Hello! Hows it going?
Awesome, I am talking to you. Dude I have to get to one million five hundred thousand points before tomorrow so that I can get my name into the raffle twice. I am down like seven hundred thousand points so I got to start talking like a crazy man.
Yup! We got to chat more! Its ok, you can still do it!
And I played overwatch today with an actual mouse and it works. There is like no lag. The graphics suck, but it is playable so that is good.
Thats great! I have actually really developed a love for Overwatch!
The problem is that now I actually need to probably buy overwatch and that is not super expensive, but I have to figure it out. I need a friend to give me a humble bundle too. Hvae you been playing it a lot?
Its a First person shooter that I can figure out Haha, ya. I havent really played it a ton. Just on the weekends when I was at your house and one time with my roommate Actually might have been twice with my roommate. I think I played a little on sunday
So I'm actually at nine hundred thousand points which means I need to earn another six hundred thousand, which is totally doable in one day. The problam is that I only have
Ya, you can totally do it! Im not sure if they are ending the raffle tonight or when they are doing it though.
until like five oclock today because from their I have a homework assignment with a friend that I need to figure out, so that should be a priority, plus I have to do some homework for my bio class, and that is bleh. They are probably going to end it tonight, so I need to get as many points as I can. How many points were you averaging per hour, when you were grinding in order to beat Kyle? Because I need to average about that many per hour.
sorry about that, my mom called. Anyway, I think I was shooting for a couple hundred thousand an hour. You can still do it honestly though Lets just chat as much as we can! Hey, have you heard the new imagine dragons album?
You were shooting for a couple hundred of thousand an hour? I bet that is doable, lets go for it. No I haven't is it pretty good? When did they release it.
Ya, its pretty good. They just released it just a few days ago Its called origin,
I've spent a lot of time listening to music from the Video Game Halo to study, so I haven't had much time to listen to other peopl.
Its on Spotify too
Is it like their normal music, or does it change it up a bit? Where did you hear about it?
I heard about it from Austin. He told me that they just released one and thats when I was like what is it called. Searched it up and its pretty good. They have a few new styles, but its fairly similar to the past of Imagine Dragons
Have you been talking to Austin a lot? Are you guys in the same math class? You need to talk him into getting overwatch so that we can play together and have a team, we may be
It seems like they don't really mix it up too much but I still like their music
a sucky team, but we can still be a good team at that. I guess not a good team, but we can still play together from time to time.
Haha. Ya, Ill talk to him. I am in the same calc class as him. Its been pretty good. Ill convince him to buy overwatch. I think he would try it. Do you know if he already plays games? He has an HP Spectre, I think it would probably handle it just fine.
I have no idea, I remember that he remembers when we invited him to my house with everyone to play games together. That was super fun, we need to do something like that again. Did he find his computer, where was it at?
That would be fun. He did find it. Apparently the TA from the next hour of class had it but was sick for about a week or something right after, so she just had it at home. Hah But we left his phone number on the chalkboard and luckily she ended up contacting him the next time she was at school Its just crazy that it had been an entire week without it, I was beginning to think that it was gone, and I think he was thinking it too
Wow, he is super lucky. I'm happy that he could find it. Honestly I feel like the best place to lose a laptop would be BYU, because I feel like a lot of people would be honest and return it. But he still probably got quite a scare out of that. Did he tell the teacher that he had left it, or did you just decide to write on the board?
Ya, thats true, but I think there are plenty of people that would still try to steal it here on campus. Haha Even though, its a fairly honest people
ya it's true, but i like that to think that people would try and remain honest.
I just saw chalk right next to us and I told him why don't you just write your name on the blackboard, maybe someone will see it and call you. I thought it was a fail, because last week no-one called, but finally someone did
that was a way good idea. Matt you honestly have some brilliant ideas.
Thats true. People here would try to be as honest as they can Haha, no, I feel like I just have these kinds of random things that happen to me all the time... Random things just keep you guessing in life Apparently it isn't helping me in my classes though. Haha
haha, that is true, but then you have cool stuff happen to you all the time, like getting free video games, or winning an ipad pro, but you do have a bunch of random stuff happen to you.
