Three posts in a row.  I guess michael has given up on posting to the site.

The 342 final really was as easy as I'd heard.  Maybe even easier.  This is very good news for me and my grade.  I think I'll go see Sally tomorrow before I leave for home and see if the 201 finals have been graded.  I was pretty close to a C going into the final, but I think I probably got a B.  Aside from that B, and whatever I get in 342, I think I got all A's.  Which is really kind of odd, as I had been thinking all semester (without any real foundation, I guess) that my grades were going to be fairly crappy this semester.  Maybe I am smart.  Then again, maybe not.

I haven't seen michael all day.  I wonder if he died?  If so, I call his computer.  And his Gundams.  Just kidding, of course.  I don't need his computer as mine is much better (at least when it's working).

Comments: 0 Posted by david on 29 December 2000 at 12:02 AM

I'm leaving in a few minutes, so this will have to be a hurried post.

I've come to hate email.  For the first time in more than four months, I have no email in my Inbox.  After extensive filtering, I'm used to getting 30 messages in my Inbox every day.  I don't know what to do with all of the free time that not answering email has given me.  I hope this continues.

There won't be any more posts from me for the next few days, maybe longer if I get stuck up at Purdue because of the snow.  Maybe michael will post something.

Comments: 0 Posted by david on 29 December 2000 at 12:02 AM

I'm going up to Purdue later today with Luke and Jon and Jon's brother Ben.  We're going to spend the night at Jon's apartment and then catch the Purdue vs. UCLA game on Saturday.  You know that things are pretty boring in Evansville when we're willing to drive for 4 hours just to watch a basketball game.  I don't have any New Years plans yet.  Consequently, I am a loser.  Fortunately none of my friends have any real plans yet either, so I imagine I'll do something with them.

Link of the day:
none (I couldn't think of any cool sites, as there are only about five websites I ever visit, and I've mentioned them all before).

Comments: 0 Posted by david on 29 December 2000 at 12:01 AM

I'm disappointed with "The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner" (by the now-defunct Ben Fold's Five).  I'm afraid it just isn't of the same quality as "Whatever and Ever Amen."  While I like a number of songs on "Unauthorized Biography," I'm mostly upset with the track arrangement.  It seems to me that all of the slower-paced songs are at the beginning of the album, while the faster songs are at the end of the CD.  Why couldn't they arrange the tracks on "Unauthorized" in the style of "Whatever," where the slow and faster paced songs were intersperesed throughout the entire album?  As anyone who has ever been to a concert knows, you lose your audience when you don't vary the pace from song to song.  I've been left with no choice but to burn my own "Unauthorized" (in more ways than one) CD, with slightly re-arranged tracks.

Before I leave you thinking that I hate "Unauthorized Biography," I should mention that I like more than half the tracks on the album, which is, for me, better than average.  I usually buy CDs and only like one or two tracks, and then a few months later, after listening to the CD many, many times, come to appreciate the other tracks.  With "Unauthorized," I find myself enjoying a lot of the tracks only a few days after receiving the album for Christmas.  But I have been listening to the MP3s for a few months.  Hmm...

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I really don't like modems very much.  In fact, if pressed I would probablt admit to hating modems.  When I imagine Hell, I imagine spending enternity using telnet to type email messages over a modem connection.  My parents need to get a faster Internet connection.  I guess I've been corrupted by the crappy ethernet connection that I pay too much for at school.

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Link of the day:
Avantgo (another Visor-related link).

Comments: 0 Posted by david on 28 December 2000 at 12:01 AM

Happy Boxing Day!  Sorry about the paucity of updates, but I didn't get around to setting up my computer until today.  I had expected michael to post at least once since my last posting, but I guess he is no longer interested in posting here.  Anyway, on to other topics.

I hope all of you had an enjoyable Christmas and got all of the gifts you wanted.  I did.  I got a new Visor, since I broke my Palm III 6 months ago, and a bunch of shirts and cash.  This gifts very closely parralled the list I gave to my parents, so I'm happy.  I can't get my computer to recognize the Visor's USB cable, so I haven't been able to HotSync yet, but that's a minor problem that I'll work on later.

Link of the day:
handspring.com (for reasons mentioned above, I've begun to visit this site fairly often).

Comments: 0 Posted by david on 26 December 2000 at 12:01 AM

I went to my monthly torture session today (first column, sixth row from the bottom).  I thought things were going pretty well when I got out after less than 15 minutes there, but my jaw hurts nonetheless.  I did get the fantastic news that my braces would probably be off within the next 90 days.  I can't wait.

