Old I Say Thee Nay!

Stupid links, random comments, and occasionally even sustained insight.

Wednesday, December 31, 2003

New Year's Resolution: I hereby resolve to never use "I Say Thee Nay" in a post again. Man, it looks dumb.

Things are set up for me to go to sunny Mountain View, California! My flight leaves Buffalo Airport at 1 PM ET on January 10 for Detroit, Michigan; and then my connecting flight departs Detroit at 3:25 PM ET bound for San Francisco; ETA 5:40 PM PT. I return at 9:59 PM ET on May 1 in Buffalo, after spending about forty minutes in Detroit and bidding San Francisco a (hopefully) fond goodbye at 12:45 PM PT. I have a place to live; I'd post the address but it is all the way upstairs and I'm lazy. You'll probably get an e-mail with that kinda stuff about the twelfth or thirteenth. Maybe before, but then you'll get another one with a phone number. And maybe I'll make a page for personal info, but first:

From an e-mail Cressa wrote:
"You know, you should really get a livejournal. then I can talk back to you webpage. =) and you can read what I write. Except that I'll have to go erase what I said about you before. just kidding. =)"

Well, I Say Thee Nay! Which saves Cressa the trouble of erasing the stuff she said about me. ;)

Why? Because talkbalk is indeed in the works, using "my" mad Perl and CGI skillz. I've got less than two weeks to get it running; let's hope it goes better than any other changes to this thing I've had on a deadline. It'll be so much easier when I can use my computer after I set up high speed internet and a wireless network for my Dad and brother.

Of course, my computer, with its archives of crappy things I've written and my mp3 collection, will not be coming with me. At least my mp3s, much like my CDs, contain songs I don't listen to anymore. And it will, of course, be replaced with something new. Here's Raymond's suggestion. I like how that man thinks; although I'm gonna wait and see what Google can do for me before I commit to anything.

So life in Silicon Valley without a computer working for Google. That's crazy shit, man.

Monday, December 29, 2003

I'm constantly worried that ICQ2Go doesn't work, especially when I get these fun runtime errors. Maybe it's CBS Sportsline?

Here, football item: Week 1, Patriots at Bills: Buffalo wins, 31-0; Tom Brady throws four interceptions; Bills are seen as the second coming and are sure to win the Superbowl while New England is done for the year. Week 17, Bills at Patriots: New England wins, 31-0; Tom Brady throws four touchdown passes; Patriots are number one in the conference and are the undoubtably the favourites to win the Superbowl after having twelve straight wins in a 13-3 season, along with a first round bye and home field advantage in the playoffs, while Buffalo is done for the season with a 6-9 record, missing the playoffs for the third straight year. That's symmetry and symbolism, right there.

Sunday, December 21, 2003

So this is my last night in Waterloo for a while... so for those of you out there, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays; and I'll see you in May.

I still have trouble with that sentence myself.

Saturday, December 20, 2003

FYI: CS 341 marks including the final are up on the website.

Thursday, December 18, 2003

In order to recieve important e-mails from people who are working to get me into the US, I just reduced myself from 50-odd megs, at least 40 megabytes over diskquota (WHY ARE YOU UPDATING THIS NOW?) to 5.

Cressa, Alison - don't worry. The zip file for OS is still in there.

Saturday, December 13, 2003

Every question I answered, I kicked ass on.

Too bad I'd have needed another couple hours to actually finish.

So the final for CS 341 is tomorrow (later today), and, being my usual self, instead of finishing my "Fact Sheet," I decided to make the beginnings of a schedule for Spring term 2004:

FOR SURE:
CS 448 (Databases) MWF 9:30-10:30
PMath 330 (Logic) MWF 10:30-11:30
Stat 231 (The Devil) TR 10:30-12:30;12:30-2:30;2:30-4:30

MAYBE:
Clas 252 (Roman History) W 7:00-10:00
CS 466 (Algorithms) TR 1:00-2:30
CS 486 (AI) TR 11:30-1:00;2:30-4:00
Hist 213 (Pop Culture) T 7:00-10:00
Math 237 (Calc 3) MWF 12:30-1:30
Psych 101 (Duh) W 7:00-10:00

Comments and suggestions for even more possibilities are much appreciated, send 'em to my e-mail address. Maybe I'll post them. Maybe I won't. Or maybe I should get some LiveJournal-y thing set up...

Tuesday, December 09, 2003

Ridiculously. Big. Numbers. Whoo!

Saturday, December 06, 2003

I have one fear about my working for Google in California:

Say there's an alien invasion. Well, the Governor of California being who he is, I know the state itself will turn out all right; the aliens will be defeated, and peace will be restored. MY worry is being one of those nameless background characters who are inevitably killed during the course of events.

Maybe I can work my way up to amusing sidekick...

Friday, December 05, 2003

You know what stinks? Co-op sez it could take two weeks to get a passport so's I can go here... 'cause I'm gonna need it.

Monday, December 01, 2003

So it's December, and it snowed out. A lot.

CS Assignments are out of the way; only an English paper left. Unsurprisingly, that's what's spurred me to post. Alas, the procrastination bug strikes again. Fortunately, I have started; unlike last time, back in the middle of October.

Completion of the CS assignments was surprisingly satisfying. OS was essentially done on Saturday - excepting weirdness yesterday. I also managed to finish Algorithms at about 3:57 PM today, just under the wire for the 4 PM deadline. NP-Completely.

Co-op's going reasonable, I suppose. I was a few minutes late for my interview with Desire2Learn, which is horrifyingly bad, although I thought it went well except for that - it's a pretty BIG that, though. I was waiting for the one o'clock bus to take me down King Street from 12:55 to 1:15 before giving up and asking Raymond for a ride - so a big "Thank you" to him for making it so I wasn't even later. Other people I'm interviewing with is Google. Yes, that Google. Their three-interviews-with-engineers process is slow, but will come to an end tomorrow when I'm visited by the engineer of software development future. Here's hoping for the best - whichever company I end up working for. Also a nice place to live in Mountainview, California next term if that should be what fate has planned for me. Obviously, if Desire2Learn liked me enough to look past my MASSIVE faux pas, I won't need to look for living quarters, what with me being but a bus ride away. It'd be good to work for either company - Desire2Learn's got some really nice digs and John works there; and Google looks like fun from the pictures they've got on the 'net, plus what they're working on fascinates me like nothing I've ever seen before.

That's all. Five hundred more words on my essay and I'll be set.