the life and times of endenizen » 2005 » November

Link - http://grouphug.us

This site is all about anonymous confessions. If you’ve visited it, you know that most are some version of “I want sex with that chick” or “I got dumped and now I hate everything” or:

ok i am going out with a really great guy- i feel different around him. i really like him- and he really lieks me. but i get this need and urge to hang out with my friends and go to shows or a club and jsut be like single- not that i want to be- cuase i always want a bf lol. so i knwo i could go to a club - i jsut wouldnt liek kiss or hug or anything. can i still flirt. i really liek my bf though- man

Kinda like livejournal but shorter, more annoying, and you can’t hate on anyone in particular cause they’re all frickin anonymous. I got as far as the second page and was about to close it when I found:

I never wrote that thank-you letter to my grandma.

That’s cool. Honest and not self-centered. Though this has no bearing on what that person will do in the future regarding their “grandma” it’s nice to see some sign of real people in the mess that we call the internet. Yay for real people! I just found another one.

My middle name is Cornelius.

Apparantely our school president is a child molester. Or, if not that, a professor at Western Michigan University is bored of using examples with fake people. This’ll make ‘em listen up in class, eh? Craig has the official report straight from the guy who heard someone else say it.

( name changed to protect the… innocent )

hot hot atem: my professor just used an example for being charged with crimes, “lets pretend president baily was caught molesting little children in her presidential mansion”
hot hot atem: im pretty sure she is gonna get fired for that one

Isn’t the internet fun?

It’s finally done! I haven’t gotten more than 4 hours of sleep in the past 3 nights. As you can imagine, this made it kinda hard to finish a 20 page paper, an 5 page paper, and 2 other assignments but somehow I managed it. Well, actually I should mention that the 20 page paper was a little short at about 15 pages… but the 5 page paper turned out to be 8 pages so that makes up for it. Even though they’re for different classes. Ok ok, back to the PL4N.

Once again, we gathered at Western Michigan University’s Parkview Campus for the Parkview LAN Party. About 35 gamers preregistered but the actual number who showed up was somewhere around 25 or so. It was a lot of fun but it was also a lot of work. We ended up canning the Battlefield 2 tournament because only 3 people signed up for it but the rest went on as planned. Well… ok so the Counterstrike one didn’t go as planned cause we didn’t have enough for 2 full teams… but we played for a while and the top 5 gamers in terms of score each got a $5 Best Buy gift card. The Quake 4 tournament was interesting to say the least, as we attempted to use the built-in tournament server mode. This proved to be a little awkward, mostly because I couldn’t find anything about it online, but it all worked out in the end… except for a couple people who couldn’t even get the game to work right.

Oh well, thats what I get for trying to run a tournament with a game that came out 2 weeks ago.

The next PLAN is scheduled to be at the end of March so mark your calendars! We’re currently PLANning (*chuckle*) on another two-day event but we may change it to a long one-day thing (noon-4am or something).

alpha ( main computer - likes lan parties and power )

• Shuttle barebone - ST61G4
• Intel Pentium 4 - 2.6 ghz
• 1 GB Kingston PC3200
• Seagate 160 IDE 7200rpms
• Creative Audigy 2 6.1

jerry ( linux server - likes irc, big storage and long downloads )

• Kingston black full tower, side window
• Abit KT7A RAID
• AMD Athlon 1 ghz
• 768 MB ram
• 3x 120gb Western Digital
• 1x 250gb Western Digital
• Ubuntu Linux (Breezy Badger)
• 4x green led fans

prodigy ( laptop - likes wireless access points and long walks on the beach )

• 40 gb 5400rpm hard drive
• 1.6 P4 cpu
• 14.1″ 1024×768 screen

xbox ( media center - likes networks and samba shares )

roxy ( “table computer” - assists with groundbreaking research in the fab lab )

• K6-2 400Mhz cpu
• 15gb hard drive
• Ubuntu Linux

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