Tomorrow is Weezer. Tomorrow is Weezer. Weezer are going to be in Athens tomorrow. Tomorrow, I am going to see Weezer play. No... It still isn't real. Tomorrow at 2:30 I'm leaving school to stand in front of the Classic Center for five hours and then I'm seeing Weezer. Weezer are coming tomorrow. In 24 hours I will probably be waiting for Weezer to set up after the opening act, anxiously standing around the room that I saw Bob Dylan in with my friends. Tomorrow, Weezer are coming.

Weezer are going to be playing IN ATHENS tomorrow.

no no no, it still isn't real. I have tickets. I bought them in November. They were only $15. Erik got them for me. Tomorrow I will use those tickets to go see Weezer performing live IN THE CLASSIC CENTER, where (coincidentially?) Our graduation will take place in less than ten weeks. Where tomorrow,

I WILL BE SEEING WEEZER!

The end of the day. Lunch. Studyhall. Latin. Leave school. 2:15. Senior Privelidge on a end of day free period. Leave school at, more realistically 2:20. Get downtown at oh 2:40. Find perfect parking. 2:45. Walk to Classic Center 2:50. Sit around until 8:00 talking to fans. Make SURE that I get up FRONT AND CENTER Door open 8:00. Opening band probably comes out 8:45. Done by 9:30. Weezer comes out at 10:00.

THE MOST FANTASTIC EVENT OF ALL HUMAN HISTORY OCCURS 25 MINUTES AWAY FROM MY HOME

Weezer finishes set 12:30. Drive home. Climb in bed 1:00. Then only in dreams.......

I'm working on a mix CD, "The Tragical Misery Tour." I think the title says it all. I generally despise mix CDs, but themed ones are fine by me. To give credit where credit is due, this is an activity inspired by my friend Jared's successful mix of movie themes.

Oh yes... i have a new nick on AIM, I'm AthnsGa. StooopidC is dead. Also, I want to get a Lomo camera, those things are rad. My love of junk is going to make me broke one day (today for instance,) but it will also insure that life in the 21st century is at least always mildly amusing.

And it has been 9 days since I've posted. While nobody reads this site, I do find that bad.

Last weekend I had a Hannibal party over at my house. We got together and watched Silence of the lambs and then watched Hannibal at the theater. That was easily the MOST DISTURBING movie... ever.

This week was valentines day... no lovin' for Carter, but DataMatch went well and we got about $80 plus $40 in IOUs. Yay.... Oh, and I had to attend a boring breakfast and give an uncomfortable speech for Star Student.Diplomacy is going well. I'm slowly dominating France while keeping Germany from being too agressive. South Europe is getting interesting as everyone tries to take out a very agressive Austria. Russia and I have an agreement which is making things nice. Everything else is too sensitive to print just yet.

Which more or less brings us to today... or yesterday really, man is it late. I woke up at 9:00 and Erik, Madeline, Dyer, Amy, Nelle, Christian, a friend of Erik's, and I all went to the flea market. I dropped, a lot of dough there and got: 1 Nintendo 64 Controller, 1 SNES Controller, Sonic 1+2 for the Genesis that I'm going to buy from Jared, and the following NES games: Dragon Warrior, Mario 2 + 3, Megaman 3, Zelda 2, Turtles 1 + 2, Gauntlet, Battletoads, Sesame Street Numbers + letters (don't ask), Tetris, Little Nemo, Abadox, and Ducktails (all games which featured prominently in my life up until... oh... 1992.) I also have the original Final Fantasy on long term loan. Man I love old video games. I can't even begin to tell you... that will most likely be the theme of the next colmore.com which I think is going to happen as soon as I get photoshop back.

Still haven't heard from any schools.... damn... April is soooooo far away.

Just wanted to say that things are normal and happy. I've completely reconfigured our computer with Windows 2000. It's the first Microsoft product that I have ever been able to give a strong reccomendation. It's very nice. Data match is going well.

I'm in another game of diplomacy. I'm England this time. I'm having a bit of trouble with France (Dr. Reid, my history teacher), and I'm worried about Germany (Natalie) and Russia (Amit.) Austria is looking pretty powerful, but he (Austin) is no immediate threat. Turkey (Vic) and Italy (Michael) are my allies, but they can't directly help me too much right now.

Well that was one of the best weekends EVER! After Friday's Special Olympics, I was feeling pretty good. After school some of my favorite freshmen and I made sure that the TACO datamatch software was still working ok before making some changes in preparation for our second big valentine's day. I then went out and hung out with Erik for a while downtown. he was going to see a concert that I wasn't particularly interested in, so I went back home and had some quality conversation with Elizabeth Dyer and Christain Conger, who arrived early to my sister's slumber party. They had had a blow out on the bypass and were still a little shaken.

On saturday the family and I went to Atlanta to see Cirque de Soliel, which was AWESOME! It's the type of thing that you really really have to see. Sometimes they show it on Bravo, but it really needs to be experienced in real life. After that I went back to Athens and madeline and I met up with Erik, Nelle, and Ashley downtown, but only after the most helacious parking experience of my life. I circled downtown TWICE, including the streets so far away from anything that I would never under normal circumstances even think of parking there. I ended up in the parking deck, which is against my religion because 1) it costs money and 2) there are chemicals in the atmosphere of parking decks which, when inhaled, remove all driving ability from me. I instantly become a panicky 15 year old. Thankfully I didn't hit anyone.

Anyway, after a brief spell at Bluesky coffee, we went to this little free punk rock show at the 357 warehouse. The 357 warehouse is a "club" of sorts that was apparently at sometime in its ancient history a garage and now features condemned building signs. I'm not sure if the signs are real, either answer wouldn't surprise me. The band was good, but Erik and I had greater things planned. The Meat puppets were playing at the 40-Watt. The Meat puppets' great claim to fame is that Nirvana covered 3 of their songs on Unplugged and Incesticide. They also, along with the Pixies, basically invented grunge rock in the 80's, and on January 27, 2001, they put on one heck of a show. I'll be buying some CDs at some point.

Then came Sunday. My friend Michael Coenen, his sister Amy, and my sister's friend Cally, were in a local community theater production of "The Little Princess" I went and saw that. It was GREAT! I love little kids and there were dozens of 'em, singing, dancing, and acting, and all quite well. Amy and Cally did wonderfully as the owners of the school; Amy can play quite a villain! Michael was nothing short of astounding as the Indian servant. His musical number was one of the greatest experiences of my life. I haven't really stopped laughing. Great job guys. While at the performance, Sarah Morang invites me to her Superbowl party. Now I'm not too big on football, but social gatherings I like. It was a blast as well. I'm glad the game wasn't very good, because it allowed for a general atmosphere of joking and lack of seriousness which was quite enjoyable. Oh and the halftime show was so atrocious that I can't even begin to talk about it. The only way it could have been good would have been for a precision-strike terrorist attack to take out the stage, N*SYNC, Brittany, etc. and the 500 actors playing teenybopper fans holding "I (heart) MTV" signs. But aside from that the weekend was a huge success.

wow... sorry no post in a while... what needs to be covered? 1) academic team 2) presidential thingy 3) special olympics... here goes:

i don't know if i've ever posted anything about it or not, but i'm captian of our schools academic team. last weekend our A team (which consisted of my, john, michael i., and walker and amit rotating) got onto the semi-final round of competition, which is something that our school has never done in academic team. it was very very exciting, more than a bit nerdy, and invigorating for the team as a whole. we are suddenly itching with competitive spirit and are all actually studying to do well at state this year. hooray! well the innauguration (i just know that that's spelled wrong) happened. it's interesting to theink about. clinton was the first president i really payed attention to. i remember bush sr. and was vaguely aware that there was some guy named "reagan" but clinton was the first president i cared at all about. in fifth grade we had the little mock elections (i voted perot) but became a democratic supporter largely due to my parents' views. i'm fairly politically active for an 18 year old. i'll miss clinton. he was a good president. he certainly had a style all his own. i can imagine years from now history students asking me questions about what it was like. "odd" i think i will respond. and now, the opposition has a man in office. this should be a nice change. in debate it is much easier to attack than to defend, and eight years of defence is plenty enough.

today was our schools' service day, in which we all divide up and do nice things around athens. i (for the second year in a row) worked at the local special olympics at skate-around-USA. it was wonderful. i got to run around the ring holding up six year olds on skates. i talked to the kids. i made some friends. for many reasons, i think i often enjoy the company of six year olds more than anyone else in the world. Moses, Alberto, Christina, Rob: I know you'll never read this, but I want to say that I had a wonderful time today. good luck with everything.

so what's up for this weekend? i'll probably go see "Dancer in the Dark," the Bjork movie. my friend michael is in a play... and i have college interviews scheduled so... that should be... interesting. T.T.F.N!

So some crazy crap is going down at school. Apparently some administrator received one of those lame "humorous" e-mail forwards. It was entitled "The Night Before Christmas in Ebonics" or something to that effect. Mr. or Mrs. Administrator then forwarded it to a teacher, who somehow forwarded it to some person outside of the school who WROTE THE NEWSPAPER ABOUT IT. And now there is a world of hell for our school. Just what every small upper class southern private school needs: accusations of racism. As anyone who goes to the school will tell you, we aren't racist, we have a fairly multi-ethnic student body (given local demographics) and we strongly stress tolerance, etc. But it's certainly bad P.R. and we're going to be getting our fair share of sensitivity training and whathaveyou in the next few weeks, I'm sure.

This weekend was really fun. Our cousins Lon and Max, and Aunt Gail and Uncle Jimmy came in from Baton Rouge. We went downtown, ate out, watched Dragon Ball Z, and played a lot of Balderdash and Cranium. On Sunday after they left, Erik, Madeine, Nelle, and I went downtown, ate some Mellow Mushroom, and then sat around the UHS (it was lovely weather) commenting on strangers attractiveness. After that Erik and I came home and watched the (really excellent, in it's own way) Transformers Movie -- yes the original one from the 1980's, with Orson Wells doing the villian voice and Weird Al on the soundtrack. Monday was devoted to suffering from minor illness and filling out my last college applications. Yay! it's over!

