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Need help, QUICK!
Ewiges — Tue, 08/25/2009 - 19:43
So everyday I browse craiglist for part time jobs on the weekend or one that will work around my schedual. Today I finally hit a jackpot. An elementary school after school chess club is looking for a college student instructer to teach chess for 1-2 hours @ 10 bucks an hour. I have two days of classes that let me out early enough to apply. Since none of you live near me, heres the post: http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/edu/1338897995.html
I e-mail the post with:
Hi,
I am a student at Mount San Jacinto College in Menifee with goals including transferring to CSU, San Bernardino to pursue a career in teaching. I believe this job would be a great opportunity for me and I have attached my resume in this e-mail in Microsoft Word 2007 format. Thank you for your time.
-Ryan Johnson
I also added my awesome resume which will not be posted on here for privacy reasons.
She responds to me a few hours later with:
Hello Ryan,
Thank you for your interest in our company. I was curious as to what your availability is starting September 1st. Also, could you please describe your chess experience and knowledge to me. Thank You!
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Sincerely,
Kirstin
The area I put in bold is what I need help with. I have played chess many times through my life, but never compitively. I know most of the rules but not the fine print with stuff like ties or time. In eight grade I won an undeafeted first place at a regional math field day against 40 other eight graders, each representing their school... is this something I should mention? How much of my school should I mention? PLEASE HELP ASAP, I'd like to email her back by latest tomorrow morning.
Thanks guys.
What I've been doing
Atar — Tue, 08/25/2009 - 07:40
Hey guys! I hope everything is well with everyone. I've been a busy bee as of late. I just wanted to let everyone know what I've been doing on my WoW break.
First, I've been writing a ton of new music and have been recording a lot at home and in the studio. When I get some finalized tracks I'll post them for you to check out. My band has been really busy too. With recording and playing some shows and trying to book more shows. It's a lot of work.
School has started back. I am head of In School Suspenion (ISS) and discipline at a middle school for those that don't know. The kids are good for the most part, but I'll have some customers soon enough.
Football started a couple of weeks ago before school started. So I've been having football practice for a while now. I'm the offensive and defensive line coach. Coaching is great though. It's tough sometimes, but I enjoy it.
Also, my computer decided to screw up. My hard drive died on me about two weeks ago. Blarg.....I ended up buying a new hard drive yesterday though. I'm in the process of reinstalling everything. Closer gave me Windows 7 so I hope that works out well. I'll give it a shot. That also means I'll have to put WoW back too. Once I get Windows 7 up I'll start installing it. I'll need to find a place where I can download all the patches at once. So if you know where I can find that please let me know.
I've been staying really busy though between work, football, and band stuff. It's hard to find time to actually chill out. I hope all is well with everyone. I miss talking to everyone and having our crazy conversations in vent. Hopefully I'll have my computer up and running soon so I can hope online and chat and maybe fill in here and there. Feel free to toss me a PM or something so I'll know what's been going on since my break. Holla!
Over 20 reasons to game in the next 2 years
h4mm32 — Tue, 08/25/2009 - 02:17
Now I know not a lot of you guys REALLY know me, trust my opinions, understand my motives, or know why I'm (i ad grammarz and punkjooation too make g happy) a total asshole BUT we are all here under a common guise. A guise where pixels and polygons dazzle our optic nerves, walls of text tickling our proverbial taste buds, and PEWPEW lazer beams making our cochlea drool. now this is where I come in, my gaming ideal is faily strong, I've been playing since King's Quest and Thexdor's Quest on the old tandy PC, i remember prodigy online in the late 80's. Now the reason I'm on here typing this blarg or blerg or what ever you call it's, is because the next two years, Much like 2007, will be AMAZING in terms of high quality titles. These aren't in any order or anything but here is what i've seen so far.
Tony Hawk: Ride - Now im not really a fan of "Sports" titles but let me tell you what ISN'T fucking awesome about standing ona piece of plastic and it tracking what you're doing and implementing it in game real time. Before you start i know i know playstations eye toy and all that but no this is diff... sure we're going to see a blast in economical bullshit from xbox with peripherals, but think about it, think about what that opens up in the market for fake firearms for pew pewing in call of duty or gears of fucking retarded. either way the game is going to be just as awesome as most of his games except now u get to ride that shit straight into HELL.
CoD Mod. Warfare 2- Let's just face it......... its CoD, the online was revolutionary and gave people exactly what they wanted and what your puny little human brains require, constant reward. you got mini achievements weapons xp all sorts of stuff just for simply killing people which got you more stuff to kill people better......easy choice.
