July 27, 2006 Bravo: Up too late last night, so I'm beat. However, I'll probably be very well rested for tommorrow. Bravo: RFK Stadium. It was really amazing. I didn't know such a dump could exist. Great baseball game last night, though. You cannot ask for much more than a bottom of the ninth, come from behind victory. Bravo: Austin Kearns, for ending the game in the bottom of the ninth and not sending it to extra innings. That would have been a killer. Bravo: Me, for updating, but not putting an away message up proclaim it. Bravo: My hacked forums. They rule. I, however, have no idea what it says. Bravo: Lance Bass for being gay and admitting it. There's got to be a bad joke connecting that and cosmonauts, but I can't think of it. Bravo: DC, the best of the big cities July 25, 2006 Bravo: DC Boo: Life kind of going nuts for a while there Bravo: Me. Good ol' me. Bravo: Family Bravo: The diehards Bravo: Seeing Rachel T. and Mervman C. for the first time in a long ass time Boo: The GSI fighting back hard Bravo: An update that noone will ever see because I haven't done so in like at least 6 months Bravo: Finding out that people out there that you hadn't talked to in years are still out there Bravo: The brave new world that is my life Bravo: Meeting with people at the complete opposite end of the spectrum from me, and realizing that I have the complete potential to span the spectrum Bravo: Levi being resigned Bravo: My Odell Page. I need to update it, though, to include his most recent situations. Cut me some slack Bravo: Going the longest I've gone without driving a car since my freshman year of college. Fuck the leash (and the vagina)! Bravo: Classic old school joke that noone will see because I'm the worst blogger ever Bravo: Me being me, the greatest dude in the world. Bravo: Seeing Barry tommorow night, as well as Felipe and Austin Bravo: Seeing a new ballpark tommorrow, even if it is crappy RFK. January 27, 2006 Bravo: Atlanta till thursday, wish my luck on my poster presentation. January 24, 2006 Bravo: 6 prelims taken, 6 prelims passed. Awwyeah. No need to make special rules for this mo' fo' Boo: The idea of qualifiers in the future...the near future. Can't I just get a break? Bravo: My new favorite website, Deadspin. I regret not knowing about it sooner. Where else will you find out about a fight between Snoop Dogg's and Luther "Luke" Campbell's youth football teams. January 21, 2006 Boo: Me needing to rant Boo: The asshole bartender at Molly Teals (dude in the red shirt, you know who you are). He was too busy drinking with his friends and flirting with girls to fucking do his job. I asked him to cash me out. Thirty minutes later, I still hadn't gotten my card. Finally, I flagged him down again, and he was all "what's your name?" He totally blew me off the first time. The second time I at least got my card. Their incompetent staff lost two credit cards of people during the half an hour I was waiting. One, ok...but two? TWO? I was convinced my card was lost. But no, the bartender was just a dipshit. Molly Teal's was my favorite bar in Huntsville. But that's strike one... Boo: Strike two. The band they had last night. The band was simply the worst cover band I've ever seen. Music Fest at St. X (is that what it was called? I can't even remember) had better cover bands. Dave Dryer's band was a better cover band than this. They were terrible. The guitarist sucked. The bassist was the most sterile bassist ever. The drummer could keep a beat, but didn't really strike you as good, per se. I really pitied them, because they were just bad. I mean, I really felt bad for them. Until they touched Pink Floyd. Most of you know that I am really into Pink Floyd. Like religiously into Pink Floyd. And this band, the worst cover band of all, decided to do The Wall in about 10 minutes. And let me tell you, it was bad. It was offensive. I wish I could possibly explain how bad it was here, but I can't even quantify it in words. Boo: The arrival of self-checkout in this world. This is a huge complaint of mine. Today at Walmart, the lady in front of me took like five minutes per item. She somehow had it rationalized that if something doesn't scan when placed on the scanner, the way to solve that is to push on it. Not move it side to side, mind you, but push it straight down onto the scanner. She would put her entire weight on