School's back. Yesterday was fun. Erik has been having a baaaaad week so we (Him, Madeline, Nelle, and I) decide to have an awesome day. We drove to Atlanta, ate lunch at a good vietnamese place, and went to the World of Coca Cola. Those of you that don't live in Georgia (is there anyone who reads this who doesn't live in Georgia?) then perhaps you don't know of the World of Coca Cola. It is a three story museum/commercial for everyone's favorite Atlanta based soft drink company. The really interesting thing about the place (other than the crazy 1980's promotional videos) was the fact that nowhere is there any mention at all of Coke 2. They're pretending it never happened. So yes, that was amuzing. We then walked around Underground Atlanta, which is really struggling. And then we went home. Madeline had a date (ooooh) I'll let her tell you how that went (her page) and Erik Nelle and I watched The Iron Giant which was really really good. We topped off the evening with an amuzing little conversation at the waffle house. It was great fun.

Well newyears was fun. Once again there was a party at Sarah Morang's house. It seemed the entire junior class was there, which was a little odd. Things got a little rowdy. After the countdown I ate at the waffle house with Johnathan, Isley, Anna, and Jim. No man-ass this year (see first post of january 2000).

I can't believe that y2k is over allready. It hasn't seemed that long. How to best recap? A best of list. so, without further ado, here is

Carter's best of 2000 list:

Events, in no real order:
1) The college application process. - crazy, eye opening, horrible.
2) The Magnetic Fields concert. - wonderful beyond belief.
3) GHP - hi everyone.
4) Voting - i lost, but whatever.
5) Trip to San Fransisco
6) Turning 18 - odd beyond belief
7) The night at the UHS with the car crashes - you had to be there
8) TACO datamatch - computer dating, brought to you by yours truly
9) The Flaming Lips concert - yee-haw
10) The new york trip - the most fun i've ever had with my classmates
11) Spending time with Hallie and Lucia (my 5 and 7 year old cousins) - you are so wonderful I want to kidnap you.
12) The burning effigy - almost a total success
13) Homecoming Elliot Smith concert with Anne and Nelle - creative ways to skip school dances.
14) The Theo connection - you know him too.
15) Building Erik's computer - it works!
16) The Emperor's New Groove - it's fantastic! supergenious!

The worst things:
1) Realizing just how much it sucks that I should be in college right now, but I got held back in 8th grade. Grrrrrrrr.
2) Relationship mess occurring to almost everyone I am close to. - will rock your social world.
3) Having $100 worth of CDs stolen at GHP. - crime sucks.
4) Social Rifts - see number 2
5) Two weeks of depression. - it happened in November, that was no good at all.
6) The graduation of the class of 2000 - I miss you guys.
7) Sleep problems. - what's wrong with me?
8) Sucking at Cross Country - discouraging.
9) Getting in a wreck - it was minor, but it sure didn't make my day.
10) Idiotic actions of my dilenquent friends - you know who you are.

culture: 1) Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - definitely my album over the year.
2) Akira - the movie of the year, thanks Erik.
2) Belle and Sebastian - still going strong.
4) Godel Escher Bach - will change the way you think.
5) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - wonderful.
6) 69 Love Songs - the album of last year, it's still good.
7) Mrs. Dalloway - i liked it.
8) Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth - moody, atmospheric, sad, beautiful.
9) Beatles Nostalgia - there can never be too much.
10) Rage Against the Machine - yes!
11) Outkast - the best rap group.... ever?
12) Magnolia - elitist fun!
13) this list could go on and on, so I'm terminating it.

Person of the Year: Erik Person - the name pun is only a coincidence. Erik, you're such a great guy.

Well, 2001 is upon us. Have fun everyone.

So that was Christmas. Tom woke up at 7:30 (a new record!) and I got myself out of bed at 8:00. I got some clothes, a pair of nice speakers, cash from family, and that big Beatles book. Madeline got lots of money, but a third of it is now gone since her wallet was stolen yesterday. Tom got video games and gift certificates.

Last night was a little get together at Spencer's house. Anne, Erik, David, Dan, Shannon, Alice, Sarah, and myself were in attendance. We played scrabble, balderdsh, and cranium. We joked around and stayed up late. It was fun. Today I think I'm going to put some effort into the college applications that I am so lazily procrastinating on. Note to schools: putting deadline right after Christmas break is WRONG!

Now I'm looking forward to newyears. It's interesting, the first post I put on this site was about last newyears, a party at Sarah's house. 2000 has been an interesting year, not quite as eventful and euphoric as 1999 was, but it's been good.

Happy Christmas Eve. Madeline is going through a lot of old family movies. We certainly made a lot of weird moveis. Madeline, Tom and I weren't really sportsy kids, so we filled our time with bizarre creative games, many of which involved the camcorder. Ahh memories.

Colin Campbell, if you're out there: I really want to talk to you before you go back to school.

While I have absolved myself of most gift-giving responsibilities, I still need to go out and get something for Madeline. I guess a CD.

Sorry no updates in a while, exams hit and that tends to disrupt things.

Flash forward to Tuesday, December 19th. It snowed today, which means we take our last two exams in January and SCHOOL IS OUT FOR WINTER BREAK! Two weeks of sitting around doing next to nothing!

Well, not really. I'm going to seriously attempt to read Ulysses and I have about a billion college applications to do. So far I'm 0 and 1 on acceptance so, I'd better take my time. I'm going out and doing something with Erik soon. Snow sure is pretty. I'm going to put up some pictures or something.

OK so the site was down for the first time ever.

There was a snafu involving the August theft of my Mother's credit card. But that is now taken care of.

John's Birthday party was this weekend. In attendance were: Keller & Allie, Isley, Madeline, Nelle, Erik, Amy I., Ashley, Sean, Johnathan, Jim, Anne, and myself. We hung out downtown and at the Daily Grind, which is fast on the way to becoming the number one employer of Athens Academy seniors. I got him a copy of Belle and Sebastian's "If You're Feeling Sinister" which everyone Everyone EVERYONE NEEDS!

At your local mega-bookstore there is a graphic novel (hardbound comic book compilation basically) called "Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth" buy it and consume it. It is truely art. I can't reccomend it highly enough.

Exams are coming up. Boo. I have lots of essays to write for schools. Boo. Christmas break is approaching. Hoo-Ray. The end of Y2K is near.

I'm going out of town for Thanksgiving. I'm leaving in about four minutes.

Chip: you never e-mailed me the info we talked about. I tried to talk to you yesterday, but I guess you're already on vacation. Try to get something done with Casey, I can work on it Sunday. You know what I'm talking about.

My big important college interview is coming up soon. Everyone wish me luck.

If anyone out there knows the location of a large or extra large original Final Fantasy T-Shirt (it would be from 1989 or 1990) tell me ( colmore@colmore.com I will pay a ridiculous sum of money to acquire one.

Athens is beautiful in the fall. Without warning, half of the trees all turn a wonderful shade of orange, and the air is full of gently falling leaves. The moon gets bigger, and the sunsets get nicer. The air is brisk and everything feels close and cozy. People wear nicer clothes. You can see your breath.

It's strange. As anyone who would be reading this site knows, I'm a Senior in Highschool. I'm applyng to colleges. I'm looking toward my future. I'm probably going through more rapid change that I ever will again in my life, but somehow things feel stagnant. And I don't mean that in a strictly bad sense.

I just feel somewhat removed from the events around me. The little dramas of my peers, the constant nag of grades, the concerns that take up my time. Somehow it all seems scripted or unreal. Everything seems to be marching in place.

Driving today, I nearly went off of the road I was so shocked by a gorgeous sunset. I exaggerate, but it was truly increadible. Everything is changing. But it seems the more my life shifts, the less attention I pay it, and the more the larger things seem to matter. I don't know...

I voted today. In the end, I went for Gore. I hope he wins by a very very slim margin. I don't want Bush in the Whitehouse, but the Democratic party has to learn that they can't run the same kind of losers that they ran in the 80's. errr.... and another thing, election day should be a holiday, or at least a saturday.

My mood is determined entirely by the weather. The sky gets gray and the wind starts blowing and I get all introspective and I write bad poetry etc. On the lighter side of things, I'm really really getting into the Big Star CD (two album set, Number One Record and Radio City) and man is it good. I can't believe that they weren't popular in the 70's, it's so mainstream.

Two big events: Madeline (my sister) is in the school play, which was in the one act competition. The play won region and they are going to state this saturday, and Madeline got best actress in the region!!! I'm so proud. I'm such a stage brother. Way to go.

I took the SAT on Monday. It was the alternate date, since I had a cross country meet on Saturday. The big news there was, THE SAT IS RIGGED!. My friend Michael (who has nothing to worry about, SAT score wise) took the alternate test with me, and he had seen the test before it was the exact same test that he took this Spring. He's sure of it. He recognized the passages, the vocab, and the math. They called up ETS, who flatly denies this, but if you knew Michael like I do, you'd believe him. Attention Colleges: This is not a joke. The SAT actually does get repeated. My friend Powell took the alternate SAT-II writing and had the exact same essay as I did when I took it a month earlier. Once again, I'm not kidding here.

Happy halloween. October 31st 2000. Remember today. Some guy on a russian rocket is going to the international space station as I type. NASA plans to allways have people up there for the next 10 to 25 years. By then, other space stations could also be in place. This morning may well mark the last time that all of humanity is earth-bound. i'm not kidding here.

We have school off tomorrow. I don't have any big plans. Stuff with friends. chillin' I need to getmyself organized in so many ways. I've been making some cool stuff in Flash 5 (saving up that $300 for it was terrible *wink* *wink* ) and I might just have to post it.

