work, DDR, charlie's angels, old friends, etc
Gaaaaaahhhhhhhh.
Okay, work first. I am a little behind on stuff. I might have to go in this weekend sometime. Sigh. But I had a good lunch outside with like the whole team, which was fun. Hemant and I ate almost an entire can of pringles between the two of us today, too :( Later in the afternoon I heard![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
binde laughing from all the way down the corridor. You know what that made me realize?
TODAY MARKED EXACTLY TEN YEARS SINCE JUNE 27, 1993, THE FIRST DAY I SET FOOT ON THE CARNEGIE MELLON CAMPUS.
Yes, that's right. Ten years ago I spent my first day on CMU campus, beginning the summer that totally changed my life. Ten summers ago I decided not to pursue music but to pursue computers and math instead. Ten summers ago I learned that tons of other smart kids were out there and that it was easy to make friends in a group like that. I learned how to dance, to program in Fortran, to play volleyball, to survive on no sleep, to fit 33 people into a Wean elevator, to play Mao, to do a 3-3-10 juggling pattern, to prove arctan(pi/4) = 1, etc. It really was the best summer of my life and I came back a completely changed person.
I wonder if PGSS is starting now? I wonder if there's a whole new group of kids just waiting to have the best summer of their life :)
Anyway, so after work I got picked up by my friend Dave Quinn, who some of the CMU folks might remember... we went to a Thai restaurant with Brian Grunkemeyer, which was just really fun. The three of us all started at CMU as freshman computer science majors in the fall of 1994. It was REALLY fun to hang out and we just talked about lots of random crap for a while... then we decided to go see the new Charlie's Angels movie! So we went to the Loews Meridian and got there like 9, but the 9 and 9:30 were sold out. Doh!
After a short debate we bought tickets to the 10:10 show, and went to Gameworks to waste time before the movie. The counter chick at GW convinced us to buy a $25 card for the 3 of us instead of spending $10 each, because we'd get $35 credit on it. So we did... Dave and Brian wanted to see me play DDR. I went up to the EX machine and there were annoying little kids on it, but they left, and there was a teenage guy who was going to play, and he offered to let me play with him, so I did. I got on the 2P side and picked Spin the Disc as the first song and AA'ed it. He then picked Twilight Zone, which let me tell you was not fun on a full stomach but I did okay. Then I played White Lovers so we'd get an extra stage, and random picked Feeling of Love. It was kinda funny because I don't think he realized that I'd actually be any good at DDR. After one of the songs, Dave said "Damn, Deanna, you're really good!" and the guy playing was like "Oh, you're Deanna from Team Seattle, err, I mean, from the Seattle BBS?" I wasn't sure what to reply, so I just said "Yeah, I'm on the BBS... who are you?" "I've posted a few times, I'm Mike, I post as rocthemike." "Oh! Yeah, you said you wanted to meet people. It's nice to meet you!" So I smiled and we finished our set and talked for a while after. He's a nice guy, hopefully he'll manage to meet up with more BBS people in the future. Anyway, that was odd because I didn't want to be like "NO I'M NOT ON TEAM SEATTLE" but I kinda felt like I was lying to ignore it altogether. Oh well.
Anyway, I wowed Dave and Brian with my 1337 skillz apparently, and then we went around and played a bunch of driving games like the Indy 500 one and whatnot, and Brian and I played Soul Calibur together for like 20 minutes, that was kinda fun. At 10pm we decided to go back to the theater... we had $14 left on the card and the guys gave it to me ("You can use it to practice DDR!"), which was nice of them :) And we saw the movie. It was really good, I liked it a lot... at least this time it was totally tongue-in-cheek about all the silly jokes, and there were a lot of cool fight scenes, and overall it was just entertaining, a lot better than you'd expect. Plus some weird-ass cameos, but let's not go there.
Dave gave me a ride home after the movie and he came in for a little while to chat, and he met Eli, and it was kinda cool, and hopefully we'll all get to hang out again sometime... it's neat to reconnect with people you haven't seen in 5 years. Apparently there are bunches more out here that I wasn't aware of... yay for CMU alumni.
Okay, work first. I am a little behind on stuff. I might have to go in this weekend sometime. Sigh. But I had a good lunch outside with like the whole team, which was fun. Hemant and I ate almost an entire can of pringles between the two of us today, too :( Later in the afternoon I heard
binde laughing from all the way down the corridor. You know what that made me realize?TODAY MARKED EXACTLY TEN YEARS SINCE JUNE 27, 1993, THE FIRST DAY I SET FOOT ON THE CARNEGIE MELLON CAMPUS.
