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2019 -   http://cavs4tw.blogspot.com/2019/10/halloween-spirit-run.html It's been two years since I entered a race. I forgot how fun these are.  This one was at alameda fairgrounds instad of downtown, and there were so many more booths and so many more people. When I got there at 8:10(the race started at 8:30), there waws a guy leading the pack of ppl in stretching, but i didnt really care. After waiting for a while, we headed towards the S/F line at around 8:25. There were around 663 racers this year compared to 448 in 2019. The starting/finishing timing chip in your bib was the same from 2019. and 3...2...1...GO MILE 1: I started off by listening to JJ Redick's podcast episode with Gabrielle Union and then after a solid 5 minutes I was legit so bored. That conversation was so stale LOL. So then I went to Thybulle's interview and there was some nice things. Anyway, mile 1 went pretty well. My plan was to go at a comfortable pace the first 4 miles. MILE 2: I think we moved...

 So Junior year is supposed to be the hardest year right? People picture a restless person studying up until 2 AM for their exams or just doing homework. Paired along with SAT, it sounds like h*ll. Not for me.  A: Band. Literally no homework other than the occasional flipgrid 1: AP Lang. Literally no hw 80% of the time because my teacher is really nice. Benbenek made me realize that there's a "perfect" way to teach AP Lang. Of course we do hvae FRQ assessments and paragraph writings, but in general this is a very light class so far. Very grateful I got Benbenek. 2: AP Physics. My hardest class. I spend the most time on AP Physics. There's homework pretty much everyday, and honestly it's not that much. Like 5-8 textbook quesitons. When tests come around, I do have to commit more time to Physics. However, it's super light compared to what I was expecting, which was a homework load similar to AP Calc BC 3: US History. Literally a joke. I have pretty much the easi...

  LETSGOOOOOOOOO Today at like 10:20 AM, I left campus to take my driving test at 11:00 AM.  I brought all the documents I need to bring and felt very prepared. The day before, I practiced the route with my dad and also looked over where to park. I chose the stoneridge DMV because I heard that it's significantly easier/shorter than the other DMV. The test itself was pretty smooth. I'm really proud of myself for maintaining a good speed under the speed limit and my lane switches were very decisive and controlled. Right off the bat on the right turn where I exit the mall I forgot to stop on the red light -_- The thing is that it's literally a habit for me to stop behind the line and then roll over, but I was just that nervous. After I realized i f***ed up, I just told myself to not think about it. The rest was great, I was just super consistent and honestly just drove really good all-around. I ended up with 5 minor errors, once it reaches 15 then it's considered a fail. T...

  Remember back when I posted "brain dumps?" Think of this as a rebrand of that lol. https://cavs4tw.blogspot.com/2021/10/simulation-by-vr-album-review.html I'm SO SORRY TO REWRITE!!! IM SO SORRY!!!! After listening to simulation for another like two weeks, I have a deeper appreciation for rewrite. The new top 5 ranking should be: This Could Be Us Exile Back in Time Get Away Rewrite Yes, Back In Time moved up two spots, chroma moved down two spots. Get Away moved down one spot. The second drop in Back in Time is just so well-designed and it's just so creative. The ripples and echo-chops is truly brilliant. I cannot stress this enough. The vocal chop transition from drop -> verse in Rewrite is SO GOOD, the melody is SO CATCHY and just so good, I don't know how one can craft a melody like that. It's simplistic, yes. But the melody is...wow Don't worry is an interesting song. I love the hook, but the dubstep is too much for me to handle. It's an absolu...

  It's 5:45 PM and I've been cubing for like the second hour straight. I listened to the latest episode of pull up by cj mcollum and now I'm just listening to my go-to playlist.  I ABSOLUTELY POPPED OFF ON 3X3 I don't know who my drug dealer is, I don't know why drugs I took... BUT IM HIGH IVEEEE BEEEN HIIIIIIGH LATELY IVE BEEN HIIGGGGGH Generated By csTimer on 2021-10-20 avg of 5: 18.762 Time List: 1. (22.770)   D2 B2 F U2 B2 L2 D2 L2 F' R2 L D L2 R2 U F' U F2 L'  2. 18.740   F2 R2 B' D' B' R' F L2 B2 D2 B2 R' F2 R' L2 U2 R' F2 D2 U L  3. (15.825)   U2 F D2 U2 F2 D2 B' U2 F' D2 B' U L R' F2 R2 B' R' U  4. 16.694   F2 L' B U2 R2 F' L B L' U2 L2 U' L2 D F2 L2 D B2 R2 U L2  5. 20.852   D B2 L U2 F2 L' U2 B2 D2 R U2 L' F2 U R2 B L' F L R' B2 Generated By csTimer on 2021-10-20 avg of 12: 19.144 Time List: 1. 18.500   D2 U2 B' U2 B' L2 U2 B2 D2 F' L' F U L D...

