Boo-yah! Done for the (school) year! Let summer commence!
Now, must find job… and edit this entry with more useless details
Monthly Archive for April, 2003
In a little over a week, the very way I browse the web has undergone a revolution. Many thanks to Tarun and Brian for turning me on to Tabbed Browsing – which I now use both on my notebook and desktop (as Bob would say, “Now, like my innocence, IE gone”)
For those who don’t know what tabbed browsing is or have never tried it, get yourself a copy of Mozilla or Phoenix / Firebird and try it out (or a recent Safari build on a Mac). Very nice indeed.
That about does it for Ecomonomonomics – finished in about 1.5hr. Damned easy – was confused about being done when it seemed no one had left yet. Handed mine in, and left, met a couple other people leaving – felt better. Met up with Tarun later – he did it in about the same timespan I did.
I figure, we were done early because we’re Engineers – no offense to the Commies and Hummers, but when you have trouble with derivatives and such, you’re screwed on an exam like that – or at least you’ll take a while longer.
All that remains is Danger’s 2SI4 final on Monday, and I’m home free. I’d rather be at work, but that would necessitate having a job… wanna hire me? 
Don’t try to run eMule, Winamp (playing), IE 6, and UltimateZip – unzipping – at the same time on a Celeron 466, no matter how much RAM is in it.
And this is with WinAmp 2 – imagine if I were running 3. The horror, the horror…
Ladies and Gentlemen, 2CJ4 is over! It’s smooth sailing from here!
Not as bad as we imagined it, but still challenging. Ran into TImmy as I left the washroom, and told him as much.
I actually kind of enjoyed it.
Now, studing for Ecomonomonics can begin. Then it’s smooth sailing, as Comp. Eng. 2SI4 will present little to no challenge (we love ya Danger).
Movie night! MOVIE NIGHT!
Is there some rule about “thou shalt not clutter thine desktop” that no one told me about? Twice this weekend I’ve been chastised by people whose computer experience roughly equals a tenth of mine that I have too much crap on my desktop, and that I should spend time to fix that.
My rule for desktop cleanliness is this: If there are so many icons that it slows down the system or that they don’t all fit, clean it up. Until then, there are far more important and interesting things to do.
Plus, if I move them off of my desktop, I’ll forget where they are.
I don’t know: it seems that the ever-increasing Newbification of things is making life miserable for more classic geeks (as I claim to be). To me, a megabyte will always equal 1024 kilobytes, and a kilobyte will always equal 1024 bytes. All this decimal-megabytes and MiB/GiB/KiB crap reeks of hard drive marketing ploys and people who have enough trouble with the metric system that subbing in 2^10 for 10^3 is too much of a mental exercise.
Sometimes I yearn for those days when geeks were geeks, computers were slow, and marketing types stayed the fuck away. Then I look at Windows XP, and the yearning only increases.
Hear me, hear me: projects section put up. This is the stuff I want to accomplish this summer.
I put my success rate at somewhere between 10-20%. Any takers?
Just got back from a trip to the USoA (Buffalo / Niagara area) with my folks. A few points:
- A hell of a lot of support for the Iraq invasion down there. Makes you wonder if they actually care about the frightening precedent this sets (of course not – they’re American. It’s their country that would be doing the invading)
- CompUSA sells case modding stuff right up front. CPU fans, lots of cold cathode lights, very nicely priced window kits, many cases (including clear), sound padding – the works. Kinda nice, kinda scary to see that stuff making a retail appearance.
- Also at CompUSA, dad and I saw some pre-modded systems for sale. Salesdrone remarks that you can basically pick any parts in the store, and they’d build the system for you, no extra charge. Had some trouble explaining to him how that took all the fun out of it.
- Got a flashing cell phone antenna! Old one broke, and the Future Shop extended warranty doesn’t cover “physical damage” (which leaves… what, exactly?). Pics to follow – very neat.
- Saw the 17″ Powerbook @ the Apple Store. *drool*
- Saw clearance bins at the Apple Store. Don’t know why that’s funny, but it is.
*sigh*… back to studying for 2CJ4. And by studying, I mean “not studying”.
So I’m looking at zap2it’s TV listings, and there’s something about winning a trip to see Reloaded at the premiere. Hella cool. So I fill out the form, click submit, and despite my having filled out every field, it complains that I’ve left off information.
Asswipes. What passes for coding these days would not have been worthy even as toilet paper (if printed) in years gone by.
“Maybe if I spank it hard enough, I’ll be able to see through time and get the questions on the final!”
-Marc M.
“Sounds like a win-win situation to me”
-Ty
And so ends another exam. That’s right, Thermo’s over with. Was only able to answer 7 / 10 questions (due to my inability to complete my formula page, due to the aforementioned printer problems), but if I got ‘em right, that should be good for an 80 on the course (yay!)
Oh, yeah – the printer spontaneously started working again. Well, spontaneously after another 3 successive cleanings. So I don’t need a new one anymore – I distracted Brian from his studying for nothing. Sorry, man.
No exams until Tuesday – so I’ve got time to panic before Davidson attacks the lot of us. Tonight is “Watch a movie and do an LTD update” night, with tomorrow being “Replace an antenna and do other Assorted Stuff” day. Regularly scheduled studying resumes Friday, and continues until I’m done.
Oh, and I’m working on maybe setting Chris up with a blog tonight. Should be fun – b2 + Smarty. If that goes well, I’ll still write my own.