January 31, 2002
If you stare at a computer screen all day, it gives you a headache. Well, staring at the white s produced by programs for programming. I’m sure I could probably change the background , but I didn’t think of that until now. The powers that be in the computer science department decided to be complete bastards and give us two assignments due on tuesday and two midterms back-to-back on thursday. I imagine that something else will crop up too.
January 29, 2002
The new chemical brothers video (Star Guitar) is pretty impressive. I can only imagine the difficulties that you’d have synching the visual images with the song.
It’s been a nice day, one of the first in a week or so in which we’ve actually had everything in the house working. I have a bunch of tests and assignments this week, they seem to be a lot more liberal in dolling them out this semester. Back to work for a bit, then nighttime class.
January 27, 2002
Buckets of fun, buckets of fun… more information about prime numbers!
I bought a new deck of cards last night. There’s nothing quite like a fresh deck of Bicycle’s.
We did get our hot water up and running again the other day, but somehow in the process of installing the new tank, they removed a fuse that controlled the fridge/freezer and or shorted the fridge out. We managed to get our freezer working again, but the fridge doesn’t want to listen to us. It just sits there in the dark letting perishable items perish. We have a few things crammed into the little bar fridge in the corner.
I was already in to the paper today and think I have an article in for this week. There’s the possibility of me going in again later if they need help, but it probably won’t be necessary.
January 26, 2002
Use this tool to calculate big numbers relating to your birthday or any other day (ie. 10000th day).
Roger Ebert is the man. It’s an article talking about dvd commentary tracks and how anyone should be able to do them. It’s kind of funny because Dave and I spent time over the holidays working on something very similar, albeit a touch on the shorter side.
January 25, 2002
Next week is going to be fun. I have an assingment or a test in four of my five classes.
At this point I’m slightly irritable, we haven’t had hot water in a number of days. It was lukewarm for a couple of days, so we called our landlord. One of his minions came over and looked at it. Sure enough, it was broken and leaking so he turned it off. So, yesterday and today we have had zero warm water; it’s bone cold. I want a shower.
January 23, 2002
Well, I finally decided to do something about my links page. I realized awhile ago that I had accidently included an html index as well as the php one, so the html was getting displayed. Now it looks nice, well compared to the default crap anyway.
January 22, 2002
Once again I have fallen off updating. Actually I’ve been spending time away from the computer, well that and when I am sitting here I’ve been trying to be more productive. I had an assignment due today in my Information Structures class. It involved familiarizing ourselves with tree structures and serialized i/o. We had to implement a basic family tree program and do some complexity problems out of the textbook. It’s the first time in awhile that I’ve handed in a Java assignment and actually felt relatively confident.
I’ve been looking into getting some sort of gallery script for the photo section, rather than having to do it by hand. Ryan pointed me towards a built in photoshop function for webgalleries (under automate) that is good for creating a quick and dirty gallery that you don’t really care as much about. If anyone knows any decent php scripts or something of the like that don’t require sql please drop me a line.
January 19, 2002
“There’s a weasel chomping on my privates.” Can Dave Barry be anymore the man? The article is great, even thought he trashes Canadians. The jab against us is well founded; I’m almost embarrased by the stupidity of the highest rated Canadian joke. His articles is based on the survey that I mentioned awhile ago.
At some point during our travels last night, we happened upon a lonely bacon box in the middle of someone’s front lawn.
January 17, 2002
Mathematicians developed a formula to fight crime. I how there is really no explanation at all. I’ll have to remind myself to request some research money from the government so I can develop an arbitrary equation for the local authorities.
Having written a few lines, I finally realize that I am complaining about a poorly explained mathematical equation. It’s pretty easy to geek out.
Sometime around midnight a couple days ago, a brilliant idea popped into my head. I’m looking at the partitions on my harddrive and think, “Hey, I don’t need that little partition at the start of my drive for a swap file any more, so I’ll just merge it with one of the other two. Should I back up? Nah, it’ll be fine, I’ve done it before.” The repartitioning did go wrong, so I had to spend a couple hours trying to get back into my system drive so I could back up my email and whatnot. Everything worked out in the end; I didn’t lose anything important and I have a nice fresh windows installation to work with.
