I went to kennywood today with a couple friends. I got a little sunburned :-\. The first ride we went on, we weren't quite sure what it would be like. It turned out that it was a ride that involved a lot of spinning/going high in the air/coming really close to the ground while spinning and going pretty fast. I get dizzy easily so that wasn't ( Read more... )

SCS grad students/faculty have it made ( Read more... )

Here is an article for you coffee drinkers to read:
http://articles.health.msn.com/id/100109378/

so yesterday (yesterday being wednesday because even though its already technically friday, I haven't gone to sleep yet so I consider it thursday) I packed most of the day with some time spent to try and fix a semi-urgent problem for work. I went to bed at like 1:20 am and woke up at 5:20 am. Me and my parents left my house at like 6:30 am so we ( Read more... )

In an effort to try and reduce the number of people creating multiple accounts in my game, I have made it so each IP address can only register for one account every hour. Thats not a big deterrant but whatever. Then back in end of October, beginning of November, or so I noticed the number of accounts in my game starting to rise. I thought that ( Read more... )

You should read the article at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8973962/Read more... )

Companies are starting to go way overboard with their ideas for copy protection to deter pirates from copying movies and stuff. You should read http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050810_131820.html to find out some of their ideas for the new generation of ( Read more... )

I have another story from my game. This was probably over a year ago. I blocked someone because it looked like he had multiple accounts. He sent me an email saying he did not have multiple accounts and swore on his honor as an eagle scout that he was telling the truth. I then replied with something to the effect of his oath means nothing ( Read more... )

A couple of days ago I thought I was finally done with the program I've been working on for work on and off for like 2 or 3 weeks. It ended up being a 3000 line program (including comments, whitespace, etc). At one point, my bosses had told me all comparisons should be case insensitive. Well apparently there was a misunderstanding. I guess we ( Read more... )

Apparently, this guy in south korea just died after playing video games for 50 hours straight. you can read the article at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8888579/

Some people need to learn to stop being so obsessed and take time to eat, drink, sleep, and go to the bathroom.