Provided I get into the classes that I want (and given that my enrolment appointment is tomorrow, and most of the classes I want have only one or two people enrolled at the moment), my schedule for next term will resemble thisUnfortunately, PMath 346 is only offered at 8:30 AM (and in winter only, no less), and since I'd rather not be waking at ( Read more... )

Perhaps someone can help me find a story I read a while ago? (Dead tree and ink, not online)

The premise is that a computer science student plugs Dutch Schultz's famous last words into the AI software that he was developing, and magically, the AI gains sentience and starts channeling the ghost of Schultz ( Read more... )

(22:34:51) Elizabeth: ...
(22:35:01) Elizabeth: That's it, you're not allowed to do math anymore.
(22:35:06) Elizabeth: You're too scary with it.

(random_dragon's reaction to wheel theory)

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to this evening's World Championship Debating! Tonight looks to be a great night, with our reigning champion Doug "The Convincer" Crusher going up against the rising star, the masked Argument Shredder ( Read more... )

Today I got my iPod Mini. gktpod doesn't like HFS formatted partitions, so I decided to fix that, following a guide I found online ( Read more... )

Hmmm... 20 days since my last post. Since then, in addition to the regular work stuff, random_dragon came up to visit for the weekend. We went to see the Royal Medieval Faire with bluedogstrut and Simon, a friend of random_dragon's who is now attending Waterloo. My boss was the operations director, fight co-ordinator and one of the knights.

Last Friday, an envelope from woap arrived, ( Read more... )

This morning I finished up the Builder tutorial, and learned that it was several years out of date. Most of the basic concepts still hold, though ( Read more... )

I spent most of today just reading documentation, trying to get a grasp on how one develops for Livelink. I managed to find a tutorial that steps you through developing an address book. It could be partly because I'd spent the previous 6.5 hours slogging through the manual, but I found it much clearer and easier to see how things fit together ( Read more... )

First day of work finished. Most of my time was spent studying the computer programs I'll be working with and developing for, while trying to ignore the whine of the laptop I was given. It sounded like a giant diseased fly. I was also told by my boss that I was overdressed.

Two weeks ago: My family and I went up to my dad's apartment in Toronto for a week. We visited the Ex, I saw my old coworkers at Chisholm, I finally got a chance to walk around High Park, and I managed to pick up volumes 1-10 of Girl Genius used.

Last week: Mostly just lay around in London. One day trip, to the Pinery and another to Stratford ( Read more... )