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Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Capture the B33R...< -- transcript of a handwritten blog entry. -- >
Blogging by hand at the moment to keep myself awake. This current lecture is potentially interesting, but unfortunately the morning session was so dull that my brain is long gone, and before the last break I was falling asleep.
It's also that case that both of today's classes were meant to be hands-on, but the code doesn't run on the supercomputer, so all it really has been is six hours (so far) of advertising for the packages these guys use. Without any idea of how to implement their stuff other than the ever-increasing long code snippets they show, which mean nothing to me.
The only good thing about me playing "little noddy" (a phrase my mum always used to describe her father nodding off in front of the tv) is that I wasn't the only one. Even now, after we pumped ourselves full of coffee, five people in the room are sitting in a slumped manner, their eyes closed, breathing slowly and regularly.
Our hour, six minutes and forty-three seconds to go.
We're having a social event tonight, which means that we're all heading off to the bar for free drinks. I'm hoping that it will be whatever we want to drink, rather than the standard beer + cheap wine options. Some rum would do me good right now. So too would about eight hours of sleep, but that's a different issue.
Ooh, moving pictures, I like these...
Ack! pins and needles in my feet!!!! Ouchies! Don't you dare laugh; it's not funny...
On an unrelated topic, I've been doing a lot of beta-reading for Korinne recently. She is writing really well at the moment, so if you're a fan of Star Trek: Enterprise (which apparently has been cancelled, but I haven't seen an episode), give her stories a try.
Back to class, everyone is now looking awake (forty-two minutes, fourteen seconds to go), but some people are looking rather freakish in the way they are holding their eyes open as wife as possible in order to look awake. I'm in a class full of bugs! And I'm not talking about the software, although there has been a bit of that too.
I think tomorrow I'll bring my laptop. It'll look like I'm taking notes, when really I'm blogging, but I won't have the hassle of having to type it up afterward.
Writing like this has really brought home just how much blogging is a "stream of consciousness" exercise for me. My handwriting is horribly messy, because I'm concentrating (on something else) on getting my thoughts down as fast as I think of them. It's like I'm plugging you into my brain for a few minutes.
Hey, we're up to the conclusion section! Sure, it had its own table of contents, but the point remains that we will probably finish early.
My hand is blue from the pen smudges. Stupid left-handedness... Although, the glitter is a nice touch. *rolls eyes* This is what I get for using nice expensive pens, which sparkle.
Mmm... A mini-lecture on open source software, wiki technology and version-control. Aren't we done yet? I want my grog...
PS. The title of this post refers to me seeing a guy in a t-shirt of my favourite MegaTokyo strip today. I've always planned to buy James one.
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