Other things I should have written yesterday

Apparently I have entirely forgotten how to play against Marth. One first year, Andrew, he was playing Training Mode in Melee, so I started explaining all the controls to him and all... he didn't really know how to play. So then we start playing, and he plays Samus, and I start picking characters I'm worse and worse with, kicking his ass every time. I destroyed him with Mewtwo, even. Then I say, maybe you should switch characters. Well, he says, who's good? And I say, Marth is really easy to play. And then all of a sudden I wasn't doing much better than him. Yeah, kind of awful.

Also - we already have one vacancy, as John Wood (who was rooming with Aaron) has gone and gotten an apartment before the year even began. Supriya's still here, though. Of course, Aaron says with his luck, he'll get a new roommate anyway. In the meantime, he has pushed the two beds together - and, per John Wood's suggestion, turned the mattresses sideways so they cross the gap - to form a double bed. So, if you come visit here and need a place to sleep, don't think you're going to be sleeping in his room.

Also, we have an Xbox again this year. Yay. Where are all the games for it, though? Maybe they're all on the hard drive, I haven't actually tried it yet. With Grant gone, though, we're down to only 3 N64 controllers.

-Harry

Bathrooms, ghosts

Can't anyone get it right?

It's very simple. O-week, the bathrooms are coed, as a "trial period". Then there's the house meeting first week, where we decide on it by secret ballot, but if anyone objects to it, we don't do coed bathrooms. The RHs draw up some ridiculous compromise. Then everyone completely ignores the rules and uses whichever bathroom they want, until people forget there might ever have officially been a rule against such.

This is what I'm told happens pretty much every year in Tufts House. And yet, the only time I actually saw this happen was first year, under Bill and Fiona.

Bill and Dave cut things short, simply saying, "OK, it's coed bathrooms... noone objects, do they?", and noone did. One of the few things they did right, even if it didn't follow the rules.

Jack and Sarah, the new RHs, have taken things in the other direction. Apparently the meeting happened early - during O-week. And they have drawn up their compromise. Huh? To find out: Was the trial period cut short, or did it not exist at all? This is bad either way. They need to get used to how things are going to be. Well, I suppose it hardly matters as before long people will be ignoring the rules out of convenience. Of course, unlike Bill and Fiona, Jack and Sarah have actually put up signs on the bathroom detailing the compromise. I guess someone'll tear 'em down eventually.

And, OK, have not really met the new RHs at all, they seem nice, but I have to say they're acting kind of hostile towards the house. Maybe not deliberately, but it's the effect. They have withheld the list of the house members' email addresses (though I think this should be pretty easy to determine anyway) so that Sean doesn't go and add them to yobohost. Huh? What beef do they have against yobohost? It'll happen eventually anyway. I thought of just sending out an email on tufts-house telling them to join yobohost, but I realized that wouldn't sound right - "All you guys, join yobohost, just not you, Blake, Jack, and Sarah".

Completely unrelatedly, Grant points out: In Starcraft, the ghosts are all supposed to have psionic powers. But nothing they do in game uses this. They use cloaking technology, and they use rocket launchers, and they use laser pointers. Where's the psychicness?

-Harry