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Jan. 19th, 2002 03:47 pmDamn, it's cold in this basement!
Besides doing my business assignment, I need to clean up stuff to move desks around, so that I have a desk place for my new computer.
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Jan. 19th, 2002 03:33 pmI had a really insane messed up dream last night. It was a messed up superhero type thing with elements of Blade in there.
I'm bounding along the tops of buildings, making incredible jumps like in at the start of Matrix, chasing a vampire. I catch her on the top of a building that looks similar to the Seattle Space Needle, and I snarl at her. There is a dialogue about it being pointless me killing her. I say I will just maim her instead, and I rip off her shirt. She has the head of Vicky (skin tones changed tho) and the body of Marissa. I then proceed to cut off her right nipple with a sharp little knife, as if I were cutting an eye or blemish out of a potato. There is no bleeding tho. Right after I do that, she sprints off again, jumping to the next building in a spin, and tunnelling right through the roof, I can see her through the hole still, and she doubles back along the ground towards me. I'm riding on top of the elevator going down now, chasing her some more.
That's it. I woke up then.
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Jan. 18th, 2002 11:59 pmI had a good day today ^_^. Went out around noon to Burnaby North, I was going there just to check up on the Linux proxy server, but I ended up talking about the homework system I wrote into the webpage originally, as well as fixing Mr. Brunsch's printer (got paid $20 for it :-).
After that, I headed up to SFU to meet Marissa, by her acting class. Went and had lunch in the west mall complex, on the way to her dorm. In the kitchen there, I soldered up her watch, so she doesn't keep losing it. I also put some more RAM that I had lying around into her computer, taking it up to 256Mb. I tried to get her webcam to work, but it seems that the CD that comes with the webcam does not contain any drivers! It's a Kodak DVC-325, so I will have to look for those drivers sometime. I plugging my Zip drive to copy her backup data, and then realized that I had forgotten the Zip disks! Doh! I will take them up on Sunday when I am going to go ice skating at 8-Rinks with her.
We went out for dinner, catching the 135 bus downtown, then the 15 Cambie, and walking a few blocks to the Banana Leaf resturant. It serves great Malaysian cuisine, at very reasonable prices. How reasonable you ask? Eight satays, two main courses, rice, three guava juices, and two desserts, including tip and taxes for $54. The food was really good there.
Grabbed the #99 B-Line to Broadway, then SkyTrain to MetroTown, and #144 to home.
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Jan. 18th, 2002 12:04 pm
 I am a subtle taste, like Pine.I am a quiet, fresh taste, almost more of a scent than a flavour. You will be aware of me, but not quite remember me without being reminded. Not that I'm boring; on the contrary, I'm just a little outside the ordinary. What Flavour Are You? |
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Jan. 17th, 2002 10:23 pmI went out for dinner at Boston Pizza with my parents and brother, and along the way, stopped at Office Depot to buy a graphing calculator. I've finally gone with the really deluxe model, so that I don't need to keep upgrading lots. I now have a TI-89, and I'll have to learn to drive it all over again, as it seems to be very different from the TI-83 that I was using before.
Can anybody recommend some good programs for the TI-89? Or suggestions on porting programs written in TI-83 basic (the builtin stuff) to a TI-89.
Argh, I still have more postings to do for my BGE conference. Dang. I'll get on with that now. And I will have to see about writing the 5 page paper on Saturday.
I just had lunch. A Subway bufflo chicken footlong sub. It was supposed to be spicy, with hot sauce and jalepeno, but it was very mild! Almost disappointingly mild.
Now I get to wait a while for my next class. I have my art class, that I did the digital imagery for at 2.30pm only. I have got in about 27 hours of work this week. At CDN$13.50/hour, it is a fair bit I will make this week, but I have to wait a while for the paycheck, since this is only week 1 of the pay cycle. The only question then becomes what I should do with the money :-). I will take a survey to see what people think.
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Jan. 17th, 2002 12:56 pmYay! I am done the major demo now. It got quite crowded in the FakeSpace, but the ASI funding people were very impressed with our work :-)!
The main new demo involves a Tactex MTC control pad (http://www.tactex.com/prodMTC.htm), as well as a Linux box to interface with the pad. The software to control the demo also runs on the Linux box, and then everything is displayed on the Onyx. The actual demo has a whole lot particles rotating in a cyldrincal area, and you can impede their flow in certain regions using the Tactex pad.
Steve DiPaulo also did his facial/vocal mapping systems demo, and discussed the role he played in creating 'The Sims'. He designed the FaceLift program, it is all based on his research 8-).
