I'm happy.....i'm feeling fine....

Now, when you read that title I will be sorely disappointed by everyone (except BJD) if Clint Eastwood doesn't immediately come to mind. No, not THE Clint Eastwood but rather the Gorillaz song Clint Eastwood. Why does BJD get a free pass...well except for Evanescence there has been no good bands in several years (don't remember the year he states).

Anyway, I just got back from Mellow Mushroom where Kc, Kenny and I went to eat this afternoon and we met up with his buddies from work Mike D and Brian (not me) and then Brian's wife (blast I cannot remember her name). I also got Matt D and Cbot to come as well. Much laughs were had and some good grub as well. I ordered a calzone with all of the parts of a pig that they had plus tomatoes and extra cheese. It was very good, but I could not finish it so our waitress (Ginni) boxed it up for me and the labeled it 'pig parts' for me since Kc also had some left over as well. So Cbot drew a very awesome pic of a 3 legged pig for my 'pig parts' box. Why three legs? Cause I ate the other one, MUHAHAHA!! Anyway, here is a pic of the box for posterity.
Now, I drew the shiney stuff all around it otherwise it would have only been a plain jane piggie but now....this piggie is the Ultra-Rare Extremely Sneaky Piggie with Extra Cheese!!!!!

Well, I don't think I posted this but the new ACM Treasurer found an undeposited check totalling $770.70 which was beyond the 90 day validity period printed on the check. After the treasurer did some digging, she told me today we have the money and it has been deposited into our account. Thus, I am glad to announce to the world....the ACM is no longer ghetto broke!!!!

We finally got a faculty to agree to accompany the programming teams up to Starkville MS for the programming contest. But I am so sick and tired of the advisors who do jack nor squat for us. Even the previous advisor is extremely agitated and soar about how they are handling the ACM. We have even spoken about getting a different faculty advisor to replace the ones we have now.

It looks like I will be the team coach for the ACM teams competing in the Regional programming contest which is to be held at USA this fall. Several of the people who read this blog may be asked to help out and all I have to compell you to do this is some food and a year of free membership to the ACM.

A friend of mine, which is my former roommate back in the dorm days, sent me an interesting article on Windows Vista (you can read it here). The article hit it pretty square on the head I thought.

Oh, I SO saw a reference to my blog on the Today show on NBC.... No, it wasn't actually MY blog but it was an author who has written a book called "The Wright 3" and the segment was called "The Wright Stuff". Nothing too special I guess but I can say underhandedly that my blog was on national television...but not really...but it was!!

Adios
~Kisea

No big surprise here...

The student advisory council was no surprise, I had prepared stuff to talk about but the talk session was not on the agenda this time. We 'critiqued' some stuff for them after our free breakfast and got out of there. After that Jeremy, Melissa and I talked for quite a while then when it started to get nice and hot we went to the ACM office. We talked some more then gave into the Quake urge.

Saturday was the crawfish boil over at Mark's house. I got there about 2pm and didn't leave until about 2am. The sausage was a bit spicy but the crawfish was pretty good. I would not say I love it but it was pretty good. There should be plenty of pictures from this event on the webpage in the near future. Kenny and Kc came as well as Vickie (Vicky?) and her two brothers who were in town from elsewhere. Finally, Kc makes a nurse friend which isn't crazy (lol i had to say it). After the crawfish we played a couple games of Halo 2 and then we broke out the Munchkin. Four hours and two games later Matt and I leave.

Sunday, I was kinda useless. I was tired and stuff but I did watch Doctor Who. I do believe that I will like David Tennant very much, I came to this realization after watching Doctor Who Confidential where he was wearing an Atari t-shirt. But, he is a good actor and plays the role well.

Today, I found out that the professor who was going to drive the group up to MSU for the programming contest had to bow out for some reason. So, today I was scrambling to find a replacement to drive the SGA van. I have to admit, there is something wrong when the faculty is more lazy than the student body. Exhibit A: I gave the faculty a survey to fill out to help the ACM guage their interest for speaker events and to this date I have received a grand total of 4. Exhibit B: every faculty kinda laughed and said no when we asked them to do this for us. But one good thing, most of the faculty avoid me because they think I may ask them for something.

