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Deanna Does Drexel
In the afternoon today I got my graduation pictures back and I got a burrito from Santa Fe Burrito Company, as recommended by one David McWherter. The burrito was pretty good. The pictures were not, although I have some good blackmail material to get Nick with if he ever shows anyone that Cedar Point picture.
So I mentioned the LAN party in my last short entry... Okay. I went to 30th street station, a little before 5ish, to the Dunkin Donuts, and I got a Pepsi and sat at a table reading The Hobbit. Around 5:05, two guys showed up - they looked like your average college geeks. They were Matt and Micah, two friends of Dave's. I'd talked to Matt on AIM and he convinced me to come to the LAN party thing. We didn't really know what to do for an hour before the party, so we hung out in some research lab (cluster-like thing) at Drexel because Matt was tutoring Micah in something that seemed 211-ish (they were talking about recursion, the Towers of Hanoi, and trees and stuff). I read issues of the Triangle and inserted "helpful" comments into the tutoring. Eventually Matt started working on installing Windows on a laptop for me since the LAN party was BYOM, and I chatted with Micah about RPGs for a while. That was pretty cool. He was showing off Hero, which just seemed really complicated.
At one point Matt was like "I named my computer lambda - can you guess why?" and I just go "What, are you a lambda calculus freak?" and he's like "You know what lambda calculus is! That is so cool!" I made up something about how at CMU, like, if you don't worship lambdas and use combinators every chance you get, people will scalp you and hang you from your ankles in a dungeon. Okay, I'm making that up too. I just mumbled something about LISP, really.
So we went across campus to grab some net stuff from this room in some building that I have no idea which building it was, but Matt couldn't find his key to the door, so he unfastened the grate over the bottom of the door and reached into the room to open the door... while two professors were down the hall talking and watching him. Apparently this is pretty typical, because they said hi and stuff afterwards. We grabbed a hub and some ethernet cable and stuff and went across more of campus to some dorm that I don't know the name of either. On the way I passed by what looked like a huge pickup game of volleyball and another of soccer, and that was nice to see.
In this new place was the LAN party. There were a whole bunch of people there, already in the throes of some random games... looked like some Counterstrike mostly, and a few people playing Nintendo emulators. Also, DDR Konamix was up on a TV, and they had two hard pads. One was the fucking clicky circle-key pad that I hate hate hate hate. The other was way cool though. This girl Kathleen, who had brought the PSX and Konamix, had also built a home hard pad, out of wood and metal and all. It was really neat. She said it took her like two days to build. Anyway. Playing on it was good but playing on the clicky pad was bad. So... I did manage to 0wnz0rz everyone at the party at DDR, at least. (They were like "oh my god, look at that" when I was doing songs like Absolute or Super Star on maniac) The hardest thing I saw anyone else do was like, Paranoia basic, and they failed it... heh. It's sort of funny... I'm not used to being the best DDR player in a room anymore, really.
However, so most of my DDR was played inbetween installing Worms World Party and Quake 3 Arena on the laptop, both of which took a really long time. I played some Q3 on my own while waiting for Micah to get his computer downstairs, and I dunno whether it was the lack of having eaten anything except a burrito and a ton of Coke, or the DDR playing, or what, but I was totally feeling like crap by around 9pm... very dizzy and stuff. I left the LAN room and went out into the hallway and sat around and my head cleared, but when came back in and started playing Quake again, my head got all dizzy... so... much as I felt bad, I helped Micah with setting up his computer a bit and when Matt got back I told him I was feeling like crap and wanted to leave. I hadn't really mingled with many of the other people except to play DDR, so I'm not sure any of them actually noticed me leave since they were all in a big Counterstrike game at the time.
Matt walked me to the subway stop at 34th and Market since it was dark out and I didn't really know the campus... we chatted and gossiped about Dave and talked about Drexel and CMU. He also complimented my DDR skillz. I expressed my regret that I didn't get to sit around and get my ass kicked at CS and UT and Q3 and all. Then I took the subway home. My dad and I tried to order pizza but the Pizza Hut two blocks away was closed. So I got food from Burger King and sat down and have been goofing off on the computer for the past few hours. I was thinking of watching a movie, or of sewing, but my dad fell asleep on the couch and I don't feel like waking him.
I wish I knew what I was doing tomorrow... the options are endless I guess. I wanted to go to NJ to play DDR, but that doesn't appear to be happening. I'm thinking I'll do South Street, and Gameworks, and maybe a movie... or the Franklin Institute... ah, the sky is the limit. I guess I should go see if I can find a map of which buses run down to South Philly on Saturdays. (For GW, not South Street, obviously.)
