Today we went to a pie restaurant! Yum.

Learning about private/public keys and hash functions for Management of Electronic Records. It's nice living with a computer science major.

Life = Good.

So I was walking home, and started thinking about how people are going a bit nutty over electronic books. They are all like, "OMG these digital books will take over everything and libraries will DIE!" Here's why I think it's not a concern ( Read more... )

"A people who do not own and control their own cultural heritage are a people who can be held captive by false histories, fabrications, and lies." (Valuing Preservation, Abby Smith, 2007, p.18 ( Read more... )

Okay, new plan. So I mixed up the days, and thought that Tuesday was the second. It is in fact the third. I was planning to turn in my rent when I went back, but due to my mix-up, my rent would get in a little late. I've mailed it, so hopefully it will get there faster than I will. Anyway, my main reason for leaving before the 4th was to get the ( Read more... )

Washinton was awesome, but now I miss the Andy. He thinks I won't be able to learn Russian over the summer, but hopefully I'll be saying "Previet" by the time he comes back to Davis. University of Washington was beautiful. All the buildings are brick (even if they don't bother putting any signs out to identify them) and the library looks like an ( Read more... )

I think I may have lost my keys at the Pryankster party last night. The keys are on a keychain with blue beads which is shaped like a lizard. Please tell me if you happen across them!

Best wishes,
Beth

Emotional turmoil down 85%! Things are going better. I'm studying for my jazz listening test (which means that I am sitting in the library with headphones listening to awesome jazz.) Must be off!

The wind chimes at the concert really sucked. The song contained a gentle/soft flute solo which was supposed to be accompanied by a background of melodious chimes. What really happened was this: lalalala *CLANK CLANK* lala....la?la? *CLANKITY CLANK CLANK* lalCLANKlalalaCLANK. It was actually pretty awful, but funny ( Read more... )

I'm going to try to pretend I'm not envious of Andy's Civ IV.....bother ( Read more... )