| work work |
[May. 1st, 2004|02:44 pm] |
working on my thesis... sigh, and a project for manipulation class... i'm kinda screwed i think.
Usually finals time is nice, because i'm already done with everything, and so I get to relax and just concentrate on a couple tests. It's the time that my hard work from the rest of the semester pays off so i don't have to study toooo much. But this year I guess my slacking is paying off. Well, not slacking, but looking for jobs and such instead working on schoolwork.
I also need to decide between staying at CMU or going to Sandia. Both very good options in my opinion. Too bad Argon isn't also an option as long as I'm dating Sylvia (security clearance issues. Grumble.) Already turned down Amazon (wah, that was painful) and Boeing.
Anyway, stress is mounting. This make me feel better. And this makes me feel better yet! [edit: updated links to my own server since original died.] Yes, I am a stupid boy ;) It's a damn shame this turned out to be a hoax.
PS the twins just noticed our grill is now missing. Hmm, I wonder where it could have gone. There will be some futher investigation after dark. Preliminary scouting didn't turn it up directly, but I have my suspicions. |
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| Carnival |
[Apr. 25th, 2004|10:22 pm] |
Well, another Carnival has come and gone. Probably the last I'll attend as a student, although that's far from certain yet. (if Dave (my advisor) has his way with me)
Although I didn't get to help out much with booth again this year, I did get to pitch in on move-on and tear-down, arguably the times when we need the most concentrated man power. Though compared to the total amount of the work that goes in to a booth, this is probably only really a small portion.
( full story... )
Pictures!
See also Gail's pictures. |
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| Zeta Formal |
[Apr. 5th, 2004|11:35 pm] |
I meant to write this last weekend, after Zeta's excellent formal. Many thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) skydiamonde for being such a stunning date. Also many thanks to screwtape8 for giving me the opportunity to go with her!!! :) Unfortunately, I still haven't gotten a camera, and Jen's is film, so no pics. :( I'll just have to say she had a really great dress, and typically I'm only lukewarm towards formal dresses...
( The story... ) |
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| political spam |
[Mar. 26th, 2004|12:25 pm] |
In case not many other people got this, have a read:
( Bush's Resume )
Edit: On the one hand, I figure this is mostly true and think Bush is a moron. On the other hand, it's political spam, a new species for my inbox. Even if I agree with the content, I'm loath to encourage it. Hrm.
And no, I'm not really sold on Kerry yet either. All I've decided is politicians suck. |
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| bad politics |
[Mar. 16th, 2004|12:23 am] |
Hung out at the Barnes and Nobles today, got a *lot* of writing done. It's amazing how productive you can be with coffee and no distractions. ;)
The real reason I post today, is this little story from slashdot.
In short, VP from MPAA writes the California Attorney General's opinion for him, which he was then apparently intending to forward on to fellow lawmakers as his official statement.
Since when did we turn our government directly over to the special interests??? (I know, a long time ago) At what point does campaign contributions and donations just become outright bribery? Grrrr.
A nice quote from in the slashdot comments:
No, this isn't illegal. Take a look at what Cheney did with the energy task force. Having Enron write their own energy laws is like having the fox guard the henhouse, but there is nothing illegal about it. Government has been having "industry leaders" draft legislation affecting their industry for years now. That's why large corporations can pollute the environment with little or no responsibility. When the industrial polluters are writing pollution laws, business is good for everyone, except those unfortunates that live downwind.
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| 'selective draft' |
[Mar. 13th, 2004|03:37 pm] |
Interesting... and I just finished sending my resume to a bunch of defense contractors. Does this imply my phone is going to be ringing off the hook in a few days? We'll see.
- Seattle-P-I - Agency initiates steps for selective draft
- SFGate - 'Special skills draft' on drawing board; Computer experts, foreign language specialists lead list of military's needs
I'm betting they mean the services need geeks in the field to work and maintain the equipment. Probably not my idea of a good time. I want to build new stuff, not fix stuff. And personally, I'd rather do it in a nice air conditioned office, not in the middle of a desert. *shrug*
And finally, the link of the day:
Turns out you can't actually see the Great Wall of China from space, for those of us who been told you could. China now says this is a myth, and they're probably authoritative, you know, since it's their wall and all.
BBC News |
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| spring break |
[Mar. 12th, 2004|09:44 pm] |
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Today's link is thanks to arwenn:
It's not the onion, unfortunately
We should've let the south secede. At least then we wouldn't have to put up with their idiocy screwing up politics for the rest of us. Be sure to take a look at the second place middle school division.
Anyway, lately i've been sending out resumes like crazy all over the place the last couple of days. If I don't hear anything, it'll be pretty disappointing. But on the up side, I did get a call from Amazon, and I'll be having an interview with them next week.
For anyone who think they know their C/C++, I suggest taking a look at "How Not to Program in C++"
I dropped by Barnes and Nobles yesterday, bought a mocha frap, and I got almost all of the ones I tried to figure out - there were a few that were just too much code to look through to be worthwhile, so I just looked at the answer for those.
