Took my Prob and Stat exam a few hours ago, and I probably did within 10 points of last exam (which was an 85), so i still feel good about it all. The final, however, is going to require much studying.

I have a OS2 group meeting at 5pm, and then a bunch of CS profs are coming up at 7pm to CSH for a pizza mixer type thingie. It’s the first of it’s kind (in many moons), so it should be interesting to see how it turns out. Then, after that, comes the “Lab of idiocy”….

Don’t forget one of your most important civic duties; Today is election day. If you feel so inclined (and you should), go and vote. If you don’t like any of the available candidates, write in yourself for christ’s sake. Even if you don’t care about the Presidential race, I am sure there are local issues that affect you directly.

I am again wasting my time chewing up silly, distilled physics-nuggets and spewing them back in my own words. The banality of this class is mindboggling.

I went into Charlie’s Angels not expecting much….. Boy, was I surprised. What a wonderful film! The camp was dead-on, as was Drew… :)

I would even contemplate seeing it again….. Or buying it on DVD….

We are going to see “Charlie’s Angels” tonight, but I don’t hold any hope that it will be a good film. If anything else, I will get to gawk at Drew Barrymore a bit (she’s real purdy).

I have spent the past few days goofing off and hacking on personal projects (like bringing OpenSSH to Be), but I am gonna need to work on our Filesystem for Operating Systems 2 and also study for a Prob & Stat exam on Tuesday…

So, since I have barely had time to breathe the past few days, I figured it was time for an update. As many of you who see me often know, the past few days have really been hectic for me. As I stated in Thursday’s update, just cause your busy doesn’t mean you aren’t enjoying yourself…

So Friday was fun, Ryan and I spent most of the time between 11pm and 8am (yes, 8am) working on our VM code and page switching and swapping. He was working mostly on the swapping stuff, and I was working on scheduler modifications. We felt somewhat good when we packed it in at 8am, but unfortunately we had a group meeting in the CS Labs at noon. Only getting 3 hours of sleep was a bitch, but staying in the labs without food until 7pm was a queen bitch. At 7pm, Ryan and I returned to CSH and Jeff and Rob went home. We were all totally fried… Fortunately Ethan had some leftover pizza that he offered me so I didn’t have to go far for food. After that, I crashed for a few hours (until about 11pm). I had a bit of trouble sleeping, moslty due to my wack schedule, so I went into the lounge where a few house members had set up the LCD projector, a DTS 5.1 Digital setup and were watching U-571, which I hadn’t seen. It didn’t suck, and afterwards I had no trouble falling asleep. Did I mention I was pretty deep into a coughing illness at this point?

Sunday I woke up at 12pm, and we had a 1pm meeting in the CS labs, but I felt pretty well rested. Then Chris called wanting to talk, and I said “But I don’t have the time!”, and she asked “Did you remember to set your clock back?” Thanks to her, I now realized I had an extra hour, which afforded me the time to to grab some lunch at Schaller’s, and stop by Media Play to pick up the Rocky Horror DVD (which I think I have earned the past few days.. :P). I showed up at the labs a bit early and we stayed there coding until around 10pm… I went home and started working on my Data Comm project, which I finished around 4am (but I was watching Rocky with and without commentary in the background, so the amount of time is kinda irrelevant).

Today we met at the labs around 3pm, and we stayed there until my class at 8pm, stopping for food in the middle somewhere….

Tomorrow, I have a quiz in Prob and Stat tomorrow and we meet in the labs one last time to work out any outstanding bugs and submit our code. Man… That class is alot of work, but it rocks…

Sitting in CSH’s software room, working on our OS2 project, tired as hell, life is good. :)

I just voted.

That goddamned Astro Lab is going to kill me someday. First, our professor wanted to do a Parallax lab, so we walked across campus so we could see the horizon of the city, except when we got over there, she informed us that she hadn’t thought to consider visibility, and since it is very foggy out, that lab was a scrub. So we walked all the way back to the lab.

Then, she decides that the lab she is going to have us do is the longest lab of the quarter, even though we have already lost 30 minutes (out of 110) dicking off on our field trip. So we start working on it, and we ask the TA Katie (who is way-cool) a question, which she answered improperly. We went on, collecting data for a good 20 minutes until our prof told us we were wrong. Katie went and helped us catch up because she felt bad, and we only lost about 10 minutes there, not so bad.

So, we continue to collect data from this stupid simulation software. Now, even though this software is a simulation, using data tables internally, if you are taking 5 integrations of 100 seconds each, it actually takes 500 seconds. Now I don’t mind real experiments taking time, but a freakin’ simulation? sigh…

So we collect all this data, and the professor questions one of our results, and upon verification, we were correct. She proceeded to question our results (1 out of 7 was incorrect, and that was gathered by another team). I was really pissed, and I let her know it. She asked us to recheck a result (for the 3rd time now), and I just told her no.

We had to do up a few graphs and stuff to finish off the lab, and we ended up walking out of the lab about 5 minutes late (or 9:55). In reality, the lab wouldn’t have taken more than an hour if she was a wee bit more prepared.

Yeah, so I got chicken stir-fry for dinner tonight. It was OK, and it was nice to be exposed to mass-quantities of garlic (something that hasn’t happened since the summer). Hopefully I will sweat garlic again, that was always fun. :P

I have alot of stuff to do for Operating Systems 2, and I have some homework to finish for that lame-ass astronomy class. I have lab for aforementioned lame-ass class this evening, which will suck as well. :)

My schedule is going to blow alot next quarter, I have an 8am class. :(

“Burning Down the House” is on the radio, and like, it sounds strange. My Roommate, Jon Parise and I were trying to figure out what was wrong with it. At first, it sounded like it was running about 10% faster than it should be, but then Jon pointed out that while the vocals were weird, the song was musically right. So we agreed that it is probably a different vocal effect on the radio edit.

The planetarium was fun last night, and afterwards we got to climb the 60 stairs to the observatory atop the Science Center. Unfortunately, the center is VERY close to the (spoiled) heart of Rochester, so there was alot of light pollution, which sucked.

After the planetarium, we came back to the dorms and watched my new Pulp Fiction DVD. It is the canadian version of the DVD, which has a deleted scenes reel that the US version lacks. Via mail-order, they were the same price, so it was a no-brainer.

Recently CSH voted to ask 3 professors to become advisors, and they all accepted. 2 of them, along with one of our existing advisors, are coming up on floor for dinner and a house meeting…. Should be groovy.