Ice Cavern Studios

As the title says, I've been recently watching a lot of anime (Japanese animation). Not so much that I'm not working, but definitely more than I've watched in say, the past year or so. It's really interesting. I had forgotten how much I like anime. I guess I just hadn't taken the time to really watch it.

It all started a few months ago when I downloaded the series Hellsing. I had wanted to see it for over a year but I didn't know anyone who had it. I then found a website that specializes in anime downloads. I got the series there and just kind of got back into anime.

So far, I think I've been the most impressed with the series Full Metal Alchemist. It's currently only in fansub (anime not commercially released in the united states that is subtitled by fans here), but it's should be here soon, if the distributors have any clue at all. Some other stuff I've been into has been Love Hina (like Tenchi Muyo, but without the aliens), Get Backers (not even going to try to explain), and Rurouni Kenshin.

What's interesting is, that besides the anime series themselves, I've also been really into the music. I've been downloading a lot of the soundtracks and listening to them on my iPod. I've found that various series music fits various moods and it's just really good stuff.

The soundtracks I've been listening to the most have been Cowboy Bebop Remixes: Music to Freelance to and the Hellsing: Original Soundtrack. I've been listening to others, but these are the two that have captured the most of my attention.

So that's what's new with that. Otherwise, life has been good. I'm getting all of my computers to act nicely together, which is good. I just started getting my laptop and linux computer to start synching up. So everything with that has been cool. I've definitely been having a few Serial Experiments Lain moments; having all of my computers up and interacting with people on all of them. I'm sometimes impressed by my ability to handle working on three computers simultaneously.

So yeah, otherwise I'm good. I got offered a job today out of the blue. Apparently an alum of the CS department (class of '00) was browsing the CS site looking for people, read my resume and asked if I was interested. I had to turn them down because of the whole Microsoft thing, but I did send their info on to my friend Brad who I know is looking for an internship.

Finally, I wanted to send out a big congrats to Sydney, who received her official acceptance to Northwestern today. She's 8 for 8 in terms of getting into her various schools. Way to go. I know she's probably not going to go there, but it's an honor still.

Alright, that's enough of that. Time for bed. Good night all.

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So Nicole is out of town this weekend; she's gone off to a softball tournament at the University of Virginia. This is going to be fun. It's been a long time since I've been on campus and she hasn't. I miss her alread. Hopefully I'll be able to get some work done in the time that she is gone.

So that's about it. I guess I never got around to talking about my thoughts on the NCAA tournament game. Well, there's no time like the present.

Essentially, the game was a posative experience. Yeah we lost, but we looked good doing it. I wanted us to win, but I was realistic. It was a 3rd seed verses a 14th seed. Yes upsets happen, and we were even up at the half, but in the end, the better team won. That's how it's supposed to be.

I was definetly glad to be back early. I just wasn't feeling the trip the way I was back in my Freshman year. Part of that was location (New Orleans vs Denver) and part was just the aura of the band. I wasn't having that great a time, really, and I found myself just wanting to get away.

So, in more recent news, my computers are working, thankfully. Had to make some temporary hardware moves to get things installed, but after that, things are good. This weekend should be good in terms of getting work done. If I stay diligent, I should get done with all of the projects I have now easily.

Ahhhh…..

Things have been good otherwise. Played two-ball tonight. Definetly fun. I hadn't played in a while, but it was good to see that I hadn't gotten too rusty. I even won two games. The competition could have been a little tougher, but it was challenging, so all is good.

That's really what I did, well, that and watch anime, but that's a blog for tomorrow. Alright, it is time for bed. I need to get up tomorrow, I have work and one of the biggest Lax games of the season. Whoo hoo. Should be fun.

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This was something I sent to the unix group list in regards to a presentation on linux I saw yesterday. The comments I'm responding to belong to my roommate, Matt:

Is it worth officially recognizing and teachinglinux when the “goal” of undergrad departments is to churn out microsoft employees, financiers, and consultants?

I think this is more the undergrads than theundergrad departments.Essentially, Princeton students are tools of theman. We can easily bebought, it's just a matter of meeting our usuallyasking price. As much as wedon't want to admit it, we're institution kids. Alot of our parents workedfor law firms, banks, major companies, etc, and wesee no problem with doingso ourselves. It helped feed our lifestyle, and wewant to continue on inthat vein. It's us, not the departments that aredoing this.

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OK, I admit, I've been pretty awful about actually taking the time to write stuff down. And I swear, later tonight, I will finish talking about all the Denver crap. I've been busy the past couple of days with independent work and getting my linux computer back online.

Yup, I own 5 computers, yet the number of working cd drives is getting smaller and smaller. This has made getting my linux box back up and running. Fortunatly, everything is working again. I just got Mandrake 10.0 Community installed and so far, it's pretty nice. Runs a lot faster than 9.1 did (mainly thanks to KDE 3.2 and it's lack of suckage). And apperently, the web browser, Konqueror, has a spell checker built into the forms area. I can actually blog in the browser without having to worry about spelling…yay.

Anyway, more one what's been up later tonight.

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This is from the 17th of Marth and are my reflections on te first day of the trip:

Sigh…I'm really tired. It's been a long day. Shoot, it's been a long couple of weeks. <stop> Ok, so I was going to talk about the past couple of weeks and then what's up now, but well, something has come up.

Ok, so right now, it's 1:12 mountain standard time, and I am in Denver, Colorado for the NCAA basketball tournement. That's right, Princeton has made it to the NCAA Basketball tournement and we're here to play the University of Texas (Austin) in our first round game. It's pretty exciting; I haven't been to a tournement game since my freshman year when we went to New Orleans.

So yeah, today we flew out to Denver. Sigh. I hate flying. Let me repeat this, I REALLY HATE FLYING. The entire begining of my day was ruined by the fact that I had to start the day by flying. I have also found that flying with the band is not something I enjoy all that much. Essentially, the things about peple that sometimes get on my nerves are accentuated by being on a plane. Sigh…

Anyway, so yeah, travelling was annoying. It didn't help that the some of the band officers decided to treat the band like a bunch of childrens who can't handle being in an airport. I mean, I understand that I'm only 22 years old and that I have to fly home by myself, but really. The funny thing is, I'm not the only person who felt this way. What was better was that some of the people were officers. *Shrugs*

So anyway, the reason that I'm stopping what I was going to talk about is because I was just recently told what our return flight is supposed to be. Apperently, the guy in charge of booking flights for Princeton Athletics deicded that, if we lose tomorrow, that we (the team, cheerleaders, and the band) will be flying back to New Jersey, correction, JFK, at 11:00 PM mountain time. Now, a lot of people were apperently upset when they found out. Personally, I just started to laugh. This entire idea is so incredibly dumb, I coudln't help but laugh. I'm not even going to bother trying to discuss why this will be 99.3 % impossible. Needless to say, this is really really dumb.

So yeah, fun times here in the west. Ha…..ha…..sigh….I'm not quite ready to go home, but I'm definetly a little worn down by today. Things will be better on a lot more sleep Yeah, that's all I need, is a litle bit of sleep. Night all.

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