General | Computers | Movies | Music | TV
General I come from Bloomington, Indiana. I was born and raised there. I always
thought the town was kind of ~, but after being in Richmond for a while I'm
beginning to miss Bloomington. I went to Bloomington High School North, and did
a few activities there. I was the school webmaster in my junior and senior
year. I'm sort of proud of being the webmaster even though I had to make some
changes that I did not approve of. Unfortunately, I had little say in what
went up. The current site design was not created by me, even though I kind of
wish it was; it's very nice. The past year (2002-2003), the site got pretty
worse because something happened with the district's server and SSI got turned
off or something, so all the subpages look like crap. I'm looking at the web
site now, and it obviously hasn't been updaated for the new year. I'm wondering
if they have a new student working on it. If they don't I could probably
recommend one.
Computers Our next computer was a Compaq Presario 9546 (Echo). This computer ran Windows 95, and it seemed
really fast. We also got Internet access around this time...AOL (ugh). Around
this time I also created my first web page, which I think is now lost. We
pushed this computer to its limits. We basically kept it for 4 years before we
got a new one.
Our next computer was a Dell Dimension T700. My family still uses it right
now but I think it's kind of on it's last leg. Everything could easily be fixed
if I could reinstall Windows. This computer has a 700 MHz Pentium III, a 32 MB
TNT2 video card, a 20 GB hard drive, a 12x DVD-ROM drive, 256 MB RAM, and other
stuff. Once we got this computer I got the Compaq, so i used this as my main
computer. I kind of spruced it up a bit by cleaning out the hard drives, but
this computer was already pretty messed up to begin with, I'm still amazed I
was able to use it for so long. I tried to do everything on the Compaq, from
running Quake II to playing MP3s.
I then bought stella and I'm still using that. I'm thinking of building a
new computer this fall/winter; I don't know if it will actually happen. I was
planning on building it this spring but that obviously never happened. This
will be a replacement for stella - it will be called Nereus.
Movies Some of my favorite directors are:
Music TV
My name is Daniel Arvesen, I am a sophomore at Earlham College. I am very interested in
computers so I will be studying Computer
Science.
I have been interested in computers for basically all my life. Our first
computer was a 286 from a noname company called "Leading Technology" or
something like that. It had MS-DOS on it and I basically used it to play game
and write reports. I did mess around with DOS some but I didn't really know
what I was doing.
I'm a big movie fan and I own about 115 DVDs. Some of my favorite movies are
Amelie, American Beauty, Brazil, Fight Club, Leon, Lord of the Rings, The
Matrix, Minority Report,
Ocean's Eleven, Pulp Fiction, SE7EN, Snatch, Spirited Away,
and X-Men. These movies are all pretty recent, but I do enjoy some old classic
films. The ones above are just movies that I own. Some other movies that I
might not own, but still enjoy are: Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Rear Window,
Psycho, M, The Third Man, Das Boot, and Rififi.
I really like music. The main genre that I like is Alternative Rock, with bands
such as R.E.M., The Cure, Pink Floyd, Radiohead and U2. I kind of branched out in the past
year and now I like The Flaming Lips (more like obsessed with), Enya, the
Pogues, Moby, Midnight Oil, Led Zeppelin, The Grateful Dead, Beck, and
others. And of course I like the Beatles.
I don't really watch TV that much, but I love Futurama. It's a sci-fi cartoon
show that was on Fox before they canceled it >:\. It was created by the same
guy that created the Simpsons, and in my opinion, it is a lot funnier than the
Simpsons.