the item. She was smashing her boxes of crackers. Also, these lanes have somehow made it more acceptable to have less real cashiers. For some reason, the express lane cashiers seem to be the ones to go. This is the problem with our nation today. I can understand machines replacing humans to an extent. I cannot understand machines replacing humans in service positions. As this lady proved, americans are simply too stupid to be able to scan their own groceries. Bravo: I feel better now January 20, 2006 Bravo: One of the world's great mysteries has been solved. Bravo: Friday afternoon Bravo: Almost Atlanta time Boo: Got to make better progress on my poster today than I did yesterday. You know, by actually putting information on it instead of simply trying to make it as ugly as possible. Bravo: Me, for updating for the fourth consecutive day Bravo: Doug. Happy Birthday Doug. Bravo: Baseball soon Bravo: Friday January 19, 2006 Danny Graves after coming back from his trip to Vietnam Boo: Danny Graves for trying to make the jump from baseball to acting for a role in Big Momma's House 3 Boo: Danny Graves had to go to Vermont to marry his wife Boo: I'm just in too much shock to come up with a good zinger Bravo: Fat baseball players. I'll have to photoshop that picture somehow. Bravo: The fallen mighty January 18, 2006 Bravo: So far, the rumors floating about my preliminary exams is positive. I'll give the final input when I get it. I do know, however, that I definately passed remote sensing. Heard other rumors, but they are second-hand. Bravo: Got my hacked version of my radiative transfer code to work. Right now, it is running, but I sense it will take much less time to run than before. Before, it took about three hours to run, and each iteration seemed to take about a second (135 lines * 90 elements/line = 12150 elements. 12150 elements * 1 sec/element * 1 min/60 sec * 1 hr/60 min = 3.375 hr) We'll see what the official runtime is as soon as it is done. The program itself has some additional work to be done, but most of it will not be overly intensive (getting solar and viewing zenith angles, lats/lons, etc. directly from the HDF files, creating and writing output files). Bravo: Just finished running...14 minutes, 17 seconds. That's pimp. It may not seem pimp to you, but it's pretty fucking sweet to me. Bravo: Neil, for posting in the forum. I'm back, bitches. Bravo: MODIS is 16-bit? No sir, Sundar, MODIS is 12-bit! I'm totally correct. Bravo: Work getting done January 17, 2006 Boo: The death of football for the season Bravo: Carson Palmer, who against all odds, will rise like a phoenix from the ashes. Bravo: My website Bravo: Finishing the prelims, or at least the first round Bravo: My lovely fiancee, and seeing her over christmas Bravo: Seeing Neil and Sam over christmas Boo: Missing everyone else before they left town Bravo: Beth, I'd boo her for not walking the two blocks to see me, but I can't be mad at her Bravo: The unexpected reemergence of Claire Davis. I'm glad she reemerged so that Tara had a friend going into New York. Boo: Monday Holidays. I totally just sat at home yesterday, and my god, there is nothing on TV on mondays. Seriously, now I know why people work. Bravo: Less than a month till pitchers and catchers report Bravo: Hockey season Bravo: The UAH Chargers finally looking as good as they should look saturday afternoon Bravo: Alexander Ovechkin is a beast. It would be one thing if it was a fluke, but he totally meant to do that. Bravo: Doug does Mesoamerica Bravo: The start of a new 24 season December 12, 2005 Bravo: My tribute to the greatest Bengal on the defensive side of the ball, Odell Thurman November 22, 2005 bravo: going home October 14, 2005 Bravo: Me. Boo: Work, school, etc. Bravo: Hockey Boo: Overslept because I lost power last night Bravo: You, if you are the first person to tell me what Wildman Walker did in the 80s to make himself a local celebrity in Cincinnati. Brad and I were discussing this, and we both think there was something. However, for the life of us, we cannot figure it out. Bravo: Updates galore October 11, 2005 Bravo: A good weekend in valpo Boo: Being so freaking busy that I didn't even get to see everyone I wanted. Feel bad about it. Boo: Lack of the claus Bravo: Figuring out one of my problems which had been bothering me for about a week. Intel's fortran compiler