I am delighted to announce that my first website, SaveKimPossible.com, has finally come home. The domain was registered when we first began the  Save Kim Possible movement. But due to financial issues, we where forced to give it up and create a new site SaveDisneyShows.org instead.

Despite several attempts over the years, we had no luck getting the domain back. That is until now. With a little help from Phil, I once again hold the domain, and this time I’m keeping it!

After some debate over what to do with it, I decided that it was the best place to put a history of the Save KP Movement. Sometimes I feel that the debacles of the season five campaign have overshadowed the amazing accomplishment that was the renewal for season four. To this end, SaveKimPossible.com tells the story of how we saved the show. And explores how the campaign affected my life in particular.

I hate April Fools day. I mean, seriously, I wish it would just, like, go away. At MKP and later SDS, we’ve had quite a few serious prank gone wrong events. The first was many years ago and involved Mike, Adam, Tuc and the management of RS.net and MKP. It was quite a mess and eventually wound up getting Mike tossed out of the movement. It was that day that I first saw Tuc actually mad at someone, and I decided to make sure I never got him mad at me. And of course, I broke that rule too.

While that was probably the worst prank gone wrong, we’ve gotten the usual “OMG ___ show has been renewed! Here’s a link on wikipedia” messages every single time. Usually for more than one show. And these rumors take WEEKS to stamp out. Even win the original author admits it’s a prank.

There was even one year when we where gonna make zei Admin for a day on SDS, but Phil promoted her for real like a week beforehand. Talk about killing my moment!

Anyway, just remember to not trust anything that anyone says today. All ” important forum announcements” are probably gags. And if you fall for anything, well, you’re just not thinking straight.

Oh, and the SDS Forum is a Hannah Forum now. Click the banner

So yesterday, I came across a like to my old webpage on the UCR Engineering server. And boy, was it out of date! I gave it a through refresh. Have a look!

http://www.engr.ucr.edu/~gisaac/

Part of a random convo with JM from July:

JM: Yoha broha!
Anitrain): I saw Demi Lovato in concert on Friday.
JM: Really? How was that?
Anitrain: Yes. And Awesome.
JM: Sweet.
Anitrain: (Photos and such here: http://demilovato.us/ )
Anitrain: I know she’s only 15, but I must admit that she’s way cute in person.
Anitrain: Oh, and Zei’s birthday was yesterday.
JM: Dang. I need to wish her a happy birthday.
Anitrain: I turned the whole forum pink for her. You just missed it
JM: Man. lol
JM): And she is pretty cute.
Anitrain: …Demi, right?
JM: Yeah. lol

… Shut up. I found it funny.

Dear ME Faculty, Graduate and Undergraduate Students, and Staff,

Please join us in supporting the Project Presentations of our ME Senior Design Students.

When: Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Where: A265 Bourns Hall

Time: 2:00pm – 6:30pm

“Human Powered Peanut Sheller and Peanut Oil Extraction Devices for Zambia ”

2:00-2:30 Team 5
2:30-3:00 Team 9 -The Peanut Crushers
3:00-3:30 Team 8 -Team SAND
3:30-4:00 Team 3 -Team Schultz
4:00-4:30 Team 6 -Powered by Peanuts
4:30-5:00 Team 4 -Team Victory
5:00-5:30 Team 2 -Ultimate Nut Sheller
5:30-6:00 Team 7 -Team Athena
6:00-6:30 Team 1 -Nut-Busters

Hope to see you there,

Ronald

Ronald Cunanan

Mechanical Engineering – UC Riverside
951-827-5830 (front desk); 951-827-2899 (fax)
Email: rcunanan@engr.ucr.edu

That’s right, my team has no name.

It’s still hard to come to grips with the fact that the quarter is nearly over. We’ve finished our senior design prototype (as shown below) and it works remarkably well. The crusher module takes a good deal of force to start, but it does a great job of actually crushing them. The winnower works surprisingly well – much better than that of the other groups.

I have no idea why, but Kari Byron and Grant Imahara from Mythbusters where on campus yesterday evening. Read the Post on the UCR Website. I found out about it on tuesday, and I just had to go. I arrived like 8:10ish thinking I’d be plenty early. The room reached it’s capasity of 500 persons when I was 16th from the front of the line. There must have been a good 200 more people behind me in line by that time! Then as one lady’s telling us they’re full and to leave, I see the first few people in the line get let in – and I jump back to where I was. Turns out, the fire marshal showed up and said it was okay to let in somemore people. I think they let another 50 or so in, including me. Finally, some good luck!

Kari and Grant where there for about an hour. They started with a five minute or so blooper reel from the show shown on the two large projection screens. I recorded most of it, and may put it on YouTube. The rest of the time was primarially a Q&A. When asked about ways to cheeat on a scantron exam, Kari said she didn’t know of any, and that she just usually sat next to the asian kid- then Grant waived. LOL I also learned that Grant has a book about robots, and that he was once on Junkyard Wars. Also interesting, Kari and Tory have degrees in film, Grant has a degree in engineering (Electrical? Mechnical? Who knows?), Adam “has… um… a high school diploma,” and  Jamie has a degree in Russian!

I took some photos too, and I’ve put them up in the photography section of the website. Just click the thumb below to see the whole set.

Yesterday was the UCR Career Fair. It was over at the UCR Student Recreation Center and there where quite a few companies there. And wow, was there ever a lot of free stuff. Of course, I also passed out a couple resumes and picked up quite a bit of contact information for several firms that need engineers. A couple photos included below.

So it was tuesday, and I was driving home from school. As I’m crusing along on the freeway, the engine just… stops. No missfire, no jerk, no nothing, it just stopped running. I got the van over to the right shoulder and stopped. After taking a moment to calm down from the sudden adrenaline rush, I tried re-starting the car several times. It would crank, but it wouldn’t turn over. I ended up having to have it towed home – my second tow in six months and another $72.  Rich, a friend of my dad and a professional auto-mechanic came by and had a look at it, and he thinks it needs a new fuel pump. He’s ordered the part (More than $600!) and hopefully we’ll get the car fixed soon.

This morning my paternal grandfather passed away. He had been paralized from the neck down for the last month or so, likely due to strokes, and hadn’t eaten since last week. The nurcing staff didn’t expect he’d last as long as he did, but he was a fighter to the end. As far as we can tell, he died a peaceful death.

His quality of life had degraded to point where his passing is a good thing, but that only makes it easier to accept, not easy to accept. He also had cancer just over four years ago with a 0% chance of living more than six months, so I consider these past four extra years a gift. Now is the time when many people lean on their faith in an afterlife, and I can see why the idea is so appealing, but I don’t know if I can accept that as a posibility.

We don’t yet know when the funeral will be, but next Friday is the most likely time at this point. We’ll see how it goes. Even though he hasn’t been in my life as much over the past couple years as he once was, he really did about as much to raise me as either of my parents, and he will will truely be missed.