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You might remember me complaining about Reggie Ball recently right here. Well, apparently karma came around and he will no longer be playing for the Yellow Jackets as he is academically ineligible. In order for a senior to remain eligible, he must pass at least 6 hours in the fall semester (NCAA regulation) and maintain a 2.0 GPA (GT regulation). According to Coach Chan Gailey, Good Ole’ Reginald was not able to match EITHER of those requirements. Way to screw your team over one last time Reggie.

The sadder part of this story is that Kenny Scott is ineligible as well. Now, apparently this isn’t a surprising thing for athletes from Seabreeze HS, but Kenny’s always seemed like a good guy. At least, people on campus didn’t hate him like they did Reggie.

Meanwhile, I managed to hit my academic peak during my last semester. 4.0

It’s over. No more Mike Woodson. You have a team that gave up 7 points ON ONE POSSESSION and then never called a timeout as your team slowly gave away a 21 point lead at home. Ridiculous.

Meanwhile, this Utah Jazz team was just as bad as the Hawks a few years ago. Now, let’s look at what they did to improve: draft people like Deron Williams, sign free agents like Carlos Boozer and Mehmet Okur. And, oh my God, it actually worked and turned them back into a winning team even after losing 2 of the best 50 players of all time in a 12 month span.

Being a fan of Atlanta teams hurts your soul. It just kills you.

Let me start this out by saying that I’m extremely happy to be graduated.  I don’t think I fully appreciate it yet, but I think it’ll really hit me when I don’t have to start buying books again.
I bought the latest Wine Spectator at Kroger yesterday on a whim.  I guess I was hoping to add some newfound class to my life now that I’m a working man and all.  Anyway, I ended up going through the magazine and noting any wine that was $20 or less, and received a score of 90 or higher.  The list is compiled here.

In a welcome twist, I had actually tried one of these wines recently when I went to Canoe with Jen for her birthday.  The Zind-Humbrecht Gewurztraminer Alsace 2004 is a great white wine that went very very well with both Jen’s redfish and my scallops.  So, if these other wines are up to that quality I’m going to have a very good, very drunk year.  Also, I want to learn to cook next year, and am hoping to get a lot of kitchen stuff for Christmas, so maybe I’ll actually entertain and everyone can get a few drinks.

I copied this from the 2p2 forums, and I think it’s a pretty funny (and pretty accurate) representation of what happens when you play WoW.  Aaron, please take note of this before renewing your trial subsciption.

Ok, LISTEN TO ME. I want you to read this. It is important, you’re in the beginning stages of the WoW addiction. Here is how it happens:

Levels 1-9: OMFG THIS IS THE BEST GAME EVER!!! Azeroth amazes you with its vast, wonderfully-designed beauty. The controls are wonderful. Your hadokens kill people in three hits and replenish just as fast. You level up so amazingly fast. The quests are pretty simple, but they’re quick and fun, and give your character a fun challenge (and besides, they’re just giving me simple tasks to get me used to the controls, right? Surely the late-game tasks will be rich, strategic and involved). You’re having so much fun, you can’t imagine not playing this game all the way to lvl 60!

Levels 10-19: More amazingly cool stuff. You’re getting talent points now, further allowing you to customize the edge you want your character to have. You see you’re first city and you’re like WOAH HOLY CRAP THIS IS AWESOME!!! Your fellow n00bs that you team up with are friendly and fun to play with. You’ve gotten your first flying experiences on a griffin/windrider/bat, and that’s fun. You’re still levelling fast, two or three levels a night! Every couple hours you’re getting new cool spells. And you’ve played a dungeon or two! The addiction is setting in.

Levels 20-29: You’re introduced to a new aspect of the game: PVP (if you’re not on a PVP server you’re a wuss and you know it). Getting killed sucks, but killing a PC is WAY COOL. You hate rogues, and are starting to consider re-making your character as a rogue. Levelling is still a nice steady pace, one level every couple hours, and the scenery is still very cool. You’ve probably visited another city by this time. The cities are cool, but they you’re over the initial sense of awe (you start to realize that a city is about the size of a shopping mall, and the stores are about as interesting). The quests are more challenging, but you still feel like you’re doing simple tasks. But better things are to come; heck you’re almost level 30, halfway there!

Levels 30-39: Levelling is still slowing down. Used to take four hours to get a new level, now it takes five or six. The quests are sending you all over the map, and it feels pretty slow. You can’t wait to get to 40 so you can get a mount. Levelling is becoming a bit routine now, gain two levels, fly back to ironforge/orgimmar, get some new stuff which takes more mana and time to cast. The cities are a bit blah at this point (frankly you’re getting annoyed of the flying time and the lag.)

