Dan Mayer's Blog

Well I am 22 now I guess i am getting old. At least I can still look good take a look at me in my new suit. I dont have many reasons to wear one yet, but i am not really growing anymore so i might as well have a really nice suit. Perhaps i will wear it to job interviews.

Seriously new orleans for my birthday and new years is up there as the best 3 days in my life. Each night was just incredible in different ways and for different reasons. I am seriously lucky to have found such amazing friends in highschool, and to have met such amazing people in college (for the few that were from Colorado in new orleans) It was everything i could have hoped for and more. Seriously some of the conversations and discussions will probably help shape and change the lives of many of us on the trip in the coming year. It was just amazing.

Well it is the last day of my xmas break. I am back and trying to get ready to get going with everything again. It was a great break. Many highlights. I am sure i will post some pictures when i get around to collecting and developing them all (to CD from film...hehe). I am actually pretty worn out from break, i was busy and running around most of the break. Staying up late, drinking often, and waking up early. From Springfield to New Orleans to Steamboat, I had a blast.

I am actually really more ready to return to school and work than ever before. I just feel like i have been away longer than i needed to be straight. I also just feel like i have been so unproductive over break. I barely did anything that wasn't leisure time. I really wish i would have had my computer with me and I could have worked on some of my various projects. Oh well it was fun. I guess it will really be another week before i really get back into the swing of everything. Steve leaves for Air Force on the 17th so until then i am going to try to have some fun nights with him. Once he is gone I think I am going to try to put the nose to the grindstone for a little bit. Accomplish alot at school and particularly at work. I just feel like i am so far behind and that i haven't accomplished enough.

Well I hope everyone else enjoyed their breaks as much as well.

Wow I just had a nap. I was napping so hard that i thought i might die. I mean i woke up but couldn't move because there was no blood in any of my limbs they were all numb. Then after laying for awhile everything returned to normal. It was a great nap somewhere between sleeping and being in a coma.

Today I am going on the coors tour with some friends. Since my love of beer matches my love of STDs it should be SUPER FUN! Oh well it should be mildly amusing and free booze can't be that bad. Also it is something Steve wanted to do before leaving Colorado. I guess it is something i should do at least once while i am out here. So yeaa for beer.

Classes seem ok for now, i think i might be rather busy this semister... Grrr and i wanted to spend most of this semester building a time machine.

This is the away message I just put up on AIM, and I liked it so i thought i would post it here as well.

pushing on in a driven fashion towards a goal that i will never know until i have reached it.

um... thanks.

Just to give a quick idea of how great new orleans was.... here is a pic of us all out on burbon street one night.

Here is another photo from new orleans showing one of my favorite moments of the trip. When the two megans made a meghan sandwhich out of me.

I just learned that the final project in my computer graphics course is to make a simple 3d Doom like game. I am excited. Depending on the models and if we can make them or we are just using stock models I will try to put a bunch of my friends in the game so that I can kill them and they can all kill each other. Yeaaaa violence. Either way it is going to be my first few steps in the direction of 3D graphics which is really cool and exciting.

I feel as if today is the calm before the storm. It seems like very soon i will have so much to do, I wont know how to find the time to do it all. Today there was nothing that needed to be done. So with nothing impending on me, I did nothing. I really need to get back into the swing of the semester soon, but until then I am just enjoying being back home.

Seriously people are unbeleivable... I dont know how. I dont know when. But i know they weren't there when i tried to ski. My stolen skis reappeared in my house... Seriously this blows my mind. I searched everywhere for like 4 hours and my roommates looked and now they were just in a closet. NO WAY we just missed them... but there back... I like having my skiis back but now i have two sets. The world amazes me every day!

Seriously it is still blowing my mind where did my skiis just reappear from. I can't handle it I know they were gone and there here again. There is only 3 closets in this place there is no way I just over looked this one for days on end.

For all of those complaining about the text in the comments windows, I know it was hard to read and I going to get to it later... With so many complains I just took care of it so now you should all be happy...hehe Thanks for all the comments and feedback about the new look I am glad you all enjoy it. I am sure I will have some other new suprises for you as well. Soon hopefully.

I saw big fish tonight. I would recommend it. It starts a little slow and wierd. Then it ends being wonderful and wierd. The movie makes me want to sit down and have a conversation with Tim Burton, he must be a very interesting man... (Nightmare before Xmas, Edward Scissor hands, Big Fish, and other wierd movies) I bet he has an amazing mind. That I would love to pick apart.

Well I started working out with Dom today. It hopefully will become a semi normal activity. It would be nice to get into a little bit better shape than I currently am in. He has wanted a work out partner for awhile So I am hoping he will keep us going fairly regularly.

It is funny that some times when i have the most free time available i seem to accomplish the least. I did go in to work and get alot done today, but I still had alot more time at the end of the night and all my friends were working. Right now instead of working on any of my various projects i am just sitting and planning on renting a movie. Oh well i guess i always accomplish what i need to.

awhile ago I announced my intentions to make Dom Filosa, my friend and roommate, into the worlds largest turd burglar. To do this i posted all over the internet using turd burglar and linking to his blog. I also on my blog asked all my readers (very few) to do the same. In 31 days, we have changed the weight of the word. Now dom is the largest turd burglar. Search is on google and click the I'm feeling lucky button. Behold the simple power of a small few on the internet.

