So it’s official, that college search site I was talking about in my last post actually pools all posts mentioning covered colleges and places them on their site. Very Web 2.0, but I have this feeling I will be the first to render this service utterly useless, by making my every poor-thought on Susquehanna heard, on the very website hoping to sell it… Fun. “Let the games begin” they say…
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So, I was looking at visitor statistics for no steam shovel yesterday afternoon, and I came across something very unnerving, and, a little bit funny (depending on how you look at it)… I have visitors coming to my site from Susquehanna (or in relation to, rather) University.
Evidently there is a new college-search website out there that pools blog posts mentioning various colleges and displays them on the college information pages, and my last post evidently made a blip on their radar…
Needless to say, I was quite surprised to see a few visitors originating from: http://college.mychances.net/college-1274-Susquehanna-University.html. Yet, in a way, it was a pleasant surprise…
I don’t know how it finds posts mentioning these colleges. I didn’t link to the university home page (and won’t) and I highly doubt the school has a ping-back server… As far as I can tell it identifies posts based on tags (as thats the only thing that identifies the university, other than the text, in my post). If thats the case, they must find pertinent posts via Technorati. Very sneaky.
How ever they do it, maybe now I can say all those unpleasant things about SU that I have been harboring for so long, and someone will actually read them… Excellent…
Unfortunately, they don’t seem to have a listing for NESCom, so all my praise will unfortunately fall on deaf ears… Alas… Can’t win them all… 
Jenifer and I are going Kayaking this afternoon. Where to, I have no idea, but it will be fun never-the-less.
She should be arriving shortly, so I should probably get things cleaned up a bit before she arrives.
Hope you had a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend.
I think I mentioned I have been trying to get Step Mania up and running here for a few days in my last blog, and if I didn’t, now you know. Anyway, turns out that Kraft (the cheese people) are giving away free USB dance pads, for the price of shipping ($6.00).
The offer only lasts until July 31st, so get them while the gettin’s good! Also, a little modification is needed to get them to work in Step Mania, but for this price, who’s complaining?
Geez, keep taking these breaks… Have to get a handle on that.
So! Summer is finally here! Made it through another school year, I’m out of that damn apartment in Old Town, and I’ve got a new kitten.
Meet Mali.
Sorry, couldn’t help it. She’s just so adorable. Stole her from my ex-roommates actually. Jen and I bought 4 cans of cat food, fed her one, left for two days, came back, and there were still 3 cans left… So I fed her some and waited to see if Caleb made a move to feed her. He didn’t. Fed her the next morning (both times being careful no one noticed, to see if anyone else cared to feed her), Caleb left for work, making no move, so I left for home. With the cat. And if you are reading this Caleb, tough.
Wow, that was all kinds of grammatically incorrect. Oh well.
So school is out and I am back to mowing. Every day. All day. From 8:30am till 6-9pm… And I enjoy it.
God I am happy to be out for a bit. I mean, I love NESCom (MUCH more-so than SU), but I was dogging it there in the last few weeks. Mostly because of English (contrary to the stereotype of most Bloggers, I HATE structured writing…), which I was sure I would nearly fail.
That in mind, imagine my surprise when I received my grades the other day and pulled in a B+ or higher in every class but Intro to Media (C+). Yeah… That look you just made? Imagine mine…
Pretty much, everything is awesome right now, save the back of my hands, which are sun-burnt to the very edge of blistering…
I’ve spent fair amount of time with Jen the past two weeks. Once last Wednesday, then again this past weekend for my birthday, for a full two days. Makes me smile, real-big-like. I’m going back to Waterboro tomorrow night, Justin in tow, to catch a 1am showing of Pirates of the Caribbean 3 with Jen and the crew. Should be fun. And then we’re going kayaking next Tuesday.
You know, I think I could dig this woman. 
Got some pretty cool stuff on my birthday. John and Cathy (Jen’s mum and dad) got me a remote-controlled helicopter, which absolutely kicks ass! I am in the process of calibrating the tail rotor over the past few days… Out of the box they are only roughly calibrated to stay straight, but if you want, you can fine tune it to stay more true (not spin around in circles). We’ll see how it turns out.
Jen’s Grandma got us tickets to WARPED TOUR 2007! Fucking right!
I played with Jen a bit (I got both tickets in my one card), and I think she actually believed I was going to take Justin with my spare. HA! Right…
Jen got me a “Meh.” shirt (much cooler than you think, I can assure you), and a book on photographic lighting. I only looked over the book briefly, but I can tell I am going to like it. I will review it after I get some time to go through it in detail…
And last, but not least, mom got me a watch (which I have yet to really wear, as I am afraid to dirty it), and some shirts…
But not just ANY shirts… Company shirts. Namely, CoverThis Photography. I really can’t describe them, so I will have to post a picture at some point.
