Easily Distracted

Came home from school to a find a rather amusing MSN message waiting for me:
(13:48:33) my_roommate: y’at school?
(13:49:03) my_roommate: nveermind, your laptop is here… DUH

I’d like to point out that it took a good minute and a half half a minute (ahem) for him to turn his head and realize my laptop was within 15 ft of him.

Got a comment (permalink?) from one of the LUGRadio guys! How he found my tiny blog, I’m not entirely sure… but that’s pretty cool. There’s a new episode out. I’ll put it on my PDA, shortly.

That reminds me, I went to the Vancouver LUG meeting, for the first time, on Monday. While there wasn’t much on Linux at this particular meeting, it was still very interesting and I will try to go to them regularly.

UPDATE: Just thought I’d add a note (for any other wandering WordPress users) that when I tried setting up permalinks for WP, I had a bit of trouble. I recommend just using the /archives/%post_id% format to make things simpler. I found this post after getting it to work.

Oh man. I had a midterm, today, in the course I absolutely loath. I didn’t have the greatest amount of confidence, (as I generally suck at the material), but on one question, I wrote the following bold statement:
I do not see how this is possible given the conditions. And I repeated the list of conditions, or rather, restrictions.

I wrote a little bit that I was able, but I basically considered the question marks out the window because I couldn’t figure out some stupid trick. Then after the test was handed in, the following conversation took place:

Student: Could you tell us how to do question four?
Prof: *looks at test* Okay… Well, you’ll have to sort the array, and then split it recursively from…
Student: But you can’t modify the array.
Prof: You can’t create another array as a variable.
Student: But, the question also says you cannot modify the array.
Prof: *mumbles question as he reads it again* Oh god.

Awesome. I may pass this test, after all.

Got a couple plugins (this one, and this one) for WP to make image posting much better. Yay! So, without further ado, here are the requested pics of the new apartment.

I upgraded my blog from WordPress 1.2 to 1.5, today. The theme is the default, and I’ll probably leave it like that until I decide to rewrite one, myself. I could use the CSS I had previously made, but the theme system is quite different from 1.2, and I’d rather have a theme using the new system – so I don’t really see a point. Plus, this new theme is refreshing… until I see it on everyone else’s blog, I suppose.

Now, I can look into getting a plugin to make picture posting more enjoyable.

This Saturday, hopefully, I’ll be moving in with my buddy, Jesse, downtown.

Where?
Near Nelson and Burrard.

Isn’t that expensive?
It’s true that the area is expensive, but we’re hoping to counter that by sharing a bachelor suite and frequently exploring other people’s trash bins… Basically, we’ll be roughing it – you know, with our computers and Internet connections. Rough.

How is it?
Not bad. I crashed there two nights ago… except, after going out for some Ramen, I stayed up all night trying to study for my two midterms the next day. I laid on the floor most of the night. The hard, wood, floor. The building is old. Apparently, Jesse says, it’s a heritage building… 100+ years or something. That may be why it’s so noisy. Almost every spot of floor groans when you step on it. There’s a serious lack of light, and the colours of the room are really odd. I shall be bringing all lights/lamps that I can. And a desk!

Do you need any furniture or other handouts?
Why, so kind of you to ask! If you or anyone you know has an armchair or two, or a couch or something, that’d be sweet! Bean bag chairs would also be acceptable. Anything that’s suitable to lounge around and play video games on. Hmm.. maybe a fold up table or something, too… Also, does anyone know where I would go to get a Japanese-style futon, and how much it would be? Foamies suck, and they’re not as easy to roll up outta the way.

Um… so that’s about it, I guess. I’ll get some pictures up when I get there. My blog needs more pictures, anyways.

I had both my physics midterm and my math midterm, yesterday, and I already got my physics midterm back! I was expecting to possibly fail, as I haven’t really covered the material (understatement of the century)… But I got 80%! The prof even said, “good,” when she handed it back to me. I was in shock… probably still am. I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t deserve that, but I’m not gonna complain. I just hope the same thing doesn’t happen with my math midterm, because I spent a long time studying for that, and I’m actually expecting to do okay -> therefor, the unexpected would not be pleasant. It’s also worth way more.