Here are some pictures.

The Term is now over. Finals are done and I passed my classes!! Tomorrow I will be flying home for winter break and then flying back on the 4th of January for IAP. Many things are scheduled to happen during IAP. I'm already enrolled in a crossover loudspeaker building class and a welding class, but I plan to do a lot more, like work at the East Campus' own bad ideas competition and participate in the mystery hunt.

My classes for next term are looking like this:
3.094 - "Materials in Human Experience" - archeology
7.013 - "Introductory Biology" - biology concentrating on dna and genetics stuff
8.022 - "Physics II" - the physics 2 advanced edition
13.001 - "Measuring the Ocean" - throw test buoys in the water
18.02 - "Calculus" - multivar calc

I'll give the links to the class webpages as classes start and the webpages are available. I may switch out of the archeology class to another archeology class - we'll see...

Here are some pictures from the hall camping trip this weekend: HERE
It was nice weather (execpt for this morning, when it rained pretty hard) and we went on a rather long day hike and spent the nights at Camelot, the MIT cabin in New Hampshire without running water.
Here is a real cool page danny down the hall made

I've been working pretty hard on my classes recently:
3.091 Intro to Solid State Chemistry
8.01 Physics I
18.01 Calculus
21W.732 Intro to Technical Communication

But I've still been fooling around with odds and ends around my room. Here are some new pictures

The chain thing is pretty cool - what happens is as the chain begins to spin around at a good clip it starts making really cool patterns near the bottom. The 1,000 watt light goes on when someone steps on the pad at the entrance to my room - stays on for 2 seconds then goes off for two minutes before it can be actuated again thanks to a nifty timer.

Hey, it looks like I made it into the Sierra Sun. Cool. All of the accesories (like a monitor adapter cable) to the PowerBook that I ordered have shipped now, except for the computer itself. I found another cool e-mail list here called "free-food" which is made so that anyone who spots free food is supposed to submit where they've found it and announce it to the rest of the list. Apparently the Dali-Lama was here over the weekend. I missed it, but I saw a presentation by the human genome guy, Craig Venter - cool stuff

Oh yeah, Here are some pictures.

Newer New News: I'm taking a sailing PE class which is turning out to be a lot of fun. I just ordered the new 15" Powerbook introduced today - other than that, not much new - lots of work is beginning to pile up, but it's manageable. Chem is going to be real tough though..... Next Monday is a suicide prevention day, which means no classes. I need to do laundry - I need to buy food - time to get off the computer and get things done? Maybe later.....

Classes have started - I am now taking:

8.01 - Physics
18.01 - Calculus
3.091 - Chemistry
21W.372 - Technical Writing
PE - Sailing

Pretty basic classes. The Lecturers seem to be good as well as the classroom instructors. I am now an official resident of THiRD EAst in EC. I've got a single room with a loft and yellow walls. Food has been more of an issue than I had planned - basicly, it costs money. You can check my Soda Consumption at my dorm - started as of today. I'm going to get a permanent webcam out my dorm window soon. I got a Mini-Fridge from the community hall pile, had it subsequently taken away, then took another one, which was broken, but once fixed proves to be bigger and better than the original. It's a long story, but the short of it is I was hit in the face by a flying projectile and my right eye got quite a blow. I went to the doctor and was given drops to put in every few hours and will be seeing him every day for a few days. No permanent damage, and, in fact, I have had a similar problem before when smacked by a soccer ball in middle school, never went to the doctor, and was fine. Textbooks are expensive. My mom shipped some of the boxes from home that I wanted, and they should be arriving within a couple of weeks. Coolness!!

