Hunger...

Wow, I haven't posted in here for a while! :D

Nothing much to say, school started, 1 more year and all of it's over (atleast, till college, but that's when I'll be in school learning something I want to learn :P) and...lunch time is coming, parents leaving to Colombia tomorrow, 10 days of survival-endurance beginss! :D

Ice Cream Scooper

Look at that picture, tell me what yous see...

That's right, a certain little fatgirl has made it to first place among some 10+ guys in Soldat. Somehow Giselle is Soldat gifted and its funny hearing a bunch of my tourney friends call her a hacker when she plays with them! :D Yea, I've actually been Soldat'n quite a bit. Its really cool when you got a full Soldat server thing going. Now with the third computer (the one I built) I can host a dedicated server there while my mom does some minimum browsing. Then, I don't know why, but I guess it has to do something with Linux, the port actually stays at the one its suppose to be (27073) :D Combine that with my DNS routing at no-ip.com, you can pretty much just click soldat://stealthbarp.no-ip.com:23073 and it should bring you to my server (whens its up of course :P). Its really fun when I get the toureny guys to play, and with 8 people, 2 of em being my sis and I on the LAN with 0 ping, its a blast. I especially love hearing Bleh whine when I throw a knife at him. *Aw...no way..." >:)

I knew it!

It was eventually gonna happen, just like every other blog/journal/diary thing I've tried. I get bored, or distracted and eventually stop. I don't really know why...I do like blogging, but apparently my life isn't exciting enough to write a blog on ^_^. I could write articles and stuff, venting out opinions on stuff, but I don't want to waste my time when no one reads my blog anyway :P I liked the way the blogging at JoeUser.com worked, if I wanted to express an opinion, it would be over there. The main site has a sidebar to the right showing the latest blog posts by everyone. I don't know how blogger chooses its latest blog but I know other people aren't gonna be finding my blog on there. Anyway, I'm usually playing Battlefield 2 and do that for the whole day. So as I said before, my life isn't exciing enough to blog about. And I'm not saying that's a bad thing either. I don't expect to go through dramatic things in my life and if I did, I'd probably talk to God about it and forget to mention it on here :P So yea...right now I'm watching "America's Funniest Hoem Videos" and listening to this guys remix of the "Moon Patrol" game's song. It sounds like he's doing it all with his mouth. You can find a bunch of cool classic game remixes at Ocremix.org.

However, what has happened recently worth mentioning could be:

I have joined the Pasadaran company for this beta campaign of BF2. They're are the spec-ops group of the division. I had to leave Bandar, formerly known as Al-nida, which sucked, cuz they're a lot of fun to be with. But hopefully Pasadaran will allow me to work up some more skills, or allow whatever skill I have to be put to use.

I have gone through...3 distributions of Linux on my laptop already. I had updated my laptop only to get its wireless connection messed up. So, I tried Suse 9.2, only to find it didn't want to start up the X display, which meant I had to do everything through a command prompt. Screw that and I downloaded, burned, and installed the 3 CD Mandrake 2005 LE. This is a nice looking distro, unfortunately it had trouble with my wireless adapter (Intel PRO/wireless 2200BG) and the support for the distro really only comes if you pay for it (it is a commercial distro) so I wasn't able to figure it out. Then I tried Debian, the small FTP install version, only to find that it wasn't detecting my CD drive. I could've installed it using an older 2.4 kernel, but I wanted the newer 2.6, and following a guide I found online didn't worked so I screwed that one too and reinstalled Kubuntu, which has been the only distro to detect everything fine. The only thing is that I have to update my wireless card's firmware and drivers, which is easy with this nice HowTo this guy on the Ubuntu forums made. Ubuntu has an amazing community with a bunch of info on everything you need, its nice to see such a new distro be supported so well, and all for free. Either way, I updated it again and I lost my eth1 (wireless card) network connection again -_-. This time however, I posted it on the forums and expect a solution. I'm eagerly awaiting the next release of Ubuntu, Breezy Badger, which has a goal to completely support Dell laptops (Toshiba, IBM, and HP too). I'll definitely be downloading that off BitTorrent as soon as it comes out in October.

