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anger, peace, love, Siberians
Oct. 17th, 2003 02:53 amWith as much hype as I was building up about the Red Elvises show last night, I'd hoped that more people would've come out with us... it was absolutely wonderful :)
So the opening band was Made In China, and they were really loud, although seemed like very humble, kind, loveable guys that you might find scurrying around in the CoC... and it turns out that their site is hosted on gehennom, so they very well might be guys that you would find scurrying around in the CoC. So apparently they're Tech People in some form or another.
More interesting (much more interesting) were the Red Elvises themselves. They have this glorious charisma -- they look like they're having so much fun up on stage, wearing their silly outfits (leopard and zebra prints and bright-yellow and shiny) and being willfully goofy... and they're just Really Good Musicians who can, in fact, Rock Out. It was quite a show, although not too many people came out -- although on the gripping hand, they got really good audience participation... everybody was doing the motions and singing along, and it was a whole lot of fun. It's not often you get to hear the official anthem of the Siberian surfer community ("Love Pipe") played by an authentic Russian surf-rock band with an electric bass balalaika... so cool :) You guys should have all come to see this...
So interesting things that happened today...
- I had coffee with Nikki at Junior's, after Spanish (we were done early), which was pretty cool. It turns out that she's from Bainbridge, and we happen to know a lot of the same people, and she had some insightful things to say about the STaC major here at Tech, which she's almost finished.
- Sadly, Professor Bill was sick today, so he couldn't give the lecture for 2130... so in comes the ready-and-able TA staff to fill things in! (apparently none of the other faculty were around...) Jason, Tak and myself showed up to handle the 6pm lecture today, and I ended up doing most of the talking... in this enormous lecture hall (CCB 16), wearing The Microphone... and it was perfect, and my voice resounded everywhere at exactly the right volume, and we went through Bill's lecture slides and gave examples (today was regexes and an introduction to finite state automata and how they're related) and it was Really Cool and I enjoyed that quite a lot... and I actually got a compliment from a student afterwards. Yay! :)
- I had all sorts of anger just welling up in me earlier tonight... it wasn't particularly pleasant. I'm not entirely sure what prompted it... but sometimes, just the little things make me want to lash out. Which might sound weird, coming out of my mouth... but I feel better after lifting and skating tonight.
- Our cashier at Kroger today (David, pronounced "Dah-veed") is colombiano, and he told me (after we switched to Spanish) that the hardest bit for non-native speakers to learn about English is all the different vowel sounds that get represented by the same letter, among other things... I've noticed this phenomenon, that people in foreign countries tend to like it when people switch to their native tongue... this applies to me, too -- I've managed to find and befriend native English-speakers while out 'n' about in other countries...
- There will be a lot of coding to be done this weekend. CS4600 project 3 beckons.
... and now it's time to sleep :)
So the opening band was Made In China, and they were really loud, although seemed like very humble, kind, loveable guys that you might find scurrying around in the CoC... and it turns out that their site is hosted on gehennom, so they very well might be guys that you would find scurrying around in the CoC. So apparently they're Tech People in some form or another.
More interesting (much more interesting) were the Red Elvises themselves. They have this glorious charisma -- they look like they're having so much fun up on stage, wearing their silly outfits (leopard and zebra prints and bright-yellow and shiny) and being willfully goofy... and they're just Really Good Musicians who can, in fact, Rock Out. It was quite a show, although not too many people came out -- although on the gripping hand, they got really good audience participation... everybody was doing the motions and singing along, and it was a whole lot of fun. It's not often you get to hear the official anthem of the Siberian surfer community ("Love Pipe") played by an authentic Russian surf-rock band with an electric bass balalaika... so cool :) You guys should have all come to see this...
So interesting things that happened today...
- I had coffee with Nikki at Junior's, after Spanish (we were done early), which was pretty cool. It turns out that she's from Bainbridge, and we happen to know a lot of the same people, and she had some insightful things to say about the STaC major here at Tech, which she's almost finished.
- Sadly, Professor Bill was sick today, so he couldn't give the lecture for 2130... so in comes the ready-and-able TA staff to fill things in! (apparently none of the other faculty were around...) Jason, Tak and myself showed up to handle the 6pm lecture today, and I ended up doing most of the talking... in this enormous lecture hall (CCB 16), wearing The Microphone... and it was perfect, and my voice resounded everywhere at exactly the right volume, and we went through Bill's lecture slides and gave examples (today was regexes and an introduction to finite state automata and how they're related) and it was Really Cool and I enjoyed that quite a lot... and I actually got a compliment from a student afterwards. Yay! :)
- I had all sorts of anger just welling up in me earlier tonight... it wasn't particularly pleasant. I'm not entirely sure what prompted it... but sometimes, just the little things make me want to lash out. Which might sound weird, coming out of my mouth... but I feel better after lifting and skating tonight.
- Our cashier at Kroger today (David, pronounced "Dah-veed") is colombiano, and he told me (after we switched to Spanish) that the hardest bit for non-native speakers to learn about English is all the different vowel sounds that get represented by the same letter, among other things... I've noticed this phenomenon, that people in foreign countries tend to like it when people switch to their native tongue... this applies to me, too -- I've managed to find and befriend native English-speakers while out 'n' about in other countries...
- There will be a lot of coding to be done this weekend. CS4600 project 3 beckons.
... and now it's time to sleep :)