does something funny with the math of the mie code when optimizing the code. So I guess don't optimize it. Bravo: Mie theory is pretty neat Bravo: My fiancee Bravo: Getting to see my sister and erik saturday Bravo: an update September 12, 2005 Bravo: BENGALS Bravo: Twenty years and one day after 4192 Bravo: BENGALS Bravo: Rudi Bravo: Carson Bravo: CHAD~! Bravo: Chad being OK after scaring the living shit out of me. Bravo: The one high five of yesterday's game took place when Brad and I heard the announcers say that Chad only had a cramp. Bravo: PJ, for being correct September 9, 2005 Bravo: A real update Bravo: Friday Boo: Lack of motivation on a friday Bravo: The unholy uprising of blogs. So many people I know have blogs these days, but suprisingly, none of them are women. Just an observation. Bravo: Sunday, the only day of the year where I get to use my alltime favorite away message. I certainly hope I don't forget to put it up. Bravo: No, it has nothing to do with football Bravo: You'll just have to be online at some point sunday if you want to know what it is. Bravo: The angry people Boo: Bush, for appointing some unqualified idiot to the head of FEMA. Boo: Bush and the republican congress, for being far more responsible for this than any republican will ever allow you to believe. Bravo: Kanye West, for stating it like it is. Bravo: Keith Olbermann for possibly doing the first worthwhile thing he's ever done in his life after sportscenter. Bravo: The fact that Michael Brown has been removed from heading the Katrina recovery. Boo: The fact that he still has a job otherwise Boo: Bush and the republican congress, for not forming an independant investigation on Katrina unpreparedness. They won't do an independant one because they know they've fucked up. Boo: The fact that I am more qualified to lead FEMA than Michael Brown. Boo: The similarity in name of the FEMA director and the owner of the Cincinnati Bengals Bravo: Me Bravo: Me for President, 2008 Bravo: Neil for Hamilton County Sheriff, whenever Bravo: Me Bravo: You Boo: The religious right in this country who pray for the death of others Boo: The death of Reinquist Bravo: The fact that Bush didn't bump Scalia up to Chief Justice. I think the fact that they've got two guaranteed confirmation hearings did indeed help against that idea Bravo: I bet Antonin, Dick Cheney's ol' huntin' buddy, feels let down Bravo: What an update Bravo: Hot forum action Bravo: The new front page (even better if the sound works for you...works for me) September 8, 2005 Bravo: McDonalds is the place to rock. It is a restaurant where they buy food to eat. It is a good place to listen to the music. People flock here to get down to the rock music Bravo: Rock and Roll McDonalds Bravo: Rock and Roll McDonalds Bravo: Rock and Roll McDonalds Bravo: Rock and Roll McDonalds Bravo: McDonalds will make you fat. They serve Big Macs. They serve Quarter-Pounders. They will put pounds on you. Bravo: Rock and Roll McDonalds Bravo: Rock and Roll McDonalds Bravo: Rock and Roll McDonalds Bravo: Rock and Roll McDonalds Bravo: McDonalds hamburgers are the worst. They are worse than Burger King. A Big Mac has 26 grams of fat. A Quarter-Pounder has 28 grams of fat. Bravo: Rock and Roll McDonalds Bravo: Rock and Roll McDonalds Bravo: Rock and Roll McDonalds Bravo: Rock and Roll McDonalds Bravo: Wheaties, breakfast of champions September 7, 2005 Bravo: Keith Olbermann for Putting things the way they need to be put. If it dies, here's an Alternate Link. He pretty much said exactly what I've felt. I know it is sad to say it, but I've lost the last little bit of hope I had for this country within the last week. September 3, 2005 Wow: Requires Windows Media Player Bravo: Wow. September 1, 2005 Boo: Katrina Boo: The Damage Bravo: All my family members from the New Orleans area being safe...Katie and Erik in Cincinnati, Mary in Houston trying to get to Cincinnati, Robby and Traven in Panama City, Ray in Houston (I think). They all lost a lot, however. Bravo: Doug Boo: Gas jumping from $2.56 to $2.69 to $2.99 in 24 hours Bravo: Everyone is safe. August 24, 2005 Bravo: Quick chat with Neil, always wonderful Boo: G77, the Fortran "compiler" Bravo: Me Bravo: An update (TWO IN A MONTH) Bravo: First class tommorow, with Dr. Han, who rocks Bravo: Atmospheric Radiation II. Can't wait, honestly. Boo: That bitch president