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This is a long awaited LiveJournal entry now, given that my last entry was Thursday last week.

That Thursday night, I did not sleep, as I was working on assignments. At 6am I left and went up to SFU to see Marissa as a break from the work. My pile of homework was way too huge that week. I spent the weekend working on more assignments, and a bit of Linux to relax between homework.

This week I have had my final exams, and between them, I have been working in FakeSpace, as well as setting up a QuakeWorld server for TekKnights. I will put up some pictures of one of the projects in a bit. It is built entirely from duct tape and cardboard. Snakes and ladders with a new dimension to it. Some of the presentations that we had to give dragged on some, but they are all done now. The programming exam was easy as per usual, apart from one section that I had to think twice about. The math exam had one nasty question that nearly caught me:

Integrate:

6x^2 + 4x - 4
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(x-1)(x^2+2)

None of the quizes had done partial fractions where one of the solution variables A & B contained an 'x', but this question required it.

I have also managed to get video displaying properly on the SGI Workstation, so that is going to become the system that does data backups to DLT tape soon.

Some promising news next. I'm seeing about doing more web development over summer, and depending on some details from SGI that I am trying to find out, and if one of my bosses collegues is staying with TechBC, they will put me on one of the few research projects that has retained it's funding, so that I will still be gainfully employed over summer!

My bank balance presently stands around $1,409.34, and I will probably get another $1000 odd by the time my job ends next week, as I am working nearly full time now, as I need the money.

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Since next week might be my last week, I am offering something up to everybody I know. Come to visit me at TechBC, so that I can show you the awesome computer hardware that I have access to here. Including an SGI supercomputer with 10ft X 20ft displays! Contact me on ICQ, or via email, or just leave a comment on this posting. The whole week except Thursday morning is available for people to come and see it, however, I need a bit of warning that you are coming (30 minutes or so) to sort out the security side of letting you in.

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My boss just came by, with a package that he found while cleaning his desk. It seems that ACM (Associaction for Computer Machinery) sent him two SIGGRAPH2001 packages, and he gave me one. It's a heavy little box, with the complete proceedings printed in a book, as well as some cds of the proceedings, and a video of the cool SIGGRAPH stuff!

I'm going to get lunch now.