Archive for February, 2005
Tuesday, February 15th, 2005
Anyone see anything wrong with this picture? Yes yes… Isma’il Muhammad is doing his thing by dunking but there’s something much grander going on in this picture:
What’s wrong with this picture?
Wait, maybe you can’t see what’s going on… here’s a wider shot:
Yes, Ish is dunking over a defender.
Yes, Georgia Tech #2 Isma’il Muhammad showed some ultra-hops during the NC State game by dunking over a defender. This is no joke, my friends… not a doctered photo here. Sort of like how Vince Carter flew over a defender in the Olympics. You don’t see many of these dunks during an actual game, you might’ve seen them during dunk contests but that’s planning ahead of time. Look at the first picture again and you’ll see what… well, WHO is below Isma’il.
Ish is a showstopper.
(Well, too bad we lost the game…)
I think it has to be said that Georgia Tech has become the most disappointing team in the NCAA. At one point, we were ranked #3 in the polls… now, our team will have to play flawlessly in order to make it to the NCAA tournament. All GT fans were sort of pointing at BJ Elder’s injury as the reason for all the losses we’ve had – this is rightfully so considering we started losing games after BJ was injured.
I don’t think it was BJ’s not being able to play that caused Tech to lose games we should have won… I think it was Tech’s attempt to fill in the hole BJ left (attempting to stabilize) PLUS Tech’s inconsistency that we saw last year during the ACC play. Tech’s basketball team was never consistent… even last year. You’ll see us blazing a ranked opponent and a few days later, get burned by an unranked team.
This was one of the reasons why GT’s road to the National Championship game was so much of a shocker to everyone.
I was disappointed in Tech’s losses… but I believe Tech will jump out of this hole and make a difference in both the ACC and the NCAA tournament.
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Monday, February 14th, 2005
Reference:
A Tribute to Valentine’s Day
From Friday February 14th 2003, 1:59 am.
Happy Valentine’s Day! 
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Monday, February 14th, 2005
Looks like my 17-hours of classes and almost full-time of work has got into my system.
Gonna have to try going full-throttle until at least Spring break… then try recovering… then going full-throttle until end of the semester.
*unenthusiastic yay*
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Friday, February 11th, 2005
Whenever I feel I’ve done a great job keeping up with Tech, Tech outdoes itself and keeps me tied up. It’s seriously a pain… Tech is like a … yellow jacket… buzzing in your ear (how ironic eh?) When it gets too close to your ear, all it makes you want to do is cringe your neck and shoulders and run as far as you can screaming: “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”.
But that’s not the ending… no, not by far.
I see a bungee cord effect, the farther you run… the faster you run… it’ll gain more momentum from your running away. It’ll sling right back at you and hit you somewhere unexpected.
You can run, turn around with a bat… but you have no idea where it’ll come from next.
All you can say, at the end of the day is… “Ouch. Nice one, Tech. You got me good there!”.
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Friday, February 11th, 2005
It just seems I can’t stay in the library for more than 8 hours at a time studying for a test.
I think I’ve done it for writing a long lab report before (14 pages in one night 
)… but when I am attempting to study one subject for an exam at one sitting, never more than 8 hours in the library.
I usually do 8pm – 4am so I expected to be able to stay there until 4am.
My brain crashed at around 1:40am so I finished up by 2am and left.
I have so much to do in the next 7 days… 
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2005
So, my computer crash as it does randomly when I am surfin the web and watching TV through Leadtek Winfast 2000 Expert PVR. So as usual, I do a hard reboot of the computer.
Only this time, I come to realize that Windows wasn’t booting up. Right after you see the Windows XP loader screen, it went blank and showed a BSOD:
Stop c000021a {Fatal System Error}
The session manager initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc0000017 (0×00000000, 0×0000000) The system has been shut down.
Now, normally, I would have thought okay… Windows got screwed up somewhere. To my horror, right as the BSOD showed on the monitor… I heard a sickening noise as there was a click, sound of lowering RPM, and nothing else. At first, I thought it was my 250GB slave drive that had just died on me. If this was the case, better than nothing as it had been less than a couple of months since I bought it and it only had useless data on it.
I disconnect the power cable to it and booted my computer up thinking it would boot up without a problem. Except… same issue. This is where the idea struck me… I could have lost everything on my primary drive which I was lazy to backup lately. So I sorta panic in my mind and started thinking about what kind of data I would lose if this primary drive died. Nothing that would kill me but certainly all my email correspondences, school work, programs etc… (fortunately for me, there was a paper that I was working on last night but it was due today so I already turned it in).
Anyway, I started installing XP on a laptop Simon gave me as he had no use for it. I wanted to see what that error meant and if there was any way to fix it. During the XP install, I decided to take it out and put it as a slave to my sister’s old computer I’ve brought just for the heck of it. The thing never booted for some reason unknown to me not even to safe mode.
Then, I decided to try safe mode on my computer to see if there was anything different; this resulted in the same issue. Then I tried the “Boot last good configuration” option … and amazingly enough, it booted up fine.
After a long sigh of relief, I backed up my documents and emails I would not be able to retrieve if my primary drive failed. That was a close call.
Searched the net but found out Microsoft only shows this case in NT system knowledgebase and does not mention XP at all so their “Solution” didn’t make much sense.
Moral of this incident: Backup your data at least once a month if not once a week. I thought this would be my 3rd drive failure (first two were both Western Digital drives which explains why I first suspected it was my secondary drive as it was WD).
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