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Ok, so i've been really busy this week and I haven't updated much. This will be a quick rundown of things.

Wednesday: Got up early (9am), went to Jon's place to grab some anime he burnt for me, and see how loud his systems were. Went up to SFU to see Marissa, played pool a lot, cooked dinner for her (It was supposed to be teriyaki chicken and noodles, but it came out totally different, and not bad either), and we watched "The Birdcage". Went home and did more homework.

Thursday: Up early to go to school. Borrowed two wireless cards to utilize the WAP network, and explore things a bit further. Had math, just a calculus quiz. I found a bug in MathCad where it returns a 0 for symbolic evaluation instead of a real answer. Stupid program! My calculator can do the problem! Working on spitfire and b52 some, putting in the final stuff that we have from SGI now, since that is all _finally_ sorted out now. While I was doing that, Thomas was practising some clarinet in the fakespace area, because we've found it's got passable acoustics in there. I tried to see how far the wireless from TechBC goes, and it stops a few metres short of the food court :-(. Went to NMI class, and we are doing assignments that involve video in various ways. Our group is assigned the last 20 minute segment of 'Run Lola Run' as a movie to use for source. It was neat to watch it, since I've listened to the sound track a few times, as Marissa has it.

Today, I've been working on the loads of homework, and set my laptop up as a bridge device to explore wireless more. I was up at SFU this morning, taking part in a psych study with Marissa so she can get the required credit to pass the course she needs. It was on relationships, but I can't talk about it more.

My laptop is being a nice diversion of my mind, keeping me away from thinking evil thoughts towards those at SFU that would thwart my TechBC plans. Today I hacked around with wireless ethernet from it, since there is wireless connectivity at school. The Lucent Orinoco cards seem useless, but the Cisco Aironet 340 cards work really really well. It's fun to be sitting in the middle of a classroom, with no cables going to you, and browsing the web.

Tommorow I have valentine's plans with Marissa, as well as picking up anime stuff from Jon.

Goodnight all.

This song is really funky. Esp the chords at the start, they are really trippy. I first heard of this band, Underworld, when I was listening to the soundtracks from Hackers and TrainSpotting. I hadn't really thought more of them until early in this semester's NMI class, where we watched one the music video for their original 'CowGirl' piece, and learnt about the band.

The video could be something out of an advanced WinAMP AVS module, because of how it's done. Hardly any actual video footage, just all composted colors and words.

Today has been nice. Woke up around 1.30pm. And I've been hacking together new computer hardware all day. Got a new scanner too, HP Scanjet 5940. w00t! It belongs to my father's work, but he will be borrowing it often.

Amongst my stuff, I've traded my compaq laptop for a Toshiba Tecra 740CDT. Which is now running linux already. It was amazingly easy to get up compared to my last laptop, which never got linux because it wouldn't run it.

I've called the laptop 'joule' in keeping with my naming system. Specs: P166MMX, 80mb RAM, 3gb HDD, 10/100 ethercard (PCMCIA). Built-in sound etc.

ARGH. S**T. Sorry. I don't normally use language like that, but the Liberals are screwing those of us at TechBC over. They want to merge us with SFU. If they don't screw around with our courses that I am taking at TechBC, as well as the research side, then I might stay. Otherwise I'm leaving. Where to you ask? I'm going to go and work in industry. F**K continuing my education.

Now all of this has had me so pissed off that I forgot my umbrella on the bus coming home tonight. It was the 110 that left Metrotown at 7.10pm. It was my big ActiveState golf umbrella too, that I really liked, because it kept me properly dry.

I am listening to my music at full blast now. But I will shut down my system in a little bit, because I want to tweak some things. I should be back in 45 minutes or so.

More info on the TechBC changeover. It looks like a purely political move to me. http://www.gov.bc.ca/prem/down/open_cabinet_presentations/tech_bc_decision.pdf

I'm just working on rebuilding the linux kernel on spitfire, then i'm going to get lunch and have my math exam.

The Liberals are some of the worst politicians I have ever encountered. Read this article from BCTV news: http://www.canada.com/vancouver/story.asp?id={5226BA11-229F-48F7-8EAB-207A47DE3A40}.

And they decide to announce things in the middle of our exam week. Just the way to kill our marks, because we are too stressed with the workload already.

BCTV now retracted their story, after the TechBC admin called the Liberals themselves and got the answer that this was not to be the case, but this bit of early news, even if it is ficticious, bodes ill for us.

We will have to see what gets announced tommorow.

I worked till around 6am this morning. Got woken up at 3pm by my mother. I managed to sleep through my alarm which was for 1pm.

So I rushed downstairs. merged Jack's work into the HTTC timeline. Paniced as Alan had not sent in anything. Edited together the team essay, which was supposed to be 800-1000 words, but because of alan, we only had 640. I wrote some more, and got it up to 720. Send in the work (which was due at 4pm) and wrote the peer evalution. flunked alan.

Man, I'm really jamming work in here. I need to get soo much done! ∞ homework strikes again. It's now after 5am, I still need to do one more scene for HTTC, then write 200 words for an essay before I can go to bed.

I could really use some sleep now, but it is the only way I can make more time. Cut out on sleep.

Funky song: Moby - South Side
Funky song #2: Moby - Porcelain