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Archive for October, 2003

Worn Out
Posted: October 29th, 2003 | Words: Bendit | Posted in Ben | 17 Comments »

I am worn out. I get home and all I want to do is sleep and my homework takes the back seat. Changing my diet to include something healthier might give me more energy throughout the day but I am not going to rely on it. I’ll be cutting my hours nearly in half to give me some time to do school work during an afternoon, as opposed to working on it at night.

Next semester I might stop working completely if I can manage my finances correctly. I’ll have a final project to work on and I want to give it 110% (or 70%, whatever).

If I am lucky I might actually get a few of my side projects off the ground. I am quite jealous of Bulk and his achievements ever since he finished school for the year.

To that I say: At least I got to watch 24 tonight.

Zing.

The future of Menkeys.net
Posted: October 27th, 2003 | Words: Bulk | Posted in Bulk | 12 Comments »

I have started working on the new backend for Menkeys. It’s going to be called GeekScript and will be released publicly for other people to use. I have a number of cool features planed, both for the visitor and the person running the script. However if any of you guys have a feature you think woukd be cool in a script designed for small personal/group sites post them in the comments!

On another note, I’m actually at work while I type this… and it occured to me as from next week I will have been at this job I hate for exactly 3 years. Consider my bones chilled.

Freedom is a dish best served hot
Posted: October 21st, 2003 | Words: Bulk | Posted in Bulk | 15 Comments »

I’m freeeee!

I finished my uni course for this year, so I don’t have any pressing things due untill febuary of next year! w00t!

Things in my list of things to do include:

  • coding more features for TWL
  • coding a completely new backend/frontend for menkeys.net
  • other misc php projects (I’m really learning allot of PHP, its kewl!)
  • LEVEL DESIGNING. omfg I’ve been so slack on the level designing.. I’ve not done any in months, and omega is making fun of me :(
  • [Edit] Crap! Forgot to include that I will be relaunching Bulksplace.com as a place to get info on my current projects and info about me and stuff. Just need to finish a few things up on that.


Right now I’m playing Max Payne 2, and it’s pretty cool.. better than the first I’d say, but I can’t help but feel like its just an addon pack with fancier gfx :

Anyway, to conclude, I should finish with an insult for benni. Cept I can’t think of any, so I’ll just call him a bastard or something. Bastard.

Kill Bill
Posted: October 15th, 2003 | Words: Bendit | Posted in Ben | 15 Comments »

Kill Bill Vol. 1 is a fantastic movie. I want to see it again.

The only way I can describe it as is a live-action anime. It’s been four days since I’ve seen the movie and I still can’t get the awesome music out of my head.

Bang Bang.

And they say Macs are expensive
Posted: October 14th, 2003 | Words: Bendit | Posted in Ben | 16 Comments »

The world’s second fastest computer is now a Mac. The new computer is made up of 1100 Dual 2.0ghz G5 PowerMacs with 4GB of RAM 160GB of storage each, making that a total of 2200 G5 processors. It cost a mere $5.2 million. I say “mere” because the first and third fastest super computers cost $350 million and $200 million respectively.






B&R Birthday Bash ’03
Posted: October 13th, 2003 | Words: Bendit | Posted in Ben | 10 Comments »

I must say my 20th birthday was probably the best I’ve had so far. I went to Ottawa for 3 days and 2 nights to celebrate Raph’s birthday and mine together.

I drank more then I’ve ever drank in my life but I remained master of my domain; Raph wasn’t so lucky the following night ;) . We went to some cool bars and I ran into a lot of people I hadn’t seen in years.

The day I got back from Ottawa all I could think about was when I could go back but this recent laptop purchase will set me back for the rest of the school year and I don’t know how many weekend getaways I can afford.



My only regret was not taking more pictures, I only took a few when I had first gotten there, before the drinking started.

Hopefully my next trip will be to Windsor to visit Remy and defile the house he shares with his friends.

So… It’s been a while.
Posted: October 13th, 2003 | Words: Bendit | Posted in Ben | 8 Comments »

I’ve tried on many occasions to post in the past few weeks but every time I opened up word to start typing a rant I would start thinking that if I should be writing anything out, it should be my school assignments, and not rants. That and I missed typing on my laptop; things seem to flow freely when I am typing from my couch, or on my bed as I am now.

Have you caught on to that last sentence? Yes that’s right, I have a new PowerBook again and it’s even better then the last, it’s faster, doesn’t get hot, and it has a DVD burner. I’ve had it for about 2 weeks now but I’ve spent most of that time playing around with it and setting it up to my liking, getting games, copying my music over, and installing all the software I needed.

I’ll be posting about my trip to Ottawa shortly. In closing: I am back.