Then I went ahead and made a megaman megabuster arm model to replace the rocketlauncher in the game:
;)
I start a job as a valet driver at a local country club. Should be fun, earn some cash part-time, drive some fancy cars, check out some hot rich daughters...
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Working at iD Tech Camp in Towson was a great experience. It was a ton of fun teaching teens new lessons, and watching them get pumped about games they enjoy. On the last day, a mother of a camper came up to me and shook my hand, and told me that I really made an impact on her sons life. It was surprising at first, I didn't feel like I had done anything special, but I guess it was a big deal for him. It felt like a huge mitzvah, really good.
Here are two maps I made while teaching the kids, they are still in beta stage, check out the pics in the forum threads:
DM-Sniped - A simple sniper practice level. The campers had a ton of fun dueling each other on this.
VCTF-Chaos3 - A remake of one of my favorite q3f maps. Still needs some work.
Hopefully once I get a new computer (quad core!!!) I will be able to finish these up and create some new maps.
Now to do some hardcore studying!
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Whew so it's been a long while since I've posted here. Been super busy, but I guess you could say I've been neglecting my own site. So let's take a look at what I've been up to.
Finished post bac classes (straight As this last semester! woohoo), scheduled to take the MCAT exam August 26th.
Started working as an instructor at iD Tech Camp at Towson University, teaching 3D Video Game Design II (Using the Unreal 3 Editor).
Gotten into mapping for quake3 and Unreal3. The Unreal3 Editor blows Gtkradiant completely out of the water me thinks.
I've also made a new website for a client:
http://www.dputzel.com
and I am currently working on this interesting website:
http://www.intuneacademy.com
Things are going well, but the camp is pretty exhausting. I want to study for the MCAT at night but when I get to my dorm room I just pass out from being so tired. Those rascals can suck the life force right out of ya. The kids are great, we are teaching kids ranging from 6-17, my kids are usually 13-17, and it is a ton of fun. The best is when they go "CooooOOOOooool". On the first day, as we were walking into the computer lab, a camper said, "Are we in heaven?" We also have some ridiculous kids. There was one kid named Ben, 6 years old, a math genius, memorized his multiplication table, could do square roots, fractions, X^2, and X^3, all this before he could even read!
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How come nintendo hasn't made a sweet official cell phone yet? I for one would buy it. I don't want any gimmicky cell phone, just one that can play some old school games, or even some newer ones like for the Gameboy Advance. I'll try to make this concept more detailed and higher poly, in better quality, and then send it to Nintendo demanding they make it 
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New technology from HP for replacing needles
This is awesome news, I can't wait for the future. Nobody likes getting a needle. Except maybe cutters, and other freaks who like pain.
School is going well, I messed up in Biology and Physics but hopefully I can pull through with high Bs. I placed out of the final for Organic Chemistry which is one of the greatest academic achievements in my life I think. I need to start writing a personal statement, and start studying the MCAT book I got.
I'm going to visit my friend Ben in Costa Rica in January, he sells real estate on beach front properties. He told me I could move there tomorrow and work for his company. Man, it is tempting to drop everything and just do it. I think if I get accepted into med school I will defer for a year and go there and just live a year there. That would be sweet.
Oh and Contra 4 for the Nintendo DS is so damn good/hard as hell. It will make your nintendo grow a beard because it is so hardcore and manly. Chuck Norris can't even beat it on Easy. Yeah, its that hard.
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I went to volunteer at the ER pretty late last Sunday, started at 8:50pm and went until 12:50am. When I get there I usually stand at the corner of the Doctors' booth and try to see what is going on, what the nurses are talking about and think of who I am going to ask to follow. I overheard one of the nurses ask Dr. Ellis (a very attractive ER doctor in her late 30s, maybe early 40s) how her court case went. She said it was dreadfully long, but the judge ruled in her favor, and that the patient could not come in during the night when she worked. Apparently she had a 20 year old female stalking her, who turned out to be gay. At first she thought the girl was looking to her as a motherly figure but found out during the trial that she was gay. It was a pretty crazy story.
I asked Dr. Strauss if I could follow him, he is an older guy, probably in his 50s, who always wears cool clothes, has his hair slicked back, and seems pretty buff for a guy his age. He said he would but not that night because his voice was almost gone, and to try again some other time. I worked up the courage to ask Dr. Ellis and she gladfully said to no problem. There was a patient who had a dizzy spell, 2 patients who had chest pain, a woman suspected to have MRSA, and a pregnant 17 year old who was spotting. I'll elaborate on each case later. It was a very fun night. A nurse got a really good looking carry out dish from a chinese place. She said it was "Singapore Chow Mein Fun". I want it.
Also, wanted to put down some notes that I took from when I followed Dr. Frizner two weekends ago.
Diaphoresis = sweating
PET scan - sugar metabolism. Cancer cells light up, need biopsy.
Arterial blood gas
Metastisized - means the cancer has spread
Albumin - protein
Sarcoma - cancer that starts in the muscle
Banana Bag - Sodium Chloride with a bright yellow color, used to sober up drunks. Whenever you see one, you know someone was having a good time.
Also here is a chart that he writes down on each patient's paper:
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A device that resembles Star Trek's medical tricorder uses high-intensity focused ultrasound rays to repair punctured lungs at the Harborview Medical Center, which is working with the University of Washington to hone the equipment.
"No one has ever looked at treating lungs with ultrasound," bioengineering professor Shahram Vaezy told SpaceRef.com. "The results are really impressive," he added, but the technique is not yet being tested on humans.
No longer merely a diagnostic tool, ultrasound is being used to develop bloodless surgery techniques requiring no scalpels, allowing invisible rays to heal injuries. The focused beams create an extremely hot spot in the tissue, heating the blood cells until they cauterise the wound without generating heat through the surrounding tissue as a laser would.
"You can penetrate deep into the body and deliver the energy to the bleeding very accurately," Vaezy explained, Tests on the lungs of pigs showed that the ultrasound could seal injuries in under two minutes.
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What's up?
I just saw Superbad again for the 2nd time, it was much funnier the second time around. I laughed my ass off both times, but this time I was able to see the jokes coming, and was able to laugh before they dropped.
It was great, I related to much of it haha.
Beat Kirby for the NDS, it had amazing art, grade A, and was funny. The whole story is that one day Kirby was about to eat his strawberry short cake when some evil mice steal it. He fights his way through armies in order to get it back. Amazing little guy. It was a pretty easy game to beat but fun as hell. I look forward to the new zelda game and the ninja gaiden games for the NDS.
New semester starts on Monday, hopefully I can get into the classes I need and concentrate. It is going to be a tough one. Biology, Physics, and Organic Chemistry.
Oh yeah and Super Monkey Ball for the Wii is awesome and incredibly hard.
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Got an A in chem2, it was even harder than chem1, and I was seriously close to getting a B. I almost developed an ulcer after I took the final exam yesterday, waiting in anticipation to find out my grade. It was a huge relief. I plan on going to the beach this weekend with some friends, and then getting ready for the Fall semester.
Hell yeah!
Oh and Brothers in Arms for the Nintendo DS is the most amazing ds game I've yet to play.
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Better by Atul Gawande
his 5 suggestions on becoming a positive deviant:
1 - Ask an unscripted question
2 - Don't complain
3 - count something
4 - write something
5 - change
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