Oh yes, a few nights ago, I got a call from my friend Michael's dad. He told me to meet him and Michael and some others downtown for a dinner, his treat. Well, I couldn't say no to that, so I drove downtown and when I was there I saw a small crowd of a few hundred people or so infront of the old hotel. I parked. I walked to the crowd and Michael was there. A few minutes later, REM came out! and gave a short (3 song) free show in support of the "stay green" land use policy or something like that. It was awesome, they played something new, something really old, and "Losing My Religion." we (that is me michael, and others) then ate at the Taco Stand. It was a good evening. Thanks, Mr. Coenen.

ok some updates on recent events...

the burning effigy... well like everything i'm a part of it goes 97% successful. The wax / paper / plastic Blue Devil looked amazing. Our design for the scaffolding worked perfectly. We hung the thing up by its wrists from a chain and built the fire. After the pep rally, we were all ready. Everything went perfectly, just as we had predicted, except... the amount of time it took for the fire to burn.

once a few people had made their way down to the bonfire, we lit the thing. our concern had allways been that it might take too long to burn and be really boring. It got going slow... very slow... so Adam Brooks put a little bit of lighter fluid on it (no, actually a lot) and well... it went. within five minutes we had a sixteen foot towering inferno about a foot infront of the effigy. it melted and burned and fell from the chain. the only problem... it all happened so fast, not that many people actually got down and saw it happen. at least they got to enjoy the bonfire afterwards... but man, you should have seen it.

Elliott Smith was sooooo cool. We had a little bit of a problem finding the place (note to loyal readers: mapquest.com is quite literally worthless) and we missed dinner, but we got in and found a really good place to stand. the show was shot but amazingly good. he didn't play only from the new album and really really knew what would please the crowd of loyal fans. i also ran into Santiago from GHP, which was cool.

Today was my last real Cross Country meet. I'm glad that it's over. To tell the truth, I really just stuck with it this year because I needed the PE credit. It was hurting my grades, and I'm getting progressively worse as a runner. But the team is full of nice people. After the meet we all went to Mexicali Grille and had an absolutely fantastic dinner. Everyone was being loud and obnoxious and simply hilarous. I'm going to miss all these people so much when I go off to college.

and there I go again! I get nostalgic for things that I haven't even lost yet. Thing that I still have months to enjoy in the moment and not treat like old memories. bad carter bad, living in the past is one thing, treating the present like the past is innexcusable.

yessss the burning effigy is going soooo well.... i'm going to have to take a picture of the head and post it. this is going to be john and i's greatest moment ever... tomorrow... athens academy gets demonic

tomorrow is the big homecoming dress up, build a float, etc. etc. day. we're missing half of our classes for that. i'm not dressing up this year; i always have before. Our theme is the Wizard of Oz and that's tough to do without cash. I don't even own overalls. Ah well...

This is going to be the most fantastic weekend. Friday: Pat's party and then the homecoming game. Saturday: something then dinner and Eliot Smith. Sunday: I'll do something I'm sure.

Man I've got to finish this college application I'm writing and fast.

we just ran in a cross country meet. i didn't do so hot. it was fun and all.

when i was finishing the race i heard someone yell to another runner "run it hard for the LORD!" ...
i don't know what i think about all of that. i certainly think that religion is a positive thing, but bringing God that far into everyday life... i just don't know. perhaps you are doing the creator of the universe a disservice by associating him with the Riverside junior varsity cross country meet. and what's wrong with running it hard for yourself? at the gates of heaven nobody will say "hey way to sprint it in back in 2000." but then again, he did run faster after that guy yelled that.

all of the jesus t-shirt, slogans, and young life type stuff just kind of bothers me in general. they take something intimately private aspect of life and turn it into a mix of support group and social club. it kind of cheapens everything. but then again, i'm not very religious at all, i'm probably not the best judge of sincerity on the matter...

i have some biology to do, i need to get some more sleep.

well i did it, i updated the page.

it doesn't work in non-internet explorer browsers yet, and knowing microsoft, that means it probably wont work on non-windows platforms yet.

school's been going, i guess. i've got this crazy english project to do, as well as some major math and latin.

john and i have seized control of the comitee to burn an efigee at the pre homecoming celebrations. if this thing even goes HALF according to plan, it's going to be amazing.

ahhh yes, homecoming. anne and i have elected to skip that accursed dance (dances at our school really really suck.) and go see eliott smith perform in atlanta. that should be rad. wow that's less than two weeks away now... better buy tickets.

i'm scrambling to get an early action application in right now. wish me luck.

what else... hrm... i need to do a suffocate project.

i'm getting so lazy with this... ok to do:

be more regular in my homework, blog, and bathroom visits... i will redesign this page, just you wait

i went to new york for a college viewing trip it was rad. here's a rough itinerary to the events, maybe this will be a long post.

FRIDAY : get in some last minute Chrono Cross, rush all over town and buy some last minute things. i bought Ulysses (james joyce) some shoes and a CD player.
SATURDAY - very very early - : come home at 1 AM from the Yo La Tengo show. It was pretty cool, but we had to leave early. the odd thing about the show was that amy irving came along. the 40 watt club wasn't exactly her element, but she seemed to enjoy herself. i stayed up packing until about 3 AM, and then...

SATURDAY - 5 AM - i woke up to go catch the bus to atlanta. the busride is now something of a blur, i remember not sleeping and talking about George Bush or something like that. on the plane i sat next to amit and john. all three of us slepped off and on.

SATURDAY - we arrived in New York, which is apparently running on the honor system these days, because there was no security at the baggage claim in the airport. john and i formed the "don't act like a stupid tourist in new york club" in which we didn't act like stupid tourists (i.e. we didn't stare up at buildings like morons, didn't giggle at accents, didn't yell out "DMX lives here" when bussing through Harlem, didn't step out into traffic like crazy animals etc.) we went to Columbia, very nice, and saw this very 80's looking solar power car being pushed along (it was overcast). that night we saw "Jitney" an off broadway production about this group of 70's african americans who work in a car service. it was very good. we went to sleep at 1 AM on Sunday. for amy and i that means 2 hours of sleep between seven on friday and one on sunday, 42 hours, 40 hours awake. i was delerious.

SUNDAY - woke up. amy and i caught a train, with no adults mind you, and rode down to Princeton, NJ. saw Princeton, which gets the most unfairly good dorms of all time award. we met up with michael ritter and brandon van dyck. both of whom are doing fine. we caught the train back up to new york. on the way back, amy got a rather humorous hit-on from this guy from upstate new york "maybe you'll be in niagra falls sometime, do you want my number?" we met back up with the group to see "De La Guarda" at six (more on that in a second) but the important thing is without help we, small town country folk that we are, were able to find Penn station, catch a train, get to Princeton, and make it back without getting lost or killed. we felt very adult and mature.

SUNDAY - 6 PM - saw De La Guarda. first impression: what do you mean i have to stand up? we walk into this little black room with a white paper ceiling. no seats, no stage, just a croud of artsy and rich looking new yorkers and a bunch of tourists. i think "this is going to be pretentious crap" the new age music starts playing "crap" i say again. lights go on above the paper ceiling and we see shadows of people swinging over, and ping pong balls being rolled out to the middle "total lame crap, i'm leaving in five minutes" i tell my self. then it goes NUTS, the ceiling gets torn down, the music gets drum heavy as hell and the cast of the play is running up and down walls suspended from the 50 foot real ceiling by bungee cords and harnesses, rapping and yelling in a mix of demonic chatter and portugese. it was AWESOME i highly reccomend it. read the book of revelation before seeing it though.

SUNDAY - even later - we rode somewhere halfway to Providence. our bus driver was a friggin moron. he didn't know anything. i could have found my way around better than him. he talked loudly, and blasted NPR at random intervals late at night and early in the morning and to top it all off (literally) he wore a hairstyle that can only be described as a parody of a bad comb-over. even the teachers made fun of him. MONDAY - we saw Brown. I was pretty nonplussed to tell you the truth. Providence RI, is nice, but didn't seem very young person oriented. while in providence, john skipped the opportunity to go see this little indie record store. Amit (the other one) later talks to him about it:

  AMIT: john, you should have gone, there was a Sid Barrett tribute album.
  JOHN: ghhha!
  AMIT: it was on vinyl
  JOHN: ghhhhhhhaaaa!
  AMIT: there were a bunch of people i had never heard of on it.
  CARTER: was pavement on there?
  AMIT: yes.
  JOHN: GHHHHAAAAAAA!

MONDAY - a bit later - i think we visited Yale, i don't remember when, but all i know is that at some point we were at Yale, which was nice but in a bad location. later we went to Boston which wins the nicest city ever award, and ate wonderful food and walked around and shopped and such. it was around this point that i gave up on trying to profit from the trips food budget and began to overindulge in every tasty looking thing i could find. i ate a lot of chowder. there was this streat musician playing violin, wonderfully, i was entranced. i watched for about a half hour and bought his CD. we met up with mixon, who was in town for a meeting with harvard's football coach (yes, we hate him too) that was cool. john spent the night with his brother darby who's in MIT's graduate business program (yes, we hate him too)

TUESDAY - morning - we walked around Cambridge, which gets the even better than Boston award - for a while. amy got to reminisce about her summer (she went to harvard for 8 weeks). we then toured harvard, which gets the i want to go there so badly that i'm setting myself up for a huge dissapointment because they only take like three kids award - it's so nice, and it's in the greatest place on earth. later we looked at boston u, which was also very nice, and john and i spent a good two hours looking for a record store after that, to no avail -- i was on a quest to find the vasselines album, which i'm beginning to think is out of print. we then packed up and got on the bus.

TUESDAY - evening - on the bus ride something magical happened. complete and utter truthgame madness broke out. between "never have i ever" and "truth or truth" on the back of the bus i learned a whole lot of things about my class. bonding by shared embarassment.

WEDNESDAY - lets see... we saw Amhearst and Trinity. both fine schools, but too far outside the city. we got back into new york that night, just in time to get dressed up for the DINNER CRUISE!!!!

