thehowe_v7.1

I'm sorry to say I haven't had much time to work on the website lately. I have two programming assignments due, a paper due, and an exam all on Thursday. That isn't why I haven't been updating, though. I borrowed this great game from Tom called "Rise of Nations", and I think it may be the best RTS ever. I don't know why anybody else didn't think to combine the uber-classic board-game Risk with a Real Time Strategy game. It's just like playing Risk, only instead of rolling the dice to compute the outcome of a battle, you actually fight the battle. Genius.

Seems like I had something to bitch about today... Ahh, yes, that's it: construction workers. The University of Michigan uses our tuition money to fund a free bus system for transportation between central and north campuses. Normally it doesn't really bother me when non-students use the buses. It did bother me today, however, when the damn bus was packed full of engineering students all dressed up trying to get to the career fair. Six dusty, dirty, paint-covered construction workers jammed themselves into the bus, and I have to say I was a little irked. If you're going to take advantage of our money at work, construction workers, at least have the decency to wait for a bus that isn't packed tighter than a can of sardines on interview day. Bastards.

...Not that I said anything at the time. You try telling someone wearing a helmet and several blunt objects on their belt to get off the damn bus.

I was also considering using the analogy "Mexicans in a bus" instead of "can of sardines", but I figured that might offend someone.