Dave Kellam

I’ve been neglecting online commitments the last month or two. I haven’t been talking to old friends via icq and email, I should keep in touch. I haven’t been updating with any regularity or meaningful content. I’ve haven’t put too much work into suffocate or conform, which I really should have been doing. Conform is in need of a redesign and a new backend, make it easier to update.

I have an algebra exam tonight. I think I’m prepared for it, I also have the rest of the day to study. It’s my computer exam on wednesday that I’m kind of worried about, haven’t done enough studying for it. Earlier in the year, I had put up pieces of black bristol board to cover a couple of the windows in my room. There are no curtains on them, so otherwise, you can’t prevent light from coming in them. I took the bristol board down, it’s springtime and I need more sunlight. This is the first morning in a long time with more sunlight (the sun comes up on my side of the residence). I’m deffinitely not used to it being this bright in my room.

That would be one exam out of the way, four left to go. I guess it’s easter now. On campus, you live in a bubble, totally oblivious to the outside world. Easter, what? I’m studying for exams.

They have a pot labeled extra strong coffee in the cafeteria, probably some correlation with the amount of studying going on. I’m drinking coke out of my coffee cup right now.

I’ve been listening to a lot of pearl jam while studying. I don’t have my CCR disc’s around here, those were good to listen to as well. You can leave em in, let em play and not worry about having to skip tracks. I could make a playlist in winamp of music that I wanted to listen to, but that would involve effort.

That stupid paperclip in microsoft office has it’s own website. Oh, hello sir! You work for microsoft don’t you? You do what? You run the paper clip’s personal website? I would suggest jumping out that window over there.

Here’s an interesting mathematical problem, makes you think. It’s essentially game theory, or prisoners problems that we’ve touched base on this year in Economics and Psychology.

Study, study, study. Exam’s are approaching rather quickly, and I haven’t done enough studying for them yet. We don’t have any classes this week, so basically I’ll be holed up in my room all week pounding away at the books. I need to find a job as well, I need to make money.

Some scenes that were cut from the phantom menace.

Hacking away at my Java assignment right now, the code is coming to me better than it used to, still not great though. I’m considering doing some laundry, i’m kind of in dire need of clean clothes.

Time for more studying and assignments. Quiet hours have started, essentially no loud music or yelling unless it’s between 5pm and 7pm. I’m at the far end of the hallway, kind of away from the stairwells and people who complain. At this end of the hall, it’s the loudest around 2 in the morning because everyone else is asleep and doesn’t hear us. We all have a tendency to stay up late.

To commerate April fools day, the upper year engineers always play some sort of prank on campus. They didn’t do it yesterday, I’m assuming because it was sunday. Today, you can see the tail end of a small plane sticking out of the clock tower on grant hall. It’s kind of the central building on campus, so it’s noticable. A couple of years ago, the replaced the clock on the tower with a digital clock.