Although, I just found out today that our final test score can override our midterm score, so I just have to study a ton to get a good grade on it and then Ill keep my A in the class
Man, I am slowly working my way up the leaderboard, I am just going to keep doing this until I get to the one million five hudnred thousand mark. I'm already super close to
Haha, even the cool stuff, just seems to be really random too! haha
the million mark. ya, you do have a ton of random stuff happen to you.
Ya, you honestly are cruising pretty quick
So when are we going to go to DisneyLand, Sadie has been wanting to go super bad, so we need to plan it, and start saving so that we can go.
Around 2:50 I will have to pause for a quick second just to get to my next class, but I will be able to continue as soon as I get there I have no idea. All I know it is super expensive. haha Both transportation, and entrance to go too! Have you ever been?
What is your class at 3:00 and is it really that expensive. I think the entrance would be the most expensive. Didn't you say you have a place where we could stay?
Ive probably asked that before, but I have clearly forgotten
Honestly if we just get enough people together then we can carpool down, and it is not that expensive. ya, I've been like three or four times. Have you?
I think I have a place that we could stay. I havent talked to him in a long time but Im sure that he would still be down for it. I have never been, but all Ive heard is that is a few hundred dollars just to get in.
That would save us a ton of money. I think its like a hundred bucks for a two day pass.
But that might be for California Adventures and DisneyLand Oh, really! I didn't know it was that cheap. Maybe next summer would be perfect to go. Also I might be interning over there anyway. That would be pretty fun. haha
Ya, it's one hundred dollars for two days with a park hopper pass between Disneyland and California adventures.. That's about the same price as buying a ticket to lagoon.
That is about the same price, I just thought the people over there were telling me that it was more expensive than that. But thats awesome!
Ya, its way cheap, the expensive part is getting down there. But honestly if we get enough people in a car then we are good to go.
Ya, we should get a group to go down. Oh, hey, I was just checking it out online. It is 93 dollars for 3 days
I mean cass and Hayden would always be down to go.
But the 93 dollars is each day so it actually comes out to be just under 300 dollars
Oh, jk, that's the price per day. So a two day ticket is like 200 which honestly is not bad. It would be worth it.
and if you want to have a park hopper pass, then you add around 20 a day, but ya, thats not too bad for 2 days
I mean, that would be way fun. We should totally do it.
Ya, next summer I think it would be the best time. Although I really don't know everything about busy schedules or anything Ive heard that the first time that you go it is just a really magical experience, so we have to go at least once, but Ive also heard that after the first time its not anything
When will you hear about your internship/
more special than any other theme park
The will probably be a big factor in if we can do it.
I don't know yet, I havent even applied yet. Haha
Honestly maybe they will pay for your apartment and then we can just come crash with you, and go to disneyworld.
Ya, the places that im looking at all say they will pay for my apartment, as well as pay super nice! Haha That might work out perfect Thats just if I get it. But if I don't, I will try again for the next years year
Ya, that would be way chill, so now you just have to make sure that you actually get the internship. You better start submitting your application.
Yup! Then we can just party down there and go to the beach and stuff I would, Im just doing all my homework, thats keeping me busy as is. But I plan on putting my portfolio and things together in this next month I know its going to get crazy though academically, just because every class wants to wrap things up at the end of the semester, but Im trying to get ahead, so that I can focus on my portfolio and internship submission papers I think I might have a decent chance though, I think they like younger classes, if they are good enough
I am looking forward to thanksgiving where I can just focus on all my homework and try and get caught up in everything that I am behind on.
The main disadvantage is the fact that Im not a diverse person. I have nothing that I can show off about me other than my skills. haha
Ya, you do have a good chance, i feel like youre animations are way good.
Ya, thanksgiving is going to be a great time. By that time, I will have an iPad and you will have a MacBook Pro, just chugging away at our homework. haha Ya, I think I just need a demo reel to show it off more. I need motion of things that I have created. Like a video that tears my 3D art apart step by step and shows my process of creation I hear and see how much of an advantage that gives you as you are applying to jobs
ya right, I honestly doubt that i will get the macbook. I never win anything. If anything you will win both of them, just because I feel like you are super lucky like that.
