Professor Javier Diaz-Vargas, who teaches Introduction to Linear Algebra, speaks, as I somewhat suspected, with a heavy, almost impenetrable accent. He is a visiting professor from Mexico and will only be here for this semester ( Read more... )

So... 2008 has been an interesting year, for me at least ( Read more... )

Okay, a couple of updates. I'm up at about 5:00am due to a slight bout of insomnia. I went to bed around 12:30am, and woke up at about 2am. At 3am, after about an hour of being unable to sleep, I got dressed for the day, packed up my laptop, study materials, and RPG notebook and headed to the TV lounge. I'm guessing that this inability to sleep ( Read more... )

It's amazing how one RPG session and a cold can switch you into nocturnalism ( Read more... )

I have not posted in a very long time. I have been so very busy that I have indeed had no time to post. I will attempt to resume posts when this semester starts to die down a bit more.

Until then!

Originally published at Part of the Past.

My xkcd shirts got here. For those of you who were planning to buy them for me (you know you were), I now no longer need "Compiling," "Regular Expressions," or "Science (Stand Back)." If you want to buy me any of the other ones, buy mediums, because the larges are a tad larger than I thought, which is okay, but medium is preferable ( Read more... )

This was inspired by Tears for Fears' "Mad World," performed by Gary Jules.

Familiar FacesAll I see around are familiar faces ( Read more... )

When a police department hires a team of "psychics" (aka psychos) to conduct one or more murder investigation(s), that's when you need to (a) vote for a new sheriff and (b) vote for a mayor who will fire your police commissioner ( Read more... )

I got an 83%, not an 80%, which makes me feel a little better, actually. Just in case you were wondering, that's what's going on with me.

I have a story about Alyson, but I'll tell that later.

Originally published at Part of the Past.

So I have laid out a likely lineup of next semester's classes. Priority registration for honors students starts on October 25. I plan to be online, ready to register at 12:01 A.M. on October 25 as to get the times I want for classes that are more likely to fill up ( Read more... )