of UC. Bravo: Bob Freaking Huggins Boo: Anyone that gives a penny to UC from this point forward Boo: Interim Head Coaches. They never work. Bravo: Marvin, the last great coach in Cincinnati August 18, 2005 Bravo: Me for updating Boo: David Pollack for being a bum and signing too late. He missed training camp, and now he'll likely be worthless for the rest of the year. Hopefully not for the rest of his career. Bravo: Bengals anyway Boo: Sketchy fantasy baseball moves Boo: Dave Chappelle. He's lost his damn mind. He's not Brando. He's not good enough to get away with being nuts. Boo: I'm cold Bravo: Sushi July 15, 2005 Bravo: Me, Master of Science Bravo: Being done with the defense Bravo: Me Bravo: Me, for updating Bravo: Me, for being only one step away from being referred to as Dr. Will Bravo: Science, my slave Bravo: Everything and everyone Bravo: Being able to lie down today June 3, 2005 Boo: Getting that first draft back Boo: Having a lot more work to do Bravo: Hot Forum Action. Keep it up. Boo: Me for not updating too much Bravo: The game. Here's the next hint: It involves a male who once resided in Cincinnati, but currently resides in the New England area. Bravo: Neil, for just at this moment becoming the first winner of the game. May 20, 2005 Bravo: Completed First Draft of my Thesis. Bravo: Me, for completing my first draft of my thesis. Boo: Having to read over it before I give it to Gary next week. Bravo: Me, Superstar. May 18, 2005 RIP Frank Gorshin 1934-2005 Boo: The death of Frank Gorshin. We've lost the last great villan from the old Batman shows. Romero in 1994, Meredith in 1997, and now Gorshin in 2005. I don't consider Catwoman one of the great villans since three different people played the role. Bravo: You, if you question the fact that I exclude Catwoman but include the Riddler. You are obviously astute minded, knowing that John Astin (better known as Gomez Addams and Buddy from Night Court, to me anyway) also played the Riddler on two occasions. He sucked, though, as the Riddler. Bravo: Buddy was, however, a great character from Night Court Bravo: Frank Gorshin May 17, 2005 Bravo: The game. Bravo: The solution to the game should be readily apparent once found, but finding the link may not be readily apparent. Bravo: Someone will congratulate you when you find the solution. Bravo: The second clue is "wife-beater" Boo: Back to thesis work Bravo: Me, for having 64 pages done on my thesis at this point May 15, 2005 Bravo: The first hint of the game. The hint is that I hate something to the left of the hidden link. Bravo: An uncharacteristic sunday update Boo: The only purpose of this update is to put this link in which i need for my thesis, and doesn't really mean anything to you. Bravo: You, for clicking the link anyways May 12, 2005 Bravo: An update Bravo: Megaproductivity yesterday Boo: Hungry already, and didn't bring a lunch Bravo: Big announcement! I've created a game for you to play. Somewhere in in the world of will-o-rama, there is a secret link. Find it, and you might just get a suprise. No hints, though. The rules are that a) it is, at this point, confined to www.will-o-rama.com, and is therefore not in the forum and b) I have no idea what the suprise will be, if there is one and c) looking at the HTML source would make it easier, but also take out the fun. If noone finds it, the next update, should I remember, will contain the first hint. Bravo: The game. Let the game begin. Boo: I should be working instead of updating Bravo: Me. May 9, 2005 Bravo: Me, making thesis progress Boo: Me, for taking a break from progress to update Bravo: Me, for updating Bravo: You, for still having faith Bravo: Baseball Boo: Reds, they're bad Bravo: Once again, 4.0 GPA for Will. Still haven't overcome those two B's to reattain dean's list, though. Right now my GPS is around 3.79 and I have to have a 3.85 for Dean's List. I'll make it, I tell you... Bravo: Summer, therefore no classwork to interfere with work work Bravo: This cup of coffee Bravo: A great weekend Boo: Second place in fantasy baseball Boo: My horrible pitching staff Boo: Ben Sheets and his dizziness Bravo: An Update. Eat it up, Love it up, Do my thesis. May 8, 2005 Bravo: Mothers Day. Happy Mothers Day to the coolest mom ever. April 26, 2005 Boo: Me, for not updating Boo: Not updating because i'm in full blown thesis mode, on top