I took this photo earlier this evening from the roof of my apartment building along with a few others. This place has a pretty good view of the city which should be nice for fireworks tomorrow. :-)

I am in the process of settling into my new home having all sorts of adventures but this one tonight is stupid enough to deserve a blog post. It turns out if I turn my air conditioner on the coldest setting and let it run for a day it tends to turn into a block of ice. The photo below was taken just a few minutes ago during the thaw process, and this is after an hour and scraping some off.

I am in the process of cleaning out all my stuff so I can move to Boston with a fairly minimal car load. I tend to collect all sorts of random things over the years which makes this process a bit difficult. (Why on earth do I have my pogs from elementary school?) On the up side I've found a few amusing things in the process. One such item is below. Way back when during my freshman year a couple girls compiled these "Rules of Engagement" and presented them to a group of guys including myself in a meeting of sorts. And yes, it does in fact start off with a quote from "Mystery Science Theater 3000."

Sorry for the poor quality, I don't have a scanner at the moment. Click for a larger version.

I just got back from spending the weekend at the beach with a couple of my friends. We had a great time, go go summer! After spending last weekend with my family, half the week in Portland for OSCON, and now this weekend at the beach I haven't actually been in Corvallis much this past week. :-) Oh, and I've posted some photos.