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May 11, 2003, 6:43 p.m.

I've decided that I really need to be proactive about getting a new computer instead of just griping about it, so here's my list of computer components that should hopefully help me decide what I want.

March 31, 2003, 1:12 a.m.

Well, I have a ticker up so everyone can track my point total. All year my roommate has been saying things like "Ten points for you!" or "Minus five points for you!", the latter being far more common than the former, so I finally decided I was a big enough nerd to keep track.

But as a much larger expression of my nerddom, I embedded a copyright notice into the up and down arrows in a way that's probably never been done before, simply because it's way too stupid. Both of the images happen to have 12 unique colors, but the palette is a 16-color palette. This means that there are four unused colors in each image. If you take the red, green, and blue components of each of the four unused colors, in that order, and translate them into their ASCII equivalents (here's an ASCII table if you need it), you'll find that the message encoded is "(c)2003BKell".

If you have some amazing story of nerdiness that surpasses this, you must let me know immediately.

February 24, 2003, 1:04 a.m.

I just banked a Slinky off a door handle across the room, off my roommate's head, and hooked it on an electrical cord under his shelf. I rock.

Update: Shortly after, I dropped a honey-roasted peanut, which fell to the floor, bounced, and landed perfectly on the toe of my left shoe. I had to go for it. So, after eating the rest of the peanuts in my hand and clearing the area of breakables (namely, my roommate), I kicked the peanut in the air. It described a perfect parabolic arc, but unfortunately the y-coordinate of the vertex of this parabola was not great enough for me to catch it easily in my mouth. So I dove for it. I missed. I then had to find the peanut again, which by this time was hiding under a backpack. It was still good, so I ate it.

About me

I attend the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and live in Kauffman. I am a computer engineering major and am also in the J.D. Edwards program, so I'll probably be stuck here for six or seven years. With that in mind, I'm doing things like taking Czech.

I am Kauffman's RHA senator, which means that I'm also a part of the Kauffman Residents' Association. This consumes about six hours of my life every week. Anyone who wants the job next year has my full support.

This page is currently an attempt to live up to my apparent reputation as Brian "I Likes Text" Kell, although at the current rate I may end up having more links than text before long.

What this page can do for you

Here at upsilon.unl.edu, you can:

Recommended courses of action

Play a very strange game, or visit some other pages:

If I was a jerk and forgot to put your page on this list, e-mail me about it. Aim your complaints at abodeman@yahoo.com.

I think I also have a tutorial of some type available. I don't really remember a lot about it, though.

Comics I read

This really arbitrary section lists some comic strips I like to read. They're in alphabetical order, because I'm far too lazy to try and rank them. Strangely enough, I have given them ratings. Hmm.

Perhaps these comics can provide a glimpse into my sense of humor. As an added bonus, you can win seventy-five cents (worth a load of laundry at Kauffman) if you can find a strip that's not in this list that I like.

Alley Oop (good) · Andy Capp (good) · Blondie (good) · Calvin and Hobbes (excellent) · Dilbert (excellent) · Doonesbury (good) · FoxTrot (excellent) · Frank and Ernest (very good) · Garfield (very good) · Mr. Potato Head (good) · Natural Selection (good) · Peanuts (good) · Pearls Before Swine (excellent) · Pickles (good) · Shoe (excellent) · Tom the Dancing Bug (interesting) · Wizard of Id (excellent) · Zits (excellent)


* Note that "much" is not well-defined. Here it means roughly "a small amount," though it might be better translated as "nothing."


Conforms to Murdoch 1.0 ©2002-2003 Brian Kell. You know the drill. Don't steal my magnificent content, because it all falls under copyright law. Actually, I would be flattered if anyone found any of this "content" to be worth stealing, so go ahead if you like. As long as it's really mine. And as long as it's not anything cool, like my crossword or Biv or my motherglass report. Don't steal those, because I worked pretty hard on them. But take this paragraph for example. I pretty much just typed some nonsense, so if you want to put it at the bottom of one of your pages or put it on a billboard or a T-shirt or something, I think that would be cool.

This page was last updated on March 31, 2003, while I should have been studying for a geography test, or maybe later, if I updated it and forgot to change this part. But it's at least that new.