WEDNESDAY - later - we go down to the docks lookin' sharp, especially the girls who were showing off their recent acquisitions from shopping. highschool girls must all deal crack, because they have too much money. john and i both shell out dough (like $18) for disposable cameras. we get on the boat. it's wonderul, dimly lit, nice and romantic. we pull out, and then some music starts. but it isn't light jazz or classical, it's "Come Sail Away" being butchered (if that's possible) by the worst band ever. later they put on this show, starring "Chad" who is of questionable sexuality and certainly questionable dignity. they danced around and sang bad songs in atrocious costumes and horrible smiles. they got eric sherman, the jessicas and chase to help out, which was funny. after the performance there was a wonderfully cheesy and goofy dance. eric got a line started. amit and ms. loyd danced. inbetween all of this we rode around the statue of liberty and all stood around on the front of the boat and talked and enjoyed the breeze.

WEDNESDAY - even later - so then we got off of the boat, and took a bus over to the empire state building and take in the view. it was very very very beautiful. some people bought fake rolexes. we go back and we go to sleep.

THURSDAY - morning - wake up. go to NYU. it was allright, very cool school, in a very cool town, with very nice dorms, but some of the areas especially washington sq. park were pretty scrungy. after that we have one last hour and a half to eat and shop. amy ben john and i managed to lose amit, but he was ok. we went to the tower records in the trump tower. i found a cool japanese beck import as well as dr. octagon and finally bought some built to spill and some pixies.

THRUSDAY - later - we went to the museum of modern art. we had a guided tour (boo) for an hour. i got to see picasso painting with the woman in front of the mirror, which has always been my favorite. there was also a large amount of cool pop art and a nifty short film. they're doing some big additions to the museum, it should be nice in a year or so. i also think that i got some design inspiration from a monet peice.

THURSDAY - around 9 or so - we get on the plane and take off. i got the great seat away from everyone else, next to a quiet woman and a flight attendant. boo.

THURSDAY - midnight - we land, take the bus home. it was a mostly quiet ride. i got home. i slept.

i'm sick today... bleh... i'm staying at home.

college applications are really really beginning to rear their ugly heads. I've started to write the essays. Princeton, why do you have four? Why can't everyone use the common application.

oh and TACO has started back up under the steadfast leadership of yours truely. It is our hope this year to construct a battle bot. I know it sounds crazy, a buch of highschoolers with no engineering knowledge building a killer robot. But yes we think it can be done. If you happen to know anything about anything that would be helpful in designing/planning/building a small remote controlled robot with a mounted rotating weapon (kind of like a saw, but i hesitate to give too many details) then we'd love to hear from you. colmore@colmore.com as always.

I am really going to redesign the site now. it is time.

ok... so i'm lazy and busy at the same time, and that means no blog updates... this'll be a whirlwind..

last weekend, labor day weekend, my cousins Hallie, and Lucia, ages seven and five, came over. I spent just about the whole weekend with them. The drawing of Donkey Kong I did with Hallie got into some Dallas area first grade show-and-tell. A bigger award than I have ever received in my life.

we went to go see Tim Nielson (john's older brother) put on a little performance in the coffee house where John works. Tim, you're awesome.

Cross country continues to progress. I ran a 31:30 at our first meet, which is TERRIBLE, even for me, but yesterday at Barry college I dropped a good three minutes to a respectable (for me, i was still in the last tenth of the people running) 28:25.

Erik and I finished his kick-butt computer. We saved about $1000 over buying the same machine from Dell or someplace.

I got Chrono Cross. Tom and I bought a Playstation just to get this game. Man oh man oh man, I am guilty of no exaggeration when I say that this game is easily the greatest thing, living or not, since the birth of the universe, and I am including the universe itself in that statement.

sorry no updates in a while. school started and there went my time. ij'm not going to bore you with many details about class and stuff.

school's going to be good but hard this year. i have many classes with friends.

this weekend has been RAD so far. last night was the cross country dinner, which wasn't too cool, but after that was the Parlament Funkadelic concert with Erik and Anne! That show ruled!!!! we got there at about ten thirty and the band came on at eleven. all of the Georgia Theater was crammed with drunken frat and sorrority girls. the music was loud, we got funky. lots of good fun. we should have gotten up on stage, but we didn't.

today erik and i planned on building his computer, so we drive over to the UPS office/warehouse to pick up the components, only to find that they aren't open. not only were they not open but the warehouse was about abandoned. the big door was open and we went inside. we could have taken the computer parts as there was no security and the door to storage was wide open. but we couldn't sign for it. so we drove off.

i made nelle her page today.

erik and i finished out the day by going downtown and partaking in a UHS experience, which loyal readers will note hasn't happened in a while. nother as crazy as the double car crash incident back in spring, but it was fun. we talked to dane van dyck and commented on the relative attractiveness of downtown females. so all in all a good day. tomorrow i have to plan the shows for TACO and acedemic bowl for the club draft assembly. we need members so badly!

so ok, yesterday sucked

the day starts out dull, until about 3 pm. erik calls me up to over to his house and figure out what we're going to put in his computer. en route i am to go by kroger and get a driver's license (i lost mine up in virginia) well they wouldn't take social security as an id. so i leave.

i was going through an elaborite turning around scheme designed to not take a left onto the atlanta highway, when exiting from a mcDonnalds, something aweful happened.

I was taking a right out of the aforementioned mcDonalds. I look to the left, all clear (though for how far I couldn't say, there was a big bush). I look to the right to start turning and who do i see but Michael Coenen, Amy Coenen, and Jared Fisher, driving toward me. I pause to make sure it was them, I wave, I turn. screeeeeech.... wam! in the amount of time i had spent pausing and waving, some one had come up infront of me. so yes, this was entirely my fault. my bumper is damaged. it looks like the back panel of his car is dented pretty bad, but thankfully i don't think there's any frame damage. he was going slow and i was barely moving so no one is hurt. insurance is going to cost me though.

so i come home (i don't go to erik's) and sulk. finally john calls me up and we (along with the usual gang of madeline and nelle) go to the waffle house, and who do we see but keller and zach! now as i don't like going into unpleasant personal things on this site i have avoiding mentioning the unfortunate soap opera between my sister and zach but lets just say that didn't help in making the evening go any better.

chrono trigger II comes out today and it had better be damn good.

Well amazingly, Courtney Love is not a moron, now can we have the old Hole back?

I've just been bumming around town of late, mainly with Anne and others. I went to two days of the 40 watt club Kindercore Expo 2000, in which Kindercore (a local label) has all of the artists signed to them play short sets at Athens' most famous venu. Of Montreal ruled, and Jenna Epps, who went to 8th grade with me is apparently friends with them and Olivia Tremor Control. There's also this band called "Easy" who were really rad. AND I got the Kindercore 3 disk sampler CD for $10 of my mother's money so all has been really really cool.

John is still working a lot, so i haven't seen enough of him. Andrea (Lennon's friend) has a cool apartment. Running is going well. hrm... what else...

ahh yes, school is going to start just a little over a week, my schedule:
AP Calculous BC
AP Bio
AP Literature/Composition
AP Latin ( egad this will be rough )
Physics
Drawing and Painting
As you can see these are going to involve a fair amount of standardized tests by the good folks at ETS. If anyone out there has taken any of these APs and has some friendly advice to give our hero, then feel free to drop me a line (colmore@colmore.com ). I'm kind of looking forward to school, like a fiber strong diet, it provides regularity.

Paper Fuzz and Jewphoria are playing a real live show this monday so that will be fun, and good luck to everyone involved. Friends' bands are so nifty.

I still need to go out and get some textbooks from the University Bookstore. I need to start thinking about a new page design. I need to write some e-mail. I need to get back on a sleeping schedule that doesn't resemble the Hawaii time zone.

today was fun. after running and driving my mother to the doctor, i speant from two to midnight with anne, isley, erik, and johnathan in various stages doing various forms of nothing. doing nothing with friends is the single greatest activity in the world. hrm... what detail to expound upon...

well this one kind of stunk but: erik anne and i see that the 40 watt has a big show on tonight at 8, so at about 8:30 we go there and check it out and nobody is there at all. when somebody walks out of the club, we ask whats up and he responds, "oh thats a mistake, we're all a little out of it. one of our closest friends shot himself last night." we were all hyped up to see good local music and we learn that some great guy just shot himself. it wasn't anyone we knew but still... well at least that was the only real downer of the evening.

around eleven while we were sitting in bluesky, shanon mclemore (who graduated athens academy two years ago) and her boyfriend from SMU walk in. they're both fantastically nice people and incidentally, probably the most attractive couple currently in the city of athens. shanon has allways looked good, and she's looking better than ever, and her boyfriend... if i had one tenth of his appearance, i'd have no trouble with anything in this world. and both of them are nice and charming and friendly and intelligent. remember : envy is a sin.

tomorrow i'll try to go over to lennon's friends' new apartment.

well the reunion was mindnumbingly dull, except for the canoe trip, which was actually pleasant.

we get there on friday and are instantly hit with a complete and utter lack of anything to do. this was the reunion of the branch of my family that i didn't even know existed. a bunch of my dad's cousins. it was fun for him, catching up with people and such, but being "reunited" with people you don't know is hardly a blast. madeline and i watched a lot of television.

but we got back in town yesterday and went out with john and nelle. that was fun we hit the waho, barnes and noble, and damons. a good return to athens. i'm not sure what's up for today.

this weekend Of Montreal are playing... yes...

Well I've been back in town for about a week now. I've been spending much time with john, jared, anne, and madeline. last night isley and erik were over and we watched "easy rider"

a few nights ago we (me, anne, jared, seth) were downtown and this random bum/rapper named "jazzy jay" comes up and does this cheddar cheese rap for some change. that was fun.

so now i'm going to virginia for the family reunion which will hopefully not be as mindnumbingly dull as madeline and i fear it will. talk to you all on monday.

GHP is over.