of finishing up for the end of the semester Bravo: Me, for being me Bravo: Me, for taking time out of my busy schedule to update Boo: Forum inactivity Bravo: People missing my updates Boo: Me, for making people miss my updates Bravo: The offensive anagram you can make out of my name Bravo: Having ~20 pages of my thesis done Bravo: Baseball Boo: My fantasy baseball pitching staff Bravo: My fantasy baseball batting lineup Bravo: NFL Draft Bravo: The Bengals' first two picks Bravo: Particularly, the bengals' second round pick, Odell Thurman Bravo: To a lesser extent, based on his web skills, the Bengals' first round pick David Pollack April 15, 2005 Bravo: Neil's Birthday Bravo: Go Neil, it's your birthday. Go Neil, it's your birthday. It's your birthday. It's your birthday. Go Neil, It's your birthday. Bravo: Neil's Birthday April 5, 2005 Bravo: Sushi for lunch Bravo: Sushi in general Boo: Sushi being expensive Bravo: Sushi being delicious Bravo: My sweet-ass sweet MPL program Bravo: My choosing of an official Case Study Boo: Waiting for it to process Bravo: Forum activity. Let's keep it going Boo: Recent smoothing of forum activity Bravo: Great days like 3/26 Boo: Chris teasing me with photos from my suprise party, but not yet posting them Boo: Has it really been 10 years since then? I'm fucking old as hell. Bravo: Feeling a little better today than the past few Boo: Ending this update because i need to blow my nose April 4, 2005 Bravo: The Pope Bravo: The Pope's life Bravo: The Pope's Legacy Boo: Having to refer to the next Pope as The Pope. I've only ever known one pope, so we was "The Pope". Bravo: This program which pulls out the Micropulse Lidar data for a specified time that I wrote. It is sweet-ass sweet. Boo: The mark-ass tricks who decide to put everything into annoying formats like netcdf. Bravo: The dude who wrote the program that magically generated half my program Bravo: Me Boo: The Mets Boo: Pedro and his 12 (thusfar) strikeouts Bravo: Baseball season is upon us March 31, 2005 Bravo: Sidney Ponson is a fat man Bravo: Photoshop is fun Bravo: The original Sidney Ponson picture is at this link Bravo: Being engaged Bravo: Easter candy Bravo: Tons of jambalaya ingredients Boo: No lunch Boo: Lack of motivation March 30, 2005 Bravo: Yup, you heard correctly, I'm engaged Bravo: Louisville still being in the tournament Bravo: Me, for ripping shit up Boo: Having to give a presentation in about 3 hours Bravo: Me, for proposing to my girlfriend all sweet-like Bravo: Those of you who wished me a happy birthday in one way or another Bravo: Jeni, for also having celebrated a birthday recently (last thursday, I believe) Bravo: New Orleans Boo: This stinking presentation Bravo: Me Boo: Not Me Boo: My stomach being kind of upset. Don't know if it is nerves about the presentation or what Bravo: Me March 11, 2005 Bravo: Le Proposal is out of my hands. And complete, as far as I know. Bravo: Dr. Zeng, on her successful defense of her disseration Bravo: Friday Bravo: No power outage this weekend, as I had thought, so I can come in and work this weekend Bravo: My question being a good question at Zeng's defense Bravo: Today just feeling like a good day Boo: No motivation to work March 10, 2005 Boo: Having to switch to crisis mode Bravo: Spinning down from crisis mode Boo: My crisis. Today, I'm arriving to work, with about 10 minutes before Cody's Thesis defense. I come to my office first and check my email. Turns out that the fellowship proposal had to be across the street by noon today. This was, well, a bit sooner than the "tommorow or so" that I had been planning on. So yeah, panic mode kicked in. Bravo: Getting everything together by noon Boo: Missing Cody's defense Bravo: Cody K., M.S. Boo: Nerves still being shot Boo: Sealed Transcripts Bravo: Me Boo: Chair, MIA Boo: !equals, MIA Boo: Still needing a letter of recommendation Boo: Four or five other people from my department trying for the same fellowship Boo: The fact that it greatly reduces my odds Bravo: I'm doing the research anyway, and it'll kick your ass so hard, you'll be pissing blood for a month March 8, 2005 Bravo: Me, for being me Boo: Me, for being hungry and going to lunch, even though I shouldn't Bravo: Lunch, because lunch is good Bravo: Me, for making good progress Boo: Dan Patrick *STILL* talking Bonds and Steroids right now. Seriously, can't we