Dave Kellam

Well, I’ve had a couple days to come down from the end of the school year. The downside is the complete lack of studying that has been done. Namely zero. I’ve printed off some old exams and starred at my books a little bit, but that doesn’t seem to be helping much. I came home for a couple days, it was my brother’s birthday yesterday. I have a tendency to get even less done here though.

I went by blockbuster this afternoon to grab a gift-certificate for my brother, it’s the old standby. I also picked up a previously viewed copy of Minority Report. I don’t see anything wrong with previously viewed dvds, it’s not like the quality degrades; scratches maybe. I also went by the dentist today, no cavities but I’ll be damned if that fucker didn’t make my gums hurt like a bastard afterwards.

Somethings to look at: understanding the psychology of programmers a must read for any future employer, kidwithcamera goes to shows, dealership is a band with some mp3s you can download.

It’s always fun when you have big projects that just don’t seem to work. We got an extension for our user interfaces assignment, which was basically making a user input device with a webcam tracking a pencil to move the pointer. It’s essentially getting a whole assload of components trying to work together in Visual C++. We finally got it compiling and running but we’re having some troubling adding the code that actually converts the camera tracking into mouse movements. We know where the pointer is, but it only seems to be returning null data and crashing the program. Bah, too much starring at code. And then the operating systems assignment that’s due at 1130. That’s done roughly now though. I think i need sleep.