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Apr. 6th, 2002 01:09 amHmm, I haven't updated for a long time with any real content, so here is a summary yet again.
- Monday
- Spent all day doing homework and working with Linux.
- Tuesday
- Woke up at the ridiculously early time again to go to school. Went to programming class. Wrote Yvonne's program that she needed for UBC. It was a useful refresher exercise in C++, and for the heck of it, I used a lot of templates and iterators, just to get back into the mindset of using them. After programming, my BGE team and I had a meeting with the instructor to discuss the final project, which wasn't really needed, as we know nearly everything of what we want to put in there. He mentioned we should dress-up for the presentation that we have to give, and we asked if he wanted us to go further than we did previously. For the module 1 presentation, we came in a business formal style. He said going further is fine, so I am going to take my tuxedo (yes, I actually own my own tuxedo, along with a bowtie and full waistcoat), and Thomas is coming in an Armani suit he owns. I don't know what Tien will be wearing, but he should hopefully fit in. We have lost Wendy, since she dropped the course, leaving more work for the rest of us. I spent a lot of time after that working in research again, skipping all of Math class. I am making definate progress on the SGI visual workstation, but still having problems at this point. Came home and finished Yvonne's program, and did postings for HTTC/PE.
- Wednesday
- My father was going off to Calgary today, so I got a ride to the Skytrain station, and went to work from there. Spent the entire day working on research stuff again. At lunchtime I stopped for a while to go for the learner group photo. It should hopefully be available soon.
- Thursday
- My alarm was set for 6.10am. I woke up at 7.20am. That is very bad. I rushed to school, and made the Math class by only a few moments. I think I did quite badly on the Math quiz, for the first time in a long time. The one integration question I just wasn't getting. I went and worked on NMI for a bit, since we had a team meeting at noon. That improved the day a lot, as it turned out we had done nearly all the work, whereas we thought there was still a lot more to do. After that, the other people all were heading home to get more sleep, but I told them I would not sleep, as I had work to do, and I went and worked in Research more. I also grabbed the TekKnights CS server, "sloth", and migrated the existing pair of drives (1.6Gb + 840Mb) to a 20Gb drive that was donated. You ask why I do this? I volunteered to be the TekKnights (TechBC LAN gaming club) server admin, because the club executives kept pestering the TechBC SysAdmins to get things done since they didn't know themselves. I got it all done, and got the pair of old hard drives out. After that, I went and played a bit of Quake 1 in the lab with a few people, waiting for Patrick to give me a ride home. The big drive out of the pair will be going for a proper QuakeWorld server, and the other drive will be a small router for somebody possibly, if I can't find a smaller one. That improved my day, just playing Quake and shooting some people down. The one other guy named himself "Your mom" as he thought he was the best player. Then I kicked his ass, and got this wonderful death message "Your mom chewed Robbat2's broomstick". The 'broomstick' here being a shotgun. That name certainly didn't work for him.
- Friday
- My alarm was set for 10am. I got up around noon. I should have got up earlier to get to Marissa's with more time, as I had my programming assignment to do still. It was assigned 3 weeks ago. I hadn't started yet. I completed it in 4 ½ hours. That should be a new record for me. 500 lines of programming, all written, documented and fully functional beyond the required level. Then I went up to see Marissa. We took a swim, the water was bit colder today than previously. I actually properly bought a swim tag now, since it was refundable $10 deposit, and I now qualify since TechBC got 0wned by SFU. Previously, I paid $4 each time I went swimming. After that, we went to the SFU Hillel's Jewish dinner they were putting on. Considering I paid only $5 for dinner, with red wine from Isreal, it was a good deal. The food was interesting, I hadn't had anything like it before. The red wine was bit on the sweet side, so I only drank a little bit of it. The ceremonies around the dinner are interesting. Light the candles, say some hebrew. Sing a hymn (that is what it seemed like the jewish guy was doing) from the Torah, raise your drink and say amen. Bless the bread, and pass it anti-clockwise around the table, each person taking a piece and passing it on. Then we got up and served ourselves the main food. Falafel, Koos-Koos, some tomato thing, a quiche of sorts, some vegetable stuff and humuus. After a few helpings of that, there was the desert, which was something that tasted like a chocolate pastry, and a fruit salad. The fruit salad was a bit on tbe watery side, is wasn't drained properly, and it probably could have used a little cream served on the side with it (but that would defeat the jewish kosher food rules I think). There were a couple from the Vancouver Hillel there as well, they were South African.