Nintendogs

Yeah, I bought it. Nintendogs. I was worried that it was going to be really girly, but it turns out that it is only a little bit girly. I really like it though and would recommend it to a friend. It's only $30 and it uses the DS microphone. I got the Dachshund & Friends version. So there's 6 dogs to choose from: Miniature Dachshund, Golden Retriever, Beagle, Pug, Siberian Husky, and Shih Tzu.

I chose the Golden Retriver. He's pretty cool. I named him "Lucky". He comes when I call him and he knows the command "sit". I thought it was a pretty cool way to take advantage of the microphone.

It's a relaxing game. Maybe it'll get boring someday, but so far it's been nice to come home after a busy day, turn on the DS and go to the park and play frisbee with my dog. All virtually that is. Lucky's even won a couple frisbee competitions. He totally kicked butt at a competition last night. I gotta teach him some new tricks sometime.

So, in conclusion, Nintendogs is a fun game. If you get tired of shooting people, give it a try. Not as girly as you'd expect. I'd recommend it.

U of I Geologists

As the earth turns, the center of the earth turns even faster.

Confirming assertions first made in 1996, a team of geophysicists are presenting data in the journal Science today showing that the earth's inner core, a ball of solid iron larger than the moon, spins faster than the rest of the planet. Over a period of 700 to 1,200 years, the inner core appears to make one full extra spin.

That extra spin could give scientists information about how the earth generates its magnetic field.

The inner core, 1,500 miles wide, sits at the center of the planet, ensconced in a sea of hot liquid metal known as the outer core. With nothing to hold it in place, the inner core can rotate independently. Nearly a decade ago, two scientists at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University said it did just that.

Other scientists, however, questioned the analysis, which was based on the speed of earthquake waves passing through the earth. Subsequent attempts to pin down the inner core's rate of spinning produced a wide range of answers. Some said it spun, but at a much slower rate than the Columbia scientists claimed. Others said they could find no sign that the core was out of step with the other parts of the planet. Some said it seemed to be spinning at a slower rate, not faster.

The same researchers who made the original claim, Paul G. Richards and Xiaodong Song, now a professor of geology at the University of Illinois, led the new research, which they said should remove any remaining doubts.

While it does not precisely pin down how much more quickly the core is spinning, Dr. Song said, "what this particular paper shows is it cannot be zero."

The New York Times

Nintendo Revolution

So they say, "the Revolution is compatible with GameCube controllers." Dailygame.net

C. S. Lewis

If I have not directly helped the cause of reunion, I have perhaps made it clear why we ought to be reunited. Certainly I have met with little of the fabled odium theologicum from convinced members of communions different from my own. Hostility has come more from borderline people whether within the Church of England or without it: men not exactly obedient to any communion. This I find curiously consoling. It is at her centre, where her truest children dwell, that each communion is really closest to every other in spirit, if not in doctrine. And this suggests that at the centre of each there is a something, or a Someone, who against all divergencies of belief, all differences of temperament, all memories of mutual persecution, speaks with the same voice.

-C. S. Lewis

Update

The trip to Arizona was fun and summer is quickly coming to a close. During these next two days I hope to complete a variety of errends. Little things like taking out the trash and doing laundry and pretty big things like working out the details of full time employment after I graduate in December.

The new chicken sandwiches at McDonalds are bad. I wouldn't recommend them. Oklahoma toll roads are just as bad. I wouldn't recommend them either. Who ever heard of a three dollar and fifty cent toll. It's ridiculous. If that's their way of saying, "Welcome to Oklahoma," they can count me out next time. I'll go around before I do that again. I'd rather drive through Texas anyway.

Zelda won't be out till at least April 2006. Gamespot

In two days I'll drive back home to see my sister. She challenged me to tetris attack. Unless she's been training with some sort of tetris expert these past few months, I'm definately going to win pretty much every time. Tetris attack is a great game; I'd definately recommend it.

Just testing out my new phone.

Just testing out my new

Just testing out my new phone.

Texas was great by the

Texas was great by the way, complete with boots, cowboy hats, and pretty girls that said, "y'all".
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New mexico isn't flat, so

New mexico isn't flat, so it's definately the prettiest scenery between here and chicago.
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That last post was my

That last post was my most beautiful blog ever.
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A quote from dave, "scott,

A quote from dave, "scott, i'm not gonna be impressed, . . . no matter what you do."
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Cool Friends

I watched "The lost skeleton of cadavra" with my friends. They didn't seem to like it. Except for Alisha. Alisha laughed. She's definately my new coolest friend.

Scott with binoculars 

Chair

My roommate accidently broke my chair. It was a good chair. I was sad to see it go.

Classes

Sometimes I forget what classes I'm taking in the fall, so I'm going to post them here for future reference.

Intro Differential Equations - MATH 385 11:00 am - 11:50 am MWF Henry Administration Bldg 156
Actuarial Theory I - MATH 471 3:00 pm - 3:50 pm R Altgeld Hall 341
Actuarial Theory I - MATH 471 12:00 pm - 12:50 pm MWF Lincoln Hall 106
Actuarial Risk Theory - MATH 476 9:00 am - 10:20 am TR Architecture Building 302

I'll probably try and switch the Thursday discussion section to 4:00 pm instead of 3:00 pm. That way I can work at State Farm from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm on Thursday and 11:00 am to 5:00 pm on Tuesday. I think that's all the class info I wanted to have a reference to. I should really put this on my website instead. I was thinking about putting my bookmarked websites on my own website, that way I could quickly go to all the places I need even if I'm at another computer. Ah well, what's done is done.

Here's a picture of me and a co-worker at the park. I have a dumb smile, but it's a smile all the same. Good times, ... humid and good times.

Volleyball

Yesterday we played volleyball. It was way too hot to play volleyball. Why did we play volleyball you ask? It all started about a week ago.

It was a nice cool summer day and I was busily working at the Gladiator Arena. It was thursday and I had to get the lions really angry for tomorrow night's fight. The lions were a fierce and dangerous match for most, but not for someone with strength and valor such as mine. As I fearlessly ... I think I'm getting off topic. A messenger came with word from Gladiator management.

On July 25th, the interns for the Bloomington Gladiator Arena will be visiting us here in champaign. They will arrive at 11:00. At 11:30 we will have lunch at Papa Del's, after which we will be playing volleyball at hessel park. Bring clothes to change into.

No one would have known how torturously hot it would be the following week. Well, next week came, like next week always does, and I think I almost dehydrated. Three bottled waters were no match for the blistering heat that day. I was left dizzy and fatigued. Plagued with a mind-numbing headache, I desparately tried to carry on. Only time would heal these near fatal wounds.

I'm exaggerating a little bit, I don't really work with lions.

Good times

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