"... over President Kennedy's tomb..."
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alexr_rwxToday was really quite satisfactory :)
- After the combinatorics test (which didn't go s'badly), I stopped by the post office and found that my copy of Scripts Plans Goals and Understanding was in, and this is a happy thing :) Yay for cogsci/NLU literature from the 70s...
- I was hanging out in the CoC with the idea that I needed to be in something approaching death-march mode, getting prj2 for Ashok's class done, and a student came to me (it was my office hours), and he wanted to talk about function pointers, and I felt like he honestly came away with an understanding of how to pass those around in C, and that was pleasing... and then a bunch of other students came by, because there was a homework due at midnight, and many many problems were solved, and this was good, and I'm enjoying the whole TA thing again (although I still think it might be time for a break)...
- The project for Ashok's class is now due on Monday instead, which is endlessly more pleasing. After hearing this, I was in a Much, Much Better Mood.
- I've been engaging in the creative defacement of property. There's this one sign that you see stuck in various locales around the campus, for somebody who wants to get elected to some SGA position, and it says "One Institute, One Community, One Way to Vote". So I've been writing in, in small letters nearby, "ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Führer"... which really comes out to mean the same thing. And I made a paper airplane out of one of somebody else's the campaign signs... don't know why I've been doing this, really... it's just seemed like the Right Thing At The Time, and it's amusing...
- We didn't have anything particular to talk about in recitation today, so we went off on some interesting (to me, at least) random tangents and talked about deep and beautiful UNIX-y things that I think at least a few students appreciated, and maybe the others will come to appreciate, and we went out on a quest to figure out how to make it so that when you're typing in a password, it prints asterisks instead of the letters you're typing. And we made it work :)
- My entire life revolves around things happening here at Tech, and this is deeply disturbing.
- The Johns Hopkins people still haven't gotten back to me, even though I've sent them two emails now, and they said they'd speak to me by last Friday. Tomorrow morning, they get phone call. I'll likely be around at Tech for the summer...
- Kung fu is still really satisfying :)
- After the combinatorics test (which didn't go s'badly), I stopped by the post office and found that my copy of Scripts Plans Goals and Understanding was in, and this is a happy thing :) Yay for cogsci/NLU literature from the 70s...
- I was hanging out in the CoC with the idea that I needed to be in something approaching death-march mode, getting prj2 for Ashok's class done, and a student came to me (it was my office hours), and he wanted to talk about function pointers, and I felt like he honestly came away with an understanding of how to pass those around in C, and that was pleasing... and then a bunch of other students came by, because there was a homework due at midnight, and many many problems were solved, and this was good, and I'm enjoying the whole TA thing again (although I still think it might be time for a break)...
- The project for Ashok's class is now due on Monday instead, which is endlessly more pleasing. After hearing this, I was in a Much, Much Better Mood.
- I've been engaging in the creative defacement of property. There's this one sign that you see stuck in various locales around the campus, for somebody who wants to get elected to some SGA position, and it says "One Institute, One Community, One Way to Vote". So I've been writing in, in small letters nearby, "ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Führer"... which really comes out to mean the same thing. And I made a paper airplane out of one of somebody else's the campaign signs... don't know why I've been doing this, really... it's just seemed like the Right Thing At The Time, and it's amusing...
- We didn't have anything particular to talk about in recitation today, so we went off on some interesting (to me, at least) random tangents and talked about deep and beautiful UNIX-y things that I think at least a few students appreciated, and maybe the others will come to appreciate, and we went out on a quest to figure out how to make it so that when you're typing in a password, it prints asterisks instead of the letters you're typing. And we made it work :)
- My entire life revolves around things happening here at Tech, and this is deeply disturbing.
- The Johns Hopkins people still haven't gotten back to me, even though I've sent them two emails now, and they said they'd speak to me by last Friday. Tomorrow morning, they get phone call. I'll likely be around at Tech for the summer...
- Kung fu is still really satisfying :)
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Date: 2004-03-18 04:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-18 06:30 pm (UTC)<pseudo-intellectual quasi-anarchist tendencies>
While it probably wasn't the very best course of action, you can't expect to remain un-hassled if your sign says "One X, One Y, One Z". I mean, that's nearly a direct Hitler quote...
... and I don't think it's terribly important, ethically, not to mess with advertisements in my environment. Once a sign is up (posted in the classroom I teach in, no less!), the author can't expect it to remain unsullied or un-airplaned. Too much of our headspace is ads anyway, and the SGA elections just cause one more distraction. I don't feel too bad about this. Perhaps I'm getting in someone's way on their path to Getting Things Done in life, and it'd always been this fellow's dream to be Student Council President... but you know? If 'e got this far, I'm sure it's handleable.</piqat>
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Date: 2004-03-18 08:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-18 09:44 pm (UTC)Alls I'm saying, is that papers taped to walls in public places are public-domain things, and if somebody's saying something silly, then they get gently, lovingly, mocked, in the name of peace and beauty. Ads on the wall don't have some sort of sacred status that exempts them from this, whatever they might be.
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Date: 2004-03-19 08:04 am (UTC)