People can see the incredible work that you do, but really they are more interested in how you ended up makingit making it
I honestly can see you getting both of them. i will get pizza:)
That would be super sweet though, either way I will get pizza too! honestly im just in it for the pizza. haha
Haha if you got both of them that would be super sweet:) It would be ridiculous.
I would be super happy, and that would make my semester a little less of a sad one. haha. Just feels like ive been so bogged down by everything this past semester, that would be great if I could end up winning both. But I would be super happy if you won one too Are you at work right now?
Haha, ya, I think it would be fun to win, but the chances are pretty small. I'm at work, but I'm not on the clock.
Oh gotcha, are you doing homework too?
Ya, I'm trying to get caught up so we can go see a movie tonight. We bought tickets for the grinch.
The chances may be small, but they exist! Oh, thats right, Sadie was really wanting to see that. haha
ya, she is way excited so we are going to see it.
That will be fun. Hey, just a quick question. Do you have two keyboards and two mice for your work setup? Or do you have one set configured to work with both
I have two, but I run a program called synergy that acts as a server, so I really only use one to do all my work. Hey Dude, I am way close to the million mark, and I did one hundred thousand in about half an hour, i think that this is totally possible. I just have to push, and make sure
Oh gotcha that makes sense, I just remembered you saying that you somehow only use one set and I was wondering if you had any easy solutions for me
That I type a lot, so that i can reach the mark.
Do you know if synergy works on linux Ya, you are almost to the million mark!
I honestly have no idea, but you can probably give it a shot
Ya, I might check it out. Oh hey, I think I found it. Oh, man it costs money. haha
Does it? It might, I know that they have it for us here on campus, so I use it. How much does it cost?
It costs like 20 dollars, thats not bad, but I think I can find an open source alternative for it. Not to mention open source things seem to work better on linux. I think its just a community thing
You probably can, i honestly really like synergy. What do you want it for?
I just have multiple computers at home, and I only really have one keyboard. Its just a pain to have more than one keyboard My mouse switches between two different computers already, but I just havent bought the matching keyboard that does the same thing yet. I think that is what I want to get eventually though. Those keyboards are really nice I think. It practically does the same thing as synergy, but just doesn't require software for it, as it is a physical switch
ya, that makes sense. Maybe you could buy a keyboard that has two usb hubs so that everything that you type in on one computer automatically gets typed on the second compuer. That would be a way good idea, and I think that that would solve your problem. Are you just worried about having a mouse and keyboard for your laptop and your desktop or what are you thinking about?
Haha. Maybe especially if I want to type something more than once. But I think the ones with switches are pretty nice Ya, like when I dock my laptop, its docked with its lid closed, so you don't use the keyboard.
that is way cool, how much does a keyboard like that cost? Is it pretty cheap, or will it run you a couple of hundred of dollars?
I mean, you can leave it open, but its just in a bad position to use the keyboard, but if I had a keyboard that allows me to switch between two different pcs that would be awesome Its like 70 or so Its not too bad, but the only bad part is the fact that its wireless. Although, that is a great advantage too though, but the disadvantage is the fact that there are batteries
thats not too bad. I mean keyboards are already pretty expensive. Is it a mechanical keyboard or is it something else/ why don't you just buy rechargeable batteries. That is what I did for my xbox.
I think there are a couple of different types of them. Im looking at one from Logitech and I can't remember Ya, I could end up doing that. Oh actually I just looked up the multi device Logitech keyboard and it is only 50 dollars
That's not even bad, maybe when you get your ipad you can just sell it and then buy your keyboard.
and it comes with a phone and tablet holder. Haha
that sounds like a great deal;)
Haha, ill sell the iPad to you for 800 dollars. Do you want it? It would be a great Christmas present. ill even give you a 50 dollar friend discount, that will knock it down to a bleeding 750 dollars Haha
I will buy it off of you for 600$ final offer;) with the discount that should be 550.
Hmmmm.........
Sounds like a great bargain For you. I would even be so kind as to take it off of your hands for free. That sounds like it would be a great deal.
Eh.... I think Ill keep it. Although, thats not a bad offer.
I will trade you a macbook pro for it.
Really? Im down! deal!