Bioshock 2 - Let me just say it will rape face compared to bioshock one and I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW "but the ending was garbage" I agree with you. The story however, im sure everyone will agre, was unlike any we've seen before no one saw it coming we may have had ideas about this and that here and there but it will always make you think diff about the phrase "would you kindly " so now you get to play as a big daddy in the events leading up to the downfall of our lost city. either way expect to see new amazing plasmids and our ever popular female "big sisters", along with a "hopeful" story this should make another 10/10 title.
C+C 4 - The end all be all of RTS back for another round. I have never been let down from C+C save generals and zero hour when they got bought out by that which is most evil, EA. either way we're seeing a possible end to a very long endeavor. NOD is coming to join with GDI to eradicate the common enemy....tiberium yea thats right inanimate object..... or is it? either way still gonna be a sweet game, any game that DOESN'T allow you to use cheats gets an A+ in my book.
Starcraft 2: Now I will say this ..... blizz... WTF are you splitting it into 3 games...... besides money, WHY.... WHY!!!!!!????????? other than that COME ON its fucking starcraft man the campaigns are gonna be sweet and the engine will run a little smoother than the last go around, the physics changes for allowances of crossing gaps will be much nicer, plus all the unit types that brings into the game, personally I always hated multiplayer I like fortifying my base and watching zergling waves get squashed beneath my might.... so single player is the realm for me but this game will undoubtedly bring blizzard into a cataclysmic chain reaction from game to game between the next 2 years which brings me to.......
Diablo III: Wow.... just wow over 10 years later they tell us we get our title finally. over 3 years ago info got leaked about the original composer from D2 was working on more diablo style music in italy and it finally got confirmed and here we have some classes and some great gameplay footage. The game will be paramount to growth in everything we've seen thus far in it's action dungeon crawler genre... hopefully it will be a little more meaty in the plot development than the last 2 instead of just the "hack and slash" chase a guy down kind of feel. I think blizz has come a long way since then so we shall see.
WoW Cataclysm: Now first off let me say I'm excited for this expansion, and I'll get to why. Now let me boggles your brains for a second. Let me ask you this, WoW classic was a product from the rise in MMO products and merely a tribute to Warcraft 1-3, BC was a trip into the unknown as we followed the line of the orcs into azeroth starting to scrape the iceburg on plot post WC3, but we couldnt be prepared for WoTLK when Arthas came forth and now we have our current predicament of overthrowing ner' zhul ( or however you spell it), Frostmourne, and Dualy arthas, so what i may ask really did the change in all these games, nothing but content and some added features, a few game mechanics and some spell detail and sprites. BUTTTTTTT, in cataclysm .... is the change. They have already stated that grom takes over and declares full on war.... war... as in the last great war was in WC3 so where did i put my copy of WC4? oh right its right here in this Cataclysm box. I'm not saying there won't ever be a WC4 bust rest assured it won't have guild talents, a level 85 cap, new battlegrounds, revamped explorable worlds from the previous titles in the series, new content, or G......well maybe..... but you won't be in his party or running 25's anytime soon. So let's face it rather blizz is pushing in the direction of making wow the offspring of an RTS/Action game or they ahve some "cereal" tricks up their sleeves.
you guys can guess what's next
i'll add more later im tiured
My iPhone App
Tankard — Mon, 08/24/2009 - 17:32
Hey folks,
Since April I've been working on my own RPG called "Crawler" for the iPhone. It just went on sale today for $1 on the iPhone App store. It's a dungeon crawler that's about as simple as an RPG can get (which is still about 83 pages of code - WoW code couldn't be printed without killing a forest). It will run on any iPhone or iPod Touch. I hope some of you get a chance to take a look at it.
Tankard
Yet Another One!!
Felsteel — Mon, 08/24/2009 - 09:22
This just hit me last night like a ton of bricks, Im going to take a break from WoW. I want to persue some other hobbies of mine and I want to dedicate some more time to my job, I'm really starting to enjoy my job and I need to focus as well. I'll still be around on site and most likely will come back for the expansion.
I'll see you guys around. Thanks for all the help and friendship you guys have shown me.
Kill more internet dragons for me.
Peace.
You'll see me on less probably
pulga — Fri, 08/21/2009 - 11:56
This is my obligatory "going back to school" post. I move into my dorm on Sunday. I'll still play, just less.









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