On Thursday, I slept all through class. And then found out I didn't, because it was a Snow Day!

Thursday night, some of us CSCers (holdenk, math_foo, parudox, etc.) went to visit Larry Smith, an interesting Economics professor. Like myself, he believes that computers have a vast amount of unexplored potential for solving real-world problems, and is puzzled by the ( Read more... )

I need to pick a direction for course project work, as well as life. Fast. I've come to a conclusion: I need to be working on something I believe in, beyond "nifty-cool" geek interest... or my motivation dwindles fast. So what do I believe in, and how (if it all) can it be made to relate to my academic strengths ( Read more... )

Update on life:

• Snowboarded for first time with Chris and Julian over the holiday
• New Year's: we crashed Robin's party (!), hit up downtown, settled at Linda's in Kanata (mad fun)
• New term: way busy, luv my classes, life is great, ppl are greatest!
• The weekend: very random, emo party (games + cookiedough + ice cream + movies until 9am!?) -- oops lol
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lolliday!! gotz prezziez under da rofltree!! I hopez I gets a new roflcopter, and mebbe some lollerskates!! ie. Merry Christmas everybody :)

As a Christmas present, I got a pity pass in CS 476. I don't know how he could justify that... but wow..... that, changes things. Cool! :o ( Read more... )

It's a very dark morning, but the cars are finally waking up.

Up pops an error message: Chapter 19 is too small and useless. You should deselect it. OK, thanks ( Read more... )

OK, so here's a random new idea for Waterloo pplz. I'm interested in any and all feedback which can easily include "It's stupid and useless." Common suggestions are that this need is already addressed by other means, or that it wouldn't be used, or it's infeasible, or simply dangerous. I'm not convinced, and I know some others who strongly ( Read more... )

Much-belated turkeyday post: thxgiving was excellent. Somehow ended up at a random LAN party at Chris' place, where we mostly played Smash Bros. lol. Man, was it a snap back to the sex+drugs of high school... it's nifty how much of that I abandoned in coming to University, when I expected it to get orders of magnitude worse, lol. Anyway, the ( Read more... )

Faith and I hopped on a pseudorandom trip to Kingston for the weekend; we each stayed with friends from High School. Great fun :) Katie rocks!! I'll miss her again now ( Read more... )

Survived last week of insanity! Midterms are over, and I've had an excellent vacation; now it's time to get focussed ( Read more... )

zOmg I am completely in love!! I can't believe that's actually her real voice, I thought it was digitally processed beyond all reason... she is /so/ nuts!

OK so you want to download this or also skip by her site cuz I hav a mad crush on Joanna Newsom ( Read more... )