First- a little housecleaning: I know there was no edition of Sex or of Confessions this week. Feel free to contact Matt or Kari with comments on that :-).
On Wednesday, I went to the Erwin Center to hear President Clinton speak. I am not going to dive into the political message of the lecture but it was an amazing experience. I was able to score seats in the second row of the regular folks (floor level was for VIPs of some sort) and afterwards, I was almost able to shake his hand.
An important topic to discuss: the game of pool. This weekend, I spent the weekend with my brother and an old college friend of his (they met while they were completing their degrees in Mechanical Engineering at the University). In his house in Kyle, he has an amazing UT Sports room with signed baseballs from the National Championship Baseball team, signed mini-basketballs, signed footballs, signed baseball cards and who knows what else. What I really liked about the room was the orange-felt pool table complete with UT pool cues. It was excellent. Pool is one of the classic social games. You talk and converse around the table- it’s social. You have to think about the angles, ball approaches and strategy- it’s academic. You can go to the pool hall and play for a couple bucks an hour- it’s affordable. Currently, I’m horrible at it. Not good at all (So yes, Lambdas, if you need a self-esteem boost, play me Thursday night starting at 10 p.m. at the Lambda Social at Buffalo Billiards on Sixth Street. Ladies come out out!).
Next, I was reading an e-mail that I had received from one of the newsletters I’m subscribed to- it mentions a town who is “literally broke” and their method to get money is to build a tourist attraction. A theme park? A water park? Bats that live under the Congress Street bridge? No, a lava lamp. That’s right, they want to build a giant 60-foot lava lamp to attract tourists. Check it out.
A real quick thing- the new “UT Student Regent” box on the left is showing the status of two bills in the Texas Legslature, Senate Bill 211 and House Bill 719, designed to place a student regent with voting power on the board. It’s been something that has been talked about for a long time now and it has the most force behind it this session than it has had before. I’ll be updating it about weekly from information found at the Capitol Website.
Something I forgot to mention, this weekend I played Super Mario Brothers 3 and Super Brothers 8. The former may sound familiar, the latter probably does not. Reason? While Super Mario Brothers 3 was a fan favorite game of the Nintendo Entertainment Center (NES, ya know? the original… back from 1985… an 8 bit system… the control pad, start, select and the A & B buttons?), Americans never saw Super Brothers 8 because it was only released in Japan. While out in Kyle, my brother’s friend has a Japan NES-style system (I can’t read the characters on the device, the games or in gameplay so I really don’t know) with a handful of games. SMB 3 has the exact same game play except I couldn’t read any of what the text said. Super Brothers 8 felt much like the originial Super Mario Brothers but game play wasn’t as nice. There was Mario- except he carried around a hammer. He couldn’t jump on his enemies but had to hit them with the hammer. Or, you go could some sort of something (no idea what the icon was) which gave you a flame thrower. It reminded me of the fire flowers from the American series but it wasn’t a flower and I couldn’t tell what he was shooting it out of. It is also much harder than the SMB American games. Well, it is if you play it like an American SMB game- there was no turbo so you couldn’t hold down B and jump early. I leapt to my death many times. Anyhow, I’ll comment it on it more later when I play it a bit more. 🙂
I’m going to keep this week’s brief since I have plenty of homework I have before me. Key things to remember: homework is vital. Even if it’s stupid. It proves something- you have work ethic. If you can prove you have work ethic, you will be more attractive to businesses than someone with little work ethic but raw talent. Maybe this is where experience over education comes into play…..
On Wednesday, I went to the Erwin Center to hear President Clinton speak. I am not going to dive into the political message of the lecture but it was an amazing experience. I was able to score seats in the second row of the regular folks (floor level was for VIPs of some sort) and afterwards, I was almost able to shake his hand.
An important topic to discuss: the game of pool. This weekend, I spent the weekend with my brother and an old college friend of his (they met while they were completing their degrees in Mechanical Engineering at the University). In his house in Kyle, he has an amazing UT Sports room with signed baseballs from the National Championship Baseball team, signed mini-basketballs, signed footballs, signed baseball cards and who knows what else. What I really liked about the room was the orange-felt pool table complete with UT pool cues. It was excellent. Pool is one of the classic social games. You talk and converse around the table- it’s social. You have to think about the angles, ball approaches and strategy- it’s academic. You can go to the pool hall and play for a couple bucks an hour- it’s affordable. Currently, I’m horrible at it. Not good at all (So yes, Lambdas, if you need a self-esteem boost, play me Thursday night starting at 10 p.m. at the Lambda Social at Buffalo Billiards on Sixth Street. Ladies come out out!).
Next, I was reading an e-mail that I had received from one of the newsletters I’m subscribed to- it mentions a town who is “literally broke” and their method to get money is to build a tourist attraction. A theme park? A water park? Bats that live under the Congress Street bridge? No, a lava lamp. That’s right, they want to build a giant 60-foot lava lamp to attract tourists. Check it out.
A real quick thing- the new “UT Student Regent” box on the left is showing the status of two bills in the Texas Legslature, Senate Bill 211 and House Bill 719, designed to place a student regent with voting power on the board. It’s been something that has been talked about for a long time now and it has the most force behind it this session than it has had before. I’ll be updating it about weekly from information found at the Capitol Website.
Something I forgot to mention, this weekend I played Super Mario Brothers 3 and Super Brothers 8. The former may sound familiar, the latter probably does not. Reason? While Super Mario Brothers 3 was a fan favorite game of the Nintendo Entertainment Center (NES, ya know? the original… back from 1985… an 8 bit system… the control pad, start, select and the A & B buttons?), Americans never saw Super Brothers 8 because it was only released in Japan. While out in Kyle, my brother’s friend has a Japan NES-style system (I can’t read the characters on the device, the games or in gameplay so I really don’t know) with a handful of games. SMB 3 has the exact same game play except I couldn’t read any of what the text said. Super Brothers 8 felt much like the originial Super Mario Brothers but game play wasn’t as nice. There was Mario- except he carried around a hammer. He couldn’t jump on his enemies but had to hit them with the hammer. Or, you go could some sort of something (no idea what the icon was) which gave you a flame thrower. It reminded me of the fire flowers from the American series but it wasn’t a flower and I couldn’t tell what he was shooting it out of. It is also much harder than the SMB American games. Well, it is if you play it like an American SMB game- there was no turbo so you couldn’t hold down B and jump early. I leapt to my death many times. Anyhow, I’ll comment it on it more later when I play it a bit more. 🙂
I’m going to keep this week’s brief since I have plenty of homework I have before me. Key things to remember: homework is vital. Even if it’s stupid. It proves something- you have work ethic. If you can prove you have work ethic, you will be more attractive to businesses than someone with little work ethic but raw talent. Maybe this is where experience over education comes into play…..
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