Saturday, April 02, 2005
First week
Well, the first week of the quarter has come and gone. And a fine week it was. Well, probably the finest this quarter is going to see. That is, of course, unless I get me some sweet lovin' in a limo made of the bones of endangered/extinct species. Heck, even if it were just lined with these bones. That would still top this week. So far I'm not behind in my classes, though that could change really quickly. Compilers and Operating Systems are both large project classes. Group work for them both. I've got a cool partner for Compilers, someone I already know and seems quite reliable. So that's a good sign. The only bad thing is the Compiler project is in Java. Stupid Java. Operating Systems is in C. Not C++, but C. Wow, I didn't realize what a difference there was. C++ is so much easier. Heh, C looks dirty too. C++ is definately more elegant. Oh well. I guess I have to get used to gcc and make. Sigh.
My Ethics class is with the same prof I had last year when I took Ethics. The class seems kinda cool. It's more meta-ethics than ethics though. Last year we studied what was right and wrong, now we're studying what "right" and "wrong" are, how we find out what they are, and why they are what they are. Of course, we all know these answers already (or at least I do), but it's still good/fun to learn other thoughts, and to strengthen my own arguments and beliefs.
Seeing as I didn't have the internet last week, I finally started reading The Fountainhead. It'll probably take me a year or so, since I'm only getting a page here and there read, but it's good to be reading again. Roark is cool. As I'm reading it, I'm definately noticing how over-the-top the bad people are. I don't remember Atlas Shrugged being like this, but maybe that was because I read it first. Anyway, it's a fun read.
On an interesting sidenote, apparently someone got to my page by doing a yahoo search for "toilet sensual." I'm only hoping that they had me bookmarked, and this is just a coincidence, and that I didn't actually show up in search results for that. Then again, unless I have random strangers reading this (which I don't think have have (m)any of) than that means one of you guys who bookmarks me did a search for "toilet sensual." Why the fuck would you search for that? What the hell is wrong with you people?
Professor Farnsworth: "Astonishing! I must have created a parallel universe!"
Parallel Farnsworth: "Baldercrap! I created your universe! All you created was my fist parallel to your face!" - Futurama (5, 10) - The Farnsworth Paradox
My Ethics class is with the same prof I had last year when I took Ethics. The class seems kinda cool. It's more meta-ethics than ethics though. Last year we studied what was right and wrong, now we're studying what "right" and "wrong" are, how we find out what they are, and why they are what they are. Of course, we all know these answers already (or at least I do), but it's still good/fun to learn other thoughts, and to strengthen my own arguments and beliefs.
Seeing as I didn't have the internet last week, I finally started reading The Fountainhead. It'll probably take me a year or so, since I'm only getting a page here and there read, but it's good to be reading again. Roark is cool. As I'm reading it, I'm definately noticing how over-the-top the bad people are. I don't remember Atlas Shrugged being like this, but maybe that was because I read it first. Anyway, it's a fun read.
On an interesting sidenote, apparently someone got to my page by doing a yahoo search for "toilet sensual." I'm only hoping that they had me bookmarked, and this is just a coincidence, and that I didn't actually show up in search results for that. Then again, unless I have random strangers reading this (which I don't think have have (m)any of) than that means one of you guys who bookmarks me did a search for "toilet sensual." Why the fuck would you search for that? What the hell is wrong with you people?
Professor Farnsworth: "Astonishing! I must have created a parallel universe!"
Parallel Farnsworth: "Baldercrap! I created your universe! All you created was my fist parallel to your face!" - Futurama (5, 10) - The Farnsworth Paradox
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