Aggie football

My first game was pretty fun. I sat with Jonathan Sneed and Raymond. We had a good time. It was almost as much being with fellow Aggies as watching football. We were waaay up on the third deck of Kyle Field, but even that didn't give enough breeze to counteract the hundreds of tightly-packed people yelling and standing up and waving towels around me.

I think one of the coolest things that happened was when a diamond formation of fighter jets just screamed across the sky right over the stadium. I mean, they couldn't have been higher than 20 yards above us, since we were on the third deck.

That was totally awesome.

Oh yeah, and the game didn't go too badly either.

My first midnight yell

It's over now. It was kinda odd, kinda fun... Maybe it would just be better to list the emotions I felt (not in any particular order):

Bemused, confused, tired, bored, slightly hungry, mildly entertained, hmm...

I can't think of anything others.

Sweetness!

Internet is up at A&M! w00t!!!

One more thing

Oh, and we need a new poll too.

A g g i e t r a d i t i o n s p i s s m e o f f

...to an extent. All this "AAAAAAAAAA" and "AAA AAA AAA AAA AAA" yelling, "Whoop"ing, forbidden words thing, and so forth get on my nerves. Maybe it's because I didn't go to Fish Camp; big whoop. Oops! Since I'm not a senior, I think I'm forbidden to say the word "whoop!" Oops! I did it again! Screw it!

Also, all this business about yelling "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" whenever someone says "2007" is stupid. And the sophomores say "AAA AAA AAA AAA AAA," I think, and there's some business about them being able to say "Whoop!" afterward.

There should be some limitations:
"Traditions hours are limited to football games, midnight yells, and the time between three and four o'clock in the morning."

And if I offend any hard-core Aggies by posting this, screw them, and I'll move to Austin. (Not like I have anything against them; it's just that they shouldn't try/be allowed to force their way of life down my throat.)

Note

As of today, I have stopped adding searches to the search page. There are so many crazy people who visit that it's hard to do without spending a lot of time on, and I don't want to do so since classes are starting soon.

The end

Today was my last day of work at ODP. I'm going to miss working there, but I think that it's necessary for me to quit my job because of school.

Good fun

Hofstadter's Law.

Silly network!

Most people in my dorm (and others, I believe) have been without internet access for more than 24 hours. I gathered that the problem was with the DHCP servers, and to confirm I talked with a CIS guy. He said that the DHCP servers were "hosed." That's a quotation there, by the way. It's a funny thing to say.

If I were a tech support phone guy, I would be really goofy.
"Sorry, but our server is possessed by an evil spirit."
"We've been trying to call our regular exorcist, but he's at the Rec Center exorcising."

Ha ha, get it? The Rec Center? Exorcising? Ha ha....err...ahem.

Bow to the power of my lame puns!

Danny Furuta comments, "lame is an appropriate word."

Wacky "traditions"

We were told by the sophomore advisors of our dorm that we should shave 51 of our heads to spell out some phrase like "LechnerDs r00lz j00 allz!" or something to that effect for the football game Saturday. The reason that she gave was that if 51 people did, someone else's boyfriend who attends UT would have his hair dyed maroon for a month.

This is the absolute stupidest excuse for anything. I'm sure that if I were that person, I would gladly do that. I'm sure I would have multiple conversations like this:

Random UT student: "Why is your hair dyed maroon?!?"
Me: "Well, this is in exchange for having letters shaved into the heads of 51 of A&M's supposedly smartest freshmen."
Random UT student: "Way to show how stupid those Aggies are!"

I have a vague suspicion that the sophomore advisors are trying to pull one over on us.

Interesting

I was walking by one of the small soccer fields on the A&M campus, and I saw a plaque that read (to some effect): Class of '58 dedicates this sprinkler system in memory of so-and-so...

I thought that was pretty silly that someone would dedicate a sprinkler system to someone, but then I realized that since this was 1958 maybe a built-in, retracting system like that was a really cool thing.

Food for thought.

Hehe, adjusting to dorm life

My roommate had his refrigerator set on Maximum without my knowledge. I took out a Vanilla Coke, and it was frozen like a slushie. It started oozing out slowly.

Needless to say, I turned the coolness control halfway down.

Everybody loves Raymond

I saw Raymond today at Lechner. It seems that his roommate isn't too good. Ah well.

And no, that was not a haiku. I just feel like typing short sentences.

Fix

As Gilbert correctly pointed out, the rules of 80 were not set to be in the right place. You may download them here.

In the dorm!

Hey, I've mostly moved in! It's pretty cool here. I met a couple of people with iChat Rendezvous technology, which is a ZeroConf-based network protocol that automatically detects other users on the network. It's nifty.

My roommate seems to be cool so far too.

Dorm time!

I'm packing up to move to my dorm! A whole 10 mile drive! Wow!

But, as Adam points out, we do have a T3!!!!