I live in a box, well box mansion. I really have no idea what is going on in the world of television. I thought that people confessing their lives on a public journal was radical. Who would have guessed how far reality TV has gone. Well, probably everyone. Tonight I witnessed Cheater TV or something like that. It is a reality spouse cheating spy show that follows poeple around as their lives fall apart because of cheating partners. The whole thing is monitored and televised for us to judge.

In this show there was a hard working guy, whose girlfriend was cheating on him. When he confronted her and the guy in a public location the other dude pulled out a gun and tried to shoot him. The camera crew was really frreaked the hell out.

At the beginning of the show they made this whole point how they are doing this to show people the horrors of cheating. Then they played a commercial for a married person sex service where you can meet other married people that want to get it on.
"If you are involved in a relationship but feel like you need something more, log into Ashley Madison at "

This is juxtaposted with nocheater date where you can meet people that don't cheat. Apparently, they selll a little bit to everyone. Television has seriously hit an all time low.

But the question to me is really, why are people concerned with the lives of total strangers that they can't even interact with.

I am so busy because I put off doing all the things I needed to do ASAP but ended up compiling everything I needed to make suse linux my primary operating system. Now I can go back to programing again and take my world off of hold. Thanks to (e:ajay) and (e:twisted) for helping me along the way to having a functional development system. I need to decide on a good IDE for PHP on linux.

I have so much great stuff in store for the site in the near future!! It was so satifying compiling PHP 5 by myself. Now I just a fast connection and I can make the supercomp a server.



Now that I have gotten the hang of making and installing I have gotten everything to work on the laptop including sleep mode, wirless, graphic card, php 5, apache 2. There is also so much excellent software.

(e:terry) and I picked up (e:shawnr) and we went to go see the UB battle bots competition in the student Union at UB. Adam, this guy in my elecy tonics class won the competition with a bot that had a propeller which could chop the other battlebots up.

Then we ate at the student union, which is a serious ripoff. Terry and I each had popcorn chicken and fries, shared one drink and one salad and it came to $14.00. That is so insane.

You would be proud of me. I installed suse linux 9.2 by myself and built the lastest wireless firmware and got the ATI radeon 9700 Mobility to run properly on linux for the first time. It is really fast. If you remember we were getting like 1000 frames in 5 sec = 200 fps at best.

Now it runs like it should have and the 3D is really smooth. I am getting used to using make now.

9682 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1936.400 FPS
10565 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2113.000 FPS
10566 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2113.200 FPS

These number are much more what I expected. I really believe this linux thing can work out now.

I was looking for info about the battle bots contest at UB tomorrow and I found out there is a bunch of robot stuff going on in Buffalo.

Buffalo Robotics Club -

UB Robotics -

Maybe once I am done with school I will begin building robots.