Busy, so busy. Posting to note that my Internet hit a new record today, see:
Yeah, loser. Whatever. OS is my one and only. At least if it were things would be a lot easier.
I added legs to my robot, he looks like he can run now!
Yeah, so we managed to finish the first OS assignment on time; we think the code is at least alright, the design/testing documents may be another story. But who really cares about them anyway? The fun part about all this is that the second assignment was posted within hours of the due date of the first. And it looks like a lot more work than the first too. Isn't that special...right during midterms.
Co-op is going really well, as of today I have 8 interviews, which is a lot and takes up a lot of time. I really hope I get the job with Oculus in Toronto, it sounds like it would be really cool and learningful, plus the salary is amazing, not that I care about such things, no never, not me.
I'm in Waterloo this weekend to try and get ahead on a whole bunch of stuff so that I can focus on the next OS assignment for a while, but I don't know how far I will get, I have a cryptography assignment and a CS360 assignment and two midterms to study for. Next weekend is Valentine's day so I will be at home and I doubt I will get much work done.
Tonight Kim might come visit which would be sweet, otherwise I might go to the Bomber. If neither of these things happen I think I will try to watch the movie "The Godfather," since I really want to see it.
I added some new random quotes...see if you can find them all! (total of 25)
It's an update for the sake of updating.
Life is more interesting when I'm at school which means I have no time to write anything here. This is unfortunate.
Oh well, back to OS.
Here is a picture of my robot so far, I hope to add legs and stuff and maybe even make a small animation of it one day, but things are going to be busy so I doubt that any of this will ever happen. Sigh. All of the joints move and stuff and I converted the key system so that the same keys move joints on each side of the robot and you switch the active side with other keys.
Happy New Year!
Back to school now, I'm only taking 4 courses this term since I have taken two extra courses by distance already and I am thinking that Operating Systems (CS350) may take up quite a bit of my time. I am also taking Introduction to the Theory of Computation (CS360) as well as Applied Cryptography (CO487) and Calculus 3 (MATH237). Should be an amusing term.
Christmas was pretty good I think, I set a new personal record of having six Christmas functions to attend over the course of the break. Blegh. I slept a lot and that is what is really important so it was all good.
I think that is all for now, I'm not in the mood to document the details of my break. I probably won't update much all term just like last time I was at school. :(
So, I'm in Waterloo all alone this weekend (I'm not calling people who should be studying for exams), so in order to stave off loneliness I started looking at OpenGL again and this is what I created:
It's an arm and by pressing one of 16 keys the various joints can be rotated (to a certain extent) in either direction. Technically I could make another arm and put them both on a body, I guess, but I think I have done enough for today. I actually used some of the code from a tutorial, but that just gave the two pieces of the arm, none of the fingers and no bounds on the rotation.
Time for supper now, I am almost healthy again I think, but I still cough a lot. It is hard to believe that I started being sick nearly two weeks ago when I left for Ottawa. I haven't been sick for that much time ever before, it has been very unpleasant.
Ottawa was fun, except that I was sick the day I left, bad headache and unpleasant stomach issues and stuff. Very not nice. I managed to make it to the train and get on without dying, but I think it was close. I should have taken a taxi to the station. Trains are fun though, never been on one before and it was very amusing.
I met Adrienne in Toronto since I had an hour and a half stop over there and we had some lunch at Harvey's, mmmm...meat. She gave me candy and a toy truck that when you pull it back it goes forward. It's really cool. :) Union station was pretty impressive, I wonder what the outside of it looks like?
In Ottawa I didn't have any trouble getting a taxi and I got to my hotel and got checked in without any problems. Then I went and had supper with Laura and Curtis and Aunt Joanne at a restaurant called the Black Tomato. I had Caribbean Jerk Chicken which was really good. It was great that they all came to see me, it was kinda lonely in my hotel room. The room was nice though, like a double but with only one bed, so lots of space. After supper I watched TV and went to bed early because I was still feeling pretty ill.
I checked out in the morning and went to the conference and stuff. It was pretty good, I knew most of the content already, but they still did a really good job of presenting it. I left early to get to the train station on time, I wasn't sure how easy it was to get a taxi in Ottawa. It turns out that it was really easy. I walked out of the building and got right into a taxi, no problem except that I was pretty early getting to the train station. The train home was uneventful and late. I was still feeling sick on Thursday so I stayed home and slept, that was fun.
The weekend was alright, I watched Pirates of the Caribbean with Matt and Kim on Friday night but that's about all we did because I was still feeling pretty crappy. My brother was really sick too (much worse than me), he had a fever of around 104 and he looked really bad. So I pretty much stayed away from him for the weekend. I don't want more illness. I hope Kim doesn't get sick at all. On Saturday night I went with Kim's family to Stratford for supper, and that was pretty good. I also got to meet Kim's new cousin this weekend, she was very cute. When I got back to Waterloo on Sunday I spent the whole night working on my last 370 assignment, stupid course. I made a "rocket" chase a "target" using the ordinary differential equation solvers of Matlab. Here's a picture (meaning not gauranteed):
Just a quick correction to the previous post...Jen's new toy is a "massager," not a vibrator. :)
Fun weekend, I got to see the extended version of the Two Towers which was pretty good. Most of the added scenes were useful to have in the movie, but not for anyone who doesn't care. Which is a lot of people unfortunately.
I go to Ottawa on Tuesday! It's going to be my first time on a train and I get to stay at the Lord Elgin hotel. I don't know if that is good or not but I guess I will find out. On Wednesday I'm going to a conference on "Common Look and Feel and Accessibility Guidelines for Government Websites," no comment.
When I got back to Waterloo today, Jen's mom was just leaving and I got to see the new toy that she bought for Jen. It's a dual function (vibrate/pulsate) vibrator with three speeds and three region settings. It is leather and uses rechargeable batteries. I tried it out but it was a little two weird for me, so I will leave it with Jen to enjoy.