I'm sorry I didn't post enough while I was away, but that only means i was busy. Over the last week I :

Ran in a 5k -- I did horribly, i was sick, it was hot, and i'd eaten some bad shrimp, and i suspect that the course was long)

Presented in the Math fair -- Zach and I were one of six groups to do so, and our project went fine

Finally took some pictures -- I'll post them to "gallery" when i get that up.

Got my drawing in the art show with the art majors! -- i'm pretty proud of this, the picture turned out well.

Had the last dance, exchanged e-mails, and said goodbye. Adios everyone, it's been so very very very fun. Please keep in touch, we'll have to get back together some time.


So I'm back in town now, and I've just been spending the last few days with friends. I was sad to leave, but I'm glad to be back home in Athens.

so its been nine days since i updated... sorry.

GHP is less than a week from being over, and is slowly winding to a close. I'm starting to take mad amounts of photos... I'll post worthy ones when I get home.

Zach and I finished our project, we pretty well proved that you can't divide by zero if multiplication and addition are to have any real relation to each other. so all in all the project was a success.

For the eighties dance I ended up going as Rob Smith. Most people didn't get it I got a lot of "What is that, Rocky Horror?" but enough people caught on, especially the RAs.

Today a bunch of my Roommate's friends are in town... they're going to bring me some Taco Bell or something. Later I'll play some pool and watch a play. That'll be fun. And to everyone in Athens: see you in a week, I'm about ready to get home.

pain is knowing that someone somewhere, right now, is watching Dr. Strangelove and you're not there. Hell is knowing exactly who and exactly where.

last night was the 70s dance. they didn't play "Anarchy in the UK." I understand why, you can't really dance to it, but it did render my punk costume (the only one amid 100 or so disco-ers !!!) somewhat less effective. next week is 80s. maybe someone will lend me a suit and i can go as a Special.

so i just finished my class write-up for math, and only 13 minutes to spare. I wrote about the Z squared mapping in complex space. good stuff.

Zach and i continue to attempt to divide by zero. So far here are the consequenses of such an action:

the distributive property is null and void.

zero times zero does not equal zero.

we're not sure if zero's inverse plus zero's inverse will equal one or zero in mod space, but we're working on it...

multiplication can be a group, which it isn't under any other number system.

we have yet to even think about extending this system to all reals or all integers, but we have a week and a half, which is plenty to conquire infinity.

should anyone in Athens care at this point, i'll be home August 1st or 2nd or something around then.

my time is short but i need to post. so i'm back at GHP. our final math projects are beginning. Zack and I are trying to divide things by zero, which apparently violates a lot of fundamental rules of mathematics (like the distributive property) so that is going well. i've started ceramics in art, which means drawing is over. i got one really nice peice out of it.

i need to start taking pictures, i've only got like seven or so... hrm.... this saturday is the nineteen seventies dance and i'm dressing up totally Sex Pistols. that will be fun. i'm being kicked out of this room.

so yeah, this weekend was AWESOME. Yesterday I go out with nelle and madeline (she's back from art camp and didn't really enjoy it) we tried to see rocky and bullwinkle but flagpole dot com screwed up and gave a bad time for the movie so we just went downtown. we run into jared and jonathan and just chill for a while. erik met us at around ten and he and i went to the fourty watt club to see (not joking here) Penis Turner and The Impotent Sea Snakes. Penis Turner turned (ha ha) out to be a pretty charming little no name local band. I talked to their bassist after the show and he was really really nice. the Impotent Sea Snakes were unspeakably odd. They were your basic KISS fan, heavy crap metal, shock rock group complete with stage explosions, scantaly clad females of little relation to the bands music and suggestive costumes and dancing. a man dressed up as a nun threw condoms at the audience. we are all going to hell.

and now its sunday morning, in a matter of hours i'm going back to GHP. its been fun. Colin, i will definitely call when i get back in town.

ahhhh home. what a packed day it has been. i wake up do some math, give a presentation, ride home with allison (4 hours in the car -- it was short) get home talk to Mom + Tom + Dad go out with john nelle anne jared erik johnathan and spencer to the waffle house and downtown. downtown we run into jim paul cash lennon brandon alice darius seth and others it was all so crazy. spencer and jared came back over here and didn't leave till like 1:00. we played pool and perfect dark. now i'm tired but this is my first time to hit a decent computer so i'll probably be up till like three.

GHP continus to go well. Er math problem: find all positive integers (n) such that n! ends in 40 zeroes. have fun, it doesn't sound bad (oh and it was house number 64) This weekend i really truely honestly am coming home. See you all then. I'm ready to DRIVE. John, try to get free for a few hours, you silly convict. Tonight I watch Rocky II in honor of our great great nation. And hey, Chip, your 2000 project is half over. Amazing, i've stuck with this stuff.

as you may have figured out, i'm not home. well my long weekend has been delayed. see ya'll next week.

tomorrow i'm coming home for the weekend. somebody find out if anything decent is going on at the 40 watt or georgia theater or something on saturday night.

I must say that diplomacy is the greatest board game ever created. period. without a doubt. i played germany and had a rather profitable alliance with britian but i was caught off guard when austria-hungary got new leadership and became really really agressive. I had left the fatherland unguarded while invading france and russia, and he cut me in half. but it was fun while it lasted. tonight i'm watching the graduate.

visual arts is going very very well, allready i'm drawing better than i thaught i could but man let me tell you the work that the majors are doing is intimidating these kids are good.

and then i figured : why should i get all the math fun? you too can participate in GHP math, because i'm going to be posting problems that i get in class here goes two:

find an exact map that takes every point on the surface of a sphere and maps it to a unique point on the complex plane plus one point at infinity (C uninion infinity) and vice versa. (this is hard, it took me and three other kids an hour)

brain teaser: sean lives on 13th avenue, with houses 13 to 1300. dwaine wants to know where sean lives.

dwaine asks sean if his house # is less than 500. sean lies to dwaine.

dwaine asks if sean's house # is a perfect square. sean lies to dwaine.

dwaine asks if dwaines house # is a perfect cube. sean tells the truth.

dwaine says all he needs to know now is if the second digit of dwaine's house # is 1. sean tells him the truth.

dwaine claims to know the house number. he is wrong. where does sean actually live?

GHP continues to go well. Last night was the dance. I danced. It was fun.

Today I'm getting e-mail stuff taken care of and updating this. I'm going to play pool in a minute, then i'm seeing a concert given by the music majors. later we'll play some "diplomacy" and i'll try to get some math done.

visual art is going well too, in five weeks i might post some drawings if i'm proud of them.

i got my chemistry sat-II back and it went well, thank you.

i'll see everyone in athens next weekend, so keep your schedules open and somebody check if theres something good going on at the 40-watt on saturday night.

adios.

everything is still cool. i watched "blade" last night. we just proved that the real number line maps onto the real number plane. i'm starting visual art tomorrow. i'm rushed for time. bye.

well I'm at GHP now. this is the first time i've had a chance to check email etc. come on people, write me. i want to keep up with whats up in athens. colmore@colmore.com

everything is going good except the heat and rain. people are nice. it isn't the immediate connect with fourty people feeling i had a TiP, but nonetheless it is very nice.

math is a lot harder than i thaught it was, but i'm encouraged by the other students. you know its good when on the first day, there is a massive race and struggle to get into a class called "the mathematical foundations of computer science." me i'm staying away from computer classes here, i did that last summer and i want to get some good solid math. heres my schedule:

period 1 : number theory
period 2 : problem solving
period 3 : twisted space ( graphs of complex numbers )
period 4 : manifold deformations ( topology )

and i got into the visual arts minor... yay!!!!

in a matter of hours my mother and i are driving down to Valdosta so that I may begin Governor's Honors Program. I'm going to be taking 6 weeks of math. why was I chosen for this? I think its 'cause i'm the only one in my grade who would willingly subject myself. I also hope to do some creative writing or visual arts as well.

So I had quite a sendoff yesterday. I went downtown and got my hair cut (it's too short now) I bought some T-Shirts ("the Beatles" "Calvin and Hobbes" and "Shaft") and a whole butt load of CDs. lets see... Belle and Sebastian (i know own everything by them) Smashing Pumpkins, Primus, Manson, Flipper, Apples in Stereo, and... err I can't remember, but several more, I think I bought nine in all, which is quite a lot.

So i chilled with Madeline and Nelle downtown. There I ran into Lennon, who I used to pal around with in fifth sixth and seventh grade. We talked for a while. John came down and we all decided to see Shaft. Shaft was AWESOME it should win the best picture award for like the next seven years. Jared, Anne, and Spencer were also there. Lennon couldn't make it, i think he got in a fight with his mom. So we went to the waffle house and got cokes and joked around for about an hour. It was all good. Last night I went through the herculean task of organized my 190 or so CDs and putting them all into the two CD notebooks I got for GHP. well.... I'm off... anyone who has anything to say to me, send me an e-mail. I'll keep you all more updated than you would like to be I'm sure. Same hip place (right here on this page) same hip time (whenever)

caio

the funniest site ever WARNING: adult themes.

so today i went over to the coenens' house to fix their computer again. i feel bad that i can't just wave a wand and make it a perfectly working machine, but i also know i'm doing more than any "trained" service technician could. and michael and i decided to rent movies tonight. we watched "airplane" and "take the money and run" both of which are hilarious. john, keller, isley, and madeline were here too. we then went to the waffle house and chilled and now here i am

tomorrow i have to get a physical, register for the "selective service" (draft) and buy some T-shirts. hopefully i'll get to do something with someone too.

its 2:53 AM, and i'm working on a new design for the page. yes yes i love this orange thing too, but all things must pass, and i am inspired by a happy accident in a photo i took in florida. for some reason i took a shot of the car ceiling, and in the window my dad driving, the clouds, the camera flash, and the clouds out of the other window are all reflected. its pretty stirring.

i'm back from Texas. i had fun with Stacey. RICE was really really cool. i can see why people like it. i don't know if its where I'll go or not, but they'll definitely be getting an application from me. the city is nice as well. it seems smaller than it is, and the local club music scene is more than adequate.

so i got back in town today and spared no time in going out and doing something. me, my sister, john, nelle, keller, and erik all went to Damon's to play the trivia game. john, nelle, and i were in first, keller etc. had given up and were guessing randomly and were in last. at the final round, though, they wager everything and get the correct answer (the question was about greek philosophers or something) so they ended up winning. ahh well...

am i the only one who thinks that the samual l jackson "Shaft" that is coming out this weekend could very well be the best movie of all time? we shall see...

governor's honors starts this sunday. six weeks of math nerd goodness, oh my.

well i'm back from florida. i actually got some sun, but you wouldn't know by looking at me. tomorrow i'm going to texas to look at RICE university and to meet up with Stacey, who i haven't seen since TiP last summer. high stacey, see you soon.

the new belle and sebastian is out, but there are forces conspiring against me and i have yet to make it to a cd store.

