Month: June 2000

Just had lunch with Calum. Apparently him and his friend Dave have coined a new term: chillaxin’, a combination of chillin’ and relaxin’. I personally don’t think there’s much of a difference between the two, but whatever.

Last night I discovered Bubble Tea for the first time. What is Bubble Tea? That’s what it is.

I’ve posted the Degrassi Drinking Game written by my friends. Note: not written by me. Really.

I just read this entry from the latest “Summary of Police Activities” post to the uog.police_security newsgroup:

Jun 04  08:44   Fire Alarm - Athletic Centre.
                ACTION: Guelph Fire and University Police attended.  Found to be caused by water.

If anyone can explain this to me, please do.

People drink coffee here like fiends. I went to get another coffee at 10:40 and the first pot of the day was already empty.

Went to the Guelph SLIC conference this past weekend. It KICKED ASS. I met a ton of people, made great new contacts, learned lots of stuff, and had a great time. Now I’m really looking forward to going back to school.

Still don’t have any transportation or a place to stay for OLS though. Crap. Gotta get moving on that soon.

I feel really busy lately, but I’m not sure why. I’m always saying “I’m so busy!” but then I look at what I’ve got on my plate and it doesn’t seem like that much. Let’s make a list:

• working hard at Maptuit
• working hard on NewtDump
• organizing stuff for the College of Arts Student Union and the College of Physical and Engineering Science Student Council at Guelph
• piecing together my new Windows 2000 partition om my computer
• the normal website maintenance, including adding more stuff to Newton Resources
• generally being involved in the Newton user community: answering people’s questions via e-mail and newsgroups, conferring with other respected people in the community, various projects that come up
• soon, might be doing website development for the Guelph Campus Coop
• let’s not forget spending time with my GF and my friends 🙂

Is that a lot of stuff?

Haven’t had much time to write here lately, especially from work. Been busy. Here’s a quick recap:

• Won both competitions at the 5th Annual Toronto LEGO Robotics competition.
• Backed up and then formatted my C: drive last night, after my Win2K upgrade didn’t quite work out as planned. Put a fresh install of Win98SE on this morning which I’ll then upgrade and *then* I’ll reinstall my applications.
• Going to Guelph this weekend for the Student Leaders Interacting and Collaborating (SLIC) conference on campus. w00t.
• In July I’m going to the Ottawa Linux Symposium and hopefully that weekend I’ll also be able to fit in some whitewater rafting with the CS Club.

Sigh.