Also, we are working on a couple things for the ACM. We are working on an RSS feed for the events page, a website for the programming contest this fall, and a cafe press site to help benefit the ACM. We currently have a store at CafePress.com/ACMSouthAlabama where all of the proceeds go to the ACM. We want to replace some of the computers and monitors we have in the ACM Office but this takes money. We also want to boost the Innovative Hardware fund up and we always want to contribute to the scholarship fund. So, keep checking the cafepress site for new stuff being added and if there is something in particular you want then email the ACM chapter.

~Kisea

Student advisory council time...

So, Thursday morning is the Student Advisory Council meeting with the Dean and Chairs of the CIS department. I know myself and Jeremy have been tapped from the student body and I will have to wait and see about the rest of the 'council'.

Why do I always get a creepy feeling when I am supposed to meet with the dean? Well, I could probably answer that pretty easily but I will not put that on my blog. If you want to know, then ask me at Picklefish...and buy me a beer while your at it.

So, its tuesday and I was thinking what I want to discuss with them if they even listen to me. So, as some of you reading this have graduated/is going to graduate/have taken classes in CIS then email me or leave me some comments by Wednesday night at midnight about some of your thoughts on the department and the curriculum. Maybe you will help stimulate something in my mind.

So, now that is out of the way its RANT TIME!!!

I ordered some shirts from think geek last week. I selected my shipping and everything and got my tracking number. So, DHL picked up my package in NJ and headed out towards Mobile with my precious shirts in tow. They arrive here in Mobile and were on the truck to be delivered. Needless to say, I was quite anxious to get them. So, when I got home from school the package was not on my doorstep. I do my usual things around the house and eventually get to my email where my tracking number resides. I check it and it was updated with "Package delivered successfully to USPS". I was puzzled and had that puzzled look on my face. I even did the typical dog-tilt-head-looking-puzzled pose that animals do when they are intrigued or thinking 'WTF Mate?!?'.

Apparently the DHL @Home delivery method is they act as intermediary from the shipper to your local USPS. Then from there the good ole USPS is relied upon to deliver your package. So, back to my story now. USPS received my package on Wednesday April 5th yet I still have not received it. I got a number to USPS to check on my package from DHL but it doesn't do me squat since its not one of their numbers. This is really ticking me off. So, I would have to recommend staying away from DHL @Home service if you can, its the devil I tell you!

End of RANT.

BTW, Crawfish boil at Mark McCleary's house. Its an ACM event off campus so we can hang out and cut up as we wish. If you don't like Crawfish then there are other options such has hot dogs, sausages and veggies. As for me, I am seriously considering getting a good steak to grill. So, if you want to go eat crawfish to your hearts delight or if you are like me and want to bring your own grilling material, or just want to hang out to drink some beers (BYOB) and maybe even play some console games then email me and i'll send you the info. Several of the faithful readers should have it in either their inbox or maybe it fell into your spam box (tisk tisk). Just reply to Mark to RSVP so he can get enough crawfish or to just let him know your coming but you don't like those mudcrawlers but you want to hang nonetheless.

Peace out
~Kisea

Its finally over...

The 18th Annual ACM Awards Banquet is finally over. The complaints were very minimal and trivial while the compliments were many. So, in the last four weeks we have gone from nearly canceling the banquet to actually coming out in the black. This is a huge step in the right direction for the student organization which has recently seen some of its darkest days. Its a huge relief that we came out in the black from this.

On top of all of this, we uncovered a check written to the ACM (I believe from SGA) which was never deposited from a year or more ago. It has sense been put into the unclaimed funds of the state and we are going to go forward and try to claim this money. Hopefully we will be successful and we will be in much better shape.

So, back to resting for me...

~Kisea

The way-back machine...

I was cleaning off some stuff from my notebook and I ran across some old pictures that I thought I would share. (hopefully my roommate will not stab me in my sleep for this...)

