Ok, Im back to EVE, after a long hiatus, and it is wonderful. CCP is now offering EVE for OSX and Linux. I have made a torrent for the 41765 Build. Download EVE via Torrent.
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Wow, I am so glad you asked.
It’s hot and cold actually.
In one corner you have Intro to Algebra, which is a crap course. As a matter of fact, its SU’s fault I’m even in a math course (mine for what I chose…). Basically, NESCom needed me to get another Math credit, and I wasn’t about putting a whole lot of effort into something I didn’t really need to, plus, it fit with my schedule…
In the world of bad choices… Yeah. For those of you out there looking to head into college in the relatively near future, don’t simply pick easy courses. They lead you down the wonderful roads of self-mutilation, and earnest quests towards suicide…
Then you’ve got Copywriting, which, unlike Copyrighting, has a “W” in it, and falls in the “writing intensive” category.
Actually, for all its faults, it’s actually a great class (when I decide to write). Much better than Marketing, which falls dead betwixt the two (primarily the fault of the teacher IMHO). The class I can put hours into, and fail in comparison to those who bullshit moments before class…
So you have got those three on one side, with and Graphic Design I, Web Design I, and Scene Study one the other end, doing all they can to maintain the very foundation of my sanity. Continue reading ‘So, hows school, Mike?’
Ok, upswing time.
I purchased my first set of business cards this weekend. Not only did no one around and close to me see this coming, neither did I!
I happened across a blog entry, somewhere in the etherweb, about memorable business cards, and it got me thinking. For years I have had “business cards” through some entity or another (either through the beach, or more recently, through Miss Maine), but I have never had one to call my own. Until now.
This weekend I put my foot down. This is what I want to do, and I am doing it. You can’t ignore it now, CoverThis Photography is out there, and it’s going to get you.
Below are some mock-ups of the business cards I designed, and will be receiving in a week or so.
The front is white (off-white in the mock-up) with the CoverThis Photography logo in the bottom right. It is printed in black raised thermal ink, and purposely off-set so that the bottom and right sides of the lens will be trimmed off.
The back is “nearly” black, with my name and contact information printed in “nearly” white, accompanied by appropriate icons for each field (a little person next to my name, a camera next to “Photographer,” etc…). The text is formatted to fit into an exact rectangle, making for and “interesting” text layout…
Admittedly, I did get one comment that the back is confusing at first, yet I am happy with it, and chose to go with it after a good long thinking…
It sure isn’t one of “those” business cards, but I think it is sufficiently different, and from what I have gathered from others, I believe it will work in the end.
What a wonderful few days I have had. I suppose things aren’t as together as I would have liked to think they were.
It’s a lot of personal stuff, that centers around Jennifer and I, and communication and (my) lack of time management. That said, I don’t really want to get into it much, but it seems we’re doing better, so fret not.
On a happier side, dinner went well this Saturday. Jen decided not to go on the Canoe trip, in favor of keeping our prior plans for Bowling on Friday night, and an awake, and timely, diner, Saturday. Unfortunately, this didn’t work quite as planned, with the other couple we had been planning on going bowling with canceling last minute.
We made the best of it, though, watching the “Rocky Horror Picture Show” with Ben (and drinking a small bit…). Actually, I think it worked out quite well. It turns out the “Rocky Horror Picture Show” is actually a fabulous movie. Kind of wish we could show it as a school. Problem is, it’s a bit too “graphic” for Husson’s taste. Anyway, we had a good time of it, and it was nice to just hang out…
Back to Saturday.
I took Jen out to Ichiban, a local restaurant with Sushi Bar, in Bangor. It’s one of the better sushi joints I’ve ever been too, and we are both INSANE fans.
It went awesome. We had a really good time, ate a lot of good sushi, socialized a bit with other patrons… It was good.
We made a good night of it, and even Jen admits it was nice being able to enjoy dinner, knowing that we had gotten some school work done, and not being tired and cold from being on the water all day. Honestly, we probably could have done dinner, even if we went on the trip, but it was nice to be productive a bit…
In other news, I may be taking an independent study next semester.
More at 11.
So, someone had an Anniversary yesterday, and I’ll give you three guesses who it was.
Hell yes, it was Jen and I, and it was amazing! Continue reading ‘Happy Anniversary!’
Those of you who know a thing or two about me know I have been fairly obsessed with a little game called [tag]EVE[/tag] for the better part of two years now. You also know that, much like Dr. Jekyll, there is a small portion of my soul which wishes to be rid of the monster.
Well, unfortunately, I haven’t quite gone cold-turkey from the bitch yet, but I have found something which very well may ween me off the addiction. [tag]Bulfleet[/tag].
Now, I’m not going to give a review on Bulfleet yet, so you going to have to check it out yourself. In a nutshell, it’s free, it’s an MMORPG, and there is no software to download. Enjoy.
So I finally popped my Husson Outdoors Club cherry this weekend and ascended Katahdin, in one fell swoop.
I’ve been a “member” of the HOC by proxy for about a year now. About this time last year I went on my first Thursday Night Climb at UMO, where I met Christine and Spenser. Now, practically all of Jen and I’s mutual friends are HOC members. I never attend meetings, and until now, I never participated in any HOC events, besides Thursday Night Climb.
I found out I was going on the Katahdin trip on Tuesday evening, when Jen told me there was a hike the coming weekend, and she had signed me up.
This is usually where I say something like “I was skeptical at first…” but I wasn’t. Right from the get-go I knew it would be a great trip, and it was.
We left late Friday afternoon, Continue reading ‘Katahdin Trip 2007′
So, since I managed to destroy one of my two dance pads, I decided it was time to get looking for a replacement. Being the only place I knew of to get $6 dance pads, I headed back over to the Kraft Brands Active Gaming website.
Oddly, the game pad page is still up but the order form is MIA. Saddly, after an spending an hour with customer support, I am still kraft-paddless… If anyone out there has one of these things they want to junk, send it my way. I’ll even pay shipping and handling. 
So, yeah. Third week into school and we’re still alive. That’s some thing to be proud of, right?
All the incoming students came in on the first, which was an image straight out of hell if there ever was one. Figure, there are 9 floors, 37 students per floor, with an average of 10 of them being incoming students. Thats not to say that only incoming students came in on the first either… That said, about 130 students arrived in Bell Hall (thats right, I’m only talking about one of three dorms) from 7am to about 11am on the first of September. Now, consider that each student is traditionally accompanied by Mom and Dad and you have tripled the foot traffic. Add another 80 or so for the odd brother, sister, aunt or uncle, and your looking at 400 pairs of feet, accounting for over 1000 trips trough the lobby, and nearly 45 personal attempts at suicide. Per RA. (in case you didn’t get that, that was a joke)
Moving on.
Laughing Squid featured this site the other day, and so happy I am they did! This is what we need! Sex education that isn’t boring as hell. “Sex Edutainment” if you will, although they claim it’s not real “sex education” in the traditional sense, and that “the formal education [will be left] to classrooms and textbooks.” It’s a shame really, as all those oh-so-important statistics will still be falling on napping ears int he classroom…
The girls over at the Midwest Teen Sex Show have struck gold, and I hope they keep going. Click below for their latest episode, and surf on over if you want more. Which you will.
When you think about it, it sure bests the alternative…
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