Hey, I got some free time
Hey, Jeez its been a while since my last post, but thats about the last time I actually had time to do anything really. The last 4 weeks have been pretty rough. I had at least 2 tests every week and countless other things to do so I look forward to actually having fun this weekend. Yeah, last thursday I turned 20 and it had to be one of the worst days, I had Circuits and Differential equations tests and sat in the library for at least 10 hours. But thats all good. Holloween brought some patyin, and relax. I hope all this hard work pays off when I get out of college and start my life. Straight A's don't make themselves so I gotta try and keep up with all the stuff thrown at me. My physics 2 and Statics tests today and yesterday rounded up my stretch of studying, Topics included Physics: magnetic fields, magnetic fields due to currents, inductance and inductors. Statics: distributed forces, centroids, centers of gravity, and moments of inertia. I always like it when the tests include derivation of formulas with integration about curves and volumes. NOT. Good thing I payed attention in Calc I and II. Anyway, yesterday at about noon, the computer science teachers were cleaning out their collection of books and selling them for $1 and $2. I got some pretty cool books, C++ FAQS, Linux for Dummies(which won't do me much good cuz its from red hat 5.2, I'm using SuSE 8.2 Pro), UNIX for programmers, The Complete JAVA training course and some computer technology books. I've already learned some stuff from them just by browsing. It seems that learning is more fun when its not in school. Probably because it isnt the decieding factor for my future. alright I think that's enough of my thoughts for now. Till next time...

late night break (Monday night)
Aiight its 12:30 AM and i need a break from doing statics homework. I ve been working on two problems for about 2 hours and can't seem to get the right answers. ... I think the book may be wrong.... hmmm... oh well. Hey I don't have class until 10 Am tomorrow! my latest starting class of the week. But that means I have my 3 hour physics 2 lab about RC circuits to sit through. Yay I have to plot like 4 graphs about the rate of discharge of a capacitor slowed down by a resistor. Actually sounds kinda interesting. Hey on the plus side I have no Statics or Circuits tomorrow. Oh yeah that's right! my new graphics card arrives tomorrow. I got an Nvidia FX 5200 to replace my Riva TNT2 card. I know the FX 5200 isn't that great of a card but it's a huge improvement over that old TNT2 one. I got it for about $70 at newegg.com. By the way, Its going into my desktop running linux so I wanted an Nvidia instead of an ATI because Nvidia cards are natively compatible and have good official drivers for linux. Im running an AMD 2000+, 640MB RAM, 52x cdrw, Temporary 8GB Western Digital HD(used to have 120GB maxtor but it kinda got fried a month after i got it so it got send back for a replacement) Gigabyte MB, 400W PS, and Phoebe TV Master capture card. Once I get a freakin digital camera down here I'll post some pics of it. It's blaze orange with light rods on the front, a grill on one side, custom cut window on the other with a black light inside. Round uv reactive ide cables, 2 uv reactive fans and uv reactive paint glow inside. It took me most of my weekdays off from work to build it this summer. Ok so ive gotten off subject a little here. Yeah and I think it's about time to head on in and try to get some sleep.

G'night

well it looks like the campus charter communications internet is down ... again for like the fifth time today... so this post will probably be postponed until some time later.

Sunday Sunday Sunday
Well I walked over towards the riot last night right after the last post and saw some fires, swat vehicles, police dogs and got chased by a riot police officer screaming that I would be injured. Yeah, pretty much after running through the neighborhood I decided to go home. I guess 45 people were arrested, 4 officers injured, 2 cars flipped and set on fire and a tank was brought in. I can't even believe this happened. I mean we are in south central Minnesota. In the middle of nowhere. I guess beer and 20 year olds can make a dangerous combination.

Oh man is this crazy
Alright I couldn't help but post this one. The circling helicopters will keep me up for a while here. About 3 blocks from here at Monk's Apartments a group of about 1000 people were partying out in the parking lot. Cops show up and start taking pictures for identification purposes later. The cops then roll in and try to get people out of there but it turns into a freakin riot. The cops stop and regroup for about an hour, meanwhile people are congregating to see whats going on. The cops start shooting rubber bullets and tear gas to stop the mobs. The people start dumpsters on fire, break into cars and a couple of helicopters roll in. I heard at least 10 gun shots within 2 minutes which I'm sure was from the rubber bullets. One guy that lived on my floor last year was apparentl throwing beer bottles at cops heads and it took 3 cops to take him down. I probably won't see him for while, at least not until he gets out of jail. Now three hours later, the helicopters are still flying around and gun shots are still ringin.

