Dave Kellam

Well, I finished my hellish beginning of the week, now I get to relax a little bit. Got out of the paper around 4:30 monday morning (issue is out today!), had a classics test at 11:30, a networks assignment due at 1:30 and a 15-20 minute presentation for Tuesday afternoon. And I finished it all.

Last night I watched Barry Lyndon, Kubrick’s three hour European epic. Visual it was amazing, absolutely sick… he uses a lens developed for NASA to shoot scenes in natural light. The music is fantastic too. And that narrator, wow, it’s that soft soothing voice that puts things bluntly and isn’t really expected. If you like the bang bang bang style of film making you probably won’t enjoy it. If you like lush cinematography and general brilliance, you should really check this out, it’s one of the most underrated films of all time.

Some tidbits:
Gates as Morpheus, Ballmer as Neo
Reporter could have killed Bush
Too bad this Prime Minister is leaving
ShapeShifter – Mac Themes

Hola, there’s a Golden Words BNO/GNO tonight that I should be going to. Unfortunately, the decided to hold it on the same day that I Guided by Voices is playing in Toronto. So, I’ll be at the concert tonight, it should be good. I remember the boys night outs that I went to when I was beginning to write for the paper, it was a lot of fun and a good way to get to know the older staffers. It’s too bad that I can’t be there, I remember getting my editor in first year to drink a coffee mug full of gin, it was pretty nasty.

On a somewhat related note, the weather is fucking ugly out. Well, maybe not that bad but it’s the ugly gray cold shivery kind of november stuff that’s no fun.

Sentence in algorithms textbook taken out of context: “The twiddle factor used in each butterfly operation depends on the value of s.” I have test tomorrow. Test involves discrete fast fourier transforms (multiple processor) and decrypting RSA encrypted messages without private keys (small values).

And I give you an efficient way to waste your time, I love some of those games.

Another issue is done, that makes 11 for the semester and about 14 so far. I still haven’t received a transition manual from either of the former editors. Fortunately, Neil left us a bible. I don’t really refer to it anymore, but I read through it before I started (the thing is at least an inch thick). Anyway, the issue this week is 24 pages, that’s like doing a double issue compared to some of the ones we’d been doing. In my opinion it’s too much, 16 and 20 pagers make for better content, oh well, it’s fun. There’s a lot of good stuff in the issue this week, there’s also a lot of space filler. Our main graphics dude was sick (may or may not have been related to Sci Formal), he usually works his magic on the cover. We only had one graphics person around and lots of colour stuff to be done, so I did a bunch of work on the cover. It’s alright, it’ll make people smile at least. It’s a pun though. A fucking pun. I think sleep is in order now.