Hmmm... Been a while since I posted last. I have been extremely busy with school. Also been up to playing a lot of bridge and not sleeping.

Girls
This week (or rather early last week) I got an interesting Instant Message (I use everybuddy... good client) from some girl whose name starts with 'jeni'. I know a few jennies, but I also know their IM names. This was interesting but I am not aversioned to meeting new people... so we talked a bit and I found out that she is at Kent State and really good friends with my friend Suchi. So, we talked for about 1.5 hrs that night, almost made me late for my DHA (Daniel's Hall Association) meeting (I am VP, that would have been a bad thing!). Anyways we have been talking back and forth for the last few days and she seems nice enough, good sense of humor and such. Shall see how things work out.

Music
Been playing around with the OpenNap network a bit lately since Napster is down. It is amazing to me how well it has taken off. But I have found some music that I kicked back to a few years back. Toad and the Wet Sprocket, U2 and for kicks, Kyper. Dunno what spawned this but it is good. I also got a track called "Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating in Space" by Spiritualized. That is an interesting tune and I suggest it to everyone. I think it was in a VolksWagon commercial a few years ago... but I really don't know.. I never have watched much television.

Computer Science
C++ sucks, programming is good, but C++ is not :). I love reading the threads of people wanting to put C++ into the kernel... DON'T DO IT.. IT IS BAD!!!
Another thing I love is that my instructor stresses the importance of clean maintainable code... than why does inheritance exist... it seems to make code hard to follow... and besides that his style requirements and coding styles are ugly... his example code is *extremely* hard to read... take a peak at his comp sci page if you wish to verify this. I hope to never have to deal with that again.

More
Unfortunately I have to go to class now, yes... computer science. I want to skip it but have to turn a hard copy of a program in. I hope to get around to writing more in here later. Good day to all.

Pepsi Challenge
Well, the Pepsi One challenge was on campus today... I didn't take it because I refuse to give in to their marketing techniques. I am a coke-head thru and thru (Hey, not that kinda coke :).

Fla-Vor-Ice
This mystical popsicle like invention has invaded my dorm room with the help of the local Sam's Club. Tim and I went shopping (the dining hall food is only getting worse and worse... turning me into a vegetarian) so got some frozen pizzas and ham and cheese hot pockets for those days that I need something to eat but don't feel like ordering pizza out.

Bridge Bidding System
Well here are the basics:
Open --
1-C, 13-15 pts and a preference in a black suit
1-D, 13-15 pts and a preference in a red suit
1-H, 16-17 pts partner to respond with weak suit
1-S, 18-19 pts partner to respond with weak suit
1-NT, 20+ pts partner to respond with weak suit
If overcalling oponent's bid the system shifts over that many. For example, the other team opens up 1-D and you wanted to call 1-S, you would call 2-C.

For a responding bid to the above these would be appropriate:
If bid was C (just use the other suits for a diamond bid) the response would be a club if you have a 2-card preference in clubs or spade if there is a 2-card preference in spades. For a one-card preference it is suggested to call the major or minor of the other color suit... so to say you have a 1 card preference in spades one would bid a heart of the appropriate level. All of this assumes greater than 6 points to bid.
If one has either (1) a well balanced hand in all suits (2) a dislike for the color of suit called (3) other situations that I forget one would call NT.
for a complete lack of points one would call pass as normal.
Blackwood is called as normal
After the bidding has run around the table once without you or your partner bidding it goes to the normal bidding style that you are used to, most of us use "American Style" bidding.

I will add more to those later as we refine them and work with them. They seem to work really well.