PT 1:  https://cavs4tw.blogspot.com/2020/05/pentapping.html I've been pentapping for like a year now. Here's an update. As I learned new techniques and drum loops, my rhythm and coordination grew. I started having so much fun with my beats. Pentapping is just so fun/addicting in general. Today, I can now say that I'm like really good at this. I know so many drum loops and I can incorporate triplets into my beats seamlessly. Overall, the beats are just getting fire. As I'm getting more advance, practicing pentapping becomes less and less effective. I have to look at other people(lenstrumental, shane bang) and observe their beats/technique. This can be very hard sometimes if they zoomed out on their hands or if the beat is super fast. I really wonder how lenstrumental reached his level. He had nothing to refer to. He must've been lost at times, just jamming away aimlessly trying to create a new beat. I don't have proud recordings within reach, the closest one is t...

  I started playing geometry dash in like 8th grade. I began by beating Press Start  in the SubZero app, which took 700 tries. I didn't know what the use of practice mode was LOL. I grinded that so much during disneyland lm*o. Anyway, here I am now. I play during school if I have time, and I've comfortably beaten electrodynamyx. Next up are the demons. Here's a tierlist of the levels(in the main game) in increasing difficulty Stereo Madness Back On Track PolarGeist Base After Base Dry Out Can't Let Go Jumper Cycles Time Machine Blast Processing xStep Theory of Everything Geometrical Dominator Electroman Adventures Fingerdash Clutterfunk Hexagon Force Electrodynamix Clubstep Theory of Everything 2 Deadlocked Lyric(s) of the Post:  I believe, I can see light A new dawn is rising I believe, I can see fire In my eyes tonight Believe - Teminite

  Dear 15 or 16 year old Wilson,      How are you doing? As a 13 year old right now, I'm really nervous about the schoolwork that I will soon have to face in high school. I have a lot of questions for you. How good am I at basketball? What's my FT%? Can I hit threes? Am I stronger? Can I finally hit hook shots? What about one handed floaters?      How is school doing? How are my grades? Is math hard? Am I reading enough? How's prince doing? How's marching band? Am I good at mellophone yet? Have I gotten into serious trouble? Am I still really short? Are my braces off? Do I have contacts? Did I lose my phone or anything? Am I fat?      Can I solve a Rubik's cube blindfolded? What's my PB for every event? 13 yr old you had a PB of 14.3. How big is your cube collection? Did you quit? If you did, it's fine but try it again!      Are you doing drugs????? If you are somehow doing drugs, know that the 13 year old you would be ext...

Dear 15 or 16 year old Wilson,      How are you doing? As a 13 year old right now, I'm really nervous about the schoolwork that I will soon have to face in high school. I have a lot of questions for you. How good am I at basketball? What's my FT%? Can I hit threes? Am I stronger? Can I finally hit hook shots? What about one handed floaters?      How is school doing? How are my grades? Is math hard? Am I reading enough? How's prince doing? How's marching band? Am I good at mellophone yet? Have I gotten into serious trouble? Am I still really short? Are my braces off? Do I have contacts? Did I lose my phone or anything? Am I fat?      Can I solve a Rubik's cube blindfolded? What's my PB for every event? 13 yr old you had a PB of 14.3. How big is your cube collection? Did you quit? If you did, it's fine but try it again!      Are you doing drugs????? If you are somehow doing drugs, know that the 13 year old you would be extre...

I kinda ditched this blog during November 2020 and came back to it for like a week in April 2021. During that period I missed the annual last.year review. Well, now it's October 2021 and I guess I'll review 2020's last.year LOL https://www.last.fm/user/wizwilzo/listening-report/year That URL probably updates annually so I'll accompany this post with the images. This is the overview. You can conclude that NIVIRO absolutely dominated, most notably  Fast Lane  and  Dancin' . Those two tracks are STILL in my playlist 10 months later, I'll never get tired. Fast Lane is such an emotional track, especially the synth break. The two note contrasts just blend so well with the iconic NIVIRO synth pads. Dancin' is an upbeat track that features the catchy "I'm only thinking about..... dancing." That phrase is so catchy and it's such a banger track in general. I won't go in-depth. Other than that, you can see that I discovered Virtual Riot. Owl City,...

