Tag Archives: academia

semester wrapup and LBP

I’m still alive! The semester is winding down and homework-wise I’m almost done. I just have to finish one last Linux kernel project and, after a poster presentation on Thursday, I’ll write an executive summary about my usability project and be done. I have a group presentation to give in a little [...]
Posted in Daily life | Also tagged , | 1 Comment

new haircut, Alejandro by Ace of Base?

I got a haircut today: Nothing fancy, I just got the ends trimmed, some layers cut in, bulk razored out of the back, and it’s angled slightly toward my face in the front. The stylist was friendly and gave me a 20% student discount which they apparently have every Monday-Thursday. Despite going to this [...]
Posted in Daily life | Also tagged , | 1 Comment | Current music Alejandro by Lady Gaga

textbook prices, torch juggling, and a snake breeder

I just had my first day of classes and I’m excited about the semester, but depressed about how much money I just spent on books. This semester hit a lot harder than last semester where the most I think I spent was maybe $60 on a book. Let’s run down a list of [...]
Posted in Class | Tagged | 1 Comment | Current music Royksopp Forever by Royksopp

an abstract and a cold

Jon and I started rewatching the Quantum Leap series from the 90s last night. We’d talked before about how we both used to love it. I never saw the episodes in order, and I know I haven’t seen all of them. My dad and I would watch reruns on the SciFi channel [...]
Posted in Daily life | Also tagged , , | 1 Comment

sleep and bellies

Darra, my software engineering partner, sent me what she’d worked up for our presentation tomorrow in class. I just finished going over it, and I’ve also finished my algorithms homework, meaning… I’m free!!! Of course, at this point I’m pretty much just free to go to bed, but it’s still nice to [...]
Posted in Daily life | Also tagged , | 2 Comments | Current music The Eastoner by General Midi

paper done and slow-ass clinic

I finished my programming paper! I’ve sent a copy to Jon to review it and should hopefully mail it off to my professor tonight. After the semester’s over, I plan on releasing my programs for that class on here, probably under the GPL as I’ve done in the past. I’ll stick that [...]
Posted in Daily life | Also tagged , | Leave a comment

page nine and Santa humor

Well, the ice on my car has melted and the brief snow we had this morning is over, so now it just looks like your average gray winter day out there. (On a side note, you people what spell “gray” with an ‘e’ wig me out. I’m lookin’ at you, Melissa.) I [...]
Posted in Daily life | Also tagged | Leave a comment

finisher of summaries and snuggler of the sick

I’ve been pretty productive today, considering it’s a Saturday and I usually try to slack off on Saturdays. I have accomplished the following: Finished the final three paper summaries for my software engineering class, which is fortunate since they were due today; Wrote a good part of a new layout for this site (guess it doesn’t [...]
Posted in Daily life | Also tagged , | Leave a comment

the wily C# shuffle

My programming languages professor is quite the wily one. For our last programming assignment in there, we’re to write a fraction class in both Java and Smalltalk, as part of our coverage of object-oriented languages. I asked if I could do C# and Smalltalk, since I really like C# and, darn it, everyone [...]
Posted in Class, Programming | Also tagged , | 2 Comments

sloppy summing

Ha ha ha, my sucky summation skills suck slightly less than simply sidestepping summation-solving. Let me explain: I had my only midterm last week in algorithms and I thought I did terribly, in part because of how I solved the following summation: . That summation came about when solving the recurrence [...]
Posted in Class | Also tagged | Leave a comment