Here's one of the ones I missed (mostly because I didn't look carefully enough)
( Yes I am a geek! )
Here's a pretty cool piece of trivia regarding bit fields:
( Bring it! )
And finally, here's my favorite bit of C minutia, which I picked up a few months ago, and unfortunately isn't in this book (although it has a lot of other good tricks to watch out for - 113 others actually)
( Not for the faint of heart ) |
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| hah |
[Feb. 27th, 2004|04:25 pm] |
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So, I haven't posted in forever. Mainly because I keep telling myself I need to get a block of time when I can do some grand update to include all the stories i've been meaning to tell.
This isn't it. You are about to be disappointed.
I just wanted to share that I was looking for a command line utility that would let me display a file in reverse.
So, on most unix-based systems, you can type 'cat <filename>' and it will dump the file to your screen.
I also already knew, you can type 'rev <filename>', but that only reverses each line, individually. It doesn't have an option to display the last line first, and in regular order.
So, with a bit of googling, I discover: tac! It's just like cat, but in reverse, get it? Hahahah, what will we geeks think of next?
I told you you were going to be disappointed. ;) |
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| long week... |
[Sep. 23rd, 2003|01:42 am] |
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I'm keeping my head above water, but barely.
Turned in my 18-220 homework this morning, didn't have time to finish the last couple of problems. Spent a couple hours after class recovering at home after class. Went to Sushi Kim with Sylvia for dinner. Took a nap and woke up again around 10... was tempted to stay in bed and just call it a night. Probably should have.
But instead I got up again, posted an OS X precompiled binary of the new release of doxygen, got a couple Java telnet clients working (I like this one, to be later integrated with Tekkotsu), and moved the next group of 10 people from the old Tekkotsu mailing list to the new Yahoo group, and sent them the appropriate emails. Oh, and I installed the latest OS X 10.2.8 system update too!
Not bad for a few hour's work! Of course, I had also wanted to finish writing the recommendations for the PGSS students - I really need to get that done ASAP, I feel bad about letting them down - they're going to be applying to colleges soon.
But I'm getting (more) tired now, so it'll have to wait one more day. We'll see.
In other news, Sig Tau has the highest CMU Greek GPA: 3.43 (highest GPA for the fourth consecutive semester I might add)
Any cute girls looking for academic help know where they should be hanging out now ;)
Simply amazing. I'm very impressed guys. Now stop studying and throw a party! ;) (although the Halloween party isn't too far off... I should start thinking of a costume...) |
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| Computer Vision Homework #$*#*!!! |
[Sep. 17th, 2003|05:47 pm] |
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Computers can just stay blind for all I care. If god had meant for computers to see, he would have given them eyes. Errr, I guess that doesn't quite work here.
Well, the TAs are nice, i think the ball is rolling now. It better be, my extension is up tomorrow. As well as the TOC (technical opportunities conference - campus job fair) so I need to have time to brush up my resume tonight as well. But yeah, I was definitely trying to do the homework the hard way. Now that the math is out of the way, I can do the coding, which is much more enjoyable.
Funny story - the class I had today has two professors - one does the lecture and one does the recitation, although he sits in on class too. Anyway, the one who was lecturing mentioned the topic we were about to cover is the other professor's area of specialty, so if he tripped up in the lecture, the other prof would be sure to point it out. Having said this, he started walking backwards to go to the board and stumbled over a chair.
Unfortunately, I think the other prof was too busy laughing with the rest of the class to actually make good on pointing it out. The lecturer is a pretty laid back guy, he got a good
Well, it was funny at the time... what can i say, it's not like you want to hear about my problems with matrix algebra. |
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| First Post! |
[Sep. 15th, 2003|01:40 am] |
Frequent slashdot readers might appreciate the irony of the title. Yes, I'm a geek. I'm sure this journal will have lots of geek content. However, I'll try to restrain myself from simply mirroring links from a certain well known nerd news site though.
Now that I've tweaked the colors, created a background, picked a picture, and generally kicked the tires, I suppose I should write something. Getting too tired to actually comprehend the computer vision homework anyway. The first part of the homework wants a proof of something seemly obvious. I hate those kind. I just want to write "well, duh".
Anyway, news of the day is FMR (Formal Membership Recruitment - aka sorority rush)... I really want to rant about what a over-legislated and shallow process that is, but I've already been arguing with wildorchids enough about it as it is. I like that the potential new members (PNMs) are forced to visit all of the houses, but I dislike all the additional rules that they've stacked on top of it. It seems the point of all the additional rules is to limit and censor all information other than the propaganda each of the houses gives out themselves during the restricted times when PNMs are brought through. Fraternity rush is much more open and gives the rushees plenty of time to get to know the house and make a well-thought out decision.
Speaking of which, Sig Tau had formal association for our 7 new associates today... Good job guys! :)
OK, time for bed. |
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| Hey, it's me! |
[Sep. 12th, 2003|02:34 am] |
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Thank you wildorchids, I'm sure this will do wonders for my productivity ;) Hi everyone! |
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