Dave Kellam

Another redesign of the daily section. I found the old one was too dark and not condusive to easy reading. Thus, it’s plain and simple. I’m not planning on taking my computer home for the break, so I’m not really sure if i’ll get the photo and projects sections up during the next week, unless I feel rather ambitious tonight.

Beyond that, i’ve been doing a bunch of cleaning today. We’d all been in some sort of work mode, so things haven’t been cleaned in awhile. Most of the dishes hadn’t been cleaned in at least a week, so that’s been the biggest task. Andrew and Shawn both took off without really thinking about cleaning any of the upstairs. It’ll all end up working out in the end.

Spring break time as some would like to call it or reading week for others. Nothing really exciting for me this time around, just some relaxing and visiting old friends. There’s a driving appointment as well; Ontario and their damned graduated licensing program. I have one more phase left to go on my license which i’ve been putting off for awhile; one last road test and that’s it. Stupid shit, the real reason the government does it is so they can get more money out of us.

A generator of 100,000,000,000,000 poems by Raymond Queneau [via metafilter]. He composed 10 sonnets in such a way that they could all be chopped up and put back together in any form. It reminded my of an Interdisciplinary course called Mathematics and Poetry. I’m probably going to try taking it at some point, the professor for the math parts was my algebra professor last year. I really enjoyed his classes.

One more assignment to go, then I’m free for awhile. I think all of the work so this week has gone pretty well. I was a little bit sketchy on one or two of the questions on my test this morning.

Have you ever written a story or drawn a picture in the space where the answer you didn’t know was supposed to go? What about one involving time travel? What about one with Dr. Slippy and Timmy accidently traveling to prehistoric times and getting eaten by dinosaurs? At this point, I leave to go put the paper online.

The Oscar nominations came out today. I’m somewhat dissapointed because there was a lot of good stuff out there this time around. Waking Life didn’t get an animation nod, Memento and Royal Tenenbaums both got shafted too (especially Gene Hackman). David Lynch was nominated as best director for Mulholland Dr., but I don’t see the Academy actually giving it to him. All in all it’s a bit of a pisser, but what do these people know?

I really have no idea how my essay is going at this point, I’ve taken a somewhat different approach to writing it. Well, different in the sense that it’s not how I usually go about it. I might post the essays i’ve written, not entirely sure though because I’m not really a big fan of them.

Something worth checking out if you’re in to math and numbers. It’s a java applet that analyzes that popularity of specific numbers in our society based on the number of times that they have appeared on websites. It’s really interesting, but it’s processor and ram intensive, meaning odds are higher than usual that it’ll crash your machine.

Just plugging away at some work right now, midterm tomorrow and essay due tuesday. The essay will most likely have something to do with the critique fo the American Dream in the Great Gatsby. I enjoyed the novel and don’t think it will be that hard for me to write. The most difficult part will probably remembering little details because I read it some time ago. I’ve put a decent number of articles up in the written section lately and I’ll probably be able to get the photo section up soon. I’ve been trying to find some php script stuff to do galleries for awhile; something that I could use to generate the galleries and what not automatically. I’ve found something I hope will work and plan on testing it soon.

Head over to Epitonic and grab a couple of songs by Royal City: Bad Luck and Spacy Basement.

Simon has had a new design up for a couple days.

I’ve been experimenting with themes and stuff in winxp, you can make things look quite different. Well, i think it has to keep the same format, but you can make it look a lot nicer. Check out ThemeXP for lots of cool stuff.

I have two midterms tomorrow morning. I really have no idea how their going to go, i could do pretty well or pretty bad. We’ll just have to wait and see.

A couple of cool things: the google programming contest and in the beginning was the command line. If you go to the command line page, you have to download the zip file to read the rest of the article. It’s a little on the long side, i’m about halfway through it.