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Name: Zach
Country: United States
State: Florida
Metro: Gainesville
Birthday: 10/22/1980
Gender: Male
Interests: Often (walking with/tripping on the walk with/being carried by) Jesus Christ - but continually being transformed, computers, raging against change to my own peril. And... ellipsises... yea... :)
Expertise: Anything computer related
(some of you take this a bit too seriously.)
Occupation: Computer related (Internet)
Industry: Engineering
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  zpulkin
Member Since:
10/18/2003
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| Hallelujah! Vista is no more. I'm happily using Windows 7 as I type. Thus far it has been trouble free and quite snappy. I'm hoping it stays this way after the flakiness of Vista on this system. 
Best... birthday... ever.
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| I got more grades. I grew back 5 points from a previous Final Project paper which was rolled into the new Design Paper we turned in just about two weeks ago now. No need to say, I'm enjoying it. The last time I was running on a 98 average was probably a class during my Junior year of high school. Speaking of that, this past weekend was the 10 year reunion. I missed out due to a trip to Howl 'O Scream with Nick and Elizabeth this past Friday night. I suppose that didn't stop me from making the picnic or cocktail party, but neither really seemed to appeal all that much, especially in light of the fact that with a few exceptions my circle of high school friends largely chose not to go. Of the friends that did, at least one reminded me of Ms. Meyer's (English) class in 11th grade. Never ever bring up what you watched on TV with your 7 year old sister in high school!
This week is another Final Project paper...the Development Paper this time. After that there's a long stretch and then a prototype presentation just before Thanksgiving. I'm praying for diligence to start the final project. Starting is the hardest part.
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| Another week, another assignment complete. I'm still riding a high A into Activity 6, though our instructor has not yet posted the grades for the Final Project Design paper or Activity 5. I was very happy to NOT be assigned to a group for the debugging project this week. The last two assignments I got paired with people who did not communicate at the level I had hoped, so I officially requested to work alone. I'm finding the debugging assignments to be the easiest part of the week's work anyway. I made the mistake on Activity 5 of waiting until the weekend to start on the Flash project for the week. I ended up spending most of Sunday working on the "Multimedia portfolio" project and felt after I turned it in that I could have developed something much better had I spread it out over a couple days. I won't make that mistake again this week! :)
I'm starting to wonder though when I'm going to fit in designing this final project. I'd better start painting the backgrounds I'm hoping to use or else I may find that the final project will turn out the same way.
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| I got more grades! I'm still caught up with the material thankfully and rolling along with a solid A. I need to re-write my final project proposal and re-submit to try and get back the 5 points I missed on the first go-round. Our next iteration of the final project is due at the end of next week. The teacher liked my spider idea - so I believe I'm go with that, though she added a LOT of comments including suggestions on how to flesh out the "teaching" material of my project. (This is a college of education course - one of the electives for Instructional Technology as I believe I mentioned before - and they take it seriously!)
Last week's project was on animating with tweens. My portfolio of Flash work is growing, though there hasn't been much new stuff covered on the ActionScript front - I think I'll probably have to just do a lot of reading on my own if I'd like to write entire projects with it. I need to start this week's project on writing drag-and-drop applications in Flash. Exciting stuff!
In other news, Jeanna Hartmeyer at church has started a 20s small group! I went tonight for taco night and was delighted to meet several people I'd not been previously introduced to. I look forward to going back the week after next for our first study (tonight was for discussing what we intend to study and a heavily picked-through game of "Loaded Questions.")
Three cheers for making it thus far through September! :)
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| The week has passed by quickly thanks to Labor Day this past Monday. I was privileged to celebrate my Grandma Pulkin's 80th birthday a week ago today. My family (minus Lissa) and all my cousins from Georgia (with my Uncle Wayne and Aunt Evie) took Grandma out to dinner at the Outback. It was a nice (if a bit noisy & too short) celebration. Immediately after the weekend, my cousin Katie and Aunt Evie showed up on the Facebook. My cup overfloweth with Pulkins. :)
After the long weekend, and then another day's wait (Wednesday) I finally got my grades for Week 2. I got another near perfect score, though a couple points were docked for not following the PDF to the letter on part 2 and one point was deducted because not every member of my group signed off on our group project. -gah- The teacher also posted the third assignment which is due not this Sunday, but next. This week is kind of a break, though we do need to submit our idea for the final project. I have an idea to do an educational flash game about spiders, but have yet to write it down. I'll try and update on that as it progresses.
In other news, I canceled my WOW account after several months of non-use. After I finalized the deal by clicking "confirm" I was informed that my account would be shut down after my pre-paid credit expires (later this month.) I made the mistake thereafter of logging in to take a look around. I started browsing my acheivements and realized that I had missed a whole lot of lower level quests because of my quick rise to 80 due to being invited by Murray (one of the bonuses of bringing in a new player is 3x XP when playing together.) Since then I've been trying to get as many low level quests done as I possibly can before my account expires. With Cataclysm on the horizon... I just wonder if the cancellation will last. :)
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