A lot of stuff goes into my brain, some of it by choice. If I decided to watch, read, play, or do it, I'd like to talk about it here. I'm a musician, a sometime actor, a frequent player of electronic and table-top games, and a lapsed reader (though I'm getting better). I write long and awkward sentences, because the more things resemble Douglas Adams' writing, the more I want to live in the world. Thanks for reading.

Tuesday, November 23, 2004

yeah yeah yeah what condition

Have to resolve the issue with the CitizenLab paper.

Have sent an e-mail. Feel better.

Tuesday, November 16, 2004

frustration

And in chronological order:
1. not getting the 263 assignment all-the-way done
2. getting to class 10 minutes late, having Prof. F seize 25% from the assignment as a consequence
3. finding out about Prof. Lafferty's lecture 1/2 hour into it
4. realizing I didn't understand much of anything Prof. Lafferty was saying
5. realizing just how bad my school schedule is for the next two weeks
6. lock fell off bike, fell apart, DOA
7. essay not done (but getting there)

And getting better:
1. The music was fun, the weekend was... wacky. Sauna. Rum. Learned some JB and picked me up a solo, at least a verse thereof.
2. The music last night was unbelievably fun. A little thang called M-Pact. Glad I stayed. "I wish" brought me to tears.
3. The essay is getting there.

Thursday, November 11, 2004

ml in and prolog to begin

Maybe I'm *writing* about 324 all the time because for some reason I don't enjoy doing all the work.

Well, I handed in the ML thing, and though I think I got the type inference correct, I don't think I'm going to do so well on the programming. Though I'm glad I wrote up the testing schemes.

I need to get cracking and fast on my POL108 essay. It will take a lot more work than my 320 essay (due next wednesday), which is important but I can definitely get written... though I think I really need to dress to impress on the next 263 assignment (due tuesday) and DEFINITELY on my 363 assignment (due friday).

There's a lot of music happening, though. Tomorrow night is the VJ concert at Beth Tikvah. On Saturday afternoon I go up to the Hart House Farm with the HH Jazz Choir, 'till Sunday morning. We have *that* concert just a little later.

I'm not sure if I regret joining VJ, but it's definitely eating into my "passing school courses" time. And I need that time! That was the whole idea.

Gotta be up at 6. No rest for the zonkèd.

Tuesday, November 09, 2004

version one point 0

Firefox has released version 1.0.

I'm normally a big fan of Versions 2.0 but I'd highly recommend to anyone not yet using Firefox that they check out the Firefox page and get with it.

Despaaaaairing about Assignment 3 for CSC324. I'm really not acing this class.

Wednesday, November 03, 2004

update

The tests went variously.

I passed them all, but the one I was sorta worried about turned out to be... a 100% after curving. Fun!

The one I was feelin' good about, something in the sixties, but might get into the higher sixties if I can argue convincingly.

The one I was not so sure about, baaaaad scene. We'll see what happens there.

The game programming deathmatch will get started soon. Some people were thinking of doing some Tabletop RP stuff as a prelude to RPG game design. Might be fun. I shall bring my mad GM skillz to play. (I have very few of those.)

I attended an Election Party with the Political Science Student Union. It was interesting to see the spectrum of interests etc., but the spectrum of political outlooks was... well, binary, with fewer zeroes than ones. We looked at Kant and Herder and, for once, we're seeing philosohpers some of whose ideas are *entirely* untenable. Though, between the two, there's a powerfully compelling synthesis to be seen. Stylistically they're different; their messages are in some ways thus, but it's cool to see the thread that binds Kant's universalism and Herder's hyperrelativism.

Finished Scheme, though I know I'll have to review it for the final. In class, we're done ML though I still need to do the assignment we're using it for. PROLOG starts tomorrow. Yikes!