27 Apr 2000 khemicals   » (Journeyer)

Hmmmm... I had a feeling that it had been a while since I posted to my diary.. this is a bad thing. I really should post to here more often as I do work on a bunch of things... I will be heading off to visit roguemtl tomorrow evening. I have a flight and will arrive around 9:00PM. Roguemtl and myself will be going to visit the Free Software Foundation on Friday. It should be a good meeting with much to come out of it. Also possibilities of me stepping up my efforts for the FSF for the forseeable future. They do a lot of good work and the least I can do (since monetary donations are something I cannot give at the moment) is to volunteer my time. Poor college student donates all time to FSF :)... fails out of college :P).

Apparently last night I accomplished the impossible. My computer science professor put up a bonus problem worth like 2 programming assignments and said "the first person to get this done will get the points... but I don't think any of you can do it." Well... I proved him wrong no less than 24 hours later. I could have had it done earlier but I was fooling around with c functions to do it and thought.. He is gonna make me rewrite it in c++ using the standard functions so I basically wrote two versions of it. Does it work well... hell no... but it does exactly what he wanted and I think for what it does it was written fairly well. At any rate he can shove his boot in his mouth.

And another thing about my Comp. Sci. professor. He really is a jerk. He returned a test the other day (I did not take it due to being in Chicago at Comdex with LinuxFund.org) and apparently almost everyone did bad on it. He said "Well, nobody did very good on the test... good thing the class is offered again in the summer." I mean how much tact can you not have... this dude does not belong where he is.

Well... another successful day of helping other Comp. Sci students with their homework. I successfully helped megan and patrick finish off their programs today. They are definitely not pieces of art but I helped them clean em up and work a bit better... they should be satisfactory now.

I didn't do to well on my Calculus test from the other day... I really need to study a bit more and pay more attention to what I am doing. The TA graded very leniently and I just made a lot of stupid mistakes. I jsut need to make sure that I do a lot better this quarter than I did last quarter. Last quarter was a wreck.

And now for the fun stuff... thinking into the future. I am gonna head up north back home to Oberlin a week from this friday. I am gonna visit my Croatian friend up at John Carroll in University Heights. Also gonna take some stuff back home with me while I am at it. It should be a lot of fun. Mother also told me they got a hot tub... gotta remember my swim trunks... will be fun.

What am I gonna do this summer. I have to find myself a job doing somethign I like and I am not really sure I want to work with the school system I have been working with for the past few years. A Windows network admin is just no fun at all anymore. There is not a lot to it besides reinstalling windows and programs on computers that the students messed up. Perhaps I can find a Linux consulting position up in the Cleveland area... feel free to email me on it if you have one khemicals@marblehorse.org.

I think this is plenty long enough and plenty good enough to make up for the lack of posts for a while. I hope you enjoy and keep reading my diary. I also thank those who certified me.

/me goes out to return some movies at block buster

/me sends out the subliminal message to see the movie UHF... great movie

/me reminds people not to rent movies without reading the back of them first. You might see somethign you have already seen.. like arlington road... which is a good movie.

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