MAEK POAST

Yay!

To do: Don't fail any more midterms

It's been quite the week, mainly due to the CS 341 midterm on Thursday night. It didn't quite approach Math 239 levels of ridiculousness (at least I could understand what the questions were asking), but it was easily the worst computer science exam I've ever taken. I (and hopefully everyone else) will now spend the weekend diligently praying for a huge curve.

On a funny note, we have a new convert to the church of ds lite of latter day saints. Laura bought a white one yesterday on a whim, which brings the number of new converts this term to two. She also bought Super Princess Peach, which means I can try it without feeling like a huge girl.

Now, it's time to eat some lunch and study for the 360 midterm on Tuesday. It's only an hour and twenty minutes, what could go wrong?

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With a bullet called life

On Spore

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He poops to see!

Warn Your Warmth To Turn Away

Wow, over 2 months. That's got to be some sort of horrible record for not updating a blog. Unless you count my other one, which is apparently still floating around the nether regions of the internet.

This term has been going surprisingly quick so far, quicker than any previous ones. Maybe it's because I haven't had to do the interview thing on top of all of my other responsibilities. I'm pretty sure that would have made me 'le crazy', as the French say. CS turns up the heat a notch or two every term, which is more than enough pressure for me. Not enough to make me go nuts or anything, but enough to make me wistfully think about dropping into English every once in a while.

All I can say is that I'm supremely happy I didn't take OS this term. Oh Lord, perish the thought. Sean, you have my sympathy.

It hasn't all been soul crushing Context Free Grammars though. The *entire* world doesn't run in O(nlogn) time. Amanda and I convinced Sean to buy a DS Lite, and we're looking to converting more people to the wacky cult of people with cool handheld electronic games. If we can convince Jarrett and Gee to buy one, we can be "those nerds who are always playing their game boys".

In other news, I'm apparently going to have two unknown roommates next term in TO. I lucked out getting Laura and John last term, as neither of them fit the "traditional mathie" mold. If I get some of the people who hang out in comfy and discuss World of Warcraft 24 hours a day, I'm going to hide in my closet and die.

Shit, I don't have a closet.

Here It's December Every Day

Behold, the DS Lite!

Amanda got me a DS Lite (pictured above, *cough*) and gave it to me this weekend as an early birthday/anniversary amalgamatory gift. (Yes, I know that isn't a real word) She figured I could put it to use on the way to work in the morning, so it wouldn't hurt for me to get it a little early.

Take a good look kids, because you won't see one of these in North America for probably another 3 or 4 months at least.

Hrmm....sometime I'm going to have to take some pictures of the Japanese instruction manual. While I can't read Japanese, I've figured out the following things from the odd little pictures:

a) I should never stick my DS Lite into the head of a snowman. It will make him visibly angry.
b) Do not hammer the battery until it sprays molten hot battery acid all over your face.
c) Do not pour water on the DS Lite
d) Do not fellate the stylus
e) Do not play the DS Lite while wearing a garbage bag
f) Do not drop the DS Lite on babies
g) Do not use the DS Lite to control people's pacemakers

I just need to think of a present as good as this to give to Amanda. Could be tricky...

I held a fallen star and it wept for me, dying

I started thinking 'bout the rest of my life

Alright, here's my university schedule for the next 4 terms (It's tentative understand, so it may change as time rolls on). So if anyone wants to take courses with a friendly face or me, then here ya go:

3A) SUMMER
CS 341 - Algorithms
CS 349 - User Interfaces
CS 360 - Theory of Computing
MUSIC 140 - Popular Music & Culture
RS 267 - Film and the Quest for Meaning 2

3B) WINTER
CS 350 - Operating Systems
CS 342 - Control Structures
CS 457 - System Performance Evaluation
ENGL 208A - Forms of Fantasy
MATH 235 - Linear Algebra 2

4A) FALL
SCI 206 - Physics of How Things Work
CS 445 - Software Requirements Specification and Analysis
CS 448 - Introduction to Database Management
CS 486 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
GEO 165 - Introduction to Cartography and Remote Sensing
- OR -
FINE 120 - Introduction to Fine Art

4B) WINTER
CS 444 - Compiler Construction
CS 456 - Computer Networks
HIST 111 - History of Western World II

Exeunt. I've left 2 spots open in 4B because you never know how time is going to mess up your plans. As Jarrett can (hopefully) see, we'll be taking Compilers in 4B (since it's either that or uh....next term). Now we just need a third partner and we'll be home free. I don't understand why no one else wants to spend time programming with us!

Okay, that's not strictly true.

In other news, Laura and I haven't been getting along so well. I guess it all started when I started a NGA (No Girls Allowed) club in my closet. Bitter words were exchanges, and shots were fired. I'm short an arm and a friend, but the sanctity of my NGA club remains intact!

I know that I'll be livin' it in Canada

Nothing to post, la la la

Nothing really to post here.

Uh...

Work has been...frustrating for the last two days. Yesterday consisted of bug-squashing for 6 hours because I stupidly didn't back-up some code I had been working on.

And today? I made some changes to code and removed a TON of code because I didn't think it was needed, only to have the dev decide "Hey yea...actually let's do that." About an hour later.

The moral of the story? Always keep backups of what you're working on.

FOREVER.

T-minus....what, a day? 2 days? A week? until I found out just how bad the damage to my car is. $1500+ bill here I come!

Man, I don't think any of this post will be understandable to anyone except amanda. Too late, keep going!

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