342 tomorrow (actually, today, I guess).  Home tomorrow (Wednesday).  I can't wait.

Link of the day:
Obscure Store and Reading Room. (This site always has interesting news.)

Comments: 0 Posted by david on 19 December 2000 at 12:01 AM

The time is 1:51am.  The temperature is 16° F.  I was briefly tempted to go outside, but rather quickly changed my mind when I learned this information.  306 is tomorrow, but I don't hink it will be too hard (I hope it won't be too hard).  I didn't do much studying, as I spent most of the evening writing the five papers (17 pages total) I have to turn in for 467 tomorrow.  342 is on Tuesday.  I should be scared, but Chris Hill told me that he talked to someone who knows someone who took the exam early, and this person told someone, who told Chris Hill, who told me, that the exam was easy.  So I guess I don't need to bother studying for that exam.  That really simplifies my life.

On a different subject, here is today's link of the day:
The Second Coming Project.  (This scares me.)

Comments: 0 Posted by david on 18 December 2000 at 12:01 AM

its almost 10 ayem now, and what have I accomplished?  almost nothing.  Ive maybe managed to get an hour or twos worth of work done in the last six hours.  god help me.  this should be easy.  I just need to get something written.  the quality doesnt even matter.  and I just cant do it.  I dont know.  

on the bright side, at least I havent fallen asleep yet.

Comments: 0 Posted by michael on 17 December 2000 at 12:02 AM

Well, I promised two updates on the 16th, but I missed the deadline by almost five hours.  Oh well, other things came up.  Tomorrow (today) I have a lot of work to do.  More than I care to do.  Probably more than I will bother to do.  It doesn't bode well when I'm already trying to decide what I'm not going to do tomorrow (467).  If I'm lucky, tonight will be repeated soon.  (More on what happened tonight in a few days, when I will have a better grasp of how long this will last.  Hopefully a long time.  Hopefully forever.  But nothing lasts forever.)

Comments: 0 Posted by david on 17 December 2000 at 12:01 AM

the wind chill right now is -33 degrees.  that is very very cold.

anyway, guess who wasted his entire saturday?  yeah, dont ask me what happened.  it was not a sound decision.  Ive decided the only thing I can do now is stay up the entire night and all of tomorrow.  (probably another not-so-sound decision.)  but I see no other option. that is the only way I will be able to get everything done, and it is the only way I will get my sleep schedule back to normal by monday.  so I really have to try.  its very important I not get sleepy and go to bed.  and no naps either.  I must not sleep again for at least 16 hours.

(sigh.. dave is going to find this very amusing when he wakes up and finds me sleeping.  ...damn it, quit laughing and wake me up; I have work to do.)

Comments: 0 Posted by michael on 16 December 2000 at 12:03 AM

I have been sleeping strangely.  not restfully at all, and with lots of dreams.  I feel so tired right now.  I have a lot to do, and I am not sure I care.  I just need to keep focused.  three more days, and then everything will be all right.

this is probably a hard week for everybody.  

I hope you are okay.

Comments: 0 Posted by michael on 16 December 2000 at 12:02 AM

Half my finals are over, and I can't wait to finish this semester up.  That's actually a bad thing; I'm blowing off assignments like crazy, just because I'm burnt out and would rather watch the entire Real World New Orleans series than do any legitimate work.  Of course, I'm not the only one. michael's tech writing paper is a week overdue, and Phil apparently has a number of papers that he hasn't done.  There must be something in the air of suite 2020, because only Scott seems unaffected (although, now that I think about it, he's been playing a lot of Super Nintendo).

It's 4:45am, and I'm not very sleepy.  This is very odd, as I got less than 2 hours of sleep last night.  I would go into the reason, but I'm afraid that if I start talking about it, this entry would go on for pages and pages.  Let's just say that I felt "ill."

(Neither of us managed to post yesterday because of 201 studying.  Sorry.  I'll make up for it by posting an extra entry later today.  'Night.)

Comments: 0 Posted by david on 16 December 2000 at 12:01 AM

Im sleepy. its eight ayem, and I have been working on a tech writing project all night.  I dont know if Im going to get it done in time or not.  I suppose I should be worried, but Im not.  I just want to go to sleep.  I wont, though.  I will stay up and work.  its hard, though.  I cant concentrate at all.  Ive been kind of preoccupied lately.  I dont know.

dave will make fun of me if I dont get this tech writing paper done tonight, so I really need to get back to it.  also, if I dont get it done tonight I will drop from an A to a B.  and I really dont get enough A's, so I shouldnt let that happen.

