Move along, nothing to read

I am really really friggin cold today. I dunno why. I did manage to catch some more sleep last night. Around 7 hours of it. I'm exploring compiling my linux kernel in different ways today. I have nearly everything as a module, with the full intent to use initrd to deal with it.

Still working on homework as well. I have 2 pages to do for BGE, due midnight tonight, I should study a bit for the math quiz tommorow morning, and I need to start of my final projects for HTTC, BGE and PE.

In reading Sleep Thieves more, I certainly see things that reflect my current state of mental affairs there. I get 4-5 hours of sleep on Monday and Wednesday nights, and 6-7 other nights, doing all the homework I do, and trying to keep up with my normal activities as well. I have generally been managing quite fine but today was the worst dragging on it has been in a long time. Song: "A-Ha - Minor Earth - Major Sky\10 - Barely Hanging On".

I think it may have something to do with the fact that I have drastically reduced my caffinne intake, but I only decided to do that because it was having no effect at all on me anymore. Song: "Ace Of Base - Beautiful Live".

Yes, definetly some signs from Sleep Thieves are present with me. Delayed mentral processes being first and foremost amongst them. It is good that I am very well versed with the keyboard so that I can carry on typing this even while my eyes drift off to sleep.

Why do I cut down on sleep? I have piles of homework to do. And midterms next week. Generally, I just carry on pushing myself at doing the work, like what I have been doing tonight. I felt that I wanted to go to bed around 6pm, but I just made myself carry on working. Apart from stopping for about half an hour for dinner and reading some livejournals, I have been working near continuously since I got home around 5.30pm. Song: "Bluemchen - Der Beste Von Alles"

Whoa. It's like I dropped off the face of the planet for a few days. I didn't feel like posting to LJ at all, I didn't do any homework whatsoever, and I hardly got any email!

A number of events have occured since I last posted. On Friday, I spent the day hacking computer hardware. In the evening, I went out to BEST's 10th aniversy part with Marissa, and then we hung at Tara's apartment for a while, before getting the late bus home. I missed the last bus at Willingdon and Hastings, so I called my parents to pick me up, and they were a little pissed off, but that wasn't too bad.

Saturday I was downtown to do more filming for my NMI project. It's making great progress now. Kudos to Thomas for doing an amazing job in video editing. I'll put up the work in a while for everybody to see.

Sunday, Marissa brought her computer down for me to migrate her existing drive data to a new drive, but that ended up not working properly. We went out around 6.30pm to have dinner with Neil. Made him sit and get hungry before it was a reasonable time for dinner. Yes! I eat my dinner late. 9pm or 10pm is not uncommon for me. We went to Cactus Club @ Metro, I had a Maui chicken. Marissa had a full serving of chicken and beef faijita, and I shared my Mocha ice-cream tart slice with her for dessert. Then we wandered around the Metro, talking a lot. One funny thing, while sitting at the one Metro entrance, a guy with a big bag of Kaiser rolls went by, and Marissa shouts out, "Nice Buns!" Neil has had an interesting history it seems, from attending CDIS to doing plenty of drugs.

This morning, I carted Marissa's computer back up to her dorm, and set it up, and cleaned her room up a little bit while she was out to her Psych class. Had early lunch with her after that, and came home via Lougheed Mall, after stopping at Walmart to buy more Columbian instant coffee.

I've got a headache now, and I'm listening to very basey music. Does that make sense? Nope. Its "Run Lola Run - OST\01 - Franka Potente - Believe". Go figure.

I had my macaroni now. Microwaving it more solved the frozen problem.

I got up around 10.30am this morning. Feeling not wonderful. I think I'm coming down with the flu more definetly. I helped my mother with her crossword, filled a letter to complete the name of a tie and an indian tribe (BOLO and OLMECA). Since then, I've been working on my homework. The business assignment was the main thing, and I got that about 90 minutes ago, and now I've just finished the math work. I still need to do the art homework for tommorow, and I must prepare for a meeting with the manager of ET&L at TechBC and his senior sysadmin tommorow.

On that last bit, to stop me having to search for it, could somebody provide me with a javascript oneliner to open a new window with a given URL? I don't care about the dimensions of the window or anything, I just need it to load up a page automatically, but if the window is hidden, it would be better. Also, could I have the JS to check that the page is finished loading, and then close that window? Thanks in advance.

There is something more complex with JavaScript I would like, but it can wait. I want a bit of JS that can parse the contents of an existing frame and extract a set of URLs from it, that match a certain pattern.

I'm going to grab something to drink, and then make a start on the art work. If anybody has a good site with lots of pictures of city streets from various angles, please point me to it.