Category: my ramblings

From weird little corners of the web:

Who Would You Kill?

Bored. Listening to Moby. Waiting to go to CASU Board Appreciation.

Today was course evaluation for CIS*3200: Software Engineering. I’ve had some really good instructors here, some average ones, and a few downright horrible ones. This course it in the “downright horrible” category. While the class was filling out the evaluations the room was silent. Everyone took at least 10 minutes to carefully fill in all of the little circles with pencil, and then filled both write-in areas with their comments. It was probably the best-done course evaluation I’ve ever seen done. Why? Because no one likes our instructor. Now if only students could take all course evaluations seriously, not just the ones in courses they have a problem with…

Made a new header image. I went to the 9th floor of the Arts building here at the university and took some photos of the main area of campus. I want to go up there and take some photos at night, but I’d need a tripod to take anything decent and I don’t have one.

I finally got rid of all of the old chip seperators and replaced them with nice, coloured bars instead. Bliss. Unlike, say, Chrominance, I don’t have time (or even the skillz) to do a complete site redesign (let alone use CSS positioning!). I just sort of change it every now and then when I feel like it. I was getting tired of the crappy seperators and <FONT> tags. Now it’s all HTML 4.01 and CSS compliant, and this makes my inner geek happy. Standards good.

Last night I dreamt that I won some fabulous contest, and was awarded with an enormous house and multi-million dollar cheques every day. And I was sitting down at a huge table eating some extravagant meal when I noticed that on the table were photos of all of the prizes that I had won or was going to recieve. The last one was a photo of a document (that looked like a cheque) that said that I would have to trade in my soul for a very large sum of money. Then I became very worried, because for some reason I didn’t have a soul.

Then I was doing laundry and there was a huge lineup of people behind me waiting to use the machine, and I was meticulously measuring and mixing different kinds of powered laundry detergent.

Then I woke up.

Song: Moist – Comes and Goes

Started my readings for my philosophy final project today. I also just cleaned by bed off, which felt good because it was a mess for a very very long time. I even managed to find time to update my Linux desktop to KDE2, which is AWESOME. I’m really impressed with it. Really really impressed with it. It’s slick. (I should install Linux onto Sandy’ scomputer one day and see if she can tell the difference. heh. She’d probably kill me).

I’m slowly replacing the old crappy graphic seperators on my site with the dark bars. Site design good. This summer I really need to redo Newton Resources

Finally updated my personal page, and added a quick LEGO page. I have way more LEGO photos to add, although I think Calum has most of them already.

Sandy just kicked my ass in LEGO Soccer. I was initially a bit skeptical that it would actually be a fun game to play, but it is. Oh yes it is.

I have to get around to adding a LEGO section with a list of all my sets.

Well, I’m feeling a lot better now than last night during my lack-of-job-induced anxiety attack. My parents called about an hour afterwards and helped me out. I e-mailed a few more people, and sent a follow-up to one person, and he came back this morning and basicially said that he’d hire me. It’s back at the bank, but it should be good (sounds like interesting work, not just silly support stuff I hope).

The downside of this is that I won’t be able to stay with Sandy over the summer. [Sniff]. We are going to miss each other like crazy and one of us is going to be visiting the other every weekend, most likely. We’ll get through it.

I need a job I need a job I need a job I need a job I need a job I need a job I need a job.

Last night Sandy and I celebrated our anniversary. We went out for dinner at the Carden St. Cafe, a great place that I really should go to more often. After an awesome dinner, we drove to the SilverCity in Kitchener to see Enemy At The Gates. It was just an amazing film. It grabbed hold of you from the very beginning and shook you up for the whole two hours and seven minutes. Sandy said that the film had really moved her, and there aren’t many films that can do that to her.

Anyways, back to the grind. I have mucho work to do on my group project, and way, way, way too much e-mail to worry about. Not to mention I don’t have a job yet for the summer, there are only two weeks left in the semester, etc etc…