I figured since I’ve gone this far without missing a day in blogging, I might as well not let the fifth pass by without one. Luckily, I managed to hit the “New Entry” button just in time! =)

Anyways, Van and I skipped working out (my fault? =) to go to Mt.Bonnell with two of his coworkers. I don’t think I really got too many good shots (cause I didn’t have a tripod and the lighting was horrible), but the one above’s… alright I guess.

Tomorrow, and maybe/probably Sunday, I will be in UnrealEd. A lot.

After listening to the Roper CD for a while, I think my favorite songs are In Excelsis Deo, How Your Halo Fell, and Hello Lamewads (in no particular order). Their cover of You’re Still The One is pretty hot too. I shall leave you with lyrics…

This wooden soul is old
It’s lies are growing cold
its knotted trunk is straightening
its roots are loosening their hold
So cluttered with debris
this inefficient melody
I’ll keep waiting patiently
if this world will ever release me
You love me even though I am untrue
if I was perfect, I wouldn’t need you
I’m the object of your affection
You loved me still in my imperfection
-In Excelsis Deo, Roper

Well, I wrote a quick script to grab RSS feeds from various blogs/sites. You can see the result on the left over there. =) Apparently, I pounded away on the /. servers a bit too much as I’m banned at the moment (which explains the headlines underneath that). Anyways, that ban should go away in a bit as I’ve changed my reader to update every 35 minutes instead of every 10 which they didn’t like so much.

Update: Yay! I think I’m unbanned now!

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.

It is now time to Google “Samiticus Buttmonger”! You can do “I’m Feeling Lucky” too… not showing up on Google Images yet though…

Update: I think perhaps Google picked up on my lame attempt to have it indexed quickly… maybe? ‘Cause now it’s not showing up anymore. =(

These are the things I find in Buddhism:

lol, Enjoy.

I just had a great idea for an experiment to try… more details later. It will be called: “Project: Samiticus Buttmonger”… bwahahahahaa!

Update: I present to you, Project: Samiticus Buttmonger!!

lol, I don’t know why but Philmore’s Fishy song (I think Chad played it for me way back in high school… man… long time ago) just popped into my head. Here’s the beginning:

Sometimes I wonder
If I’ll ever find her
The one that God’s chosen for me
And what if I find her,
But she doesn’t like me,
I guess that disproves destiny
But I should know better,
The sea is much wetter
With plenty of fishes to see
(For you and me)
And I know my Father
Has scoped out the water
And picked out a fishy for me

I never really got what the rest of the song said cause I couldn’t make them out (and didn’t listen to it enough to decipher it), but I just read the rest of the lyrics, and it’s the hotness.

The other day, Van sucked Mark and I into watching some Good Luck!! with him. Man, dramas are so much more enjoyable watching them with Van because he gets so into them. Watching them makes me feel kinda girly though… I don’t think that’s good…

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.

I hate UnrealEd. Anyways, I worked on my level for my Game Development class a bit. I’ll post a screenshot in a bit maybe. Van also cleaned like crazy today, and um… I helped a little. lol =)

Update: Screenshot uploaded. We’re using a default Unreal dude right now, but he will be replaced!

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