One of the reasons I can’t wait for university is the promise of a new computer. For the longest time, one of my favourite things to do was to scope out the possible candidates to become my new prized possession. (more…)

And for the second time, I’ve managed to dodge the Wonderland physics trip. Every year, the physics classes go on a trip to Wonderland to ride all of the crazy rides and calculate things like acceleration. And every year, something has saved me from going. Last year, it was the failed Streetcar Odyssey, which got cancelled last minute for our Classical Civlizations class. This year, I managed to get out of Wonderland because I’m going to Campus Challenge! Another tradition well preserved.

We had this assignment in calculus that was basically to do a review of a website. There was a writeup as well as a presentation. Being the Internets kinda guy that I am, I had a lot of fun doing the writeup, because I could finally complain about websites and get marks for it. Unfortunately, the presentation part had a few snags to it.

Basically, I got a crappy mark on the presentation, which, if it were not for my terribly brilliant writeup, would have brought me down by very much. Part of our mark was based on the site itself. If we chose a bad site, we’d get worse marks. That’s where stuff went wrong: it was the difference between my view of a good site and my teacher’s view of a good site. (more…)

I am running out of time. I am running out of time to mail in my residence deposit and OSAP forms with some breathing room. I am running out of time to do English and Physics summatives. I am running out of time to to develop some sites for church that I need to get cracking on. I am running out of time to set things up for focs next year. I am running out of time before prom. I am running out of time before Campus Challenge. I am running out of time to decide on what I’m wearing for the concert.

It has now been almost a year since this place started and it has been quite fun. It’s nice to have a place to rant and rave and have your opinion count sometimes. I’ve learned a lot in the last year through all of this blogging and to celebrate, I’ve decided to redesign (realign, reboot, whatever you want to call it) again.

Now I know that this place has seen a lot of “redesigns”. They were pretty crap. I just wasn’t happy with what I was churning out. I had this great idea and I had to dilute it down a lot because a lot of the time, I just couldn’t do it with my sucky skills. This time, I think I’ve got it down. Let’s have a walk through it. (more…)