Yes, that's right. Ten years ago I spent my first day on CMU campus, beginning the summer that totally changed my life. Ten summers ago I decided not to pursue music but to pursue computers and math instead. Ten summers ago I learned that tons of other smart kids were out there and that it was easy to make friends in a group like that. I learned how to dance, to program in Fortran, to play volleyball, to survive on no sleep, to fit 33 people into a Wean elevator, to play Mao, to do a 3-3-10 juggling pattern, to prove arctan(pi/4) = 1, etc. It really was the best summer of my life and I came back a completely changed person.
I wonder if PGSS is starting now? I wonder if there's a whole new group of kids just waiting to have the best summer of their life :)
Anyway, so after work I got picked up by my friend Dave Quinn, who some of the CMU folks might remember... we went to a Thai restaurant with Brian Grunkemeyer, which was just really fun. The three of us all started at CMU as freshman computer science majors in the fall of 1994. It was REALLY fun to hang out and we just talked about lots of random crap for a while... then we decided to go see the new Charlie's Angels movie! So we went to the Loews Meridian and got there like 9, but the 9 and 9:30 were sold out. Doh!
After a short debate we bought tickets to the 10:10 show, and went to Gameworks to waste time before the movie. The counter chick at GW convinced us to buy a $25 card for the 3 of us instead of spending $10 each, because we'd get $35 credit on it. So we did... Dave and Brian wanted to see me play DDR. I went up to the EX machine and there were annoying little kids on it, but they left, and there was a teenage guy who was going to play, and he offered to let me play with him, so I did. I got on the 2P side and picked Spin the Disc as the first song and AA'ed it. He then picked Twilight Zone, which let me tell you was not fun on a full stomach but I did okay. Then I played White Lovers so we'd get an extra stage, and random picked Feeling of Love. It was kinda funny because I don't think he realized that I'd actually be any good at DDR. After one of the songs, Dave said "Damn, Deanna, you're really good!" and the guy playing was like "Oh, you're Deanna from Team Seattle, err, I mean, from the Seattle BBS?" I wasn't sure what to reply, so I just said "Yeah, I'm on the BBS... who are you?" "I've posted a few times, I'm Mike, I post as rocthemike." "Oh! Yeah, you said you wanted to meet people. It's nice to meet you!" So I smiled and we finished our set and talked for a while after. He's a nice guy, hopefully he'll manage to meet up with more BBS people in the future. Anyway, that was odd because I didn't want to be like "NO I'M NOT ON TEAM SEATTLE" but I kinda felt like I was lying to ignore it altogether. Oh well.
Anyway, I wowed Dave and Brian with my 1337 skillz apparently, and then we went around and played a bunch of driving games like the Indy 500 one and whatnot, and Brian and I played Soul Calibur together for like 20 minutes, that was kinda fun. At 10pm we decided to go back to the theater... we had $14 left on the card and the guys gave it to me ("You can use it to practice DDR!"), which was nice of them :) And we saw the movie. It was really good, I liked it a lot... at least this time it was totally tongue-in-cheek about all the silly jokes, and there were a lot of cool fight scenes, and overall it was just entertaining, a lot better than you'd expect. Plus some weird-ass cameos, but let's not go there.
Dave gave me a ride home after the movie and he came in for a little while to chat, and he met Eli, and it was kinda cool, and hopefully we'll all get to hang out again sometime... it's neat to reconnect with people you haven't seen in 5 years. Apparently there are bunches more out here that I wasn't aware of... yay for CMU alumni.
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wonder where/how he is now? hmm.
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You also played The Chairman's Game? Wow. I vaguely heard it was played in elevated geeky circles worldwide. Of course, transatlantic traditions might not quite be the same, but that would only be part of the fun... :-)
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It's all as Deanna describes, at least for some people. (I was one; can you tell? Deanna was my TA.)
P.S. I don't think I learned mao until I got to Cornell, actually. Blame Deanna!
*jealous*
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I remember teaching them a swing lesson in Hammerschlag with Kara Pivarski like eons ago (Iains ago?). Did you put me up to that?
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Hi Trey, I didn't realize you actually read LJ at all, since you never post :)
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