( I wonder if a little nap would hurt anything... )

Comments: 0 Posted by michael on 14 December 2000 at 12:01 AM

the weather said it might snow tonight, but it didnt.  I would have liked if it had.  Im sort of in the mood for snow.  oh well.  they say it might still snow tomorrow.  that would be very nice, I think.

I love winter.  not because of snow, really.  (although I do like snow.)  its more the air, I think.  something about cold air and grey skies.  sometimes I wish there were I way I could just be swallowed up by it.  I dont know.  I think maybe Im weird.

Im going to go take a walk now.  and then sleep, I guess, since its five in the morning.  god I have a lot to do tomorrow.  ksjdflkjslkjflskjdfl

this really hasnt been the best week.

(oh, here is the tetris game dave mentioned.)

Comments: 0 Posted by michael on 13 December 2000 at 12:02 AM

I should be in bed now, as it is 3:32am. Instead, I have chosen to write to you, faithful reader.  I made this decision with your best interests at heart.  I put your wants and needs before my own. This should make you very happy.  Now that you know the sacrifices I am making for you, reading this post should be the highlight of your day.

Phil told me today that building a backdoor into my same game to ensure that I could always get a high score would be unfulfilling, as I would get more pleasure out of writing a program that others are better at than me.  I find it hard to believe that Phil knows me better than I know myself (I almost wrote "...that Phil knows what gives me pleasure," but I caught myself in time), so I don't really see how this argument makes sense.  Nonetheless, it did spark another argument in our suite: Is it acceptable to use cheats when playing games?  I think so, mainly because I don't like losing.  michael, who calls himself a "game purist," disagrees.  Tell us what you think.

michael finished his Tetris game today, and it looks very cool.  You should email him and tell him to post a copy.

Comments: 0 Posted by david on 13 December 2000 at 12:01 AM

How cold is it here? Well, the inside of my window is covered with ice.  If I didn't have a curtain (well, shower curtain, but that's another story) hanging infront of my window, I wouldn't be able to sit at my computer because of the draught.  I have every intention of staying in my room until 4pm today, when I need to go do 101 stuff on campus.  It's just too cold to bother going outside for anything that isn't obligatory.

On an entirely different subject, I've finished my final project for CS306 (by finished, I mean done enough to turn in).  My final project was to implement Clickomania!, a.k.a. the Same Game, in MS-DOS® assembly.  You can try my program if you'd like.  Just click here to download it.  In an effort to improve the program, I am paying $1 to every person to report a previously unreported bug, and $1 to anyone who suggests any cool improvements that I haven't already thought of.  If you want to participate, email me with your bug report / improvement idea.  This policy will continue for an arbitrary amount of time, and then stop without warning.  Much like this log entry.

Comments: 0 Posted by david on 12 December 2000 at 12:01 AM

hi. this is michael. I represent one half of negative273. Ill try to post fairly regularly. that seems to be the most important aspect of maintaining a good weblog. so Ill try, at least.

anyway, introductions are kind of tough to write, and a little pointless. but I feel obligated to say a little about myself. at least to finish what dave started. he was pretty much on target with the television and internet browsing. except I also draw, and I write some. and I take a lot of walks. basically Im very boring.

as for dave, he is also a computer science major at washington university in st. louis. he is also in his junior year. in his free time he enjoys watching television, browsing the internet, and playing super nintendo.

okay. I think thats all I have to say right now.

Comments: 0 Posted by michael on 11 December 2000 at 12:01 AM

michael is busy watching Malcolm in the Middle, so it looks like I get to be the first to post something here on negative273.com. Perhaps I'll take this opportunity to provide some background on myself, michael, and this site.Me first. My name is David Warner, and I like milk.

Now some info on michaeldixon. michael is a Computer Science major at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is in his junior year. In his free time he enjoys . . . well, not much really. He likes watching TV. And browsing the 'net. And sleeping. Perhaps he will post a better bio of himself in the future.

Finally, some info about the site. As you've probably guessed, this is a weblog. We got the idea to hold the weblog a few nights ago, when we stayed up very late, and, perhaps hallucinating because of lack of food, decided that we could make a better weblog than nickd. Half-an-hour later, we had registered a domain name. . .

Comments: 0 Posted by david on 10 December 2000 at 12:01 AM