Inferiority

USC 38, Texas 41....I hate when inferiority reigns. And Vince Young. And the fact that he thinks he's the best thing ever, when he's likely worse than the next Michael Vick. All talk, no production at the pro level. You can't be an NFL quarterback throwing underhanded. Maybe he should switch to wide receiver.

The thing that drives me crazy is that I'm sure USC is better than Texas. 12 inches on a 4th down and USC wins. Texas is like that guy you play in Madden who can't really play, unless he plays with the Falcons and runs Michael Vick on you. He's not better than you (neither are the Falcons), he just has a gimmick that he uses because he can't do anything else. That's Texas

GPU's are cool

So, I've been playing through the game "Call of Duty 2" on my pc, but was having problems with it crashing on a certain level. So I did some research and downloaded some software for my graphics card (ATI Radeon x600). Well the software has some really cool things called "SMARTSHADERS", which I'm assuming do some sort of automatic loading of vertex/pixel shaders to your gpu. I created the following image with an ASCII smartshader playing Quake III: Arena on the map q3dm17.

Aaron Zest

So being married is great. It's so much easier than dating and all that other stuff. However, I think I've found out one time being married is not great. The Holidays. Not for reasons you may think. It's not the inlaws, or driving 8 hours to Massachusetts, or any of that. It's the meals. You know how everyone brings something for Thanksgiving/Christmas dinner? Well, when you're living at home, your parents take care of it. When you're married, you and the wife take care of it, or more precisely, the wife and you take care of it. This is bad. Case in point: tonight. Keba decided to take lemon poppy seed bread, which sounds great, except for the fact I had to help (though I don't mean to make it sound like I don't usually help out in the kitchen or make her slave away for dinner). The recipe called for lemon zest, which is when you basically grate the skin of a lemon and then put it in your bread stuff. Well, this lemon zest quickly turned into Aaron zest when the lemon wore away. Of course I didn't realize it for a little bit -- that is, until I got lemon juice in my open wound. Fun stuff. Hopefully the people eating it can't tell the difference ;-).

What do we do?

Keba has had a tough year at her school. It's amazing how limited the knowledge of her 8th grade students is. Apparently, the standardized writing tests for No Child Left Behind do not require correct grammar or punctuation, so the school doesn't teach it or allow teachers to grade for it. Here are some examples from her latest assignment (a mini-biography on Christopher Columbus). I guess the only plus about these is you know they didn't plagiarize. I hope.

This is About Christopher Columbus was a boy that had a Dream. H Found the native Americans and called them indians and carryed deseses and gave it to them.

He said From Europe to U.S.A That were he found the people that he called Indians that was He thout that he saild around the world but he Just Landed in America were Every one got sick From Him and Died.

Another:

Christopher had two dreams and the was going to the sea or China. Christopher was think that he was in China. and he did not go there. Christopher was born in Genoa at Italian City in Mediterranean sea They hear that he was one of the best he world has ever know. Christopher knew about Chine Because he read them Book. Christopher read word By word and read it right. when Chistopher read the Book he take notes on the Book. in all 15th Century people can not read.

Yeah, I'm in Tecmo Super Bowl

Ok, this may be the nerdiest thing I've done in a while, but any child of the early 90's has got to appreciate this. And no, it's not some fancy photo editing. More shots to come...:-)

Yes...I'm still a dork.