Ahhh, the short week is now ended. I will mainly cover of what happened at this years tech show.

Monday - Wednesday were regular days consisting of classes, food, friends and the usual sort of what happens in my life, also PSU and night school, so lets do the recap.



Thursday - Got to school at 8:00 with my computer to help assist with the task ahead, but mainly, to help set up the rock and ride chairs for tech show. Me, David M, Ben Buford, Sean, Mark, Jeff, Jordan and Bens girlfriend Heather came in to help bring the chairs all the way down from the clean room next to the CST class room and move them all the way up to E128, the old freshman electronics class room. So once we moved all the chairs up to E128, we needed to get the air hose in for the pnumatics that the chairs require for the tilting. So we got Mr. Hryciw "Last name is spelled correctly" to get us the compressed air hose up through a hole in the wall where the water pipes are and lead it down to the ground was. Once that was done, we began the long task of getting all the trillions of air hoses connected to the chairs, along with valve compressors.

The fun part of the first 2 hours was to securely tighten all the valves on. Every once and a while, a valve spring would pop loose and go shooting across the room, very entertaining. Once we had all the air connected securely, we needed to set up our computers for the 2nd phase of this daring task. I loaded up my computer first because i brought my joystick with me because it was USB, while all the other joysticks that were laying around the school were using the gameport on the back of peoples sound cards "Those never really worked, we needed to have adaptors for those'". After we set it up, we needed to get the software for the chairs working. That took another 2 hours of hunting. After we got it, we turned the air on, loaded up the software, and huzzah! My chair was spinning in all directions. So we had one chair working.

Fast forward some hours later, we had tried hooking up the rest of the chairs, and only 2 were some what working. In the end, marks hard drive had a "Smart Drive" error, so he got royaly PWNED. We lost a computer because of that. Then my joystick somewhat died later on "Although it works now because its magic", so we had to borrow a logitech one and get that on my computer with the gameport adaptor. In the end, we only had one computer working with the chair "Mine". So to make it fun, we put warbirds on my computer, hooked it up to the projector and had fun till 9:00 when tech show ended.

"Incase you didnt know, i didnt go to a single class that day because im a hard core loser"


Friday - We had no school, but we all decided to go anyways to get all the damn chairs working. I got there and found ben walking around the school at 8:15. We got in the room and tried to figure out what the hell was wrong with all the computers. We came to the conclusion that windows XP hates gameports and doesnt like to respond to them. So we went down from 4 joysticks, to about 2. So in the end, we could only get a maximum of 2 chairs working.

Periodicly, people like Mark, Devin, David M and Chris would come in and see what was going on. Fast forward to 1:30, we all decided to walk to lloyd center to get some lunch, i got a subway sandwich. Why mention that? Because subway r0xx0rz your b0xx0rz. So we got back, and in the end, got one of the other joysticks to work. So that was great, we now had two chairs working

Fast forward to 6:00, tech show started, and we now had 2 chairs working instead of one. So that was cool. Yeah i like skipping things because i'm so tired.

During the course of the tech show, the webteam had made touch screens that displayed what was going in on each of the sections of the school. Someone though, had the best idea to put a hidden easter egg in the flash map. On random occasions, the screen would display the picture that i gave mark the idea of, Mr Diss wearing fubu looking like a fat overweight model. So we had about 12 of those screens around the school, showing Diss in fubu. It was kind of funny.

At 9:00, my parents came and picked me up and we took my shiznit all home and i went to bed.

Oh yeah

Saturday - I went to the avalon today, thats all i did :-D

Gotta love that update