on the moon, and so astronauts had to unfold the flag and it's wire frame fabric, which can quiver from the guy trying to drive it into the moon's surface. Photographs on the moon are very clear, despite claims that the cameras were mounted on the astronauts' chest and very unwieldy. This is simply all of shutter speed. The less time a film is in exposure during motion, the less blur. There are photos that are difficult to explain, like camera crosshairs appearing behind objects, thought this might be due to photo editting (not necessarily tampering) and overlays. A coverup regarding tampering and even faking the whole Apollo program would be extremely difficult. As discussedby my AST248 paper, a coverup would involve too many ppl and no1 can shut every1 up, esp. for nearly four decades... Conspiricists argue that Area51 has the facilities and looks of the place where such a plot could've been staged. But aircraft hangers look like film studios and people who claim that the Nevada desert looks like the moon forget the fact that Earth is too a heavenly body. Almost all planets have and/or will go thru period(s) of interstellar bombardment and such. There are other arguments for and against this moon conspiracy, but as one scientist concluded: "Anyone who doesn't think we've been to the moon, is a nut." It is my conclusion and humble opinion that this "Fox Network Television Investigative Report" is nothing but another publicity augmentation effort by a nat'l network to suggest ideas FOR the public w/o decent acknowledgement of counter-arguments and scientific support.


April 11th, 2001
OK, Blogger actually works for me now... (u can make yer own place at: www.blogger.com) Three of my friends and I have made a joint posting forum thingy there. It's called "Bitter Somethings" and boasts a wide variety of topics, even tho it's like a week old. We have stuff ranging from bean burgers, sex and bikinis; to water guns, Vietmanese restaurants, 404 pages, and some guy going hysterical over the time =P Anyways, it's fun to write stuff... which reminds me, apparently the papers for HS i wrote and plan to post in my Writings Section are on my computer and CDs at home, so they will b posted up this coming weekend when i go back. Welp, it would seem this NewUD Section will have a bit of competition as i will hafta find a way to post stuff up for both of these places.


April 8th, 2001
i have jus got my hands on two (2) XP75 Version2s Super Soakers!!! $10.99 ea. from a dumb place called KayBeeToyStores (which doesn't know it possesses such sacred treasures). These are 2nd generation 75s, w/the single-notch reservoir locks, one-peice pressure rings and improved tank/intake interface screw. Therefore... these two watersport tools will serve for years... right now they're officially named Castor and Pollux, after the twin stars in the constellation Gemini and the two villians in Face-Off. In my opinion, the XP75, CPS1000, XP20 and SS20 were the best Super Soakers ever made. The were all rifle sized and pistol sized, and so did not hinder movement or fence scaling... two all too important factors in urban (WIN's house) combat. While the CPS1000 out-classes all of my other favs... the XP75 has a secondary "shotgun" option and the XP20 and SS20 are a profittable balance between firepower and capacity. Most SSs out there look futuristic, flashy and whatnot; but the CPS1000/XP20/XP75/SS20 are sleek, functional, efficient, capable and durable. These models are simple, single nozzle, single pressure/reservoir, plunger valve type. NONE of that superficial/vestigial dual chamber, quintuple tank, backpack monsters... Combat experience has proven that these factors are crucial in watersport domination (in addition to proper tactics and discipline). Ummm... i'm waaaaay too excited now to type anymore... um... i need to errr... use that bathroom, yea, that's right =)


April 6th, 2001
Ahhh.... friday... i mean dammit, it's Fraturday... I HATE CONVENTIONAL MEMORY!!! GRRRRR!!!


April 1st, 2001
Hey! chk out wut i found while shopping for a carbine and Amy a while ago... CS is in the NYTs!


Mar. 22nd, 2001
Wow, an update... i know u ppl have been chking back dat and night for this one =P haha... my writings section will b up soon... I'm on break now... damn AST248 paper is really getting to me... not to mention the writi- and for those who find it interesting: a pile of books around 30 inches high JUST fell off my desk taking down a speaker, who knows how CDs and my vintage 1991 Cirrus Logic 2MB VGA 14mhz graphics card. Of course..... and the cause of most of my concern is...... dammit! i lost my page in philosophy!!! (and trust me, u do NOT want to lose yer page in a philosophy book) *sigh* so... it's near 0230 and i'm still awake... it's the soba noodles i tell u... "save the noodles!" haha, every1 watch ch.11 WPIX at 2:00 and 3:00... Batman Beyond and MiB kick ass. Kelvin tells me that the animators for BB left for the Zeta-Project, which jus pisses me off... Recently (exactly 24hrs ago), i registered a name on www.blogger.com A wierd ephemeral posting place that i can't get to work for some reason... takes longer to load than boiling a pot of water dammit... so i am considering just updating this particular page more often for that purpose... (Jackie, i can't even get plain words up!) anyways, this is probably gonna be a long post, since i don't feel like picking up my books now =T o yea, any1 know of a lubricant that's thinner than water and doesn't leave a residue? the spring and slide for my repeater are shownig signs of extreme deterioration. *ahem* WINs... and get yer bike back too ya bum. Which reminds me, why is LEGO so expensive??? Does any1 out there play Falcon4.0? The US only has around 15 years of oil left under the current rate of use... and the rest of the world; 200 years (counting forseeable finds) left. Since LEGO is made of plastic, which requires oil for mfg., THAT'S why LEGO is so expensive. I'll take that.
Um, does this worry you like it worries me? =)




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