Yes, a 2008 macbook pro. Done deal. No takebacks
Oh, shoot! do you have a 2008 MacBook Pro?
Yes. No. but I will buy one just for the trade.
Haha. I think I will actually pass now, sorry, we didn't shake on it Cant seal the deal if there isn't a signature
No, you gave me your word. Plus I can get it on ebay for like 25 250 and I have proof. I took a screenshot of this chat.
My word will disappear after I hit end chat so..... Oh shoot! Haha
I took the screenshot.
Prove it
Your words have now been immortalized in the pixels of my phone camera.
haha Also, how good is the pixels of your camera
I think it's like a 12 megapixel camera, but don't quote me on that. I am probably wrong? Honestly the pixels don't matter though. The sensor is a bigger deal. That's why the apples only have like 12 megs.
I just took a snapshot, I can now hold those lies against you I decided to quote you on that Haha
Ok, that's fine as long as you give me the ipad:)
Ok, give me a second to get to my next class and I will log back in. But Im not going to end the chat yet though Nope, you lied to me, and I lied to you now we are even. Haha
Ok thats, fine I will just write a ton of suprises for you, so that when you open the chat you can have some random facts. Did you know that banging your head against a wall for an hour burns 150 calories. That's pretty interesting, even though it's painful. are you almost at your next class?
I just got here Dang! Maybe Ill try that Initiating head banging, now! Are you still there?
yes, I am on. I never left, I was just waiting for you to get to your class.
Sweet! Im just in CS224
What class are you in right now?
gotcha!
That's way cool. Is everyone in the class struggling. Was this last test hard on everyone?
I dont know yet. I think we are all struggling, but thats probably just me. haha The test hasnt been graded We are learning about physical gates on the computer Its blowing my mind!
What are you learning about them? I think that is going to be like one of my next classes. Are you  talking about and gates and or gates and nor gates and nand gates?
Yup, its pretty cool, just feel like im about to die in class. haha No, thats just me being dramatic. Its honestly not that bad, but you have to follow exactly what is going on, or you might miss everything. The gates all rely on each other
Ya that is how my next class is going to be for this upcoming semester. It's going to be super complicated, but i'm kind of excited for it. I heard that the class is hard but whatever. My teacher was talking about it in our seminar class, and it seemed pretty interesting.
Ya, you'll like it. Thats actually what you want to end up doing anyway isnt it?
I don't really now. Maybe I will fall in love with it, and that will be what I want to do. Or maybe I will hate, it and never want anything to do with it ever again. I will just have to see what happens. I am totally open to whatever happens. I 'm just here to explore
Ya, hopefully you'll like it. I can see you really liking it. At least what I've learned so far is really cool, just complicated, and I think you will like it You could be a hardware developer and I could be a software developer and we could take down microsoft and apple and google with our crazy designs that everyone will love
Ya, how every gate returns a 1 or a 0, and then they have these huge complicated groupings of them, and it makes things happen. I do think that it is pretty interesting. I don't think two guys can take down google. I feel like those days are gone.
no, dont give up on me! We can do this! We will team up with others then after we take down google we will betray everyone and shutdown all other business Those days arent dead. We will be the next Google
Haha, I like how you threw in the betray everyone. That makes the business plan seems much more cut throat, and therefore i approve of it.
Yes, so youre in? Haha
Haha, sure what the heck why not.
Thats the attitude I like to see. World domination here we come!
Or maybe, just the tri-state area.
Ok, well... I guess we do have to start small but eventually world domination!
Haha, I am so frusturated with my math.
What math do you have right now? or are you talking about the math in your physics
No, linear algebra, the problem is that their are like a hundred small computations in each problem, so by the time you finish the problem, and then you get it wrong, it takes forever to go back through, and find out where your problem was.
Oh, I get you! That does sound like a headache Good luck! I hope you dont get too frustrated
Ya, i have been working on this last problem for the last twenty minutes, the problem is that I haven't been super focused just because I have been messaging you. honestly chit chat makes it kind of hard to stay on top of your homework, and what is really important.
If it makes you feel any better, I feel similarly about my cs224, cs235, and calc class. I kind of feel like im so far into the class, but I really want to retreat!
