I rebooted today, which was fun because I haven't in a while, see:
mclausch@duffman:~$ uptime
16:57:56 up 17 days, 18:36, 13 users, load average: 0.10, 0.10, 0.05
Now this is special because I updated all kinds of software on my computer during those 17 or 18 days, things that really should have caused me to reboot, like X. But whatever, it was fun while it lasted.
Anybody remember the b-trees? I sure do.
My site has a new feature! The "Pictures" section is now functional. The page parses my main journal file, picks out all the images I've posted and properly displays them with the alt text as a description of the image. Check it out!
Update time, wow I'm sucking with this.
I bought volume one of the Family Guy, which is sweet, no more crappy quick time and real media files for me. I will probably get the other volume for Christmas, if I don't break down and buy it first. I'm really excited about Indiana Jones though, hopefully I will get it for my birthday. I think I need more money, I wouldn't mind owning the Simpsons and Futurama on DVD either.
Work is good, its all about the Perl, which I enjoy very much. It is exactly my type of language, it knows what I want even when I don't. I may also get to help create an online ordering system using a database and...Perl! :)
This weekend is Thanksgiving and I think I am going to seriously try to not eat until I feel sick. It is very hard to do when everything tastes so good though. Kim is going to Krissy's wedding with Matt, congrats Krissy.
Learning openGL isn't going so well since I keep not doing it. I should really start. Just like I should really add more content to this site and learn a bunch of other stuff. But work just takes the motivation right out of you. I hope real life isn't like this.
Recent movies: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and American Wedding. Both were quite entertaining although the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was only original in its premise. I hope that American Wedding is the last of the American Pie series because it seems like a good place to end. Next up is hopefully Bowling for Columbine and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, both of which won't be quite as uplifting I'm sure.
Busy September, so not many updates. Although I don't think it has actually been busy, I am just lazy. Work makes me not want to do things in the evenings. Adults tell me this is normal and that I should get used to it. I don't like that very much. I don't think I am an adult yet.
Kim came to visit last weekend, we went to the Mongolian Grill and had good food. She liked my new apartment, I like it too. Except that the landlady has a sewing fetish and a very loud sewing machine.
CS370 is showing me the joys of MATLAB. And so I (like all others who take this course) have created an ampersand using cubic spline interpolation. Here it is:
Isn't it lovely?
Now I just need to vectorize some loops and I should get a decent mark on the assignment.
It's a September entry!!! Let's see, lots can happen in a month.
Exams went well, although my CS246 exam apparently didn't go well according to the markers who have yet to reply to my email. Stupid course. Florida was fun after exams, not exactly relaxing, but fun just the same. People in the US are weird, I actually felt a bit relieved when we crossed back into Canada. The move to my new place was also all good apparently, I was enjoying the sunshine state at the time so I don't actually know. The apartment is good except that I don't have a window in my room which some people tell me is illegal. Oh well, my room is bigger and the apartment is clean, good enough for me. I started my new coop job yesterday and it seems like it will be alright...hopefully.
Updating when things actually happen is the key to long journal entries.
And the year's record for file transfer speed over our junk cable connection goes to....the series finale of FUTURAMA!!!!!
I wonder what dsl will be like....?
Haha, Michael's siblings are amusing. Here are some pictures:
For some degree of sense, see this site: Star Wars Kid
Can't update much now, need to study. Had gooooooood Morty's wings though, mmmmmm.
Thus ends my streak of only updating once a month because today I feel inclined to update and because something other than school happened last night. Also Jen updated her website so I have to too.
Last night I went to Wilson's house party and it was fun. Jen and Angela got really drunk and amused themselves by giving me a bunch of their alcohol which amused me because it meant I didn't have to buy my own as usual. Jen made me three orange juice/pepsi twist based drinks and then a vodka based drink that everyone agreed didn't actually contain any orange pop as she claimed. We were tipped off by the lack of orange colouring. We played lots of bubbles too, over 140 matches I think. Drunk bubbles is harder than normal bubbles. But I still beat Jen and Angela mostly.
Today I'm very tired, we worked all day yesterday trying to figure out why stupid Gtk crashes at random times and found out it is because it is not thread-safe and so our multi-threaded program kills it well. But not in the good way. Once we found that out we went and got 4 large pizzas, one for each of us. Mmmm...pizza. I guess the main reason I am tired though would be due to the getting home at 4:00am. Oh well. Need to do more work today.
Jen and Angela are whores from the future! Only 27.99! But they bought each other so they arn't for sale anymore. :(
Oh, I also found out that they are really screwing up the CS program that currently exists in favour of...something else. Not sure what. It means I have to take OS and then concurrency, like that makes any sense.
I need to go work.
