24 Hour ZB Post

Some of the ways to advertise the site / guide? Put something interesting like this. Since the timeline look adds posts from fans as well, I'm doing a test as to how many people click on stuff like this within 24 hours before this post gets buried by numerous complaints by users (as well as spam, but that problem seems to be taken care of).

Results: Buried in less than one hour by the following posts. Looks like some people don't want to know the truth about how the professionals play and instead (possibly) flame them for cheating. At least it got the attention of four people who did click on the link.

Facebook's fault, not Popcap - (some) other games won't load either. 
What is up with facebok and Zuma Blitz today!
(picture of profile)
(spam link to free FB credits)
how can you like this frigging game always failing,here it is a new week n stuffed again whoopeeee
loding lemottt
frog keeps jump but game dont load

As a regular user, I don't click on many of the ads and stuff like this that are shown unless I'm interested. Now I'm the person that is serving them, trying to find ways to get more people to view this.

Permalinks: Facebook post / Strategy being linked to

Tetris Stars: 3 Million

1st (or 2nd day) of playing though the Facebook game Tetris Stars. It's been a long time since I've played any Tetris-related game.

Differences: Digging to reach new levels underground (similar to that of Bejeweled 3's Quest Mode), click to drop pieces as well as use of keyboard, level up related rewards.

Tips: Although keyboard controls are available, they are not recommended for use, but you should at least set mouse control to advanced so you get more control as to where you want your pieces to end up. Also, get powers that break up blocks to cause better cascades.

High Scores: After seeing this forum post about the no. 1 high scores, I realized that my original intention of posting what I thought was a high score, at 1.7 million, was nowhere near close. After many attempts, I finally passed that 3 million goal.

With the introduction of the weekly bonus, the high score was pushed to nearly double that amount.

Dig-N-Rig Playthrough

Just a 20-minute playthrough / speedrun through the game Dig-N-Rig. I've seen vids of this game, but they take a while to get to the end (around 2 hrs or so), so I'm making this short and simple.

NOTE: The rockets are rather overpowered and tend to work much faster when getting minerals than ordinary drilling.

Ngannu Word Forming

Ngannu* is the first thing that I see (other than neon) that can be formed here.

This is during the Crab Feed, while waiting for guests to arrive - this is Cameron's game in Hanging with Friends.

I know, it's not a word, but experiences at UC Davis is causing me to think differently, probably for the better.

Note on Future Postings: For picture blog posts set to a certain date, the date will be set at the time I created the post for the first two weeks, meaning it's the first thing that appears on the blog. After this point, the posts will be set to their intended date.

[Also known as: Davis Reference: Word Forming, but I changed it since I prefer more creative titles as an added bonus for people who do look at the pics section of this blog.]

Chinese New Year Parade

CNYP - Chinese New Year Parade (they didn't do this last year). Featuring a new parade layout.

First thought about this: Too close. But it's like life, progressing from MCHS to UOP in a short lifespan. This makes references to my previous post, where I last visited Pier 39 as a freshman at MCHS. (They were further apart later down the road.)

Also, I wonder why half of the banner is missing (it seems to be folded), but the new MCHS dragon logo looks pimped out.

DLSSP In Stereo

We're busy working, those PTP dolls were both tough and time-consuming but in the end, we managed to pull it off. GJ Leonne.

Objective: District Large Scale Service Project. Meet up at the Arc in San Francisco. Make PTP (pediatric trauma prevention dolls), quilt and scarf making, outdoor work. A second team for the project was at SF State.

Summary: Event was successful - all people were dismissed at 4pm. Post event, visited Pier 39, a place I haven't been to in seven years (including going to the same restaurant), with portions of Davis, Reno, and UOP meeting up (though at different times)

Because I placed a lot of importance into knowing (and identifying) people, the number of people who I knew when I walked through the door substantially increased*.

Last Year: 15 identified (4 not friends on FB), met 13 new people.
This Event: 78 identified (31 not friends on FB), met 19 new people.

Fun Fact: This page will show up if you Google Image search for 'PTP dolls'. The panda is that of San Francisco State.

Pledging with Computing Honor

I have finally received my pledge for Professional Computing. Part of the first group of pledges, I will pursue my Comp Sci career with honor.

A Note on Subscriptions: I have started to invest some of my FB adds into subscribes instead. They're normally intended to follow people who you don't really know in person, but all my subscribe adds (currently) are people who I do know in person who I don't think know me (at an acquaintance level). In all honesty, when subscriptions are used on friends of friends, you get more than just their public status updates...