Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young... good for the old in me... No, I am not old... but we all have an old part in us :)

Vacation/Business/People

This weekend I was in Boston and Maine visiting the FSF and roguemtl. It was a good trip. I got a chance to see my girlfriend of 2 years ago and celebrate her birthday. Things change and times move on but catching up is always good. I may have a bit of bitterness and sadness left in me, but I have a great respect for good people who do no wrong to me.

FSF

The FSF is a group of good people. Friday after our meeting with the FSF (our being roguemtl and myself) they took us out to lunch at a place called Rita's and Fajitas or somesuch. It was a decent restraunt with decent food. But there were a few things which set it apart from other restraunts. The first thing is that there is no menu. The order is taken on a carbonless copy order sheet. This would, I presume, lessen the mistakes in taking orders. The next impressive thing about the restraunt is that they let people draw with crayon on the walls. There was some interesting wax graffiti on the walls. Too bad they didn't seem to be giving out crayons anymore.

Logo's

On my plane ride out to visit roguemtl I decided to open Gimp up and try my hand at creating a logo for marblehorse. We still have a lack of graphic creativity in the group at the moment. Nothing I work on looks quite right though I have a decent start. I think someone may end up being paid to make us a logo. This has just lasted too long. WE NEED A LOGO!!!! :)

Computer Science

Computer Science is good. Computer Science classes can be bad. I have made multiple observations about the lack of time professors spend on programming concepts which are needed to write programs. I have spent a large portion of my day helping people with programs. They look at the small snippit that I made (which is usually just a function or two of theirs combined/rearranged) and look dumbfounded at it. This code is not complex. Instructors need to be aware of the importance of explaining things such as 'scope' and functions. The person I had been helping didn't understand how the functions I wrote worked because the variable names changed between the function code and when the function was invoked. Classes in c++ also need to be explained better. Either go back to teaching a non-object oriented language or spend the time to describe the object portion of it so that the students may understand it. It really frustrates me that the instructors are not spending enough time on important basic issues.

Guy Problems

NO... I DO NOT HAVE GUY PROBLEMS! Let me first stress that I am very strong in my sexuality and am very heterosexual. That being said one of my friends is having some 'guy problems'. Of course I gave her the advice to not jump around the issue and not ignore the issue. But I also told her to make sure he knows what is up and how she feels. It is important that people talk to one another. After all if you have a relationship the goal for most people is to find that 'right' person. I think that a little more talking could solve a lot of issues. I am guilty of not talking enough and seeing what it can do. Perhaps I am not the one that should be discussing it... but if it works for her and nobody else says 'boy, khemicals seems like he is on crack' than I will presume that despite my lack of years on this earth compared to many others I am on the right track.

UHF

UHF -- Ultra High Frequency
UHF -- A hilarious comedy with Weird Al Yankovich being the producer, writer and main actor.
I noticed somebody else make a comment on my diary entry from the other day when I had to return the movie to the movie store. I have seen that movie no less than 20 times. Every girl I have ever dated has seen that movie. Maybe that is why I am not dating anyone at the moment :). It is a great movie and I have loved it ever since I first rented it at the Drug Mart in Vermilion, Ohio.

However that is not the point I really wanted to make with this entry. The point I wanted to make is that I feel all video stores should have that movie in their collection. Especially in a large town. I live in Cincinnati at the moment and the Block Buster nearest myself did not have the movie. I was greatly disturbed and then decided to try another down the road. They had it and I introduced those who remained on the floor of my dorm (sorry, "residence hall"... I am the Vice President of the "residence hall" and thus should no better than to refer to it as a "dorm") over Easter break. <offtopic> Yes, we didn't get extra time off for that weekend. But still most left. The amazing part is that the USA gets the day after my birthday off as a holiday (as my birthday falls on a Sunday) this year. They call the day Memorial Day and I don't mind sharing my birthday with the cause, but I don't want any confusion with the issue either :).</offtopic>

OffTopic

Yes, I already had one offtopic or more... but this is about being offtopic. One should pay attention to what they say in a channel or how they use copy and paste. Else they may post something like this to a channel such as #kernelnewbies "Only by nubile vigins, Addi?". I find that humorous and non-offensive so don't get on me for putting something in my diary that was an honest mistake. Certainly I have made them before and am not perfect. But I needed something to attempt to make my entry longer than Schoen's for a day :). When I am done we shall see. None-the-less his will most likely be of higher quality than mine :).

I am still waiting for a shipment of BBC's from LinuxCare for the ACM group here at the University of Cincinnati. Perhaps they will arrive sometime this week. I had a feeling they would have been here last week. Oh well. Just looking forward to getting them out to people to use. They are an indispensable tool.