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33% Less Salt, Schoolwork, And More Games

I’ve been try­ing the reg­u­lar Maple Leaf bacon recent­ly, instead of the 33% less salt I nor­mal­ly buy. I want­ed to see what I was miss­ing out on, and it turns out that it’s just the salt. The bacon does taste bet­ter (it is salt after all), but that’s about it. I’ll prob­a­bly switch back to my less unhealthy bacon next time I go shop­ping.

I still haven’t been able to accom­plish a sin­gle bit of school­work so far in the week. Aaron, Trolley, and Dougie were all inter­est­ed in my OpenGL assign­ment, so I feel like I’m more inspired to work on it to show them what can be done, maybe make them proud of me. I’d def­i­nite­ly want to cre­ate some­thing that they would find amaz­ing. Almost like quan­tum par­ti­cle observers.

I’ve been get­ting a boon of games late­ly, such as Battlefield 1942. Battlefield 1942 plays fair­ly well, with decent bot sup­port, but some­times runs at ter­ri­ble speeds, even on high-end machines. The mul­ti­play­er poten­tial is amaz­ing though. Pat also loaned me his PS2 for the week, so I’ve been try­ing to get through MGS2 as fast as I can. I have to admit that hid­ing in card­board box­es is the best part of the game, which is say­ing a lot, con­sid­er­ing how good a game MGS2 is.

Spoiled Food, Chinese Accents, Etc.

I for­got to plug in my freez­er after dis­con­nect­ing it to free up a spot on the pow­er sock­et on Saturday, so basi­cal­ly all my food has gone bad. I still have some break­fast and lunch food in the refrig­er­a­tor, but that’s about it. I won’t be able to do much gro­cery shop­ping this week due to all the shit I have to get done, and the most con­ve­nient store for me to get to is closed until the fall, so I’m pret­ty much fucked, food-wise, for a few days.

I can’t stand what peo­ple believe are Chinese accents. Every time I hear one from a North American source, the accent can’t be fur­ther from real­ism. Every time a Chinese per­son is on the Simpson’s, or a Crank Yankers prank call from a Chinese guy, or even the fuck­ing Chinese peo­ple speak in C&C: Generals, I get pissed off. Why don’t they just get an actu­al Chinese per­son to do the accent? The accents are not even close to what a nasty Chinese per­son sounds like. It’s like they have to tone down the accent so that peo­ple can rec­og­nize it (let alone under­stand what the per­son is say­ing), and so that it can be accept­ed by the gen­er­al pub­lic.

Speaking of C&C: Generals, I was able to get my hands on a copy of it today, a few days before it’s due out in Canada. It looks amaz­ing, but pos­si­bly a lit­tle too clut­tered for actu­al game­play pur­pos­es. I’m not sure if I’ll buy it yet. I’ll prob­a­bly wait and see if my friends are inter­est­ed in pur­chas­ing it for online play, and if I get addict­ed enough to war­rant sup­port of EA Games, although I’m sure they have enough mon­ey as a pub­lish­er of main­stream games already.

I got a com­pli­ment on my black nail pol­ish today. I was pleased, I guess, but I sup­pose that it’s rare that one would make a bad com­ment on some­thing like that; I think that most peo­ple, if not find­ing it atrac­tive, would sim­ply remain silent.

Somehow I got an 80% on my cryp­tog­ra­phy assign­ment. I imag­ine that the class aver­age was around there. The ques­tions were so dif­fi­cult that the TA had to be extreme­ly gen­er­ous with the marks. Pat end­ed up get­ting 88%, which I feel is unfair, since he spent so much more time on his assign­ment than I did. It seems to be such a plight of uni­ver­si­ty, that pro­fes­sors don’t real­ize that stu­dents’ capa­bil­i­ties are much low­er than theirs.

Switching To Humans, Mid-Term Results, And Residual Emotions

I think I’ll be switch­ing my race to Humans, which is quite a big deci­sion. I’ve nev­er been good with micro­man­age­ment, espe­cial­ly in Starcraft. It’s like some­thing I was­n’t raised with, so I can’t get bet­ter at it, the way you see old­er peo­ple hit a lim­it in their two word-per-minute typ­ing speed. In Starcraft I think I hit a lim­it where I just could­n’t get any bet­ter, which com­plete­ly sucked, because I was­n’t that good any­way. I think that by prac­tic­ing with Humans, I’ll be bet­ter at learn­ing how to micro­man­age. I’ve been sucked back in by Warcraft 3. It’s hard for me to imag­ine jug­gling a top 10 rank on the lad­der, and hav­ing a girl­friend at the same time.

Somehow I got 94.5% on a mid-term (even though the aver­age was about 90%). It makes up for oth­er mid-terms I sup­pose, since I believe that I failed two of them. I’ll be able to defer the marks, how­ev­er, for my Networking and Communications mid-term, to my final exam. That makes my assign­ments worth a pid­dly 15%, and my final a mon­strous 85% of my final mark. Yay, I guess.

Something made me sad the oth­er day, which has­n’t hap­pened in a while. I seem to usu­al­ly keep a very lev­el set of emo­tions nowa­days. It’s odd, because when I start­ed dat­ing Christie, things seemed to look bet­ter, and when we broke up, they seemed to still look bet­ter. I’m not real­ly sure why. It’s like Christie helped me expe­ri­ence things that were good, so now I have those thoughts in my head.

Good Games, Black And White, Safe, Dolly

I feel exhaust­ed even though I got about five hours of sleep. I stayed up play­ing Warcraft 3 last night, and end­ed on a great note, cause Darren and I were able to defeat two mem­bers of clan n1, of which both mem­bers have win-loss ratios of about 90%. It end­ed their 26 game win­ning streak.

I saw some­thing two days ago that made me wish I car­ried a cam­era on me all the time. I was tak­ing the bus east towards home, when I saw out­side, right next to a bus stop sans the shel­ter, two adorable blond girls who seemed to have set­tled down on a cement curb. They both seemed quite con­tent there, cling­ing to their thin jack­ets against the cool six degree wind. I guessed that they were about 12 or thir­teen years of age, though I was­n’t sure if they were home­less, as they were dressed in a very neu­tral man­ner. The thing that made the sit­u­a­tion seem odd­ly poignant was the fact that one was hold­ing a Chinese rice box open in one hand, with a pair of chop­sticks in the oth­er hand, while the oth­er would point to morsels of food, and would con­se­quent­ly be fed by the steady hand hold­ing the chop­sticks. For some rea­son, it real­ly struck a chord with me, and I wish that I had the abil­i­ty to cap­ture such a del­i­cate moment. I could see it in black and white, not in sepia.

I’m going to watch Safe tonight, with the beau­ti­ful Julianne Moore, and her irre­sistable tit­ian hair.

Dolly is becom­ing more com­fort­able with me, as she’ll some­times crawl under my cov­ers and nes­tle between my ankles. She’s even slept on me a few times. One time I woke up and found her hug­ging my arm. She purrs all the time; when she’s on my lap, when I’m feed­ing her yum­my food, or even when I’m play­ing with her. Glad, I am, to have found such a com­fort­able kit­ty.