This is Kc with Adelayda at bayfest before someone in the band quit.
Sugar Ray concert pic
Better than Ezra pic
My boy smokey on my bed.Ok, here is a road sign I took a picture of on the way down to the ACM Programming contest.
Teammate: Jarred Azevedo giving a thumbs up to the accomodations...
Teammate: Jeremy Blair, fiddling with a lock. Doesn't he look better sans mustache?
Some of us had never seen the Atlantic ocean, nor had we set foot in it. Thus, since we was the highest ranking USA team our coach drove out of our way to treat us to the ocean.
Like I said, we dipped our feet.
Again, in true nerd style we are drying our feet off before leaving.
Since Jeremy was the shortest, he had the honor of sitting behind Mr. Whitston. I didn't know Harry Potter could grow a mustache...Jarred being the backseat driver... ask those two guys how the trip went from the back seat ;)
Now, check this one out. Its hippie Harry Potter (look at that hair). Anyway, those are what Jeremy have/is working on. I think he should work with something else for his masters if he even is considering a Ph.D. but Doran has him brainwashed or something....so sad.

~Kisea

Not as funny as bloodninja but...

its still funny nonetheless.

Rabidplaybunny87: Okay, so my neighbors officially hate me
GarbageStan23: why?
Rabidplaybunny87: Well, me, david and andrew were having a bonfire in the backyard, and we were making s'mores and all... and suddenly we here sirens, and see a firetruck turn into the street in front of us.
Rabidplaybunny87: So we all went running to see what was up, and our neigbor's house was on fire!
GarbageStan23: oh shit!
Rabidplaybunny87: Yeah, and when we got there, the wife was crying into her husbands arms, and we were just kinda standing there, and then she saw us, and then like for 10 seconds, gave us the dirtiest look ever
Rabidplaybunny87: Turns out, we were still holding our sticks with marshmallows on it, watching the fire....
Rabidplaybunny87: talk about bad timing...

lol

~Kisea

Shiny new threads....

I guess you could consider it multithreaded, but not in the way most of us nerds would first associate the word. I trekked out with the intentions of purchasing a sports jacket for my dress getup. Being a person who is lacking in those genes which helps a person choose clothing which would be considered 'professional' or 'formal' I asked two women to accompany me in this endevour.

So, I was racking my brain about who should I get to help. Kc was first because well...she lives under the same roof as me but she is not so good at the formal wear as she has informed me of this on multiple occasions. Then Christy, naturally, was next on my list and I get an affirmative. Then Casey, who is an avid shopper and seems to possess good style. We then set a time and place to rendevous for this outing (which was today).

We began the shopping experience at JC Penny where the first person I saw was Virginia who was a friend of Matt's. We figure out what size jacket I need and proceed to look around. From there we went to various other stores and somewhere in the middle we were shopping for dresses for said women. While you may be thinking that this may be boring, but I get to walk around while they are shopping and look at all the other cute women shopping as well. Although many were too young, I treat it like a menu at The Pillars or something, look all you want but just don't touch.

Anyway, we exhaust our options in the mall and by this time the women are hungry so we hit the Chinese buffet. I ate earlier so I only partake of the sweet tea and chat with the ladies. We then decide that we have one last shot for this day so we head to Burlington Coat Factory. We could not find a good sports jacket in my size, but we did find some suits. Thus, I now own a suit. I cannot say that I look good in it because i'm quite biased by my own image. But, they said it looks good on me so I have to trust them. Either that or they were just tired of helping me find a jacket ;)

Now that I am a proud owner of a suit, I must find more soiree's to go to so I can get my money's worth out of it. I guess you always need a suit for something but I have gotten by this long without one. Well, I guess I can look all swanky for Jarred and Katie's wedding. Maybe even try my hand at being a 'wedding crasher' a la the movie. Naa...

On banquet news, I think we currently have about 75 tickets sold for it excluding any more department awards tickets. I guess thats not too bad. Now my question is, 'who is going to front the money?' cause none of us in the ACM can afford it. We shall see.

Darnit, I need my guitar now. Especially since I have this spiffy new suit....

~Kisea