New news: Cool stuff. We've been keeping extremely busy in this "Discover Mechanical Engineering" program doing all sorts of stuff. On Monday we were introduced to our projects and spent quite a few hours working on them, spaced between breakfast, lunch and dinner - all free, every day this week in this program. We had to construct there soccer robots, which were simply remote controled cars that we'd eventualy use in a 4x4 soccer match. We spent the first part of Tuesday working on our 'robot' car thingies then toured the various MIT labs - awesome stuff - we got to see the $500,000 goo machine that can make anything you put into the computer, at least 30 lathes and the same number of drill presses and computer controlled milling machines, a wind tunnel, jet engine, liquid nitrogen junk (the teacher stuck his hand in a vat of it and splashed it out - apparently it doesn't hurt you if you touch it for only a short time), plastic 'muscle' thingies, a robot that runs around the ceiling, a robot snail, a plastic injector molder thing, a heated plastic suction shaper molder thing, then we got on a boat and toured around the waterways seeing Eric Clapton's boat and the Boston Tea Party boat and a whole bunch of other stuff. The next day we saw the Blue Man Group in Boston and got a tour of the Boston GE plant where they MAKE the jet engines and got to see everything in the factory - cool stuff. They also make gear boxes and we saw the gearbox of the USS Cole which got partialy blown-up a few years ago. Yesterday we toured a design firm, which has worked on everything from the Swiffer Sweeper to kid gas masks and Coleman BBQs. Today we had the tournament - my team, team #1 - was the first to be eliminated - bummer. We're gettin the final meal with them today, then rush 'starts' and we're supposed to be able to get free junk all of next week from dorms which want you to put them in the adjustment lottery. I've seen my roommate all of about 5 minutes and the next day he dissapeared leaving all of his stuff in the room - that was Monday, I'm not quite sure where he went, but probably he went on one of the 'Outdoor' programs, or he fell into the Charles.....who knows.

MIT - I'm there now, or here, to be more specific - I guess if you're not here then I'm there. Mom and I got bumped to first class on both legs of the trip out here, which was completely richous. We got in at around 7PM yesterday, took a cab to the place where my mom is staying, then I ran over to MIT to figure out housing. I got keys to a room then went back to get my stuff and bring it over, but ended up staying where my mom was because it started raining. Today, I came over, got my MIT ID and a bunch of papers, moved my bags - except for the mess of organized wires - then ate dinner w/ my pre-orientation group. Pretty busy, pretty crazy. I am now sitting in my room surrounded by 8 bags, 5 of which are not mine, waiting for the ghost roommate to show up. This room is apparently only temp, and things will probably change Again in two weeks. Oh - and there's a stuffed fake penguin on the other bed which is kinda freakin me out..... so, what's on the tele then?

Ok, so - I've got something like 16 hours left to pack. Time to get started. Things have been pretty exciting recently; I've been mini-golfing, hanging out with friends at Boca, walking through the train sheds, watching movies, bowling, camping at Stampede - all in the last four days.

I saw Robin Williams and his son today in the Longs parking lot. I pointed out this Mercedes to my dad with some nice road bikes on it, and what do you know, Robin Williams came walking back to the car. My dad tried to strike up a conversation but he didn't really want to talk too much - probably he's sick of people knowing who he is even when he's here, next to the middle of nowhere. He had four bikes on the back, three road bikes and one mountain bike - all with different types of clipless pedals - strange they're not all of the same type of pedal if you ask me. It seems like most people have a favorite pair of biking shoes and stick those types of clips on all of their bikes. Who knows. I also saw Edgar today - YO ED! E-mail me! Anyway, I'm now going to go off and wipe the foot or so layer of ...um.....stuff off of my desk here at my dad's house into a box and decide what I should bring. I plan on only taking a backpack and a small duffel tomorrow, but packing several boxes to be mailed out later on. Not everyday you see some name actor - a few years ago Tom Green apparently went through the rental shop at Northstar while I was working there. I was handing out boots, and no one else thought they gave him boots - so, being in a daze, I must have given him his boots - why is this something to brag about, who knows.

I retired today - my last day at Lake Tahoe Online was today. I plan on buying a vacation home in Barbados or Guam and live on the beach drinking lemonade and eating sushi all day long. Too bad I leave for cold, grey Mass in 6, 5 days now.... oh well. I got a real cool case/binder thing for DVDs a couple days ago. I'm into watching movies again just because of this stupid cool case. I want to write more, and it seems like I should, but I don't really have much to say; so, that's all for now - ta ta

Hey, so my dad got me an iSight in hopes that he could video conference with me at MIT. It's really cool, much better quality than I expected.


