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so now that I have an ethernet connection in my room, I really have no excuse for not posting.  except Im adjusting to a more normal sleep schedule, so Im getting tired, and I want to go to bed, so this post will not be very good.  I think Ill just talk about my day.

work today was frustrating.  the cs accounts that wed been given were all broken, so we couldnt log on to the machines in the lab.  I pretty big problem, except I thought to use the cslab domain and log on as though I was a cs101 student since I knew the password from when I TAed.  only, then the computer didnt have the java media framework installed, so we had to install that.. only to realize afterwards that the cameras were not usb but firewire, and that there was no firewire card in that computer.  since our project required the use of a camera we managed to convince one of the people in the lab to trade computers with us.  only it was a different computer than the one wed used the day before, and for some reason, the code that we had working yesterday refused to work on the new computer.  we then spent the next few hours just fighting with the computers and trying to get the software to do what it was supposed to.  I didnt manage to get a single line of code written all morning.  I eventually gave up and went to a late lunch.  during which I went back to my room and tried with my own computer and my own camera, and after more struggling I finally got things working.  so, victorious, I was finally able to work on my program.  at least until class at 5:30.

class was good, and I think it will be interesting.  the really unusual thing is, one of the students in the class is something like 10 years old.  and Im not saying that he is a college kid who just looks young.  he seriously is a ten-year-old boy.  maybe 11.  anyway, at first I thought it would be neat, but when he started answering all of the professors questions, it got a little irritating.  over the course of the lecture I grew to despise that kid.  At one point the professor asked what the output of an expression would be, I think it was:

(apply cons(cdr'(abc)))

or something like that.  I didnt write it down.  anyway, nobody was answering, including that kid.  and I found myself thinking,

"come on, little kid.  arent you going to answer this time?  whats wrong?  you dont know the answer?  come on.  its (b.c).  what, you didnt know that?  you needed more time to think?  well looks like you arent so smart after all, are you, little-man?  huh?  oh, does baby want to cry?  thats what I thought.  why dont you go home and read the encyclopedia or something, wunderkind, before you embarrass yourself any more.  punk."

anyway, I would win in a fight.  and I think thats all that really matters.

Posted by on 23 May 2001 at 1:03 AM