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alexr_rwxIt's a school day :)
In a bit, I'll be headed over to FSU to try and get into the Most Excellent
In a bit, I'll be headed over to FSU to try and get into the Most Excellent
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It's a school day :)
In a bit, I'll be headed over to FSU to try and get into the Most Excellent <a href="http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~baker/cis5930.B03/index.html"</a>Linux Kernel Class</a>, which I've been planning on taking with The Emperor Brett (<user site="livejournal.com" user="zip4096">). I've been assured that if I show up on the first day of class, <a href="http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~baker">Dr. Baker</a> can let me in, but at the moment, the registration system says it's closed, and that's a little bit disconcerting... but I think he knows that I'm coming, and he knows Brett pretty well, so hopefully he'll let me take the class.
That'd be really unfortunate if he didn't. I'd be somewhat upset. Eh. I'd deal... but it would throw off my summer plans.
I think I want to do really well on this class. I'd been considering motivations for deciding this, for this class particularly, as distinct from any other CS class I might be taking... and it's mostly got to do with pride, really -- I've not yet actually taken a CS class with Brett before, and I think I've got the need to show that I haven't been slacking in these past two years that I've been away, that I've been growing as a coder whilst off at Tech, and that the program there turns out clever hackers. I'm showing up at the FSU CS department's house, and I feel like I've got to represent myself and Tech well while I'm there -- "This is how we do it in Atlanta..."
It'll be fun, I'm sure :)
Last night, at about 22:30, Lloyd called and asked if I wanted to go and enact the ancient rite of Midnight Racquetball, and I did, so I headed over to his house, and we realized that outdoor racquetball courts were probably going to be slippery because it had been raining, so we opted to just go for a run instead. He said he hadn't been running for a while, but he held up really well -- we popped out through the neighborhoods around his house and went all the way out down Thomasville Road to Betton and the park at the corner. So we ran some number of miles, then just walked for rather a long time. Our discussions on outings like this tend towards a fascinating area of thought that I think his mind spends a lot of time inhabiting: that area where literature, mythology, history, religion, and psychology merge together... he's been reading a lot of Jung and medieval legends, and in the past few years, I think everything's been relating back to Dante for him. We tend to talk about dreams and archetypes and denominations and symbols and pop culture and people we know and stuff along those lines.
It's really easy to talk with him, possibly because I've been doing it for the past ... 9 years or so. *blinks* I don't have near as much background in the topics he's really interested in as he does (it'd be interesting to see his mind bounce off Esther's, in a more deep discussion than what they've had, though... they're similar, in a lot of ways), but he manages to explain what he's talking about as he's going and take in my thoughts and experiences, all without making anybody feel silly for not having read the Divine Comedy or knowing semiobscure Roman poets.
It's hard not to compare discussions I've had with Lloydus with those that I've had with Esther... they're just different. I tend to feel more intelligent when discussing with Lloyd, but that's probably just because we've grown up together and have a bigger pool of shared experience. Hrm... I'm getting a bit concerned. She hasn't emailed yet. Maybe there just aren't as many 'net cafes in Italy as she'd thought... this is really weird, not being in contact with her for ... almost a week now. :-\
I think at this point, I'll be off to find a parking space and find Dr. Baker and get signed up for a happy happy Linux class! Yaaay! :)
In a bit, I'll be headed over to FSU to try and get into the Most Excellent <a href="http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~baker/cis5930.B03/index.html"</a>Linux Kernel Class</a>, which I've been planning on taking with The Emperor Brett (<user site="livejournal.com" user="zip4096">). I've been assured that if I show up on the first day of class, <a href="http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~baker">Dr. Baker</a> can let me in, but at the moment, the registration system says it's closed, and that's a little bit disconcerting... but I think he knows that I'm coming, and he knows Brett pretty well, so hopefully he'll let me take the class.
That'd be really unfortunate if he didn't. I'd be somewhat upset. Eh. I'd deal... but it would throw off my summer plans.
I think I want to do really well on this class. I'd been considering motivations for deciding this, for this class particularly, as distinct from any other CS class I might be taking... and it's mostly got to do with pride, really -- I've not yet actually taken a CS class with Brett before, and I think I've got the need to show that I haven't been slacking in these past two years that I've been away, that I've been growing as a coder whilst off at Tech, and that the program there turns out clever hackers. I'm showing up at the FSU CS department's house, and I feel like I've got to represent myself and Tech well while I'm there -- "This is how we do it in Atlanta..."
It'll be fun, I'm sure :)
Last night, at about 22:30, Lloyd called and asked if I wanted to go and enact the ancient rite of Midnight Racquetball, and I did, so I headed over to his house, and we realized that outdoor racquetball courts were probably going to be slippery because it had been raining, so we opted to just go for a run instead. He said he hadn't been running for a while, but he held up really well -- we popped out through the neighborhoods around his house and went all the way out down Thomasville Road to Betton and the park at the corner. So we ran some number of miles, then just walked for rather a long time. Our discussions on outings like this tend towards a fascinating area of thought that I think his mind spends a lot of time inhabiting: that area where literature, mythology, history, religion, and psychology merge together... he's been reading a lot of Jung and medieval legends, and in the past few years, I think everything's been relating back to Dante for him. We tend to talk about dreams and archetypes and denominations and symbols and pop culture and people we know and stuff along those lines.
It's really easy to talk with him, possibly because I've been doing it for the past ... 9 years or so. *blinks* I don't have near as much background in the topics he's really interested in as he does (it'd be interesting to see his mind bounce off Esther's, in a more deep discussion than what they've had, though... they're similar, in a lot of ways), but he manages to explain what he's talking about as he's going and take in my thoughts and experiences, all without making anybody feel silly for not having read the Divine Comedy or knowing semiobscure Roman poets.
It's hard not to compare discussions I've had with Lloydus with those that I've had with Esther... they're just different. I tend to feel more intelligent when discussing with Lloyd, but that's probably just because we've grown up together and have a bigger pool of shared experience. Hrm... I'm getting a bit concerned. She hasn't emailed yet. Maybe there just aren't as many 'net cafes in Italy as she'd thought... this is really weird, not being in contact with her for ... almost a week now. :-\
I think at this point, I'll be off to find a parking space and find Dr. Baker and get signed up for a happy happy Linux class! Yaaay! :)
