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My computer has been giving me some pretty weird messages lately.

The radio station at my college is run with really old computers that no one knows how to use. The system was set up in 2001, and at some point between then and now, the radio program died completely, so these things have seen a lot of neglect. The guys who run the radio program even tell us to not touch the computers at all, in case we screw 'em up. To be honest, I'm amazed that they haven't caught fire or anything yet.

I think I'm going to try to completely overhaul the system, which means a lot of tinkering around on my computer to see if I can get things working before I try anything on the radio's computers. As a result of all this tinkering, I've seen a lot of things I've never seen before:

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I never realized my computer could be so saucy! :o

My neighbor, Julia, and I have an internet radio show and we named it today - 8-Track and a Turntable. The name comes from the musical equipment we randomly discovered in our dorm today.

Our show is every Friday, 6-7 Pacific Standard Time. You can catch the stream on http://www.willamette.edu/org/radio/wuwire/

Currently, our show is only available in stream form, but we hope to get podcasts up and running pretty soon.

Our plan at the moment is to have a different theme every week, with the theme for this week being FUNK AND SOUL

LISTEN

FOR GREAT JUSTICE

One thing I have made a point of doing at Willamette is to attempt to get involved in as many things as I possibly can, so I can

a. Keep busy.
b. Meet new people.
c. Learn.

Thusfar, there haven't been all that many opportunities; students are still settling in, and clubs haven't really started up yet. The only activities that have really started so far have been Dungeons and Dragons and WU Wire - the college radio station.

Let me say upfront that I have never played D&D before...well, before today at least. I gave it a shot today to experience the game first-hand. It couldn't be as bad as popular stigma had led me to believe, could it?

Wrong.

Despite being MENTOK, THE LEVEL THREE ELVEN ROGUE, I had a really hard time justifying spending nine hours on awkwardly structured and generally unfun roleplaying. Hell, it took a few hours before we could even start the game, because we had to spend lots of time and effort filling out our character sheets, which detailed even the most mundane aspects of our characters (height, weight, age, etc.).

Lesson learned: no more D&D.

Fortunately, student radio promises to be far better. My neighbor, Julia and I have agreed to do an hour-long show together. We still have yet to establish exactly when our show will be, or exactly what we'll fill that hour with, but it's still very exciting. Our musical tastes seem to differ and compliment each other enough that it should work out splendidly.