I've added the quotes to the top of Bavetta.com again and have been playing around trying to get it so that you can add a quote for everyone to see. Right now the goal is to have it load one of the old quotes, load the bottom page - then load the quote or comment that the last person left at the top of the page. It only kind of works. Oh well. Also, anyone should be able to add comments to any of the posts here (exciting, huh?). So, if I happen to accidently say something thought provoking, you can tell me to stop. I leave for Boston on the 16th - T minus 14 days and counting....

The MIT housing lottery now declares me a temporary resident of 3rd East - East Campus Dorm. Cool.

So, first off, I locked my keys in the car at around noon in the Albertsons' parking lot but was able to get in because the tailgate was unlocked. Later on, I drove down to Reno to see a couple movies (Johnny English and Bad Boys 2) with Doug, Baker and Dick. When it was over, we walked to the parking garage (I found that I had left my driver's side window wide open the entire time with all the expensive junk that I've got in the car) and drove out seperate cars out the gate. I was last in line and when I reached the parking guy I realized that I didn't have my parking ticket thingie, but I did have a movie ticket - shouldn't be a problem though, eh? They let you go for free if you see a movie - nope, big problem. "What we're going to need to do is see your registration and some ID." Well....as of a few days ago, I don't know where my wallet is, so I have no ID. Hmmm.... I have my fishing license? Ok - he took that and wrote down the info that's on that orange card but wanted to charge me $10. I didn't like that, so I went back into the movie theatre and looked under my seat for the ticket. I couldn't find it so I went back to the guy, told him I gave up and started to drive away when I realized that it was my pocket - jeez! Where was it before! Anyway, I jump out, lock the door and walk down the block back to the parking dude. He gave me the money back but wanted to keep $1.50 because it was so long after the movie ended...hmph. Oh well, I walked back to my car and realize that my keys are sitting in the ignition. great. Luckly I had my phone, and after a series of calls to my parents and communication with AAA, someone came out in 45 min or so to unlock the door. He didn't want to unlock the door, though, because I didn't have any ID, but he eventualy did it and I was finnaly on the way back home nearing midnight.

As a side note, if you happen to search Google for, "The best webpage in the world," a section of Bavetta.com comes up, second only to "The best webpage in the Universe"

Hey. So, it's been a while. July 4th was pretty cool. I went down to the Westend Beach and saw the fireworks, which were pretty awesome. One of the fireworks didn't make it off the ground before exploding, but no one got hurt. Here are some pictures of the fireworks.

I changed my alternator today.

The Sacramento warped tour date was on Sunday. We (Katelyn, Lauren, Wix and I) left at around 6AM, got lost once on the way, and arrived at just about the perfect time. After waiting in line for a little while we got in and saw The Ataris first from the pit - wow, these people get into it. After that I saw parts of Andrew WK, The Mad Caddies, Rancid, Less Than Jake, The Dropkick Murphies, Sum 41 and Pennywise. I think that Less than Jake's set was the best, followed those by The Mad Caddies and Pennywise. Here are some pictures of the event, and one of the alternator.

I re-did the Lake Tahoe Online webpage - Check it out now: www.ltol.com - Pretty cool, eh? Here is the original: Old ltol.co m

I was selected to participate in the 'Discover Mechanical Engineering' Pre-Orientation program at MIT. In the program, about 30 people build 'soccer robots' which will compete in a 4 vs. 4 match. I'm excited. I booked a flight last night for August 16th, the first day that we can arrive, as the Pre-Orientation program starts on the 18th, and I think it is wise to get at least a day to catch up.

Dad and I went up to see Robert, Jen and the kids at the cabin and ended up biking up a huge hill to Eureka Lake past the old Eureka Ski Bowl:



The big news today was that I got 2 cavities filled at Dr. Colpits. He numbed me up, drilled out where he thought the cavities were, then snapped a few pictures. I know they're kinda gross, but here they are. The redish areas are spots where the dentin was breaking down inside the tooth. The bad news is that I'm supposed to go in to get 3 - 3! - more cavities filled this coming Wednesday. - UGh! My mouth was numb today until 7 at night!