Hey, I'm at the beach. I'm writing this from rented computer time in the back of a Mail Boxes etc. So Me, The fam, and Nelle are all out here having a perfectly plesent time. The air is unseasonably chilly, but the water is nice. I'll have pictures posted before I leave for Governor's Honors. Hello everyone. See you soon.

there was a party at johnathans last night. he had a DJ and everything. the festivities were centered around the pool. there was a post party party at Allan Gallas's (spelling sorry) that i did not attend.

i took the chemistry SAT-II this morning.

we're leaving for the beach in about an hour. so i won't be posting for about a week. when i get back, i've got lots of pictures to put up.

SCHOOL IS OUT OH MY GOD

so i took my last exams, precal (which went well), and latin (we shal see, this could be bad) but that barely matters because

I AM DONE WITH THE ELEVENTH GRADE!!!!!

so me and john and madeline and nelle pile in my car and hit the waffle house, then we go to johns house, then downtown. we run into jared and anne, we chill. we get Keller (O.C got out last week) and ate at the Mellow Mushroom. We then went to Matt Lakens' apartment, listened to some old Beck and watched some of "Kids"

SUMMER IS HERE

somehow i forgot to mention the coolest part of "exam study" weekend. We (me, Madeline, Nelle, John, Erik, Anne, Jared, Johnathan, Isley, Chip) all went and saw a free concert in this warehouse. Elf Power and Sleeter-Kinney were headlining. It kicked ass.

so yeah,

SCHOOL IS OUT FOR THREE WONDERFUL WONDERFUL WONDERFUL MONTHS

never mind the fact that i'm going to be out of town in excess of 7 weeks, i am here and i am free.

tomorrow johnathan is having a pool party.

ok a lot has happened. first off there was graduation. I was an "honor guard" which means that i got to pass out programs and sit up in the balcony. Graduation went fine. The speaches were boring, but that was to be expected. I had dinner afterward with Brandon and Alice. Most everyone else went off to some wild pary in somebody's field. I have yet to find out about that.

Now I'm right in the middle of exams. I've gotten English and Computer Science out of the way. And I really really REALLY need to do well on Latin, my semester grade BOMBED. but it will all be over this time tomorrow. well i have to go study... toodles.

Today was the last day of real classes. Tomorrow is the latin club finale and the beginning of a half-hearted attempt at exam study. I'll study Latin, review PreCal, do NOTHING for English, and do a brief last minute cram for Computer Science.

Today was Honors Day as well, which means we got to see the seniors get a lot of crap. We lowly juniors got by with some stuff too. Amazingly, I'm in the top 10 of my class this year. I also got some Math stuff, which was expected, and they announced some things that I allready knew about. Next year I should really try for those English + Art awards, but it doesn't really matter.

So after school I chilled with John and Nelle (they're dating now, by the way) and Madeline and Keller. After that I spent a relaxing evening at home on the porch with Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and some music.

Now its getting on the late side and some how I don't feel like sleeping, despite being tired. There's something I ment to do... ahhh yes, get much much better at flash...

Yay... people are posting haikus. Well school is almost over. I've got four exams to take next week and that will be it. No more 11th grade. Its been a good year

This summer I'm going to be gone quite a bit, mostly in South Georgia at the Governor's Honors program. I'm also going to be at the beach right after school ends and I'm going to be around the country looking at colleges I probably wont go to. While I'm looking at RICE, I'm going to meet up with Stacey Horn, who I haven't seen since Duke last summer, which will rawk, as she would say.

All in all, everything is going according to the master plan.

like buds on spring trees the page sprouts a new section please leave a haiku

i'm working on something with haikus...

yesterday i had a party to celebrate my 18th. it was fun; a bunch of people came over we swam, played games, watched austin powers,& had food and cake.

afterwords some of us went downtown and unbelievable craziness occured. first we run into my friend brandon's older brother dane who promises to give erik a $1300 peice of equipment (some sort of amp i think) we then took coke and crackers from the free food stand set up by some christian folk band which was playing in front of the Grill along with about five interperative dancers wearing do-rags. we then went briefly to the UHS. nothing much happened there, there were too many of us, and the weirdness was happening elsewhere. madeline and anne participated in a dare, the details of which i wont go into. we then went back up to about where the christian folk had been. we ran into these two people, one of whom was an old friend of anne's, the other an old friend of eriks. they appeared to be going out or something.

while we were talking to them, we were interrupted by a woman who was easily the most insane person of all time. she was sitting on a bench with some bags, yelling loud gibberish and then mumbling to herself, swatting at invisible bugs in front of her face. but what makes it crazy, as in something from a david lynch film crazy, was the pink 1980's power suit she was wearing. it had big shoulders and brass buttons and everything. man... she was wacko.

we then went to go listen to the guy that plays drums on overturned plastic buckets. the guy is AWESOME! when you hear him without seeing him, you think "wow those guys are really good" but its just one guy, working without pedals, just two drumsticks and three overturned buckets. so another insane downtown bum was standing next to him, scaring people. this is the guy who last weekend was wandering around in a little cape/shawl, and everytime he came around he was in a different shirt, and sometimes shirtless. he had a baby bird on his shoulder last night. which he would occasionally hold and kiss. he later gave the bird to a little boy, which for some reason was the most hilarous thing in the world.

we then run into mike alden, john's slightly messed up friend. he had been playing in the christian folk band. he was doing allright, he graduating soon. dane then sprinted up the sidewalk at a pretty impressive pace, running like the t-1000 from that movie. we walked on to Lo Yo Yo Stuff, a little music store that stays open late and is conveniently positioned next to the 40-watt. erik bought Neutral Milk Hotel's in the aeroplane over the sea which is one of the greatest albums of all time. I got a live CD of the Olivia Tremor Control. That was it for last night. We went home. I went to sleep. I'm listening to the Olivia Tremor Control deal right now.

unbelievable .... amazing .... i have a new design hero.

ok so my birthday went well. I got a JVC 5-disc CD player for my room and a bunch of phone calls from relatives. i really hate the telephone, especially with relatives. The conversation really quickly reaches a point where i have no idea what to say, so i just say "thanks for calling it's so good to hear from you" and i know that sounds like "please hang up now" so if anyone who has called me recently is reading this, i'm sorry.

colmore dot com is one year old

and i am 18. Last year this site was my birthday present. It's been an interesting year, all in all. I'll put up a history of the page this weekend. I should go buy some cigarettes and porn.

so AP chem went well. I spent the whole day with Jared and Anne after that. We had fun. Pool, swimming, foos ball, we rented and watched "Go," which was pretty good except for irritating gratuitous nipple shots. A fun day all in all.

Three weeks until school ends. I am counting the days...

today i'm staying home from school to study for AP chemistry, which is tomorrow. I'm not too worried. I just need to take some practice exams and review a few concepts.

i got the betaedition.com site up. if any of you out there are in the need for some fresh hot web design, then check us out.

AP History was AWESOME!!! Multiple choice went well and I got to write an essay that was 1/2 about Music in the 60's if ever there was a topic more suited to me...

so i spent the rest of the day chillin' with varios people at various locales, all in all a great day. i'm going to work on betaedition some this weekend.

Ahhh... the day after tomorrow are the History AP exams. Hamilton, dost I know thee well enough? Can I expound upon the Civil War to some faceless reviewer's liking? only time will tell...

i'm going to burrow myself into the basement floor of a coffee shop and study for ten hours tomorrow. wish me luck. supposedly the Pumpkins thing was great.

madeline and nelle are seeing the smashing pumpkins tonight. have fun with that.

school is going to be over in like 3 weeks and i cannot wait.

our school's soccer championship was tonight. We won, we are state champions, but so is GAC (greater atlanta christian) because the game, one of the most exciting i have ever watched, was a 0-0 tie. the GASC has no rules for breaking a tie after two overtimes in championship games. so it was fun to watch but a huge let-down.

i might go see gladiator

eric sherman's dad died suddenly yesterday. he wasn't at school today. i can't think of much to say about it. i don't know how well he's holding up right now. eric, i'm sorry, i wish i could say that i understand, or i know what you're going through, but i can't. i've never really lost anyone like that, least of all a parent.

i really can't think of anything to say at all...

its 1:54 am, easter sunday. madeline has fallen asleep on the couch watching tv. i just saw an ad for a church. something about the integration of religion with modern technology and advertising seems very very wrong. i suppose if you buy into the "saving" aspect of it it makes sense, but for those of us who like christianity for the connection it gives with something thousands of years old, tv preachers and christian rock pyrotechnics really really take away from what makes it pleasant.

i guess i'm just easily ticked off. things shouldn't bother me so much. its why i'm not much of a socializer. if i don't like being around some one, then i can't stand being around them. any one who i spend time with should feel comfortable that i really really enjoy their company, because otherwise i wouldn't bother. i don't try to branch out. i don't flirt. i don't expand my horizons. i just am comfortable with a painfully slowly growing small circle of friends.

