Woah, I haven't posted in many days. Well, it might partially be because my computer's power supply died. But, since Forrest is the man, it is now back up. I have been doing quite a bit, but I won't spoil my movie. . . considering there is still only like 36 hours for it to be completed anyway. I have spent a long time working on the movie, but also working on the power point, poster, and paper associated with the movie. Personally, I would prefer just to work on the movie, and luckily my group is pretty much done with the other aspects of the final project.
Until next time.

Camp is going well. The weekend was a lot of fun. I actually got some freedom on Sunday, My cousin picked me up and we went to Comic Con. I met Rob Corddry of the Daily Show and the creators of Home Movies, it was pretty sweet. There were a bunch of cool booths, including lots of people dressed in funny outfits, a booth with two playmates from 1996, and other random stuff. Afterward I saw a movie I had long anticipated, A Scanner Darkly. Overall, I enjoyed myself.

The other thing I did this weekend was work on a one minute movie for my class. 95% of my time spent on the movie was for the first 7 seconds (the intro.) Here is the movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkU4VpM4Wso

Last night I spent about an hour making a duct tape tie. (insert picture). It probably wasn't worth the time, but oh well.
Today has not been overly exciting, as the Discovery Lecture was not as interesting to me as the previous two. Good news came via our professor Joe Pasquale (when he enters the room I am tempted to say YO JOE!, but I have yet to do so) in the form of our field trips next week. One day we will visit San Diego Padre Stadium to see how the Jumbotron works, and the other we will see Jeff Krichmar (one of the past speakers) robotics lab. The only downside is I may never get to see "A Scanner Darkly" in theaters.

As of last night we are free at last! You will not believe the new freedoms we have! I am now allowed to walk to the center of campus without having my hand held! They might even change lights out on the weekend to midnight!
I laughed when people cheered at these new freedoms. My parents thought I was less of a liability at the age when I didn't know the difference between waffles and pancakes. I have yet to leave campus, but I am still enjoying the camp.
I am learning a lot, in both the realms of software and programming. I also have managed to get in a good amount of basketball and television over the weekend, a great combination. I just wish I wasn't treated like a little boy.

Today we learned the basics of Adobe Premiere, here is a link to a video I recorded on the camera they gave us (pretty bad quality, but oh well). My group was practicing for a "cheer" for the "Cosmo-lympics." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QW_K7I-ikU

I cropped a bunch of pictures and put them together. . . .you can guess what they are if you want.







Whole thing - The Kramer
Head - Jim Gaffigan
Facial Hair- Al Swearengen
Necklace - Mr. T
Left hand - Dane Cook doing the SuFi
Right Hand - Ali G

I tried a new technique this morning. I woke up later, ate only a banana and a bowl of cereal. Rather than using the 45 minutes alloted to eat breakfast, I got it down to approximately 8 minutes. Tonight we have the Cosmo-olympics. I am doing the Trivia portion, and I will be able to see if the hours I have spent in front of the television , listening to music, etc. have paid off. As much as I admire the time put into our dance and cheer, I will not be upset to have the vital nap time (4-5:30ish) all to my own.

The picture is a negative made using Python, its pretty neat what you can do.

It is the fourth real day of camp and the early mornings are getting to me. Luckily, I have not yet succumbed to coffee, something that my brother had to resort to when attending a summer camp similar to this one. I have grabbed one piece of fruit from each meal in order to stockpile a psuedo-breakfast without needing to go to the cafeteria. I'll see if this will enable me to wake up later.
Last night we played dodgeball. I ended up being much better at throwing the ball than I had previously thought. My school held a 64 team "Dodgeball Mania" where each team consisted of 6 players. My team, Improv Club presents Captain Planet and the Planeteers, lost badly in the first round to Godz Gift to Women. Although we lost, our team entrance was very epic. If you know the show, we had five of our members combine our rings and another member of the team hidden in the audience, fully adorned in Captain Planet gear. Personally, I was Kwame. Anyway, this time around I did much better in dodgeball, even if I did not have my planeteers by my side.