Here's what I've got to say about the Apple World Wide Developers Conference tomorrow. I've been reading the rumor sites and there are some things that I disagree with, so I felt compelled to write down, for what it's worth, my predictions

PowerMac Updates
- We know this due to images already posted on Apple's online store - G5s up to dual 2GHz

PowerBook Updates
- Even though all of the mac rumor sites I've seen say large updates to the line are unlikely, I think they are wrong. Not only do I think that the 15 inch PowerBook will be updated, but I think the 12 inch and 17 inch models will be updated as well - all with the new IBM 970 processor, the new Apple G5. Someone has speculated that perhalps a built-in camera will be included in the frame - I think this is interesting, and possible, but not likely.

As far as software, Steve will demo OS 10.3 as advertised, but also show off Xcode, what I think is the new development environment for 10.3 - combining what is now Project Builder and Interface Builder.

Update:

Well, I've got to eat my words a little bit. No new PowerBooks - but the PowerMacs were updated and Xcode shown off.

I went on a short bike ride on the NorthWest part of Lake Tahoe a few days ago and created This 360 Degree photo of part of the ride. Kinda cool - I think I'll do that sort of picture more often.

We also saw a few bears across the Truckee River

High School is now over. Graduation was on Saturday and it went well. I got 2 $1,000 scholarships! Doesn't quite pay the $40,000 a year though.... I came early to set-up the potato cannons/confettii launchers. I ended up just airing each of them up and shutting a valve on them so that they are self-contained (I had planned before to have air compressor hoses running to each) and ran wires from each to a central box which was used to actuate them. I watched the video of the event and it looks like they worked well, I wasn't paying much attention at the time. The confettii fell fast, however, which it didn't do when we fired a test shot a couple weeks ago. I think it had something to do with the strange wind which was comming off of the stadium. After graduation I went over to my mom's house where she had a lot of good food prepared and saw a bunch of relatives. I got some great gifts like a new air compressor, a digital camera and some real cool Apple harman/kardon soundsticks. Senior grad night was a lot of fun. We saw a hypnotist which was pretty amazing and then went to Sugar Bowl to eat, then off to Reno to the Hilton where we bowled, played video games, played golf, shuffleboard and pool, and went on the 'big swing' outside. Our bus driver was cool - "MaRY" The organizers were too uptight, however. Katelyn couldn't even throw her sweatshirt into her car at the school when she was 10 feet away. I couldn't bring my camera. Now that I've got a digital camera there's going to be a lot more photos coming online. Here's the first: Graduation

Potato launcher version 2 is now being called a sucess, and I will soon be working on revision #3. One week left of school now - it's crazy. Crazy. Graduation is on the 14th. I think I want to get into playing ping-pong. We're doing circuts in physics - I like it much better than the motion part. It's a lot of what I've been doing on my own, but now I understand some of the circuts a lot better. I think I might become a electrical engineer as opposed to a mechanical, even though it's a lot more of programing now, as I understand it, than actual circuts. whatever

School is winding down - just a couple of weeks left. Prom was last night - good times, but nothing unbeliveably exciting. They held it on a boat, the Tahoe Queen, which was pretty cool moving around and all, but the small spaces made everywhere seem crowded. The battery light came on in my car this morning on the way to work - not good. I guess I'll have to check the alternator. I saw 'Finding Nemo' on Friday. It was the best movie I've seen in quite a while; I was laughing through the entire thing - from the sill,y music by Bobby Mcferrin on the short at the begining, to Mount WannaHawkALuggie. In contrast, I saw Bruce Almighty a week ago, and although it was funny in places, there was not much more to it than what was in the movie trailer. I hate that! The movie trailer people should restrain themselves from giving away the entire movie! I just did another blood test and the AST and ALT levels which were problematic before are now back to normal, which is good. After a while we're going to see if the levels will stay there without the Prednisone (at the moment I'm taking 15mg a day - next week it should be 10mg a day).