Homecoming weekend
Aiight... so I had a Statics test yesterday morning and I actually got there early this time, like 10 minutes ealry. Much better than 40 minutes late like last time (I swear I set that damn clock). It was all on Moments about points, lines, and axes in 2D and 3D. All pretty easy stuff. The only thing I'm really worried about is my physics 2 stuff. Chapter 28 is all about circuits and I can say that this crap is taught much differently than it is in my actual circuits class and I am getting way too mixed up betwen the two. Like the directions are all reversed for the current flow and voltage sources are defined as an Emf with internal resistances. The concepts arent that hard to understand but hey they should at least be consistent with circuits 230. Oh yeah by the way it's homecoming weekend right now. The parade was pretty sad yesterday and there wasn't even the solar car, but I guess I knew that because I was in that last year and we scraped it because of failing interest in solar technology and lack of funds/donations to fix all of the crappy solar cells. I was looking forward to the hydrogen fuel cell crotch rocket but it doesn't look like we'll be doing that either. On the plus side, the dance line was pretty decent and the hybrid truck was doing burnouts. I was up a little too late last night partyin' and only got 7 hours of sleep afterwards. It's all good cuz I'm stayin in tonight and catching up on some Physics and possibly some Differential Equations. I'm looking forward to getting this black macintosh G3 laptop from my friend who doesn't use it anymore. I'm not saying that I'm a mac user, but I'm an everything user. I have a Pentium4 2GHz Hp Laptop with WinXP, a self built modded amd 2000+ desktop running SuSE Linux(which I am currently using to manage this page), and soon to have the laptop with macOS, I think it has macOS 9 on it but I plan to get OSX and play with that. Currently I favor my Linux operating system over windows less the lack of file sharing programs and my small problems with recompiling the kernel in linux. Those dang Nvidia drivers just did not like my amd optimized kernel so I had to reinstall the original kernel. Oh well. It's all good. I suppose I should get back to finding the currents through three Emf devices and the voltage drop between nodes. Fun Fun. Later ;)

Sounds like somebody has a case of the MUNDAYS
Hey there... me. Well this weekend was pretty fun. I went all the way up to Ponsford MN to a cabin on round lake. Cold as all hell there. And right in the middle of an indian reservation. Finding things stolen is not uncommon, but its pretty sad, all they steal are things like tools and beer. Although one of the neighbors had their 4 wheeler stolen. ooh that would suck. Well i guess the tribal police really can't do anything about it. Speaking of that, we were driving my friend's 64 Ford that someone up there gave to him and it ran out of gas. So we walked back and drove to get some gas. When we got back there was the damn tribal police parked behind it with the flashers on. We were like, damn that thing has no insurance or tailights...We're screwed. Well apparently they dont care what the vehicle is like or if it has insurance as long as you own it. Ha thats awesome. Good thing he didnt notice the squirel tail hangin on the antenna. Yeah we found this huge dead squirel just laying in the middle of the yard so we decided to tie its tail to the truck. You can tell this kid comes from North Dakota right? Where I would just bury the thing, he had to mame it and shoot it with the bb gun. jeez. Aiight anyway I gotta get back to some statics and circuits crap I gotta get done. Yay equivalent force-couple systems here i come.

thursday night
So yeah Those tests pretty much sucked this morning, By this morning I mean yesterday cuz its like 1am right now. hey I have statics at 8am... yay only 7 hours. well yeah I felt like updating already. isnt this fun? and yes i do know that I am only talking to myself but hey what does it matter anyway. yeah well I should get some sleep...

1st Blog

Wadup Wadup Yall

Aiight Aiight, this is my first blog and I never thought I would actually make one of these.
I am in need of something to take me away from studying for my Circuits and differential equations tests tomorrow and it seems I have neglected my website here for over a year, oh well. Aiight I think I should at least prep my circuits lab for tomorrow and do some practice problems.... Then its on to some Statics and Physics 2 before cruizin up tp round lake in northern Minnesota to go to a hopefully kick ass party at my friend's Cabin.
Well... see ya later.

Whoever you are.