Sam and I went to our Element’s Thanksgiving potluck at Jen’s house. It was uber good, especially Chris who honored us with a whole turkey. Yay!
The rain was a bit unpleasant as I got the lower part of my pants pretty wet on the way from UTC to Union. Aiaaiaiaiaiaiaaiaaaa… I don’t know what else to say. Goodbye.
Oh wait, I know what I was going to talk about. I just finished Half-Life 2. The ending (plot-wise) is a bit disappointing (just like the original), but man… gameplay was pretty hot at the end (at least I thought so =). I last saved pretty close to the ending, so I think I just played 30 minutes tops until I beat it… that was a bit sad. The game as a whole seems pretty short, especially when compared to the first. Oh well… it’s Metroid Prime 2 time. =)
I got suckered into Homedawg cause people told me there were non-dance events there (namely, an eating contest Mark was planning on doing). LIES AND DECEPTION! Anyways, enjoy the pics. =)
I woke up from a nap and checked my email, and apparently some business school freshman named Denise Ward sent out an email to all her classes next semester with that stupid “Microsoft will give you money if you forward this to other people” email. ARGH!!!!!!!!!! In fact, I’m signed up for two classes she’s in, so I got the email twice!
I swear, business majors, you need to weed out these kinds of people if you want any credibility whatsoever.
Went to Oriana’s Dance at RRISD’s PAC on Saturday. Pics are uploaded to the gallery. =) Unfortunately, I didn’t have much time to take many (didn’t help that when she started dancing, a group of people decided it would be a good time to walk past me) and the lighting wasn’t that great… but they turned out so-so I guess.
I’m going to go ahead and say this before the major news networks do. Bush wins. Unless if I’m being outright lied to or there is some crazy fact I am not aware of, I don’t see how Ohio is considered a “too close to call.” Same for New Mexico (although I’m a bit less sure about that as I don’t know how many provisional/absentee ballots are out there for NM, but I doubt enough to swing 11k in favor of Bush).
Let’s look at the numbers. Right now, with 99% precints reporting in Ohio, Bush has 2,777,645 votes and Kerry 2,632,547. So that’s about a 145k lead. Let’s say there’s a generous 250k absentee and provisional ballots still out there and ALL of them are valid. So, in order for Kerry to tie (x is percentage of votes Kerry needs):
250x = 250(1-x) + 145
250x = 250 - 250x + 145
x = 395/500 = .79 = 79%
So essentially, Kerry needs to get 80% or more of the absentee/provisional ballots to win. Does that seem likely? I think not. It seriously seems like the media is trying to make this another Florida ’00.
Van and I signed up for FAST lounge at Liquid (the group that helps setup in the morning), so we had to wake up at 7AM. It was highly unpleasant, especially since we went to sleep at around 4AM… haha. When Van and I got to UTC, no one was there, so we proceded to call Tim names because he told us to arrive promptly at 8AM.
Then, after lunch, I took a nice 4+ hour nap. Yummmmy.
Tonight, at about 4AM, a police helicopter started circling our apartment with spotlights blazing. Here’s a shot of the cop parked outside our rooms, Van probably has some more shots, and Sam has a little blog about the event as well. Heh… we’re in an awesome area. =)
On another note, I just downloaded Picasa, the picture album program Google bought and made free (yay!). I like it lots better than iPhoto and it makes me happy. =D
No other TA inspires such respect as the infamous EE316 Fanny Pack TA (FPTA, not to be confused with FPGA). I have been given the generous opportunity to capture FPTA in all his fanny pack and humongous headphones glory… oh… the hotness…
