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    Social

    By Than the Moa,

    So I picked up a new mp3 player (or PMP if you prefer that term). I purchased a 8GB blue Zune. Why Zune? I like the software for starters. It's a lot more elegant than the horrid mess that is iTunes or Windows Media Player (which doesn't make sense since Zune is a Microsoft product as well...). I also like the UI a lot. It's simple and to the point and doesn't try to be in your face or flashy, it also lets me set a background displayed on the menu screens so that's cool. I also love the touch pad. It's a pretty intuitive way to use and navigate the device (a full touchscreen would be nice but no such Zune exists and all other full touchscreen devices are well out of my price range).

    In other news, school clips along well enough. I have a test tomorrow in my stats class. Also have a rough draft for an English assignment due Thursday. Not to mention a lab in Advanced Programming (& data structures) as well as a large assignment come up next week. Obviously things are starting to ramp up as the semester (and school year, hard to believe I'm almost through my freshman year of college already) draw near their end which explains why my time on BZP has been a lot more limited as of late. May 15th is the last day of finals week and then after that it's trying to find a summer job that won't have me working 6 days a week, 10 hours a day or more.

    Also, changed my avatar, it's actually not something Halo (and specifically ODST) related this time. Woo?
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    Restless

    By Than the Moa,

    Why am I still awake? It's nearly 4 am where I live. So many things on my mind lately, I haven't slept well at all of late because of such. Why does life have to be so confusing and frustrating sometimes?
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    Windows 7

    By Than the Moa,

    Windows 7 is amazing. It's going to be installed on this computer (or if I happen to pick up a new one before then, on that one) as soon as it comes out.
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    Welcome to a new weekly feature (shamelessly taken from a video game blog I read often), What Are You Playing!

    What I have been playing: I've been spending a lot of time with Gears of War 2 with a friend of mine at school and good ol' Watashi Wa. I've also been taking advantage of my roommate borrowing Fallout 3 from a friend of his by playing that at times, it's a fun game at times, but can be incredibly frustrating, especially since it feels a lot like Oblivion with guns (try as hard as you want to say it isn't, but the graphics, the interactions with people, the interactions with the environment, etc... are all holdovers from Oblivion). I also dropped some points on The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai on the XBLA. It's a fun little title, though it can get repetitive in quite a hurry. I fired up the Orange Box for some Half-Life 2 action, working on getting all the Half-Life 2 achievements, then I'll move on to HL2: Episode 1 and 2 respectively and try to nab those missing achievements. Halo 3 managed to sneak some time in (as is usual). I also picked up Phantom Hourglass on my DS for the first time in a long time and advanced myself closer to the end of that game.

    What I want to be playing: Mass Effect
    Mass Effect 2
    Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack
    Halo 3: ODST
    Left 4 Dead
    Dead Rising 2
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    Hello World

    By Than the Moa,

    Soooooo, I got this fancy blog thing again it seems, so I may as well use it I guess.

    So welcome to my blog reboot, The Colour And The Shape. Enjoy your stay.

    Anyway, here's a handful of things going on with me at the moment for those that care about what your resident Q&A Guru and Global Moderator is doing.

    -College! For those that don't know, I'm a Computer Science major at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. I'm currently in my second semester of my freshman year.
    -Xbox 360. I've been playing my Xbox 360 to death recently. Gears of War 2 is getting a lot of time in the tray thanks to the most recent title update which fixed a lot of the problems I had with the game's online component. Halo Wars has also found it's place in the tray quite often, it's a fantastic little game (except when people rush online, that sucks). Halo 3 still works it's way back in too, and I suspect it'll get plenty of play time soon when the Mythic Maps release to the XBL Marketplace. Occasionally Burnout Paradise get's a spin as I slowly work my way to 100% in the game. I'll also pop in my roommate's CoD 4 if I really don't want to play any of my other games.
    -My mp3 player is taking it's last gasp of air. It has decide that it wants to display everything backwards now, so I figure it's only a matter of time before it dies on me. I've been looking at getting a blue 8GB Zune, I really like the UI and the touch pad on them is nice.
    -My computer is also suffering some major hardware issues lately. First the computer decided that it didn't want to recognize the disc drive (can't even find it in the BIOs). I also think the hardware is in danger of going under. It's been goofy on boot up and once gave me a fatal hard drive reading failure when trying to start up. Hopefully this clings on long enough until next fall, then I'll probably pick one up (you know, when I have money after working all summer).
    -Speaking of money, hopefully everything goes well with my FAFSA application. I'm preliminarily eligible for a Pell Grant and an Academic Competitiveness Grant (yay AP classes), the school just has to pour over our tax filings to make sure we reported everything accurately on the application then we should hear back from them about that. Seriously, trying to pay for school sucks.


    Well that's all I really have at the moment for you guys.
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