"You know how we do..."

[alexr_rwx]

Accomplishments for today:
- finally got something marginally useable working for the research project... while Java is still Not My Favourite Language, Lucene is hella cool, and it lets you build a simple search engine with relatively few lines of Java :) Now I'm just wondering where the rest of my research group went. I'd wanted to have this working at this point, oh, about a week ago, but... eh. It's there now :) Now we just have to hook it up to the other stuff...

- The cs4210 project... now does proper proxying, and it even handles the odd HTTP commands that you wouldn't normally think to handle, by means of passing the entire header along to the destination webserver :) Also, we (Richard and I) incubated our plans (to be hatched over th' next week) for the rest of the project... shouldn't be too bad. In fact, it should be quite good.

- We sang an extemporaneous song about Dick Gephardt and the Children of the Corn... it had a lot of minor chords in it. Other musical achievements included an a capella metal-ish song about the unknowable pain of the CS undergrad, and it's come to light that "On Wednesday, I played with a friendly dog" translates out to "Am Mittwoch spielte ich mit einem freundlichen Hund" in German, which would make an obscenely good chorus for an Industrial song, when growled and put through a cool echo-y effect that Marty samarin put together with PD...

Non-accomplishments for today:
- I carefully slept through my first two classes, in the morning, by means of my alarm not going off.

Can't win 'em all...

Have fun, keeds :)

Comments

[schizobovine.livejournal.com]

Phew! So I wasn't the only one to sleep through class today/yesterday.

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

*laughs, shrugs, eyebrows* Apparently not... while on one end, I've gotten to the point where I've become ashamed of that class and don't really want it on my transcript as my Other Specialization... on the other end, we really need to do work for it in the near future :-\

[samarin.livejournal.com]

Alack Alex. Certainly it can't be bad enough to be ashamed of it? Even so, you will have enough extra (and heavey) ones by the time you graduate that it probably won't matter.

[schizobovine.livejournal.com]

I'm not too terribly ashamed. It was either that or Databases. *shudder*

I'll be looking over the IRB stuff as soon as I can get my networking stuff done.

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

... Databases...

*nods* Good point... at the time, it'd seemed like this was the right thing to take because it was the closest to the liberal-artsy-cogsci-cultural-studies fringe of things... and there aren't all that many alternatives -- could've taken networking or databases or software engineering, but those all sound... umm... perhaps less than exciting.

But thanks for looking at the irb stuff -- will this require getting together, d'you think?

[schizobovine.livejournal.com]

I just finished looking over it, and it doesn't seem so. I shot off an email; lemme know if there are further complications.

boom boom boom

[khrysta.livejournal.com]

Martini told me about this song. It both frightened and thrilled me.