Are you gonna be a Guitar Hero (two)?

GH2 Party, my house
December 29th (that's a friday!), like afternoon onward!
What? The best video game to ever rock out with. I also got DDR this year though if we're interested. So good times!

I'll be making not-killing-andrew food such as nachos with taco beef on the side, homemade Mac & cheese [with or without sliced up italian sausage... mmmm, decisions decisions!) and Ceaser salad (which hopefully won't kill Andrew... no promises, can always make him a little salad ^^;)

I can probably provide beer (Keith's, Dad bought 2 cases of it with the impression of me and my brother drinking some of x-mas... ha.) or high-balls (Cosmopolitans, leftover triple-sec from birthday still...) for people as well... But the sad thing, is if you want non-alcoholic beverages that aren't milk, water, or orange juice, you might want to bring it yourself!

Bring whatever, just comment if you want to come so I can figure out how much food I should make. And if I should convicne someone to bring a third gaming system and TV over.

P.S. All you are going DOWN to my mad GH2 skills except maybe Jamieson on Monkey Wrench.

P.P.S. Thanks to Nits for pointing out lack of time constraints, for those wonderin' all day. Say noonish onward until I kick you out.

Exam Preparedness

As I do my final preperation for my statistical mechanics final exam, and my worry seems to intensify, a disturbing trend of my classes. Understanding of concepts has become utterly secondary to actually being able to solve specific problem over again, that we have done during the year on assignments.

This is because the set of questions actually askable on an exam has shrunk. In fact, for such things as my astr 402 exam, I studied specifcally 7 questions and memorized those methods. Since I thought that the exam was going to be of the form 8 quesitons, choose 6 to answer. The question space of this exam was actually only about 13 questions (ie. there were only really 13 questions he COULD ask that would be answerable without numerical methods and thus be doable analytically in the time frame of a test.

This has made studying a matter of redoing old assignments and memorizing methods and formulas rather than understanding concepts. I'm wondering if this is a general effect as people specialize more and more into their discpline.

The Great Listing:

OF METALLICA SONGS (that are better than Enter Sandman):
Rules:
No covers. Studio recordings only please, even though the medley's are awesome.
(sadly that rule means no S&M, although the entire album, including the recording of Enter Sandman, is superior to Enter Sandman off of Black)

Kill 'Em All
The Four Horsemen
Whiplash
Seek & Destroy
Hit the Lights

Ride the Lightning:
Ride the Lightning
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Fade to Black
Trapped Under Ice
Creeping Death
The Call of Ktulu (Kthulu?)

Master of Puppets:
Battery
Master of Puppets
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Orion
Damage, Inc.

And Justice For All:
To Live is to Die
Blackened
One
Harvester of Sorrow

Metallica (Black)
Sad But True
The Unforgiven
Wherever I May Roam
Nothing Else Matters
Of Wolf and Man
My Friend of Misery
The Struggle Within

Load
Until It Sleeps
King Nothing
Hero of the Day

Reload
Fuel
Low Man's Lyric
The Memory Remains
Unforgiven 2
Devil's Dance

St. Anger
Frantic
St. Anger

... I wasn't that impressed with St. Anger.

Any others?

Guitar Hero 2

If you are interested in a GH2 littel party at my place, featuring all the trimmings of my birthday party minus cake, comment.

Basically, Guitar Hero 2 (and 1), with which I now have 2 guitars for.

My brother is leaving his copy over here for "the next few days" so, in that time frame, party.

Need: what... 3 people to justify a day of it :P