I had a productive afternoon yesterday. I finished off an assignment, did some vacuuming, organized my notes and a few other things too. All I have to do is figure out how to keep up that pace.
January 13, 2002
I think this is at least the second time I’ve been linked to from within a dragonball z message board. I don’t understand.
And I’ve been meaning to get at the site for a couple days but keep managing to put it off. Gah.
January 12, 2002
Out of the four of us in the house, andrew is probably the most attached to his hair (in that emotional sense rather than physical). In december, he said that when he came back he was going to give himself a mohawk. He doesn’t care that much about his hair but I still didn’t think he would do it. I told him I’d do a mohawk to if he actually went throught with it. Suffice it to say I now have a mohawk, although I can’t see myself keeping it for more than a couple days.
January 11, 2002
A hand-written clock.
Class seems to be alright at this point. I wouldn’t be surprised if the four courses I have in the computer science department start getting all mixed together. There’s been some overlap so far, but it could just be that they’re all reviewing similar material from previous courses. I didn’t get hit as hard for textbooks this semster; we get to use some texts from previous courses and some of the ones we had to pick up were just photocopied in-house booklets.
Hopefully I can free up some time to work on the website over the weekend, I still have a bunch of sections to get up. They’ve kind of been in limbo for the last couple of weeks.
January 10, 2002
The “Which Kevin Smith Male Are You?” Quiz., via simon.
Your friends would describe you as a true blue pal, but sometimes you just don’t know when to let things go. You have a few problems when it comes to letting your true feelings out into the open, and that can cause permanent hardships for you. Other than that, you’re a great person to be around. Your jokes are crude, you have a big porn collection, what more could anyone ask for?
January 7, 2002
I’ve been relatively busy the last couple days, with everyone getting back and getting ready for another semester of school. My schedule isn’t as nice as last semster; I ended up with all of my days starting at either 830 or 930. Monday morning means Software Specifications and Discrete Mathematics and Logic II, so lots of math on monday morning. I ended up with better marks this semester than last year, so I guess I’m doing something right.
I went out with dave on thursday night to see Mulholland Dr. and on friday night to see The Royal Tenenbaums. They are two of the better movies out this year and I would highly recommend both. Mulholland Dr. can be a bit of a mindfuck, but I managed to figure it out for the most part by the end of the movie. The Royal Tennenbaum’s is directed by Wes Anderson, the same guy who did Rushmore and Bottle Rocket, so the humour is a little bit out there for some people. Gene Hackman and Luke Wilson had great performances, the tennis sequence had me almost rolling on the floor laughing. I also watched Chocolat the other night, it was a pretty good movie, but I found that it was forgettable.
pent most of the afternoon at Golden Words writing articles and having them rejected. Oh well, I still ended up with two things going in the paper. Last night, I went out for a couple of pints with Eilis and Deb. We initially went out looking for my housemate Andrew, but the place we were supposed to meet at was closed. He ended up at one of the places we figured he wouldn’t be unless dragged by someone else. At any rate, a fun night was had by all. Right now, I’m attempting to do some cleaning and organizing of my room. Obviously, it’s going quite well.
January 5, 2002
For those with sick minds, read the headline and then start reading the contents of the article. I had this twisted image in my head until I figured out that it was a fish.
January 3, 2002
Dee dee dee dee dee dee dee, kicker of elves.
January 2, 2002
I spent the better part of the afternoon (after I woke up) cleaning the kitchen and living area with dave. Some things, like the top of the fridge, probably haven’t been cleaned since we got here. Now, to get started on my own room.
There have been a lot of large vehicles rumbling past my window for the last hour or so. It’s all probably been snow removal equipment, but i don’t really understand the influx during the wee hours of the night. Bah, I’m done screwing around with webpages for the evening, time to go do some reading.
Comments on the layout are always welcome, good, bad, whatever.
A happy new year to all. I’ve spent the last couple days working on a film project with my housemate dave. It seems to be going pretty well so far, we might distribute it on the internet once we finish up.
I got bored with the previous site design tonight and decided to redo it. I still have to play around with the font s and text layout, because it doesn’t seem quite right.