no, i didn't die.

hey guys... im back, with a vengence!
muahahahahahah

i had a great time whitewater rafting and then sailing with Aaron and his cousins... my summer has been a blast!

I really dont have a whole lot to talk about, except some of my new projects. ive started a program that I have been theorizing about for months, Active-- a venture to organize my cluttered away messages simply and easily. I would give you some screenshots, but when I upgraded my hardware and formatted my harddrive, i didn't realize that I had simultaneously misplaced my VB 6 cd. Blast It!

Darh!

Upgrades to Iridium bring us Itanium™ 4k0!

Hey guys! Sorry for the lack of updates, but I have been dilligently working on my newest upgrades to Iridium, a computer I built back in 2000. Here are the specs.

new
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AMD Athlon XP 2100+
Gigabyte GA 7VRXP
512 MB PC 2700 DDR RAM
Thermaltake 6Cu+ HSF
4 Crystal 80mm Fans with Blue LEDs
Aspire TurboServer Aluminum Case (Silver) with 420W Power Supply (Dual Fans)
ATI Radeon 9700 (Waiting for Aug 19th) with 128 mb Video Ram
Silver Rounded IDE/Floppy Cables
TDK 40x12x48 CD Burner (Already Outdated, Damnit!)

old
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Maxtor DiamondMax™ 40 GB UDMA 133 7200 RPM
Maxtor DiamondMax™ 60 GB UDMA 100 5400 RPM
48x CD-Rom
Floppy Drive
(2) NICs
Firewire Card
Creative SoundBlaster Audigy MP3+ 24Bit Sound Card
TDK Tremor S80 80W Speakers

Sweet Stuff, eh? I can't wait til the Radeon 9700 Pro comes out... I really, really, really want it!

I might get a digital camera for my birthday which happens to be AUGUST 20th, so maybe on or around AUGUST 20th, I'll post some pics of my beast.

Also... I got into the Advanced* Computer Science Honors program at UC Irvine so I'm pretty psyched. I should be posting my schedule soon so that you can see if you are in any classes with me. :)

For now, so long!

*Advanced refers to the fact that I am in ICS H22 instead of the intro class, ICS H21.

london calling?!

hey guys...

had some odd occurances as of late-- my grandpa (aka Pops) bought a new jag... pretty sweet, and the fongs bought a new mercedes c class... also sweet. i was hoping that maybe my parents would get this seemingly colossal hint, but alas, im stuck with the accord.

well, august 20th was my 18th birthday... yay! but alas i havent gotten much for it, except some cash and some promised gifts awaiting UPS' "careful" (O_o) touch. This is what has been promised:

Canon S200 2.1 Megapixel Digital Camera (YAY!)
Graphite Mouse Bungie
Highly Caffeinated Chai Tea!
ATI Radeon Gamer Pack
+Radeon 9700
+Remote Wonder

Yay! Also, as promised, My final UCI schedule is posted right here:

WRITING    39B SEM   T T     11:00-12:20

I&C SCI    H22 LEC   M W F   01:00-01:50

I&C SCI    H22 DIS   M W F   09:00-09:50

I&C SCI    H22 LAB   M W F   10:00-10:50

MATH        6A LEC   M W F   02:00-02:50

MATH        6A DIS   T T     05:00-05:50  

Seems pretty full :( but hopefully Ill have enough time to talk with my walnut buddies. if you want my new UCI email address, just instant message me (you know where). I dont want to post it here because it is, as of today, completely spam-free and i want to keep it that way! :)

well thats all for now... have a nice weekend and ill have more after my trip to monterey with the fongs.

Boring Friday again...

Hello friends :)

Lets see... whats new?

Today we went to my grandparents house to move furniture... something that should take one hour took three.... but thats the nature of life. My radeon is now in transit from buffalo, ny to my house... should be a few days now. Also, I got a webcam (on my mom's request) so that I can talk with friends, especially morgan.

My wave-y keyboard broke! what a fricking rip off. Lemme explain. My most prized posession is my microsoft natural keyboard, the old model, from six years ago because of its l337 design and ease of use. It had been working strong for a long while (six years) and finally in a blaze of glory, my enter key broke. So, much to my dismay, I had to go out to Fry's Electronics (my favorite store) to buy a new keyboard. Unfortunatley, M$ no longer makes my model, and instead, they replaced it with this new, crappy model... but oh well. I bought it. :'(

I mourn my old keyboard... I will soon have a memorial site for those who loved "Wave-y".

More on this later.