Again. I had completely forgotten about this place until I ran into cmiller at a Go Orlando meeting.schoolAs I told Chad, "It's odd meeting someone else around here [Florida]. I thought everyone else was from New England or California."
Got four classes this coming term. I might have a fifth, due to the Florida Degree Incentive Grant, which is $300 per term but only applies if I have 15 hours or more. I have 12... but $300 just about covers 3 credit hours worth of tuition, and maybe even the book.goIf I take another course, it'll likely be one of my few remaining Liberal Arts exit requirements, since there's a pretty strict hierarchy of prerequisites for CS classes, and I Want To Graduate And Get The Hell Out Of This School.
Right now, I'm taking these:
COP 4020 Programming Languages M 13:00-16:50 COP 4600 Operating Systems W 18:00-20:50 COT 3100 Intro to Discrete Structures M 18:00-20:50 EEL 4852C Data Base Systems T 15:00-17:50Quite a load, and it could become heavier. I'm up to it, though.
Of course, since I have class on Monday until almost 9PM, I won't be able to attend Go Orlando's Monday meetings. At least they started a Thursday meeting each week.computersAs I said earlier, cmiller has been showing up fairly regularly, and we've played once. I gave him five stones and lost by 3 points. That's not bad, considering I've been playing since about February, and he apparently started about six weeks ago. I'm still weak compared to most of the players in the club, though; there seems to be a natural dichotomy between the "experienced players" and "everyone else". As far as I'm concerned, the criterion for being in the "experienced players" category is "I can't beat them even if they give me 9 stones." There are at least three people now who fit that criterion, and one who gives me 7 stones.
The time has come for me to get a laptop. I'm finally sick of using the school's insecure bug ridden public use crap piles.antidepressantsI've shopped around, and I think the ideal would be a 15 inch Apple Powerbook.
"But... that's a Mac!" I hear you cry.
Yes, I know. I'm also in lust with MacOS X. A friend from Go Orlando has illustrated the benefits of MacOS X in a very clear way. He has a 400MHz 15" Powerbook, and it absolutely smokes my Wintendo, so speed isn't a factor. (Particularly considering they're up to 1GHz now, and are likely to be quite a bit higher once the new revision comes out.)
Ay, that's the rub... Apple has been very slow in releasing the new revision of the Powerbooks. I would have expected them to have announced it by now, to take advantage of the back-to-school sales rush, but nothing yet. I've heard rumors of mid-September, though, at some show in Paris.
I've been taking Wellbutrin whenever I remember to. It seems to be doing much more good than St. John's Wort ever did.dink
I still bang on dink whenever I get an idea. It's growing very slowly, though. I just wrote a couple of game clocks. (Actually, calling them clocks take some measure of imagination... they don't keep time by themselves, relying on something else calling their tick() method every second.)o/~ girls don't like boys, girls like cars and money...o/~ -- good charlotte, "boys and girls"This needs some explanation... by "game clock" I mean something that keeps track of how much time is remaining for each player, and only allows a player's clock to run when it's his turn.I learned a couple of days ago that Python has a built-in SocketServer class, which I plan to use, as soon as I figure out how I'm going to queue and process commands.