Below are the 10 most recent journal entries recorded in sylak's LiveJournal:

Friday, April 7th, 2006
5:24 pm	Rockets! So tomorrow my rocket team is going to attempt its qualifying flights to go to Virginia and shoot off again in the hopes of winning a $60,000 scholarship (split up amongst all three of its members) and I'm told a trip to London is another prize. Our rocket, named "DiNardo" after our chemistry teacher who actually had no role in this whatsoever, is a two stager. With this rocket we hope to achieve at least one flight of as close to 45 seconds aloft and reaching as close to 800 ft. altitude as possible. Currently our best time is 47 seconds, and we were unable to get a height measurement on that one, but it went pretty high. So wish me luck. Or don't. Whichever you prefer. Current Mood: nerdy Current Music: Science Has Gone Too Far- The Dictators (Comment on this)
Friday, March 31st, 2006
6:22 pm	Sell your soul for a gift card! So last night I did a "Phonathon" for my school. That's when volunteers call people who have given money in the past and ask them for more money. The good thing about this is that while you're doing this you are treated like royalty- free dinner, and as many snacks as you can stomach. I even made off with $30 worth of gift cards for rewards. The bad thing is that after it's done you realize that you have just given up your soul for all of the above. You have become a telemarketer, and you have done it for some free food and gift cards. In other news, I'm off to Boston tomorrow at 5:30 in the morning! All right! It's a trip with my church, but it should be a lot more fun than you think. Current Music: Hot Rails to Hell- BOC (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, March 25th, 2006
5:47 pm	Minions, your baron has returned! I'm back. Teh review: I love Chicago, even though I've only ever been there twice and I don't remember much of the first time other than stopping at the mythical Games Workshop store at Gurnee Mills mall on the way home. See, living in Minnesota, there's none of those within an 8 hour drive, and when you're obsessed with Warhammer 40,000 as much as I was at the time it's sort of a big deal. Anyway, because I know you're all enthralled (is it sad that I act as though I'm talking to more than two people? ;) ) I'll go over what I did there. On the first day my sister an mother went shopping, while I was left to look around a Borders store for an hour. Over the course of the trip I actually picked up 5 CD's, at least two of them that I don't normally find in stores around here (bootlegs of BOC shows from the 80's! Score!). We went to Second City to see the show "Iraqtile Dysfunction". It kicked serious ass. It was so cool to see a show at the place that Eugene Levy (he used to be good, right?) John Belushi, and of course Stephen Colbert all got their starts. Another show we went and saw was Blue Man Group, which was incredible. The way I'd describe it is the Three Stooges meets Stomp meets abstract art. I bought the CD, it's great too. That's most of what I have to say about that. Keep it peachy. Current Music: Since You've Been Gone-- Weird Al (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
11:24 pm	Chicago! Hey hey hey, I'm off to Chicago tomorrow. I'll be looking at colleges and being a tourist for the next 4 days. ... DA BEARS. Current Mood: Travelly Current Music: Search and Destroy- Iggy and the Stooges (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
9:46 pm	I'm full of bad ideas. So my friend and I have started considering writing a comic script, even though none of us can draw. Actually, since at least a few places seem to be very open to submissions of manuscripts, it's somewhat possilbe that we'll actually follow through with this and submit it. Maybe even in the far future we'll have a regular series and you'll be all like "I read his LJ when he was just getting off the ground" and everyone else will say "You're a colossal nerd." It could happen. Current Mood: bouncy Current Music: Gimme Danger- Iggy and the Stooges (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, March 3rd, 2006
6:12 pm	Hey! So today I was thinking: "If I'm ever going to become an internet star, I need to plug my work" because I so often think about my future as an internet quasi-celebrity like Brian Clevinger or Iliad Frazer of webcomic fame. So: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8092797845414249467&q=Will+Roberts That there's the movie I wrote, directed, and "acted" in. Also, check out the PROV! www.scientastic.net No, I do not know HTML. Current Mood: artistic Current Music: Celebrity- Barenaked Ladies (Comment on this)
