The New Year
31 December 2008 | Jason
Last night Marie messaged me to tell me “yo you haven’t blogged in a while.” Well, here it is. And why is it that I need to be yelled at to blog again? Is it because I’ve been away from the internet? No… that’s not it. Is it because I’ve done nothing? Partly, but still not the main reason. It’s because I like to take my breaks and do nearly nothing. It is a nice change from the normal having too much to do and no time to do it.
I guess I should summarize what I’ve been up to. On Christmas Day, my parents and I went to our cousins on the other side of the city for a birthday party. We didn’t make it home until after midnight. The next few days were uneventful, although I began trying to find an alternative for the broken Xbox360 and Rockband. I found FretsOnFire and Unsigned. They both work with the console instruments and are both free. The problems are that FretsOnFire doesn’t support vocals yet, at least that I can find, and Unsigned seems to have less of a community to help. I was able to obtain all of the Rockband and Rockband 2 songs for FretsOnFire and will hopefully be able to play it on the reuse machine that I got. Yay for IAP projects.
Monday was an MIT Club of Colorado meetup for alumni and current students. It was nice to see how many alumni there were and how successful they were. Later that day, I went to see Benjamin Button. Warning: that is a 3 hour long movie. Get comfortable. It was a very … interesting movie. Especially when the old man who was 7 could definitely be seen as a pedophile going into a little fort with a little girl. My break has not consisted of much besides trying to fix OpenSUSE and its wireless problems. NetworkManager doesn’t want to work properly. And playing Pokemon with Vivian.
OpenSUSE had a festive GRUB menu for Christmas. The penguins were animated too. ^_^
Okay, now I need to get ready to go out with a Yalie and watch New Year’s fireworks.
Don’t be lazy and do nothing. Your friends will yell at you.