The New Year's Nerd

Well, I finally did it.....Sort of.

I've partially purged myself of Microsoft's sin. I've dual booted Ubuntu 8.10 on my computer. I still have XP (since most of the things I use are on Windows), but I have Linux. Gotta keep my options open, y'know?

Ubuntu is damn pretty. It proves that you don't need fancy hardware acceleration and transparent menu bars to have a good looking GUI. I love how Python is so tightly integrated with the Ubuntu shell. In fact, if it weren't for the games I have on Windows, I'd gladly switch to Ubuntu at any time. Now if only I had a credit card so I could donate.

I've grabbed most of the apps I think I'll need(namely Blender, The Ur Quan Masters, Anjuta IDE, plus some plugins). The only problem I've had so far is with the sound and getting a recent version of Flash Player, but its cool, I'll have them fixed WAAAY before the New Year.

Well, I most likely won't be updating tomorrow...so Happy New Year when it comes!!

Later,
Gavin

Merry Christmas: The Official Post Mortem of Ebenezer Scrooge

Well, this was a pretty good Christmas in terms of loot. I got a stack of 25 blank DVDs, a can of axe, and most importantly a new cell phone. Its a Samsung...something...blah, can't bother to go look at the box now. lol.

As it pertains to my Communication studies IA, which I may or may not have mentioned in a previous post, I'm making pretty good progress.If I were a studious person, I could be finished by the day after tomorrow.

But alas, I regret to inform you that I am not a studious person. I'll be finished by like next week Monday, I guess.

If you're lazy(like me) and can't bother to read everything up top, but you had to read this text due to its coloration, just watch the video below to summarize how my day was.



This song is called "Today Was a Good Day" and its by Ice Cube. Its one of the songs in the soundtrack for GTA: San Andreas, which I have been playing a lot of lately.

I've also been playing Red Alert 3. That game is so much DAMN FUN!! I mean, its a ridiculous excuse to revitalize the careers of some porn stars and B-movie actors, but damn, it is FUN!!

Oh, and I think my balls are getting bigger. I'm also learning how to grunt. The reason? Gears of War. There is so much testosterone in that darn thing, I'm jealous. I think that game may be applying peer pressure(Is that even possible?). I tried it on the recommendation of a friend, and despite getting killed every second wave, I love it. The Lancer, with the chainsaw bayonet is so cool. Its officially cooler than the plasma sword in Halo(although that can't compare to the Sword of Mana).

Before I'd go, I'd just like to address the fact as to why this sounds different from my other posts. The reason is because in this post, I actually have SOMETHING to talk about, as opposed to many others, where I'm just giving you, my dear reader, reassurance that I'm still alive.

MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone, including those who live in timezones where its still Christmas Eve and those who live in parallel universes that don't celebrate Christmas, and all the Ebenezer Scrooges who wish it weren't Christmas.

Christmas Around The Corner

Well, its a year and 11 days since I started Happy Desolation. I've posted a lot of good thing, and I've posted a lot of bad things. Nonetheless, I think its been of good quality overall.

There are a few things I need to do though,so think of the following as early New Year resolutions:

1)I need to rewrite LunaMath (then LunaGraphics and LunaScene and Luna......)
2)I need to do my skeletal animation tutorial
3)I need to bump up my artistic skill level
4)I need to work out a lot more

That's really all there is. 1,2 and 3 are the relatively easy ones. I'll probably have problems exercising regularly, but then, not everybody manages to keep their New Years resolutions.

Oh well.

Merry Christmas Everyone,
Gavin.

OMG!!! Really?

I don't believe it.

It turns out people actually DO read Happy Desolation. Wow. I feel umm, accomplished.

Anyway, I passed all my unit tests, but didn't really excel(except for Maths and Comm Studies). Oh well.

My exams started this week. So far, they have been GREAT!!! I feel great after leaving them because I know I've done well. I have Chemistry, Physics and Math next week. Guess which one I'm worrying about? Thats right, Chemistry.

I haven't sat down to program anything for a while. I'm going to do some stuff over Christmas so I don't get rusty. But, thats after I finish my Communication Studies Internal Assessment, Biology Meiosis models and some other thing I can't remember at the moment.

I'm just taking the night off since I'll have the weekend to study.

Thank you all my loyal readers. I love you all....sort of...not in a sick way..I think.

Later..
Gavin