Virtual Riot released new music like a month ago, he dropped numerous teasers on his YouTube channel and hyped it up deservingly.  From the teasers, I was expecting less melodic and more dubstep. I was right. I also expected color bass and honestly not much. Prolific amounts of EQ and sound design in his breaks. But this album was FIRE. The intense drops and breaks were contrasted with slow bridges. The upbeat verses were very well-done. I'm not going to review every individual song, but rather my top 5 favorite. There were some songs I wish I could include (rip rewrite) but this album is just too stacked. Hyperlinks are in YouTube btw :D 5.  Back In Time - Virtual Riot, Angelika A very upbeat and beautiful song that doesn't have any intensity. There's not much to say about this besides the very authentic presets. This is very classic Virtual Riot -> digital synths, casual vocals, vocal chops, synth pads, arpeggios, and last but not least.... melodic synth breaks. 0% dub...

  Very random thoughts I've always wanted to make a chrome browser extension, specifically for tracking screentime. I know of existing ones but they don't fit my personal preferences in a screen time tracker. Like I want to track which sites I went on the most which would be cool, and it shouldn't be hard?? Man theres so much stuff to like coding outside of usaco stuff maybe a discord bot, I've seen rayz do it before and he can teach me. Plus its in python which is cool. I'm thinking greed control bot, shouldn't be too hard obviously, the STEP will help make these ideas more realistic, but for now im dreaming Lyric(s) of the Post: YOI YOI YOI From ->  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvKY_DnM1PA&t=605s

Here I am, sitting on a Thursday in the library with nothing to do. Im gonna go to iTea soon cuz it's joshs birthday and also im bored. finished all my hw, cloud shell is crashing. Demotivated to grind usaco. Lets set a realistic and manageable goal for myself about this blog. Once a week? Biweekly? Once a week sounds good to me. its not what to talk about that's the issue, its that i dont have time  LETSGOOO Lyric(s) of the Post: Floating up to the surface I can feel the pounding in my chest This has to be my last breath When I saw the light, I ran for my life Yeah, I knew this wasn't the end It was just the beginning Fly - Egzod, Caiti Patton (PS: its very common for edm songs to develop a generic "flying" atmosphere IMO. Flying/soaring is a very common theme)

Here's how it went down: CF div 3 I chilled out with A-D as they were all straightforward implementation problems. Then on E I had to do a bit of thinking and couldn't come up with anything, so I moved to G cuz I saw that a lot of people solved it but it was clear that it was a full-on math concept(and it was). SOOO i looked at F and solved it and that was basically the contest. I was gonna get like a +60 rating but then I FAILED SYSTEM TESTS FOR D aeraewrewarAEWREWARBRUH  OK whatever so i moved on to bsio  q1 was pretty common q2 i knew was line sweep but I was so confused on how it was a   q2 but whatever I went with it q3 took me a second to understand but once I understood the problem it wsa pretty chill. I've done similar things like this like "walled off" which is a bit different cuz it has some DSU components but hte concept of blocking with the queries is pretty useful q4 i was dead and like I maybe coulda tried dijkstra during the contest but I was just n...

 hahaha forgot about this Been getting into coding lately... Have some pretty important competitions tomorrow CF Div 3 haven't done a CF for a while because of various reasons. I needa pop off and get like 6 questions cuz this could take me to Expert. I'm feeling pretty confident in my chances. Rank 200 or under is what I'm aiming for Binarysearch Weekly 54 I've been robbed too many times. Last time I didn't read q4 correctly :( The time before that they completely messed up q4 like that's just out of my control Then weekly 51 I WAS TWO CHARACTERS AWAY FROM AC. I learned that day for Bitset DP you always put >0 instead of == 1 for whatever reason ; - ; Then weekly 50 was my PB with rank 14, but I'm really hoping that I pop off this contest and finally get a top 10. I've been suffering too long with my 11 contender badges. At the end of the day it's a lot of luck so I can't really do anything about that Leetcode weekly leettrash hopefully they ...

  Here are some songs I wish were on Spotify.  Porter Robinson - Lionhearted(Virtual Riot remix) Virtual Riot demonstrates the complexity in his music and the attitude in his basslines once again with this insane remix. The beginning consists of establishing the theme, into a filter swift that leads into the main verse. The analog synth fade in/outs is just too good and Virtual Riot's melodic dubstep in the lead in to the beatdrop just gives me chills. There's so much complexity into the rushes and the analog synths. The Synth Break is when I can seriously do anything I want. the synth pads and chord progression gives the melodic dubstep synth break a new meaning, and its transitions with the growls give this song an incredible feeling. Syncopation, everything. I will always be impressed with Virtual Riot and will always wonder why he isn't more popular. The chord change in the second verse moves the song. The analog synth rises to the top along with the classic drum shifts...

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