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Daily Stuff for 4-7-03

God, I've been working for so long on this &*(#($ $(# œÆȴऩʎ š�ؔõ TSA VIDEO! Everyday I show it to Mr. Vernon, and everyday he says the same thing, "Where is the information?" Who gives?! The video looks cool. The name of the event I'm entering the video in is "scientific visualization" not "scientific explanation." Of course it should look pretty and artsy and all that good stuff. But no, the judges are going to be stupid, as Mr. Vernon says. Then he tells me to pretend I am showing it to 8th graders. Well, you know what Mr. Vernon? I showed my 8th grade buddies a version of the video with diagrams and boring pictures, which would explain everything perfectly as Mr. Vernon puts it. But they said, "What the hell is this?" Then I showed them my version, with the fancy graphics, and they said, "Coool!" and "Whooooaaaaa!" and "NNNiiiiiiiiccccccccccccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" That still was not enough evidence for Vernon, so I ended up redoing the whole video. Okay, I have to admit, it explains a lot more now, but it was OKAY before. Mr. Vernon gave us a boring topic, ultrasonic imaging, so of course I had to use fancy graphics or the judges would go to sleep. Show them something ENJOYABLE! Give them EYE CANDY, not sleeping medicine.

I've been working like a fiend over the weekend to redo this video, so sorry there hasn't been an update for a while. I'm gonna upload some frames of the video to the digital art section, so go check it out. The topic was really boring, so don't email me saying "wtf" and stuff. Also, don't email me asking for cracks/warez/how to hack hotmail. I am sick of getting emails like this! As for this website, I'm working on a PHP engine for it, and when I complete the engine, I will host it somewhere other than Angelfire.

As for TSA and the video, I am frantically preparing for the TSA state competition in two days. School was cancelled today because of snow, which means the TSA meeting was cancelled, which is REALLY BAD! I needed to get together with Keith and some guys at the meeting to rerecord the audio for our scientific visualization video. Now we'll have to do it tomorrow, which means I won't be able to get home in time to adjust the video, then run back to school to burn it to a DVD. ARGH! Other than sci vis, as we call that event, I'm doing this dumb report writing event, which I haven't started researching for lol. Then I'm in this CAD Animation thing, which actually has much less to do with CAD than it has to do with 3d Studio modeling. Basically, they give me some kind of architectural drawing, and I have 3 hours to animate it. I'm fine as long as they don't give me blueprints and stuff like that. I'm loading a CAD book onto my computer for the competition just in case I need it (I bring my computer with me to the competition). I'm also doing Desktop Publishing, which is probably the easiest event I'm in. Prepare a one page newsletter, a brochure, and a poster and that's all there is to it. I got really angry over this event at the regional TSA competition, because I helped Anne with her project (she was also entering Desktop Publishing) and then she won! I had accidentally made her poster look better than mine! That better not happen again... I'm not helping ANYONE with events I'm in this time. My last event is Computer Systems Troubleshooting. I would say this is the easiest, except that they're probably going to ask me some arcane question from the A+ exam that will screw me up. It's basically a written test, and a hands on test. The written part is multiple choice, but for the hands on part I have to actually fix a broken PC. I should give them my PC for the test. Then everyone would fail. I don't think God can fix my computer it is so messed up. For example, Windows XP crashed yesterday with an error reading, "Divide by Zero." Weren't they supposed to have fixed that problem in the pre-dos age?!

Anyhow, wish me luck. If I win some events at this state level, I'll be going to nationals in Orlando, AND my mom will buy me some stuff I've been dying to get like pc mods and paintball mods and such. We're gonna be gone for three days, so don't expect an update, but I'll try to if I can get to an internet connection. Elemental out.

~elemental~

This farmer has 500 hens but no rooster so he goes to his neighbor and asks him if he could buy a rooster for $100.

The neighbor says, "You can have this rooster. His name's Roy. He'll get all your hens pregnant. He's a real stud."

So the farmer takes him home and says, "It's your first day so take it slow, okay?"

The farmer puts Roy in the hen house and then hears all the hens crying and yelling. Roy nailed every one of those hens and then nailed a duck and a goose at a pond.

The next morning the farmer finds Roy lying dead with his legs sticking in the air and buzzards circling overhead.

The farmer says, "Roy, did you have to die?"

Roy says, "Quiet! They're about to land!"

Fromadia

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
John Galsworthy

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