talk about something else? Bonds is the best, deal with it Bravo: Fried rice, cheap and easy to make Bravo: BEANS Bravo: Tuesdays March 7, 2005 Bravo: Me, for making some good, old-fashion progress the last few days Boo: Me, for having a buttload of stuff to do otherwise Boo: The building, for shutting off power this upcoming weekend Boo: Me, for caring more about my work and less about my homework Bravo: Me, for caring about my work Boo: Seminar presentations Bravo: New Orleans Bravo: Fried rice is cheap and easy to make Boo: The disappearance of Doug. He might have been going away, though. Boo: Beth for being depressed about her breakup, even though I didn't know she was un-single. I'm so out of the loop these days (to clarify, I'm Booing the fact that Beth is sad, not booing Beth for being sad) Bravo: All the Cincinnatians who keep the forums going Bravo: 24 Tonight Boo: Me hungry Bravo: Bean burrito for breakfast. Toot. Bravo: Burritos in general, god's gift to man Bravo: I'm done with this, back to work March 4, 2005 Bravo: My cousin Lisa for helping me out Bravo: Me, for being the man Bravo: Friday Bravo: Last night being the start of the formula 1 season with two practice sessions Bravo: Gum Bravo: Me not eating meat today. Hopefully, I won't forget about it this time, as I have a tendency to do such Bravo: Fish for dinner Bravo: No Boos Bravo: GMT March 2, 2005 Bravo: Me remembering to finally replenish my gum supply Bravo: Wrigley's Extra, peppermint flavor. There simply is no better gum on this planet Boo: Lack of luck finding a good convection case. Gotta check some SPC logs maybe. Darn limitations on domain and time Bravo: You for reading Bravo: Me for updating. I didn't know if I actually would today Bravo: Me, for being a good boyfriend Boo: Late night headaches from too much reading of the computer screen Boo: My glasses. Worst glasses ever. The anti-scratch coating on the lenses is bubbling up. If it weren't wednesday, I'd probably stop by lenscrafters, even though I've been having this issue for ages. Boo: Class at 4 in the afternoon. I have grown tired of it, and I usually enjoy class Boo: Short update Bravo: The start of the F1 season this weekend Bravo: The start of the IRL season this weekend Bravo: Will-o-maniacs March 1, 2005 Boo: vi almost messing up the entire website Bravo: Me, for not acting too quickly and letting it do such Bravo: Me, for know what vi is and how to use it Bravo: A little forum loving here, a little updating love there Bravo: Me, for making will-o-rama your favorite spot on the internet Bravo: Revision 3 on my part is to the boss Bravo: The Chair is accepting of our concept to bring him onboard Bravo: The Chair getting reappointed Bravo: Courtney finally had gum Bravo: Me Boo: Not me Boo: The republicans trying to insert wording into the budget allowing drilling for oil in the arctic national wildlife refuge Boo: The fact that this country voted these idiots in Boo: The fact that it won't, in any way, significantly reduce this country's dependence on foreign oil Boo: No one can stop them Boo: The fact that I can't even watch the daily show anymore because this country made me lose faith in it so much Bravo: The fact that I watch Adult Swim and numb myself to the pain instead by watching idiotic television Bravo: Canada Boo: Condie Rice cancelling her trip to our northern neighbor because she is unhappy with them Boo: Our current state of the union Boo: Bush and his non-attempts to make me feel less disappointed in the country February 28, 2005 Bravo: Me, for updating on two consecutive mondays Bravo: A fantastic weekend Boo: Typo Mark, pointing out all my Typos Bravo: Indiana, for voting on accepting Daylight Savings Time like the rest of the civilized world. Boo: The fact that it will probably be voted down Bravo: Short Update Bravo: Forum Activity Bravo: Guestbook Activity Bravo: Me Bravo: You Bravo: Pen Bravo: Maurice Clarett, for making my day February 24, 2005 Bravo: Having it pointed out that it is against the agreement signed by merchants to require a minimum amount for credit purchases: 9.12.3 Minimum/Maximum Transaction Amount Prohibited A merchant must not require, or post signs indicating that it requires, a minimum or maximum transaction amount to accept a valid MasterCard card. Sect. 9.12.13, page 2-21 of MasterCard's Merchant Rules Manual Bravo: