Cody Russell

Bleh!

Teen Wolf was on TBS this afternoon, and I actually watched it. My best friend when I was young, Tony Pearson, and I used to love that movie when we were kids. Of course it’s not a good movie, but I still felt myself strangely drawn to watching it.

Practice

I’ve got the first three movements of Bach memorized, and most of the fourth. Somewhat fearfully, I’ve begun working on the Chaconne now as well. Fear me!

Halo

I forgot to mention before, but my cousin David bought an Xbox, and of course he has Halo. He also has a racing game and a surfing game. After looking at the list of Xbox games, it seems that Halo is pretty much the only good one available for it at the moment. Most of their games out now are fratboy-style games, like football and stuff.

Anyway, Halo kicks quite a bit of ass. I still dislike the Xbox controllers, just as I dislike the Playstation, PS2, Dreamcast, GameCube, N64, blah, blah, blah controllers. Still, Halo is definitely playable. David and I played cooperative multiplayer on splitscreen. It was really sweet.

The graphic capabilities of all these new boxes are good, but since televisions are the primary output device they end up looking like shit again. Halo is going to look so much better on PC because the display is better quality.

Flags

It amuses me quite a bit that everyone around here is so patriotic and into flying their American flags in front of their houses, but aren’t following the rules of American flag flying. You can go down a street at night and see lots of American flags out that are not properly lit. This is supposed to be a no-no.

It doesn’t bother me, of course, but it does amuse me a lot.

Winter break

How is everyone doing? I hope you’ve all had a great Christmas or Hannukah or whatever you celebrate, if anything. I don’t, but I had a good time being with family and friends and such. I saw Amirosh yesterday, and Megan earlier than that. Megan and I went to see Lord of the Rings, and it rocked. Glori invited herself and Josh over to stay at my place in Baltimore during Peabody auditions. I tried to tell her I didn’t have much space, etc, blah, blah, but it didn’t really work. However, she mentioned she might drive up there with Jen, so I made it very clear to her that three people are not welcome to stay at our place. She sounded a little as though this hurt her feelings for some reason, but oh well.

Dialup sux so much

I’m using my mom’s crappy dialup from Juno. Dialup is bad enough, but Juno is a free service if you’re willing to put up with tons of ads popping up every few minutes. I’m not, but my mom is I guess.

DSL

Finally, the DSL is installed. I’m downloading Red Hat 7.2 ISOs, updating my Gnome 2.0 tree, and reading the sad tale of chrisime‘s disk failure and all the data that was lost.

I need to figure out how to let Bill run his Mac through my Linux box so we can share the DSL line. I’m going to bring back another network card and a long ethernet cable when I return from winter break. That will halve the cost of the DSL line for me, which will be a very cool thing.

Mozilla

I’m really impressed by Mozilla’s new tab feature. That’s such a cool thing to have in a web browser.

Hacking

Since I’ve been rewriting the XML parsing and document handling stuff recently, I went ahead and ditched loading stuff from local files and switched over to GnomeVFS. Users should be able to transparently open files from ftp, http, local files, or whatever. The standard GTK file selector really isn’t up to this task, but I’ll deal with that later on. Various people are working on some replacement file selectors that should be more up to the task.

Studio recital

The Chiang studio did a recital the other day. It went pretty well. The coolest thing is that I’m now finished with the Weber, and I’m starting on Bach Partita No.2. This is going to be really, really cool.

Jenny said that the reward for playing the Weber is being able to put it away.

DSL

Some dude at DirecTVDSL said he’s finally solved the problem with line provisioning at Verizon, and he said my DSL should be activated no later than next Wednesday. We’ll see.

DirecTV DSL still sux so much

It’s now exactly one month since I got my DSL gateway, and I still have no service. What the fuck is up with that??

I went to school and pulled down cvs trees for Nautilus, gtk+, libgnome, libgnomeui, libbonobo, libbonoboui, pango, blah, blah, blah, and I burned them onto CD so that I could hack at home without DSL. However, I forgot to get atk, so I still can’t update anything. Suck.

Not surprisingly, I have not even begun on the NeXT-tree widget.

I did start porting Nautilus’s tree component over to GtkTreeView. I can’t really attempt to build it until I get atk and update everything, though.

Studio recital

Studio recital is on Tuesday. It looks like there’s a lot of Bach on the second half. Amy, Yi-Ping, Cameron, Rachel, and a couple others are all doing Bach, and all on the second half. If you’re into Bach cello suite movements, go to this recital’s second half. Me, I’m playing Weber. I’ll be finished with it after Tuesday. Whee!!

C++

It’s been a long time since I did anything with C++, but recently I wrote a few classes in C++ to do some stuff like vectors and matrices. I’m wanting to get into more 3d graphics stuff, just for fun. Cameron and I want to write a game someday.