I'm learning to program with a proffesional language ^_^ I have bought "Learning Python", a book published by the wonderful O'Reily people. I'm about half-way and have learned enough to make some simple programs. In fact, I'm gonna try to make my first one soon. It'll be a playlist converter, that takes the standard .m3u playlists files and turns them into the playlist format used by my Samsung MP3 player, because for some reason, it needs a special type that I can't find a program that does it for me.

And so concludes this long post...I wanna welcome back all my Youth Group dudes and dudetts who came back from Guatemala yesterday! :D HI!

Reached Ultimate Goal in BF2

Toook me 3 weeks and a day, but I have finally gotten my Expert Knife Combat badge ^_^ !!!

Another "out-of-the-blue" update:

Once again I have taken the time out of BF2 to do other things that need to be done, I thought I'd have enough interesting stuff to write about now, hence, why I felt like updating my blog. ;)

First off, as usual I have been playing BF2 :P I have achieved part of my goal and gotten every basic badge! You can check out all my badges from that link I posted some days ago.

Next on the list is on my new expeditions into the programming world with Python. I'm trying to learn this language so that I can then step up and learn Pygame. Before I used to use Game Maker, which is awesome and stuff, but the built-in language won't really work outside of GM. Although I have to say, that learning how to code in GM does help quite a bit in learning a real language like Python, because I know a lot of the terms involved in programming and have a very basic idea on common syntax used. When I learn Pygame I plan on writing up a tutorial for all the GM users who'd like to transition to something they can use in the future. :)

Ok, what else...uh...Casbar is evil. He actually killed me in a head to head knife fight. I am ashamed and shall make trying to get him as my number one victim a priority. ^_^

I upgraded my laptop's memory, and now have 1GB of PC4200 DDR RAM. I got it mainly because Battlefield 2 is a resource sucking game, and 512 wasn't cutting it. It runs awesome now, no more sound stuttering, and loading times are just as quick as my desktop! I also bought another Intellimouse since I hate using the touchpad.

I'm sure there was something else...but I can't remember. So I'll just end with a farewell and blessings to all my Youth Groupians who are leaving/left to Guatemala on the mission trip, prayers to all the British families who have been affected by the recent attack, and some BF2 screenies...

Inside some building... 


Crane map with...stuff 


City map, buildings on fire, fogginess of awesome :D 


Some funny thing that happened to the car!  


Notice the kill stuff on the top-left, I shock paddled a guy during our scrim 2 weeks ago ;) 


I guess I'm taking a picture of the water....dock? I don't know, but look, that's my unlocked medic gun! :D 


Look at the awesome fog/mist effects on this jungle map as I man the guns on the Blackhawk... 

Battlefield 2...

...is awesome...

I got badges and STUFF! Uhm...I'm still playing...no life updates except I made it to Lance Corporal today and...you can check my rank on bf.slawed.net

Soo....yea...

I'm lying in bed with my laptop in my lap, waiting for Mom to tuck me in and sing me a lullaby and decided to blog. NO my mom won't sing for me...oh well...

I got BF2 btw...:D

I'm building the comp for my uncle tomorrow, as that's when everything arrives...

K...good night...

Update 2

Yea...so...

We've mainly been doing a whole mess load of crap yard work around the house. We're getting a circular driveway installed and we got to keep the dirt path dry for some reason and its a huge pain laying down the 4 large sheets of plastic and place the heavy stepping stones to keep em from blowing. Our weather has been so evil lately, raining almost EVERY afternoon, beating sun, and its been like that for some weeks now with no ending signs. Sheesh! Lows of high 70s and highs of low 90s. Well, really hhigh 80s, but with this humidity it could easily feel like 100+. Anyway, we went bowling again for Father's Day. I felt so much more experienced and stronger this time ^_^ I acutally got a strike on a play throw with my left hand (I'm right handed :P) and that was cool. Tomorrow I'll be spending all day drawing stuff for people. First the daily "Just Deserts" comic, which has reached 21 strips so far (w00t!), then finish up Holysoldier's LAN strip, then Xb385's sig, then add sumthin' to Bubba's, make Taps', Oz's, Jones', and anyone else I can remember! :D

Also I will be building my second comp. Its for my Uncle Joe, and it will be running Linux! He's tired of Microsoft, Windows, and all the OEM PC's pre-installed crap, and I have the pleasure of spending some $1200 on his machine. Hopefully everything will go just as smooth during the building as it did with my first :)

And...Casbar bought a Jeep on eBay. YAY! :D

Life update:

Ok, a couple of days have gone by, and you must be wondering what has happened since Saturday. Well...

