The beginning of the school year has brought with it a handful short things to write about:
- My schedule this semester is the best I've had so far. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I have only one "real" class, History of Science and Technology, which starts at 12:30. I also have an honors seminar and PSO (read: scheduled TA help session) two of those days, but those shouldn't add much. The downside of these light days is that my Tuesday and Thursday schedules are crazy. I have four power-hours: Algorithms, Discrete Math, Compilers, and Macroeconomics. Fortunately I have space in there for lunch, but the last class, Macroeconomics, ends at 5:45 which is almost unheard of.
- It's official, I am a digital camera junkie. Last week I bought the , an incredibly tiny 5.1 megapixel camera with the largest viewscreen I have ever seen. Of course I plan to keep my C-750 for artsy pictures, night shots, and events. I bought the T1 to be my spur-of-the-moment pocket cam.
- Dad, for some craaaaazy reason, wouldn't let me bring his PS2 to school. This left me no choice but to try to buy my own last weekend. Mel worked at Walmart over the summer, so the plan was to use her employee discount. I was shocked to learn, however, that all the local stores were having supply issues and none had any PS2s. Not often that you hear about Walmart having procurement difficulties. I'll try again next weekend.
- After numerous incremental fixes, the weblog posting program that I have used for so long is finally, unequivocally broken. It adds chunks of text to the end of the archive files and messes up the whitespace. Just look at the page source to see what I mean. The whole setup— flat files, FTP uploads— has always been pretty nasty. This entire weblog is far overdue for a redesign, but I don't know when I will find time now that classes have started. I suppose I'll have to dig around my existing code to find the problem.
- I remember reading on a website somewhere, "If you aren't meeting numerous and varied members of the opposite sex while at college, you're wasting your time." Today in my compilers class I counted more laptops than females. Well, crap.
