I think I did really, really, well on my quiz in Calc. yay!
school
Stuff
I am just getting ready for my Calc class later, doing some studying and homework type stuff (we might have a quiz today)…
I have so many projects I want to work on, but I need to get some scholastic stuff out of the way first… My guess is that I won’t be working on AliveJournal until later this week… And since soco will probably be visiting this weekend, I might not have much time to do anything this weekend either….. Oh well, I am happy with the current release of AliveJournal, I haven’t gotten a single bug report about it, so I think that other people agree.. Still, I wish I could crank a few other simple requested features out and roll in some general improvements I have made since 1.5b… But y’all will have to wait. :)
Back to summations and series… :)
Just woke up….
That was a fairly refreshing sleep/wake cycle… :) I just finished reading my mail and my journals, and I should probably finish “getting up” now. My only class today is Calc, so I have time to relax and prepare for that…
I have had some good requests for features in AliveJournal, but I think I have currently resolved to stop using BeXL… I think it is a great tool for designing your GUI and laying out your widgets, but I think once you start writing derived GUI classes, it is too much of a pain to use them with BeXL. You either have to dance around BeXL, editing the source it generates each time it generates it, or write an addon for BeXL, which is a pain when you just need a one-off derived view…
What happens when you are writing a journal entry and the song changes halfway thru? Do you go with the earlier song, the later song, or the song that most accurately represents your feelings? I chose the latter. :)
Almost ready….
Got yourself a gun
Finishing our reruns of The Sopranos for Ethan. This episode is the last one of the first season, and we have 3 of the 2nd on VHS. But I don’t think we will get through all three tonight.
I will be writing up a lab report while I watch the first one, since I have seen it so recently.
Thinkin’ Time
Time to go be smart at the College Bowl! If you happen to be in the area between 10 and 4pm, come by the SAU at RIT and cheer the CSH team on!
Damned Steam Pipe
We had a fire alarm about an hour ago, it turns out it was semi-legit this time around. A steam pipe burst in the tunnels, which caused someone to pull the alarms in two buildings. Supposedly we won’t have hot water until some time tomorrow, but I haven’t tried it yet.
I am talking to Chris on the phone now.. She is flexing the ability of her new-found TACness.
It is the little things in life that make you think you are pissing it away
That seminar was potentially the most pitiful display of public speaking I have ever been a witness to. The speaker had far too many verbal ticks (uhhhh, ummmm, like, and….) to allow me to focus on her point, and she brought in so many external references without really explaining what her point was. How did these quotations relate to the viewpoints she is trying to relate to us.
Grrrr…. Now I have to write a paper based on this lecture for next Wednesday’s class… I don’t even know what her point was….
Finally
I stopped waiting for the original author to do something with my patches to the BeOS LiveJournal client, so I decided to clean up everything I had, add a few more features (like posting to alternate journals, using alternate pictures, etc) and release it. AliveJournal was born. I think it is pretty decent software, and I will be continuing to maintain it for some time to come. You can see some screenshots here, if you are interested.
I have Calculus and a Gannett Lecture for Senior Seminar tonight. The last one was a yawner, but I was also really sick at the time. Hopefully it won’t be as bad tonight. :)
Unlike water, bits don’t weigh anything….
Today I met with my advisor for my CS Department “Exit Interview”. It was kinda bizarre; he mostly asked me questions about what I thought was good in the program, what I thought wasn’t. I got a neat little pocket knife on the way out that says “RIT Department of Computer Science” printed on it. Afterwards, I got my calc exam back today… I didn’t do wonderfully, but I didn’t completely tank it either. I still need to work really hard in order to pass the course, however.
I was feeling kinda burned out today, so I sat down to watch The Filth and the Fury after dinner. It is a documentary on the Sex Pistols, and I was fairly certain that My Roommate, Jon Parise wouldn’t want to watch it (mostly because he said so). So while he was teaching his lab, I popped it in. I am a sucker for documentaries, and ones on music, it was pretty good. It gave a good idea of the genesis of the band, and the punk movement in general. There was a second documentary on the disc about the Punk scene in general, which was interesting as well.