I ran across this on the internet: http://alumweb.mit.edu/opendoor/200305/peer.shtml It links to my site near the bottom of it - cool! Bavetta Radio at school 95.1 has been down for the last week or so because of some hardware problems - this continues, but I should get it fixed early next week. I bought some supplies for spud launcher revision 2 at Lowes today - most notably a 1" sprinkler valve as oppesed to the 3/4 inch valve I had before. Not much of a change .... but who knows. I'm gonna work through some equations and see what the best muzzle length for the 2 inch tube is - who knows, probably more work than it's worth, but we'll see....

I made a potato cannon over the last two days and tested it for the first time today. It's really cool! Using PVC pipe, a sprinkler valve and compressed air I can fire a potato way into the forest or liquidate it into a thick piece of plywood. Brian, Sam and I went down to Reno today to see the Marix. We were the first people in line when the movie theatre was opening and saw the movie at around 11:45am. I liked it a lot. Brian and Sam said they thought some things were overdone, but I think that made it better - I could see them having fun when making the movie. Ok, I'm fooling around with my computer here and now have added a few interactive features that you can use while I'm online. The first of which lets you change the song that I'm listening to in iTunes. The interactive page is here: Here Please be nice. Use UserID: guest and password: password

So, I took the Calc AP test last Thursday. I said I was the only one taking the test that I was taking and that may have been a little misleading. I was the only one taking the BC Calc test, but there were about ten other people taking the AB test. I felt fine on the multiple choice, but the written responses kind of blew me up. Overall, however, I looking forward to seeing what score I got. Day one of medication starts today - prednisone and immuran - 30mg prednisone for a week diminishing to 10mg prednisone/week. High School is drawing to a close - Unicycling is starting up again - The sun is shinning - The birds are chirping - and it's SNOWING! In May! Holy cow! I just called Apple regarding my iPod which I sent in for repairs. It says that they evernighted it on the 8th but it still isn't here and there was no tracking number online. They said, well, the order status is a little deceieving. It actually hasn't shipped yet. Ok, it's now shipping tomorrow - something tells me that they screwed up somewhere there....

I got this from the message boards at KPIG.com, although I've seen parts of it other places as well, such as cartalk.com.

Weird similies and analogies:

Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two other sides gently compressed by a thigh-master.

His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.

He spoke with wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

She grew on him like E. coli and he was room temperature Canadian beef.

She had a deep throaty genuine laugh like that sound a dog makes just before he throws up.

Her vocabulary was as bad, as, like, whatever.

He was as tall as a six foot three inch tree.

The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM.

The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.

McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.

From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30.

Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.

The hailstones leaped up off the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.

Long-separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across a grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.

They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resemble Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.

John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.

He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River.

Even in his last years, grandpappy had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.

Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for awhile.

He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a landmine or something.

The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.

It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids with power tools.

He was deeply in love when she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.

She was as easy as the TV guide crossword.

Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in any pH cleanser.

She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.

Her voice had that tense grating quality, like a generation thermal paper fax machine that needed a band tightening.

It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.

Now this is interesting; it looks like one of the drugs I took for acne around three years ago is infamous for starting autoimmune problems. The drug is minocycline and quick search on Google get's you tons of pages on the problem.

I really like the new Apple Music Store a lot. I've bought a few tracks from it and it couldn't have been easier. I plan on never going to buy an actual CD anymore - it's that cool.
I've read up on the autoimmune disease thing and found some other articles here and here.

In other news, the Calculus BC AP test is this Tuesday... bum bum bum. I'm the only person taking it and I know I'm not ready for it yet. A couple real hours of memorization should fix that though. I'm starting to learn how to program in Cocoa, again. About a year ago I set out on the same quest, but this time I'm understanding what I'm doing and I think it very well might stick. Cocoa is just a Mac OS x programming tool though, so unless you run OS X don't expect to be running any of my programs any time soon. I'm going to start posting things as soon as they get finished. I'm going to start with some real simple programs, then maybe make a simple game or two, followed by a hopefully useful program. If you've got an idea of a useful program, drop me am e-mail (Webmaster -at- Bavetta.com).

The Doctor says that the liver biopsy confirms that it looks like anauto-immune liver disease. I don't like the statistics. It says that if I DON'T get treatment, the six-month mortality rate is less than 40%, three-year mortality 50% and 10-year mortality 90%. I'm going to start taking some drugs in the next week or two, although the doctor says that I'm not in immediate trouble as the biopsy looked good.

