Checksum Arcanius

Sometimes when I sleep, I have strange dreams. But when I’m awake, I dream big dreams. Big like Mt. Everest. Like about the great things the TRC will do, and the ways that I’m going to change things when I’m president, and good bionic inventions to have. Then I finish mowing the lawn, and one guy shows up for the hack session, and Bush and Kerry are the only viable choices, and the FDA stifles all medical innovation. So I keep on dreaming.

The TRC has a new logo – tenatively. Thanks to my dad and my brother for suggesting fewer teeth. Thanks to me for insisting that it look like a gear that could work :-D. I like it a lot, and everyone I’ve shown it to so far seems to agree. Would you buy a window decal with this on it for $5 or $10? Let me know what you think about the logo and buying the thing.

I slept for 8 hours, and woke with strange dreams in my head. Work was good, but uneventful, then i went with Beth and Shai to see Without A Paddle, a reasonably fun but ultimately useless movie, whose main excitement was the fact that we went in the exit and I snuck in a Jamba Juice. Afterwards, we ate at Chipotle and I took everyone home before settling in for a night of CS and TRC letter writing, punctuated by the realization that the TRC’s old site doesn’t work, and Firefox treats the new one like a giant text box that it can delete everything in, if I just place the cursor and hit backspace…. although everything looks right otherwise….

I think its time for bed…

…or so I’ve been told. But Blog I will anyway, because somewhere back in the archives (I can’t find it now or I would link to it), I said I would try to Blog everyday, and if I had just gone to sleep, I wouldn’t have been trying very hard.

I was in a pretty foul mood yesterday, but I seemed to pull out of it today. Work was good, food is good, and life is good too.

A little end-of-the-weekend jaunt into Portland to see my sister and my nephew turned out to be quite a bit of fun. The main activity was OMSI, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, which has a wide variety of exhibits – enough to keep all of us – from my 4-year-old nephew to my artist brother to my engineer dad – entertained for a number of hours.

One of my long-range plans is to get the TRC to bring down the entire International School to watch the Pacific Northwest regional in Portland, and have them stay Friday night at OMSI, something I know is possible because I did it once during a high school retreat. Combine the regional competition with some exhibits, some food, and a laser light show, and a trip to the Lloyd Center and I think we’d have pretty much the entire school happy with the TRC. Good times, yes.

Now, however, I must soon consider sleep, because my newfound duties as the lead mentor of the TRC seem to be requiring more and more time. So far, its been worth it, and I expect that trend to continue.

A friend recently convinced me to get PGP working on my system again. I went to the effort, and, for the first time since 1998, I have a PGP public key assciated with an email address I actually use. So, if you want to send me any sensitive data, or just want to attract the attention of the NSA, use the public key below to encrypt a message to me.
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Guess who’s back.

Yes, it took me a while. But I think I’m starting to approach, in CS 1.6, the level of play I had achieved in CS 1.5 before my hiatus. At that time, I regularly held 3:1 averages on pretty hardcore pub servers and was part of a pubbing clan, -=HtK=-, whose tag not only looked cool, but we actually lived up to our name of “Hard to Kill,” as we were ranked #1 on no fewer than four of Seattle’s premeire pubs.

When I returned from said hiatus, the clan had changed it name, admitted a couple hundred n00bs, and lost its premiere status. And so, really, had I. Around that time, I also began making my inevitible transition to CS 1.6. Which I have slowly become better at, and I am now finally seeing the rewards of the time I’ve put into this relatively pointless but immensely enjoyable endeavor.

Oh yeah, I have some screen shots of both the amazing (520 damage to one person and 200 damage with an M4) to the sublime (15-0 record on aho! Seattle playing train, 14-1 on Dust2, and a 21-3 record on Aztec on the Simpsons clan server).