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There are a whole bunch of things going on...
acquaintance: "25 hours and fifteen minutes."
Alex: "... sorry, what?"
acquaintance: "Until we start kicking Arab ass!"
Lovely. Really lovely. We (and Marty and Corey and myself) had a discussion about the repercussions. Nothing new was brought up. He thinks that it would be a good idea to whack Muslims in general. Conversely, he said that people will feel silly when US military folks bust into Iraq and find all the things that "make Hitler look like a poster-boy". I'm feeling silly right now, just nationally... maybe I can become Briti-- eh, no. Spani-- hrm, nope.
I'll be Costa Rican. That'll work :) Say it with me now: "Yo soy costariqueño!"
Eh. My mother's probably right -- she says that, while she's against the idea of a war, W probably isn't Just Bloodthirsty and Stupid. She says she thinks that he believes in what he's doing, even if he probably is mistaken. She also now doesn't want for me to go to Europe over the summer, which I can understand, really... it kind of simplifies things, if I'm not going, although I'd very much been looking forward to it... and Esther and Christy's trips seem to depend on my being there. Hrmph. Perhaps things will sort out...
This is an excellent article. The BBC is cool.
Yesterday, I was playing some Street Fighter II, which was entertaining -- I did rather better this time, playing with Jae and winning with a pretty good frequency. One of the guys who lives over there was having a Jack 'n' Coke with criatine in it. People are interesting...
Professor Bill and the 2130 TAs ("sounds like a good name for a rock band!" says the Dave Barry in all of us) today were trying to figure out why the class is the Shaft. I've got some theories... but it's really frustrating, grading an assignment and giving out a single "90" and then n-1 "0"s. I wanted to make this fun, make it a really excellent learning experience, turn out a crop of mad elite C h@X0rs... only the students aren't cooperating. Or maybe I'm not doing a good enough job. Maybe the reputation the class has as The Hardest Thing You'll Ever Take -- You'll Fail It causes people to lose hope, so they don't even try. We also complained about Squeak a whole bunch. There are some frighteningly clever people in the 2130 TA Squad... there are also some straight frightening people, but that's another issue...
I got housing for Fall 2003. Yay :) We're probably going to live in a nice on-campus apartment, because Tim (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
neuroticmonk) works for ResNet (part of Housing) and can effectively Make Things Happen. Go Tiznim. Actually, almost everybody we needed to get housing got it, except Corey... but he's on the wait list, and we think he'll get in. He was somewhat upset about this... the Department is clearly out to get him :)
It looks like, for the summer, that I'll be taking this Most Excellent CS Class at FSU with Brett... it's taught by his favourite CS professor, who looks like a really hoopy frood. I'm excited about the idea of taking a CS class with Brett -- we've never done this before, actually, and I can't think of too many funkier ideas. He's a Second Row Mafia unto himself, and I can only hope to contribute in some small way :) I've already put in my application... hopefully they'll recognize my brilliance and let me in.
Ah, I just got an email from said Favourite Professor. He says to me:
I will expect you know:
1. Normal Unix shell commands, e-mail, editing, compilation,
make utility, debugging, etc.
2. Something about the Unix C-language API.
3. How to program in C, using the lower-level pointer and
address arithmetic, macros, ifdefs, etc.
4. General principles, algorithms, data structures used
in operating systems, as taught by most undergraduate OS
courses for majors, including virtual memory, interrupt
handlers, process implementation, IO system organization,
etc.
5. Basics of computer hardware, well enough to make sense
of talk about interrupt handlers, interrupt masking,
bit masks, registers, cache coherence, memory mapping, etc.
w00t :) Ah, this is a class about the Linux kernel and device drivers and things, if I hadn't mentioned it to you specifically.
Plants and flowers and colours are really beautiful, even in strange and unnatural settings. Everybody needs to sit and consider this, and how it's really just better to sit and think about natural beauty and life and love and God, and then maybe we wouldn't feel the need to whack each other. Last night, after running, I was sitting and looking at the trees next to the Burger Bowl, and they're pretty both in sunlight and in the artificial-ness of Atlanta's neverending day. It was sort of damp and cool and drizzling, and the trees were still blossoming.