I'm just gonna rip through this chit chat thing because I also am going to work on a cs 142 class lab, and that is going to take like three hours tonight, so that's frusturati You could have withdrawn if you wanted too;)
Oh that is a little bit of an issue. if you do need to finish your homework go ahead Withdrawn from what? Oh, from my classes last night. Ya, but then I lose scholarship and fafsa money and thats worse than bad grades Money is greater than grades Haha
Why would you have lost your scholarship? And I don't think that you would have lost Fafsa money, you would have just had to have retaken the class.
No you lose scholarship and fafsa money because you have less credits Its not because you withdraw, but an effect of withdrawing would be less credits which disqualify you from money haha
Oh, I did not know that. What scholarship do you have right now? Is is offered from BYU? Or did you get it from some other location? Do you have to maintain a certain Grade Point average in order to keep your scholarship?
I have an academic scholarship from BYU and you have to maintain a high Grade Point Average and attend 14 credits Its kind of a bad deal, but I still do it for money anyway
Oh, no wonder you are so worried about your GPA, I would be too. How high of a GPA do you have to maintain? And 14 credits is quite a bit. well I guess it's not to much, but it's definently a healthy amount.
Ya, its about what I would want credit wise, but you have to maintain a 3.7 or 3.8 or so
That is pretty high, what is your GPA right now?
Its like around 3.7 I think. But if I keep getting A minuses it will just slowly sink lower and lower
An A- is like a 3.7 isn't it? So you are trying to buffer you're grade with as many A's as you can
Is it or is 3.5
That is a good idea. It will probably help you out a ton.
I dont know for sure
I doubt that it's a 3.5 because a 3.0 is a b. so a b+ is probably like a 3.35
Ya, Im trying to buffer it as much as I can
That's probably a really good idea. that will help you in the future. \ I'm already past one million and one hundred thousand. So i'm moving up in the world.
Ya, I think I'll be ok, especially if an A minus is actually not as low as I thought it ws was You are moving up. Only 4 hundred thousand more!
An A- is a 3.7 I just looked it up.
Sweet! So I have around an A- Grade Point Average! I'll just keep trying to get it higher and higher.
Ya, that's what it looks like. It makes sense that they would just expect you to be an A student.
I also found out that the Computer Science major is more liberal about giving out scholarships to people. So I actually might get more this next year Ya, that does make sense
ya, you should work on getting that, I bet that will help you out a ton.
Ya, I plan on it. Hey, wanna do something really fun? Its part one of taking over the world And theres cash involved Mucho Dinero!
What do you have in mind? I love free money I like it even more when i don't have to work for it, but keep talking, I'm interested.
I just got an email from BYU saying that there is an app competition It would require a little work, but theres 15000 dollars on the line
So what is your idea then? Are you wanting to build an app? I'm down, i don't know much, but what the heck, lets do it..
its divided up into a few teams but first place is around 3000 to 4000 dollars depending on how high they value the app
That's way cool.
Ya, lets do it. I dont have any ideas, just saw the competition
What are the rules?
Lets give it some thought though Only one app, and cant be in other teams We can have a team of up to 4 people
Where are the rules for this application thing?
One person has to be a student others dont The rules are on appcomp.byu.edu The kickoff is this thursday
ok, I will have to go look it up, and see what we can do about it. How long do we have to develop the app?
I think it said until march So we dont have a long time. Im thinking a web app. We can have one of them up and running really quick Then we can focus on refining it. I just dont know what kinds of things we need to take into consideration yet. We first need an idea. haha
Let me check out the rules on the web page because I think that will help us figure out more what kind of app they are looking for. I don't know if it has to be related to health, or if it would need to be related to some other specific domain of the app world.
ya, thats true. Honestly I havent read through them all. Just read through them briefly to get an idea of what it is I dont think that it has to be related to anything. It doesnt have a topic. At least that I've found
Hmm, how long would it take to get an app off the ground? I have like no experience with app development, but I am willing to learn.
Im not exactly sure either, it would be a learning curve for both of us, but I think we can still do it. Especially because we can just focus on design. Design is half of the product
We could include sadie on the design portion, and have her run that portion of it.
