I just got back from Canada. Pancake Bay. It was pretty awesome and relaxing.

My FACE is on FIRE right now. It's sweltering in my room. WTF, mates.

I am finished with all the Harry Potter books. Finished. It kind of sucks not to have anywhere to go now; up until this point I've been able to pick up the next book in the story. It's probably ( Read more... )

( I have been awake for 20.5 consecutive hours. )

As part of the early phases of my re-introduction to American Musical TheatreTM (conducted by my mother, who has choreographed many of the shows that she will be introducing me to), I saw "The Music Man" tonight. I quite enjoyed it. Me mum remided me that hoopyfroodcat's brother played the lead in a junior high school production of it, isn't that right, ( Read more... )

So I just sent off an email to two professors, expressing my interest in being a Teaching Assistant for EECS 280, the introductory programming course at U of M. This would basically be the perfect school-year job for me, for several reasons:

1. I enjoy programming.
   
2. I enjoy helping students understand programming.
   
3. I rocked EECS 280 when I took it a ( Read more... )

I like these things.

( Guess away. )

(updated, again)

Done stole'd from hoopyfroodcat.

1. Pick 20 movies that you enjoy.
2. Pick a line of dialogue that you like.
3. As people guess the film, strike that entry.
4. NO cheating!!!

( and so it begins. )

"Man had always assumed he was more intelligent than dolphins because he'd achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water and have a good time. Curiously enough, the dolphins had always considered themselves more intelligent than Man, for precisely the same reasons ( Read more... )

So I want to learn the C# programming language, and I figured the best way to teach myself would be to just jump into a project and learn what I need as I go. My project? A Scrabble-like program, though it will have to have some clever alternate name so as to avoid lawsuits. Something like: "Definitely-not-Scrabble." Yeah ( Read more... )

I'm borrowing from Forrest a bit here, especially the bits about "corporate radio." Damn the man.

( Dear [insert entity here]... )

I can honestly say I haven't been this content all summer ( Read more... )