There was something else, but I can’t place it… :-/
Anyway, the past few days I have been dubbing around, trying to get Step Mania to work on this old laptop. Had a turn for the better this afternoon, but still not quite there. I’ll document it here in a few days.
Right now, however, I need a shower, and some aloe-vera. Just wanted to check in, tell you I’m not dead, and such. So, that said, have an evening…
So, looks like summer decided to get off its fat ass and show up…
The first shot is from two weeks ago, but really, it looked the same up until last Friday. There was snow on the ground until just a few days ago…
And this one is of the exact same branch, at the same angle at the same focal length… This afternoon… It was like 70+ degrees out… Well, actually, I guess I was a little closer in the second shot, but whatever…
It is about damn time…
I have a SHIT ton of work to do this weekend. I have a business plan to write up by 5 this afternoon… Did you catch that? 
I have a video to finish by April 10th… I have a video to shoot by next Tuesday. I have a research paper to write by Monday. I have commercial product shots to shoot by Tuesday. I have two sites to design by Monday. I am shooting the hypnotist this evening, and I need to set up at 8:30. And to top it ALLLLLL off, it is Jen and I’s 6 month. Well, it was the 16th, but we agreed to celebrate this weekend…
Wow… It seems like an awfull lot of work when I writ it out like that… Gah…
If you know me, you’ll probably know I have a nice pair of red suede Timberlands that I just adore. You’d know this because I wear them alot, and they kind of look like a set of clown shoes…
Well, come to find, although such things are marketed by Timberland as “boots” they actually serve no such functionality at all. And when faced with even a mild shower, such as the one we are receiving today, they like to let your feet get in on the fun too.
Gah! Some weather. At least what we are getting now is more in tune with the whole “April showers bring May flowers” thing. Its just a bit cooler, and comes accompanied with a dash or two of snow…
So, I’m in Digital Imaging for the Web I right now… Some kind of crap class…
Our last project was to design six animated gifs, and now we have to design two splash pages and three content pages for our final project. Our final project is to pick one of each and make a “functional” web page. I quote functional because I suppose its up for interpretation. If your idea of “functional” is a page that meets minimum design requirements for 1998, then your set to sit in this class…
The pages we are to create are essentially just sliced up Photoshop documents, exported to HTML. Which is hokey-poky, HTML 1.0, table crap. And the kids in my class act like it’s the end of the world…
My company (fictional, and if there is any likeness to ANY site on the net, it’s an act of God) is Shady Acres, Assisted Living for old People. These flashy things are my animated gifs… Hope you have a seizure…
I already threw together the design I am going to use for my final project. You can find that here. As for my splash page, give me a minute… I am sure it won’t be hard…
I’m going to throw a few “templates” together in the next few moments, wish me luck…
A mutual friend of Jon, Justin and Mine, Garrett, got into a fatal car crash past Friday… At 22 years old… Well before his time. There will be a funeral sometime this week, I will check back in when I find out. I really don’t know what else to say…
I have been going back in time, tagging all my posts for technorati. I made it as far as A little late, and now I have got to go to the Portland Pirates game. GAH.
And there you have it. The end of the world as we know it.
April 13, 2007
Michael Mulligan
New England School of Communications
One College Circle
Bangor, ME 04401Dear Michael,
Congratulations! you have been selected to flil a 2007-2008 Resident Assistant position. Your request for a hall and floor has been taken into consideration.
If you accept this position you must be available on the following dated. The dates listed below are required for this position.
- August 17th, 2007 - September 4th, 2007 for Resident Assistant Training and New Student Orientation.
- November 20, 2007 at 8pm you are able to leave for Thanksgiving Break.
- November 25, 2007 at 8am you are to return from Thanksgiving Break.
* Unless scheduled for key duty on November 25, 2007 at 8am, you are to return November 24, 2007 by 8pm.- December 22, 2007 at 8am you are able to leave for Winter Break.
- January 12, 2008 at 5pm you are to return from Winter Break.
- March 1, 2008 at 8am you are able to leave for Spring Break.
- March 15, 2008 at 5pm you are to return from Spring Break.
- May 11, 2008 at 8am you are able to leave for Summer Break.
Enclosed is a document to accept or decline this position, which must be completed and returned to the Student Life Office in 104 Peabody Hall no later than Monday, April 16, 2007 by 4pm.
Sincerely,
Fran Tracy
Director of Student Life
HA! Good RIDDANCE Old Town! After May 11th I will have no more to do with ye! No more driving back and forth, land-lords, utilities, unpaved driveways, disgusting roommates… Hallelujah!
Now, I know its not going to be a walk in the park, but I think I can handle it. I have found through past experience that the more I am challenged, the better I do. It’s when I am not challenged that I fall to the wayside. We’ll see.
Really, this is going to be such a great opportunity. I am excited beyond words.
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