Girlfriend coming tommorow Boo: Work to be done today Boo: Being hungry already, and not planning on eating lunch Bravo: A return of activity to the forums and even on the guestbook. HOT FORUM ACTION. HOT GUESTBOOK ACTION. That's why you people come here. Bravo: Getting to work at a reasonable hour Bravo: Cold apartments make me get up earlier Bravo: Today will probably be more of a thesis day than a proposal day...Need to get my mind back into it Boo: Going to Martini's and having noone show up, drinking a beer by myself Boo: Getting home and having a message on my machine saying that they were going to the station, a building and a parking lot over Boo: Me, for not carrying my cellaphone, thus making my lonely escapade likely my fault Bravo: Me, for updating on this fourth consecutive day February 23, 2005 Bravo: Me, for updating on three consecutive days Bravo: My girlfriend is coming to visit this weekend Bravo: Barry Bonds Bravo: Sanford and Son references at a press conference Bravo: The first good night of sleep in I don't know how long, and boy was it good Bravo: Clean clothes Bravo: Optimistic update today thusfar Boo: Still sad over the death of Hunter S. Thompson Boo: Rolling Stone for taking forever to even mention it, and when they did, it was just an article...I'd like to see the next issue be nothing but old articles of his, but the magazine is a reflection of America, and will probably have something about Ashlee or Jessica Simpson or some other inconsequential musician of the modern times who will be forgotten within five years of the end of their career. Oh but Jessica Simpson is so talented and likable. She's stale. Oh she's so dumb! I don't buy it...it's her gimmick, she's playing this country like a fiddle. She was only second tier until people started noting her tardisms, and suddenly she was bigger than Spears and Aguilera. Boo: This country's love for the dumb Boo: People who profit off the the previous statement, to become pop stars and presidents Bravo: Knowing that if I don't drop the ball, I have funding for my Ph. D. Bravo: The chance that the funding may come from a NASA Fellowship. I really hope it does, because I think we have one heck of a proposal. It is, however, very hard to get and very prestigious if I do Bravo: Mah and Pah for helping me out this week Bravo: White Castles Boo: Krystal Bravo: Good meat shops in the 'Nati Boo: No Good meat shops in the 'sville Bravo: Neil's triumphant return to the forum Boo: Neil's posts now only account for 27.9% of posts, from my calculations Bravo: "Goodbye, Good Doctor" -- Doug (since his post got MODERATED UP IN HIS FACE, and his sentiment was of good-intention, I decided to give him a mention here) February 22, 2005 Bravo: Me, for updating on consecutive days Boo: Me, for still being depressed by the death of a hero Bravo: You, for reading Bravo: All my loyal will-o-maniacs Boo: Loyal will-o-maniacs who don't perpetuate the survival of this site by posting on the guestbook or the forum Bravo: Those who do add in the survival of this site Boo: The fact that I tend to go on streaks where I work against the survival of this site Boo: Not being able to remember how much longer I have with this site. I think i'm at or near half way...after that, i'll have to pay or something, and that'll blow (update: I guess I could just scroll to the bottom and see when my first entry was for an estimate...) Bravo: Getting some work done lately Boo: Yesterday not necessarily being one of those days Boo: Hungry without a lunch Boo: Its 10AM and i'm hungry...way to early to already be hungry. Boo: No Cash, because I want veggie fried rice because it is cheap but they won't take plastic for less than $5. Boo: Me, for withholding myself from the Sonic Breakfast Burrito, aka the greatest fast food breakfast product on earth. This is why I am hungry...never turn your back on the breakfast burrito Bravo: The Sonic Breakfast Burrito February 21, 2005 Hunter S. Thompson Rest in Peace Two poems from Stew Albert Boo: Waking up to find out that Dr. Thompson had taken his own life. There are plenty of good tributed to him out there, and I couldn't possibly do him justice Boo: Losing the greatest mind of a generation, who Richard Nixon once dubbed a "walking embarrassment to the human race" Boo: Losing the greatest sports writer of all time, and the last readable thing