Wednesday, November 3, 2004

   New website

It took me a whole evening, but I have created and launched our website for the Competitive Gaming Association, or CGA (which I am a founder and VP of). Visit it; it's awesome and took me about 3 hours to design and put together. CGA Official Site

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Monday, October 18, 2004

   Sciros is in trouble...

Ok so right now it's 2:40 a.m. I am working on building a ray tracer in C because it's an assignment that's due tomorrow at midnight (technically today at 11:59 pm). Why am I working on it in the middle of the night? First of all, because it's big and scary and very hard and secondly because I have ANOTHER huge assignment due at the same time tomorrow. I have to implement some artificial intelligence stuff... a robot doing some least-cost-path stuff. It's not too complex, but it's time-consuming. To top it off, I have to finish another assignment for tomorrow, one for Algorithm Analysis. Luckily it's not programming, but it still takes time. Then I have until Wednesday 1:30 pm to do another large programming assignment for my networking class. So my monday night and tuesday day/night should be lots of good fun. Then Wednesday, when I'm all nice and super super super super sleepy, I will have 2 hours of Kendo followed by a night of filling out grad school applications and essay-writing. And somewhere in all of this I'm going to have to take 3 or 4 Japanese assessments, work at my actual job (more programming! kick-ass!), register for the damn GRE Subject Test in Computer Science, and, most importantly, not die. Game on.

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Friday, October 15, 2004

   Why even bother?

I hate art-related discussions and debates. I hate that everyone I talk to thinks he knows so much more than I do and refuses to understand anything I tell him. Everyone says something stupid like "I'm a third-year art major," to try to add some credibility to his posts. Thanks, buddy, I see you do for college credit what I've done as a hobby for 17 years. I don't care. Then they accuse me of overgeneralizing when I comment on manga and anime, and in their rebuttal do the same to American comics to try to make some sort of "manga is better" point. Every time. In the end I think it's because I run into manga fanboys and crappy artists that this happens.

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Thursday, September 30, 2004

   GRE

Well, I took my GRE yesterday (the "General Test," the one with the writing and verbal and math sections). It was sooo much fun, I thought I'd pass out from the excitement. The best part was the ten minute break during which I had nothing to do at all because all I COULD do was eat an apple or something, so I ended up reading an article about haunted houses in Columbus, Ohio. Oh man it was such good reading... Anyway, I ended up doing alright I figure. Well, my essay scores (which are bullcrap anyway) won't be in for a week-and-a-half or so, but here's my verbal and math: Verbal: 690 Math: 800 Both are in the 90-something-th percentiles, so that's good enough for me (well 800 is max anyway). I was considering retaking it to raise my verbal score, but since I'm gonna be doing something technical in grad school, and they only care about the math score, I figured there's no point in throwing down an extra $115 or so for another 3+ hours of standardized testing goodness.

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Thursday, September 23, 2004

School

School started again today (22nd). Boooring, as usual. But I did check out Fable (the X-box game) during a break I had between classes. It was the best part of the day, for sure. Japanese 102 starts tomorrow... it should be a walk in the park. My reading level is easily at 103, hahar! My website has been down for over a day now. I wonder what has happened to my host...

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Friday, August 27, 2004

   SCIROS.NET 2.0

It's finally up! The new and improved www.sciros.net is up for everyone to see! It's still in its preliminary stages, and there is MUCH to be done, but it's more-or-less working. Except for the guestbook. Gimme a couple of days to debug some stuff, add some more content, etc. But have a look!! (there's a link on the left of this page).

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Monday, August 23, 2004

   If you thought Sciros was sleepy last time he posted...

MysteryNinja says: But I am actually heading to bed. Sciros says: ok Sciros says: have a good night due Sciros says: dude* Sciros says: lool Sciros says: lol* Sciros says: arrrgh! Sciros says: 'night... MysteryNinja says: Night

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Saturday, August 21, 2004

   The big 900

Sweet! I finally got 900 visits! That just about triples the total visits my actual website has gotten! Hehhehehehehehehehhaha..sniffle... Anyway, I've been playing Morrowind again, and I must say I freaking rock at that game. It's my bitch. I'm thinking of joining a Kendo club at my university. It should be fun for a few weeks at least, and after that we'll see.

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Tuesday, August 17, 2004

   SLEPYY

It is late, and I haven't updated in a while... What's new...hmmm... Well, I finally got X-Box live. I downloaded the Ninja Gaiden update, and it's really awesome. Ryu now has a staff to use as a weapon. I watched AVP on Friday, and Harold and Kumar on Saturday. Which one was better? Harold and Kumar. Which one had a cooler Predator? AVP. Which one has funnier? Hard to say. Probably Harold and Kumar, but AVP is so bad that it can compete using its vast amount of bullcrap and nonsense. AVP had better special effects than Harold and Kumar, that's one thing I can say for sure. Work (co-op) is going well. Lots of programming for lots of different people. I'm glad I had to do a lot of this in my classes, because otherwise I'd be in a lot of trouble. Learning Perl finally... Oh, yeah! I finished watching Full Metal Panic! and Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu. The best anime there's ever been, fellas! Funniest, best-drawn, etc. Nothing tops it, I promise you. Sure, it's a bit cliched, but it's very well executed. Better than anything else I've seen.

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Thursday, July 1, 2004

A friendly reply

Mamma Vash, my most frequent and very welcome visitor, asked how to catch carp, and so I will explain how we managed to do it: Take a rod with a spinner and remove the sinker and flotation thingy (my fisherman-speak is not very developed), so all you have is the bare line and a hook. On the hook put... white bread crust. Yep. First lure in little stupid fish with popcorn and white bread (they love that stuff), and the carp will be all like "hey what are those little stupid fish doing over there?" and check it out. So you take the bread crust, mush it onto the hook as hard as you can so it's on there real good (and won't just fall off in the water), and drop it to the bottom of the lake. Don't leave it on the bottom for too long; if nothing bit in the first minute nothing will. Just drop it again. Carp see it dropping to the bottom; that's when it gets their attention. Once you catch one, tell your fellow ninja to be ready with the net while you fight that fish like a crazy person for a while. Mamma Vash also inquired: What year of your degree is this for you? I just finished my 3rd year, so I will be a senior next year. Hopefully it will be my last year; OSU is really evil about finding ways to keep its engineers for a fifth year; most have to stay for that long. One last question: Just curious, do you play an instrument or sing? I sing in my car to random songs, even if they never had any vocals to begin with. I don't do it when people are in the car because it annoys them. Except my buddy Fade. He and I are never too shy to karaoke like total fools. Heck yeah! Also, I played clarinet all though school, and was pretty good at it. I played in various contests and always got 1's (highest score), as did our high school symphony orchestra (which was perhaps the best in the state). I woudl've continued playing in college, but I never had the time. In an university as large as OSU, there's some serious competition for any good spot in an orchestra, and I'd actually have to put some work into my clarinet playing. I also pretend to play the guitar and keyboard, since I've never taken any lessos. I can play Chrono Cross's "Radical Dreamers" on my guitar pretty well, which tricks people into thinking I can actually play lots of stuff. But no, I can't. I pick it up and improvise to a random song occasionally. The only reason I can even play guitar/keyboard at all is because I have a very good ear and can pick up a melody on, usually, my first attempt. I have a very good sense for intervals.

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