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Solaration Post-Mortem

So… solar is done. It was great and painful at the same time. But now it is officially over (well it was over a couple of weeks ago, but I’ve been recuperating…). The following is a little glance at the process:

So what do I do now? Go back to school of course. The first week I came back, I had an interim-deadline for a CS project, two exams and one homework. The exams and homework I mostly bombed. I had to drop a course. You see the trend…

On the bright side, I now have about an hour of classes everyday except for Monday and Friday which I have completely off. I also now have something that can fill up a nice little entry on my resume. I “was part of a team that designed a home automation system for a completely solar powered house that allowed the house to function efficiently” I also now have a name in certain useful places in the Engineering Department which is nice. I also made a bunch of good friends. So I think it was all worth it in general.

Lots and Lots of pics here: https://gaddam.smugmug.com/

Going back to “regular life” is kind of nice. I’ve missed my other friends and (as weird as it might sound) my online type friends. I really did miss spending time with ya guys :) But as it stands now, I’ll be around more… whether that is a good thing or bad for some of you peeps.

I have realized that I now have time to work on random things like my website and the media center in the living room (all of which I shall probably be posting about soon).

The remaining courses I am taking now are Computer Architecture and Game Programming. Both are quite interesting. Game Programming is basically a semester long game project.

The Game Programming project is a lot of fun. It’s a lot of work, but a lot of fun. Read more about that at: http://www.entropy.pixelfaction.com


I recently found out that my power supply is apparently not enough for my video card. Which kind of blows. I’ve been having trouble with the card in higher-end games and I think the power supply is the problem. A good one costs about 250 bucks… so.. meh.


I’ve been drinking waaaay too much coffee….


I am currently addicted to TWIT.tv


That is all for now I suppose.