Well, it looks as though the iPod has gone kaput. Even though it's a week out of warranty (it always breaks just out of warranty) they're going to fix it anyway. It would have cost just as much for a new 10 GB iPod to repair my 10GB iPod.

Wow, so it's operation is over now. I got another ultrasound first, which is one of those things that they look at babies in the womb with - basicly white and black blobs show up on a screen, but this means something to the guy doing it. They put a big x on my right side between a couple of the lower ribs with a sharpie and sent me up to the GI lab. I went up there and waited for a little over an hour, got sent to a room where I waited another hour, then saw a nurse who hooked me into a blood pressure and pulse machine. Every 15 minutes the cuff would pump up and reveal my blood pressure while a thing on my finger continualy monitored my pulse. It averaged around 102/60 and 62 BPM - not bad. The doctor eventualy came in (he was late coming into the office I think, probably playing an extra round or two of golf) and immediatly started getting down to business. He peeled back the protective covers and took his tools out. As I understand it, he first applied some local pain killer, made a small incision on my side - x marks the spot. He then did some stuff which I'm not quite sure of, I basicly felt a sharp pain on my side, followed by a Really strong dull pain somewhere inside. He cocked some spring loaded thing, stuck it in me and released it - wow, did not feel good. By this point I think it's over - nope, he does it a few more times before taking everything out and bandaid-ing it back up. It's over! Not quite. He talked for a short while, then as the blood pressure monitor thing went off I noticed it was reading much lower than it had been - about 80/50, or something. I mentioned it to him, he didn't think it was anything. Then, all of a sudden, I started not feeling so well. My pulse plummeted to a low of 38. I started sweating and apparently got very pale. The doctor called for the "red cart" and got someone to immediately put an IV in me. The "red cart team" came rushing in and waited while things slowly went back to normal. Apparently the "red cart" was the difibulator machine (the "clear" ZAP machine) which they would have used if everything stopped.

To sum it all up, I probably would have rather been in school today.

So, here's the deal. My liver enzyme levels in my blood are high, as I've said before - no one really knows why for sure yet - perhalps an auto-immune problem (since the Rhematoid Factor is also high). Tomorrow Dr. Gish in San Fran is going to be poking my liver with a needle preforming a "liver biopsy." This will show if the liver is damaged or not and will also provide a check point to compare against a biopsy down the line to see if things are better, worse, or the same. It's not going to be fun. I'm supposed to stay in town overnight in case of, "Any Complications" - yikes! Later in the week I'm going to go to an Endocrinologist to let him do his Endocrinology (I'm not quite sure what he's going to do, but we'll see)

My boss (Jon) sent out an e-mail "Service update" to all of the Lake Tahoe Online customers a few days ago and he mentioned that I'm going to MIT, which is cool. I sent in the MIT reply form about a week ago now, so everything is official. It's kind of scary. Now I need to send MY rejection letters to the other schools that accepted me.

I drove by the High School today and saw that the Bavetta Radio antenna had kind of fallen over and is pulling on the wire, which is not good. I have to get to fixing that as soon as I get back from SF. I was talking to someone the other day about the Radio station and they pointed out that I was taking over all the media zones. Television (The Reel Review on Channel 6), Bavetta Radio (95.1), and the Internet (Bavetta.com) - The only thing I need to add is print, so I need to write a book.

As far as Bavetta.com is concerned, I still need to update the links section, fix the Pix section, add to the Extras section, and add a link to the archive on this page. Posting it here is more a reminder to me than anything else.
It looks like Apple might have some pretty big announcements coming tomorrow, I'm exci

Ok, so, ya - It still seems kind of awkward, but the new site design is now in effect. I don't like all of it yet (see that big blank spot on the top right?), so things are still going to change over the next few days. The extras page is pretty lame right now too, and I still have to update the old pages to the 'new look'.

By the way, I've really got to fix the webcam. That date-less picture of the stove is driving me nuts!