Suddenly you make the discovery of a lifetime: you can level faster by staying in one spot and killing things than you can with questing! Way faster, like twice as fast. Once you realize this, UNINSTALL THE GAME IMMEDIATELY. YOU HAVE REACHED THE POINT BEYOND WHICH THE GAME IS NO LONGER FUN

Levels 40-49: Here we go, the big leagues (yeah, right). You’ve spent a lot of time and money on your mount, and here’s you’re big payoff: you go about 30-60% faster. That didn’t live up to the hype, did it? The NPC’s aren’t harder, they’re just more annoying. The quests are stupid, you’re getting tired of the “collect twelve X, kill fifteen Y” routine. The NPC’s are getting tougher to kill, and the only people to group with are in the same somewhat annoyed boat. You want level sixty, and you’re feeling pretty impatient. The only thing that’s fun is a ventrilo’d dungeon quest with your buddies, although it kind of sucks that it slows down the levelling so much.

Levels 50-59: The game fucking sucks. You no longer feel the sense of happiness and triumph that you used to, now it feels like an obligation and an addiction. The scenery has stopped impressing you. You’ve come to terms with the fact that the islands are roughly two or three miles and the cities are filled with completely uninteresting NPC’s. RL has better graphics, but you’re here on a mission. You have become withdrawn, filthy and paranoid. Levelling has slowed down to a ridiculous degree, but each acquired level gets you one level closer to level 60. Soon, you’ll be able to actually play the game for fun! People will like you! You’ll have done something amazing!

DING 60 w00t!!!!!! Congratulations, you’ve arrived in the promised land. You are now a proud member of level 60 players, and can boldly travel throughout Azeroth showered in respect of the other n00bs. You find out that level 60 is not the end; it is, in fact the beginning. You’re still a n00b; armor and items are what makes you l33t. Your comrades are all complete losers, and you can’t stand talking to any of them.

Get up and look at yourself in the mirror. You’re disgusting. You’ve gained fifteen pounds and there are semen stains on your wife-beater right by the guacamole. Are you still employed? How can you go back to the real world now? What are you going to do, sell your account for a measly $300? Or are you going to keep feeding the pointless, goalless, and completely uninteresting addiction?

I’m finished.  No more classes.  No more finals.  Just walking on Saturday at 3pm, and then getting my diploma in the mail a few days later.

It feels awesome.  I’m expecting to get good enough grades on everything that I’ll graduate with highest honors.  Here is an estimate of my grades:

Senior Design – B
LCC – A
French – A
PTFE2200 – B
Political Science – A
That’ll do pig.  That’ll do.

Awesome Nigerian music video glorifying the e-mail scammers who keep telling you they are princes trying to get rid of $25M.  By the way, it’s a little weird that there actually IS an African prince who lives in Peachtree City.  He has to get a ton of crap for things like this.  Angry people showing up at his gate for their million dollars.
Anyway, youtube refuses to accept my site’s url, so instead I’ll just post a link to the video.

I Go Chop Your Dollar

For the record, we Americans are the “Mugu’s” to the scammers’ “Master” because we are greedy and want to get money without having to work for it.

After leaving French class, I realized that I would never go to a college class at Georgia Tech again.  I have two finals on Monday (PTFE and French) and one on Thursday (Political Science) until I’m completely finished.  Graduation is Saturday at 3pm.

I might go to grad school in a few years, but I highly doubt it would be back at GT, just because I’d like to experience something different.

It’s weird knowing that everything you’ve done for the past four and a half years is about to change, but I highly recommend it.

One more game. One more goddamn game. Thank God.

Honestly, it took me 4 days to be able to address this, but I’m still completely distraught that this moron has turned our 11-2 ACC championship season into a 9-4 disappointment with a West Virginia ass-kicking on the horizon. I can think of 3 reasonable explanations for why he was never replaced as quarterback:

1) Taylor Bennett has an IQ of 72, and is only at Tech because of some affirmative action for retards program.
2) Reggie has pictures of Mrs. Gailey and the late-90′s Dallas Cowboys receiving corps.
3) Chan Gailey and Patrick Nix are such bad coaches that they can’t adapt to new defenses, and have so much misplaced loyalty that they didn’t recruit a worthwhile QB for the past 4 YEARS

Ridiculous. I hate having to see Calvin out like this. At least AJ Suggs could put up numbers. We thought Reggie was better because he was a winner. So much for that.