Saturday: I can't remember what I did. :D All I know is that in the evening we went to our Grandma's house. :P

Sunday: Dad's birthday, so we take him bowling. Me and my mom split the cost, and we rent "Ocean's Twelve" for the night. I've seen it before, but my parents hadn't, and I rather have watched that again then rent "Are we there yet?". >_< THere's nothing good in Blockbuster anymore...

And so...today I've finished setting up all my stuff on my new;y reformatted comp. I can't believe I had to call Microsoft to give me an activation ID. I hate Windows. When I first installed it, the comp booted in 15 seconds. But with Windows' highly inefficient piece of crap registry system and who-knows-what built-in mechanisms, after installing most of my programs, boot times shot up to some 35+ seconds. Its not bad, definitely better than the 2 minutes from before, but still.. Linux boots the same speed all the time, regardless of how much you installed (unless of course they are services that you install, but there aren't that many and they take like...0.25 seconds to launch? :P)

Ahh...oh well...

BF2 DEMO Screenies!

BATTLEFIELD 2 DEMO! WOOOO! 


Yummy lighting... 


Fly away! 


Crap... 


I dead... 


Carrier 


I dead again! 


WEeeeeeee 

Ho hum...

Let's see what I got to talk about...

Its funny, how during school when I should've been doing work, I posted up my blogs, and I posted them way more frequently than I do now that its summer vacation and I got all the time in the world. ^_^

SO yea, let's see...it looks like my dad's all hyped up on getting me my permit. He's found out info about the insurance and I got info from Mike on what to do. That's cool, I'll be taking that DATA course soon. I don't get why NOW though, cuz I could've had a license or sumthin by now, seeing as how my "I-wanna-drive" phase was during my year of 15 years. >_>

I'm currently reading a Tom Clancy book, Op-center: Acts of War. I have read all the Op-center's before that too, this one looks like its about some Kurdish terrorists breaking a dam in Turkey (or was it Syria...) and releasing the waters of the Euphrates (yea, thats the river in the Bible incase it sounded familiar ~_^) to replensih the dryness of Iran and...Syria? Syria has something to do with something! :D

Yesterday was a blast playing with Moe and Smitty, versus me and Casbar. Moe is this German dude who uhm...is in Ninja company (i.e. the monkeys) and...he has a little girl, and...he doesn't like Soldat for some odd reason! :D Anyway, it was great. The map we've been practicing on is the map for this week's battle. I just hang around to help the other guys practice, as I'm not playing this campaign. Anyway, the map is Sniper heaven. So many tricky places, pretty much the whole game we were sitting somewhere, or quietly moving from place to place to sit there for another 5 minutes. ^_^ I knifed everyone atleast once I believe...hehehe

And today, today there will be a small, but special "Just Deserts", and I'm gonna start reinstalling some stuff on the new hard drive. I decided to just take everything off of it, move all of Fatty's files and reinstall whatever is needed on to her main drive, so that I can take my 120GB one. Then once everything is done, I'll format the 80GB in this Dell, and move it to the new PC. That one will have Windows 2000 and Ubuntu on dual-boot. Also, I'm trying to this all before 12 noon because the Battlefield 2 demo may be out today!!1! :D

Freeedommm...

