06.24.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 08:09 UTC by Richard
It seems that not too many people are aware of what the College World Series is, even a lot of people who live in the Omaha area. The College World Series is an 8 team double elimination series between the final 8 teams in College Baseball. It is the culmination of the NCAA Tournament which starts with 64 teams much like in NCAA Men’s and Women’s basketball, but instead of a final four, its a final eight of sorts. It’s fairly surprising that most people don’t even know that the CWS exists, but it has not had nearly the press coverage that other NCAA sports have gotten, but that’s starting to change now with ESPN taking over it’s coverage from CBS who just let it squander. Anyhow, Texas won yesterday afternoon putting them in the championship series, a best of 3 series with the winner of South Carolina and Cal St. Fullerton, hook ‘em horns!
-richard out
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06.18.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 17:29 UTC by Richard
Wow is this monitor nice! That’s all I can say right now, it’s got me a bit speechless.
–richard out
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06.15.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 02:47 UTC by Richard
I just finished the fifth book in the Cleric Quintet series, The Chaos Curse. I really enjoyed the series as a whole, it had interesting characters that were dynamic, they learned and changed and had flaws, just how characters should be. Salvatore is successful because of his characters, sometimes the story is a bit bland, but the great characters can still make the 300+ pages well worth your while. I recommend this series to anyone who enjoys fantasy novels.
Now that I’m done with that series, I picked up The Vampire Lestat, the second book in The Vampire Chronicles. I read Interview With the Vampire a long long time ago, so now is as good a time as any to finish right? Unfortunately I am picking it up after seeing the movie Queen of the Damned (which is a modern conglomeration of both The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned novels) so hopefully that won’t spoil it for me.
-richard out
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06.14.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 02:40 UTC by Richard
Sometime on Thursday we found out that the AC in the house had stopped working, I never really noticed since I had slept in a bit and spent some of the early afternoon playing FF XI. Needless to say, by 9pm, it was tremendously obvious that it was broken in some way as there was a decent sized puddle beneath the AC coils. My mom got a repair man out the next morning (thankfully) and the repair wasn’t too much, just in excess of $500, so things could’ve been worse. He also got in there and cleaned up quite a bit of the dirt, dust and cat fur that had collected and now the AC is blowing colder air than I can remember.
In the spirit of spending money, I bought a new monitor last night. Actually I ordered one from dell.com, a 2001FP, its a 20.1″ LCD that has become quite popular around the ‘net. It has a 16ms response time, so it doesn’t suffer from ghosting which has been the one thing keeping me from getting an LCD. I’m pretty excited about getting this thing since I haven’t bought a new monitor since the summer of 2000. Both of my computers have dual monitor capable video cards, operated using a KVM, so I play on hooking this thing up to both systems and essentially having two dual monitor computers.
-richard out
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06.06.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 01:39 UTC by Richard
Yeah, Ronald Reagan died yesterday. Of course if you watch any sort of 24 hour news channel I’m sure you already knew. They haven’t stopped covering it since. I know it’s a big deal and all, but I believe this just goes to show how much non-essential news is carried on these channels. This gives them something to fill an entire day of material now, and people will watch it!
I also watched most of the Tampa vs. Calgary game last night, and while I’m not really rooting for either team, I was sorta happy that Tampa won to carry the series to a game 7. This series has been spectacular and full of energy and a game 7 is a fitting way to end it. Make sure to watch it come Monday night.
-richard out
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06.04.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 12:14 UTC by Richard
I just watched Starship Troopers 2. Before I get into the movie at all, I just wanna say that the first one, while not a good movie, was a very enjoyable movie. The thing was done in 1997 and the cgi in it is actually very good imo. It’s also a wonderful guy movie, lots of blood, guts, guns, bugs and explosions. It was good times all around.
Starship Troopers 2. It had blood, guts, guns, bugs and explosions. It also had that guy from Not Another Teen Movie that played the football coach, that guy is a genius god damn it. What it didn’t have was any sense of fun, it reminded me of a bad horror movie, not a guy movie. Horror movies can be guy movies too, true, but this one was just plain not good. Yes, this movie was a pile. Blah, I’m so disappointed now.
-richard out
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