Dave Kellam

I’m tempted to make a wobblevision, although the warnings of certain death upon touching some of the wires inside the television deter me somewhat.

Three midterms on tap this week. I forsee myself not enjoying any of them.

I’ve taken to drinking coffee with just sugar. I used to put cream or milk in it, but ran out a month or two ago and started drinking the coffee without it.

If I get bored later tonight, I’ll probably put up some pictures from breakfast yesterday, some of them turned out pretty well. Back to teaching myself some more Haskell and learning the basics of Prolog.

Fortune Cookie, Message One: You are heading for a land of sunshine.
Fortune Cookie, Message Two: You are always welcome in any gathering.

I feel like I’ve accomplished more than usual today. I was up nice and early this morning to go for breakfast with a bunch of friends. At that point, the weather was beautiful but it has deteriorated since then. I proceeded to coop myself up in an office during the afternoon and hammer out the new design for golden words. It’s up and it looks a lot better. There’s still a fair bit of work to be done with the site, but nothing extremely pressing.

I also made a new splash for Simon either last night or thursday night, I can’t remember. I think the image is alright, go check it out.

I threw another template over top of the photo section, not entirely sure if I like it or not.

It was one of those nice boring days; the ones where you do some productive stuff but spend a large chunk of it vegitating. I attended a presentation by Bruce McDonald this afternoon. He’s a relatively notable Canadian director, responsible for Hard Core Logo amongst other movies. If you haven’t seen it, I’d deffintely recommend doing so. He showed his final year film presentation, and another short based on a Michael Ondaatje. He also talked about what he learned/didn’t learn in film school and fielded some questions.

Of course, I’m not a film student but my housemate is, so I just tagged along to the screening. His final project was way too long (something he admitted) and had a lot of gratuitous shots/scenes (those showoffy-hey-look-at-this-isn’t-it-cool kind of shots). I really enjoyed the second film. All in all, it was pretty interesting.

Bit of a pisser of a day yesterday; test in the morning and two interviews for positions that I didn’t get. The first interview was a followup to one of the ones I had on sunday. It came down to me and a guy I know, we were both equally qualified but they ended up giving it to him because he had a bit more experience with kids. It is kind of nice to know that it wasn’t something bad you said or did in the interview to not get the job, must not have been easy. The other interview was for golden words business manager. Once again, pretty equal footing and it didn’t work out. It is kind of good, it’ll mean a bit less work next year. I’ll go for staff writer, concentrate on that side of things and maybe make a run for ed next year.

I started out liking this article that points out that people shouldn’t feel they’re stupid because they can’t use a computer. But, he ended it off with the cd-drawer being a cup-holder joke. I want to punch the author in the mouth for regurgitating such a stale joke. The point it is, the analogy between plumbing and computers is good, the article is not.

Lots of work and fun stuff to do. I have another logic test tomorrow morning. The wednesday morning logic test, every two weeks without fail. I dislike the morning. I’ve discovered my best marks this year and last have been for afternoon classes. Is it a coincidence? I’ll never know.

This article in Car and Driver is pretty damn funny. I love the in-line editorial comments, it hits home; many of them are like the ones I get. What the hell is this? Is this supposed to be a conclusion? And so on… [via MeFi].

Lo-fi Gameboy imaging collection. The shorts made me laugh, I really enjoyed this stuff.

Two job interviews, one went well, the other not so well. I enjoyed the first one and thought it went well, one of the girls is in my english class, they seemed like good people. The second one; I’ve already received notice that I won’t have a second interview. It was a group interview, i didn’t get the right impression from the people interviewing and think that I sabotaged it subconciously. Ever done that? Looking back, it seems like i stabbed myself in the foot on that interview. I did some things you’re not supposed to do in interviews and knew that I was doing it and didn’t really care.

Fun stuff. I was originally going to run for editor of golden words next year but changed my mind. I’m going to go for business manager instead. I’m going to be around two more years, so I’ll go for ed next time around. It’s the last year for two of the guys running and I feel that they’d do a good job with the paper, well better than I would at this point. I spent most of the day at the paper (and doing the interviews), I think there’s at least a couple of my articles going in for wednesday. More fodder for the writing section.

This article is one of the best pieces regarding the current state of the music industry that I have ever read. One of the first relatively intelligent and informed pieces that I’ve read. The gist of things: mainstream news site with the author saying that people are starting to get pissed off at the top forty crap being shoved down there throats and that we’re starting to get a generation of kids who expect music to be free.