Yes, now it is official, there is no more work. We finished yesterday night, and its finally over. So there is goes my first job. In total over the last months as of my first paycheck on January 13th, I've made $3,095.82, not counting the next paycheck I'm suppose to get for this and last week. Overall, I've spent about 80% on electronics (big surprise woooo) with $2,512 going into that! Uhm...let's see, I gotta give about $100 for tithe, $15 for the cellphone bill, and...that leaves me with about $51, plus last week's check should be about $200 and then the last 2 days are $64...so I got $264 to live off of for the next weeks. Oh gee...^_^

Anyway, no updates on what could be my next job. I'm not sure what the deciding facotr is, so I'm just waiting for my dad to tell me more about it when he can. They're coming down from New York (I think I said California before) and they'll be quite East of us, near the beach I was told, so its quite a bit away. I'll either have to take the bus or get my permit! :D

DOH!

Yea, it looks like I still have work...

Oh well, check out the new comic! ;)

Comp pics!

Case, looks bright cuz camera flash... 


Insides, that Geforce2 is now a 9800 Pro...

Radeon right, new card left :D

Ding! ding! ding!

And the final test scores are:
Bible: 97% A
History: 90% A
Math: 90% A
Language: 88% B
Science: 86% B

Yay! Now I gotta finish this project, grade some stuff, get my graphics card installed, finish my last day of work today (YESS!!) do an IOWA test tomorrow.

Also, for a little more info, looks like God is planning a nice big ol' blessing for me. One of my Dad's bosses ask him about me and if I was working. Because they have one of the sections of their business moving to Florida from California and they're gonna be hiring people. And me, having my dad as a connnection, was offered a job there. If my dad lets me, and he's really thinking about it, I'll be working there. This is so awesome for me and I thank God for everything. Its so cool because 1. my first job wasn't a small minimum wage paid job, but a nice $8.50 an hour job, 2. Its only been 1/2 a year and now my job ended, and I get offered with a new one that is 3. professional! This is not like my current job which gets projects and we work, but there's really no room for growing in that business. In the new one, I can grow in rank like my Dad, get paid more, do more, like a real business should be. Its pretty much a jump to work just like my what my Dad is doing now. And all this is happening, and I'm only 16! I mean, how many people are looking for a job whoe are 20+? This is why God deserves all the credit because I've obviously done nothing to get myself into this position, its all by God's grace. WOOHOO! :D

pz0wned

Its here...I built it...pictures coming soon...

Too late...

...I did it...

End of the week...

Boy, I reallly can't wait! There's only 2 more school days left (because of this longer holdiay weekend :D) and it looks like the job might end today, since they didn't give me my freaking paycheck yesterday. They apparently want people to go today, so we'll see if they make some announcement. Anyway, I just check the status on my shipments, everything but the case has arrived at some Ft. Lauderdale FedEx ramp which is cool, but I know they won't ship it to me until the case comes...from TN. They did that last time when my scanner and router came from different places, one of em was here for a day, and I had to wait another so that tehy could give me both. BAH!

Purchase 1: Complete

Processor, Case, CD drive, and RAM have been ordered, and according to Newegg, at status 3, which means they were just charged on the card, all's left is to package and send me my stuff. As for the Geforce, I'll be getting my check today, it will be very small though, as last week was when I got sick, and I missed 2.25 days. Which is...$75ish. MEANING 1/2 my weekly check, so right now I'm left with $227, I'll need atleast $73 so I can get the card, and maybe I can convince my dad to pay the extra $30 that I'm suppose to get back from a rebate. I thought Newegg had taken the deal off, but apparently I was looking at the wrong card or sumthin because it came back o_O. ORRRR if Justin can pull through and use his super-circuit-city-employee powers...^_^ Either way, I'm gonna have to start backing up all my data soon, that'll be a pain. And I gotta make a slipstream disc of WinXP + SP2 for the new comp, seeing as how the comp its replacing will become a Linux box, so hopefully Dell's Windows key wasn't activated yet >_<

Time to eat food!

Snack time!

Yea...anyway, lil update on my job. It will be ending May 30th apparently. We will have 1 month's break until July when the next project comes. So I'll be having 1 month of full summer vacation this June. WOOHOO! I'll be making half of my comp purchase today, since I'm already seeing some of the sales I wanted missing, and I'm not patient. Either way, this is the type of stuff that usually won't go on sale, or is cheap enough as it is. Sooo...only things left would be RAM (which prob will go on sale, so I'll wait for that) and my graphics card.