Being Ignored II

[aggienaut]

   So The Aggie told me that they were just waiting for me to explain the case at Senate before they covered it. I explained the case at Senate last Thursday. Today the Aggie article on that Senate meeting ran (which I can't link to at the moment because the Aggie webpage won't load). The article talks at length about recent unusual expenditures of $1,500+ for speakers and seperate graduation ceremonies for various ethnic groups, but only at the very end mentions "also they discussed the constitutional amendment and some resolutions." Clumping the resolutions together as "some resolutions" may be forgivable, but I would think a constitutional amendment is worth at least reporting the general subject.
   And of course, there was no mention at all of the Court case. I'm not sure this Court case has gotten a single mention in the Aggie ever. Justice dies in silence. Darth Lloyd surely loves the Aggie.


   Man I hate Mondays, I'm on campus from 8am to 11pm, with two two hour breaks.


   I'm trying desperately to figure out how to play movies on my computer so I can review them at ease while writing my papers for The Dark Ages in Film class (HIS121A). I've tried downloading several different things on various people's suggestion but no luck. Any recommendations?

Picture of the Day

Kristy chillaxes with Daisy, my grandparents-in-law (aunt's parents)'s dog


   My birthday is coming up on the 14th of May. I hadn't really even been thinking about it at all until Kristy reminded me today.


The PAXMUN Gossip Column
   At the AMPAC conference, there was a delegate who arrived while the rest of her school bailed, thus leaving her without a place to stay. Her name was Alezandra, and some of the staff took her in. This led to others among the staff to claim this was a violation of the "no fraternization rule." Others pointed out that the only thing the No Fraternization rule actually said was "keep the snake in the cage" (literally, thats how it reads). The anti-Alezandra faction went so far as to put a note up on the door to our HQ room in the executive suite that read "if you weren't on staff at the beginning of this conference stay the fuck out!!" Harsh. I was further irritated by the hypocracy inherent in the fact that another "staffer" was a "mole" -- but really he was just a delegate in a committee, termed a "mole" to bolster the claim he was on staff and could hang out with us. As a "mole" he never gave us any inside information on what the delegates were up to, and furthermore the "mole" position is not even hinted at in the rules, so I don't see how it can be an exception to the "no fraternization" rule (not that anyone was trying to snake him).
   Anyway then Mark Edwards, Secretary-General of the PAXMUN series of smaller conferences called CalMUN, and of our San Diego HS conference, showed up. He proceeded to act very interested in hanging out with Alezandra, further alarming the antifraternizationalists. Alezandra was taken on as actual staff under Mark for the SDHS conference though.
   I bring this all up now by way of prologue, to introduce the fact that Mark & Alezandra continued to "fraternize" at SDHSMUN, where it was all on the up and up since they were both staff. They have now been dating for two weeks.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/-sameer-/]

They've officially been dating now? Good for them.

However, the stuff you referenced is indeed bullshit.

[anonymous-frosh.livejournal.com]

It really depends on the type of file the movies are. Normally i use Windows media player, though I hate to admit it, but it works with stuff i've taken off CD-roms and dled through bittorrent. I'd need to know more about the type of file to help you more, and even then im not the technical expert.

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

.avi

[thepeoplesmp.livejournal.com]

you may need to download the divx (http://www.divx.com) codec.

His 121A Movies

[(Anonymous)]

I'm in the class as well and have had tons of success with Media Player Classic (Win2K/XP (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/guliverkli/mpc2kxp6490.zip?download) or Win98/ME (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/guliverkli/mpc98me6490.zip?download)). The nice thing about MPC is that you just unzip and go. There is no installation procedure. My friends often have success with VLC (Win2K/XP Only (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html)).

Free DVD playing on windows is complicated because all players live outside US law. The developers also assume a highly technical audience for the programs, which is unfortunate.

--Alex Garbutt (No LJ Account)

[eternality.livejournal.com]

Yes, I reccomend VLC Player as well. It usually plays any files that for whatever reason don't work in any of the standard players.

If it is an .avi file that isn't playing (and it should be in WMP) it sounds like you're missing a codex or something.

[blueashes.livejournal.com]

Good job in highlighting the fallaciousness of that argument over Alezandra as staffer! We knew she was awesome the whole time. We are excellent judges of character, I must say, and this bodes well for the next AMPAC staff you will hire--hopefully they will be nice kids and will refrain from a) posting mean signs on the door and b) trying to kick them out of the room they are sleeping in.

Ignored no longer

[anonymous-frosh.livejournal.com]

Today the Aggie placed the story of "ASUCD Student Court rules to release closed-session minutes" on the front page. It provides a satisfactory synopsis, and quotes you twice, and then a variety of other sources ranging from Justice Harney to Michael Tucker and then onto Greg Russell.

If it had not received a single mention before today (which i think it may have in terms of "Theres a hearing this week" and thats it), then on the 4th of May 2006 it was mentioned.

Of course, if there is another court case before the end of the year, it would be interesting to see if it gets any coverage.

-The Anonymous Freshman