Tuesday, May 28, 2002
Hi everyone. I know I said I probably wasn't going to blog until dead week, but right now I'm building a model in my studio and instead of watching glue dry (a very exciting process I must say) I decided to blog instead. So I thought I would share my adventures in Escape Velocity. What is Escape Velocity you ask? Well it's quite simple. Escape Velocity is this spiffy little game where you fly around in a space ship and blow things up and take over planets. (Well there are a few story lines too. But that isn't as much fun as taking over the galaxy and making lots o' money). Unfortunately/Fortunately for me it can only be played on a Macintosh. Which basically means that I can't play it unless I'm using Alex's computer.

So to begin my story (although I warn you it's rather short). I started off by telling this planet (or rather demanded) that it should pay me, the soon to be Emperor of the galaxy, tribute. Well obviously that didn't go over too well.

As you can see the planet sent out a fleet of huge ships to come after me. What you can't see is me in the center of all that orbiting the planet cloaked. If you'll notice on the radar up in the right hand corner there is a HUGE amount of red dots (them) and only a few green dots (my small fleet) on the outskirts. What was I to do? Well attack of course.

However that didn't go over well either.

Note that I have been destroyed and am in the process of blowing up.

At this point in time my ship (and small fleet) has been completely destroyed and the enemy's fleet is out searching for more people to destroy. The whole process took about 1.2 seconds, leaving me absolutely no time what-so-ever to even get a shot off.
The moral of the story: Don't uncloak in the midst of a mass of enemy ships unless you're darn certain that you can destroy them in less than a second.

This ends Dini's Story Hour. Come back again next week when we bring you Watching Glue: The Fun Thing to Do.
10:58 p.m.

Uncle Ulty

Saturday, May 25, 2002
Bleh, haven't blogged. Don't have much going on. I now have a Cactuar plush. That's exciting. I'm debating on briefly putting my "Running of the Cactaurs" layout up in honor of my new cactuar. However seeing as how I have waaay too much to do till the end of dead week, I won't be doing much in blogland. End of dead week I'll catch up on bloggs and blog myself and such.
06:10 p.m.

Uncle Ulty

Tuesday, May 14, 2002
Random Quote from last night/this morning at about 12:02 am:

"If today were yesterday, then today would be tomorrow."
01:01 p.m.

Uncle Ulty

Friday, May 10, 2002
Ok, so because of a running joke that Alex, Nate, and I have had, I bring you this new card for the Star Wars Customizable Card Game.

Basically we were joking about the fact that every Admiral in the Empire dies eventually at the hands of Darth Vader and he just promots the next person in line. It all lead up to him promoting Stormtroopers and such and eventually getting down to just having only the mouse droid left to promote. Hence "Admiral Mouse Droid."
We were a tad bit sad (but greatly amused) when we discovered that someone had gotten the idea before us. Check out the September 20, 1994 comic.
11:54 p.m.

Uncle Ulty

Friday, May 3, 2002
For those of you out there who are fans of the Rebel Alliance from Star Wars, I made an Alliance version of my Crimson Empire Desktop:

11:48 a.m.

Uncle Ulty

Thursday, May 2, 2002
Ok so I know I haven't blogged in forever, but I have architecture work to do so I've been busy. I've also been busy trying to find a place to stay. So far things are looking like they'll be ok (well, hopefully). I'm planning on living in a quad next year with Sam (again), Jesika (one of my fellow arch students), and our friend Paul (he's a cool guy, and he has a tendency to call Sam WOMAN. It's amusing). Beyond that not much is going on.

Well ok so I lied, I'm getting a digital camera this weekend. I'm very excited about this because it means I can actually start working on a online portfolio of my architecture stuff. And digital cameras are just fun anyways because you can put the pics directly into your computer. Saves on the need for a scanner (that I dont' have).

My best friend AJ got a blog. It's definately an interesting setupn for a blog. Then again she didn't do it, it's just the standard blog program that she set herself up with. One of these days I'll have to teach her html so that she can make spiffy blog layouts too.

Sleep? What's that?

As stolen from the All Benevolent Dictator:

take the death quiz.
and go to mewing.net. laura = great.
Ok I can think of quite a few better ways to kill myself than that. Well maybe poison could be ok, but it depends on the poison. I think I'll just avoid the whole death thing a little longer anyways.

Hee hee I remember the first two quotes.

Tsua-sa~n, ne, get well soon.

I know not where Castro Vally is. I shant be back for summer as it is, but I do want to come back for a week or so, maybe I can go see you.
On another note, since I know you like Existenz you should really check out Avalon by Oshii Mamoru. It's actually a live action Oshii film, but it is very good.

Sucky on the chant thing. Lucky me gets to take that class next year. Although I did find that Yookoso parody funny.

I think that is all for now. I have gotten to the end of my social blogginess. So I shall go now. I can't really procrastinate on my arch homework for much longer if I want to get it done.
12:11 p.m.

Uncle Ulty