Canisius Cup

March 1-4, 2006 we held the Canisius Cup ping-pong tournament. It was the most ping-pong Ive played in a long time, and the most fun Ive had in a while too. We had a little more than a dozen that competed, but the best were from the dorm. I got pretty dang close to taking it all - after beating the unbeatable Joe Stannus in a preliminary round, I lost to him in the finals, but it was awesome all the same. Heres a photo:



Here are some more - theres some videos too.

And I must include the funnies!

hockey and lightning and all that stuff

What to do on a boring night in the dorm...well theres lots, especially if someones got full hockey equipment! Dave suited up so we could take a few shots. Yuppers, right in the junior wing!


Same night, we went out to check out a lightning storm that was happening a few miles away; it was a cloudy night so it was lighting up the whole sky - pretty impressive. Heres one of the shots I got:


And some other random pictures - heres one of me hiding behind a pole while we were throwing the baseball around over at the Carrolls:


Will Watner playing some serious hockey:


A (not so?!) serious lab team.

We may not have done the best in our lab, but we sure had a heck of a lot of fun!

Just another day...

Todays picture:


For more, here ya go!

For your enjoyment:

Gmail Talk

Im sure most of you know about the new chat feature that was just added to Gmail...if you dont, you should definitely check it out at gmail.google.com. Ive had Gmail for quite a while now, and its worked awesome for me.

Anyways, for those that do use Gmail Talk, heres a link to list of all the smilies or emoticons that you can use with gmail talk...some of them are pretty funny!

As for the comic of the day, here it is!

Antigone

Well, I never did get to post about the play that the College did here a while ago, so now I think its a good time to mention it, although you may have read about it in the smc pix blog. The cast did an awesome job with the play and we are all looking forward to the next play, the "Taming of the Shrew"!

I took a bunch of pictures of the performance (probably too many!) and I tried to organize them the best I could on my smugmug site. Here is a list of some of the divisions I made:

• Antigone, the Story - A selection of pictures presented in chronological order with accompanying quotes from the script.



• The First Performance - Pictures from the opening performance on November 18, 2005



• The Second Performance - Pictures from the performance on November 19, 2005



• The Third Performance - Pictures from the performance on November 20, 2005



• Backstage and Preparation - Pictures taken backstage and during preparation



• Close-up shots - Pictures of individuals, or just really close-up shots



• Wallpaper - Wallpaper for your computer I made with assorted pictures from the play



• Funny pics - Pictures that you may find humorous



• Search by Keyword - You can find pictures of each cast member by looking for their name in the keywords!

And of course, I have to include todays comic strip! This as well as the former one are known as "Pearls before Swine" and they are random, stupid, and laugh out loud hilarious!



This one is especially appropriate, considering that everyone gets way too many forwards nowadays!

Comic-a-day

Ive decided to try to post a comic strip that hit me as funny every day. I probably won't do it EVERY day but they should keep coming semi-regularly! Heres the first in the series:



As for whats been going on, lifes back to business as usual; I'm trying to get it into my head that school is still here even though finals are over...and theres one of those oh-so-wonderful History tests tomorrow to help me realize that!

Anyways, the cgshowoff site I mentioned earlier is constantly being approved and added to. Expect a lot more to come, so hop on over, register and keep coming back!

I came across this awesome photo site while looking for photoshop tutorials:
Cambridge in Colour
It has some really breathtaking photos in there - they show how good photography plus some basic photoshop skills can produce awesome results!

A recent creation:

Photography

Heres a shot I took the other day right out my window...I took it in the late afternoon and then I messed with the colors to get this effect.


Im putting all my best "photography" pics over at my Flickr site if you want to see some more.