of all the irritating aspects of religion, teen christianity bothers me the most. not the real kind. this girl i know, amy, is one of the few "very christian" christian young people i know who don't seem to be treating it like a social club or another fad either. my catholic friends are pretty low-key about the whole issue as well. but thats about it. when our local on-campus religious group (we're a private school) gets together, are they really looking for a spiritual outlet, or is it, at a sub-concious level, just another popular club. like interact, the service orginization that most people are in because it looks good to colleges and their friends are in it. i've talked to these people. they don't really care enough about the poor to give up that many hours of their lives. teen christianity is at something like a sixty year high. but so are drug use and pregnancy and all of that. on the average, id say the people i know who say "jesus" a lot drink more than the average.

im tired and i have to wake up early tomorrow, i don't know why i'm writing this. someones going to get angy, and its just so painfully angry outsider teen-ish. but i'm not. because, i don't dislike the people i don't enjoy socializing with. i don't hate anybody. even the one person who i thaught i did, theres even positives in him. i'm not anti religios. i don't even think i'm an athiest anymore. i'm not christian, but i certainly don't have anything against christianity. when used correctly, it gives a lot of people a lot of hope and a lot of assurance, and can help with charity and brotherly spirit. but this 90's type of teen group-bonding religion, as well as the really psycho evangelical kind bothers me. its quite obviosly the insincerity of the first that puts me off, and the second gets me because its so... wrong. not morally, but historically. my grandmother grew up in an extremely religion family, in an extremely religious small town. nobody ever went around asking "have you been saved" "have you found jesus" they celebrated halloween. it seems that in an effort to restore society to what it once was, certain churches have turned christianity into a social code that would be unrecognizable to their parents.

and the whole anti-homosexual and anti-abortion uses of christianity. i don't understand the christians who are really angry about them. one of the best parts of the whole deal is how any sinner, any human being, can be saved by jesus despite the sins. yes the bible says these things are sinful, but then again so are adultary and lieing. do you see angry crouds building outside of motels and legal offices? if all sins are equal in the eyes of god, shouldn't the petty theft of your son anger you as much as his classmate's homosexual feelings? in one of the truly crazy chick tracts, this minister goes into prison and makes this mass murderer convert to jesus. couldn't an abortion doctor get saved too then?

well... it's late.

well i saw the concert and it was awesome and i actually talked to Stephen Merrit (singer, songwriter of the fields) here was the conversation in its entirity:

me: pardon me, are you who i think you are?

stephen: [pauses] [looks at me] no.

i'm sure it was him (he was the guy that walked out on stage later) but who cares if he was an asshole? the show was awesome! even when they screwed up one of the songs, it was awesome! and i had played frisbee golf earlier, and i got my SAT scores back (they were good). it was the best day ever. whew... man... i've got a lot of homework tomorrow.

i need to start running again... i haven't put on running shoes since october, and summers is coming soon. i'm putting together a number of photos from the past year, i'll put some of them up. i'm also considering yet another re-design which may happen in about a month. we have today and tomorrow off from school for passover and easter, and tomorrow is THE MAGNETIC FIELDS CONCERT which will be the greatest thing of all time. if they let me bring a camera i will. but everyone on earth needs to own their "69 Love Songs" triple album. i can't describe it... you just have to own it.

i'm sorry for not updating more often. i cannot believe i completely forgot to write about the play. in our schools production of "the merry wives of windsor" i played a servant, a stagehand, and a farie. it was fun and the production went well. after the last night, there was a small party and andrea's. good food and decent to good music. afterwords there was la large group of people at the waffle house. we intended to go laugh at the drag queens outside of the 40 watt (there being some drag queen deal happening then) but that got canceled. in less than a week, me john and anne are going to see the MAGNETIC FIELDS. it will be the greatest event of all time.

Happy birthday Madeline, Happy birthday Tom. My brother and sister ( they are twins ) turn 15 tomorrow, which is crazy, because as far as i am concerned they are still about 8. For madelines birthday me her and a bunch of kids from school went out to eat at one of Athens' MANY MANY MANY mexican restauraunts, Compadres. Nelle, who is just awesome, got her the coolest present ever, every single chick tract crazy funny fundamentalist brain wash propoganda cartoons! (if i ever learn to hack, i'll take them down FIRST.) The party was fun and eveything, i need to get madeline and tom a present. i'll get tom some sort of art thing, if i can find a how to draw anime book, then that would be awesome. i don't know what to get madeline. a cd seems a little impersonal right now. that is all goodnight, for i'm taking the SAT tomorrow morning.

ok what has happened... i went to jason keller's birthday party at china hing express. that was fun. me mark darius erik madeline and nelle went to the UHS afterword and had fun with dollars on strings and hippies in town for the widespread concert. this was all last friday. since then... hrm... well i got governor's honors, which means i get to take math for six weeks this summer. i'm looking forward to it actually. that's about all. i've elected to go to JCL (state latin club) instead of prom. our school dances really suck.

i went out with john to grab some grub. we ran into johnathan and isley downtown and ate at china express. erik mark and darius show up. when john has to go home i go sit at the UHS with erik mark and darius (ultimate heckling spot - the corner of Jefferson & Broad) to make fun of passersby. now craziness is famous for being around the UHS. once erik and brandon saw an old lady fall out of a van, only to be helped back in by a midget with a wheelchair. when i was last there, a limo pulled up and a guy in a big coat and a fuzzy red hat stepped out to go to the little coffee place. so expectations were running high.

i say to erik, "you know what would be the craziest thing to happen? a car crash. not one where anybody gets hurt, but at least a fender bender." and everyone agrees. not more than 20 minutes later does an old handicapped man back into the illegally parked car of a japanese woman and her daughter. while watching the proceedings there, we all agree that the only way it could get any cooler would be for another car crash to occur. so less than half an hour later, we here from the street behind us "screeeeech, BOOM!" and we run up the hill to see it, and in the middle of the intersection there is this white car, banged the hell up, and some woman on a cell phone. man it was crazy.

i suppose it sounds a little cruel, even morbid, sitting around hoping for car crashes, but you have to understand the context. we were allready spectators to the random craziness that occurs in downtown athens, and its not like we wanted anyone to get hurt. so anyway that was that, and it was fun.

here is the new design, i hope you like it

a few things... filming on What's The Deal 3 is progressing beautifully, and we've degenerated into low physical humor for the third time around, hence it will be the best ever. I am still mono-stricken and I have to take the worlds most impossible math test tomorrow morning, so that should be interesting. A new design is definitely in the works and if you would like to see a beta of the flash splash then go to http://www.colmore.com/proto. That is all.

well everyone has gone on to the academic bowl state meet and i am left here being alone and sleepy with mono. so i guess i have no more excuses to not work up a new design...

well lets see where to begin... it's been 9 days since i last updated and some big stuff has happened.

i've seen my mid term progress report grades and they aint lookin so hot. I've fallen in half of my classes. But I went to the doctor the other day and I found out one of the causes for that. yes ladies and gents, I've got mono. I really don't know how, but I've been tired as nuts for the past four weeks and this explains it. so i'm going to quit weightlifting and i'm going to have to skip a lot of play practices and i'm going to try and get to sleep early. it should go away in two to four weeks so i'll be allright.

last night was the sadie hawkins dance (girls ask guys). now dances at my school suck, but sadie ususally sucks worse, and last night's dance was increadibly bad. i had a pseudo date with Nelle; we and twelve others went and ate at Thai of Athens. Good food and good times. Dinner was loud and crazy. We then went to the dance, where of course no one was dancing. My school is small, we've got less than 400 people in our highschool, my graduating class will be 70-something. The Tillman center where we have dances has recently been enlarged, which is nice for lunch, but creates a big empty spot on the dance floor. That combined with the fact that we are just about the whitest school alive, and the fact that our administration has really cracked down on kids showing up drunk means everybody just stands around most of the time. But last night was especially bad because the DJ was called at the last minute and one of his speakers didn't work so we were dancing to just a subwoofer which sounded like crap and two thirds of the usualy (bad) music selection wasn't even there. Needless to say we left early for the party at Johnathan's house.

About twelve people, male and female, spent the night at Johnathans. I really can't get into the details of that without getting a lot of people very angry at me, but I'll say that lessons were learned, friends were made, much fun was had, and much sleep was not. Which really isn't good for someone with mono. Now i've got two and a half weeks of math homework to catch up on today and I am so unbelievably tired right now... well, that's that, i'll try to start writing frequent and short entries again.

Don't see "Mission to Mars" it isn't worth six bucks or even two hours. It aspires to be 2001 and completely fails. The ending, which is no surprise at all if you have seen a single ad for the movie, attempts to shock you with the idea (an idea that is spelled out about three times during the movie) that the martians started life on earth. 2001 dealt with the progress of man in technological society, and never even tried to explain itself; it allowed itself to be interpereted and discussed without teaching or preaching. Mission to Mars also completely fails in scientific accuracy. The spaceships look nice and real and all (although the computer effects make everything look a little like Toy Story) but when they talk about DNA I wanted to leave. The astronaughts are able to identify the species that DNA codes for just by looking at it "that looks like human DNA" And dinosaurs didn't evolve from crocodiles!!! The Alien that they find is some sort of crying Indian/mother figure and then all of the astronaughts join hand in hand around a projection of the earth. I expected them to start singing "Kumbaya." The film fails to succeed in any one area. Even the special effects are weak, 2001's really look better. To it's credit, though, the cenematorgraphy is nice at some points, and some scenes are admirably tense, but no movie that has you pulling for the character's deaths so much can ever be classified as "good."

flying this week i flew across the US twice, and on the way back I watched most of it go by. (story of us is nearly unwatchable anyway, and that was our in flight movie) it was an interesting experience.

sometimes we forget just how BIG the good old US of A is. In most other countries, if you fly for four hours in one direction, then you are well out of the nation, but the US just keeps on going. From ocean to ocean you get coast-metropolis-desert-farmland-river-hills-metropolis over a four hour period (this is san fransisco to atlanta) and the whole thing just rolls on by and everything looks tiny, but you of think how big you are compared to just one of those tiny green splotches that is a tree, or dark circles that is a thousand acres of farmland. poets and astronomers and douglass adams talk about how tiny man is compared to the universe, but i'm having trouble just dealing with how big our nation is. and canada and russia are even bigger. but then again i'm having trouble dealing with a lot of things... like the 90's being over. it seemed to happen so fast, and yet it took a long long time. life has a weird doppler affect, things take f..or...ev..er when you're living through them but when you look back, its all compressed into a stream of quick memories. the passing of time is something else i can't deal with. like on thursday, i thaught to myself "wow, i'm about to go to california for five days, that'll be great" and i packed my bags full to prepare for that length of time and now i'm back home allready and the entire deal is about fifty or sixty memories that i can go over in my head in the space of about five minutes. that worries me about life. i have at least five and a half years until i'm done with college, but in five and a half years that will seem like no time at all. when i was a freshman i thaught about how different things would be when i would be a junior and i'd have a car and all of that, now here i am, 3/4 done with 11th grade and about to turn 18. i'm sorry i've rambled, i'm sure nobody has read up to this point, it's 12:30 and i should go to sleep, but i'm putting that off. i'll be awake for another hour or two, and that seems like such a long time right now.

