Turkey weekend! Lots of turkey, well only twice, but still pretty good. I managed to not eat so much that I felt ill at any point.

I also got to go to the reception part of Krissy's wedding, it was great. Very nice decorations and food and stuff. The DJ was also an Elvis impersonator and he was very good. I told Matt and he was surprised because he thought that the music was just from a CD or something.

My birthday is coming soon which means so is Indiana Jones, yay! All good except for the midterm on the same day.

I watched Bowling for Columbine last night and it was pretty good. It may be a bit one-sided, but so are most things. It certainly did have a lot of interesting stuff in it. The one thing that I found most interesting was when Michael Moore was asking Canadians if they lock their doors. Everyone said no. At first I thought that he meant at night or when no one wa home, but then I found out he basically meant all the time. He was really surprised that most people here leave their doors unlocked when they are at home. I know people who don't even know where the keys to their house are and so haven't locked their doors in years. The US is a strange place.

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.

B-trees courtest of Michael McCool, destroyed by CS240

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:

SpLiNE!

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!!!!!

WHOOOOSH!!!

I wonder what dsl will be like....?

Haha, Michael's siblings are amusing. Here are some pictures:

Katelyn

Mark

For some degree of sense, see this site: Star Wars Kid