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So, I'm trying to figure out what courses to take next quarter (registration opens in about a week). There's two CSE classes that I'm definitely taking (322 - formal models, and 378 - machine architecture & assembly language), but that's only seven credits (I should be at 15-16 credits ( Read more... )

Finished my second of three midterms today (the first was Wednesday, the last is next Friday). Both of them were almost suspiciously easy -- I finished both with 15+ minutes to spare, compared with last quarter where almost every exam was a race against the clock to get close to finishing... Surprisingly enough, the midterm is already graded and ( Read more... )

For the next phase of my Data Structures project, I need to implement one of several different "pointer-based" heaps -- a leftist heap, a skew heap, a binomial queue, etc. I'm torn between writing a skew/leftist heap (which would be dead easy, but not very interesting) and writing a binomial queue, which would be darned nifty but also a pain in ( Read more... )

How geeky am I, you wonder? (Okay, you probably don't, but bear with me...)

This morning, as I was in the middle of the usual argument with the alarm (via the snooze button)... the thoughts that kept filling my half-awake brain in the periods in between the alarm screaming at me...

... were about how to write an inductive proof that inserting 2k ( Read more... )

I've decided that I'm not so thrilled with using XEmacs, so I'm trying to set up SciTE (nice, lightweight programmer's editor) to run from my linux directory ( Read more... )

Winter quarter is off to a fairly good start. Have assignments due next week in all three of my classes, of course, but none of them seems particularly onerous. All three classes promise to be fairly interesting, too (though also a lot of work ( Read more... )

Grades for one of my classes were delayed by a whole week -- possibly by weather-related power outage, possibly by a conference that the professor probably attended, possibly due to his being kidnapped by aliens (hey, this *was* a space travel course...). Anyhow, I finally have all of them!

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James Brown is dead!

[Cue thumping raver music...]

Hey, I thrive on irreverence... it's sad, he'll be missed and all, but... how can I resist a line like that? And yes, I already know that I'm going to Hell...

I've decided that I want a pet for christmas -- one of these:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003491738_squid23.html

Go cephalopods! :D