(play music here) "come back from san fransisco, it can't be all that pretty..." well yes it can, even on a series of grey and dreary days the city was very very nice. Dad me and Tom stayed there for four days, and I just love the place. The stated reason for going was so that I could investigate UC Berkeley and Stanford. UC is very nice, but Stanford is UNBELIEVABLE.

It just feels like a great big bike riding, coffee drinking nice time. I went during "dead week," which is the week right before exams and still everyone seemed pretty laid back. You wouldn't have guessed that it is one of the most academically competitive schools in the nation. And the campus... wow. It's just gorgeous, the buildings are all in a similar style so it really feels unified, and everything is green (even in March) and tree-lined. Wow. If only there was some way I could get admitted...

Well I'm in San Fran right now, updating on a comp-usa display computer. It's an iMac, very nice. I just went and saw Berkely and I really liked it although, I was a bit depressed by the out-of-state admissions rate (12%) Yesterday I bought Basement Jaxx, Clinton, and Something Else by the Kinks. All highly reccomended. That's all the time I have for now. I'm seeing Stanford tomorrow and I'll write about that when I get home. San Fransisco is a really nice city.

I'm listening to an npr archive interview with Stephen Merrit (of The Magnetic Fields) which transpired on valentines day. Good stuff.

A sure sign of an active life is an infrequently updated web journal.

So I had a pretty crazy weekend. Here goes.... I left school on friday at 2:15 to go down to Rome, Georgia to watch our highschool basketball team (guys) play in the state semifinals for class A. After a four hour ride we got out and cheered like maniacs. We couldn't have occupied more than one sixth of that stadium, but we made at least half of the noise. Our school's cheerleaders are somewhat worthless, they often just follow cheers that are started by the students, my friend Michael Coenen in particular. So we won the game and that was cool.

Faced with another three or four hour ride on the bus back to Athens, i hitched a ride on Brandon VanDyk's (spelling sorry) Dad's plane. It was a little four seater, single-propeller plane. and the ride was great! there wasn't a cloud in the sky, so i just watched the continuous stream of suburban lights pass by as we flew over Atlanta and to athens. I was able to pick out my neighborhood, downtown, both Taco Stands, the Varsity, and a good number of my other haunts. A really really cool experience.

On Saturday I woke up at 8:00 to take John, my sister, and her friend Nelle to the J&J flea market. At the market the girls got some old toys and Nelle got a funky shirt, John and I both got Ataris (I got an 800, he got a 2600) but we need new adapters to get them to work with the TV. I also got an old NES, and it works like a CHARM. I've been playing too much Mario and Zelda for my own good. So after we did the dirt mall shopping spree, we went and ate at the huddle house, which to our great surprise was far better in food quality than the Waffle house. I reccomend the barbecue. We took Madeline (my sister) and Nelle back home, and then we went to the Waffle house just to have someplace to be.

There, the butt feces game was invented. John has these two little peices of paper one says "Butt" (it was taken off of a Butterfinger wrapper) and the other says "Feces" (that's a long story) and we discovered that they can provide litterally hours of entertainment when applied to menus and ads and signs. "Free hashbrowns with order" becomes "Free feces with order" "Best burgers in town", "Best butt in town" and so on and so forth. We have yet to tire from this game, and we are beginning to irritate people i think.

There was a party at Austin, Kemp, and Russel's house. That was fun. I got my car stuck on some railroad ties (I didn't know they were there when I parked) and this half drunk marine named something Miller got us unstuck. It reaffirmed my faith in America.

Sunday was much more low-key. I bummed around the house until that evening when I went to Michael's to shoot a scene for What's the Deal 3, Powell's next movie. (I need to write something about Powells amazing talent sometime) anyway, without giving any thing away, let's just say that the segment will be very surprising and extremely gory.

Next week is spring break and I'm spending half of it in San Fransisco! Woohoo!

Happy birthday, Amit. I went over to his house last night. Some people were over. We watched a movie, went out to eat, walked around the neighborhood. Had a good time.

So I've been keeping up with the politics lately. Gonna vote this year. McCain certainly has an exciting thing going on, and I would really be a true blue supporter if I agreed with him on more issues. I like the school voucher's program and I'm for campaign finance reform too. I like his tax cut plan better than Bush's, unless he really does start to consider a flat tax.

I don't like the Republican views on things like environment & conservation. I'm worried about who he might put into the supreme court. I am also avidly pro-choice pro-gay rights and pro-gun control, so that puts me at odds with him. I'll probably end up voting for gore, but If a Republican gets into office, I'd much rather it be McCain than Bush.

Bush just doesn't impress me at all. He would be absolutely nowhere if it wasn't for his family. He would have never gotten the govenorship, and certainly he would have never even been considered as a potential president. His campaign exists on name recognition alone. His stance on issues certainly isn't anything that sets him apart from the typical republican, he's a govenor yes, but not a very outstanding one, and even then there are a lot of govenors and senators out there. He isn't much of a public speaker. He's really unremarkable in most ways except he has the name of a president. And way to get that Dan Quayle support, Jay Ar!

the Governor's Honors interview went well. I think I have a reasonable shot at getting in. While I was there I ran into Madhu (possible misspelling - sorry) who I hadn't seen since July at Duke. We talked caught up and wished each other well. Hi Madhu if you're reading this, it was nice to see you, hope we meet again this summer.

crazy hippie stuff

DATA MATCH LIVES!!!!! We made about $130 and everything worked fine, except there were misspellings.

I don't think I've written about Data Match yet. I'm the president/founder of our schools Technology Club, TACO. (That's Technology And Communication Orginization) This year instead of student council paying some outside company, i think "Computer Fun" to run our anual valentine's day Computer Dating service, TACO decided to run it and keep all of the mondey for ourselves. Spencer Rarrick and I wrote the matching software; if anyone wants the source code just e-mail me (colmore@colmore.com). And we charged everyone $1 to participate. It's looking like we might get about $200, which is really great considering how small the school is.

Tomorrow is Charles Darwin's birthday. Just something to think about.

I've got to write a speach this weekend. it only has to be four hundred words and it can be about anything. easy right? there's one little problem. It has to be IN LATIN. so that's going to be rough

I've also got an interview for Governor's Honors, which is this state program. If I get it then I get to spend six weeks out of my summer taking math classes at some college in central Georgia. I've found that these types of programs attract interesting people, so I hope to go.

That's about it.

Usually I try to abstain from writing about "nerd stuff" here at CDC, but today I think I'll have to digress, read older entries to not have to look at tech-speak.

So John's computer is 100% Microsoft Free now, he's gone totally linux. Which is just so cool. He telnetted from school to his computer (he's got a dedicated internet connection with his cable modem) and set up a web page on apache, the web server running on his computer. Before I forget to say it, this computer is one that he and I built -- making us super nerds. I can't remember his IP address, which is necisarry to see the page, and it probably isn't something he wants given out to the general public so, you can't see it.

I'm learning windows and DirectX programming, Microsoft uses (i'm not making this up) a style called "Hungarian Notation" which fits right in with the concept of Microsoft giving things stupid names. Because Hungarian notation is actually something unique from that company: it's sensible and it is easy to work with, so naming it after a foreign language that nobody knows and has nothing to do with programming is a bit odd. Also "plug and play" should really be "plug and re-install Windows 98" and windows 2000 is not the sequel to windows 98, it is the sequel to windows NT 4. Confused? The next Windows 95 will be Windows Millinium, which makes me think that Microsoft chose the name to cover their asses if they don't ship till 2001, "hey that's the real millinium! Remember the movie?"

I was out with Anne and Johnathan this morning, we ate bagels and drank coffee and talked about how terrible everyone is for about five hours, it was lots of fun.

MAXIS SOFTWARE

So anyway, i've been playing The Sims a lot. It's really an increadible game. I hope you check it out. You control a household and you have to manage entertainment time and work etc. Which may sound boring, until you experience the immense satisfaction of being able to afford that big green couch or getting your couple to fall in love or watching Jr. burn down the kitchen.

I'd just like to reflect on what a great game company Maxis is. Since elementary school I've been a giant fan of all of the sim titles. The Simcity line is unbeatable, Simearth was a classic, Simant and simfarm were good, but didn't really live up. Simtown can be skipped. But the ultimate gem of the whole line is probably the least appreciated one, Simlife. Simlife was so amazingly great. You designed creatures and then let them loose into the world and let Darwin take his course. By natural selection and random mutation the populations changed and evolved. I remember once I had evolved the perfect grazing animal, somewhat of a flying sheep (in fact it might have been a flying sheep, this was in 5th grade so I don't clearly recollect) and then I corralled off a section of the world and set out to make a super predator. I populated the big world with just ten preditors and within minutes the population balance of the whole world changed and I was down to about 25 sheep. All but two predators died off (luckily male and female) and the sheep population came back up, it's just like the introduction of dogs to Australia!! I guess you had to have been there, but man was it ever cool. They need to make a sequal to that game.