so i went shopping today. got back and realized that i'd locked myself out of my room. first time i've ever done that.. :) eventually my housemate suggested trying the window, which worked quite nicely since i was able to stick my hand in and grab my keys off the shelf. could have crawled in too, but that wasn't necessary. ah, the advantages of ( Read more... )

went to see a hockey game today.. that was interesting. a friend of mine got booster tickets (i.e. free) but there was standing room only, so we stood right next to the ice and watched players get smashed into the plastic. nothing like it. particularly near the end when two players got into a fistfight. that was hilarious. they were actually ( Read more... )

so today i decided to pick my electives. i decided on physics 125, since i wanted to take that. then i didn't know what else to take. so i did a reverse lookup on ratemyprofessors.com to find some good profs and see which courses they teach. unfortunately all the good profs that i pseudo-randomly iterated through are teaching courses that aren't on ( Read more... )

i started getting bored with writing my total commander clone, so i gave it a break and switched to writing jibberish. finally. i have rss working already.. thank god for being able to parse XML in 99 lines of code. including comments and a rather spaced-out coding style :). although i dislike java's gui.. everything looks hideous. i'll work on the ( Read more... )

so they're rebuilding a road near here. they chopped down all the trees and there's pieces of wood and bark everywhere. add that to the water from melting snow and the sand. the result is something that looks like a hurricane just hit. like those shots on tv of florida, except with piles of snow still sitting around. ugh.

life kicks ass. :)

i'm going to strangle whoever came up with yahoo's new authentication protocol.

woohoo! only -5 degrees today! and it's not snowing! and it's sunny! awesome weather! :)

in other news, just finished another 24-hour-scunt-followed-by-acm-programming-contest-followed-by-lots-of-sleep round. fun fun fun. even though the contest questions were abnormally hard.

forgot to mention, today was a snow day. finally. http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040127.wxtsnow27/BNStory/Front/

installed freebsd.. woohoo! in case you're wondering why, it was mostly after reading this article: http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php