Hrm... I think there's work to be done, and that I should do it.
acquaintance: "25 hours and fifteen minutes."
Alex: "... sorry, what?"
acquaintance: "Until we start kicking Arab ass!"
Lovely. Really lovely. We (and Marty and Corey and myself) had a discussion about the repercussions. Nothing new was brought up. He thinks that it would be a good idea to whack Muslims in general. Conversely, he said that people will feel silly when US military folks bust into Iraq and find all the things that "make Hitler look like a poster-boy". I'm feeling silly right now, just nationally... maybe I can become Briti-- eh, no. Spani-- hrm, nope.
I'll be Costa Rican. That'll work :) Say it with me now: "Yo soy costariqueño!"
Eh. My mother's probably right -- she says that, while she's against the idea of a war, W probably isn't Just Bloodthirsty and Stupid. She says she thinks that he believes in what he's doing, even if he probably is mistaken. She also now doesn't want for me to go to Europe over the summer, which I can understand, really... it kind of simplifies things, if I'm not going, although I'd very much been looking forward to it... and Esther and Christy's trips seem to depend on my being there. Hrmph. Perhaps things will sort out...
This is an excellent article. The BBC is cool.
Yesterday, I was playing some Street Fighter II, which was entertaining -- I did rather better this time, playing with Jae and winning with a pretty good frequency. One of the guys who lives over there was having a Jack 'n' Coke with criatine in it. People are interesting...
Professor Bill and the 2130 TAs ("sounds like a good name for a rock band!" says the Dave Barry in all of us) today were trying to figure out why the class is the Shaft. I've got some theories... but it's really frustrating, grading an assignment and giving out a single "90" and then n-1 "0"s. I wanted to make this fun, make it a really excellent learning experience, turn out a crop of mad elite C h@X0rs... only the students aren't cooperating. Or maybe I'm not doing a good enough job. Maybe the reputation the class has as The Hardest Thing You'll Ever Take -- You'll Fail It causes people to lose hope, so they don't even try. We also complained about Squeak a whole bunch. There are some frighteningly clever people in the 2130 TA Squad... there are also some straight frightening people, but that's another issue...
I got housing for Fall 2003. Yay :) We're probably going to live in a nice on-campus apartment, because Tim (
neuroticmonk) works for ResNet (part of Housing) and can effectively Make Things Happen. Go Tiznim. Actually, almost everybody we needed to get housing got it, except Corey... but he's on the wait list, and we think he'll get in. He was somewhat upset about this... the Department is clearly out to get him :)It looks like, for the summer, that I'll be taking this Most Excellent CS Class at FSU with Brett... it's taught by his favourite CS professor, who looks like a really hoopy frood. I'm excited about the idea of taking a CS class with Brett -- we've never done this before, actually, and I can't think of too many funkier ideas. He's a Second Row Mafia unto himself, and I can only hope to contribute in some small way :) I've already put in my application... hopefully they'll recognize my brilliance and let me in.
Ah, I just got an email from said Favourite Professor. He says to me:
I will expect you know:
1. Normal Unix shell commands, e-mail, editing, compilation,
make utility, debugging, etc.
2. Something about the Unix C-language API.
3. How to program in C, using the lower-level pointer and
address arithmetic, macros, ifdefs, etc.
4. General principles, algorithms, data structures used
in operating systems, as taught by most undergraduate OS
courses for majors, including virtual memory, interrupt
handlers, process implementation, IO system organization,
etc.
5. Basics of computer hardware, well enough to make sense
of talk about interrupt handlers, interrupt masking,
bit masks, registers, cache coherence, memory mapping, etc.
w00t :) Ah, this is a class about the Linux kernel and device drivers and things, if I hadn't mentioned it to you specifically.
Plants and flowers and colours are really beautiful, even in strange and unnatural settings. Everybody needs to sit and consider this, and how it's really just better to sit and think about natural beauty and life and love and God, and then maybe we wouldn't feel the need to whack each other. Last night, after running, I was sitting and looking at the trees next to the Burger Bowl, and they're pretty both in sunlight and in the artificial-ness of Atlanta's neverending day. It was sort of damp and cool and drizzling, and the trees were still blossoming.
Hrm... I think there's work to be done, and that I should do it.
