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Hmm, that's a long way to go to get to "Dread Pirate Roberts"

http://xkcd.com/341/ - through 345

It's (semi) official. I'm going to be teaching my own section of introduction to programming in java for the Spring semester. I'm even getting an undergraduate TA or two. And I'll still be developing the experimental course w/ my adviser. Should be lots of fun ( Read more... )

*sigh* Hung out w/ old hs friend, his current g/f and her friends yesterday and today. Girls managed to get on my nerves way more than I usually allow anyone to. Mostly b/c I couldn't disengage out of loyalty to my friend. It was nice to see him again, but overall was a very unpleasant experience. Oh, well. Just have to let stuff like that go.

Celebrated the Festival of Lights w/ an Indian student group tonight. The sand painting was really cool, & several ppl I didn't know went out of their way to explain things to me. Food was really good, too. And charades is sooo much cooler in multiple languages :P

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A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.

-chinese proverb

I saw a link on my "Howtos of the Day" for "How to Brighten Up a Dark Room," and I think to myself "yeah, how would you brighten up a Dark Room without messing up the undeveloped film?" The howto was about adding light to dark living spaces, not photographic developing spaces :P

Ok. reading the premise for this movie made me watch the trailer just b/c I couldn't get over the wtf moment. Now I actually want to watch it :P

http://www.apple.com/trailers/mgm/larsandtherealgirl/trailer/

Tiring four-ces
Played w/ horses
WSN courses
Experiment tours-es

4 sandwiches + 4 pop tarts + 4hrs sleep / 24 hrs

Wheeee! Shiny.