To see when i first announced this as a goal that i would accomplish read my blog post about it from the past here.

Well in more rejoicing over my new orleans trip with friends. here is my current background click it for a larger version. Feel free to download it and give it a closer look or make it your background if you were on the trip as well. enjoy the fast and fun times that is my young adulthood.

at 22 it is scary to feel so tied down. Seriously i have no clue where i am going or what i am doing after college, but i will never be able to just move around freely. To move around freely you need jobs that exist everywhere (bartender, waiter, salesperson) you have to have a small set of things that you bring along. You have to be able to pick up and pass on friendships at the drop of a dime. That isn't who i am but there is really something appealling to me about the idea of just moving where the wind takes you. Having more adventure in life. Maybe it is just that i sit at my desk and code of a couple hours a day and realize there is so many amazing things in the world i will probably never see.

Anyways last night was fun. We went to Old C's and had some food then came back and chilled and watched a movie, played some poker at my house. It was a good night, mainly cause it was chill enough that i will be able to enjoy myself skiing today. Also because I got to chill out with Anthony a friend of mine who i really dont get to see that often. He is a fun kid to chill out with for a night. Anyways i am off to go skiing at el dora for the first time i will give it a quick review when i get back. Ahhh skiiing, in my choice of skiis.

It wasn't great, but the snow everywhere sucked yesterday. It is currently snowing really hard core right now though so that is pretty cool. I guess that means that i will have to go skiing this week sometime. Anyways El Dora is a step above anywhere in the midwest and when there is good snow it is probably way better than anywhere in the mid west. The terrain park should be better since that could be one of the best things it can offer. I tried rails for the first time which was fun. I fell on my hip both times it was great. Anyways, I am pretty happy with the $99 season pass just because at only 30 mins away i am sure i will end up skiing alot more than i would have otherwise. Then i can go chill in the hot tub. NICE!

This is going to be a busy week. I have a 16 set problem set do for computer organization, that covers 160 pages of material i haven't read. We set up our development machine tomorrow and have 1 month to finish our program. We haven't worked on since sometime in early december. I have done approximately 1/4 of the stats homework and i am starting to think it will be important for me to do it all. Ahh after ignoring school for about 2 weeks it looks like i finally have to start doing some real work and doing homework most nights. I guess this will be the end to me being super productive at work and working on all sorts of side projects. Oh well i guess it will make dominic happy since he has to work his butt off all semester, and now he will have a partner that is hating school as well.

All too often, I feel like my relationships fall into a rut of essentially four activities - sex, hanging out talking, eating together, and watching movies. The first two are staples of any good relationship (substitute "get it on" for "sex" if you're not quite there yet, with no loss of generality) and should be both common and exceedingly enjoyable, but the last two are starting to bore the hell out of me. There's a huge world out there, yet I find myself defaulting to dinner and a movie time and time again. Going out to a get dinner, coffee, desert is a pretty good activity for conversation, but you can only be hungry for that stuff some of the time. So here's my question to all you readers out there - what fun stuff do you go out and do w/ your girlfriend? Something that breaks out of this rut, something fun yet out of the ordinary? Especially at night? I've been racking my brain for some ideas, hoping to spark others from those more creative than I

- hit the bars together (instead of getting dinner, get a pitcher)
- bowling (although I hate it when if she kicks my ass)
- clubbing (although I feel weird, honestly, but that's another issue)
- casinos (if you happen to have them near)
- outdoorsy stuff, hiking, camping, skiing, etc (although it generally doesn't work so well at night)
- board/puzzle games (I feel so old suggesting it, but boggle is damn fun)

Help!

Well thanks to everyone who helped Ben with his dating woes i am sure we helped out some. Besides that i have little to update right now.

I have alot of school work going on so that is keeping me fairly busy, then i find other stuff to fill my time. Tonight we did a taste test to see who could really tell the difference between sodas. No one (4 people) got them all right, but Dom did do as claimed and tell the difference between coke and pepsi, which he got both of those right while mixing up the two off brands. It was amusing. Besides that i have been just having very chill mindless nights playing some video games with Dom lately which is fun. I am pretty sure i will be fairly busy this weekend, but at least i am getting to go skiing again on friday which should be fun.

Things I am looking forward to (Read Dom is a tool...hehe):
Skiing
Spring Break
Las Vegas
Europe
Friday the 13th party
Valentimes day concert
Dating miss michigan
Old Chicagos
Meeting someone i have never met before
Seeing Spike Lee speak at CU

Well this is my current away message i liked it so i am posting here. I am just really tired so dont worry any of you people that read to much into things... It does sound pretty cool though....

slower and slower does everything move through my head... am i falling asleep or am i dead?

Sometimes you just want to grow up and be older and more settled, other times you just want to be young and enjoy life. Even adults do this, that is why you see so many parents that try to live through their children.. I think every other day i change my mind about wanting to be a dumb fun kid, or a intellegent responcable adult. Yesterday i wanted to be a dumb kid, today i want to be an adult. Tomorrow, i am predicting i will still want to be an adult, but i almost garuntee that won't last past wendsday. Anyways say hello to your inner child for me.