WOW! So, two days ago I was told my site wasn't working. This happens from time to time when my host does server upgrades, etc, so I wasn't phased. I checked it out and boy were some things wrong - in fact, everything was wrong. There were NO files on the server - nada, zilch, nothing. I got kind of nervous, but I do backups every once and a while and I could have gone back to a state of three weeks ago easily if it came down to it. As it turns out, however, none of that was necessary, my host gave me a link to the 'old' server where my files were. Apparently they decided to switch servers without moving my files from one to the other.......hmmmmmmm... In the time after the loss and before hope came back I whipped up a new version of Bavetta.com which I think I will start phasing in anyway - I like it, and I like change.

So, as I write this, I'm sitting in a ten by ten room filled with dirty underwear about a foot deep with the sounds of traffic blaring from the window wich just happens to be next to a fire department. It's raining and I'm at MIT. MIT is great, my roomate for this "Campus Preview Thing" is .....

OK, so here's the news on 95.1 Bavetta Radio - I soldered together a transmitter from RamseyElectronics and made an antenna out of copper tubing and whala! - It's radio. Mr Coleman let us set up shop in a small room above his wood shop and with the antenna on the roof the signal reaches a good distance. This last week I talked on it for hours (why does that word have a h on it anyway) on end with Danny, Tony, and a few other folks. We got free lunch each day we've broadcast so far and also a few hot chocolates from V.P. Brancha. It's been great. Parking lot, weather, and War with Iraq updates have filled a lot of time, but we've done other things such as "Painting with Dr. Phil" or "The Relaxing Yoga Hour by the Sea" --- So, if you happen to drive by the High School make sure to tune in to 95.1 - "We're Hip"

I would like to thank everyone from Colorado for visiting Bavetta.com on an hourly basis - Thank you.

The last couple college letters came in:

Berkeley - Yes
Stanford - No

6 for 7 - not bad, not bad.

I'm pretty confident now that I'll be heading off to MIT next year.

Well, the squirrel feel off. I had a "life sized" squirrel epoxyed to the roof of my car, but it feel off today while driving down the freeway. I had previously had some sort of bone on the front of the car, but that feel off too due to sun damage to the nylon ties.

After a few days of construction, the FM transmitter is now complete - Stay tuned for K-B-A-V-E-T-T-A Radio..........Details soon...........

I read this at Cartalk.com:

An Indian chief had three wives, each of whom was pregnant. The first gave birth to a boy. The chief was so elated he built her a teepee made of deer hide. A few days later, the second gave birth, also to a boy. The chief was very happy. He built her a teepee made of antelope hide. The third wife gave birth a few days later, but the chief kept the details a secret. He built this one a two-story teepee, made out of a hippopotamus hide. He challenged the tribe to guess what had occurred. Many tried, unsuccessfully. Finally, one young brave declared that the third wife had given birth to twin boys. "Correct," said the chief. "How did you figure it out?" The warrior answered, "It's elementary. The value of the squaw of the hippopotamus is equal to the sons of the squaws of the other two hides."

I've posted the links here before, but here ya go again:

http://bathroom.mit.edu/

http://laundry.mit.edu/

I found this page describing the class of 2007 at MIT

Really cool!!!: I got accepted to MIT! (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - I'm real excited because this is likely the place I will choose. Nice!!

Admitted to UC Davis. Yippie! 4 for 4 now.

Hey! Third college acceptance: UCLA Score!

Second application reply - Accepted to CalPoly! Bonus!

Hey, lots of stuff going on....
First, I got the first college application reply - Accepted to USC! Nice! 6 applications still out...

Second, and not so good: The liver specialists at Stanford say I, in fact, do have some liver disease or some disease that affects the liver. They say it looks to be some sort of autoimmune disease that is probably making my body attack its own liver. When we took a look back, my grandpas on both sides had autoimmune problems and my dad had one as well. This is not good news, but hopefuly taking some medicine is going to stop the damage. I'm going back to Stanford to get a liver biopsy in a couple weeks, and they are analysing some blood tests now. Hmmm... we'll see....