Friday, February 24th, 2006
11:14 pm	What's a livejournal? Oh my god, I still have this thing, don't I? I remember doing this! It lasted all of 2 entries... but those were some good times, weren't they? ...You don't even, care, do you. Current Mood: nostalgic Current Music: Power Underneath Despair- Blue Oyster Cult (Comment on this)
Monday, June 13th, 2005
7:57 pm	Time is an illusion, lunchtime, doubly so. I mean, hey, it's not like anyone's reading this anyways. Time is no more for me. It's like a relativity bomb has exploded inside my head, causing me to feel like I'm living a single moment in perpetuity. One second is no different from the other. I got my report card the other day. 3.95 out of 4.00. Not half bad, I think. I think I finally finished (at least for now) one of my short stories. http://www.fictionpress.com/~john44th In other news, I've been watching Home Movies Season 2 at least an hour a day, it seems. Or maybe 3. Or maybe none. I can't tell. Here's my review of it, anyways: BUY IT. Current Mood: Misplaced Current Music: The Time Warp (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 5th, 2005
7:35 pm	Intro to me (for those who care) Okay, so while this should probably be covered on the first entry, I decided to forget that and put it here. At the second. Take THAT, organized society. Okay, so some stuff about me (for anyone who reads this and actually cares): My name is Will And the rest is very little of your business. I'm quite a nerd, I must say; I love sci-fi, books and movies, books and movies alltogether, I consider myself a Geek of Science, and while I'm more a nerd than a geek, here is my Geek Code block: -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- GS d- s++:++ a--- C+ U? P? L E- W+@ N? o? K- w O- M- V? PS+ PE- Y PGP- t+ 5 X++@ R+ tv+ b++ DI+ D G e- h! !r !y -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- As you can see, I use Windows, so I'm a bad geek. And, in lieu of Star-Trek or Babylon 5, I prefer anything by Isaac Asimov as my sci-fi entertainment. He was a shining light in the pessimistic sci-fi world. He is my antidote to dystopia novels, like Brave New World. Just read the Robot novels and you'll see what I mean. But make sure you read the introduction. I'm hoping to grow up someday, go to college. If I can handle the math, I want to go into a career as a physicist. If not, well, maybe I'll be a geneticist, or a writer. I don't know. I love the Adult Swim programming block, and my favorite shows on there are Home Movies and The Venture Brothers. That's about it. For now. (Man, these things are addicting). Current Mood: content Current Music: Landstander theme- Brendon Small (Comment on this)
Saturday, June 4th, 2005
2:48 pm	Summer... eh. And with school being over, my journal begins. It makes me wonder why anyone would ever want to read this. So, really it's more for me than anybody else. So now, as of yesterday, I am a Junior. And it feels awkward. I'm feeling... strange, and I think I know what it is. PSD (Post School Depression). I have lost all purpose and structure in my life. To me, summer means isolation, which never works well with me. I'll be spending the next three months practically alone, since the majority of my friends live a ways away from where I do, trying to keep my mind off of life as I vegetate in front of a screen, whether it be computer or TV. I've filled my schedule up with classes to keep my mind off of it, but it's not the same. The fact that I am suffering from this means that if I wasn't sure of my nerd-hood before, I most certainly am now. I am an amazing nerd, it would seem, fearing summer. I think the main thing I fear is losing the skeleton of a social life I have developed over this year. School was where I interacted with people. And you know what? I consider myself amazingly lucky. For someone as much as a misfit or pariah as I consider myself to be, I have quite a good standing with the majority of the student body. It's amazing, really. I have a widely recognized nickname, "Stonewall", for my feats of goalieness. And I don't even play soccer. I have no enemies. I am on generally good terms with pretty much everyone. It's... strange. My GPA is record high (3.95, if my predictions turn out to be accurate). And it seems... wrong, that everything is going right. Already I'm seeing why people so easily get addicted to these things. Writing them is very therapeutic. I feel less displaced already. Well, that's about it. How's that for a first entry, huh? Current Mood: lethargic Current Music: Existential Blues (Comment on this)