I am (sometimes)

Now, winter here in Seattle seems to have ended about five weeks ago, so I don't know why winter classes are just ending now, but they are. I finished my last class this quarter today, and boy was it good. Granted, I still have three finals to take, and two projects due at midnight tonight... but I'm finding it increasingly difficult to care. See, I got to do something last night I've never done before. Last Wednesday, and this Wednesday, I spent a good six or seven hours in the lab working on my hw for CSE 378. That was a long time, I hadn't had to do that before either, so it was a bit of a surprise to have to do it twice for one assignment. However, the icing was yet to come. Yesturday I didn't have my phyiscs lab, since it was the last week of the quarter, which is devoted to make-up labs. This means my normal time of getting out of class around 5.30-6.00 was reduced to 3.30. This was wonderful. Now I could finally relax. Fat chance. I went to the labs to work on CSE 378. I had made significant (or so I thought) progress on Wednesday, and didn't think the rest would take me a very long time. But it did. I didn't leave the lab, save to grab free pizza, a soda, and a quick bathroom break for thirteen and a half hours. I don't know about you, but after already spending fifteen hours or so an a hw assignment, I expect it to be done, especially if the final draft of the assignment wasn't posted until a week before. But no. I didn't leave the labs until 5 am the next morning. There were still a few other people there - not too many, but still way too many for 5 am. So for 378 my partner and I managed to get to a point where we could do the write-up (which apparently is all we have to turn in! Ahhh!). It won't be the best program we ever wrote, but at least the project is done.

CSE 444 (databases) is another matter. Here it is reported to be all ready, but one of my partners hasn't given his part to the rest of us, so I have no idea if it works or not. I can only hope that his new changes don't break it, and that he remembers to keep my changes. Sigh. How retarded.

On the better side of Computer Science, I was looking back at some of the programs I had written in high school, I was so proud of them. They're still pretty good for the console with ascii as our only output device. Heh, they're amusing too. The chess program Chad and I made is cool. It opens with a bunch of smily faces shooting out of a little smily-generator, only to get squished by falling blocks. Their blood forms the letters for the welcome screen. Totally bad-ass. We also show little bibliographies for each of the pieces. We thought it was a bit inhumane how coldly we normally killed people - so you get to feel guilty now.


Awesome. Just went out with my roommates to see Ryan's shorts. Ryan is Adam and Laura's former roommate. The shorts were pretty cool. He showed three shorts, which got progresively better. Apparently Billy did all the music for them. Pretty cool, if you ask me.

For those of you who don't read Fuzzy's blog, you need to. Here's his funniest post yet.

"I want more life, fucker." - Roy, Blade Runner