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.

This speech delivered by President John F. Kennedy at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, came prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis of fall 1962.

War breeds protest music. And we’ve been given March of Death, a collaborative effort by Zach De La Rocha and DJ Shadow, as well as In a World Gone Mad… by the Beastie Boys.

Yeah, a beer would be nice right now. I’ve been staring at textfiles containing SQL scripts all day. I tweak a few things, upload it, run the script against the DB2 sample database and then it fucks up. Repeat ad nauseam. And since IBM hasn’t been nice enough to create DB2 for Mac, I’m working with textfiles on my school ftp server using BBEdit and telneting in to run the scripts. It’s kind of tedious but not running all that bad. I could have used a graphical editor to figure all this shit out in no time, the plus side to doing the textfile way is that hopefully it will prepare me for the exam.

What can I say, I’ve been busy lately. I should really be able to find more posting time though.

So, there was a deadline for war and it coincided with prime-time television. Only problem was, the weather wasn’t ready for prime-time. But what about all the viewers tuned in to watch the show? Well, launch a volley of missiles, that should keep them happy. That might be a bit cynical, but I found it amusing.

Take a look at this screencapture from google news. Now, move beyond the major stories, take a look at the ones in US and World. On any other day, those would be major headlines. A quick run down: A massive operation in Afghanistan (link), New Serbian Prime Minister (link), Drilling in Alaska a no-go (link), DC-3 hijacked from Cuba(link), Columbia data recorder recovered (link).

Well, that’s out of the way. What have I been up too? Well, there was those assignments, and the putting together of the newspaper. Go check out the first issue that I was officially co-editor for, I think it turned out alright (there’s a .pdf that looks like the actual print version). And then there was some drinkee drinkee on St. Patrick’s Day, but that’s nothing special for college life. Any day can be a getting drunk day. Then a couple more assignments. It just doesn’t stop. The weekend brings a Saturday full of interviews for new masthead. So…

I’m done crazeeeee weeek! Wazoo. The paer thing and the editing and the 5 assignments due and the no sleeping. Yeah that was fun. Now for the drinkee drinkee.