Shock, Disbelief...Immoral Outrage

My friends, we are entering a sad, sad era indeed. The year 2005 will be a landscape of hopelessness and destitution.

First Kazaa Lite and now Suprnova (the source of all that was good and free) has felt the wrath of international corporate lawyers and been shut down. I shall remember the site fondly - a digital playground filled to overflowing with all the games, videos, and applications I could possibly download...and, er, evaluate.

Though Nicole, and possibly the neighbour who is networked with my internet connection, will certainly be happy that my computer will no longer be bogged down by a dozen BitTorrent downloads, I will miss the days, nay, weeks, some precious games took to download. The last file I managed to get before the closure of the site was LOTR: BfME, and though its already consumed far too many hours of my life, will be treasured that much more.

R.I.P. Suprnova.org (2002-2004); you've left this world as a better place that when you found it.

Currently: Dreading the prospect of actually paying for software!

Every Day is Saturday

Sweet, glorious freedom.

But at what a cost! The last exam I wrote this semester was perhaps the most terrifying, most insidious exam I've ever had the misfortune of coming across. Granted, mathematics has never been my strong point, and I haven't worked with a formula or commissioned the services of a calculator since Math 30 in High School, but I honestly tried to wrap my head around this class. It's listed in the university calendar as a Sociology course (and is required for my degree) but I'm fairly certain it's an advanced statistics course, concerning itself very little with social theory and interpretation. It's pretty hard to bullshit your way around the logic of hypothesis testing.

The class was hard, the exam satanic, and I'll be happy with anything resembling a passing grade.

On a more positive note, my favourite lady and I attended the Edmonton Roadrunners' Christmas Charity Challenge game last night. Tickets anywhere in Rexall Place were being sold for exactly $4/each with all proceeds going to charity. I quickly scooped up 4 tickets, with the other pair going to Gregg and Jeremy. I had no idea they'd be joining us, and Nicole kept it very secret...which was a nice treat. For the first hockey game I've attended this year, it pretty much had everything I could have hoped for in an AHL game: fights, hits, goals, free sponge noodles, and not only a win, but a win via a nail-biting shootout!

It was the perfect ending to what started out as a fairly bleak final day of the semester.

Currently listening to: Incubus - Aqueous Transmission

The Null Hypothesis

Well, here I am, on the brink of my final final exam of the school term, and things are running much more smoothly than midterms...at least for this particular class. For the midterm I was up almost the entire night/morning, working on an essay which was due that day in a different class. I had less than an hour's sleep, and was actually quite delirious by the end of the midterm. For this final, however, I've *gasp!* studied ahead of time and will be getting at least a few hours of precious shut-eye.

On an unrelated note, I've noticed that my previous post replaced the post that was there before it, so I'm not really all that sure what Blogger is up to...

Currently: Preparing to play LOTR: BfME for 30 minutes...honest!

Preparing for War

At 90% completed (or 3564.2 MB of 4035.5) and only 6h50min to go, the epic LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth will soon be mine! Though I'm infinitely excited, the download will complete at a rather inopportune time...as I'm wrapping up studying on one exam and preparing for yet another one on Monday.

This will be an extreme test of will power, my friends. Extreme indeed.

Going back to that massive term paper I handed it last week, I recently received a notice from the UofA library informing me that one, of the many books I borrowed, has not been returned! Where the hell could it have gotten to!?

Currently listening to: The White Stripes - I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself

Ja-la-pa-no

It's taken years, but I've finally gathered up the necessary ingredients to bake a plate of nachos right here in my very own home. Quite commonplace while I was working at the Keg, not once since have I actually combined tortilla chips, cheese, and jalapenos, and actually baked them in the oven - sure, the occasional nuked plate of nachos, but that's not quite the same.

Tonight marked the culmination of years of anticipation, and I couldn't be more satisfied.

Interesting to note: The Blogger "spell check" suggestion for jalapenos was Calvanist.

Currently listening to: Fahrenheit 9/11 in the background...