The school schedule will go back to normal on Monday - and just when we were all getting used to it. It really made me realize how much you can to in a day when you get out early. I haven't been taking advantage to my unscheduled fourth nearly as much as I should. On Monday I went to Auburn, on Tuesday I went skiing, etc....

I changed a bunch of things around on the first frames you see when visiting Bavetta.com - I'm not sure if it's going to stay, but it's cool for now.

Because of a large gas leak near the Middle school resulting in it's temporary closure, the middle schoolers will be comming to the high school to have classes for the next two weeks (at least - they say). This means minimum days for us high schoolers, which may or may not be a good thing. If we get so many half days that graduation gets pushed back - that's not a good thing! They say that the high school day ends at 12:05, and since I don't have a 4th period that means I'm out probably a little before 11:00 - Wow - for two weeks. Cool

From Cartalk.com RE: Practical Jokes:

Back in college, we used to live in these "suites," which were basically four corners of a building with rooms on the outer edge and a living area in the central part. The person who lived in the corner room was going away for the weekend, and the rest of us decided to play a joke on him. We went to the hardware store and bought some drywall, paint, electrical wire, etc. We then proceeded to plaster over the door to his room. We even went so far as to move the lighting fixture near his door to right on top of it. When all was said and done, his room had disappeared.
When he arrived back on Sunday night, we all pretended he didn't live there (to the best of our ability) and despite his confusion we kept up our end of the farce. We made him sleep on the couch in the living area that evening, then the next morning we broke through the wall and let him back into his room.




Called up my aunt and pretended to be form the phone company. Told her we would be cleaning out the phone lines that morning and if she didn't want to have dust blown all over her house she should cover her phone with a towel or something similar. A couple hours later I stopped by, and there was a nice clean towel neatly draped over her telephone. I didn't have the heart to tell her I had made the call.

I'm tired.

So, yesterday was the Truckee High talent show. I ended up being part of two acts: I sung 3 barbershop songs (Star Spangled Banner, Hello Mary Lou, and a parody of Connie Island Baby) with the usual crew of Dick Ben Alex and Owen, and played guitar in "Facundo Cries Freedom (The CFC's)" with Sam Joe Tony and Brian to the tune of some old 50's or 60's song "If You Wanna be Happy for the rest of Your Life." Our Barbershop group ended up getting thrid place Whoohoo! Pretty good - especially considering we practiced for a total of about a half an hour for the show (we already knew the songs). Andy played the accordian, which was totaly awesome, but he didn't win like we were expecting. I borrowed an MxPx CD from Katelyn, and it has some awesome stuff on it. I'm really getting into music again.

Howdy, I just bought a new CD, "Borders & Boundaries" by Less Than Jake - sure, I've heard their name, but I don't think I've listened to them before. I like it. It kinda sounds like the band Five Iron Frenzy ? with the horn section and all, but a little more distortion - In comparison, Less than Jake doesn?t talk about Bacon Bits and Jalapeños (less creative lyrics), and they don?t have religious songs. I usually like to avoid the topic of religion, so listening to religious music, that I don?t necessarily agree with anyway, doesn?t really work ? I don?t know. I?m kinda being pushed from a couple directions. For one, I like Five Iron Frenzy?s musical style a lot, but I feel like I shouldn?t really listen to them because I don?t really agree with the lyrics and it might give people an incorrect (not necessarily bad, but incorrect) impression of me. I?m hardly religious, and I think a person?s religion should be a subtle, personal thing; blasting religious music doesn?t really fit that profile. What I kind of have done in the past is separate their religious music from the not, and listen to one category while the other sits. I think I?m just being too self/image-conscious. Hmm, how did this topic come up, anyway. Oh well, this is probably the first serious b-log post, when I should be watching the Super Bowl. I think I might get a CD by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones next?

The Truckee High School unicycle Count is now at 7.

Well, I'm bummed. I was supposed to be the DJ for free to the Winter Ball in a week, but now they say that they are going to pay for some generic DJ instead. It would have been awesome, but now it's most likely going to suck.

We also tried to do the Reel Review today, but it fell apart after two hours of setup.

Mr Nice and Peanut Butter Jelly Time - Yup, pretty random.

Truckee High School Unicycle count has increased to 5

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