BYU Idaho -- ha ha ha

My sister attends BYU-Idaho. She got into BYU, but not the music program, so she went to BYU-I to be in the music program. Regardless we like to poke fun.

We were sitting at Taco Bell yesterday talking about how they've switched to the equal length trimester schedule, and that she gets out of school at the very beginning of April. To which I responded: "Ah, BYU-Idaho, half the coursework, two-thirds the time--- Wait, will they even know they're being insulted?"

Earlier my Mom was telling my Dad that my sister was going to be taking a Math class. My Dad apparently said, "Are they going to teach her how to count? One potato, two potato..."

That's my family, we get together and make fun of each other for two weeks, make sure everyone stays humble.

CS470 Final Tournament

We ran the tournament today for the Final Project in CS470. It was run in World Cup style where teams were divided up in pools, and then played each person in the pool from both sides of the map. I won 5/6 games in my pool, and moved on to the 2nd round. Unfortunately, I lost a few games in round 2 because my damping code was primitive, and my tanks ended up in orbits around the enemy flag before finally taking it. This delay cost me the match at least twice. But the 2nd round was such that we had a circular winning cycle (think rock, paper, scissors). I could beat 1 guy, but he could beat the 3rd guy, but the 3rd guy could beat me. So after a 1st place winner was decided the remaining teams were played again to determine 2nd place. There were 3 teams, and we played on the Pacman world, so good path-planning was absolutely necessary. I won 5/6 games in this round as well and took 2nd place. So I'm pretty happy with that.

Come to find out the guy that won is actually a grad student, and this is his only class. So it was a bit of an unfair advantage since he was taking 3-credits total, and I'm taking 16. If I had that much time, I probably could have beaten him. Oh well. I did well. I'm happy.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra == Awesome

Last night Lexi and I went to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert. It was the most incredible concert I've ever been to. It was a little on the pricey side, but that's because of the ridiculous amounts of equipment they have, and the 65 people they need to make sure it gets set-up/run/taken-down properly. They have lots and lots of lights, lasers, strobes, and pyrotechnics.

My favorite songs performed: Wizards in Winter (Opening number I believe), Christmas Eve / Sarajevo, An Angel Came Down.

Our Saturday evening concert reports will continue next week when Lexi and I attend: Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square featuring Sissel.

Sorry all

I apologize for not being very blog attentive the last bit. My secret identity blog is suffering the same fate. I had a crazy two weeks or so: Big project due Tuesday (started on Saturday), very important paper due Friday (started Thursday), really important project due Monday (started Saturday, turned in Tuesday), plus all the regular homework and quizzes, as well as cooking dinner for my dinner group yesterday. When I went to sleep last night I had been awake for 40 of the previous 43 hours.

I still have two projects and a paper revision due before the last day of classes, so I won't be terribly blog active; but I might post a little bit more often than I have.

Sadly, I have nothing profound to say at the moment, except I learned how to make a Fusion Bomb, and a Nuclear reactor this week... if only I could get my hands on 35 pounds of weapons grade Uranium....