Anyway, I guess it was certainly an interesting evening, and not a bad evening, at least, and I got to hang out at Drexel, which was wacky. So Dave, if you're reading this, I'm not going to kill you after all.
So I mentioned the LAN party in my last short entry... Okay. I went to 30th street station, a little before 5ish, to the Dunkin Donuts, and I got a Pepsi and sat at a table reading The Hobbit. Around 5:05, two guys showed up - they looked like your average college geeks. They were Matt and Micah, two friends of Dave's. I'd talked to Matt on AIM and he convinced me to come to the LAN party thing. We didn't really know what to do for an hour before the party, so we hung out in some research lab (cluster-like thing) at Drexel because Matt was tutoring Micah in something that seemed 211-ish (they were talking about recursion, the Towers of Hanoi, and trees and stuff). I read issues of the Triangle and inserted "helpful" comments into the tutoring. Eventually Matt started working on installing Windows on a laptop for me since the LAN party was BYOM, and I chatted with Micah about RPGs for a while. That was pretty cool. He was showing off Hero, which just seemed really complicated.
At one point Matt was like "I named my computer lambda - can you guess why?" and I just go "What, are you a lambda calculus freak?" and he's like "You know what lambda calculus is! That is so cool!" I made up something about how at CMU, like, if you don't worship lambdas and use combinators every chance you get, people will scalp you and hang you from your ankles in a dungeon. Okay, I'm making that up too. I just mumbled something about LISP, really.
So we went across campus to grab some net stuff from this room in some building that I have no idea which building it was, but Matt couldn't find his key to the door, so he unfastened the grate over the bottom of the door and reached into the room to open the door... while two professors were down the hall talking and watching him. Apparently this is pretty typical, because they said hi and stuff afterwards. We grabbed a hub and some ethernet cable and stuff and went across more of campus to some dorm that I don't know the name of either. On the way I passed by what looked like a huge pickup game of volleyball and another of soccer, and that was nice to see.
In this new place was the LAN party. There were a whole bunch of people there, already in the throes of some random games... looked like some Counterstrike mostly, and a few people playing Nintendo emulators. Also, DDR Konamix was up on a TV, and they had two hard pads. One was the fucking clicky circle-key pad that I hate hate hate hate. The other was way cool though. This girl Kathleen, who had brought the PSX and Konamix, had also built a home hard pad, out of wood and metal and all. It was really neat. She said it took her like two days to build. Anyway. Playing on it was good but playing on the clicky pad was bad. So... I did manage to 0wnz0rz everyone at the party at DDR, at least. (They were like "oh my god, look at that" when I was doing songs like Absolute or Super Star on maniac) The hardest thing I saw anyone else do was like, Paranoia basic, and they failed it... heh. It's sort of funny... I'm not used to being the best DDR player in a room anymore, really.
However, so most of my DDR was played inbetween installing Worms World Party and Quake 3 Arena on the laptop, both of which took a really long time. I played some Q3 on my own while waiting for Micah to get his computer downstairs, and I dunno whether it was the lack of having eaten anything except a burrito and a ton of Coke, or the DDR playing, or what, but I was totally feeling like crap by around 9pm... very dizzy and stuff. I left the LAN room and went out into the hallway and sat around and my head cleared, but when came back in and started playing Quake again, my head got all dizzy... so... much as I felt bad, I helped Micah with setting up his computer a bit and when Matt got back I told him I was feeling like crap and wanted to leave. I hadn't really mingled with many of the other people except to play DDR, so I'm not sure any of them actually noticed me leave since they were all in a big Counterstrike game at the time.
Matt walked me to the subway stop at 34th and Market since it was dark out and I didn't really know the campus... we chatted and gossiped about Dave and talked about Drexel and CMU. He also complimented my DDR skillz. I expressed my regret that I didn't get to sit around and get my ass kicked at CS and UT and Q3 and all. Then I took the subway home. My dad and I tried to order pizza but the Pizza Hut two blocks away was closed. So I got food from Burger King and sat down and have been goofing off on the computer for the past few hours. I was thinking of watching a movie, or of sewing, but my dad fell asleep on the couch and I don't feel like waking him.
I wish I knew what I was doing tomorrow... the options are endless I guess. I wanted to go to NJ to play DDR, but that doesn't appear to be happening. I'm thinking I'll do South Street, and Gameworks, and maybe a movie... or the Franklin Institute... ah, the sky is the limit. I guess I should go see if I can find a map of which buses run down to South Philly on Saturdays. (For GW, not South Street, obviously.)
Anyway, I guess it was certainly an interesting evening, and not a bad evening, at least, and I got to hang out at Drexel, which was wacky. So Dave, if you're reading this, I'm not going to kill you after all.