on ESPN.com's Page 2. The link is withheld because there is nothing worth reading there anymore Boo: "It's just a disgrace to an entire generation," commented Dr. Thompson, in response to Bill Clinton announcing he hadn't inhaled marijuana Bravo: The life of Dr. Thompson February 10, 2005 Bravo: My glorious self Bravo: Getting my kitty fixed Boo: Poor kitty has to spend a night at the hospital, making poor drago lonely during the day Boo: Me, for getting worried about her Bravo: Feeling a lot better about my work and health Bravo: Starting to write my fellowship proposal for my Ph. D. work Bravo: Getting some new 3D-Var system up and running here, which will probably save some effort on my side Boo: Having to figure out what 3D-Var is, exactly Bravo: Bengals Bravo: Me, for updating twice in a week Bravo: A new project with Josh, whick will revolutionize the internet, though likely not as much as will-o-rama revolutionized the world Bravo: Contact with people I've long since lost contact with Bravo: Having kept contact with some fantastic people, particularly those who are keeping a pulse in the forum (Jeni, John, Bob, PJ, and Beth) Bravo: A wonderful girlfriend Boo: Me, for giving people props who requested props. Against my policy, typically Boo: The forum seems unmoderated... Bravo: Neil, because I love him anyway Boo: The Dean, because if you don't like the dean, he still likes you Boo: Kirk Cameron. Odd how PJ brings him up while I was researching Mr. God himself like yesterday or the day before. Did you know that his fiancee on Growing Pains was fired because Kirk Cameron didn't like the fact that she was in Playboy or something. So then they brought in his real wife, who was a lot uglier. Similarly, producers of the company quit after Kirk Cameron accused them of being pornographers in a phone call to the president of ABC in the middle of the night. I bet Tracey Gold's anorexia was caused by Kirk Cameron. His sister at least married a hockey player, even if it is the lesser of the Bure brothers. Bravo: Willie Aames, of Charles in Charge fame. If you're gonna pick a washed up actor who is a born again christian to follow, I'd strongly suggest Aames over Cameron. Willie Aames at least is the christian superhero. Bravo: I didn't eat meat yesterday Bravo: my readers February 8, 2005 Bravo: Me for updating Boo: Me, for being too busy/sick/lazy to have updated on any consistent basis lately Bravo: Feeling a lot better after being on the brink of death last week Boo: Still not being 100% (I'd rate myself at about 85%, but 85% of Will is about 100-times that of a normal man) Boo: End of football Boo: No hockey to fall back upon Boo: Last hockey series of the season this weekend Bravo: A series against Air Force, typically a heated battle Bravo: A series that is must win to maintain hope for the #1 seed in the conference tournament Bravo: Me Boo: Not me Bravo: A blip of activity in the forum Bravo: The Forum Boo: Bush Boo: Bush's Budget Bravo: One of the select government programs to get more money is NASA Boo: Its probably all earmarked for that mars crap Bravo: Getting some semblance of positive results on my research after weeks of quite the opposite Boo: Results still not good enough to make me happy Bravo: Me working my ass off Boo: Me not working right now to update my long forgotten website Boo: You, for neglecting the forum Bravo: Me Boo: Corey Dillon Boo: Ex-Bengals Bravo: Current Bengals January 18, 2005 Bravo: from a 1983 issue of Teen Beat magazine January 13, 2005 Bravo: Me Bravo: Me, for straight A's again, even if it was only for one and a half classes this time Bravo: Me, for updating Bravo: Me, for narcissism Bravo: My family, for giving me an excellent christmas Bravo: My girlfriend for giving me an excellent post-christmas and making coming back down here a heck of a lot easier Bravo: Unclaimed baggage Boo: CBS, for apparently aquiring the rights to four F1 races this year, which cannot be good Bravo: MLB Players for overriding the union leaders and demanding a more stiff drug policy Bravo: Mac and Cheese, homemade style Boo: Mac and cheese, homemade style Bravo: This update Boo: Icebox, the shittiest machine in the world, going down again, leaving me without data Boo: Being completely swamped with stuff to do, but having no data to work with Boo: Yup November 13, 2003 to December 6, 2004