It says that if we can manage to get 50,000 people to view our product we will recieve 2500 dollars cash
Wow, how would we get 50,000 people to view our product? that would be interesting.
Thats true, we could, Im also thinking we should figure out someone who is really good at code. Ya, that is a ton I dont know, we would really need a good idea
We could include matthew crump, but he's already working on an app. Do you know anyone inside of the CS depatrment that could do that?
With some good advertising I was just thinking Matthew Crump too! Is his app going to be cooler than ours though?
he's doing a family history app, so it's eh:)
True, unless its ancestry or family search its of no worth. haha
The most important part of an app apart from its code is the user interface/design. An ugly app does not get used. It's supposidly sponsered by family history I guess.
Exactly, I think we can ace the design and usability Oh, I guess its a 5 out of 10 app then Not quite a 10 out of 10 yet haha
I'm down to start working on it as a project, I think that could be really fun;0
I think in this competition there are going to be a ton of coders but hardly designers. Lets punch them right where it hurts... The Design.
It would take a lot of extra effort though in order to really get it running right.
Ya, even if we dont win much, I think its still an adventure that sounds fun
I bet some of the apps will be cool, be we can totally give it a shot.
The thing is though, if we did a web app, it would be a lot easier and web gets used a ton
What's the difference between a web app and other apps/
Ya there will be some cool apps, im sure, but not as cool as ours Remember ours is the first step to world domination Web apps dont need to be downloaded, and it allows the person to use it without any download on their part
So we wouldn't have to run it through the play store ?
And its faster to develop for me, because I already know a decent good chunk of web design stuff No, we wouldnt have to, but the advantage is the fact that we could always port it to Android or IOS It gets a little tricky to port though.
Ya, we could most definently do it. The only challening part is the design:) We could make a game:)
I think the web platform would be the best way to get started fast. If nothing else it could just be for design and functionality of what the actual app will look like Thats true Games could be fun, but we might want to end up doing it differently than the web then. Web doesnt do games very well. But we could still do something like that We first just need an idea and then we can define the platform and how we are going to push it to production
Ya, the idea is the tricky part I think.
Ya, I have nothing. But to be granted, its only been a total of 20 minutes Haha im leaving class right now
Ok, where are you going? I'm only like three hundred thousand points away, so I got to keep talking, as much as I can before I have to do other things.
I'm still here. Just on my phone now I'm heading home now
Oh nice, do you have any fun plans for tonight? A hot date maybe? When are we going to go on a double date?
I wish. But my only date is with homework
Have you been asking girls on dates? You got to start looking for a girlfriend man.
No. I've been really busy this semester
No excuses, I want to see results;)
I know. I just don't prioritize it yet
haha, ok thats all good. I understand. Unless....maybe I dont....
I'll get married in my own due time
haha, no rush.
I'll find someone.
you seem very serious now. Dont be sad, get glad, trash bags hello, are you there?
Ya I'm just sad Haha. Never mind I just got glad
So when are we going to trick my wife with the wacom tablet? We need to do it sooner rather than later, in case she doesn't like it, then I can plan for other things, and figure out what I'm going to do.
I'm down for this weekend
We are actually heading home this weekend. We have to do some stuff with Sadie's icee shack.
Sorry if I'm a little slow to answer. I just got home. I was driving
So unless you are going home, that will not work.
But not chatting while driving
Ya, chatting while driving is super dangerous.
Oh. When are you leaving? Ya. We don't want to kill anyone
Uh, I think we are going to be leaving friday night. But I'm not sure, maybe you could come over earlier.
Ya. Maybe. What should be the reason why I bring the tablet with me. Should I just have it in my backpack
Ya, just say that you had taken it to work and were taking it home. That should be a pretty believable excuse.
Ya. That's true. Ok. When do you get out of school Or off work
Around 2 But I will probably have some stuff to do.
Ok sweet. I will probably work until then too Oh gotcha We can always do it next Monday or something
Ya, we can definently figure it out.
Yup
Ok, well I need to end the chat, I'm going to go do homework with a friend. Maybe I can get on a bit later, i will text you when I'm ready. thanks for the help. Only three hundred thousand more to go. I believe that I can do this. I just need to type a bunch, and make sure that I am using a varying and differing vocabulary.